Barbe  GUYON

'Barbe was baptized April 19, 1617, at Saint-Jean de Mortagne. On February 11, 1632, at Mortagne, France, she married Pierre Paradis, the son of Jacques and Michelle Pelle. They had eleven children, 6 girls and 5 boys. They came to Canada about twenty years after their marriage.'

SOURCE: OUR FRENCH-CANADIAN ANCESTORS BY THOMAS J. LAFOREST

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

'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