Zacharie Cloutier

Abt 1590 - 1677  (~ 87 years)

• Name	Zacharie Cloutier  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1590	Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Sep 1677	Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec   [2, 3]
  Burial	18 Sep 1677	Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I5152	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of WPF
  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   [2]
  Family ID	F3299	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Xainte Dupont,   b. Abt 1596, Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France d. 13 Jul 1680 (Age ~ 84 years)
  Marriage	18 Jul 1616	Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France   [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

  [S5177] 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, 2024. [S2180] Dictionary of Canadian Biography.