Person:Paul Doiron (1)

Paul (dit Grand Paul) Doiron
b.Abt 1710 , , , Acadia
d.Bef 5 Feb 1760
m. 1703
  1. Paul DoironEst 1705 -
  2. Joseph DoironEst 1706 -
  3. Michael DoironEst 1708 -
  4. Paul (dit Grand Paul) DoironAbt 1710 - Bef 1760
  5. Pierre (dit Pitre) Doiron, IIAbt 1712 - Abt 1795
  • HPaul (dit Grand Paul) DoironAbt 1710 - Bef 1760
  • WMarguerite MichelAbt 1716 - Bef 1760
m. Abt 1734
Facts and Events
Name Paul (dit Grand Paul) Doiron
Alt Name Pierre, DOUARON, DOUAIRON, DOUERON dit Grand Paul
Alt Name Pierre Doiron
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1710 , , , Acadia
Alt Birth[3] Est 1710
Marriage Abt 1734 , , , Acadiato Marguerite Michel
Census[1][2] 1752 , , Isle Saint Jean, Acadia
Death? Bef 5 Feb 1760

!BIRTH-CHRISTENING: Could he be the Paul DOUARON, son of Paul [sic] & Marie ROBERT [sic], who was born 11 Apr 1710, baptized 19 Apr 1710 at Grand Pré, Acadia? Sponsors: Louis DOUARON [his uncle?] & Cecille LANDRY (SGA-1, 14).

!BIRTH-PARENTS-CENSUS-MARRIAGE-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 518; own copy. #(17): Paul (dit Grand Paul) DOIRON, born around 1710, son of Pierre DOIRON & Madeleine DOUCET. He married (according to S.A. White) around 1734 to Marguerite MICHEL, daughter of François & Marguerite MEUNIER. He died before 5 Feb 1760.

!CENSUS: 1714, Beaubassin, Acadia.

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1600-1800; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, vols. 2-6; p. 952 (Beaubassin); own copy. Paul DOIRON, born [about] 1705, son of Pierre & Madeleine DOUCET, married around 1726 to Marguerite DOUCET, daughter of Louis & Marguerite GIROUARD [sic, this could not be his wife, because they would have been 1st cousins]; six children.

References
  1. Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
    p. 518.

    Paul was on the 1752 (LaRoque) census, age 42 years.

  2. 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.

  3. D.O.B.: 27 Dec 1995 letter from Florian Bernard, with ten page extract from.