Maurice POULIN (POULAIN)

Born

abt. 1620 , France

Died

abt. 1670 , Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

Maurice married Jeanne JALLAUT (JALAUX) 9 September 1654 in Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 4 children.
Jeanne JALLAUT (JALAUX) was born abt. 1624 in France. Jeanne died 27 May 1708 in Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France .

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Maurice was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1654.

Immigration to New France: Shaping the Roots of Canada

son of Maurice Poulain de la Fontaine

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Maurice POULIN (POULAIN)

Maurice POULIN (POULAIN) married

Jeanne JALLAUT (JALAUX)
Marriage date: 9 September 1654
Marriage place: Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

Children of Maurice POULIN (POULAIN) and Jeanne JALLAUT (JALAUX)

Michel POULIN (POULAIN)

Born: 4 May 1655, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Died: 2 February 1694, Québec, Canada, New France

Married: Marie JUTRAS 2 June 1683 Place: Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

Jean-Baptiste POULIN (POULAIN)

Born: 15 January 1657, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Died: 16 February 1727, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

Married: Louise CRESSE 7 January 1696 Place: Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

Catherine POULIN (POULAIN)

Born: 9 August 1658, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Died: 12 July 1714, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

Married: Joseph GODEFROY 21 October 1675 Place: Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

Marguerite POULIN (POULAIN)

Born: 9 April 1660, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Died: 25 December 1730, Québec, Canada, New France

Married: François LEMAITRE 7 January 1683 Place: Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Biography

POULIN DE LA FONTAINE, MAURICE, seigneurial attorney, judge, and king’s attorney at Trois-Rivières; b. c. 1620 at Villebadin (Department of Orne, Normandy), son of Pierre Poulin and Jeanne Ploumelle; d. between 9 Oct. 1670 and 4 Aug. 1676.

On 13 Dec. 1649 Maurice Poulin was at Trois-Rivières, where he acted as godfather to a young Indian girl. On 9 Sept. 1654 he married Jeanne Jallot (or Jalleau), the widow of Marin Terrier, Sieur de Francheville et de Repentigny, who had been captured and burned by the Iroquois in 1652, in the battle on the outskirts of Trois-Rivières.

On 12 Sept. 1657 Poulin succeeded Jean Sauvaget as seigneurial attorney at Trois-Rivières. He sat as a judge the following year and on 17 Nov. 1663 became a king’s attorney, by decision of the Conseil Souverain. On 6 Sept. 1664 the Council granted him a yearly payment of 150 livres “on account of his office as deputy to the king’s attorney at Trois-Rivières.” On 28 Jan. 1665 the same body ordered “the payment to

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