Charles PERTHUIS

Born

29 July 1663 , France

Died

4 March 1722 , Québec, Canada, New France

Charles married Marie-Madeleine ROBERGE 8 June 1697 in Québec, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Madeleine ROBERGE was born 5 February 1681 in Québec, Canada, New France . Marie-Madeleine died 2 April 1741 in Québec, Canada, New France . Marie-Madeleine was the child of Denis ROBERGE and Geneviève AUBERT .

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Charles was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1697.

Immigration to New France: Shaping the Roots of Canada

son of Charles Perthuis and Anne Minet

WORK & OCCUPATION

Occupation

Recorded occupation: merchant, commercial fisherman, churchwarden, and a director of the Compagnie de la Colonie

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.
Source: tfcq.ca

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Charles PERTHUIS

Charles PERTHUIS married

Marie-Madeleine ROBERGE
Marriage date: 8 June 1697
Marriage place: Québec, Canada, New France
Marie-Madeleine ROBERGE was the child of Denis ROBERGE and Geneviève AUBERT

Children of Charles PERTHUIS and Marie-Madeleine ROBERGE

Marie-Thérèse PERTHUIS

Born: abt. 1708, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 23 December 1708, Charlesbourg, 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

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Biography

PERTHUIS, CHARLES, merchant, commercial fisherman, churchwarden, and a director of the Compagnie de la Colonie; b. 1664, son of Charles Perthuis and Anne Minet, of the parish of Saint-Saturnin in Tours; d. at Quebec in 1722.

The exact date of Perthuis’s arrival in the colony is unknown. He first appears in 1694; a year later, while still a bachelor, he rented a house on Rue Notre-Dame (sous le Fort), from Paul Denys de Saint-Simon, and was thus a neighbour of a man whose partner he would be on many occasions, Nicolas Pinaud. At the age of 32, on 26 June 1697, Perthuis signed a marriage contract, witnessed by the political and social elite of the colony, in which he is referred to as a merchant, and on 8 July he married Marie-Madeleine Roberge, the daughter of Denis Roberge and Geneviève Auber. Perthuis had 11 or 12 children, the best known being Joseph*, his penultimate child, baptized on 30 Aug. 1714. In 1732, his widow resided at the same address, and a later census, that of

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