Jean  PARADIS

'Jean, the ship's Captain of whom there is more to tell, was born on 1 July 1658 and baptized three weeks later at Quebec. He married Catherine Bataille, daughter of Pierre and of Angelique Roy on 8 June 1693 at St-Jean-du-Perrot in France.'

Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume I, Page 179

PARADIS, JEAN, sea captain; b. 22 July 1658 at Quebec, son of Pierre Paradis, cutler, and of Barbe Guyon; d. before 1725 at La Rochelle, where he had settled.

After studying at the Jesuit college in Quebec Jean Paradis followed the courses given by Martin Boutet*, the king’s hydrographer, in the same town. In July 1678 he bought for 1,200 livres the two houses of Jean Talon* situated in Rue Buade at Quebec, and bounded at the back “by the Place d’Armes of the Château Saint-Louis.” Louis Rouer* de Villeray acted in this instance as proxy for Talon, who had returned to France.

There is no doubt that this is the Jean Paradis who commanded the Sainte-Anne, which was wrecked on the reefs of the Manicouagan River in the autumn of 1704; the intendant, Jacques Raudot, ordered the sale of the wreckage of this ship in October 1705. It was also Jean Paradis who, sailing from La Rochelle in 1711 at the helm of the Neptune, was intercepted by Admiral Walker and forced to pilot his ship the

22 July 1658
Notre-Dame-de-Quebec

pierre paradis ..............................55 coutellier, habittant

Marie guyon .................................46 sa femme

Jacques paradis .............................20 armurier, fils

Guillaume paradis ...........................18 fils

pierre paradis .............................15 fils

Magdelaine paradis ..........................13 fille

Jean paradis .............................12 fils

Marie Magdelaine paradis ....................10 fille

Jean paradis .................................7 fils

Et Louise paradis ............................4 fille