Claude Guedry

• General Notes
  • Claude Guédry dit Grivois dit La Verdure, who also spelled his surname Gaidry, came to Port-Royal soon after the first census of 1671 and married an Indian, Keska, in c1680.  She gave him a daughter.  In c1681, he married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Petitpas and widow of Martin Dugas, at Port-Royal.  By 1686, they had moved to Mirliguèche, today's Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, near Cap-Sable, on the Atlantic side of the peninsula.  By 1695, they had returned to Port-Royal.  In 1708, they were back on the Atlantic side of the peninsula, at La Hève.  They had 11 children, including nine sons, four of whom created families of their own.  Their two daughters married into the Doiron and Lejeune families.  Claude's older daughter settled at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, after Acadia fell to the British, and his younger daughter also moved to one of the Maritime islands by 1752.  Claude died after January 1723, when he was recorded as baptizing privately the twins daughters of his son Augustin at Boston.  Can one assume by this that Claude and Augustin engaged in commerce with the British?