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- ! from PRDH: "L'ACTE DE S?PULTURE D'H?L?NE DESPORTES NE NOUS EST PAS PARVENU. CEPENDANT, UNE NOTE DU ?REGISTRE DE LA CONFR?RIE DE LA SAINTE-FAMILLE? PR?CISE SA DATE DE D?C?S; ELLE SERAIT D?C?D?E CHEZ SON FILS ALPHONSE, ? ST-THOMAS DE LA RIVI?RE-DU-SUD.SOURCE: ARTICLE DE L?ON ROY DANSLES MSGCF VOL. 2 (1946), P. 165-168""SA DATE DE NAISSANCE PRECISE EST INCONNUE. ON SAIT QU'ELLE EST NEE A QUEBEC APRES LE 7 JUILLET 1620, DATE D'ARRIVEE DE SA MARRAINE, HELENE BOULLE. D'APRES SON AGE AU MARIAGE,ELLE SERAIT NEE DANS LA SECONDE MOITIE DE 1620"! <http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=172>Dictionary of Canadian Biography online1000-1700 (Volume I)DESPORTES, H?L?NE, said to be the first white child born in NewFrance, daughter ofPierre Desportes and Fran?oise Langlois; m. Guillaume H?bert 1634; d. 24 June 1675. The date of H?l?ne?sbirth has not been definitely fixed. Dionne says that she came to Quebec with her parents in 1613, Sulte that she was born in Quebec about 1622. Statistics from other sources indicate that she was 14 years old in1634, 38 in 1659, 46 in 1666, and 48 in 1667. Anne H?bert, according to Champlain, had died in childbirth previous to 1620; but since there is no further mention of her child, it was presumably still-born. Eustache Martin was born in October 1621. If, however, we assume H?l?ne?s birthdate to be 1620, which seems most probable, her claim is established as being the first white child born alive in the St. Lawrence region. (Sulte, to be sure, claims for Guillemette H?bert the honour of being the first-born Canadienne, on the assumption that Louis H?bert had his wife with him in Acadia in 1606, but Lescarbot?s evidence refutes this (History (Grant).) Pierre Desportes probably came to Quebec in 1614 with Abraham Martin: their wives were sisters. Desportes? occupation isnot known, but he must have had some standing in the community and sufficient education to be able to write, for he signed on behalf ofthe inhabitants the document of 1621 appealing to the king. No other facts are known about him. (He is not to be confused with Pierre Desportes de Ligu?re, to whom the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France ceded ?le Royale (Cape Breton) in 1636.) Neither of H?l?ne?s parents witnessed her marriage contract, drawn up in Quebec in October 1634. Her husband was Guillaume H?bert. About this only son of Canada?s first settler little isrecorded except an occasional instance of his helping the priestsin their relations with the savages. Since he had inherited half his father?s land, which included some acres on the St. Charles as well as the original site above the cliff, itis to be assumed that his chief occupation during his short life was the cultivation of his fields. He was but alittle boy when he came to Quebec with his parents in 1617, therefore probably still in his twenties when he died in 1639. Threechildren wereborn of this marriage, one of whom died in infancy. The other two wereaSon Joseph and a daughter Fran?oise (b. 1638) who married Guillaume Fournier, 1651. H?l?ne?s second husband was No?l Morin (1616?80), a wheelwright,whobecame one of the early pioneers of Montmagny. Their son Germain* was consecrated to the priesthood by Mgr Laval* in September l665, the first Canadian-born priest. Another son, Jean-Baptiste (1645?94) was a member of the Conseil Souverain. Adaughter, Marie*, was thefirst Canadian-born nun.Ethel M. G. BennettFor information about the Desportes family in Quebec see L?on Roy, ?Pierre Desportes et sa descendance,? SGCF M?moires, II (1946?47), 165?68. See also Azarie CouillardDespr?s, Louis H?bert: premier colon canadien et sa famille (Lille, Paris, Bruges, 1913; Montr?al, 1918); La premi?re famille fran?aise au Canada. Dionne Champlain, II, passim. Sulte, Hist. des Can.-fr., II, 37, 78.! <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne_Desportes>H?l?ne DesportesFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaH?l?ne Desportes is often citedas the first white child born in Canada, New France. There is considerable disagreement about when she was born and, in particular,if she was born in Quebec or before she arrived on the continent.[1] Her parentswere French habitants Pierre Desportes(1580- after 1629), who was in charge of the warehouse in Quebec as well as the village baker, and hiswife Fran?oiseLanglois (c1595- after 1629), who settled in Quebec. Herfather was a lawyer in the Parlement de Paris and an investorin the Companyof 100 Associates which funded Champlain's colony.Her godmother was Madame H?l?ne Boull?, the wife of Samuel deChamplain. In his will, Champlain left her 300 livres (about $15,000 in 1997).[2]After the fall of Qu?bec City in 1629, H?l?ne and herparents, along with Champlain were transported to London, and then back to France. Shortly after peacewasrestored in 1632, H?l?ne returned to Qu?bec, possibly with Champlain who arrivedback in Qu?bec on May 16, 1633.On the first of October 1634,H?l?ne married Joseph Guillaume H?BERT, son of Louis H?bert and Marie Rollet. Joseph's familyhadremainedin Qu?bec during the occupation and had the first farm there. His father LOUIS HEBERT had been involved in early expeditions to PortRoyal with Champlain and others.After Joseph Hebert died in 1639,H?l?ne was left with three living children.She then married No?l Morin, a native of the parish of St-?tienne in Brie-Comte-Robert, a village near Paris, on January 9, 1640, in QuebecCity. They had 12 children.Perhaps aided by having personally brought 19 of her own childreninto the world, H?l?ne learned the profession of sage femme, which is the French expression for midwife. She passed that profession onto two of her daughters.[edit]References^ Bennett, Ethel M. G. Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. 2000. "H?l?ne Desportes". Accessed August 10, 2007.^ Samuel de Champlain, Father of New France. Boston: Little, Brown. 1972. pp. 179, 224.PRDH, Certificat de mariage No. 66320.Ibid., Certificat de mariage No. 66340.Ibid., Certificat d'unionNo. 78.Ibid., Certificat de famille No. 78.Email Quebec-Research-Digest, Suzanne Boivin Sommerville, 3 April 2002: "In his entry for Pierre DESPORTES, Langlois says he wasone of the first habitants of the country (1619), that his origins are unknown, thathe married in France Fran?oise Langlois, and that H?l?ne is the first child of French parents born in the country (I would add documented in some way as born who survived), and he cites_only_ an article by Roy L?on in MSGCF, vol. 2, (1945?)thatapparently says a request to the king carries his signature in 1621. He returned to France with his wife in 1629 and did not return. Langlois also says it is important to distinguish him fromanother Pierre de LA PORTE who drowned 28 April 1639 in the Saint-Charles River." Langlois, Michel.Dictionnaire Biographique des Anc?tres Qu?b?cois (1608?1700). Sillery:La Maison des Anc?tres Qu?b?cois. Tome 1 (Lettres A? C),1998; Tome 2 (Lettres D? I), 1999;Tome 3 (Lettres J ? M), 2000; Tome 4, Lettres N ? Z. Sillery: Les ?ditions du Mitan, 2001.Biographical Dictionary for TheJesuit Missions in Acadia and New France: 1602-1654, Lucien Campeau, S.J., translated by William Lonc, S.J. & GeorgeTopp, S.J., summer 2001,p. 147.[edit]External linkshttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nosracines/4317.htmhttp://web.archive.org/web/20091028154058/http://geocities.com/weallcamefromsomewhere/Kebec/helene_desportes.htmlhttp://www.leveillee.net/ancestry/union223.htmhttp://many-roads.com/2009/08/28/marie-helene-desportes/http://www.leveillee.net/ancestry/d523.htmhttp://www.lactualite.com/dossiers_speciaux/article.jsp?content=20051124_154547_46344- NAISSANCE-BIRTH: On rapporte queHélène est la première descendante française née en Nouvelle-France. Helene is said to be the first white chold born in New FranceBIOGRAPHIE-BIOGRAPHY: Possiblement le premier enfant blanc né en Nouvelle-France. Rho acé l'.éfav's18Rivitab»«tab»éf: Dictionnaire biographique du Canada en ligne.
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