Guillaume Fournier had a combative and demanding temper and launched several proceedings against Mrs.Guillemette Hébert, daughter of Louis Hébert and wife of nobleman Guillaume Couillard. Guillemette Hébert was guardian of the three children of Guillaume Hébert, her brother, married to Hélène Desportes, and who was killed by the Iroquois around 1639. Then, Guillaume Fournier established himself on part of the land of the Sault-au-Matelot fief, conceded by Guillemette Hébert, and extending from Upper-town to Charlesbourg. On the 1667 Census, he was declared as living in Charlesbourg and aged 44 years old.

After several disputes, among them one with lady Charlotte de Poitiers, widow of Joseph Hébert, heir and brother of Françoise Hébert, to whom he had to concede a good part of his land of the Sault-au-Matelot property (Guillaume Fournier is a loser in most trials in which he is involved), Guillaume later received from the Intendant Talon " en fief et seigneurie" a grant of thirty arpents, two leagues deep, on the south shore of the St.-Lawrence River, and called "Fief St-Joseph" or "Fief Fournier" (Montmagny).

 Twelve of the fourteen children of Guillaume and Françoise Hébert were born in Quebec. The last two were born in St-Thomas-de-la-Pointe-à-la-Caille (Montmagny). Guillaume becomes also "coseigneur" of the St-Charles parish, seigniory originally conceded to Louis Hébert.

 Guillaume Fournier was one of the founders and pioneers of the St-Thomas-de-la-Pointe-à-la-Caille parish, in Montmagny. The first baptism is that of a child of Guillaume Fournier and Françoise Hébert, and it is also the case of the first marriage. Guillaume concedes part of his land for the construction of the second chapel of Montmagny. This generous gift gave him the privilege of having his own bench in the church, and this privilege is transmitted to one of his descendants up to our days. The house of Guillaume Fournier was the seat of various religious ceremonies, until the construction of the first chapel.

 Guillaume Fournier and Françoise Hébert left the most important descendance bearing the name Fournier, in all North America, thanks to six sons and five daughters who married. Charles married to Elisabeth Bouchard on July 13th 1699, and Jean who married Marie Le Roy around 1687 will have the greatest number of descendants.

 References:

Genealogical Dictionary of the Province of Quebec families, by Jetté.Drouin Genealogical Dictionary.Registers of the parishes of Notre-Dame-de-Québec and of St-Thomas-de-Montmangy

Report of the Archivist.

Memoirs of a Genealogical Society.

Nicolas and Marie Hubert had 6 children, 3 boys: Michel, Jean, Jacques and 3 daughters: Marie, Ambroise and Jeanne. This last one was born on September 30th 1687, in Charlesbourg. Nicolas died two months later, on November 30th 1687, at the age of fifty-five years. He was buried in Charlesbourg, on December 1st 1687.

 Marie Hubert was married a second time,to Jean Gachet, a soldier, on February 25th 1691, in Charlesbourg. However, we loose track of this man after September on the same year. It seems that he returned in France, while Marie Hubert remained, with their children, on the land wich Michel, the oldest son inherited. Michel married Marie Bériault, on June 5th 1702, in Notre-Dame Church, in Quebec. This couple has 3 children, 2 daughters who married. There is no trace of the son Michel, born in 1704 in Charlesbourg. Michel and Marie Bériault died the same year, 1711, a few weeks apart.

 It is by their two last sons, Jacques Fournier who married to Françoise Blanchon on November 27th 1708, in Beaumont and Jean Fournier who married to Madeleine Fradet on November 23th 1711, also in Beaumont, that Nicolas and Marie Hubert left numerous progeny all over North America. Jacques and Françoise Blanchon had 15 children, including 6 sons and 3 daughters who married and whose descendants established themselves in the regions of Bellechasse, Dorchester and Beauce and also in New-England and in the province of Manitoba. Jean and Madeleine Fradet had 10 children, three of whom died in infancy. Four sons and one daughter married. Michel, son of Jean and Madeleine Fradet, married Madeleine Lévesque in 1762, in St-Laurent (Montreal), and left a numerous progeny in Ontario. Pierre, another son of Jean, had no child from his first marriage in 1746 to Marie Racine, but from his second marriage to Marie-Josephte Jahan, around 1748, he left a long line of descendants in the region of the Outaouais and in Ontario.

 Various sources:

Genealogical Dictionary of the Province of Quebec families, by Jetté.

Drouin Genealogical Dictionary.

Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials of N.D.Church in Quebec, St-Charles of Charlesbourg, St-Étienne de Beaumont, St-Roch de l'Achigan.

Report of the Archivist.

Une famille Fournier, (a text by Jean-Paul Bussières in l'Ancêtre, issue of September 1995).

Les descendants de Joseph Fournier et de Joséphine Lacasse.(by Jean-Paul Bussières).

Publications of the Quebec Genealogical Society.

 We know little about this Antoine Fournier. His descendance was assured by his son Adrien Fournier Préfontaine, who married Catherine Boutheillier, on August 11th 1715, in Longueil. The descendants of Antoine Fournier Préfontaine and Marie Roncelay were certainly tradesmen and several marrried in the upper level of the society. Adrien and Catherine Boutheillier had 15 children including two sets of twins. Two sons and six daughters married. Angélique and Antoinette married two brothers, Joseph and Prudent Dubuc, descendants of the "Seigneurs" Dubuc of the Tremblay "Fief", in Longueil. Geneviève married Edmé Henry, surgeon of the Army in 1760.Joseph Fournier Préfontaine married to Charlotte Truteau and Alexis Fournier Préfontaine by his second marriage to Charlotte Cristin, assured the Fournier-Préfontaine descendance, that will establish themselves mostly in the Chambly Region, Rouville, Châteauguay, Montréal, in New-Englang and in Manitoba.

 Antoine Fournier dit Préfontaine will not know any of this grand-children, because he died on July 8th 1702, in Montréal, at the age of 44. From the fifth generation on, the majority of his descendants will bear uniquely the name of Préfontaine, will a few exceptions. It seems that no line of Préfontaine other than the descendants of Antoine Fournier dit Préfontaine and Marie Roncelay exist.

 Pierre Fournier de Belval and Marie Ancellin have 5 children who married. The sons established themselves in the region of Contrecoeur and Verchères. The Fournier de Belval are either tradesmen or farmers with rather good means. Our researches being rather short on this ancestor Fournier, we cannot supply much details. I could not trace the death certificate of Pierre Fournier de Belval.

 From 1800, several descendants of Pierre Fournier de Belval and Marie Ancellin will use only the name Belval. However, some of them will use the name Fournier de Belval up to 1950 and even after. The Belval of to-day are all the descendants of Pierre Fournier de Belval and Marie Ancellin. We find them mostly in the region of Sorel, Bagot, South Shore of Montreal and in Montreal.

 Pierre Fournier and Françoise Couture's first daughter who was born in Beaumont in 1744. We find the next birth of this family, in 1750, in St-Thomas de Montmagny, where Pierre and Françoise settle for life. Seven children followed in this family, including two sons who left descendants. Pierre Fournier was a farmer and settler. He probably have died between 1780 and 1785. We did not find his death certificate; however, he was present at the marriage of this son, Louis Fournier, to Marguerite Thibault, on November 21th 1780; but, is mentionned as deceased at the marriage of this other son, Pierre , to Marie-Louise Stuart, on August 9th 1785. We have not been able to trace the death of Françoise Couture.

 Louis Fournier and Marguerite Thibault had 12 children. Two of their sons, Mathieu married to Rosalie Gendron and Marcel married to Marguerite Gendron established themselves in St-Simon and Ste-Rosalie de Bagot and are considered as pioneers of these parishes. Pierre Fournier and Marie-Louise Stuart had 9 children. A son of Pierre and Marie-Louise Stuart, Boniface, became a school teacher and married Marguerite Hamel in Ste-Croix de Lotbinière. Their descendants continued to live in this region and their profession was transmitted from father to sons or daughters, during a few generations.

 These days, we find descendants of Pierre Fournier and Françoise Couture in all regions of the province of Quebec, in Ontario, in Manitoba and a numerous descendants in New-England. This is, the third most numerous line of Fournier.

 Éméry and Marguerite Guénet had 4 children who married, including 3 sons. Éméry and Marguerite raised their family in the City of Quebec. Two sons, Jean-Baptiste married to Marthe Jackson on April 4th 1780, in Quebec, and Jérôme married to Madeleine Godin on January 18th 1788, in Quebec, left descendants that remained mostly in the Quebec Region. We do not know anything about the trade or occupation of this ancestor and we have not been able to find the date of his death nor that of Marguerite Guénet.

 The surname Fournier or Larose will often alternate in this line. Finally, half of the descendants, even in the City of Quebec, kept the name of Fournier and the other half use Larose. Some descendants named Larose established themselves in the regions of Montreal, Ottawa and Cornwall. The descendants of Éméry Amiens Fournier dit Larose and Marguerite Guénet number nine generations up to our days.

 Joseph Fournier and Françoise Carlos settled in the seigniory of Cap-St-Ignace and intermingled with two other lines of Fournier, already well established in the seigniories of Montmagny and L'Islet. Ten children were born in this family of whom four died in infancy. Four sons and one daughter married. Joseph Fournier is farmer and fisherman as all men of that time and also a cobbler. He was sometimes called the name of Joseph Fournier dit the "Cobbler". He died in Cap-St-Ignace at the age of 56, in 1789.

 The oldest son, Joseph-Marie, married four times. Of his first marriage with Marie Lachaine, he had 4 children who did not survive. Mary died giving birth to Madeleine in 1792. After a second marriage with Marguerite Chiasson, on January 22nd 1793, in l'Islet, they established themselves in the St-Hyacinthe region. Eight children were born of this marriage and 5 died in infancy. One daughter and one son married. The son left descendants in the Bagot region and in New-England. From his third marriage to Marguerite Brault in 1804 in St-Hyacinthe, Joseph-Marie had 9 more children. We have traced the marriage of three of them including a son, Nicolas, who left descendants in the regions of Yamaska and Bagot. Joseph-Marie died in 1829, at the age of 66 years, after a forth marriage in 1820 with Marie Loranger.

 The second son of Joseph Fournier and Françoise Carlos, Pierre-Césaire, married to Angélique Bouchard in 1791, in Cap-St-Ignace, also established himself in the St-Hyacinthe region, but he did not leave a Fournier line since he had only a daughter who married. A third son, Alexis Fournier, married to Judith Blanchet, in St-Roch-des-Aulnaies, in 1797, did not leave descendants either, having only two daughters who married.

 The descendance of Joseph Fournier and Françoise Carlos will be assured in the Cap-St-Ignace region by Louis-Marie, married to Marie-Claire Cloutier on May 17th 1799 and by their son who married twice. This descendance is not numerous, but we know eight generations of them.

 The two sons of Augustin Fournier and Thérèse Demers were married. The first one, Augustin, married Charlotte Noiseux, on January 18th, 1791, in Chambly; and the second, Joseph, married Josephte Massé on February 27th, 1797, in Chambly. their descendants established themselves in the regions of Chambly, Bagot, Montreal, and Central-Falls, Worcester in Maine (U.S.). This line is not very numerous, but can be traced for height generations up to the present.

 Claude Fournier and Marie-Anne Besset had 8 children, born in Chambly. The family moved later to L'Acadie in the St-Jean region, where the last two children were born and where most of them married. However, Claude Fournier died and is buried in Chambly, in 1794, at the age of 62 years. Three sons and four daughters married.

The oldest son, Claude, married Marie-Louise Pelletier in Chambly, on February 27th 1797. This marriage produced 14 children, including Louis and Joseph who left a numerous descendance in all the Outaouais region, and the other sons in the regions of Montreal, Laprairie and New-England. The second son of Claude and Marie-Anne Besset, Louis, married Nathalie Gagnon, on August 12th 1811, in St-Luc. They had three children who did not survive. His second marriage, to Marguerite Bombardier, on November 19th 1822, produces 6 children, of whom only one, Louis,survived and left descendants in the Sherbrooke region.

 We find Baptism registrations of this ancestor's children in 1789 and 1791, in l'Assomption. We also trace the marriage undoubtedly of his oldest son, Jean-Baptiste, married to Marguerite Racicot on June 3rd, 1798, in Rigaud; also the marriage of another son, Michel, married to Louise Noreau on February 14th, 1803, in Notre-Dame church, Montreal. At this marriage, Étienne Fournier is declared deceased. Michel was married a second time to Cécile Racicot, sister of Marguerite, on May 27th,1811, in Notre-Dame church, Montreal. Another son, Étienne, will also marry twice: firstly with Clémence Santennes on September 29th, 1823, in St-Eustache and secondly with Marie-Claire Girouard in 1833, in Vaudreuil. We have not found any trace of marriage in the case of the daughters of this couple.

 The three sons of Étienne Fournier and Denise Debron left a small descendanc, mostly established in the regions of Montreal, on the South shore of the St-Lawrence and of St-Jérôme.

Genealogical Dictionary of the Province of Quebec families, by Jetté.

Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials for the various parishes mentioned.

Report of the Quebec Province Archivist.

Memoirs of a Genealogical Society.

Researches in the National Archives of Quebec.

Researches in the Genealogy Society of Quebec.

Repertories of the publications of the B.M.S. (Births, Marriages, burials) of the various parishes of New-England.