Taken from HISTOIRE de QUINAN, NOUVELLE-ÉCOSSE as written by Father Clarence d'Entremont (1984).

This is just the introduction to the DOUCET name. If anyone wishes to know more re this particular family, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks go to my cuzin Léo Doucet in Fredericton for the translation.

DOUCET is the true spelling of this surname or family name. Because the "T" on the end of the word was in the past emphasized, as it is today in many areas, the English often wrote it DOUCETT, such was the case of JOHN DOUCETT, Lieutenant Governor of Acadia during the English occupation, who although French by birth became Protestant and English to which the Acadian DOUCET are not linked in any way. It is the reason that members of this same family, and in Yarmouth County in particular, have almost universally adopted the form DOUCETTE that we find written for the first time in the registers of Sainte-Anne-du-Ruisseau May 1, 1856 inscribed by Father Roles, Parish Priest.

The DOUCET in Yarmouth County have as a common ancestor JOSEPH DOUCET born 12 March 1706 at Port Royal, son of Claude (of Germain) and Marie Comeau. He married at Port Royal on the 8th of December 1730 to ANNE SURETTE daughter of Jeanne Pellerin. The family was exiled to Massachusetts where we find them as early 1757, principally in Gloucester, where in 1760 we count six children. In 1766 JOSEPH DOUCET asked to leave New England to go to Canada which was Quebec.

At some unknown date the family settled in southwest Nova Scotia, some at Baie Sainte-Marie, the others in Yarmouth County. In the County of Yarmouth, JOSEPH born in 1731 settled at Butte-des Doucet, known today as Hubbard's Point; CHARLES born in 1735 settled at Butte-Amirault; he died at Quinan on the 6th of August 1883 at the age of 95 and his wife ANNE MIUS (of Louis) died at the same place on the 6th of August 1887 at the age of 95; JEAN-MAGLOIRE born about 1745 settled at Bas Tousquet (Wedgeport) while MICHEL settled at Pointe-des-Ben before moving to the Forks.

(Translator's note: The date for CHARLES born 1735 and died in 1883 at age 95 does not make sense. If he was born in 1735 and died at age 95 he must have died in 1830 and not 1883. If he died in 1883 which makes more sense because there is an actual date of death, he must have been born in 1788).

This MICHEL DOUCET is the ancestor of the Doucet's of Quinan. He was born in Port Royal on the 17th of October 1754.

Likely not long after he returned from exile, he married MARIE-SUZANNE MIUS who was born in exile about 1758, daughter of Francois (of Joseph d'Azy) and Jeanne Duon (of Jean-Baptist) and therefore sister of Benjamin which explains why this family settled at Pointe-des-Ben. They had a large family of which fourteen are known. The family moved to the Forks a little after 1800 because before this date those children who were already married had married persons from Point-des-Ben or or close by, while after this date the children married persons from the region of Forks.

Michel Doucet died on the 19th of April 1830 at age 75 according to the Parish records. Marie-Suzanne Mius died after her husband at a date that is not registered.

Four of the sons settled at the Forks but two of them, Michel, his son, and David only temporarily and the two younger ones Jacques and Joseph-Mathurin in a manner more permanent.