Marie Morin (1667 - 1748)

Born 25 Apr 1667 in Montréal, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Wife of Jacques (Vigor) Vigor dit le Galop — married 6 Aug 1679 in Lachine, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Wife of Jean (Bouteillier) Bouteillier dit Testu — married 23 Jun 1695 in Notre-Dame de Montréal, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Wife of Thomas (Le Tendre) Le Tendre dit St-Thomas — married 1 Jan 1699 in Notre-Dame de Montréal, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died 11 Jun 1748 at age 81 in Hôpital général de Montréal, Canada, Nouvelle-France

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Biography

Marie Morin a vécu
au Canada, Nouvelle-France.

Marie Morin

Note: named Marie Flamande on her daughter's marriage in 1726

Birth

Date: 25 APR 1667

Place: Montréal^[1]

Marriages

In 1679, Jacques Vigor/Viger entered into a contract of marriage with Marie Morin

Contrat de mariage de Jacques Vigor, fils de Simon Vigor cordonnier en la ville de Meclin et Aimé Chevalier ses père et mère, demeurant à Montréal, et Marie Morin fille de Jacques Morin habitant de l ’île de Montréal et Louise Grenier. (25 juillet 1679). Vol IX pg 27 Notaire Claude Maugue^[2]

Marriage 1

Jacques Vigor (sic)(Viger) & Marie Morin

6 Aug 1679

Lachine ^[3]

This marriage did not go well at all, Marie's half-sister Louise Pichard, separated from her husband Jean Mardor, came to live with them. All sorts of trouble ensued, they all got evicted from where they were residing in the employment of Jacques LeBer, who found the presence of Louise Pichard there scandalous. Altercations and trials ensued. Jacques Viger dit le Galop placed Marie in the employment of someone (unnamed), a few weeks after coming out of jail in 1680, and was living bigamously with Louise Pichard, which was punishable by hanging or other death method; the two then fled to New England, abandoning Marie.^[4]

No further trace of him is known, he never came back to New France, and in 1695 the Grand-Vicar pronounced an annulment of his marriage to Marie Morin, since she had a child out of wedlock with a man who wanted to marry her.^[4]

Marie had gone back to her parents' home after some years, and from there she found work in the house of Dame de Blainville. This was where she was working when she was seduced by baron Antoine Tonty, lieutenant of a marine company. She bore him a son, Louis. She had been banished from the city of Ville-Marie after having been accused of prostitution, being 7 months pregnant then.^[4] Louis was born 11 April 1688 in Lachine^[5] He died in infancy, being buried as Louis Tonty on 24 Dec 1690 in Montréal^[6]

Marriage 2

Marie Morin and jean Bouteiller had a daughter, Marie Jeanne (baptism not found), but Jean wanted to marry Marie. Since Jacques Vigor had left the country years before, Marie was in the untenable position of either living alone or being accused of scandalous behaviour. The Grand-Vicar François Dollier de Casson called the couple before him to stop the scandal, and seeing that they wanted to marry, took steps to annul Marie's prior marriage to Jacques Vigor. This was done on 15 June 1695. They then married without prior contract on 23 June 1695 in Notre-Dame of Montréal^[7]

The two had the following children:

Marie, b c 1694 Montréal, who married Jacques Robin in 1724 at age 30

Marie Jeanne, b 1696; married François Aubry 23 Sept 1708 Montréal (ND)

Joseph, b 12 Jul 1697 bapt 13 Jul Montréal; died and buried 12 Jan 1698 Montréal @ 6 M

Angélique Bouteiller, b & bapt 29 Apr 1699 Montréal, posthumous to her father; married Gabriel Leber 3 Nov 1722 Montréal (ND)^[8]

Jean died of fever on 4 Oct 1698 and was buried the same day in Montréal (ND)^[9], being given the approximate age of 40 on the record.

Marriage 3

Despite being pregnant from her second husband, Thomas Letendre dit St-Thomas and Marie Morin wanted to get married. Thomas was with a Marine company, and wanted to take advantage of a premium given to soldiers who settled in the colony, which had a limited time for him to apply for. There was objection from some quarters to doing the marriage so quickly, since she was pregnant still, but they took their case to the Grand-Vicar, accompanied by Marie Morin's father Jacques Morin, her brother-in-law Pierre Hardouin and 2 other witnesses; the Grand-Vicar not being able to change their minds, he agreed to the marriage and with least amount of ceremony there and then married them on Jan 1, 1699^[4]. He asked a sulpician priest, De Breslay, write up the marriage act.^[10]

The following children are born to them:

--Michel Letendre, b & bapt 16 Feb 1701; died 16 Feb buried 19 Feb 1701 Montréal (ND)

--Thomas Letendre, b & bapt 27 Mar 1702 Montréal; @ 30 married Marie Lepage 8 Oct 1702 Montréal (ND)

-- Martin Letendre, b 25 Apr 1704 bapt 28 Apr; buried 10 July 1704 Montréal (ND) @ 3 Months

--Marie Madeleine Letendre, b & bapt 24 Aug 1705; buried 26 Nov 1705 Montréal (ND) @ 3 Months

--Marie Marguerite Letendre, b 22 Mar 1708 bapt 25 Mar Montréal; @ 25 married Gabriel Tougas 31 Aug 1733 Montréal (ND)

--Joseph Letendre, b c 1715; buried 10 Feb 1723 Montréal (ND) @ 8 years ^[8]

Thomas Letendre dit St-Thomas died in 1739.

It was in extreme poverty after the death of Thomas and of many of her children that Marie finally wound up at Hôpital général de Montréal hospital, which was also the hospice for the poor.^[4]

Death

Date: 11 JUN 1748

Funeral: 12 Jun

Hôpital général de Montréal^[11]

She is listed as 92 on this record, widow of ___Thomas

Sources

1. ↑ baptism Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
2. ↑ BAnQ Notarial acts index Inventaire des greffes des notaires du régime français, par Pierre Georges Roy et Antoine Roy; 27 Vol + index 1-8
3. ↑ Marriage Vigor-Morin Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4} L'Autre Marie Morin, Une femme abandonnée en Nouvelle-France, 1667-1748 Author Marcel Myre, publisher Septentrion, ISBN 2-89448-386-4
5. ↑ baptism son Louis Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
6. ↑ son's funeral Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
7. ↑ marriage Marie Morin - Jean Bouteiller Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1997 - Drouin
9. ↑ Funeral Jean Bouteiller Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
10. ↑ Marriage Morin-Letendre Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
11. ↑ Funeral Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)

• IGD: Actes d'état civil et registres d'église du Québec (Collection Drouin), 1621 à 1997 - Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection: Institut Généalogique Drouin (membership) https://www.genealogiequebec.com

• Baptism and marriage records from Drouin collection on Ancestry as well as

Tanguay-vol 1, sect 2, pg 444

• tree http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogy=Morin_Marie&pid=33605&lng=en

• tree http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogy=Jean_Bouthillier&pid=33604&lng=en

• This person was created through the import of myfamily.ged on 23 March 2011.