Pierre Girouard (1721 - 1763)

Born 10 Oct 1721 in Annapolis Royal, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Josèphe Forest — married 4 Feb 1743 in Annapolis Royal, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Husband of Madeleine Doucet — married 18 Feb 1760 in Deschambault, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died Oct 1763 at about age 41 in L'Assomption, Province de Québec

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Biography

Pierre Giroir was born 10 Oct 1721. He was the son of Francois Girouard and Anne Bourgeois. He was baptized the same day at Annapolis Royal. His godparents were Pierre Leblanc and Magdelaine Bourgeois.^[1][2]

He married Marie Josephe Forest, daughter of Joseph and Marie Jeanne Guilbeau 4 February 1743, Annapolis Royal, Acadia. Witnesses were François Giroir, Jean Forest, Joseph Gregoire Bourgeois and Etienne Commo.^[3]

Children: ^[4]

1. Pierre Girouard (1745-1758)
2. Marie Louise Girouard (abt.1746-1838)
3. Marie Anastasie Girouard (abt.1748-1812)
4. Joseph Girouard (abt.1750-1758)
5. Marguerite Girouard (abt.1751-1758)
6. Jean Baptiste Girouard (1755-1758)

Around 1755, Pierre was deported to South Carolina aboard the Syren, without his family, and then to England. From there, he fled to France. He was in Rochefort first, then in Bordeaux where he boarded La Sirenne that left on 7 March 1758. He and 2 other Acadian exiles, Jean-Baptiste Brun and Joseph LeBlanc disembarked at the port of Quebec City on 19 May 1758. ^[5]

During the Great Upheaval, separated from François, Marie Josèphe had sought refuge on Isle Saint-Jean with their children. She managed to escape the deportation that took place there in 1758 by deciding to seek refuge in Canada, Nouvelle-France (present-day Quebec). In October or November 1757, a vessel transported her and children Pierre, Marie-Louise, Marie-Anastasie, Joseph, Marguerite and Jean-Baptiste to the port of Quebec. ^[5] Marie-Josèphe died 2 months later on 5 January 1758, during the smallpox epidemic that was raging in the city. Their son Joseph died the same day, Pierre the next day, Jean-Baptiste on the 7th or 8th of January, and Marguerite in May.

Pierre married Madeleine Doucet, daughter of François Doucet and Marie-Anne Poirier, widow of François Cormier, on 18 February 1760, in Deschambault, Canada, Nouvelle-France. ^[6] Madeleine had also lost 4 young children between 1756 and 1758, and her husband François was deported to Georgia and died in exile around 1760.

Children:

1. Marie Charlotte Girouard b. 16 Dec 1760, L'Assomption- d 1787
2. Jean Baptiste Girouard, b. 31 Oct 1762, L'Assomption
3. Pierre Girouard, b. 31 Oct 1762, L'Assomption

He passed away in October 1763 and was buried on 25 October 1763 in L'Assomption, Province of Quebec. ^[7] According to the record, he was a farmer from Acadie, about 40 years of age, and the husband of Madeleine Doucet.

Sources

1. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Port-Royal, N.-É.)-1870 C-1870 (image 47) https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1870/47?r=0&s=5
2. ↑ An Acadian Parish Remembered The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755 Pierre Giroir baptism RG 1 volume 26 page 180 https://novascotia.ca/archives/acadian/archives.asp?ID=881
3. ↑ An Acadian Parish Remembered The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755 Pierre Girouard and Marie Joseph Forest marriage 4 February 1743 RG 1 volume 26a page 237 https://novascotia.ca/archives/acadian/archives.asp?ID=2619
4. ↑ Marcel Walter Landry Page for Pierre Girouard at Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed April 2021 (login required)
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Vachon, André-Carl. Les réfugiés et miliciens acadiens en Nouvelle-France 1755-1763, Tracadie, La Grande Marée, 2020, p. 273, 276, 277 citing Paul Delaney, "The Acadians Deported from Chignectou to 'Les Carolines' in 1755: Their Origins, Identities and Subsequent Movements", Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, dir., Du grand dérangement à la déportation. Nouvelles perspectives historiques, (Moncton, Chaire d’études acadiennes, 2005, p. 338
6. ↑ "Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-899S-672N?cc=1321742&wc=HCMP-JWL%3A13684401%2C13684402%2C13684403 : 16 July 2014), Deschambault > Saint-Joseph-de-Deschambault > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1705-1782 > image 255 of 392; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal.
7. ↑ "Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-899S-2XTZ?cc=1321742&wc=HCNP-829%3A14637901%2C14637902%2C14637903 : 16 July 2014), L'Assomption > L'Assomption > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1756-1782 > image 122 of 588; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal.

See also:

• Geneanet.org, Karen Theriot Reader’s Family Tree, Page for Pierre Girouard
• BIRTH-MARRIAGE: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1600-1800; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, vols. 2-6; p. 547 (Port Royal)
• 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. 731.