Pierre Lemire
Pierre was born on August 3rd, 1705 in
Poix, Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
- Birth Notes
- Pierre Lemire dit Mire, born in Paris in c1705, came to Acadia in the 1720s and married Marie-Josèphe Foret in c1726. They settled at Pigiguit in the Minas Basin. Marie-Josèphe gave him two children: daughter Pétronille, born in c1727, and son Joachim dit Bénoni, called Bénoni, born in c1736 probably at Pigiguit.
After Marie-Josèphe died, Pierre dit Mire remarried to Isabelle, daughter of Claude Thibodeaux, at Port-Royal in July 1738. Isabelle gave him five more children, all born at Pigiguit: Marie, born in c1741, Élisabeth in c1742, David in c1743, and twins Joseph and Simon in c1744. ...
Pierre died sometime in the mid-1750s. ...
Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this small family to the winds. ...
He died at the age of 52 in 1757 in
Pisiguit, Nova Scotia, Acadia, Canada.
Claude Lemire & Simonne Lefebve 
