Michel Boudreau



Boudreau is the Acadian family to which this Pitre line seems to have the most links. The first to arrive on this continent was Michel Boudreau, born in France around 1600. Some believe that he was from Cougnes, La Rochelle but there is no documentation to support this.

Michel Boudreau arrived in Acadia before September 21, 1639 when he is mentioned as being one of the first syndic (official law officer) in Port-Royal. Although, listed as a farmer in the census of 1671, we find him mentioned as the Lieutenant Gouverneur civil et criminel (magistrate) in the 1686 census. He gives up this position to Mathieu de Goutin on August 20, 1688 following a King's ruling dated March 30, 1687 stating that Michel Boudreau was rendered too old to perform his duties. He would have been around 87 years old. Michel Boudreau passed away sometime between 1688 and the census of 1693 where his wife, Michelle Aucoin was listed as a widow.

Around 1641, Michel Boudreau had married Michelle Aucoin (Sister of Jeanne Aucoin married to Fran�ois Girouard). Michelle is believed to have arrived in Acadia the previous year when she was 22.


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Eleven children were born of Michel Boudreau & Michelle Aucoin and we are descendants from eight of them through different lines.

  1. Fran�oise Boudreau, born 1642 married �tienne Robichau in 1663; died after 1714

  2. Jeanne Boudreau, born 1645 married 1666 Bonaventure Th�riot; died May 8, 1710

  3. Charles Boudreau, born 1646 married 1672 Ren�e Bourque - 2nd marriage to Marie Corporon 1686

  4. Marie Boudreau, born 1650 married 1673 Michel Poirier

  5. Jean Boudreau, born 1655 married 1676 Marguerite Bourgeois; died before nov. 30, 1679

  6. Abraham Boudreau, born in 1657 married C�cile Melanson in 1684

  7. Michel Boudreau II, born 1659 married 1690 Madeleine Cormier; died between census 1707 and Feb. 13, 1714

    Michel Boudreau II & Madeleine Cormier are the paternal great-grandparents of Marguerite Boudreau who married Michel Pitre in 1789. Marguerite his also descendant of Abraham Boudreau & C�cile M�lanson on her mother's side.

  8. Claude Boudreau, born in 1663 married 1e Anne-Marie Thibodeau in 1682; 2e Catherine Meunier around 1700; 3e Madeleine Corporon in Port Royal on August 7, 1735.

    Claude Boudreau & Anne-Marie Thibodeau had a son which was named after his father Michel Boudreau. This Michel Boudreau married Marie-C�cile Leblanc and they are the parents of C�cile Boudreau.

All the Boudrot, Boudreau, Boudreaux, etc. on this continent are descendants of Michel Boudreau & Michelle Aucoin.






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