Louis MAHEU

(b. 9 December 1650 , Québec, Canada, New France d. 24 November 1683 , Québec, Canada, New France )

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Louis MAHEU was born 9 December 1650 in Québec, Canada, New France

Louis MAHEU was the child of René MAHEU and Marguerite CORRIVEAU

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Louis married Geneviève BISSOT 12 June 1673 in Québec, Canada, New France . Geneviève BISSOT was born 25 May 1653 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Geneviève was the child of François BISSOT DE LA RIVIÈRE and Marie COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY.

Louis MAHEU died 24 November 1683 in Québec, Canada, New France .
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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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Geneviève BISSOT-- Date: 12 June 1673 Place: Québec, Canada, New France
Geneviève BISSOT was the child of François BISSOT DE LA RIVIÈRE and Marie COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY

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1650 Birth
9 December 1650
Québec, Canada, New France

Baptism
Ludouicus Maheut
born 9 December 1650
baptised 11 December 1650
Notre-Dame-de-Quebec
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Biography
MAHEUT, LOUIS, probably the first surgeon born in Canada, son of René Maheut, a bourgeois of Paris, and Marguerite Corrivault; baptized 12 Dec. 1650 at Quebec; d. there in 1683. The name Maheut is the Breton form of Mathieu, which has also produced Maheu, Maheux, and Mayo.

Louis Maheut received the same first name as his older brother, likewise a surgeon who lived at various times in Canada. He had as godfather and godmother Governor Louis d’Ailleboust and Jacqueline Potel, the wife of Jean Bourdon.

In October 1668, after some sort of apprenticeship as a surgeon-barber, Louis Maheut sailed on the Sainte-Anne, proposing to go and continue his surgical studies in France. For this purpose he had borrowed the sum of 146 livres, 13 sols from his stepfather Jean Maheut, his mother’s third husband. He could not have stayed more than five years in France, since on 12 June 1673, at Quebec, he married his cousin Geneviève Bissot, daughter of François Byssot. The day before, he had...Read MORE...

Dictionary of Canadian Biography (www.biographi.ca)

1650 Baptism

Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
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1656 - The pendulum clock is invented (Christiaan Huygens, Netherlands)

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1666 Quebec
Jean Maheu ..................................23 marchant
Marguerite Corriveau ........................40 sa fem. vevfe de René Maheut
Jean Paul Maheu .............................17 enfan du deffunct Maheu
Louis Maheu .................................15 enfan du deffunct Maheu
Jacques Jore ................................21 Engaigé domestique
Et Barbe halle ..............................20 servante
The first census of New France (1666)
The French In North America: 1500-1783