Simon Pajot (II)

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2. Guillaume Pajot
3. Hugues Pajot
4. Henri Pajot
5. Jeanne Pajot
6. Jehan Pajot
7. Jacqueline Marie Pajot

About the middle of sixteenth century,in the vicinity of the church Saint-Gervais, there lived a candlestick maker named Simon Pajot. He belonged to a family of the Parisian middle-class and had ten bothers and sisters. He was married with Jeanne Guerineau. She gave him four sons and two daughters. However his principal merit, in our eyes, was to have been the grandfather of two of the first Canadian colonists, but he hardly suspected it when he died in 1563. Although he left a young child, Jean, approximately 13 years old, he had, as a father of family, time to provide the others with assured trades or alliances. The elder Guillaume, married Marguerite of Boissière, and fathered two girls Jeanne and Marie. He was, accoding to the tradition, chancellor of tallow and middle-class man of Paris. The second Hughes, called such to be distinguished from a first cousin who had the same first name and same trade, married Barbe Mallardot, goint on to have seven children.

The elder of those, Guillaume, became the future notary in Châtelet, (has which we owe several interesting acts?). The third son, Isaac, then of 17 years, future candlestick maker, was to marry Cahterine Gaude and to be father of two girls Catherine and Claude; this one, by her marriage to Jean de Biencourt, sior of Poutricourt, was going to join her family to nobility and history. As for the two girls of Simon Pajot, one, Jeanne, had married Mathieu Bedeau who, also, was a candlestick maker, and the other, Jacqueline, already twice widowed, was remarried in 1564 to Nicolas Hébert, apothecary and grocer. Though her hsband did not work in tallow, she did not, by this third marriage deviate from the family tradition: her uncle Étienne Pajot was an apothecary and her aunt Jeanne Pajot had married a grocer.

All the family ssemed very close; with the death of the patriarch, they grouped around his widow Jeanne Guerineau. The division of his estate was done without discussion; he left revenues and several houses: that of the Notre-Dame image, street of Joury; two contigous houses, one street of the Fig tree and the other on the corner of this street and of the street of Joury, while going towards St-Paul and finally a country house surrounded by vines at Saint-Mandé. Two batches were made, but the property of the houses remained undivided between the widow and the minor offspring and the older ones. A fifth house soon was added to the others: that of d'amour Dieu, located within the Old Cemetery of St-Jean. Jeanne Guerineau and her son Hugues acquired it, on January 28, 1568, to make their residence in it, in exchange of 500 Pounds and an annual rent of 200 Pounds that had yielded a few years before to them by Jean de Peiras, usher in Châtelet, and Nicole Tartarin, his wife.

It is in this house that, on October 3, 1572, Jeanne Guerineau, had the neighbor, notary Puthomme came, and dictated her last will to him. After having chosen to be buried "in the chruch Saint-Gervais,in the vault of Carbonne, she bequeaths her goods to her son Jean approximately 23 years old, who lived with her and who holds the occupation of wood merchant. To avoid any difficulty in the division which her death would create, she specifies that "all the wood of chesne, water, house as far as can be seen", belongs to this son. She aknowledges her grandchildren, at least some of them: thus the children of Isaac, of Jeanne and Jacqueline share the sum of 1,200 Pounds tounaments "for ayder with the pouveoyer in marriage or differntlly and so that those children took God for it." Lastly, she acknowledges her Hébert kin, a great respect by choosing him executor. A little later the grandmother died and, on October 16, Nicolas Hébert drew up the inventory of the goods from her estate.