Notes for Pierre dit Le Suisse Miville

Notes for Pierre dit Le Suisse Miville

Pierre Miville: The Swiss. Captain of the Cote Lauzon.

From Ancestors of Marie-Ludivine LaPierre : familytree.com
Concession given on July 16, 1665, to seven Swiss men of the canton de Fribourg (Pierre Miville, his son Francois Miville, and his son Jacques Miville, Francois Rime, Francois Tisseau, Jean Gueuchard, and Jean Cahusin), of suisses Fribourgeois of the Pocatiere, concession of the fief Miville Nov. 3, 1672 (on the Chaudiere River, with "l'Ile Fortunee") In 1667 he was in Lauzon. Burial: October 15, 1669, Quebec Occupation: Master "menuisier" (joiner-carpenter).

Dictionnaire Biographique des Ancetres Quebecois (1608-1700), Volume J-M in collection of the National Archives of Canada (translated by John Margraf), pg. 453:
Pierre Miville dit Le Suisse 1602-1669
The family of this ancestor is unknown. He was a native of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Around 1630, he married Charlotte Maugis, family unknown, native of Saint-Germain, region of Saintes or Saintonge in France. Together they had 6 children. This soldier wsa in camp in Brouage in 1628, at the time when Richelieu took hold of the city of La Rochelle. He got married around 1630 and stayed in Brouage until 1646. November 5 of 1646, before the notary Teuleron of La Rochelle, he purchased for annual rent of 16 pounds a piece of land situated at the foot of the wall of Saint-Nicholas. The same day he hired the master mason and stone-cutter Jacques Rionteau to build him a stone house of 20 feet in length. However, this agreement was cancelled December 12, 1647. During the summer of 1649, he came to Canada with his wife and entire family and his children were Marie, age 17, Francois, age 15, Aimee, age 14, Madeleine, age 13, Jacques, age 10, and Suzanne, age 9. On October 28, 1649, the governor Louis Dailleboust gave him and his son Francois each 30 arpents of frontage land at Louzon. He also obtained 26 arpents of land area in Quebec, on November 19, 1650. He had settled in Quebec, but on August 9, 1654 he sold his home and his land in Quebec to Charles Phiippeau for the price of 500 pounds. In the autumn of 1655, he went to France and on September 19 he promised Claude Auber to release him from the sum of 19 pounds that he owed to Switzerland, in the name of Abraham Richard, from La Rochelle. In the spring of 1656, he made an agreement before the notary Moreau of La Rochelle with the master stone-cutter, Andre Bougret, but this contract was not followed. On his return from France, the governor of Lauzon gave him and and site 20 feet by 26 feet at the Basse-Ville, Saint-Pierre street on May 20, 1656. Le Journal de Jesuites tells us that the "Iroquois Onontagues" (took) one of his cows and a sow on May 6, 1657, in front of his house. The following July 30, Jean Fouquet recognized having received from him the sum of 40 pounds that he had promised to replace in his name to Jean Ranaud for 2 casks of wine. July 31, 1661, Antoine Pepin contracted an obligation of 56 pounds and 8 sols to his consideration. July 1, 1664, he attempted to remove some volunteers who were found on board a ship in Quebec harbor. He was stopped and banished from Quebec for this offense. August 27, 1664 he and his wife acquitted Louis Rover de Villeray of the sum of 55 pounds for the receipt of the inheritance of Ignace Sevestre. July 16, 1665, the lord of Tracy gave him and two other Swiss people frontage land of 21 arpents by 40 arpents in depth at the Grand-Anse (Riviere-Ouelle). This concession became known as the carton of Suisses Fribourgeois. October 6, 1667 he acquitted Jean Talor of 2000 pounds, to whom he had sold a small boat. In the 1667 census, on his land in Lauzon, he owned 8 horned animals, and 30 arpents of valuable land. He passed away at Louzon Ocotber 14, 1669 and was buried in Quebec the next day.

(Source: Usenet soc.genealogy.french posting from Paul Emile petrin , 28-Jul-1996). Pierre Miville-LeSuisse, born c 1580 in Lauzon, LaRochelle, FRA; died c 13 Oct 1669 in Quebec, Quebec (Source: Cyprien Tanguay's Dict Genealogique, vol 1, p435). He married Charlotte Maugis in Fribourg, Sweeden, Switzerland

Children of Pierre Miville-LeSuisse and Charlotte Maugis are:
i. François Miville-LeSuisse, born 1630 (Source: Cyprien Tanguay's Dict
Genealogique, vol 1, p435); died c 22 Nov 1711 in Rivière-Ouelle,
Kamouraska Co, Quebec; married (1) Marie Langlois 10 Aug 1660 in
Quebec, Quebec (Source: Cyprien Tanguay's Dict Genealogique, vol 1,
p435); married (2) Jeanne Savonet 7 Nov 1692 in Rivière-Ouelle,
Kamouraska Co, Quebec (Source: Cyprien Tanguay's Dict Genealogique, vol
1, p435).
ii. Marie Miville, born c 13 Dec 1632 in FRA (Source: Cyprien Tanguay's
Dict Genealogique, vol 1, p435); died 5 Sep 1702 in Hôtel-Dieu, Quebec,
Quebec (Source: Donna Marie Lemieux's ancestry
(http://www.wizard.net/~aldonna/lemieux.htm), 3-Jun-1997); married
Mathieu Amiot=Villeneuve 22 Nov 1650 in Quebec, Quebec (Source: Cyprien
Tanguay's Dict Genealogique, vol 1, p435).\
iii. Aymée Miville, born c 1634; died Unknown; married Robert Giguère 2 Jul
1652 in Quebec, Quebec (Source: Cyprien Tanguay's Dict Genealogique, vol
1, p435).
iv. Madeleine Miville, born c 18 Nov 1636 in Notre-Dame-de-Brouage; died
Aft. 16 Sep 1708 in Château-Richer, Montmorency Co, Quebec; married Jean
Cauchon 20 Nov 1652 in Quebec, Quebec (Source: Cyprien Tanguay's Dict
Genealogique, vol 1, p435)
v. Jacques Miville-Deschênes, born May 1639 in Saintonge, FRA; died c 25
Jan 1687/88 in Rivière-Ouelle, Quebec; married Catherine Baillon 12 Nov
1669 in Notre-Dame, Quebec, Quebec.
vi. Suzanne Miville, born 1642 (Source: Cyprien Tanguay's Dict
Genealogique, vol 6, p263); died c 27 Aug 1675 in Ste-Famille,
Ile-d'Orléans, Quebec; married Antoine Paulet 12 Apr 1655 in Quebec,
Quebec (Source: Cyprien Tanguay's Dict Genealogique, vol 6, p263).

[Broderbund Family Archive #354, Ed. 3, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, Date of Import: Jun 19, 1999, Internal Ref. #1.354.1.75832.18]
Individual: Pierre Miville
Place: Quebec
Year: 1649
Age: 47
Primary Individual: Miville, Pierre
Family Members: Wife Charlotte Mauger; Daughter Martine-Aimee; Son Jacques; Daughter Suzanne; Daughter Marie-Madeleine; Daughter Marie; Son Francois
Source Code: 9221.17
Source Name:
TRUDEL, MARCEL. Catalogue des Immigrants, 1632-1662. Cahiers du Quebec Collection Histoire. Montreal: Editions Hurtubise HMH, 1983. 569p.
Source Annotation:
Catalog of Immigrants. Complements volume 3 of Histoire de la Nouvelle-France (History of New France). Date and port of arrival, date and place of intention to emigrate, or date and place of first mention of residence in Quebec. Extracted from records in the Canadian archives.
Source Page #: 216