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immigrant flag male ancestor  Mathurin  GUILLET

Born
abt. 1625 France
Died
Mathurin  married  Catherine-Isabelle ST-PERE abt. 1648 in Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France . 
Catherine-Isabelle ST-PERE  was born 26 August 1634 in St-Jean-d'Angély, Charente-Maritime, France.  Catherine-Isabelle died 27 June 1709 in Batiscan, Canada, New France .  Catherine-Isabelle was the child of Étienne ST-PERE dit CHAMPOUX and Marie-Madeleine COUTEAU (COUSTEAU) .

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Mathurin was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1647.


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Mathurin  married  Catherine-Isabelle ST-PERE abt. 1648 in Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France .  Catherine-Isabelle ST-PERE  was born 26 August 1634 in St-Jean-d'Angély, Charente-Maritime, France.  Catherine-Isabelle died 27 June 1709 in Batiscan, Canada, New France .  Catherine-Isabelle was the child of Étienne ST-PERE dit CHAMPOUX and Marie-Madeleine COUTEAU (COUSTEAU).

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Mathurin GUILLET

Mathurin GUILLET married immigrant Fille a Marier flag  Catherine-Isabelle ST-PERE
Marriage date: abt. 1648
Marriage place: Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Catherine-Isabelle ST-PERE was the child of Étienne ST-PERE dit CHAMPOUX and Marie-Madeleine COUTEAU (COUSTEAU)

Marriage notes:
"The brothers Pierre and Mathurin Guillet, originally from Aunis or Saintonge, probably arrived in New France about 1647... Certainly the Guillet brothers were in Canada by 1648, the year of their marriages to the sisters Jeanne and Catherine de Saint-Pere, daughters of Etienne and of Madeleine Cousteau."
Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume VII, Page 94

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Early 1600s–1760
Canada, New France
1760–1763
Canada
1763–1791
Province of Québec
1791–1867
Lower Canada
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Québec, Canada

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.


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Mathurin GUILLET - 1649 Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec  Cap de la Madeleine First land concessions 1649 The map above shows the first land concessions on the Cap. One s
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1649 Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec

Cap de la Madeleine
First land concessions 1649
The map above shows the first land concessions on the Cap. One sees Pierre and Mathurin's lots (5th and 6th from right). On a modern map of Cap de la Madeleine, Pierre's land was, according to Marcel Trudel, author of "Le Terrier du St Laurent en 1663", between Celina and Viviers steets and from the bottom of Erables street up to the first park on the street.

One also finds the lands of men that played role's in our ancestor's life and/ or are in our family tree: Claude Houssard dit le Petit Claude was his father-in-law, Nicolas Rivard was his brother-in-law (his great grandaughter married Pierre's grandson, Joseph - ancestral grandparents!), Pierre Boucher - his sister, Marie was the grandmother of Marie Trottier who married Pierre's son, Louis.
1 june 1649

I the undersigned superior of the residence of the Company of Jesus at 3 Rivieres declare that in virtue of the commission given to me by
my superiors in which Monsignor the Abbe of la Magdeleine gave the right and the power to distribute the lands that bear his name on the
Cap of 3 rivieres I have assigned fourteen concessions of two arpens each of waterfront on the great river, starting at the mouth of the
river tanneval at the bottom and twenty arpens in depth on each arpen by a line starting at the north-east of the said concessions given by
order to those that are marked below, under the charges and conditions dictated by the seigneur here ... the names in order in which the said concessions were granted are Francois Boivin, Jean Houdan, Claude Houssart, Jean Veron, Pierre Guillet, Mathyrin Guillet, Etienne de Lafond, Mathyrin Baillergeon, Pierre Boucher, Emerie Galteaux, Urbain bodrie, Jacques Aubuchon, Bertrand Farfard, Jean Aubuchon

Passed at 3 rivieres
On the 1st of Juin 1649

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DeathDeath — 1652
18 August 1652
Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
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