Pierre Pitre
1736 Acadia - after 1763
Pierre Pitre was born about 1736 in Acadia. He appears to be with his family in 1752 at Chipoudy, about three years before the mass deportations of Acadians from Nova Scotia. He married Marguerite Bourg c1756 on Ile St. Jean.
According to Acadians in Halifax and on Georges Island, 1755 – 1764 by Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, the Pierre Pitre imprisoned at Halifax in 1763 with his wife and total family of 6 is this Pierre. [Mr. LeBlanc acknowledges the help of Stephen A. White, who reviewed the text and the table of Acadian families who spent time in Halifax and on Georges Island between 1759 and 1764, and for Mr. White's thoughtful advice and providing access to the manuscript of the genealogical notes for Part 2 of his Dictionnaire.]
Marguerite made it to Louisiana where she remarried Charles Guilbeau in St. Martinville in 1775. If Pierre survived the trip I can find no evidence of this or of any surviving offspring. Pierre's father, also Pierre, along with two of his siblings, Catherine and Francois, appear in the 1766 census of the Opelousas Post Territory.
The first Pitre entry that appears in the Louisiana registers is the baptism of Pierre’s nephew on the 28th of April 1771 in Opelousas. He was born the 13th of December 1769 to Francois and his wife Marie Josephe Thibodeau.
Continuation of tree (4th child of Pierre Pitre/Agathe Doucet); all known surname descendants:
4 Pierre Pitre b: Abt. 1736 Acadia; d: Bet. 1763 - 1775
+Marguerite Bourg b: Abt. 1737 Acadia; m: Abt. 1756 Ile St. Jean [Charles/Anne Boudrot]; d: Aft. 1775 Louisiana.
Back one generation to parents of Pierre Pitre
Items in RED have been verified against parish register entries.
- Some early Acadian entries verified against accepted transcriptions.
- Earliest Acadian entries verified against Stephen A. White's Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Acadiennes.
- Louisiana entries verified against accepted published transcriptions (see sources page).
Last updated: 5 December 2019.