Louis DOUCET

(b. abt. 1674 , Port Royal, Acadia d. , )

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Louis DOUCET was born abt. 1674 in Port Royal, Acadia

Louis DOUCET was the child of Pierre DOUCET dit LAVERDURE and Henriette PELLETRET and the grandchild of: (paternal) Germain DOUCET dit LAVERDURE and Marie BOURGEOIS? (maternal) Simon PELLETRET and Perrine BOURG

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Louis married Marguerite GIROUARD abt. 1701 in Port Royal, Acadia . The couple had (at least) 7 children.
Marguerite GIROUARD was born abt. 1682 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia). Marguerite was the child of Jacques Jacob GIROUARD and Marguerite GAUTROT (GAUTREAU).

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Marguerite GIROUARD-- Date: abt. 1701 Place: Port Royal, Acadia
Marguerite GIROUARD was the child of Jacques Jacob GIROUARD and Marguerite GAUTROT (GAUTREAU)

Marguerite, married Louis Doucet, son of Pierre Doucet and Henriette Pelletret, in Beaubassin, Acadia, Canada

(White, Stephen A. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Famillies Acadiennes. volume I. Moncton, Canada: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999).

Children of Louis DOUCET and Marguerite GIROUARD:

Pierre DOUCET (b.abt. 1705, , Acadia, Canada d. , )
m. Marie Anne RICHARD 1724 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

Louis DOUCET (b.abt. 1707, , Acadia, Canada d. , )

Marguerite DOUCET (b.abt. 1711, , Acadia, Canada d. , )
m. François POIRIER 1726 in , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

Madeleine DOUCET (b.abt. 1713, , Acadia, Canada d. , )
m. Michel RICHARD 1733 in , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

Marie DOUCET (b.abt. 1714, , Acadia, Canada d. 30 November 1789, Nicolet, Province of Québec, Canada )
m. Jean Baptiste GAUDET 1731 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)
m. Charles ORION dit CHAMPAGNE (ORILLON) 27 June 1763 in Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste)

Joseph DOUCET (b.abt. 1715, , Acadia, Canada d. , )

Madeleine DOUCET (b.9 August 1722, , Acadia, Canada d. , )
m. Joseph LANDRY 1748 in Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia)

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Louis, born in c1674, married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Bourgeois, at Port-Royal in c1702. They settled at Chignecto and had seven children, including two sons who married into the Richard and Carret families. Three of their daughters married into the Poirier, Richard, Gaudet, and Orillon dit Champagne families.
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1678 Port Royal
Pierre Doucet & Henriette Pelletret

1 1/ 2 acres 10 cattle 1 gun

5 boys 17 1661 Toussaint

12 1666 Pierre

14 1664 Jean

6 1672 Louis

3/ M 1678

2 girls 10 1668 Madeleine

3 1675 Jeanne
1678 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1686 Port Royal
Pierre DOUCET 55 (sic 65), Henriette PELTRET 40; children: Toussaints 23, Jean 20, Pierre 18, Magdelaine 16, Louis 12, Jeanne 10, Pierre 8, Marguerite 6, Mathieu 1; 2 guns, 5 arpents, 8 cattle, 12 sheep, 6 hogs.
1686 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1693 Port Royal
Pierre DOUCET (widower) 56, Louis 19, Rene 13, Mathieu 8; 10 cattle, 12 sheep, 10 pigs, 8 arpents, 1 gun

1693 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1698 Port Royal
Pierre DOUCET widower 80; Louis 24; Rene 18; Mathieu 10 Margueritte 12; 12 cattle 8 sheep, 5 hogs, 16 arpents, 40 fruit trees, 1 gun.
1698 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion