Louis ROUER

(b. abt. 1629 , France d. 6 December 1700 , Québec, Canada, New France )

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Louis ROUER was born abt. 1629 in France

Louis ROUER was the child of ? and ?

Louis was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1658.

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Louis married Catherine SEVESTRE 18 February 1658 in Québec, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Catherine SEVESTRE was born 25 July 1644 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Catherine died 24 January 1670 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Catherine was the child of Charles SEVESTRE and Marie PICHON.

Louis ROUER died 6 December 1700 in Québec, Canada, New France .

son of Jacques Rouer and Marie Perthuis

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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
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Louis ROUER married

Catherine SEVESTRE-- Date: 18 February 1658 Place: Québec, Canada, New France
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Catherine SEVESTRE was the child of Charles SEVESTRE and Marie PICHON

Children of Louis ROUER and Catherine SEVESTRE:

Augustin ROUER (b.13 June 1664, Québec, Canada, New France d. 12 May 1711, Québec, Canada, New France )
m. Marie-Louise LEGARDEUR 1 September 1689 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

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ROUER DE VILLERAY, LOUIS, soldier, clerk of court, notary, secretary of Governor Jean de Lauson then of Charles de Lauson de Charny, provost court judge of the Beaupré Heights, special lieutenant of the seneschal’s court and warehouse clerk of the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France, member of the colony’s first Conseil, first councillor in the Conseil Souverain, agent of the tax farm; b. 1629 at Amboise, near Tours (France), son of Jacques Rouer de Villeray, a valet to the queen, and of Marie Perthuis; d. 6 Dec. 1700 at Quebec.

Louis Rouer de Villeray belonged to a noble family that came originally from Italy; he was intelligent and hard-working, but lacked money; he was only just over 20 when he landed in Canada in 1650 or 1651. On his arrival he became a soldier at Quebec, then at Trois-Rivières, where he was noticed by Pierre Boucher*, who made him his confidential agent by constituting him, through an act signed before Séverin Ameau* on 20 Oct. 1653, “his general and special...Read MORE...

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1656 - The pendulum clock is invented (Christiaan Huygens, Netherlands)

1658 Marriage / Partner
Louis ROUER and Catherine SEVESTRE 18 February 1658, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1664 Birth of Child
Augustin ROUER was born 13 June 1664, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1666 Quebec
Louis Rouer sieur de Villeray ...............37 Conel au Conl' Souverain
Demoiselle Catherine Sevestre ...............22 sa femme
Augustin Roüer .............................. 3 leur fils
Nicolas Langlois ............................22 tisseran domestique
The first census of New France (1666)
The French In North America: 1500-1783