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Marguerite Cormier (abt. 1706 - bef. 1752)

Marguerite Cormier
Born about in Beaubassin, Acadie, Nouvelle-Francemap [uncertain]
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
Sister of , , , , , , , and
Wife of — married 18 Aug 1722 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotiamap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , , , , , , , and
Died before before about age 46 in Malpeque, Ile Saint Jean, Acadie, Nouvelle-Francemap [uncertain]
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Biography

:Marguerite Cormier was born about 1706 to parents Alexis Cormier and Marie LeBlanc. She was likely born in Beaubassin as her parents were found there in the 1698 Census. On August 18 1722 in Beaubassin she married Pierre Arsenau, son of Pierre Arsenau and and Marie-Anne Boudrot. [1] "Marguerite was 16 years old. They were granted a dispensation for an undisclosed degree of affinity (sic). They should have been received a dispensation for a third degree of consanguinity (third cousins). The bride's father was among those that signed: Alexis Cormier." [2] By 1734, the couple had settled in Malpeque Ile Saint-Jean, now Prince Edward Island. [3]

Children: [4]

  1. Anne Marie Arseneau ca 1725-/1758
  2. Pierre Arsenault ca 1727-
  3. Jean Arsenault 1728-
  4. Claude Arseneau ca 1730-1801
  5. Therese Arsenault 1732-1813
  6. Jean Francois Arseneau 1735-1808
  7. Marguerite Arseneau ca 1737-1762/
  8. Louis Arsenault 1739-
  9. Anne Marie Arseneau 1741-1772
  10. Henriette Arsenault ca 1743-
  11. Marie Arseneau ca 1750-1853

Marguerite died sometime before the 1752 census as her husband is listed as a widower. [5]

Sources

  1. ↑ Library and Archives Canada Fonds des Archives départementales de la Charente-Maritime [La Rochelle, France] : C-1207 Registres de Beaubassin - reel_c1207 MG 6 A 2 (Image 12 - right page, bottom) http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1207/12?r=0&s=6
  2. ↑ Melanson, Michael B. Cormier Genealogy: Generations 1-7. (Dracut, Massachusetts: Lanesville Publishing, 2021) p. 75
  3. ↑ Stephen A. White, "DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES"; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 405. She died before the 1752 census.
  4. ↑ Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Marguerite Cormier
  5. ↑ 1752 Census
    Pierre Arceneau, widower, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 52 years, he has been 21 years in the country.
    He has seven children, four sons and three daughters.
    Pierre, aged 24 years.
    Claude, aged 21 years.
    Françoise, aged 17 years.
    Louis, aged 14 years.
    Marguerite, aged 15 years.
    Anne, aged 11 years.
    Henriette, aged 9 years
See also:
  • 1734 Census.
  • Genealogie des Familles Acadiennes de L'Ile du Prince Edouard circa 1764-1900 Volume 6 P page 3746 by Mr. Jean Bernard PEI Acadian genealogist




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Cormier-1939 Gisèle Cormier
Cormier-4079 and Cormier-6 appear to represent the same person because: Same name, spouse and daughter Marguerite (also duplicates). Large difference in dates of birth. Marguerite could not have been born in 1725, 3 years after her marriage in 1722 (sourced).
posted by Gisèle Cormier
Cormier-1939 Gisèle Cormier
Cormier-1655 and Cormier-6 appear to represent the same person because: Same date of birth. Same place of death and similar date of death. Same daughters Anne & Marie
posted by Gisèle Cormier
Daniel Richard
Cormier-781 and Cormier-6 do not represent the same person because: not a match
posted by Daniel Richard
Girouard-3408 Ray Girouard
Cormier-781 and Cormier-6 appear to represent the same person because: they are the same person.
posted by Ray Girouard

Rejected matches › Marguerite Cormier (abt.1774-1818)

Marguerite is 16 degrees from Robert Beheathland, 17 degrees from Bartholomew Gosnold, 14 degrees from Thomas Graves, 17 degrees from Anne Laydon, 19 degrees from Alice Longe, 17 degrees from Samuel Mathews, 19 degrees from Christopher Newport, 17 degrees from John Smith, 15 degrees from Nathaniel Tatum, 16 degrees from Temperance West, 16 degrees from Francis Wyatt and 11 degrees from Valerie Penner on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.

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