Richard dit Sansoucy, Michel Rene 1630

"[He bore the surname of Sansoucy, a regimental nickname which confirms in some degree his occupation as a soldier. * * * He became a settler on the Port-Royal River and obtained there two grants at some ten to fifteen miles from the fort, from the new Seigneur, Leborgne ….”

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Michel Richard dit Sansoucy came from France and married at Port-Royal Madeleine Blanchard, according to Pierre Doucet, husband of his great-granddaughter Marie-Blanche Richard (Doc. inéd., Vol. III, pp. 53-54). Pierre mistakenly called his wife’s great-grandmother Anne, instead of Madeleine, but the 1671 census shows her true given name. Three other depositions confirm the French origin of Michel Richard dit Sansoucy, although two of these attribute the given names of René to him and Marie to his wife, one from his great-grandson Pierre Richard and the other from Joseph LeBlanc dit Le Maigre, on behalf of his son Joseph, whose wife Angélique Daigre was another great-grandchild of the ancestor.. The last deposition, from Pierre Trahan, whose father-in-law’s first wife was Michel Richard’s daughter, provides no given name for the ancestor and does not mention his spouse at all.

Born: 24 Jan 1630 - Saintonge, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France

Married: c. 1656 - Madeleine Blanchard - Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Died: 1687 - Port Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle - Écosse, Canada

Buried: Garrison Graveyard, Annapolis Royal Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada

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