Marie-Guillemette  HÉBERT

Biography
HÉBERT, GUILLEMETTE (Couillard de Lespinay), daughter of Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet, m. Guillaume Couillard de Lespinay 26 Aug. 1621 at Quebec; b. in Paris or Dieppe c. 1606; d. 20 Oct. 1684 at Quebec and was buried there the following day.

On Louis Hébert’s death, his daughter Guillemette and her husband Guillaume Couillard inherited half the estate. Guillaume Couillard became the head of the family, as his wife’s brother Guillaume was still a minor. Up to 1632, the Hébert house on the brow of the cliff was the only private dwelling in Quebec. Farther up along the edge was Champlain’s little wooden fort, and directly below it, on the shore, was the Habitation with the small Recollet chapel beside it. The only other buildings in the settlement were the convents of the Recollet and Jesuit orders on the St. Charles River, a mile away beyond dense woods. Guillemette and her mother were frequently alone on their property for Couillard was often on the river and the servant, Henri,...Read MORE...


Dictionary of Canadian Biography (www.biographi.ca)

Biography
'Marie Guillemette Hebert was born about 1608 in Paris, France; the last child of Louis Gaston Hebert, a druggist, and Marie Rollet.'

'Though she would spend the first nine years of her life in Paris, she had always felt a connection with the 'New World'. Her father had been there before she was born, and would tell her stories of beautiful lakes and rivers, forests as far as your eyes could see, and medicinal herbs that could be found nowhere else in the world.'

'Several uncles and cousins had also been there, to validate his stories, and one had remained behind, living like a woodsman in the forests of a place called Arcadia. When her father informed her that they would be going there to live for a few years, she could hardly wait.'

'The family did a little farming, but nothing on the scale of the Aboriginal Canadians. They arrived on June 14, 1617; and though her parents seemed disappointed at first, they settled in at Kebec, a trading post run by family friend Samuel...Read MORE...

1617
'Behind the Notre-Dame de Quebec Basilica, north of the Chateau Frontenac, in Quebec City; there is a monument to Louis Hebert, who is considered to be the first European settler in Canada. He set up house with his family in the spring of 1617, four years before the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts. When his daughter, Guillemette, wed Guillaume Couillard in 1621; it was the first recorded marriage in Canada.'

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1622 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Guillemette HÉBERT and Guillaume COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY 26 August 1622, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1625 Birth of Child
Louise COUILLARD was born 30 January 1625, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1626 Birth of Child
Marguerite COUILLARD was born 10 August 1626, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1629 Birth of Child
Louis COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY was born 18 May 1629 , Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1631 Birth of Child
Elisabeth COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY was born 9 February 1631, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1633 Birth of Child
Marie COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY was born 28 February 1633, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1635 Birth of Child
Guillaume COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY was born 16 January 1635, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1637 Marriage of Child
Marguerite COUILLARD married 7 October 1637, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Jean NICOLET

1637 Marriage of Child
Louise COUILLARD married 3 November 1637, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Olivier LETARDIF

1639 Birth of Child
Madeleine COUILLARD was born 9 August 1639, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1641 Birth of Child
Nicolas COUILLARD was born 6 April 1641, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1641 Death of Child
Louise COUILLARD died 23 November 1641, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1645 Marriage of Child
Elisabeth COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY married 27 November 1645, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Jean GUYON SIEUR DU BUISSON (GUION)

1646 Marriage of Child
Marguerite COUILLARD married 12 November 1646, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Nicolas MACART (MACARD) dit CHAMPAGNE

1647 Birth of Child
Charles COUILLARD was born 10 May 1647, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1648 Birth of Child
Catherine-Gertrude COUILLARD was born 21 September 1648, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1648 Marriage of Child
Marie COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY married 25 October 1648, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to François BISSOT DE LA RIVIÈRE

1653 Marriage of Child
Louis COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY married 29 April 1653, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Geneviève DESPRÉS

1661 Death of Child
Nicolas COUILLARD died 24 June 1661, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1662 Death of Spouse/Partner
Guillaume COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY died 4 March 1663, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1664 Marriage of Child
Catherine-Gertrude COUILLARD married 6 February 1664, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Charles AUBERT

1664 Death of Child
Catherine-Gertrude COUILLARD died 18 November 1664, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1666 Quebec
Guillemette Marie hebert - 58 vefve du feu sr. Couillard

Charles Couillard sieur des Islets - 19 son fils

Jacques Aubard - 26 domestique Engaigé

Laurent le Vasseur - 18 aussy engaigé

pierre Lozoult - 21 engaigé

Et Jean Bernard - 18 aussy Engaigé
The first census of New France (1666)
The French In North America: 1500-1783

1667
Ver Saint Charles. Fief without a name on this river) Vol. 1, 1st part, p. 283 - 1667 - Guillemette Hebert widow of Guillaume Couillard, obtains delay.

Title Report
Author Public Archives Canada
Published 1885
Page 47

1668 Marriage of Child
Charles COUILLARD married 10 January 1668, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Marie PASQUIER DE FRANCLIEU

1675 Marriage of Child
Marie COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY married 7 September 1675, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City) to Jacques LELANDE DE GAYON

1684 Death
2 October 1684
Québec, Canada, New France