Jacques Girouard (1707 - 1764)

Born 1707 in Les Mines, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Boisseau — married 31 Jul 1730 in Grand-Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died 5 Dec 1764 at about age 57 in Mirabalais, St.Domingue

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Biography

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NOTE: some trees have him marrying again to a Marie-Josephe Arsenault citing ^[1] However, more recent researchers do not mention another marriage for him.

Jacques (dit Jacob) n v 1707 (Rc Connecticut 1763); m Rg GP 31 juill 1730 22a Marie Boisseau dit Blondin (François & Marie-Anne Saulnier); s Rg Le Mirebalais 5 Déc 1764 60a (sic).^[2]. He was likely born in Minas as the family lived there consistently during his childhood. By 1701 they had settled at Les Mines^[3]. By 1703 they were again found in Minas^[4]. In Minas again in 1707 ^[5] and Pisiguit in 1714^[6].

He married Marie Boisseau dit Blondin 31 Jul 1730.^[7][8]

He died in 1764 at Mirebalais, St. Dominque while en route to Louisiana.^[9]

Research

http://anom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/caomec2/osd.php?territoire=SAINT-DOMINGUE&commune=MIREBALAIS&annee=1764

Sept 2 1764 baptism of margueritte Giroard ageé oihuit ans et elle angleterre fille legitime de Jacques Giroard et... parrainJoseph Francoise Budass ? Margueritte fauleuce

death of Marie Josephe Giroard veuve Pitre, age uuarant duei ann--signe Francois Martin cure

Sources

1. ↑ Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 1390
2. ↑ Title: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes; Author: Stephen A. White; Publication: 2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999, p. 725
3. ↑ Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1701 Acadian Census at Port-Royal, Acadie 1701 Census Transcription. The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the Library and Archives Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Images 174-211.

   Les Mines: Pierre GIROUARD, his wife, 1 boy, 1 girl, 6 arpents, 11 cattle, 8 sheep, 8 hogs. 1 gun.

4. ↑ Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1703 Acadian Census at Port-Royal, Acadie 1703 Census Transcription. The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the Library and Archives Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Images 212-220.

   Minas: Pierre GIROUARD, his wife, 4 boys, 2 girls, 1 arms bearer.

5. ↑ Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1707 Acadian Census at Port-Royal, Acadie 1707 Census Transcription. The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the Library and Archives Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Images 221-237.

   Minas: Pierre GIROUARD, his wife, 2 boys less than 14, 2 girls less than 12; 4 arpents, 8 cattle, 5 sheep. 6 hogs.

6. ↑ Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1714 Acadian Census at Port-Royal, Acadie 1714 Census Transcription. The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the Library and Archives Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Images 239-261.

   Pisiguit: Pierre GIROUARD and wife, 6 sons, 2 daughters.

7. ↑ Paroisse de St. Charles des Mines, Grand Pré, Acadie, Québec Province, digital images, Héritage, Genealogy collection, Library and Archives Canada, reel C-1869, Parish Registers: Nova Scotia : C-1869, roll 1, Image 648. Marriage for Jacques Girouard and Marie Boisseau Blondin, 31 Jul 1730. Accessed 26 Nov 2021. This register is a transcript written around 1895 of the original registers currently held at the Baton Rouge Diocese Archives in Louisiana, USA.
8. ↑ Title: Catholic Church Records, vol. 1a: Acadian Records, 1707-1748; Author: Diocese of Baton Rouge; Publication: Diocese, 1999. The Registers of St. Charles aux Mines in Acadia, from Grand Pré, carried into exile to St. Gabriel Church of Iberville, LA.; pp. 27 & 80-81

   Marie Boissau, age ca 18 (Francois Boissau dit Blondin and Anne Saunie m. 31 Jul 1730 Jacques Girouard, age ca 22 (Pierre Girouard and decd. Marie Cammau, of the parish of L'Assumption de Pigidy (wit {+} Thomas Doureron; {+} Francois Boissau; Estienne {+} Girouard; Estienne Racois (s); Joseph Huget (s); sig. {+} Jaques GIrouard; {+} Marie BOissau (SGA-2, 220)

   Jacques GIROUARD, age 22, son of Pierre & Marie COMMAU, deceased, married on 31 Jul 1730 to Marie [BOISSEAU], age 18, daughter of Francois (dit BLONDIN) & Anne SAULNIER. Recorded (SGA-2, 220).

9. ↑ Buried in the parish cemetery