Pierre  PARADIS

From sites.rapidus.net/ mirobert/ DUBEAU%20anc.pdf (loosely translated into English)

Pierre Paradis

Pierre Paradis was baptized on 20 July 1604, at the Notre-Dame de Mortagne, in the capital of the Perche. He is the son of Jacques Paradis, knife crafter and Michelle Pelle. All those who bear the name of Paradis, descended from Pierre and his marriage on 11 February 1632, with Barbe Guyon. The latter, named on 19 April 1617, is younger than her husband of 13 years. She is the eldest daughter of the ancestor Jean Guyon, sieur Dubuisson, and Mathurine Robin who also came to New France in the spring of 1634.

Pierre Paradis arrived in New France on 1 July 1652, as dealer, of his craft. The couple had twelve children, eight of whom were born in France.

First, Marie Paradis, born in Mortagne, in 1642, who became the wife on 16 October 1656, at the age of 14 years, the ancestor Guillaume Baucher dit Morency, who gives thirteen children. Guillaume Baucher is from the town of

PARADIS – Comes from the agglutination of Le Paradis, the name of several localities in France. Or even the one who lives or who is from the place called paradise, that is to say a good land, a good valley, a pleasant, sunny, green place. Pierre Paradis (1604-1675) Born in 1604 in Notre-Dame de Mortagne in the Perche, son of the cutler Jacques Paradis and Michelle Pesle, he married on February 11, 1632 Barbe Guyon, daughter of Jean Guyon and Mathurine Robin. Together they will have 11 children. They arrived in New France in 1653, and took up residence in the seigniory of Notre-Dame-des-Anges in 1654 on land of 2 arpents frontage for an annual rent of 50 sols and 2 capons. Then in 1667, Jean Madry rented to him for an annual rent of 6 deniers tourneys and a chicken of 10 sols a land of half an arpent still in the seigneury of Notre-Dame-des-Anges on which there is a house, a barn and a stable. In 1670, in his sick bed, he dictated his will: he bequeathed 20 livres to the cemetery of

pierre paradis ..............................55 coutellier, habittant

Marie guyon .................................46 sa femme

Jacques paradis .............................20 armurier, fils

Guillaume paradis ...........................18 fils

pierre paradis .............................15 fils

Magdelaine paradis ..........................13 fille

Jean paradis .............................12 fils

Marie Magdelaine paradis ....................10 fille

Jean paradis .................................7 fils

Et Louise paradis ............................4 fille

Pierre Paradis, habitant, 55 years
Barbe Guyon, 40 years
Pierre Paradis, 18 years
Jean Paradis, 15 years
Madeleine Paradis, 13 years
Marie Paradis, 10 years
Jean Paradis, 7 years
Louise Paradis, 5 years

They owned 8 animals and 12 arpents of useable land.

'Pierre made his will before notary Becquet on 28 May 1670 when he was gravely ill in the Hotel-Dieu of Quebec. He gave twenty livres to the hospital twenty livres to the Chapel of the Jusuit fathers twenty livres to the Church of Beauport his wife Babe Guyon was to inherit all else without reference to any other custom of inheritence however, Pierre lived for five more years... This brave man died at Sainte-Famille on the Island of Orleans, where he was buried on 29 January 1675... It seems that Barbe Guyon, the widow, lived for many years in the home of her daughter Marie, the wife of Guillaume Bauche, at Sainte-Famille it is there that we find her in the census of 1681. But later on, she must have lived at Saint-Pierre with one of her sons she was buried from there on 29 November 1700.'

Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume I, Page 177

Pierre Paradis, age 70
Sainte-Famille-de-L'Ile-d'Orleans, QC, Canada