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NAME:  Jeanne MECHIN  
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Jeanne MECHIN dit De FRONTIGNY
Jeanne ASSELIN dit MECHIN
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BIRTH: 1630  (approximate)
La Rochelle, Aunis, (Charente-Maritime), France
BAPTISM:
MOTHER:   ???
FATHER:  MECHIN, Jean
Occupation: Workman, Sailor
Birth : ABT 1600  La Rochelle, Aunis, France
Married: "Unknown"  La Rochelle (St-Nicolas), Aunis, France
DEATH: November 6, 1646, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
             Drowned with others, too late in the year to be on water.
Buried: 20 Nov or Dec 1646, Quebec, Canada
SIBLINGS:
MARRIAGE:  1645 (approx) Trois-Rivières, Québec
SPOUSE: PEPIN, Guillaume   b 1610 (approx.)
CHILDREN all born at TROIS RIVIERES, Quebec:

PEPIN, Jacques    b April 14, APR 1646
PEPIN, Jean   b August 1647
PEPIN, Marie   b April 21, 1649
PEPIN, Guillaume  b August 04, 1651
PEPIN, Pierre   b December 29, 1652
PEPIN, Etienne  b April 14, 1654
PEPIN, Jeanne  b March 28, 1656
PEPIN, Madeleine  b November 19, 1657

PEPIN, Elisabeth    b circa 1659    

PEPIN, Louis   b November 21, 1660  Twin,  died in infancy.
PEPIN, Joseph   b November 21, 1660  Twin,  died in infancy.
PEPIN, Marguerite    b May 6, 1662  Twin
PEPIN, Marie Ursule    b May 6, 1662  Twin


1666 CENSUS
at TROIS RIVIERES, Quebec:

PEPIN, Guillaume PEPIN - 56 yrs.  habitant
MECHIN, Jeanne - 36 yrs.  his wife

PEPIN, Jacques - 18 yrs. son
PEPIN, Jean - 16 yrs. son
PEPIN, Guillaume - 14 yrs. son
PEPIN, Pierre - 12 yrs. son
PEPIN, Estienne - 11 yrs. son
PEPIN, Jeanne - 9 yrs. daughter
PEPIN, Magdelaine - 8 yrs. daughter
PEPIN, Elisabeth - 7 yrs. daughter
PEPIN, Marie - 3 yrs. twin daughter
PEPIN, Marguerite - 3 yrs. twin daughter
LIFE EVENTS:

1610   Birth of Guillaume PEPIN, her future husband, in                        St-Laurent-de-la-Barrière
 
          (Charente Maritime - Poitou Charentes)  France

           (approx. date, frequently listed as 1607)
          
1630  
Jeanne MECHIN is born in France.

1633   (approximate date) Guillaume PEPIN arrives in New France,
           settles in the area that was to become Trois-Rivieres.

1645  June 16, Jean MECHIN, Jeanne's Father,
          signed a contract in La Rochelle, France, to work as a plowman,
          laborer and sailor for Pierre Legargeur in Canada.

1645
 
(August 12?) Marriage to Guillaume PEPIN, age 35.
           At this time Jeanne is 15 years old, marriage was probably
           in
Trois-Rivieres, where they bring up 13 children.

1646  November 6, Jean MECHIN, Jeanne's Father drowned with
          others while sailing toward Trois-Rivieres, it being too late
           in the year for safe sailing.

1666  Census taken, see data above under CHILDREN:
         
1679  Jeanne MECHIN, was living in 1679, according to a notary
          act, but she dies before the 1681 census... relatively young, just
          before the age of 50.

CHILDREN:
         Three of Jeanne's sons made voyages of discovery into the
         heartland of this continent. Pierre Pepin who explored Wisconsin
         and Minnesota left his name on lake Pepin, a wide area in the
         Mississippi below Red Wing, Minnesota. On the east side of this
         lake is Pepin County, Wisconsin.

QUESTIONS & NOTES:
DEATH: November 30, 1680 Trois Rivieres, Quebec

Jeanne MECHIN
, was living in 1679, according to a notary act, but she died before the 1681 census
BURIAL:  Likely....L'Immaculée Conception of Trois-Rivières, Québec
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