Simon SOUPIRAND

(b. abt. 1670 , France d. 9 February 1724 , Québec, Canada, New France )

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Simon SOUPIRAND was born abt. 1670 in France

Simon SOUPIRAND was the child of ? and ?

Simon was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1700.

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Simon married Marthe BÉLANGER 26 August 1700 in Québec, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 2 children. Marthe BÉLANGER was born 23 November 1661 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Marthe died 17 March 1741 in Château-Richer, Québec, Canada (La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Chateau-Richer). Marthe was the child of Nicolas BÉLANGER and Marie DERAINVILLE.

Simon SOUPIRAND died 9 February 1724 in Québec, Canada, New France .

Occupation: barber-surgeon to the hospital and public of Quebec, senior churchwarden of Notre-Dame de Québec parish

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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Simon SOUPIRAND married

Marthe BÉLANGER-- Date: 26 August 1700 Place: Québec, Canada, New France
Marthe BÉLANGER was the child of Nicolas BÉLANGER and Marie DERAINVILLE

Children born in Quebec City, Quebec:

Marie Louise Soupiran born September 9, 1701.

Francoise Petronille Soupiran born October 22, 1702.

Simon Soupiran born February 5, 1704.

Louis Francois Soupiran born January 25, 1706.

Charles Soupiran born September 15, 1708.

Children of Simon SOUPIRAND and Marthe BÉLANGER:

Françoise-Petronille SOUPIRAND (b.22 October 1702, Québec, Canada, New France d. 7 December 1747, Québec, Canada, New France )
m. Pierre MAUFILS 8 February 1728 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Simon SOUPIRAND (b.5 February 1704, Québec, Canada, New France d. 16 June 1764, Québec, Province of Québec, Canada )
m. Marie-Jeanne AVICE 26 June 1736 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

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Biography
SOUPIRAN, SIMON, barber-surgeon to the hospital and public of Quebec, senior churchwarden of Notre-Dame de Québec parish (c. 1716); b. 1670 in Saint-Michel parish, Saint-Sever, province of Gascony; son of Antoine Soupiran and Catherine Laborde; d. 9 Feb. 1724 in Quebec.

This royal notary’s son probably came to Canada as a ship’s surgeon. The witnesses to his marriage at Quebec on 26 Aug. 1700, acting in lieu of family, were all crew members of the Bien-Aimé, a vessel anchored off Quebec. Soupiran’s bride was Marthe Bélanger, a widow with five children who was to present him with five more. From 1700 to 1712, the couple lived in a rented house along Rue Cul-de-Sac, near the harbour of Quebec’s Lower Town.

Surgeons in New France like Soupiran were subject to the surveillance of the local representative of the king’s first barber-surgeon, who was replaced as supervisor in the early 18th century by the king’s physician at Quebec. Although surgery was officially elevated from manual...Read MORE...

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