Born about in Mataize, Loudun, Vienne, France
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Michelle Paullin
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died about
at about age 80
in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nouvelle-Écosse, Canada [uncertain]
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Supposed Biography
[Jean] André Richard is supposed to have been born on 20 Nov 1600 in Mataize, Loudun, Vienne, France. There is no identified record for this.
He is often supposed to have married Michelle Paullin, and to have son Michel Richard. Michel Richard is a real person who was born in France around 1630 and died in Acadie around 1689. However there are no records identifying his parents.
André Richard is also supposed to have died on 21 May 1681 in Annapolis Royale, Acadie (now Nova Scotia, Canada), and buried in Garrison Graveyard in Annapolis Royale. This is reported in a Find A Grave entry, but that entry is unsourced and provides no gravestone marker or other evidence to support this claim.[1]
Discussion
André Richard was not listed in the 1671 or the 1678 Acadian census. It is unlikely that he arrived in Acadie after 1678 (at age 78 or older) and then died there in 1681. Further, while his supposed son Michel Richard was an Acadien, and listed in both censuses, his parents are not identified' by Stephen White in his entry for Michel. If André were living in Acadie at that time, he probably would have been living with his son, but is not.
Find A Grave lists him as buried in Garrison Cemetery in Annapolis Royal, now Nova Scotia, Canada, but provides no support for this. The Garrison Graveyard has headstones that date back to 1720; wooden grave markers used by the Acadians at the turn of the 17 century have long since rotted away (https://www.thestar.com/halifax/2019/01/30/images-show-evidence-of-what-could-be-one-of-canadas-oldest-graveyards.html) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrison_Cemetery_(Annapolis_Royal,_Nova_Scotia). However the presence of any Richard in that cemetery is not documented, nor are any deaths in the 1600's and none in 1681 (http://sites.rootsweb.com/~nsannapo/cemeteries.html).
Sources
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #153785843
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Also I see there is now a Hugette Foirier mother that sounds a lot like Hugette Poirier. . .