On 12/7/05, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently, Mssr. Robichaud was a bit of a mercenary. > Hired by Mary of Scotland to aid in her attempt at the throne, he found he > had a date with the guillotine if he returned to Britany. > Apparently the French royalty didn't like little Miss Mary any more than > Elizabeth 1 did. > Anyway, he aligned himself with the MacFarlanes and stayed in Scotland.
Not nearly so much excitement in my family background. We wuz farmers. All Theriaults (there are about a dozen variations: Therriault, Theriot, Terrio, etc.) decended from one Jehanne Terriot, a plowman from the ancient French province of Poitou, just south of present day Brittany. Around 1632, he and his wife Perrine arrived in La Heve, present day Lahave, in what is now Nova Scotia, what was then Acadia, a French colony. We were expelled by the evil British in 1755, jumped ship in Boston, made our way up to St. Pierre/Miquelon, were shipped off to France a couple of times (long story, but we were security risks during the American Revolution and War of 1812 since we were actually British subjects, due to the Treaty of Utrecht). After the last trip to France, we came back to the Magdellan Islands (then owned by Newfoundland). In the 1920's my grandparents ended up in Halifax where they raised a family. We weren't movers or shakers, but we were certainly affected by world events. I think we should all tell a bit about our family histories. 'T'would be interesting, but maybe a bit OT. Or completely OT... <g> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
