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- According to the Dictionnaire Genealogique Des Families Acadiennes English Supplement Explanatory and Biographical Notes for Germain Doucet (Pages 112-113):
Explanatory Notes
i. It is impossible for the mother of Germain Doucet's children to have been a sister of Jacques Bourgeois's wife [Jeanne Trahan born about 1629, daughter of Guillaume Trahan and Françoise Corbineau who married July 13 1627 in St. Étienne, Chinon, Touraine], as some writers have claimed, considering that Bourgeois's father[-in-law] and mother-in-law were only married in 1627. It is nevertheless possible that Germain Doucet married secondly Guillaume Trahan's daughter, who subsequently gave him no children who survived in Acadia, but it is also possible that his second wife was Jacques Bourgeois's sister and not his wife's sister.
Biographical Notes
14 July 1640: Inquiry presided over by Mathieu Cappon, clerk and registrar, against Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, at which appeared Germain Doucet dit La Verdure, "master-at-arms at Pentagouet”, Isaac Pesseley, and Guillaume Trahan.
16 Aug 1654: Capitulation of Port-Royal:
Result of all the articles presented by M. Doucet de La Verdure, on the one hand as captain commanding for the King in Port Royal, and on the other as surrogate guardian of the minor children of the late M. d'Aulnay, to Mr. Robert Sedgwick, general of the squadron and Commander-in-chief on all the coast of New England in America … and to better ensure the keeping of the above articles the said Sr de La Verdure has left as hostage M. Jacques Bourgeois, his brother-in-law and the lieutenant of the place, as well as the bearer of his power of attorney with respect to the present treaty.
Germain Doucet and Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois were brothers-in-law. According to the Dictionnaire Genealogique Des Families Acadiennes (Pages 251-253), Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois was only married to Jeanne Trahan; he was never married to a Doucet. Thus, Germain Doucet must have married a sister of Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois or a sister of Jeanne Trahan so that Germain Doucet and Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois became brothers-in-law. There is no current evidence for the number of wives Germain Doucet had or when they were married.
According to the Dictionnaire Genealogique Des Families Acadiennes (Page 1537), Guillaume Trahan sailed to Acadia on the Saint Jehan along with his wife and two children. One of these children was Jeanne Trahan who married Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois. Possibly, the other child was a daughter who married Germain Doucet. However, even if this second daughter of Guillaume Trahan did marry Germain Doucet, it can not be determined which, if any, children of Germain Doucet were hers.
Stephen A White's Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes 1636-1714 Ajouts et Corrections corrects Germain Doucet's place of birth to "Couperoue en Brye (Coupru en Brie)". There is no indication where this in France.
According to Wikipedia, there is a commune Coupru located in Essômes-sur-Marne (Canton), Château-Thierry (Arrondissement), Aisne (Département), Hauts-de-France (Région), France. This may the place recorded as Germain Doucet's place of birth.
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