♀Jeanne Lépine

Jeanne Lépine was a woman of the parish of Saint-Paul in the faubourg^W Martainville of Rouen, in Normandy, the wife of Jacques Daudelin and the mother of Nicolas Daudelin, who settled in New France. She was the tenth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son Nicolas Daudelin (died 1699).

Jacques Daudelin and Jeanne Lépine are known from one record, the marriage contract^W of their son. On 21 October 1665 Nicolas appeared before Claude Auber, royal notary at Québec, to make his contract of marriage with Anne Girard, and the couple married at Château-Richer the next day. The contract names him the son of Jacque Dodelain and Jeanne Lespine, “de la parroisse de Saint Paul fauxbourg de Martainville de Rouen”. It calls her husband deceased by then; nothing in the records gives her own birth or death.

Notes

A 1930 history of the Norman settlers of Canada, La conquête du Canada par les Normands by Vaillancourt and Godbout, gives the same parents for Nicolas and places his birth at Saint-Paul de Rouen in 1636. Tanguay’s dictionary gives Nicolas the same birth year but names no parents. The Saint-Paul baptism register for the whole of 1635 and 1636 holds no Daudelin or Lépine, so the year in the printed works is most likely worked out from an age.