Re: Marguerite Sabourin
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Re: Marguerite Sabourin
Henry Flynn 2/02/09
Ahh Yes, the proverbial Question re Choinière!
Our first ancestors Mathurin Renou and Jean Sabourin were married in France, had a son Pierre, arrived in Québec circa 1670 and lived in Charlesbourg.The son Pierre married Madeleine Perrier and with his descendants moved North West to the Rigaud, Vaudreuil Regions of Québec and Western Canada and are the progenitors of 70% of Sabourins who populated North America.
Jean and Mathurins only other son who survived and was married four times was Jean Baptiste Sabourin who's third wife Françoise Venne-Voyne is my 14th great grandmother.It was the grandchildren of this family who first had their last names recorded as Sabourin-Chaunier that over time became Sabourin-Choiniere in the first Genealogcal Historical Collection documented by the Abé Cyprien Tanguay in his publication of 1830 in Montréal, Québec.He assigned the name to a person living in southern Québec in 1735 descibing a marriage.Jean Baptiste Sabourin and his wives all populated lands south of the St. Lawrence River and many of them immigrated to the New England States where the name of Choinière-Sabourin was chansged many times with many recorded variations such as "Sweeney" recorded by Anglophone census takers who spelled in English what they thought the sound of "Choiniere" sounded like in English!
Mo Sabourin