Louis DAMOUR (D'AMOURS)

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16 May 1655 , Québec, Canada, New France

Died

8 May 1708 , Port Royal, Acadia

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Mathieu DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) dit DESCHAUFOURS Marie-Marguerite MARSOLET

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Born: 16 May 1655 in Québec, Canada, New France

Father: Mathieu DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) dit DESCHAUFOURS

Mother: Marie-Marguerite MARSOLET

Paternal grandparents: Louis DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) , Elisabeth TESSIER

Maternal grandparents: Nicolas MARSOLET , Marie BARBIER

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Louis married Marguerite GUYON 1 October 1686 in Québec, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marguerite GUYON was born 7 September 1665 in Château-Richer, Québec, Canada (La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Chateau-Richer). Marguerite died 7 January 1708 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia). Marguerite was the child of Simon GUYON (GUION) and Louise RACINE.

Louis DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) died 8 May 1708 in Port Royal, Acadia .
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Recorded occupation: Acadian seigneur, fur-trader and soldier;

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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - The Seigneurial System (1627 - 1854)
The seigneurial system was a form of land settlement modeled on the French feudal system. It began in New France in 1627 with the formation of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés (or Company of 100 Associates), which was initially responsible for handing out land grants and seigneurial rights. The land was divided into five by 15 kilometer plots, usually along major rivers like the St. Lawrence. They were then further subdivided into narrow, but long lots for settlement. These lots were usually long enough to be suitable for faming, and they provided everyone who lived on them with equal access to neighbouring farms and the river. There were three main groups of people who lived off the land in this system: Seigneurs, Habitants and Engagés

Louis DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) was a seigneur.
Seigneurs were the most important colonists, as they were usually in the military or aristocracy prior to being a settler. These seigneurs then were charged with the task of subdividing large parcels of land into five by 15 kilometer concessions, then renting this land to a habitant. Under regulations set up by the French government in France, the seigneur could also set up a court of law, set up a mill on his land and organize a commune.

Source: Canada in the Making (www.canadiana.ca/citm/index_e.html)

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Louis DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) married

Marguerite GUYON
Marriage date: 1 October 1686
Marriage place: Québec, Canada, New France
Marguerite GUYON was the child of Simon GUYON (GUION) and Louise RACINE

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Louis D'AMOURS

Born: abt. 1689, Québec, Canada, New France
Died: June 1759, Québec, Canada, New France

Married: Marie-Anne D'ABBADIE DE SAINT-CASTIN 1720

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Birth — 1655
16 May 1655
Québec, Canada, New France

Baptism
Louys Damours
30 May 1655
Notre-Dame-de-Québec
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Biography
DAMOURS (d’Amours) DE CHAUFFOURS, LOUIS, Acadian seigneur, fur-trader and soldier; baptized 16 May 1655 at Quebec, eldest surviving son of Mathieu Damours* de Chauffours and Marie Marsolet; buried 9 May 1708 at Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.).

On 20 Sept. 1684 Louis Damours received a seigneurial grant in Acadia on the Richibucto river where he had built a fortified trading post and residence two years earlier. On 1 Oct. 1686 he married at Quebec Marguerite Guyon, daughter of Simon Guyon; her sister Louise* married his brother Mathieu Damours* de Freneuse in the same year. He and Marguerite had three children. On 7 October 1686, he obtained grants near Forts Jemseg and Nashwaak (Naxouat) on the Saint John River, previously issued to Pierre de Joybert* de Soulanges. He moved there with his family, presumably to be near two of his brothers, René Damours de Clignancour and Mathieu Damours de Freneuse, who had already settled on the Saint John.

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

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

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1666 Quebec
Mathieu d'Amours, esr. Sr. de Chauffour......48 Coner aud. Coel.
demoiselle Marie Marsollet ..................29 sa femme
Louis d'Amours ..............................11 fils
Mathieu d'Amours ............................10 fils
Isabeau d'Amours .............................8 fille
René d'Amours ................................6 fils
Charles d'Amours .............................5 fils
Claude Louis d'Amours ...................3 mois fils
André Parmentier ............................25 chandelier Engaigé marié en France
Et Pierre Lonnac.............................22 Engaigé domestique
The first census of New France (1666)
The French In North America: 1500-1783