Nicolas BONHOMME
Biography

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Nicolas Bonhomme

Nicolas Bonhomme was born between 1603 and 1611 in Sainte-Croix de Fécamp, capital of Canton current department of Seine-Maritime, Normandy. Nicolas Bonhomme arrived in New France in the summer of 1637. His name appears officially in Trois-Rivieres, September 2 1640, in a marriage contract with Catherine Gouget, daughter of Leonard and Catherine Goujet DuFrançois, from Thury-Harcourt.

The couple spent the winter in Quebec City since January 7 1641, he met the notary Martial Piraube asking him to insinuate his marital agreement. Sunday, 24 November 1641, the father introduced the first child baptized in the Jesuit Jacques de Laplace, Miscou missionary arriving in Acadia. This bambine baptized in the name of Mary Magdalene to his godfather Legardeur Pierre de Repentigny and his godmother Marie Barbier, woman of Marsolet.

The little did not survive, and was buried at Quebec on 23 March 1642. In 1642, Catherine and Nicolas returned to France. A statement, made years later by his son William, to the effect that he was born in La Rochelle, encourages us to believe that the Bonhomme found a cottage somewhere in La Rochelle. Nobody can say how they gained their lives. A second son was given them.

In the summer or autumn of 1645, the Bonhomme family composed of father, mother and two young children, was back in Quebec.

In 1681, Nicolas Bonhomme, 74, is identified in the Cote Saint Michel, in the lordship of Sillery. He has 1 cow and 20 acres of land under cultivation. The family of Nicolas Bonhomme and Catherine Gouget consists of 7 members: Marie Madeleine, Guillaume, Ignatius, Mary, Pierre, Nicolas and Catherine.

Catherine Gouget died on 9 April 1679. The ancestor Nicolas, he died on 7 August 1683, at the home of his daughter Mary, living in Sillery.



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