Claude Guidry was born in Grivois, France. He was the first known Guidry to settle in Acadie, Canada, living around the St. John River. He married Marguerite Pitipas. Their sons, Augustin and Jeanne Hebert Guidry, also lived in Canada. But members of the third generation, including Pierre and Jean Baptiste Guidry, moved to Maryland and then came south to the Acadian coast about 1769. These are the ancestors of most of the Southwest Louisiana Guidrys.
