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Descendants of Jean Dubé

Generation No. 2

2. MATHURIN² DUBÉ (JEAN¹) was born 1631 in Poitou, Lucon, France ³, and died December 28, 1695 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamoursaka, Québec. He married MARIE-CATHERINE CAMPION September 03, 1670 in Ste Famille, Isle d'Orleans, Montmorency, Québec, daughter of PIERRE CAMPION and MARGUERITE HENAULT. She was born 1654 in St-Nicaise-de-Rouen, France, and died Unknown.

Notes for MATHURIN DUBÉ:
Mathurin Dubé came from a tiny village of Vendée (french province) called ``La Chapelle Thémer``. Located at 210 miles south-west of the french capital Paris, it is also in the vicinity of La Rochelle, an old sea port from where numerous french settlers started their trip to the new world.

In Canada (then New-France), Mathurin Dubé settled on a land, acquired in 1667, at St-Jean de l’Ile d’Orléans, on the south side of this island facing St-Vallier. Then, few years later, he got married with Marie Campion. She came in the colony with a group of women called ``the King’s Girls``. Their marriage was celebrated at Ste-Famille de l’Ile d’Orléans on September 3rd 1670. As a result of this marriage, 2 girls and 6 boys were born between 1672 and 1694.

In 1686, Mathurin Dubé decided to move his family to La Pocatière, on the south shore of the St-Lawrence river. There, he worked for a few years at the landlord manor before he died on December 28th 1695 at 64. He was buried at Rivière Ouelle.

Four of the Mathurin Dubé’s sons got also married. They are : Mathurin (son), Louis, Pierre and Laurent. Their thousands of descendants are now located in Québec, New-Brunswick and in the north-east states of USA (Maine, New-Hampshire, Rhode Island…). If you bear the name of Dubé, you are among them.

More About MATHURIN DUBÉ:
Burial: December 30, 1695, Notre-Dame-de-Liesse-de-la-Rivière-Ouelle, Québec

Notes for MARIE-CATHERINE CAMPION:
Marie was one of "The King's Daughters", she was 16 years old at her marriage to Mathurin. On August 28, 1670, notary Romain Becquet wrote the marriage contract. It stated that Mathurin was the son of the late Jean Dube and Renee Suzanne, from la Chapelle de May, near the town of Fontenay, diocese of Lucon.
Marie was the daughter of Pierre and of the late Marguerite Henaut, from the town of Saint Malo in Brittany. The future spouses agreed to live in joinder as to property following the "Coutume de Paris". Marie was endowed with the sum of 200 livres, and Mathurin acknowledged that she brought to the future household a sum equal to his own and that half would belong to the estate, plus a sum of 50 livres that His Majesty gave her in consideration of her marriage. The contract was witnessed by Anne Gasnier, widow of Jean Bourdon, former seigneur of Saint-Jean and of Saint-François and former procurer-general of the Sovereign Concil; Louis Rouer de Villeray, first concillor of the same tribunal; Elisabeth Estienne, Jean-Baptiste Gosset, and Claude Morin, all signed with the notary, with the exception of the future spouses, who made their mark.
The nuptial ceremony took place six days later on September 03, 1670, in the parish of Mathurin, Sainte-Famille on the Ile d'Orleans.
Mathurin and Marie were married for 25 years, until Mathurin's death at the age of 64 years, he was buried on December 30, 1695 at Riviere Ouelle. Marie died on January 28, 1697 at the age of 43 years. They had eight children.
The first six children of Mathurin and Marie were born on the Ild d'Orleans, four of them were baptized at Saint-Famille and the other two at Saint-Jean. Their last two children were baptized at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere, they both died in infancy.

Children of MATHURIN DUBÉ and MARIE-CATHERINE CAMPION are:

	i.	AUGUSTIN³ DUBÉ, b. Abt. 1670, Chapelle Themer; d. Unknown.
3.	ii.	MATHURIN DUBÉ, b. January 27, 1672, St Famille, Isle d'Orleans, Québec; d. 1725, St Roch des Aulnaies, L'islet, Québec.
4.	iii.	MARIE-MADELEINE DUBÉ, b. September 17, 1673, Ste-Famille, Ile d'Orleans, Québec; d. June 15, 1749, Québec.
5.	iv.	LOUIS DUBÉ, b. May 19, 1676, Ste Famille, Isle d'Orleans, Montmorency, Québec; d. March 01, 1747, Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, Québec.
6.	v.	PIERRE DUBÉ, b. December 08, 1678, Ste-Famille, Ile d'Orleans, Québec; d. Bef. 1747.
	vi.	CHARLES DUBÉ, b. October 27, 1680, Ste-Jean, Ile d' Orleans, Québec³; d. Aft. 1681, Québec³.
7.	vii.	LAURENT DUBÉ, b. April 18, 1683, St Jean, Ile d' Orleans, Montmorency, Québec; d. April 08, 1768, Ste Anne de La Pocatière, Kamouraske, Québec.
	viii.	MARIE-ANNE DUBÉ, b. October 22, 1691, Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, Québec³; d. November 04, 1691, Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, Québec³.
	ix.	JEAN-BERNARD DUBÉ, b. January 1693, Riviere Ouelle, Kamouraska, Québec; d. Unknown.
	x.	JEAN-BERNARD DUBÉ, b. January 05, 1694, Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, Québec³; d. Abt. 1694, Québec ⁴.

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