Person:Francois Girouard (1)
Francois Girouard
b.Abt 1621 France
d.Bef 1693 Port Royal, , , Acadia
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  1. Jacques GirouardAbt 1648 - 1703
  2. Marie GirouardAbt 1650 - Aft 1713
  3. Marie Madeleine GirouardAbt 1654 - Aft 1714
  4. Germain Girouard1656 - Est 1686
  5. Germain GirouardAbt 1656 - Bef 1694
  6. Anne Girouard1659 -
  7. Anne Charlotte GirouardAbt 1660 - 1742
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Name Francois Girouard
Alt Name Francois Girouard dit La Varanne
Gender Male
Birth[2] Abt 1621 France
Immigration[4] Est 1640 Arrived in Acadia from France
Marriage Abt 1647 to Jeanne Aucoin (1)
Alt Marriage Est 1647 Prob. Franceto Jeanne Aucoin (1)
Alt Marriage Abt 1647 , , Acadie, Canadato Jeanne Aucoin (1)
Census[1] 1671 Port Royal, AcadieLaboureur
Death[1] Bef 1693 Port Royal, , , Acadiabefore 1693 census

CENSUS-NAME: 1671, Port Royal, Acadia [p. 10], age 50 years, "Laboreur." Living with wife 40. Of their 5 children, 3 are married. They have 16 cattle, 6 sheep, and 8 arpans of land.

CENSUS: 1678, Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Recensement de Port-Royal," in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE; vol. 22, no. 4; p. 229; On Folio 18: Francois GIROUER, listed with Jeanne AUCOIN, and Germain GIROUER, age 22 years. They have 15 arpents of land, with 18 head of cattle.

CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, age 70 [born in 1616?]. A note after he and his wife Jeanne AUCOIN's names states: "I a eu 5 enfans dont le recensement est ce-? apres." They own 1 gun, 3 arpens land, 9 cattle, 12 sheep and 7 pigs.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nova Scotia, Canada. Recensements d'Acadie (1671 - 1752)
    pg. 7.

    Recensement 1671, Port Royal, Acadie
    "Laboureur - FRANCOIS GIROUARD aagé de cinquante ans, sa femme Jeanne Aucoin aagée de quarante ans, Leurs enfans cinq, trois de mariez, Jacob aagé de 23 ans, Marie aagée de 20 ans, Marie Magdeleine aagée de 17 ans, Les non mariez Germain aagé de quatorze ans, Anne aagée de dousce ans, Leurs bestiaux a cornes 16 six pièces de brebis, Leurs terres en Labour huict arpans."

    !CENSUS-NAME: 1671, Port Royal, Acadia [p. 10], age 50 years, "Laboreur." Living with wife 40. Of their 5 children, 3 are married. They have 16 cattle, 6 sheep, and 8 arpans of land.

  2. ↑ 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)
    vol 1, pg 718-719.
    1. 1: Francois GIROUARD dit LA VARANNE, born around 1621, a "laboureur." He married around 1647 to Jeanne AUCOIN, sister of Michelle AUCOIN (married to Michel BOUDROT). On the 1671 census at Port Royal he is 50 years old; in 1686, age 70 years [sic]. He died before the census of 1693.
  3.   White, Stephen A. Origins of the Pioneers of Acadia: According to the Depositions Made by Their Descendants at Belle-Ile-en-Mer in 1767. (Centre d'études acadiennes, January 17, 2005).

    GIROUARD dit LA VARANNE, François, came from France with his wife Jeanne Aucoin, according to two depositions, one made by his great-grandson Pierre Richard (Doc. inéd., Vol. II, p. 191), and another made by Louis Courtin, husband of his great-great-granddaughter Marie-Josèphe Martin (ibid., Vol. III, p. 27). Both of these depositions erroneously call the Girouard ancestor Jacques, instead of François, probably because the deponents presumed that he had borne the same first name as his elder son, to whom they were both connected. François is the name that one finds, however, in three Acadian censuses and in his younger son’s marriage record in the register of Beaubassin (see DGFA-1, pp. 718-719).

  4. ↑ White, Stephen A. La généalogie des trente-sept familles hôtesses des Retrouvailles 94
    http://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/files/umcm-ceaac/wf/wf/pdf/37fam-Girouard.pdf.

    Francois GIROUARD, born in France around 1621, arrived in Acadia in 1640. He married around 1647 Jeanne AUCOIN; five children.
    [orig. published by La Societe historique acadienne, CAHIERS; vol. 25, no. 2&3 (Apr-Sep 1994)]

  5.   Clarence J. d'Entremont, "The GIROUARD Family" , in LE REVEIL ACADIEN
    vol. XII, no. 3 (Aug 1996); p. 63.

    The head of the Acadian branch of the family is Francois GIROUARD, but he is not the Francois who is found in the archives of La Chausse'e, France, since he was there in 1679 as well, in an act from a Loudon notary. (Reference: E453/118-119) He could have been from any of several La Varenne locations in France, since that was the name given him on the Belle-Ile-en-Mer genealogical declarations. According to those, as well, he and Jeanne AUCOIN were already married at the time of their arrival in Acadia, which would place them with the contingent of colonists in the "200 Elite Men" of Jacques de Poix, Sieur de Saint-Mas, brought over in 1651.

  6.   Arsenault, Bona. Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens. (Quebec: Le Conseil de la Vie française en Amérique, 1965)
    p. 567 (Port Royal).

    Born in 1621, doubtlessly originally from La Chausse'e, department of Vienne in the Loudun region of France (footnote cites Massignon [not reliable]). He arrived in Acadia around 1640, married around 1647.

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