Guillaume  PEPIN

Biography
Guillaume PÉPIN — (ca 1608 - 1697)

French-Canadian pioneer Guillaume Pépin passed away on August 12th, 1697, at Trois-Rivières, Québec.

Guillaume was one of the earliest settlers at Trois-Rivières and possibly 'present at the founding of the town in 1634.' He married the young Jeanne Méchin sometime before 1646. The couple had at least thirteen children, including two sets of twins. The boys Louis and Joseph appear not to have survived infancy, but twins Ursule and Marguerite, the couple's last children, married and raised families.

(Some early sources state that Guillaume had the dit-name Tranchemontagne but this is dubious. PRDH does not report it. It was however the dit-name of his son-in-law, François Roussel.)

[Sources: PRDH; 'Guillaume Pépin dit Tranchemontagne', Our French-Canadian Ancestors (vol.5, pp.180-191), Jacques Saintonge (Thomas J. Laforest (tr.)), Édouard Sénécal illustrator, Palm Harbor, Florida, 1983.]
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1646 Birth of Child
Jacques PEPIN was born 14 April 1646, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1647 Birth of Child
Jean PEPIN dit DESCARDONNETS was born 8 August 1647, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1649 Birth of Child
Marie-Anne PEPIN was born 21 April 1649, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1651 Birth of Child
Guillaume PEPIN was born 4 August 1651, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1652 Birth of Child
Pierre PEPIN dit LAFORCE was born 29 December 1652, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1654 Birth of Child
Étienne PEPIN was born 14 April 1654, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1656 Birth of Child
Jeanne PEPIN was born 28 March 1656, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1657 Birth of Child
Madeleine PÉPIN was born 11 November 1657, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1660 Birth of Child
Joseph PEPIN was born 21 November 1660, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1660 Birth of Child
Louis PEPIN was born 21 November 1660, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1662 Birth of Child
Marguerite PEPIN was born 6 May 1662, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1662 Birth of Child
Marie-Ursule PEPIN was born 6 May 1662, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1663 Marriage of Child
Marie-Anne PEPIN married 3 October 1663, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers) to Guillaume LARUE

1666 Les Trois Rivieres
Guillaume Pepin - 56 habitant

Jeanne Mechin - 36 sa femme

Jacques pepin - 18 fils

Jean pepin - 16 fils

Guillaume Pepin - 14 fils

Pierre pepin - 12 fils

Estienne pepin - 11 fils

Jeanne pepin - 9 fille

Magdelaine pepin - 8 fille

Eslisabeth pepin - 7 fille

marie & marguerite pepin - 3 filles jumelles
The first census of New France (1666)
The French In North America: 1500-1783

1667 Census - Trois Rivieres, Quebec
Guillaume Pepin, habitant, 62 years
Jeanne Mechine, 35 years
Jacques Pepin, 21 years
Jean Pepin, 20 years
Guillaume Pepin, 16 years
Pierre Pepin, 14 years
Etienne Pepin, 11 years
Jeanne Pepin, 10 years
Marie Pepin, 7 years
Madeleine Pepin, 10 years
Isabelle Pepin, 7 years
Ursule Pepin, 4 years
Marguerite Pepin, 4 years

1668 Trois Rivieres
Trois-Rivieres. (27 acres of land in the vicinity of the town) Vol. I., 1st part, p. 57 - 1668 - Guillaume Pepin had obtained the grand of this land in 1647.

Trois-Rivieres. (2 acres by 20 in the vicinity of the town, on the hill, and one lot in the town) Vol. I, 1st part, pp. 58 and 59 - 1668 - Guillaume Pepin had obtained the grant in 1656 and 1650.

Title Report
Author Public Archives Canada
Published 1885
Page 49

1671 Marriage of Child
Madeleine PÉPIN married 7 April 1671, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers) to François ROUSSEL dit TRANCHEMONTAGNE

1671 Marriage of Child
Elisabeth PEPIN married 16 November 1671, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers) to Jean ARCOUËT dit LAJEUNESSE

1671 Marriage of Child
Jacques PEPIN married 16 November 1671, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers) to Marie-Jeanne CAILLÉ

1674 Marriage of Child
Jeanne PEPIN married 6 February 1674, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers) to Jean HEROUX dit BOURGAINVILLE

1679 Marriage of Child
Marguerite PEPIN married 14 November 1679, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers) to Bernard JOACHIM dit LAVERDURE

1680 Marriage of Child
Marie-Ursule PEPIN married 30 November 1680, Champlain, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation) to Louis PINARD

1680 Death of Spouse/Partner
Jeanne MECHIN died 30 November 1680, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

1681 Canadian Census Ville des Trois-Rivieres
Guillaume Pepin, 70

Source: Histoire des Canadiens-Francais 1608-1880 by Benjamin Sulte, Montreal, 1882

1681 Marriage of Child
Pierre PEPIN dit LAFORCE married 20 October 1681, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Louise LEMIRE

1685 Marriage of Child
Jean PEPIN dit DESCARDONNETS married 23 November 1685, Boucherville, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Famille-de-Boucherville) to Marie-Madeleine LOISEAU

1690 Marriage of Child
Jeanne PEPIN married 14 August 1690, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers) to Mathurin MARAIS

'Abbot Bellemare says that death surprised Guillaume, where he was living at the home of his son Pierre, at Point-aux-Sables, on the other side of the river in the future parish of Saint-Gregoire. On 12 August 1697, his mortal remains were brought to Trois-Rivieres to be buried there in the cemetery of the parish. his death certificate said he that he was about ninety years old. As for Jeanne Meschin, we don't know precisely the date of her death. An act by Severin Ameau drawn up in 1679 said that she was living but the census of 1681 does not mention her. Thus we must believe that she was taken sometime between these two years.'

Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume V, Page 189

1697 Death
12 August 1697
Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)