Zacharie Cloutier

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.

Early life Many sources state that Zacharie Cloutier was born around 1590 in the parish of Saint-Jean, Mortagne-au-Perche, France.

The notary Mathurin Roussel of Mortagne called Cloutier the "family peacemaker," describing how Cloutier helped his father and brother solve a dispute involving inheritance. Xainte had been born around 1595 in Mortagne He and his family were among a group of settlers who travelled from Perche, an area next to the old province of Normandy in France.

Life in New France Plaque honouring the first settlers of Québec City. (Affixed to back of monument to Guillaume Couillard, which accompanies those to Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet.) Parc Montmorency, Québec City. Cloutier was one of the first Frenchmen recruited by Robert Giffard de Moncel to expand the colony of New France by settling the Beauport area near Quebec City. Cloutier arrived in 1634 (at the age of about 44)

In 1652 Cloutier received a grant of land from Governor Jean de Lauzon in Château-Richer, Quebec. The land on which Cloutier lived in Beauport was known as La Clouterie (or La Cloutièrerie). In 1670 Nicolas Dupont de Neuville purchased this land from Cloutier. This action resulted in disagreements between Cloutier, his neighbor, Jean Guyon, and Giffard, his seigneur, resulting in the Cloutier family's relocation to Château-Richer.

Zacharie Cloutier died on September 17, 1677 at the age of about 87. His wife died three years later on July 13, 1680, and was buried with her husband in Château-Richer.

Children Zacharie and Xainte had six children, one of whom died in childhood. Name!!Birth!!Death!!Notes

Cloutier is a common ancestor of the following people:

David Archambault Lee Archambault Mark Belanger Jehane Benoît Melissa Benoist Carolyn Bessette Kennedy Justin Bieber Marcheline Bertrand Joseph-Armand Bombardier Isabelle Boulay Jim Carrey Albert Edward Cloutier Alexandre Cloutier Dan Cloutier François Cloutier Gary Cloutier Gilles Cloutier Guy Cloutier Guylaine Cloutier Jacques Cloutier Réal Cloutier Suzanne Cloutier T. J. Cloutier Véronique Cloutier Manuel Clouthier Tatiana Clouthier Manuel Clouthier Carrillo Tirso Cruz III Laura de Jonge Céline Dion The Dionne quintuplets Xavier Dolan Diane Dufresne Nathan Fillion Bridget Fonda Marc-Aurèle Fortin Éric Serge Gagné Ricky Gervais Ryan Gosling Robert Goulet Camille Henry Derek Hough Julianne Hough Amy Jo Johnson Angelina Jolie Solange Knowles Brie Larson Avril Lavigne Karoline Leavitt Lynda Lemay Pope Leo XIV Jojo Levesque Marie-Louise Meilleur Alanis Morissette Wade Morissette Anna Paquin Julie Payette Paul Picard Chris Pratt Lili Reinhart Ginette Reno Gabriel Richard Kolton Richard Michael Sarrazin Louis St Laurent Sydney Sweeney Taylor Swift Diane Tell Meghan Trainor Alex Trebek Justin Trudeau

Ancestry Little is known about the Cloutier ancestors in France, beyond the names of the mother and father of Zacharie Cloutier, Denis Cloutier and Marie-Renée Brière.

The most common variation of the surname is Cloustier. Most sources state the surname was originally given to a person who crafted and sold nails, coming from the Latin word clavus 'nail' (clou in French). Some descendants of Cloutier who immigrated to the United States from Canada changed their surnames to Nailer in this respect.

A common error found in Internet family trees in 2004 was that Nicolas Cloutier was listed as Zacharie's grandfather, due to a misreading of "N.. Cloutier" as referring to a person whose first name started with the letter N, when in context the "N.." signified that the first name was unknown.

Honours In 1972, a house originally built and lived in by Cloutier was reconstructed and named a provincial heritage site.

In 1984, a monument was erected in Beauport (which has since been merged into Quebec City as of 2002) to commemorate the 350th anniversary of Cloutier's arrival.

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