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Pierre (CYR) SIRE was born about 1644 in Tourainne-en-Loire, France. Pierre Cyr, the family progenitor, allegedly died at Beaubassin, Acadia circa 1678-1679.
He was married to Marie BOURGEOIS on 10 Apr 1670 in Port-Royal, New France, Acadia.

There is good reason to believe that Pierre SIRE arrived in Acadia after the signing of the Treaty of Breda (July 11, 1667) and before the arrival of Hector d'ANDIGNE, Sieur de Grandfontaine (August 5, 1670). Pierre SIRE was the first of the SIRE (CYR) line to arrive in Acadia. Pere Laurent MOLINS made an entry in the census of 1671 regarding Pierre SIRE, his wife Marie BOURGEOIS and their son, Jehan.

The origins of Pierre Cyr are somewhat obscure. Unverified references point to Touraine-en-Loire, France. An equally unsubstantiated source makes mention of St. Germaine de Bourgeuil near Orleans in the French province of Touraine. It remains for French genealogists to work this out.In any case, records of 1668 indicate the presence of the young PierreCyr in Acadia on the Bay of Fundy. The Cyr name is now on the North American Continent. Pierre Cyr is listed as a munitions maker. In 1670, Pierre Cyr married the 17-year old Marie Bourgeois at Port Royal, Acadia(Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia today). The population of Acadia now consisted of 441 souls. Marie Bourgeois was the daughter of the former post surgeon under Governor d'Aulnay. Jacques Bourgeois, her father, appears to have developed a sizeable estate. Laurant Molin's census of Acadia in 1671 begins with the Bourgeois family. His holdings at the time were said to include 33 head of cattle, two dozen sheep, a pair of oxen and five acres of land under tillage. The livestock holdings of 27-year old Pierre Cyr, on the other hand were considerably smaller. He is listed as owning but one cow, two sows and six sheep. (Massignon, p.944) Shortly after 1671, Jacques Bourgeois, who also engaged in fur trading, moved his family up the Bay of Fundy to Cumberland Basin, which the Indians called Chignecto. With the move, Bourgeois was accompanied by his three sons-in-law, Pierre Cyr, Germaine Girouard, and Jean Boudrot. Shortly thereafter, Michel Le Neuf, a Quebecois aristocrat, was granted a seigneurie in the area. It was he who renamed the Bourgeois settlement, Beaubassin. (Clarke, p.141) We might surmise, Pierre Cyr may well have worked in his father-in-law's grist mill and saw mill which he later erected at Beaubassin. The Cyrs became the parents of three sons. Jean theeldest, born in 1671, later married Francoise Melanson whose father issaid to have been of Scottish origin. It appears the Melansons may have arrived in Acadia during the English interregnum which saw Robert Sedgwick take over the country in 1654, or Thomas Temple's arrival in 1657. (Arsenault p.57) Jean, through his grandsons, became the grand patriarch of the Cyr's of Madawaska. The other two sons were Pierre b. 1677, and Guillaume b. 1679. Pierre's descendants ended up at St. Sevran de St. Malo, France during the era of Le Grand Derangement though later wefind some family members in the province of Quebec. Guillaume's familyon the other hand, ended up in Boston; and after the war, we find his widow at Miquelon, a French island off the coast of northern Quebec.

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L'Histoire de Pierre SIRE
Pierre SIRE, notre ancFtre commun et le premier du nom (1) en AmTrique du Nord, arrive en Acadie vers 1668 et il s'Ttablit a Port-Royale, le seul vTritable Ttablissement de l'Tpoque dans cette partie du nouveau monde.
Originaire de France ou il est nT vers 1644 (2), il pratique le mTtier d'armurier au service d'une population de quelque 320 personnes. Moins de deux ans aprFs arrivTe, il Tpouse Marie BOURGEOIS, fille de Jacques Bourgeois et de Jeanne Trahan, nTe a Port-Royale en 1653. Elle est donc la cadette de neuf ans.
Par ce mariage, l'ancFtre s'allie a l'une des familles les plus prestigieuses de Port-Royale aprFs celle du seigneur Le Borgne de Belle-Isle. AmenT de France par d'Aulnay en 1640, Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois arriveavec sa femme, Jeanne Trahan, et il pratique en Acadie sa profession de 'chirurgien royal'. Il s'occupe aussi de commerce avec les Indiens, laissent entendre des documents d'Tpoque, en plus de diriger une entreprise de cabotage dans la Baie Francaise (Baie de Fundy) et sur la cote Atlantique. InteressT a l'agriculture, il fondera enfin un nouvel Ttablissement qui deviendra plus tard, Beaubassin.
Pour en revenir a la famille de Pierre SIRE et de Marie BOURGEOIS, elles'enrichit des la fin de l'TtT 1671 par la naissance d'un premier enfant auquel on donnera le prTnon de Jean.
Quelque mois plus tard, un recensement (3) dressT par les soins de Monsieur de Grandfontaine et datT du 8 novembre 1671, dTcrit comme suit, lafamille de l'ancFtre:
Pierre Sire, 27 ans, armurier;
Marie Bourgeois, sa femme, 18 ans,
originaire de l'Acadie;
Jehan, leur garton, trois mois;
ProprietTs: onze piFces de bestiaux a cornes,
six brebis; point de terre en labour.
MalgrT l'insignifiance relative de ses biens, l'aieul compte alors parmi les privelTgies de la colonie.
Puis le jeune mTnage dcide de suivre Jacques Bourgeois qui entreprend de developper 'la colonie Bourgeois'. AppelTe a prendre de l'envergure, celle-ci deviendra plus tard la nouvelle paroisse de Beaubassis. Le nouvel Ttablissement se situe tout au fond de la Baie Frantaise, a peu de distance de l'actuelle frontiFre sTparant le Nouveau-Brunswick de la Nouvelle-Ecosse.
Les premiFres habitations se dresent sur une Tlevation longeant la rivesud de la petite riviFre Missagoueche. Les indiens de la rTgion dTsignent l'endroit sous le nom de Chignectou (4). TrFs t(t, la nouvelle colonies enrichit d'un moulin a farine et d'une scierie dont l'outillage usagT provient de Boston et a TtT dTmTnagT en piFces dTtachTes.

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