Jeanne Drouin

Other Events:

• Baptism: 5 Feb 1647, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Jeanne married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 1606, France; Pin Au Perche

Notes:

According to Dictionnaire National Des Canadiens Francois, Vol. III, page 1544, we learn that : Robert Drouin was born in 1607, at Pin, in Perche, France. He arrived in Canada in 1635 and settled at Beauport on the fief (freeland) of Cloutier. A year after his arrival, Robert R. Drouin signed his contract of marriage to Anne Cloutier, which was the first such contract in Canada. Having married the Daughter of the owner of this freeland Cloutier, Anne Cloutier and Robert Drouin became the owners of the land, the second piece on the west bank of Riviere aux Chiens, in the Parish of Chateau Richer.

About the Cloutier family,from the Dictionary of the Canadians of Francois, Vol. III, page 1484, that Zacherie Cloutier married Xaincte Dupont in St. Jean, in Perche, France, on July 18, 1616. During the winter of 1633-34, a doctor, Robert Giffard, who had become seigneur (lord of the manor) de Beauport, recruited "censitaires" for his seigneurie (censors; audit). In a contract signed in Perche, France, he gave the freeland of Cloutier at Beauport to Zacherie Cloutier. At the end of March 1644, forty-two people, among whom were Zacherie and his wife Xaincte and their five children, embarked at La Rochelle, France for Canada.

On July 1644, Zacherie began the construction of the residence of the seigneur of Beauport, as well as the parish church at Quebec and that of Fort St. Louis. Until 1670, he lived on his land of Cloutier, clearing and cultivating the land.

Zacherie and Xaincte were able to celebrate their Golden and even their Diamond Wedding Anniversaries. Zacherie died in 1677 and his wife died 1680.

Birth:
in the parish of Pin, chatellany of Montaigne, in Perche, France

Robert married Anne Cloutier on 27 Jul 1636 in Beauport, Québec, Quebec, Canada. Anne (daughter of Zacharie Cloutier and Xainte Dupont) was born about 1625 in France; died on 3 Feb 1648 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; was buried in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
The marriage contract for Robert Drouin and Anne Cloutier was signed by the Signeurie of Beauport, parish of Notre Dame de la Misericorde, on July 27, 1636. This contgract, which is still preserved in the archives of the Seminary of Quebec, was the first marriage contract drawn up in Nouvelle France, or Canada.

Reference: Stanley Clisby Arthur, George Campbell Huchet de Kernion, Old Families of Louisiana (, 1931), pages 284-288.

Other Events:

• Baptism: 1590, France

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Birth:
Born in St. Jeande Mortagne, Perche, France

St. Jeande Mortagne, Perche

Zacharie married Xainte Dupont in 1616 in France. Xainte (daughter of Paul Dupont) was born in 1595 in France; died on 14 Jul 1680 in Chateau Richer, La Côte-de-Beaupré, Quebec, Canada; was buried in Chateau Richer, La Côte-de-Beaupré, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Denis married Renee Briere in France. Renee was born in 1566 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]