Louis Hebert

HÉBERT, LOUIS, apothecary, first officer of justice in New France, first Canadian settler to support himself from the soil, m. Marie Rollet; b. Paris 1575?; d. Quebec, January 1627.

Louis Gaston Hebert (1575 - 1627)

11th great-grandfather of wife

Guillemette Hebert (1608 - 1684)

Daughter of Louis Gaston Hebert

Elizabeth Couillard (1631 - 1704)

Daughter of Guillemette Hebert

Joseph Guyon (1649 - 1712)

Son of Elizabeth Couillard

Angelique Guyon (1677 - 1718)

Daughter of Joseph Guyon

Marie Angelique Letourneau (1697 - 1765)

Daughter of Angelique Guyon

Marie Madeleine Leboeuf (1731 - )

Daughter of Marie Angelique Letourneau

Jean Baptiste Gervais I (1753 - 1809)

Son of Marie Madeleine Leboeuf

Jean Baptiste Gervais II (1776 - 1811)

Son of Jean Baptiste Gervais I

Jean Baptiste Gervais III (1811 - 1887)

Son of Jean Baptiste Gervais II

Jean Baptiste Gervais IV (1832 - 1916)

Son of Jean Baptiste Gervais III

Achille Ovila Gervais (1886 - 1980)

Son of Jean Baptiste Gervais IV

Gladys Gervais (1915 - 1996)

Daughter of Achille Ovila Gervais

Barbara June Agla (1942 - )

Daughter of Gladys Gervais

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Marie Rollet

Marie Rollet, first Frenchwoman to settle in New France (born circa 1580 in Paris, France; died in May 1649 and buried 27 May 1649 in Quebec City, New France). She is recognized as the first female French farmer in New France, alongside her husband Louis Hébert.
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Will of Catharine Higlin nee Stengel - My 2nd Great Gandmother

Catharine Stengel b. 5 NOV 1808 , France d. 6 FEB 1853 Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada: Waterloo Region Generations

The Last Will and Testament of Catharine Higlin, widow. 

http://generations.regionofwaterloo.ca/getperson.php?personID=I34531&tree=generations

I, Catharine Higlin, of Village of Berlin, widow of the late Jacob Higlin of same place, Inn Keeper, deceased, being at present of sound mind and memory…do make and constitute these presents as my Last Will and Testament…Whereas the said late husband's own Will and Testament, dated the seventeenth of April 1850, and proven on the eighth of February 1853, did leave all the property left by him into my hands, possession and disposal, therefore do I now in power and virtue of his said Will direct and ordain, that all the real and personal property left by me shall be sold by my hereinafter mentioned Executors as soon as it conveniently can and may be after my decease to the best advantage of my estate, and the proceeds thereof put out on interest for the welfare of my children, to be portioned out to them in equal share and be paid over to them as they come of age, son Ferdinand, when Twenty one years old and my daughters, Catharine and Wilhelmine when eighteen years old. My said son Ferdinand is to be put out to some trade according to his own liking, and my daughters shall also be put to earn their living. My real property consists of the property on which I now do live on the South side of King, West of Cedar street, of about three roods (Rood is an English unit of area, equal to one quarter of an acre) ; a small lot of about one rood on the East side of Cedar Street, and one lot of about one acre on the north side of King Street, with barn and stables thereon, all in Berlin aforesaid. I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my well-beloved brother Jacob Kramer, of the said Village of Berlin, Stocking Weaver, and Henry Eby of the same place, Gentleman, as my Executors of this my Last Will and Testament… I especially charge them to see to the welfare of the children, and that they do get their proper schooling. I also empower and authorize them in the sale of my Real Estate to grant, execute and deliver to the purchasers thereof good and sufficient deeds of conveyance thereof, and do also all other matters and things, instruments and writings which they all and will deem proper…

Will Dated 6th February 1853

Witnesses Jost Stroh and Johannes Haller

Proven 14th March 1853

Died [not entered]

Inventory rendered £82/11/8

Note: Catherine was a sponsor at the baptism of Jacob Kraemer and Catherin Marzolf's daughter Christina on 15 Apr 1850.

Edward Winslow

June's 19th great-grandfather






Edward Winslow (18 October 1595 – 8 May 1655) was a Separatist who traveled on the Mayflower in 1620. He was one of several senior leaders on the ship and also later at Plymouth Colony. Both Edward Winslow and his brother, Gilbert Winslow signed the Mayflower Compact. In Plymouth he served in a number of governmental positions such as assistant governor, three times was governor and also was the colony's agent in London.[2] In early 1621 he had been one of several key leaders on whom Governor Bradford depended after the death of John Carver. He was the author of several important pamphlets, including Good Newes from New England and co-wrote with William Bradford the historic Mourt's Relation, which ends with an account of the First Thanksgiving and the abundance of the New World. In 1655 he died of fever while on an English naval expedition in the Caribbean against the Spanish. He is the only Plymouth colonist with an extant portrait, and this can be seen at Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, Massachusetts.


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Pioneers - Immigration from Old France to New France

Clipped from: https://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/en/les-pionniers 

Immigration from Old France to New France 

France under the Old Régime did not supply a great number of emigrants to its colonies across the Atlantic. In fact, just 15,000 Frenchmen and Frenchwomen sailed for Canada in the seventeenth century, and two-thirds of them stayed in the colony for a short period and either returned to France or died in Canada without getting married. This was a very low number: the British Isles, with a population just over one-third of France’s, sent almost 380,000 immigrants to the New World over the same period. In fact, France was at the time showing various symptoms of social discontent that should have justified a larger number of refugees fleeing to Canada, whose abundance of resources contrasted with the famine and unemployment among the poorest classes. Although France wasn’t really overpopulated, conditions there were favorable to emigration; these conditions, had they coincided with a real attraction of Canada, would have encouraged the departure of large contingents of settlers for the New World. But few French people migrated, as Canada, a distant, wild, and dangerous country, had a poor reputation. On top of this, the authorities believed that the French population was not as growing quickly as it should be – and, in fact, that it was shrinking due to wars, plagues, and general misery. In response to Intendant Talon, who had asked him to find the means to form a "grand and powerful state" in Canada, which would involve a massive wave of immigrants, Colbert said, in a sentence that was to mark the future of the country, "It would not be prudent [of the king] to depopulate his kingdom as he would have to do to populate Canada." And yet, even had departures been multiplied tenfold, the effects of emigration on the most populous country in Europe would have been imperceptible – and the fate of North America would probably have been quite different. Notwithstanding, reacting to the slow growth of the population, the King had women recruited between 1663 à 1673 to come to Canada. These women became known as «Les Filles du Roi» (the King's daughters) and they can be found in virtually every family tree of French Canadians today. Follow this Link to access the list of women identified as «Filles du Roi» of the PRDH. In any case, the result of this small founding population was that the French-Canadian stock grew from a relatively small number of people, about 10,000 immigrants. If we consider the male immigrants, from whom family names were transmitted through the generations, the number is reduced to about 4,500 – the total of immigrants who had at least one son who married. And your Ancestor? The selection of immigrants who had at least one married son defines the group of those who transmitted the names that the great majority of French Canadians wear today. Type in a family name and you will see the corresponding list of these immigrants; the ancestor of individuals who have this name today in America should appear on it, if he settled in Quebec before 1766. About the Origins of Immigrants The place of birth (or of origin, the two realities often being difficult to distinguish) of immigrants is very important. The information relating to origin in the documents is often vague, imprecise or even contradictory. Professor Hubert Charbonneau has undertaken the difficult task of synthetising the available information to establish with as much precision as possible - ideally, to the parish or village - the place of origin of immigrants. His work is complete to 1767 and he is pushing forward; his new results will be added when the data is up-dated, on a bi-annual basis. In principle, the place of origin of a French settler is identified in two ways: first are given the historical names of the parish, including its patron saint, or of the city (v.), then of the diocese (ev.) and of the province; second, in parentheses, the name of the village (if it differs from the name of the ancient parish), of the district (ar.) and of the Department as they are known today. The exact parish may be unknown, but not the diocese or the province. French settlers whose origin is completely unknown are identified by the expression "France indeterminee". Immigrants from other countries are identified using as much as possible the same rules, relating, when the place of birth is unknown, to the most ancient place of residence. The PRDH also participates in an important project aiming to find baptisms in France of Quebec immigrants; these baptisms are available in the « Fichier Origine », which can be consulted for free. Some of the dates and places of birth in the data base were taken from this file; they are identified by: «(Fichier Origine)» or by a comment in the individual's file. The Main Numbers of Descendants Our ancestors are very heterogeneous in terms of their descendants. Factors that have to be taken into account are the time of settling in New France, the number of children born, the proportion of those who reached adulthood and married, and so on. With regard to reproduction, luck ruled! We have pulled from the PRDH data base the list of immigrants who had the largest number of married descendants before 1800: Name of the ancestor, Number of married descendants before 1800 Zacharie Cloutier 10 850 Jean Guyon 9 674 Marin Boucher 8 502 Jacques Archambault 8 445 Noël Langlois 7 847 Abraham Martin 7 765 Pierre Miville 6 552 Pierre Desportes 6 515 Jean Roussin 4 730 Louis Hébert 4 592 This list does not include some names that are very widespread today, but does include others that are quite rare. This is because some ancestors had great numbers of descendants through their daughters, who did not transmit their family names. We therefore made a second compilation, this time retaining only the "family name-carrying" descendants of the ancestor – that is, the descendants through the males: Name of the ancestor, Number of "family name-carrying"descendants married before 1800 Jean Côté 567 Pierre Tremblay 564 Marin Boucher 482 Jean Dumais 481 Louis Houde 471 Jean Guyon 449 Jacques Archambault 423 Pierre Parent 418 Zacharie Cloutier 391 Guillaume Pelletier 389

Before the King's Daughters:The Filles à Marier 1634-1662

Clipped from: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/1535358/media/c15e00c8-6f85-4acc-b721-bb3d8903ec4b?o_xid=38391&o_lid=38391&o_sch=Email+Programs


Before the King's Daughters:The Filles à Marier 1634-1662

by Quintin Publications

Before the King's Daughters:The Filles à Marier 1634-1662

by Peter J. Gagné

The untold story of female immigration to New France

Before the state-sponsored immigration program that sent nearly 800 women known as Filles du Roi to Québec, 262 brave and adventurous women made the journey to New France on their own. Sent by relatives and religious organizations or enlisting on their own account, these women did not benefit from a paid passage and dowry drawn from the King’s treasury, but they did face the same if not worse hardships and dangers. Known as the Filles à Marier or “marriageable girls,” they were the first single women to set foot in the colony since its return from the English in 1632. True pioneers and heroines, they left their homes in France to found new ones in the New World.

This book – the first work dedicated solely to this group of pioneer women – tells their story, collectively and individually. It first examines the much-misunderstood early immigration of women to New France, explaining the need for women in the colony, the difficulties in increasing the population and the unfounded assertions that these women were prostitutes, not pioneers. The book then includes individual biographies of each of these 262 single women and concludes with a table of arrivals per year, an appendix of supporting documentation (marriage and enlistment contracts and inventories), a glossary, index of husbands and a comprehensive index to the book.

Among the biographies of these courageous pioneer women, you will find:

Gillette Banne, who was executed with husband Jacques Bertault for poisoning their son-in-law.

Marguerite Boileau, who was captured by the English in Acadia, brought to Boston as a prisoner and ransomed by her husband, who had escaped earlier.

Françoise Capel, who may be responsible for the fire that destroyed the Ursuline convent in 1650.

Louis Guimont (husband of Jeanne Bitouset), the first person miraculously healed at Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré. 

 
Marguerite Pontonnier, who had a spell cast on her marriage by a jilted lover so they wouldn't have any children. 

Marie Riton was born 1623 in La-Roche-sur-Yon, Vendee, France. daughter of Robert Riton et Marguerite Guyon. She died between 1672 and 1675 in Beauport.  She had a child, Marie Brunet, born outside of wedlock November 6, 1644 in France. She married Léonard Leblanc on 23 Aug 1650. She died before 1675, age 52, Beauport, Canada at Beauport, Quebec.

 
Jacquette Vivran, who was killed by lightning.

Hueglin, Fred and Lillian McPherson

1921 - In Jun 1921 Frederick (Fred) Hueglin, Eugene’s father, was living with Lillian McPherson at 190 King St, Waterloo, Ontario. In that year's Census, although Eugene’s mother Caroline Maurer had died in 1916, Fred is listed as married, age 44, head of the household, a painter making $1500 a year. She is listed as married, age 25, adopted daughter of the household head, born in the USA, immigrated in 1909, parents born in Quebec, no occupation and no income.