Marie ROLLET

(b. abt. 1580 , Paris, France d. 27 May 1649 , Québec, Canada, New France )

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Marie ROLLET was born abt. 1580 in Paris, France

Marie ROLLET was the child of ? and ?

Marie was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1617.

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Marie married Louis HÉBERT 13 June 1602 in Paris, France . The couple had (at least) 3 children. Louis HÉBERT was born abt. 1575 in France. Louis died 23 January 1627 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Louis was the child of Nicolas HÉBERT and Jacqueline PAJOT.

Marie ROLLET died 27 May 1649 in Québec, Canada, New France .

Occupation: wife of Louis Hébert, Canada’s first settler

daughter of Jean Rollet and Anne Cogu

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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
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Marie ROLLET married

Louis HÉBERT-- Date: 13 June 1602 Place: Paris, France
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Louis HÉBERT was the child of Nicolas HÉBERT and Jacqueline PAJOT

Children of Louis HÉBERT and Marie ROLLET:

Anne HÉBERT (b.abt. 1602, Paris, France d. abt. 1619, , Québec Province, Canada )
m. Étienne JONQUEST 1618 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Marie-Guillemette HÉBERT (b.abt. 1608, Paris, France d. 2 October 1684, Québec, Canada, New France )
m. Guillaume COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY 26 August 1622 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Guillaume HÉBERT (b.abt. 1610, Paris, France d. 23 September 1639, Québec, Canada, New France )
m. Helene DESPORTES 1 October 1634 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

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ROLLET, MARIE, wife of Louis Hébert, Canada’s first settler; d. 1649 at Quebec.
In 1617, with her husband and three children she came from Paris to Quebec, where she found starvation, sickness, and threats of Indian attack. A year after their arrival, says Sagard, the first marriage solemnized in Canada with the rites of the church took place, that of their daughter Anne and Étienne Jonquet. Anne died in childbirth the following year, but there is no record of the child.

Marie Rollet aided her husband in caring for the sick and shared his interest in the natives, concerning herself especially with the education of Indian children. In 1627, at the baptism of Chomina’s son, Naneogauchit, which the priests were striving to make an impressive occasion, she fed a crowd of visiting Indians from her big brewing kettle. Her name appears often as godmother at the baptism of converted natives.
Two years after the death of Louis Hébert, on 16 May 1629, she married Guillaume Hubou. After...Read MORE...

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