DOIRON (DURANT)

ONE OF THE FOUNDING FAMILIES OF POMQUET WAS THAT OF JOSEPHAT DOIRON & HIS WIFE, MARGUERITE DUON, ALONG WITH THEIR FIRST THREE CHILDREN. JOSEPHAT WAS BORN IN 1746 THE SON OF ALEXIS DOIRON & MARGUERITE THIBODEAU. IN 1750, THIS FAMILY MOVED TO GRAND ANSE, ILE-ST. JEAN (ORWELL BAY, P.E.I.). BY 1758, ILE-ST. JEAN BECAME A BRITISH TERRITORY & THIS FAMILY ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS WERE DEPORTED TO ST. MALO, FRANCE.

WHILE IN FRANCE, JOSEPHAT MARRIED MARGUERITE DUON ON AUGUST 12, 1766 IN PLOUER, COTES DU  NORD. THEY STAYED IN FRANCE APPROXIMATELY 1773. WHEN THEY ARRANGED PASSAGE BACK TO ACADIA VIA THE JERSEY ISLAND MERCHANTS. ALL THE DOIRONS AND DURANTS IN POMQUET ARE DESCENDANTS OF THIS COUPLE.