TOUPAIN (TOUPAIS, TOUPET)

JEAN TOUPAIS ARRIVED IN POMQUET BETWEEN 1794 & l 817. HE WAS A SEAMAN AND THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN A SOLDIER DURING THE NAPOLEONIC WARS IN FRANCE. HE PROBABLY ARRIVED EARLIER THAN JEAN-BAPTISTE RIMBEAU AND JEAN- BAPTISTE VENEDAM. HE MARRIED MARIE VINCENT, DAUGHTER OF SIMON VINCENT AND THÉOTISTE CYR. THERE WERE MANY DESCENDANTS FROM THIS COUPLE AND THE NAME ( SLIGHTLY CHANGED TO TOUPAIS) APPEARS IN SEVERAL POMQUET FAMILIES SUCH AS RENNIE, MELANSON AND DUON. THERE IS A PETER TOUPAIS WHO LIVED IN MASSACHUSETTS BUT WE HAVE NO OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIM. FRANCOIS TOUPAIS WAS THE LAST MEMBER WITH THE FAMILY NAME IN POMQUET. HE WAS FONDLY REFERRED T0 AS "LE VIEUX TOUPAIS'. HE PASSED AWAY IN APRIL, 1931.

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