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8. ANNE3 MARTIN (MARGUERITE2 LANGLOIS, GUILLAUME1) was born 23 March 1645/46 in Notre Dame, Quebec, Quebec, and died 14 January 1717/18 in St. Pierre, St. Pierre, Ile Orleans, Quebec. She married JACQUES RATE70 12 November 1658 in Quebec (ct 19-08-1657 Audouart)71,72, son of FRANCOIS RATE and JACQUETTE HUGUET. He was born Abt. 1631 in Laleu, LaRochelle, Aunis, France73, and died 08 April 1699 in St-Pierre, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec, Canada73.
     
Children of ANNE MARTIN and JACQUES RATE are:
  i.   JACQUES4 RATE73, b. 30 December 1659, Quebec73; d. 31 December 1659, Quebec73.
  ii.   BERTRAND RATE73, b. 10 December 1660, Quebec73; d. 25 December 1660, Quebec73.
  iii.   MICHEL-JOSEPH RATE73, b. 25 December 1662, Quebec73; d. Bef. 166673.
31. iv.   MARIE-ANNE RATE, b. 03 February 1665/66, Quebec; d. 25 May 1729, St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada.
  v.   JEAN-BAPTISTE RATE73, b. 28 November 1667, Ste-Famille, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec, Canada73; d. 19 October 1760, St-Pierre, Ile d'Orleans, Montmorency, Q.C.73; m. MADELEINE BLOUARD73, 13 October 1698, St-Pierre, Ile d'Orleans, Montmorency, Q.C.73; b. Abt. 1678; d. Deceased.
  vi.   ANNE RATE73, b. 16 October 1670, Ste-Famille, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec, Canada73; d. 25 December 1709, Chateau-Richer, Quebec73,74; m. (1) JACQUES TREPANIER, OR DETREPAGNY75, 20 February 1691/92, Ste-Famille, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec, Canada75; b. 01 July 1665, Chateau-Richer76,77; d. Bef. August 1707; m. (2) JEAN LANGLOIS, LANGLAIS78, 08 March 1707/08, Chateau-Richer, Quebec79,80; b. Abt. 168081; d. Deceased.
  More About ANNE RATE:
Burial: 26 December 1709, Buried Chateau-Richer, Quebec82

  More About JACQUES TREPANIER, OR DETREPAGNY:
Baptism: 03 July 1665, Baptised Chateau-Richer83

  Notes for JEAN LANGLOIS, LANGLAIS:
! from Jette page 645: b 10-04-1700 at Beaupre; 17 years in 1700; 26 years in 1707; 30 years in 1710; "esclave anglais des environs de Boston, pris par les sauvages de l'Acadie il y a 3 years; achete par Jean Baret au il habite"
translation: " captured from the English at Boston, by the savages of Acadie, at the age of 3 years"

32. vii.   PIERRE RATE, b. 11 October 1675, Ste-Famille, Ile d'Orleans, Montmorency, Q.C.; d. 21 March 1721/22, St. Pierre, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec.
  viii.   GENEVIEVE RATE84, b. 07 January 1678/79, Ste-Famille, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec, Canada85; d. 29 November 1732, Maskinonge, Quebec, Canada85; m. JEAN SICARD, SIEUR DE CARUFEL86, 27 November 1694, St-Pierre, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec, Canada87; d. Deceased.
33. ix.   LOUISE RATE, b. 17 June 1680, St-Pierre, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec, Canada; d. 23 February 1760, LaPocatiere, Quebec, Canada.
  x.   IGNACE RATE87, b. 29 August 1683, St-Pierre, Ile d'Orleans, Montmorency, Q.C.87; d. 23 February 1743/44, St-Pierre, Ile d'Orleans, Montmorency, Q.C.87; m. (1) HELENE BOUCHARD87, 10 November 1705, St-Pierre, Ile d'Orleans, Montmorency, Q.C.87; b. 11 October 1689, St-Pierre Ile d'Orleans; d. Bef. June 1729; m. (2) GENEVIEVE LANGLOIS, (TWIN)87,88, 13 June 1729, St-Pierre, Ile d'Orleans, Montmorency, Q.C.89; b. 01 December 1703, St-Pierre, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec90,91; d. Deceased.
  More About HELENE BOUCHARD:
Baptism: 16 October 1689, Baptised St-Pierre Ile d'Orleans92

  More About GENEVIEVE LANGLOIS, (TWIN):
Baptism: 01 December 1703, Baptised St-Pierre Ile d'Orleans93
  xi.   GUILLAUME RATE94, b. 14 November 1686, St-Pierre, Ile d'Orleans, Montmorency, Q.C.94; d. 28 October 1759, St-Pierre, Ile d'Orleans, Montmorency, Q.C.94; m. MADELEINE NOLIN94, 04 November 1710, St-Pierre, Ile d'Orleans, Montmorency, Q.C.94; b. Abt. 1690; d. Deceased.


9. HELENE3 DESPORTES (FRANCOISE2 LANGLOIS, GUILLAUME1) was born August 1620 in Quebec, Canada95, and died Deceased. She married (1) GUILLAUME HEBERT96 01 October 1634 in QuebecCity, Quebec97, son of LOUIS HEBERT and MARIE ROLLET. He was born Abt. 1608 in Paris, France98, and died 23 September 1639 in Quebec99,100. She married (2) NOEL MORIN 09 January 1639/40 in Quebec City, Canada101, son of CLAUDE MORIN and JEANNE MOREAU. He was born 1606 in Comte Robert, Brie, France102, and died 10 February 1679/80 in Riviere-du-Sud Quebec City, Quebec, Canada102.

Notes for HELENE DESPORTES:
Message: #1 Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 07:44:39 -0400
From: "James Carten" <jcarten@globetrotter.qc.ca>
Subject: The Kirkes

The Brothers Kirke.
Many of us have heard the story of Helene Desportes, the first white
child born in New France and how she left Quebec at a young age, returning
to France when she was not much older. In many cases the only part of the
story that we have been told is that she left,"when the Kirke brothers took
Quebec." But what was this "taking" of Quebec and who were the Kirke
brothers?
As with most of the serious confrontations on this side of the
Atlantic, this one was the result of wars waged in Europe. England claimed
much of the same lands in the New World as France did. In Europe, France was
waging an all-out war on the Huguenots. It seemed that France and England
were opposed to everything about each other and in 1627, war was formally
declared. A British fleet was sent to help lift the siege of LaRochelle, the
Huguenot stronghold. At the same time, ther was much going on concerning the
two countries colonial holdings in the Americas.
Gervais Kirke, a fervently loyal Scotsman and Presbyterian, had
married a French woman and raised five sons in Dieppe, on the Channel Coast
about 50 miles north of Rouen. This patriarch had always taken interest in
affairs concerning North America and his sons may have inherited this
interest. Gervais Kirke's sons included David, Louis (referred to as Lewis
in most English records), Thomas, John, and James. David's daughter, Mary,
was also linked to the New World when she married the intrepid Canadian fur
trader, Pierre-Esprit Radisson.

In 1633, Champlain returned to Quebec as the king's commander. This
meant he had official support from the French crown. The next year, the 13
yr.old Helene Desportes also returned, and accompanied by her aunt and
uncle, Marguerite Langlois and Abraham Martin of the Plains of Abraham fame.
That same year, at 14 years of age, Helene Desportes was married to
Guillaume Hebert, with whom she had three children before being widowed at
19. At 20 years, Desportes married Noel Morin and had 12 more children
including the first native born priest and first native born nun in Canada.
She died in 1675, thirteen days before her fifty-fifth birthday.
My note: Helene Desportes' mom was Francoise Langlois, sister of
Marguerite.
Ref: American-Canadian Geneologist, Vol.21,Issue 65, Summer'95, by Donald
Chaput. Jim Carten

Notes for NOEL MORIN:
!Listed on the monument to honor Louis Hebert and the first settlers of Quebec: Noel Morin and his spouse Helene Desportes.

NOEL MORIN
Morin or Maurin is a last name which can mean "brown of skin like a Moor." For a long time, a Morini family, of Italian origin, had been settled in the region where Noel Morini was born. The Morin family are perhaps descended from the original Morini.

During the French Regime, at least sixteen immigrants bearing the Morin family name appreared in our Canadian registries; the first of them was a priest, then a baker, a colonisst, three soldiers and a resident of Saint Malo who died at the Hotel Dieu of Quebec on September 4, 1727.

In the region of Montmany, Brother Eloi Gerard Talbot, a Marist and tireless researcher, discovered descendants from five different Morin families:


1.      Pierre Morin dit Boucher, the Acadian;


2.      Noel Morin, a cartwright;


3. Robert Morin, sacristan of Sainte-Anne-de-la-
Pocatiere, of unknown origin, husband of Francois Mignier dit Lagace;
4. The Poitevin Andre Morin, married to Marguerite Moreau on 26 August 1670 at Quebec;

5.      and finally, Jacques Morin, from Saint Etienne de Breloy, the husband of Hilaire Guery.

Also founding families were the Angevin Jacques Morin the Poitevin Charles, the Breton Pierre who married Marie Madeleine Lepinay on 22 February 1694 at Beauport and Moise Morin dit Chenevert, head of family and a soldier.




Here is Noel Morin, the first of this name to be married and to found a family in the New World.





FROM LA BRIE

Noel Morin was born about 1609 in Brie, a region of the Paris Basin. The town of Brie-Comte-Robert, today the arrondissement of Melun, department of Seine-et-Marne, claims the honor of having among its sons our Canadian Ancestor Morin. Noel was baptized at the church dedicated to Saint Etienne and built in part in the thirteenth century. During Noel's time, and today, la Brie had a bishop whose episcopal seat was at Meaux.

We know almost nothing about the life in France of the son of Claude Morin. The boy learned to write his name, to count and to make wheels and carriages. Did he practice his trade with his father? There is no way to find out. Noel Morin's mother had died by the time he came to New France.

QUEBEC
We do not know when nor how Noel Morin arrived at Quebec. He made his first official appearance in our national history at the home of notary Martial Piraude, on Tuesday, 27 December 1639. All the important people of the capital gathered to celebrate the signing of Noel's marriage contract, from Jean Bourdon to Jean Jolliet, including Robert Giffard, Guillaume and Louis Couillard, Father Jean Lesueur, not to forget their great ladies.

Why such solemnity? The bride was none other than He1ene Desportes, daughter of Pierre and of Francois Langlois, niece of Abraham Martin. He1ene, the first white child born in New France, had been baptized at Quebec on 16 July 1620, according to Rene Jette. She went to France with her parents in 1629 and returned to Canada in 1634. Guillaume Hebert, son of Louis and of Marie Rollet, married to He1ene Desportes on the first of October 1634, had died at Quebec on 23 September 1639, leaving his wife with 3 children, including two who survived: Joseph and Francois.

Noel Morin gave his bride a dowry of 200 livres guaranteed by a house located at Brie-Comte-Robert where hangs a sign with the blue horse in the parish of St-Etienne on rue des fontaines near the gate of the town which the said groom received from the succession of his mother".

Therefore, Noel was not a vagabond. On her part, He1ene brought to the newly-forined marriage the ownership of a house located near the church of Notre-Dame, with 2 arpents of land near Mont-Carmel and a garden measuring 40 perches belonging to the said house.

On Monday, 9 January 1640, the Jesuit Nicolas Adam blessed this union in the presence of the witnesses Nicolas Pivert and Robert Giffard, surgeon and seigneur in New France.

The 40 perches in area, which were found north of the storehouse of the One-Hundred-Associates, in the Upper Town, were officially ceded to the Morin couple on 4 September 1640.

He1ene continued to be a wife and mother in her house which measured 24 by 18 feet. Noel also lived there until 1645, while practicing his trade of Cartwright.

SAINTE-GENEVIEVE COAST

On 21 January 1641, Cartwright Noel Morin determined to buy a homestead. Did he lack wheels to repair or did he want more freedom, more room to expand? On 26 April 1645, Governor Montmagny gave him 50 arpents of land on the Sainte-Genevieve Coast for 90 livres. He moved his household there. And there, in a period of 20 years, he built

"Three frame dwelling, two of which had a heated room each, cellar and attic, the third serving as a shop and attic above, with a barn and two-and-a-had arpents enclosed with stakes and serving as yard".


It seems very likely that the move to the Sainte-Genevieve coast was carried out before 9 September 1648, the day on which Jean Guyon and Michel Leneuf were to examine the first Morin house and its lot located on the tip of Cap-aux-Diamants. Later, the Fabrique de Quebec would purchase it all for 800 livres.

At the same time, Morin requested the recruiter Noel B61anger to find him a hired man in France. On 4 June 1649, at La Rochelle, Pierre Paillereau, a laborer from Villedoux, canton of Marans, was hired to work for Noel Morin, resident of Quebec. On 6 February 1650, Antoine Rouillard and Thomas Touchet promised to build on Noel Morin's land the framework of a house "which will be thirty feet long and twenty feet wide…. six under beams ". Noel paid 250 livres for this work, in addition to 20 minots of peas to be given to the two carpenters.

Thus we see that He1ene, Noel and the children established their residence on the Sainte-Genevieve Coast for a long time to come.



SEIGNEUR DE SAINT-LUC
The head of the Morin family was a man of responsibility and judgment. For example, in 1652, Marie d'Abancourt, widow of Jean Jolliet, called on his services to appraise the Cartwright tools left at the home of Jean Bourdon.

On 15 November 1653, Jean de Lauzon, Governor of New France, ceded to Noel Morin a quarter league of frontal property by a league deep, beginning an arpent below the La Caille River and going up the Saint Lawrence towards the south side. The Ile-aux-Oies were included in this concession. Thus Seigneur Morin became the owner of a portion of the seigneury of la Riviere-du-Sud, today part of the town of Montmagny.

This acquisition as a fief entailed rights and duties. The new recipient must render faith and homage to the West Indies Company. Noel named his domain Saint-Luc, and thereafter bore the title of Sieur de Saint-Luc. Why this evangelist rather than another one? I don't know. Did the sei-neur and seigneuresse intend to leave Quebec, the town where their growing children could be educated ? Certainly not. This property which fell from the sky would later be divided among the sons, the relatives, and son-in-law Guillaume Fournier, as we shall see.

FIFTEEN YEARS OF PROGRESS

The years covering the period from 1653 to 1668 were marked by progress and expansion, for both the children and the parents of this fortunate family.

On 17 May 1655, Noel and He1ene were granted a pew by the Fabrique of Quebec. It was located on the north side, in the nave, near that of Charles Sevestre. In return, the Fabrique received the 2 arpents of land which the Morins owned, today the land on which we find the citadel of Quebec. On the following 4 July, the terms of the transaction were drawn up. The two arpents were appraised at 180 livres. Of this amount, 100 livres were used to pay the tuition of son Germain, a student at the Seminary.

On 5 June 1658, Louis Sedillot and Noel Morin agreed to each build their half of a boundary fence between their property at Sainte-Genevieve. However, Sedillot delayed carrying out his promise for more than 4 years.

Guillaume Fournier had married Francois Hebert, stepdaughter of Noel Morin, on 20 November 1651. On 12 September 1663, Guillaume was given a receipt for the 1,000 livres tournois, that he had provided to the Morins over a ten-year period, and without prejudicing the rights of succession owned by his wife.

During the same era, through the intervention of his father, Nicolas Morin obtained a concession from the Jesuits at Sillery. The latter died a few years later. Then on 3 Aucyust 1664, the Seigneur de Saint-Luc took part in the election of the mayor Claude Charron.

The ancestor's arms were by now dropping with fatigue. On 23 May 1666, he ceded 30 arpents of land to Jean Pannier, for the price of 60 livres. The buyer probably returned to France. On 2 August of the same summer, Jean Poitras bought the other half. In the census of 1666, Marie Charlotte Poitiers, widow of Joseph Hebert killed      by the Iroquois in 1661, lived under the roof of her mother-in-law He1ene
Desportes. Jean Ballie earned his bread as Noel's hired hand. The following year, Jean was still working for Morin. In addition, Zacharie Jolliet, 17 years old, learned the trade of cartwright from his master, Noel Morin. At that time, the farm had 40 arpents under cultivation and 12 head of cattle. On 20 June 1667, an official report concerning the road which went to Sainte-Genevieve was drawn up. It was time to improve it.

SITUATION DURING THE LAST YEARS
In 1668, the die was cast. The homestead on the Saint Michel route, obtained from the Jesuit Fathers on 24 February 1663 in the seigneury of Sillery, 2 arpents of frontage by 25, first assigned to Nicolas, passed to his brother Jean-Baptiste, Sieur de Rochebelle. The farm was worth 450 livres. Nicolas had died leaving a debt of 75 livres. Jean-Baptiste accepted this land for 375 livres, the value of the inheritance. On the same day, 25 February 1668, Noel Morin named Rochebelle his administrator.

In 1664, Noel Morin had been chosen guardian of Charles Amador Martin, son of Abraham. On 16 April 1669, he gave a signed receipt to the Ursulines of Quebec for 240 livres, a portion of the inheritance in favor of his protege, who would be ordained a priest on 14 March 1671.

It was only on 4 May 1670 that we learn that the part of the land sold to Panier was resold for 90 livres by Charles Aubert, Sieur de LaChesnaye.

On 4 January, in early 1671, He1ene and Noel indicated their intentions: on the day of their death all their furniture and real estate would be divided between their sons Charles and Alphonse, on the condition that they support their parents. Furthermore, the sons would give their young sister Marie Madeleine 300 livres when she married. Then on the following 12 November, the Sieur de Saint-Luc rendered faith and homage to Louis Couillard, Sieur de L'Espinay.

The master Cartwright, 64 years old, did not easily resign himself to idleness. On 15 June 1673, he agreed to "make and perfect" 24 cannon mountings and to furnish the necessary wood. I am familiar, he said, with these cannons in the Upper and Lower Town. Charles Legardeur, first counsellor to the king and commandant of Chateau Saint-Louis, promised to pay for this special work by giving Ancestor Morin 40 livres per mounting, in other words 960 livres.

On 30 October 1674, Noel Morin and Louis Bosse agreed to settle a suit amicably. Bosse had obtained a homestead at Montmany. Without telling us the exact causes of the litigation, Bosse gave his land to his Seigneur Morin and even required a compensation of 60 livres. We know that between 1672 and 1676, the fief of Saint-LuC was divided to the benefit of Guillauine Fournier, Jean Proulx, Alphonse Morin, Pierre Jolliet, Jean Baillie, Michel Isabel, David Corbin, Charles Bazire and Jean Rollandeau.

This is the way thincs were when the generous and brilliant Helene Desportes, faithful wife, incomparable mother and valued mid-wife, died on the Sainte-Genevieve coast on SaintJean's Day 1675. Alas! her burial act was not recorded in the registry of Quebec. But her name appears there more than 20 times as godmother.


THE MORIN FAMILY

The third Morin generation numbered 56 people. All of Noel's and He1ene's twelve children were born at Quebec, where they were baptized between 1641 and 1656. They were Agnes, Germain, Louise, Nicolas, Jean Baptiste, Marguerite, He1ene, Marie, Alphonse, Noel, Charles and Marie Madeleine.

Marguerite died in the cradle. He1ene and 2 sons died during adolescence. Nicolas was 23 years old when he had to surrender his life.

Nicolas Gaudry and Ignace Bonhomme, Charles Cloutier, notary Gilles Rageot because the husbands of Agnes, Louise and Marie Madeleine.

Jean-Baptiste married Catherine Belleau; Alphonse married Marie-Madeleine Normand and Angelique Destroimaisons.

Alphonse died at Montmagny and was the only one, with his 15 children, to pass on the family name of Morin and Valcourt, a fraction of the great Canadian Morin clan today. As for Jean Baptiste, he was even part of the Sovereign Council of New France.

The two glories of this founding, Morin family are Germain and Marie. Germain, baptized on 15 January 1642, attended the Petit Seiminary of Quebec and was the first native of the country to becoime a priest, on 29 September 1665. At first, secretary to Msgr de Laval, he served as missionary and curate for several parishes, including Chsteau-Richer and Sainte-Anne de-Beaupre. He died at the Hotel-Dieu of Quebec on 20 August 1702.

Marie Morin, Goddaughter of Louis d'Ailleboust, Sieur de Coulonges, at the ace of 13 and at the request of the bishop of Quebec, joined the Nursing Sisters from La Fleche at Ville Marie. She was the first Canadian woman to take the veil at Montreal in 1663. Later, Sister Morin became superior of her convent. In honor of the Nursing Sisters of Saint-Joseph de France, she wrote the Annals of the Hotel-Dieu of Montreal, a priceless treasure in the understanding of history. This heroic woman entered into glory on 8 April 1730.

If the Morin children could make their mark in the society of that time, it is because they had studied with and were educated by the Ursulines or the Jesuits.

On 30 October 1675, after the death of He1ene Desportes, son Jean Baptiste agreed to supporting his elderly father on condition that the latter pay him 1,500 livres and half the income from the fief of Saint Luc. On the following day, all the members of the family agreed to sell Charles Bazire all the property at Sainte Genevieve for 3,000 livres.

Noel Morin, probably on a visit to the home of his son Alphonse, died at Montmagny on 10 January 1680, in the middle of winter. The body of the deceased was buried in a small crypt at Saint-Thomas. His funeral was celebrated 5 days later at Quebec. Alphonse, Jean Baptiste and Gilles Rageot signed the registry of Notre-Dame.

Our ancestors were the architects for the construction of our people. We are the masons. Let's follow the plans.


FAMILY NAME VARIATIONS

Beausejour, Bellegard, Bonsecours, Boucher, Canuel, Chenevert, Cloridan, De Valcour, Ducharme, Langevin, Laverdure, Marron, Maurin, Maurrin, Moore, Moran, Morand, Moren, Moreau, Morel, Moret, Morice, Moriceau, Moris, Morillon, Moring, Morizot, Morry, Murray, Perrault, Rochebelle, Valcour and Valcourt.


More About NOEL MORIN:
Burial: 15 February 1679/80, Buried Quebec City, Quebec, Canada102
     
Children of HELENE DESPORTES and GUILLAUME HEBERT are:
34. i.   JOSEPH4 HEBERT, b. 03 November 1636, Quebec; d. 1661.
35. ii.   MARIE-FRANCOISE HEBERT, b. 23 January 1637/38, Quebec City, Canada; d. 16 March 1715/16, St. Thomas de Montmagny, Quebec.
  iii.   MARIE-ANGELIQUE HEBERT, b. 1639; d. 1666, Quebec103.
  More About MARIE-ANGELIQUE HEBERT:
Baptism: 02 August 1639, Baptised Quebec104
     
Children of HELENE DESPORTES and NOEL MORIN are:
36. iv.   AGNES4 MORIN, b. 21 January 1640/41, Quebec City, Quebec, P. Quebec; d. 30 August 1687, Quebec, Quebec, P. Quebec.
37. v.   LOUISE MORIN, b. 27 April 1643, Notre Dame, Quebec City, Quebec; d. 28 April 1713, La Visitation, Chateau Richer, Montmorency, Quebec.
38. vi.   ALPHONSE MORIN, VALCOUR, b. 12 December 1650, Quebec, Quebec, P. Quebec; d. 29 August 1711, Montmagny, Montmagny, P. Quebec.

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