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NAME:  Jeanne MECHIN   female
     
aka Jeanne MECHIN dit De FRONTIGNY
        aka Jeanne ASSELIN dit MECHIN

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BIRTH: 1630 La Rochelle, Aunis, (Charente-Maritime), France

BAPTISM:

MOTHER:   Unknown

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 1620

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

LIFE EVENTS:

1620   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
  Book: "FILLES A MARIER" (GIRLS TO BE MARRIED)
           (1634-1662) by Gagne    LISTS: Guillaume Pépin
           dit Tranchemontagne m. Méchin, Jeanne

1645
 
(August 12?) Marriage to Guillaume PEPIN, age 35.
           At this time Jeanne is  about 20 years old, marriage
           was probably in
Trois-Rivieres.

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 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
         
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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ADDITIONAL & UNPROCESSED INFO BELOW...

La Rochelle birthplace of Jean MECHIN


Her Father Drowned near Quebec City



Sieges of La Rochelle
(Ending just months before Jeanne was born.)

During the Renaissance, La Rochelle adopted Protestant ideas, and from 1568 became a centre for the Huguenots. The city was besieged during the French Wars of Religion: Siege of La Rochelle (1572-1573). Under Henry IV the city enjoyed a certain freedom and prosperity until the 1620s, but the city entered in conflict with the central authority of the King Louis XIII, when cannon shots were exchanged on September 10, 1627 with Royal troops. This resulted in the Siege of La Rochelle in which Cardinal Richelieu blockaded the city for 14 months, until the city surrendered and lost its mayor and its privileges. The growing persecution of the Huguenots culminated with the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. Many Huguenots emigrated, founding such cities as New Rochelle in the vicinity of today's New York in 1689. La Rochelle, and the siege of 1627 form much of the backdrop of the later chapters of Alexandre Dumas, père's classic novel, The Three Musketeers.

source: wikipedia.org

     
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