Ancestors of Iain John Carson McCraine from Scotland.

Dugas Family 9GG  Major Germaine Sieur de la Verdure Doucet  1595 - 1654 8GG  Pierre Doucet; Marguerite Doucet m Abraham Dugas 1613 - 1698  son of Abraham Dugas 1590 - 1689 and Marguerite Carsonne 1590 - 1689 7GG  Marie-Jean Dugas; Claude Dugas; Marguerite Dugas; Madeline Dugas; Marie Dugas http://ourancestors.homestead.com/Bourgeois.html BOURGEOIS, JACQUES (Jacob), surgeon, colonizer, founder of Beaubassin; b. sometime between 1618 and 1621 in France, probably at Couperans-en-Brie (department of Seine-et-Marne); d. 1701 at Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.); founder of the Bourgeois family in Acadia. Before leaving France, Bourgeois had entered the medical profession. He came to Port-Royal in 1642 with 18 families that Governor Menou* d’Aulnay brought with him on one of his voyages. Bourgeois’ father, also named Jacques, was an army officer at Port-Royal and was the brother-in-law of Germain Doucet, Sieur de La Verdure, Aulnay’s assistant. In 1654...

There is a lot of conjecture about the origins of the Melancon (Melanson) family.   However the family were living in a French district of London in 1642, with the name Merazon.   There are many who suggest that his wife was English.   That is not proven, rather it is more probable that she was also French, and that they had some sort of relationship with Major Germaine Doucet.   One of the earliest relatives is Petri Merazon and his wife Priscillae.   He was no doubt a French person,   who lived in London in 1837.    In all likelihood he lived in the Upper Brittany Region in France.   The family name was most likely a derivative of Merazon.   In 1670 Marie Marazin was born in Bourges, and many other family names of similar sounds can be sourced in the Berry region of France. But Petri Merazon also called himself La Verdure.   That has been translated into so many different derivatives.   Petri married a lady by the n...