Pierre Jean

Pierre married Marie-Madeleine Prinseau on 12 Jan 1701 in Notre-Dame, Québec City, Québec, Canada. Marie-Madeleine (daughter of Louis Prinseau and Marie-Reine Charpentier) was born on 16 Jan 1680 in Neuville, Pointe-aux-Trembles, Québec, Canada; was christened on 24 Jan 1680 in Québec City, Québec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Pierre Jean was born on 24 Oct 1715 in L'Islet, Montmagny, Québec, Canada.

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Pierre Jean was born on 19 February 1645. On 8 July 1668, at La Rochelle, the 23-year-old married Françoise Favreau or Faverel. The following year found the couple in the Québec City area; there, before notary Pierre Duquet, Charles Roger des Colombiers, a Québec City businessman, and his wife Marie Gachet rented to Pierre Jean and his brother Vivien a piece of land on the isle of Orléans, consisting of "[four arpents in width of arable land, meadows and woods, houses, barns and stable.]" Pierre Jean would appear regularly before notaries about contracts concerning land concessions. In 1671, he lived at Beauport; two years later, he was mentioned in a contract as living at Charlebourg. He would reside at La Trinité, la Canardière, and l'île aux Oies. According to a 1705 contract, he lived at Port-Joly, which is where he died between 1724 and 1727. Pierre Jean and Françoise Favreau had four children, three boys and a girl. Only one of the boys and the girl were married. Pierre "junior" married Marie-Madeleine Prinseau in 1700; she bore eleven children. Five months before his marriage, this Pierre, the son, had become the father of a child born out of wedlock, a girl whose mother was Marie-Anne Faye. As for Louise, she had been married eight years earlier to Jacques Chouinard, a Québec City carter; they had sixteen children.

From relatives: He settled and lived in Canada. His godparents were Pierre Jousmier (a wagon and coach builder) and Magdeleine Fresneau [Frigneau]. Pierre arrived in Quebec around the age of 16. He arrived first in Canada in 1663 and then he returned to France and returned with two of his brothers [Helie and Vivien] and came back to New France in 1669. A fourth brother, Guillaume, came to the new world in 1682 He helped to establish in Charlesbourg. He lived for nearly 30 years at L'Ille Aux-Oies facing L'Islet, then he established St. Jean Port-Joli and with his three sons, he became one of the largest land holders and land leasers. He became a Siegneur at Notre-Dame-des-Anges at Charlesbourg, which is a squire with more than 50 notarizations to his credit, of which thirt or more were either sold as farms or leased as land to build homes. Pierre and Francoise bought a 40 acre farm, situated on Charlesbourg, after the birth of their son, Vivien Jean. The northern shores of Toussaint at St. Jean Port-Joli still bear the name of Pierre Jean, making him a legendary figure for all times. Pierre and Francoise lived in St. Jean Port-Joli, Quebec, Canada. Our (Note: Duane Normant's) ancestor, Pierre Jean, according to the bulletin of (Historical Research) was a man endowed with enormous expertise and stamina displayed by his many extraordinary activities, thereby leaving his descendants a proud heritage to emulate in life. He married a second time at age 81 and died at the ripe old age of 83 in 1726.

Pierre married Marie Françoise Faverel on 8 Jul 1668 in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France. Marie (daughter of Vivien Faverel and Isabelle Drouet) was born in 1642 in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France; died on 6 Aug 1723 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, I'Islet, Québec, Canada; was buried on 6 Aug 1723 in L'Islet, Montmagny, Québec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Francoise was a wet nurse for a doctor; she helped to deliver the doctor's twins, which were born on March 2, 1674. Francoise and Pierre's own child was born around this time.

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The Vivien Jean family was from the parish of St-Vivien d'Ecoyeux. More than half-a-score Frenchmen named Jean immigrated to New France and were married there; three more lived in the Saint Lawrence valley without doing so. Among the more important forbears were the four sons of Vivien Jean, of Petit Fétilly, in Aunis. He was a master blacksmith at Ecoyeux, a place not far from Saint-Jean-d'Angély. He married Suzanne Hérault at La Rochelle c.1640. They had eight children, four boys and four girls. Whereas the four latter stayed in France, the four boys immigrated to New France.

Vivien married Suzanne HeraultLa Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France. Suzanne was born in cir 1625. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Vivien + Isabelle Drouet. Isabelle was born in cir 1620. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Vivien + Martha Joslain. Martha was born in cir 1600 in France; died in 1646 in Aunis, Charente-Maritime, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]