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 1633 - 1683 (50 years)
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| Name |
Nicolas Quentin |
| Born |
1633 |
Genneville sur Honfleur, diocese of Lisieux,France  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
27 May 1683 |
L'Ange-Gardien, Canada |
| Buried |
27 May 1683 |
L'Ange-Gardien, Canada |
| Person ID |
I05750 |
Tombeau Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
24 Feb 2007 |
| Family |
Marie-Madeleine Roulois, b. 1646, St. Come, Mans, France , d. L'Ange Guardien, Canada |
| Married |
3 Aug 1660 |
Notre Dame de Quebec Church, Canada |
| Children |
| + | 1. Anne Quentin, b. 22 Oct 1665, Chateau Richer, Canada , d. 28 May 1711, Pointe-aux-Trembles, Canada (Age 45 years) |
| + | 2. Louis Quentin\Cantin, b. 1 Jan 1676, L'Ange-Gardien, Canada |
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| Family ID |
F2147 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- See the following website for narrativwe below and information in Nicolas Quentin's entry: http://www.clic.net/~rop_rom/nicolas.htm
THE HISTORY OF NICOLAS QUENTIN
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Our first Canadian ancestor was Nicolas Quentin dit Lafontaine. He was the son of Louis and Marie des Mousseaux in the parish of Genneville near Honfleur in the bishopric of Lisieux (Normandy, France). His exact birth date remains uncertain and varies in the census of 1666, 1667, and 1681 between 1627 and 1639. We believe that he was actually born in 1633 since he was baptized during that year and was rumoured to be 50 years old at his death, in the city of L’Ange-Gardien, on May 27th 1683. The first official sign of his arrival in the New World occured on October 18th 1655 when he signed a termed lease, with Sir Martin Grouvel, for a four by fourty acres piece of land named St-Martin-les-Maretz.
This lease of four years also included the use of several buildings (house, barn and cattle-shed). A settler usually signed such a contract following his 36 months of service to the local lord. We thus believe that he arrived in New France between 1652 and 1655. In the ensuing years, as he signed several notarized documents, Nicolas Quentin always put in Genneville-sur-Honfleur as his town of origin. Unfortunately, we failed to find any evidence of his passage or that of his family and relatives in the area around the city of Honfleur. We still don’t know whether this city is his place of birth, the village where he was raised or simply his point of departure for the New World.
On April 2th 1658, Nicolas bought, from Sir Louis de Lauson de la Citière, a 756 acres property in Château-Richer. The price of purchase was 400 pounds. At this time, his western neighbor was Jean Gagnon (father) while Robert Drouin lived to the east. Six properties to the west lived his future Father-in-Law, Michel Roulois. Nicolas’s land was located 18 acres west of the Rivière-aux-Chiens river which separates the municipalities of Château-Richer and Ste-Anne de Beaupré.
Eight months later, on December 13th 1658, he gave his land to Martin Guérard in exchange for properties in Normandy. This contract was subsequently annuled and, on December 20th 1659, he sold one third of his land to another Normand, François Lefranc, who abandoned it in 1660.
On November 28th of the same year, Martin Guérard again bought off two acres at the north-east end of Nicolas’s land. Five years after his arrival in Château-Richer, Nicolas owned six acres of land.
A few years back, in 1658, Nicolas had become enamoured of one of his young neighbour. The 12-years-old Magdeleine Roulois, who was born in 1646, had conquered the heart of the 25-years old bachelor. On May 30th 1660, Magdeleine and Nicolas signed their marriage licence at the office of the notary Claude Auber in Quebec City. Magdeleine was accompanied by her father, Michel, and her mother Jeanne Maslin, who was born at St-Cosme-de-Vair (Perche, France) in 1614. Nicolas had brought in as witnesses his neighbor Massé Gravel, his stepbrother Denis Derome Descarreaux as well as Pierre Maufay, a friend form Quebec City. Also present were Jacques Le Sot, Pierre Mercereault and Martin Prévost.
The marriage ceremony took place on August 3rd 1660 at the Notre Dame de Québec church. It was lead by the Jesuit father François-Joseph Lemercier, who had been in the country since 1635, in front of the witnesses Michel Roulois, Claude Auber and Martin Prévost.
At this time, the Quentin-Roulois couple hired 20-years old Marin Lamy first as a carpenter and later as a servant. They stayed in Château-Richer for seven years.
Nicolas sold his land to the brothers Jean and Pierre Gagnon on February 21st 1667. This transaction was made official by the notary Claude Auber. After several unsatisfactory harvests, the Gagnon brothers convinced Martin Guérard to sell them back the two north-eastern acres he originally bought from Nicolas. The whole lot was sold again on January 25th to the Cloutier family. This ancentral land was then transmitted from father to son up to this day. It is currently occupied by the Rousseau family.
After selling his land, Nicolas bought, on March 30th 1667 from Louis Couillart de l’Espinay, a much larger concession of 4 acres by one and a half leagues. This land, in the vicinity of l’Ange-Gardien, originally was named ‘Caput’. The purchase price was 700 pounds and the dept was quickly settled six days after the signature of the contract. The receipt was officialized by the notary Pierre Duquet and was witnessed by Jean Baylacq, a guard for Monsieur de Tracy, and Étienne Landeron.
Nicolas’s new possesion was bordered by the properties of Jean Guyon du Buisson and those of the heirs of Louis Macquart. It bordered on the St-Laurence River to the south and to undevelopped lands to the north.
Magdeleine Roulois and Nicolas had six children:
ANNE : Born on October 22nd 1665 in Château-Richer. Anne was married three times. 1) Louys de Lamarre, on January 14th 1686 in L’Ange-Gardien. One child. 2) Louys Ouvrard dit Laperrière, on March 1st 1688 in Château-Richer. Two children. 3) Nicolas Boscher, on February 11th 1697 in L’Ange-Gardien. Four children. She died at the age of 46 in 1711 at Pointe-aux-Trembles in the county of Portneuf.
DENYS : Born on July 16th 1668 and baptised in Château-Richer. He married Ursule Godin on January 24th 1689 in L’Ange-Gardien. They had six children before his death on a day still unknown.
MAGDELEINE : Born on July 29th 1673 in L’Ange-Gardien, she married Nicolas Laberge on January 29th 1692 in her native parish. She had 4 children.
LOUYS : Baptized in L’Ange-Gardien on January 1st 1676, he married Marie Mathieu on January 17trh 1701 in the same parish. This prolific couple had 18 children.
MARIE-JEANNE : Born on August 5th 1678, she married Guillaume Laberge on February 14th 1695 and gave him 13 children.
CHARLES : Born on March 26th 1681 in L’Ange-Gardien, he married Marie-Madeleine Vézina on June 25th 1703. He was the only one of Nicolas’s children without descendants. He died in Quebec City on August 12th 1716.
Twice during his short life, Nicolas had judical problems. On March 20th 1670, he was condemmed by the civilian Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec City to pay 143 pounds to Marie Pichon, widow of Charles Sévestre. The reason for this fine remains unknown. The widow and her family were represented by Étienne Lessard. On July 7th 1671, a fire of dubious origin is at the center of a dispute between Nicolas and his neighbour, Jean Julien. Litigation was presented in from of the Sovereign Council and was rejected. The dispute was returned to trial on October 27th 1671 but both parties settled out of court : Jean Julien accepted to pay Nicolas the sum of 30 pounds.
Nicolas’s remaining years were quiet and happy until he received the last rites and died in his bed on May 27th 1683. Magdeleine Roulois declared him to be 50 years old and he was buried on the same day in the L'Ange-Gardien cemetary by his friends Joseph Guyon, René Letartre and Mathurin Huot. Father G. Gauthier led the prayers for the soul of the first Quentin on Canadian land.
His widow, Magdeleine Roulois, produced an inventory of all their wordly possesions before marrying Louis Boucher, widow of Marie Meslie, on August 11th 1684 in the village of L’Ange-Gardien. The couple separated 15 years later, on May 29th 1699, and Magdeleine transfered her possesions to Louys Cantin who carried on with the family traditions.
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