Bernard · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Marie Bernard

Born about 1693, Beaubassin, Acadie.

Marie Bernard was an Acadian woman of Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal), the wife of Guillaume Giroir, known through the parish register’s entries for her daughter and through a census of 1700 that counts her as a child. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Anne Girouard (born 1729).

She was born about 1693 at Beaubassin^W, Acadie. She was married by 1714, at Port-Royal, to Guillaume Giroir. No record of her death is known. Bona Arsenault’s compiled genealogy names her parents as René Bernard and Madeleine Doucet of Beaubassin, at the head of the Bay of Fundy. The census of 1700 at Beaubassin counts a Marie, aged seven, among the children of René Bernard and Madeleine Doucet, which is consistent with that compilation, though no register act seen names her as their daughter. The parish register of Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal) names her as the mother of Anne, who was born on 24 February 1729, baptized at home by a layman, Pierre La Noue, and brought to the church for the ceremonies on 23 April 1730, with Marguerite Giroard, a daughter of Alexandre Giroard, as godmother. She is named again as Anne’s mother when Anne married Justinien Dupuis at Port-Royal on 3 February 1751; Guillaume Giroir and Basile Giroir were among the witnesses. The marriage entry does not say whether she was then living. The same register records five other children of the couple, born between 1716 and 1726.

Family time line

◉ Marie Bernard abt 1693–

◉ Guillaume Giroir abt 1686–1757

Married bef 1714, Port-Royal, Acadie

○ Marie Magdelaine Girouard 1714– ⚭

○ Anne Giroir 1716–

○ Marguerite Giroir 1719–

○ Guillaume Giroir 1721–

○ Françoise Giroir 1724–

○ Pierre Giroir 1726–

◉ Anne Girouard 1729–

○ Marie Giroir –1752

Recorded events

Event	When	Where	Evidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth aged 7 in 1700 (census of Beaubassin)	abt 1693	Beaubassin, Acadie	on record
Living at aged 7, in her parents' household	1700	Beaubassin, Acadie	on record

16931700

Sources

Census of Acadia, Port-Royal, 1671, 1686 and 1693 (manuscript nominal censuses of Acadia) — Birth, Living at, Marriage (Guillaume Giroir)
Arsenault, Bona, Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, 2e éd. (Ottawa: Léméac, 1978), 6 vols., pagination continuous across volumes — Birth, about this person
Nova Scotia Archives, An Acadian Parish Remembered: Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal - marriage of Justinien Dupuis and Anne Giroir, 3 Feb 1751 — about this person, family with Guillaume Giroir
Nova Scotia Archives, An Acadian Parish Remembered: Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal - baptism of Anne Giroard, 23 Apr 1730 — about this person, family with Guillaume Giroir
Nova Scotia Archives, An Acadian Parish Remembered: Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal - baptism of Anne Giroir, child of Guillaume Giroir and Marie Bernard, 1716 — family with Guillaume Giroir
Nova Scotia Archives, An Acadian Parish Remembered: Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal - baptism of Marguerite Giroir, child of Guillaume Giroir and Marie Bernard, 1719 — family with Guillaume Giroir
Nova Scotia Archives, An Acadian Parish Remembered: Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal - baptism of Guillaume Giroir, child of Guillaume Giroir and Marie Bernard, 1721 — family with Guillaume Giroir
Nova Scotia Archives, An Acadian Parish Remembered: Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal - baptism of Françoise Giroir, child of Guillaume Giroir and Marie Bernard, 1724 — family with Guillaume Giroir
Nova Scotia Archives, An Acadian Parish Remembered: Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal - baptism of Pierre Giroir, child of Guillaume Giroir and Marie Bernard, 1726 — family with Guillaume Giroir

Borders as they stood about 1700, from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

René Bernard –bef 1713
Madeleine Doucet –bef 1740
1. Pierre Doucet abt 1621–1713
2. Henriette Pelletret abt 1640–
  1. Simon Pelletret
  2. Perrine Bourg abt 1626–

Descendants

Marie Magdelaine Girouard 1714– ⚭
1. Marie Joseph Martin 1740–
2. Françoise Martin 1742–
3. Anne Martin 1745–
4. Natalie Martin 1747–
Anne Giroir 1716–
Marguerite Giroir 1719–
Guillaume Giroir 1721–
1. Marie-Anne Giroir 1746–
2. Marie Giroir 1748–
Françoise Giroir 1724–
1. Joseph Richard 1748–
  1. Marie Richard 1776–
  2. Jean Richard 1777–
  3. François Richard 1778–
2. Jean Richard 1749–
3. François Richard 1750–
4. Anne Richard 1754–
Pierre Giroir 1726–
1. Pierre Giroir 1752–
2. Joseph Giroir 1754–
3. Jean-Baptiste Giroir 1760–
4. Marie-Anne-Modeste Giroir 1767–
5. Joseph Giroir 1769–
6. Elizabeth Giroir 1771–
7. Marie-Josèphe Giroir 1774–
Anne Girouard 1729–
1. Joseph Dupuis 1752–1803
  1. Genovefa Dupuis 1775–
    1. Francisca Theriot 1800–
    2. Celeste Theriot 1802–
  2. Pierre Dupuis 1778–1833
    1. Céleste Dupuis 1801–
    2. Elisée Dupuis 1802–1849
    3. Henriette Hélène Dupuis 1804–1805 ✧
    4. Alexandre Dupuis 1807–
    5. Sylvestre Dupuis 1810–
    6. Pierre Dupuis 1812–1815 ✧
    7. Marguerite Uranie Dupuis 1815–
    8. Marie Doralise Dupuis 1817–
    9. Roseline Dupuis 1817–
    10. Joseph Dupuis 1819–1820 ✧
  3. Céleste Dupuis abt 1780–
  4. Rosalie Dupuis 1781–
    1. Etienne Theriot 1819–
    2. Charles Theriot 1820–
  5. Joseph Dupuis 1789–1797 ✧
  6. Michel Dupuis 1791–
    1. Alexandre Dupuis 1822–1851
  7. Maria Dupuis 1794–
  8. Maria Dupuis
    1. Justinien Theriot 1802–
Marie Giroir –1752