from then on co-signed with his father all transactions concerning the fief. He too lived in the seigneurial manor-house and practised his profession of notary, albeit infrequently. Both father and son

PAPINEAU, JOSEPH, surveyor, notary, seigneurial agent, politician, and seigneur; b. 16 Oct. 1752 in Montreal, son of Joseph

DUMOUCHEL, RAOUL (baptized Joseph-Léandre-Raoul), actor, notary, sports administrator, singer, journalist, and

family of modest means, Joseph Brassard Deschenaux owed his education to a notary who lived with his parents on Rue Saint-Jean. (This notary may have been Christophe-Hilarion

at Rochefort, France, son of Jacques Bréard, a notary and cashier in the Marine, and Marie-Anne Marcellin; d. 22 March 1775 and buried in the parish church of Saint-Mandé-sur-Brédoire (dept

Pierre-Rémi Gagnier, the local notary. They had nine children but only three reached adulthood. During the War of 1812 he became surgeon to the 2nd Battalion of the Select Embodied Militia of Lower Canada

authorized by notarial agreement to acquaint himself with the teaching in the college’s new school of agriculture [see François

lacunae probably, but not certainly, result more from the loss of notarial documents and from the use of promissory notes under private signature than from a discontinuous pattern of investment

-Baptiste-Chamilly, the father of Charles-Chamilly de Lorimier, was a lawyer in Montreal and his elder brother, Chevalier*, was a notary; a

, schoolmaster, royal notary, and king’s attorney; b. 29 Dec. 1701 at Niort, France, son of Philippe Simonnet, a merchant and later comptroller of the king’s tax farms, and of Marie Boismenay; d. 9

colony began on 28 April 1720 and the records show few who served as faithfully or as long. In 1725 he was appointed a notary public and deputy collector of customs for Annapolis Royal, and in

Catherine-Élisabeth-Aglaé Chenet, daughter of Antoine Chenet, notary and seigneur of Vincelotte. Joseph-Octave Beaubien soon embarked on a fairly long

training of his employees. As the firm expanded and diversified its operations, Beauchemin went into partnership in 1864 with his brother-in-law, notary Joseph-Moïse Valois, under the trade name of

have been a happy one, as François Boivin, before the Quebec notary, Romain Becquet, made a will 27 Jan

Acadians. It was in that vicinity early in 1756 that he married Esther, the daughter of René Leblanc, royal notary at Minas (near Wolfville, N.S

by the notary Guillaume Audouart*, the entire sum was to be paid in cash, beaver furs, and funds to be received from his estate. On 12

). Throughout the period from 1650 to 1684 he was spiritual prefect and confessor of the Jesuits, admonisher, and adviser. His name appears in various notarial acts of the period and as a preacher on special

CLOSSE, RAPHAËL-LAMBERT (often referred to simply as Lambert), merchant, seigneurial notary, sergeant-major of the

parishes without a presbytery usually lodged. In addition he drew up a few contracts for marriages and land grants, there being no notary in this region

through the mention made of it in the repertory of the notary Antoine Adhémar on 8 June