Zacharie cloutier chateau richer montmorency
Zacharie cloutier chateau richer montmorency
Zacharie cloutier chateau richer montmorency grand!
Zacharie Cloutier
French carpenter
Zacharie Cloutier (c. 1590 – September 17, 1677) was a French carpenter who immigrated to New France in 1634 in the first wave of the Percheron immigration from the former province of Perche, to an area that is today part of Quebec, Canada.
He settled in Beauport and founded one of the foremost families of Quebec.[1]
Early life
Many sources state that Zacharie Cloutier was born about 1590 in the parish of Saint-Jean, Mortagne-au-Perche, France.[2] Cloutier was one of several children of Denis Cloutier and his first wife Renée Brière.[3]
The notary Mathurin Roussel of Mortagne called Cloutier the "family peacemaker," describing how Cloutier helped his father and brother solve a dispute involving inheritance.[4] In the parish of his birth, Cloutier wedded Xainte (aka Sainte) Dupont, on July 18, 1616.[2][5][6] Xainte had been born around 1595 in Mortagne[2]