Lemelin

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Noël Lemelin and his wife Françoise Mélaine lived in the cathedral city of Chartres in the mid-seventeenth century, and were married there about 1630. Their parents' names are not known, nor their parish (they may or may not have been parishioners of the famous cathedral, pictured above). We know of only one child, the immigrant Jean Lemelin, who was born in 1631 or 1632 and was in Québec city by early 1658, when he married. He seems to have lived much of his adult life in the upper part of the old town, where he worked as a master cabinetmaker. Later he lived in the parish of St-Laurent on the Île d'Orléans, where several of his children had married and purchased farms. He died there on March 12, 1717.

Jean Lemelin's wife was Marguérite Brassard, from a family already established on the Île d'Orléans. They were married on March 4, 1658 in Québec city. Twelve children: Louise-Marie (1661-c1717, married André Dechaune in 1676); Louis (1664, married Marie-Anne Delomay, 13 children); Jean-François (1665, married Marguérite Lauzé; he was a mariner and pilot who crossed the Atlantic a number of times); Marguérite-Angélique (see below); an unnamed boy (born and died January 1671); Jean (1671, died before 1681); Jeanne (1673, married an Englishman, Thomas Moore, from Dover; he became a Catholic); Pierre (1679; died young?); Marguérite (1681, married Marc Isabel, 15 children); Guillaume (1683, married Geneviève Voyer and Louise-Catherine Coutance); Marie-Madeleine (1686, married Robert Crépeau); and Françoise (1688, died young?).

Marguérite-Angélique Lemelin was born and baptized on May 23, 1668 at Nôtre Dame de Québec, and was married to Nicolas Godbout on October 16, 1685 at St-Laurent, then the home parish of both families. See Godbout for their seventeen children. One of these was Marie-Madeleine, wife of Simon Turcot; they were great-great-great-grandparents of Marie Eva Jean Martin; see Turcotte.