immigrant flag male ancestor  Jean-Pierre  BRASSEAU (BRAZEAU)

  (b. abt. 1663 France   d. 18 October 1729 Port Royal, Acadia )  

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Jean-Pierre BRASSEAU (BRAZEAU) was born abt. 1663 in France

Jean-Pierre BRASSEAU (BRAZEAU) was the child of ?   and   ?

Jean-Pierre was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1691.

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Jean-Pierre  married  Gabrielle Isabelle FOREST dite MICHEL abt. 1691 in Port Royal, Acadia .  The couple had (at least) 4 children.
Gabrielle Isabelle FOREST dite MICHEL  was born abt. 1673 in Acadia, Canada (Acadie).  Gabrielle Isabelle died 9 November 1710 in Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia).  Gabrielle Isabelle was the child of Michel DEFOREST and Marie HÉBERT.

Jean-Pierre BRASSEAU (BRAZEAU) died 18 October 1729 in Port Royal, Acadia .
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Jean-Pierre BRASSEAU (BRAZEAU) married Grave has been locatedflag female ancestor Gabrielle Isabelle FOREST dite MICHEL-- Date: abt. 1691 Place: Port Royal, Acadia
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Gabrielle Isabelle FOREST dite MICHEL was the child of Michel DEFOREST and Marie HÉBERT


Pierre Brassaud or Brassaux married Gabrielle, daughter of Michel Forest dit Michel and Marie Hébert, at Port-Royal in c1691. They settled on Rivière-de-l'Ascension at Minas and at nearby Pigiguit. Gabrielle gave Pierre nine children, including a son who may have created a family of his own.

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Pierre Brassaud or Brassaux, born in France in c1663, reached Port-Royal by 1691, the year he married Gabrielle, daughter of Michel Forest. They moved on to Rivière-de-l'Ascension in the Minas Basin and then to nearby Pigiguit. Pierre and Gabrielle had nine children, only two of them sons. Only one of the sons, the younger one, survived childhood. Five of their seven daughters married into the Boudrot, Guédry dit Grivois, and Robichaud dit Cadet families. The surviving son, Pierre, fils, born after the Port-Royal census of 1707, married a woman whose name has been lost to history probably at Annapolis Royal in c1735. Pierre, fils survived Le Grand Dérangement and was a widower in Pennsylvania in 1763.
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1710 Death of Spouse/Partner
Gabrielle Isabelle FOREST dite MICHEL died 9 November 1710, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia)
marriage1723 Marriage of Child
Catherine BRASSEAU married 18 October 1723, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) to Jean BOUDROT (BOUDREAU)
death1729 Death
18 October 1729
Port Royal, Acadia
Added: 2/18/2015 1:03:50 PM - Updated: 11/17/2025 2:59:11 PM

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