Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Zacharie Cloutier
Abt 1590 - 1677 (~ 87 years)
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Name Zacharie Cloutier [1] Born Abt 1590 Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France 
[2, 3] Gender Male Died 17 Sep 1677 Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec [2, 3] Buried 18 Sep 1677 Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec [2, 3] Person ID I3636 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH Last Modified 5 Dec 2019
Father Denis Cloutier, d. Bef 11 Dec 1634 Mother Renée Brière, d. Bef 1 May 1608 Married Bef 1590 Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France [2] Family ID F2758 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Xainte Dupont, b. Abt 1596, Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France , d. 13 Jul 1680 (Age ~ 84 years) Married 18 Jul 1616 Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France [2, 3] Children + 1. Jean Cloutier, b. Bef 13 May 1620, d. 16 Oct 1690 (Age > 70 years) + 2. Charles Cloutier, b. Bef 3 May 1629, d. 5 Jun 1709 (Age > 80 years) Last Modified 5 Dec 2019 Family ID F3783 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Photos Zacharie Cloutier
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Notes - He was a master carpenter and a builder, but what he is best known for is the oceanic immensity of his descent, in Quebec and around the world. According to Wikipedia, "By 1800, Cloutier had 10,850 French-Canadian descendants, the most of any Quebec colonist, according to marriage records studied by the Historical Demography Research Program of the Université de Montréal." Denis Beauregard's Genealogy of the French in North America estimates the modern Quebec descendants of Zacharie and Xainte Cloutier to number between 5,670,000 and 6,090,000. The entire population of Quebec in 2019 is just under 8,500,000.
Cloutier descendants are said to include Madonna, Celine Dion, the Dionne quintuplets, Robert Goulet, Angelina Jolie, Jack Kerouac, Avril Levigne, Alanis Morisette, Camilla Duchess of Cornwall, and Prime Ministers Louis St-Laurent and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Specific descents for some of these people are given here (in French, but the trees are easy to follow). Other descents, such as the Trudeau family's, can be teased out of this site by using its relationship search function.
According to Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, descendants of Zacharie Cloutier carry a higher-than-average risk of developing Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy.
- He was a master carpenter and a builder, but what he is best known for is the oceanic immensity of his descent, in Quebec and around the world. According to Wikipedia, "By 1800, Cloutier had 10,850 French-Canadian descendants, the most of any Quebec colonist, according to marriage records studied by the Historical Demography Research Program of the Université de Montréal." Denis Beauregard's Genealogy of the French in North America estimates the modern Quebec descendants of Zacharie and Xainte Cloutier to number between 5,670,000 and 6,090,000. The entire population of Quebec in 2019 is just under 8,500,000.
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Sources - [S509] Joy Reisinger, "Who Were the Parents of Joseph Cloutier (1695-1776) of St-Pierre-du-Sud, Quebec?" The American Genealogist 69, January 1994.
- [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2020.
- [S2180] Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
- [S509] Joy Reisinger, "Who Were the Parents of Joseph Cloutier (1695-1776) of St-Pierre-du-Sud, Quebec?" The American Genealogist 69, January 1994.