Desportes, Helene
1620 - 1675
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Name Desportes, Helene [1, 2, 3] Born 07 Jul 1620 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada 
[4] Gender Female Died 24 Jun 1675 Québec, Quebec, Canada [5] Buried 10 Feb 1680 St Thomas [3] Person ID I1256 Wallace-Greiner Family Tree Last Modified 2 May 2014
Father Desportes, Pierre, b. 1594, Lisieux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France , d. 18 May 1629, Quebec, Canada Relationship Natural Mother Langlois, Francoise, b. 1599, Lisieux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France , d. 18 May 1629, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Relationship Natural Married 1620 Lisieux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Family ID F580 Group Sheet
Family 1 Morin, Noel Sieur De St Luc, b. 21 Feb 1609, Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France , d. 10 Feb 1680, Quebec, Canada Married 09 Jan 1640 Quebec, Canada [3, 6] Children 1. Morin, Agnes dit Valcourt, b. 21 Jan 1641, Quebec, Canada , d. 30 Aug 1687, Quebec, Canada Family ID F581 Group Sheet
Family 2 Hebert, Joseph, d. 1639 Married 01 Oct 1634 Family ID F582 Group Sheet
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Notes - She is credited as being the 1st white child born in New France. She is also the god-child of Samuel De Champlain & his wife. In Champlain's will he left Helene the equivalent value today of $15,000 (300 livres). She became a mid-wife & taught some her daughters about mid-wifery.
Info taken from Wikipedia & Canadian records (Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online). Her aunt & uncle were Marguerite Langlois & Abraham Martin (Plains of Abraham fame).
- She is credited as being the 1st white child born in New France. She is also the god-child of Samuel De Champlain & his wife. In Champlain's will he left Helene the equivalent value today of $15,000 (300 livres). She became a mid-wife & taught some her daughters about mid-wifery.
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Sources - [S28] Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Edmund West, comp., (Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com OperationsInc, 2000.;;), Database online. Birth year: 1641; Birth city: Quebec; Birth state:Pq..
Record for Agnes Morin - [S14] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Originaldata: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;;), Ancestry Family Tree.
- [S388] Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families (TanguayCollection), 1608-1890, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com. Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of CanadianFamilies (Tanguay Collection), 1608-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.;;), Volume: Vol. 1 Sect. 2 : Hem-Zap; Page: 444.
- [S359] Family Data Collection - Births, Edmund West, comp., (Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com OperationsInc, 2001.;;), Database online..
Record for Helene Des Portes - [S356] Family Data Collection - Deaths, Edmund West, comp., (Name: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2001;;), Database online..
Record for Helene Desportes - [S149] Family Data Collection - Marriages, Edmund West, comp., (Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2001.;;), Database online..
Record for Noel Morin
- [S28] Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Edmund West, comp., (Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com OperationsInc, 2000.;;), Database online. Birth year: 1641; Birth city: Quebec; Birth state:Pq..
