Person:Pierre Arseneau (1)

!BIRTH-CENSUS-OCCUPATION-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 23; own copy. #1: Pierre ARSENEAU, born around 1650, a pilot, married 1st around 1675 to Marguerite DUGAS, daughter of Abraham & Marguerite DOUCET; two children. He married 2nd before the census of 1686 to Marie GUÉRIN, daughter of Francois & Anne BLANCHARD; seven children.

!MARRIAGE: "Marriage registers of Madawaska," in ACADIAN GENEALOGY EXCHANGE; vol. XXX, no. 1 (May 2001); p. 34. Pierre ARSENEAULT & Marie GUERIN married 1687.

!OCCUPATION-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN: Webpage by Stephen A. White, also published as La Societe historique acadienne, CAHIERS; vol. 25, nos. 2 & 3 (Apr-Sep 1994), <http://www.umoncton.ca/etudeacadiennes/centre/white/>; covers 37 Acadian families, with descent in New Brunwsick. Pierre ARSENAULT, coastal pilot, married 1st around 1675 to Marguerite DUGAS, daughter of Abraham & Marguerite DOUCET; two sons. He married DOUCET; two sons. He married 2nd around 1685 to 2nd around 1685 to Marie GUE'RIN, daughter of Francois & Anne BLANCHARD; six sons & one daughter.

!BIRTH-NAME-IMMIGRATION-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 393 (Port Royal) & pp. 827-828 (Beaubassin); own copy. Name spelled ARSENAULT (also ARCENEAUX and many variants mentioned in footnote), born 1646, arrived in Acadia from France in 1671, married 1st around 1675 to Marguerite DUGAS of Port Royal; two children. He married 2nd around 1689 [sic] to Marie GUERIN of Port Royal; seven children listed. Pierre collaborated closely with Jacques BOURGEOIS in the foundation of the colony Bourgeois, which became Beaubassin, where he settled around 1687 with his family. Long footnotes discuss another Canadian branch of the ARSENAULTs, and the variant name spellings. Pierre died at Beaubassin around 1710.

!IMMIGRATION: ACADIAN GENEALOGY EXCHANGE, vol. 2, no. 9, p. 4. Pierre ARSENAULT was almost certainly one of the 60 persons sent by Rochefort to Acadia in 1671. ...This surname was also prevalent in the Poitou and Charentes regions of France.

!IMMIGRATION: He embarked from Rochefort on "L'Oranger".

!IMMIGRATION-OCCUPATION: Bona Arsenault, HISTORY OF THE ACADIANS; 1605-1881; Ottawa, Lemeac, 1978; p. 47; own copy; English translation. Pierre ARSENAULT (ARCENEAUX) arrived in 1671 with the first contingent of French settlers since the English occupation of 1654; he became pilot for Jacques BOURGEOIS in his coastal trade.

!FAMILY-NAME: Raymond Douville, "Une branche canadienne des familles Arseneault," in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE, vol. 3, no. 4 (Jun 1949), pp. 222-224. Discusses a Canadian line, begun by Francois ARSENEAULT who apparently arrived in 1664 or 1665, with his wife Suzanne LECOMPTE, who died after having given birth to a son Michel on 24 Dec 1666. Michel married on 24 Nov 1689 at Cape Madeleine to Marie-Magdeleine LE BLANC, daughter of Nicolas & Magdeleine LABRIE. [Are these families related?]

CENSUS: 1671, Port Royal, Acadia. Not listed, apparently not arrived yet.

!CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, age 40 (sic), no land or animals listed. Living with wife 24 and 2 children, age 8 and 10 [from his 1st marriage]. [Is this the same ARSENAULT who is listed in the census under Beaubassin, Acadia as living in Port Royal, but possessing 30 arpents of worked land here, plus 8 cattle, 4 sheep and 6 pigs? Also 1 gun. [Where does he live Do his sons and sons-in-law work the land? Can he commute?]

!CENSUS: 1693, Beaubassin, Acadia, age 43 years.

!CENSUS: 1698, age 48 years.

!CENSUS: 1700, age 50 years.

!RESIDENCES: Paul Arsenault, "The ARSENAULT Family and its Origins," in LE REVEIL ACADIEN; vol. 12, no. 4 (Nov 1996); p. 80. Pierre ARSENAULT was born in France around 1650, arrived at Port-Royal around 1671. He worked as a boat pilot for doctor Jacques BOURGEOIS. He married twice, and settled in 1686 as seigneur of a concession at Beaubassin.

    According to Placide Gaudet: Pierre came to Acadia on the ship "L'Oranger, which brought sixty colonists to Port-Royal from Rochefort [France]. In 1686 he was one of the seigneurs of Beaubassin but he resided at Port-Royal.
    Stephen White, in 1976, says Pierre's place of origin in not specified.

!RESIDENCES: LE REVEIL ACADIEN; vol. XIII, no. 2 (May 1997); p. 50. Followup information from F. Rene' PERRON of LES AMITIE'S ACADIENNES. A document he found in the National Archives of Paris (Reference: Minutier Central des Notaires parisiens; Notaire Michel de Beauvais (XCVI-46); Date: 12 Jun 1646). It concerns the cutting of wood in the forest of Closse', a de'pendant of Bonne'table, one of the fiefs of the Comtesse of Soissons, Anne de MONTAFFIE', the widow of Charles de Bourbon, viceroy of New France at his death in 1612. She had died in 1644. On second page: "Michel LARSONNEAU Sieur des Challongieres, one of the adjudicary associates of these woods, absent at the redaction of this act, and respresented by Denis COURTIN Sieur de la Trolandiere." Les Challongieres is at Challonges, a village annexed from the actual commune of Seyssel on the Rhone, and from the district of St-Julien-dGe'ne'vois. Among the heirs of the Comtesse was Prince Thomas de SAVOYE de Carignan.

Pierre Arsenault collaborated with Jacques Bourgeois in the founding of the village of Beaubassin, Acadia, where he settled around 1687.-- Glenn Laffy before the census

1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 23.

   Born around 1650 [no place of birth listed].

2. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 23.

   He died before the 1714 census.

3. ↑ Webpage.

   PIERRE ARSENAULT, born in France in 1646, arrived in Acadie in the spring of 1671 aboard the ship l'Oranger, which had raised anchor from La Rochelle, France. He was brought over from France by Jacques Bourgeois, and became his ship's pilot for his coastal trade. Pierre worked right alongside Jacques in founding "Bourgeois Colony", which became Beaubassin, now Amherst, Nova Scotia.

   "My Acadian History" at <www.rick.agrog.com/index.htm>

4. ↑ D.O.B.: "L'Acadie des Ancestres", (25 years old in 1671); 1650 according to.
5. ↑ D.O.D.: c1710 ( question )..
6. ↑ Occ.: "Le Grand Arrangement des Acadiens au Quebec", by Bergeron, p. 103,.
7. ↑ D./P.O.Imm.: "Le Grand Arrangement des Acadiens au Quebec", by Bergeron, p..
8. ↑ Eileen Avery. Avery/Deslauriers. (Name: Online database at RootsWeb WorldConnect: updated Tue Nov 21 - 10:55:05 2000. Contact: Eileen Avery <[email protected] > Online database:http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=ib4eexcept;)
   GEDCOM.
9. ↑ Glenn Laffy. Acadian family tree - Glenn Laffy. (Name: RootsWeb Worldconnect database: Entries: 28304 Updated: Sat Mar 16 12:25:20 2002 Downloaded: 21Mar 2002 Contact: Glenn Laffy <[email protected]> Home Page: Glenn's Genealogyhttp://www.homestead.com/laffy/genealogy.html http://worldconnect.ge;)
   GEDCOM.
10. ↑ Bonaventure Arsenault. Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens, vols. 1-6; 1630-1775. (Name: Quebec, Le Conseil de la Vie Francaise en Amerique, 1965;)
    volume 2, Port-Royal, page 393.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2} Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes, Volume: I A-G; IIH-Z. (Name: Centre D'études Acadiennes - Universitâe de Moncton, Moncton (N.-B.),EiA 3E9, 1999;).
12. ↑ Glenn Laffy. Acadian family tree - Glenn Laffy. (Name: RootsWeb Worldconnect database: Entries: 28304 Updated: Sat Mar 16 12:25:20 2002 Downloaded: 21Mar 2002 Contact: Glenn Laffy <[email protected]> Home Page: Glenn's Genealogyhttp://www.homestead.com/laffy/genealogy.html http://worldconnect.ge;)
    [location & year] * abt 1646.
13. ↑ Bonaventure Arsenault. Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens, vols. 1-6; 1630-1775. (Name: Quebec, Le Conseil de la Vie Francaise en Amerique, 1965;)
    volume 3, Beaubassin, page 827.
14. ↑ Eileen Avery. Avery/Deslauriers. (Name: Online database at RootsWeb WorldConnect: updated Tue Nov 21 - 10:55:05 2000. Contact: Eileen Avery <[email protected] > Online database:http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=ib4eexcept;)
    [year].
15. ↑ Valerie Arseneau. Morris Families. (Name: Online database at RootsWeb WorldConnect http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1515745 Entries: 5273 Updated: Sun Aug 26 00:25:32 2001 Downloaded: 25Mar 2002 Contact: Valerie Arseneau <[email protected]> ;)
    [location & year] * abt 1646 in Rochefort.
16. ↑ Glenn Laffy. Acadian family tree - Glenn Laffy. (Name: RootsWeb Worldconnect database: Entries: 28304 Updated: Sat Mar 16 12:25:20 2002 Downloaded: 21Mar 2002 Contact: Glenn Laffy <[email protected]> Home Page: Glenn's Genealogyhttp://www.homestead.com/laffy/genealogy.html http://worldconnect.ge;)
    [location & year] * abt 1710.
17. ↑ Bonaventure Arsenault. Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens, vols. 1-6; 1630-1775. (Name: Quebec, Le Conseil de la Vie Francaise en Amerique, 1965;)
    volume 3, Beaubassin, page 828.
18. ↑ Valerie Arseneau. Morris Families. (Name: Online database at RootsWeb WorldConnect http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1515745 Entries: 5273 Updated: Sun Aug 26 00:25:32 2001 Downloaded: 25Mar 2002 Contact: Valerie Arseneau <[email protected]> ;)
    [location & year] * abt 1710.
19.   Eileen Avery. Avery/Deslauriers. (Name: Online database at RootsWeb WorldConnect: updated Tue Nov 21 - 10:55:05 2000. Contact: Eileen Avery <[email protected] > Online database:http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=ib4eexcept;).
20.   West, Robert Cooper, and Louisiana State University. An atlas of Louisiana surnames of French and Spanish origin. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Geoscience Publications, Louisiana State University, 1986)
    pg. 17.

    Pierre ARSENAULT arrived in Port Royal, Acadia from France in 1671. He helped establish a settlement there at Beaubassin (Footnote: Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE). Though most Louisiana families with the name descend from him, there was also a Michel ARSENAULT married to Marie-Anne ANDRÉ, a native of Cap de Madeleine near Quebec, living on the German Coast (St. John the Baptist Parish) at least by 1752.