Person:Marguerite Michel (1)

!BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CENSUS-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 1182; own copy. Marguerite MICHEL, (according to A. GODBOUT) daughter of Francois & Marguerite MEUNIER, born around 1716. She was on the 1752 (LaRoque) census, age 46 years (sic) [would have been born around 1706]. She married around 1734 to Paul dit Grand Paul DOIRON, son of Pierre & Madeleine DOUCET. She died before 5 Feb 1760.

!BIRTH-PARENTS-NAME-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES-DEATH: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p.1422 (Pisiguit); own copy; each volume has genealogies within a specific area. Born 1706, Marguerite married Paul DOIRON (no parents listed).

1. ↑ Public Archives of Canada. Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, vol. II, pt. A. (1905; reprint Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, 1994.)
   p. 86.

   Paul DOUARON dit le Grand Paul, native of l'Acadie, ploughman aged 42 years, has been in the country two years. Married to Marguerite MICHEL, native of l'Acadie, aged 46 years [sic]. They have three sons and six daughters:--
   Pierre Paul, aged 12 years;
   Jean Baptiste, aged 8 years;
   Joseph, aged 4 years;
   Margueritte Joseph, aged 17 years;
   Anne Appoline, aged 15 years;
   Blanche, aged 10 years;
   Auzitte, aged 6 years;
   Roze, aged 2 years;
   Helenne, aged 8 months.
   His live stock consists of four bulls, three cows, two heifers, two sows, two pigs and twenty-five fowls or chickens. The land on which they are settled was given to them verbally by M. de BONNAVENTURE. They have made a clearing on it where they hope to sow eight bushels of wheat next spring.