Marie Henry (abt. 1681 - 1758)

Born about 1681 in Port Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Wife of Noel Doiron — married about 1705 in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 13 Dec 1758 at about age 77 in At Sea

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Biography

Marie Henry was born about 1681 in Port Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France, daughter of Robert Henry (abt. 1643–bef. 1736) and Madeleine Marie Godin (1665–aft. 1719).

In 1686, at Port Royal, Marie, aged 5, was living with her parents, Robert HENRY, aged 43, and Marie-Magdelaine [sic] GODIN, aged 20, and her three siblings: Martin, aged 7, Jean, aged 2, and a baby, not yet baptized. The family owned 1 gun, 4 cattle and 8 hogs.^[1][2]

She was among 45 prisoners taken hostage in a retaliatory raid of Grand Pré, Pisiguit, and Beaubassin by Benjamin Church in 1704.^[3]

She [may have] married Noel Doiron, native of Mines, son of Jean Douairon and Marie Anne Canol, while they were being held hostage at Boston; their first son was born there.^[3] Upon their return, the bay was baptized, and the marriage was re-validated 24 September 1706 at Port Royal.^[4][5]

Known children of the marriage:

1. Louis Mathieu DOIRON (1706-1758)
2. Marie Madeleine DOIRON (1707-1758)
3. Marguerite DOIRON (c.1709-)
4. Paul DOIRON (1710-1758)
5. Pierre DOIRON (c.1711-1746)
6. Francois DOIRON (c.1713-1758)
7. Joseph DOIRON (c.1715-1758)
8. Marguerite DOIRON (c.1720-1759)

Around 1750, they decided to settle on Isle Saint-jean (in present-day Prince Edward Island). In 1752 Noël, age 70, and Marie, age 72, were recorded on the La Roque census at Pointe Prime, Isle Saint-Jean. Their grandson Jean-Baptiste was living with them. They were residing next to their sons François and Joseph and their families.^[6]

"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."^[7]

Noel Doiron, his wife, Marie Henry, five of their children, more than thirty of their grandchildren, and many of their great-grandchildren were among the Acadian families on Ile St-Jean who died in the sinking of the Duke William deportation ship off the coast of France in December of 1758.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1686 Acadian Census, at Port-Royal, Acadie 1686 Census Transcribed. The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the Library and Archives Canada "Acadie Recensements 1671 - 1752," Images 15-60;

   at Port Royal: Robert HENRY 43, Marie-Magdelaine GODIN 20; children: Martin 7, Marie 5, Jean 2, and one (baby) who is not baptized; 1 gun, 4 cattle, 10 sheep. Madeleine Marie was listed as Marie Magdelaine in the original 1686 census and transcribed as Marie-Magdelaine with a hyphen.

2. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino, Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home, website, 1686 Census; citing Monsieur De Meulles, Intendant of New France and All the People of Beaubassin, Riviere St-Jean, Port-Royal, Isle Pers?e and other Colonies of Acadia where he himself visited all of the Habitations at the beginning of the year 1686.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Wikipedia contributors, "Noël Doiron," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=No%C3%ABl_Doiron&oldid=1013481162 (accessed May 2, 2021).
4. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Port-Royal, N.-É.)-1870 C-1870 (image 123) https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1870/123?r=0&s=5
5. ↑ An Acadian Parish Remembered, "The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755," Noel Douairon and Marie Henry marriage RG 1, volume 26, page 279 https://novascotia.ca/archives/acadian/archives.asp?ID=1213
6. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. 120, image 270. 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. 447, Image 451

   Noël Douaron, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 70 years, and has been in the country 26 months. Married to Marie Henry, native of l'Acadie, aged 72 years. They have with them Jean Baptiste Douaron, their grandson, native of l'Acadie, aged 17 years. And in stock, two cows with their calves. The land upon which they are settled is situated as in the preceding cases. It was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. On it they have made a clearing for the sowing of twelve bushels of grain in the coming spring.

7. ↑ 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.

• Stephen A.White, Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert. Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes. Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 1999, Print, p841.

• Stephen A. White, English Supplement to the Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes, Moncton NB: Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, Universite de Moncton, 1999, p. 111