MY ACADIAN FAMILY
GENERATION #1
Pierre Arsenault born 1646 in France, married Margaret Dugas born bef. 1657 in Port Royal, Acadie. They were married about 1675 in Port Royal, Acadie.
two children:
1. Pierre born 1676 married Anne Marie Boudrot
2. Abraham born 1678 married Jeanne Gaudet
Margaret died before 1689 and Pierre remarried in Port Royal, Acadie about 1689 to Marie Guerin, daughter of Francois & Anne Blanchard.
seven children:
1. Charles born 1690 married Francoise Mirande
2. Jacques born 1691 married Marie Poirier
3.Francois born 1694 married Marguerite Bernard
4.Anne born 1697
5.Claude born 1699 married Marguerite Richard
6.Abraham born 1702 married Marie-Josephe Savoi
7.Augustin born 1703 married Marguerite Blanchard
LOOK INTO A NAME. WHAT DO YOU SEE?
LETTERS ONLY?--LOOK DEEPER.
SEE THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED THAT NAME.
NOT LETTERS, BUT FLESH AND BLOOD.
FLESH TO OUR FLESH-BLOOD TO OUR BLOOD.
FAITH TO OUR FAITH-ANCESTORS.
When one looks at the peaceful pastoral country of the Annapolis Basin in Acadia, one cannot imagine that these shores changed hands more times, and were the scene of more military actions, than possibly any other place in North America.
In the spring of 1632, Isaac de Razilly, with his lieutenants brought some 300 "hommes d'elites, (no doubt skilled craftmen) to build a colony at LaHave. Sometime between 1632 and 1640 d'Aulnay removed most of the settlers of LaHave to the Annapolis Basin area, namely Port Royal.
My family consist of 13 generations of Acadians who came to Acadia in the latter part of the seventeenth century from various part of France.
PIERRE ARSENAULT, born in France in 1646, arrived in "Acadie" in the spring of 1671 aboard the ship l'Oranger, which had raised anchor from LaRochelle, France. He was brought over from France by Jacques Bourgeois, and became his ship's pilot for his coastal trade.
Pierre worked right alongside Jacques in founding "Bourgeois Colony", which became Beaubassin, now Amhurst, Nova Scotia.
He married Margaret Dugas in 1674 and they had two children, Pierre, born in 1676 and Abraham, born in 1678. Margaret Dugas was the granddaughter of Germain Doucet, the direct ancester of Walter Doucette. Thus the relationship between Walt and myself.
After the death of his first wife, he married Marie Guerin in 1689. They had 7 children, all born in Beaubassin.
Three of the children moved to Malpeque (Prince Edward Island) namely Jacques, Claude & Abraham.
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