Robert DROUIN
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Robert was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1635.
Spouses, Marriages & Children of Robert DROUIN
Marriage date: 12 July 1637
Marriage place: Québec, Canada, New France
Source: Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783
Anne CLOUTIER was the child of Zacharie CLOUTIER and Xainte (Sainte) DUPONT
Children of Robert DROUIN and Anne CLOUTIER
Died: 4 October 1710, Château-Richer, Canada, New France
Died: 23 June 1732, Beauport, Québec, Canada, New France
Marriage date: 29 November 1649
Marriage place: Québec, Canada, New France
Source: Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783
Children of Robert DROUIN and Marie CHAPELIER
Died: 2 May 1664, Château-Richer, Canada, New France
Died: 5 October 1723, Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Canada, New France
Died: 1 June 1692, Château-Richer, Canada, New France
Died: 13 September 1732, Château-Richer, Canada, New France
Died: 25 March 1734, Château-Richer, Canada, New France
Died: abt. 1681, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 3 February 1665, Château-Richer, Canada, New France
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The date of Drouin’s arrival in Canada is not known, but it is certain that he was here by 1636. In 1641 he already had a farm near the Rivière aux Chiens on the Beaupré shore, although he did not receive the concession for it until 17 April 1646. By his marriage with Anne Cloutier, which was celebrated on 12 July 1637 in the parish of Notre-Dame de Québec, he had three daughters; by his second marriage, with Marie Chapelier, which was celebrated on 29 Nov. 1649 in the same place, he had eight more children.
It is almost impossible to trace any French-Canadian genealogy without encountering Robert Drouin among the earliest ancestors. That would seem to us to be his greatest claim to fame. It is also to be noted that his marriage contract with Anne Cloutier (which preceded by nearly a
Dictionary of Canadian Biography (www.biographi.ca)
Robert Drouin was a native of the parish Pin, Perche. He was the son of Robert Drouin and Marie Dubois. He came to New France as a master briqueleur.
On 12 July 1637, he married Anne Cloutier, daughter of Zacharie Cloutier and Xainte Dupont...
Anne died prematurely on 2 February 1648...
Robert Drouin married Mary Lachapelle, daughter of Jean Chapelier and Marguerite Dodier, the parish of St-Etienne, Comte-Robert-en-Brie. In their marriage contract passed before the notary Guillaume Audouart, 26 November 1649, we learn that Mary was the widow of Pierre Petit. Robert and Mary had eight children, four sons.
Robert Drouin departed this world on June 1, 1685.
Two of his sons founded a family and left a descent in America.
Source: Le Centre de généalogie francophone d'Amérique
16 August 1607
Mortagne, Perche, France
Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume II, Page 65
Source: www.leveillee.net/
ancestry/ histnotes.htm
Robert DROUIN and Anne CLOUTIER 12 July 1637, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
He was 29 years old.
1641 Birth of ChildAgnes DROUIN was born 21 January 1641, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
Robert was 33 years old.
1643 Birth of ChildGeneviève DROUIN was born 19 October 1643, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
Robert was 36 years old.
1646 Birth of ChildJeanne DROUIN was born 5 November 1646, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
Robert was 39 years old.
Anne CLOUTIER died 3 February 1648, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
Robert DROUIN and Marie CHAPELIER 29 November 1649, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
He was 42 years old.

1649 Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec
Cap de la Madeleine
First land concessions 1649
The map above shows the first land concessions on the Cap. One sees Pierre and Mathurin's lots (5th and 6th from right). On a modern map of Cap de la Madeleine, Pierre's land was, according to Marcel Trudel, author of "Le Terrier du St Laurent en 1663", between Celina and Viviers steets and from the bottom of Erables street up to the first park on the street.
One also finds the lands of men that played role's in our ancestor's life and/ or are in our family tree: Claude Houssard dit le Petit Claude was his father-in-law, Nicolas Rivard was his brother-in-law (his great grandaughter married Pierre's grandson, Joseph - ancestral grandparents!), Pierre Boucher - his sister, Marie was the grandmother of Marie Trottier who married Pierre's son, Louis.
1 june 1649
I the undersigned superior of the residence of the Company of Jesus at 3 Rivieres declare that in virtue of the commission given to me by
my superiors in which Monsignor the Abbe of la Magdeleine gave the right and the power to distribute the lands that bear his name on the
Cap of 3 rivieres I have assigned fourteen concessions of two arpens each of waterfront on the great river, starting at the mouth of the
river tanneval at the bottom and twenty arpens in depth on each arpen by a line starting at the north-east of the said concessions given by
order to those that are marked below, under the charges and conditions dictated by the seigneur here ... the names in order in which the said concessions were granted are Francois Boivin, Jean Houdan, Claude Houssart, Jean Veron, Pierre Guillet, Mathyrin Guillet, Etienne de Lafond, Mathyrin Baillergeon, Pierre Boucher, Emerie Galteaux, Urbain bodrie, Jacques Aubuchon, Bertrand Farfard, Jean Aubuchon
Passed at 3 rivieres
On the 1st of Juin 1649
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1649 marriage
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783
1650 Birth of ChildMarie DROUIN was born 18 September 1650 , Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)
Robert was 43 years old.
1652 Birth of ChildNicolas DROUIN was born 7 January 1652, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
Robert was 44 years old.
1653 Birth of ChildPierre DROUIN was born 10 November 1653, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
Robert was 46 years old.
1655 Birth of ChildMarguerite DROUIN was born 23 December 1655, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
Robert was 48 years old.
Geneviève DROUIN married 24 April 1656 , Québec, Canada, New France to Romain TREPANIER (TRÉPAGNY)
Jeanne DROUIN married 10 November 1659, Québec, Canada, New France to Pierre MAHEU dit HAZARD
1660 Birth of ChildCatherine DROUIN was born 2 January 1660, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
Robert was 52 years old.
1662 Birth of ChildJean-Baptiste DROUIN was born 13 February 1662, Château-Richer, Québec, Canada (La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Chateau-Richer)
Robert was 54 years old.
Marie DROUIN married 28 November 1662 , Château-Richer, Canada, New France to Nicolas LEBEL
Marie DROUIN died 2 May 1664, Château-Richer, Québec, Canada (La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Chateau-Richer)
Robert was 56 years old.
1664 Birth of ChildMarie-Madeleine DROUIN was born 26 November 1664, Château-Richer, Québec, Canada (La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Chateau-Richer)
Robert was 57 years old.
Marie-Madeleine DROUIN died 3 February 1665, Château-Richer, Québec, Canada (La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Chateau-Richer)
Robert was 57 years old.
Marie Chapellier, 42 years
Genevieve Drouin, 23 years
Jeanne Drouin, 20 years
Nicolas Drouin, 14 years
Pierre Drouin, 12 years
Marguerite Drouin, 10 years
Etienne Drouin, 8 years
Catherine Drouin, 6 years
Jean Baptiste Drouin, 4 years
Marie Chappelier, 42 years
Nicolas Drouin, 15 years
Marguerite Drouin, 12 years
Etienne Drouin, 10 years
Catherine Drouin, 7 years
Jean Baptiste Drouin, 5 years
They owned 6 head of cattle and had 10 arpents of cleared land.
Marguerite DROUIN married 26 October 1670, Château-Richer, Canada, New France to Jean GAGNON
Nicolas DROUIN married 6 November 1674, Québec, Canada, New France to Marie LOIGNON
Catherine DROUIN married 24 November 1676, Château-Richer, Canada, New France to Michel ROULOIS
Marie Chaplier, 60 years
Etienne Drouin, 27 years
Étienne DROUIN married 3 November 1682, Sainte-Famille-de-l'île-d'Orléans, Canada, New France to Catherine LOIGNON

1685 Death. La Visitation du Notre Dame, Chateau-Richer, Quebec
name: Robert Drouin
gender: Male
burial date: 02 Jun 1685
burial place: Chateau Richer, Montmorency I, Quebec
death date: 01 Jun 1685
death place: Chateau Richer, Montmorency I, Quebec
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race: White
marital status: Unknown
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indexing project (batch) number: B03757-9
system origin: Canada-EASy
source film number: 1018161
reference number: p 46 s 5
"Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955," index, FamilySearch.org
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783
1 June 1685
Château-Richer, Canada, New France
He died at the age of 77.
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