Eustache LAMBERT

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abt. 1618 , France

Died

6 July 1673 , Québec, Canada, New France

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Born: abt. 1618 in France

Father: Unknown

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Eustache was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1657.

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Eustache married Marie LAURENCE abt. 1656 in France . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Marie LAURENCE was born abt. 1632 in France. Marie died 4 August 1686 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City).

Eustache LAMBERT died 6 July 1673 in Québec, Canada, New France .
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Recorded occupation: Marchand

A marchand, or merchant, was a trader who sold a specific type of merchandise or product. Merchants handled most of the supply and distribution of products that came from Europe.
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Eustache LAMBERT married

Marie LAURENCE
Marriage date: abt. 1656
Marriage place: , France

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Boulogne, France

Children of Eustache LAMBERT and Marie LAURENCE

Gabriel LAMBERT dit STE-MARIE

Born: 4 December 1657, Québec, Canada, New France
Died: 24 July 1719, Lauzon, Lévis, Canada, New France

Married: Renee-Francoise ROUSSEL 18 June 1686 Place: Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Eustache LAMBERT

Born: 18 December 1658, Québec, Canada, New France
Died: abt. 1691, Québec, Canada, New France

Married: Marie Sophia VANNECK 31 January 1682 Place: Contrecœur, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Trinité-de-Contrecoeur)

Marie-Madeleine LAMBERT

Born: 8 May 1662, Québec, Canada, New France
Died: 11 November 1695, Québec, Canada, New France

Married: René-Louis CHARTIER dit LOTBINIERE 24 January 1678 Place: Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

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LAMBERT, EUSTACHE, donné, interpreter, settler, fur-trader; b. c. 1618, probably near Boulogne in France; d. 1673 at Quebec.

The donné Eustache Lambert, who came to New France probably in the early 1640’s, appears for the first time in Canadian history in August 1646, on the occasion of a return journey to Sainte-Marie-des-Hurons. This was his second or third trip to the mission, and he seems to have remained in the service of the Jesuits at least until 1651, when we find him accompanying Father Chaumonot to the Île d’Orléans and to Tadoussac.

In 1653 Eustache Lambert acquired a tract of land at Pointe-Lévy, in the seigneury of the Lauson family. It was there that he built the house which he named Sainte-Marie in honour of his youth spent in the Huron country, and which became a favourite meeting-place for the Huron and Algonkin fur-traders passing through Quebec. Lambert hunted and fished there fairly successfully, it seems, for in 1671 he managed to free himself from his...Read full story

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LAMBERT-CHAMPAGNE –Lambert comes from the Germanic name 'Landberht', composed of 'land' which means 'country' and 'berht' which means 'illustrious, brilliant'. Champagne is a nickname given to one who comes from a region of the same name in France. Comes from the Latin 'campagna', which means 'a vast flat expanse'.

Eustache Lambert was born around 1618 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France. Of unknown parentage, he married Marie Laurence, also of unknown parentage, around 1656 in France. From this union were born 3 children. Arriving in the country as a 'given of the Jesuits', he left with the missionaries for Huronia, where he remained until 1646. He was subsequently identified as an interpreter with the Jesuits and settled in 1652 in the seigneury of Lauzon. . He returned to France in July 1654 and remained there until his marriage. Back home, he settled in Quebec and remained there until his death on July 6, 1673.
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1656 - The pendulum clock is invented (Christiaan Huygens, Netherlands)

1657 Birth of Child
Gabriel LAMBERT dit STE-MARIE was born 4 December 1657, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1658 Birth of Child
Eustache LAMBERT was born 18 December 1658, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1662 Birth of Child
Marie-Madeleine LAMBERT was born 8 May 1662, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1666 Quebec
Eustache Lambert ............................48 marchant
Marie Laurence ..............................34 sa femme
Gabriel Lambert ..............................8 fils
Eustache Lambert .............................7 fils
Marie Lambert ................................4 fille
Jean Adam ...................................22 menuisier Engaigé
Thomas le febvre ............................24 Engaigé
André Robidou ...............................26 mathellot
pierre Bergereau ............................60 Engaigé
André Bergereau .............................23 Engaigé
Et gabriel Boyieron .........................23 Engaigé
The first census of New France (1666)
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