Person:Michel Richard (1)

!CENSUS: 1678, Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Recensement de Port-Royal," in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE; vol. 22, no. 4; p. 235; sent by PERSI in Jun 1999. On verso of Folio 20: there are two entries for Michel RICHARD, 1st with Madelaine BLANCHARD (no children listed), 2nd alone as Michel RICHARD, with four boys age 22 to 10, and five girls ages given 8 to 1 [daughter Catherine is listed nearby with husband Francois BROSSARD].

!CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia [p. 8]. Age 56 years, married to Jeanne BABIN, 18. There are 6 children listed, ages 19 to 2, and 5 who are married [his, obviously]. The youngest, 2-year-old Michel, is their child. The household owns 2 guns, 12 arpens worked land, 16 cattle, 30 sheep, and 8 pigs.

!BIRTH-NAME-IMMIGRATION-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-DEATH: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 753 (Port Royal); own copy. Michel RICHARD dit SANSOUCY, born in 1639, originally from the Saintonge [an old province in the west part of France, now largely Charente-Inferieure. Its capital was Saintes]. Michel arrived in Acadia with the expedition of Emmanuel LE BORGNE and de GUILBAULT in 1652 or 1651; he was with sieur de Saint-Mas, representative of LE BORGNE. (Footnote cites Arsenault's own Histoire des Acadiens; and Louis Richard, in the Me'moires de la Socie'te' Ge'ne'alogique Canadienne-Francoise, vol. VI, no 1 (Jan 1954).) Michel married 1st around 1656 to Madeleine BLANCHARD; ten children listed. He married 2nd around 1683 to Jeanne BABIN; two sons. Michel died around 1687; his widow married Laurent DOUCET.

FATHER: E-mail posting on <ACADIAN-CAJUN-L@rootsweb.com> by Kenneth BREAU (breauk@umoncton.ca) on 31 Jul 1998 questioned the attribution of a father for Michel dit Sansoucy RICHARD. His parents are unknown, and not Andre'.

!FATHER: Listed as Andre RICHARD on Ancestor Chart of Arthur O. KOHN, sent in Jan 1995. Also on PAF file of Gerald CARPENTER, sent in Dec 1995. [Where documented? Recheck Bergeron.] Also Andre on Pedigree Chart of Anne D. BABIN sent in Mar 1996.

!FATHER: In GEDCOM file sent by Brunella Walker MARTIN in Oct 1997. Michel RICHARD, born 1630 in Saintonge, France, son of Guillaume & Huguette POIRIER [sic].

!CHILDREN: "Note: Some genealogist including Bona Arsenault [But not listed in Arsenault, H&G, p. 753 with father's family, either.] place a son Michel, second in birth order, born in 1660 and marries Jeanne BABIN" in Acad. Des., vol. 4, p. 344. Not on the 1671 census with rest of family, when age would have been about 10. Probably due to the reluctance to accept Jeanne BABIN's marriage to this Michel, who was 53 when they married, 38 years older than she.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 1373.

   No place of birth or parent listed.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Nova Scotia, Canada. Recensements d'Acadie (1671 - 1752)
   pg. 9.

   Recensement 1671, Port Royal, Acadie
   "Laboureur - MICHEL RICHARD aagé de 41 ans, sa femme Magdeleine Blanchard aagée de 28 ans, Leurs enfans 7, René aagé de 14 ans, Pierre 10, Catherine 8, Martin 6, Alexandre 3, deux besonnes Anne et Madgeleine aagée de cinq semaines, Leurs bestes a Cornes 15 et 14 brebis, Leurs terres Labourable et en valeur en deux places 14 arpans."

   !CENSUS: 1671, Port Royal, Acadia, age 41 years1, Laborer. Living with wife Magdeleine BLANCHARD age 28 and their 7 children. They have 15 cattle, 14 sheep, and 14 arpents of land in 2 places. Karen Theriot Reader

3.   D.O.D.: "Acadian Genealogy Exchange", Vol. XX, No. 3, p. 76 (ref.: Arsenault's (2).
4. ↑ Imm.: He immigrated with the expedition of Emmonuel LeBorgne..
5.   D./P.O.D.: 21 Feb 2001 email from George Rose George Rose (grose@HFX.EASTLINK.CA) sent to ILMADAME@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU..
6. ↑ D.O.B.: 1671 and 1686 census of Port Royal (ref.: "Acadian Genealogy.