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Louis Hebert

Louis Hebert

Male 1575 - 1627  (51 years)    Has 6 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Louis Hebert 
    Birth Jul 1575 
    Gender Male 
    Death 25 Jan 1627  Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I161061  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 3 Apr 2009 

    Father Nicholas Hebert,   b. Abt 1540   d. 1600, St.Germain, Paris, Ile De France, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years) 
    Mother Jacqueline Pajot   d. Omstr 1580, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 1564  France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F64467  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Marie Rollet,   b. Omstr 1582   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage Bef 13 Jun 1602  Rue Saint-Honoré,, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Guillaume Hebert   d. 2 Jul 1639
    +2. Marie Guillemette Hebert,   b. Omstr 1608   d. 20 Oct 1684 (Age 76 years)
    Family ID F64838  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Apr 2009 

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  • Notes 
    • Louis Hebert will be added until the dispute of the legitmatized Guillame is settled:
      The first HEBERT to come to the new world was Louis HEBERT in 1604. Louis was born about 1575 in the vicinity of Paris. He worked as an apothecary, as did his father. Louis was the son of Nicolas HEBERT and Jacqueline PAJOT. Nicolas was married to Jacqueline about 1564 in Paris. Nicolas worked as an apothecary at St-Germain-des Pres in Paris. Nicolas died around 1600, and Jacqueline passed away between 27 June 1579 and 15 July 1580 in Paris. Jacqueline's father was Simon PAJOT. he was "maitre chandelier de suif, bourgeois de Paris, paroisse St-Gervais. His inventory is dated before 9 Nov 1553 in Paris. Jacqueline's mother was Jeanne GUERINEAU. Her testament is dated after 3 OCT 1572 in Paris. Louis married Marie a bit before July 1662 in Paris. Marie ROLET (or ROLLET) was from Paris and had a brother named Claude. After Louis' death, Marie married Guillaume HUBOU in 1629.
      Louis first came to help explore the land to be settled. He was the apothecary of Acadia (at Port Royal) in 1696-1697 and 1611-1613. After spending some time exploring the New World, he moved there (arriving at Quebec on 15 July 1617) with his wife, Marie ROLLET, and three children (Guillaume, Guillemette, and Anne). Although there are descendants who can trace their ancestry back to Louis, none of them get their SURNAME from him. Louis passed away on 23 Jan 1627. His only son, Guillaume, married (b. 1634) Helene DESPORTES. Their union produced only one son, who left no surviving son. (One account)
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      Hebert (Louis),
      ... first colonist in Acadie [ Paris 1575 - Quebec 25 janv. 1627 ]. Wire of Nicolas, apothecary of the queens Catherine and Marie de Médicis, and of Jacqueline Pajot, it passed his youth in the capital or, as of 1600. he says commercial apothecary, grocer and middle-class man of Paris. One of his/her cousins who had married into 1590 Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt often evoked in front of him the charms of News-France or Jacques Cartier had founded in the island of Ste-Cross the first French establishment. In 1604 it decides to join to his cousin and to Pierre Of Gua, to sior of Mounts, in order to create a new establishment in Acadie. All three initially place it in the island of Ste-Cross then in bay of Port-Royal (1605). Lescarbot which was has Port-Royal into 1606 speaks with respect about the talent about guerissor about Hébert and of the pleasure that this one found has to cultivate the ground. They remained in Acadie until 1607; they had then to re-enter to France, the granted concessions has deMonts having been cancelled.
      In 1610 Hébert returns has Port-Royal with Poutrincourt. Lescarbot which accompanied them writes that " this one sowed corn and planted vines with the assistance of Louis Hébert very heard with the culture ". But the English controlled by Samuel Argall ruined all their efforts and they turned over to France into 1613. In 1608 Champlain had founded Quebec, renonçant in Acadie: it knew which vexations had known Hébert there but it assessed its qualities highly. Also, in 1617, it persuaded it to emigrate with its family on the edges of the S.-Laurent. The " Company of Canada " was interested especially in the trade of the furs and was hostile with the deforestation which would allow the culture. In spite of the risks to be run, Hébert was committed by contract working during two years with the commands of the Company with its family, C-with-D. its wife Marie Rollet, her three children and his brother-in-law with the help of 300 pounds tournaments; it was in particular to deal free with the patients. Started from Honfleur the 11 avr.1617, the travellers arrived has Quebec the 15 juill. according to. Although the Company had not held its financial commitments, Hébert as well rendered great services as farmer as apothecary.
      After having installed its family, it cleared, not without a hard labour, the secular drill but it often ran up against bad wanting Company: it was necessary for him to work by means of manual tools, because it did not have a plough; this one was used in Quebec only one year after its death, the sior of Caen being opposed to him to forward some one. As Champlain recognized it, " it worked unceasingly for the others and not for him " During the autumn which had followed its arrival, it had
      married his/her daughter Anne in Etienne Jonquet, come him also from Normandy; both died into 1619 without posterity. August 26 1621, Guillemette Hébert married Guillaume Couillard and a many descent gave him. For one year, Hébert had been appointed prosecutor of the king, which enabled him to contact Louis XIII to put an end to the abuses caused by the members of the Company of the Hundred associated ones. In the act that Hébert addressed to Louis XIII to require the ground of him which surrounded its home, it is known as " that Louis Hébert is the first head of French family which lived this country since the beginning of the century ". The duke of Montmorency granted to him, in the name of the king, the stronghold of the Sault-with-Sailor, the 4 févr. 1623: three years later, the duke of Ventadour granted that of the river S.-Charles to him.
      He had rendered great services to the colony, between-holding in particular of good relationship with Indiens;il saw indeed in them, not providers of furs, but of the brothers has to light, to civilize and has to save; its house was always open for them. Its activity of farmer had also been very useful, as Champlain into 1620 testifies some: " I visited the places, tillings of ground which I found sown, charged with beautiful corns, the gardens in charge of all kinds of beautiful vegetables ". Hébert, however so robust, was not to enjoy the result of its work. At the end of 1626, it indeed made a fall on a frozen ground and, after cruel sufferings, it died in Quebec into 1627. Its widow remaria with a Norman colonist, who did not give him posterity; after having lodged several orphan sauvagesses, she died on May 27 1649.
      In the gardens of the town hall of Quebec a monument representing is the first Canadian colonist offering to God his first sheaf of corn and on the house or it was born in Paris (129 street S.-Honore) was affixed a plate recalling that he was the first colonist of Acadie and Quebec.

      Biggar. Early Trading companies, Toronto, 1901. --A. Couillard-Després, Louis H. 1918. --Dict. biogr. du Canada 1966.-- Revue d'hist. de la pharmacie. sept. et déc.1954. -- Mémoires de la Soc. généal. canadienne. VUI, 1957.P. 106-12. 135-45 Xl. 1960. P. 24-31. -- Nouveaux documents sur Champlain 1. 1967. -- Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux. mars 1980. col. 240-44; juill.-août 1981: col.745-50) A. KREBS.



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