La Rochelle is a seaport town in the Poitou-Charentes region of France. The city has a long history of fishing and shipbuilding. It is from La Rochelle that my Mom’s Cormier family left France in 1644. About 1634, Robert married Marie Peraude (Perreau) at La Rochelle. They had two sons, Thomas born in 1636 and […]
Martin Family, you must read this… …this is the city from which the Martins originated in France. The story is as follows…Robert Martin was born in 1600 in Nantes, Bretagne (Brittany), which is now part of France. He died in 1666 in Port Royal, Acadia (which is modern day Nova Scotia). In 1634, when he […]
This is the place where all my ancestors came to the New World! It is Port Royal, in modern day Nova Scotia. It was once part of Acadie (in French) or Acadia (in English). While Port Royal was first settled in 1604 (yes, that’s right, it is before Jamestown was settled), my ancestors arrived in […]
Van Buren is the town where my father grew up. It is also where my maternal grandmother (Memere) was raised and lived. While not the most exciting place I’ve been, it somehow feels strangely familiar to me.