Marie ROLLET

Born

abt. 1580 , Paris, France

Died

27 May 1649 , Québec, Canada, New France

Marie married Louis HÉBERT 13 June 1602 in Paris, France . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Louis HÉBERT was born abt. 1575 in France. Louis died 23 January 1627 in Québec, Canada, New France . Louis was the child of Nicolas HÉBERT and Jacqueline PAJOT .

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Marie was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1617.

Immigration to New France: Shaping the Roots of Canada

daughter of Jean Rollet and Anne Cogu

WORK & OCCUPATION

Occupation

Recorded occupation: wife of Louis Hébert, Canada’s first settler

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Marie ROLLET

Marie ROLLET married

Louis HÉBERT
Marriage date: 13 June 1602
Marriage place: Paris, France
Source: Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique - Univeriste de Montreal

Louis HÉBERT was the child of Nicolas HÉBERT and Jacqueline PAJOT

Children of Louis HÉBERT and Marie ROLLET

Anne HÉBERT

Born: abt. 1602, Paris, France
Died: abt. 1619, , Québec Province, Canada

Married: Étienne JONQUEST 1618 Place: Québec, Canada, New France

Marie-Guillemette HÉBERT

Born: abt. 1608, St Germain des Pres, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Died: 2 October 1684, Québec, Canada, New France

Married: Guillaume COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY 26 August 1622 Place: Québec, Canada, New France

Guillaume HÉBERT

Born: abt. 1610, Paris, France
Died: 23 September 1639, Québec, Canada, New France

Married: Helene DESPORTES 1 October 1634 Place: Québec, Canada, New France

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Québec Place Names Through History

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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

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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ROLLET, MARIE, wife of Louis Hébert, Canada’s first settler; d. 1649 at Quebec.
In 1617, with her husband and three children she came from Paris to Quebec, where she found starvation, sickness, and threats of Indian attack. A year after their arrival, says Sagard, the first marriage solemnized in Canada with the rites of the church took place, that of their daughter Anne and Étienne Jonquet. Anne died in childbirth the following year, but there is no record of the child.

Marie Rollet aided her husband in caring for the sick and shared his interest in the natives, concerning herself especially with the education of Indian children. In 1627, at the baptism of Chomina’s son, Naneogauchit, which the priests were striving to make an impressive occasion, she fed a crowd of visiting Indians from her big brewing kettle. Her name appears often as godmother at the baptism of converted natives.
Two years after the death of Louis Hébert, on 16 May 1629, she married Guillaume Hubou. After

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Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003