The family is very likely from the Mortagne - around Martaize or Loudon - like many of the Acadian families with whom the Héberts later intermarried, and who came to Acadia at the same time, under the auspices of Charles Menou, seigneur d'Aulnay (above), who brought the first permanent settlers to Acadia, most from his own neighborhood in the Mortagne. But there is no proof that the Héberts had been among his neighbors or tenants. Some genealogists place them in La Haye, where a Jacques Hébert lived with his wife Marie Juneau; they may have been the parents (Archange Godbout thought they were not). We know that two brothers, Antoine and Étienne Hébert (born in the early 1620s) arrived together at Port-Royal - not later than 1647 probably, as Antoine's first child was born in 1648. It is Étienne, however, who is the ancestor of most Louisiana Héberts (and our ancestor as well, through his daughter Marguérite). Most Québec Héberts are descended from different immigrants.

Antoine married Geneviève Lefranc; they had three children, and their grandchildren intermarried with Boudreaus, Landrys, Bourgs, Richards and other families in our genealogy; but as far as I can tell we are not descended from Antoine.

Étienne Hébert married Marie Gaudet (daughter of Jean Gaudet and Nicole Coleson, among the earliest settlers of Acadia) probably in 1650; after he died about 1670, she married Dominique Garaut ot Gareau. The couple had ten children: Marie (1651, married Michel Forest, immigrant ancestor of that family; see Forest); Marguérite (1652, married Jacques Prince or Leprince); Emmanuel (1654, married Andrée Brun); Étienne (1654-1713, married Jeanne Comeau); Jean (1658, married Jeanne Doiron); Françoise (1661, married Jean Comeau, 15 children including our ancestor Anne, wife of François Richard); Catherine (1662, married Philippe Pinet); Martine (1665, married Nicolas Barriault); Michel (1666, married Isabelle Pellerin, niece of our ancestor Marguérite Martin); and Antoine (1670, married Jeanne Corporon and Anne Orillon).