When Marie Louise Houde dit Desruisseaux was born on 8 December 1757, in Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Quebec, Canada, her father, Pierre Charles Houde Desruisseaux, was 33 and her mother, Marie Agathe Grenier, was 32. She married Antoine Hamel on 26 August 1788, in Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 22 June 1843, in Sainte-Croix, Lotbinière, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 85.