Perche, region of emigration
to Quebec in the 17th century
to Quebec in the 17th century
by Jean-François Loiseau
published on October 28, 2017, updated on September 6, 2023
Queen Camilla is the daughter of Major Bruce Middleton Hope Shand and The Hon Rosalind Maud Shand (nee Cubitt), the daughter of 3rd Baron Ashcombe, who married on January 2nd, 1946 at St Paul’s, Knightsbridge.
She was born Camilla Rosemary Shand on July 17, 1947 at King’s College Hospital, London, the eldest of three children.
Her Majesty has a sister, Annabel Elliot; her brother, Mark Shand, died in 2014.
When Camilla married Prince Charles (now King Charles III) at the Guildhall in Windsor on April 9, 2005, she brought some French blood to the British royal family.
The Queen was previously married to Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles and the marriage was dissolved in 1995. The couple had two children, Thomas Henry and Laura Rose, born in 1974 and 1978 respectively.
Charles III is godfather to Tom Parker Bowles.
 GUYON Jean (1592-1663 ) ⚭ ROBIN Mathurine (- 1662) GUYON Jean (1619-1694) ⚭ COUILLARD Elisabeth (1631-1704) |
CLOUTIER Zacharie (~1590-1677) ⚭ DUPONT Xainte (~1596-1680) CLOUTIER Zacharie (1617-1708) ⚭ EMARD Marie Madeleine (1626-1708) |
TROTTIER Jules (~1590-1655) ⚭ LOISEAU Catherine (~1603-1656) |
BOUCHER Gaspard (1599-) ⚭ LEMAIRE Nicole (1595-) BOUCHER Marie (1629-1706) ⚭ LAFOND etienne (~1615-1665) |
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GUYON Joseph (1649-1712)> |
CLOUTIER Genevieve (1655-1725) |
TROTTIER Jean Baptiste (1646-1703) |
LAFOND Genevieve (1652-) |
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GUYON Joseph (1682-1754) |
TROTTIER Marie (~1668-1739) ⚭ GUILLET Louis (-) GUILLET Marie elisabeth (1694-) |
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GUYON Marie Josephe (1715-1807) ⚭ COURSOLLE Michel (1707-1775) COURSOLLE Marie Charlotte (1756-1805) ⚭ JONES Ephraim (1750-1812) JONES Sophia (1785-1837) ⚭ STUART John (1777-1829) STUART Mary (1812-1846) ⚭ MACNAB Allan Napier (1798-1862) MACNAB Sophia Mary (1832-1917) ⚭ KEPPEL William Coutts (1832-1894) KEPPEL George (1865-1947) ⚭ EDMONSTONE Alice Frederica (1869-1947) KEPPEL Sonia Rosemary (1900-1986) ⚭ CUBITT Roland Calvert (1899-1962) CUBITT Rosalind Maud (1921-1994) ⚭ SHAND Bruce Middleton Hope (1917-2006) SHAND Camilla Rosemary (1947) Her Majesty Queen Camilla  |
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Her Majesty has ten pioneer ancestors originating from Perche (France). All immigrated in the 17th century.
| Emigrants | Baptism year | Baptism (or birth) place | Emigration year | Death year | Death place |
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| Boucher Gaspard | 1599* | Mortagne-au-Perche | 1634* | - | Canada |
| Cloutier Zacharie | 1590* | Mortagne-au-Perche | 1634 | 1677 | Chateau-Richer |
| Cloutier Zacharie | 1617 | Mortagne-au-Perche | 1634 | 1708 | Chateau-Richer |
| Dupont Xainte | 1595* | Mortagne-au-Perche | 1635* | 1680 | Chateau-Richer |
| Guyon Jean | 1592 | Tourouvre | 1634 | 1663 | Beauport |
| Guyon Jean | 1619 | Mortagne-au-Perche | 1634 | 1694 | Chateau-Richer |
| Lemaire Nicole | 1595 | Mamers | 1635* | - | Trois-Rivieres |
| Loiseau Catherine | 1603* | Perche | 1646 | 1656 | Trois-Rivieres |
| Robin Mathurine | end 16th | Mortagne-au-Perche | 1636* | 1662 | Beauport |
| Trottier Jules | 1590* | Perche | 1646 | 1655 | Trois-Rivieres |
In addition to Perche, three other French regions are represented in the family tree of Her Majesty the Queen:
• Brittany: Guillaume Couillard, sailor & carpenter for the Compagnie des Marchands, born in 1538 in Saint-Malo.
• Paris: Louis Hebert, apothecary, known as the first pioneer to settle in New France, born in 1575 in Paris. His daughter Guillemette will marry Guillaume Couillard.
• Poitou-Charentes: Michel Coursolle born in La Flotte (Île de Re) in 1707 who married Marie Josephe Guyon in 1739 in Vercheres (Quebec);
Madeleine Emard born in Niort (Deux-Sèvres) around 1626 who married the Percheron pioneer Zacharie Cloutier Jr. in 1648 in La Rochelle;
the couple Pierre Guillet born around 1628 (Aunis) and Jeanne Saint-Pair born in 1627 in Saint-Jean-d'Angely (Charente-Maritime);
Etienne Lafond born around 1615 in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Barriere (Saintonge) who married the Percheron Marie Boucher (1629-1706) in Quebec in 1645.
See details here.
The French ancestry of Queen Camilla is published by perche-quebec.com on Geneanet, an external website. Access to the entire database is free but after consulting some data, you must have a free Geneanet account to continue exploring genealogical data.
In the family tree of Her Majesty the Queen, there is another French branch not related to Quebec but Brittany with
Louise Renée de Penancoët de Keroual, Duchess of Portsmouth and Aubigny, born in September 1649 in Guilers (Finistère, France).
Coming from the Breton gentry, Louise moved to the court of Louis XIV in Versailles to become maid of honor to Henriette of England, wife of the Duc d’Orléans, Louis XIV’s brother, who is best known as Monsieur.
The Sun King made her his agent of influence in England to defend the interests of France and Catholicism there.
In 1670, Louise de Keroual accompanied Madame on a diplomatic visit to her brother, the King of England Charles II.
She was noticed by the English sovereign and became his favorite mistress for about fifteen years.
In 1672, this liaison gave birth to an illegitimate child Charles Lennox who will be recognized and ennobled; he was created Duke of Richmond in 1675.
In 1685 on the death of Charles II, Louise de Keroual returned to France. She settled in Brest then retired to her land in Aubigny (Berry) which was once the land of the Stuarts in France.
She died in Paris in 1734.
William Coutts Keppel, great-great-grandfather of Camilla, born in London on April 15, 1832 is a descendant of Charles Lennox, son of Louise de Keroual and King Charles II.
The Duke of Richmond's descent also includes Diana, Princess of Wales, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York and Jane Birkin.
| de PENANCOËT Louise Renée (1649-1734) Louise de Keroual, Duchess of Portsmouth and Aubigny | STUART Charles (1630-1685) Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland |
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LENNOX Charles (1672-1723) ⚭ 1692 BRUDENELL Anne (~ 1671-1722) |
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LENNOX Charles (1701-1750) ⚭ 1719 CADOGAN Sarah (1705-1751) LENNOX George (1737-1805) ⚭ 1759 KERR Louisa LENNOX Charles (1764-1819) ⚭ 1789 GORDON Charlotte (1768-1842) GORDON-LENNOX Charles (1791-1860) ⚭ 1817 PAGET Caroline (1797-1874) GORDON-LENNOX Cecilia Catherine ⚭ BINGHAM Charles George (1830-1914) |
LENNOX Anne (1703-1789) ⚭ 1722 van KEPPEL Willem (William) Anne (1702-1754) |
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KEPPEL Elizabeth (1739-1768) ⚭ 1764 RUSSELL Francis (1739-1767) RUSSELL John (1766-1839) ⚭ 1803 GORDON Georgiana (1781-1853) RUSSELL Louisa Jane (1812-1905) ⚭ 1832 HAMILTON James (1811-1885) HAMILTON James (1838-1913) ⚭ 1869 CURZON-HOWE Mary Anna (1848-1929) |
KEPPEL George (1724-1772) ⚭ MILLER Anne (-1824) KEPPEL William Charles (1772-1849) ⚭ 1792 SOUTHWELL Elizabeth (1776-1817) KEPPEL George Thomas (1799-1891) ⚭ 1831 TROTTER Susan (-1885) KEPPEL William Coutts (1832-1894) ⚭ 1855 MACNAB Sophia Mary (1832-1917) KEPPEL George (1865-1947) ⚭ 1891 EDMONSTONE Alice Frederica (1868-1947) KEPPEL Sonia Rosemary (1900-1986) ⚭ 1920 CUBITT Roland Calvert (1899-1962) CUBITT Rosalind Maud (1921-1994) ⚭ 1946 SHAND Bruce Middleton Hope (1917-2006) SHAND Camilla Rosemary (1947) Her Majesty Queen Camilla |
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| BINGHAM Rosalind Cecilia Caroline (1869-1958) | HAMILTON James Albert Edward (1869-1953) | ||||||
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HAMILTON Cynthia Ellinor Beatrix (1897-1972) ⚭ 1919 SPENCER Albert Edward John (1892-1975) SPENCER Edward John (1924-1992) ⚭ 1954 ROCHE Frances Ruth (1936-2004) SPENCER Diana Frances (1961-1997) Diana, Princess of Wales  |
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perche-quebec.com has discovered that Her Majesty the Queen has many family ties with other celebrities
in politics (Hillary Clinton, Justin Trudeau),
the film industry (Xavier Dolan, Ryan Gosling, Angelina Jolie) and
in music (Madonna, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, Alanis Morissette).
All those celebrities have in common French-Canadian pioneers, and in particular Percheron pioneers.
For instance, Jean Guyon, the direct ancestor of Celine Dion and the Percheron pioneer Zacharie Cloutier, an ancestor of most of the celebrities mentioned before, who was born in Mortagne-au-Perche (Orne, France).
As strange as it may seem, there is nothing exceptional about those family ties. As the Percheron pioneers were among the very first French settlers to arrive in what was then known as New France, most of people with French-Canadian ancestry have Percheron blood and are more or less related.
