Women’s work: a seamstress.
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The Year seventeen hundred Sixteen The twenty-sixth Day of February
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Interrogated as to her name, surname, status and Residence
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Interrogated as to her name, surname, status and Residence
Stated to be named magdeleyne arrivé, widow of Jean Guionnet previously a
Bourgeois of This city, aged forty-six years or Approximately Residing In
the aforesaid House, Earning her living ordinarily by Sewing.
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Source: Archives nationales du Québec, Centre de Montréal, Procès pour vol d'argent chez le trésorier de la Marine, TL 4 S1, 1864, Juridiction royale de Montréal, Declaration by Madeleine Arrivé, February 19, 1716.