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4. Blanchard Family

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Blanchard Family 10th GG Jean Blanchard 1611 and Jane Randegonde 1621 - 1690 9GGC  Guilliame Blanchard 1640 ; Martin Blanchard 1647 - 1717; Anne Blanchard 1645 - 1674 8GG     Rene Blanchard was the son of Guilliame Blanchard  1640. 9GG  Pierre Guilbeau  1640 - 1703 A Marie Blanchard born 1646, who married Mathieu Brunet  was a Fille du Roi. Further information about the Blanchard Family https://acanadianfamily.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/early-french-canadian-pioneers-the-blanchards-of-quebec/   War Record for Marcellan Blanchard. Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour (1593–1666) was a French colonist and fur trader who served as Governor of Acadia from 1631–1642 and again from 1653–1657. Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour was born in France in 1593 to Huguenot Claude de Saint-Étienne de la Tour and his wife Marie Amador de Salazar, a descendant of Georges de La Trémoille, the Grand Chamberlain of France to ...

1. The Morrison Family and its Links to French Acadians in Canada

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The Morrison Family From Alloa Clackmannanshire Scotland  To Bathurst New Brunswick Canada A Story Spanning 235 Years Connecting Family By Science A Compilation of Family Historical Events Introduction Finding new cousins, is rather interesting, finding 2000 of them, at once, is a bit overwhelming.  Such is the new methods attributed to Family History research.  While it was all very much a case of Double Dutch to me, when it showed that my DNA matched with over 2000 Acadian French Canadians, I became a very firm dis-believer. After asking some questions, and trying to work out how, a few emails were sent to others who also showed a match with my records.  Unfortunately this part is the only way forward, and people just do not answer and email.  Except for one person, whom I had initially discounted, as there was not one name in his family tree that sounded familiar, just one record of a person named Morrison....