.” The journalists of the day said that he was a millionaire. However, the inventory of his possessions drawn up in November 1876 by the notary Léonard-Ovide Hétu shows that in reality his fortune

a notary, although he does not seem to have taken up that profession. Then on 6 August he received a commission as protonotary and chief clerk of the Court of King’s Bench. Shepherd was appointed

Jeanne Desrues; d. 1700 at Quebec. Baudouin came to Canada about 1677. On 6 Nov. 1683 he married Anne Auber, daughter of the notary

background and character. In 1731 he described him to the minister as well-born, of a respected Parisian family, and having a brother who was a notary in Paris. In addition, he was “. . . intelligent

Tonnetuit, with whom he must not be confused. He was a bourgeois of Dieppe and subsequently lived at Honfleur. The notarial register of that town contains

DE LISLE, JEAN (he sometimes signed De Lisle de La Cailleterie), notary and

DE LISLE, JEAN-GUILLAUME, merchant, notary, and militia officer; b. c. 1757 in New York, son of Jean

DECOIGNE (De Couagne, Couagne, Coigne, Du Coigne), PIERRE-THÉOPHILE, notary and Patriote; b. 13 March 1808 in Saint-Philippe

the absence of a notary by Jean Guyon Du Buisson, senior, is the oldest marriage contract preserved

GAUDRON DE CHEVREMONT, CHARLES-RENÉ, clerk in the office of the Marine, royal notary, judge; b. 5 July 1702 at Linas (dept. of

agree neither on his ethnic origin nor on the date of his arrival in Canada. Undeniably, he “came from Scotland”; but, as a notarial contract designated him “Sieur de La Ramée, and as his brother

PERRIN, ANTOINE, royal court officer; son of Jacques Perrin, notary and tabellion of the parish of Saint-Pierre de

is referred to in the documents of the notary Piraube as early as the year 1639. On 3 Nov. 1644 he married, at Quebec, Marie-Olivier-Sylvestre Manitouabeouich. This is the first marriage between a

Martinique in 1687. By a deed signed before a notary in Paris on 11 July 1679, Jacques de Chambly made a gift to “Demoiselle Marie

 Aug. 1880 he passed away at Montreal, intestate according to the inventory of his possessions drawn up on 28 December by the notary Évariste-Odilon Labadie. He was buried in the crypt of the chapel

Cuillerier arrived in New France on 7 Sept. 1659. In La Rochelle on 8 June 1659, he had appeared before the notary A. Demontreau to sign an undertaking with Sister Judith

out the duties of notary and arbiter delegated by the intendant, as did many other missionaries whose territory was far away from Quebec. On 14 May 1724 Imbault drew up a bill of sale, one of

), PATRICE, notary and writer; b. 20 Feb. 1807 at the Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes mission (Oka, Que.), son of François-Xavier Truillier, dit Lacombe, merchant, and Geneviève

LACOSTE, LOUIS, notary and politician; b. 3 April 1798 at Boucherville, L.C., son of

, dit Carcy, who had settled at Quebec, then at Beaupré. Largillier’s name is found for the first time in an act of the notary Jacques de La Tousche recorded at Cap-de-la-Madeleine on 20