François GUYON

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3 March 1666 , Montréal, Canada, New France

Died

12 July 1701 , Québec Province, Canada

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Denis GUYON Elisabeth BOUCHER

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Born: 3 March 1666 in Montréal, Canada, New France

Father: Denis GUYON

Mother: Elisabeth BOUCHER

Paternal grandparents: Jean GUYON , Mathurine ROBIN

Maternal grandparents: François BOUCHER , Marie-Josephe-Florence GAREMAN dite LEPICARD

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François married Marie-Anne ROBERGE 27 January 1689 in Québec, Canada, New France . Marie-Anne ROBERGE was born abt. 1667 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Marie-Anne died 2 March 1703 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Marie-Anne was the child of Denis ROBERGE and Geneviève AUBERT.

François GUYON died 12 July 1701 in Québec Province, Canada.
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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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Marie-Anne ROBERGE
Marriage date: 27 January 1689
Marriage place: Québec, Canada, New France
Marie-Anne ROBERGE was the child of Denis ROBERGE and Geneviève AUBERT

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Birth — 1666
3 March 1666
Montréal, Canada, New France

Biography
GUION (Guyon), FRANÇOIS, privateer operating on the coasts of Acadia and New England; b. 3 March 1666, son of Denis Guion and Élisabeth Boucher of Île d’Orléans; married Marie-Anne Roberge, 4 April 1688; d. before 12 July 1701.

Guion is mentioned several times in Robinau* de Villebon’s journals, sometimes in association with another privateer, Baptiste (Pierre Maisonnat), but the name François is used there only once. References to Guion the elder and Guion the younger have increased the difficulty of identification, as have the numerous repetitions of similar names in the Guion family. Webster stated that Guion was born in 1635, but this seems to be the birth date of an uncle of the same name. C. Alice Baker completely confused Guion with Baptiste. Two notarial documents have been found, however – one of them Guion’s marriage contract and the other referring to the sale of prizes – which bear identical signatures of François Guion, and enable us to identify him as the man born in...Read full story

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