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Zacharie Cloutier

Zacharie Cloutier

Male 1590 - 1677  (86 years)    Has 3 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Zacharie Cloutier 
    Birth Dec 1590  St Jean, Mortagne, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 17 Sep 1677  Chateau-Richer, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I160376  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 30 Aug 2000 

    Father Denis Cloutier,   b. 1565, Mortagne, Perche, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Dec 1634, Mortagne, Perche, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Mother Renee Brière,   b. 1570, Mortagne, Perche, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 May 1608, Mortagne, Perche, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years) 
    Marriage 1588  Mortagne, Perche, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F64418  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Xaincte Dupont,   b. 1596, Feings, Mortagne, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Jul 1680, Chateau-Richer, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Marriage 1616  France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Zacharie Cloutier,   b. 16 Aug 1617, Saint-Jean-d'Angély, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes,, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Sep 1677, Chateau-Richer, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
    +2. Charles Cloutier,   b. 23 May 1629, St Jean, Mortagne, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Jun 1709, Chateau-Richer, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    Family ID F64419  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2000 

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  • Notes 
    • 1666 Census-Beaupre'
      Zacarie Cloutier pere .......................76 habittant
      Xaincte dupont...............................70 sa femme
      Il arriva en juin 1634 avec son épouse et leurs 5 enfants et accueillis par
      Samuel de Champlain. "Arrived with Samuel de Champlain in June 1634 with his wife and 5 children
      +Zacharie Cloutier II
      +Jean Cloutier
      +Anne Cloutier
      +Charles Cloutier
      +Louise Cloutier
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      Zacharie Cloutier 1

      Zacharie I was the progenitor of all Cloutiers his vital statistics can be found in the summary. When he was born in about 1590 in Mortagne au Perche, Europe was in a turmoil. Religious wars kept the country in a state of uncertainty.

      Elizabeth the First was Queen of England, Shakespeare was writing his plays and Rembrandt and El Greco were the painters of note on the Continent. It was also a time of Imperial Expansion as England, France and Spain sought to extend their colonies and thus expand their Empires.

      For France, Samuel de Champlain founded a french settlement in Quebec in 1608, and in the ensuing years he explored the interior of New France including much land in the area of the lake which bears his name. Accompanying Champlain and serving as his surgeon and apothecary (dispenser of medicines and drugs) was a man by the name of Robert Giffard a former resident of Mortagne. As a reward for his service Giffard was awarded a 'Seigneury' along the shores of the St. Lawrence River. Along with the gift from the crown, came an obligation on the part of Giffard to settle the territory and develop it as part of the colony of New France. In order to fulfill this obligation, Giffard returned to his former community and sought out the services of as many skilled tradesmen and potential settlers as he could find. Zacharie Cloutier was one of the skilled tradesmen who caught the attention of Giffard.

      The name "Cloutier"
      The name "Cloutier", itself, supports the contention that Zacharie was a skilled person. It appears the name is a contraction af the french word "clou" meaning nail and "metier" to make; thus a Cloutier being a maker of nails. It appears then, that when it was decreed by the King that everyone should have a surname, many used their occupations as an identifier surname, eg Carpentier (carpenter), Boulanger (baker) .The name Cloutier reflected the occupation of the family as being a'maker of nails', in this instance not for the construcion of homes but rather nails for the hooves of horses for the King's Cavalry. That Zacharie was indeed a skilled tradesman is supported by the documents and by the line story found in the museum in Tourouvre honouring the immigrants from the Perche district who pioneered Canada.

      Zacharie attended meetings in Tourouvre in the city square in which Giffard told of the opportuities in the new land and promised each person who accompanied him a tithe of land on the St. Lawrence river. He was particularly interested in skilled persons and Zacharie a master carpenter was one of those.

      The second was Jean Guyon, master mason. These two men were signed to special contracts as witnessed by the notary Mathurin Roussel at La Rochelle on the 14th day of March 1634. The contract in favour of Giffard, stipulated that Giffard would pay the passage plus food and lodging in Canada for the two artisans plus one family member each, for a period of three years to date from June 24th 1634. After two years the men would be allowed to send for the rest of their families also at the expense of Giffard. The Seigneur agreed to give each man a few head of livestock to get started farming plus one thousand arpents of land. ( An arpent is about one and one quarter acres therefore one thousand arpents = 1250 acres.

      Originally Zacharie had agreed to leave France with only his eldest son 17 year old Zacharie II accompanying him, but he changed his mind and brought his entire family with him. Such was his stature and importance to Giffard, the Seigneur must have allowed this to happen.

      The Zacharie Cloutier family left France at the end of March 1634. There were 35 people in the party including Giffard, Maria and Gasper Boucher, Jean Guyon and Zacharie Cloutier. Thomas Geroux, Francois Belanger, Claire Morin, and Jeanne Mercier were some of the single persons aboard. Eight other men and women joined the ship at Dieppe.

      On June 24th, 1634 after a voyage of two long months the passengers disembarked at the tiny hamlet the colony of Quebec was at this time. By the 22nd of July 1634 master carpenter Cloutier was hard at work along with his colleague Jean Guyon, building the manor house for their lord as well as the parish church and Fort St. Louis in Quebec. The Cloutiers had arrived and were beginning to contribute to their new home.

      Exerpts above were taken from the book Families in Transition p.7,8.
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      Here in great detail is the story of the emigrants, who they were, and why they left. Zacharie Cloutier is prominently mentioned.
      Musee de L'Histoire de L'Emigration Percheronne au Canada". ( The Museum of the Story of the Emigration of the people of the Perche District to Canada.)
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