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Marguerite "Judith" DOUCET

(b. abt. 1625 , France d. 19 December 1707 , Port Royal, Acadia )

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Marguerite "Judith" DOUCET was born abt. 1625 in France

Marguerite "Judith" DOUCET was the child of Germain DOUCET dit LAVERDURE and Marie BOURGEOIS?

Marguerite "Judith" was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1648.

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Marguerite "Judith" married Abraham DUGAS dit COIGNET abt. 1647 . The couple had (at least) 8 children. Abraham DUGAS dit COIGNET was born abt. 1616 in St Anne D'auray, Bretagne, France. Abraham died abt. 1698 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia).

Marguerite "Judith" DOUCET died 19 December 1707 in Port Royal, Acadia .
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Marguerite "Judith" DOUCET married

Abraham DUGAS dit COIGNET-- Date: abt. 1647 Place:

Children of Abraham DUGAS dit COIGNET and Marguerite "Judith" DOUCET:

Marie DUGAS (b.abt. 1648, Port Royal, Acadia d. 7 July 1737, Port Royal, Acadia )
m. Charles MELANSON dit LAVERDURE 1663 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

Claude DUGAS (b.abt. 1652, , Acadia, Canada d. 16 October 1732, Port Royal, Acadia )
m. Françoise BOURGEOIS 1673 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)
m. Marguerite BOURG abt. 1697 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

Anne DUGAS (b.abt. 1654, Port Royal, Acadia d. 4 November 1740, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) )
m. Charles BOURGEOIS 1668 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)
m. Jean-Aubin MIGNAULT (MIGNEAULT) dit CHÂTILLON 26 April 1679 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

Martin DUGAS (b.abt. 1656, Port Royal, Acadia d. abt. 1680, , Acadia, Canada )
m. Marguerite PETITPAS 1677 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

Marguerite DUGAS (b.abt. 1657, , Acadia, Canada d. abt. 1685, , Acadia, Canada )
m. Pierre ARSENAULT (ARCENAULT) (ARSENEAU) 1675 in , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

Abraham DUGAS (b.abt. 1660, , Acadia, Canada d. 3 May 1720, Port Royal, Acadia )
m. Jeanne GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU) 1685 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

Madeleine DUGAS (b.abt. 1664, Port Royal, Acadia d. 8 August 1738, Port Royal, Acadia )
m. Germain BOURGEOIS 1682 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

Marie DUGAS (b.abt. 1666, , Acadia, Canada d. 13 January 1734, Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia )
m. Andre LEBLANC 1683 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

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Doucet family
'Doucet is a name now very widely diffused in the Martime Provinces, there being about five hundred families who bear that name in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Of these, 170 families are in Gloucester, 120 in Yarmouth county, 100 in Digby and 60 in Inverness. There are a few families of the name, 45 in all, in Kent, Northumberland, Restigouche, Mada- waska and Westmorland. All these people are undoubtedly descended from Pierre and Germain Doucet, whose names appear in the census of 1671. Pierre Doucet was 50 years old when that census was taken, and in 1687 he was one of the 'ancient inhabitants' of Port Royal who certified with regard to the work done by Charnisay in the settlement of Acadia. He signed this document with his mark, so that he was an uneducated man. He was married to Henriette Peltret and they had five children, three boys and two girls, the oldst son, Toussant, being only eight years old. Doucet's trade was that of a mason. Germain Doucet was 30 years old and he was ...Read MORE...

Source: Pioneers of Acadia by Stephen A. White

1656 - The pendulum clock is invented (Christiaan Huygens, Netherlands)

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1671 Port Royal
Abraham DUGAST, gunsmith, 55, wife Marie Judith DOUCET 46; Children: Claude 19, Martin 15, Abraham 10, Marie 23, Anne 17, Margueritte 14, Magdeleine 7, Marie 5; cattle 19, sheep 3.
1671 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1678 Port Royal
Abraham Dugast & Marguerite Doucet

12 acres 20 cattle 1 gun

1 boy 18 1660 Abraham

2 girls 15 1663 Madeleine

12 1666 Marie

1678 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1679 Marriage of Child
Anne DUGAS married 26 April 1679 , Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) to Jean-Aubin MIGNAULT (MIGNEAULT) dit CHÂTILLON

1686 Port Royal
Abraham DUGAS 70, Marguerite DOUCET 50.
1686 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1693 Port Royal
Abraham DUGAS 74, Marguerite DOUCET 66, Claude 44, Francoise BOURGEOIS (his wife) 34, Marie 17, Claude 16, Francoise 14, Joseph 13, Marguerite 11, Anne 10, Jeanne 9, Agnes 7, Francois 5, Madeleine 4, Cecile 1; 20 cattle, 30 sheep, 15 pigs, 26 arpents, 4 guns
1693 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1698 - The steam engine is invented (Thomas Savery, England)

1700 Port Royal
Marguerite DOUCET, widow of Abraham DUGAST; Claude DUGAST 51; Marguerite BOURG (wife age not reported); Claude 23; Francois 12; Joseph 2; Marguerite 18; Anne 17; Jeanne 16; Agnes 14; Madelaine 11; Cecille 8; Marguerite 3; 40 cattle, 25 sheep, 28 arpents, 3 guns.
1700 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1707 Death
19 December 1707
Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

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