Marie-Josèphe Savoie was born on April 25, 1709 in Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France. She had a lay baptism at birth by Claude Theriot and was baptized by the priest on 28 April 1709. Her parents were François Xavier Savoie and Marie Josèphe Richard. [1][2][3]
↑ The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755, register RG 1 volume 26 page 82; online database with images, Marie Josephe Savoye Baptism, 28 April 1709, accessed January 2021.
↑ "Nova Scotia Births and Baptisms, 1702-1896," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL5S-X7S : 10 February 2018), Marie Joseph Savoye, 25 Apr 1709; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
↑ 3.03.13.2 Karen Theriot Reader Page for Marie Josèphe Savoie citing - Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes, Première Partie 1636-1714 - Stephen A. White - 2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999 - p. 1460 - Privately baptized by Claude Theriot. Sponsors: Pierre Savoie & Marguerite Richard
↑Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), La Roque Census, p. 156-157, Images 342-343. The original census, in French, can be found at Census Original Version “Recensement de l'Isle Royal et de Isle Saint-Jean ”, p. 583-584, Images 588-589
Abraham Arcenaud dit le petit Abraham, native of l'Acadie, aged 50 years, he has been in the country 11 years, ploughman. Married to Marie Joseph Savoye, aged 42 years.
They have ten children, five sons and five daughters:-
Jean Baptiste, aged 16 years.
Jacques, aged 12 years.
Joseph, aged 8 years.
Hilarion, aged 4 years.
Baptiste, aged 2 years.
Anne, aged 20 years.
Marie Joseph, aged 18 years.
Anne Nastasie, aged 14 years.
Marguerite, aged 10 years.
Martine, aged 6 years.
In live stock they have two oxen, two cows, two calves, five wethers, eight ewes, and three pigs.
The land upon which they are settled is situated to the west of the harbour of Macpec [Malpec], and was given to them by Messieurs Duchambon and Dubuisson. On it they have made a clearing where they can sow thirty-two bushels of wheat. They have sown only six bushels and a half of wheat, having no more seed.
↑ Bernard, Jean. Généalogie des familles acadiennes de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard, c. 1764 - c. 1900, Baie de Malpèque, Î.-P.-É, 2009, Vol 1 Arsenault, pgs 11-12
See also:
White, Stephen A. "La généalogie des trente-sept familles hôtesses des Retrouvailles 94," online articles, Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 25, nos 2 et 3 (1994), SAVOIE
Savard, Denis. "Dictionnaire généalogique des familles Arsenault ", Sainte-Foy, Québec : Editions MultiMondes, 2000, p. 5, 361
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