Pierre dit Pitre (1734-7 Jul 1825) — m. Marguerite Leger about 1758
Louis dit Louison (~1739-19 Apr 1809) — m. Marie Bonnevie dit Beaumont on 9 Jul 1777
Anne (24 Nov 1741-1778) — m. Jean-Baptiste Gallant in 1760
Marie (~1742-2 Sep 1829) — m. Joseph Andre LeBlanc in 1759
Joseph (24 Jun 1744-1772)
Isidore (1746-31 Mar 1841) — m. Ann Nancy Downing on 15 Sep 1781
Angélique (~1748-30 Apr 1827) — m. Jean “dit Petit Charle” Brun on 15 Feb 1772
Madeleine (~1748-????) — m. George Noils about 1765
François (~1752-????)
one other
Peter was one of two children born to Pierre Doiron and Madeleine Doucet from Port Royal, Acadie (aka Nouvelle-Ecosse, aka Nova Scotia), who married in Beaubassin, Acadie.
Anne was the daughter of Jean-Baptiste Forest (~1677-1752) and Isabelle LeBarre (3 Oct 1681-????) of Beaubassin, who married in 1698.
Peter and Anne married on 22 Nov 1733 in Beaubassin. Beaubassin was an important Acadian town at the time. Now a Canadian National Historic Site, it lies in a marshy coastal area on the isthmus connecting Nova Scotia to New Brunswick, just northwest of the modern town of Amherst.
The British built Fort Lawrence northwest of Beaubassin in 1751. The French responded with Fort Beauséjour in 1752, pretty much in Beaubassin. There’s a story about Peter acquiring the “dit Gould” name while trading with the English at Fort Lawrence before the war.
In the period 1755-1763, during the French and Indian war, the British deported many Acadians. Peter and Anne escaped in 1755, after the fall of Fort Beausejour, by fleeing to Port-Lajoie on Prince Edward Island (Ile-Ste-Jean). Peter’s father might have died there. After the British captured Louisbourg and Ile-Ste-Jean in 1758, they had to flee again, this time to Shippagan at the northeastern tip of New Brunswick. In 1761, they were among more than 700 Acadians captured by the British and held at Fort Beausejour, which the English had renamed Fort Cumberland. The British later moved them to the township of Amherst.
In 1768, in what was now English Canada, settlement of Acadians at Nappan-Maccan south of the modern Amherst began. Pierre was the leader of a second, smaller group of Acadians settled there before 1770. The settlers were very poor, and were tenant farmers of the official landowner, J. F. Wallet-Desbarres. Nevertheless, records from 1770 and 1771 showed Peter and his family (wife, three sons, two daughters) doing fairly well, with a respectable count of livestock to their name.
Although there’s a claim that Anne died in 1795, the 1791 census of Minudie, Nova Scotia listed “Peter Goold” as a widower. It showed him with three of his sons – Louis, Isidore, and Francois – and described him as a poor decrepit old man without property. Things had gone south since 1771. The eldest son, Peter Jr., was living in Nappan.
Peter died in 1794 in Minudie.
one other
Pierre was the son of French-born Jean D’Oiron and his first wife Marie-Anne Canol. He was probably born in Port-Royal, Acadie (aka Nouvelle-Ecosse, aka Nova Scotia), where 1686 records show his parents and seven children. Some genealogy records give Pierre the names dit Pitre and dit Gould, but it appears those names were used by his son and descendants, not by him or his contemporaries.
Madeleine was also born in Port-Royal, the daughter of Pierre Doucet and Henriette Pelletrat.
Pierre and Madeleine married anywhere from 1704 to 1709 in Beaubassin, Acadie. It was a second marriage for both. Madeleine’s first husband had been René Bernard. The name of Pierre’s first wife is unknown.
I don’t know when Madeleine died. Pierre married for a third time on 25 Feb 1740, to Veronique Brasseur. Veronique was the daughter of Mathieu and Janne Célestin dit Bellemere.
In 1751, Pierre and Veronique were living in Minudie, Nova Scotia. That year, the English built Fort Lawrence, so Pierre moved his family to Lac, next to Fort Beauséjour.
When the English captured Beauséjour in 1755, Pierre and family fled to Port-Lajoie, Ile-Ste-Jean (the modern Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island). He probably died there, but there are no records.
others
Jean came from France, location and parents unknown, although the name suggests he was from the Oiron region in west-central France. He might have been a soldier and drummer, but that’s some online genealogist’s speculation. Marie-Anne’s origins are completely unknown.
Jean and Marie-Anne married about 1671, location unknown. They first appear in the 1686 records for Port-Royal, Nouvelle-Ecosse (Nova Scotia) with 7 children.
Marie-Anne died before 1693, and Jean remarried to Marie Trahan (~1672-????) from Port-Royal.
By 1693, the family were at Les Mines, Nova Scotia and had a small farm. Between 1707 and 1714, they moved inland to Pisiquit, or Pisiguit, meaning any of the villages along what is now the St. Croix River, which flows north into the Minas Basin.
Jean died in 1735 or 1736 in Pisiquit.
http://www.acadian-home.org/doiron-family-history.html -- Doiron family history
http://www.acadian-home.org/menoudie.html -- Nappan-Maccan story
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Doiron-4 -- Beware, this site has many bogus dates
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Doucet-57 -- Same thing
http://www.ancestors-genealogy.com/chapy/doiron.htm -- Pierre Doiron story
http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/u/n/Jo-B-Duncan/GENE7-0005.html -- Doiron lineage
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Doiron-27 -- Pierre Doirion from France