Daily Ancestorbaptisé
Baptisé means "baptized" in French; baptisée is the form used for a girl, so the ending of the word tells you the child's sex.
Baptisé is the past participle of baptiser, to baptize, and it marks the act itself in the entry. The ending agrees with the child: baptisé for a boy and baptisée for a girl.
Spelling was not fixed in older records, and some scribes wrote baptizé with a z. A child who was baptized privately in an emergency, before any church ceremony, is described as ondoyé instead.
As seen in a recordBaptism entry in a Catholic parish register, Quebec, 1840s
a été baptisée Marie Euphrosine, née ce matin, fille de Césaire Boisjoli, journalier, et de Pélagie Morinville
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Daily Ancestor. "baptisé." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/french/baptise. Last checked 2026-10-28.