Marie Marthe Ruel

Marie married Jean Marie Côté on 6 Nov 1747 in Saint-Laurent, Île-d'Orléans, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Marie Angélique Côté was born on 2 Dec 1752 in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lotbinière, Québec; was christened on 3 Dec 1752 in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lotbinière, Québec; died on 8 May 1820 in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lotbinière, Québec; was buried on 10 May 1820 in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Lotbinière, Québec.

Jean married Marthe Fournier after 15 Nov 1719 in Québec City, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clément married Marguerite Leclerc on 22 Nov 1677 in Sainte-Famille, Île-d'Orléans, Québec. Marguerite (daughter of Jean Leclerc and Marie Blanquet) was born on 26 Dec 1660; was christened on 21 Feb 1661 in Québec City, Québec; died on 8 May 1729; was buried on 9 May 1729 in Saint-Laurent, Île-d'Orléans, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Simon married Anne Catherine Rousseau on 12 Nov 1691 in Saint-Pierre, Île d'Orléans, Québec. Anne (daughter of Thomas Rousseau and Madeleine Olivier) was born on 19 Jul 1668; was christened on 26 Jul 1668 in Québec City, Québec; died on 7 Dec 1749; was buried on 8 Dec 1749 in Saint-Pierre-du-Sud, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacques married Marguerite Lamery before 1646 in Saint-Paul, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jean married Marie Blanquet before 1658 in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France. Marie (daughter of Adrien Blanquet dit Lafougère) was born between 1623 and 1632 in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France; died on 10 Sep 1709; was buried on 11 Sep 1709 in Saint-Pierre, Île d'Orléans, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1623

Guillaume married Françoise Hébert on 20 Nov 1651 in Notre-Dame-de-Québec, Québec City, Québec. Françoise (daughter of Guillaume Hébert and Hélène Desportes) was born before 23 Jan 1638; was christened on 23 Jan 1638 in Québec City, Québec; died before 16 Mar 1716; was buried on 16 Mar 1716 in St-Thomas-de-la-Pointe-à-la-Caille, Montmagny, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Madeleine Olivier on 5 Oct 1667 in Québec City, Québec. Madeleine (daughter of Jean Olivier and Louise Prévost) was born between 1637 and 1644 in Caudebec-en-Caux, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France; died on 21 Apr 1690; was buried on 22 Apr 1690 in Saint-Laurent, Île-d'Orléans, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was a fille du rois, a "daughter of the king." By 1660 or so it had become apparent that the fledgling North American colony of New France was badly short of marriageable women. To ameliorate this, between 1663 and 1673 the French government recruited respectable young women of limited prospects and, after vetting them for suitability, provided each of them with a small dowry, a chest of clothes, and one-way passage to Quebec. The approximately 800 women who made this journey became known as the "filles du roi", the "daughters of the King." Millions of modern French-Canadians can trace their descent from them, quite often from several.

Gilles married Noëlle Gageut before 1623 in Coulmer, Orne, France. Noëlle was born in France; died in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1612

Notes:

From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography:

About this only son of Canada’s first settler little is recorded except an occasional instance of his helping the priests in their relations with the natives. Since he had inherited half his father’s land, which included some acres on the St. Charles as well as the original site above the cliff, it is to be assumed that his chief occupation during his short life was the cultivation of his fields. He was but a little boy when he came to Quebec with his parents in 1617, and therefore probably still in his twenties when he died in 1639.

Guillaume married Hélène Desportes on 1 Oct 1634 in Notre-Dame-de-Québec, Québec City, Québec. Hélène (daughter of Pierre Desportes and Françoise Langlois) was born in Québec City, Québec; was christened after 7 Jul 1620; died on 24 Jun 1675 in Québec City, Québec; was buried on 24 Jun 1675 in Québec City, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was a godchild of Hélène Boullé, the wife of Samuel Champlain. In his will, Champlain left her 300 livres, equivalent to about $15,000 in modern money.

From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography:

DESPORTES, HÉLÈNE (Hébert; Morin), said to be the first white child born in New France, daughter of Pierre Desportes and Françoise Langlois; m. Guillaume Hébert in October 1634; m. secondly Noël Morin 9 Jan. 1640 at Quebec; d. 24 June 1675.

The date of Hélène’s birth has not been definitely fixed. Dionne says that she came to Quebec with her parents in 1613, Sulte that she was born in Quebec about 1622. Statistics from other sources indicate that she was 14 years old in 1634, 38 in 1659, 46 in 1666, and 48 in 1667. Anne Hébert, according to Champlain, had died in childbirth prior to 1620; but since there is no further mention of her child, it was presumably still-born. Eustache Martin was born in October 1621. If, however, we assume Hélène’s birthdate to be 1620, which seems most probable, her claim is established as being the first white child born alive in the St. Lawrence region. (Sulte, to be sure, claims for Guillemette Hébert the honour of being the first-born Canadienne, on the assumption that Louis Hébert had his wife with him in Acadia in 1606, but Lescarbot’s evidence refutes this.) [...]

Honoré married Marie Boillerot before 1626 in Oroux, Deux-Sèvres, France. Marie was born in France; died in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jean married Louise Prévost before 1637 in Caudebec-en-Caux, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France. Louise was born in France; died in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

André married Pierrette Chaperon before 1604 in Saint-Pierre, Bacqueville-en-Caux, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France. Pierrette was born in France; died in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Caperon.

Notes:

The first Canadian apothecary, and the first European to farm in Canada. He was a friend of Samuel Champlain. A substantial entry about him can be found in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Notes:

Or Rollet.

From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography:

In 1617, with her husband and three children she came from Paris to Quebec, where she found starvation, sickness, and conflicts with indigenous people. A year after their arrival, says Sagard, the first marriage solemnized in Canada with the rites of the church took place, that of their daughter Anne and Étienne Jonquet. Anne died in childbirth the following year, but there is no record of the child.

Marie Rolet aided her husband in caring for the sick and shared his interest in indigenous people, concerning herself especially with the education of their children. In 1627, at the baptism of Chomina’s son, Naneogauchit, which the priests were striving to make an impressive occasion, she fed a crowd of visitors from her big brewing kettle. Her name appears as godmother for this baptism and for the baptisms of many others who were converted.

Notes:

From the Dictionary of Canadian Biography:

Pierre Desportes probably came to Quebec in 1614 with Abraham Martin: their wives were sisters. Desportes’ occupation is not known, but he must have had some standing in the community and sufficient education to be able to write, for he signed on behalf of the inhabitants the document of 1621 appealing to the king. No other facts are known about him. (He is not to be confused with Pierre Desportes de Liguère, to whom the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France ceded Île Royale (Cape Breton) in 1636.)

Pierre married Françoise Langlois about 1620 in Lisieux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France. Françoise (daughter of (Unknown) Langlois and (Unknown)) died after 18 May 1629. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]