Person:Roger Caissie (1)

!BIRTH-OCCUPATION-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-CENSUS: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 305; own copy. #1: [No claim to birth in Ireland.]

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Arsenault, Histoire et Genealogie, p. 481 (Port Royal), born in 1650, name spelled KUESSEY, under entry with variants of CAISSY and QUESSY. Of Irish origin, he arrived at Port Royal around 1665 and settled in Beaubassin. On p. 886 (Beaubassin), name spelled KUESSEY, born in 1651, married around 1668. First child born 1669. He lived at La Butte-a-Roger [named after him?], near Beause'jour. A footnote says he was a young Irish refugee who arrived at Port Royal around 1665. Several of his descendants, especially in Louisiana, took the name ROGER.

!NAME: On son Michel's baptismal record QUESSI. Was it originally spelled CASEY (Irish)?

CENSUS: 1678, Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Recensement de Port-Royal," in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE; vol. 22, no. 4; sent by PERSI in Jun 1999. [Where? Already settled at new Beaubassin?]

!LAW: "The Passenger List of the Ship SAINT-JEHAN and the Acadian Origins," in FRENCH CANADIAN AND ACADIAN GENEALOGICAL REVIEW; 1600-1700; vol. 1, no. 1 (spring 1968); p. 56; sent by PERSI in Jun 1999. (Reference: Rameau de Saint-Pere, UNE COLONIE FEODALE; vol. II, p. 306.) In the judicial files at the Parliament of Quebec is a document from 1685: "Testimony of Roger KESSY of Irish nationality, at present living at Beaubassin, aged 35 years or thereabouts."

!CENSUS: 1686, Beaubassin, Acadia; p. . Roger QUESSY, age 35 [sic], with wife Marie POIRIER, age 35, and 5 children. They have 2 guns, 8 arpents worked land, 18 cattle, 6 sheep and 8 pigs.

!CENSUS: 1693, Beaubassin, Acadia; [. 99 [stamped]. Roger KARSY, age 40 [sic], listed with Marie POIRIER, also age 40; five children from age 18 to 5. They have 26 cattle, 32 sheep, 34 hogs, living on 16 arpents of land, with 3 guns.

!CENSUS: 1698, age 50 years.

!CENSUS: 1700, age 52 years.

!CENSUS: 1714.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Nova Scotia, Canada. Recensements d'Acadie (1671 - 1752)
   pg. 4.

   Recensement 1671, Port Royal, Acadie
   "Laboureur - ROGER KRIESSY aagé de 25 ans sa femme Marie Poirier aagée de 22 ans, Leurs enfans une fille Marie aagée de deux ans, Il n'a point de terre en Labour, Leurs bestes a Cornes trois pièces, Leurs brebis 2 pièces."

   !CENSUS: 1671, Port Royal, Acadia; p. [3]. Roger KRIESSY, laboureur, age 25 [so born around 1646] , Living with wife Marie POIRIER age 22 and daughter Marie, age 2. They 3 cattle and 2 sheep, but no cultivated land.Karen Theriot Reader