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Mercier, Jeanne
1621 - 1687 (66 years)-
Name Mercier, Jeanne Baptism 14 mars 1615 Tourouvre, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France 
Born 21 Nov 1621 Les Sables-d'Olonne, Lucon, Poitou, France [1, 2] Gender Female Immigration 1634 Quebec City, QC, Canada _FSFTID LVSW-6D3 _UID 8062E060C5D3DD43B35E147608406BD4FCA2 Died 14 Dec 1687 Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre, Capitale-Nationale Region, Quebec, Canada [3, 4] Buried 21 Dec 1687 St. Anne-De-Beaupre, QC, Canada [1, 3, 4] Person ID I80 NewFranceGenealogy Last Modified 7 May 2017
Father Mercier, Jean Loup, b. Abt 1585, PERCHE , d. 25 Sep 1611 (Age ~ 26 years) Mother Gaillard, Jeanne, b. 1595 Married Abt 1600 France Family ID F47 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Poulain, Claude Basile Joseph, b. 25 janvier 1616, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France , d. 17 Dec 1687, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Montmorency, Québec, Canada (Age 71 years) Married 8 Aug 1639 Our Lady of Recouvrance; Quebec City, QC, New France [1, 2, 3, 5] _STAT MARRIED _UID 621637E57350A34483DE510CCB4CBC2FFEA6 Children + 1. Poulin, Marie, b. 25 May 1640, d. 17 Jul 1716, St. Anne-de-Beaupre, QC, New France (Age 76 years)2. Poulin, Pascal, b. 15 Feb 1645, St-Maclou, Rouen, Normandie, France , d. 6 Jun 1661, Notre-Dame-de-Quebec, Québec, Canada (Age 16 years)+ 3. Poulin, Marie Madeleine, b. 27 Jun 1646, St-Maclou, Rouen, Normandie, France , d. 18 Oct 1682, Saint-Joachim (Age 36 years)+ 4. Poulin, Martin, b. 26 Sep 1648, Notre-Dame, Québec, Canada, New France , d. 15 Jan 1710, Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré, Canada, New France (Age 61 years)5. Poulin, René, b. 27 janvier 1651, Québec, Québec, Québec, Canada , d. 8 Aug 1661, QC, Canada (Age 10 years)+ 6. Poulin, Ignace, b. 19 Dec 1655, Québec, Canada, New France , d. 30 Mar 1720, St. Joachim, Canada, New France (Age 64 years)+ 7. Poulin, Marquerite, b. 4 Oct 1658, Québec, Canada, New France , d. 19 May 1722, Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré, Canada, New France (Age 63 years)+ 8. Poulin, Marie Anne, b. 25 May 1661, Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré, Canada, New France , d. 28 Mar 1743, Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré, Canada, New France (Age 81 years)+ 9. Poulin, Pierre, b. 7 Aug 1664, Château-Richer, Canada, New France , d. 16 Oct 1709, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Canada, New France (Age 45 years)Last Modified 27 May 2017 Family ID F46 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Claude Poulin and his wife are buried in the cemetery in Ste. Anne de Beaupre, next to the reconstructed stone church and directly across the street (north) from the current Basilica. The grave is in the first row closest to the street and to the old church. A new marker was erected in 1989 on the 350th anniversary of their marriage.
THE FOUNDING OF QUÉBEC CITY AND OF NEW FRANCE (http://pages.infinit.net/cloutijr/Arrivee_des_Cloutier.a.pdf)
The settlement established by Samuel de Champlain in Québec had a slow and difficult
beginning. The first family among settlers was that of Louis Hébert, a Parisian apothecary, in
1617. This Hébert has previously spent some time in Acadia with Champlain and knew him
well. This time Hébert had his wife Marie Rollet, his son Guillaume and his daughters
Guillemette and Anne with him. Champlain granted him land in 1623 in the upper town of
Québec city. However, he did not enjoy it very long as he died at the beginning of January
1627 from an accident. His only son, Guillaume, married Hélène Desportes in 1634 and they
had two daughters and one son, Joseph who married Marie-Charlotte de Poitiers in 1660.
Iroquois killed Joseph the next year leaving just one son who died early. So, our first settler did
not pass on his surname to descendants. However, his daughter Guillemette married in
Québec city in 1621 to Guillaume Couillard and has had numerous descendants. Her sister
Anne died giving birth to her first child whom did not survive.
In 1627, the colony comprised of about sixty men, five women and six young girls.
During this time, Champlain, a cartographer, explored the country as much as he could,
going as far west as Lake Huron and Lake Ontario and to Lake Champlain to the south. Only
the already hostile Iroquois prevented him from going further.
In 1629, the three Kirke brothers captured Québec city that was without decent protection, in
the name of the British3. Most of the settlers then returned to France except Guillaume
Couillard, his family, his mother-in-law Marie Rollet, in all, about twenty people. In 1632, the
Saint-Germain-en-Laye Treaty ended the British occupation. When Champlain returned in
1633, he had to start from scratch as the British had killed all the livestock, brought away all
supplies and destroyed all the structures.
Another Frenchman Robert Giffard, master surgeon and apothecary had already visited in
Québec city for the Compagnie des Cent-Associés. He had spent the 1625-26 winter there
and had taken a liking to the country. He was back again in 1629 but was caught by the
British4. Back in his native Perche, he planned and organized a project. He became associate
with Pierre Le Bouyer, Sieur de Saint-Gervais, an advisor to the king, in order to set up trade
and a settlement in New France. In 1634, he arrived in Québec city with about forty people
coming from the Perche region. The “Percherons” do not have the reputation of being
adventurers, but they seem to have the qualities sought by Giffard5. The group had six
families with many children in each. Of these people was Jeanne Mercier. She married Claude Poulin, a carpenter, in Québec city in
1639. This couple had nine children: Marie, Pascal, Madeleine, Martin, René, Ignace,
Marguerite, Marie (a second one) and Pierre.
Jeanne is also noted as being on of the 262 "Filles a Marier" - "Marriageble Gilrs" that emigrated to New France between 1634 and 1663. These women represented one quarter of all the single girls arriving in New France through 1673. They were recruited and chaperoned by religious groups or individuals who had to assure and account for their good conduct. In general, they were poor, although there were some members of the petty nobility among their ranks.
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Birth - Date: avant 14 mars 1615 Place: Tourouvre, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France
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Burial - Date: 15 Dec 1687 Place: Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre, Capitale-Nationale Region, Quebec, Canada
- Claude Poulin and his wife are buried in the cemetery in Ste. Anne de Beaupre, next to the reconstructed stone church and directly across the street (north) from the current Basilica. The grave is in the first row closest to the street and to the old church. A new marker was erected in 1989 on the 350th anniversary of their marriage.
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Sources - [S37] Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Canadiennes, Tanguay, Cyprien, (Global Heritage Press, 2001 with permission of la Société généalogique Canadienne-Française), Vol 1 / p. 496 (Reliability: 2).
- [S21] Before the King's Daughters: The Filles à Marier, 1634-1662, Gagné, Peter J., (Pawtucket, RI: Quintin Publications, 2002), p. 222 (Reliability: 2).
- [S38] Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique / The Research Program in Historical Demography (Reliability: 2).
- [S21] Before the King's Daughters: The Filles à Marier, 1634-1662, Gagné, Peter J., (Pawtucket, RI: Quintin Publications, 2002), p. 223 (Reliability: 2).
- [S36] Dictionnaire National des Canadiens Français 1608-1760, (Institut Drouin, (AFGS 1968)), p. 1099 (Reliability: 2).
- [S37] Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Canadiennes, Tanguay, Cyprien, (Global Heritage Press, 2001 with permission of la Société généalogique Canadienne-Française), Vol 1 / p. 496 (Reliability: 2).