Damien Bérubé (1647-1688), youngest son of Robert Bérubé and Catherine Ferrocog, lived in Paris, but Damien reported when he married that he had been born in Rocquefort. Six brothers and sisters of his were baptized in Rocquefort (in the church of Nôtre-Dame, above), and his father's baptism is recorded there in July 1601. Damien's siblings were Jean-Baptiste (1627-1681, married Anne Jourdain and Suzanne Troudet); Pierre-Robert (married Marthe Varin, died 1681); Marie (1637-1705, married Nicolas Basselin); Nicolas (1639, died young?); Catherine (1641-1649); and Adrien (1644). None of these emigrated to Nouvelle-France.

Damien was working for Jean-Baptiste-François de Boishébert, sieur de Rivière-Ouelle, in the early 1670s, so he very probably crossed the Atlantic on Boishébert's ship St-Jean-Baptiste in June 1671. He was in L'Islet by 1678, and on August 22, 1679 he married Jeanne Sauvenier (daughter of Jacques Sauvenier or Savonet and Antoinette Babilotte). She was a "fille du roi" and a widow, having been married to Jean Soucy dit Lavigne (4 children: Anne, Pierre, Marie-Anne and Guillaume); and after Damien died she married our ancestor François Miville as his second wife - one child, Marie-Françoise.

We know of two sons of Damien and Jeanne Bérubé: Pierre (1681-1736, see below) and Mathurin (1688, married Marie Angélique Miville), as well as four daughters, Thérèse, Marie, Jeanne-Marguérite and Marie-Josèphte. As Damien died in March 1688, there were probably no others. Thérèse and Marie both died the day after their father (March 8) and we do not know what happened to Marie-Josèphte. When Damien died, he left property to the two sons (Mathurin in fact was born a few months posthumously) and to Jeanne-Marguérite, but she does not seem to have married.

Pierre Bérubé married Geneviève Dancosse at Rivière-Ouelle in February 1705. She was a daughter of Pierre Dancosse and Marie-Madeleine Bouchard of Rivière-Ouelle. All fourteen of their children were born in that town: François (1707, married Marie-Angélique Lévesque, 15 children); Marie-Madeleine (1708-1765, married Jacques-Eustache Chouinard - see below); Pierre (1710-1760; married Marie-Madeleine Lévesque, 12 children); André (1711, married Marie-Josèphe Vézina, 17 children); Geneviève ( married Pierre Saucier, 5 children); Marie-Angélique (born and died 1714); Joseph (1718-1736); Catherine (1720-1724); Marie-Josèphe (1721, married Louis Martin); Marie-Françoise (1723?-1725); Jean (died 1761; married Geneviève Miville, 9 children); Marie-Dorothée (died 1755; married Dominique Lévesque, 7 children); Marie-Françoise (married François Aubert, 8 children, and Joannis Milliard); and Marie-Ursule (1731, married Jean-François Miville dit Deschênes, 7 children). Pierre died in Rivière-Ouelle in October 1736, and his wife Geneviève died there in February 1745.

Marie-Madeleine and Jacques-Eustache Chouinard were the parents of Ursule Chouinard, who married Joseph Gaudreau and was a great-great-great-grandmother of Marie Eva Jean Martin.

There is a Bérubé family organization.