GERMAIN DOUCET born Couperans en Brie (or Conflans en Brye). Sieur de LaVerdure; captain of arms. 1st marriage circa 1620. Wife (or wives) not identified.

a. Pierre born circa 1621 (census PORT-ROYAL 1671 age 50, 1686 age 55 (sic), 1693 age 56 (sic) [wid], 1698 age 80 (sic), 1700 age 63 (sic), 1701 age 90 (sic)); married circa 1660 Henriette Pelletret (Simon and Perrine Bourg); deceased/buried Rg PORT-ROYAL 1/ 2 June 1713 "nearly a hundred years old" (sic).

b. Marguerite born circa 1625 (census PORT-ROYAL 1671 age 46, 1686 age 50 (sic), 1693 age 66, 1700 age --); married circa 1647 Abraham Dugas; deceased/buried Rg PORT-ROYAL 19/ 20 Dec 1707 age --, buried in the cemetery at the head of the St-Laurent chapel river.

c. daughter (according to Stephen A White) married (Decl BIM) PORT-ROYAL circa 1650 Pierre LeJeune dit Briard.

d. Germain born circa 1641 (census PORT-ROYAL 1671 age 30, 1686 age 45, 1693 age 50); married (Decl BIM) PORT-ROYAL circa 1664 Marie Landry (René and Perrine Bourg); died (Decl BIM) PORT-ROYAL census, before 1698.

2nd marriage before 1654, wife not identified (possibly the daughter of Guillaume Trahan or the sister of Jacques Bourgeois). No children traced.

INFORMATION SOURCE

Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes

Première Partie 1636 à 1714

Stephen A. White

C'entre d'études Acadiennes

Université de Moncton, 1999

Volume A to Z, pp 526-527.

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
Rg PORT-ROYAL
Decl BIM (Doc. [in‚d]. III vol. p 29, 53)

SECONDARY SOURCES
Mrs. L.- J. Doucet, "Genealogy of the Doucet families," SGCF VI vol, 1955, p 371-388.

NOTES of STEPHEN A WHITE

[i]. It is not possible that the mother of the children of Germain Doucet is a sister of Jacques Bourgeois' wife, as certain authors have proposed, being given that the in-laws of Jacques Bourgeois didn't get married until 1627. There exists the possibility that Germain Doucet nevertheless married, in second nuptials, to a daughter of Guillaume Trahan who gave him no surviving children; but it is as possible that such a second wife is the sister of Jacques Bourgeois and not the sister of his wife. (See SGCF Vol VI, p 372.)

[ii]. The dispensation of third to the fourth degree of consanguinity granted at the time of the marriage of Pierre Doucet, grandson of Germain Doucet and of Marie Landry, with Anne Marie Dugas, great grand-daughter of Abraham Dugas and of Marguerite Doucet (Rg PORT-ROYAL 27 Jan 1749), gives us the certainty that Germain and Marguerite were brother and sister.

[iii]. The dispensation of fourth degree of consanguinity granted at the time of the marriage of Claude Trahan with Anne LeBlanc (Rg GP 18 Apr 1746) suggests that the wife of Pierre LeJeune dit Briard, great grandfather of Claude, was the sister of Marguerite Doucet, great grandmother of Anne.

[iv]. The dispensation of third degree of consanguinity granted at the time of the marriage of Germain Doucet, grandson of Germain Doucet and of Marie Landry, with Françoise Comeau, granddaughter of Pierre Doucet and Henriette Pelletret (Rg PORT-ROYAL 26 Nov 1726), assures us that the spouse of Marie Landry was the brother of Pierre Doucet.