Person:Germain Girouard (1)

!BIRTH-PARENTS-CENSUS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; pp. 719 & 722; own copy. #3:

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-DEATH: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 568 (Port Royal) & p. 976 (Beaubassin); own copy. Born in 1657, son of Francois & Jeanne AUCOIN of Port Royal, Germain married at Beaubassin on 9 Jun 1680 to Marie BOURGEOIS (widow of Pierre CYR); three children. Germain died around 1686. [He is on the 1686 census.]

!NAME-MARRIAGE: Winston De Ville, ACADIAN CHURCH RECORDS; 1679-1686; vol. 1, Mobile, AL, Author, 1964; p. 2; Salt Lake, also microfiche #6087648; transcript of originals or official copies in Public Archives of Canada (MG9 B8, vol. 1); another copy at California State Library Sutro, CS88 A25D4 v.1 1993. Germain GIROUER, son of Francois & Jeanne AUCOIN, married in Beaubassin on 9 Jun 1680 to Marie BOURGEOIS, daughter of Jacques, surgeon (chirurgien) & Jeanne TRAHAN, of the parish of St. Jean Baptiste of Port Royal. Both bride and groom are residents of Beaubassin. "Witnesses: Mr. de la VALLIERE; Jacques CLOU; Thomas CORMIER; Germain and Guillaume BOURGEOIS. [Marie was a widow of Pierre SIRE with children also, as were the brides at the other three weddings in the last year or so in Beaubassin, all attended by Commandant de la Valliere. Father Moireau was the priest recording the entry. Was there an official policy?]

!NAME-CHILDREN-CHRISTENING: Spelled GIROUER on daughter Agnes' baptismal record.

!CENSUS: 1671, Port Royal, Acadia [p. 10], age 14 years, living with parents.

!CENSUS: 1678, age 22 years.

!CENSUS: 1686, Beaubassin, Acadia, age 30 years, name spelled GIROUER. With wife and 5 children [2 his]. They have 1 gun, 4 arpens worked land, 8 cattle, 3 sheep and 4 pigs.