Jean-Baptiste DE PEIRAS

(b. abt. 1642 , Paris, France d. 6 September 1701 , Québec, Canada, New France )

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Jean-Baptiste DE PEIRAS was born abt. 1642 in Paris, France

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Jean-Baptiste was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1671.

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Jean-Baptiste married Anne-Jeanne THIREMENT 18 August 1671 in Québec, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Anne-Jeanne THIREMENT was born abt. 1644 in Paris, France. Anne-Jeanne died 1 November 1679 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City).

Jean-Baptiste DE PEIRAS died 6 September 1701 in Québec, Canada, New France .

son of Jean Baptiste DePeiras and Denyse Marion

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Occupation

Jean-Baptiste DE PEIRAS was a councillor in the Conseil Souverain of New France.

Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Jean-Baptiste DE PEIRAS married

Anne-Jeanne THIREMENT-- Date: 18 August 1671 Place: Québec, Canada, New France
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Children of Jean-Baptiste DE PEIRAS and Anne-Jeanne THIREMENT:

Elisabeth DEPEIRAS (b.30 July 1671, Québec, Canada, New France d. 2 October 1726, Québec, Canada, New France )
m. Nicolas PINGUET 24 June 1698 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

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PEIRAS, JEAN-BAPTISTE DE, councillor in the Conseil Souverain of New France; b. c. 1641 in Paris, son of Jean de Peiras, king’s counsellor, and of Denise Marion; d. September 1701 at Quebec.

After his father’s death, Jean-Baptiste de Peiras went to New France around 1670 with his mother (who was to be buried at Quebec in 1677) and his sisters Marie-Madeleine and Denise; the former was to marry Paul Denys de Saint-Simon and the latter Joseph Giffard, son of Robert Giffard*, first seigneur of Beauport. The young man had inherited his father’s capabilities in legal matters, and lost no time in winning official recognition of them. Protected by Buade* de Frontenac, he was appointed to the Conseil Souverain in January 1673 in place of Nicolas de Mouchy*, and two years later the king appointed him a councillor for life. In 1674 two famous cases were heard by the council: those of Abbé de Fénelon [Salignac*] and of the Sieur Perrot*. These two took exception to Peiras and two of his other ...Read MORE...

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003