Jacques  ROUSSEAU

1645 Birth
13 April 1645
France

Biography
ROUSSEAU - nickname given to someone with reddish hair.

Jacques Rousseau was baptized on April 13, 1645 in Ste-Catherine, Loix in Charente-Maritime in France. Son of Pierre and Marie Drillard, he contracts marriage with Marguerite Guillebourg, daughter of Charles and Françoise Bigot, before the notary Gilles Rageot on July 28, 1677. From this union are born 9 children. This pioneer arrived in the country around 1665 as an employee on board the ship Le Cat de Hollande. Subsequently, he became a landowner and cultivated the land in the Quebec region. In 1681 he lived in the seigneury of Maure and owned 2 cattle and 16 acres of land. He died on May 11, 1711 at the Hôtel de Dieu in Quebec.
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1677 Marriage / Partner
Jacques ROUSSEAU and Marguerite GUILLEBOUT (GUILBAULT) 28 July 1677, Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Québec, Canada

He was 32 years old.

1678 Birth of Child
Charles ROUSSEAU was born 14 September 1678, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Jacques was 33 years old.

1681 Canadian Census Signeurie de Maure
Jacques Rousseau, 37
Marguerite Guillebon (Guillebout), sa femme, veuve de Antoine Pouillot, 26
enfants:
Jeanne Pouillot, 10
Marie, 7
Denis Rousseau, 6 mois

Source: Histoire des Canadiens-Francais 1608-1880 by Benjamin Sulte, Montreal, 1882

1681 Birth of Child
Denis ROUSSEAU was born 8 March 1681, Neuville, Portneuf, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Sales)

Jacques was 35 years old.

1683 Birth of Child
Marie-Anne ROUSSEAU was born 27 May 1683, Neuville, Portneuf, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Sales)

Jacques was 38 years old.

1687 Birth of Child
René ROUSSEAU was born 31 December 1687, Lauzon, Lévis, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-de-Lévy)

Jacques was 42 years old.

1696 Birth of Child
Pierre ROUSSEAU was born 20 September 1696 , Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Jacques was 51 years old.

1705 Marriage of Child
Charles ROUSSEAU married 23 November 1705 , Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Québec, Canada to Marie-Charlotte-Judith JEREMIE

1706 Marriage of Child
Marie-Anne ROUSSEAU married 30 September 1706, Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Québec, Canada to Joseph JEREMIE dit DOUVILLE

1710 Marriage of Child
Marie-Thérèse ROUSSEAU married 25 February 1710 , Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Québec, Canada to Louis JEREMIE dit LA MONTAGNE

'Jacques Rousseau from the parish of Saint-Nicolas died at the Hotel-Dieu of Quebec on 11 May 1711. He was 64 years old according to hospital records. As for Marguerite Guillebout, she survived her husband by a number of years. She was buried at Saint-Nicolas on 15 December 1729 at the age of 74.'

Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume X, Page 174

1711 Death
11 May 1711
Québec, Canada, New France

He died at the age of 66.