Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Hélène Desportes
Aft 1620 - 1675 (< 54 years)-
Name Hélène Desportes [1] Birth Québec City, Québec [2] Baptism Aft 7 Jul 1620 [2] Gender Female Death 24 Jun 1675 Québec City, Québec [2, 3] Burial 24 Jun 1675 Québec City, Québec [4] Person ID I5839 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 4 Apr 2023
Father Pierre Desportes, b. Lisieux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France d. Aft 18 May 1629, France Mother Françoise Langlois d. Aft 18 May 1629 Marriage Abt 1620 Lisieux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France [2] Family ID F3669 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Guillaume Hébert, b. Abt 1614, Paris, France d. 23 Sep 1639, Québec City, Québec (Age ~ 25 years) Marriage 1 Oct 1634 Notre-Dame-de-Québec, Québec City, Québec [2, 4] Children + 1. Françoise Hébert, b. Bef 23 Jan 1638 d. Bef 16 Mar 1716 (Age < 78 years) Family ID F15897 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Apr 2023
Family 2 Noël Morin, b. Abt 1606, Brie-Comte-Robert, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France d. 10 Feb 1680, Québec City, Québec (Age ~ 74 years) Marriage 9 Jan 1640 Notre-Dame-de-Québec, Québec City, Québec [2, 4, 5] Notes - Contract filed with notary Martial Piraubé 27 Dec 1639.
Children 1. Germain Morin, b. Bef 15 Jan 1642 d. 20 Aug 1702, Hôtel-Dieu, Québec City, Québec (Age > 60 years) + 2. Louise Morin, b. Bef 27 Apr 1643 d. 28 Apr 1713 (Age > 70 years) 3. Marie Morin, b. 19 Mar 1649 d. 8 Apr 1730, Montréal, Québec (Age 81 years) Family ID F3647 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Apr 2023
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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.) [...]
- 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.
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Sources - [S5177] Joy Reisinger, "Who Were the Parents of Joseph Cloutier (1695-1776) of St-Pierre-du-Sud, Quebec?" The American Genealogist 69, January 1994.
- [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.
- [S2180] Dictionary of Canadian Biography., date only.
- [S6880] James L. Hansen, "Historic Ancestors: Louis Hébert." The Genealogist 22:170, Fall 2008.
- [S2180] Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
- [S5177] Joy Reisinger, "Who Were the Parents of Joseph Cloutier (1695-1776) of St-Pierre-du-Sud, Quebec?" The American Genealogist 69, January 1994.