Marie Josephe Doiron (abt. 1726 - abt. 1758)

Born about 1726 in Acadie

Ancestors

Wife of Jean Arsement — married about 1745 in Acadie

Died about 13 Dec 1758 at about age 32 in At Sea, during the crossing to France

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Biography

Marie Josephe was born about 1726 in Acadie. She was the daughter of Louis Mathieu Doiron and Madeleine Pitre.

She married Jean Arsement about 1745 in Acadie. ^[1]

They were recorded on the La Roque census at Pointe Prime, Isle Saint-Jean with one son and two daughters. The family owned land, four oxen, one cow, three heifers, and three pigs.^[2]

"In the summer of 1758, the fortress of Louisbourg on Isle Royale was attacked by British troops. The French capitulated thereby forfeiting Isle Saint-Jean as well. Soldiers were sent to the Island with orders to deport the inhabitants to France. Some 3000 Islanders were successfully rounded up and crowded on ships that set sail for Europe later in the fall. For the Acadians, it was disaster. 1500 of them managed to escape deportation by fleeing to the Bay of Chaleurs region and to Quebec where many died of sickness and hunger. Of those deported to France, more that half drowned or died by disease and illness during the voyage and many others died in the months following their arrival in France."^[3]

In 1758, the family was put aboard the Duke William, bound for France. The ship sank on 13 December 1758, taking the lives of Jean, Marie-Josèphe, their children and many members of the extended Arsement and Doiron families.^[4][5]

Sources

1. ↑ Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Jean Arsement] citing Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes: 1715 à 1780, (Moncton, NB: Centre d'études acadiennes, draft version) ARSEMENT #1 c No place given for birth. About 1745, marriage with Marie Josephe DOIRON in Acadia. On 1752 Census at Pointe-Prime, île St-Jean, Acadia. Died in the sinking of the Duke William around 13 December 1758.
2. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. 121 image 272. A transcription of the original census, in French, can be found at Census Transcription of Original Record “Recensement de l'Isle Royal et de Isle Saint-Jean ” p. 451, Image 455

   Jean Arcenaud, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 27 years, and has been in the country two years. Married to Marie Joseph Douaron, native of l'Acadie, aged 26 years. They have one son and two daughters:- Alexis Arcenaud, aged 6 years. Margueritte Joseph, aged 3 years. Marie Blanche, aged 2 years. And in stock: four oxen, one cow, three heifers, and three pigs. The land upon which they are settled is situated east-south-east of the said Ance de la Pointe Prime, and was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. They have made on it a clearing for the sowing of eight bushels of wheat in the coming spring.

3. ↑ Arsenault, Georges, "The Acadians Of Prince Edward Island." [online] Acadian Home. Available at: http://www.acadian-home.org/Georges-Arsenault-pen.html Accessed 4 June 2020.
4. ↑ White, Stephen A., Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert. Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes. Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 1999, Print. p. 520-521

   Nous comptons Noël Doiron, son épouse, cinq de leurs enfants, plus de trente de leurs petits-enfants parmi les familles acadiennes de l'île St-Jean disparues sans aucune trace après 1758. Après une étude approfondie du sujet, nous sommes porté à croire que Noël Doiron était le vieux chef des Acadiens de La Pointe Prime mentionné (mais pas nommé) dans le récit du capitaine Nicholls concernant le naufrage du Duke William (SHA vol II, p. 291). Selon ce récit, le vieux chef et toute sa famille ont péri lorsque le vaisseau a sombré en mer (voir ibid p. 286-299) (Google translation: Noël Doiron, his wife, five of their children, more than thirty of their grandchildren were among the Acadian families of Île St-Jean who disappeared without a trace after 1758. After an in-depth study, we are led to believe that Noël Doiron was the old leader of the Acadians of La Pointe Prime mentioned (but not named) in Captain Nicholls' account of the sinking of the Duke William (SHA vol II, p. 291). According to this account, the old leader and all his family perished when the vessel sank at sea (see ibid p. 286-299))

5. ↑ Clarence J. d'Entremont, "The Sinking of the Duke William and of the Violet Taking Acadians Into Exile", Musée des Acadiens des Pubnicos, published in Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, April 3, 1990, https://www.museeacadien.ca/post/66-the-sinking-of-the-duke-william-and-of-the-violet-taking-the-acadians-into-exile

• Karen Theriot Reader Marie Josephe citing Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780- Stephen A. White - Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version - University of Moncton - ARSEMENT #2 (spouse) - Died in the sinking of the "Duke William."