The immigrant Charles Jobin was born about 1625 in Amfreville-sous-les-Monts (church pictured above), the son of Jacques Jobin (born 1602) and Marguérite Roy. We know of one other child, Marie-Françoise, who also came to Québec, perhaps as a single woman with her brother - she married Pierre Dandonneau dit Lajeunesse in Québec city in 1653 (11 children). Charles was already married when he crossed the Atlantic: to Marie-Madeleine Girard, who was born in the parish of St-Cyr in Vaudreuil, Les Andelys (like Amfreville, just south of Rouen). They had four children in France, and two more in Québec. We do not know their exact arrival date, but it must have been in the summer of 1669, as one child was born at the beginning of that year in France, and the next at the end of the same year in Canada. They were married not in either of their home towns, but in Paris, at the church of St-Germain l'Auxerrois, and their third and fourth children were baptized there too - Charles was presumably working in Paris as a tailor.

The children: Jean (c1658-1677, unmarried); Charles (c1661-?); Marie-Madeleine (1663, married François Fafard dit Delorme); Marie-Catherine (1669, see below); Jacques (1669-1728, born in Québec city, married Adrienne Bourbeau); and Marie-Thérèse (1672, married Jean Audy dit Roy). After his wife Marie-Madeleine died (April 11, 1675) Charles married Marie Rousseau and had one further son, Jean-Charles (c1678, married Marie Jeanne Vergeat dit Prénouveau). Charles Jobin worked as a master tailor in Québec city until his death in Charlesbourg on November 26, 1705.

Marie-Catherine must have been a very young infant on arrival in Canada. When she married Michel Lemay on April 22, 1686 (in Champlain) she reported her age as sixteen. See Lemay dit Poudrier for descendants.