Toussaint Dit François DOUCET

(b. abt. 1663 , Port Royal, Acadia d. 9 August 1713 , Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) )

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Toussaint Dit François DOUCET was born abt. 1663 in Port Royal, Acadia

Toussaint Dit François 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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Toussaint Dit François married Marie CAISSIE abt. 1690 in Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) . The couple had (at least) 8 children.
Marie CAISSIE was born abt. 1669 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia). Marie died abt. 1709 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence). Marie was the child of Roger QUESSY (CAISSIE) and Marie Françoise POIRIER.

Toussaint Dit François DOUCET died 9 August 1713 in Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence) .
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Toussaint Dit François DOUCET married

Marie CAISSIE-- Date: abt. 1690 Place: Beaubassin, Acadia (Fort Lawrence)
Marie CAISSIE was the child of Roger QUESSY (CAISSIE) and Marie Françoise POIRIER

Children of Toussaint Dit François DOUCET and Marie CAISSIE:

François Charles DOUCET (b.abt. 1691, , Acadia, Canada d. , )
m. Marie Anne POIRIER 20 November 1715 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

Marie DOUCET (b.abt. 1692, , Acadia, Canada d. , )
m. Germain GIROUARD 1710 in , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

Michel DOUCET (b.abt. 1694, , Acadia, Canada d. , )

Anne DOUCET (b.abt. 1697, , Acadia, Canada d. , )
m. Denis GAUDET 1717 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)
m. Jean Baptiste BERTRAND 1731 in , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

Pierre DOUCET (b.abt. 1702, , Acadia, Canada d. , )

Marguerite DOUCET (b.abt. 1706, , Acadia, Canada d. , )

Madeleine DOUCET (b.abt. 1710, , Acadia, Canada d. , )
m. Pierre RICHARD 11 August 1733 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

Marguerite DOUCET (b.abt. 1717, , Acadia, Canada d. abt. 1757, )

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Oldest son Toussaint dit François, born in c1663, married Marie, daughter of Irishman Roger Caissie, at Port-Royal in c1690. Toussaint dit Francois and Marie settled at Chignecto and had 11 children, including three sons who married into the Poirier, Brasseur dit Mathieu, and Cormier families. Their five daughters married into the Girouard, Gaudet, Bertrand, Doiron, and Richard families. Toussaint died probably at Chignecto in c1733.
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1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1671 Port Royal
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.
1671 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

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

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