Person:Jean Theriot (3)

!CENSUS: 1671 Port Royal, Acadia, age 32 years, mentioned in parents' entry as married, name spelled Jehan TERRIAU. [Where was he living? Not on the Port Royal census of that year in an entry of his own. Out of area?]

!MARRIAGE: Because he was alive and married in 1671, according to parents census entry, could he have gone back to France, as fisherman, trader, soldier? Could he have had a son Germain [one of his three brothers was named Germain], born around 1660, when Jean would have been around age 21, who married Anne GUILLOTE? This couple had a son named Guy THÉRIAULT/TERRIOT dit GRANDMAISON born about 1683 at Bourg-Charents, archbishopric of Cognac, Bishopric Saintes, in Angoumois [today Charente], France. This Guy returned [?] to French Canada, and he was 30 years old in 1713 when he married Marie-Anne POULIN on 3 Feb 1713 at Ste-Famille, Isle of Orleans, Quebec. They had eight children listed in René Jetté, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES DU QUEBEC DES ORIGINIES A 1730; Univ. Montreal Presses, 1983; p. 1072. This is the only THERIAULT family listed. Among this Guy's 8 children, some appear to have married girls who had been born in Acadia. This would seem to imply continued contact with and relationship with Acadia.

1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 1484.

   No place given for birth.

2.   Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 1488.

   Note by S. A. WHITE: we do not know the name of the wife of Jean THÉRIOT fils [Jr.]. However, it is clearly indicated on the 1671 census that he was married before that date. He must have settled elsewhere, as did other children of the first colonists of Acadia. [No indication given that he may have gone to Quebec, where a THERIAULT line is found in the next generation.]