Marie  PITRE DE PALOMCOUP

François Amireau dit Tourangeau, born in c1644 in Touraine, France, hence his dit, may have come to the colony aboard L'Oranger. He married Marie, daughter of Jean Pitre and Marie Pesseley, in c1683. De Meulles counted them at Port-Royal in 1686. François, whom the intendant called a Tourangeau, was age 42, and Marie was 22. They were living with a daughter, age 2. De Meulles did not give the size of their farm or the number of their animals. Marie gave François 11 children, including five sons who created families of their own. Many of them settled in the Cap-Sable area and became the largest family there.