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"Francois was born in 1682. He was the son of Jean Pitre and Marie Pesseley. He was to remain the youngest son in the family."[1]
In 1686 at Port Royal, Francois age 4 was living with his parents Jean PITRE age 61 (sic) and Marie PESELET (sic) age 45 and his 6 siblings: Claude age 16, Mare (sic) age 12, Pierre age 9, Jean age 6, , an unnamed girl age 2 and an unnamed girl age 1 month. By this time his two oldest sisters had married and were settled nearby with their husbands.[2]
"Even though his father died when he was only seven, his mother remarried fairly soon providing some sort of stability for Francois and his siblings. The family continued to live in the Port Royal area.
In the summer of 1705 Francois married 18-year-old Anne Prejean, the second daughter of French-born Jean Prejean and his Acadian wife Andree Savoie.[3][4] They had eleven children over the next twenty years, much of which was spent under British rule. In 1725 personal tragedy struck. Twins Anne and Theotiste were born at the end of August, but within three months both the twins had died as well as Francois, who was only 44.
Anne was left with nine children, and they were on their own for the next seven years. In 1732, with four of her brood married, she married again to a widower, Michel Boudrot, who had lost his wife the previous spring. Her daughter had married one of his sons the previous year, and two more daughters and a son would also go on to marry his offspring." [1][5]
In the original 1686 Census, Mare is spelled Marc.[6]
at Port Royal: Jean PITRE 61, Marie PESELET 45; children: Claude 16, Mare 12, Pierre 9, Jean 6, Francois 4, one girl 2, one girl 1 month.
http://www.acadian-home.org/census1686.html "Jean PITRE 61, Marie PESELET 45; children: Claude 16, Mare 12, Pierre 9, Jean 6, Francois 4, one girl 2, one girl 1 month. "
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