Helene Desportes
(7 Jul 1620 - 24 Jun 1675)
Helene Desportes (7 Jul 1620,
Lisieux, France
- 24 Jun 1675,
St. Thomas, Montmagny, QC, Canada
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Pedigree Chart
Helene was the child of Pierre Desportes and Francoise Langlois
One of the first settlers of Quebec
Ancestor's Life Events
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Helene Desportes "MARIE HELENE DES PORTES WAS BORN ON JULY 7, 1620 AT LISIEUX, CALVADOS, NORMANDY, FRANCE THE DAUGHTER OF PIERRE DESPORTES AND FRANCOIS LANGLOIS. " "SHE ARRIVED AT TADOUSSAC ABOARD THE 'LE SALLEMANDE', AS AN INFANT, ON AUGUST 30, 1620 TO BECOME ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND YOUNGEST, SETTLERS OF FRENCH QUEBEC. HER FATHER WAS EMPLOYED WITH THE COMPANY OF 100 ASSOCIATES AND CAME TO NEW FRANCE TO ASSIST WITH THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE COLONY." "WHEN THE KIRKE BROTHERS TOOK CONTROL OF QUEBEC IN 1629, HER FAMILY WAS DEPORTED BACK TO FRANCE, AND ONLY HELENE WOULD RETURN TO QUEBEC WITH HER AUNT AND UNCLE MARGUERITE LANGLOIS AND ABRAHAM MARTIN WHEN IT WAS GIVEN BACK TO FRANCE." "ON OCTOBER 1, 1634 SHE MARRIED GUILLAUME HEBERT, SON OF LOUIS HEBERT AND MARIE ROLLET, IN QUEBEC CITY AND THE COUPLE WOULD HAVE THREE CHILDREN, BEFORE GUILLAUME'S DEATH ON SEPTEMBER 23, 1639: JOSEPH, MARIE-FRANCOISE AND ANGLELIQUE. MARIE MARRIED GUILLAUME FOURNIER AND HAD FIFTEEN CHILDREN. ANGELIQUE DID NOT MARRY AND DIED AT ST. THOMAS QUEBEC IN 1665." "THEIR SON JOSEPH, MARRIED MARIE-CHARLOTTE DE POITERS ON OCTOBER 12, 1660 BUT THE FOLLOWING JUNE HE WAS CAPTURED BY THE IROQUOIS AND HELD AS PRISONER. A LETTER FROM A FELLOW CAPTIVE NOTED THAT JOSEPH HAD BEEN WOUNDED IN THE ARM AND SHOULDER, BUT HE WAS LATER TORTURED AND STABBED TO DEATH BY A DRUNKEN WARRIOR. HIS WIFE WAS PREGNANT AT THE TIME OF HIS CAPTURE, AND BORE HIM A SON WHOM SHE ALSO NAMED JOSEPH ON OCTOBER 5, 1661. HOWEVER, HE DIED AS AN INFANT SO THE HEBERT NAME IN QUEBEC, THAT BEGAN WITH LOUIS, WOULD BE BROUGHT TO AN END." HELENE'S SECOND MARRIAGE "HELENE DES PORTES WAS JUST NINETEEN WHEN HER FIRST HUSBAND DIED, AND LEFT WITH THREE SMALL CHILDREN, SHE QUICKLY ENTERED INTO A MARRIAGE CONTRACT WITH NOEL MORIN, A 34 YEAR-OLD CARTWRIGHT FROM BRIE, FRANCE WHO HAD BEEN RECRUITED FOR NEW FRANCE BY ROBERT GIFFARD, IN 1636. THE CONTRACT WAS SIGNED ON DECEMBER 27 1639, AND THE CEREMONY TOOK PLACE ON JANUARY 9 1640." "IN 1663, NOEL MORIN WAS GRANTED A SIEGNEURY AT RIVIERE DE SUD (RIVER OF THE SOUTH) AT A PLACE KNOWN AS 'POINT WITH THE CURDLES' AND GIVEN THE TITLE OF SIEUR DE ST. LUC." "MARIE HELENE DES PORTES, MADAME DE ST. LUC DIED ON JUNE 24 1675, AT ST. THOMAS, MONTMAGNY QUEBEC AND NOEL, FIVE YEARS LATER ON JANUARY 15, 1680. THE COUPLE HAD TWELVE CHILDREN, WHO LEFT THOUSANDS OF DESCENDANTS, AND THE MORIN NAME LIVES ON IN QUEBEC." SOURCE: HTTP:/WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/WEALLCAMEFROMSOMEWHERE/KEBEC/HELENE_DESPORTES.HTML |
 Sainct Jean, Sainct Francois & Sainct Michel The first census of New France (1666)
http://www.afhs.ab.ca/data/census/1666 Noel Morin - 57 charron habittant helleine desportes - 46 sa femme Nicolas Morin - 22 fils Jean Baptiste Morin - 21 fils Charles Morin - 11 fils Alphonse Morin - 15 fils Marie Magdelaine Morin - 9 fille Marie Charlotte de poyetiers - 25 vefve de joseph hebert et Jean Ballié - 26 domestique Engaigé |
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1675 Death "...This is the way things were when the generous and brilliant Helene Desportes, faithful wife, incomparable mother and valued mid-wife, died on the Sainte-Genevieve coast on Saint-Jean'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." Thomas J. Laforest Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume XVI, Page 177 |
Ancestor's Marriage(s) and Child(ren)
 married
Guillaume Hebert
-- Date: 1 OCT 1634 Place:
Québec City, Québec, Canada
Source:  Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) [database on-line]. Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin. Notre-Dame-de-Quebec, Quebec, Canada |
Family Group Record
for Helene Desportes and Guillaume Hebert
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Children:
Joseph Hebert (1 Oct 1636, Québec City, Québec, Canada - , )
Francoise Hebert (23 JAN 1638, Québec City, Québec, Canada - 16 MAR 1716, Berthier-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada)
Angelique Hebert (2 Aug 1639, Québec City, Québec, Canada - , ) |
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married
Noel Morin
-- Date: 9 JAN 1640 Place:
Québec City, Québec, Canada
Source: Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) [database on-line]. Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin. Notre-Dame-de-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 Piarude, 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 Leseur, not to forget their great ladies." "Why such solemnity? The bride was none other than Helene Desportes, daughter of Pierre and of Francoise Langlois, niece of Abraham Martin. Helene, the first white child born at 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 Marrie Rollet, married to Helen 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 Francoise." "... 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." Thomas J. Laforest Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume XVI, Pages 172-173 |
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Family Group Record
for Helene Desportes and Noel Morin
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Children:
Agnes Morin (21 Jan 1641, Québec City, Québec, Canada - 30 Aug 1687, Québec City, Québec, Canada)
Germain Morin (14 January 1642 , Québec City, Québec, Canada - , )
Louise Morin (27 Apr 1643, Québec City, Québec, Canada - 28 APR 1713, Château-Richer, Québec, Canada)
Nicolas Morin (26 April 1644 , Québec City, Québec, Canada - abt. 1667, )
Jean Baptiste Morin (22 May 1645 , Québec City, Québec, Canada - , )
Marguerite Morin (29 September 1646 , Québec City, Québec, Canada - 17 October 1646 , )
Helene Morin (30 September 1647 , Québec City, Québec, Canada - 09 May 1661, )
Marie Morin (19 March 1649, Québec City, Québec, Canada - , )
Alphonse Morin dit Valcourt (12 DEC 1650, Québec City, Québec, Canada - 29 AUG 1711, Berthier-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada)
Noel Morin (12 October 1652, Québec City, Québec, Canada - , )
Charles Morin (29 August 1654 , Québec City, Québec, Canada - 04 October 1671, )
Madeleine Morin (28 Dec 1656, Québec City, Québec, Canada - 21 Jul 1720, ) |
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