Pierre Desportes and his wife Françoise Langlois lived in Lisieux, in the Calvados region of Normandy - this is quite near St-Léonard-des-Parcs, where the immigrant Noël Langlois came from, but it is not known whether he was related to Françoise. The arms of Lisieux are depicted above. They also lived for some years in Dieppe, where Pierre was an agent of the company of Rouen and Saint-Malo. He later went to work for the Montmorency Company. His wife's sister was Marguérite Langlois, the wife of Abraham Martin dit l'Écossais. The two men travelled together to Québec in 1619, and Pierre stayed there for some years, but later returned to Dieppe (where he and his wife were both living in 1629, but we do not know when he died; she is thought to have died in 1632). After 1632 Pierre returned to Québec with his daughter Hélène, who was soon to be married.

Hélène Desportes was born in Québec in July 1620, one of the earliest French children (some say the first) to be born in Nouvelle-France. Her godmother was Hélène, the wife of Samuel de Champlain. She was married there, at the age of fourteen, to Guillaume Hébert, but he died within a few years. They had three children: Joseph (killed by Indians in 1662), Françoise (married Guillaume Fournier, left descendants) and Angélique. She then married Noël Morin (c1606-1680) and had five more children: Agnès (1641-1687, married Nicolas Gaudry and then Ignace Bonhomme dit Beaupré); Alphonse (1650-1711, married Marie-Madeleine Normand and Marie-Angélique Destroismaisons; see Morin); Jean Baptiste (married Marie-Anne Firmin, annulled, and then Catherine de Belleau); Louise (1643, married Charles Cloutier); Marie-Madeleine (1656?, married Gilles Rajotte).

Agnès and Nicolas Gaudry had eight cildren, including Marie-Françoise, who married Jean Pilote.