Philippe Doiron (abt. 1722 - 1758)

Born about 1722 in Pisiguit, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Ursule Lejeune — married 1741 in Acadie

Descendants

Died 4 Jan 1758 at about age 36 in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Canada, Nouvelle-France

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Biography

Philippe Doiron was born about 1722. He was the son of Philippe Doiron and Marie Guedry. He was baptized 2 July 1728 when he was about 6 years old at Saint Charles des Mines, Grand-Pré, Acadia. His godparents were le Sieur de Rosier, master surgeon and Anne Landry.^[1]

He married Ursule LeJeune about 1741 in Acadie.^[2]

They were listed in the 1752 La Roque census with their 5 children at Anse-au-Matelot on Isle Saint-Jean (present-day Prince Edward Island).^[3]

Phillipe Douaron, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 32 years, he has been in the country two years. Married to Ursulle Le Jeune, native of l'Acadie, aged 33 years. They have one son and four daughters:
Firmain Joseph, aged 6 years.
Marie Joseph, aged 10 years.
Gertrude, aged 8 years.
Magdelaine, aged 4 years.
Margueritte, aged 15 months.
In stock two cows, three pigs, and one horse. The land upon which they are settled is situated as in the preceding cases,it was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. On it they have made a clearing of one arpent in extent.

The family managed to escape two deportations, the one that took place in 1755 and the other one in 1758 on Ile Saint-Jean and Ile Royale.

In September 1756, they were aboard a ship that left Ile Saint-Jean with 197 passengers, and docked at the port of Québec around 18 October 1756. ^[4] Among the passengers were the following members of the Doiron family:

Philippe Doiron

Ursule Lejeune, his wife

Marie-Josèphe Doiron, daughter

Marie-Anne (aka Gertrude) Doiron, daughter

Firmin-Joseph Doiron, son

Magdeleine-Pélagie Doiron, daughter

Pierre Doiron, son

Marguerite Doiron, daughter

He died 4 Jan 1758.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Charles-des-Mines (Grand-Pré, N.-É.) - 1869; Canadiana, Heritage, Parish registers: Nova Scotia : C-1869 (Image 259): https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1869/259?r=0&s=4
2. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader Philippe Doiron citing Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS, vols. 1-6; 1630-1775; Quebec, Le Conseil de la Vie Francaise en Amerique, 1965; p. 1377-1378 (Pisiguit); Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Library, CS31 A77 MAIN.

   Born 1722, married about 1741 to Marie-Ursule LEJEUNE (no parents listed). He was at Ile Saint Jean in 1752, and at Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse in 1758, and at Bécancour Québec in 1763.

3. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. 109/Image 248. The original census, in French, can be found at Census Original Version “Recensement de l'Isle Royal et de Isle Saint-Jean ” Images 407-408
4. ↑ André-Carl Vachon, Les réfugiés et miliciens acadiens en Nouvelle-France 1755-1763, Tracadie, La Grande Marée, 2020, p.249-251
5. ↑ 1758 Burial Record "Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (16 July 2014), Saint-Charles > Saint-Charles > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1749-1773 > image 71 of 160; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal.

• IGD Burial record
• Marcel Walter Landry Philippe Doiron at Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed 2023 (login required)

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Daviau-4 created through the import of hemingway.ged on Nov 30, 2011 by Stephen Hemingway.
• Thank you to Mark Mcguire for creating WikiTree profile Doiron-153 through the import of 2hj84e_857376pf3v26m58a1b5355.ged on Mar 6, 2013.