Person:Marie Mercier (1)

Marie Mercier, du Petit Marais
  1. Marie Mercier, du Petit MaraisAbt 1645 -
  • HAntoine BabinEst 1631 - Bef 1688
  • WMarie Mercier, du Petit MaraisAbt 1645 -
m. Abt 1662
  1. Marie-Josephe BabinEst 1663 - 1740
  2. Marie BabinAbt 1663 - 1737
  3. Charles BabinAbt 1664 -
  4. Vincent BabinAbt 1665 -
  5. Jeanne BabinAbt 1668 -
  6. Marguerite BabinEst 1670 -
  7. Catherine BabinEst 1671 - Bet 1755 & 1756
  8. Anne BabinEst 1674 -
  9. Antoine BabinEst 1676 -
  10. Magdelaine BabinEst 1678 -
  11. Françoise BabinAbt 1681 -
  12. Jean BabinEst 1684 - Bef 1751
m. Abt 1688
  1. Elizabeth LeJuge1689 - 1759
Facts and Events
Name Marie Mercier, du Petit Marais
Alt Name[1] Marie Mercié
Gender Female
Birth[3] Abt 1645 Port Royal, , , Acadia
Alt Birth? 1645 La Chaussee,Loudun,Vienne,France
Alt Birth[1] Cal 1646
Marriage Abt 1662 Port Royal, , , Acadiato Antoine Babin
Census[1] 1671 Port Royal, Acadia
Census 1671 Port Royal, Acadiawith Antoine Babin
Marriage Abt 1688 , , , Acadiato Guillaume Lejuge
Death? Port Royal, , , Acadia

!PARENTS-BIRTH: Was she the daughter of a MERCIER & Francoise GAUDET, who immigrated to Acadia? Perhaps her brother or cousin is Pierre MERCIER, also born 1646, living in Beaubassin (see p. 1014). Arsenault says his parents are Ambroise & Francoise BOURG of Port Royal. Relations? After father died, her mother Francoise GAUDET married Daniel LE BLANC around 1650.

!CENSUS: 1678, Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Recensement de Port-Royal," in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE; vol. 22, no. 4; p. 230; sent by PERSI in Jun 1999. On verso of Folio 18: Marie MERCIER, listed with Anthoine BABIN and three boys and six girls.

!CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, age 40 years.

!CENSUS: 1693, Les Mines, Acadia, age 50 years.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Nova Scotia, Canada. Recensements d'Acadie (1671 - 1752)
    pg. 4.

    Recensement 1671, Port Royal, Acadie
    "Laboureur - ANTHOINE BABIN aagé de quarante cinq ans, sa femme Marie Mercié aagée de 25 ans, Leurs enfans cinq, Marie aagée de neuf ans, Charles aagé de 7 ans, Vincent aagé de cinq ans, Jeanne 3 ans, Margueritte un an. Leurs terres en Labour 2 arpans, Leurs bestes a Cornes six paires, huict paires de brebis tant petites que grandes."

  2.   D.O.B.: "Acadian Genealogy Exchange", Vol. XX, No. 3, p. 87, 'Recensement (5).
  3. Mercier, in White, Stephen A; Hector-J Hébert; and Patrice Gallant. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes. (Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999)
    p. 1173.
  4.   Arsenault, Bona. Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens. (Quebec: Le Conseil de la Vie française en Amérique, 1965)
    p. 1330.

    (Pisiguit, son-in-law's entry), no parents listed.

  5.   White, Stephen A; Hector-J Hébert; and Patrice Gallant. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes. (Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999)
    p. 57.

    Marie MERCIER, born around 1645, daughter of an unnamed MERCIER & Francoise GAUDET, married 1st around 1662 to Antoine BABIN; eleven children. She married 2nd around 1688 to Guillaume LeJUGE. She died (Belle-Ile-en-Mer Declaration) at Port Royal.