Joseph was from Beausejour in Acadia, Nova Scotia. Joseph Girouard’s family had been deported to Quebec City during the Great Deportation of the Acadians in 1755. Joseph was Marie-Anne’s first husband and lived in Les Eboulements. Henri stated that she had lost three children by drowning.  After Joseph died, she remarried Louis-Roch-Augustin Tremblay from Les Eboulements.1723

Marie-Anne lived in Les Eboulements. 1723 Joseph was her first husband and they lived in Les Eboulements, Quebec. After he died, she remarried Louis-Roch-Augustin Tremblay from Les Eboulements. She was godmother to Alexandre McKay, Jr.1723