CORMIER
Robert CORMIER was born in 1610 at LaRochelle, France. He married in 1634, Marie Peraud, also from France. Robert was a master carpenter.
In 1644 he and his wife signed a contract at Fort St. Pierre to go to Cap Breton, New France. In 1650, he was at Port Royal. He later died at Port Royal on February 12, 1712.
Thomas Cormier, son of Robert and Marie, was born in 1636 at LaRochelle, France. Thomas married in 1668 at Port Royal a Madeleine Girouard, daughter of Francois Gierouard and Jeanne Aucoin. Thomas arrived in Acadia in 1644 at the age of 8 years with his parents. He developed Beaubassin in 1672 along with Jacques Bourgois. There is record of six children born to Thomas and Madeline.
In 1752 this family was in the Isthmus of Acadia at the Namppan River at Weskak, Beausejour. Thomas died in 1689 at Beaubassin.
Pierre Cormier, son of Thomas and Madeline, was born on March 25, 1682, at Beaubassin. He married in 1704 Catherine Leblanc, daughter of Jacques Leblanc and Catherine Hebert. There is record of eleven children born to this couple.
Pierre II was born in 1707 to Pierre I and Catherine. He was married in 1730 at Grand Pre', Acadia, to Cecile Thibodeaux.
Joseph, son of Pierre II and Cecile, becomes the enterpiece of discussion at this point.
Most of the Cormiers now living in the southwestern part of Louisiana descend from three Acadian families of that name who were among the first groups exile to arrive in New Orleans in 1765.
After settling first in St. James Parish along the Mississippi River, members of all three families by the 1770's had migrated to Opelousas and Attakapas Districts where they established small farms along the Teche.
Among the more successful of the Cormier pioneers coming to this area was Joseph Cormier. He married Marguerite Sonnier, daughter of Pierre Saunier and Cecile Thibodeau. After the death of Marguerite, Joseph married Anne Michel, daughter of Jacques Michel and Jeanne Breaud, natives of Acadia.
Joseph, along with his sons Michel, Anaclet, and Joseph Jr., were therefore the forefathers of this line of Cormiers.