Jean NICOLET

Born

abt. 1598 , France

Died

27 October 1642 , Québec, Canada, New France

Jean married Unknown UNKNOWN . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Unknown UNKNOWN was born abt. 1598 in Canada.

Jean married Marguerite COUILLARD 7 October 1637 in Québec, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Marguerite COUILLARD was born 10 August 1626 in Québec, Canada, New France . Marguerite died 20 April 1705 in Québec, Canada, New France . Marguerite was the child of Guillaume COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY and Marie-Guillemette HÉBERT .

Parents & Family of Jean NICOLET

Parents of Jean NICOLET

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Grandparents of Jean NICOLET

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Jean was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1637.

Immigration to New France: Shaping the Roots of Canada

son of Thomas Nicolet and Marguerite Lamer

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Jean NICOLET

Jean NICOLET married

Unknown UNKNOWN
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NOTE: Not certain there was a marriage, but this couple did have a daughter (see below)

Children of Jean NICOLET and Unknown UNKNOWN

Euphrosine Madeleine NICOLET

Born: abt. 1628, , Canada
Died: 30 September 1689, Québec, Canada, New France

Married: Jean LEBLANC 21 November 1643 Place: Québec, Canada, New France

Married: Elie DUSSAULT dit LAFLEUR 22 February 1663 Place: Québec, Canada, New France

Jean NICOLET married

Marguerite COUILLARD
Marriage date: 7 October 1637
Marriage place: Québec, Canada, New France
Marguerite COUILLARD was the child of Guillaume COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY and Marie-Guillemette HÉBERT

Marriage notes:

Jean Nicolet, who lived among the Nipissing for seven years as a clerk, interpreter and intermediary for a company of wealthy French merchants, first married a Nipissing woman. Their daughter was named Euphrosine Madeleine Nicolet. Euphrosine (also known as Madeleine) was born circa 1628. When Jean Nicolet returned to the French settlement of Québec around 1637 and married a French woman, it seems he brought Euphrosine with him. She was literate and could sign her name which she spelled UFroisine.

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Children of Jean NICOLET and Marguerite COUILLARD

Ignace NICOLET

Born: abt. 1639, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 4 December 1640, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

Marguerite NICOLET

Born: 1 April 1642, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Died: 21 January 1722, Montréal, Canada, New France

Married: Jean-Baptiste LEGARDEUR 9 July 1656 Place: Québec, Canada, New France

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

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Biography

NICOLLET DE BELLEBORNE, JEAN, interpreter and clerk of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, liaison officer between the French and the Indians, explorer; b. c. 1598, probably at Cherbourg (Normandy), son of Thomas Nicollet, king’s postal courier between Cherbourg and Paris, and of Marie de Lamer; drowned 27 Oct. 1642 at Sillery.

Nicollet arrived in Canada in 1618, in the service of the Compagnie des Marchands de Rouen et de Saint-Malo. Like Marsolet and Brûlé, he was intended to live among the Indian allies in order to learn their language and customs and explore the regions they inhabited. Nothing is known of his education or temperament, except this remark of Father Vimont in 1643: “his disposition and his excellent memory led one to expect worthwhile things of him.”

Champlain, at the time of his explorations, had established relations with the Algonkins in the upper reaches of the Ottawa (Outaouais) River. It is presumed that, in his desire to strengthen the alliance that was

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Dictionary of Canadian Biography (www.biographi.ca)