Samuel LeCompte de la Vimondière

• General Notes
  • Notes for Samuel LeComte de la Vimondiere (also Samuel Vimaudiere Lecompte)
    
    This name was distorted in Canada.  Variations are found as follows:
    
    Lecomte sieur de la Villemondiere
    Lecomte de la Vimondiere
    Lecompte
    Lapimondiere
    Lagrimondière
    Lairmondière
    Lagimondière
    Lajimonière
    Lagimonière
    Lesmonière
    
    According to the notes of R.P. Archange Gorbout who examined the records of the parish of St. George, village of St. Lo, district of Constances in Normandy, France, the name is written Leconte de la Vimondiere.
    
    Dr. LeClerc in his treatise, "The Medical Profession in Normandy" also used the same writing.  According to him, this family was Huguenot (Protestant) and practised the surgical profession.
    
    Samuel Lecomte sieur de la Vimondiere, who went to Canada before 1695 and married at Chateau Richer, Quebec on 4-11-1695, claimed to practise the same profession.  While later, he was a merchant, that doesn't prove necessarily that he, completely, had abandoned surgery.
    
    The first Lagimodiere ancestor to immigrate to Quebec, Samuel Lecompte, sieur de la Vimaudiere, arrived from France in 1693.
    
    Samuel lived at St-Georges-Montcocq, Coutances, Normandie (DNCF, p. 798).