The famous cheese-producing town of Brie-Comte-Robert (above) just east of Paris was the home of Claude Morin and Jeanne Moreau, who married there sometime before 1606 and produced a son, Noël Morin (1606-1680). They lived in the parish of St-Étienne. Noël emigrated to Québec city sometime in the 1630s, and there married Hélène Desportes (1620-1675) on January 9, 1640. She was one of the first white children, if not the first, born in Québec - See Desportes for more on this family. She was the widow of Guillaume Hébert (not related to our Hébert ancestors).

Noël worked at first as a wheelwright in the city, but soon acquired farmland in the parishes of St-Jean and St-François nearby, and later at Ste-Geneviève as well. Eventually he moved his family to Rivière-du-Sud (parish of St-Luc), where he died on February 10, 1680. Children: Agnès (January 21, 1640 - note that she was born two weeks after her parents married - she married Nicolas Gaudry dit Bourbonnière at Québec city on November 17, 1653, age 13 - see Gaudry); Germain (1642-1702, a priest); Louise (1643-1713, married Charles Cloutier, brother of our ancestor Jean); Nicolas (1644; died after 1667?); Jean-Baptiste, sieur de Rochebelle (1645-1694, married Catherine de Belleau); Marguérite (born and died 1646); Hélène (1647-1661); Marie (1649-1730, a nun); Alphonse (see below); Noël (1652-a1666); Charles (1654-1671); and Marie-Madeleine (1656-1720, married Gilles Rageot, 9 children).

Alphonse Morin was born in Québec city on December 12, 1650, and lived most of his adult life at Montmagny, where he had a farm. On February 10, 1670 he married Marie-Madeleine Normand (daughter of Jean-Baptiste Normand and Catherine Pajot or Pageot). Their children: François-Alphonse (1670-1737, married Marie-Catherine Chamaillard, 3 children); Pierre-Noël (see below); Germain (1673-a1681); Joseph (1675-1730, married Agnès Bouchard, 9 children); Catherine (1677-1734, married Jacques Beaudoin, 5 children); Nicolas (1679-1680); Jean-Baptiste (1680); Marie-Madeleine (1682-1690); Nicolas (1684-1745, married Madeleine-Michelle Mercier, 1 daughter); Louis (1686-1690); Charles (born and died 1690). When his first wife Madeleine died, Alphonse married Angélique Destroismaisons and had four more children: Thomas (born and died 1693); Louis (1698-, married Élisabeth Bilodeau, 2 children); Marie (1702-1760, married Jacques Bilodeau, 5 children), and Hélène (born and died 1711).

Pierre-Noël Morin was born February 28, 1672 in Québec city, and on May 30, 1696 at Montmagny, he married Marguérite Rousseau (daughter of Thomas Rousseau and Madeleine Olivier). They had ten children, all born at Montmagny: Marguérite (born and died 1697); Pierre-Noël (1698, see below); Geneviève (1699-1700); Marie-Charlotte (1701, married Noël Bacon, 8 children); Élisabeth (1703-1733, married Joseph Cloutier, 5 children); Jean-François (1705, married Marguérite Isabel, 10 children); Marie-Geneviève (1707); Joseph (1710, married Thérèse Dufresne, 1 child, and Dorothée Therrien, 7 children); Germain (1712); and François-Noël (1713).

The younger Pierre-Noël Morin was born at Montmagny on January 26, 1698 and married Thérèse Pelletier (daughter of René, see Pelletier dit Gobloteur) on June 25, 1719. They had eleven children: Pierre (1720-1727, fell through the ice on the Rivière du Sud in the fall; his body was not recovered until April of 1728); Thérèse (1721?, married Jean-Baptiste Blais, 4 children); Geneviève (see below); a child, sex unknown, born in 1727 and died before 1730; Basile (married Angélique Blanchet, 8 children); Pierre (married Marie-Madeleine Fournier); Alexis (married Marie-Geneviève Couture); Marie-Josèphe (married Jean-Baptiste Daignault); Marie-Anne (1732?-, married Gabriel Bilodeau, 1 daughter); and another Pierre-Noël (1740).

Geneviève Morin was born probably in 1723, and married François Daignault dit Laprise on January 14, 1748. They had seven children (see Daignault) including François, who was a great-great-grandfather of Marie Eva Jean Martin.