Jean-François
BOURDON
(b.
2 February 1647
,
Québec, Canada, New France
d.
abt. 1690
,
La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France
)
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Jean-François BOURDON was born 2 February 1647 in Québec, Canada, New France
Jean-François BOURDON was the child of Jean BOURDON and Jacqueline POTELJean-François BOURDON died abt. 1690 in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France.
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changesFrom 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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1647 Birth 2 February 1647
Québec, Canada, New France
Baptism
Jean Francois Bourdon
2 February 1647
Notre-Dame-de-Quebec
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783
Jean Francois Bourdon
2 February 1647
Notre-Dame-de-Quebec
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783
Biography
BOURDON DE DOMBOURG, JEAN-FRANÇOIS, seigneur and ship’s captain; baptized 2 Feb. 1647 in Quebec, son of Jean Bourdon, a seigneur and engineer-surveyor, and Jacquelin Potel; d. 1690 at La Rochelle.
Upon finishing his studies at the Jesuit college, he chose to be a sailor and became a captain in the merchant marine. His career led him to give up his rights to his father’s property, which he could not work. On 28 Aug. 1677 he let the Sieur Bazire, a Quebec bourgeois and merchant, have for 3,000 livres the share that he had inherited of the fiefs of Saint-Jean and Saint-François. On 12 Nov. 1680 he sold his seigneury of Dombourg to Nicolas Dupont*, Sieur de Neuville. It was probably at this time that he decided to go to live in France.
He settled at La Rochelle, where he married, on 1 April 1687, Jeanne Janier. Every year he sailed between Canada and La Rochelle, which was in control of trade with New France at that time. From there sailed the king’s ship and those of the merchants, ...Read MORE...
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BOURDON DE DOMBOURG, JEAN-FRANÇOIS, seigneur and ship’s captain; baptized 2 Feb. 1647 in Quebec, son of Jean Bourdon, a seigneur and engineer-surveyor, and Jacquelin Potel; d. 1690 at La Rochelle.
Upon finishing his studies at the Jesuit college, he chose to be a sailor and became a captain in the merchant marine. His career led him to give up his rights to his father’s property, which he could not work. On 28 Aug. 1677 he let the Sieur Bazire, a Quebec bourgeois and merchant, have for 3,000 livres the share that he had inherited of the fiefs of Saint-Jean and Saint-François. On 12 Nov. 1680 he sold his seigneury of Dombourg to Nicolas Dupont*, Sieur de Neuville. It was probably at this time that he decided to go to live in France.
He settled at La Rochelle, where he married, on 1 April 1687, Jeanne Janier. Every year he sailed between Canada and La Rochelle, which was in control of trade with New France at that time. From there sailed the king’s ship and those of the merchants, ...Read MORE...
Dictionary of Canadian Biography (www.biographi.ca)
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