Jeanne DUGAS
Biography

Pierre dit La Forest, son of Pierre Part and Catherine Piouset of Mouzens, bishopric of Tulle, France, born in c1685, was a soldier in la compagnie de Falaise, serving in the garrison at Port-Royal, when he married Jeanne, daughter of Claude Dugas, in February 1707. Pierre dit La Forest became a blacksmith at Port-Royal after his term of service expired. By 1713, he had moved his family to Louisbourg and then to Niganiche on Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, probably to escape British authority in Nova Scotia. He and Jeanne had six children, including three sons who created families of their own. Their two daughters married into the Jobelet dit Bistoury and Benoit families.

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Port-Royal in December 1709, married Angélique, daughter of Gabriel Godin dit Châtillon, sieur de Bellefontaine, at Rivière St.-Jean, present-day New Brunswick, in c1737. They settled on Rivière St.-Jean.

Jean, born probably on Île Royale, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Roy, probably on Île Royale in c1735.

Youngest son Eustache, born at Port-d'Orléans, Île Royale, in c1722, married twice, first to Anastasie, daughter of Joseph Godin dit Bellefontaine dit Beauséjour, probably on Île Royale in c1750, and then to Anne, daughter of Jean Melanson, at Trés-Ste.-Trinité, Cherbourg, France, in February 1761 during Le Grand Dérangement.

In 1755, the descendants of Pierre dit La Forest Part could be found on Rivière St.-Jean and on Île Royale.

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