Mathurin Lorion

• Death Notes
  • Pointe Aux Trembles, PQ

• General Notes
  • (See Gervaise)
    
    Mathurin LORION was born between 1598 and 1605 and came to Canada with three daughters early in 1658. We know that he was a labourer in Ste. Soulle (near La Rochelle) in 1647, the same at nearby Dompierre in 1649 and also when his daughter Jeanne was baptized in 1651 at the village of des Brandes, about 12 kilometers from La Rochelle. He was living in La Rochelle on Rue St. Claire
    on the 8 Dec 1657 when his daughter Renée was baptized, but was in Montreal by October 1858.
    
    Mathurin was married three times before coming to Canada (but the dates given by Tanguay are probably wrong). His first wife Marie Barbier presumably died before 1635 when he married Francoise Morin. The first known child Catherine was the daughter of Francoise and was born in 1636. Francoise died 6 Nov 1648 when she was 43 years old (records of Notre Dame, La Rochelle).
    
    We have located his marriage record to Jeanne BIZET 6 months later at St. Marguerite's in La Rochelle. His name is then spelled LAURION. Jeanne's two brothers, Philippe (also a labourer) and Jean were witnesses to her marriage. Philippe was born at St. Georges du Bois and married Andrée Bertrand, daughter of Guillaume and Marguerite LETARD, on 1 May 1645. At this time, his mother Francoise was dead but his father André was still alive.
    
    Several children died young, and it is possible that Pierre and a sister, name unknown, who died two years later in 1657 at La Rochelle, were twins. The oldest daughter Catherine came to Canada some years before her father, possibly with her first husband. Her first three husbands (she married 4 times) died rather violently: the first was crushed by a tree, the second drowned, and the third was burned to death in his house.
    
    Renée was nearly 17 when she married a newly discharged soldier from the Carignan Salières regiment, Jean Delpue dit Pariso.
    
    Mathurin had a plot of land in Montreal as shown in the census of 1663. By 1681, he had 12 arpents of land, 2 rifles and 2 cows. A cousin of Mathurin also settled in Canada. He was Gilbert BARBIER, a carpenter, born about 1620 and died 15 Nov 1693 at Pointe aux Trembles. His parents Pierre and Claude VIZON came from the parish of St. Aré of Decize in the Niverne, centrral France. Gilbert's son Charles married Marguerite CUSSON and was killed by the Iroquois with Charles LeMoyne at Montreal, 8 June 1691.

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