Marguerite Courivaux

     Marguerite was born circa 1626 in Angouleme, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France.¹ She married Jean leFranc on 31 December 1643 and married second, Rene Maheu on 21 May 1648.¹ Marguerite married Jean Maheu, son of Jacques Maheu and Anne Couvent, on 16 July 1663 in ville de Quebec, Quebec, Canada, at the Basilica of Notre Dame.² 1666, Marguerite and her husband, Jean, were listed on the Canadian Census at ville de Quebec. Enumerated in this household were Jean Maheut [23 years], a merchant, Marguerite Corrivaut [40 years], the widow of Rene Maheut, Jean Paul [17 years], Louis [15 years], a domestic, Jacques Jore [21 years] & a servant, Barbe Halle [20 years]. Marguerite departed this life on Wednesday, 19 April 1673 in ville de Quebec. She was buried there in the cemetery of Notre Dame on Thursday, 20 April 1673.³