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Jean Dumets

Also Known As: "Dremers dit Dumets", "Demers", "Dumets", "Dumais", "Demerce", "Demer", "Demars", "Dumer", "Dumerse", "Demerts", "Dumers", "Dumay", "Dumet", "Dumest", "Dumes", "Dumi", "Demay", "Dumays", "Dumee", "Dumetz", "Jean Demers", "Jean Demers dit Dumas l"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Normandie, France
Death: July 03, 1708 (75)
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Place of Burial: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Immediate Family:

Son of Jean Dumais and Barbe Maugis
Husband of Jeanne Voidy
Father of François Demers; Marguerite Demers; Jean Demers dit Dumets; Pierre Dumay; Anne-Marie Demers and 9 others
Brother of André Dumais; Francoise Demers and Laurent Demers dit Dumay
Half brother of Étienne Demers, I and Catherine Demers

Occupation: Charpentier et cultivateur, Farmer, Carpenter, Carpenter and farmer
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About Jean Dumets

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  • Notes:
    • Listed as married in "Mont." on November 9, 1654, which I assume means Montreal.
    • Or Dumet.
    • NOTE!!! Jr and Sr are NOT used in French Canada. We DO NOT know all of his names so calling him Jr is incorrect and culturally inappropriate.
    • Jean achète une terre à Sillery le 10 avril 1645 ayant appartenu à Claude Etienne. Vers 1651, il rejoint les pionniers de Ville-Marie et c'est là que le 9 novembre 1654 il épouse Jeanne Vedié (Vidier ou Voidy). Elle a traversé l'atlantique au cours de l'année précédente en compagnie de Marguerite Bourgeois.
    • Jean est au nombre des montréalais qui le 30 mars 1655 engage le chirurgien Etienne Bouchard à veiller sur leur santé. Entre 1661 et 1663, les Demers vont s'établir dans la seigneurie de Lauzon. Jean et sa femme reçoivent dans la seigneurie de Lauzon et à St-Nicolas, les missionnaires de passage. En 1667 en plus de ses terres, il achète une maison à Québec, oû il lui sera plus facile de vivre ses dernières années.
    • de leur 12 enfants, 9 se sont mariés.
    • Etienne was born around 1626 in Dieppe. He sailed with his father and 2 brothers to Nouvelle France in 1643.
    • He married Françoise Morin in Quebec on 28 January 1648. Following a short stay in Ville Marie in 1649 he returned to the area of Quebec. He later obtained a concession in Cap Rouge, where he lived for 40 years.
    • Etienne died on January 25, 1697. The couple had 9 children.
    • André was born on February 3, 1628 in Dieppe.
    • He first arrived in Quebec with his father and 2 brothers. He moved to Ville Marie around 1649 where he married Marie Chedville on January 17, 1654. Maisonneuve granted him land near the river St-Pierre in Pointe Saint-Charles. He later settled in Pointe-aux-Trembles because of reoccurring danger by the Iroquois Indians. André died in Pointe-aux-Trembles on July 17, 1711. The couple had 12 children.
    • Being the youngest of Jehan Dumays’ sons he was waiting for the opportunity to go to Ville Marie. The opportunity came in 1653 with the arrival of the “Grande Recrue”. On Novembre 9, 1954 Jean marries Jeanne Védie, in Ville Marie (Montréal).
    • Jean is his brother’s André neighbor by the river Saint-Pierre, the danger created by the Iroquois pushes him to return near Quebec at the end of 1662 with his wife and first 3 children. Jean will be granted land on the shores of Lauzon in 1666 and later he will have a stone house built in Quebec on the road Cul-de-Sac in 1689. Jean died on July 3, 1708. The couple had 13 children.
    • Marguerite: born October 21, 1659, in Montreal Married André Bergeron, on July 9, 1673 in Sainte-Famille de l’Ile d’Orléans
    • Jean-Louis: born July 5, 1661, in Montreal Married Jeanne Larrivé, on May 2, 1696, in Sainte-Famille de l’Ile D’orléans Died July 11 1736 in Québec
    • Pierre: born October 8, in Sillery Married Jeanne Pouliot, on November 1, 1691 in Saint-Nicolas Married Jeanne House, on July 31, 1703, in Saint-Louis-de-Lotbinière Died July 7, 1714, in l’Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec.
    • Anne: born August 30, 1664, in Saint-Nicolas Married Gabriel Duchêsne on May 3, 1688, in Quebec Married Michel Cureux St-Germain on October 14, 1693, in Quebec
    • Eustache: born August 30, 1665 Died the same day.
    • René: born August 13, 1667, christened on the 14th in Sillery Married Anne Dubois-Lafrance, on May 2, 1694, in Saint-Nicolas Married Madeleine Lavoie, on February 5, 1714, in Saint-Nicolas Died December 21, 1729, in Saint-Nicolas.
    • Madeleine: born March 26, 1669, at Etchemin and christened on March 27 in Quebec Married Georges Marion known as Lafontaine, on November 1693. Died December 15, 1742, in Saint-Nicolas.
    • André: born in 1671, he was 10 years old at the census of 1681. He was taken prisoner by the English in Acadia.
    • Eustache: born on May 5, 1673, at Etchemin, he was christened on the 7th. In Quebec. Married Françoise Dubois known as Lafrance on November 3, 1694 in Quebec Died December 14, 1708, in Saint-Nicolas.
    • Catherine: born April 4, 1675 and christened on April 10 , in Quebec She died on July 5, 1693 in Quebec. She drowned on a canoe trip facing Saint-Nicolas with her 2 girlfriends.
    • Jean-Nicolas: born May 18, 1677, christened on June 13th in Sillery Married Marie-Anne Rochon Rocheron on May 3, 1700 in Sainte-Famille de l’Ile d’Orléans Died December 16, 1740, in Saint-Nicolas.
    • Michel: born August 31, 1681, christened on November 26 in Saint-Nicolas Died February 21, 1701, in Saint-Nicolas

ID No: 21722 Firstname: Jean Name: Dumais Demers Gender: M Occupation: Christening: 06 February 1633 Parish/City: St-Jacques, Dieppe Country: France Bapt./Source: bapt 9-2-1633 St-Jacques, Dieppe Fichier Origine prdh Death: 03 July 1708 - Age: 75 Parish/City: Québec Country: Canada Burial/Source: décès le 3 Jul 1708 inhumé 5 Jul 1708 (age 86) (m15190) Information, Other Kids, Notes, etc. Frère d'André marié avec Marie Chefdeville

(CT 04-10 Closse) avec Jeanne Voidy

Notre Dame de Quebec 1703-1712 image 156 - page 149 14-f (F. Rosenblum)

Famille Jean Dumais et Jeanne Vedie au complet (12 enfants) vérifiée


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<p> </p><p>First ancestor to come to Canada.</p>

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Jean Demers married Jeanne Voidy November 9, 1654 in Montreal.


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Note: Jean and his family had been living in Canada since 1654.

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Jean Dumets's Timeline

1633
February 6, 1633
Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Normandie, France
1653
1653
Age 19
Montreal
1653
Age 19
Montréal
1658
February 16, 1658
Montréal, Île de Montréal, Québec, Canada
1659
October 21, 1659
Notre-Dame de Montréal, Québec, Canada
1661
July 6, 1661
Montréal, QC, Canada
1663
August 10, 1663
Saint-Romuald d'Etchemin, Levis, P.Q, Canada
October 8, 1663
Sillery, Quebec, Canada
1665
August 30, 1665
St Nicholas de Levis, Quebec, Canada