Pierre Doucet
(1621 - 1 Jun 1713)
Pierre Doucet (1621,
Sedan, France
- 1 Jun 1713,
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)
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Pedigree Chart
Pierre was the child of ?
Son of Germain Doucet and Marie Bourgeois
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With the fall of Port Royal in 1654 , Pierre took refuge in Québec were his wife died. After a few years Pierre and his son Germain returned to Acadia .Pierre remarried in 1660 to Heriette Pelletret and had 11 more children.
Ancestor's Life Events
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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 married to Marie Landry, by whom he had three sons, the oldest six years of age. Abraham Dugast, armorer, who was 55 years old, was married to a woman named Doucet, and as she had eight children, a son of 19 and daughters possibly still older, we may assume that she was then not much less than 40 years old. Pierre and Germain Doucet and Abraham Dugast's wife were probably the children of the original settler Doucet who may have come to Acadia in 1632. At all events, Doucet is one of Acadia's ancient names and the Doucets are among our first families. Peltret, the name of Pierre Doucet's wife, was also the name of the wife of Barnabu Martin, who had two young children. Doubtless the two women were sisters and both quite young, the children of a deceased original settler. This conjecture is strengthened by the fact that, although there was no male head of a family named Peltret in Acadia in 1671, there was a family named Peltret at Port Royal in 1686, when the census of Acadia was again taken. In that year Port Royal was still the home of the Doucets, but in 1714 some of them were residing at Mines. The oath of allegiance of 1736 was signed by no less than fifteen men named Doucet. There were only three families of the name deported from Mines by Winslow in 1755, but in 1752 there were ten famil1es of that name at Beausejour, all of them, except one from Cobequid, being residents of the settlements in the vicinity of the fort." Source: The New Brunswick Magazine Published by W.K. Reynolds, 1899 Item notes: v.2 (1899) Original from Harvard University Digitized Sep 29, 2007 |
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1654 - Fled to Quebec "Pierre (Laverdure) Doucet, b-1621 fled to Quebec in 1654 when Port Royal, Acadia fell, his 1st wife whom he married in 1640 died in Quebec, 2nd marriage 1660, Heriette Pelletret when he returned to Acadia. " Source: http:/www.telusplanet.net/public/dgarneau/french15.htm |
 Port Royal  1671 Acadian Census Pierre DOUCET, bricklayer 50, wife Henriette PELTRET 31; Children: Anne 10, Toussaint 8, Jean 6, Pierre 4, and 1 daughter 3 months; cattle 7, sheep 6. |
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Port Royal 1678 Acadian Census
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 |
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Port Royal 1686 Acadian Census 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. |
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Port Royal 1693 Acadian Census Pierre DOUCET (widower) 56, Louis 19, Rene 13, Mathieu 8; 10 cattle, 12 sheep, 10 pigs, 8 arpents, 1 gun |
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Port Royal 1698 Acadian Census 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. |
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Port Royal 1700 Acadian Census Pierre DOUCET, widower, 63; Rene 20; Mathieu 15; 8 cattle, 10 sheep, 8 arpents, 1 gun. |
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Port Royal 1701 Acadian Census Pierre DOUCET (widower) 80; Rene DOUCET 21, Mathieu 15; 2 guns, 9 cattle, 6 sheep, 2 hogs. 6 arpents. |
 2 June 1713 - Burial The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755 RG 1 Vol. 26 p.355Pierre Doucet, nearly one hundred years old |
Ancestor's Marriage(s) and Child(ren)
 married
Henriette Pelletret
-- Date: 1661 Place:
Acadia, Canada
"Germain's older son Pierre was born in France in c1621. He settled at Port-Royal, worked as a mason, and did not marry until c1660, when he was nearly 40. His wife Henriette, daughter of Simon Pelletret, was 20 years his junior and gave him 10 children. Their four daughters married into the Hébert, Bernard, Doiron, Chênet Dubreuil, and Comeau families. Pierre died at Port-Royal in June 1713; he was 92 years old. Five of his six sons, all born at Port-Royal, created families of their own." Source: http:/www.acadiansingray.com/ |
Family Group Record
for Pierre Doucet and Henriette Pelletret
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Children:
Marie Anne Doucet (1661, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 4 Nov 1710, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Acadia))
Toussaint dit Francois Doucet (abt. 1663, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - bef. 11 August 1733, )
Jean Doucet (abt. 1665, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - bef. 1742, )
Pierre Doucet (abt. 1667, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
Madeleine Doucet (abt. Aug 1671, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - bef. 25 Feb 1740, )
Louis Doucet (abt. 1674, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
Louise dite Jeanne Doucet (abt. 1675, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - bef. 7 Jan 1733, )
Rene Doucet (abt. 1678, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - aft. 1727, )
Marguerite Doucet (abt. 1680, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 18 July 1747, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia))
Mathieu Doucet (abt. 1685, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - bef. 20 July 1760, ) |
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