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Jean Marsolet Sieur Guyon Du Buisson dit Dion[1]

Male 1592 - 1663  (70 years)


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  • Name Jean Marsolet Sieur Guyon Du Buisson dit Dion  [2] 
    Birth 18 Sep 1592  Saint Aubin, Tourouvre, Perche, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Gender Male 
    Arrival 1634  Québec, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    Death 30 May 1663  Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3] 
    Burial Québec, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I24702  Master
    Last Modified 28 Sep 2015 

    Father Jacques Guyon,   b. 6 Jan 1562, Tourouvre, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Sep 1623, Mortagne, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years) 
    Mother Marie Huet,   b. 6 Jan 1578, Tourouvre, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Feb 1626, Mortagne, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Marriage 15 Apr 1583  St Jean, Mortagne, Perche, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6417  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mathurine Robin Guyon Du Buisson,   b. 18 Oct 1599, Mortagne, Chartres, Perche, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Apr 1662, Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Marriage 2 Jun 1615  St Jean, Mortagne, Perche, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Michel Guyon,   b. 1615, Mortagne, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1651 (Age 36 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
     2. Andre Guyon,   b. 1616, Loudun, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1714, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 98 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
     3. Marie Andree Guyon,   b. 1616, Loudun, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1714, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 98 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
     4. Barbe Guyon,   b. 19 Apr 1617, Ste Jean de Mortagne, Orne, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Nov 1700, Saint-Pierre, Île-D'Orléans, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
     5. Jean Guyon Sieur Dubuisson, Jr.,   b. 1 Aug 1619, St Jean, Mortagne, Perche, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Jan 1694, Château-Richer, Côte-de-Beaupré, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
     6. Simon Guyon,   b. 2 Sep 1621, Mortagne, Chartres, Perche, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Feb 1682, Québec, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
     7. Marie Bélanger,   b. 18 Mar 1624, Saint Jean, Mortagne, Chartres Sees, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Aug 1696, Cap-Saint-Ignace, Montmagny, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
     8. Marie Guyon,   b. 1627   d. 1637 (Age 10 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
     9. Claude Guyon,   b. 22 Apr 1629, Mortagne, Chartres, Perche, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Feb 1694, Québec, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
    +10. Denis Guyon,   b. 30 Jun 1631, St-Jean De Mortagne, Chartres Ou Sees, Perche, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1685, Québec, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years)
     11. Michel Guyon,   b. 1634   d. 1704 (Age 70 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
     12. Noël Guyon,   b. 1638, Québec, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1638 (Age 0 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
    +13. François Guyon-Des Près,   b. 7 Dec 1639, Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Mar 1718, Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    Family ID F6416  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Sep 2020 

    Family 2 Élisabeth Couillard,   b. 9 Feb 1631, Québec, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Dec 1683, Château-Richer, Côte-de-Beaupré, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years) 
    Marriage 27 Nov 1645  Québec, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6415  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Sep 2015 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 18 Sep 1592 - Saint Aubin, Tourouvre, Perche, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 2 Jun 1615 - St Jean, Mortagne, Perche, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsArrival - 1634 - Québec, Québec, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 27 Nov 1645 - Québec, Québec, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 30 May 1663 - Beauport, Québec, Québec, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Québec, Québec, Canada Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Plaque des premiers colons de Quebec    		Plaque_des_premiers_colons_de_Quebec

  • Notes 
    • Jean Guyon du Buisson, (1592 - 1663), was born at the Saint-Aubin parish in Tourouvre, Orne, France in 1592. Guyon was patriarch of "....one of the earliest French families to settle in (Nouvelle France), one of the most numerous in the beginning, one of the most respected and best known...."

      Guyon made his living as a mason and was regarded as a "master mason of excellent reputation". In 1615, he finished the interior stone staircase of the church Saint-Aubin.
      Arrival in Nouvelle France
      Guyon and family emigrated to North America as part of the Percheron Immigration, a small group of families and some single men from the region of Perche, in the province of Normandy, brought over to Nouvelle France in 1634 to colonize new areas.
      Jean de Lauzon, the Governor of New France, awarded a concession of land to Robert Giffard de Moncel, physician to the colony. Giffard, now Seigneurie of Beauport, recruited Guyon and other tradesmen to the new colony with the offer of 1,000 arpents of land with hunting and fishing rights in exchange for three years of service.

      Guyon traveled aboard a convoy of four ships under the command of Charles Duplessis-Bochart and arrived in Nouvelle France in 1634. Guyon was awarded land in newly-established Beauport, one of the oldest European-founded communities in Canada (and now a borough of Quebec City). Under the seigneurial system, he received a rear fief (arrière fief) near rivière du Buisson (river of bushes). He attached its name to his own, Guyon du Buisson.
      Guyon lived there until he died in 1663. He built a small mill and helped build the parish church of Québec city and the governor's residence.

      For nine years, he and Zacharie Cloutier disputed Giffard's seigneural rights to receive foi et hommage (fealty and homage). Refusing to accept him as their superior, they did not stake their lands or pay him annual taxes. On July 19, 1646, the governor of the colony took action to force Cloutier and Guyon to comply with their contractual obligations. Such cases of censitaire refractoriness filled the time of the courts for the duration of the seigneurial system, both during the French regime and under the English.
      His eldest son, also named Jean Guyon, married Élisabeth Couillard, granddaughter of Louis Hébert, the first French colonist established with his family in Nouvelle France. Their wedding was accompanied by the "....two violins...which had not been seen yet in Canada....”

      After his death, his heirs engaged in a protracted legal dispute over his lands.

      Descendants
      Guyon fathered ten children, eight of whom married, and he is known to be an ancestor of many French Canadians. By 2006, news media noted that at least three out of four pure laine (old stock) French Quebecers descend from him. The descendants are often recognized as Dion, sometimes as Despres, Dumontier, Lemoine and in Louisiana as Derbanne. He has been linked to the family trees of Madonna, Celine Dion, Stéphane Dion and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.

      By 1730, more than 2,150 births of Guyon descendents had been recorded, according to The First French Canadians: Pioneers in the St. Lawrence Valley. By 1800, Guyon had 9,674 married descendents, the second-most of Nouvelle France immigrants, according to the Historical Demography Research Program of the Université de Montréal. This study enabled neurological researchers to trace 40 cases of classical Friedreich's ataxia, a rare inherited disease, across 12 generations to 14 previously unrelated French-Canadians kindreds to one common ancestral couple: Guyon and his wife Mathurine Robin. The disease causes progressive damage to the nervous system resulting in symptoms ranging from gait disturbance and speech problems to heart disease. The finding allows for gene chromosomal localization studies that had previously been judged to be almost impossible in rare autosomal recessive disorders.

      Honours
      In 1984, the 350th anniversary of Guyon's arrival, Quebec City named a park after him and a commemorative plaque to honour Guyon was mounted on the church in Beauport by the Association des Dion d'Amérique inc. In 2006, the city renamed a street after him.
    • Dictionary of Canadian Biography Article
      GUYON DU BUISSON, JEAN (senior), master mason, pioneer at Beauport; baptized 18 Sept. 1592 at Tourouvre (Orne, France), son of Jacques and Marie Guyon; m. 2 June 1615 Mathurine Robin; d. 30 May 1663.
      On 14 March 1634, at Mortagne, Guyon and his fellow-countryman Cloutier signed an undertaking with Robert Giffard. Guyon settled at Beauport that year with his wife and most of their children, of whom there were at least eight. When he received from Giffard an arriere-fief near the Rivière du Buisson, he assumed that nobiliary surname. Several of his descendants now bear the name Dion.
      Honorius Provost
      ASQ, Document Faribault, passim.; Séminaire, LVII. JR (Thwaites), XXVII, 314. JJ (Laverdière et Casgrain), passim. BRH, XLIX (1943), 268-72. Louis Guyon, Étude généalogique sur Jean Guyon et ses descendants (Montreal, 1927). É.-Z. Massicotte, "Les arpenteurs de Montréal sous le régime français," BRH, XXIV (1918), 304. [Mme Pierre [F.L.] Montagne, Tourouvre et les Juchereau ... (Québec, 1965).]

  • Sources 
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