This web site is intended to be a compendium of the research done on Jean Pierre Toupin and Marie Madeleine Maillou(x) and their descendants. Much has been published on this family in various historical books and family histories, some of it accurate, some not so accurate. As is often the case with family histories, once something is in print, it often is considered to be "gospel". It is my hope that this web site will facilitate a critical examination and discussion of the facts, legends, and myths surrounding this Toupin family and to allow us Toupin researchers and descendants to learn more about our origins and our relatives' contributions to Quebec and the USA. The best way to separate fact from fiction and to resolve conflicting information is to go back to the primary sources (see Understanding Sources, Citations, Documentation and Evaluating Evidence In Genealogy, by Richard A. Pence ). These include records of marriages, birth and baptisms, deaths and burials, census listings, Bible records, tax lists, probate and land records, etc. The information in the descendant listings on this web site will include documentation of the primary sources as much as possible, and transcriptions of many of those sources will be presented in links below. This is a working document and not necessarily definitive, since much of it is based upon information found on the Internet or in published secondary sources. It will be modified and (hopefully) improved as more researchers provide input and, most importantly, evidence.
Jean Pierre Toupin was born in Beauport, Quebec County, Quebec in 1723 to Rene Toupin and Genevieve Langlois (who were married in Beauport in 1708). Jean Pierre was a grandson of Pierre Toupin dit Lapierre, who immigrated to Quebec from France and married in Quebec City in 1670 to Mathurine Graton (one of the Filles du Roi). Marie Madeleine Maillou(x) (her surname in records is written both with and without the "x") was born in Beauport in 1725 to Germain Maillou(x) dit Lasource and Marie Madeleine Giroux (who were married in Beauport in 1724).
Baptism of Jean Pierre Toupin
Baptism of Marie Madeleine Maillou(x)
Jean Pierre Toupin and Marie Madeleine Maillou(x) were married in Beauport in 1748. By 1766, they had 12 children (two of whom had died in infancy). In the following year, they moved from Beauport (just north of Quebec City) to Laprairie County (near Montreal), about 170 miles miles farther upstream on the St. Lawrence River. Two more children were born in Laprairie County. Jean Pierre Toupin (a blacksmith and farmer) died in 1809 and was buried at Ile Perrot, west of Laprairie, next to the island of Montreal. His son Pierre (born in 1762) was the parish priest at Ile Perrot from 1797 until his (Pierre's) death there in 1825.
Marriage of Jean Pierre Toupin & Marie Madeleine Maillou(x)
Burial of Jean Pierre Toupin
Their third child, son Francois Toupin, married in Laprairie in 1774 to Marie Catherine Brossard. (Francois and Marie Catherine are my 5th-great-grandparents. Much of the information on this web site concerns their descendants, especially those who came to Michigan in the United States in the 1860s and later settled in Minnesota and Washington.) Another significant branch in the USA is that of Jean Pierre's grandson Pierre (son of Joseph Toupin and Marie Suzanne Dubuc), who (under the name Peter Tuper) settled as a shoemaker in Fort Covington, Franklin County, New York in the 1840s. Many of his Tuper and Tupper descendants live in the northeast USA.
[Note: On this web site and in my records, I have chosen to omit the correct French accent marks (e.g., grave, acute, circumflex) since I am not fluent in the French language and am using an American English keyboard. My apologies go out to my French-Canadian cousins!]
Here are listings of known descendants (through six generations):
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Children of Jean Pierre Toupin & Marie Madeleine Maillou(x) (Adobe Acrobat document; 39 KB; 8 Aug 2007)
Descendants of Marie Madeleine Toupin (#2)& Urbain Brossard (Adobe Acrobat document; 32 KB; 14 Jul 2007)Index of Names (Adobe Acrobat document; 121 KB; 8 Mar 2010)
Descendants of Francois Toupin (#3) & Marie Catherine Brossard (Adobe Acrobat document; 346 KB; 15 Jan 2008)
Descendants of Joseph Toupin (#4) & Marie Suzanne Dubuc (Adobe Acrobat document; 135 KB; 8 Mar 2010)
GEDCOM (Toupin, Generations 0-6) (GEDCOM file; 331 KB; 8 Mar 2010)
Quebec Notes (Adobe Acrobat document; 2,513 KB; 8 Mar 2010)
Canada - World War 1 Attestation Papers (Adobe Acrobat document; 33 KB; 15 Jan 2007)
California Notes (Adobe Acrobat document; 7 KB; 8 Aug 2007)
Idaho Notes (Adobe Acrobat document; 49 KB; 4 Jul 2007)
Michigan Notes (Adobe Acrobat document; 187 KB; 15 Jan 2007)
Minnesota Notes (Adobe Acrobat document; 107 KB; 8 Aug 2007)
Minnesota Land (Adobe Acrobat document; 19 KB; 8 Aug 2007)
New York Notes (Adobe Acrobat document; 47 KB; 8 Aug 2007)
Washington Notes (Adobe Acrobat document; 118 KB; 8 Mar 2010)
USA - World War 1 Draft Registrations (Adobe Acrobat document; 108 KB; 8 Aug 2007)
USA - World War 2 Draft Registrations ("Old Man's Draft") (Adobe Acrobat document; 13 KB; 8 Aug 2007)
1851 Quebec Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 113 KB; 8 Mar 2010)
1861 Quebec Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 63 KB; 8 Aug 2007)
1871 Quebec Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 68 KB; 14 Jul 2007)
1881 Quebec Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 33 KB; 8 Aug 2007)
1891 Quebec Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 15 KB; 8 Mar 2010)
1901 Quebec Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 142 KB; 8 Aug 2007)
1911 Quebec Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 64 KB; 8 Aug 2007)
1850 USA Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 16 KB; 8 Mar 2010)
1860 USA Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 36 KB; 8 Mar 2010)
1870 USA Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 59 KB; 8 Mar 2010)
1880 USA Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 126 KB; 8 Mar 2010)
1900 USA Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 188 KB; 8 Mar 2010)
1910 USA Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 145 KB; 8 Mar 2010)
1920 USA Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 206 KB; 8 Mar 2010)
1930 USA Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 191 KB; 8 Aug 2007)
1874 Michigan Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 11 KB; 4 Jul 2007)
1885 Minnesota Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 38 KB; 8 Aug 2007)
1895 Minnesota Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 22 KB; 8 Aug 2007)
1905 Minnesota Census (Adobe Acrobat document; 34 KB; 8 Aug 2007)
See my library of digital images (photos, newspaper clippings, etc.) related to this family.
GenForum - Toupin
RootsWeb - Toupin
PRDH,
Research Programme in Historical Demography
ArchiviaNet: On-line Research Tool - Library and
Archives Canada
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
If you would like to comment on any information contained within, or wish to correspond with me about this family, please send me an e-mail message at: marslan@nc.rr.com. Additions and corrections are greatly appreciated. I am especially interested in receiving information obtained from primary sources (census listings, Bibles, cemeteries, vital records, probate and land records, etc.) and photographs and digital images relating to this branch of the Toupin family so that I can incorporate them into this page. Also, I would like to provide links to other pages on the Internet that deal with Toupin genealogy.
Mark B. Arslan
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