Other Events:

• Residence: Margaree, Cape Breton; , settling

Pierre married Marie Marguerite LeBlanc Jun 1792, Sorel or Cape Breton or Baie des Chaleurs. Marie (daughter of Jean Baptiste LeBlanc and Marguerite Bourg) was born 29 Sep 1771; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

1. Barbe Arsenault was born Abt 1793; died 4 Feb 1855, Margaree, Cape Breton.
2. Louis Arsenault was born Jun 1794; died 12 Jul 1794; was buried 13 Jul 1794, Sorel.
3. Meleme Arsenault died Yes, date unknown.
4. Luc Arsenault was born Abt 1780, Margaree, Cape Breton; died 20 May 1849, Margaree, Cape Breton.
5. Madeleine Arsenault was born Abt 1798; died Yes, date unknown.
6. Simon Arsenault died Yes, date unknown.
7. Anne Arsenault died Yes, date unknown.
8. Angelique Arsenault died Yes, date unknown.
9. Susanne Arsenault died Yes, date unknown.
10. Thadee Arsenault died Yes, date unknown.
11. Genevieve Arsenault died Yes, date unknown.

Other Events:

• Baptised: 12 Feb 1740, Beaubassin
• Census: 1752, Macpec (Malpeque), ile St.Jean

Notes:

Baptised:
His godparents were Jacques Arsenaud and Francoise Cormier.

Census:
Aged 12, Jacques appears with his parents and nine siblings.

Jacques married ... Doucet Abt 1765, Prince Edward Island. ... (daughter of Charles Doucet and Anne Arsenault) died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Married:
Note: Bona Arsenault says that he married a Poirier from Rustico around 1765, whereas Denis Savard with reference to Stephen White says that Jacques married N... (Marie de Rustico) Doucet d/o Charles Doucet & Anne Arseneau around 1765. The Rustico book by Henri Blanchard also indicates that Jacques married a Poirier on page 88.

Other Events:

• Residence: 1741, Malpeque, ile Saint Jean; , settling with his family,
• Residence: Jun 1742, the parish of Beaubassin
• Census: 1752, Macpec (Malpeque), ile St.Jean
• Residence: 1752, Macpec (Malpeque), ile St.Jean; to the west of the harbour

Notes:

Residence:
The Baptism entry for his daughter Marguerite says that 'all were inhabitants of this parish'.

Residence:
The land was given to them by Messieurs Duchambon and Dubuisson. They had cleared enough land to sow 32 bushels of wheat but had sowed only 6 and 1/2 bushels of wheat because that was all the seed that they had.

Abraham married Marie Josephe Savoie Abt 1731. Marie (daughter of Francois Savoie and Marie Richard) was born 25 Apr 1709, Port Royal; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Baptised: 28 Apr 1709, Port Royal
• Census: 1752, Macpec (Malpeque), ile St.Jean

Notes:

Baptised:
Her godparents were Pierre Savoye and Marguerite Richard. Sh e had been baptized earlier by necessity by Claude Teriot.

Census:
She appears with her husband and ten children.

Notes:

Married:
Discrepency: Bona Arsenault gives a marriage date of abt 1728. Stephen White gives a marriage date of abt 1731. The Arsenault Dictionary give a marriage date of abt 1728 on page 630 and a date of abt 1731 0n p.5.

Other Events:

• Residence: Abt 1765, Rustico, Prince Edward Island

Charles — Anne Arsenault. Anne died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Residence: Abt 1765, Rustico, Prince Edward Island

Other Events:

• Occupation: coastal pilot who resided at Port Royal in 1686 but owned property at Beaubassin.
• Misc: 1671, Mesagoueche point; rendered important seafaring services to Bourgeois which resulted in land being reserved for Pierre
• Misc: 1671, Port Royal; was not on the 1671 census and perhaps arrived on the ship L'Oranger from Rochefort
• Residence: 1671, Port Royal; , after arriving from Rochefort, France aboard the ship, L'Oranger,
• Occupation: Abt 1672; Jacque Bourgeois' pilot for his coastal trade
• Census: 1686, Port Royal
• Misc: Abt 1687, Beaubassin (formerly named Bourgeois colony); settled with his family
• Census: 1693, 1698, 1700, Beaubassin
• Residence: Abt 1875, Port Royal

Notes:

Misc:
Note that Stephen White indicates that Pierre Arsenault MIGHT have been among the sixty persons who were on the ship L'Oranger that sailed to Acadia from Rochefort in 1871.

Census:
He had one gun, 30 worked acres of land, 4 sheep and 6 pigs.

Residence:
In his Atlas, Surette tells how the land that had been reserved for Pierre Arsenault by the Bourgeois' at Mesagouche point in 1671, is seized back from Pierre around 1675 by Marguerite Bourgeois and her new husband, Jean Boudrot. As a result of this, Pierre must now stay in Port Royal.

Pierre married Marie Guerin Abt 1689. Marie (daughter of Francois Guerin and Anne Blanchard) was born 1662, Port Royal; died Aft 25 Apr 1723. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died:
According to the Beaubassin Register, she died after the 25th April 1723.

Notes:

Married:
Marie Guerin was from Port Royal and her husband, Pierre Arsenault, was a widower from Beaubassin when they married.

Notes:

Bona-vol.2,p.795-name,b.yr,marr.info.,children; he and his wife and children lived 'dans le haut de la riviere Port-Royal';his last two children were baptised at Grand-Pre. Members of this family settled in Louisianna.

Francois married Marie Richard 23 Nov 1707, Port Royal. Marie (daughter of Alexandre Richard and Elizabeth (Isabelle) Petitpas) was born 1691, Port Royal. [Group Sheet]