Jean Doiron Progenitor of the Doiron Family

GENERATION 1

        1.  JEAN¹ DOIRON was born Abt. 1649 in France, and died Bet. 28 April 1735 - 03 June 1736 in Ste-Famille de Pigiguit, Acadia - DBIM.  He married (1) MARIE-ANNE CANOL Abt. 1671.  She was born Abt. 1651, and died 1693 in Before census of 1693.  He married (2) MARIE TRAHAN 1693 in Before census of 1693, daughter of GUILLAUME TRAHAN and MADELEINE BRUN.  She was born Abt. 1672 in Port-Royal , Acadia.

Notes for JEAN DOIRON:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513

DOIRON, Jean

The Doiron family traces its roots back to Jean Doiron, born in France about 1649. His name first appears on the Census of 1686. Married twice, he was the father of at least nineteen children.

Jean's parentage is unknown. Placide Gaudet cites his birthplace as Saint-Martin de l'île de Ré though other genealogists have not been able to find this link.

He married Marie-Anne Canol and in a second marriage, he wed Marie Trahan.

When Jean Doiron appears in the census of 1686, he is called Jean Douaron, aged 37 and married to Marianne Cannol, aged 35. At this time, he had seven children, which means they would have married about 1671. At the time of this census, it is also noted that Jean Doiron was certainly not a farmer. He had no land cultivated though he had seven horned animals and a sheep. This could in- dicate that he was newly arrived in Port-Royal. Could it be that he had another profession/trade - perhaps that of a soldier or navigator?

Very few details are available about his life in Port-Royal. His wife Marie-Anne Canol died about 1690. He married Marie Trahan in 1671 when he was 42 and she was 20. In 1693, he had settled his family in the colony of Mines (Les Mines).

By 1693 he was a well established farmer with eight acres of cultivated land, 8 horned animals, 9 lambs and 5 hogs.

Jean died at Pisiguit about 1735.

Sources: 1.  La Famille Doiron by Allen Doiron - Fidèle Thériault

2.  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

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DOIRON, Jean, married Marie-Anne Canol, and both of them were from France, according to Pierre Trahan, husband of his granddaughter Madeleine Vincent (Doc. inéd., Vol. III, p. 111). Another Pierre Trahan, who was a nephew of Jean Doiron?s second wife, Marie Trahan, mistakenly attributes the given name of Charles to him (ibid., p. 8), as do three other depositions: one from Jean Doiron?s grandson Jean Hébert (ibid., p. 11), one from his great-grandson Félix Boudrot (ibid., p. 39), and the last from Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc on behalf of her son-in-law Miniac Daigre, another of the ancestor?s great-grandsons (ibid., p. 25). Miniac Daigre?s uncles Alexis and Jean Doiron in their joint deposition likewise call their grandfather Charles, but do not mention his place of origin (ibid., p. 16). The 1693 census shows clearly that the same man who was listed as the husband of Marie-Anne Canol in 1686 had remarried Marie Trahan, and both those censuses and various other records in Acadia uniformly call the Doiron forebear Jean (see DGFA-1, pp. 513-516).

Source:  Acadian Origins According to the Depositions Made by Their Descendants at Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1767 by Stephen A. White, January 17, 2005

Notes for MARIE-ANNE CANOL:

Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

CANOL, Marie-Anne, married Jean Doiron, and both of them were from France, according to Pierre Trahan, husband of her granddaughter Madeleine Vincent (Doc. inéd., Vol. III, p. 111). Marie-Anne?s family name is not provided in this deposition, but it is known from the 1686 census and the marriage records of three of her children in the registers of Port-Royal and Grand-Pré (see DGFA-1, pp. 513-514).

Source:  Acadian Origins According to the Depositions Made by Their Descendants at Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1767 by Stephen A. White, January 17, 2005

Notes for MARIE TRAHAN:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 1536

       

Children of JEAN DOIRON and MARIE-ANNE CANOL are:

        2                 i.    Anne-Marie² Doiron.  She married Michel Vincent Abt. 1710 in Pisiguit, Acadia  - DBIM; born Abt. 1668.

Notes for Anne-Marie Doiron:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513

Notes for Michel Vincent:

Source:  Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 1575 c.

        3                ii.    Abraham Doiron, born Abt. 1672; died Bef. 1705.  He married Anne Babin Abt. 1697; born Abt. 1674.

Notes for Abraham Doiron:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513 a. 3. & p 517 3.

Notes for Anne Babin:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 57-58

        4               iii.    Charles Doiron, born Abt. 1674; died 1758 in (DBIM) - Arch Port St-Servan - died at sea while being Deported to France..  He married Françoise Gaudet Aft. 1693; born Abt. 1673; died 1758 in (DBIM)- Arch Port St-Servan - died at sea while being Deported to rance.

Notes for Charles Doiron:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513

        5               iv.    Jeanne Doiron, born Abt. 1676 in Unknown; died Unknown in Unknown.  She married Jean Hébert Abt. 1692 in DBIM; born Abt. 1659 in nknown; died Unknown in Unknown.

Notes for Jeanne Doiron:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513

Notes for Jean Hébert:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 813

Explanatory Notes by S. A. White

i.  Note that the godparents of the two eldest daughters of Jeanne Hébert and Augustin Guédry included Jeanne Doiron and Charles Hébert (Rg GP 26 Sept 1723).

ii.  Nicolas Lacroix was a witness at Étienne Hébert's marriage (Rg GP 18 Aug 1734).  It would appear that he and Étienne were brothers-in-law.

iii.  One may well believe that Joseph belonged to Jean Hébert Senior's family because he was with Jean Junior in exile at Liverpool, England and because later on his widow and children settled in French Guiana together with some of Jean Junior's children.  There must have been a close relationship between Joseph and Jean Junior to explain the similarity of their itineraries.

iv.  Joseph Vincent dit Clément was a native of Port-Royal, but he settled in the parish of L'Assomption at Pisiguit, where his eldest son was born about 1741. It is likely that Joseph took up residence there because his wife was originally from that parish.  This leads to the deduction that his wife was a daughter of Jean Hébert and Jeanne Doiron, because they were the parents of the only Hébert family in L'Assomption parish at Pisiguit at the time of Joseph Vincent's wife's birth.

v.  Marie-Josèphe Lejeune and Marie Michel were both originally from Pisiguit.  It is likely that their husband originally came from the same place.   This supposition leads to the conclusion that Paul Hébert must have been a son of Jean Hébert and Jeanne Doiron, becuase at the time of Paul's birth theirs was the only Hébert family settled at Pisiguit.  This conclusion is reinforced by the fact that Paul bore the nickname Benjamin, which suggests that he was the youngest child of a large family.  Additionally, this connection provides an explanation for the settlement of Charles Hébert and Catherine Saulnier on a lot of land at the Anse-aux-Pirogues on Île St-Jean, near Paul's own lot.

Exlanatory Note by M. Barriault:

The dispensation for the fourth degree of kindred granted upon the marriage of Michel Henry, great-grandson of Jean Henry dit LeVieux and Marie Hébert, to Anne Hébert, great-granddaughter of Charles Hébert and Catherine Saulnier (Rg St-Charles de Ken 10 Jan 1825), leads to the conclusion that Marie Hébert, Catherine Saulnier's husband, were sister and brother, and thus that Marie was a member of Jean Hébert and Jeanne Doiron's family.

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White

& English Supplement, pp 167-168

        6                v.    Jean Doiron, born Abt. 1678; died Bef. 1750.  He married Anne LeBlanc Abt. 1710; born Abt. 1692 in Les Mines, Acadia; died 04 December 1757 in Québec, Canada.

Notes for Jean Doiron:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513

Notes for Anne LeBlanc:

Birth:  Census for Les Mines 1693 1a

Marriage according to A. Godbout

Death/burial:  Québec Register for December 4/4 1757 60a

She had been a widow at time of her death

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 991 d.

        7               vi.    PIERRE DOIRON, born Abt. 1680.  He married (1) Unknown Abt. 1703.  He married (2) MADELEINE DOUCET Abt. 1709; born Abt. August 1671; died Bef. 25 February 1740.  He married (3) Véronique Brasseur 25 February 1740 in Beaubassin, Acadia; born 12 June 1717 in Grand-Pré,  Acadia; died Bet. 1754 - 1755.

Notes for PIERRE DOIRON:

Registers:  Beaubassin;Grand Pre

Census:  Beaubassin 1703; newly weds; 1 able to carry arms

Census:  Mines [Grand-Pre] 1707:  1 son voe the age of 12

Census: Beaubassin 1714:  also living with them:  Jean-Baptiste, Anne, Marguerite, Joseph and Michel (children of René Bernard)

Census:  Aulac 1754-1755:  The old Pierre Doiron widower, 2 sons, 1 daughter

Secondary source:  Placide Gaudet, "Arbre généalogique de feu Dosithée-J. Doiron", L'Évangéline, 5 March 1942, p 12, col 1.

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 518-519 4.

Notes for Unknown:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 518-519 4.

Notes for MADELEINE DOUCET:

Port-Royal census 1671 - 3 months; 1678 - age 10; 1686 - age 16; Beaubassin census 1693 - age 23; 1698 - age 28; 1700 - age 30; 1714

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 529

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 518-519 4.

Notes for Véronique Brasseur:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 518-519 4. M 3.

        8              vii.    Philippe Doiron, born Abt. 1682.  He married Marie-Josèphe Guédry Abt. 1715 in Port-Toulouse, (St. Peters) Cape Breton; died Bef. 02 February 1752.

Notes for Philippe Doiron:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513 & 772

Notes for Marie-Josèphe Guédry:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 772 & 513

        9             viii.    Noël Doiron, born Abt. 1684 in Les Mines, Acadia; died Abt. 13 December 1758 in At sea on the Duke William while being Deported to France.  He married Marie Henry Abt. 1705 in Boston, Massachusetts; born Abt. 1681; died 13 December 1758 in At sea on the Duke William while being Deported to France.

Notes for Noël Doiron:

Noel Doiron, his wife, five of their children, more than thirty of their grandchildren, and many of their great grandchildren were among the Acadian families on Ile St-Jean who disappeared without a trace after 1758.  It appears that Noel Doiron was the old leader of the Acadians of Pointe-Prime who is mentioned but  not named in Captain Nicholls' account of the shipwreck of the Duke William.  According to this account, the old leader and all of his family perished when the ship sank at sea.

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513 & the English Supplement, p 111

Marriage Notes for Noël Doiron and Marie Henry:

Nuptial Blessing on 24 September 1706 at Port-Royal

        10              ix.    Marie Doiron, born Abt. 1687 in Port-Royal , Acadia; died 02 February 1733 in Louisbourg, Cape Breton.  She married (1) François Testard dit Paris 22 November 1706 in Port Royal , Acadia.  She married (2) Pierre Boisseau 05 September 1729 in Louisbourg, Cape Breton.

Notes for Marie Doiron:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513

        11               x.    Jacques (twin) Doiron, born Abt. 1689.

Notes for Jacques (twin) Doiron:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 513

        12              xi.    Louis (twin) Doiron, born Abt. 1689; died November 1727 in L'Assomption, Pisiguit, Acadia - DBIM.  He married Marguerite Barrieau 21 November 1712 in Grand-Pré ,  Acadia; born Abt. 1689; died in SS-Pierre & Paul de la Pointe-Prime, Ile St-Jean - DBIM.

Notes for Louis (twin) Doiron:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, p 525

Notes for Marguerite Barrieau:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, pages 76 & 77

       

Children of JEAN DOIRON and MARIE TRAHAN are:

        13               i.    Marguerite² Doiron, died Aft. 1752.  She married René Guillot dit Langevin Abt. 1719.

Notes for Marguerite Doiron:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

        14              ii.    MARIE DOIRON.  She married PIERRE GIROUARD 14 November 1709 in Grand-Pré, Acadia; born Abt. 1673 in Port Royal , Acadia.

Notes for MARIE DOIRON:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

Notes for PIERRE GIROUARD:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 720 b. 5. 724 5., 725 & 726

        15             iii.    Thomas Doiron, born Abt. 1699; died 1758 in Arch Port St-Servan - died at sea while being Deported to France..  He married Anne Girouard Abt. 1724; born Abt. 1704; died 10 December 1761 in Arch Port St-Servan - St-Suliac, France.

Notes for Thomas Doiron:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

Notes for Anne Girouard:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 724, 725 & 726

More About Anne Girouard:

Burial: 12 December 1761, St-Suliac, France

        16             iv.    Paul Doiron, born Abt. 1701; died Aft. 12 August 1763.  He married Marguerite Doucet Abt. 1725.

Notes for Paul Doiron:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

        17              v.    Alexandre Doiron, born Abt. 1703; died Bet. 1763 - 1768.  He married Anne Vincent 20 October 1727 in Grand-Pré ,  Acadia; born 17 June 1711 in Port- Royal , Acadia.

Notes for Alexandre Doiron:

Deported to Oxford, Maryland - in the census of 1763

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

Notes for Anne Vincent:

Baptised conditionally on 22 July 1711 by Abraham Bourg - Godparents:  Yves Maucaïre and Anne Lord

Census:  Oxford, Maryland 1763

On list of arrivals for Louisiana 1768 age 59

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 1582

        18             vi.    Madeleline Doiron, born Abt. 1705; died 11 January 1795 in St-Michel de Bellechase, Québec, Canada.  She married François Nogues Abt. 1729.

Notes for Madeleline Doiron:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

        19            vii.    Pierre Doiron, born Abt. 1706; died 29 March 1751 in Ile St-Jean (P.E.I.), Canada -  ( Port Lajoie Register).  He married Marguerite Breau Abt. 1746.

Notes for Pierre Doiron:

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

        20           viii.    Catherine Doiron, born Bet. 15 May - 29 June 1709 in Grand-Pré, Acadia; died 14 December 1784 in St-Ours, Québec, Canada.  She married François Turcot Abt. 1740 in Ste-Famille de Pisiguit, Acadia (possibly); born 07 May 1710 in Doué-La-Fontaine, Anjou, France; died 07 August 1789 in St-Ours, Québec.

Notes for Catherine Doiron:

Baptized 29 June 1709 - St-Charles-des-Mines parish registers

Source:  Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 513

Received electronically from Stephen A. White on 28 February 2009:

As the DGFA-1 shows, Catherine Doiron was born on May 15, 1709, and was baptized at Grand-Pré on the following June 29th.  She was not born between those dates.

It is not known where Catherine Doiron married François Turcot, but it was probably in the parish of Ste-Famille de Pisiguit, where Catherine's father, Jean Doiron, had died a few years previously, according to the Déclarations at Belle-Île-en-Mer.  There is no evidence insofar as I know suggesting that Catherine and François would have been married on île Royale.  By the way, there was no parish named St-Pierre de Toulouse.  The parish of St-Pierre on île Royale was at Port-Toulouse, as is shown on page xx of the DGFA-1.

As for François Turcot, his origin in France has been traced by Jean-Marie Germe.  François was born and baptized on May 7, 1710, at Doué-La-Fontaine, which is, as La Roque's census shows, in what was the province of Anjou.  He did not come from St-Pierre de Doix in the Vendée.  His parents, as shown by his baptismal record, were François Turcot and Jeanne Bidet, as I have indicated in the Corrections and Additions to the DGFA-1 on the Centre d'études acadiennes's webpage.  This information was not available to me in 1999, when the DGFA-1 was published, but was only found in 2000, when M. Germe published it, in Les Amitiés généalogiques canadiennes-françaises, no 11, pp. 33-34.  Not only did M. Germe find François Turcot's baptismal record, but also the marriage record of his parents, dated Sept. 2, 1709, also at Doué-La-Fontaine, which shows that his father François Turcot was a son of François Turcot and Jeanne Pérodeau, of the parish of St-Barthélemy at La Rochelle, and that his mother Jeanne Bidet was a daughter of Pierre Bidet and Jeanne Renault.  And M. Germe's brief article includes actual facsimile copies of both records.  Curiously, his discovery has not been reported in the Fichier origine, perhaps because the François Turcot who married Catherine Doiron lived in Acadia before ending up in Québec.

François Turcot was thus born in 1710, and not in 1718.  The 1710 date fits much better with his reported age of seventy-eight when he died in 1789.  As for his age at the time of La Roque's census in 1752, this must be taken to be an error, as he certainly wasn't twenty-four at that time.  Interestingly, simply transposing the two numbers would hit the mark, as he would have been just forty-two when the Sieur de La Roque visited his area

Notes for François Turcot:

Premier Turcot de ma famille au Canada, un acadien De France, il arrive d'abord en N E (St-Pierre), s'y marie et a 4 enfants Ensuite il vit quelques années à l'Ile St-Jean (Ile du Prince Edouard) Pour fuir la déportation, avec sa femme et ses 4 enfants, se dirige vers Québec à l'hiver 1755-56. Il obtint de Bigot, une terre près de Québec et fut le premier colon de St-Gervais de Bellechasse, à dix-huit kms au sud de Beaumont.

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