Mathieu DAMOUR (D'AMOURS)

(b. 14 March 1657 , Québec, Canada, New France d. October 1696 , At Sea* )

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Mathieu DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) was born 14 March 1657 in Québec, Canada, New France

Mathieu DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) was the child of Mathieu DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) dit DESCHAUFOURS and Marie-Marguerite MARSOLET and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) and Elisabeth TESSIER (maternal) Nicolas MARSOLET and Marie BARBIER

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Mathieu married Louise GUYON 1 October 1686 in Québec, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Louise GUYON was born 30 April 1668 in Château-Richer, Québec, Canada (La Visitation-de-Notre-Dame de Chateau-Richer). Louise died 6 December 1727 in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France. Louise was the child of Simon GUYON (GUION) and Louise RACINE.

Mathieu DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) died October 1696 in At Sea*.
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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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Mathieu DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) married

Louise GUYON-- Date: 1 October 1686 Place: Québec, Canada, New France

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Louise GUYON was the child of Simon GUYON (GUION) and Louise RACINE

Children of Mathieu DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) and Louise GUYON:

Joseph D'AMOURS (b.abt. 1687, , Québec Province, Canada d. 16 February 1737, )
m. Marie-Louise LEGER dite LAGRANGE 17 February 1721 in , France

Mathieu-Francois D'AMOURS (b.7 August 1692, Québec, Canada, New France d. 16 February 1737, L'Île d'Anticosti, Canada)
m. Marie-Angélique COTTARD 17 October 1726 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

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1657 Birth
14 March 1657
Québec, Canada, New France

Baptism
Matthieu Damours
14 March 1657
Notre-Dame-de-Québec
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
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Biography
DAMOURS (d’Amours) DE FRENEUSE, MATHIEU, seigneur in Acadia and member of the Conseil Souverain of New France in succession to his father; baptized 14 March 1657 at Quebec, the son of Mathieu Damours de Chauffours and Marie Marsolet; d. 1696.

Mathieu Damours studied for the priesthood and was in orders from 1677 to 1680 at the Quebec seminary but withdrew. Thanks to his father’s influence, he and three of his brothers–Louis*, Sieur de Chauffours; René*, Sieur de Clignancour; Bernard, Sieur de Plaines – received large seigneurial grants in Acadia. That of Mathieu Damours, dated 1684, included the land between Jemseg and “Nacchouac” (Nashwaak) on the River Saint John. Here he developed the best cultivated seigneury on the river and with the help of his brother Louis built a lumber mill. He brought in settlers, erected a residence and barns, built up a herd of livestock and was soon raising crops. In addition, he appears to have engaged in trade with the Indians. In 1689 he was...Read MORE...

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1666 Quebec
Mathieu d'Amours, esr. Sr. de Chauffour......48 Coner aud. Coel.
demoiselle Marie Marsollet ..................29 sa femme
Louis d'Amours ..............................11 fils
Mathieu d'Amours ............................10 fils
Isabeau d'Amours .............................8 fille
René d'Amours ................................6 fils
Charles d'Amours .............................5 fils
Claude Louis d'Amours ...................3 mois fils
André Parmentier ............................25 chandelier Engaigé marié en France
Et Pierre Lonnac.............................22 Engaigé domestique
The first census of New France (1666)
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