Pierre Miville^[1]

Abt 1602 - 1669  (67 years)    Has no ancestors but more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Pierre Miville
  Relationship	with Therese Nadeau
  Birth	Abt 1602	Fribourg, Canton Fribourg, Switzerland
  Baptism	Abt 1602	Fribourg, Canton Fribourg, Switzerland
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	1649 (47 years)	Québec, Québec-ville, Québec, Canada   [2]
  Death	14 Oct 1669	Lauzon, Lévis, Québec, Canada   [3, 4]
  Burial	15 Oct 1669	Québec, Québec-Ville, Québec, Canada   [4]
  Notes	Pierre Miville, known as "le Suisse," emigrated to Canada. The research of historian-genealogist Marcel Fournier revealed that under the French Régime, 106 Swiss immigrants, six of whom were women, came to New France. Of the 106, 41 married and settled permanently. Pierre Miville, born c1602 in the canton of Fribourg, was the first Swiss to immigrate to Canada. He was in Québec City with his wife and six children by 1649. He was in France in the second half of the 1620s. He may have been one of Cardinal Richelieu's Swiss guards. Perhaps he was one of those who laid siege to the city of La Rochelle in 1627. Eventually, he came to Brouage, the hometown of Samuel de Champlain, where he was married, c1630, to Catherine Maugis, a Saintongeaise from Saint-Germain-de-Lusignan. The couple settled at Brouage, where their seven children were born. The eldest, Gabriel, died at the age of five. Raymond Ouimet, related to the Miville family through his mother, wrote a book on Pierre Miville. He pointed out that Miville must have belonged to a coterie of people devoted to Cardinal Richelieu's interests, as all his children's godparents were either people in the cardinal's orbit or officials of the town. Following the death of Richelieu in 1642, a number of people associated with him had to leave Brouage. This may well explain Pierre Miville's departure for La Rochelle in 1646. (from http://www.bryan-martin.net/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I2530&tree=gam)
  Person ID	I4709	Antoine_Roy
  Last Modified	27 Oct 2019

  
  

  Wife	Charlotte Maugis,   b. Abt 1607, St Germaine, Saintonge, Charente Maritime, France d. 11 Oct 1676, Lauzon, Québec, Canada (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1629	Brouage, Saintes, Saintonge, France
  Age at Marriage	He : ~ 27 years - She : ~ 22 years.
  Children	3 sons and 4 daughters
  1. Gabriel Miville,   b. Abt 1630, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charente, France d. 11 Nov 1635, Brouage, Saintonge, France (Age 5 years) 2. Marie Miville,   b. 13 Dec 1632, St Hilaire, Hiers-Brouage, Charente-Maritime, France d. 5 Sep 1702, Hôtel-Dieu, Québec, Québec-Ville, Québec, Canada (Age 69 years) ▻ Mathieu Amiot, Sieur de Villeneuve  m. 2 Nov 1650 + 3. François Miville,   b. 16 May 1634, St Hilaire, Hiers-Brouage, Charente-Maritime, France d. 23 Nov 1711, Rivière-Ouelle, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Age 77 years) ▻ Marie Langlois  m. 10 Aug 1660;   Jeanne Sauvenier  m. 7 Nov 1692 4. Aimée Miville,   b. 16 Aug 1635, St Hilaire, Hiers-Brouage, Charente-Maritime, France d. 9 Dec 1713, Beaupré, Montmorency, Québec, Canada (Age 78 years) ▻ Robert Giguere dit Despins  m. 2 Jul 1652 + 5. Madeleine Miville,   b. 18 Nov 1636, Rochefort, Saintonge, France d. Aft 16 Sep 1708, Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec, Canada (Age > 72 years) ▻ Jean Cauchon  m. 20 Nov 1652 + 6. Jacques Miville, Sieur des Chesnes,   b. 2 May 1639, St Hilaire, D'Hiers, Brouage, Charente Maritime d. 27 Jan 1688, Rivière-Ouelle, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Age 48 years) ▻ Catherine de Baillon  m. 12 Nov 1669 7. Suzanne Miville,   b. 24 Jan 1640, St Hilaire, D'Hiers, Brouage, Charente Maritime d. 29 Aug 1675, St.Pierre I.O., Montmorency 2, Québec (Age 35 years) ▻ Antoine Poulet  m. 12 Apr 1655
  Family ID	F859	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  		Immigration - 1649 - Québec, Québec-Ville, Québec, Canada Death - 14 Oct 1669 - Lauzon, Lévis, Québec, Canada Burial - 15 Oct 1669 - Québec, Québec-Ville, Québec, Canada  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S97] LDS Ancestral File, [Also in LDS Ancestral File as AFN: 94TD-PF, born 1577, CHR 1602, and as AFN: G6VW-6B.]. [S201] Trudel, Marcel, Catalog of Immigrants, 1632-1662, page 216, [on Ancestry.com]. [S115] Rene Jetté, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles du Québec des origines à 1825, page 817.. [S17] Gabriel Drouin, compiler, Drouin Collection, Québec Vital and Church Records, 1621-1967 (Ancestry, Québec > Notre-Dame (sépultures 1621-1679) > 1621-1671 > image 20, [burial record].