Louis HEBERT
The first HEBERT to come to the new world was Louis HEBERT in 1604. Louis was born about 1575 in the vicinity of Paris. He worked as an apothecary, as did his father. Louis was the son of Nicolas HEBERT and Jacqueline PAJOT. Nicolas was married to Jacqueline about 1564 in Paris. Nicolas worked as an apothecary at St-Germain-des Pres in Paris. Nicolas died around 1600, and Jacqueline passed away between 27 June 1579 and 15 July 1580 in Paris. Jacqueline's father was Simon PAJOT. he was "maitre chandelier de suif, bourgeois de Paris, paroisse St-Gervais. His inventory is dated before 9 Nov 1553 in Paris. Jacqueline's mother was Jeanne GUERINEAU. Her testament is dated after 3 OCT 1572 in Paris. Louis married Marie a bit before July 1662 in Paris. Marie ROLET (or ROLLET) was from Paris and had a brother named Claude. After Louis' death, Marie married Guillaume HUBOU in 1629.
Louis first came to help explore the land to be settled. He was the
apothecary of Acadia (at Port Royal) in 1696-1697 and 1611-1613. After
spending some time exploring the New World, he moved there (arriving at
Quebec on 15 July 1617) with his wife, Marie ROLLET, and three children
(Guillaume, Guillemette, and Anne). Although there are descendants who
can trace their ancestry back to Louis, none of them get their SURNAME
from him. Louis passed away on 23 Jan 1627. His only son, Guillaume, married
(b. 1634) Helene DESPORTES. Their union produced only one son, who left
no surviving son. Of Louis & Marie's daughters ... Guillemette (b.
1608) married Guillaume COUILLARD in 1621, and Anne married Etienne JONQUEST
in 1618. More information the family of Louis HEBERT can be found in Rene
Jette's Dictionary ... the source of much of the above information. Jette
also lists where he obtained the information, so you can find more if you're
willing to do some research.
Augustin HEBERT
Another HEBERT to travel to Canada was Jean Augustin HEBERT, a native of Caen, Normandy, who came to Montreal in 1641. He and his wife, Adrianne du VIVIER had three children ... Jeanne, Leger (b. 1650) , and Ignace (b. 1652). Leger married Marguerite GAMELIN (b. 1664) and they had seven children ... Marie (b. 1/27/1692 at Boucherville), Leger (b. 6/11/1698), Charlotte (b. 6/18/1702), Pierre (b. 6/22/1704), Louis (b. 2/17/1708; d. 6/4/1708), Leger (b. ; d. 5/2/1710). Ignace married Jeanne MESSIER (b. 1661) and produced four sons ... Joseph (b. 4/21/1687), Francois (b. 4/18/1689), Ignace (b. 6/8/1694), and Etienne. Ignace married a second time to Therese CHOQUETTE on May 10, 1700 and had four more children ... Anne (b. 6/12/1701), Jean Baptiste (b. 5/22/1709), Gabriel (b. 11/15/1710), Lambert. Many of the French-Canadian HEBERT's descend from this line. See Tanguay V. 4 for more information.
Another HEBERT who traveled to Canada from France was Thomas HEBERT dit LAROSE, son of Thomas HEBERT and Elisabeth L'HOMME. He was from St. Omer (diocese of Bayeux) in Normandy. He married Barbe BENOIT (b. 1665) on Feb. 7, 1679 in Boucherville and they had 5 daughters (Barbe, Jeanne, Marie, Genevieve, Marie Marguerite) and one son ... Jean Baptiste (b. 10/21/1697). Barbe was the daughter of Paul and Isabelle GOBINET. Again, more information can be found in Tanguay, V. 4.
There was also a Francois HEBERT dit LECOMPTE de ROUSSY (b. 1622). He was married to Anne FAUCONNIER (b. 1621) at Mont Saint Aignan, near Rouen, France, on September 18, 1643. They came to Canada in 1654 with one son, Nicolas. Anne is buried (Nov. 30, 1676) in the church of Ange-Gardien.
Richard Hebert has a couple of more listed at his website, but I haven't had a chance to document them yet.
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