Jacques  GOULET

'Jacques Goulet was baptized on 17 April 1615 at Normandel, today in the department of the Orne, in the arrondissement of Mortagne-au-Perche, community of Tourouvre... Thomas, the father of ancestor Jacques Goulet, was betrothed to Antoinette Feillard on 28 April 1613 in the church of Normandel and married his beloved on 3 August of the same year.'

Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume XI, Page 83

GOULET - from 'throat', a nickname given to someone who is greedy. Or, nickname given to the person from '(Le) Goulet'. Jacques Goulet was born around 1615 in Normandel near Mortagne au Perche, France. Son of Thomas Goulet and Antoinette Feillard, he married Marguerite Mullier, daughter of Jehan-Jean Mullier and Marguerite-Catherine Chauvin, on November 21, 1645 in St-Pierre de La Poterie. From their union were born 12 children. He arrived in New France in 1649 and settled in Quebec. In 1655, he moved to Ange-Gardien. In 1667, he owned 5 cattle and 15 acres of land. He buys and sells several land in the region. In 1681, he owned 1 gun, 5 cattle, 1 horse and 30 acres of cultivated land. He died at Ange-Gardien on November 26, 1688.

'L'an 1664, le dix-huitième jour d'octobre, à l'issue de la messe célébrée dans la maison de Jean Trudelle, en conséquence de la convo cation par deux fois réitérée par M. des Maize- rets y faisant pour lors les fonctions curiales, par l'ordre de Monseigneur l'illustrissime révé- rendissime Evêque de Pétrée, Vicaire Aposto lique en la Nouvelle-France, et nommé par le Roy, premier évesque dudit pays, tendante à ce que les habitants eussent à s'assembler pour procéder à la nomination et élection de trois marguilliers pour la première fois ; lesdits habi tants étant restés au nombre de vingt-deux des plus considérables, savoir : Raymond Pagez dit Quercy, Pierre Maheu dit des Hazards, Jacques Goulet, Jean Trudel, Michel Hénault, Pierre Tremblay, Pierre Gendreau, Louis Garneau, Louis Saucier, Jacques Nourry, Jacques Ma- rette dit Lépine, François Hébert, Robert de la Berge, René Brisson, Laurent Gignard, Antoine Andrieux, Antoine Gaboury, Jacques Jacquereau, Jean Clément, Louis Lesage, An

Jacques goullet - 50 habittant
Margueritte Maillier - 37 sa femme
Nicolas goullet - 18 fils
René goullet - 15 fils
Louis goullet - 12 fils
Charles goullet - 10 fils
Jacques goullet - 7 fils
Thomas goullet - 5 fils
francois Goullet - 2 fils
Et francois Labattier - 20 domestique Engaigé

Jacques Goullet, 66
Marguerite Mottier (Maillier), sa femme, 50
enfants:
Louis, 28
Charles, 25
Thomas, 20
Francois, 18
Antoine, 17
Joseph, 12

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

'Like a fallen oak tree, ancestor Goulet was struck down by the windstorms of life on 26 November 1688. he was laid to rest in the cemetery of L'Ange-Gardien two days later. His burial was witnessed by his brother-in-law Rene Letartre and Mathurin Huot. We know that Marguerite Mulier survived him by about four years because she was present at the wedding of her son Joseph on 20 July 1692.'

Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume XI, Page 90