Person:Etienne Robichaud (1)

!BIRTH-OCCUPATION-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; pp. 184 & 1403; own copy. #1: [No parents or place of birth given for him.]

!NAME: Massignon lists name as a diminutive of ROBIN (ROBERT), and was plentiful in the Central-Western part of France, under the form of ROBICHON and ROBUCON, but in the Acadian form of ROBICHEAU, the author has only located it in the Seigneurie of d'Aulnay. There, an Etienne ROBICHAU appeared in the parish registers of La Chaussee (Vienne).

FATHER: Could his father have been the Louis ROBICHAUD, born about 1609 in LaSouche, France, who died 3 Jan 1649 at the age of 40 at l'Hotel Dieu, in Quebec; he was buried on 4 Jan 1649?

!NAME-MARRIAGE-SON: Jerome Lepre, "The Acadians of Belle-Isle-en-Mer"; 1635-1767; NEW ORLEANS GENESIS, Vol. 34, no. 135 (Jul 1995); p. 331; Santa Cruz County Genealogical Society Library. His great-great grandson Pierre DOUCET gave a statement to the Mayor of Sauzon, Belle-Isle-en-Mer on 9 Mar 1767, and stated that Prudent ROBICHAULT [his great-grandfather] was the son of Charles (from France with his wife) and who settled at Port Royal and died there. [Could name have been Charles Etienne?]

!CENSUS: 1678, Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Recensement de Port-Royal," in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE; vol. 22, no. 4; pp. 234; sent by PERSI in Jun 1999. Estienne REBICHAU, listed with Francoise BOUDROT and four boys and two girls. They have 2 arpents of land, with 10 cattle.

!DEATH: Died before the 1686 census, on which his name is spelled Estienne, in his widow's entry.

1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 1403.

   No parents or place of birth listed.

2. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   P. 1403.

   E'tienne died (Belle-Ile-en-Mer Declaration) before the 1686 census.

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Nova Scotia, Canada. Recensements d'Acadie (1671 - 1752)
   pg. 9.

   Recensement 1671, Port Royal, Acadie
   "Laboureur - ESTIENNE ROBICHAUT ne ma pas voulut voir Il a sorty de chez Luy et a dit a sa femme quel me dit quil ne me vouloit point donner Le Conte de ses bestiaux et terres."

   !CENSUS: 1671, Port Royal, Acadia, name spelled Estienne ROBICHAUT. In a curious entry, he told the Franciscan census-taker Laurent MOLIN that he "did not want to see him. He left the house and told his wife to tell me that he did not at all wish to give the count of his animals and lands." [Did he fear a tax, or was he just a difficult man? Was he a Protestant? Two other individual were also not forthcoming.] Etienne was listed as Laborer (Farmer). He did have a wife, and there should have been three young children. Karen Theriot Reader