Poitron

or Potheron

Anne Poitron, who married Pierre Martin in August 1670 at Québec city, was a "fille du roi," but her background seems inconsistent with that status. She was baptised on July 1, 1646 at the church of St-Martin in Bezons, a village in the heart of the wine-making region of the Île-de-France, just northwest of Paris (today in fact a suburb) and near Argenteuil. Its arms are depicted above. She had a younger brother, Nicolas, born in 1648. Her father Pierre Poitron was a vigneron, which can mean wine-grower but usually just a worker in a vineyard. Her mother was Jeanne Tibierge (or Thibierge, or Thyburge) - a rare and sometimes aristocratic name; this seems unlikely for the mother of a "fille du roi." We do not know the names of Jeanne's or Pierre's parents. But a Gabriel Tibierge from Blois emigrated to Québec in about 1666 with his family (many descendants); Jean Desportes, a relative of our ancestor Pierre Desportes, married Isabelle Tibierge from St-Marcel parish in Paris; another Jeanne Tibierge, born in La Rochelle, was the wife of immigrant Pierre Cabassier; and Nicolas Tibierge was an agent of the Acadia Trading Company at about the same time. A Thibierge family held the barony of Andre. I suspect all of these are connected.

Anne Poitron and her husband Pierre Martin had only one child, Marguérite, as far as we know.

Pierre and Anne Martin both died in August 1674 at Repentigny, two days apart - probably a cholera epidemic, not uncommon at the time. Their daughter Marguérite had turned four only two weeks before her parents died (note that she was born the same month they were married); she must have been raised by a relative). In August 1694 she married Jacques Roy dit Chouigny, a recent immigrant and the founder of our Roy family in Québec.