Person:Robert Drouin (1)
Robert Drouin
b.6 Aug 1607 Le Pin-la-Garenne, Orne, France
bur.1 Jun 1685 Château-Richer, Montmorency No 1, Quebec, Canada
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1597
  1. Jehan Drouin1597 - Abt 1597
  2. Jacques DROUIN1597 - 1625
  3. Michel DROUIN1600 - 1662
  4. Jacqueline DROUIN1601 -
  5. Robert DEROUEN1602 - 1606
  6. Barthelemy DROUIN1603 -
  7. Roze DROUIN1604 - Abt 1604
  8. Robert Drouin1607 - 1685
  9. Hilaire DROUIN1610 - 1663
  10. Marie DROUIN1611 - Abt 1611
Spouse and Children
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m. 12 Jul 1637
  1. Agnes DROUIN1641 - 1641
  2. Marie Genevieve Drouin1641 - 1710
  3. _____ Drouin, male infant1645 - 1645
  4. _____ Drouin, female infant1645 - 1645
  5. Jeanne Drouin1647 - 1732
Spouse and Children
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m. 29 Nov 1649
  1. Genevieve DROUIN1643 - 1710
  2. Jeanne DROUIN1647 - 1732
  3. Marie DROUIN1650 - 1664
  4. Nicolas Drouin1652 - 1723
  5. Pierre DROUIN1653 - 1667
  6. Marguerite Drouin1655 - 1692
  7. Etienne DROUIN1658 -
  8. Stephen DROUIN1658 - 1732
  9. Catherine Drouin1660 - 1734
  10. John Baptiste DROUIN1662 - 1681
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Facts and Events
Name Robert Drouin
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 6 Aug 1607 Le Pin-la-Garenne, Orne, FranceSaint-Barthélemi
Marriage 12 Jul 1637 Quebec City, Quebec, Canadato Anne Cloutier
Marriage Contract 26 Nov 1649 Notary Guillaume Audouart
to Marie Chapelier
Marriage 29 Nov 1649 Quebec City, Québec, Quebec, Canadato Marie Chapelier
Burial[1][2] 1 Jun 1685 Château-Richer, Montmorency No 1, Quebec, Canada

Robert was a brickmaker. It took 3 days to inventory his worldly possessions after his death. His marriage contract is one of the oldest preserved in the original in Canada. He was a pioneer in Canada by 1637 at the Beaupre shore.

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
    Volume I, 1000-1700.

    "DROUIN, ROBERT, pioneer on the Beaupré shore; b. 6 Aug. 1607 at Saint-Barthélemi du Pin-la-Garenne, Perche, son of Robert Drouin and Marie Dubois; buried 1 June 1685 at Château-Richer.

    The date of Drouin’s arrival in Canada is not known, but it is certain that he was here by 1636. In 1641 he already had a farm near the Rivière aux Chiens on the Beaupré shore, although he did not receive the concession for it until 17 April 1646. By his marriage with Anne Cloutier, which was celebrated 12 July 1637, he had three daughters; by his second marriage, with Marie Chapelier on 29 Nov. 1649, he had eight more children.

    It is almost impossible to trace any French-Canadian genealogy without encountering Robert Drouin among the earliest ancestors. That would seem to us to be his greatest claim to fame. It is also to be noted that his marriage contract with Anne Cloutier (which preceded by nearly a year the religious ceremony), concluded 27 July 1636 in Robert Giffard’s house and drawn up in the absence of a notary by Jean Guyon Du Buisson, senior, is the oldest marriage contract preserved in the original in Canada.

    Honorius Provost
    ASQ, Documents Faribault, 2; Seigneuries. JR (Thwaites). Jug. et delib."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 FrancoGene.
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