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- Ref: S.A. White pg 400
Master Ship Carpenter at LaRochelle, France
On January 8, 1644, Robert Cormier, master ship carpenter in La Rochelle, his wife Marie Péraud and their son Thomas committed to taking the ship Le Petit Saint-Pierre, in order to come and work at Fort Saint-Pierre, in Cape Breton Island. This is how the story of the Cormier family in America begins. Around 1668, Thomas Cormier, then aged around thirty-two, married MarieMadeleine Girouard, daughter of François G irouard and Jeanne Aucoin. First established in Port-Royal, Thomas and Marie-Madeleine were among the first settlers of Beaubassin, where their son Pierre was born on March 25, 1682. He married around 1702 to Catherine LeBlanc, daughter of Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Hébert. The eldest of Pierre and Catherine's eleven children was named after his father. Pierre Cormier fils married, in Grand-Pré, on July 17, 1730, with Cécile Thibodeau, daughter of Jean Thibodeau and Marguerite Hébert. These latter are the ancestors of all the Cormiers of southeastern New Brunswick. Source the genealogy of the thirty-seven host families of “Retrouvailles 94” by Stephen A. White
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