Jean  MADRY

MADRY, JEAN, garrison surgeon at Trois-Rivières, lieutenant and clerk to the chief barber and surgeon of the king; b. c. 1625; d, 1669.

He came to Canada around 1651, and from 1653 to 1655 he was garrison corporal and surgeon at the Trois-Rivières fort. In 1657 he was settled in Quebec, and in the autumn of that year he sailed for France, On 2 April 1658 François de Barnoin, chief barber to the king, conferred upon him the master’s status and authorized him to confer it upon others. The letters were however not ratified until November 1663. On the tenth of that month Madry became lieutenant and clerk to Barnoin and thereby obtained powers of surveillance over the surgeons in the colony,

Madry was a churchwarden of Notre-Dame of Quebec in 1663, On 7 October Claude Charron and he became the first two aldermen for the town; they were to lose their function shortly afterwards, to be replaced by a syndic. Madry had also been made one of the directors of the Tadoussac trading

Jean Madry ..................................38 Me. chirurgien
francoise Duquet ............................19 sa femme
Charles Dubois ..............................25 chirurgien Engaigé
Et charles Bellanger ........................28 domestique Engaigé marié en France.