Jean  CUSSON

1630 Birth
11 November 1630
Ste-Marguerite-sur-Duclair, Rouen, Normandie, France

Biography
CUSSON, JEAN, farmer, seigneurial attorney, clerk of court, royal notary, and acting king’s attorney; b. 1632 or around 1635–36 at Clair, near Rouen (province of Normandy), son of Jean Cusson and Jacqueline Pépin; d. 8 April 1718 at Saint-Sulpice.

It has been said with a good deal of justice that the settlers of New France, craftsmen or soldiers rather than farmers, attracted moreover by the fur trade, had only a slight interest in farming. For many of them, cultivating their land remained a marginal activity and simply constituted, in the final analysis, a necessary means of supplementing their income but one which they endured impatiently and got rid of at the first opportunitet there were true habitants; Jean Cusson belonged to that group. After his marriage on 16 Sept. 1656, at Trois-Rivières, to Marie Foubert, a girl 15 years of age who originally came from Rouen, Cusson settled down at Cap-de-la-Madeleine. By 1667 the couple owned 7 head of cattle and 28 acres of land under...Read MORE...


Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003

Jean Cusson
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'JEAN CUSSON CUSSON THE ANCESTOR OF AMERICA, WAS BAPTIZED NOVEMBER 11, 1636 (OR 1630), STE-MARGUERITE-SUR-DUCLAIR DIOCESE OF ROUEN, IN THE FORMER PROVINCE OF NORMANDY, THE PRESENT DEPARTMENT OF SEINE-MARITIME .

SON OF JEAN CUSSON AND JACQUELINE PEPIN SAID LAFOND. BOTH WERE BORN IN STE-MARGUERITE-SUR-DUCLAIR JOHN (FATHER) IN 1611, JACQUELINE IN 1615. THEY WERE MARRIED IN 1629, STILL IN STE-MARGUERITE-SUR-DUCLAIR.

JEAN CUSSON ARRIVED IN THE COLONY BEFORE 1656. IT IS HIS PRESENCE AT TRIAL FROM JANUARY 15, 1656 AT TROIS-RIVIERES. WE DO NOT KNOW THE DATE OF ARRIVAL, OR ON WHAT SHIP HE MADE THE CROSSING.

HE SPENDS A MARRIAGE CONTRACT SATURDAY, AUGUST 2ND OF THAT YEAR, THE NOTARY AMEAU. HE MARRIED, SEPTEMBER 16, 1656, IN THE CHAPEL OF TROIS-RIVIERES (PARISH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION), MARIE FOUBERT SAID LACROIX, BORN FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1640, IN SAINT-VIVIEN IN ROUEN, NORMANDY. THE GODFATHER WAS...Read MORE...

1656 Marriage / Partner
Jean CUSSON and Marie FOUBERT 16 September 1656, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

He was 25 years old.

1666 Les Trois Rivieres
Jean Cusson - 30 habitant

Marie foubert - 25 sa femme

Marie Cusson - 7 fille

Jean Cusson - 6 fils

Magdelaine Cusson - 4 fille

Jeanne Cusson - 3 fille

Eslisabeth Cusson - 14 mois fille

Marie Riviere - 55 mere de lad. foubert

Et francois Vannart - 24 domestique
The first census of New France (1666)
The French In North America: 1500-1783

1671 Marriage of Child
Marie-Moise CUSSON married 7 January 1671, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine) to Maurice RIVET

1674 Birth of Child
Marie-Jeanne CUSSON was born 3 January 1674, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine)

Jean was 43 years old.

1675 Birth of Child
Pierre CUSSON was born 10 October 1675, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine)

Jean was 44 years old.

1679 Birth of Child
Ange CUSSON was born 7 April 1679, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine)

Jean was 48 years old.

1679 Marriage of Child
Jeanne CUSSON married 9 November 1679, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine) to Jean BAREAU

1681 Census
Title Recensement annoté de la Nouvelle-France, 1681
Author André Lafontaine
Publisher A. Lafontaine, 1981
Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
Digitized Jun 10, 2008
Length 376 pages
Page 87

1681 Birth of Child
Catherine CUSSON was born 25 February 1681, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine)

Jean was 50 years old.

1682 Birth of Child
Nicolas CUSSON was born 11 November 1682, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine)

Jean was 52 years old.

1687 Marriage of Child
Michelle CUSSON married 20 January 1687, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine) to Antoine ADHEMAR dit ST-MARTIN

1687 Marriage of Child
Marguerite CUSSON married 18 March 1687, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine) to Jean AUBUCHON dit LESPERANCE

1688 Marriage of Child
Elisabeth-Isabelle CUSSON married 20 March 1688, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Joseph AUBUCHON dit DESALLIERS

1688 Marriage of Child
Marguerite CUSSON married 25 October 1688, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine) to Charles-Henri BARBIER

1689 Death of Child
Marguerite CUSSON died 15 August 1689, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Jean was 58 years old.

1689 Marriage of Child
Jean CUSSON married 22 September 1689, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Marguerite AUBUCHON dite LESPERANCE

1692 Marriage of Child
Jeanne CUSSON married 28 January 1692 , La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité) to Joachim-Jacques LEBER

1695 Marriage of Child
Marie-Jeanne CUSSON married 27 August 1695, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec) to Jean JOLLIET

1696 Marriage of Child
Jeanne CUSSON married 19 November 1696, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Claude GUERIN dit LAFONTAINE

1700 Marriage of Child
Catherine CUSSON married 15 February 1700, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Jacques THIBIERGE (THIVIERGE)

1700 Marriage of Child
Jean-Baptiste-Benjamin CUSSON married 15 November 1700, Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-Madeleine) to Marguerite ROCHEREAU

1701 Death of Child
Pierre CUSSON died 30 January 1701, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Jean was 70 years old.

1708 Marriage of Child
Nicolas-Charles CUSSON married 15 October 1708, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul) to Marguerite RENAUD

1709 Marriage of Child
Nicolas CUSSON married 26 October 1709, Varennes, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-Varennes) to Marie-Françoise-Louise GAUTHIER dite LANDREVILLE

1711 Death of Child
Elisabeth-Isabelle CUSSON died 28 May 1711, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Jean was 80 years old.

1712 Death of Child
Jean CUSSON died 17 December 1712, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Jean was 82 years old.

1715 Marriage of Child
Joseph CUSSON married 21 January 1715 , Repentigny, Québec, Canada (La Purification-de-Repentigny) (St-Paul-l'Hermite) to Françoise BOUSQUET

1715 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie FOUBERT died 21 January 1715 , Saint-Sulpice, Québec, Canada

1717 Death of Child
Nicolas CUSSON died 13 October 1717, Varennes, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-Varennes)

Jean was 86 years old.

1718 Death
8 April 1718
Saint-Sulpice, Canada, New France

He died at the age of 87.