Do you bear the name of Dubé ?

If yes, you are among thousands of descendants of Mathurin Dubé, french colonist who settled in Canada around 1660.

Origin

Mathurin Dubé came from a tiny village of Vendée (french province) called "La Chapelle Thémer". Located at 210 miles south-west of the french capital Paris, it is also in the vicinity of La Rochelle, an old sea port from where numerous french settlers started their trip to the new world.

In Canada (then New-France), Mathurin Dubé settled on a land, acquired in 1667, at St-Jean de l’Ile d’Orléans, on the south side of this island facing St-Vallier. Then, few years later, he got married with Marie Campion. She came in the colony with a group of women called ``the King’s Girls``. Their marriage was celebrated at Ste-Famille de l’Ile d’Orléans on September 3rd 1670. As a result of this marriage, 2 girls and 6 boys were born between 1672 and 1694.

In 1686, Mathurin Dubé decided to move his family to La Pocatière, on the south shore of the St-Lawrence river. There, he worked for a few years at the landlord manor before he died on December 28th 1695 at 64. He was buried at Rivière Ouelle.

Four of the Mathurin Dubé’s sons got also married. They are : Mathurin (son), Louis, Pierre and Laurent. Their thousands of descendants are now located in Québec, New-Brunswick and in the north-east states of USA (Maine, New-Hampshire, Rhode Island…). If you bear the name of Dubé, you are among them.

The Dubé index

It is the compilation of more than 11,000 marriages gathered in the last few years. This index make easy the establishment of patriarchal lineage (father to son from the ancestor to you). If you wish to obtain it or simply yielding genealogical information on your family to enrich this index, get in touch with me, through the following manners :

by e-mail at : [email protected] or [email protected]

by phone at : (514) 430-9350

by mail to :

Or simply drop by if you get close to my home. I will be glad to greet you and talk genealogy with you.