Person:Jean Cyr (1)

!PARENTS-CENSUS-MARRIAGE: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 434; own copy. #(9):

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-BURIAL: Born Abt 1708 on Peggy Walker's Pedigree chart. [Is this the correct wife? Or was it his brother Jean Baptiste, born 1714?]. Married on 12 Jan 1767 at Kamouraska, Qubec, Canada, according to listing on Peggy Walker's pedigree chart. Buried on 17 Jun 1822 at St. Basile de Madawaska, N.B., Canada, on Peggy Walker's pedigree chart.

!BIRTH-NAME-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1600-1800; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, vols. 2-6; p. 931 (Beaubassin); own copy. "Jean-(Baptiste) CYR," born 1711. [Born ABT 1711 in father's entry on p. 930, name only Jean.] He made his way along the river Saint-Jean [se dirigea vers la riviere] in 1755, where he was prisoner with his family in 1763. Most of the members of this family settled at Madawaska.

!NAME: "Or CROOK", Ancestral File. Is this the meaning of CYR? Check.

!BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Leo G. Cyr, MADAWASKAN HERITAGE; Bethesda, MD, author, 1985; p. 161; Santa Cruz Family History Library, microfiche #6100545; history and genealogy of the CYR family. Jean Baptiste SIRE, born 1710 at Beaubassin, son of Jean & Francoise MELANSON. He may have signed with his father Jean the 1730 oath of allegiance to George II. He married on 26 Jan 1734 to Marguerite CORMIER, daughter of Pierre & Catherine LEBLANC; nine sons, perhaps two daughers.

!FAMILY: Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 19:40:28 -0500, From: Tim King "Acadia Travel" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] I think you are talking about Jean Baptiste who married Francoise Melanson abt 1692 at Beaubassin and their son Jean Baptiste "Crock" Cyr who married Anne Marguerite Cormier at Beaubassin 26 Jan 1734. He was at Fort Beausejour when it fell and was held as a political prisoner on the St. John River with his family until 1763. After the war Crock and a few other Acadians settled at Ecoupag near what is now Fredericton. After the American Revolution the British, having never recognized the Acadian claims to the land at Ecoupag, ordered them removed and the land was given to Loyalists. Cyr and some of his sons and other decided to move further up the St. John River and settled what is now Van Buren, Maine about June 1785. Unfortunately Crock Cyr died in May 1785.

!MARRIAGE: Milton P. and Norma Gaudet Rieder, ACADIAN CHURCH RECORDS; 1712-1748; vol. II, Metairie, LA, Author, 1976; p. 37; Salt Lake LDS Family History Library 971.6 V2d, also microfiche #6087649; includes transcripts of Beaubassin, Acadia church registers, now at the Archives of the Mayor of La Rochelle, Charente Maritime, France. Jean SIRE, son of Jean & the deceased Francoise MELANSON, living at Beaubassin, married on 26 Jan 1734 to Marguerite CORMIER, daughter of the deceased Pierre & Catherine LE BLANC, also living at Beaubassin. Witnesses: Jean SIRE, Pierre SIRE, Jean LE BRETON, Henry L'HOSTELLIER.