♂Charles Sevestre

Charles Sevestre (buried 9 December 1657) married the widow Marie Pichon at Paris and took her and her children to New France in 1636. He was the step-father of Charles Gautier (1628–1703), the ninth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Marie Gautier (born 1660).

The Fichier Origine, a register-verified compilation of the origins of the settlers of New France, gives his marriage to Marie Pichon at Paris in February 1632. Marie’s first husband, the master printer Philippe Gautier, had been buried at Saint-Étienne-du-Mont on 13 August 1631, so the marriage came about six months after his death. Tanguay’s genealogical dictionary dates the marriage to 1627, which would fall before that burial. The compilation also gives the crossing to Québec in 1636 and records that Marie came with her Gautier children and her Sevestre daughters, two of whom it names.

The index of the Québec parish registers lists the couple as parents in eleven acts between 1636 and 1658, among them baptisms and marriages. Charles Sevestre was buried at Notre-Dame de Québec on 9 December 1657, a date given both by the index and by Tanguay. Marie Pichon outlived him by more than three years and was buried on 4 May 1661.