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A starting number of Pierre Sirre males have been tested for DNA..........
All up until now have been from the son Jean Baptiste.........and we have used this as the "standard" profile of Pierre....
It turns out there could be a problem with this: as at least one Guillaume tested is NOT proving to be French.........
but from the Haplogroup Q: overwhelmingly associated with a Native American male........
We need to establish if this is just one abberation further up the lineage of Guillaume:
or, if in fact, he was not the biological son of Pierre.
Indeed we need more and varied "Guillaumes" to test.......
There were only 4 generations of his line up until the expulsion who had daily living contact with Natives.........
so we can probably assume the incident is during that period:
1679 to 1755........
The one Guillaume person tested travels down to the son Louis Josephe lineage..........it would be valuable to have males tested who travel down a different son........to use for comparison
It would also be ideal if we could also test a Jean Pierre 2nd son lineage as well........for comparison......to see if a Native male is also involved.........
to indeed determine if Guillaume was in fact Pierre's son or not.............
If not: it could strongly influence our belief that Pierre had died shortly before Guillaume's birth.......
He might well have been dead much longer.......there is quite a gap between the birth of the first two sons and Guillaume.........
But it would be equally puzzling was to why Marie went to such pains thereafter to baptize him as a "Sire"............
If Pierre had been long gone: the small village would certainly know this parentage to be false.........or if it had occurred by a bad event of force...........as might happen to an undefended female...........
However since Beaubassin relied so heavily on it's good relations with Natives: one would think a bad event would tear that situation to shreds..........
Could it be she simply took in an unwanted child to raise as her own?
Could it be with Pierre gone she simply needed help with the homestead? thus having Native help?
(this DNA sample also did not match her next husband: Girouard)
Until we get more samples to prove or disprove Guillaumes ancestry itself.........we won't know
What we do have is great potential for an entirely different Pierre story:
-that he was dead much earlier
-that he was "missing" and declared dead after some years
-that he was absent for awhile: came back: but walked out..
-that he was absent but expected back: but never did.......so the child was put forward as his...
If indeed Guillaume was not the child of Pierre: we do know Marie still considered herself "married"........and did not name this child Bourgeois: as would be normal custom.
Anyway: let us know if any of you out there would like to take part in solving this 400 year old mystery: cost is around 100 dollars but assistance is available for those who can not afford it........
Cheers
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