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Through hundreds of hours of searching: I could never make sense of Pierre being an Armurier........none of it matched history.
so I decided to revisit the actual document of the 1671 census to see if thats actually what was written
I am going to post the link so others can look at it too and weigh in on what they think it is:
but in a million years I cant get the word Armurier out of it
The priest started each entry with profession: and then name
He therefore used all Capitol letters for the profession
If you compare Abraham Dugast and Pierre Sire: who supposedly were both Armuriers:
you can clearly see: the letter beside Pierres name isnt an A
its an S........a very tiny S
It looks like the priest was using some kind of ruler underneath his writings to ensure straight lines.....
and bits of the ink spots have faded with time:
some of the Ls for Labourer have bits missing:
But you can clearly see: the swooping curve of the first letter belongs to the S....much like he wrote for the S of Sire
the A he used for Dugast is a clear 1600s capitol A with sharp lines: no curves
I cant interpret every letter yet:
and I have spent a lot of years studying 1600s French handwriting
(this style wasnt the French Batarde that most working people used at the time: it was a flowing style used by the upper classes to write stories etc)
but it looks like it starts with
S and ends with rruir..
If I had only one look at this word:
I would guess its a version of Surruir
or Serruier.......or Serruieur
and I forget right now what that actually was:
something to do with furs or leathers......
a word I have seen in Normandy many times......
Anyway I challenge anyone to make the word ARMURIER out of it
Let me know what you think.
If I am write: this changes a lot of history
http://www.acadian-cajun.com/1671cens.htm
Thats the link: you will likely have to type it in yourself.
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