Pierre Forest was born on July 10, 1717 in Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France. His parents were René Forest and Françoise Dugas.Godparents were Guillaume Blanchard and Jeanne Richard [1][2]
He married Marie Madeleine Richard on June 30, 1744. His name was de Forest on this document.[3] No children have been found for him.
Unable to find either Pierre or Francoise in 1750/1751 census. There was a widow Hebert in Beaubassin in 1752 with 1 girl, so maybe her or maybe not.
Sources
↑ Nova Scotia Archives: An Acadian Parish Remembered: The Registers of St Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal 1702-1755, RG 1, Vol. 26, p. 151 Baptismal Registration
↑ Ancestry.com. Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Name: Jean Pierre Forest
Gender: m (Male)
Birth Date: 10 jul 1717
Birth Place: Rg Port Royal, New Brunswick, Canada
Death Date: 1750
Death Place: Beaubassin, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death Age: 33
URL:
↑ Nova Scotia Archives, "An Acadian Parish Remembered - The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755," register RG 1 volume 26a page 270; online database with images,Marriage
Groom: Pierre De Forest
Father: René De Forest
Mother: Françoise Dugast
Bride: Marie Richard
Father: Pierre Richard, deceased
Mother: Magdelaine Girouard
Witnesses: René Forest, Prudent Robichaux, Etienne Robicheaux, Simon Richard, Joseph Richard
↑ Declarations de Belle-Ile-en-Mer, Acadian-Home.org Death, DATE OF EVENT. Brother Jerôme Lepré, S.C., accessed 4/13/2022
(3) Marie - Born in 1715, married same place, to Pierre FOREST, son of Rene and Francoise DUGAST. Pierre FOREST died at Memramcouk of Beaubassin in 1750. Marie RICHARD married in second nuptials to Charles SAVOYE. son of Francois and Anne RICHARD and went to Canada with their children;
Nova Scotia Archives: An Acadian Parish Remembered: The Registers of St Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal 1702-1755, RG 1, Vol. 26a, p. 270 Marriage Registration
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