Marie Madeleine Du Buisson Guyon ³

   Another name for Marie was Marie Dion.

  General Notes:

The origin of Marie Guyon, wife of François, is certain and is verified from abundant notorial documents. The fourth child of Jean Guyon and Mathurine Robin, she is born at Saint-Jean de Mortagne, in Perche, on the 18th of March 1624. We reproduce the results of research by P. Archange Godbout , his extract of the baptism record. Translated, it says; The 18th day of March 1624, Marie, daughter of Jean Guyon and Mathurin Robin was baptised. The Godfather was Jacques Robin and the Godmother was Marie Chahaigne who gave Marie her name.

This excerpt of the registers of the parish Jean Saint of Mortagne, concerning the year of the birth for Marie Guyon, provides numerous contradictions emanating from different Québec administrative sources that indicate her birth between 1618 and 1626. The censuses of Château Richer in 1666 and of Bonsecours in 1681 show her as being 40 and 55 years of age respectively. Both would seem to verify a birth year of 1626. But, the census of Château Richer in 1667 records her age as 43 years which would confirm the official act of 1624. Finally, the burial records of Cap Saint Ignace in 1696 indicates she is 78 years of age which would make her year of birth 1618. These numerous contradictions all show that our ancestors gave less importance to indications of age as they did to the official baptismal act records. These records seem to have had priority over all other documentation.

Jean Guyon, a native of Tourouvre was baptized September 18, 1592 at the church in Saint-Aubin where he constructed a stone staircase in 1615, which exists today. After the death of his father, Jacques, he moved to the parish of Saint Jean in 1615 and stayed there until 1626. He lived there until a little after the death of his mother, Marie Huet on February 26, 1626, when he and his family gathered at the parish of Notre Dame until their departure, in April 1634, for New France. Three children were born in this house which still exists today at the junction of routes Colonel Guerin and Saint Denis.

It is there that Marie, along with seven other children, spent her childhood and a part of her adolescence. In 1634 (according to Cambray) or in 1636 (according to Dion Henri), she migrated to New France as a result of a contract on March 14, 1634 which engaged her father with Robert Giffard at Mathurin Roussel's abode. This family from Perche became the third contingent of families to come to New France since the treaty of Saint German in Laye in 1632. They settled in the land grant, called a Seigneurie, of Beauport in the Du Buisson region. Jean Guyon received, in 1637, by virtue of his agreement with Robert Giffard, a thousand arpents (loosely translated to acre) of land. The name of Jean Guyon, father-in-law of François Bellenger, is synonymous with the first settlers of New France. A memorial can be seen on the monument of Louis Hébert, situated in Montmorency Park near the diocese of Quebec, where the names of Jean Guyon and of Mathurine Robin, his wife are transcribed.

Married at age thirteen to François Bélanger, 1637.

Marie married François Bélanger, son of François Sieur Bélanger and Françoise Horlays, on 12 Jul 1637 in Québec City, Québec, Québec, Canada.^{1 2} (François Bélanger was born on 7 Oct 1612 in St-Thomas de Touques, Pont-l'Évêque, Normandie, France ¹, baptized on 7 Oct 1612 in St-Pierre, Sées, Orne, France, died on 25 Oct 1685 in Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec, Canada ¹ and was buried in Nov 1685 in Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec, Canada.)