Françoise Blanchet

Françoise married Sébastien Morin after 13 Nov 1717 in Québec City, Québec. Sébastien (son of Pierre Morin and Françoise Chiasson) was born between 1691 and 1696; died before 15 Nov 1756; was buried on 15 Nov 1756 in Saint-Pierre-du-Sud, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Rose Morin

Pierre married Marie Fournier on 17 Feb 1670 in Québec City, Québec. Marie (daughter of Guillaume Fournier and Françoise Hébert) was born on 5 May 1655; was christened on 5 May 1655 in Québec City, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nöel married Madeleine Valet before 1642 in Saint-Omer, Rosières-en-Santerre, Somme, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1623

Guillaume married Françoise Hébert on 20 Nov 1651 in Notre-Dame-de-Québec, Québec City, Québec. Françoise (daughter of Guillaume Hébert and Hélène Desportes) was born before 23 Jan 1638; was christened on 23 Jan 1638 in Québec City, Québec; died before 16 Mar 1716; was buried on 16 Mar 1716 in St-Thomas-de-la-Pointe-à-la-Caille, Montmagny, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gilles married Noëlle Gageut before 1623 in Coulmer, Orne, France. Noëlle was born in France; died in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1612

Notes:

From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography:

About this only son of Canada’s first settler little is recorded except an occasional instance of his helping the priests in their relations with the natives. Since he had inherited half his father’s land, which included some acres on the St. Charles as well as the original site above the cliff, it is to be assumed that his chief occupation during his short life was the cultivation of his fields. He was but a little boy when he came to Quebec with his parents in 1617, and therefore probably still in his twenties when he died in 1639.

Guillaume married Hélène Desportes on 1 Oct 1634 in Notre-Dame-de-Québec, Québec City, Québec. Hélène (daughter of Pierre Desportes and Françoise Langlois) was born in Québec City, Québec; was christened after 7 Jul 1620; died on 24 Jun 1675 in Québec City, Québec; was buried on 24 Jun 1675 in Québec City, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was a godchild of Hélène Boullé, the wife of Samuel Champlain. In his will, Champlain left her 300 livres, equivalent to about $15,000 in modern money.

From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography:

DESPORTES, HÉLÈNE (Hébert; Morin), said to be the first white child born in New France, daughter of Pierre Desportes and Françoise Langlois; m. Guillaume Hébert in October 1634; m. secondly Noël Morin 9 Jan. 1640 at Quebec; d. 24 June 1675.

The date of Hélène’s birth has not been definitely fixed. Dionne says that she came to Quebec with her parents in 1613, Sulte that she was born in Quebec about 1622. Statistics from other sources indicate that she was 14 years old in 1634, 38 in 1659, 46 in 1666, and 48 in 1667. Anne Hébert, according to Champlain, had died in childbirth prior to 1620; but since there is no further mention of her child, it was presumably still-born. Eustache Martin was born in October 1621. If, however, we assume Hélène’s birthdate to be 1620, which seems most probable, her claim is established as being the first white child born alive in the St. Lawrence region. (Sulte, to be sure, claims for Guillemette Hébert the honour of being the first-born Canadienne, on the assumption that Louis Hébert had his wife with him in Acadia in 1606, but Lescarbot’s evidence refutes this.) [...]

Notes:

The first Canadian apothecary, and the first European to farm in Canada. He was a friend of Samuel Champlain. A substantial entry about him can be found in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Notes:

Or Rollet.

From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography:

In 1617, with her husband and three children she came from Paris to Quebec, where she found starvation, sickness, and conflicts with indigenous people. A year after their arrival, says Sagard, the first marriage solemnized in Canada with the rites of the church took place, that of their daughter Anne and Étienne Jonquet. Anne died in childbirth the following year, but there is no record of the child.

Marie Rolet aided her husband in caring for the sick and shared his interest in indigenous people, concerning herself especially with the education of their children. In 1627, at the baptism of Chomina’s son, Naneogauchit, which the priests were striving to make an impressive occasion, she fed a crowd of visitors from her big brewing kettle. Her name appears as godmother for this baptism and for the baptisms of many others who were converted.

Notes:

From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography:

Pierre Desportes probably came to Quebec in 1614 with Abraham Martin: their wives were sisters. Desportes’ occupation is not known, but he must have had some standing in the community and sufficient education to be able to write, for he signed on behalf of the inhabitants the document of 1621 appealing to the king. No other facts are known about him. (He is not to be confused with Pierre Desportes de Liguère, to whom the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France ceded Île Royale (Cape Breton) in 1636.)

Pierre married Françoise Langlois about 1620 in Lisieux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France. Françoise (daughter of (Unknown) Langlois and (Unknown)) died after 18 May 1629. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Like his famous son, he was an apothecary, in his case apothecary and spice-seller to the queen of France, Catherine de Medici.

Nicolas married Jacqueline Pajot. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

King's gunner.

Jehan married Anne Cogu. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

(Unknown) married (Unknown) before 1608 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]