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Zacharie Cloutier

Male Abt 1590 - 1677  (~ 87 years)


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  • Name Zacharie Cloutier  [1
    Birth Abt 1590  Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Death 17 Sep 1677  Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Burial 18 Sep 1677  Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Person ID I5152  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 26 Jan 2024 

    Father Denis Cloutier   d. Bef 11 Dec 1634 
    Mother Renée Brière   d. Bef 1 May 1608 
    Marriage Bef 1590  Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F3299  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Xainte Dupont,   b. Abt 1596, Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Jul 1680 (Age ~ 84 years) 
    Marriage 18 Jul 1616  Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Children 
    +1. Pierre Zacharie Cloutier de Laclousterie,   b. Bef 16 Aug 1617   d. 3 Feb 1708 (Age > 90 years)
    +2. Jean Cloutier,   b. Bef 13 May 1620   d. 16 Oct 1690 (Age > 70 years)
    +3. Anne Cloutier,   b. Bef 19 Jan 1626   d. 4 Feb 1648 (Age > 22 years)
    +4. Charles Cloutier,   b. Bef 3 May 1629   d. 5 Jun 1709 (Age > 80 years)
    Family ID F3316  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Mar 2021 

  • 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, Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom, and Canadian 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.

      Zacharie Cloutier (1590-1677) = Xainte Dupont (~1596-1680)
      Pierre Zacharie Cloutier (1617-1708) = Madeleine Émard (1626-1708)
      Geneviève Cloutier (1655-1725) = Joseph Guyon dit Dubuisson (1649-1712)
      Joseph Guyon dit Lemoine (1682-1754) = Élisabeth Guillet (1694-1783)
      Marie Joseph Guyon dit Lemoine = Michel Coursol
      Mary-Charlotte Coursol (1756-1805) = Ephraim Jones (1750-1812)
      Sophia Jones (1735-1837) = John Stuart (1777-1829)
      Mary Stuart (1812-1846) = Allan Napier McNab (1798-1862) (1)
      Sophia Mary McNab (1832-1917) = William Coutts Keppel (1832-1894) (2)
      George Keppel (1865-1947) = Alice Frederica Edmonstone (1869-1947) (3)
      Sonia Rosemary Keppel (1900-1986) = Roland Calvert Cubitt (1899-1962)
      Rosalind Maud Cubitt (1921-1994) = Bruce Middleton Hope Shand (1917-1946)
      Camilla Rosemary Shand (1947- ), = (1) Andrew Henry Parker Bowles (1939- ), = (2) HRH Prince Charles Philip Arthur George (1948- ), now Charles III, King of England

      (1) Prime Minister of Upper Canada, 1854-56. 1st Baronet McNab.

      (2) 4th Baronet Edmonstone. Captain in the Royal Navy, retiring as a rear-admiral in 1869. MP for Stirlingshire, 1874-80.

      (3) She is known to have been a mistress of King Edward VII from 1898 forward.

  • Sources 
    1. [S5177] Joy Reisinger, "Who Were the Parents of Joseph Cloutier (1695-1776) of St-Pierre-du-Sud, Quebec?" The American Genealogist 69, January 1994.

    2. [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.

    3. [S2180] Dictionary of Canadian Biography.