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Le Bois-en-Re |Vue Panoramique, direction de Saint-Martin

July 16, 2011 Posted by | . | , , | Leave a Comment

Cardinal Richelieu On The Dike At La Rochelle | (1/2) | Cent associes/Hundred associates

Further Reading:

Compagnie des Cent-Associés – The Canadian Encyclopedia

Company of New France – Quebec History

Civil war in Acadia | The Maple Leaf – Vol. 12, No. 18

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Jehan Theriault’s Poitou Homeland – A Photo Gallery by Jean Paul Laurendeau

Martaize signSome time ago – through the marvels of modern DNA matching and online databases – I met a Jean Paul Laurendeau who lives in France. Our match is through my Theriault father’s YDNA but Jean Paul is not a Theriault. We probably connect because we both have ancestors in Poitou, France – although he has many more than I do. Jean Paul actually has many surnames in his family tree that Acadians and French Canadians would recognize including  Thibaudeau, Moreau, Arsenault and Archambeau. For those of you who are unaware Jehan Theriault (var. Jean Tario, Terio, Therriau etc.) was from Vienne, Poitou-Charentes (France). Jehan and Perrine Rau are the founding couple of all Theriaults in North America.  I rediscovered Jean Paul when I came across his beautiful photos of the Poitou region of France and he’s been generous enough to share these with A Canadian Family readers. So if your ancestors are from Poitou please sit back and take a “virtual” tour of this ancestral homeland of so many French Canadians.

Martaize eglise

Eglise Martaize (Church) France

 

Martaize wall construction

Jean Paul's daughter Laëtitia points out a detail

Martaize wall construciton round tower

Martaize - a Round Tower

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Martaize eglise inside

Martaize (Church) Internal View with Laëtitia

 

 
Aulnay Signs

eglise la chaussee

Eglise La Chaussee (Church) France

 

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A Canadian Family Through the Generations: Our Theriaults (Gen.1)

Jehan Terriot & Perrine Rau

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Poitou-Charentes (France)

· Jehan and Perrine were the Acadian/Canadian/North American founding couple of the many Theriaults who now exist in North America and around the world.

· Jehan Terriot (Theriault) was born about 1600 in Poitou, France. In 1635 while still in France Jehan married Perrine Rau – also of Poitou. Perrine was ten years older than him. Both husband and wife died in Port Royal, Acadia by 1678.

· Jehan and Perrine had seven children: Claude (our direct ancestor), Jean, Bonaventure, Jeanne, Germain, Catherine and Pierre.

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Claude Terriot was born in 1637 and died in 1725. He married Marie Gautrot in Port Royal in 1661. Marie Gautrot was the daughter of Francois Gautrot (1613-1693) and Edmee Lejeune (1624 – ?). Marie was born about 1645 in Port Royal, Acadia and died there on the 29th of November in 1732. The couple had 14 children. Read more »

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