Francois Pitre
1682 Port Royal - 5 December 1725 Port Royal
Francois Pitre was born c1682 in Port Royal, Acadia and was to remain the youngest son in the family. Even though his father died when he was only seven, his mother remarried fairly soon providing some sort of stability for Francois and his siblings. The family continued to live in the Port Royal area.
In the summer of 1705 Francois married 18-year-old Anne Prejean, the second daughter of French-born Jean Prejean and his Acadian wife Andree Savoie. They had eleven children over the next twenty years, much of which was spent under British rule. In 1725 personal tragedy struck. Twins Anne and Theotiste were born at the end of August, but within three months both the twins had died as well as Francois, who was only 44.
Anne was left with nine children, and they were on their own for the next seven years. In 1732, with four of her brood married, she married again to a widower, Michel Boudrot, who had lost his wife the previous spring. Her daughter had married one of his sons the previous year, and two more daughters and a son would also go on to marry his offspring.
Continuation of tree (8th child of Jean Pitre/Marie Pesseley); all known surname descendants:
2 Francois Pitre dit Nordest b: Abt. 1682 Port Royal, Acadia; d: 5 December 1725 Port Royal, Acadia
+Anne Prejean b: Abt. 1687 Port Royal, Acadia; m: 27 July 1705 Port Royal, Acadia [Jean/Andree Savoie]; d: Aft. April 1732
3 Antoine Pitre b: 19 July 1706 Port Royal, Acadia; d: Bet. September 1755 - September 1756
+Anne Comeau b: 15 November 1708 Grand Pre, Acadia; m: Abt. 1731 Acadia [Jean/Catherine Babin]; d: 30 August 1772 St. Servan, Bretagne, France
3 Marie Josephe Pitre b: 28 December 1708 Port Royal, Acadia; d: Bet. 1763 - 19 January 1767
+Charles Simon dit Boucher b: Abt. 1696 Acadia; m: 12 February 1730 Port Royal, Acadia [Andre Simon/Marie Martin]; d: 18 September 1743 Louisbourg, Isle Royale
*2nd Husband of Marie Josephe Pitre:
+Charles Girouard b: Abt. 1689 Port Royal, Acadia; m: 16 June 1744 Port Royal, Acadia [Jacques/Marguerite Gautrot]; d: Aft. 1750
*3rd Husband of Marie Josephe Pitre:
+Charles Bourgeois b: 11 June 1719 Acadia; m: Aft. 1751 [Charles/Madeleine Cormier]
3 Jean Baptiste Pitre b: January 1711 Port Royal, Acadia; d: 8 June 1758 Notre Dame Basilica, Quebec
+Cecile Boudrot b: Abt. 1714 Acadia; m: Abt. 1733 Acadia [Michel/Cecile Leblanc]; d: 13 January 1811 St. Jean Baptiste, Nicolet, Quebec
3 Marie Madeleine Pitre b: 1 March 1713 Port Royal, Acadia; d: Aft. 1752
+Pierre Gaudet b: Abt. 1698 Port Royal, Acadia; m: 30 May 1728 Port Royal, Acadia [Jean/Elisabeth (Isabelle) Bourg]; d: 11 August 1752 Port Lajoie, Ile St. Jean
3 Marguerite Pitre b: 16 June 1715 Port Royal, Acadia; d: 18 March 1806 St. Jean Baptiste, Nicolet, Quebec
+Francois dit Lami Boudrot b: 10 August 1710 Grand Pre, Acadia; m: Abt. 1731 Acadia [Michel Boudrot/Cecile Leblanc]; d: 24 November 1757 Quebec
*2nd Husband of Marguerite Pitre:
+Simon Provencher dit Villebrun b: Abt. 1700; m: 11 January 1768 St. Jean Baptiste, Nicolet, Quebec [Sebastien Provencher/Marie Masse]; d: 28 May 1771 St. Jean Baptiste, Nicolet, Quebec
3 Simon Eustache Pitre b: 20 May 1717 Port Royal, Acadia; d: Aft. 1748
+Anne Marie Hebert b: Abt. 1717 Acadia; m: Abt. 1737 Acadia; d: Aft. 1748
3 Agnes Pitre b: 10 June 1719 Port Royal, Acadia; d: 2 June 1781 Ile aux Coudres, Quebec
+Jean Baptiste Boudrot b: Abt. 1715 Acadia; m: Abt. 1738 Acadia [Michel/Cecile Leblanc]; d: 9 January 1760 St. Joachim, Montmorency, Quebec
3 Judith Pitre b: 13 October 1721 Port Royal, Acadia; d: 1 May 1790 Ile aux Coudres, Quebec
+Rene Boudrot b: c15 August 1717 Grand Pre, Acadia; m: Abt. 1745 Acadia [Michel/Cecile Leblanc]; d: 1756/57
*2nd Husband of Judith Pitre:
+Joseph Lord b: 28 September 1716 Port Royal, Acadia; m: 10 November 1760 St. Joachim, Montmorency, Quebec [Alexandre/Marie Francoise Barrieau]; d: 15 April 1775 Ile aux Coudres, Quebec
3 Francois Joseph Pitre b: 31 July 1723 Port Royal, Acadia
3 Anne Pitre b: 30 August 1725 Port Royal, Acadia; d: 9 November 1725 Port Royal, Acadia
3 Theotiste Pitre b: 30 August 1725 Port Royal, Acadia; d: 7 October 1725 Port Royal, Acadia
Back one generation to parents of Francois Pitre
- Earliest items in RED sourced from Dictionnaire Genealogique Des Familles Acadiennes (Stephen A. White) and from extant registers.
- Later items in RED have been verified against parish register entries.
Last updated: 1 October 2011~