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- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144356558/pierre-cyr
- Pierre Cyr and Marie Francoise Bourgeois were married April 10, 1670 in Port-Royal, Acadia (Nova Scotia).
Their children born in Beaubassin, Acadia
Jehan Baptiste Cyr born about 1671.
Jean Pierre Cyr born about 1677.
Guillaume Cyr born January 1680.
- Pierre Sire was born in St. Germain de Bourgeuil, Touraine-en-Loire, France (200 km SW of Paris) about 1644 and was a gunsmith/locksmith. Historians say he came over with the French army to service their weapons. He was 24 yrs. old when he arrived in Acadie in 1668. He married Marie Bourgeois 10 April 1670 in Port Royal.
Her Father, Dr. Jacques Bourgeois was the army surgeon and also served the people. Dr. Jacques Bourgeois was a 21 year old surgeon who had arrived with a group of military emigrants in 1642.
Census 1671- Port Royal, Acadia, Canada - Pierre SIRE, gunsmith (locksmith), Marie Bourgeois, wife, 18, Jean, son, 3/12, 11 cattle, 6 sheep. Public Archives, Ottawa, Canada, film C-2752,( http://acadian-genweb.acadian-home.org/frames.html)
A review of the original record of the 1671 census clearly shows Pierre was not an Armurier: but with some fading: more probably a Suerrier. This is still a metal working trade, equal in general background to locksmith, but also clock-maker. This trade would include smithing as well and some armorer work.
His economic standing and education and specific French Batarde handwriting developed from at least 10 years of schooling. He didn't do much farming in Acadia for his first years: as evidenced by the small establishment he had in 1671: which implies he had income of some sort and he married the daughter of the most well set man (the Royal Surgeon) in Acadia as well. That ship carrying Le Borgne and Bourge that arrived in 1668 for the handover is the most likely mode of Pierre's arrival and it is known that it was a French naval ship from Dieppe.
(2011, 2012 V.Suzanne Sears) (http://genforum.genealogy.com/cyr/messages/2217/2174/2138/.html )
From: cajun@@acadian.org To: ACADIAN-CAJUN-L@@rootsweb.com SOURCE: "Madawaskan Heritage": There is good reason to believe that PIERRE SYRE arrived in Acadia after the signing of the Treaty of Breda (July 11, 1667) and before the arrival of Hector D'Andigne, Sieur de Grandfontaine (August 5, 1670). PIERRE SYRE was the first of the SIRE (CYR) line to arrive in Acadia. Pierre Laurent Molins made the following entry in an all-important census of 1671: "Gunsmith; PIERRE SYRE, 27 years of age, his wife Marie Bourgeois 18 years of age, their child a boy named Jehan, 3 months. Their livestock; eleven cattles and six sheeps ; no land under cultivation. The Center of Acadian Studies in Moncton, New Brunswick, has in its custody a file of Placide Gaudet's papers on the SIRE (CYR) family. Two rough notes made by the eminent genealogist caught my eye: "PIERRE SYRE; gunsmith, native of France where he was born in 1644; married at Port Royal in 1669, Marie Bourgeois born in 1652, daughter of Jacques Bourgeois (surgeon) and Jeanne Trahan. PIERRE died in Beaubassin where, in 1680, his widow married a second time Germain Girouard, son of Francois and Jeanne Aucoin. The date of Marie's second marriage is in church records, but the rest of Gaudet's note consists of deductions indubitably based on the 1671 Acadian Census. For example, simple subtraction produces 1644 as the year of Pierre's birth. The year of his marriage could be said to be 1669 or 1670, since his son was then three months old (at the time the census was taken), which was in the early Spring. Jean was probably born in January 1671 , or even December 1670". Gaudet's second note read: "PIERRE CYR; armurier, nee 1644 en France, vint en Acadie vers 1668; il est mort en 1679 a Beaubassin". Gaudet may not have intended these notes be considered definitive and taken for gospel but, along with the census, they constitute our best information concerning PIERRE SIRE and they have been widely accepted. It can be argued that PIERRE arrived in Acadia about 1668, since his wife was a local girl and he already had a three month old son in early 1671 (when the census was taken). He could not have been in this situation had he arrived in August of 1670 with Grandfontaine. Similarly, it is unlikely that he came before 1668, because Frenchmen were not coming to English occupied Acadia between 1654 and 1667. It can also be argued that he died in 1679, because his son Guillaume was born in 1680. Church records confirm his widow remarried June 9, 1680. Pierre's occupation as a gunsmith, suggests a connection with the military, although this is hardly conclusive. Was his arrival in Acadia related to the dismantling of the Carignan Regiment in Quebec in 1667-68? De Tracy and Talon had returned to France during those years with many officers and men of the Regiment, to say nothing of the 403 veterans who had opted to stay in the "new world". PIERRE may or may not have been a veteran of the Carignan Regiment; he may or may not have had any connection with Grandfontaine or his fellow officers; he may or may not have come direct from France as a military man or as a civilian.
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1644 - 1679 (35 years)