Marie Madeleine GIROUARD

(b. abt. 1654 , Port Royal, Acadia d. abt. 1714 , Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) )

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Marie Madeleine GIROUARD was born abt. 1654 in Port Royal, Acadia

Marie Madeleine GIROUARD was the child of François GIROUARD and Jeanne AUCOIN and the grandchild of: (maternal) Martin AUCOIN and Barbe MINGUET

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Marie Madeleine married Thomas CORMIER abt. 1668 in Port Royal, Acadia . The couple had (at least) 9 children.
Thomas CORMIER was born abt. 1636 in France. Thomas died abt. 1693 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence). Thomas was the child of Robert CORMIER and Marie PERAUD (PERRAULT).

Marie Madeleine GIROUARD died abt. 1714 in Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) .
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Marie Madeleine GIROUARD married

Thomas CORMIER-- Date: abt. 1668 Place: Port Royal, Acadia
Thomas CORMIER was the child of Robert CORMIER and Marie PERAUD (PERRAULT)

"Marie-Madeleine Girouard was only fourteen when she married Thomas Cormier, who at thrity-two was more than twice her age; she bore ten children over the next twenty years, ending her reproductive years at the relatively young age of thirty-four."

Source: A Great and Noble Scheme by John Mack Faragher, page 65

" In 1668, at age 32, Thomas Cormier finally started a family of his own when he married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, 14-year-old daughter of Francois Girouard, at Port-Royal. He and Madeleine had 10 children. Five of their daughters married into the Boudrot, Haché dit Gallant, Cyr, and Poirier families. Thomas and Madeleine's four sons married granddaughters of Daniel LeBlanc.

In the early 1670s, Thomas, with one of his brothers-in-law, helped pioneer the Acadian settlement at Chignecto. By any measure of material success in that place and time, he and his family fared very well along the Baie de Beaubassin. When the census taker came to Chignecto in 1686 and noted the settlers' land and animal holdings, only the seigneur of Beaubassin, Michel Le Neuf, Sieur de La Valliere, controlled more land than Thomas Cormier; La Valliere held 60 arpents; Thomas and three other heads of households in the settlement each held 40 arpents of land. Not even the seigneur had as many cattle as Thomas; the census taker counted 30 head for him. Only the seigneur and two other settlers had more sheep; Thomas had 10. Only four other settlers had as many or more hogs than Thomas, who owned 15.

A few years later, in c1690, Thomas died at Chignecto in his mid-50s. In the decades that followed, his four sons and their LeBlanc wives from Grand-Pré set down solid roots at Chignecto"

Source: www.acadiansingray.com

Children of Thomas CORMIER and Marie Madeleine GIROUARD:

Madeleine Marie CORMIER (b.abt. 1670, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) d. abt. 1714, , Acadia, Canada )
m. Michel BOUDROT 1690 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

François CORMIER (b.abt. 1672, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) d. abt. 1732, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) )
m. Marguerite LEBLANC 1692 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

Anne Marie CORMIER (b.abt. 1674, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) d. 10 January 1739, Charlottetown, Ile Saint-Jean, Acadia )
m. Michel HACHE dit GALLANT 1690 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

Alexis CORMIER (b.abt. 1676, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) d. abt. 1750, , Acadia, Canada )
m. Marie Anne LEBLANC 1697 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

Germain CORMIER (b.abt. 1680, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) d. 10 January 1758, Québec, Canada, New France )
m. Marie Josephe LEBLANC 1703 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

Pierre CORMIER (b.25 March 1682, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) d. 17 July 1730, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) )
m. Catherine Marie LEBLANC 1702 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

Claire Angélique CORMIER (b.2 June 1684, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) d. 13 February 1747, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) )
m. Pierre CYR 1701 in , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

Marie Jeanne CORMIER (b.12 May 1686, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) d. 24 September 1748, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) )
m. Jean Baptiste POIRIER 1706 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

Marie Agnes CORMIER (b.12 May 1686, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) d. abt. 1751, Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) )
m. Pierre POIRIER 1705 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

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

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1671 Port Royal
Thomas CORMIER, carpenter, 35, wife Madeline GIROUARD 17; Child: 1 daughter 2; cattle 7, sheep 7.
1671 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1682 Birth of Child
Pierre CORMIER was born 25 March 1682, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

1684 Birth of Child
Claire Angélique CORMIER was born 2 June 1684, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

1686 Port Royal
Thomas CORMIER 55, Magdelaine GIROUARD 37; children: Magdeleine 18. Francois 16, Alexis 14, Marie 12, Germain 10, Pierre 8, Angelique 4, twins Marie and Jeanne 1; 4 guns, 40 arpents, 30 cattle, 10 sheep, 15 hogs.
1686 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1686 Birth of Child
Marie Agnes CORMIER was born 12 May 1686, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

1686 Birth of Child
Marie Jeanne CORMIER was born 12 May 1686, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

1693 Beaubassin
Madeleine GIROUARD (widow of Thomas CORMIER) 39, Alexis 16, Germain 13, Pierre 11, Claire 9, Marie 7, Agnes 7, Jeanne 5; 16 cattle, 4 sheep, 12 pigs
1693 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

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

1698 Port Royal
Marie-Madeleine GIROUARD (widow of Thomas CORMIER?) 45; Germain 18; Pierre 16; Claire 14; Marie and Agnes, twins, 12; Jeanne 10; 12 cattle, 4 sheep, 8 hogs,
1698 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1700 Beaubassin
Madelaine GIROUARD, widow of Francois CORMIER, 47; Germain 20; Pierre 18; Claire 16; Marie and Agnes (twins) 12; Jeanne 12; 17 cattle, 12 sheep, 4 hogs, 24 arpents.
1700 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

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