Marguerite BOURDON

Born

12 October 1642 , Québec, Canada, New France

Died

11 October 1706 , Québec Province, Canada

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Father

Jean BOURDON

Mother

Jacqueline POTEL

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Recorded occupation: Augustinian Hospitaller of the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec, one of the foundresses of the Hôpital Général

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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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Baptism

Marguerite Bourdon
12 October 1642
Notre-Dame-de-Quebec

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Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Biography

BOURDON, MARGUERITE, dite de Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Augustinian Hospitaller of the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec, one of the foundresses of the Hôpital Général; b. 12 Oct. 1642 at Quebec, daughter of Jean Bourdon*, attorney general of New France, and of Jacqueline Potel; d. 11 Oct. 1706.

Marguerite, one of Jean Bourdon’s four daughters by his first marriage, was raised by nuns, as were her sisters, Marie, Geneviève, and Anne. She remained with the Ursulines until she was 14. Although the Ursulines would have “very much liked to have her with them,” Marguerite returned to live with her parents, who considered that she was too young to make up her mind. Although she was liked and sought after in the society in which she moved – Jean de Lauson*, the governor’s son, even asked for her hand – she nevertheless chose to join the Religious Hospitallers of the Hôtel-Dieu. She was received into the order on 23 Jan. 1657 and made her profession on 15 Oct. 1658 under the name of

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