This Duquette Surname Project (DSP) is focused on five sons and three daughters of Denis Duquet b 1605 FR; d 1675 Louzon, Quebec, New France; m Catherine Gauthier b 1625 FR, d 1702 Quebec City, New France  They arrived in New France in the mid 1630s, perhaps in 1637 on the sailing ship Nicholas. They married 13 May 1638.  Denis and Catherine had another son Phillipe and a daughter Catherine who died at the ages of 24 and 17 respectively.  They appear not to have had children.  The five sons who had children were Pierre b 1643; Jean b 1651; Louis b 1657;Antoine b 1660 and Joseph b 1664.  Daughters Francoise, Rosalie and Marie Therese married and had children.  Daughter Agnes appears to have become an Ursuline nun.

From these eight family groups the Duquets  (and known variants: Duquette, Dukett and Dukette; and possible variants: Docat, Doucet and Doucette) spread across Canada and into the United States. Rosalie Kubik Ferris, whose mother was a Duquette, made a compilation of over 22,000 descendants.  Rosalie called this compilation the Duquet(te) Family Forest (DFF)  The first edition of 2000 has been revised on at least one occasion.  Rosalie stated in the compilation that the DFF was to be used to facilitate Duquette family research.  She copyrighted at least edition 1 and sold them at a reunion in Quebec City in 2000.  Subsequent sales of those compilations might be an infringement on her copyright, but use of purchased copies for not-for-profit Duquette family genealogical research clearly is not a copyright infringement.

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