Louis  MAHEU

Ludouicus Maheut
born 9 December 1650
baptised 11 December 1650
Notre-Dame-de-Quebec

MAHEUT, LOUIS, probably the first surgeon born in Canada, son of René Maheut, a bourgeois of Paris, and Marguerite Corrivault; baptized 12 Dec. 1650 at Quebec; d. there in 1683. The name Maheut is the Breton form of Mathieu, which has also produced Maheu, Maheux, and Mayo.

Louis Maheut received the same first name as his older
Brother: , likewise a surgeon who lived at various times in Canada. He had as godfather and godmother Governor Louis d’Ailleboust and Jacqueline Potel, the wife of Jean Bourdon.

In October 1668, after some sort of apprenticeship as a surgeon-barber, Louis Maheut sailed on the Sainte-Anne, proposing to go and continue his surgical studies in France. For this purpose he had borrowed the sum of 146 livres, 13 sols from his stepfather Jean Maheut, his mother’s third husband. He could not have stayed more than five years in France, since on 12 June 1673, at Quebec, he married his cousin Geneviève Bissot, daughter of François Byssot. The day before, he had

Jean Maheu ..................................23 marchant
Marguerite Corriveau ........................40 sa fem. vevfe de René Maheut
Jean Paul Maheu .............................17 enfan du deffunct Maheu
Louis Maheu .................................15 enfan du deffunct Maheu
Jacques Jore ................................21 Engaigé domestique
Et Barbe halle ..............................20 servante