Charles SEVESTRE

(b. 17 January 1609 , Paris, France d. 8 December 1657 , Québec Province, Canada )

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Charles SEVESTRE was born 17 January 1609 in Paris, France

Charles SEVESTRE was the child of ? and ?

Charles was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1636.

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Charles married Marie PICHON abt. 1631 in Paris, France . The couple had (at least) 7 children.
Marie PICHON was born abt. 1600 in Paris, France. Marie died 3 May 1661 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City).

Charles SEVESTRE died 8 December 1657 in Québec Province, Canada.

son of Etienne Sevestre and Marguerite Petitpas

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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Charles SEVESTRE married

Marie PICHON-- Date: abt. 1631 Place: Paris, France

Children of Charles SEVESTRE and Marie PICHON:

Denise SEVESTRE (b.29 October 1632, Paris, France d. 14 December 1700, Québec, Canada, New France )
m. Antoine MARTIN dit MONTPELLIER 18 June 1646 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
m. Philippe NEVEU 4 August 1659 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Marguerite SEVESTRE (b.abt. 1636, , Québec Province, Canada d. 26 November 1720, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Canada, New France )
m. Étienne LESSARD (LESSART) 8 April 1652 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Ignace SEVESTRE (b.12 November 1636, Québec, Canada, New France d. 24 June 1661, Québec, Canada, New France )

Marie-Madeleine SEVESTRE (b.2 January 1639, Québec, Canada, New France d. 7 November 1706, Québec, Canada, New France )
m. Jacques LOYER dit LATOUR 23 October 1653 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
m. Louis DENIORT dit LANORAYE 22 February 1672 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Jeanne SEVESTRE (b.29 December 1641, Québec, Canada, New France d. 5 January 1648, Québec, Canada, New France )

Catherine SEVESTRE (b.25 July 1644, Québec, Canada, New France d. 24 January 1670, Québec, Canada, New France )
m. Louis ROUER 18 February 1658 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Charles SEVESTRE (b.20 November 1646, Québec, Canada, New France d. 9 April 1661, Montréal, Canada, New France )

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1609 Birth
17 January 1609
Paris, France

Biography
SEVESTRE, CHARLES, clerk in the Quebec warehouse, procurator-syndic of the Communauté des Habitants, special lieutenant of the seneschal’s court of Quebec; son of Charles Sevestre and Marguerite Petitpas; d. 1657 at Quebec.

The Sevestre family came from Paris, where, some time around 1627, Charles had married Marie Pichon, the widow of Philippe Gauthier de La Chenaye. We know of four of Charles’s brothers: Louis, who was a bookseller; Étienne, Ignace, and Thomas, who probably arrived at Quebec with Charles not later than 1636. They brought with them their widowed mother. The Compagnie des Cent-Associés granted them lands at Quebec in the spring of 1639.

Charles Sevestre’s first occupation is unknown to us; he is referred to in 1641 only as a “settler living at the aforesaid Quebec.” But in 1645, when the Communauté des Habitants was founded, Sevestre makes his appearance as clerk of the warehouse. On 23 Aug. 1648, at a meeting of all the notables of the Quebec region, he was...Read MORE...

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1632 Birth of Child
Denise SEVESTRE was born 29 October 1632, Paris, France

Charles was 23 years old.

1636 Birth of Child
Ignace SEVESTRE was born 12 November 1636, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Charles was 27 years old.

1639 Birth of Child
Marie-Madeleine SEVESTRE was born 2 January 1639, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Charles was 29 years old.

1641 Birth of Child
Jeanne SEVESTRE was born 29 December 1641, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Charles was 32 years old.

1644 Birth of Child
Catherine SEVESTRE was born 25 July 1644, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Charles was 35 years old.

1646 Marriage of Child
Denise SEVESTRE married 18 June 1646, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Antoine MARTIN dit MONTPELLIER

1646 Birth of Child
Charles SEVESTRE was born 20 November 1646, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Charles was 37 years old.

1648 Death of Child
Jeanne SEVESTRE died 5 January 1648, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Charles was 38 years old.

1652 Marriage of Child
Marguerite SEVESTRE married 8 April 1652, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Étienne LESSARD (LESSART)

1653 Marriage of Child
Marie-Madeleine SEVESTRE married 23 October 1653, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Jacques LOYER dit LATOUR

1656 - The pendulum clock is invented (Christiaan Huygens, Netherlands)

In 1656, Charles Sevestre, master printer and bookseller, obtained the western part of the region which went to his son-in-law, Louis de Niort de la Nauraye or Lanoraie.

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1657 Death
8 December 1657
Québec Province, Canada

He died at the age of 48.

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