Mathieu DAMOUR (D'AMOURS)

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14 March 1657 , Québec, Canada, New France

Died

October 1696 , At Sea*

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

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Born: 14 March 1657 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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Mathieu married Louise GUYON 1 October 1686 in Québec, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Louise GUYON was born 30 April 1668 in Château-Richer, Québec, Canada (La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Chateau-Richer). Louise died 6 December 1727 in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France. Louise was the child of Simon GUYON (GUION) and Louise RACINE.

Mathieu DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) died October 1696 in At Sea*.
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
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Louise GUYON
Marriage date: 1 October 1686
Marriage place: Québec, Canada, New France

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Louise GUYON was the child of Simon GUYON (GUION) and Louise RACINE

Children of Mathieu DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) and Louise GUYON

Joseph D'AMOURS

Born: abt. 1687, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 16 February 1737,

Married: Marie-Louise LEGER dite LAGRANGE 17 February 1721 Place: , France

Mathieu-Francois D'AMOURS

Born: 7 August 1692, Québec, Canada, New France
Died: 16 February 1737, L'Île d'Anticosti, Canada

Married: Marie-Angélique COTTARD 17 October 1726 Place: Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

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Birth — 1657
14 March 1657
Québec, Canada, New France

Baptism
Matthieu Damours
14 March 1657
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 FRENEUSE, MATHIEU, seigneur in Acadia and member of the Conseil Souverain of New France in succession to his father; baptized 14 March 1657 at Quebec, the son of Mathieu Damours de Chauffours and Marie Marsolet; d. 1696.

Mathieu Damours studied for the priesthood and was in orders from 1677 to 1680 at the Quebec seminary but withdrew. Thanks to his father’s influence, he and three of his brothers–Louis*, Sieur de Chauffours; René*, Sieur de Clignancour; Bernard, Sieur de Plaines – received large seigneurial grants in Acadia. That of Mathieu Damours, dated 1684, included the land between Jemseg and “Nacchouac” (Nashwaak) on the River Saint John. Here he developed the best cultivated seigneury on the river and with the help of his brother Louis built a lumber mill. He brought in settlers, erected a residence and barns, built up a herd of livestock and was soon raising crops. In addition, he appears to have engaged in trade with the Indians. In 1689 he was...Read full story

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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