Étienne Dauphin and his wife Julienne Richard lived in the village of Bonnes, Châtellerault (north of Poitiers) in the early seventeenth century. They would have been familiar with the magnificent nearby chateau, built by the ducs de Châtellerault in the sixteenth century. We know of one son, another Étienne, baptised there in 1633. He was in Nouvelle-France by 1665, when he married nineteen-year-old Marie Morin at Québec city (daughter of François Morin and Charlotte Roulant, and a native of Paris). They had nine children before Étienne died in 1693 in Beauport; Marie then married Pierre Chaignon and, after he died, Paul Oudan.

The children: René (1666-1742, see below); Marie-Thérèse (1668, married Jean Giroux in 1685 and then his brother Toussaint Giroux in 1690); Étienne (1670-1691); Michel (1671); another Marie (1673); yet another Marie-Thérèse (1674); Jean (1677-1714, married Jeanne-Ursule Gelly); Marie-Catherine (born and died 1682); and last - you guessed it - Marie (1688). The first three were born in Québec city, the rest in Beauport.

René Dauphin was born October 14, 1666 and married Marie-Suzanne Guignard or Gignard on April 22, 1686 in Beauport. (She was the daughter of Laurent Gignard and Élisabeth Sorin; his second wife's name was Marie Morin - though the name was the same as that of René's mother, this is not the same person; this Marie was a native of Langres in Chmapagne). They had ten children; Élisabeth Isabelle Marie (1687, married René Rodrigue, son of a Portuguese immigrant; there was a very large Rodrigue progeny from this marriage); Anne Marguérite (1689-1703); Geneviève (1692, married our ancestor Jean-François Alard in 1711); René (1694, married Marie Angélique Tessier); Pierre (1697-1716); Marie Catherine (1699, married Pierre Vivier); Marie-Anne-Josèphe (1703-1706); Jean-Baptiste (1705); Pierre-Alexandre (1708, married Marie-Louise Toupin); and Marie-Ursule (1710, married Jean-Baptiste Squerre).

Geneviève and Jean-François Alard were great-grandparents of Marie-Marguérite St-Germain, the wife of the first Joseph Martin.