BOOK THREE:  Families, Migration, and the Acadian "Begats"(b)

 

INTRODUCTION

BOOK ONE:        French Acadia

BOOK TWO:        British Nova Scotia

BOOK FOUR:      The French Maritimes

BOOK FIVE:        The Great Upheaval

BOOK SIX:          The Acadian Immigrants of Louisiana

BOOK SEVEN:    French Louisiana

BOOK EIGHT:      A New Acadia

BOOK NINE:        The Bayou State

BOOK TEN:          The Louisiana Acadian "Begats"

BOOK ELEVEN:   The Non-Acadian "Cajun" Families of South Louisiana

BOOK TWELVE:   Acadians in Gray

 

The Passing of the Acadian Pioneers

By the end of French control in peninsula Acadia, many of the colony's family progenitors had breathed their last.  Most had lived to a ripe old age, witnessing the birth of grandchildren and even great-grandchildren.  Some were not so lucky.  Most of them died on their farms along the basin above and below Port-Royal.  Some passed their final days at Chignecto, Minas, Pigiguit, Cobeguit, in the trois-rivières, even in Canada and France.  Sadly, the loss of Acadian records during the colonial wars and especially during Le Grand Dérangement prevents us from determining the exact date and place of many of their burials:   

Germain Doucet, sieur de La Verdure, had been forced by the English to leave Acadia in 1654, when he was in his late 50s.  He did not return to the colony, and his death date is unknown.  As far as is known, the very first family founder to die in Acadia was the fisherman turned farmer Jean Poirier, who died probably at Port-Royal in c1654, age unrecorded.  Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour died in the spring of 1663, probably at Port-Royal, age 70.  Étienne, the younger of the two Hébert brothers, died at Port-Royal between 1669 and 1671, on the eve of the first census; his birth year is unrecorded, but he probably died in his middle age.  François Guérin probably was in his middle age, also, when he died before the first census. 

Other early-family progenitors died in the colony during the 1670s.  Jean Gaudet died in the middle of the decade, over 100 years old.  Several progenitors were counted in the colony in 1671 but not in 1678 or 1686, so they probably died during the 1670s.  Jean Thériot would have been in his 70s.  François Savoie would have been in his 50s.  Vincent Brun would have been in his 60s.  François Pellerin died in c1678, age 43.  Antoine Gougeon also died that year, age 52.  Pierre Martin, père died late in the decade, in his 70s.  René Landry l'aîné died between 1678 and 1686, perhaps in his early 60s.  Étienne Robichaud also died between 1678 and 1686, in his mid- or late 40s.  Pierre Lejeune dit Briard may have died during the decade, age undetermined.  Pierre Cyr died probably at Chignecto in c1679, age 35. 

More family founders died during the peaceful 1680s.  Pierre Vincent died perhaps early in the decade, in his early or mid-50s.  Guillaume Trahan died in c1684, age 83.  Vincent Breau died in c1685, in his mid-50s.  Pierre Godin dit Châtillon died on the eve of the 1686 census, in his mid-50s.  Pierre Comeau was counted at Port-Royal in 1686; the census taker, Sr. de Meulles, said he was age 88 at the time; Pierre died before the next census in 1693, in his late 80s or, more likely, his early 90s.  Antoine Hébert died in the late 1680s or early 1690s, in his late 60s or early 70s.  Jean Blanchard died between the censuses of 1686 and 1693, in his late 70s or early 80s.  Olivier Daigre died about the same time, in his early 40s.  Barnabé Martin also died about then, probably in his late 40s.  Michel Richard dit Sansoucy died between 1686 and 1689, in his late 50s.  Jean Pitre died after the census of 1686, perhaps later in the decade, in his early 50s.  Antoine Babin died between 1686 and 1688, in his late 50s.  Antoine Belliveau may have died late in the decade, in his 60s.  Michel Boudrot died between August 1688 and 1693, in his late 80s or early 90s.  René Rimbault was age 70 in 1686, so he may have died later in the decade. 

More progenitors died during the turbulent 1690s.  Antoine Bourg died between October 1687 and 1693, in his late 70s or early 80s.  Thomas Cormier died at Chignecto in c1690, in his mid-50s.  His father-in-law, François Girouard, died at Port-Royal in the early 1690s, in his early 70s.  Guyon Chiasson dit La Vallée died probably in the early 1690s, in his mid-50s.  Michel/Geyret de Forest died probably in the early 1690s, in his early 50s.  Claude Petitpas died in c1691, in his mid-50s.  Jacques Leprince died at Pigiguit in either 1692 or 1693, in his mid-40s.  René Landry le jeune died at Port-Royal by 1693, in his mid- or late 50s.  Alexandre Le Borgne de Bélisle, former governor and seigneur of Port-Royal, died at his home near the Acadian capital in c1693, in his early 50s.  François Gautrot died in c1693, age 80.  Mathieu D'Amours, sieur de Chauffours et de Matane, a member of Canada's Superior Council, died at Québec in October 1695, in his late 70s, probably never having lived in greater Acadia.  Daniel LeBlanc died between 1695 and 1698, in his late 60s or early 70s, probably at Port-Royal.  Abraham Dugas died probably at Port-Royal during the 1690s, in his late 70s or early 80s.  Martin Benoit dit Labrière was still alive at Port-Royal in 1694, the year his youngest child was born; he would have been in his early 40s that year; he died at Port-Royal, date unrecorded. 

Family founders died during the final days of French control of peninsula Acadia.  Pierre Chênet, sieur Dubreuil, an important French official, died probably at Port-Royal by 1700, in his late 40s or early 50s.  Jacques Triel dit Laperrière died probably at Port-Royal by 1700, in his early 50s.  Philippe Mius d'Entremont, retired seigneur of Pobomcoup, died either at Port-Royal or at a daughter's home at Minas in 1700 or 1701, age about 91.  Charles Melanson dit Le Ramée also died in 1700 or 1701, in his late 50s.  Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois, founder of the Chignecto settlement, died probably at Port-Royal in 1701, in his early 80s.  Laurent Granger died between 1700 and 1703, in his late 50s.  Michel Dupuis may have died early in the 1700s, perhaps in his early 60s.  Pierre Guilbeau died probably at Port-Royal in November 1703, age 64.  Pierre Thibodeau, founder of the Chepoudy settlement, died at Prée-Ronde, near Port-Royal, in December 1704, in his early 70s.  Jean Serreau, sieur de Saint-Aubin, seigneur of Ste.-Croix and Passamaquoddy, died at Port-Royal in March 1705, age 85.  Pierre Bézier dit Joan dit Larivière died at Port-Royal in March 1706, age 80.  François Lapierre dit Laroche died at Chignecto by 1707, in his mid- or late 50s.  Emmanuel Mirande dit Tavare, the Portuguese, died by January 1707, when his wife remarried at Port-Royal.  Étienne Rivet died at Pigiguit by 1707, in his early or mid-50s.  Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie, third baron de Saint-Castin, the French officer turned capitaine de sauvages, died at Pau, France, in 1707, in his mid-50s.  René Bernard died probably at Chignecto after 1707, in his mid- or late 40s.  Pierre Cellier dit Normand died at Minas in January 1710, in his early 60s.  Philippe Pinet died in October 1710, in his late 50s. 

However, many family progenitors, most of them 1670s and 1680s arrivals, were still living years, even decades, after the British seized the colony in 1710.  Pierre Lanoue died between 1707 and 1714, in his late 50s or early 60s, place unrecorded.  François Moyse dit Latreille, described as an inhabitant at Passamaquoddy, died on the haute rivière, above Annapolis Royal, in January 1711, in his late 50s.  Martin Aucoin died at Minas in May 1711, age 60; the priest who buried him noted in the church record:  "mort subitement le jour de l'Ascension au retour de la messe, ayant toujours vécu fort chrétiennement et avec édification"--that is, he died suddenly on Ascension Day returning from mass, having always lived a very Christian and edifying life.  Jean-Aubin Mignot dit Châtillon died at the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec in September 1712, age 62.  Jean Corporon died in February 1713, age 66.  Master surgeon Denis Petitot dit Saint-Seine was living at Cappe, near Annapolis Royal, in 1714; he would have been in his early 50s that year; the date of his death, likely at Annapolis Royal, has been lost.  The same is true for butcher André Simon dit Jacques Le Boucher, who would have been the same age in 1714.  Pierre Arseneau died at Chignecto by 1714, in his early 60s.  François Levron dit Nantois died at Annapolis Royal in June 1714, in his early 60s.  Mathieu de Goutin, former French official at Port-Royal, died at his new post on Île Royale on Christmas Day 1714, in his early 50s.  Pierre Melanson dit La Verdure, fils, the son-in-law of the old seigneur of Pobomcoup, and the pioneer of Grand-Pré, died at Minas after the 1714 census, probably in his early 80s.  Roger dit Jean Caissie died probably at Chignecto perhaps in the mid-or late 1710s, in his late 60s; he, along with Pierre Melanson, were the last of the family progenitors counted in the first census to return to our ancestors.  Robert Henry died probably at Minas after 1714, in his 70s.  Five years after he was imprisoned by the British in Fort Anne, François Brossard died suddenly at his farm on haute rivière in December 1716, in his early 60s.  François Michel dit La Ruine was still living at L'Assomption, Pigiguit, in 1717 when his youngest child was born there; he would have been in his late 60s that year.  Étienne Pellerin died at Annapolis Royal in November 1722, in his mid-70s.  Nicolas Babineau dit Deslauriers died probably at Annapolis Royal by November 1723, in his late 60s.  Claude Guédry dit Grivois dit Laverdure died somewhere on the Atlantic coast after January 1723, in his late 70s.  Julien Lord died at Annapolis Royal in February or March 1724, in his early 70s.  Claude Bertrand died by February 1727, perhaps at Cap-Sable, in his 70s.  Louis Saulnier died probably at Minas after April 1730, in his late 60s or early 70s.   Jean Préjean dit Le Breton died at Annapolis Royal in June 1733, in his early 80s.  Jean or Joannis Bastarache dit Le Basque died at Annapolis Royal in September 1733, in his mid-70s.  Jean Doiron died at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, between April 1735 and June 1736, in his mid-80s.  Michel Haché dit Gallant died at Port-Lajoie, Île St.-Jean, in July 1737, in his early 70s.  Former privateer Pierre dit Baptiste Maisonnat died by August 1732, when his third wife's burial record called her his widow; he had been counted at Chignecto in 1714, when he would have been in his early 50s.  Louis Allain died at Annapolis Royal in June 1737, in his early 80s.  Sr. Jacques Michel dit Saint-Michel died at Annapolis Royal in February 1748, age 90. 

Louis-Noël Labauve was still living, probably at Minas, in 1707, the year his youngest child was born; he would have been in his late 40s that year.  François Amireau dit Tourangeau was still living at Cap-Sable in 1708, in his mid-60s.  Jean Roy dit La Liberté was still living at Port-Royal in 1708, when his last child was born there; he would have been in his late 50s that year.  Similarly, the places and dates of Jean Labarre's, René Lambert's, and Guillaume Le Juge's passing have been lost to history.31

Acadian Migration and the Fracturing of a Culture

When the British seized control of the colony, some of the oldest Acadian families were in their third and even fourth generations.  They could be found at Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable, and at Mirliguèche and other small fishing settlements on the Atlantic side of the peninsula; in the basin above and below old Port-Royal, now Annapolis Royal; at a dozen settlements in the Minas Basin, including Grand-Pré, Pigiguit, and Cobeguit; and in a half dozen more settlements, including Beaubassin, Rivière-des-Héberts, Maccan, Nappan, Vechkock, and Menoudy, east of the Missaguash at Chignecto.  Others could be found in territory claimed by both France and Britain north and west of the Missaguash:  at Aulac and Tintamarre, on the west side of the Missaguahs; at Chepoudy, Petitcoudiac, and Memramcook, collectively called the trois-rivières; at Shediac and Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; along the middle reaches of Rivière St.-Jean; along Rivière Ste.-Croix and the shores of Passamaquoddy Bay; and along the Maine coast at Machias and other distant places, all the way down to the mouth of the Kennebec.  After three quarters of a century of settlement, these fecund Acadians, along with more recent arrivals, could be counted in the hundreds--at least 2,500 of them in 1714.  Most importantly, during times of both peace and conflict, they had created a culture of their own.  Naomi Griffiths reminds us that during the 40 years the French controlled Acadia under royal governance, "the Acadian settlements created their own particular pattern of social relationships, bringing together a network of kin relationships, economic activity, political habits, and religious practices that would evolve over the succeeding generations into an enduring community identity."  But it was not until the conclusion of a 12-year-long war brought peace to the region that the Acadian culture finally could thrive.  After the Treaty of Utrecht was signed in 1713, thirty years of relative peace descended on North America.  To be sure, seventeenth-century Acadia had seen years of quiet in the struggle between the region's imperial rivals, but after a quarter century of nearly continuous warfare, burdening an entire generation, the Acadians welcomed another respite of peace, even under the rule of their former enemies.123 

Griffiths notes that the 1730s and early 1740s were as close to a golden age for the Acadians as a beleaguered people could expect.  A long frontier war was over.  No imperial conflict in Europe with the potential to spread to North America erupted during the period.  And the annoying agitation over an unqualified oath seemed finally behind them.  The Acadian population had increased dramatically in the generation since Britain had gained control of the colony and would continue to do so for another generation, almost entirely by natural increase; one estimate for 1737 places 1,406 of them at Annapolis Royal, 1,623 at Pigiguit, 2,113 in the rest of the Minas Basin, and 1,816 at Chignecto, a total of 6,958--nearly three times as many as had been counted in 1714.  The progenitors of the oldest and largest families, their wives, and children, had appeared in the early French censuses of 1671 and 1686, and most of them were gone now.  By the "golden age," some of these families could boast a presence in the colony of nearly a century, their members living in every Fundy community, as well as on the Atlantic shore, along the North Shore, in the French Maritimes, and even in distant Canada.  Their children tended to marry into other established families, spinning a dense web of familial connections that strengthened the perception of cultural unity.265a 

But one could make a case that Acadian cultural unity had become elusive, if not illusion, by its "golden age."  A subtle fracturing began early in the culture's development.  Acadians moved from Port-Royal to other communities as early as 1672, primarily because of the shortage of dykable marshes on Rivière-au-Dauphin, but also to escape the prying eyes of French officials.  Nevertheless, Chignecto, Minas, Pigiguit, Cobeguit, even the trois-rivières, emerged as thriving communities where Acadians built more aboiteaux to tame the raging tides.  The subtle socioeconomic differences that had developed among the Fundy settlements beginning in the 1680s was, by the 1730s, overshadowed by an even more pronounced contrast between the Acadians still living along the Fundy marshes and their cousins who had left the bay entirely.  Beginning in the mid-1710s, French officials in their new Maritimes colony of Île Royale, headquartered at Louisbourg, did their best to lure Acadian farmers from British Nova Scotia to the new French province.  The Fundy Acadians would provide an agricultural base for Louisbourg, which the French intended to transform into a stone-walled fortress, and for the island's fisheries, its chief economic pursuit.  Despite the spectre of British rule over their Fundy settlements, few Acadians responded at first to the temptation of living in French territory.  Not even their priests could coax many into going.  Acadians preferred to trade illicitly with Louisbourg rather than move their families to a rocky, wooded island where weak tides prevented construction of more aboiteaux.  In the 1720s and 1730s, however, more and more Fundy Acadians, determined to escape British rule, as well as the pressures of a growing population, packed up and moved to Île Royale and took up farming and fishing there.  Beginning in the 1720s, following the lead of Michel Haché dit Gallant of Chignecto, Acadians began to settle on Île St.-Jean, the other, closer island in the Maritimes colony.  From Port-La-Joye on the island's south coast, they moved up the valley of what the French called Rivière-du-Nord-Est or joined French fishermen on the island's north shore in and around Havre-St.-Pierre. 

Here, by the time of their "golden age," was more than just a political dichotomy--British control on the peninsula, French control on the islands.  Here also was more than an economic divergence--reliance on aboiteaux along the Fundy shore, upland farming combined with fishing on the islands.  Acadian migration, like the struggle over neutrality, was alienating Acadians from one another, even within their own families.  In contrast to the earth-shattering temblors of their Grand Dérangement, only half a generation away, this familial splintering between bay and islands was a much more subtle thing.  Still, there was pain and suffering in it, and most Acadian families were touched by this fracturing of their culture.  How painful it must have been to see loved ones pack up and move away, perhaps never to return to their ancestral village.  One can imagine the aging patriarch of the "golden age" about to breathe his last, lifting his head up to see his children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews, crowded around his deathbed.  But many are gone now, sadly unaware of their loved one's passing.  Here was a not-so-golden side of this short, peaceful period in the history of the Acadians--just one example of the cultural transformations burdening these people.

These transformations could have been detected not only in the collective experience of Acadian communities, but also in the individual stories within established families who by the "golden age" made up the great majority of the Acadian population.  Here, in the microcosm of their family genealogies, one can detect not only geographical fluidity, but also socioeconomic and political distinctions, masked, sometimes, by the complexities of their extended-family networks.02

The Families of Greater Acadia:  The Elites 

Among the established families of greater Acadia were the colony's economic, social, political, and military elite, some among the oldest, others among the newest, peninsula Acadians.  After the loss of the colony to Britain in the early 1710s, many of these elites moved on to the French Maritimes, where they continued their service to imperial France.  Others remained on their Acadian seigneuries, which the British tolerated until Le Grand Dérangement:02a 

De Saint-Étienne de La Tour 

The First Family of Acadia was still in the colony during the "golden age," but barely.  No longer as influential as it had been when its progenitor, Charles de Saint-Étienne, sieur de La Tour, was governor of French Acadia the century before, the family still clung to its seigneuries despite attempts by the British to wrest them away.  Charles La Tour's first wife, the Mi'kmaq woman whose name has been lost to history, gave him three daughters, two of whom became nuns in France, but his oldest daughter Jeanne remained in the colony and married Martin d'Aprendestiguy of Ascain, Guyenne, in c1655.  In October 1672, the intendant of New France awarded Martin and Jeanne a seigneurie at the mouth of Rivière St.-Jean once held by Jeanne's father.  A few years later, they received another seigneurie farther upriver at Jemseg.  Charles's second wife, the heroic Françoise-Marie, daughter of gentleman physician Jacques Jacquelin and Hélène Lerminier, gave him a son whose name has been lost to history.  The boy died young.  Charles's third wife, Jeanne, daughter of Louis Motin de Reux and Marie de Salims and widow of former governor Charles de Menou d'Aulnay de Charnizay, gave Charles five children, two sons and three daughters.  Their daughters married into the Le Borgne de Bélisle, Mius de Pleinmarais, Villate, and Mius d'Entremont de Pobomcoup families, three of them also members of the colony's seigneurial class.  Both of Charles's younger sons married.  His female descendants remained with their families at Annapolis Royal and Cap-Sable, but his male heirs moved on to Île Royale, where they served in the French army.  None of the governor's descendants who emigrated to Louisiana took the family's name there. 

The governor's oldest son, name unrecorded, by second wife Françoise-Marie Jacquelin, born at Fort La Tour on Rivière St.-Jean, died young. 

The governor's second son Jacques, by third wife Jeanne Motin, born in Acadia in c1655, styled himself de La Tour. He married Anne, daughter of Charles Melanson dit La Ramée and Marie Dugas, probably at Port-Royal in c1685, and died after 1698, but not before Anne gave him seven children, three sons and four daughters.  Three of their daughters married into the David dit Pontif, Rousseau de Souvigny, Bradstreet, Campbell, and Porlier families. 

Older sons Jean, born in Acadian in c1693, and François, born in c1695, died young. 

Jacques's third and youngest son Charles, who would have been called Charles le jeune to distinguish him from his paternal uncle by the same name, born in Acadia in c1696, married twice, each time at Louisbourg, Île Royale, first to Marie-Anne, daughter of Antoine Perré and Marie-Anne Pons, in September 1727, and then to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Richard and Marguerite Landry and widow of Joseph Dugas, in January 1736.  Charles le jeune died at Louisbourg by September 1746, in his late 40s, two years before the siege there.  The Acadian La Tours are descended from Charles le jeune.  The last remaining La Tour in British Nova Scotia, however, was his older sister Marie-Agathe, called Agathe, who was "allegedly the sole heiress" of her grandfather Charles.  Agathe, born at Cap-Sable in 1690, married two British officers stationed at Annapolis Royal.  She was only nine years old when her father died, so she was raised by her mother.  She married her first husband, Edmund Bradstreet, at age 22, but he died four years later, leaving her with a son, Jean-Baptiste, called John, Bradstreet.  She remarried to her second husband, Hugh Campbell, in c1724, but he died a few years later, leaving her a widow again.  Despite her young age, she did not take a third husband.  In 1729, Nova Scotia Governor Richard Philipps, seeking to annul former French seigneurial grants in the colony so that the land could be given to New English Protestants, ordered a survey of the properties in question.  Agathe, seeing an opportunity, asserted her rights to the seigneuries of her grandfather so that she could sell the land to the British on her own and secure her wealth.  She produced a copy of the decree, dated 20 March 1703, which her uncle, Charles, fils, had secured for the family from Louis XIV's Council of State, granting the La Tours "a fifth of the Cape Sable fief and two of the seven parts making up the seigneuries of Port-Royal and Les Mines...."  Though Agathe owned "only a quarter of what had fallen to her family...," she nevertheless had asserted through her second husband in June 1725 that "she had laid claim to all of her ancestor's seigneuries, alleging that her brother and sisters, as well as her uncles and aunts, had given their shares over to her when Acadia had become English territory."  In 1730, Philipps complained of the widow's efforts to assert her rights, which he refused to honor.  Agathe refused to give in.  She went to London, petitioned the Board of Trade and Plantations, and, in October 1733, won a substantial settlement in her favor and the right "to collect her own rents."  The following March, the Board "recommended that she be paid L2,000 for the purchase of all her seigneurial rights."  The widow, who, like other members of her family, obviously had inherited some of the finer qualities of her famous grandfather, had beaten the governor.  The Board of Trade warned Philipps that "the purchase of the La Tour lands was crucial if the government was to be able to grant any land in Nova Scotia, and the secretary of the Board, Popple, pointing out the widow's precarious state of health, urged an immediate purchase, which occurred a few years later.  "With the purchase of Mrs Campbell's rights, the seigneurial system came to an end in Nova Scotia, although other members of the La Tour family later demanded recognition of their inheritance rights" as well.  Agathe returned to Nova Scotia to secure her payment and then returned to Britain, where she settled at Kilkenny, Ireland, by 1737.

The governor's third and youngest son Charles, fils, by third wife Jeanne Motin, born in Acadian in March 1663, evidently was a fur trader, like his father, during his youth, working out of Cap-Sable.  According to a biographer, Charles, fils "incurred severe losses when General Phips took Acadia in 1690" during King Williams' War "and lodged a complaint with the Earl of Bellomont, governor of Massachusetts."  But, being his father's son, Charles, fils did more than complain about English depredations.  In late 1695, the war still on, he "was cited in dispatches by [Governor-General] Frontenac ... for bravery against the enemy."  After the war, which ended in 1697, Charles, fils resumed his trading activities.  In c1698, he was "fined for trading with the English."  Determined to protect his family's interests in the colony, in 1699 and 1700, he was empowered by an aunt and his siblings to go to Paris to secure their claims against the Le Borgnes, who, ironically, were their in-laws.  Charles, fils "was largely successful in his efforts, as is shown by an arrêt of the Consul d'État of 20 March 1703," which "gave the La Tour family land at Cape Sable, Port La Tour (near Cape Sable), Port-Royal, and Le Mines ..., " all of which "was divided among the La Tour children."  Charles, fils married Jeanne-Angélique, called Angélique, Loreau of Paris in c1700, during his visit to France.  He took his wife back to Acadia, where she gave him two sons.  In 1703, at age 40, he was appointed an ensign probably in the colonial troupes de la marine and began a successful military career.  He was seriously wounded at the fall of Port-Royal in October 1710.  By 1714, he had taken his wife and sons to the new French colony of Île Royale, where he continued his military career at Louisbourg as a lieutenant.  He received the Cross of St.-Louis in May 1728 "in consideration of his wounds" and was promoted to captain in March 1730.  He died at Louisbourg in August 1731, age 68.   

Older and younger sons Jean-Charles, born at Boston in March 1715, and Pierre-Charles, born probably at Louisbourg after 1719, survived childhood, but neither married.351

Denys

Brothers Simon and Nicolas, sons of Jacques Denys and Marie Cosnier, of Tours, France, came to French Acadia with Isaac de Razilly.  Simon was married with children, and Nicolas still a bachelor, when they arrived at La Hève in 1632.  Razilly, representing Cardinal Richelieu's Company of New France, awarded the brothers a fishing concession at Port Rossignol and a timber concession at La Hève.  After Razilly's death in 1636, during the power struggle between Charles d'Aulnay and Charles La Tour, the brothers attempted to maintain a neutral position, but d'Aulnay would have none of it.  Victims of d'Aulnay's efforts to seize complete control of the colony, the brothers retreated to France in the late 1630s and did not return to Acadia until the mid-1640s.  By then, Nicolas was no longer a bachelor.  When they returned to New France, the brothers eschewed peninsula Acadia and established a seigneurie at Île Miscou at the entrance to the Baie des Chaleurs, which d'Aulnay seized and burned in 1647.  After d'Aulnay's death in 1650, the Denyss reasserted their claims at Court and established seigneuries at forts Ste.-Anne and St.-Pierre on Cape Breton Island.  However, d'Aulnay's chief creditor, merchant Emmanuel Le Borgne of La Rochelle, siezed the island forts and took the brothers to Québec as prisoners.  Simon, weary of the conflicts, remained in Canada.  Nicolas, however, refused to give up.  He pleaded his case to the Court in France and won back his concessions, which he retained and even expanded.  He built a fort at Nepisiguit west of Île Miscou, and rebuilit his fort on Cape Breton Island.  But Le Borgne struck again, seizing both concessions in 1653 and holding Nicolas in the dungeon at Port-Royal.  After returning to France yet again to plea his case at Court, Nicolas established a new seigneurie at Chédabouctou near Canso and returned to Nepisiguit, where, except for frequent trips to France, he lived out his days.  Only Charles La Tour contributed more to the early history of French Acadia than the indefatigible Nicolas Denys.  None of the brothers' descendants who emigrated to Louisiana took the family's name there. 

Older brother Simon de La Trinité, born at St.-Pierre de Boyle, France, in January 1600, married Jeanne Dubreuil at St.-Vincent de Tours in May 1628, before going to Acadia.  She gave him seven children, three sons, three daughters, and an unidentified infant, all born at St.-Vincent de Tours.  One of their daughters, Anne, married into the Chartier de La Broquerie in Touraine, France.  Only one of Simon and Jeanne's sons created a family of his own.  Simon remarried to Françoise, daughter of Jean Dutertre, chief de la fruiterie dur roi, and Françoise Chotard, at St.-Vincent de Tours in June 1643, during his sojourn in France following his retreat from the chaos in Acadia.  Françoise gave him 16 more children, seven sons and nine daughters, the older ones at St.-Vincent de Tours, the younger ones in Canada.  Simon's branch of the Denys family was by far the larger one.  Five of his daughters married into the Cailleteau de Champfleury, Le Neuf de La Vallière, Cressé, Pécody de Contrecoeur, de Gannes de Falaise, Dupas de Braché, Boucher de Boucherville, Outlan or Outlaw, and Chartrain families in Canada and France.  Three of Simon and Françoise's daughters became nuns.  Three of Simon and Françoise's sons created families of their own, none in Acadia, and one of their sons became a deacon.  Simon de La Trinité died at St.-Barthélemy, La Rochelle, in November 1678, age 78. 

Oldest son Pierre de La Ronde, by first wife Jeanne Dubreuil, born at St.-Vincent de Tours in October 1630, married Catherine, daughter of Jacques Le Neuf de La Poterie and Marguerite Le Gardeur and sister of Acadian governor Michel Le Neuf de La Vallière et de Beaubassin, at Québec in August 1655.  Catherine gave Pierre a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters, at Trois-Rivières and Québec.  Six of their daughters married into the Tarieu de La Nouguère, Fleury Deschambault, Aubert de Chesnaye, Bouthier, d'Ailleboust, and de Ramesay families  Only two of Pierre de La Ronde's sons created families of their own, and one became a Récollet priest. 

Oldest son Jacques, born at Trois-Rivières in November 1657, was ordained in the Récollet order in June 1682 and, in the late 1720s, served as grand vicar of the order on Île Royale.  He died at Québec in January 1736, age 79. 

Pierre de La Ronde's second son Simon-Pierre, sieur de Bonaventure, born at Trois-Rivières in June 1659, became a naval officer, rising to the rank of capitaine de frégate.  In the 1680s, he fathered two sons, Jean and Pierre, by a woman whose name has been lost to history.  Simon-Pierre married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Jannier or Jannière and Jeanne Émangeard and widow of Jean-François Bourdon de Dombourg, at St.-Saveur, La Rochelle, in February 1693.  She gave him three more children, all sons.  Simon-Pierre remarried to Louise, daughter of Simon Guyon and Louise Racine and widow of Charles Thibault and Mathieu D'Amours de Freneuse, in c1702.  She gave him another son, Antoine, his sixth.  In 1705-06, Simon-François served as King's lieutenant in Acadia, second only in rank to governor.  Two of his sons by wife Jeanne created families of their own.  

Oldest son Pierre-Louis, by wife Jeanne Jannier, survived childhood but did not marry. 

Simon-Pierre's second son Simon-Philippe de Bonaventure, by wife Jeanne Jannier, born at St.-Sauveur, La Rochelle, in September 1696, married Élisabeth, daughter of Edmé de Godé de Saint Germain and Élisabeth Boulomé, at St.-Jean, La Rochelle, in February 1728.  Simon-Philippe died by August 1733. 

Simon-Pierre's third and youngest son Claude-Élisabeth, by wife Jeanne Jannier, born at St.-Sauveur, La Rochelle, in June 1701, married cousin Louise-Marguerite, daughter of Louis Denys de La Ronde and Marie-Louise Chartier de Lotbinière, Québec in November 1748.  He served as commandant of Île St.-Jean from 1749 to 1754.  He died at Rochefort, France, in May 1760, age 58. 

Pierre de La Ronde's third son Nicholas, born at Québec in March 1668, died an infant. 

Pierre de La Ronde's fourth son Pierre, a twin of sister Marie-Louise, born at Québec in January 1671, also died an infant. 

Pierre de La Ronde's fifth and youngest son Louis de La Ronde, born at Québec in August 1675, became a distinguished naval officer, serving in Louisiana, greater Acadia, and on Île Royale and Île St.-Jean.  He married Marie-Louise, daughter of René-Louis Chartier de Lotbinière and Marie-Madeleine Lambert, at Québec in July 1709.  She gave him seven children, four sons and three daughters.  Two of their daughtres married into the Denys de Bonaventure and Audet de Piercot de Bailleul families.  Three of his sons created families of their own.  Louis de La Ronde died at Hôtel-Dieu, Québec, in March 1741, age 66. 

Oldest son Louis-Philippe de La Ronde, born on Île Royale in c1714, married Louise-Marguerite, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Gaillard and Louise de Jordy de Cabanac, at Québec in January 1753. 

Louis de La Ronde's second son Charles, born at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1718, survived childhood but did not marry. 

Louis de La Ronde's third son Pierre-François-de-Paul, born at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in July 1722, married Marguerite-Susanne, daughter of Alexandre Celles dit Duclos and Marguerite Perrot, at Montréal in July 1749. 

Louis de La Ronde's fourth and youngest son Pierre de La Ronde, born at Québec in November 1726, married Madeleine-Marguerite, daughter of Ignace-François Broutin and Marie-Madeleine Lemarie and widow of Louis-Xavier Martin de Lino de Chalmette, in c1757.  Pierre de La Ronde died at New Orleans, Spanish Louisiana, in May 1772, age 45. 

Simon's second son Charles de Vitré, by second wife Françoise Dutertre, born at St.-Vincent de Tours in March 1645, married Catherine, daughter of Charles de Lostelneau and Charlotte de Budéfroy, at Québec in October 1668.   In 1697, the governor-general of New France awarded Charles de Vitré a seigneurie at Antigonish on Acadia's north coast.  Charles remarried to Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Jean Chrétien and Geneviève La Chasseur, at L'Ancienne-Lorette, Canada, in March 1700.  He died at Québec in January 1703, age 58.  

Simon's third son Paul de Saint-Simon, by second wife Françoise Dutertre, born at St.-Sauveur, Paris, in June 1649, married Louise-Madeleine, daughter of Jean de Pieras and Denise Marion, at Québec in January 1678.  He died at Québec in October 1731, age 82. 

Simon's fourth son Simon-Pierre, by second wife Françoise Dutertre, born at Québec in February 1674, survived childhood but did not marry. 

Simon's fifth son Claude, by second wife Françoise Dutertre, born at Québec in October 1657, became a deacon and died at Hôtel-Dieu, Québec, in June 1724, age 66. 

Simon's sixth son Pierre Du Tartre, by second wife Françoise Dutertre, born at Québec in April 1660, married Geneviève, daughter of Louis Couillard and Geneviève Desprès, at Québec in September 1686.  He was burned to death by the Iroquois at Rivière-du-Loup, Canada, in July 1687, age 27. 

Simon's seventh son Jacques de La Broquerie, by second wife Françoise Dutertre, born at Québec in August 1664, became an ensign of troupes de la marine in 1691 and died at Pemiquid, present-day Maine, in 1692, age 28, during King William's War.  

Simon's eighth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste de La Bruère, by second wife Françoise Dutertre, born at Québec in July 1669, was killed near Laprairie, Canada, in October 1691, age 22, during King's William's War, before he could marry.

Younger brother Nicolas de La Ronde, born in St.-Saturnin Parish, Tours, France, in June 1603, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre de Lafitte, merchant of Bordeaux, and Béatrix Cabèce, at Notre-Dame, La Rochelle, France, in October 1642.  Marguerite gave Nicolas seven children, five sons and two daughters, at La Rochelle.  Older daughter Marie married into the Le Neuf de La Vallière.  Only one of Nicolas's sons created his own family.  Nicolas's line of the family, in fact, was much smaller than that of older brother Simon and did not survive beyond the early 1730s. 

Oldest son Nicolas, fils, born in St.-Barthélémy Parish, La Rochelle, in September 1644, probably died in childhood. 

Nicolas's second son Jacques, born in St.-Barthélémy Parish, La Rochelle, in September 1646, probably died in childhood.   

Nicolas's third son Richard de Fronsac, born in St.-Barthélémy Parish, La Rochelle, in August 1647, married Anne Patarabego, probably a Mi'kmaq, in c1680, settled on his father's seigneurie at Nepisiguit and then established a seigneurie of his own at Miramichi, down the coast, where he built a stone manor house.  Anne gave him two children, a son and a daughter.  Their daughter married into the Merçan dit Lapierre family.  Their son created a family of his own.  Richard remarried to cousin Françoise, daughter of Jacques Cailleteau and Françoise Denys, at Québec in October 1689.  She gave him another son, who survived childhood but died before he could marry.  Richard de Fronsac drowned at sea in 1691, age 44, during King William's War. 

Older son Nicolas dit Fronsac, by first wife Anne Patarabego, born probably at Miramichi in c1682, married Marie, probably a Mi'kmaq like his mother, in c1701.  She gave him four children, three sons and a daughter.  Their daughter married into the Masson family.  None of their sons married.  Strangely, all three of them--François dit Fronsac, born in c1708; Gabriel dit Fronsac in c1716; and Jacques dit Fronsac in c1717--died at Beaumont, near Québec, in January, December and February 1732, respectively, in their early 20s and mid-teens, ending their grandfather's family line. 

Richard de Fronsac's younger son Antoine, by wife Françoise Cailleteau, born in greater Acadia in October 1690, was killed in combat aboard the ship La Valeur in c1710, age 20, during Queen Anne's War. 

Nicolas's fourth son Charles, born in St.-Barthélémy Parish, La Rochelle, in September 1648, probably died young. 

Nicolas's fifth and youngest son Jacques, born in St.-Barthélémy Parish, La Rochelle, in December 1650, also probably died young.23

Mius d'Entremont

Former French army captain Philippe Mius d'Entremont of Normandy, loyal associate of Governor Charles La Tour and seigneur and baron of Pobomcoup, and his wife Madeleine Hélie Du Tillet, early 1650s arrivals, created an important family that retained its seigneurial holdings in the colony until Le Grand Dérangement.  In 1686, in his late 70s, Philippe was appointed procureur du Roi at Port-Royal.  He died probably on his siegneurie near Cap-Sable in c1700, in his late 80s or early 90s.  Between 1650 and 1669, in France and Acadia, Madeleine gave the seigneur five children, two daughters and three sons.  Their older daughter Marguerite married into the Melanson dit Laverdure family.  Their younger daughter Madeleine survived childhood but did not marry.  All of Philippe's sons created their own families, but not all of the lines endured.  Most of his and Madeleine's descendants settled not only on the family's seigneurie at Pobomcoup, but also at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Pentagouët, Mouscoudabouet, in the French Maritimes, and in France (before Le Grand Dérangement).  At least three of the captain's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785, but the great majority of Philippe's descendants could be found in France, Canada, and greater Acadia, many of them having returned to the family's holdings at Pobomcoup, now Pubnico, near Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Jacques, who became sieur and baron de Pobomcoup, born perhaps at Pobomcoup in c1654, soon after his parents and sister reached the colony, married Anne, daughter of former governor Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour and his third wife Jeanne Motin de Reux, widow of former governor Charles d'Aulnay, in c1678.  As his name implies, Jacques inherited his father's seigneurie.  Between 1679 and 1697, Anne gave him nine children, four sons and five daughters, all of whom married.  Bona Arsenault gives them a fifth son in c1704.  Jacques died between July 1735 and June 1736, in his early 80s.  His daughters married into the Dupont Duvivier and Dupont Duchambon, Landry, La Boulais de Saillans, Pastour de Costebelle, Navailles de Labatut, and Lafitte families, two of them settling on Île Royale and France (before Le Grand Dérangement).  Fourth daughter Anne's second husband Philippe de Pastour de Costebelle, was the last governor of Plaisance in French Newfoundland and also served as the first governor of Île Royale in the 1710s. 

Oldest son Jacques, fils, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1679 (Bona Arsenault says c1702, but Stephen White says c1679), married, in his early 40s, Marguerite, daughter of François Amireau and Marie Pitre, at Annapolis Royal in September 1723.  According to Arsenault, between 1729 and 1745, Marguerite gave Jacques, fils seven children, four sons and three daughters.  In 1727, Arsenault says the couple was at Mistiguet, also called Ministeguesh, today's Barrington Head, near Cap-Sable.  In April 1756, after a British force attacked the Cap-Sable/Pombomcoup area, the British deported members of the family to Boston, Massachusetts, with the intent of sending them on to North Carolina, but the Acadians, including Jacques, fils, refuse to leave Boston.  He died at Walpole, Massachusetts, southwest of Boston, in July 1759, in his late 70s or early 80s, and was buried in the Eliott Cemetery at Roxbury outside of Boston.  Two of his daughters married into the Landry and Duon families, one of them at Marblehead, Massachusetts.  All of his sons also married.  Most of them returned to Pobomcoup, today's Pubnico, from exile in Massachusetts.  Another died in France. 

Oldest son Jacques III, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1729, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of René Landry and Marie-Josèphe d'Entremont, at Annapolis Royal in July 1753, at least the marriage was recorded there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Jacques III two sons in c1755 and c1758.  Jacques III, Marguerite, and their older son  evidently escaped the British at Cap-Sable in spring of 1756 but may have been rounded up in September 1758, taken to the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax, in October, held there until November, and then deported to Le Havre or Cherbourg, France, where they arrived in January 1759.  If they landed at Le Havre in Normandy, they promptly crossed the Baie de Seine to Cherbourg, where a son was baptized later in January.  Jacques III died in c1760 probably at Cherbourg, in his early 30s.  His widow and two sons were counted at Cherbourg in 1767.  One of his sons married and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, the only member of the extended family to go there. 

Older son Jacques IV, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1755 or 1756, followed his parents into imprisonment and to Cherbourg, France, where he was counted with his widowed mother and a younger brother in 1767.  He did not remain there.  Probably after he came of age in the 1770s, he moved to the Breton port of St.-Malo, where, in the early 1780s, in his 20s, he married Frenchwoman Marie Hervé of St.-Brieuc on the Breton coast west of St.-Malo, widow of Louis Londromon dit Langlinais of St.-Malo.  They may have settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he witnessed a wedding in February 1784.  Marie gave him a son probably at St.-Malo, that year.  Jacques IV, wife Marie, and their son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from St.-Malo in 1785--the only members of the Mius extended family to go there.  Before they departed, the Spanish, heeding the noble roots of his family and his ancestor's service in French Acadia, agreed to give Jacques IV a captaincy in their Mississippi valley colony.  Marie was pregnant on the crossing and gave to a daughter aboard ship.  Daughter Marie-Martine, named for Martin Navarro, the Spanish intendente of Louisiana, was baptized at New Orleans in December 1785, soon after their arrival.  Marie gave him no more children.  She died by January 1788, when Jacques IV was counted in the Valenzuéla District with only an infant daughter, two Langlinas stepchildren, and a single slave on his eight-arpents frontage on upper Bayou Lafourche.  His son, then, evidently died young, if he even survived the crossing.  Jacques IV was still at Valenzuéla, on the left bank of the bayou, in January 1791, this time on a 10-arpent farm, holding still only a single slave.  He would have been in his mid- or late 30s that year and, despite his noble pretensions, just another Acadian habitant on the upper bayou.  He then disappears from Louisiana records.  Daughter Marie-Martine did survive childhood and married into the Trahan family, so the blood of the family endured in the Bayou State. 

Jacques III's younger son Abraham, born either at Pobomcoup, on Georges Island, Halifax, or aboard ship on the crossing to Cherbourg, France, in December 1758, was baptized in Très-Ste.-Trinité, Cherbourg in January 1759.  One wonders what became of him. 

Jacques, fils's second son Joseph, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1734, was deported with his family to Boston, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1756.  At age 29, he married Agnès, daughter of fellow Acadians Chares Belliveau and Agnès Gaudet, in the Bay Colony in c1763; the marriage was "rehabilitated" at Cap-Sable in August 1769).  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1767, Agnès gave Joseph two children, a daughter and a son.  In the late 1760s, Joseph and his family returned to Pobomcoup.  Joseph died there in May 1783, age 49.

Jacques, fils's third son Paul, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1743, was deported with his family to Boston, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1756.  In the late 1760s, he followed his older brother Joseph back to Pobomcoup, where he married Isabelle-Modeste, another daughter of Charles Belliveau and Agnès Gaudet, in August 1769.  Paul died at Pubnico-Ouest, formerly Pobomcoup, in July 1841, in his late 90s. 

Jacques, fils's fourth and youngest son Bénoni, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1745, was deported with his family to Boston, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1756.  In the late 1760s, he followed his older brothers back to Pobomcoup, where, in his late 30s, he married Anne-Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Dominique Pothier and Anne Surrette, in July 1783.  He died at Pubnico in February 1841, in his late 90s. 

Jacques de Pobomcoup's second son Philippe le jeune, born probably at Pobomcoup in the 1680s (Bona Arsenault says c1686), married Thérèse, daughter of Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, third baron of Saint-Castin, and Marie Pidiwammiskwa, at Pentagouët, Maine, in December 1707, but shortly after their marriage resettled at Béarn in the Pyrénées of southern France, Thérèse's ancestral home.  She and Philippe le jeune may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Jacques de Pobomcoup's third son Charles, born probably at Pobomcoup in the 1680s (Bona Arsenault says c1691), married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Landry and Madeleine Robichaud, at Annapolis Royal in September 1712, and settled there and at Pobomcoup.  He worked as a navigator.  Between 1714 and 1731, Marguerite gave Charles six children, three sons and three daughters.  The family, unlike that of his older brother Jacques, fils, evidently escaped the British at Cap-Sable in spring of 1756 but, like his nephew Jacques, fils, may have been rounded up in September 1758, taken to the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax, in October, held there until November, and then deported to Le Havre, France, where they arrived in January 1759, or, more likely, they may have escaped the second roundup, took refuge in the woods, surrendered to a British force the following June, were held at Halifax until November, deported to England, and sent on to Cherbourg, France, where they landed in late January 1760.  Second daughter Marguerite, still unmarried died at Cherbourg in May 1760, age 45.  Charles, "crippled in one leg," received a special pension from the French government not because of his handicap but because of the stature of his family in Acadia.  He and Marguerite died at Cherbourg in 1764, in his 70s.  Two of their daughters married into the Couange, Dupont Duchambon, and Boudrot families, in greater Acadia and France.  Two of Charles's sons also married there. 

Oldest son Charles, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1716, married double cousin Marie-Josèphe, daughter of René Landry and Marie-Josèphe Mius de Pleinmarais, at Annapolis Royal in July 1747 and settled at Pobomcoup.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles, fils two children, a daughter and a son, in c1749 and c1755.  They, too, fell into British hands at Cap-Sable in 1758 or 1759 and were deported to Cherbourg, France, where French officials counted them in 1767.  One wonders what became of them there.  They did not go to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Did any of them return to greater Acadia and live near their kinsmen at Pubnico? 

Charles, père's second son Joseph le jeune, born in Nova Scotia in c1725, also fell into British hands at Cap-Sable in 1758 or 1759 and was deported to Cherbourg, France, where he married cousin Anne, daughter of François Landry and Marie Belliveau,  in February 1764.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Josephe le jeune two sons at Cherbourg in c1764 and c1766.  Joseph le jeune died in the Norman port in March 1766, in his early 40s.  Younger son Pierre-Marin died there the following year, age 1.  One wonders what happened to older son Joseph, fils.  He did not go to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Did he return to greater Acadia and live near his kinsmen at Pubnico?

Charles, père's third and youngest son Pierre, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1731, also fell into British hands at Cap-Sable in 1758 or 1759 and was deported to Cherbourg, France, where he died in July 1778, age 47.  He did not marry. 

Jacques de Pobomcoup's fourth son Joseph, born at Cap-Sable in c1688, married Cécile, daughter of Abraham Boudrot and Cécile Melanson, at Annapolis Royal in October 1717.  They evidently settled at Pobomcoup.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1718 and 1737, Cécile gave Joseph seven children, five sons and two daughters.  Joseph remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Gabriel Moulaison and Marie Aubois of Pobomcoup and widow of Pierre Bertrand, in c1739, place unrecorded.  According to Arsenault, between 1740 and 1743, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph five more children, four sons and a daughter--a dozen children, nine sons and three daughters, by two wives, between 1718 and 1753.  They also escaped the British roundup at Cap-Sable in 1756 but were deported from Halifax to Cherbourg, France, in 1759 or 1760.  Joseph was counted with his family there in 1760.  His daughters by both wives married into the Landry, Galerne, and Granger families at Annapolis Royal or Cherbourg.  Five of his sons by both wives survived childhood but remained unmarried.  Only one of his sons created a family of his own, in France. 

Third son Simon, by first wife Cécile Boudrot, born at Annapolis Royal or Pobomcoup in c1724, married Marie-Josèphe Amireau in c1752, place unrecorded.  They followed his family to Cherbourg, France, where Simon remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Gabriel Moulaison and Marie Aubois and widow of François Viger, sister of his stepmother, in September 1763.  One wonders what became of them there.  They did not go to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Did they return to greater Acadia and live near their kinsmen at Pubnico? 

Jacques de Pobomcoup's putative fifth and youngest son Pierre-Claude, born at Cap-Sable in c1704, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe Terriot in c1728, no place given.  According to Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre-Claude three children, two sons and a daughter, including a set of twins, in c1731 and c1735.  According to Arsenault, they moved on to Île St.-Jean before 1752.  One wonders where they settled there and what became of them in 1758. 

Philippe's second son Abraham, who became sieur de Pleinmarais, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1658, married Marguerite, another daughter of Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour and Jeanne Motin de Reux, in c1676, and settled at Cap-Sable.  Between 1677 and 1698, Marguerite gave him nine children, six daughters and three sons.  Abraham died by September 1704, in his late 40s.  Four of his daughters married into the Bourgeois, Crépeau, Channiteau, and Landry families.  Only second son Abraham, fils survived childhood, but he did not marry, so this line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Philippe's third and youngest son Philippe, fils, who used the surname Mius d'Azy, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1660, married in c1678 to a Mi'kmaq woman whose name has been lost to history.  Between 1679 and the 1680s, she gave him five children, three sons and two daughters.  Philippe, fils remarried to another Mi'kmaq woman, Marie, in c1687, and settled on the Atlantic coast at Cap-Sable, Mouscoudabouet, and La Hève.  Between 1688 and 1705, Marie gave him nine more children, five sons and four daughters--14 children, nine sons and six daughters, between 1679 and 1705.  Philippe, fils's daughters, by both wives, married into the Viger, Bonnevie dit Beaumont, Thomas, Guédry, Grand-Claude, and Cellier dit Charêt families.  Seven of his sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest son Joseph Mius d'Azy, by his father's first wife, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1679, married Marie, daughter of François Amireau dit Touragneau and Marie Pitre, in c1699, place unrecorded.  They settled at Cap-Sable.  Between 1700 and 1728, at the cape, Marie gave Joseph 13 children, five sons and eight daughters, all of whom married.  Joseph died in December 1729, age 55; his burial was recorded at Annapolis Royal, but he probably died at the cape.  Marie remarried to a Benoit widower a couple of years later.  Her and Joseph's daughters married into the Grosvalet, Raymond, Hébert, Henry, Delage dit Langlois, Doucet, Guérin, and Lejeune families.  Three of them followed their husbands to Île St.-Jean and died with their families on the deportation to France in 1758.  All five of Joseph's sons created their own families, but, thanks to the Great Upheaval, not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born at Cap-Sable in June 1700, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Préjean and Andrée Savoie, at Annapolis Royal in September 1726.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1727 and 1746, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph, fils seven children, three daughters and four sons.  Arsenault says the British deported the family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  If they were still at Annapolis Royal, they likely were sent to Massachusetts with the rest of his siblings.  Arsnenault, but not Stephen White, says Joseph, fils, in his early 60s, remarried to fellow Acadian Marie Vincent, a widow, in Philadelphia in September 1761.  She gave him no more children.  After the war, Joseph, fils and his family, if they were still in Pennsylvania, would have joined his kinsmen in Massachusetts, where they were counted that August.  By 1767, Joseph, fils and his family had resettled at Ste.-Anne-du-Ruisseau-de-l'Anguille near Pointe-à-Rocco, northwest of Cap-Sable.  One of Joseph, fils's daughters married into the Rinard family from Normandy in Massachusetts in 1765.  Three of his sons also married.

Second son Dominique, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Préjean, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1736, followed his family into exile and, according to Bona Arsenault, married Clémentine dite veuve Magloire in c1761, no place given.  Arsenault says the widow gave Domingue two children, a daughter and a son, in c1762 and c1764.  They followed his family to the Cap-Sable area. 

Joseph, fils's third son Pierre, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Préjean, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1744, followed his family into exile.  He married Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Amireau and Claire Dugas of Pobomcoup, at Masschusetts in 1767, on the eve of their repatriation to Cap-Sable, where their marriage was "rehabilitated" in 1769.  According to Bonas Arsenault, between 1768 and 1777, Cécile gave Pierre 11 children, eight daughters and three sons.  They also resettled at Pointe-à-Rocco northwest of the cape.

Joseph, fils's fourth and youngest son Louis, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Préjean, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1746, followed his family into exile and to Cap-Sable, where he married fellow Acadian Anne-Josèphe Corporon.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1769 and 1780, Anne-Josèphe gave Louis seven children, four sons and two daughters.  They also resettled at Pointe-à-Rocco.

Joseph Mius d'Azy's second son Charles dit Charles-Amand, born at Cap-Sable in December 1701, married Marie-Marthe, daughter of Antoine Hébert and Jeanne Corporon, at Annapolis Royal in January 1731.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1754, Marie-Marthe gave Charles eight children, five daughters and three sons.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in 1755.  Arsenault says Marie-Marthe gave Charles two more children in the colony, a son and a daughter, in c1756 and c1760--10 children, six daughters and four sons, between 1732 and 1760, in greater Acadia and Massachusetts.  They also repatriated to Cap-Sable, where Charles died in c1795, in his early 90s.  Four of his daughters married into the Léger, Doucet, and Frontain families there.  His four sons also married.

Oldest son Charles-Amand, fils, called Amand, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1735, married cousin Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Mius d'Azy and Marie, a Mi'kmaq, in c1755.  They followed his family to Massachusetts, were held at Plymouth, and, according to Bona Arsenault, had no children there.  They followed his family to the Cap-Sable area, where, according to Bona Arsenault, between 1770 and 1796, Marie-Josèphe gave Amand five children, two sons and three daughters.  Amand died at St.-Michel of Bas-de-Tousket, today's Tusket, north of Pubnico, in November 1804, in his late 60s.

Charles's second son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1740, followed his family to Massachusetts and the Cap-Sable area, where he married Marie-Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Doucet and Anne Surette, in c1770.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1790, Marie-Modeste gave Jean Baptiste le jeune six children, a son and five daughters.  They evidently remained in the Cap-Sable area. 

Charles's third son Jean-Pierre, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1742, followed his family to Massachusetts and to the Cap-Sable area, where he married Anne, another daughter of Joseph Doucet and Anne Surette, in c1767.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1768 and 1780, Anne gave Jean-Pierre eight children, four daughters and four sons.  They evidently remained in the Cap-Sable area. 

Charles's fourth and youngest son Barthélémi, born in Massachusetts in c1756, followed his family to the Cap-Sable area.  He married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexix Doiron and Madeleine Bourg in c1780, no place given.  Madeleine, born in France in c1762, had followed her family back to greater Acadia in 1767 and settled with them on Cape Breton Island, formerly French Île Royale, where they may have married.  In 1786, they were living at Arichat on the south shore of Île Madame, south of Cape Breton Island.  They moved on to Prince Edward Island, formerly French Île St.-Jean, where Barthélemi died by 1798, when British officials counted his widow with four daughters and five sons on the island, the youngest child, son Basile, having been born in c1785. 

Joseph Mius d'Azy's third son François, born at Cap-Sable in March 1703, married Jeanne, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Duon and Agnès Hébert, at Annapolis Royal in February 1735.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1754, Jeanne gave François eight children, four daughters and four sons.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in 1755.  Jeanne gave François two more children there, a son and a daughter, in c1756 and c1759--10 children, five daughters and five sons, between 1736 and 1759.  They also resettled in the Cap-Sable area by 1767, when British officials counted them at Pointe-des-Ben near the cape.  They evidently remained in the Cap-Sable area. 

Joseph Mius d'Azy's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1713, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Surette and Jeanne Pellerin, at Annapolis Royal in October 1735.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1751, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste seven children, five daughters and two sons.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in 1755.  Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste another daughter there in c1760--eight children, six daughters and two sons, between 1736 and 1760.  They also resettled in the Cap-Sable area, where Jean-Baptiste died in June 1806, in his early 90s.  Five of his daughters married into the Doucet, LeBlanc, and Blanchard families in greater Acadia, Massachusetts, and in the cape area.  The husband of the youngest daughter, Claire, Jean-Marie Blanchard, was not a fellow Acadian.  According to Arsenault, he was a "nègre de Bayonne" France, who had lived in French St.-Domingue, today's Haiti, before moving to the woods of Pobomcoup, now Pubnico.  Jean-Baptiste's two sons also married, one of them to a Native. 

Older son Laurent, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1749, followed his family to Massachusetts and the Cap-Sable area, where he married Marie-Alexis Mehan, an Indian, in c1770.  He died at Cap-Sable in July 1811, in his early 60s. 

Jean-Baptiste's younger son Paul, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1751, followed his family to Massachusetts and the Cap-Sable area, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Marguerite Amireau, in c1780.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1783 and 1796, Marie gave Paul 11 children, six sons and five daughters.  They evidently remained in the Cap-Sable area. 

Joseph Mius d'Azy's fifth and youngest son Charles-Benjamin, called Benjamin, born at Cap-Sable in April 1728, married Marie-Josèphe, called Josèphe, daughter of Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hébert and widow of Amand Breau, in c1749.  Josèphe gave Benjamin two daughters in c1750 and c1751.  They followed other peninsular Acadians to French-controlled Île Royale, where a French official counted them in late March 1752 at Pointe-à-la-Jeunnesse, a new Acadian settlement in the interior of the island, with their two daughters and 6-year-old Marie-Pélagie Breau from her first marriage.  When many of the Acadians abandoned the remote settlement and returned to peninsula Nova Scotia, Benjamin and his family remained.  Between 1752 and 1756, Josèphe gave Benjamin three more children on the island, two sons and a daughter--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1749 and 1756.  In late 1758, the British deported them to France.  Benjamin and Josèphe crossed with their five children--Marie-Josèphe, age 9; Anastasie, age 7; Jean-Baptiste, age 6; Véronique, age 4; and Firmin, age 2--on one of the so-called Five Ships, which left Chédabouctou Bay in late November 1758 and, despite a storm of the southwest coast of England that sunk three other transports in mid-December, arrived at St.-Malo together in late January 1759.  Benjamin and all five of his children died at sea!  Widow Josèphe remarried--her third marriage--to a LeBlanc widower at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1763 and followed him to Belle-Île-en-Mer, off the southern coast of Brittany, in late 1765, where she died in August 1767, age 47.

Philippe, fils's second son Maurice, by his father's first wife, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1680, married Marguerite, an Indian woman like his mother, in c1702, and settled at Mouscoudabouet, where she gave him two children, both daughters, whose fate has been lost to history.   

Philippe, fils's third son Mathieu, by his father's first wife, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1682, married Marie-Madeleine, an Indian woman, in c1706, and settled at Cap-Sable, where she gave him two children, a son and a daughter, whose fate also has been lost to history.  

Philippe, fils's fourth son Jacques, by second wife Marie, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1688, married in c1715 to a woman whose name has been lost to history. 

Philippe, fils's fifth Pierre dit Dasy, by second wife Marie, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1691, married Marguerite Lapierre in c1718.   

Philippe, fils's sixth son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Marie, born probably at Pobomcoup in the 1690s, married a woman named Marie in c1720. 

Philippe, fils's seventh son François, by second wife Marie, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1697 (Bona Arsenault says c1681), married a woman named Marie in c1726.  According to Arsenault, between 1701 and 1711, Marie gave François six children, three sons and three daughters.  All of their children married Indians, so wife Marie likely was Mik'maq like François's mother.  In 1711, François was the "chief" of the Mik'maq at La Hève, a prominent Métis settlement.  In August 1762, in the final months of the Seven Years's War, François petitioned Nova Scotia Lieutenant-Governor Jonathan Belcher to provide the community with a replacement missionary, Abbé Pierre Maillard, the original missioner, who had recently died in Halifax. 

Philippe, fils's eighth and youngest son Philippe III, by second wife Marie, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1703, probably died young.361

Le Borgne de Bélisle

Alexandre Le Borgne de Bélisle, former governor of French Acadia and seigneur of Port-Royal, a late 1650s arrival, and his wife Marie de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, daughter of a former governor, created a small but significant family in the colony--as close to Acadian aristocracy as the colony offered.  Between 1676 and 1690, Marie gave Alexandre seven children, three sons and four daughters.  Three of their daughters married into the Girouard dit de Ru, D'Amours de Plaine, Rodrigue dit de Fonds, and Duperié families.  Two of the seigneur's three sons married, but only one created a lasting family line.  Alexandre and Marie's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also in the French Maritimes, at Pentagouët in Maine, and at Minas.  At least two of the governor's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in the late 1760s, but they did not create a lasting family line there.  The majority of the governor's descendants who did not return to France were living in Canada after Le Grand Dérangement.

Oldest son Emmanuel de Bélisle, born at Port-Royal in c1676, married Cécile, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau and Jeanne Thériot, at Port-Royal in c1698.  Cécile gave Emmanuel only one child, a daughter, Marie de Bélisle, who married into the aristocratic Bertrand family on Île Royale. 

Alexandre's second son Alexandre de Bélisle, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1679, married Anastasie, daughter of Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, third baron Saint-Castin, and Mathilde, his Abenaki wife, at Pentagouët, present-day Maine, in December 1707 and settled Minas.  Between 1708 and the 1730s, Anastasie gave Alexandre, fils seven children, a son and six daughters.  According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, Anastasie gave Alexandre, fils a second son in c1710, but Stephen A. White disagrees.  Three of Alexandre, fils's daughters married into the Rondeau, Dupont Duvivier, and Robichaud families.  Alexandre, fils's sons, including the putative one, created families of their own.  

Older son Alexandre de Bélisle III, born at Port-Royal in c1708, married Marie, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Jeanne Bourgeois of L'Assomption, Pigiguit, at Grand-Pré in January 1731, and died there in August 1744, age 36.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1744, Marie gave Alexandre III nine children, six sons and three daughters, at Minas.  Members of the family may have escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Marie and at least one of her sons, however, were deported to Maryland in 1755.  Two of her sons created their own families, one in Canada, the other in Louisiana.

Third son Alexandre IV, born at Minas in c1736, may have escaped the British in 1755, made his way to Canada, and married Geneviève, daughter of Guillaume Cloutier and Marie-Françoise-Élisabeth Bernier, at L'Islet, on the lower St. Lawrence, in April 1773.  According to Bona Arsenault, Geneviève gave Alexandre IV at least two sons, Antoine-Alexandre in 1774 and Anselme le jeune in 1776.  The younger son created his own family. 

Anselme le jeune married Geneviève Gamache probably at L'Islet in c1800.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1801 and 1820, Geneviève gave Anselme le jeune at least four children, a son and three daughters.  Anselme le jeune moved his family down the St. Lawrence to Rivière Ouelle in 1807 and even farther down to L'Île-Verte in 1814. 

Alexandre III's fourth son Anselme, born at Minas in c1738, accompanied his widowed mother to Maryland in 1755.  He married Anne, daughter of Paul Babin and Marie LeBlanc of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in Maryland in the late 1750s or the early 1760s.  The childless couple with his widowed mother and two siblings appeared on a repatriation list at Annapolis, Maryland, in July 1763.  Anne gave Anselme a son, Paul, probably at Annapolis in October 1766.  The following year, they emigrated to Louisiana and settled at San Gabriel on the Mississippi above New Orleans.  Anselme remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Dupuis and Élisabeth LeBlanc of Grand-Pré, probably at Ascension, now Donaldsonville, on the Mississippi above New Orleans in the late 1760s or early 1770s.  Between 1772 and 1781, she gave him five more children, two more sons and three daughters.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Anselme owned three slaves at Assumption on the upper bayou in 1798.  He died in Assumption Parish in February 1817, age 80.  Two of his daughters married into the Landry family.  His three sons survived childhood, but only one of them married, twice, his second time into the Duhon family, but he evidently had no children by either of his wives.  As a result, only the blood of this aristocratic Acadian family survived in the Bayou State.

Alexandre, fils's putative younger son Jacques married Marie-Anne Maurice probably at Annapolis Royal in c1730.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Anne gave Jacques a son. 

Jacques, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1731, married Cécile, daughter of Claude Doucet and Marie Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1752.  According to Bona Arsenault, Cécile gave Jacques, fils a son, Jacques III, at Annapolis Royal in c1754.  One wonders where Le Grand Dérangment took Jacques, fils and his family after 1755. 

Alexandre, père's third and youngest son Charles, born at Port-Royal in c1685, survived childhood but did not marry.367

D'Abbadie de Saint-Castin

Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, French army officier, capitaine de sauvages, third Baron de Saint-Castin, a 1670 arrival, and his two wives, Marie-Mathilde and Marie Pidiwammiskwa, daughters of a Penobscot sagamore, created a small but significant family in the colony.  First wife Mathilde gave Jean-Vincent 10 children, five sons and five daughters.  Second wife Marie, who he evidently married before her sister died, gave him two more children, both daughters.  Six of his daughters by both wives married into the Meunier, Meneux dit Châteauneuf, Le Borgne de Bélisle, D'Amours de Chauffours, and Mius d'Entremont families. Three of his sons, all by his first wife, also married.  Jean-Vincent's descendants settled in Acadia not only at Pentagouët in Maine, but also at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal and Minas.  However, only the blood of this noble family seems to have survived in British Nova Scotia.  If any of the baron's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, they did not take the family's name there. 

Oldest son Bernard, by first wife Mathilde, born probably at Pentagouët in c1688, was a student at the Petit Séminaire in Québec in October 1696 during King William's War.  He died in November 1704, age 16, while traveling in France. 

Jean-Vincent's second son Bernard-Anselme, by first wife Mathilde, born at Pentagouët in c1689, was, like several of his brothers, educated at the Petit Séminaire in Québec.  In May 1707, when he was still a teenager, Bernard-Anselme, now his father's oldest surviving son, was appointed by Governor Subercase as head of the Abenaki contingent in the defense of Port-Royal, which a New English force attacked in May and August.  In both actions, Bernard-Anselme and his fellow Abenaki performed brilliantly, and Bernard-Anselme was wounded in the August encounter.  At age 18, he married Marie-Charlotte, called Charlotte, 12-year-old daughter of Louis D'Amours de Chauffours and Marguerite Guyon of Rivière St.-Jean and the niece of one of his sisters, at Port-Royal in October 1707.  Charlotte gave him three children, all daughters.  Like his father, Bernard-Anselme served as a capitaine de sauvages.  Also like his father, his actual rank was lieutenant, granted to him by the French Court in June 1708.  Bernard-Anselme became fourth baron de Saint-Castin after his father's death at Pau, Béarn, France, the year of his marriage.  Unlike his father, Bernard-Anselme did not serve as a sagamore of the Penobscot.  After his marriage, he maintained a home at Port-Royal as well as a trading post at Pentagouët.  In c1709, he purchased a ship and turned to privateering.  After the fall of Port-Royal in October 1710, Governor-General Vaudreuil made him commander of French and Indian forces in greater Acadia, with headquarters at Pentagouët.  Bernard-Anselme and his Abenaki kinsmen helped defeat a small force of British marines at Bloody Creek on haute rivière, above his former home at Port-Royal, in June 1711.  In 1713, after the Peace of Utrecht was signed, Bernard-Anselme, with the assistance of younger brother Joseph, led the Abenaki in guerrilla warfare against the New English from a new base at the falls of the Penobscot.  He took his family to France at the end of 1714 to pursue the family business that had ruined his father.  It tormented him as well.  Nevertheless, on 28 April 1717, he was seated in the nobles' section of the Béarn assembly, representing the estate of Saint-Castin.  He died in Béarn in early autumn of 1720, age 31.  Two of his daughters married into the de Bourbon and de Sarthopon families in Béarn, so the blood of this family line survived, but not in British Nova Scotia.

Jean-Vincent's third son Jean-Pierre, by first wife Mathilde, born probably at Pentagouët in c1692, also was educated at the Petit Séminaire in Québec, where he was praised by his superiors.  He died in Québec in December 1702, age 11 or 12.

Jean-Vincent's fourth son Joseph, by first wife Mathilde, born probably at Pentagouët in the 1690s, succeeded his older brother Bernard-Anselme as fifth baron de Saint-Castin in 1720.  Unlike his father and brother, however, Joseph did not go to France to claim his family inheritance.  Evidently he considered himself more an Abenaki than a Frenchman, and the nation rewarded him with the rank of chief.  At the end of Queen Anne's War, the Abenaki refused to acknowledge the provisions of the Peace of Utrecht, so, after 1713, Joseph, along with older brother Bernard-Anselme and their fellow Abenaki, conducted guerrilla warfare against the New English in Maine.  Governor-General Vaudreuil quietly sanctioned Joseph's actions.  In 1720, the governor-general transferred to Joseph the lieutenant's pay that had gone to Bernard-Anselme.  The following year, the British captured Joseph by treachery and held him as a prisoner at Boston from November 1721 until May 1722, when they released him in hopes that he would turn the Abenaki to the British, but he clung even tighter to the French.  Joseph became a French officer in 1726 and strove for the rest of life to maintain Abenaki friendship with the French in Canada.  Joseph married after 1728, place and date unrecorded, to a woman, most likely a fellow Indian, whose name has been lost to history, and died after March 1751, age, place, and date unrecorded. 

Jean-Vincent's fifth and youngest son Barenos de Saint-Castin, by first wife Mathilde, born probably at Pentagouët in the 1690s or early 1700s, married in c1725, place unrecorded, to a woman whose name has been lost to history, and died in August 1746, age and place unrecorded, in a dispute with one of his nephews.  Judging by the date of his death, one wonders if Barenos, despite the circumstances of his passing, was a casualty of King George's War.411

Le Neuf de La Vallière et de Beaubassin

Michel Le Neuf de La Vallière of Trois-Rivières, Canada, a mid-1670s arrival, and his wives Marie Denys and Françoise Denys, the first a daughter of Nicolas Denys, the second of Nicolas's older brother Simon, created a large and influential family in the colony.  Although their claim to nobility did not approach that of the Saint-Castins, the progenitor of this family in Acadia was second only to Charles La Tour in his impact on the colony's history.  First wife Marie, a daughter of La Tour's contemporary, Nicolas Denys de La Ronde, gave Michel nine children, four sons and five daughters.  Michel's second wife Françoise, a daughter of Nicolas's older brother Simon Denys de La Trinité and his second wife Françoise Dutertre, and widow of Jacques Cailleteau de Champfleury, gave Michel no more children.  Michel and Marie's oldest children were born at Trois-Rivières, but their youngest, two daughters, were born at Beaubassin, Chignecto, where Michel had been granted a large seigneurie in October 1676, four years after the area had been settled by Acadians from Port-Royal.  Four of Michel's daughters, including the notorious Marie-Josèphe, married into the Le Gardeur de Saint-Pierre, Le Bassier de Villieu, de Ganne de Falaise, and Aubert de La Chesnaye de Forillon families, all members of the colonial aristocracy.  All of his sons survived childhood, but only the youngest created a family of his own.  If any of the governor's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, they did not take the family's name there. 

Oldest son Alexandre de Beaubassin, born at Trois-Rivières in June 1666, never married.  He became an ensign of troupes de la marine in 1690, a lieutenant in January 1694, a captain in May 1710, and was named a chevalier of the Order of St.-Louis in June 1712.  He died in the sinking of the ship Héros in September 1712, during the final months of Queen Anne's War, age 46. 

Michel's second son Jacques de La Poterie, born at Trois-Rivières in January 1670, also never married.  He, too, became an officer of troupes de la marine, becoming an ensign in 1691.  He died at Montréal in July 1692, age 22, from wounds suffered while fighting the Iroquois.

Michel's third son Jean-Baptite de Canceau, born at Trois-Rivières in October 1672, also remained a bachelor and became an officer of troupes de la marine.  He became an ensign in 1692, and a lieutenant reformé in September 1694.  Leaving the army, he became a Récollet priest in 1700 and died at Québec in January 1702, age 29. 

Michel's fourth and youngest son Michel de La Vallière, fils, born at Trois-Rivières in October 1677, also became an officer of troupes de marine.  He was recorded as serving as an ensign in Canada in June 1706 and at Plaisance, Newfoundland, in July 1710.  He married Renée, daughter of François Bertrand, fils and Jeanne Giraudet, at Plaisance in 1710.  After the retrocession of Newfoundland to Britain in 1713, Michel, fils took his family to French-controlled Île Royale, where he served for the remainder of his long career.  He was promoted to lieutenant on Île Royale in March 1713.  In 1714, he assisted his first cousin Louis Denys de La Ronde in attempting to lure peninsula Acadians to the new French colony.  He was serving at Port-Toulouse on the island in c1715, became the port's assistant town major in July 1720, was promoted to captain in March 1723, named a chevalier of the Order of St.-Louis in June 1730, and was named town major of Louisbourg in April 1737.  Michel, fils died at Louisbourg in October 1740, age 63.  Renée gave him 15 childern, seven sons and eight daughters, the oldest born on Newfoundland, the others on Île Royale.  Five of their daughters married into the Maillet, Delort, Rousseau de Villejoin, La Butte Frerot, Martin de Lino, and Rousseau d'Orfontaine families, most of them members of the colonial aristocracy.  Only three of Michel, fils's seven sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Louis de La Vallière, born at Plaisance in c1711, married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Pierre Rousseau de Souvigny and Jeanne de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, a granddaugher of Charles La Tour, at Louisbourg, Île Royale, in September 1739.  Louis died at Cayenne, French Guyane, in South America, in May 1787, age 77.  

Michel, fils's second son, name unrecorded, born probably at Plainsance between 1711 and 1713, did not survive childhood. 

 Michel, fils's third son Philippe de Beaubassin, born at des Anges, Newfoundland, in c1713, married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Miguel Daccarrette and his second Catherine de Gonillon, at Louisbourg in July 1743.  Philippe died on Île St.-Pierre, off the southern coast of Newfoundland, in June 1769, age 56. 

Michel, fils's fourth son, named unrecorded, born probably on Île Royale in the 1710s, may have survived childhood but did not marry.  

Michel, fils's fifth son Joseph-Alexandre de Boisneuf, born at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1719, married Marie, another daughter of Miguel Daccarrette and Catherine de Gonillon, at Louisbourg in August 1752.  Joseph-Alexandre died after July 1777, age and place unrecorded.  

Michel, fils's sixth son Jacques-Simon, a twin of sister Marie-Jeanne, born at Port-Toulouse in c1722, evidently died young.  

Michel, fils's  seventh and youngest son Charles-François, born at Port-Touluse in c1731, also did not create a family of his own.22

Godin dit Châtillon dit Bellefontaine

Pierre Godin dit Châtillon and wife Jeanne Rousselière, late 1670s arrivals, created a large family in greater Acadia, though many of the family's members did not remain there.  Jeanne gave Pierre dit Châtillon nine children, four sons and five daughters.  Four of their daughters married into the Magdelaine dit La Douceur, Fortin dit Lagrandeur, Nepveu, Henry, and Martin families, two of them in Canada and two in greater Acadia.  Three of their four sons created families of their own, but only two of the lines survived.  Pierre dit Châtillon and Jeanne's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Chignecto, Minas, in the French Maritimes, and especially in Canada (before Le Grand Dérangement).  In greater Acadia, they were especially numerous on lower Rivière St.-Jean, where one of Pierre's sons held a seigneurie.  Needless to say, few of them were "typical" Fundy Acadians.  At least 22 of Pierre dit Châtillon's descendants, all from second son Gabriel, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and from Maryland in the late 1760s.  The majority of Pierre dit Châtillon's descendants, however, could be found in greater Acadia and especially in Canada after exile. 

Oldest son Laurent dit Châtillon dit Beauséjour, born at Montréal in August 1655, followed his family to Chignecto in the late 1670s.  He married Anne, daughter of François Guérin and Anne Blanchard, in c1677 perhaps at Port-Royal, where he worked as a miller, and took his family back to Chignecto in the early 1690s.  Pointe-a-Beauséjour, his concession, future site of French Fort Beauséjour, took the name of his dit.  Between 1678 and 1717, Anne gave Laurent 13 children, seven sons and six daughters.  In the early 1710s, perhaps after the recession of peninsula Acadia to the British in 1713, Laurent returned to his native Canada.  Wife Anne died at St.-Antoine-de-Tilly above Québec in January 1718, in her late 50s.  At age 64, Laurent remarried to Marie-Anne, daughter of Mathieu Brunet dit Lestang and Marie Blanchard and widow of Antoine Pilon, at Pointe-Claire near Montréal in June 1719.  She gave him no more children.  Laurent died at Rivière-des-Prairies near Montréal in May 1737, age 82.  Five of his daughters, all by first wife Anne, married into the Marchand or Marcheguay, Mercier dit Caudebec, Carrière dit Carcassonne, Gareau dit Legarde, Rainville, Barthelet dit Le Savoyard, and Quévillon families, all but one of them in Canada.  Only three of his seven sons created families of their own.  

Oldest son Pierre, by first wife Anne Guérin, born probably at Port-Royal in c1678, followed his family to Chignecto.  He married Catherine, daughter of François Pellerin dit Caudebec and Andrée Martin, in c1697 probably at Chignecto.  Between 1698 and 1720, Catherine gave Pierre a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons.  In c1705, years before his parents left French Acadia, Pierre moved his family to Canada.  He died at St.-François-du-Sud below Québec in July 1733, in his mid-50s.  Six of his daughters married into the Rouleau, Thibault, Larrivé, Dumas, Fontaine, and Dubé families all in Canada.  Only two of his sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born probably at Chignecto in c1700, married Angélique, daughter of Denis Proulx and Marie-Anne Gagné, in Canada in January 1725. 

Pierre, père's second son Claude, born probably at Chignecto in c1705, followed his family to Canada.  He died at St.-Thomas-de-Montmagny below Québec in January 1709, age 4. 

Pierre, père's third son Jean-Baptiste, born at St.-Thomas-de-Montmagny in May 1708. married Marguerite, daughter of François Audet dit Lapointe and Marguerite Bernard, in St.-Laurent Parish on Île d'Orléans in November 1733.  Jean-Baptiste died at Cap-St.-Ignace below Montmagny in November 1796, in his late 80s. 

Pierre, père's fourth son Antoine, born at St.-Thomas-de-Montmagny in Jusly 1709, died a  few weeks later. 

Pierre, père's fifth and youngest son Antoine, the second with the name, born probably on the lower St. Lawrence in c1715, died at Berthier-sur-Sud on the lower St. Lawrence above Montmagny in April 1732, age 17, and was buried at nearby St.-François-du-Sud, before he could marry.   

Laurent's second son Guillaume, by first wife Anne Guérin, born probably at Port-Royal in c1682, followed his family to Chignecto, where he was last counted in 1700, in his late teens.  He probably did not marry. 

Laurent's son Charles, by first wife Anne Guérin, born probably at Port-Royal in c1688, followed his family back to Chignecto and his father to Canada.  Charles died at St.-Pierre-du-Sud on the lower St.-Lawrence in June 1714, in his mid-20s.  He did not marry.  

Laurent's fourth son François, by first wife Anne Guérin, born probably at Chignecto in c1697, followed his father to Canada.  François died at St.-Antoine-de-Tilly on the upper St. Lawrence above Québec in February 1718, age 20, before he could marry.  

Laurent's fifth son, name unrecorded, from first wife Anne Guérin, born probably at Chignecto before 1707, evidently died young.   

Laurent's sixth son Joseph, by first wife Anne Guérin, born probably at Chignecto before 1707, followed his family to Canada and perhaps returned to greater Acadia.  He married Madeleine Roy in c1733, place unrecorded.  Joseph died before November 1775, in his 60s, place unrecorded. 

Laurent and Anne's seventh and youngest son Jacques-Joseph dit Châtillon, by first wife Anne Guérin, born probably at Chignecto before 1707, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Anne, daughter of Pierre Verdon and Marie-Anne Averty, at Montréal in September 1732.  According to Bona Arsenault, two of Jacques-Joseph's and Marie-Anne's children were baptized at St.-Laurent near Montréal, dates unrecorded.  Jacques-Joseph died at Montréal in October 1771, in his early 60s. 

Pierre dit Châtillon's second son Gabriel dit Châtillon, later sieur de Bellefontaine, born at Montréal in July 1661, lived at Charlebourg near Québec when he was young and at Port-Royal during the 1680s before returning to his native Montréal, where he married Andrée-Angélique, called Angélique, daughter of Robert Jeanne or Jasne and Françoise-Madeleine Savard, in July 1690.  In c1691, Gabriel took his family to lower Rivière St.-Jean, where Acadian commander Joseph Robinau de Villebon granted him a seigneurie across from the commander's fort and below the village of Ékoupag.  After receiving his grant, Gabriel styled himself the sieur de Bellefontaine.  According to Bona Arsenault, Gabriel's concession morphed into the Acadian settlement of Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas or Pointe-Anne, the site of today's Fredericton.  Between 1691 and the late 1710s, Andrée-Angélique gave Gabriel a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters.  Gabriel died probably on the lower St.-Jean before August 1730, in his 60s.  His widow, along with his youngest son and his family, were counted there in 1739.  Three of Gabriel's daughters married into the Saindon, Dugas, and Part families in greater Acadia, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana.  All of his sons married, most of them to sisters, and most of them not in Canada but in greater Acadia.  One of his sons and many of his grandchildren emigrated to Louisiana in the mid-1760s. 

Oldest son Louis dit Bellefontaine, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1693, married in c1736 to a woman whose name has been lost to history.  They were counted with two children on Rivière St.-Jean in 1739, but they did not remain there.  Louis died at St.-François-du-Lac on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Montréal in February 1749, in his mid-50s.   

Gabriel dit Châtillon's second son Joseph dit Bellefontaine dit Beauséjour, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1695, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Barthélemy Bergeron dit d'Amboise and Geneviève Serreau de Saint-Aubin, on Rivière St.-Jean in c1726, and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1760, Marie-Anne gave Joseph 10 children, three daughters and seven sons.  In April 1749, Joseph, described as "one of the richest farmers of Acadia," was appointed "major des milices de la région" by interim Governor-General La Galissonière.  Joseph was among the river Acadians captured in Hazen's raid on Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in late winter of 1759.  During the raid, he may have witnessed the murder of his oldest daughter Anastasie, wife of Eustache Part, and their three children, and the wife of his oldest son Michel and their son.  The rangers transported Joseph and the other captives to the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax.  That November, Lieutenant-Governor Charles Lawrence deported them, along with Acadians captured at Cap-Sable, to England, British authorities sent them on to Cherbourg, France, and they landed at the Norman port in January 1760.  Joseph died at Cherbourg in December 1776, in his early 80s.  Most of his younger children escaped the British in 1758-59, and three of his sons emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. 

Oldest son Michel dit Bellefontaine, born probably at at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1733, married Marguerite Guilbeau, a refugee from Annapolis Royal, probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas, in c1756.  Michel, meanwhile, served as "officier de milice et navigateur" on the river.  In late winter of 1759, Michel's wife Marguerite and their son, along with Michel's older sister Anastasie and three of her children, were murdered by Hazen's rangers at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas.  Michel likely was present when his wife and son were killed and scalped.  If so, he ended up at Cherbourg, France, with his father and other captives.  One wonders what happened to him after January 1760. 

Joseph's second son Barthélémy dit Bellefontaine, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1735, married Marie-Claire, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Martin and Marie Brun, in c1760 during exile.  If he escaped the British on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758-59 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, he and his wife were either captured by, or surrendered to, the British in the early 1760s.  He, his wife, and a child appeared on a repatriation list in the prison compound at Halifax in August 1763.  He and Marie-Claire, without their child, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1765 and settled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Marie-Claire gave Barthélémy more children in the Spanish colony.  Barthélémy died at Cabahannocer in July 1771, age 36.  His older son married into the Louvière family there; he and his wife had daughters but no sons.  Barthélemy's younger son died young. 

Joseph's third son Bonaventure dit Bellefontaine le jeune, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1736, married Théotiste, daughter of Charles Thibodeau and Brigitte Breau of Peticoudiac, probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1757.  They evidently escaped the British roundup on the river in 1758-59 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Their daughter Marie-Anne-Barbe was born in c1761 probably in exile.  Soon after her birth, they were either captured by, or surrendered to, British forces and ended up in the prisoner-of-war compound at Halifax, where they appeared on a repatriation list in August 1763.  Bonaventure le jeune evidently died soon after the counting, in his late 20s.  When Théotiste and her daughter emigrated to Louisiana in 1765, Théotiste was a widow.  They settled at Cabahannocer, where Théotiste remarried to a Landry widower from Pigiguit in c1769.  Soon after the married, she followed her new husband to the Attakapas District.  Her Godin daughter married into the Broussard and Wilkins families there. 

Joseph's fourth son Jacques dit Bellefontaine, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1740, evidently followed his older brothers into exile, into the prison-of-war compound at Halifax in the early 1760s, and to Louisiana in 1765.  Spanish officials counted him at Cabahannacer in 1766 and 1769.  He likely was the Jacques Bellefontaine about whom Cabahannocer commandant Louis Judice complained to Spanish Governor Ulloa in April 1768.  Judice had ordered Jacques and three other Acadians to seize the families of fellow Acadians Honoré and Alexis Breau of Pigiguit, recently arrived from Maryland, who had defied the governor's orders to settle at an upriver fort.  Instead of escorting the Breaus to New Orleans so the governor could send them out of the colony, Jacques and companions warned them about the governor's plans, and the families fled.  Jacques evidently never married. 

Joseph's fifth son Jean-Baptiste dit Bellefontaine, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1746, evidently followed his older brothers into exile, into the prison compound at Halifax in the early 1760s, and to Louisiana in 1765.  He settled with his older brothers at Cabahannocer, where he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Melanson and his second wife Osite Hébert, in c1768.  Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste at least a son and three daughters before she died in the mid-1770s.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Élisabeth Fontenot, widow of David Marx, at Cabahannocer in July 1778.  She gave him more children, including another son.  His daughters by first wife Madeleine married into the Charpiot and LeBlanc families.  Two of his sons by both wives married into the Foret and Landry families and remained in what became St. James Parish.  Jean-Baptiste's was the only family line among his brothers to endure in the Bayou State. 

Gabriel dit Châtillon's third son Jacques-Philippe dit Bellefeuille, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1697, married Anne-Marie, another daughter of Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise and Geneviève Serreau de Saint-Aubin, in c1730 (Stephen A. White's date, Bona Arsenault says c1724) probably on Rivière St.-Jean, and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1724 and 1736, Anne-Marie gave Jacques-Philippe four children, three sons and a daughter.  In 1758-59, Jacques-Philippe and his family, if they had not already gone to Canada, evidently escaped the British roundup on the lower St.-Jean.  Jacques-Philippe died at Gentilly on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec and Trois-Rivières in February 1763, in his mid-60s.  His daughter married into the Martin family at Ste.-Famille, Île d'Orléans, below Québec.  His three sons also created their own families in Canada. 

Oldest son Athanase dit Bellefuille, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1724, married Thérèse Picher in c1750, place unrecorded, perhaps in Canada, so they may not have had to face the Acadian dérangement.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1772, Thérèse gave Athanase three children, two sons and a daughter.   Athanase died at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in December 1803, in his late 70s.  His daughter married into the Babineau family at Bécancour.  Both of his sons also created their own families on the upper St. Lawrence. 

Older son Basile, born probably in Canada in c1760, married Louise, daughter of Michel Leboeuf and Marie-Anne Gendron, at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pérade on the upper St. Lawrence below Trois-Rivières in February 1786.

Athanase's younger son François, born probably in Canada in c1772, married Françoise, daughter of Augustin Fontaine and Charlotte Sévigny, at Bécancour in June 1801. 

Jacques-Philippe's second son Félix, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1728, married Marie-Rose, daughter of François Roy and Marie Bergeron, in c1758, place unrecorded.  They, too, may have married in Canada.  If not, they evidently escaped the British roundup on the lower St.-Jean the year of their marriage and sought refuge in Canada.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1758 and 1775, Marie-Rose gave Félix 11 children, four sons and seven daughters, including a set of twins.  Félix died at Batiscan on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec and Trois-Rivières in May 1784, in his mid-50s.  Two of his daughters married into the Massicotte and Caissie families at Batiscan.  Two of his sons also created their own families there. 

Oldest son Jean, born probably in Canada in c1765, married Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel LeSauvage and Marie Léger dit La Rosette, at Batiscan in April 1788. 

Félix's second son Michel, born probably in Canada in c1774, married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Leduc and Marie-Charlotte Brassard, at Batiscan in October 1794. 

Jacques-Philippe's third and youngest son Daniel dit Bellefuille, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1730, either followed his parents and older siblings to Canada or escaped the British roundup on the lower St.-Jean in 1758-59 and sought refuge in Canada.  He marrid Luce, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Martin and Marie Brun and the sister of his younger sister Hélène's husband, at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière on the St. Lawrence below Québec in September 1765.  They did not remain there.  Daniel helped establish the community of French Village on Hammand River, a tributary of the upper Rivière Kennebecasis, northeast of present-day Saint Jean, New Brunswick.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1776, Luce gave Daniel seven children, six sons and a daughter.  When American Loyalists came to the Hammond River valley in 1783, some of the Acadian families there moved on.  Not the Godins.  Daniel died there in June 1809, in his late 70s.  His daughter married into the French Huguenot Michaud family at French Village.  Five of his sons also created their own families there, most of them at French Village.

Second son Toussaint dit Bellefontaine, born perhaps at French Village in c1769, married Madeleine daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Tardiff and Marie-Anne Dubé, at French Village in July 1798.  

Daniel's third son Joseph dit Bellefontaine, born probably at French Village in c1771, married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Martin and Marie-Anne Levasseur, at French Village in September 1795. 

Daniel's fourth son François dit Bellefontaine, born probably at French Village in c1772, married cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Martin and Marie Lejeune, at St.-Basile-de-Madawaska on upper Rivière St.-Jean in September 1795. 

Daniel's fifth son Louis-Joseph dit Bellefontaine, born probably at French Village in c1773, married fellow Acadian Catherine Poitier at French Village in c1796. 

Daniel's seventh and youngest son Germain dit Bellefontaine, born probably at French Village in c1776, married Marie-Catherine, another daughter of Jean Tardiff and Marie-Anne Dubé, at French Village in July 1798. 

Gabriel dit Châtillon's fourth son Pierre-Joseph dit Châtillon dit Préville, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in the late 1690s or early 1700s, did not remain there.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Alexandre Bourg dit Bellehumeur and Marguerite Melanson, at Grand-Pré in August 1730.  According to Bona Arsenault, French officials counted the couple on Rivière St.-Jean with two children in 1736 and gives them two more sons in c1745 and c1746.  Stephen A. White says Pierre-Joseph died before January 1745, in his late 40s or early 50s, place unrecorded.  In January 1745, Marie-Josèphe remarried to a Landry widower at Minas.  The British deported her, her new family, and her Godin daughter Susanne to Maryland in 1755.  Susanne married a Landry step-brother in Maryland, and the extended family emigrated to Louisiana in 1766.  Arsenault would have us believe that Pierre-Joseph and Marie-Josèphe's younger sons, both of them, according to Arsenault's calculations, born posthumously, did not accompany their mother and sister to Maryland but remained in greater Acadia. 

Paul, the older putative son, born, according to Arsenault, in c1745, perhaps at Minas, evidently escaped the British roundup at Minas in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before falling into British hands.  He may have been the Paul Belfontaine who, in August 1762, was sent out "to work" from the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit.  He married fellow Acadian Madeleine Dugas in c1769, place unrecorded, but it probably was in British Nova Scotia.  According to Arsenault, the marriage was "rehabilitated" at Arichat on Île Madame in August 1771.  Arsenault also says that Madeleine gave Paul a son in 1770. 

Anselme dit Bellefontaine, the younger putative son, born, according to Arsenault, in c1746, a year after his father's death, evidently escaped the British roundup at Minas in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before falling into British hands.  He may have been the Anselme Belfontaine who, in August 1762, was sent out "to work" from the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit.  He married fellow Marguerite Thériot in c1766, place unrecorded but it probably was in British Nova Scotia.  According to Arsenault, the marriage was "rehabilitated" at Arichat in August 1771.  Arsenault also says that Marguerite gave Anselme two daughters in 1767 and 1769.  The daughters married LeBlanc brothers at Arichat. 

Gabriel dit Châtillon's fifth son Jean-Baptiste dit Lincour, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in the early 1700s, married, according to Stephen A. White, Anastasie, another daughter of Alexandre Bourg dit Bellehumeur and Marguerite Melanson, in c1729 probably at Minas.  Bona Arsenault says Jean Godin dit Bellefontaine dit Lincour married Françoise Dugas in c1736, but, according to White, followed here, Françoise Dugas actually was younger brother René's first wife.  According to Arsenault, between 1738 and 1752, Jean's wife Françoise gave him four children, a daughter named Marie-Madleine and three sons named Jean, Charles, and Ambroise.  Other records indicate that Jean-Baptiste Godin dit Lincour's wife Anastasie gave him at least four children, three sons named Alexandre, Joseph, and Charles, and a daughter named Marie-Josèphe.  According to White, Jean-Baptiste died before August 1763, place unrecorded--likely in exile, perhaps in the prison compound at Halifax.  His daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Arseneau and Préjean families during exile and in Louisiana.  His two sons by wife Anastasie also emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Arsenault insists that Jean Godin dit Lincour's two younger sons by Françoise Dugas settled not in Louisiana but in Canada.

Alexandre dit Lincour, by his father's actual wife Anastasie Bourg, born at Minas or Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1730, married Marie-Anne Bergeron probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in the early 1750s.  Between 1752 and 1760, she gave him at least five children, including two daughters and two sons.  Alexandre and his family evidently escaped the British roundup on the river in 1758-59 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the early 1760s, however, they either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces and were held in the prison compound at Halifax, where they appeared on a repatriation list with five children in August 1763.  Alexandre evidently died soon after the listing; when Marie-Anne and four of their children reached Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, she was called a widow.  She and her children settled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where she remarried to an Antaya from Canada in September 1787.  Her older Godin daughter, Marie-Anne and  married into the Dupré dit Terrebonne, Villeneuve, and Melançon families on the river.  Her younger Godin son Pierre-Paul married into the Lepine family at St.-Charles des Allemands on the Lower German Coast and settled at New Orleans.  Her younger Godin daughter and older Godin son, though they survived childhood, did not marry.

Charles, Jean dit Bellefontaine dit Lincours's oldest son by putative wife François Dugas, was, according to Arsenault, born in c1736 probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas, likely escaped the British roundup on the river in 1758-59, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrenc shore.  He may have been the Charles Belfontaine who, in August 1762, was sent out "to work" from the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit.  He emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  White agrees that Jean-Baptiste Godin dit Lincour had a son named Charles, but disagrees with Charles's birth order and date of birth, though White also sends him to Louisiana.

Joseph dit Lincour, by his father's actual wife Anastasie Bourg, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1740, escaped the British roundup on the river in 1758-59, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrenc shore, and ended up in the prison compound at Halifax.  He followed his sister Marie-Josèphe and brother Charles to Louisiana in 1765 and settled with them at Cabahannocer.  Joseph married fellow Acadian Marie Forest there in April 1766, and remarried to Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Landry and Marie-Marguerite Blanchard, probably at Cabahannocer in c1768.  She gave him a son, Édouard dit Lincour, soon after their marriage.  Joseph dit Lincour died at Cabahannocer or nearby Ascension in c1771, in his early 30s.  Brother Charles raised son Édouard, who survived childhood, married a Landry cousin, and created a vigorous family line on the river. 

Jean, fils, Jean dit Bellefontaine dit Lincour's second son by putative wife Françoise Dugas, born, according to Bona Arsenault, in c1741 probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas, likely escaped the British roundup on the river in 1758-59 and sought refuge in Canada.  He married Scholastique, daughter of Pierre Lavasseur and Geneviève Phocas, at Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence in October 1767. 

Ambroise, Jean's third son by putative wife Françoise Dugas, born, according to Arsenault, in c1745 probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas,  likely escaped the British roundup on the river in 1758-59 and sought refuge in Canada.  He married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bergeron dit Nantes and his fourth wife Marie-Jeanne Hébert, at L'Islet on the lower St. Lawrence in January 1772. 

Charles dit Lincour, by his father's actual wife Anastasie Bourg, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1751, followed his family to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and into the prison compound at Halifax.  He followed his sister Marie-Josèphe and brother Joseph dit Lincour to Louisiana in 1765 and settled with them at Cabahannocer.  In his late teens, Charles married fellow Acadian Marie-Josèphe Babin at Cabahanncoer or nearly Ascension in 1769 or 1770.  He served as a third sous-caporaux in Verret's Company of the Acadian Coast Militia in 1779 during Spain's war with Britain.  One of his daughters was baptized at New Orleans in October 1786, so the family may have been living there in the mid-1780s.  They were living near Ascension above Cabahannocer later in the decade.  After older brother Joseph died in his early 30s, Charles and Marie-Josèphe raised Joseph's only son.  Charles and Marie-Josèphe left the river in the early 1800s and settled in Terrebonne Parish, but his nephew remained on the river.  Charles's succession inventory was filed at the Houma courthouse in October 1828.  He would have been in his late 70s that year.  His daughters married into the Babin, Dupré, Landry, LeBlanc, and Watkins families.  His only son died young, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not survive in the Bayou State.  The husband of Charles's daughter Fideli, Caleb B. Watkins, served as the first sheriff of Terrebonne Parish in the 1820s.  

Gabriel dit Châtillon's sixth son Charles dit Bellefontaine dit Boisjoli, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1708, married Marie, daughter of Charles Melanson and Anne Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in August 1735.  French officials counted the family on Rivière St.-Jean in 1739.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1749, Marie gave Charles seven children, three sons and four daughters.  They evidently escaped the British on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758-59, made their way to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area, and were held in a prison-of-war compound in Nova Scotia.  A Cherle Bellefontaine, his unnamed wife, and eight unnamed children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  They evidently chose to remain in Nova Scotia.  Their daughters married into the Babin, Surette, and Chalou families in greater Acadia and Canada.  Charles's sons also created their own families in Canada and greater Acadia. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit Bellefontaine, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1735, married Angélique Bergeron in c1756 probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1757 and 1772, Angélique gave Jean-Baptiste seven children, four sons and three daughters.  They escaped the British roundup on the river in 1758-59 and evidently sought refuge in Canada.  British authorities counted them at Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence in 1764 and at Sunbury near Fredericton, formerly Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas, New Brunswick, in 1789.  Two of their daughters married into the Cormier and Arsenault families on Rivière St.-Jean and at Petit-Rocher on the south shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Jean-Baptiste's four sons also created families of their own in New Brunswick. 

Oldest son Alexandre, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1757, followed his family to Canada and back to Rivière St.-Jean and married fellow Acadian Marie Cormier in c1780 probably on the river. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son François, born probably in Canada in c1760, followed his family back to Rivière St.-Jean and married fellow Acadian Anastaise Daigle in c1783 probably on the river. 

Jean-Baptiste's third son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born probably in Canada in c1766, followed his family back to Rivière St.-Jean, but he did not remain there.  He married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Terriot and Marie Girouard, at Caraquet on the south shore of the Baie des Chaleurs in June 1789.

Jean-Baptiste, père's fourth and youngest son Michel, born probably in Canada in c1772, followed his family back to Rivière St.-Jean but also did not remain there.  He married Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians René Haché and Marguerite Blanchard, at Caraquet in July 1793. 

Charles's second son Charles dit Bellefontaine, fils, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1740, followed his family into exile.  He may have been the Charles Belfontaine who, in August 1762, was sent out "to work" from the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit.  After the war with Britain, he evidently remained in British Nova Scotia and married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre David and Marguerite Thériot, there in c1765.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Halifax in June 1769.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Charles, fils a daughter in 1770. 

Charles, père's third and youngest son Paul, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1745, followed his family into exile.  He may have been the Paul Belfontaine who, in August 1762, was sent out "to work" from the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit.  After the war with Britain, he evidently remained in British Nova Scotia.  He married fellow Acadian Rosalie Comeau at Halifax in October 1770.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1771 and 1785, Rosalie gave Paul six children, five sons and a daughter.  They settled at Memramcook, southeastern New Brunswick, where Paul died in October 1808, in his early 60s.  His daughter married into the Poirier family there.  Four of his sons also created their own families in the area. 

Second son Régis dit Bellefontaine, born probably in Nova Scotia in c1774, married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadian Benjamin Bourgeois, in c1798 and settled at Grande-Digue on the lower Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.

Paul's third son Luc dit Bellefontaine, born probably in Nova Scotia in c1776, married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Petitpas and Rosalie Comeau, in c1800 and also settled at Grande-Digue. 

Paul's fourth son Paul dit Bellefontaine, fils, born probably in Nova Scotia, in c1778, married fellow Acadian Marie Fougère in c1802. 

Paul, père's fifth son Michel dit Bellefontaine, born probably in Nova Scotia in c1780, married fellow Acadian Françoise Fougère in c1803. 

Gabriel dit Châtillon's seventh son René dit Jean-René dit Valcour, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in the early 1710s, married Françoise Dugas in c1734 perhaps on Rivière St.-Jean.  According to Bona Arsenault, Françoise gave René two children, a daughter and a son, by 1739, when French officials counted the family on Rivière St.-Jean.  René remarried to Françoise, daughter of Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise, fils and Marguerite Dugas, probably on Rivière St.-Jean in c1743.  This Françoise gave René another son in c1747.  His daughter, who married into the Martin dit Barnabé family during exile, and an unmarried son from his second wife emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. 

Older son Michel dit Bellefontaine, from first wife Françoise Dugas (Arsenault says Bergeron), born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1739, evidently escaped the British roundup on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758-59 and took refuge in Canada.  He married Ursule, daughter of Joseph Grenier and Élisabeth Lacombe, at Québec in September 1771 and died at Québec in February 1786, in his late 40s. 

René's younger son Jean dit Bellefontaine, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1747, evidently escaped the British roundup on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758-59 and followed his older half-sister to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By the early 1760s, he had either been captured by, or surrendered to, British forces and likely was held in a prisoner-of-war compound in Nova Scotia.  He followed his sister and her family to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, but he did not follow them to Bayou Teche.  He settled, instead, in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where his sister and her family joined him later in the year.  Spanish authorities counted Jean still at Cabahannocer in 1766, with a single slave in his household.  He was still there, on the east bank of the river, in 1777, living with his sister.  He evidently never married. 

Gabriel dit Châtillon's eighth and youngest son Bonaventure dit Bellefontaine, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1715, married in c1739 to a woman whose name has been lost to history.  She died soon after their marriage, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Bonaventure remarried to Marguerite, yet another daughter of Barthélemy Bergeron dit d'Amboise, fils and Marguerite Dugas, in c1740 probably on Rivière St.-Jean.  Between 1749 and 1756, Marguerite gave Bonaventure at least four children, two daughters and two sons.  They evidently escaped the British roundup on the river in 1758-59 and found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By the early 1760s, however, they had either been captured by, or surrendered to, British forces, who held them in the prison compound at Halifax until the end of the war.  Bonaventure, Marguerite, and seven children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Bonaventure, Marguerite, and four of their unmarried children, two sons and two daughers, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Bonaventure died there before May 1786, in his late 60s or early 70s.  His daughters married into the LeBlanc and Bergeron families at Cabahanncoer.  His two sons married into the Broussard and Barbe families, also settled on the river, and created vigorous lines there. 

Pierre dit Châtillon's third son Pierre dit Châtillon dit Desrochers, born at Québec in March 1667, followed his family to Chignecto in the late 1670s and returned to his native Canada.  He married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Jacques Cochon and Barbe-Delphine Le Tardif, at Château-Richer below Québec in July 1689.  They moved to lower Rivière St.-Jean by 1693, were still there in 1698, but returned to Canada.  Between 1689 and 1705, Marie-Jeanne gave Pierre three children, two daughters and a son.  Pierre died at St.-Antoine-de-Tilly on the upper St. Lawrence above Québec in April 1739, age 72.  His daughters married into the Genest dit Labarre and Croteau families at St.-Antoine-de-Tilly.  His son did not marry. 

Only son Jean-Baptiste, born at Château-Richer in January 1705, died at St.-Antoine-de-Tilly in February 1723, age 18, before he could marry. 

Pierre dit Châtillon's fourth and youngest son Jean, born at Montréal in 1672, may have died at Montréal before the family moved to greater Acadia.408

Serreau de Saint-Aubin

Jean Serreau de Saint-Aubin, seigneur of Passamaquoddy, and his wife Marguerite Boileau, late 1670s arrivals, created a small but significant family in the colony.  Marguerite gave the seigneur four children, two sons and two daughters, all born in Canada.  One of their daughters married into the Petitpas and Bergeron dit d'Amboise families.  Both sons also married.  Jean, along with daughter Geneviève, wife of Jacques Petitpas, and her children were captured by New English raiders under Colonel Benjamin Church in the summer of 1692, during King William's War.  Jean was released a few months later, but Geneviève and her children languished for years at Boston before her father finally ransomed them for 30 livres in 1695.  Jean's descendants settled not only at Passamaquoddy, but also at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal and on Rivière St.-Jean.  If any of the seigneur's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, they did not take the family's name there. 

Older son Pierre, born at Québec in June 1665, moved to Newfoundland, where he worked as a fisherman at Serau or Serro, Baraquet, Petite-Grave, and Petit-Plaisance.  He married Judith, daughter of Dutchman Pieter Van Winchel and Pieternelle Lievens, at Nantes, France, in February 1698, but was back at Plaisance in c1700, probably to oversee his fishing interests.  The names of his children remain unrecorded. 

Jean's younger son Charles, born probably at Québec in the late 1660s or early 1670s, married in c1690 to a Maliseet whose name has been lost to history and remained at Passamaquoddy.  His Indian wife gave Charles two children, both sons, Joseph and Jean-Baptiste, their fate unknown.398

D'Amours dit de Louvière

Mathieu d'Amours de Chauffours and his wife Marie Marsolet, who never lived in greater Acadia, nevertheless created an important family there, though only a few of them remained in the colony.  Marie gave Mathieu 15 children, 10 sons and five daughters.  Four of their daughters married into the Charron, Céloron de Blainville, De Villedonné, and Testard de Montigny families, all in Canada.  Six of their sons married, two of them to sisters, but only one of them created a family in greater Acadia.  Beginning in the early 1680s, Mathieu and Marie's descendants settled on Rivière St.-Jean and at Port-Royal, and in Canada before Le Grand Dérangement, where they were especially numerous.  Needless to say, the few who settled in Acadia were not "typical" Fundy Acadians.  At least seven of Mathieu, père's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785 and especially from Halifax in 1765, but the great majority of his descendants could be found in their native Canada after the Acadian Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Nicolas, born at Québec in April 1653, died 12 days after his birth.

Mathieu d'Amours de Chauffours's second son Louis de Chauffours et de Jemseg, born at Québec in May 1655, married Marguerite, daughter of Simon Guyon and Louise Racine, at Québec in October 1686, remarried to Anne, daughter of Acadians Jean Comeau l'aîné and Françoise Hébert, at Port-Royal in January 1708, and died at Port-Royal the following May.  First wife Marguerite gave him three children, a son and two daughters.  Second wife Anne gave him no more children.  His daughters married into the Morpain and d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin families at Port-Royal.  His son evidently died young, so at least the blood of this family line survived in greater Acadia. 

Son Louis, by first wife Marguerite Guyon, born probably on lower Rivière St.-Jean in c1698, was counted with his family on the river in February 1707.  According to Bona Arsenault, Louis married Ursule or Ursuline, daughter of capitaine de sauvages Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, third baron of Saint-Castin, and his first wife Mathilde, no date and place given, but Stephen A. White, followed here, says the Louis de Chaffours who married Ursuline d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin was son of Mathieu de Freneuse. 

Mathieu d'Amours de Chauffours's third son Mathieu de Freneuse, born at Québec in March 1657, married Louise, another daughter of Simon Guyon and Louise Racine and widow of Charles Thibault, at Québec in October 1686.  According to his biographer, Mathieu, fils "developed the best cultivated seigneury on the [St.-Jean] river...."   His brother Louis helped him construct a lumber mill on the river.  Mathieu de Freneuse "brought in settlers, erected a residence and barns, built up a herd of livestock and was soon raising crops."  In the early 1690s, while King William's War raged, Mathieu de Freneuse and his brothers clashed with Acadia's commander, Joseph Robinau de Villebon, who accused them and other local seigneurs of lacking respect for governmental authority and possessing an exaggerated sense of independence.  The irascible Villebon's criticism can be viewed in contrast to the actions of the D'Amours brothers in 1696.  A New-English expedition under Colonel John Hathorne attacked Villebon's fort at Nashouat in late October of that year.  The D'Amourss--Louis held the rank of ensign--assisted in the fort's defense, and the New-English forces suffered humiliating defeat.  "When Hathorne and his men withdrew" downriver, however, "they burned [Mathieu] Damours's home and killed his cattle.  Damours himself fell ill from exposure suffered during the attack" and died at the end of October, age 39.  Louise gave Mathieu de Freneuse five children, all sons, three of whom created families of their own.  

Oldest son Joseph de Freneuse et de Courcelle, born probably on lower Rivière St.-Jean in c1687, married Marie-Louise, daughter of Jean Léger de La Grange and Louise Fauvel, at La Rochelle, France, in February 1721, and died on Île Anticosti in the lower St.-Lawrence in February 1737, evidently from injuries suffered in the wreck of Le Renommée the previous November.  

Mathieu de Freneuse's second son Louis de Chaffours, born probably on lower Rivière St.-Jean in c1689, married Ursuline, daughter of capitaine de sauvages Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, third baron of Saint-Castin, and his first wife Mathilde, in c1715, place unrecorded, and settled at Annapolis Royal and on Rivière St.-Jean, the only one of Mathieu de Freneuse's sons to remain in greater Acadia.  One of Louis de Chauffours's sons, or at least the son's widow and six of her Damours children--emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  One of Louis's granddaughters also emigrated to Spanish Louisiana, from France in 1785. 

Older son Joseph de Chaffours, born probably on lower Rivière St.-Jean in c1718, married Geneviève Leroy in c1747 probably on lower Rivière St.-Jean.  According to Bona Arsenault, Geneviève gave Joseph at least seven children, four sons and three daughters, between 1748 and 1762.  Joseph and his family evidently escaped the British roundup on lower Rivière St.-Jean in 1758 and 1759 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in the prison compound at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the rest of the war.  Joseph De Chosur, his wife, and eight children, appeared on a repatriation list there in August 1763.  In 1764, they did not follow his brother Jean-Baptiste to Louisiana but chose to re-settle on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where French officials counted Joseph and his family in 1767.  That same year, obeying a royal decree to relieve overcrowding on Miquelon and on nearby Île St.-Pierre, French officials ordered the Acadians on the Newfoundland islands to emigrate to France.  Most of the islanders, with royal permission, returned the following year.  Evidently Joseph and his family chose to remain in France.  He died in the late 1760s or early 1770s.  In 1773, if he was still living, he and Geneviève and at least three of their children, two sons and a daughter, went to Poitou with other exiles.  He certainly was dead by December 1775, when Geneviève, now called a widow, and her three children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where younger daughter Marie-Rose married into the Rassicot and Thibodeau families.  If they were still alive, Geneviève Leroy and her D'Amour de Chauffour sons Louis and Jean-François (perhaps Jean-Vincent) chose to remain in France when daughter Marie-Rose and her second husband Pierre Thibodeau emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  One wonders if Geneviève and her sons, also fed up with life in the mtoher country, were among the former residents of Île Miquelon who returned to the island in 1784.  While they were at Nantes, the British had seized the Newfoundland islands in 1778, during the American Revolution, and deported the fisher/habitants to France.  The islanders were forced to remain in the mother country until the islands were retroceded to France in 1783.  In Spanish Louisiana, daughter Marie-Rose settled with her husband on upper Bayou Lafourche and died by November 1804, when he remarried again. 

Louis de Chaffours's younger Jean-Baptiste, born probably on lower Rivière St.-Jean in the 1720s, settled on his grandfather's seigneurie along Rivière St.-Jean and used the family name D'Amours dit de Louvière. The last part of his name, interestingly, was a surname used by some of his cousins.  Jean-Baptiste dit de Louvière married Geneviève, daughter of Michel Bergeron dit de Nantes and his second wife Marie Dugas, probably on Rivière St.-Jean in the late 1740s.  Between 1750 and 1758, Geneviève gave Jean-Baptiste four children, three sons and a daughter.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the late 1750s.  Two more sons were born there between 1759 and 1763.  Soon after the war with Britain ended in early 1763, Jean-Baptiste took his family to Nova Scotia, where they were confined in the prison compound at Halifax with other Acadian refugees, including his older brother Joseph.  Jean-Baptiste died either at Halifax or on the voyage from there to Louisiana in 1765, on which he would have accompanied wife Geneviève and six of their children, four sons and two daughters, ages 15 to infant.  Third son Antoine, who would have been age 7 in 1765, evidently died during exile or imprisonment.  The younger daughter, the infant, was born either in Nova Scotia on the eve of the family's departure or aboard ship on the way to New Orleans--seven children, five sons and two daughters, between 1750 and 1765.  Jean-Baptiste's older daughter married into a French-Canadian LeBlanc family in the Spanish colony.  Three of his four remaining sons also created families there.

Oldest son Charles, born probably on Rivière St.-Jean in c1750, followed his family into exile, to the prison camp at Halifax, and to Louisiana, where he married Anne-Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Melançon and Marguerite Broussard, probably at St.-Jacques on the Mississippi above New Orleans in the early 1770s.  Their daughters married into the Clouâtre, Godin, and Rouillier families.  One of his sons married into the Melançon family and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Another son remained in what became St. James Parish and married into the LeBlanc family. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born on Rivière St.-Jean in c1754, followed his family into exile, to the prison camp at Halifax, and to Louisiana, where he settled with widowed mother and siblings at Cabahnnocer/St.-Jacques on the river.  He did not marry. 

Jean-Baptiste's fourth son François, born at Boston, Massachusettes in c1759, followed his family to the prison camp at Halifax and to Louisiana, where he settled with his widowed mother and siblings at Cabahannocer/St.-Jacques on the river.  He did not remain there.  In the late 1770s, he crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District and married Marie-Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thibodeaux and Brigitte Breaux of Peticoudiac, in c1780.  Their daughters married into the Benoit, Bonin, Broussard, Comeaux, and Prince families.  François, at age 40, remarried to Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourgeois and Anne-Osite Landry and widower of Pierre Arceneaux, at Attakapas in November 1799.  Their daughter married into the Robichaux family and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.   François died suddenly at his home at Fausse Pointe, St. Martin Parish, in August 1808, age 48.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following month.  Three of his sons by his first wife married into the Bonin and Hébert families and settled on the prairies. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's fifth and youngest son Isidore, born at Boston in c1763, followed his family to the prison camp at Halifax and to Louisiana.  He settled with his widowerd mother and siblings at Cabahannocer/St.-Jacques on the river and followed his older brother François to the western prairies.  He married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Landry and Théotiste Thibodeaux, at Attakapas in November 1787.  Their daughters married into the Granger and Steven families.  At age 49, Isidore remarried to Marie, daughter of Simon Picard and Marie Doré of St. Charles Parish and widow of Jacques Touchet, at St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, in August 1812.  Their daughter married into the Abshire family.  Three of his five sons, all by first wife Françoise Landry, married into the Granger, Landry, and Breaux families and created lasting lines along the Teche and on the prairies. 

Mathieu de Freneuse's third son François-Mathieu de L'Îsle-Ronde, born at Québec in August 1692, married Marie-Angélique, daughter of Jean Coutard and Marguerite Nielle, at Québec in October 1726, and remained in Canada.  

Mathieu de Freneuse's fourth and fifth sons Nicolas, born at Québec or on lower Rivière St.-Jean in c1694, and Jean, born in c1696, evidently died young. 

Mathieu d'Amours de Chauffours's fourth son René de Clignancour, born at Québec in August 1660, married Charlotte-Françoise, daughter of Charles LeGardeur and Geneviève Juchereau, at Québec in October 1689.  René became a merchant and was living on his seigneurie on Rivière St.-Jean in the 1690s.  Charlotte-Françoise gave him seven children, three sons and four daughters.  None of their daughters married, and all of them returned to Canada.  Only one of their sons married. 

Oldest son René, fils, born probably on lower Rivière St.-Jean in c1691, died at age 12 in December 1702. 

René de Clignancour's second son Joseph-Alexis, born probably on lower Rivière St.-Jean in c1692, died in French St.-Domingue in c1728, in his mid-30s, and did not marry.   

René de Clignancour's third and youngest son Louis-Mathieu, born probably on lower Rivière St.-Jean in c1699, married cousin Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Guyon dit Després and Marie-Madeleine Petit, at Terrebonne, near Montréal, in November 1729, and died at Montréal in December 1753, in his early 50s. 

Mathieu d'Amours de Chauffours's fifth son Charles de Louvières, born at Québec in March 1662, married Marie-Anne, daughter of François Genaple and Marie-Anne de La Porte, at Québec in January 1688, remarried to Anne-Marie, daughter of Acadians Pierre Thibodeau and Jeanne Thériot, in c1697 perhaps at Port-Royal, settled in Canada, and died in November 1716, in his early 50s, probably in a flood, no place given.  First wife Marie-Anne gave him four children, two sons and two daughters.  Second wife Anne-Marie gave him 10 more children, five sons and five daughters.  Three of his daughters from his second wife married into the Janvin dit Dufresne, Raimbault de Piedmont, Le Fournier Duvivier, and Villedonné families, all in Canada.  Six of his sons created families of their own, in Canada or Illinois.   

Oldest son Charles-Nicolas-Joseph de Louvières, by first wife Marie-Anne Genaple, born at Québec in July 1692, married Angélique-Hyacinthe, daughter of Augustin Rouer de Villeray and Marie-Louise LeGardeur, at Ste.-Foy near Québec in May 1717, and died there in April 1728, age 35.  

Charles de Louvières's second son Jean-Baptiste de Louvières, by first wife Marie-Anne Genaple, born at Québec in October 1694, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Louis-Joseph Morel de La Durantaye and Élisabeth Rasné, at Beaumont, below Québec, in May 1719, and remarried to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Ambroise Renoyer and Olive-Pélagie Arguin, at Québec in April in 1735.   

Charles de Louvières's third son Louis-Bertin de Louvières, by second wife Anne-Marie Thibodeau, born at Ste.-Foy in July 1698, married Marie-Geneviève, daughter of Gédéon de Catalogne and Marie-Anne Lemire, at Montréal in December 1730, remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Alphonse Tonty and  Marie-Anne Picoté, at Montréal in April 1755, and died there in January 1755, age 56.   

Charles de Louivières's fourth son René-Louis de Courberon, by second wife Anne-Marie Thibodeau, born at Québec in September 1705, married Louise-Angélique, daughter of Jacques Couillard dit Després and Élisabeth Lemieux, at St.-Thomas-de-Montmagny below Québec in October 1736, remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Pelletier and Angélique-Marguerite Ouellet, at St.-Roch-des-Aulnaies below Québec in October 1755, and died in September 1759, age  54, from wounds suffered at the hands of the English.   

Charles de Louvières's fifth son Louis-Michel, by second wife Anne-Marie Thibodeau, born at Ste.-Foy in July 1707, married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Jacques Boulogne and Catherine Becquet, at Fort-de-Chartres in Illinois on the upper Mississippi in January 1737, and died in 1757, age 50, perhaps, like his older brother, a casualty of the war with Britain.  

Charles de Louvières's sixth son Pierre de Louvières, by second wife Anne-Marie Thibodeau, born at Ste.-Foy in February 1712, was described by Louisiana Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville, in 1740 as a "Gentil homme of Canada."  Pierre had gone to Illinois as a cadet in c1736 and was still serving there in that rank when Bienville, a fellow Canadian, made his report.  The governor described the 28-year-old Pierre as "very wise."  Pierre married Marie-Anne Richaume in c1743 probably at Illinois.  He died at Prairie-du-Rocher, Illinois, in March 1768, age 56, and was buried in the chapel there.  

Charles de Louvières's seventh and youngest son Louis, by second wife Anne-Marie Thibodeau, born at Ste.-Foy in June 1716, probably died young. 

Mathieu d'Amours de Chauffours's sixth son Joseph-Nicolas, born at Québec in May 1664, died there in November 1690, age 26, before he could marry.

Mathieu d'Amours de Chauffours's seventh son Claude-Louis, born at Québec in January 1666, died young.

Mathieu d'Amours de Chauffours's eighth son Bernard de Plaine, born at Québec in December 1667, married Jeanne, daughter of Alexandre Le Borgne de Bélisle and Marie de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, at Port-Royal in September 1697, remarried to Élisabeth, daughter of Jacques Couillard dit Després and Élisabeth Lemieux, at St.-Thomas-de-Montmagny in November 1716, and died there in December 1749, age 82.  First wife Jeanne gave him five children, four sons and a daughter.  Second wife Élisabeth gave him 10 more children, six sons and four daughters.  Three of his daughters married into the Douaire de Bondy, Aguin, Fournier, Trottier dit Beaumont families, all in Canada.  Only three of his sons created families of their own in Canada.  

Oldest son Joseph de Plaine, by first wife Jeanne Le Borgne de Bélisle, born probably in Canada in c1700, married Catherine, daughter of René-Jean Boucher de Montbrun and Françoise-Claire Charet, at Lauzon near Québec in July 1735, and remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Nicolas-Antoine Coulon de Villiers and Angélique Jarret de Verchères and widow of François Lefebvre Duplessis and Claude Marin de Lamarque de La Perrière, at Québec in July 1754. 

Bernard de Plaine's second son Alexandre-François, by first wife Jeanne Le Borgne de Bélisle, born at Port-Royal in October 1702, died at St.-Thomas-de-Montmagny in November 1733, age 31, before he could marry.   

Bernard de Plaine's third Louis-Jean, by first wife Jeanne Le Borgne de Bélisle, born at Québec in March 1706, probably died young.  

Benard de Plaine's fourth son François, by first wife Jeanne Le Borgne de Bélisle, born at Québec in August 1711, died at nearby Beauport, age 4, in April 1716.   

Bernard de Plaine's fifth son Jean-Baptiste Du Jour, by second wife Élisabeth Couillard, born at St.-Thomas de Montmagny below Québec in June 1719, married Marie-Thérèse, daughter of Jacques Vallerand and Thérèse Bonnier, at St.-Thomas-de-Montmagny in April 1746.  

Bernard de Plaine's sixth son Joseph, by second wife Élisabeth Couillard, born at St.-Thomas de Montmagny in April 1721, died at St.-Thomas-de-Montmagny in December 1749, age 28, before he could marry.   

Bernard de Plaine's seventh son Bernard-Régis, by second wife Élisabeth Couillard, born at St.-Thomas de Montmagny in October 1727, died there at age 3 in August 1730.  

Bernard de Plaine's eighth son Augustin, by second wife Élisabeth Couillard, born at St.-Thomas de Montmagny in January 1732, died at St.-Thomas-de-Montmagny in January 1784, age 51, but did not marry. 

Bernard de Plaine's ninth son François, by second wife Élisabeth Couillard, born at St.-Thomas de Montmagny in December 1733, died there a few weeks after his birth.  

Bernard de Plaine's tenth and youngest son Michel, by second wife Élisabeth Couillard, born at St.-Thomas de Montmagny in May 1736, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Pierre Joncas and Marthe Fournier, at St.-Thomas-de-Montmagny in November 1762, and remarried to Élisabeth, daughter of Charles Bélanger and Élisabeth Fournier, at St.-Thomas-de-Montmagny in November 1788, age 52.  He died probably in Canada in February 1823, in his late 80s. 

Mathieu d'Amours de Chauffours's ninth son Daniel, born at Québec in December 1669, died there a few weeks after his birth.

Mathieu d'Amours de Chauffours's tenth and youngest son Philippe, born at Québec in February 1680, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Mesnage and Anne LeBlanc and widow of Pierre Gauvreau, at Québec in February 1722, and remarried to Marie-Anne-Louise, daughter of Ignace Juchereau and Marie-Catherine Peuvret, at Beauport, below Québec, in March 1728.  Philippe died in February 1747, age 67, place unrecorded.410

Chênet Dubreuil

Pierre Chênet, sieur Dubreuil of Mégais/Machia in Maine, born in France in the mid-1600s, an early 1680s arrival, created a small but significant family in the colony.  In March 1687, while still unmarried, Pierre was appointed King's attorney at Port-Royal.  He received another seigneurie, this one on Rivière St.-Jean, in January 1689.  In 1690, Governor Meneval recommended him for appointment as judge at Port-Royal.  Pierre, at age 45, married Louise dite Jeanne, 16-year-old daughter of Pierre Doucet, at Port-Royal in c1691.  Pierre died most likely at Port-Royal by 1700, probably in his early 50s.  Louise gave him three children, two sons and a daughter.  Only one of his sons married.  Pierre's "natural" daughter Marie-Madeleine dit Bouchard, born to Marguerite Boissel at Québec in July 1682, married into the Bourgoin family.  If any of Pierre's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there. 

Older son Pierre, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1692, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Jean Denis dit Jean and Cécile Berteau, in c1724, place unrecorded. 

Pierre's younger son François, born probably at Port-Royal in c1693, evidently died young.413

De Goutin

Mathieu de Goutin, French official, who arrived in 1688, and his wife Jeanne Thibodeau created a small but influential family in the colony.  Jeanne gave him 13 children, six sons and seven daughters.  His status as colonial official held it perquisites, but also its hazards.  In 1691, after a brief imprisonment at the hands of the conquering New English, Mathieu was granted a seigneurie at Mouscoudabouet, today's Musquodoboit, on the Atlantic side of the peninsula.  In 1692, he felt compelled to return to France to undo the damage to his reputation at the hands of former governor Meneval.  After regaining the favor of French authorities, Mathieu returned to Acadia, where he received a second seigneurial grant at Pointe-aux-Chênes, or Oak Point, on Rivière St.-Jean, in June 1695.  He got along well with Meneval's successor, Commander Joseph Robinau de Villebon.  Mathieu continued to serve in his various positions at Port-Royal until the British captured the place in 1710.  After a short time in France, he was given an official position in the new French colony of Île Royale.  Mathieu died in December 1714, soon after the family moved to Île Royale.  Five of his seven daughters married into the Dupont de Renon, Hertel de Cournoyer, de Saint-Rémy, Duboisberthelot, Boucher, and Sabatier families, most, as their names imply, with aristocratic connections.  Only two of his six sons married.  Needless to say, members of this family were not "typical" Fundy Acadians.  One of Mathieu's descendants, youngest son Joseph, settled in Louisiana decades before his Acadian cousins sought refuge there--the first native of French Acadia to live in that colony. 

Oldest son François-Marie, born probably at Port-Royal in c1690, married Marie-Angélique, daughter of Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye and Marie-Angélique Denys de la Ronde, at Louisbourg, Île Royale, in May 1719, where he was serving as an army officer.  He remarried to Marie-Angélique, daughter of Antoine Puypéroux de La Fosse and Françoise Petit de Boismorel, at Louisbourg in April 1736.  François-Marie and his family were deported from Louisbourg after it fell to a New-English force in late spring of 1745.  They remained as refugees at St.-Malo, living on a government gratuity, until Île Royale was returned to the French in 1748.  François-Marie was given a new post, this time on Île St.-Jean, where he died in January 1752, in his early 60s.

Mathieu's second son Alexandre-Abraham de Brécourt, born probably at Port-Royal in c1692, died after November 1750, place unrecorded, in his late 50s or early 60s, and did not marry.

Mathieu's third son Mathieu, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1698, died after November 1750, place unrecorded, probably in his early 50s, and also did not marry.

Mathieu, père's fourth son Jacques, born probably at Port-Royal in c1702, died after November 1750, place unrecorded, probably in his late 40s or early 50s, and did not marry.

Mathieu, père's fifth son Antoine, born at Port-Royal in July 1703, died after November 1750, place unrecorded, in his late 40s or early 50s, and remained a bachelor.

Mathieu, père's sixth and youngest son Joseph de Ville, born at Port-Royal in March 1705 during Queen Anne's War, became, like his oldest brother, an officer in the French naval service.  When Joseph was five years old, a British force captured Port-Royal, and his father took the family to France.  When Joseph was nine, his father received an appointment as scrivener on the French-controlled island of Île Royale.  Joseph followed his family to Louisbourg, which the French transformed into a fortress.  Joseph came of age at Louisbourg and, like his oldest brother, became an army officer.  He came to New Orleans by the 1740s perhaps as an officer still on active duty.  He was, as far as the records show, the first native of French Acadia to settle in French Louisiana, but not as an exile.  At age 42, he married Marie-Jeanne, 15-year-old daughter of Jean Caron and Marie-Anne Monique, at New Orleans in July 1747.  She gave him at least eight children, five sons and three daughters.  Not surprisingly, most of the godfathers for Joseph's children were fellow officers, some of them chevaliers of the Order of St.-Louis.  Retird from active military service, though not from militia duty, in which he served as a captain, he went into business at New Orleans.  In June 1764, Joseph received a "complete" 50 x 50-arpent land grand in the upper Attakapas District near where Bayou Fuselier flows into the upper Teche, but there is no evidence that he and his family lived there.  He may have been instrumental in luring some of his Acadian cousins to Louisiana in 1764 and 1765.  His kinsman Olivier Landry was among the first Acadian exiles to come to the colony, in February 1764.  Kinsman Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil settled his party of 200 exiles from Halifax in the Attakapas District in the spring of 1765.  According to genealogist/historian Stephen A. White, Joseph de Ville was the "Denville" who harbored Acadian participants in the October 1768 revolt against Spanish Governor Ulloa at New Orleans.  Joseph died between 1768 and 1778, in his 60s or early 70s.  A daughter married into the Peyroux family.  Only one of his five sons seems to have married.  In May 1786, his widow lay claim to 50 x 40 arpents of land along the east bank of Bayou Teche granted by Spanish Governor Miró, the title for which was confirmed by Governor Carondelet in May 1794 and by Morales, a Spanish official, in April 1802 (this probably was her husband's original French grant of June 1764), but there is no evidence that she and his children moved there.  She sold the land to fellow colonist Charles Jumonville de Villier in July 1802, who promptly sold it to Alexandre Delhomme of Attakapas.  Marie-Jeanne did not remarry.  She died at New Orleans in June 1802, age about 70, and was buried in St. Louis Cathedral "in the third section of the nave of the chapel of the Holy Virgin of the Rosary." 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste-Joseph was born at New Orleans in June 1751.  In March 1764, at age 12 1/2, he stood as godfather at New Orleans for 3 1/2-year-old Jean-Baptiste, son of Jean Poirier and Madeleine Richard, among the first Acadian exiles to reach Louisiana.  He probably did not marry. 

Joseph de Ville's second son Charles, born at New Orleans in October 1757, if he survived childhood, probably did not marry.

Joseph de Ville's second son Louis, born at New Orleans in January 1760, if he survived childhood, probably did not marry.

Joseph de Ville's fourth son Joseph, fils, born at New Orleans in June 1761, used the surname Bellechasse or Villechasse.  He entered Spanish service as a soldier in 1775, age 14, was appointed a cadet in the Fixed Louisiana Infantry Regiment in 1778, and participated in Gálvez's attack against Fort Bute and Baton Rouge in 1779, at the siege and capture of Mobile the following year, and in the battle of Pensacola in 1781.  After Gálvez's campaign in West Florida, Joseph, fils remained to help re-establish Spanish government in that province.  In 1786, he was promoted to lieutenant in the Fifth Company, Third Battalion of the Louisiana Regiment and served in the expedition led by Mobile commandant Vicente Folch against runaway slaves in West Florida in 1789.  In 1792, he left West Florida and joined the Mississippi squadron, taking command of the galley La Felipa.  In 1793, he was named a lieutenant of grenadiers in the First Battalion of the Louisiana Regiment and stationed in New Orleans.  As a lieutenant, he served as commandant of Spanish Fort San Fernando de las Barrancas at present-day Memphis, Tennessee, in 1797-98.  In October 1797, at age 36, he married Marie-Josèphe-Adélaïde, called Adélaïde, daughter of Étienne Lalande d'Alcour and Adélaïde Oliver de Vézin, at New Orleans.  His wife's paternal grandfather, Pierre-François Olivier du Closel de Vézin, a native of Maine, Lorraine, France, had lived at Trois-Rivières, Canada, before moving to New Orleans, where he served as royal councilor and chief surveyor and inspector of colonial roads during the French regime.  Adélaïde Lalande d'Alcour's paternal uncle, Charles-Honoré-Hughes Olivier de Vézin, served as regidor of New Orleans during the Spanish period and moved his family to Bayou Teche in the 1790s.  After promotion to captain in 1798, Joseph, fils commanded the Feliciana District, where Acadian exiles from France had settled in early 1786.  At the end of the Spanish period, he retired from military service "and engaged in business enterprises in New Orleans and on the German Coast."  In 1803, French prefect Pierre Clément, baron de Laussat, appointed him colonel and commander of the reorganized Louisiana militia.  Joseph, fils was present at the transference of the colony from France to the United States on 20 December 1803 at New Orleans.  He continued to command the militia under the Americans until 1805, when he was elected an alderman and city recorder in the municipal council at New Orleans.  In 1806, he served as president of the city council, recorder, and judge for the Orleans Territory.  He was a member of the legislative council of the territorial General Assembly in 1806-07, served as president of the legislative council in 1810, and was appointed to the administrative council of New Orleans Charity Hospital in 1811.  The following year, he became a member of Louisiana's first constitutional convention and helped create the Pelican State.  Nevertheless, he did not remain long in Louisiana.  In 1814, he moved his family to a sugar plantation in Matanzas province, Cuba, and served in the Spanish militia there.  On 8 May 1830, records show him serving as a lieutenant colonel in the Matanzas infantry, "probably indicating his last years were spent under the flag he had served for most of his active career." His sons Jacques Émile Adolphe and Jean Louis were born in New Orleans in June 1808 and August 1814, respectively, the second on the eve of the family's emigration to Spanish Cuba.  His children, then, probably considered themselves Cubans, not Louisianians, and certainly not Acadians or Americans.428

Le Bassier de Villieu

Claude-Sébastien Le Bassier de Villieu, an early 1690s arrival, and wife Judith Le Neuf de La Vallière created a small family in the colony that did not survive. 

Son Charles-Claude dit Sébastien, born at Québec in June 1693, served as a cadet in his father's company in Acadia from the age of five.  In 1701, Governor Bouillan recommended the boy for a commission as sub-lieutenant, but Sébastien's age prevented the appointment.  In May 1704, at Rochefort, France, Sébastien, still not yet in his teens, was appointed a naval midshipman.  In 1712, at age 19, he commanded the 16-gun Providence on Hudson Bay and defeated a 32-gun English frigate in ship-to-ship combat.  Sébastien died aboard the ship La Paix at La Rochelle in July 1715, age 22 and still unmarried, so his line of the family died with him.27

De Gannes

Louis-Joseph de Gannes, sieur de Falaise, a late 1690s arrival, and two of his three wives, Barbe Denys and Marguerite Le Neuf de La Vallière, created a large, influential family in the colony, but, typical of their class, they did not remain in peninsula Acadia.  After the fall of Port-Royal in October 1710, Louis-Joseph took his family to France before returning to Canada.  In June 1713, while serving at Québec, he was made a chevalier de St.-Louis for his service to the King.  Later that year, he was appointed major of the new French colony, Île Royale, but died at La Rochelle in February 1714 before he could report to his new post.  Third wife Marguerite, who spent her widowhood at Louisbourg and Trois-Rivières and lived to April 1760, gave Louis-Joseph a dozen children, nine sons and three daughters.  None of their children remained in peninsula Acadia after it became British Nova Scotia in 1713.  Two of their daughters married into the de Couagne and Rousseau de Villejoin families.  Only three of Louis-Joseph's nine sons, all by his third wife, created their own families.  Two of his sons became noted priest.  If any of the sieur's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there. 

Oldest son Louis-François de Falaise, by third wife Marguerite Le Neuf de La Vallière, born at Port-Royal in May 1701, married cousin Louise, daughter of Victor de Sainte-Marthe and Catherine Le Neuf de Boisneuf, at Grenada in the West Indies in October 1720.  

Louis-Joseph's second son Michel, chevalier de Gannes de Falaise, by third wife Marguerite Le Neuf de La Vallière, born at Port-Royal in May 1702, married Élisabeth, daughter of Gédéon de Catalogne and Marie-Anne Lemire, at Louisbourg, Île Royale, in November 1730.  

Louis-Joseph's third son Louis-Joseph, fils, by third wife Marguerite Le Neuf de La Vallière, born at Port-Royal in March 1704, became a priest.  He, in fact, was Premier prêtre régulier acadien--the first "regular" priest to serve in Acadia (he was a Récollet)--born in the colony.

Louis-Joseph, père's fourth son Pierre, by third wife Marguerite Le Neuf de La Vallière, born at Port-Royal in November 1705, also became a priest.  He has been described as Premier prêtre séculier acadien--the first secular priest in Acadia born in the colony.

Louis-Joseph, père's fifth son Jacques, by third wife Marguerite Le Neuf de La Vallière, born at Port-Royal in October 1706, died there at 4 in October 1710.

Louis-Joseph, père's sixth son Simon de La Chancellerie, by third wife Marguerite Le Neuf de La Vallière, born at Port-Royal in November 1707, married to a woman whose name has been lost in history in c1740, place unrecorded.

Louis-Joseph père's seventh son, name unrecorded, by third wife Marguerite Le Neuf de La Vallière, born at Port-Royal in July 1708, died the day of his birth. 

Louis-Joseph, père's eighth son Charles-Thomas, chevalier de Falaise, born at St.-Nazaire, France, in November 1710, married Madeleine-Angélique, daughter of Nicolas-Antoine Coulon de Villiers and Angélique Jarret de Verchères, at Trois-Rivières, Canada, in October 1749.  During the 1740s, son Michel served in Acadia with distinction during King George's War. 

Louis-Joseph, père's ninth and youngest son Louis, by third wife Marguerite Le Neuf de La Vallière, born at Québec in November 1711, died there at age 3 in February 1714.26

Loppinot

Jean-Chrysostôme Loppinot, clerk of court, notary, and procurator, a late 1690s arrival, and his wife Jeanne Doucet created a small family in greater Acadia.  In May 1704, Jean-Chrysostôme became King's attorney in Acadia, and in December 1706 he was granted a seigneurie at Cap-Forchu, up the western Atlantic coast from Pobomcoup.  When Port-Royal fell to the English in 1710, Sr. Loppinot was one of the colonial officials whom they transported out of the colony.  In 1712, he was serving as clerk of court at Plaisance, Newfoundland, then controlled by France but soon to be handed over to Britain.  Jeanne gave him five children, four sons and a daughter.  Only two of his sons married.  Jean-Chrysostôme died by January 1733, place and age unrecorded, perhaps on Île Royale.  His and Jeanne's descendants settled at Louisbourg.  At no time were any members of this family "typical" Fundy Acadians.  If any of Jean-Chrysostôme's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.

Oldest son Jean-Chrysostôme-Nicolas-Sébastien, born at Port-Royal in January 1703, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Nicolas Boitier dit Bérichon and Marie-Charlotte Brouillé, at Louisbourg in January 1733.  Jean-Chrysostôme-Nicolas-Sébastien died at Rochefort, France, in February 1765, age 62. 

Jean-Chrysostôme's second son Louis, born at Port-Royal in June 1705, evidently died young. 

Jean-Chrysostôme's third son Louis de La Frésillière, born at Port-Royal in October 1707, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Seigneur dit La Rivière and Marie-Madeleine Corporon, at Louisbourg in May 1738.  Louis de La Frésillière died in the siege of Louisbourg in July 1745, age 38.

Jean-Chrysostôme's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in January 1710, died a few days after his birth.454

Dupont Duvivier/Dupont Duchambon

Brothers Francois Dupont Duvivier and Louis Dupont Duchambon, officers of troupes de la marine and early 1700s arrivals, created with their wives, sisters Marie and Jeanne Mius d'Entremont, two influential families in greater Acadia who contributed much to the region's history.  If any of the brothers' descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none seems to have taken the family's name with them. 

François, second son of Hughes Dupont, seigneur of Sérignac in Saintonge, southeastern France, and his wife Marie Hérault de Gourville, born at Sérignac in October 1675, married Marie, daughter of Jacques Mius d'Entremont and Anne de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, at Port-Royal, French Acadia, in January 1705.  Between 1705 and 1715, Marie gave François seven children, five sons and two daughters, born at Port-Royal and Port-Dauphin, Île Royale.  After the fall of Port-Royal in August 1710, François Duvivier, as he also was called, was among the garrison's officers who were repatriated to France later that summer.  From Nantes, which they reached on December 1, the family went to François's birthplace, Sérignac-sur-Garonne, southeast of Bordeaux.  After the cession of French Acadia to Britain in 1713, François, still a captain of troupes de la marine, was sent to the new French colony of Île Royale, where he and his family arrived in January 1714.  He died there in October or November 1714, in his late 30s.  Only three of François's children created their own families.  His older daughter married into the Tarade d'Entremont family.  Two of his five sons married into prominent Acadian families. 

Oldest son François, fils, who used the surname Dupont Duvivier, born at Port-Royal in April 1705, became, like his father, an officer of troupes de la marine.  Despite undistinguised service in King George's War, he was named a chevalier of the Order of St.-Louis in 1745.  By 1750, he had risen to the rank capitaine de frégate and King's lieutenant of Île St.-Jean.  He did not marry. 

François Dupont Duvivier, père's second son Joseph-Michel was born at Port-Royal in April 1706 but died the following August.

François Dupont Duvivier, père's third son Joseph, who also used the surname Dupont Duvivier, born at Port-Royal in November 1707, also became a officer of the Marine, commanding the small garrison at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, during the first two years of King George's War.  At age 43, Joseph married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Alexandre Le Borgne de Bélisle, former governor of Acadia, and Anastasie d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin and widow of Jacques-Philippe-Urbain Rondeau, in October 1750 at Louisbourg.  He evidently was among the French officers of troupes de la marine captured at Restigouche in greater Acadia in the summer of 1760 and, along with other officers of the garrison, was sent back to France.  He died of small pox in late November 1760, age 53, on the voyage back to France. 

François Dupont Duvivier, père's fourth son Louis, born at Port-Royal in October 1708, may have died young.  

François Dupont Duvivier, père's fifth and youngest son Michel, who used the surname de Gourville, born at Port-Royal in April 1710, married, at age 27, Marie-Josèphe, daughter of merchant Joseph-Nicolas Gauthier, then the wealthiest man in British Nova Scotia, and Marie Allain, at Louisbourg in September 1737. He died in 1764 or 1765, place unrecorded, in his early or mid-50s. 

Louis, fourth son of Sieur Hughes Dupont and Marie Hérault de Gourville, born at Sérignac in January 1780, married Jeanne, another daughter of Jacques Mius d'Entremont and Anne de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, at Port-Royal in February 1709.  Between 1710 and 1734, Jeanne gave Louis 10 children, six sons and four daughters, born in France and on Île Royale.  Louis was serving as a lieutenant in his older brother's company at Port-Royal in August 1710, so he and his family also went to France to await his reassignment.  He followed older brother François to Île Royale and rose to the rank of captain in July 1720.  In March 1723, he was named commander of Port-Dauphin on the island's Atlantic coast and was made a chevalier of the Order of St.-Louis in June 1730.  In June 1733, he was named major of Île Royale, became commandant on Île St.-Jean in April 1737, and King's lieutenant for the entire colony in April 1744.  Upon the sudden death of Governor Jean-Baptiste-Louis Le Prévost Duquesnel the following October, Louis assumed the duties of acting governor.  More adept at administration than tactical command, in June 1745, after a month-and-a-half-long siege, he surrendered the citadel at Louisbourg to a combined naval and land force under William Pepperell of Maine.  The capitualation ended his long career.  He returned from the King's service in March 1746 and remained in France, where he died at Curat, France, in August 1775, age 95.  All but one of his 10 children created families of their own.  Three of his daughters married into the Brunet de La Socetière, Decoux, and d'Averhoult de Martimont families. 

Oldest son François l'aîné, who also used the surname Dupont Duchambon, born at Sérignac, France, in March 1712, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Mius d'Entremont and Marguerite Landry and widow Jean-Baptiste de Couage, at Louisbourg in October 1750.  

Louis Dupont Duchambon's second son Louis, fils, who used the surname Duchambon de Vergor, born at Sérignac in September 1713, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Canadians Jean-Joseph Riverin and Marie-Josèphe Perthuis, at St.-Foy near Québec in July 1752.  Like his father, Louis served as an officer in the troupe de la marine.  Before his marriage, he served with his father on Île St.-Jean, and in June 1755 he was the hapless officer who surrendered Fort Beauéjour at Chignecto.  After repatriation to France, he returned to New France in 1757 and served without distinction in Canada.  It was his negligence that contributed to the British victory at Québec in September 1759.  He was wounded and captured on the eve of the September 13 battle and returned to France, where he did not suffer censure.  His wounds, however, ended his career, and he retired on a King's pension in April 1760.  His wife Marie-Josèphe died at La Flèche in April 1770.  He did not remarry.  He moved on to Saintonge, his family's home province, and made frequent trips to "the baths" to ease the pain from his wounds.  Despite a 2,510-livre indemnity for his property losses in Canada, he died "in poverty" at Curat in August 1775, age 97.  

Louis Dupont Duchambon, père's third son François le jeune, who took the surname Duchambon Duvivier, born at Sérignac in c1714, married ____ Sérioux de Mailly in c1745.   

Louis Dupont Duchambon, père's fourth son François, who took the surname Dupont de Mézilliac, born at Louisbourg in October 1720, married Marie-Geneviève, daughter of Claude Hertel de Beaulac and Geneviève Mirambeau, at St.-Louis de Rochefort, France, in December 1760.  

Louis Dupont Duchambon, père's fifth son Jean-Baptiste-Ange, who used the surname Dupont Duchambon, born at Port-Dauphin, Île Royale, between 1723 and 1727, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Jean-Pierre Roma and Marie-Madeleine Moreau, at Louisbourg, Île Royale, in June 1757.  

Louis Dupont Duchambon, père's sixth son Mathieu, who called himself Duchambon du Maine, born at Port-Dauphin in c1728, married Barbe-Blanche, daughter of Pierre-André Carrot and Marie-Josèphe Carron, at Louisbourg in April 1758, on the eve the island's dérangement.   

Louis Dupont Duchambon, père's seventh and youngest son Charles-François-Ferdinand, who used the surname Dupont Duchambon, born at Louisbourg in November 1734, married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of Michel Rodrigue and Marguerite Lartigue, at St.-Jean Parish, La Rochelle, France, in May 1764.05

Jacau de Fiedmont

Thomas Jacau de Fiedmont, the master cannonier, an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Anne Melanson created a small but significant family in greater Acadia.  Anne gave him eight children, four sons and four daughters.  After Port-Royal fell to the British in October 1710, Thomas moved his family first to Plaisance, Newfoundland, and then to Port-Dauphin and Louisbourg on Île Royale, where he continued his military career.  They may have lived for a time in France, at La Croix d'Ars, Saintes, where his wife gave birth to one of their daughters during the late 1710s or early 1720s.  Their daughters married into the Benoit, d'Allard de Sainte-Marie, Rodrigue, and Augier de Charente families at Louisbourg.  None of their sons married.  The old master gunner died at Louisbourg in March 1737, age 60.  Needless to say, members of his family were not "typical" Fundy Acadians.  If any of the master cannoneer's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there. 

Oldest and second sons Daniel, born at Port-Royal in May 1708, and Joseph, born in January 1710, may have survived childhood but evidently did not marry. 

Thomas's third son Louis-Thomas de Fiedmont, born at Plaisance in c1712, began his military career in the ranks, like his father, but became an officer of troupes de la marine.  As a lieutenant, beginning in April 1753, he served as chief engineer for the Chignecto forts--Beauséjour and Gaspereau--and left a self-serving account of the fall of the forts to British and New-English forces in June 1755.  In 1756, after his release from captivity, he served under Montcalm at Oswego, Canada, for which he was promoted to captain.  He served with distinction during the rest of the Seven Years' War, including the defense of Québec in 1759.  For his service in Canada, he was named a chevalier of the Order of St.-Louis in February 1760.  After serving as a lieutenant-colonel in command of the artillery in French Guiane on the northern coast of South America, he served as second in command and then as governor of the colony.  As acting governor of Guiane in the late 1760s, he looked in favor on the dozens of his fellow Acadians who had come to the colony from France earlier in the decade.  After enduring the rigors of the tropical climate and burying many of their own, they thrived in their coastal settlement at Sinnamary north of Cayenne.  Fiedmont was especially impressed with the ability of the former aboiteaux builders to capture runoff from the surrounding hills and transform it into compost for their riverside farms.  In 1780, while still serving as governor of Guiane, he was promoted to major-general.  He died at Belleville near Paris in August 1788, age 64, on the eve of the Revolution, having never married.

Thomas's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Louisbourg in November 1714, died at Annapolis Royal in April 1730, age 16, before he could marry.  One wonders what the young aristocrat was doing in British Nova Scotia at the time of his death.470

Fontaine

Sr. René Fontaine, an early 1700s arrival, clerk in the bureau de la Marine and secretary to the last royal governor of French Acadia, fathered a "natural" son by Isabelle Corporon and unwittingly created a small family line in British Nova Scotia.  One suspects that Sr. René left the colony with the other French officials after the British captured Port-Royal in October 1710.  None of his descentants emigrated to Louisiana. 

Louis dit Beaulieu, born at Port-Royal in August 1707, remained with his mother at Annapolis Royal and adopted his father's surname.  He married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean Roy dit La Liberté and Marie Aubois, at Annapolis Royal in September 1730.  According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1744, Marie-Madeleine gave Louis seven children, a son and six daughters.  The family was deported to New England in 1755.  After the war with Britain ended, the family chose to resettle in Canada.  They arrived at L'Assomption on the north bank of the St. Lawrence below Trois-Rivières in 1767 and settled there.  Three of Louis's daughters married into the Janson dit Lapalme, Lefebvre, and Lord families at L'Assomption and nearby St.-Jacques de l'Achigan.  Louis's son created his own family in New England and at L'Assomption. 

Only son Louis-Thadée, born at Annapolis Royal in c1736, followed his family to New England and married Marie-Thérèse, daughter of Prudent Robichaud and Françoise Bourgeois, in Massachusetts in c1763.  They followed his family to Canada.  Their marriage was blessed at L'Assomption in November 1767 soon after their arrival.  According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1767, Marie-Thérèse gave Louis-Thadée three sons.  The family remained in the area.489

The Families of Greater Acadia:  The Aboiteaux Builders of the Fundy Shore, Outliers, Migrants, and Islanders

And then there were the "typical" Acadians, the aboiteaux builders of the Fundy settlements who made up the great majority of the people of Nova Scotia.  They, more than anyone, helped sustain the créole culture their ancestors created on the Great French Bay since the late 1640s.  Still, many families saw children and grandchildren join the steady migration out of the Fundy settlements, some even seeing the majority of their children take the outward path to the French Maritimes as early as the mid-1710s.  As a result, by the "golden age" of the 1730s, most of these migrant families were no longer "typically" Acadian.  Also atypically Acadian by the time of the "golden age" were families who, for most of their time in Acadia, eschewed the Fundy settlements, living, instead, on mainland rivers or on the Atlantic side of the peninsula, some having settled there since the earliest days of the colony.  One large family at Chignecto, as a result of the indiscretion of one of its sons, was even forced to leave the colony entirely.  However, most members of established families chose to remain in the land of their ancestors, where they built more dykes and aboiteaux and enjoyed the amazing growth of their families: 

Doucet

The Doucets, whose progenitor arrived in 1632, were a small family in the beginning.  Germain Doucet, sieur de La Verdure, married twice, first in France in c1620 and then in Acadia in c1654.  Stephen A. White says that, between 1621 and 1641, his first wife, whose name has been lost to history, gave the sieur four children, two sons and two daughters, all but the younger son born in France.  She likely did not join Germain in Acadia until after 1636, when families were introduced into the French colony.  The couple's daughters married in Acadia, into the Dugas and Lejeune dit Briard families, and both of Germain's sons also created their own families there.  According to genealogist Stephen A. White, if Germain's second wife, perhaps the younger daughter of Guillaume Trahan and his first wife François Corbineau and sister-in-law of Jacques Bourgeois, gave him any children, they cannot be traced.  Moreover, some Doucet descendants, with substantil yDNA proof, insist that Germain, fils may not have been a biological son of the sieur but rather a full-blooded Mi'kmaq adopted by Doucet perhaps when he married the boy's mother in c1654.  Germain's sons and most of their children remained at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but his grandchildren settled also at Chignecto, at Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, at Minas, in Canada (before Le Grand Dérangement), and in the French Maritimes.  At least 23 of the old soldier's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, from French-St.-Domingue in the late 1760s, and from France in 1785.  Most of the sieur's descendants, however, could be found in Canada and greater Acadia, as well as France and the French Antilles, after Le Grand Dérangement.

Older, or perhaps only, son Pierre, born in France in c1621, came to the colony perhaps with his mother and sisters in the late 1630s, while still young, and worked as a mason when he came of age.  Genealogist Bona Arsenault speculates that, after the fall of Port-Royal to the English in 1654 and the deportation of his father, Pierre, now in his early 30s, retreated to Québec and spent a few years there before returning to Port-Royal.  In his late 30s, he married Henriette, daughter of Simon Pelletret and Perrine Bourg, at Port-Royal in c1660, when the English still controlled the colony.  Between 1661 and 1685, Henriette gave Pierre 10 children, six sons and four daughters.  Pierre died at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal, in June 1713, in his 90s.  His daughters married into the Hébert, Bernard, Doiron, Chênet Dubreuil, and Comeau families.  Five of his six sons also created families of their own.   

Oldest son Toussaint dit François, also called Toussaint dit Laverdure, born probably at Port-Royal in c1663, married Marie, daughter of Roger Caissie and Marie-François Poirier, in c1690 and settled at Chignecto, where Toussaint died by August 1733.  Between 1691 and 1717, Marie gave Toussaint 11 children, six sons and five daughters.  Their daughters married into the Girouard, Gaudet, Bertrand, Doiron, Richard, and Bourel families.  Three of Toussaint's sons also created their own families. 

Toussaint's oldest son François, born probably at Chignecto in c1691, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Michel Poirier and Marie Chiasson, at Beaubassin in November 1715.  They remained at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1716 and 1734, Marie-Anne gave François eight children, four sons and four daughters.  Other records give them another son.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  François died in December 1757, in his early or mid-60s, a victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck Acadian refugees in the Québec area between the summer of 1757 and the spring of 1758.  Three of his daughters married into the Cormier, Vacher dit Lacerte, and Girouard families at Chignecto and at Trois-Rivières and Deschambault on the upper St. Lawrence.  Four of his sons also created their own families at Chignecto and settled in Canada and what became northeastern New Brunswick. 

Oldest son François, fils, born probably at Chignecto in c1716, married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of Michel Haché dit Gallant and Madeleine LeBlanc, at Beaubassin in July 1744.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1745 and 1747, Anne gave François, fils two children, a son and a daughter.  They escaped the roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and took refuge in Canada.  Anne died at Trois-Rivières in August 1762, in her early 40s.  Her and François, fils's son created his own family on the upper St. Lawrence.

Only son François III, born probably at Chignecto in c1745, followed his family into exile and to Canada, where he married Geneviève, daughter of Joseph-Michel Beaudet and Angélique Bélanger of Lotbinière, at Trois-Rivières in January 1777.  They settled across the river at Bécancour.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1778 and 1801, Geneviève gave François III 11 children, six sons and five daughters. 

François, père's second son Pierre, born probably at Chignecto in c1718, married Germaine, daughter of Germain Cormier and Marie LeBlanc, probably at Chignecto in c1741.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1743 Germaine gave Pierre a son.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

François, père's third son Charles, born probably at Chignecto in c1725, married Anne, daughter of François Arseneau and Marguerite Bernard, at Beaubassin in January 1746.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1768, Anne gave Charles nine children, four daughters and five sons.  They, too, evidently escaped the British in the fall of 1755, but they likely escaped to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After the war, they settled at Nepisiguit, today's Bathhurst, New Brunswick, where Charles died in September 1782, in his late 50s.  One of their daughters married into the Haché dit Gallant family.  Four of Charles's sons also created their own families.

Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Chignecto in c1751, followed his family to the upper Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Haché dit Gallant and Josette Boudreau and widow of Joseph Arsenault, on Île Miscou at the entrance to the Baie des Chaleurs in September 1773.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1776 and 1782, Marie gave Pierre five children, three sons and two daughters.  The family lived at Miscou from 1776 to 1780 and moved westward to Bathurst by 1782. 

Charles's second son Michel, born probably at Chignecto in c1754, followed his family to the upper Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudreau and Anne Haché dit Gallant, "before witnesses" in September 1776 and "rehabilitiated" the marriage at Bonaventure in Gaspésie in November 1779.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1777 and 1793, Anne gave Michel five children, three sons and two daughters. 

Charles's third son Joseph, born in exile in c1756, followed his family to the upper Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bujold and Marguerite Cormier, at Bonaventure in April 1779.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1780 and 1800, Victoire gave Joseph five children, four sons and a daughter.  They lived at Bonventure from 1779 to 1783 and crossed the Baie des Chaleurs to Bathurst by 1793. 

Charles's fourth son Charles, fils, born in exile in 1758, followed his family to the upper Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and married cousin Marie Arsenault.  They settled at Bathurst.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1792 and 1793, Marie gave Charles, fils two sons. 

François, père's youngest son Jean, perhaps the Michel that Bona Arsenault gives him and Marie-Anne at Chignecto in c1732, married Françoise, another daughter of Michel Haché dit Gallant and Madeleine LeBlanc, probably at Chignecto on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement.  They, too, escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and followed their family to Canada.  Françoise died at Québec in November or December 1757, victim, perhaps, like her father-in-law, of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of her fellow exiles.  One wonders if she gave Jean any children and if he remarried after her death.  Did he survive the war and settle in Canada or greater Acadia?  Arsenault does not say. 

Toussaint's second son Michel, born probably at Chignecto in c1694, married, according to Stephen A. White, Anne, daughter of Mathieu Brasseur dit Mathieu and Jeanne Célestin dit Bellemère, in c1725.  (Bona Arsenault, however, says Michel, son of Louis Doucet, married Anne, daughter of Mathieu Brasseau and Jeanne Bellemère, probably at Chignecto in c1733.  White is followed here.)  According to Arsenault, in 1734 and 1742, Anne gave Michel two children, a daughter and a son.  According to White, this Michel died probably at Chignecto by January 1752, in his late 50s.  The British evidently deported his family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  In August 1763, daughter Madeleine, age 16, appeared on a repatriation list in that colony as an orphan.  She married into the Dumoulin and Mauge families and settled in French St.-Domingue. 

Toussaint's third son Pierre, born probably at Chignecto in the late 1690s or early 1700s, married Marie, daughter of Germain Cormier and Marie LeBlanc, in c1724 and remained at Chignecto.  (Bona Arsenault, confusing this Pierre with his cousin Pierre, son of Louis, says Pierre à Toussaint married Marie, daughter of Martin Richard and Marguerite Bourg, but Stephen A. White, followed here, says this Pierre married Marie Cormier.)  According to Arsenault, between 1725 and 1748, Marie gave Pierre seven children, three sons and four daughters. One of their daughters married into the Bourgeois family.  One of their sons also created his own family.

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born probably at Chignecto in c1725, married Marie, daughter of Paul Boudrot and Marie Hébert, at Beaubassin in November 1746.  They had at least one son. 

Jean, born probably at Chignecto in c1751, followed his family into exile, perhaps to South Carolina or Georgia, and ended up on French St.-Domingue probably in the early 1760s.  He died at Môle St.-Nicolas in the sugar colony in May 1782, age 31.  One wonders if he married. 

Toussaint and Marie had triplet sons, names unrecorded, in c1707, but they did not survive childhood.  

Pierre's second son Jean, born probably at Port-Royal in c1665, married Françoise, daughter of Martin Blanchard and Françoise LeBlanc, in c1692 and settled at Minas.  Between 1693 and 1712, Françoise gave Jean seven children, five daughters and two sons.  Bona Arsenault gives them two more sons in 1719 and 1721, but Stephen A. White, followed here, does not.  (The two other sons Arsenault gives this Jean were, in fact, sons of another Jean Doucet and that Jean's first wife Françoise Bourget, not Blanchard.)  Jean's daughters married into the Landry, Daigre, and Bugeaud families.  Only one of his two actual sons created his own family.

Older son Jean, fils, born probably at Minas in c1701, married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry, at Grand-Pré in January 1726 and remained at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1748, Isabelle gave Jean, fils four children, two sons and two daughters.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the family to Pennsylvania.  In June 1763, Jean, fils, now a widower, appears on a repatriation list with four children.  One of his sons emigrated to Louisiana. 

Older son Jean-Baptiste, born at Grand-Pré in August 1743, followed his family to Pennsylvania, was listed there with his widowed father in June 1763, moved on to Maryland soon afterwards, and emigrated to Louisiana from the Chesapeake colony in 1766 or 1767.  He was counted at New Orleans with other Acadian exiles in July 1767.  At age 29, Jean-Baptiste married Marianne, called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Comeau and Madeleine Henry, at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans in January 1773.  He died at St.-Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in May 1814, age 70.  His daughter married into the Dupuis and Wells families.  His younger son married into the Rils or Wiltz family on the river and settled on upper Bayou Teche. 

Jean, père's younger son, name unrecorded, born in the early 1700s, did not survive childhood.   

Pierre's third son, Pierre, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1667, survived childhood but did not marry.  

Pierre, père's fourth son Louis, born probably at Port-Royal in c1674, married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Girouard and Marguerite Gautrot, in c1702 and, like oldest bother Toussaint, settled at Chignecto.  Between the early 1700s and 1722, Marguerite gave Louis seven children, three sons and four daughters.  Bona Arsenault gives them two more sons in 1710 and 1712.  Three of their four daughters married into the Poirier, Richard, Gaudet, and Orillon dit Champagne families.  Stephen A. White says two, and Bona Arsenault says three, of Louis's sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Chignecto in the early 1700s, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Martin Richard and Marguerite Bourg in c1724 and remained at Chignecto.  (Bona Arsenault days Marie, daughter of Germain Cormier and Marie LeBlanc, married this Pierre, but Stephen A. White, followed here, says Marie Cormier married Pierre's cousin Pierre, son of Toussaint.)  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1725 and 1742, Marie gave Pierre two sons.  Stephen A. White, followed here, says Pierre, husband of Marie-Anne Richard, died by November 1746, in his early 20s.  One of Pierre's sons created his own family.

Older son Bénoni, born probably at Chignecto in c1725, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Poirier and Anne Bernard, at Beaubassin in November 1746.  Marguerite gave Bénoni at least three children before 1755.  The British deported the family to South Carolina aboard the transport Dolphin in the fall of 1755.  Bénoni died in the southern colony by August 1763, when his widow Marguerite and their 13-year-old son appeared on a repatriation list there.  The son, perhaps following his mother, moved on to French St.-Domingue. 

François, born probably at Chignecto in c1750, followed his family to South Carolina, where, at age 13, he was counted with his widowed mother in August 1763.  He emigrated to French St.-Domingue either later that year or in 1764 and became a carpenter when he came of age there.  He married Marie-Anne, daughter of Antoine Paris and Jeanne Batiny of St.-Louis Parish, Rochefort, at Môle St.-Nicolas in May 1779.  Between 1781 and 1786, at Môle, Marie-Anne gave François two sons and a daughter.  The older son died young. 

Louis's second son Louis, fils, born probably at Chignecto in the early 1700s, evidently did not survive childhood. 

Louis's putative son François, born in c1710, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Anne, daughter most likely of Pierre Poirier and Agnès Cormier, probably at Chignecto in c1732.  According to Arsenault, in 1733 and 1740, Marie-Anne gave François two children, a daughter and a son.  The family evidently escaped the British in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  According to Arsenault, who seems to have confused her with a cousin of the same name, this François's daughter Madeleine married into the Cormier and Girouard families at Chignecto and on the upper St. Lawrence.  According to Arsenault, this François's son also created his own family in Canada.

Only son François dit Maillard, born probably at Chignecto in c1740, evidently followed his family to Canada, where he married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Lafond and Marie-Jeanne Lefebvre, at Trois-Rivières on the upper St. Lawrence in January 1763.  According to Bona Arsenault, Jeanne gave Maillard a daughter in 1763.  He remarried to fellow Acadian Hélène Hébert at Trois-Rivières in July 1764.  According to Arsenault, in 1765 and 1767, Hélène gave Maillard two children, a son and another daughter.  His daughter by first wife Jeanne married into the Pépin family at Québec. 

Louis's putative son Michel, born in c1712, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Anne, daughter of Mathieu Brasseau and Jeanne Bellemère, probably at Chignecto in c1733.  (Stephen A. White, however, says Anne, daughter of Mathieu Brasseur dit Mathieu and Jeanne Célestin dit Bellemère, married Michel, son of Toussaint Doucet, in c1725.)  According to Arsenault, in 1734 and 1742, Anne gave Michel two children, a daughter and a son.  According to White, the Michel who married Anne Brasseau died probably at Chignecto by January 1752, in his late 50s.  The British evidently deported his family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  In August 1763, daughter Madeleine, age 16, appeared on a repatriation list there as an orphan.  She married into the Dumoulin and Mauge families and settled in French St.-Domingue. 

Louis, père's third son Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in c1716, married Isabelle, daughter of Pierre Carret and Angélique Chiasson, in c1738 probably at Chignecto and moved on to Île St.-Jean.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1746, Isabelle gave Joseph five children, three daughters and two sons.  Joseph died on the island in c1747.  Isabelle remarried to a Martin at St.-Pierre-du-Nord on the island.  In August 1752, a French official counted Isabelle Carret, her husband Joseph Martin, and six children, including her two sons Joseph Doucet, fils, age 12 (actually 10), and Pierre Doucet, age 9 (actually 7), from her first marriage, on the southside of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior.  The British deported at least one of Isabelle's Doucet sons, if not the rest of the family, to France in late 1758.  

Older son Joseph, fils, born on Île St.-Jean in August 1742, was counted with his remarried mother and younger brother on the island in August 1752 and deported to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He had become a seaman by then.  In April 1759, soon after his arrival in the mother country, he went to Brest on the other side of Brittany to work on the ship Northumberland, on which he served for four months and 19 days.  He also worked on L'Apale for three months and 17 days.  He returned to St.-Malo in May 1760 and disappears from the historical record.  One wonders if he married.  He did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Pierre, père's fifth son René, born probably at Port-Royal in c1678, married Marie, daughter of François Broussard and Catherine Richard, probably at Port-Royal in c1702 and remained there.  Between 1703 and 1728, Marie gave René 10 children, four sons and six daughters.  Five of their daughters married into the Landry, Pitre, Garceau, Arseneau, Babineau, and Bourg families.  All of René's sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Pierre dit Maillard, born at Port-Royal in December 1703, married Françoise, daughter of Claude Dugas and Jeanne Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in September 1725.  According to Bona Arsenault, they settled at Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto and, between 1730 and 1754, Françoise gave Pierre nine children, seven sons and two daughters, including a set of twins.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  After the war with Britain, members of the family settled at Yamachiche on the upper St. Lawrence.  At least three of Pierre's sons created their own families at Annapolis Royal, in Massachusetts, and at Yamachiche.

Oldest son Joseph, born in c1730, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Melanson and Anne Granger, at Annapolis Royal in January 1752.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1759, Anne gave Joseph three children, a son and two daughters.  They may have followed his family to Massachusetts, where they appeared on a repatriation list in August 1763, and resettled in Canada.  Joseph remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Thibeau and Jeanne Picot, at Yamachiche in May 1770.  According to Arsenault, between 1771 and 1776, this Anne gave Joseph four more children, a daughter and three sons.  Joseph remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie Girardeau at Yamachiche in c1790.  According to Arsenault, she gave him another son in 1791.

Pierre's third son Benoît-Béloni, born in c1738, followed his family to Massachusetts, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Bénoni Melanson and Marie Benoit of Grand-Pré, in c1762.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Trois-Rivières, Canada, in July 1767.  In August 1763, they appeared on a repatriation list in the Bay Colony; they had no children.  A few years later, they followed his family to Canada.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1772, Marie gave Benoît three children, a daughter and two sons.  Benoît remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Raymond and Marguerite Pellerin, at Yamachiche in February 1775.  According to Arsenault, between 1775 and 1782, this Marie gave Benoît five more children, three sons and two daughters--eight children in all by two wives. 

Pierre's sixth son Charles, born in c1750, followed his family to Massachusetts and to Canada.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Babineau and Cécile Comeau, at Pointe-du-Lac near Trois-Rivières in October 1773.  They settled at Yamachiche.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1774 and 1799, Marguerite gave Charles a dozen children, four sons and eight daughters. 

René's second son François, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1715, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of Denis Petitot dit Saint Seine and Marguerite Landry, at Annapolis Royal in January 1742 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1760, Marguerite gave François eight children, three daughters and five sons.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the family to Massachusetts.  They were still in the Bay Colony in August 1763; with them were nine children.  A few years later, they returned to Nova Scotia and settled on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, on the peninsula's west coast, where British officials counted them in c1767.  One of their daughters married into the Amireau family.  At least one François's sons also created his own family on St. Mary's Bay.

Second son Joseph, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1748, followed his family to Massachusetts and Nova Scotia.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre LeBlanc, at Baie Ste.-Marie in c1772, and remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Dugas and Brigitte Melanson. 

René's third son Charles, born probably at Annapolis Royal in the early 1720s, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Préjean and Marie-Louise Comeau of Chepoudy, in c1746 probably at Annapolis Royal and settled at Tintamarre, today's Upper Sackville, Chignecto, where French authorities counted them in 1752.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1751 and 1756, Marguerie gave Charles two children, a son and a daughter.  (Arsenault notes that Acadian historian Édouard Richard, one of Charles's descendants, accepts the legend that Charles's son, born in 1751, was the "natural" son of Colonel Edward How, a member of the Nova Scotia colonial Council and Lieutenant Governor Lawrence's commissary; How, whose second wife was an Acadian, was "stationed" at Fort Lawrence, Chignecto, when he was murdered by Mi'kmaq near the fort in October 1750.)  Charles died in exile before August 1763, in late 30s or early 40s.  Members of the family were living at Trois-Rivières on the upper St. Lawrence above Québec in c1767.  Charles's daughter married into the Boivin family at Trois-Rivières.  His son also created his own family there.

Only son Jean le jeune, born probably at Tintamarre in c1751, followed his family into exile and to Canada.  He married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Amireau and Marguerite Robichaud of Pobomcoup, at Trois-Rivières in February 1778.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1779 and 1800, Marie-Madleine gave Jean le jeune 11 children, six sons and five daughters, including a set of twins.  Four of their daughters married into the Blondin, Hélie, Dumoulin, and Prince families at Trois-Rivières.  At least two of Jean le jeune's sons also created their own families at Trois-Rivières, one became a priest, and the other a physician. 

Third son Nicolas-Benjamin, born probably at Trois-Rivières in c1781, married Marie-Euphrosine, daughter of Pierre Kimber and Marie-Josèphe Robitaille, at Trois-Rivières in August 1807.

Jean le jeune's fourth son André, born probably at Trois-Rivières in c1782, was ordained a priest in December 1805 and served as curé at Québec between 1807 and 1814. 

Jean le jeune's fifth son François-Olivier, born probably at Trois-Rivières in c1787, became a physician, practiced at Kinsgton, Jamaica, and New York, and settled at Vera Cruz, Mexico, where he died. 

Jean le jeune's sixth and youngest son Basile, born probably at Trois-Rivières in c1789, married Julie, daughter of Pierre Aubry and Catherine Thibeau, at Trois-Rivières in October 1810. 

René fourth son Jean, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1725, married Anne, daughter of Joseph Bourg and Louise Robichaud, at Annapolis Royal in January 1749 and probably remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1755, Anne gave Jean three children, a daughter and two sons.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Jean died at St.-Chriostophe, Antigua, in 1756 "de la picoté"--of the smallpox, so one wonders if he accompanied his family to Connecticut.  Anne remarried to an Hébert in Connecticut in 1762.  After the war with Britain, she settled with him at Laprairie across from Montréal.  Her Doucet daughter married into the Dupuis family in Connecticut, and the marriage was "rehabilitated" at Laprairie in April 1769.  Oddly, Anne's Bourg's remarriage was not "validated" until October 1774.  One wonders what happened to her Doucet sons. 

Pierre, père's sixth and youngest son Mathieu, born probably at Port-Royal in 1685, married Anne, daughter of Julien Lord and Anne-Charlotte Girouard, at Annapolis Royal in June 1712 and remained there.  Between 1713 and 1732, Anne gave Mathieu seven children, three sons and four daughters.  Mathieu died in exile probably in Canada before July 1760, in his early 70s.  Two of his four daughters married into the Thibodeau and Comeau families.  His sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1713, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Bourg and Élisabeth Broussard, at Annapolis Royal in November 1735 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1737 and 1761, Anne gave Joseph a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the family to Massachusetts.  Colonial officials counted them at Salisbury in 1758.  In July 1760, Joseph, Anne, and four of their children were living at Dansbury.  They moved on to Connecticut by 1763.  After the war with Britain, they settled at Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières on the upper St. Lawrence, where British officials counted them in c1767.  Joseph died at Trois-Rivières in May 1795, age 81.  Four of his daughters married into the Michel, Bourgeois, Belliveau, and Rheau families in New England and Canada.  Four of his five sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1743, followed his family to Massachusetts, where he married Marie-Josèphe-Luce, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul LeBlanc and Madeleine Forest, in c1760; their marriage was "rehabilitated" in September 1767 at Bécancour, where they settled after leaving New England.  They also had been counted by British authorities at nearby Trois-Rivières.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1766 and 1768, Marie-Josèphe-Luce gave Joseph, fils two children, a daughter and a son.  Joseph, fils remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Pellerin and Madeleine Robichaux, at Québec in April 1771.  His son by his first wife created his own family.

Only son Joseph III, by first wife Marie-Josèphe-Luce LeBlanc, born in Canada in c1771, married Marie Bouret, widow of François Cormier, at Bécancour in October 1791, and remarried to Marie, daughter of Alexis Blais and Marie-Josèphe Bellefeuille, at Bécancour in June 1794. 

Joseph, père's second son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1745, followed his family to New England and Canada.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Richard and Hélène Hébert, at Trois-Rivières in August 1768.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1769 and 1787, eight children, four daughters and four sons.  They settled at Trois-Rivières.  Three of their daughters married into the Bourg, Lacourse, and Pinel dit Bellefeuille at Trois-Rivières.  Three of Jean-Baptiste's sons also created their own families around Trois-Rivières.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born probably at Trois-Rivières in c1771, married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham Vigneau and Marie Bourg of Chignecto, at Bécancour in February 1795. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's second son Joseph le jeune, born probably at Trois-Rivières in c1782, married Marguerite Martel at Trois-Rivières in July 1811. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's fourth and youngest son Augustin, born probably at Trois-Rivières in c1787, married Théotiste-Catherine, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Bourg and Reine Part, at Trois-Rivières in October 1808. 

Joseph, père's third son Louis, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1749, followed his family to New England and Canada.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Belliveau and Marguerite Melanson, at Bécancour in January 1773.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1771 and 1798, Marguerite gave Louis a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters, including a set of twins.  The family also settled at Trois-Rivières and at nearby Nicolet and St.-Grégoire.  Three of their daughters married into the Prince, Bourg, and Richard families at Nicolet and St.-Grégoire.  At least four of Louis's sons also created their own families in the area.

Second son Louis, fils, born in Canada in c1780, married Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Ovila Bourgeois and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, at St.-Grégoire in July 1806. 

Louis, père's third son Pierre, born in Canada in c1782, married Marie-Angèle Bergeron, probably at fellow Acadian, at St.-Grégoire on the same day his older brother Louis, fils married in July 1806. 

Louis, père's fourth son Joseph, born in Canada in c1786, married Marie-Desanges, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Prince and Marie Babineau, at Nicolet in February 1801. 

Louis, père's seventh and youngest son Charles, born in Canada in c1792, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Cormier and  Marie Champoux, at St.-Grégoire in October 1818. 

Joseph, père's fifth and youngest son Pierre-Abel, born in New England in c1761, followed his family to Canada and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Prince and Marie-Madeleine Bourg, at Bécancour in February 1784.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1784 and 1803, Marie gave Pierre-Abel nine children, seven sons and two daughters.  They also settled at nearby Trois-Rivières.  At least two of their sons created their own families in the area.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born in Canada in c1784, married Madeleine, daughter of Nicolas Grondin and Marie Dumas, at Nicolet in September 1811. 

Pierre-Abel's second son Joseph le jeune, born in Canada in c1786, married Marie, daughter of Antoine Marier and Marie Ducharme, at Bécancour in November 1813. 

Mathieu's second son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1715, married Françoise, daughter of Abraham Comeau and Marguerite Pitre, at Annapolis Royal in January 1742 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1743 and 1746 Françoise gave Pierre two daughters.  Pierre died probably at Annapolis Royal before January 1752, in his late 30s, and Françoise remarried to a Comeau. 

Mathieu's third and youngest son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in c1732, evidently moved to the French Maritimes, was deported to France in late 1758, and married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Lavergne and Françoise Pitre, probably in France in c1759.  French officials counted them at La Havre on the Norman coast in 1772 and 1791, so they did not emigrate to Louisiana in 1785.  Charles died at Le Havre in December 1795, age 63. 

Germain's younger "son" Germain, fils (who Bona Arsenault insists was his brother Pierre's oldest son, but Stephen A. White, followed here, says he was Germain, père's second son by his first wife), was born probably in Acadia in c1641 and, as previously stated, may have been an adopted Mi'kmaq and not a biological son.  Germain, fils was a farmer at Port-Royal when he married Marie, daughter of René Landry l'aîné and Perrine Bourg and widow of Simon Pelletret, at the Acadian capital in c1664.  (Perrine Bourg was Germain, fils's older brother Pierre's mother-in-law.)  Between 1665 and 1685, Marie gave Germain, fils nine children, seven sons and two daughters.  Germain, fils died at Port-Royal in c1698, in his late 50s.  His line of the family was even larger than his older brother's.  Both of Germain, fils's daughters survived childhood, but only one of them married, into the Loppinot family.  Five of his seven sons also created their own families at Port-Royal, but some of his grandsons moved on to Canada before Le Grand Dérangement.   

Oldest son Charles, born probably at Port-Royal in c1665, worked as a sailor and carpenter.  He married Huguette, daughter of François Guérin and Anne Blanchard, probably at Port-Royal in c1684.  Between 1685 and 1706, Huguette gave Charles nine children, eight sons and a daughter.  According to Bona Arsenault, Charles was counted with his family at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1725.  If so, he returned to Annapolis Royal, where he died in May 1739, in his mid-70s.  His daughter married into the Lavigne family.  Six of his eight sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Claude, born probably at Port-Royal in c1785, survived childhood but did not marry. 

Charles's second son Charles, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1688, married Cécile, daughter of Michel Poirier and Marie Chiasson, at Beaubassin in February 1718 and settled at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1720 and 1722, Cécile gave Charles, fils two children, a daughter and a son.  Charles, fils died probably at Chignecto by July 1733, in his mid-40s.  Arsenault says Cécile remarried to a Caissie after Charles, fils's death in c1730.  Charles, fils's daughter married into the Caissie family.  His son also created a family of his own.

Only son Charles III, born probably at Chignecto in c1722, married Jeanne, daughter of François Boudrot and Jeanne Landry of Annapolis Royal, probably at Chignecto in c1747.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1748 and 1750, Jeanne gave Charles III two daughters.  They moved on to Malpèque on the northwest shore of Île St.-Jean in c1741.  In August 1752, a French official counted Charles III, Jeanne, and their daughters at Malpèque.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758. 

Charles's third son Jean, born probably at Port-Royal in c1690, married Marie, daughter of Prudent Robichaud and Henriette Petitpas, at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal, in February 1714 and remained there.  In 1715 and 1717, Marie gave Jean two sons.  Jean died probably at Annapolis Royal in 1718, in his late 20s, and Marie remarried to a Thériot widower.  Both of Jean's sons created their own families.

Older son Jean dit Jean Prudent, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1715, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Thériot and Madeleine Bourg, at Grand-Pré January 1738.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1738 and 1746, Madeleine gave Jean Prudent four children, two sons and two daughters.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the family to Virginia.  In the spring of 1756, Virginia authorities deported all of the Acadians in the colony to England.  Jean Prudent and his family were held at Southampton, where his older son married.  One wonders what happened to other members of the family in England. 

Older son Pierre, born at Grand-Pré in c1738, followed his family to Virginia and England and married Marie-Blanche, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Southampton in April 1763.  The following month, they were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport L'Ambition.  They settled in the St.-Malo surburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer and may have moved on to Boulogne-sur-Mer on the northern French coast.  In November 1765, Pierre took his family to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany, where they settled at Anvort near Sauzon.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1772, Marie-Blanche gave Pierre five children, four sons and a daughter, at St.-Servan and on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  In 1785, they did not emigrate to Louisiana with other Acadians in France. 

Jean's second son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1717, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Claude Thériot and Marguerite Cormier, at Grand-Pré in November 1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1748, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph three children, two daughters and a son.  They moved on to Chignecto in 1743 and were still there in 1748.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Charles's fourth son François, born probably at Port-Royal in c1692, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Carret and Angélique Chiasson, at Beaubassin in February 1722 and settled at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1749, Marie gave François a dozen children, six sons and six daughters.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1741.  In August 1752, a French official counted François, Marie, and eight of their children at Malpèque on the north shore of the island, next to their oldest son and his family.  They evidently escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After the war with Britain, members of the family returned to St. John's Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, and settled at Rustico on the north shore of the island near their old home at Malpèque.  François died at Rustico in c1765, in his early 70s.  Four of his daughters married into the Beaulien, Comeau, Renaud dit Provençal, Haché, and Gallant dit Mignon families, two of them probably at Rustico.  One of them emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.  Three of François's sons also created their own families, and two of them settled at Rustico.

Second son François, fils, born probably at Chignecto in c1726, followed his family to Île St.-Jean.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Jacquemin and Marguerite Haché dit Gallant of the island, at Port-La-Joye in November 1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave François, fils a daughter in 1752.  In August of that year, a French official counted François, fils, called a Dousset, Marguerite, and no children, so their daughter was born probably later in the year, at Rivière-de-Peugiguit in the island's interior.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758. 

François, père's third son Michel, born probably at Chignecto in c1734, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Malpèque in August 1752.  He followed them to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in 1758, unless he remained in hiding on the island.  He married Louise, daughter of Louis Belliveau and Louise Haché dit Gallant, "before witnesses" probably at St.-Louis on the island in c1762 before the war with Britain ended and validated the marriage on Île Miquelon in August 1765 after the war.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1774, Louise gave Michel nine children, six sons and three daughters, probably on Miquelon. In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British deported the family, with dozens of other island Acadians, to La Rochelle, France.  A four-month-old son died in the French port in August 1779.  Both Michel and Louise died at La Rochelle in August 1779 within days of one another.  Members of the family returned to greater Acadia and settled at Rustico. 

François, père's fifth son Jean, born probably at Chignecto in c1744, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Malpèque in August 1752.  He followed them to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in 1758 and, after the war with Britain, followed his older brother to Île Miquelon.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Gaudet and Anne Richard, on Miquelon in August 1767.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1768 and 1782, Marguerite gave Jean nine children, three sons and six daughters.  They, too, resettled at Rustico probably after returning to greater Acadia from France.

Charles's fifth son Germain le jeune, born probably at Port-Royal in c1697, married cousin Françoise, daughter of Alexandre Comeau and Marguerite Doucet, at Annapolis Royal in November 1726.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1727 and 1734, Françoise gave Germain le jeune four children, three daughters and a son.  At age 44, Germain le jeune remarried to Françoise, daughter of Thomas Sauvage dit Forgeron and Anne Lapierre, at Beaubassin in October 1741.  According to Arsenault, in 1746 and 1750, this Françoise gave Germain le jeune two more sons.  Other sources give them another son.  According to Arsenault, the family also settled at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, but they evidently returned to Annapolis Royal, where Germain le jeune died in July 1747, age 50.  One of his sons by his second wife created a family of his own.

Oldest son Pierre, by first wife Françoise Comeau, born at Annapolis Royal in c1740 or 1741, became a sailor.  He died at Basse-Terre on the French island of Guadeloupe in November 1771, age 30.  One wonders if he married. 

Germain le jeune's third and youngest son Simon, by second wife Françoise Sauvage, born perhaps posthumously in c1748 (Bona Arsenault says c1750, which would have been three years after his father's death), married Suzanne, daughter of Jacques-Joseph Villers and Françoise Miet, at Beauport near Québec in July 1778.  One wonders where Simon went after 1755, between his likely escape from Annapolis Royal and his time in Canada. 

Charles's sixth son Joseph, born probably at Port-Royal in c1699, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of François Robichaud and Madeleine Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in November 1725.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1739, Marie-Madeleine gave Joseph six children, five daughters and a son.  Other sources give them two more daughters and another son.  Members of the family moved to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, probably after 1752, and may have moved on to Port-Dauphin on the eastern shore of the island.  In late 1758, the British deported the family to Le Havre, France.  Joseph died at Le Havre in July 1764, age 66.  Three of his daughters married into the Demar, perhaps Demarets, Bunel, and Michel dit Saint-Michel families, and three of them died at Le Havre between 1764 and 1811.  His older son emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.  His younger son remained in the mother country with his sisters. 

Older son Joseph, fils, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1730, married Marguerite, daughter of Gabriel Moulaison and Marie Aubois of Pobomcoup, at Annapolis Royal in July 1753 and settled at Cap-Sable.  Marguerite gave Joseph, fils a daughter in c1756.  In the fall of 1758, the British captured them and other Acadians at Cap-Sable, hold them in the prison compound at Georges Island, Halifax, and then deported them to Le Havre, France, later that year.  In February 1759, soon after they reached the Norman port, their daughter died at age 2 1/2 probably from the rigors of the crossing.  From 1759 to 1770, at Le Havre, Marguerite gave Joseph, fils six more children, four daughters and two sons--seven children, five daughters and two sons, between 1756 and 1770, in greater Acadia and France.  In 1773, Joseph and Marguerite, with hundreds of other Acadians languishing in the coastal cities, became part of the settlement venture in Poitou.  They settled near Cenan near Châtellerault.  When, after two years of effort, most of the Poitou Acadians retreated to the port city of Nantes, Joseph and his family remained at Cenan.  Oldest surviving daughter Emmanuelle-Victoire married into the Jaunon family at Cenan in September 1778, and daughter Adélaïde-Véronique married into the Arnaud family there in January 1781.  Wife Marguerite died at Cenan in April 1784, age 57.  The following year, Joseph, fils, having joined his fellow Acadians at Nantes, took his three youngest children, two daughters and a son, to Spanish Louisiana aboard the last of the Seven Ships from France.  They chose to settle at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans--among the few exiles from France who sent there.  Joseph, fils died at New Orleans in April 1797.  The St.-Louis Parish priest who recorded his burial said that Joseph, fils died at age 75.  He was in his late 60s.   His daughter Marie-Marguerite remained at New Orleans, where she married into the Arnaud family; her husband seems to have been a half-brother of older sister Adélaïde-Véronique's husband back in Poitou, France.  The younger children, including son Ange, evidently did not marry, so this line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Younger son Jean, born probably in greater Acadia, followed his family to Le Havre, where he became a sail maker.  Like at least one of his sisters, he did not follow his older brother Joseph, fils to Louisiana in 1785.  A Le Havre civil record, dated 29 December 1811, notes that his sister Cécile, widow of Basile Michel, died "at 3:00 A.M. in the house of Jean Doucet, her brother--a sail maker; on the small quai Notre Dame."  One wonders if Jean married. 

Charles's seventh son Michel, born at Port-Royal in April 1703, married Angélique, daughter of Claude Pitre and Marie Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in November 1732.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1739, Angélique gave Michel three children, a daughter and two sons.  Other records give them another son and three more daughters from 1743 to 1753.  Michel and Angélique also moved to the French Maritimes probably after 1752.  In late 1758, the British deported them to France.  Michel died in Notre-Dame Parish, Le Havre, in February 1760, age 56.  Two of his younger daughters--Élisabeth, age 7; and Catherine, age 15--died at Le Havre in February and September 1760, so one wonders if the family was caught up in an epidemic in the Norman port.  Son Joseph died at Le Havre in July 1764, age 21.  An older son married at Le Havre in c1766.  Michel's daughter Euphrosine died at Chantenay near Nantes, France, in June 1785, age 41.  She evidently did not marry.  Michel's married son emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.

Second son Michel, fils, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1744, followed his family to the French Maritimes and to Le Havre, France, where he worked as a carpenter.  He married Marie-Blanche, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Cousin and Judith Guédry of Ministigueshe near Cap-Sable at Le Havre in c1766.  Between 1768 and 1773, at Le Havre, Marie-Blanche gave Michel, fils three children, two daughters and a son.  In 1773, they became a part of the settlement scheme in Poitou.  Another daughter was born to them at Cenan in March 1775.  That November, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Another son was born at nearby Chantenay in February 1777 but died the following April--five children, three daughters and two sons, between 1768 and 1777.  In 1785, Michel, fils, Marie-Blanche, and their three remaining children, two daughters and a son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana aboard the last of the Seven Ships.  They were among the hand full of Acadians who chose to settle at San Bernardo, also called Nueva Gálvez, an Isleño community on the river below New Orleans.  Michel, fils died at Charity Hospital, New Orleans, in September 1792.  The St.-Louis Parish priest who recorded the burial said he died at age 54.  He was in his late 40s.  One wonders if any of his children married in the Spanish colony.  

Charles's eighth and youngest son Louis, born at Port-Royal in February 1706, probably died young.   

Germain, fils's second son Bernard dit Laverdure, born probably at Port-Royal in c1667, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Corporon and François Savoie, probably at Port-Royal in c1690 and settled there.  Between 1692 and 1698, Madeleine gave Bernard four children, a son and three daughters.  Bernard died at Port-Royal in August 1709, in his early 40s.  One of his daughters married into the Savary family.  His son also created his own family, in Canada. 

Only son Jean, born probably at St.-Royal in c1692, moved to Canada perhaps after the fall of the Acadian capital in 1710 and married Françoise, daughter of Claude Bourget and Marie Couture, at Québec in April 1714.  Between 1714 and 1725, at Québec, Françoise gave Jean six children, four sons and two daughters.  Neither of their daughters married.  Jean remarried to Catherine, daughter of Joseph Prieur and Hélène Méchin, at Québec in October 1726.  Between 1727 and 1736, Catherine gave Jean three more children, a son and two daughters, at Québec.  Their older daughter married into the Birolle family at Louisbourg, Île Royale.  Jean's sons by first wife Françoise created their own families.  Two remained in Canada.  The other two "returned" to greater Acadia before they married and, as a result, were scattered to the winds. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Françoise Bourget, born at Québec in July 1717, remained in Canada.  At age 30, he married Marie-Louise, daughter of Jean-François Delage dit Lavigeur and Marie-Madeleine Loisel, at Charlesbourg near Québec in January 1748 and remained there.  Jean-Baptiste died at Québec in November 1792, age 75. 

Jean's second son Augustin dit Justice, by first wife Françoise Bourget, born at Québec in July 1719, returned to greater Acadia and settled on Île St-Jean in c1734.  Justice married Cécile, daughter of Acadians Joseph Mius d'Azy and Marie Amireau, probably on the island in c1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, from 1743 to 1750, Cécile gave Justice four children, three sons and a daughter.  Cécile died on the island in January 1751, in her early 30s.  Justice remarried to Marie-Anne, daughter of Acadians Joseph Prétieux and Anne Haché, at Port-La-Joye in February 1752.  The following August, a French official counted Justice, Marie-Anne, and two of his sons by first wife Cécile on the north side of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior.  (One wonders what happened to his two younger children.)  In 1753 and 1755 on the island, Marie-Anne gave Justice two more children, a son and a daughter.  In late 1758, the British deported Marie-Anne and two of their children, Pierre and Marie, to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Tamerlane.  Augustin dit Justice crossed to the Breton port on another, unidentified, vessel..  They settled at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo.  Between 1760 and 1770, at St.-Énogat and nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Marie-Anne gave Justice six more children, two daughters and four sons--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1743 and 1770, in greater Acadia and France.  Three of his younger children, two daughters and a son, died at St.-Servan while still very young.  In 1773, Justice and his family, along with hundreds of other Acadian exiles languishing in the coastal cities, became part of a new settlement scheme in the interior of Poitou.  Augustin dit Justice, in fact, was one of the Acadian leaders at St.-Malo invited by the Marquis de Pérusse to inspect his lands near Châtellerault, where the exiles would settle.  Augustin reported favorably on what he saw.  Despite his dit, he likely had been paid to exaggerate the quality of the soil on the marquis's estate.  Ironically, Justice's son Pierre remained at St.-Servan, where he married in January 1775.  Meanwhile, Justice's second son by Marie-Anne died in Poitou in April 1774, age 9.  Their only surviving daughter, Marie, married into the Samie family at Cenan, Poitou, near Châtellerault, in April 1777, a year after most of the Poitou Acadians retreated to the port city of Nantes.  As the date of his daughters's marriage reveals, Justice and his family remained in Poitou.  Justice died probably at Cenan in the late 1770s or early 1780s, in his late 50s or early 60s.  By September 1784, his widow Marie-Anne and their unmarried children had joined their fellow Acadians at Nantes.  In 1785, Marie-Anne and two of her Doucet sons, but not oldest son Pierre or daughter Marie, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where both of the sons created families of their own. 

Third son Pierre, by second wife Marie-Anne Précieux, born probably at Rivière-du-Nord-Est, Île St.-Jean, in c1753, followed his family to St.-Malo, France.  He married Jeanne, daughter of locals Jean Dautoville and Perrine Bellotte, at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in January 1775, while his family was in Poitou.  In 1775 and 1779, Jeanne gave Pierre two sons, Auguste-Pierre and Pierre-Michel, at St.-Servan.  In 1785, they did not follow his widowed mother and two younger brothers to Louisiana but likely remained in the St.-Malo area. 

Augustin dit Justice's fifth son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Marie-Anne Précieux, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in September 1766, followed his family to Poitou and his widowed mother to Nantes and Louisiana, where he married Marie-Anne-Barbe, called Barbe, daughter of Nicolas Daublin and Catherine, a "free Indian," at Ascension in June 1789.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their daughters married into the Hébert, Lenée, and Martin.  Jean-Baptiste's only son married into the Hébert family and remained on the Lafourche. 

Augustin dit Justice's seventh and youngest son François, by second wife Marie-Anne Précieux, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in September 1770, followed his family to Poitou and his widowed mother to Nantes and Louisiana, where he married Marie-Adélaïde, daughter of Étienne-Joseph Angilbert or Engilbert of Nantes and his Acadian wife Félicité Hébert, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in May 1802.  Their daughters married into the Barrios, Bernard, Lejeune, Molaison, Parks, and Scanlen families.  Two of François's three sons married into the Guidry and Bourg families.  One remained in the Bayou Lafourche valley, and the other moved on to lower Bayou Teche. 

Jean's third son Germain le jeune, by first wife Françoise Bourget, born at Charlesbourg, Canada, in August 1721, also returned to greater Acadia and married Marguerite, daughter of Acadians François LeBlanc and Cécile Boudrot, at Grand-Pré in October 1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1743 and 1745, Marguerite gave Germain le jeune two children, a daughter and a son, at Grand-Pré.  Other records give them two other sons in c1748 and c1750.  They evidently moved to Chignecto.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the family to South Carolina.  At age 40, Germain le jeune remarried to Acadian Marguerite Comeau in c1761 probably in the southern colony.  Germaine, Marguerite, and three sons, ages 20, 15, and 12, appeared on a repatriation list in South Carolina in August 1763.  They followed other Acadians from the southern colonies to French St.-Dominque later in the year or in 1764.  Germain le jeune died probably in the sugar colony by February 1776, in his early or mid-50s.  Two of his three sons married there.

Oldest son Joseph, by first wife Marguerite LeBlanc, born in Nova Scotia in c1743, followed his family to South Carolina in 1755 and was listed with his father, stepmother, and two younger brothers there in August 1763.  He likely followed his family to French St.-Domingue.  One wonders if he married. 

Germain le jeune's second son Anselme, by first wife Marguerite LeBlanc, born in Nova Scotia in c1748, followed his family to South Carolina and French St.-Domingue, where he married Acadian Marie-Josèphe Melanson probably at Môle St.-Nicolas.  Between  1777 and 1785, she gave Anselme four children, a son and three daughters. 

Germain le jeune's third and youngest son Simon, by first wife Marguerite LeBlanc, born in Nova Scotia in c1750, followed his family to South Carolina and French St.-Domingue, where he married cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Claire Benoit of Grand-Pré, at Môle St.-Nicolas, St.-Domingue, in February 1776.  Between 1777 and 1780, Madeleine gave Simon at least three children, two daughters and a son, the younger daughter borned posthumously.  Simon died at Môle in August 1780, age 30. 

Jean's fourth son, François-Clément, by first wife Françoise Bourget, born at Charlesbourg in October 1723, remained in Canada and married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Garand and Marie-Madeleine Masson, at St.-François-du-Sud below Québec in November 1750.  François-Clément died at nearby St.-Pierre-du-Sud in April 1769, age 45. 

Jean's fifth and youngest son Charles-Joseph, by second wife Catherine Prieur, born at Québec in July 1734, died there at age 10 months in March 1736. 

Germain, fils's third son Laurent, born probably at Port-Royal in c1669, married Jeanne, daughter of Antoine Babin and Marie Mercier and widow of Michel Richard dit Sansoucy, probably at Port-Royal in c1689.  The settled on the haute rivière above Port-Royal.  Between 1690 and 1713, Jeanne gave Laurent a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters.  Laurent died at Annapolis Royal by January 1728, in his late 50s.  Two of his daughters married into the Lord, Levron, and Garceau dit Boutin families.  Six of his sons also created their own families, one of them in Canada before Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Port-Royal in c1690, moved to Canada perhaps after the fall of Port-Royal to the British in 1710 and married Élisabeth, daughter of Nicolas Sylvestre and Barbe Neveu, at Pointe-aux-Trembles near Montréal in February 1716.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1718 and 1738, Élisabeth gave Pierre nine children, five daughters and four sons.  They settled at Chicot, Berthierville, on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivière and Montréal in 1721.  Three of their daughters married into the Chevalier, Moreau, and Pasquin families at nearby Sorel and Île Dupas.  Three of Pierre's four sons also created their own families in Canada.

Oldest son Athanase, born perhaps at Pointe-aux-Trembles in c1724, married Marie-Louise Boyer probably in Canada in November 1752. 

Pierre's second son Pierre, fils, born perhaps at Pointe-aux-Trembles in c1724, married Véronique, daughter of François Plante and Marie-Louise Joly, probably in Canada in February 1756. 

Pierre, père's fourth and youngest son Michel, born perhaps at Pointe-aux-Trembles in c1724, married Marie-Agathe Frappier, widow of François Plante, probably in Canada in January 1760, and remarried to Marguerite Aubin-Lambert probably in Canada in January 1779. 

Laurent's second son Laurent, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1696, married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of Étienne Pellerin and Jeanne Savoie and widow of Abraham Brun, at Annapolis Royal in January 1722 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1722 and 1727, Anne gave Laurent, fils three children, two sons and a daughter.  Their daughter married into the Breau family.  Both of Laurent, fils's sons also created their own families.  The older one emigrated to Louisiana in 1765. 

Older son Michel-Laurent, born at Annapolis Royal in November1722, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Martin and Jeanne Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1749.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1749 and 1751, Marguerite gave Michel-Laurent two children, a son and a daughter.  Other sources give them five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1752 and 1764.  They escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and fled to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  From Miramichi, they made their way up to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  By then, they may have had more than three sons in their household, or they had taken in a number of orphans.  In late October 1760, Michel and his family of nine appear on a list of 1,003 Acadians who surrendered with the Restigouche garrison.  The British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  At least one of their sons was born there.  Michel-Laurent, Marguerite, and eight children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763. A daughter was born soon after the counting.  Michel-Laurent, Marguerite, and five of their children, four sons and a daughter, emigrated to Louisiana with the Broussards in 1764-65, the first members of the family to go there.  Their daughter died at age 1 in a Teche valley epidemic.  The family did not retreat to the river to escape the epidemic but remained on Bayou Teche.  By the 1790s, however, they had moved north to Opelousas.  Michel Laurent died at Opelousas in October 1805.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Michel was age 105 when he died.  He probably was in his early 80s.  All four of his sons married, into the Landry, Comeaux, and Voorhies familes, and settled on the prairies, but not all of the lines endured.  Most of the Acadian Doucets of South Louisiana are descendants of Michel and three of his sons, especially the oldest one. 

Laurent, fils's younger son Laurent III, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1727, married Ursule, daughter of Étienne Martin and Marie Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1752.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1752 Ursule gave Laurent III a son.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Laurent's third son Jean, born probably at Port-Royal in c1699, married Marie, daughter of Charles Doiron and François Gaudet, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1723 and remained there.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Laurent's fourth son Pierre-Paul dit Paul Laurent, born at Port-Royal in March 1704, married Anne, daughter of Claude Brun and Cécile Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in February 1738 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1751, Anne gave Paul Laurent seven children, five sons and two daughters.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755.  Did they follow other Acadian exiles to Canada?  After the war with Britain, they settled at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière on the St. Lawrence below Québec by 1770.  Paul Laurent died by November 1773, in his late 60s.  His daughters married into the Ouellet and Langlois families at St.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière and nearby Rivière Ouelle.  One of his sons also created his own family on the lower St. Lawrence.

Fourth son Amable, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1744, followed his family into exile and to Canada.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Landry and Madeleine Bergeron, at Kamouraska below Rivière Ouelle in October 1775. 

Laurent's fifth son Joseph, born on the haute rivière at Port-Royal in January 1708, may not have survived childhood. 

Laurent's sixth son Michel, born on the haute rivière at Port-Royal in October 1710, married, in his late 30s, Marie-Josèphe, daughter of René Babineau and Marie-Madeleine Savoie and widow of Olivier Egan, at Annapolis Royal in October 1748 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1749 and 1755 Marie-Josèphe gave Michel two daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Laurent's seventh and youngest son Claude le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1713, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of Étienne Martin and Marie-Jeanne Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in December 1742 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1753, Marguerite gave Claude le jeune three children, two daughters and a son.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Claude died during exile before August 1763, in his late 40s or early 50s.    

Germain, fils's fourth son Jacques dit Maillard, born probably at Port-Royal in c1671, married Marie, another daughter of Étienne Pellerin and Jeanne Savoie, in c1695 probably at Port-Royal and remained there.  Between 1696 and 1723, Jeanne gave Jacques 11 children, three sons and eight daughters.  Three of their daughters married into the Lord, Simon dit Boucher, and Landry families.  Jacques's sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest son Jean, born at probably at Port-Royal by c1703, married Judith, daughter of Alexandre Bourg and Marguerite Melanson, by April 1728 and settled at Minas.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Jacques's second son Alexis, born at Port-Royal in October 1704, married Madeleine, daughter of Jacques Léger and Madeleine Trahan, in c1729 and probably remained at Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1748, Madeleine gave Alexis 10 children, six sons and four daughters.  Evidently the family escaped the British in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  The family was counted at Sorel on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Montréal in 1762.  Alexis died by February 1762, perhaps at Sorel, in his mid- or late 50s.  Two of his sons created their own families.

Oldest son Jacques le jeune, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1730, married Anne, daughter of Jean Landry and Anne Petitot dit Saint-Seine, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1754, on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement.  The family evidently escaped the British in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Members of the family were counted at Québec in 1757.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1757 and 1778, Anne gave Jacques le jeune five children, three sons and two daughters.  British authorities counted the family at Rivière-du-Loup, today's Louiseville, on the upper St. Lawrence above Trois-Rivières, in 1776, and at nearby Maskinongé in 1782.  One of their daughters married into the MacRay family at Maskinongé.  Two of Jacques le jeune's three sons also created their own families in the area.

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Québec in c1757, married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Raymond and Marie-Claire Pellerin, at Rivière-du-Loup in January 1786. 

Third and yongest son Pierre, born probably at Rivière-du-Loup in c1778, married Marguerite Davis in March 1802. 

Alexis's fourth son Charles-Élisée, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1736, followed his family into exile and to Canada, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Landry and Anne Petitot dit Saint-Seine, at Sorel in February 1762.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1768 and 1779, Marguerite gave Charles-Élisée seven children, four sons and three daughters.  They settled at Maskinongé.  At least two of their sons created their own families there.

Oldest son Michel, born perhaps at Maskinongé in c1768, married Geneviève Généreux there in c1791. 

Charles-Élisée's fourth and youngest son Louis, born probably at Maskinongé in c1779, married Hélène, daughter of Alexis Baril and Marie-Anne Thibodeau, perhaps a fellow Acadian, at Maskinongé in November 1802. 

Jacques's third and youngest son Pierre dit Maillard, born at Port-Royal in February 1707, married Anne-Marie, daughter of François Dugas and Claire Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in January 1749 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1762, Anne-Marie gave Pierre six children, three daughters and three sons.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  The family was counted at Pointe-aux-Écureuils, today's Donnacona, on the upper St. Lawrence above Québec, in 1759, and upriver at Batiscan in 1762.  Pierre died in Canada between 1761 and 1766, in his early 50s.  One of his daughters married into the Gélinas family at Rivière-du-Loup, today's Louiseville.  Did any of his sons marry? 

Germain, fils's fifth son Claude dit Maitre Jean, born probably at Port-Royal in c1674, married Marie, daughter of Étienne Comeau and Marie-Anne Lefebvre, probably at Port-Royal in c1696 and remained there.  Between 1697 and 1722, Marie gave Claude 11 children, five sons and six daughters.  Claude died at Annapolis Royal in December 1754, in his late 70s, on the eve of exile.  Five of his daughters married into the Gaudet, Préjean, Chiasson, Grosvalet, and Le Borgne dit Cotte families.  Four of his five sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Charles, born probably at Port-Royal in c1697, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Préjean and Andrée Savoie, at Annapolis Royal in February 1725 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1745, Madeleine gave Charles seven children, three daughters and four sons, including a set of twins.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  After the war with Britain, they resettled at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence below Montréal, where British officials counted them in 1767.  Two of their daughters married into the Simon and Granger families in Nova Scotia and Connecticut.  At least one of Charles's sons created his own family.

Fifth and youngest son Jean, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1745, followed his family to Connecticut and Canada.  He married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Amireau and Marguerite Robichaud of Pobomcoup, at Trois-Rivières in February 1778.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1779 and 1800, Madeleine gave Jean 11 children, six sons and five daughters, including a set of twins.  They remained at Trois-Rivières. 

Claude's second son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in March 1706, married Anne-Agnès, daughter of Pierre Surette and Jeanne Pellerin, at Annapolis Royal in January 1731 and may have remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1754, Anne gave Joseph 13 children, 10 sons and three daughters, including a set of twins.  Another source gives them another son--their eleventh son and fourteenth child--in c1758.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted Joseph, Anne, and 10 of their children at Gloucester in July 1760.  After the war with Britain, the family returned to Nova Scotia and settled at Yarmouth, formerly Cap-Forshu, north of Cap-Sable, on the peninsula's southwest coast.  Two of their daughters married Mius d'Entremont brothers of nearby Pobomcoup.  At least six of Joseph's sons also created their own famliies in the area. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born in c1731 perhaps at Annapolis Royal, married cousin Ludivine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Mius d'Entremont and Marie-Josèphe Surette, in c1754.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Did they follow his family to Massachusetts?  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1755 and 1760, Ludivine gave Joseph, fils four children, two sons and two daughters.  They also settled at Yarmouth. 

Joseph, père's third son Dominique, born perhaps at Annapolis Royal in c1733, followed his family to Massachusetts and married cousin Madeleine, another daughter of Jean-Baptiste Mius d'Entremont and Marie-Josèphe Surette, in c1760 probably in Massachusetts.  They appeared on a repatriation list in the Bay Colony in August 1763.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1768 and 1769, Madeleine gave Dominique two sons.  Other records give them a child by August 1763.  After the war with Britain, they returned to Nova Scotia and settled on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay.  Their sons created their own families there.

Older son Dominique, fils, born probably on Baie Ste.-Marie in c1768, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Dugas and Brigitte Melanson, probably on the bay in c1788, and remarried to Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine-Salomon Maillet and Marguerite Blanchard, probably on the bay in April 1799.  The remained at Cap Ste.-Marie and settled at today's Marvillette, near the mouth of St. Mary's Bay. 

Dominique, père's younger son Isidore, born probably on Baie Ste.-Marie in c1769, married Rosalie, daughter of Pierre Hériard and his Acadian wife Marie-Cécile Mius, in c1790. 

Joseph, père's fourth son Charles, born perhaps at Annapolis Royal in c1735, evidently followed his family to Massachusetts and Yarmouth.  He married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Mius d'Entremont and Marie-Marthe Hébert of Pobomcoup, in c1770.  According to Bona Arsenault, Félicité gave Charles a daughter in c1772.  Their daughter married into the Corporon family. 

Joseph, père's sixth son Athanase, born perhaps at Annapolis Royal in c1740, followed his family to Massachusetts and Yarmouth.  He married fellow Acadian Marie LeBlanc in c1763 and settled on Baie Ste.-Marie. 

Joseph, père's eighth son Magloire, born perhaps at Annapolis Royal in c1745, evidently followed his family to Massachusetts and Yarmouth.  He married Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Amireau and Claire Dugas of Pobomcoup, in c1770. 

Joseph, père's tenth son Michel, born perhaps at Annapolis Royal in c1754, followed his family to Massachusetts and Yarmouth.  He married Marie-Susanne, another daughter of Charles Mius d'Entremont and Marie-Marthe Hébert, in c1775. 

Claude's third son Louis, born at Port-Royal in August 1708, died there a few days after birth. 

Claude's fourth son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in November 1709, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Prudent Robichaud and Henriette Petitpas, at Annapolis Royal in January 1732 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1753, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre eight children, four sons and four daughters.  Arsenault says French officials counted them at Québec in 1758, but they likely were deported to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted Pierre, Marie-Josèphe, and eight children at Marblehead in July 1760.  After the war with Britain, some of them chose to settle in Canada, and others returned to British Nova Scotia.  British officials counted members of the family at Trois-Rivières in 1772.  Pierre died of smallpox at Québec in late December 1775, age 66.  Two of his daughters married into the Loranger and Hébert families at Trois-Rivières and Québec.  At least one of his sons created his own family and settled in Nova Scotia.

Second son Amable, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1737, followed his family to Massachusetts but evidently not to Canada.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Gaudet and Gertrude LeBlanc, at Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, on the western coast of Nova Scotia.  One of their daughters married into the Saulnier and Dugas families.  Did Amable father any sons? 

Claude's fifth and youngest son Claude, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1714, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Pellerin and Marie Martin, at Annapolis Royal in November 1739 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1751, Marguerite gave Claude, fils five children, four sons and a daughter.  Claude, fils died in exile before August 1763, in his late 40s.  One wonders where. 

Germain, fils's sixth son Alexis, born probably at Port-Royal in c1682, evidently did not survive childhood. 

Germain, fils's seventh and youngest son Pierre, born probably at Port-Royal in c1685, evidently died as a young man before he could marry.334

Comeau

Pierre Comeau the cooper, another 1632 arrival, started his family late in life.  He and his young wife Rose Bayon, 33 years his junior, nevertheless helped create a large, influential family in the colony.  Between 1650 and 1665, at Port-Royal, Rose gave Pierre nine children, six sons and three daughters.  Pierre died at Port-Royal, date unrecorded.  His daughters married into the Gaudet, Hébert, and Rivet families.  All six of his sons survived childhood, and five of them created families of their own.  Pierre and Rose's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also at Minas and Pigiguit in the Minas Basin; Chignecto; the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, especially at Chepoudy; and in the French Maritimes and Canada (before Le Grand Dérangement).  At least 54 of the cooper's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, from French St.-Domingue and Maryland in the late 1760s, and from France in 1785.  Most of the cooper's descendants, however, could be found in British-controlled Canada and greater Acadia, as well as France and the French Antilles, after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Étienne, born probably at Port-Royal in c1650, became a farmer at Port-Royal.  He married Marie-Anne, daughter of Martin Lefebvre and Barbe Bajolet, probably at Port-Royal in c1670.  Between 1671 and 1676, Marie-Anne gave Étienne three children, two daughters and a son.  Genealogist Bona Arsenault gives them another son.  Their daughters married into the Michel dit Saint-Michel and Doucet families.  Étienne, in his late 40s, remarried to Marie, daughter of René Landry l'aîné and Perrine Bourg and widow of Germain Doucet, fils, probably at Port-Royal in c1698.  She gave him no more children.  Étienne died at Annapolis Royal in January 1723, age 73.  His son created a family of his own. 

Only son Alexandre, by first wife Marie-Anne Lefebvre, born probably at Port-Royal in c1674, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Doucet and Henriette Pelletret, in c1700.  They remained at Port-Royal.  Between 1703 and 1725, Marguerite gave Alexandre six children, three daughters and three sons.  In August 1715, Alexandre, called André in the record, received permission to go to French-controlled Île Royale, formerly Cape Breton Island, to look at land there, but he chose to remain in British Nova Scotia.  Alexandre died at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal, in July 1725, in his early 50s; his youngest child was born the following October.  His daughters married into the Doucet, Guilbeau, and Bourg families.  His three sons also created their own families at Annapolis Royal and in exile.

Oldest son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1714, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Abraham Bourg and Marie Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in November 1835.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1752, Anne-Marie gave Joseph eight children, six daughters and two sons.  In 1755, the British deported the family to New York.  Joseph, his wife, and eight children appeared on a repatriation list there in 1763.  One wonders what happened to them after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Alexandre's second son François, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1722, married Françoise, daughter of Thomas Le Sauvage dit Forgeron and Anne Lapierre and widow of Gilles Massé and Germain Doucet, at Annapolis in February 1749.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1752, Françoise gave François three children, two sons and a daughter.  The British deported François and his family to New York in 1755.  François, his wife, and 10 children also appeared on a repatriation list there in 1763.  They moved on to Champflore, Martinique, where colonial officials counted François, wife Françoise, and six of their children in January 1766.  François died on the island the following June, age 44.  Two of his daughters died on the island in June and July, and a stepdaughter died there the following November.  Widow Françoise evidently remained on the island.

Alexandre's third and youngest son Charles, born posthumously at Annapolis Royal in October 1725, was still a bachelor when the British deported him to Connecticut in 1755.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babineau dit Deslauriers and Marguerite Dugas, in that colony in c1758.  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" at Mirebalais, near Port-aux-Prince, French St.-Domingue, in September 1764, where they had gone with dozens of other fellow Acadians the year before to work on coffee and indigo plantations.  Marguerite used the surname Deslauriers, not Babineau.  Two of their sons, probably twins, died at age 5 at Mirebalais in September and October 1764.  Another son, born at Mirebalais in November 1766, died probably soon after his birth.  They were among the few Acadians who emigrated to Louisiana directly from St.-Domingue, probably in the late 1760s, perhaps with one of the Acadian parties from Maryland that transshipped at Cap-Français in 1767 or 1768.  With them was daughter Anne, who had been born probably in Connecticut in c1762.  They settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans and had more children there, including another son.  Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in 1777.  Daughter Anne married into the Bernard, Gaudet, and Levert families.  Only one of Charle's four sons--François, the one born in Louisiana--created a family of his own.  He married into the Charpentier family and remained at Cabahannocer, later St. James Parish, one of the few Comeauxs to settle there.  His sons and grandsons settled near Convent. 

Pierre's second son Pierre l'aîné dit L'Esturgeon, born probably at Port-Royal in c1652, married Jeanne, daughter of Antoine Bourg and Antoinette Landry, probably at Port-Royal in c1677.  They settled on the haute rivière.  Between 1678 and 1705, Jeanne gave L'Esturgeon 18 children, eight sons and 10 daughters. Bona Arsenault gives them another daughter.  Pierre dit L'Esturgeon died at Annapolis Royal in April 1730, in his late 70s.  Eight of his daughters married into the Pitre, Vigneau, Raymond, Thébeau, Langlois, Lord, and Thibodeau families.  Five of his eight sons also created famililes of their own.  

Oldest son Abraham, born probably at Port-Royal in c1680, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Pitre and Marie Pesseley, probably at Port-Royal in c1701 and remained at Port-Royal.  Between the early 1700s and 1727, Marguerite gave Abraham 13 children, eight daughters and five sons, including a set of twins.  Their daughters married into the Préjean, Saulnier, Léger, Vincent, Giraud, Doucet, Brun, and Bourgeois families.  Only two of Abraham's sons created their own families.  His two younger sons may have been casualties of King George's War in the late 1740s. 

Oldest son Jean le jeune, born at Port-Royal in September 1704, married Marguerite-Brigitte, called Brigitte, daughter of François Savoie and Marie Richard, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1732 and settled at Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1751, Brigitte gave Jean five children, two sons and three daughters.  Other records give them another son.  Jean le jeune took his family to Île St.-Jean perhaps to escape the British in 1755.  He died on the island soon after they arrived, in his early 50s.  His widow promptly remarried to his cousin Maurice Comeau le jeune at Port-La-Joye in August 1756.  Brigitte, her new husband, and her children escaped the British roundup on Île St.-Jean in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Most members of the family moved on to Canada and settled there.  Two of Jean's daughters married into the Landrot and Saintonge families at Trois-Rivières and Yamachiche.  His oldest son also settled there.  His younger sons, however, having becoming separated from the family, emigrated to Louisiana in 1765. 

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Chepoudy in c1738, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and his mother and stepfather to Canada.  Joseph married cousin Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Lord and Madeleine Comeau, at Québec in February 1759.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1784, Élisabeth gave Joseph a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters.  Joseph, in his early 50s, remarried to Amable, daughter of Pierre Saint-Cerny-Montour and Marie-Anne Camirand, at Yamachiche near Trois-Rivières in November 1790.  Arsenault says Amable gave Joseph another son in c1795. 

Jean le jeune's second son Victor, born probably at Chepoudy in c1740 (Bona Arsenault says c1733), followed his family to Île St.-Jean and into exile, but he probably did not follow his mother and stepfather to Canada.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either surrendered to, or was captured by, the British and held in a prisoner-of-war compound in Nova Scotia.  He married Anne, 30-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Michel and Jeanne Breau and widow of Michel Brun, probably at Halifax in c1763.  Anne gave him a son soon after their marriage.  In late 1764 and early 1765, they followed the Broussard dit Beausoleil party to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  Another son was born to them either aboard ship or at Cap-Français.  The boy was baptized in the island port, and the family, with the Broussards, reached New Orleans in February 1765.  They followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche and survived the mysterious epidemic that struck the Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  Victor died either in Attakapas or nearby Opelousas by April 1771, when Anne remarried--her third marriage--to widower Joseph Cormier of Chignecto and Prairie Bellevue, at Opelousas.  One of Victor's sons, the younger one, married into the LeBlanc family and created a vigorous family line at Carencro at the northern edge of the Attakapas District. 

Jean le jeune's third and youngest son Charles le jeune, born probably at Chepoudy in c1742, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and into exile, but, like older brother Victor, probably did not follow his mother and stepfather to Canada.  He, too, ended up as a prisoner of war in Nova Scotia.  He married cousin Anastasie, daughter fellow Acadians Paul Savoie and Judith Michel of Chepoudy, probably at Halifax in c1763 or 1764.  They, too, emigrated to Louisiana via French St.-Domingue in 1764-65.  If they followed his brother Victor and the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, they did not remain there.  By the spring of 1766, Charles le jeune and Anastasie were living in the Opelousas District, where they remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1781, Anastasie gave Charles eight children, five sons and three daughters, but Louisiana records give them three daughters and only four sons.  Charles died at Opelousas in August 1705, in his early 60s.  His daughters married into the Broussard, Langlinais, Mouton, and Sonnier families.  All four of his sons married, into the Broussard, Langlois, Sonnier, Préjean, and Mouton families, and created vigorous lines on the western prairies. 

Abraham's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in September 1708, married Angélique, daughter of Jacques Carne and Marie Arnault, at Grand-Pré in September 1729 and likely settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1743, Angélique gave Jean-Baptiste five children, three sons and two daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Abraham's third son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1718, died young. 

Abraham's fourth son François, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1722, died there a bachelor in June 1747, in his mid-20s.  His death occurred in June 1747 during the final year of King George's War, so one wonders if he was a casualty of that conflict.  He did not marry. 

Abraham's fifth and youngest son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1724, also died at Annapolis Royal in June 1747, in his early 20s, two weeks before his older brother François died, so he, too, may have been a casualty of war.  He also did not marry. 

L'Esturgeon's second son Joseph dit Grandjean, born probably at Port-Royal in August 1685, married Marie, daughter of Jean Roy dit La Liberté and Marie Aubois, at Annapolis Royal in November 1710 and settled on the haute rivière.  Between 1712 and the late 1740s, Marie gave him seven children, five daughters and two sons.  Three of their daughters married into the Richard, Savoie, and Levron families, the youngest at Beaubassin.  One of Grandjean's two sons married.  One wonders what happened to members of the family in 1755. 

Older son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1716, probably died young. 

Grandjean's younger son Simon, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1722, married in c1746 probably at Annapolis Royal a woman whose name has been lost to history. 

L'Esturgeon's third son Pierre, born probably at Port-Royal in c1688, died at Port-Royal in December 1710, still a bachelor, in his early 20s, and was buried at the St.-Laurent chapel on the haute rivière.  One wonders if he was a casualty of the fight at Port-Royal the previous September. 

L'Esturgeon's fourth son Jean, born probably at Port-Royal at c1696, married Madeleine, daughter of François Amireau and Marie Pitre, at Annapolis Royal in October 1719 and settled at Chepoudy.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1720 and 1736, Madeleine gave Jean five children, two daughters and three sons.  Jean and members of his family evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières area in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Jean died at Québec in early December 1757, age 60, a victim perhaps of the smallpox epidemic that struck Acadian refugees in the area that fall and winter.  One of his daughters married into the Savoie family.  Two of his three sons also created their own families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana in 1765.

Oldest son Grégoire, born probably at Chepoudy in c1723, married Marie Thibodeau probably at Chepoudy in c1750.  They evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières area in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Grégoire a daughter in 1757, probably in Canada.  Sadly, both Grégoire, age 34, and wife Marie died at Québec in 1757, victims of the smallpox epidemic that struck Acadian refugees in the area that fall and winter.  One wonders if their infant daughter also succumbed to the disease. 

Jean's second son Michel, born probably at Chepoudy in c1733, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Michel Girouard and Marie Thibodeau, at Chepoudy in May 1756, so they likely had escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières area the previous fall.  They probably sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore soon after their marriage.  In the late 1750s, they either were captured by, or surrendered to, the British and were held in the prisoner-of-war compound at Halifax, where Marie-Madeleine gave Michel a son in c1760.  Michel, Marie-Madeleine, and three children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Late the following year, they emigrated to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and reached New Orleans in the spring of 1765.  They brought only a single child with them.  However, Marie-Madeleine was pregnant on the voyage, and another son was born to them in late April 1765 either aboard ship, at La Balize, or in New Orleans.  After baptizing their newborn son at New Orleans on May 16, they followed 200 other Acadians to lower Bayou Teche but did not remain there.  They settled, instead, on upper Bayou Teche in the Opelousas District, where Marie-Madeleine gave Michel more children.  Michel died at Opelousas in the spring of 1804, in his early 70s.  His daughters married into the Bellard and Doucet families.  Only his youngest son, born at Opelousas, created a family of his own.  He married into the Latiolais family and created a vigorous line on the western prairies.  

L'Esturgeon's fifth son François, born probably at Port-Royal in c1699, married Anne, daughter of Alexandre Lord and Marie-Françoise Barrieau, at Annapolis Royal in February 1724 and also settled at Chepoudy.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1725 and 1754, Anne gave François 11 children, six daughters and five sons.  François and his family evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières area in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  François died at Québec in late April 1758, age 58, a victim perhaps of the smallpox that struck Acadian refugees in the area the previous fall and winter.  Four of his daughters married into the Rousse dit Languedoc, Michel dit Bécot, and Rivard-Dufresne families in Canada.  Four of his five sons also created their own families on the upper St. Lawrence. 

Oldest son Maurice le jeune, born probably at Chepoudy in c1732, evidently moved, or was driven, to Île St.-Jean after August 1752.  He married Marguerite-Brigitte, called Brigitte, daughter of François Savoie and Marie Richard of Annapolis Royal and widow of his cousin Jean Comeau, at Port-La-Joye on the island in August 1756.  They evidently escaped the British roundup on the island in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, or perhaps they went directly from the island to Canada.  However way they went, Brigitte did not survive the ordeal.  Maurice le jeune remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Gaudet and Marie-Josèphe Darois of Pigiguit, at Yamachiche near Trois-Rivières in February 1766.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1767 and 1769, Marie-Josèphe gave Maurice le jeune two sons.  He remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathieu Doucet and Anne Lord of Annapolis Royal, at Yamachiche in November 1771.  Evidently Isabelle gave Maurice le jeune no more children.  One of his two sons created his own family at Trois-Rivières.

Older son Joseph, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Gaudet, born probably at Yamachiche in c1767, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Duplessis and Françoise Laure, at Pointe-du-Lac near Trois-Rivières in November 1787. 

François's second son François, fils, born probably at Chepoudy in c1738, may have followed his parents to Canada in the late 1750s.  He married Françoise, daughter of Louis Paris dit Lamadeleine and Michelle David, at Bécancour, across from Trois-Rivière, in October 1767.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1768 and 1772, Françoise gave François, fils three daughters.  He remarried to Geneviève, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Clément dit Dubois and Josephte Bourbeau, at Bécancour in June 1774.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1775 and 1791, Geneviève gave François, fils nine more children, six daughters and three sons, at Bécancour.  Six of François, fils's daughters by both wives married into the LeBlanc, Dubois, Bélanger, Tourigny, Piché, Deshaies, and Lacourse families at Bécancour.  His three sons also created their own families in the area.

Oldest son François III, by second wife Geneviève Clément, born probably at Bécancour in c1783, married Marie, daughter of François Bourbeau-Beauchène and Marie-Anne Provencher, at Bécancour in September 1808.  In his early 50s, he remarried to Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Cormier and his Canadian wife Marie-Angélique Ducharme, at Bécancour in September 1834. 

François, fils's second son Charles, by second wife Geneviève Clément, born probably at Bécancour in c1787, married Geneviève, daughter of Michel Beaudet and Louise Michel, at Gentilly in August 1812. 

François, fils's third and youngest son Michel-Jérôme, by second wife Geneviève Clément, born probably at Bécancour in c1791, married Angèle, daughter of Louis Provencher-Nourri and Angélique Roger, at Nicolet in c1814. 

François, père's fourth son Joseph le jeune, born probably at Chepoudy in c1745, evidently followed his parents to Canada in the late 1750s.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Vincent and Marie Daigle, at Yamachiche in 1774.

François, père's fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Chepoudy in c1754, followed his parents to Canada in the late 1750s.  He married Marie-Josèphe Boucher there probably in the 1770s and remarried to Marie-Josèphe Houde-Desruisseaux probably later in the decade.  They were living at Bécancour in 1783, at nearby Nicolet from 1785 to 1792, at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets below Bécancour in 1793, and at nearby Gentilly in 1797.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1780 and 1797, the second Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste 10 children, four sons and six daughters, including two sets of twins.  One of Jean-Baptiste's daughters married into the Lévesque family at Nicolet.  One of his sons also created his own family there.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Houde-Desruisseaux, born probably at Bécancour in c1780, married Ursule Lacharité at Nicolet in October 1804. 

L'Esturgeon's sixth son Maurice, born probably at Port-Royal in c1699, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau le jeune and Anne-Marie Aucoin, in c1732 and settled at Chepoudy.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1733 and 1737, Marguerite gave Maurice two children, a daughter and a son.  If the family escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières area in 1755, they likely were captured by, or surrendered to, the British in the early 1760s and ended up as prisoners in Nova Scotia.  They appeared on a repatriation list at Chédabouctou, present-day Guysborough, Nova Scotia, in 1763.  They joined other Acadian refugees on Île Miquelon in 1764 and were counted there in 1767.  That year, due to overcrowding on the island, French authorities evidently pressured them into emigrating to France.  Maurice died in the Hôpital de St.-Pol-de-Léon, Brittany, France, in January 1768, age 60.  His son created this own family in greater Acadia and emigrated to Louisiana from France.

Only son Benoît, born at Chepoudy in c1737, followed his parents into exile and into imprisonment in Nova Scotia.  Benoît married fellow Acadian Anne Blanchard of Petitcoudiac at Halifax in c1762.  They evidently followed his parents to Chédabouctou and to Île Miquelon in 1764.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Benoît two sons in 1763 and 1765.  They followed his parents to France in 1767 and settled at Cherbourg, where, from 1769 to 1773, Anne gave Benoît three daughters.  He worked at Cherbourg as a carpenter.  Along with hundreds of other Acadians in the coastal cities, Benoît and his family may have been part of a settlement scheme in the interior of Poitou in the early 1770s and retreated to the port city of Nantes in late 1775 or early 1776.  Anne gave Benoît another daughter at Chantenay, near Nantes, in 1779.  The family, which now included a son and three daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Anne was pregnant on the voyage and give birth to another daughter at sea.  They followed the majority of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Benoît's daughters married into the Richard, Hébert, LeBlanc, Guillot, and Chiasson families on the bayou and the river.  One of his daughters settled in the Opelousas District.  His youngest daughter was one of the last Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join her ancestors.  His only surviving son Jean, age 19 when he came to Louisiana. evidently did not create a family of his own. 

L'Esturgeon's seventh son Ambroise, born at Port-Royal in February 1704, married Marguerite, daughter of Germain Cormier and Marie LeBlanc of Chignecto, in c1732 and settled at Chepoudy.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1756, Marguerite gave Ambroise nine children, four sons and five daughters.  They, too, evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières area in the fall of 1755.  If they went to Canada with Ambroise's older brothers, they did not remain there.  After the war, they settled at Carleton on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, present-day Québec Province.  Three of Ambroise's daughters married into the Brun, Bourg, and Allard families.  Three of his four sons also created their own families on the shores of the Baie des Chaleurs.

Second son Jean, born probably at Chepoudy in c1743, followed his family into exile.  He married Esther, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Babin and Anne Cyr, at Carleton probably in the late 1770s.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1778 and 1780 Esther gave Jean two children, a daughter and a son.  Jean died at Carleton in November 1780, in his late 30s.  His son created his own family. 

Only son Jean, fils, born probably at Carleton in c1780, married Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Landry and Marthe Dugas, at Carleton in January 1802.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1802 and 1821, Angélique gave Jean, fils nine children, five daughters and four sons. 

Ambroise's third son François dit L'Aîné, born probably at Chepoudy in c1745, followed his family into exile and to the shores of the Baie des Chaleurs.  He married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Madeleine Girouard of Carleton, probably at Carleton in c1767.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1768 and 1793, Marie gave L'Aîné a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons.  Four of L'Aîné's daughters married into the Berthelot, Dugas, Mercier, and Goulet families at Carleton.  At least three of his five sons created their own families there. 

Oldest son Olivier, born probably at Carleton in c1779, married Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand LeBlanc and Marie Duon, at Carleton in November 1799.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1800 and 1822, Euphrosine gave Olivier 10 children, five sons and five daughters. 

L'Aîné's third son Grégoire, born probably at Carleton in c1781, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Cormier and Marie LeBlanc, at Carleton in April 1808.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1809 Rosalie gave Grégoire a daughter.  Grégoire remarried to Angélique, daughter of François Tardif and Angélique Boivin of Québec, at Carleton in April 1814.

L'Aîné's fourth son Moïse-Osée, born probably at Carleton in c1784, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Bariault and Élisabeth Landry, at Carleton in January 1811.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1812 and 1824, Adélaïde gave Moïse-Osée eight children, five daughters and three sons.

Ambroise's fourth and youngest son François dit Le Jeune, born in exile in c1756, followed his family to the shores of the Baie des Chaleurs and married Marie, daughter of François Beaudry and Madeleine Boiselle, at Carleton in July 1778.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1779 and 1790, Marie gave Le Jeune six children, three daughters and three sons.  Le Jeune remarried to fellow Acadian Isabelle Boudreau, widow of Michel Frenette, at Bathurst, New Brunswick, formerly Nepisiguit, on the south shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, in c1795.  According to Arsenault, in 1796 Isabelle gave Le Jeune another daughter.  Le Jeune's four daughters by both of his wives married into the Ferlatte, Beaudry, and Comeau dit Maza families at Carleton.  One of his three sons also created his own family there.

Third and youngest son Jean le jeune, by first wife Marie Beaudry, born probably at Carleton in c1786, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Johnson, probably Jeanson, and Geneviève Doiron, at Carleton in January 1808.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1809 and 1813, Marguerite gave Jean le jeune three children, two sons and a daughter. 

L'Esturgeon's eighth and youngest son Jacques, born at Port-Royal in October 1705, died three weeks after his birth. 

Pierre's third son Jean l'aîné, born probably at Port-Royal in c1656, married Françoise, daughter of Étienne Hébert and Marie Gaudet, probably at Port-Royal in c1675 and remained there.  Between 1678 and 1705, Françoise gave Jean l'aîné 19 children, including eight sons and nine daughters.  Jean l'aîné, in his mid-60s, remarried to Catherine, daughter of François Joseph dit Lejeune and Jeanne Lejeune, at Annapolis Royal in January 1720.  After a lengthy illness, he died at Annapolis Royal the following November.  Catherine gave him another child, a posthumously-born daughter, who married into the Daniel family.  Jean l'aîné's line of the Comeau family, through seven of his sons, was the largest of all.  Seven of his and Françoise's daughters married into the Girouard, D'Amours de Chauffours, Richard, Soulard, Trahan, Melanson, and Gisé dit Des Rosiers families.  One of them settled in Canada before Le Grand Dérangement and another at Minas.  The others remained at Annapolis Royal.  Seven of Jean l'aîné's sons created famililes of their own, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Pierre le jeune, by first wife Françoise Hébert, a twin, born probably at Port-Royal in c1680, married Susanne, daughter of Pierre Bézier dit Joan dit Larivière and Madeleine Brun, at Port-Royal in January 1704.  They lived for a time at Minas before returning to the Annapolis valley.  Between 1705 and 1731, Susanne gave Pierre 13 children, eight sons and five daughters, including a set of twins.  Four of their five daughters married into the Thibodeau, Dupuis, Lord, Dupaul, Bourgeois, and Mouton families.  One of them emigrated to Louisiana from the French Antilles.  Six of Pierre le jeune's eight sons also created their own families.  Three of them married sisters. 

Oldest son Alexandre, born at Grand-Pré in November 1707, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Guillaume Blanchard and Jeanne Dupuis, at Annapolis Royal in January 1737.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1753, Marie-Josèphe gave Alexandre six children, four sons and two daughters.  Alexandre and his family evidently escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Alexandre died perhaps still in exile before October 1764, place unrecorded.  His daughters married into the Dufault and Labossière families at St.-Ours on lower Rivière Richelieu northeast of Montréal.  Three of his four sons created their own families at St.-Ours and in coastal Nova Scotia.

Oldest son Alexandre, fils, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1739, followed his family to Canada in the late 1750s, where he married fellow Acadian Anne-Marie Pothier.  They did not remain in Canada but helped pioneer the new Acadian settlement on Baie-Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, on the southwestern coast of Nova Scotia. 

Alexandre, père's second son Joseph-Amable, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1741, followed his family to Canada and married Josephte dite Maranda ____ perhaps at St.-Ours, where he died in March 1814, in his late 60s or early 70s. 

Alexandre, père's third son Charles, born probaby at Annapolis Royal in c1747, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Catherine, daughter of Joseph Plouffe and Marie-Ursule Rondeau, at St.-Ours in March 1772. 

Pierre le jeune's second son Pierre, fils, born at Grand-Pré in February 1712, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Alexandre Lord and Marie-Françoise Barrieau, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1734 (he also calls her Élisabeth Lord).  Arsenault says Marie-Madeleine/Élisabeth gave Pierre, fils a daughter in c1735.  According to Stephen A. White, Pierre, fils married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Alexandre Lord and Marie-Françoise Barrieau, at Annapolis Royal in November 1739.  According to Arsenault, between 1730 and 1752, Élisabeth gave Pierre, fils eight children, five sons and three daughters.  Pierre, fils died perhaps while still in exile before August 1763, place unrecorded.  Arsenault says his widow remarried to Pierre Derayer of Beaubassin, widower of Françoise Arseneau, no place or date given.  One of Pierre, fils's daughters married into the Gaudet family perhaps while in exile; Arsenault says the marriage was "rehabilitated" "à Annapolis," perhaps in Maryland, in October 1769.  Arsenault says Pierre, fils's daughter Anne ended up at Bordeaux, France, where she married fellow Acadian Joseph Haché, a ship's carpenter, date unrecorded.  One wonders what happened to Pierre, fils's many sons. 

Pierre le jeune's third son Étienne le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1717, married Anne-Hélène, another daughter of Guillaume Blanchard and Jeanne Dupuis, at Annapolis Royal in January 1744.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1752, Anne-Hélène gave Étienne le jeune four children, all daughters.  In the autumn of 1755, Étienne le jeune and his family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis and sought refuge in Canada.  Étienne le jeune died at Québec in December 1757, age 40, a victim of the smallpox epidemic that struck Acadian refugees in the area that fall and winter.  Wife Anne-Hélène died 10 days later. 

Pierre le jeune's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1720, died at age 3 1/2 in May 1724. 

Pierre le jeune's fifth son Guillaume, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1723, married Élisabeth, yet another daughter of Guillaume Blanchard and Jeanne Dupuis, at Annapolis Royal February 1749.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1754, Élisabeth gave Guillaume three children, two daughters and a son.  Guillaume and his family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Guillaume died at Québec in December 1757, age 34, a victim, like his older brother, of the smallpox epidemic that struck Acadian refugees in the area that fall and winter; the brothers, in fact, died on the same day. 

Pierre le jeune's sixth son Prudent, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1727, died four days after his birth. 

Pierrele jeune's seventh son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1728, married Madeleine, daughter of Charles Girouard and Anne Bastarache, at Annapolis Royal in February 1749.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1752, Madeleine gave Joseph three children, all daughters.  Joseph and his family also may have escaped the British roundup at Annapolis in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Joseph remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Cormier and Marie Arseneau of Chignecto, in c1762, place unrecorded, while in exile. 

Pierre le jeune's eighth and youngest son François dit Maza, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1731, evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755 and followed his family to Canada.  He married Félicité, daughter of Charles LeBlanc and Madeleine Girouard, in Canada in c1764.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Caraquet, present-day northeastern New Brunswick, in September 1769.  François dit Maza died between 1819 and 1823, in his late 80s, place unrecorded.  One of his daughters married into the Dugas family. 

Jean l'aîné's second son Étienne l'aîné, by first wife Françoise Hébert, brother Pierre le jeune's twin, was born probably at Port-Royal in c1680.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Forest and Jacqueline Benoit, probably at Port-Royal in c1705.  Between 1706 and 1722, Marguerite gave Étienne l'aîné nine children, four sons and five daughters.  Four of their daughters married into the Granger and Benoit families, three of them to Benoits.  Étienne l'aîné remarried to Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of François Levron and Catherine Savoie and widow of Michel Picot dit La Rigeur and Yves or Yvon Maucaïre, at Annapolis Royal in November 1730.  If she gave him anymore children, their names and gender have been lost to history.  According to Bona Arsenault, Étienne l'aîné and his family also settled at Minas and Pigiguit.  Three of Étienne l'aîné's four sons, by first wife Marguerite, created their own families.  One of them emigrated to Louisiana. 

The oldest son, whose name has been lost to history, from first wife Marguerite Forest, born probably at Port-Royal in c1706, did not live past 1714. 

Étienne l'aîné's second son Charles, by first wife Marguerite Forest, born probably at Port-Royal in c1709, married Madeleine, daughter of Germain Landry and Marie Melanson, in c1744 and settled at Pigiguit.  The British deported Charles and his family to Maryland in 1755.  Charles, now a widower, and three of his children, two sons and a daughter, appeared on a repatriation list at Port Tobacco on the lower Pototmac in July 1763.  They, along with a Comeau orphan, emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  Charles's daughter married into the Doucet family.  One of his sons married into the Dugas and Boush families, settled on the river in Iberville Parish, and created the most vigorous Comeaux family line on what became known as the Acadian Coast.

Étienne l'aîné's third son Jean, by first wife Marguerite Forest, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1715, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Turpin and Catherine Bourg, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1735.  He and his family emigrated to the French Maritimes in the late 1740s.  Marguerite died probably on Île Royale soon after they arrived.  In late February 1752, a French official counted Jean, still unmarried, and five of his children, three sons and two daughters, ages 16 to 4, on north shore of Île Madame off the southern coast of Île Royale.  One of his daughters married into the Dupont family of Louisbourg, Île Royale.  In c1754, Jean remarried on Île Royale to a woman whose name has been lost to history.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Jean died probably in France before May 1765.  His youngest son emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.

Second son David, by first wife Marguerite Turpin, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1746, followed his family to Île Madame, where he was counted with his widowed father and siblings in February 1752.  In 1758, he was deported to France aboard the British transport Duc Guillaume with married sister Marguerite, her husband Jean Dupont, and his younger brother Charles.  Despite a mishap at sea that killed many passengers, the Comeaus reached St.-Malo in December settled in the port city.  In March 1760, at age 14, David embarked from Lorient, on the south coast of Brittany, aboard the privateer Tavignon.  The Royal Navy captured the vessel, and the British held the young Acadian in prison for the rest of the war.  In May 1763, David, now age 17, was repatriated back to St.-Malo with dozens of other Acadians being held in English prison compounds.  He was counted at St.-Malo the following year but then disappears from the  historical record.  He likely remained in France.  One thing is certain--he did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana with his younger brother Charles. 

Jean's third and youngest son Charles le jeune, by first wife Marguerite Turpin, born at Annapolis Royal or on Île Royale in c1747, was counted with his widowed father and four siblings on the north shore of Île Madame off the southern coast of Île Royale in February 1752; the French official who found the family there said Charles was age 4.  In late 1758, the British deported him to France with his sister Marguerite, her husband Jean Dupont of Louisbourg, and his older brother David aboard Duc Guillaume, which reached St.-Malo the first of November.  Charles resided at St.-Malo from 1758 to 1761 before moving to Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of the Breton port.  In April 1764, still in his teens, he followed other exiles in France to the new French colony of Guiane on the northern coast of South America aboard Le Fort.  He did not remain.  He returned to France and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Clossinet dit Moulin and Marguerite Longuépée and widow of Pierre-Mathurin Girard dit Dumoulin.  Marie was 20 years older than her second husband!  She had married her first husband on Île St.-Jean in September 1751, when Charles would have been age 4, followed her husband to St.-Malo and lived with him at nearby Châteauneuf and St.-Servan-sur-Mer before following him to Guiane aboard Le Fort .  She also returned to France, perhaps alone.  She and Charles likely knew one another in the tropical colony and may have returned to France together.  She gave him no children.  He worked as a carpenter in the mother country. The rather odd couple emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and probably followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  Charles evidently fathered no children, so his line of the family died with him.

Étienne l'aîné's fourth and youngest son Alexis, by first wife Marguerite Forest, born probably at Annapolis Royal in the late 1710s or early 1720s, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Babin and Marie Landry, in c1752 and settled at Minas.  The British deported the family to Maryland in 1755.  Alexis, his wife, and four of their children, three sons and a daughter, also appeared on a repatriation list at Port Tobacco, near the family of his older brother Charles, in July 1763.  Alexis died in Maryland before December 1767, when his widow and four children left Port Tobacco for Louisiana with the party of Acadian exiles led by the Breau brothers of Pigiguit.  Alexis's daughter married into the LeBlanc family.  His three sons married into the Landry, Blanchard, and Breau families and settled on the Mississippi and on upper Bayou Lafourche, but not all of the lines endured. 

Jean l'aîné's third son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Françoise Hébert, born probably at Port-Royal in c1683, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau l'aîné and Anne-Marie Bourg, at Grand-Pré in November 1713 and settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  Between 1714 and 1726, Anne-Marie gave Jean-Baptiste five children, three sons and two daughters.  Their daughters married into the Martin dit Barnabé and Caissie dit Roger families.  One of them settled at Chignecto.  All three of Jean-Baptiste's sons created their own families, at Pigiguit, Chignecto, on the French Maritimes, and in France. 

Oldest son Honoré, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1714, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Poirier and Marie Chiasson of Beaubassin, at Beaubassin in January 1735 and settled there or at Pigiguit before moving on to the French Maritimes in c1741.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1737 and 1751, Marguerite gave Honoré seven children, five daughters and two sons.  In August 1752, a French official counted Honoré, his wife, and six children, five daughters and a son, at Malpèque on the north shore of Île St.-Jean.  The family escaped the British roundup on the island in late 1758 and may have waited out the war somewhere in the Maritimes, or, more likely, they escaped from Île St.-Jean to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, fell into British hands, became prisoners of war in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s, and followed other Acadians from Halifax to Île Miquelon in c1763, after the war had ended.  French officials counted Honoré, Marguerite, and four of their children--Anne, Monique, Marguerite, and Joseph--on the island in 1767.  Soon Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre became overcrowded.  In 1767, French officials insisted the Acadians there be resettled in France.  By 1772, Honoré, now a widower, was living at Cherbourg.  A year later, he and his son Joseph participated in the settlement scheme in the interior of Poitou.  When the venture collapsed in 1775, they retreated with dozens of other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Meanwhile, Honoré's daughter Marguerite married into the Broussard family at Cherbourg in July 1773.  Honoré's daughter Anne, widow of Grégoire Morin, remarried into the Le Clerc family of St.-Malo on Île Miquelon in October 1774, so some of his family must have returned there after the French "deportation" of the late 1760s.  Honoré, at age 70, remarried to Anastasie, 45-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Célestin dit Bellemère and Marie Landry and widow of Jean-Baptiste Boudrot, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes in August 1784.  She gave him no more children.  Honoré, his wife, and two Boudrot stepsons emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Honoré, in fact, was one of the oldest Acadian exiles to go to the Spanish colony.  He died there by January 1788, in his early 70s, when his wife was called a widow in a Bayou Lafourche census.  His surviving son created a family in France, returned to Île Miquelon, and was deported to France again. 

Older son Pierre, by first wife Marguerite Poirier, born probably at Malpeque, Île St.-Jean, in March 1744, died by August 1752, when his family was counted at Malpèque without him. 

Honoré's younger son Joseph le jeune, by first wife Marguerite Poirier, born probably at Malpèque in c1748 (Bona Arsenault says c1724!), was counted with his family at Malpèque, age 4, in August 1752.  He followed his family into exile in 1758, to Île Miquelon in c1763, and to Cherbourg, France, in c1767.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Doucet and Marie Carret, in France, place and date unrecorded.  According to Arsenault, Anne gave Joseph le jeune a son, Jean, in 1769.  Joseph and his family accompanied his widowered father to Poitou in the early 1770s, and retreated to Nantes with his father and other Poitou Acadians in December 1775.  He did not remain at Nantes.  He and Anne returned to Île Miquelon soon after the venture in Poitou, and Anne died on the island.  During the American Revolution, in 1778, the British deported Joseph, his son, and other island Acadians to La Rochelle, France.  According to a French church record, Joseph, son of Honoré Comeau and Marguerite Poirier, died in St.-Nicolas parish, La Rochelle, in September 1782, age 33, three years before his father emigrated to Louisiana.  Arsenault insists that Joseph, son of Honoré, returned with his son Jean to Île Miquelon in c1783 and remarried to a much younger woman there.  Arsenault also insists that Joseph's son remained in France.

According to Bona Arsenault, only son Jean, born in France in c1769, married Thérèse, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Mouton and Angélique Héningre of Île Miquelon, at Bordeaux, France, in c1797.  Arsenault says Angélique gave Jean three children, perhaps at Bordeaux, by 1801. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1720, married Marie, daughter of Germain Henry dit Robert and Cécile Deveau, at Beaubassin in February 1744.  They settled at Chignecto before moving on to the French Maritimes in c1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1762, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste, fils four children, two sons and two daughters.  In August 1752, a French official counted Jean-Baptiste, fils, his wife, and two of their children, a son and a daughter, ages 7 and 2, at Malpèque near his older brother Honoré.  Jean-Baptiste, fils and his family also escaped the British roundup on the island in late 1758.  They, too, may have fallen into British hands and become prisoners of war in Nova Scotia, or they may have moved on to Canada after escaping from Île St.-Jean and then returned to greater Acadia after the war.  According to Arsenault, in 1768 British officials counted Jean-Baptiste, fils and his family on Rivière-St.-Jean.  By 1770, they had moved across what became the province of New Brunswick to Rivière Memramcook, near their former home at Chignecto. 

Jean-Baptiste's third and youngest son Joseph, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1726, married Anne, daughter of François Doucet and Marie Carret, at Beaubassin in May 1747 and also settled at Chignecto before moving to Île St.-Jean in the early 1750s.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1751 and 1769, Anne gave Joseph six children, three daughter and three sons.  In August 1752, a French official, calling Joseph an Arceneau, counted him, his wife, and their 18-month-old daughter at Malpèque on the north shore of the island near his older brothers.  Joseph and his family evidently escaped the British roundup on the island in late 1758 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Perhaps after enduring a prisoner-of-war camp in British Nova Scotia in the early 1760s, they chose to move on to Île Miquelon, where French officials counted them in 1765, 1767, and 1776.  Anne died on the island in November 1776.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre and deported the island Acadians to La Rochelle, France, including Joseph and his children.  He remarried to Marie-Henriette, daughter of Joseph Lejeune and Martine Roy, at La Rochelle in February 1780.  They returned to Île Miquelon by 1784.  Joseph died on the island in April 1785, age 55.  Evidently one of his children chose to remain in France:  daughter Louise, by first wife Anne, who would have been age 19 in 1785, married into the Brian family in France and died at Bordeaux in March 1808, age 42. 

Jean l'aîné's fourth son Augustin, by first wife Françoise Hébert, born probably at Port-Royal in the late 1680s, married Jeanne, daughter of François Levron dit Nantois and Catherine Savoie, at Annapolis Royal in February 1714.  Between 1714 and 1735, Jeanne gave Augustin 10 children, two sons and eight daughters.  Augustin died at Annapolis Royal in April 1741, in his early 50s.  Five of his daughters married into the Hébert, Boudrot, Moulaison, Duon, and Semme dit Siroux dit Saint-François families.  One of his two sons also created a family of his own. 

Older son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1724, married Anne, daughter of Guillaume Bourgeois and Catherine-Josèphe Thibodeau, at Annapolis Royal in February 1749.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1753, Anne gave Jean-Baptiste three children, two sons and a daughter.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in 1755.  Jean-Baptiste and 12 other persons in his household appeared on a repatriation list in that colony in 1763.  Later in the decade, Jean-Baptiste followed other Acadian exiles from the New England colonies to Canada, where he died at L'Acadie near St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu on the middle Richelieu in February 1797, age 73.  His daughter married a Bourgeois cousin from Chignecto at Laprairie across from Montréal.  

Augustin's younger son Joseph was born at Annapolis Royal in May 1730.  If he survived childhood, he did not marry.   

Jean l'aîné's fifth son Claude, by first wife Françoise Hébert, born probably at Port-Royal in c1690, was counted there in 1700, age 10.  If he survived childhood, he did not marry. 

Jean l'aîné's sixth son François, by first wife Françoise Hébert, born probably at Port-Royal in c1691, moved to Canada when he came of age and married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Jean Soulard and Adrienne Rolland de Saint-Georges, at Québec in January 1715.  François died at Québec in November 1717, age 26.  One wonders if he fathered any children.   

Jean l'aîné's seventh son Alexandre, by first wife Françoise Hébert, born probably at Port-Royal in c1695, married Marie, daughter of Claude Bertrand and Catherine Pitre, at Annapolis Royal in January 1722.  Alexandre died there in c1724, in his late 20s.  One wonders if he fathered any children. 

Jean l'aîné's eighth and youngest son Joseph, by first wife Françoise Hébert, born at Port-Royal in July 1703, married Brigitte, daughter of Jacques Levron and Marie Doucet, at Grand-Pré in August 1736, and remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Jacques Girouard and Anne Petitpas, at Annapolis Royal in November 1739.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1752, Madeleine gave Joseph seven children, five daughters and two sons.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Pierre's fourth son Pierre le jeune dit Des Loups-Marins, born probably at Port-Royal in c1658, married Jeanne, daughter of Jacques Bourgeois and Jeanne Trahan, probably at Port-Royal in c1689 and remained there.  One wonders how Pierre le jeune earned his remarkable nickname.  Between 1690 and 1712, Jeanne gave the "Sea Wolf" 10 children, five or six sons and four or five daughters.  Three of their daughters married into the Martin and Brun families.  One, perhaps two, of the Sea Wolf's sons created families of their own, and one of his daughters fathered a "natural" son who may have carried his mother's surname. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1690, died by 1703, age 11 or 12.

Des Loups-Marins's third daughter Anne, born probably at Port-Royal in c1696, gave birth to "natural" son Pierre at Grand-Pré in July 1709, when she was in her early teens.  The priest who recorded the boy's baptism in December 1710 evidently did not name the father.  Anne drowned in the flood of November 1713, still in her teens.  Pierre evidently retained his mother's surname. 

Des Loups-Marins's second son François, born probably at Port-Royal in c1701, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Alexandre Lord and Marie-Françoise Barrieau, at Annapolis Royal in February 1726 and settled at Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area in the early 1730s.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1727 and 1742, Marie-Madeleine gave François eight children, a daughter and seven sons.  François and his family evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières area in 1755.  They were counted probably with other Acadian partisans at Petitcoudiac, near their old home at Chepoudy, in 1760.  François remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean Pitre dit Marc and Judith Thériot, in c1762 or 1763, place unrecorded.  According to Arsenault, Marie-Madeleine gave François another son in 1764.  François died after October 1784, in his late 70s or early 80s, place unrecorded.  His daughter married into the Bastarache family.  All eight of his sons by both wives created their own families.  After the war with Britain, they settled in Nova Scotia and Canada.

Oldest son Justinien, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Lord, born probably at Chepoudy in c1729, married Natalie, daughter of Pierre Bastarache and Marguerite Forest, at nearby Petitcoudiac in February 1756, which means they escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières area the previous fall.  They could not remain there.  They sought refuge probably on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they may have escaped the British again.  After the war, British authorities counted them at Annapolis Royal in 1769.  They then moved south to Yarmouth near Cap-Forchu on the southwest coast of Nova Scotia.   According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1775, Natalie gave Justinien seven children, four sons and three daughters.  Three of Justinien's sons created their own families in the area.

Second son Bruno, born probably at Yarmouth in c1773, married Nathalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Amirault and Marie Belliveau, probably at Yarmouth in c1795.  Two of their daughters married into the Dugas family. 

Justinien's third son François le jeune, born probably at Yarmouth in c1774, married Colette, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Lanoue and Marie Melanson, probably at Yarmouth in c1798. 

Justinien's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born probably at Yarmouth in c1775, married fellow Acadian Perpétué Babin at Lower Eel Brook east of Yarmouth in c1800. 

François's second son Amand, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Lord, born probably at Chepoudy in c1730, married Marie, daughter of René Babineau and Madeleine Savoie, at Annapolis Royal in May 1752.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1757, Marie gave Amand two children, a son and a daughter.  Amand and his family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Amand remarried to Marie, daughter of Alexis Coulombe and Marie-Madeleine Groissart, at Berthier, today's Berthier-sur-Mer, on the south bank of the St. Lawrence below Québec City, in January 1757.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1759 and 1764, this Marie gave Amand three more children, a son and two daughters.  Amand remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Anne, daughter of Jacques Taillon and Marie-Anne Béchard, at St.-Charles de Bellechasse, across from Québec City, in c1772.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1773 and 1795, Marie-Anne gave Amand five more children, three daughters and two sons.  (By 1795, when Amand would have been in his mid-60s, he had fathered 10 children, four sons and six daughters, by three wives).  In his late 70s, Amand remarried again--his fourth marriage--to Marie-Louise, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Jacques and Marie-Josèphe Bouchard, at nearby St.-François de Montmagny.  Arsenault says she gave him no more children.  Four of Amand's six daughters by two of his wives married into the Lacroix, Daigle, Pénin, and Brisson families on the lower St. Lawrence.  Three of his four sons by two of his wives also created their own families in the St. Lawrence valley.

Oldest son Antoine-Firmin, by first wife Marie Babineau, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1753, followed his parents into exile in Canada.  He married Marie-Antoinette, daughter of Jacques Aubry and Marie-Anne Baudet, at Trois-Rivièvers in November 1775.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1777 and 1805, Marie-Antoinette gave Antoine-Firmin 16 children, 11 daughters and five sons.

Amand's third son Joseph, by third wife Marie-Anne Taillon, born probably at St.-Charles de Bellechasse in c1776, married Agathe Pénin at St.-Charles de Bellechasse in c1801.

Amand's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, by third wife Marie-Anne Taillon, born probably at St.-Charles de Bellechasse in c1780, married Marie-Josèphe Mercier at St.-Charles de Bellechasse in c1807.

François's third son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Lord, born probably at Chepoudy in c1732, escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge probably on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married fellow Acadian Marie-Rose Robichaud in c1758, place unrecorded, while in exile.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1771, Marie-Rose gave Jean-Baptiste five children, three sons and two daughters.  After the war with Britain, they joined other Acadians at Baie-Ste.-Marie on the southwest coast of Nova Scotia, where Jean-Baptiste pioneered the village of Comeauville south of Pointe-de-l'Église, today's Church Point.  Two of Jean-Baptiste's three sons created families of their own in the area.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born in exile in c1762, married Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Yves Thibault and Françoise Melanson, probably at Baie-Ste.-Marie in c1785, and remarried to fellow Acadian Marie Doucet probably at Baie-Ste.-Marie, date unrecorded. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's second son Joseph, born in greater Acadia in c1766, married fellow Acadian Anne Thibodeau probably on Baie-Ste.-Marie in c1788. 

François's fourth son Pierre, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Lord, born probably at Chepoudy in c1733, married Anne-Marie Amirault in c1754, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne-Marie gave Pierre a son, Pierre, fils, in 1755.  They settled at nearby Petitcoudiac.  One wonders what happened to them after 1755.

François's fifth son Salvator, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Lord, born probably at Chepoudy in c1738, escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Anastasie, daughter of Jean Belliveau and Marie-Madeleine Gaudet of Annapolis Royal, at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in June 1760, on the eve of the British attack there.  They may have escaped the British again, unless they were held at the prison compound at Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1775, Anastasie gave Salvator four children, two daughters and two sons.  After the war, British authorities counted them at Annapolis Royal in 1769.  They then moved south to Baie-Ste.-Marie, where the British counted them in 1770 and 1774.  One of their daughters married into the Dugas family.  Salvator's two sons also created their own families in the area.

Older son Jean, born probably at Baie-Ste.-Marie in c1774, married fellow Acadian Marie LeBlanc probably at Baie-Ste.-Marie in c1795. 

Salvator's younger son Frédéric dit Breau, born probably at Baie-Ste.-Marie in c1775, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Melanson dit Barteau and Anne Trahan, probably at Baie-Ste.-Marie in c1798. 

François's sixth son Joseph, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Lord, born probably at Chepoudy in c1740, may have escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Guillaume Jeanson and Marie Aucoin, in c1762 while in exile.  After the war with Britain, their marriage was "rehabilitated" at Pigiguit, today's Windsor, Nova Scotia, in August 1769.  One wonders if they were allowed to remain there. 

François's seventh son François, fils, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Lord, born probably at Chepoudy in c1742, may have escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After the war with Britain, he married fellow Acadian Félicité LeBlanc in c1764, place unrecorded.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Baie-Ste.-Marie in September 1769 probably after they settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1774, Félicité gave François, fils five children, three sons and two daughters.  One of François, fils's three sons created his own family in the area. 

Third and youngest son Charles-David, born probably at Baie-Ste.-Marie in c1769, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Lanoue and Marie Melanson, probably at Baie-Ste.-Marie in c1795.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Baie-Ste.-Marie in August 1799. 

François, père's eighth and youngest son Firmin, by second wife Marie-Madeleine Pitre, born in c1764 soon after the war with Britain, married fellow Acadian Isabelle Dugas, place unrecorded, in October 1784.  One wonders where they settled. 

Des Loups-Marins's third son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in June 1706, died at Annapolis Royal, age 8, in March 1715. 

Des Loups-Marins's fourth and youngest son Alexandre, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1712, married, according to Bona Arsenault, a woman whose name has been lost to history.  Arsenault says Alexandre settled at Minas and was the father six children, four sons and two daughters, in 1755 on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement.  One wonders what happened to them after 1755. 

Pierre's fifth son Antoine, born probably at Port-Royal in c1661, was counted at Port-Royal in 1686, age 24.  He evidently did not marry.

Pierre's sixth and youngest son Jean le jeune dit Jean-Augustin, born probably at Port-Royal in c1665, married Catherine, daughter of Antoine Babin and Marie Mercier, in c1686 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas.  Between 1687 and 1710, Catherine gave Jean-Augustin 15 children, five sons and 10 daughters.  Eight of their daughters married into the Breau, Boudrot, Landry, Saulnier, Aucoin, and Pitre families.  All of Jean le jeune's sons created families of their own.   

Oldest son Claude, born perhaps at Rivière-aux-Canards in the early 1700s, married Claire, daughter of Claude Landry and Catherine Thibodeau, at Grand-Pré in November 1721 and remained at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1723 and 1724, Claire gave Claude two sons.  Other records give them five sons and a daughter between 1723 and 1747.  In 1755, the British deported Claude, Claire, and some of their children to Virginia, and Virginia authorities deported to England in the spring of 1756.  Claude died in England, place and date unrecorded.  In May 1763, Claire, two of her unmarried children, and a granddaughter were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard La Dorothée with the family of one of her married sons.  They setted at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where daughter Marguerite died in November 1768, age 21.  Claire, still an unmarried widowed, was counted at St.-Servan in 1772.  At least three, maybe four, of her and Claude's sons created their own families in greater Acadia, England, and France, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Eustache, born at Minas in May 1723, married Marie Landry probably at Minas in the late 1740s.  They had at least one children, daughter Marie-Josèphe, in c1750.  The British deported the family to Virginia in 1755 and the Virginians deported them to England in the spring of 1756.  If they were still alive, Eustache and Marie did not survive the ordeal in England.  In May 1763, Marie-Josèphe was repatriated to France aboard La Dorothée with the family of her uncle Alexis.  She settled with them at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where she died in April 1769, age 19. 

Second son Joseph, born at Minas in November 1724, married Anne, daughter of René Aucoin and Madeleine Bourg, probably at Minas in c1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1752 and 1756, Anne gave Joseph two children, a son and a daughter.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  After the war with Britain ended in 1763, Joseph, perhaps now a widower, settled on Rivière Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area.  He remarried to Madeleine Hébert, widow of Jean Bourgeois, in the late 1760s, place unrecorded.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Pigiguit, now Windsor, Nova Scotia, in August 1768.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1768 and 1772, Madeleine gave Joseph three more children, a son and two daughters.  By 1774, Joseph had joined other Acadians on Baie-Ste.-Marie on the southwest coast of Nova Scotia. 

Claude's third son Alexis, born at Minas in c1733, followed his parents and younger siblings to Virginia in 1755 and to England in the spring of 1756.  Alexis married Dorothée, daughter of fellow Acadians François Richard and Marie Martin, in England in 1757.  Dorothée gave Alexis a son in England in c1758.  In May 1763, Alexis and his family followed his widowed mother to St.-Malo, France, aboard La Dorothée and settled with them at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Alexis died at St.-Servan in April 1767, age 35.  Dorothée remarried to a LeBlanc, twice widowed, at St.-Servan in June 1768 and joined him on Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Britanny.  Alexis's son created his own family in France.

Only son Jean-Baptiste, born in England in c1758, followed his parents to St.-Malo, France, settled with them at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, and followed his mother and stepfather to Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1768.  He did not remain there.  He married Marie-Madeleine-Adélaïde, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Landry and his first wife Blanche LeBlanc, at St.-Jacques parish, Nantes, in southern Brittany, in January 1783.  Madeleine was a native of Boulogne-sur-Mer on the northern French coast, where her family had landed from the Maritime islands in 1759.  She gave Jean-Baptiste a son in St.-Similien parish, Nantes, the following December.  Jean-Baptiste may have been a sailor.  He may also have abandoned his family.  Madeleine and their son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 without him.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Madeleine remarried to a French Canadian in August 1798 and to a Mexican in February 1803.  Her son Jean-Baptiste Comeau, fils, who would have been age 1 1/2 when he reached Louisiana, if he survived the crossing may not have survived childhood. 

Claude's fourth son Simon, born at Minas in c1738, evidently followed his parents and siblings to Virginia in 1755 and to England in the spring of 1756.  He evidently was the Simon Comeau who married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thériot and Françoise Landry, in England in c1759.  Their son Mathurin was born at Bristol in August 1760.  Simon died probably at Bristol in the early 1760s.  In May 1763, Marie-Madeleine and her son were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard La Dorothée and settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river below the Breton port before moving to the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1764.  Marie-Madeleine remarried to a Thériot cousin at St.-Servan in July 1765, but she died in May 1766, age 28.  Her Comeau son, raised by relatives, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.

Only son Mathurin, born at Bristol, England, in August 1760, followed his widowed mother to the St.-Malo area, where he lived with her and her second husband until his mother's death.  He likely was raised by relatives.  He became a sailor in France.  In 1785, still a bachelor, he emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  He married Sophie-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and his second wife Marie Benoit, at New Orleans in October 1785, soon after they reached the colony on the same ship.  They followed their fellow passengers, including her family, to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they raised a large family.  Mathurin died there by May 1805, when his wife remarried at Assumption.  Two of his daughters married Bélanger brothers from Baton Rouge on the upper bayou.  Only one of his four sons married, into the Crochet family, and was the first Comeaux to settle in Terrebonne Parish. 

Jean le jeune dit Jean-Augustin's second son Étienne, born perhaps at Rivière-aux-Canards in the early 1700s, married Marie-Josèphe, another daughter of Claude Landry and Catherine Thibodeau, at Grand-Pré in February 1728 and also remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1730 Marie-Josèphe gave Étienne a daughter.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Étienne died probably in exile before August 1763. 

Jean le jeune dit Jean-Augustin's third son Pierre, born perhaps at Rivière-aux-Canards in the early 1700s, married Marguerite, daughter of Martin Aucoin and Catherine Thériot, at Grand-Pré in October 1729 and remained at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1730 Marguerite gave Pierre a son.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Pierre died perhaps in exile before January 1766. 

Son Amand, born at Minas in c1730, married Marie-Claire Thibodeau probably at Minas in c1752.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Claire gave Amand a son in 1755.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Minas in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Amand and Marie-Claire died at Québec in 1757, victims of the smallpox epidemic that struck Acadian refugees in the area that fall and winter.  One wonders what happened to their son. 

Jean le jeune dit Jean-Augustin's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, born at Grand-Pré in November 1712, married Marie Aucoin probably at Minas in c1740.  They, too, remained at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1748 Marie gave Jean, as he calls him, a daughter.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France gives the couple three sons at Rivière-aux-Canards between 1741 and 1750.  In 1755, the British evidently deported the family to Virginia, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  Jean-Baptiste and Marie, if they had survived the deportations, probably died in England.  In the spring of 1763, their sons were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard La Dorothée.  They settled at nearby Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of the Breton port and in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Two of Jean-Baptiste's three sons created their own families in England and France, and one of them, along with his sister-in-law and her Comeau children, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Oldest son Simon, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards, in c1741, followed his family to Virginia in 1755 and to England in 1756.  He married cousin Marguerite-Geneviève Aucoin in England in c1763, on the eve of repatriation.  In May 1763, Simon, his bride, and his two younger brothers sailed aboard La Dorothée to St.-Malo, France, with dozens of other Acadian refugees who had been held in England and repatriated to France.  Simon took his family to Plouër-sur-Rance and to nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1766.  Between 1764 and 1785, Marguerite gave Simon 11 children, six daughters and five sons, only one of whom, a son, died very young.  Two of their daughters also may have died young.  They did not follow their fellow exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765, nor did they participate in the settlement scheme in Poitou in the early 1770s.  Instead, they remained at St.-Servan, where Simon may have worked in the maritime trade.  Simon, Marguerite, and eight of their children, four sons and four daughters, ages 21 to infant, emigrated from St.-Malo to Louisiana in 1785.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores north of Baton Rouge, but they did not remain there.  In the early 1790s, they moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marguerite either did not survive the voyage or their time at Bayou des Écores; she died by December 1795, when Simon was counted in an upper Lafourche census without a wife.  Simon died in Assumption Parish on the upper bayou in June 1818, age 77.  Three of his daughters married into the Bourg, Aucoin, Marion, Renaud, and Poulosky or Pulasky families at Bayou des Écores and on Bayou Lafourche.  All four of his sons married, into the Bourg, Blanchard, Simoneaux, and Hébert families at Bayou des Écores and on the Lafourche. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son Joseph, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1744, followed his family to Virginia and to England and his brothers to St.-Malo, France.  He settled with them at Plouër-sur-Rance, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thériot and Françoise Landry, in October 1764.  Between 1765 and 1779, at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Marie gave Joseph nine children, six sons and three daughters.  Two of them, a son and a daughter, died as infants.  Joseph died at St.-Servan in June 1784, age 40.  A year later, Marie, who never remarried, and five of her Comeau children, three sons and two daughters, ages 20 to 6, the older ones still unmarried, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  If Marie survived the voyage, she and her children followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores.  Neither of her and Joseph's daughters married.  Only one of their three sons created a family of his own in the Spanish colony. 

Oldest son Élie-Marie, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in November 1765, followed his widowed mother and younger siblings to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  He did not remain at Bayou des Écores.  He married Marie-Renée, called Irène, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon-Pierre Trahan and Marie-Josèphe Granger, at nearby Baton Rouge in April 1795.  Irène's parents also were from Minas and had been exiled to Virginia, England, and St.-Malo during Le Grand Dérangement.  Irène was a native of Bangor, Belle-Île-en-Mer, where her family had gone in November 1765.  She and Élie remained at Baton Rouge, where he died by July 1815, when she remarried there.  Their daughters married into the Lopez and Martinez families.  Élie's only son may have died young, so only the blood of this family line endured. 

Jean-Baptiste's third and youngest son Charles, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1750, followed his family to Virginia and England, his older brothers to St.-Malo, France, and settled with them at Plouër-sur-Rance and St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  In 1770, at age 20, Charles, evidently a sailor now, embarked on L'Americain and deserted the ship in French St.-Domingue.  He evidently remained there, settling perhaps among the Acadians at Môle St.-Nicolas or Mirebalais. 

Jean le jeune dit Jean-Augustin's fifth and youngest son Joseph, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in the 1710s, married Marguerite Hébert probably at Minas in c1743 and likely remained at Minas.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Joseph died before May 1763, probably in exile.335

Brun

Vincent Brun came to Acadia with Razilly in the early 1630s, returned to France, married, and resettled in Acadia in the late 1640s.  Between 1645 and 1658, at La Chaussée, France, and Port-Royal, Acadia, Renée gave Vincent five children, four daughters and a son.  Their daughters married into the Trahan, Bézier dit Joan dit Larivière, Thériot, Hébert, Bourg, and Gautrot families.  Their son also married.  Unlike most of the early Acadian families, whose members spread out to other settlements, Vincent and Renée's descendants, with one exception, remained at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal until 1755.  At least two of Vincent's and Renée's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, but the great majority of them could be found in Canada and greater Acadia after Le Grand Dérangement.  

Only son Sébastien, born at Port-Royal in c1655, married Huguette, daughter of Antoine Bourg and Antoinette Landry, at Port-Royal in c1675.  Huguette gave him six children, five sons and two daughters, between 1676 and 1687.  Huguette died probably at Port-Royal between 1687 and 1693.  Sébastien did not remarry.  He died at Annapolis Royal in August 1728, in his early 70s.  His daughters married into the Pitre and Moyse dit Latreille families.  Four of his sons also created families of their own.  

Oldest son Claude, born at Port-Royal in c1678, married, in his early 30s, Cécile, 17-year-old daughter of Claude Dugas and Françoise Bourgeois, at Port-Royal in November 1709.  Between 1710 and 1736, at Annapolis Royal, Cécile gave Claude 13 children, four daughters and nine sons.  Claude died during exile at Rivière-Ouelle, on the St. Lawrence below Québec, in March 1760, in his early 80s.  His daughters married into the Martin, Doucet dit Paul Laurent, Lapierre, and Melanson families.  Six of his sons also married. 

Oldest son Joseph-Vincent, called Vincent, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1712, married Marie, daughter of Jacques Léger dit La Rosette and Anne Amireau, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1737.  Vincent died by May 1749, probably at Annapolis Royal.  Did he father any children? 

Claude's second son Michel, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1716, died there in February 1727, age 11. 

Claude's third son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1719, married Marguerite, daughter of Bernard Pellerin and Marguerite Gaudet, at Annapolis Royal in July 1743 and likely remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1758, Marguerite gave Joseph four children, two daughters and two sons, the youngest, a son, born in exile.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Members of the family were living at Québec in c1767.  Joseph's oldest daughter Agnès-Eulalie may have been deported to Massachusetts in 1755, married a Doucet there, or perhaps she had married at Annapolis Royal, returned to Nova Scotia as a widow with a daughter at war's end, followed the Broussards to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1764-65, and remarried into the Thibodeaux family in Louisiana in the late 1760s--one of only two members of the family (both women) who settled in that colony.  If this was her, she died at Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche in October 1809, in her late 60s, a widow again.  Joseph's two sons also created families of their own. 

Older son Jean, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1745, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Canadians Jacques Brisard and Marie-Charlotte Cottin dit Dugal, at Québec in January 1767. 

Joseph's younger son Joseph, fils, born in exile in c1758, married Félicité, daughter of Canadians Jean-Bernard Saucier and Félicité Ruelland, at Cap-St.-Ignace on the lower St. Lawernce in November 1784. 

Claude's fourth son Simon, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1721, died the following May. 

Claude's fifth son Charles dit Lebrun, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1725, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Lord and Marie Doucet, in c1750 probably at Annapolis Royal.  The British deported them to Connecticut in 1755, and they resettled in Canada by 1767, when they were counted at Maskinongé on the St. Lawrence above Québec.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1755 and 1774, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles eight children, four daughters and four sons, during exile and in Canada.  Charles died at Maskinongé in January 1807, age 81.  His four daughters married into the Marchand, Bergeron, Petit, and Fauteux de Saint Cuthbert families at Maskinongé and nearby Yamachiche and at Rivière-du-Loup on the lower St. Lawrence.  Three of his sons also married. 

Oldest son Charles, fils, born probably in Connecticut in c1758, followed his family to Canada.  He married Madeleine, daughter of Canadians Charles Lesieur-Desaulniers and Marie Carbonneau, at Yamachiche in November 1791, and remarried to Marie-Louise, daughter of Gabriel Lemire dit Gourville and Angélique Désilets, at Maskinongé in October 1799.

Charles dit Lebrun's second son Louis, born probably in Connecticut in c1760, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Étienne Belair at Maskingongé in November 1794.

Charles dit Lebrun's fourth and youngest son Pierre-René, born in Canada in c1771, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Canadians Joseph Grenier and Rosalie Marcotte, at Maskinongé, in January 1805. 

Claude's sixth son Ambroise dit Lebrun, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1726, married Marie, daughter of Michel Bergeron and Marie-Jeanne Hébert, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1760, Marie gave Ambroise five children, three daughters and two sons.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  They were at Rivière-Ouelle, on the St. Lawrence below Québec, in 1759 and on Rivière St.-Jean, present-day western New Brunswick, in 1763.  Three of their daughters married into the Bérubé and Lévesque families at Rivière-Ouelle.  One of Ambroise's sons also married.

Younger son Basile, born probably at Rivière-Ouelle in c1760, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Canadians Dominique Lévesque and Marie-Anne Dionne, there in June 1782, and remarried to Marie-Louise, daughter of Canadians Jean Bérubé and Geneviève Miville, at Rivière-Ouelle in November 1785. 

Claude's seventh son Claude, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1728, evidently escaped the roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755.  He married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Melanson and Marie Thériot, in c1756, during exile, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anastasie gave Claude, fils a daughter in 1760, the year they were living at Kamouraska, on the St. Lawrence below Québec.  According to Stephen A. White, Claude, fils died between August 1760 and August 1761, in his early 30s, place unrecorded, but it may have been on the lower St. Lawrence. 

Claude, père's eighth son Michel, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1730, married Anne, daughter of Jacques Michel and Jeanne Breau, in c1754 probably at Annapolis Royal.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Claude, père's ninth and youngest son Pierre-Paul, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1736, may not have survived childhood.   

Sébastien's second son Abraham, born at Port-Royal in c1680, married Anne, daughter of Étienne Pellerin and Jeanne Savoie, probably at Port-Royal in c1701, where he worked as a fisherman.  Between 1702 and 1712, Anne gave Abraham seven children, five daughters and two sons.  Abraham died at Annapolis Royal in July 1713, in his early 40s.  His widow remarried to a Doucet.  Three of Abraham's daughters married into the Gaudet dit Varquel, Poirier, and Amireau dit Tourangeau families.  Both of his sons also married. 

Older son Charles, born at Port-Royal in November 1706, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Michel Caissie and Madeleine Gaudet, in c1732 and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled at Chignecto.  According to Arsenault, between 1733 and 1745, Anne gave Charles six children, three sons and three daughters.  At least one of their daughters, Marie-Madeleine, was deported from Île St.-Jean in late 1758, married into the Labauve family at Morlaix, France, in September 1770, and died at Nantes, France, before 1785.  Two of their sons created their own families during exile. 

Oldest son Michel, born at Chignecto in c1733, evidently escaped the British roundup there in 1755 and took refuge on French-controlled Île St.-Jean.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Ambroise Comeau and Marguerite Cormier, at Port-La-Joye on the island in January 1757.  They evidently eluded the British there in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1785, Marguerite gave Michel five children, four sons and a daughter.  They were living in the British-controlled fishery at Carleton in Gaspésie in 1777 and moved on to Memramcook in present-day southeastern New Brunswick a few years later.  One of their sons returned to Gaspésie. 

Fourth and youngest son Augustin, born in c1785, place unrecorded, married, at age 30, Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile LeBlanc and Victoire Bourg, at Carleton in May 1815.  Augustin was back at Memramcook by September 1849.  One of his daughters married into the Hickey family at Carleton.  Did he father any sons? 

Charles's second son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1739, evidently escaped the British roundup there in 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Théodose, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Boudrot and Catherine Brasseau of Pigiguit, at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in January 1760, several months before a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked the French stronghold.  After the surrender at Restigouche in October 1760, Pierre and Théodose either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1771, Théodose gave Pierre six children, four sons and two daughters, including a set of twins.  After the war, they chose to remain in greater Acadia.  They were counted on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia, in October 1774, where they baptized three of their children. 

Abraham's younger son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1712, married, at age 39, Françoise, daughter of Abraham Comeau and Marguerite Pitre and widow of Pierre Doucet, at Annapolis Royal in January 1752.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1753 and 1754, Françoise gave Joseph two sons.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in 1755 and were holding them at Newbury there in 1760.  They resettled in Canada later in the decade.  Joseph died at St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu, on the lower Richelieu, in July 1768, age 55.  One of his sons married. 

Older son Joseph, fils, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1753, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada.  He married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Dupuis and Marie-Anne Boudrot, at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie across from Montréal in February 1781.

Sébastien's third son Vincent, born at Port-Royal in c1682, became a fisherman.  He died at Port-Royal, "having arrived from France sick," in April 1708, in his mid-20s.  He did not marry.  

Sébastien's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1684, married Anne, daughter of Claude Gautrot and Marie Thériot, at Port-Royal in October 1708.  Between 1710 and 1730, Anne gave Jean-Baptiste nine children, four daughters and five sons, at Annapolis Royal.  Jean-Baptiste died at Annapolis Royal in June 1751, in his late 60s.  One wonders what happened to his family in 1755.  His daughters married into the Bourgeois, Préjean, Orillon dit Champagne, and Thibeau families.  Four of his sons also married. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1712, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Bernard Pellerin and Marguerite Gaudet, at Annapolis Royal in November 1737.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1755, Marie-Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste, fils seven children, three sons and four daughters.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1755.  Jean-Baptiste, fils died at Québec in October 1767, age 56.  One of his sons married. 

Second son Amand-Grégoire le jeune, who called himself a Lebrun, born at Annapolis Royal in c1741, followed his family into exile, wherever that may have been.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Gourdeau and Marguerite Robichaud of Annapolis Royal, at St.-Pierre de île d'Orléans, Canada, below Québec, in August 1770.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Amand-Grégoire a daughter, Marguerite, in c1772 who married into the Jolin family at Québec in October 1794. 

Jean's second son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1722, married Nathalie, daughter of Pierre Lanoue and Françoise Thibodeau, at Annapolis Royal in February 1749.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1753, Nathalie gave Joseph three children, a daughter and two sons.  The British deported them to Connecticut in 1755.  They were still there in 1763.  Did they remain?  If so, they were among the few Acadian exiles who did.  Or did they follow members of his family to Canada in the late 1760s? 

Jean's third son Pierre-Paul, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1727, probably did not survive childhood. 

Jean's fourth son Amand-Grégoire, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1730 (Bona Arsenault says Amand was born in c1734, son of Antoine, not Jean; Stephen White is followed here).  The British deported Amand to Connecticut in 1755.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Thibeau and Marie-Jeanne Picot, in c1758, probably in Connecticut.  They were still there in 1763.  They followed other Acadians in New England to Canada in c1766.  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" at Bécancour, on the St. Lawrence above Québec, in September 1767.  According to Arsenault, between 1759 and 1771, Marie gave Amand five children, three sons and two daughters.  One of their daughters married into the Houle family at Pointe-du-Lac near Trois-Rivières in October 1788. 

Jean's fifth and youngest son François, born probably at Annapolis Royal in the 1730s, married in c1755 a woman whose name had been lost to history.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  He died before August 1763 in exile, place unrecorded. 

Sébastien's fifth and youngest son Antoine, born at Port-Royal in c1685, married Marie-Françoise, daughter of Pierre Comeau le jeune and Jeanne Bourgeois, at Port-Royal in October 1709.  Between 1710 and 1737, at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Marie-Françoise gave Antoine nine children, five sons and four daughters.  What happened to them in 1755?  Their daughters married into the Lord, Dupuis, Blanchard, and Lanoue families.  Four of Antoine's sons also married. 

Oldest son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1710, probably did not survive childhood. 

Antoine's second son François dit Lebrun, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1712, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Dupuis and Anne Richard, at Annapolis Royal in October 1735.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1737 and 1755, Madeleine gave François three children, a daughter and two sons.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  François remarried to Marguerite-Gertrude, daughter of Canadians François Deblois and Gertrude Vérieul, at Ste.-Famille, Île d'Orléans, below Québec, in November 1765, a hint that François and his family escaped the roundup at Annapolis in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  François died at Ste.-Marie de Beauce, on the St. Lawrence below Québec, in March 1767, age 54.  His two sons married. 

Older son Joseph, by first wife Madeleine Dupuis, born at Annapolis Royal in c1738, followed his family into exile, wherever that may have been, and married Ursule, daughter of Paul Benoit-Livernois, at Verchères, across from Repentigny below Montréal, in October 1785. 

François's younger son François, fils, by first wife Madeleine Dupuis, born at Annapolis Royal or in exile in c1755, followed his family into exile, wherever that may have been, and married Marie, daughter of Joseph Charon and Marie-Josèphe Benoit, at Verchères in c1780. 

Antoine's third son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1715, married Marguerite, daughter of Bernard Gaudet and Marguerite Pellerin, at Annapolis Royal in January 1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1756, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste four children, two sons and two daughters.  They escaped the British roundup in 1755, spent a hard winter on the Fundy shore, crossed to Chepoudy the following spring, and made their way up to Canada.  Jean-Baptiste died at Québec in May 1758, age 42, a victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the refugees in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Members of his family were counted at Yamaska on the eponymous river above Québec in 1767 and 1769.  Widow Marguerite married into the Caron family at Cap-St.-Ignace on the lower St. Lawrence in May 1760.  One of her Brun daughters married into the Couturier family at St.-Michel-d'Yamaska in January 1769.  One of her Brun sons also married. 

Older son Bonaventure, born at Annapolis Royal in c1745, followed his family to Canada.  He married Canadian Marie-Josèphe-Marguerite Couturier at St.-Michel-d'Yamaska in January 1769. 

Antoine's fourth son Charles, born at Annapolis in February 1729, married in c1752, probably at Annapolis Royal, to a woman whose name had been lost to history.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Antoine's fifth and youngest son Simon, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1731, married in c1750, probably at Annapolis Royal, to a woman whose name has been lost to history.  The British deported them to Connecticut in 1755.  They were still there in 1763.  One wonders what happened to them after 1763.344

Martin

Pierre Martin and his wife Catherine Vigneau, 1636 arrivals, created the first of the Martin family lines in the colony.  Although colonists Germain Doucet, Pierre Comeau, and Vincent Brun came to L'Acadie a few years before Pierre Martin, the earlier arrivals did not bring a family, as in the case of Doucet, or create families, as in the case of Comeau and Brun, until the late 1630s or 1640s.  Pierre Martin, on the other hand, brought three sons to the colony, and he and wife Catherine had more children there.  Only Governor Charles La Tour and his two Mi'kmaq wives could claim precedence in the creation of an Acadian family over that of Pierre Martin and his wife.  Between 1631 and 1649, at St.-Germain de Bourgeuil, France, and Port-Royal, Catherine gave Pierre seven children, four sons and three daughters, five of whom survived childhood--three daughters and two sons.  Pierre and Catherine died between the censuses of 1671 and 1678.  Their three daughters married into the Morin dit Boucher, Bourg, Pellerin, and Mercier dit Caudebec families in Acadia.  One of them, the wife of Pierre Morin dit Boucher, suffered expulsion from the colony in the late 1680s because of an indescretion of one of her sons with a daughter of the seigneur of Chignecto; they resettled in Gaspésie before moving on to Canada.  Both of Pierre and Catherine's surviving sons married, but only one of them created a family line that endured.  Pierre and Catherine's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, at Pigiguit and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin before moving on to the French Maritimes in the 1710s, and in Canada and France before Le Grand Dérangement.  Probably none of the 20 Acadian Martins who emigrated to Louisiana belonged to this branch of the family.  During and after exile, they could be found, instead, in greater Acadia, Canada, and France, and on Martinique and Ste.-Lucie in the French Antilles. 

Oldest son Étienne, born at St.-Germain de Bourgeuil, Touraine, France, in June 1631, followed his family to La Hève aboard St.-Jehan in 1636 and died at age 5 soon after the family reached Acadia.

Pierre's second son Pierre, fils, born at St.-Germain de Bourgeuil, in October 1632, followed his family to La Hève aboard St.-Jehan in 1636 and to Port-Royal later in the decade.  He married Anne Ouestnorouest dit Petitous, an Abenaki, perhaps at Port-Royal in c1660.  Between 1661 and 1680, Anne gave Pierre, fils nine children, five sons and four daughters, many of whom did not survive childhood.  Anne died in c1786, in her early 40s, and Pierre, fils remarried soon after to Jeanne, daughter of Louis Rousselière and Isabelle Parisé and widow of Pierre Godin dit Chatillon, probably at Port-Royal.  Jeanne was the mother-in-law of Pierre, fils's oldest son Pierre III.  Jeanne gave Pierre, fils no more children.  One of his daughters married into the Pellerin family.  Four of his sons survived childhood, but only two of them, the oldest and youngest, created families of their own.  

Oldest son Pierre III, born at Port-Royal in c1661, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Godin dit Châtillon and Jeanne Rousselière, in c1686 probably at Port-Royal and remained there.  Pierre III worked as a farmer.  Between 1687 and 1716, Anne gave Pierre III 17 children, eight sons and nine daughters, at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal.  In the early 1730s, Pierre III took his family to Île St.-Jean, where he farmed the uplands and also fished.  He died at Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of Île St.-Jean in December 1739, in his late 70s.  Four of his daughters married into the Bertaud dit Montaury, de Glain dit Cadet, Fortin dit La Fortune, Gourdon, Blouet, Martinez dit Espagnol, and Le Metayer families, and all of them settled in the French Maritimes.  Six of his sons married, and several joined their sisters in the French Maritimes.  Bona Arsenault says Pierre III's oldest son married an Indian and resettled on the lower St. Lawrencre before Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Étienne, born at Port-Royal in c1691, was counted with his family there in 1701.  According to Bona Arsenault, Étienne married Charlotte, a Mi'kmaq, in c1736, no place given.  Stephen A. White says nothing of the marriage.  Arsenault says that between 1736 and 1742, Charlotte gave Étienne five children, three daughters and two sons, and that the family was living at Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence between 1739 and 1748. 

Pierre III's second son Pierre IV, born at Port-Royal in c1693, moved on to the French Maritimes probably in the 1710s and was living on Île St.-Jean in c1726.  His going to the French Maritimes may have motivated his father and younger brothers to go there as well.  Pierre IV married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Clémenceau and Anne Roy, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1727.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1727 and 1746, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre IV nine children, six daughters and three sons.  Arsenault says that by 1748 Pierre IV and his family moved to Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  According to Stephen A. White, Pierre IV died before January 1752, place unrecorded.  Was he the Pierre à Pierre who died on Île St.-Jean in December 1739?  If so, he would have died in his late 40s.  Two of his daughters married into the Bertel and LeRoy families on Île Royale in the 1740s and 1750s; two of them into the Labardier and Bertrand families at Fort Royal, Martinique, in the 1760s; and one of them into the Monpeza and Dauty or Doty familes at Le Carénage on Ste.-Lucie in the French Antilles during the 1760s before dying there in March 1771.  One wonders what happened to Pierre IV's sons after 1755. 

Pierre III's third son François, born at Port-Royal in c1693, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, returned to Nova Scotia, and married Angélique, daughter of Claude Bertrand and Catherine Pitre, at Annapolis Royal in February 1725.  According to Bona Arsenault, Angélque gave François a son.  François died at Annapolis Royal in April 1726, in his early 30s.  Angélique remarried to a Blanchard the following year and settled at Petitcoudiac, where she gave him many children.  Her Martin son also settled in the trois-rivières area.

Only son Simon, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1726, followed his widowed mother to Petitcoudiac.  He married Théotiste, daughter of Pierre Amireau and Anne Brun, at nearby Chepoudy in c1752.  They settled at Petitcoudiac.  According to Bona Arsenault, Théotiste gave Simon two children, a daughter and a son, in 1754 and 1757.  Other records give them three more children.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières area in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During the late 1750s or early 1760, they either surrendered to, or were captured, by local British forces and held in a prisoner-of-war compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Siemon Martin, his unnamed wife, and five children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  This likely was them.  They did not follow other exiles from Halifax to Louisiana in 1764-65, so one wonders where they settled during and after exile. 

Pierre III's fourth son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in c1697, moved on to Île St.-Jean by c1722.  In his early 50s, he married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of Pierre Carret and Angélique Chiasson and widow of Joseph Doucet, at Port-La-Joye on the island in April 1750.  Two years later, in August 1752, a French official counted Joseph, Élisabeth, and six children, four daughters and two sons, four of them Doucets, the younger daughters Martins, on the south side of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the interior of the island, near two of his younger brothers.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1764, Élisabeth gave Joseph seven children, three daughters and four sons.  Arsenault says Joseph took his family to Petitcoudiac soon after the August 1752 counting.  If Joseph and his family were still at Petitcoudiac in the fall of 1755, they likely escaped the British roundup there and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Stephen A. White says that Joseph, who would have been in his early 60s, remarried to Anne-Marie Michel in c1758, no place given.  It may have been on the Gulf shore.  According to Arsenault, one of his daughters by first wife Élisabeth married into the Gauthier family at Rustico on the north shore of St. John Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, in c1785.  Arsenault says his sons by first wife Élisabeth also created families there.

Oldest son Pierre, born in exile in c1759, settled on St. John Island after the war with Britain.  He married fellow Acadian Anne Haché-Gallant at Rusico in c1780.  According to Bona Arsenault, they had five sons and two daughters in 1798.

Joseph's second son Bonaventure, born in exile in c1760, settled on St. John Island after the war with Britain.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Blanchard and Marie-Rose Haché-Gallant, at Rustico in c1782.

Joseph's third son Firmin, who Arsenault also called Pierre, born in exile in c1761, settled on St. John Island after the war with Britain.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Poirier and Marguerite Lavigne of Chignecto, at Rustico in c1783. 

Joseph's fourth and youngest son Joseph, fils, born in exile in c1762, settled on St. John Island after the war with Britain.  According to Bona Arsenault, he was serving as guardian of his niece, Judith, daughter of brother Firmin, when she married at Rustico in November 1820.  

Pierre III's fifth son Barthélémy, born at Port-Royal in February 1704, followed his brother Joseph to Île St.-Jean in c1722 and married Madeleine, another daughter of Pierre Carret and Angélique Chiasson, there in c1731.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1751, Madeleine gave Barthélémy 10 children, six sons and four daughters.  In August 1752, a French official counted Barthélémy, Madeleine, and their 10 children on the south side of Rivière-du-Nord-Est near two of his brothers.  Unlike his older brothers, who left the island in the early 1750s, Barthélémy remained there.  His oldest son married on the island in c1755.  The British deported Barthélémy, Madeleine, and their unmarried children to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758.  Their oldest son died on the crossing.  Barthélémy died probably at Cherbourg before August 1761, when French authorities counted his widow and children in the Norman port.  He would have been in his early 50s at the time of his death.  Madeleine remarried to a Landry widower at Cherbourg in June 1763 and died probably at Chantenay near Nantes in southern Brittany before February 1777, when her husband remarried there.  None of her Martin children followed him and his third wife to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  At least one of her Martin children returned to greater Acadia. 

Oldest son Pierre-Paul, born on Île St.-Jean in c1732, was counted with his family at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in August 1752.  He married Marie-Josèphe Duval on the island in c1755.  She gave him two daughters there before 1758, when the British deported them to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Duc Guillaume, which suffered a shipboard mishap during the crossing.  Pierre-Paul, age 26, and his daughters, ages unrecorded, died at sea.  Marie-Josèphe made it to the Breton port the first of November 1758 but died in a local hospital in March 1759, age 22, perhaps from the rigors of the crossing. 

Barthélemy's fifth son Joseph, born on Île St.-Jean in April 1741, was counted with his family at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in August 1752 and followed them to Cherbourg, France, in 1758.  He married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Richard and Renée Boudrot of Chignecto, in c1767, place unrecorded, perhaps in greater Acadia.  According to Bona Arsenault, they settled at Rustico on St. John Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, near many of his cousins.  Arsenault says Geneviève gave Joseph three sons between 1768 and 1772, probably at Rustico.  Arsenault says all three of the sons created families of their own.

Oldest son Charles, born probably at Rustico in c1768, married Agnès, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Blanchard and Marie-Rose Haché-Gallant in c1790, probably at Rustico, where they settled. 

Joseph's second son Benjamin, born probably at Rustico in c1770, married fellow Acadian Théotiste Haché-Gallant in c1792, probably at Rustico, where they settled. 

Joseph's third son Jean-Félix, born probably at Rustico in c1772, married Claire Roussel in c1794 probably at Rustico, where they settled. 

Pierre's III's sixth son Paul, born at Port-Royal in June 1707, followed his family to Île St.-Jean but did not remain there.  He married Geneviève, daughter of Jean Dubois and Anne Vincent, in c1739, place unrecorded.  They settled at Annapolis Royal and at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1755, Geneviève gave Paul five children, three daughters and two sons.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on Île St.-Jean.  They evidently escaped the roundup there in 1758, or left the island before that date, crossed the Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before moving on to Canada.  Paul died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse, below Québec, in Apirl 1758, age 40, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of Acadian exiles in the area from the fall of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  One of his daughters married into the Gautrot family at Montmagny, below Québec, in January 1769.  One of his sons also created a family of his own in Canada.

Older son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1752, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and Canada, where he married Françoise Belley at St.-Vallier, below Québec, in August 1775. 

Pierre III's seventh son Charles, born at Port-Royal in October 1709, followed his older brothers to Île St.-Jean in c1722 and married Françoise, yet another daughter of Pierre Carret and Angélique Chiasson, in c1742 probably on the island.  In August 1752, a French official counted Charles, Françoise, and no children on the south side of Rivière-du-Nord-Est near two of his older brothers.  According to Bona Arsenault, they had no children.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758. 

Pierre III's eighth and youngest son Jean le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal, in October 1711, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, and was counted with them at Port-La-Joye on the island in 1734.  He does not seem to have married.  He was not counted with his older brothers on Île St.-Jean in August 1752, when he would have been in his early 40s.  One wonders where he was and what happened to him in 1755. 

Pierre, fils's second son René, born at Port-Royal in c1663, was counted with his family at Port-Royal in 1671 then disappears from the historical record. 

Pierre, fils's third son André, born at Port-Royal in c1666, was counted with his family at Port-Royal in 1671 and 1686 then disappears from the historical record. 

Pierre, fils's fourth son Jacques, born at Port-Royal in c1669, was counted with his family at Port-Royal in 1671 and 1686.  He served as a domestic for fellow colonist Pierre Thériot at Minas in the late 1780s, became a habitant there in the 1690s, and was working as a fisherman in the early 1700s, but he did not marry. 

Pierre, fils's fifth and youngest son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1671, married Madeleine, daughter of Antoine Babin and Marie Mercier, in c1696, settled at Pigiguit, and by c1715 moved on to Île Royale, where they settled at Port-Toulouse.  Between c1697 and 1724, at Pigiguit and Port-Toulouse, Madeleine gave Jean 13 children, six sons and seven daughters.  Jean died probably at Port-Toulouse in September 1732, in his early 60s.  The Louisbourg priest who recorded the burial noted that the maladie that killed Jean dit not allow him to be transported to the nearest cemetery, so he was buried "above" his habitation.  Madeleine remarried to a Sauneuf on Île Royale the following November.  Six of Jean's daughters married into the Plessis or Précis, Trunet dit Francoeur, Jehannot, Bourhis, Pineau dit Lajeunesse, and Guiton dit La Roche families and settled on Île Royale or in Canada.  Only one of his sons created his own family, and he evidently did not remain in greater Acadia. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Pigiguit in April 1709, probably died young. 

Jean's second son Joseph, born in c1713 probably at Pigiguit, followed his family to Île Royale, but he did not remain there.  He married Julienne, daughter of Noël Paul and Marie de La Vigne, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, near St.-Malo, France, in January 1735.  Noting the place and time of their marriage, one wonders if Joseph was a sailor or a merchant and if he and his family remained in France. 

Jean's third son François, born at Port-Toulouse in c1715, may have died young.  

Jean's fourth son, whose name has been lost to history, born at Port-Toulouse between 1717 and 1724, may have died young. 

Jean's fifth son Pierre, born at Port-Toulouse in c1722, may have died young. 

Jean's sixth and youngest son Louis, born at Port-Toulouse in c1724, may have married Anne Le François on Île Royale.  She may have given him a daughter in c1753.  The British likely deported them to France in 1758-59, and they landed at Rochefort.  Their daughter died there in August 1759, age 6.  Anne may have died at Rochefort as well.  Perhaps as a widower (the French record says nothing of a wife), he  moved on to St.-Malo in 1763, lived briefly at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, and left later in the year probably with other Acadian exiles "to reside at St. Pierre and Miquelon," French-controlled fishery islands off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  One wonders what happened to him in greater Acadia?  Did he remarry?

Pierre, père's third son Urbain, born at St.-Germain de Bourgeuil, France, in March 1734, followed his family to La Hève aboard St.-Jehan in 1636.  Like his oldest brother Étienne, Urbain died soon after the family reached the colony, age 2. 

Pierre, père's fourth and youngest son Mathieu, "the first Frenchman born in Acadia"--at Port-Royal in c1639--though he worked in the colonial capital as a simple weaver, became the seigneur of Cobeguit in the Minas Basin in March 1689.  In the 1690s, while in his 50s, he married at Port-Royal, but his wife, whose name has been lost to history, died only a few years after their wedding.  She gave him no children.  Mathieu did not remarry.  By the 1710s, he was living on his seigneurie at Cobeguit, where he died before April 1724.  Having no natural heirs, he left his grant to several of the original habitants who had settled on his seigneurie in the early 1700s.336

Trahan

Guillaume Trahan and his first wife François Corbineau, 1636 arrivals, brought two daughters on St.-Jehan who married a Bourgeois and a Doucet.  Guillaume remarried in his mid-60s to Madeleine, 19-year-old daughter of fellow habitants Vincent Brun and Renée Breau of La Chaussée south of Loudun, France.  Between 1667 and 1678, Madeleine gave Guillaume his three sons and four more daughters--eight children, six daughters and three sons, in all by two wives.  After serving as a King's marshal and a syndic at Port-Royal, Guillaume died there by the end of 1684, in his early 80s.  Three of his four daughters by second wife Madeleine married into the Doiron, Vincent, and Léger dit La Rosette families.  All three of his sons married, settled at Minas and Pigiguit, and created large families.  They were especially numerous at Pigiguit.  Some of their descendants moved on to Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivères area west of Chignecto or to the French Maritime islands.  At least 126 of Guillaume's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, Maryland in the late 1760s, and especially from France in 1785.  Others could be found in Canada, French Guiane, the French Antilles, and France, especially on Belle-Île-en-Mer, after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Guillaume, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1667, married Jacqueline dite Jacquette, daughter of Martin Benoit and Marie Chaussegros and widow of Michel de Forest, at Port-Royal in c1691. They helped pioneer the settlement at Pigiguit and settled on the l'Assomption side of the river.  Between 1692 and 1711, at l'Assomption, Jacquette gave Guillaume, fils eight children, two daughters and six sons.  Bona Arsenault gives them another daughter in c1706.  Guillaume, fils died at Pigiguit in September 1755, in his late 80s, on the eve of the family's deportation to Virginia.  Jacquette died in Virginia later that year, in her early 80s.  Their daughters married into the LePrince and LeBlanc families.  Five of Guillaume, fils's six sons also married.  Most of them and their families also were deported to Virginia and England in 1755-56, but some went to Maryland. 

Oldest son Pierre, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in June 1696, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Comeau l'aîné and Françoise Hébert, at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in September 1716 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1719 and 1735, Madeleine gave Pierre eight children, five sons and three daughters.  The British deported members of the family to Maryland and Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Pierre and other members of his family were sent to Virginia, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  They were held at Liverpool.  Their youngest daughter died there in 1757.  In the spring of 1763, they were repatriated to Morlaix, France, via Southampton.  In November 1765, they followed other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Normandy and settled at Bordrehouat near Locmaria on the south end of the island.  French officials counted them there in 1767.  Pierre died at the home of his youngest son Joachim-Hyacinthe at Magoric near Locmaria in April 1772, age 78.  His daughters married into the Melanson, Breau, and LeBlanc families before Le Grand Dérangement, and one of them, the second one, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1768.  Four of his sons also married.  Three of them emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785. 

Oldest son Bruno, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1719, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Marguerite Forest at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in October 1740.  The British deported them to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Bruneau, called, a "widower," with five children, appeared on a repatriation list in the colony in June 1763.  One wonders if they remained there or if they resettled in Canada later in the decade. 

Pierre's second son Pierre, fils, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1723, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Jeanne Bourgeois, at Minas in the late 1740s.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  In September of that year, kinsman Alexis Trahan and his wife Anastasie Landry of Pigiguit died probably of smallpox at Falmouth.  Pierre, fils, perhaps already a widower, took in Alexis and Anastasie's 2 1/2-year-old son François.  At age 35, Pierre, fils remarried to Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Darois and Anne Breau, at Liverpool in February 1758, and, at age 37, remarried again--his third marriage--to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Vincent and Anne-Marie Doiron and widow of Jean-Baptiste Duon, at Liverpool in May 1760.  She was a mid-wife.  None of his three wives gave him children, but he continued to raise young François.  The family was repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763 and followed other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer in late 1765.  They settled at Goélan near Bangor on the south end of the island.  French officials counted Pierre, fils and Madeleine still on the island with François in 1767.  They likely did not follow other Acadians to Poitou in 1773, but they did join other exiles at Nantes by September 1782, when third wife Madeleine died in St.-Similien Parish in the port city, age 58.  At age 59, Pierre, fils remarried yet again--his fourth marriage--to Marie, 32-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Pierre Clémenceau and his second wife Françoise Gautrot of Grand-Pré, in St.-Donatien Parish, Nantes, in February 1783.  Marie gave Pierre, fils a daughter, Louise-Renée, at nearby Chantenay in January 1784.  The following year, Pierre, fils, Marie, and their daughter--but not François Trahan, who would have been in his early 30s, "destiny unknown"--emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Pierre, fils and Marie followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Spanish officials counted them in January 1788.  Marie gave Pierre, fils another daughter, Clara-Marguerite, by May 1788.  She married into the Pichoff family.  Older daughter Louise-Renée evidently had died soon after the family reached Louisiana.  Marie gave Pierre, fils no sons. 

Pierre, père's third son Charles, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1727, married Brigitte, daughter of Pierre Landry and probably Anne-Marie Doucet, in the early 1750s probably at Pigiguit.  Brigitte may have given him a daughter soon after their marriage.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Brigitte gave Charles another daughter in the colony in 1757.  Charles remarried to fellow Acadian Marguerite Thibodeau in Maryland in the late 1750s or early 1760s.  Charles, Marguerite, and two daughters appeared on a repatriation list at Princess Anne, Maryland, in July 1763.  Marguerite gave him two sons in the colony in 1764 and 1766.  They followed other exiles to Spanish Louisiana in 1767-68.  Marguerite was pregnant on the voyage and gave Charles another daughter at New Orleans in June 1768--five children, three daughters and two sons, by two wives.  Charles and Marguerite followed their fellow passengers to the distant Spanish settlement at Fort Luìs de Natchez, where Charles may have died.  If not, he took his famiy downriver to the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer, where he died by September 1769, when Spanish officials noted that his older daughter Brigitte was living with another family and called her an orphan.  One wonders if wife Marguerite also survived the ordeal at Fort St. Luìs.  Daughter Brigitte, from Charles first wife Brigitte, married into the Landry, Boudier, and Gousman families on the river.  Younger daughter Marie-Madeleine by second wife Marguerite evidently died young.  Only Charles's younger son Charlitte married, into the Andro or Landraud family at Attakapas on the western prairies, where he created a vigorous family line. 

Pierre, père's fifth and youngest son Joachim, also called Joachim-Hyacinthe, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in March 1735, married Marguerite, daughter of Germain Landry and Anne LeBlanc, at Minas in c1754.  They settled at l'Assomption.  Marguerite gave Joachim a daughter there in September 1755.  A month later, the British deported the family to Virginia, and Virginia authorities sent them on England the following spring.  They were held at Liverpool, where Marguerite died in 1757.  Joachim remarried to Marie-Madeleine, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Duon and Madeleine Vincent, at Liverpool in October 1759.  Marie-Madeleine gave Joachim two sons there in August 1760 and December 1761 or 1762.  The family was repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Marie-Madeleine gave Joachim another daughter, in St.-Mathieu Parish, Morlaix, in September 1764.  In late 1765, they followed other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled at Magouric near Locmaria on the southeast end of the island.  Between 1766 and 1784, Marie-Madeleine gave Joachim seven more children, five daughters and two sons, on the island--11 children, seven daughters and four sons, by two wives between 1755 and 1784.  Joachim's two older sons married local women on the island in 1783.  Joachim and Marie-Madeleine took their younger children to Chantenay near Nantes soon after the birth of the youngest daughter on the island in April 1784.  Joachim's oldest daughter Marie-Blanche from his first wife Marguerite married a Frenchman named Caillo at Nantes that November.  Wife Marie-Madeleine died at Chantenay in April 1785, in her late 40s.  Joachim and his six younger children, four daughters and two sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana two months later.  Daughter Marie-Blanche and her half-brothers Joseph and Simon remained in France, the brothers on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  From New Orleans, Joachim and his children followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  He did not remarry.  He died before January 1788, in his early 50s, when two of his unmarried children were listed in a Valenzuela District census without him.  Three of his younger daughters married into the Boudreaux, Broussard, Meanx, and Breaux famililes on the upper Lafourche and on the western prairies.  His younger sons Augustin and Jean-Marie also married in the colony, into the Fostin and Duhon families on the western prairies. 

Oldest son Joseph, by second wife Marie-Madeleine Duon, born at Liverpool, England, in August 1760, followed his family to Morlaix and Belle-Île-en-Mer, where he married Françoise, daughter of locals Luc Thomas and Françoise L'Hermite of Kerdonis, at Locmaria in June 1783 and settled at Kerdonis.  They did not follow his father and younger siblings to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1784 and 1800, Françoise gave Joseph eight children, three daughters and five sons.  Joseph died on the island in 1819, in his late 50s. 

Joachim's second son Simon, by second wife Marie-Madeleine Duon, born at Liverpool, England, in December 1761 or 1762, followed his family to Morlaix and Belle-Île-en-Mer, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Michel Droual and Marie-Michelle Galonne or Gallen, of Liverpool, at Locmaria in June 1783; the marriage also was recorded at Lorient in southern Brittany.  They settled at Magoric near Locmaria and did not follow his father and younger siblings to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1784 and 1803, Marie-Josèphe gave Simon nine children, five daughters and five sons, on the island. 

Guillaume, fils's second son Jean, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in 1698, married Marie-Charlotte, called Charlotte, another daughter of Jean Comeau l'aîné and Françoise Hébert, in c1720 probably at Pigiguit and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1722 and 1740, Marie-Charlotte gave Jean six children, three daughters and three sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Bristol.  In the spring of 1763, they were repatriated to Morlaix, France.  French officials counted them there two years later.  In late 1765, members of the family followed other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer.  Two of Jean's daughters married into the Boudrot family at Pigiguit and Bristol.  His three sons also married, at Minas and in France. 

Oldest son Sylvestre, born probably at Pigiguit in c1724, married Ursule, daughter of Jérôme Darois and Marie Gareau, at Minas in 1747 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1754, Ursule gave Sylvestre four sons.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Ursule gave Sylvestre another son in 1756.  The family was held at Liverpool and repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  In late 1765, they followed other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled at Triboutoux near Sauzon on the north end of the island.  Ursule died on the island in 1776, and Sylvestre, at age 53, remarried to Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Martin and Madeleine Girouard, at Sauzon in June 1777.  Françoise gave Sylvestre twins sons in 1781--seven sons in all by two wives.  The twins died soon after their birth, as did Françoise.  Sylvestre did not remarry again.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Sylvestre died near Sauzon in April 1786, in his early 60s.  Four of his older sons married on the island, two of them to sisters.  Members of the family were still on the island and at Locmariaquer in southern Brittany in 1792 during the early years of the French Revolution. 

Second son Mathurin, by first wife Ursule Darois, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in May 1750, followed his family to Virginia, England, Morlaix, and Belle-Île-en-Mer, where he married Nicole-Marie-Louise, daughter of locals Pierre LeLuc or Le Luch and Jeanne Thomas, at Sauzon in January 1777.  They also settled at Triboutoux.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1777 and 1791, Nicole-Marie-Louise gave Mathurin nine children, six sons and three daughters, on the island.  In 1792, during the French revolution, Mathurin worked as a "national customs" employee at Locmaria, with four sons and two daughters. 

Sylvestre's third son Jean-Charles, by first wife Ursule Darois, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in August 1752, followed his family to Virginia, England, Morlaix, and Belle-Île-en-Mer, where he married Marie-Renée, another daughter of Pierre LeLuc and Marie-Jeanne Thomas, at Sauzon in May 1783.  They settled at Kergostio near Sauzon.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1784 and 1799, Marie-Renée gave Jean-Charles eight children, seven daughters and a son.  Jean-Charles died on the island in 1835, age 83. 

Sylvestre's fourth son Simon le jeune, by first wife Ursule Darois, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in November 1754, followed his family to Virginia, England, Morlaix, and Belle-Île-en-Mer, where he married local girl Marie-Françoise Querel at Sauzon in October 1788.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Françoise gave Simon le jeune a daughter in 1781.  He died near Sauzon in 1810, age 56. 

Sylvestre's fifth son Romain, by first wife Ursule Darois, born probably at Liverpool, England, in April 1756, followed his family to Morlaix and Belle-Île-en-Mer, where he married local girl Anne Kédonis at Sauzon in February 1783.  They settled at Triboutoux.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1784 and 1801, Anne gave Romain six children, four daughters and two sons.  Their sons--Pierre, born in 1794; and Dominigue in 1797--both died before the age of 20.  In the early 1800s, they moved on to Quiberon in southern Brittany, where Romain died in 1806, age 50. 

Jean's second son Blaise, born probably at Pigiguit in c1726, married Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Boudrot and Anne LeBlanc, at Minas in 1748.  The British deported them to "New England"--Massachusetts? Connecticut?--in the fall of 1755.  One wonders what happened to them after that date. 

Jean's third and youngest son Simon, born probably at Pigiguit in c1740, followed his parents to Virginia and England, and a married sister to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763.  He joined his family at Morlaix, where he married Catherine-Josèphe dite Josette, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, in St.-Martin de Champs Parish in June 1765.  Later that year, they followed other exiles from England, including older brother Sylvestre and his family, to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled near them at Triboutoux.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1777, Catherine-Josette gave Simon five children, three sons and two daughters, on the island.  Simon died near Sauzon in c1780, in his late 30s.  Catherine-Josette remarried to a Davaux from Champigny, Vienne, Poitou.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Members of the family were still on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1792.  Simon's daughters married into the Oudin and Vallières families on the island. 

Guillaume, fils's third son Joseph, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in 1700, married Marie, daughter of René Blanchard and Anne Landry, at Grand-Pré in November 1731 and settled at l'Assomption.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1751, Marie gave Joseph five sons and a daughter, but it may have been only four sons and a daughter.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Joseph died at Falmouth in September 1756, age 56, victim, most likely, of smallpox, and was buried at nearby St.-Gluvias church, Penryn.  Marie also died there soon after their arrival.  At least three of their sons married at Falmouth.  One, perhaps two, of his sons and many of his grandchildren emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Putative oldest son Marin, sans doute son of this couple, Bona Arsenault avers, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1732, married Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc in c1755 probably at Pigiguit.  They evidently escaped to Île St.-Jean soon after their marriage.  The British deported them to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in late 1758.  By 1765, they were living at Baincthun east of the port, but they did not remain.  They were at Morlaix, France, by November 1767, when a daughter was born in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, and there they remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1759 and 1772, Marie-Madeleine gave Marin six children, four sons and two daughters, but none of the ones listed accompanied him later to Louisiana.  French records show that between 1762 and 1779, at Boulogne-sur-Mer and Morlaix, Marie-Madeleine gave Marin nine children, five daughters and four sons.  Marin was a widower by September 1784, when he was listed by a Spanish official with six children but no wife at Morlaix.  In his early 50s, he remarried to Marguerite, 20-year-old daughter of Jean Juon and Anne Le Borgne, in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Morlaix, in January or February 1785.  She gave him no more children, at least none who survived infancy.  Later that year, Marin, his new wife, and his six children by first wife Marie-Madeleine emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where two of his daughters married into the Durocher and Lejeune families.  His three sons married into the Pinet dit Pinel, Lejeune, LeBoeuf, and Thibodeaux families on the Lafourche, but only two of their family lines endured.

Joseph's second, or perhaps oldest, son Joseph, fils, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in September 1733, followed his family to Virginia and England, where, at age 23, he married Anne, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians François Granger and Anne Landry of Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, at Falmouth in August 1757.  Anne gave Joseph two daughters at nearby Penryn in December 1758 and October 1760.  The family was repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Anne gave Joseph a son at Morlaix that September.  In late 1765, they followed other exiles from England, including three of his brothers, to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled at Kerguenolay near Bangor on the south end of the island.  Between 1766 and 1776, Anne gave Joseph five more children, two sons and three daughters--eight children, five daughters and three sons, in all.  They did not remain on the island.  Joseph, fils sold his concession at Kerguenolay in 1776 and moved to Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, where their youngest daughter died in April 1777, age 1.  Joseph, fils died there in December 1778, age 45.  His widow Anne did not remarry.  In September 1784, she was listed with five of their children at Paimboeuf.  Oldest daughter Marie-Madeleine married into the Archier family there in April 1785 and remained in France.  In June, Anne Granger and five of her Trahan children, three daughters and two sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Paimboeuf.  Daughter Marie-Marguerite married aboard ship to stowaway Joseph Acosta of St.-Tropez.  From New Orleans, Anne and her children, including her married daughter and her daughter's husband, followed most of their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, where Anne died in January 1806, age 69.  Her younger Trahan daughters Marie-Anne and Marie-Julie married into the Prevost and Daigre families at Baton Rouge.  Her Trahan sons Joseph III and François-Marie also married, into the Doiron and LeBlanc families on the river.  Their family lines endured. 

Joseph's second or third son Simon-Pierre or Pierre-Simon, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in May 1735, followed his family to Virginia and England, where, at age 23, he married 20-year-old Marie-Josèphe, another daughter of François Granger and Anne Landry, at Falmouth in November 1758.  In March 1760 and September 1761, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre-Simon two sons.  The family was repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  That June and in August 1765, at Morlaix, Marie-Josèphe gave Simon-Pierre two more sons.  In late 1765, they followed other exiles from England, including three of his brothers, to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled near two of the brothers at Kerguenolay near Bangor.  One of Pierre-Simon's older sons died near Bangor in December 1768, age 6.  Between 1766 and 1776, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre-Simon five more children on the island, a son and four daughters, most of whom died young.  The family did not remain on the island.  Pierre Simon sold his concession at Kerguenolay by March 1777, when a daughter, Marie-Marguerite, was baptized at Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, age unrecorded.  In May 1779, Marie-Josèphe, at age 40, gave Pierre-Simon another son at Paimboeuf, but the boy died the following December--11 children, six sons and five daughters, between 1760 and 1779, less than half of whom survived childhood.  Pierre-Simon died at Paimboeuf in February 1781, age 45.  Marie-Josèphe did not remarry.  A son and a daughter, ages 14 and 11, died within days of one another at Paimboeuf that April.  In 1785, Marie-Josèphe and four of her Trahan children, two sons and two daughters, followed her widowed sister Anne and Anne's Trahan children to Spanish Louisiana.  Marie-Josèphe may not have survived the crossing.  Her and Pierre Simon's two daughters Marie-Renée and Marie-Marguerite married into the Comeaux, Lelong, Donnet, and Ardouin and families at Baton Rouge, and one of them followed her second husband to the western prairies.  Marie-Josèphe's Trahan sons Jean-Baptiste and Paul-Raymond, who had worked as carpenters in France, also married, to Daigre sisters at Baton Rouge.  The older son's family line did not endure, but the younger son's line survived on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Joseph's third or fourth son Chrysostôme, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1740, followed his family to Virginia and England, where, at age 23, he married Anne-Françoise, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Granger and Madeleine Landry of Rivière-aux-Canards, at Falmouth in January 1763.  That spring they were repatriated to Morlaix, France, where, in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Anne-Françoise gave Chrysostôme a daughter in July 1765.  Later that year, they followed other exiles from England, including three of his brothers, to Belle-Île-en-Mer, where they settled at Kerlan near Bangor, not far from his brothers.  Between 1768 and April 1777, Anne-Françoise gave Chrysostôme four more children, two daughters and two sons, on the island.  Chrysostôme sold his concession at Kerlan in 1777 and resettled at Chantenay near Nantes, where, between 1778 and 1784, Anne-Françoise gave Chrysostôme two daughters--seven children, five daughters and two sons, in France.  In 1785, Chrysostôme, Anne-Françoise, and their seven children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Oreans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  They had no more children in the colony.  Wife Anne-Françoise died in Assumption Parish in July 1811, age 68.  Chrysostôme died there in November 1815, age 75.  Their daughters married into the LeBlanc, Boudeloche, Daigre, Maitrejean, and Breaux families on the river and the upper Lafourche.  Chrysostôme's sons also married, into the Guidry and LeBlanc families on the upper bayou.  Both of the lines endured not only on the Lafourche, but also in the Terrebonne country and on the Acadian Coast. 

Joseph's fourth or fifth and youngest son Paul, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in  September1751, followed his family to Virginia, England, Morlaix, France, and Belle-Île-en-Mer, where, according to Bona Arsenault, he settled with sister Aimée, probably older sister Anne, born in c1745, at Kerguenolay near their older brothers.  French officials counted them there in 1767.  Another source says Anne and Paul were back at Morlaix in 1773, "destiny unknown."  Neither of them followed their kin to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Arsenault says Paul, at age 35, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Arsenault and Madeleine Boudrot, at Bangor on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1786 and that between 1788 and 1802, Marie gave Paul five children, three sons and two daughters, two of whom died young.  According to Arsenault, Paul died near Sauzon on the island in 1826, in his mid-70s.  Widow Marie died in at the home of a son-in-law at Triboutous on the island in 1841. 

Guillaume, fils's fourth son François, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in 1702, married Angélique, daughter of Philippe Melanson and Marie Dugas, in c1728 at Minas or Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1751, Angélique gave François seven children, three daughters and four sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  François died at Liverpool in August 1756, age 54, soon after their arrival.  Widow Angélique died there in 1757.  Older daughters Marie and Anne-Geneviève and François and Angélique's oldest son married at Liverpool, the daughters into the Moreau and Duon families.  Members of the family were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763 and followed other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer in late 1765, where youngest daughter Cécile married into the De La Croix family. 

Oldest son Louis-Athanase, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in February 1734, followed his family to Virginia and England, where, at age 22, he married Marguerite, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Madeleine Lalande of Pigiguit, at Liverpool in December 1756.  The couple were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Marguerite gave Louis-Athanase two sons at Morlaix that October and in June 1765.  Later that year, they followed other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled at Borderun near Sauzon on the north end of the island.  A younger brother and sister also followed them there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1771, Marguerite gave Louis-Athanase three more children, two daughters and a son, on the island.  Other records give them another daughter there.  The family was back at Morlaix in 1773.  Later that year or in early 1774, they followed other Acadians in the port cities to Poitou, where Marguerite gave Louis-Athanase another daughter, at Châtellerault, in July 1775--seven children, three sons and four daughters, in France.  Louis-Athanase died in St.-Jacques Parish, Châtellerault, in September 1775, age 41.  Widow Marguerite and six of her children, two sons and four daughters, retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in December 1775.  They settled at nearby Chantenay, where Marguerite remarried to a Scott from the Isle of Guernsey in November 1782 and remained in France.  Older daughter Marie-Blanche married into the Breau family at St.-Martin de Chantenay in May 1785 and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana later that year.  Either in 1785 or later in the decade, an older brother followed her there. 

Second son Jean-Marie, born in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Morlaix, France, in June 1765, followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer, back to Morlaix, and to Poitou, and his widowed mother to Chantenay near Nantes.  He either followed a married sister to Louisiana aboard one of the Seven Ships in 1785, or he made his way to the Spanish colony later in the decade and settled near his sister and her family at Baton Rouge.  At age 24, he married Adélaïde, 21-year-old daughter of René LeTuillier/Tuillier of Coutances, lower Normandy, and his Acadian wife Colette Renaud of Île St.-Jean, probably at Baton Rouge in February 1790; the marriage was recorded at nearby Pointe Coupée because Baton Rouge did not get a church parish of its own until 1792.  Adélaïde, a native of Cherbourg, France, had come to Louisiana with her widowed mother and two brothers in 1785.  Jean-Marie died at Baton Rouge in November 1803, age 38.  His daughter married a LeBlanc cousin.  His only son also married, to a Renaud, probably only a very distant cousin, and settled in West Baton Rouge Parish, where the blood of the family line endured. 

François's second son Polycarpe, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1743, followed his family to Virginia and England and his siblings to Morlaix.  If he followed his younger brother to French Guiane in 1764, he does not appear on the 1 March 1765 census at Sinnamary in the district of Cayenne.  Perhaps he had settled in a different part of the district.  According to Bona Arsenault, Polycarpe was at Cayenne in 1767 and never married.

François's third son Ange-Marin, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1745, followed his family to Virginia and England and his siblings to Morlaix.  He evidently followed other Acadian exiles to the new colony of French Guiane in 1764, perhaps accompanied by an older brother.  He likely is the Marin Trahan, age 19, on the 1 March 1765 census at Sinnamary, Cayenne.  According to Bona Arsenault, he, too, never married. 

François's fourth and youngest son Philippe, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in June 1751, followed his family to Virginia and England and his siblings to Morlaix.  He and older sister Cécile-Pélagie followed oldest brother Louis-Athanase and his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer, where they settled with them at Borderun.  Sister Cécile married there.  One wonders what happened to Philippe, "destiny unknown."  Did he also remain on the island and marry?  Neither he nor sister Cécile followed their kin to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Guillaume, fils's fifth son Charles, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the early 1700s, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Étienne Hébert and Jeanne Comeau, at Grand-Pré in October 1725.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne-Marie gave Charles a son in 1730, who married in 1752.  The British deported the family, including the married son, to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Falmouth, where wife Anne-Marie died in 1757.  Charles remarried to Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Thériot and Agnès Aucoin and widow of Michel Richard, at Falmouth, England, in 1758.  Charles died there in 1761, in his late 50s.  According to Arsenault, a daughter was born posthumously in 1762 probably at Falmouth.  Wife Françoise and their daughter were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Françoise died at Morlaix in August 1773, age 51.  Daughter Anne dite Nanette, married into the Levron family at Morlaix in February 1785 and followed him and his family to Spanish Louisiana. 

Only son Alexis, by first wife Anne-Marie Hébert, born at Minas in c1730, married Anastasie, daughter of François Landry and Dorothée Bourg, in c1752 probably at Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anastasie gave Alexis a son there in 1753.  They followed Alexis's family to Virginia and England and were held at Falmouth, where Alexis, in his late 20s, and wife Anastasie died, perhaps of smallpox, in September 1756. 

Only son François, born at Pigiguit in November 1753, followed his parents to Virginia and England.  After his parents' death--he was only age 2 1/2--he lived with kinsman Pierre Trahan.  He followed Pierre and Pierre's third wife Madeleine Vincent to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763 and to Belle-Île-en-Mer in late 1765 and lived with them at Goélan near Bangor on the south end of the island--"destiny unknown."  One thing is certain:  if he were still alive in 1785, when he would have been in his early 30s, François did not follow Pierre and Pierre's fourth wife Marie Clémenceau to Spanish Louisiana. 

Guillaume, fils's sixth and youngest son, name unrecorded, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the early 1700s, died young. 

Guillaume, père's second son Jean-Charles, born at Port-Royal in c1668, married Marie, daughter of Charles Boudrot and Renée Bourg, at Port-Royal in c1693 and settled on Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas.  Between 1693 and 1718, Marie gave Jean-Charles a dozen children, six sons and six daughters.  Jean-Charles died at Rivière-aux-Canards in October 1729, in his early 60s.  Five of his daughters married into the Saulnier, Aucoin, Dupuis, and Thibodeau families.  All of his sons also married.   

Oldest son René, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1694, married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of Jérôme Darois and Marie Gareau, at Grand-Pré in November 1717.  They evidently moved on to Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto during the late 1720s.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1719 and 1724, Isabelle gave René three children, two sons and a daughter.  Other records hint that there were three more children, two sons and a daughter, six children, four sons and two daughters, in all.  René died by June 1734, age unrecorded, when his wife remarried to a Breau from Petitcoudiac at Chignecto.  Three of René's sons married before Le Grand Dérangement, two of them to Broussards, and his younger daughter married a Broussard during exile, so the family was inextribably related to that family of Acadian resistance fighters.  René's widow Isabelle, with her second husband and four of her married Trahan children, three sons and a daughter, emigrated to Louisiana with the Broussards in 1764-65.  Only one of René's sons' lines endured there. 

Oldest son Jean, born at Minas in c1719, followed his family to Petitcoudiac and married Marguerite, daughter of Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil and Marguerite Thibodeau of Petitcoudiac, at Beaubassin in December 1744.  Jean's younger sister Ursule married Marguerite's brother Joseph-Grégoire.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1758, Marguerite gave Jean three children, two daughters and a son.  The family escaped the British roundup in the Chignecto/trois-rivières area in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where Jean may have participated in the Acadian resistance with his father-in-law.  Wife Marguerite died during exile, date and place unrecorded.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, he and his family either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Jean, "a widow," with three unnamed children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  In 1764-65, they followed their Broussard kin from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled with them on lower Bayou Teche  Jean, who never remarried, remained in the Attakapas District, where he died in April 1799, age 80.  His daughters Madeleine and Marguerite married into the Hébert and LeBlanc families on the prairies.  His son Germain also married there, into the Castille family, and moved to San Gabriel on the river by the early 1780s.  Germain and his wife were that rare Acadian couple who had no children, but the blood of the family line endured. 

René's second son Paul, born at Minas in c1723, probably followed his family to Petitcoudiac, but his fate was far different than his brothers.  If he escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 he evidently did not seek refuge with his family on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He likely made his way to one of the French Maritimes islands, where Le Grand Dérangement caught up to him.  What is certain is that he died in Notre-Dame Parish, Le Havre, France, in late November 1759, age 36.  He did not marry. 

René's putative third son Michel, born at Minas in c1726, followed his family to Petitcoudiac.  He married Anne-Euphrosine Vincent probably at Minas in c1750 but may have settled at Chignecto or in the trois-rivières.  From 1751 to 1754, Anne-Euphrosine gave Michel three children, two sons and a daughter.  They escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Anne-Euphrosine gave Michel another daughter in c1762 perhaps at Fort Edward, Pigiguit--four children, two sons and two daughters, in all.  In October 1762, British officials counted Michel and his family of six at Fort Edward, so their younger daughter likely had been born by then.  In 1764-65, they followed the Broussards from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, settled with them on lower Bayou Teche.  Michel died "at Vermillon" in the Attakapas District in January 1784, in his late 50s.  His daughters married into the Fostin, Daigle, and Trahan families on the prairies.  His two sons also married there, into the Hugon and Thibodeaux families, and created vigorous lines in what became St. Martin, St. Landry, Lafayette, and Vermilion parishes. 

René's putative fourth and youngest son René, fils, born at Petitcoudiac in c1728, married Isabelle, daughter of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and Agnès Thibodeau of Petitcoudiac, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was at Petitcoudiac in the early 1750s.  Isabelle gave René, fils at least one son, in c1755.  They escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières area in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where René, fils may have participated in the Acadian resistance under his father-in-law.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  In 1764-65, they followed his father-in-law and other kin from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled with them on lower Bayou Teche.  Isabelle gave René, fils more children in the Attakapas District:  two more sons in c1767 and 1772, and two daughters in 1769 and 1771--five children, three sons and two daugthers, in all.  René, fils served as co-commandant of the Attakapas District from 1767-70.  His succession will was filed at what became the St. Martin Parish courthouse in 1790.  He would have been in his early 60s that year.  One of his daughters married a Broussard cousin.  Only one of his sons, Louis, the youngest, married, into the Thibodeaux family, but he and his wife had no children. 

Jean-Charles's second son Jean, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in 1697, married Marie, daughter of Étienne Hébert and Jeanne Comeau, in c1720 probably at Minas and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1721 and 1748, Marie gave Jean seven children, four daughters and three sons.  The British deported members of the family to Massachusetts and Virginia in the fall of 1755.  Jean and members of his family appeared on a repatriation list in the Bay Colony in July 1763.  Later in the decade, they followed other exiles in New England to British-controlled Canada.  British officials counted them at St.-Philippe de Laprairie across from Montréal in 1767.  Jean died there in April 1778, in his early 80s.  Two of his daughters married into the Thériot, Daigre, and Hébert families at Minas, in England, and in Canada.  Two of his sons also married, and they, too, resettled in Canada.

Oldest son Joseph le jeune, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1728, married Anne LeBlanc probably at Minas in c1750.  The British evidently deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1755 and 1759, Anne gave Joseph three sons.  His wife, perhaps a widow, and their sons followed his family to British Canada in the 1760s.  Their sons were baptized at Laprairie in November 1766.

Jean's third and youngest son Pierre le jeune, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1732, married Marie Richard, widow of Pierre Boudrot, probably at Minas in c1755.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them with three children still in the colony in 1764.  They followed his family to St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie soon after. 

Jean-Charles's third son Joseph, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1704, married Élisabeth, daughter of Jean Thériot and Jeanne Landry, at Grand-Pré in November 1725 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1738, Élisabeth gave Joseph six children, four daughters and two sons.  Other records give them a third son in c1743--seven sons, four daughters and three sons.  The British deported Joseph and members of his family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Family members also were sent to Massachusetts.  Joseph died at Liverpool in April 1757, age unrecorded; it likely was in his early or mid-50s.  Members of the family were repatriated from England to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763 and were still there in 1767.   Others resettled on Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  Three of Joseph's daughters married into the Granger, LeBlanc, and Thériot families at Minas, in England, and in France.  His sons also married, and two of them emigrated to Louisiana from France.

Oldest son Charles le jeune, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1730, married Marie-Anne Landry in c1750 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Anne gave Charles le jeune two children, a daughter and a son, in 1751 and 1752.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them at Concord.  Between 1756 and 1768, Marie-Anne gave Charles le jeune six more children, three daughters and three sons--eight children, four daughters and four sons, in all.  The family followed other exiles in New England to British-controlled Canada in the mid-1760s and settled at Yamachiche on the north shore of Lac St.-Pierre above Trois-Rivières.  Charles le jeune died there in May 1785, in his mid-50s.  His daughters married into the LeBlanc, Pellerin, Vincent, and Caron famililes at Yamachiche.  Three of his sons also married, two of them in Canada.

Oldest son Grégoire, born probably at Minas in c1752, evidently followed his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755, but he did not follow them to Canada in the mid-1760s.  He married fellow Acadian Marguerite Bourque at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in September 1780 and died there in September 1811, in his late 50s.  One wonders if he and his wife had children. 

Charles's third son Jean-Baptiste, born probably in Massachusetts in c1760, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie, daughter of Jacques Bellemare and Marie-Louise Gélinas, at Yamachiche in March 1785.

Charles's fourth and youngest son Étienne, born probably in Canada in c1768, married, in his early 30s, Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Michel Grenier and Marguerite Boisvert, at Yamachiche in February 1800. 

Joseph's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in January 1735, followed his family to Virginia and England.  He married cousin Madeleine-Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Marguerite Trahan, at Liverpool in January 1757.  Madeleine-Modeste gave Jean-Baptiste a son there in 1761.  In the spring of 1763, they were repatriated to Morlaix, France, where, in 1764, she gave him another son.  In late 1765, they followed other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled at Borménahic near Locmaria on the southeast end of the island.  Between 1766 and 1777, Marie-Modeste gave Jean-Baptiste six more children, three sons and three daughters, on the island, but only one of the sons and two of the daughters survived childhood.  The family did not remain on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  By 1777, they had moved to Nantes, where, in 1779, Madeleine-Modeste gave Jean-Baptiste another daughter--nine children, five sons and four daughters, in all between 1761 and 1779, only half of whom survived childhood.  The oldest son, Jean-Baptiste, fils, evidently emigrated to Spanish Louisiana before 1785, perhaps as a sailor.  Jean-Baptiste, père, Madeleine-Modeste, and four of their children, two sons and two daughters, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 and followed Jean-Baptiste, fils to the Attakapas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Jean-Baptiste, père's succession was filed at the St. Martin Parish courthouse, St. Martinville, in September 1808.  He died "suddenly at the residence of ... his son-in-law of Vermillion" the following November, a widower, age 73.  His daughters married Bourg brothers on the prairies.  His sons also married, into the Trahan, Pitre, Fostin, and Aucoin families on the prairies, but only the oldest son's family line endured. 

Joseph's third and youngest son Paul, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1743, followed his family to Virginia, England, and Morlaix, where he married cousin Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians René Trahan and Marguerite Melanson of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in St.-Martin des Champs Parish in March 1767.  Between 1768 and 1779, in St.-Martin Parish,  Marie-Josèphe gave Paul six children, four sons and two daughters.  Paul and Marie-Josèphe were still at Morlaix in September 1784, but with only two sons in their household; the other children--half of their sons and all of their daughters--evidently had died by then.  The couple and their two sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana the next year and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marie-Josèphe evidently gave Paul no more children in the colony.  Neither of their sons, if they survived the crossing or its rigors, created families of their own there.

Jean-Charles's fourth son Pierre, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1708, married Jeanne, daughter of Olivier Daigre and Jeanne Blanchard, at Grand-Pré in October 1729 and settled on Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1750, Jeanne gave Pierre seven children, three daughters and four sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Joseph died at Liverpool in August 1756, in his late 40s or early 50s, soon after their arrival.  Three of his children, two sons and a daughter, married at Liverpool.  Family members were repatriated to Morlaix and St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763.  Some remained in the St.-Malo area, while others followed fellow exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer, where French officials counted them in 1766.  French officials counted members of the family at St.-Suliac on the east side of Rivière Rance south of St.-Malo in 1767.  Pierre's three daughters married into the Aucoin and Hébert families at Grand-Pré, Rivière-aux-Canards, and Liverpool.  The youngest, Françoise, became a widow in French Guiane in the mid-1760s and settled with her older brother Pierre on Belle-Île-en-Mer after returning to France.  Two of Pierre's daughters, including Françoise, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.  Two of his sons also married, in England and on Belle-Île-en-Mer, and one of them followed his sisters to Louisiana.

Oldest son René, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in December 1734, followed his family to Virginia and England.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean LeBlanc and Françoise Blanchard, at Liverpool in February 1758.  Anne gave René a son at Liverpool in December 1761.  The family was repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Wife Anne died at Morlaix in 1764.  In late 1765, René and son Raphaël followed other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled at Calastren near Bangor at the south end of the island.  René remarried to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians René Landry and Marie-Rose Rivet of Grand-Pré, at St.-Gérand-du-Palais on the island in February 1766.  Between 1767 and 1770, Madeleine gave René two more children, a daughter and a son--three children, two sons and a daughter, in all by both wives.  René died near Sauzon on the island in January 1770, age 35.  Only the older of his sons survived childhood and married.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Members of the family were still living on the island in 1792, in the early years of the French Revolution. 

Older son Raphaël, born at Liverpool, England, in December 1761, followed his family to Morlaix and Belle-Île-en-Mer, where he married, at age 42, local girl Christine L'Hermite near Sauzon in 1803.  According to Bona Arsenault, Christine gave Raphaël two children, a daughter and a son, in 1805 and 1814.  Raphaël died at Loqueltas south of Sauzon in 1828, age 67. 

Pierre's second son Pierre, fils, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in March 1737, followed his family to Virginia and England.  He married Marguerite, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Duon and Madeleine Vincent, at Liverpool in May 1758.  Marguerite gave Pierre, fils two daughters at Liverpool in March 1759 and December 1762.  The family was repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Marguerite gave Pierre, fils a son there in April 1764.  In late 1765, they followed other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled near his older brother at Calestran near Bangor.  In 1767, Bona Arsenault contends, they were living near Bormanahic near Locmaria on the southeast end of the island, where sister Françoise may have joined them.  Between 1767 and 1777, Marguerite gave Pierre, fils seven more children, six daughters and a son, on the island--10 children, eight daughters and two sons, in all, most of whom survived childhood.  In 1777, Pierre, fils sold his island concession to his uncle Cypien Duon and resettled St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, where a daughter died, and at nearby Chantenay, where older son Jean-Baptiste died at age 21 in March 1785.  Three months later, Pierre, fils, Marguerite, and six of their children, five daughters and a son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they followed his first cousin Jean-Baptiste Trahan to the Attakapas District.  Pierre, fils died at Attakapas in September 1803, age 66.  His daughters married into the Morin, Boudreaux, Hébert, Thibodeaux, and Broussard families on the prairies.  His younger son Joseph-Marie, if he survived the crossing from France, did not marry, so only the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State.

Pierre's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1750, followed his family to Virginia and England.  In the spring of 1763, he was repatriated to France not with his married brothers, who went to Morlaix, but with his older sister Madeleine and her Aucoin husband, who went to St.-Malo.  Jean settled with them at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west bank of the river south of the Breton port.  French officials counted him there in 1767.  Evidently when he came of age he worked as a sailor.  French officials noted in 1772, when Jean-Baptiste would have been in his early 20s, that he had "died at America."  France's role in the American Revolution would not begin until 1778.  One wonders in what part of "America" the young Acadian died.  Was it in one of the British-run fisheries at Gaspésie or in Newfoundland, or in the French-run fishery at îles St.-Pierre and Miquelon?  Or was it in the French Antilles or even in Spanish Louisiana?  One also wonders if he married before his untimely death.   

Jean-Charles's fifth son Charles, born at Minas in January 1710, married Madeleine Aucoin in c1736 probably at Minas and likely remained there.  According to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., between 1736 and 1753, Madeleine gave Charles at least four children, two daughters and two sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Charles died in England before late May 1763, when exiles there, including his widow and four children, were repatriated to St.-Malo, France.  Madeleine, who never remarried, and their children settled at Plouër-sur-Rance south of St.-Malo, moved to St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in 1767, and returned to Plouër the following year.  No member of the family resettled on Belle-Île-en-Mer, not did any of them seem to have gone to Poitou in 1773 or to Nantes in the late 1770s.  In 1785, Madeleine and her daughters, Marie and Marguerite, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from St.-Malo.  They followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  Neither of the daughters married either in England, France, or Louisiana.  One wonders what happened to Madeleine Trahan's sons Laurent and Joseph, who would have been ages 35 and 32 in 1785.  Did they survive childhood?  Did they marry in France? 

Jean-Charles's sixth and youngest son Alexis, also called Alexandre le jeune, born probably at Minas in c1716, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Levron and Françoise Labauve, in c1743 probably at Minas and likely remained.  Marie-Josèphe gave Alexis a daughter in c1748.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  The English held them at Liverpool with other members of his family.  Marie-Josèphe gave Alexis two sons there, in c1757 and c1759.  They were repatriated probably to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763, but they did not follow other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer in late 1765.  They went, instead, to the new French colony of Guiane on the northerneastern coast of South America, where, in March 1765, Alexis and Marie-Josèphe were counted with three children at Sinnamary in the district of Cayenne.  One wonders what happened to them after the counting.  Did they remain in the tropical colony, or did they return to France? 

Guillaume, père's third and youngest son Alexandre, born at Port-Royal in c1670, married Marie, daughter of François Pellerin and Andrée Martin of Pigiguit, at Port-Royal in c1689.  They settled at Minas before moving on to Île St.-Jean.  Between 1690 and 1713, Marie gave Alexandre 14 children, nine sons and five daughters, including a set of twins.  Alexandre died on the southern end of Île St.-Jean in May 1751, in his early 80s.  His daughters married into the Lejeune, Hébert, Massier, Breau, and Benoit families, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1768.  Eight of his sons also married.  

Oldest Jean, a twin, born probably at Minas in c1690, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Girouard and Marie Comeau, in c1714, place not given, and settled at Minas and Pigiguit.  Between 1715 and 1743, Marie gave Jean a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons.  Bona Arsenault gives them a sixth son.  In c1749, Jean, Marie, and their unmarried children moved to Île Royale.  In April 1752, a French official counted the couple and four of their children, a son and three daughters, at Baie-des-Espagnols on the island's Atlantic coast.  Some of them left the island soon after the counting, escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, and sought refuge in Canada.  They reached Québec by the fall of 1756.  Jean died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse across from Québec City in March 1758, victim, most likely, of the smallpox epidemic that struck Acadian refugees in the area from the summer of 1757 through the spring of 1758.  Marie had died 11 days earlier, perhaps also a victim of the dread disease.  Six of their daughters married into the Daguerre, Carret, Pinet, Boudrot, Princhard dit Potvin, Grénard, and Gosselin families.  One of them, along with a brother, and their families, perished on the crossing from the French Maritimes to St.-Malo, France, in December 1758 aboard the transport Violet, which sank in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England; there were no survivors.  Another daughter, who married at Louisbourg, settled on Ste.-Lucie in the French Antilles.  Three of Jean's sons also married, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. 

Oldest son Benjamin, born at Minas in October 1716, died there in November. 

Jean's second son Charles, born probably at Pigiguit in c1721, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Boudrot and Cécile Corporon, in c1748 probably at Pigiguit before following his family to Île Royale in c1749.  In April 1752, a French official counted Charles, Marguerite, a daughter, and her younger brother near his family at Baie-des-Espagnols.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758. 

Jean's third son Paul-Benjamin, called Benjamin, the second with the name, born probably at Pigiguit in c1725, followed his family to Île Royale in c1749.  He married Cécile, daughter of Joseph Lejeune and Cécile Pitre, on the island in October 1750.  They moved over to Île St.-Jean.  Cécile gave Benjamin a son, Jacques, at Havre-St.-Pierre on the north side of the island in May 1757.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 aboard the ill-fated transport Violet. 

Jean's fourth son Olivier, born probably at Pigiguit in c1731, followed his family to Île Royale in c1749 and married Isabelle, or Êlisabeth, daughter of Jean Lejeune and Françoise Guédry, at Louisbourg in November 1751.  In April 1752, a French official counted Olivier, Isabelle, and her father at Baie-des-Espagnols.  Between 1752 and 1757, Isabelle gave Olivier three children, a son and two daughters, one of them baptized at Trois-Rivières on the eastern end of the island.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  All three of the children died in the crossing.  Olivier and Isabelle settled at Châteauneuf on the west bank of the Rance south of St.-Malo, before moving downriver to St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo.  Between 1760 and 1766, Isabelle gave Olivier three more children, two daughters and a son--six children, two sons and four daughters, in all.  Only the two youngest children survived childhood.  Olivier and his family were still at St.-Servan in 1772.   In 1773, he took them to Poitou.  In December 1775, Olivier, Isabelle, and their two children retreated with other Poitou Acadians from Châtellerault to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Isabelle died in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in September 1783, age 50.  In 1785, Olivier and his two children, a daughter and a son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  In his late 50s, Olivier remarried to Marie, 38-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Brasseur and Marie-Rose Daigre, at Ascension on the river in January 1788.  Marie was a native of Minas who had followed her family to Virginia, England, St.-Malo, Poitou, and Nantes, and had crossed to Louisiana on the same ship Olivier had taken.  Despite her age, this was her first marriage.  They probably had known one another in France.  She gave him no more children.  He died in Assumption Parish on the upper Lafourche in June 1819, in his late 80s.  His daughter Annette married into the Desormeaux family on the Lafourche.  His son Grégoire-Olivier evidently did not marry, so the family line, except perhaps for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Jean's fifth son Paul, born probably at Pigiguit in c1733, followed his family to Île Royale and was counted with them at Baie-des-Espagnols in April 1752.  He left the island with his parents soon after the counting and died at Québec in October 1756, age 23, before he could marry.   

Jean's putative sixth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, sans doute son of Jean and Marie, Bona Arsenault insists, born in c1740, evidently followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, though he was not counted with them there in April 1752, and to Canada.  Arsenault says he married fellow Acadian Élisabeth Levron in c1760, no place given, and that she gave him a son that year. 

Only son Charles, born probably in Canada in c1760, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Proxède, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Lebrun and Marie-Madeleine Pellerin, at Québec City in May 1779. 

Alexandre's second son Étienne, Jean's twin, born probably at Minas in c1690, married, in his mid-30s, Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, daughter of Jean Roy and Marie Aubois, in c1725 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, they settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  Arsenault says that between 1730 and 1736, Françoise gave Étienne three children, a daughter and two sons.  Other records give them another son in c1726 and an older daughter in c1727--five children, two daughters and three sons, in all.  The older daughter married into the Lejeune family at Pigiguit on the eve of the family's move to Île Royale in c1749.  Their younger daughter married into the Benoit family on Île Royale in May 1751.  In April 1752, a French official counted Étienne, Françoise, their two unmarried sons, Charles and François, and 17-year-old Osite Corporon, described as a cousin, at Baie-des-Espagnols near oldest son Honoré.  Also close by were older daughter Marguerite and her Lejeune family, and younger daughter Anne and her Benoit husband.  Like twin brother Jean, Étienne, Françoise, and one of their sons left the island after the counting, escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, and sought refuge in Canada.  Their oldest son and two daughters and their families returned to British-controlled Nova Scotia.  Their second son remained on Île Royale and was deported to France in late 1758.  Their youngest son followed them to Canada.  Étienne died at St.-Pierre-du-Sud near St.-Pierre-de-Montmagny, below Québec City, in January 1758, in his late 60s, victim, perhaps, like his brother, of the smallpox epidemic that struck Acadian refugees in the area from the summer of 1757 through the spring of 1758.  Wife Françoise had died there earlier in the month, age 54, victim, most likely, of the dread disease.  Their older daughter Marguerite and her Lejeune husband followed her older brother to British-controlled Nova Scotia, North Carolina, and Maryland, where she and her husband died, leaving five orphans in the care of relatives.  Étienne's younger daughter Anne and her Benoit husband returned to Pigiguit soon after the counting at Baie-des-Espagnaols.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755, she remarried into the Latier family there, and in 1769 she emigrated with her older brother to Spanish Louisiana, where she remarried again into the Campo family.  Étienne's middle son who had gone to France married there but resettled in French Guiane, where he died.  Étienne's youngest son remained on the lower St. Lawrence after his parent died. 

Oldest son Honoré, born probably at St.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1726, married, at age 20, Marie, 27-year-old daughter of Martin Corporon and his second wife Marie-Josèphe Viger, in c1746 probably at Pigiguit.  Marie gave Honoré a daughter in 1747.  They followed his family to Île Royale in c1749.  Marie gave Honoré a son on the island in c1750.  Honoré, Marie, and their three children, the youngest a daughter only three weeks old, were counted at Baie-des-Espagnols in April 1752.  They, too, left the island soon after the counting, but they did not follow his family to Canada.  They took a boat, instead, to Halifax, where they hoped to convince British authorities to let them return to their homes at Pigigut.  After taking an unconditional oath of allegiance, Lieutenant-Governor Lawrence ordered them to resettle, instead, on the Atlantic coast.  In 1754, British officials counted them with other Acadians from Pigiguit and Baie-des-Espagnols at Mirliguèche near Lunenburg, down the coast from Halifax.  Their oath did not protect them from the upheaval in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755.  In September, the British rounded up the Acadians at Mirliguèche and sent them to the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax harbor.  That December, the British deported them to North Carolina aboard the sloop Providence.  They likely were held at Edenton on the Albemarle Sound.  After they received permssion to leave the colony, they made their way up the coast to Maryland in c1760.  In July 1763, Honoré, Marie, daughter Marie, son Pierre, and two Lejeune orphans, children of Honoré's sister, appeared on a repatriation list at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac.  The couple's younger daughter Marguerite, who would have been age 11 at the time, evidently had not survived the rigors of exile.  Older daughter Marie married a Bellard from Picardie, France, in Maryland soon after the counting.  The family, including their married daughter and her husband and the five Lejeune orphans in his care, were part of the fourth and final expedition from Maryland to Spanish Louisiana.  Their transport, the British schooner Britannia, left Port Tobacco in January 1769 bound for New Orleans, but the captain and his officers failed to find the mouth of the Mississippi.  The ship foundered, instead, on the Texas coast at Espirtu Santo Bay near the Spanish presidio of La Bahia.  After their adventure in coastal Texas and their trek to Natchitoches on the Red River, which they reached in late October, in April 1770 they settled on the river below Bayou Plaquemine in the San Gabriel District, but they did not remain.  They moved on to the Opelousas District, where they appeared in a census in October 1774.  Marie gave Honoré no more children in the colony.  Honoré died at Attakapas in July 1791, in his mid-60s.  Wife Marie died at Opelousas in August 1810, in her early 90s.  Son Pierre also married, into the Brasseur dit Brasseaux and Gautreaux families, at Opelousas.  His family line was a robust one. 

Étienne's second son Charles, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1734, followed his parents to Baie-des-Espagnols, where he was counted with them in April 1752.  Unlike his parents and brothers, Charles did not abandon Île Royale; perhaps he found employment at Louisbourg.  The British deported him to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  The passenger list of the transport Tamerlane, on which he crossed, noted that he was age 23 and a "laboureur et un peu charpentier," that is, a farmer and an apprentice carpenter.  He was probably a couple of years older.  He settled at Châteauneuf on the east bank of Rivière Rance south of St.-Malo.  Soon after his arrival, he married Marie-Louise, 24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Closquinet dit Dumoulin and Marguerite Longuépée of Louisbourg and widow of Charles Savary, at Châteaueuf in August 1759.  In April 1760, Charles embarked on the corsair Hercules out of St.-Malo.  The Royal Navy soon captured the vessel and held Charles and his fellow corsairs in England for the rest of the war.  He was back at St.-Malo in June 1763.  Meanwhile, his first child, daughter Louise, had been born at Châteauneuf in October 1760.  Wife Marie-Louise and their daughter had moved to St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in 1762, so they were close by when Charles returned the following year.  In March 1764, Marie-Louise gave Charles another daughter, Marie-Josèphe.  That April, Charles took his family to the new French colony of Guiane on the northeastern coast of South America aboard Le Fort.  None of them appear in the 1 March 1765 census at Sinnamary in the district of Cayenne, so they may have settled in another part of the district.  Charles died by August 1765, in his early 30s, when Marie-Louise remarried to Frenchman Antoine-Joseph-Christophe Verge of Perpignan in St.-Saviour Parish, Cayenne.  One wonders what happened to her Trahan daughters, who would have been ages 5 and 1 at the time of their mother's remarriage.  Did they survive childhood?  Did they marry?  Did they return to France?

Étienne's third and youngest son François, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1736, followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols and to Canada.  François married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Nicolas Barrieau, fils and Ursule Gautrot, at St.-Charles de Bellechasse below Québec City in January 1759.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave François a son, Pierre, in 1759.  François, at age 32, remarried to Marie-Ursule, daughter of Joseph Gaudreau and Ursule Chouinard, at St.-Thomas de Montmagny below Québec City in January 1768.  François, at age 36, remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Geneviève, daughter of Paul Boulet and Claire Miville, at St.-Thomas de Montmagny in April 1772.  Did his second and third wives give him anymore children?  Did son Pierre survive childhood and marry? 

Alexandre's third son Alexandre, fils, born probably at Minas in the early 1690s, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Lejeune and Marie Thibodeau, at Grand-Pré November 1714 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  Between 1719 and 1732, Marguerite gave Alexandre, fils five sons, all of whom married, three of them to sisters.  Alexandre, fils died probably at l'Assomption by July 1746, in his mid-50s.  

Oldest son Claude le jeune, born at Minas or Pigiguit in c1719, married Anne, daughter of Claude LeBlanc and Madeleine Boudrot, at Grand-Pré in July 1746.  They settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  In 1747 and 1748, Anne gave Claude two sons.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  Anne gave Claude another son on the island that year.  In August 1752, a French official counted Claude, Anne, and their three young sons at Anse-au-Matelot on the island's south shore.  In 1753 and 1755, Anne gave Claude two daughters.  The British deported the family to France in late 1758.  They landed in the northern fishing center at Boulogne-sur-Mer, where, in 1761 and 1764, Anne gave Claude two more children, a son and a daughter--seven children, four sons and three daughters, in all.  In May 1766, they sailed on the brigantine Hazard to St.-Malo and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  They were still there in 1771.  In April of that year, they took the ship Bonne-Marie to Morlaix down the coast in northern Brittany.  The following year, in a general census of the Acadians in France, an official noted that Claude le jeune had been blinded, by what the record did not say.  Claude nevertheless took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Wife Anne either died at Morlaix or in Poitou.  In November 1775, Claude, now a widower, and four of his unmarried children, two sons and two daughters, retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Claude died at nearby Chantenay in November 1777, in his late 50s.  Second daughter Anne married into the Brety family at Chantenay in August 1784 but did not follow her brother Joseph to Spanish Louisiana.  Did daughters Marguerite and Marie-Anne-Josèphe survive childhood and marry?  Marguerite, who would have been age 22 in 1775, was not in the convoy to Nantes with her widowed father and siblings, but Marie-Anne-Josèphe, called Marie-Josèphe, who would have been age 11 in November 1775, was in the convoy.  Neither of them went to Louisiana.  One of Claude le jeune's sons and a grandson did go to the Spanish colony in 1785. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1747, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, Boulogne-sur-Mer, and St.-Malo.  At age 21, he married Marguerite, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Vincent dit Clément and Marguerite Hébert, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1768 and worked as a seaman.  In 1769 and 1770, at St.-Servan, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste two children, a son and a daughter.  The daughter evidently died young.  The family moved on to Morlaix, northern Brittany, aboard La Bonne-Marie in April 1771.  In 1772 and 1774, in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Morlaix, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste two more daughters.  Jean-Baptiste took his family to Poitou in 1774.  In November 1775, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes and settled at nearby Chantenay, where he resumed his work as a sailor.  Marguerite gave him another son in March 1777--five children, two sons and three daughters, in all.  Their younger daughters died at Chantenay in February and April 1777, leaving them only two sons.  Neither Jean-Baptiste, Marguerite, nor their younger son Fréderic, who would have been age 8 in 1785, followed younger brother Joseph and other Acadians to Spanish Louisiana, but their other son went there. 

Older son Jean-Paul, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in March 1769, followed his family to Morlaix, Poitou, and Chantenay.  In 1785, at age 16, he followed his uncle Joseph and hundreds of other Acadians in France to Spanish Louisiana.  (His uncle crossed on an earlier vessel.)  Jean-Paul, perhaps a sailor like his father, may have gone to San Bernardo, an Isleño community south of New Orleans, before moving to the Baton Rouge area, where his uncle settled.  Jean-Paul married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Lejeune and his second wife Hélène Dumont, at Baton Rouge in March 1788.  Their daughters married into the Barnett, Daigre, Lejeune, and Thibodeaux families.  One of Jean-Paul's five sons married into the Thibodeaux family at Baton Rouge and settled across the river in West Baton Rouge Parish, where his line endured.

Claude le jeune's second son Joseph-Firmin, called Firmin, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1748, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, Boulogne-sur-Mer, St.-Malo, and St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he married Anne, daughter of locals Michel Tardivet and Marie Pointel of St.-Servan, in January 1770.  In April 1771, they followed his parents to Morlaix aboard Bonne-Marie.  Did they remain?  They did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Claude le jeune's third son Joseph, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1750, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, Boulogne-sur-Mer, St.-Malo, Morlaix, Poitou, and Nantes, where, in St.-Nicolas Parish, "below La Fosse," he worked as a domestic and a carpenter.  At age 28, he married Marguerite, 25-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Lavergne and his first wife Anne Lord, in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in October 1778.  In 1780 and 1782, Marguerite gave Joseph two children, a son and a daughter.  Joseph and his family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  Marguerite was pregnant on the voyage and gave birth to another son at Baton Rouge in December 1785.  Only their younger son François-Antoine married, into the Thériot and Labauve families at Baton Rouge.  In the 1810s, he took his family to the Bayou Teche valley, where the line endured.  

Claude le jeune's fourth and youngest son Pierre-Jacques, also called René-Jacques, born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in c1761, if he survived childhood, followed his family to St.-Malo, St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Morlaix, Poitou, and Chantenay.  If he were still alive in 1785, when he would have been age 24, he did not follow his older brother Joseph and a nephew to Spanish Louisiana. 

Alexandre, fils's second son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born at Minas or Pigiguit in c1723, married in c1748 to a woman whose name has been lost to history.  Bona Arsenault says he married Anne LeBlanc in c1750; Stephen A. White is followed here.  Between 1751 and 1755, the first wife gave Jean-Baptiste three children, two sons and a daughter.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Jean-Baptiste's wife died either in Virginia or in England.  The English held him and his children at Liverpool, where he likely remarried to Élisabeth, another daughter of Claude LeBlanc and Madeleine Boudrot, in c1756.  Élisabeth gave Jean-Baptiste two more daughters at Liverpool in 1758 and 1760.  The family was repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Élisabeth gave him another son there in January 1764, but the boy did not survive infancy.  In 1764, Jean-Baptiste took his family to the new French colony of Guiane on the northeastern coast of South America, where they were counted at Sinnamary in the Cayenne district on 1 March 1765.  They did not remain.  They returned to France the following year, landed at Bordeaux, and moved on to St.-Malo, where they arrived in October 1766.  They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where, in December of that year and in 1769, Élsabeth gave Jean-Baptiste two more sons, one of whom died at the hospital in St.-Malo.  Jean-Baptiste and his family followed his older brother Claude le jeune and his family to Morlaix aboard Le Bonne-Marie in April 1771.  Élisabeth gave him another son in St.-Martin des Champs Parish there in 1772.  They also followed Claude le jeune and his family to Poitou in 1773, where Élisabeth gave him another son at Châtellerault in March 1775.  Later that year, Jean-Baptiste and his family of seven also retreated with other Poitou Acadians to Nantes, where they buried two more sons within a month of one another in the summer of 1777.  Élisabeth gave Jean-Baptiste two more daughters at nearby Chantenay in 1778 and 1782, but they also died young--a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters, by two wives between 1751 and 1782, but only four of his children, two older sons by his first wife and two older daughters by his second, seemed to have survived childhood.  Jean-Baptiste died at Chantenay in February 1783, age 60.  No member of his family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Did any of his surviving children marry in France? 

Alexandre, fils's third son Alexis, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in 1727, married Madeleine, daughter of Jérôme Darois and Marie Gareau, in c1749 probably at Minas and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  Bona Arsenault says they settled at l'Assomption.  Madeleine gave Alexis at least one son, in August 1752.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Alexis died at Liverpool in July 1756, soon after their arrival.  Wife Madeleine remarried to fellow Acadian and widower Claude-Marie Pitre at Liverpool in May 1760.  The blended family was repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763, and they moved on to Belle-Île-en-Mer with other exiles from England in November 1765.  They settled at Triboutoux near Sauzon on the north shore of the island.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Only son Paul, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in August 1752, followed his family to Virginia and England and his mother and stepfather to Morlaix and Belle-Île-en-Mer, where he died in c1826, in his early 70s.  One wonders if he married. 

Alexandre, fils's fourth son Joseph, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1729, married Anne, daughter of Joseph Boudrot and Anne LeBlanc, at Grand-Pré in c1748 and settled on Rivière-aux-Canards.  In 1749 and 1752, Anne gave Joseph two children, a daughter and a son.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  The English held them at Liverpool, where Anne gave Joseph another son in c1762.  Bona Arsenault would have us believe that Joseph remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Leprince and Judith Boudrot, in c1762; Stephen A. White, followed here, says Joseph's only wife was Anne Boudrot (Arsenault is confusing Joseph à Alexandre, fils with his younger cousin Joseph, fils, born in c1737).  Joseph à Alexandre, fils and his family were repatriated probably to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763 and followed his older brother Jean-Baptiste to French Guiane in 1764.  French officials counted Jean, as he was called, Anne, a son and three daughters, at Sinnamary in the Cayenne district on 1 March 1765.  Son Jean-Joseph, called an "Englishman of nationality," another way of saying he was born in England, died at Sinnamary in November 1765, age 3.  Arsenault says the family returned to France and that Joseph died at Rochefort in October 1769.  White, followed here, says Joseph died near Cayenne in c1767, in his late 30s, so the family remained in Guiane.  Daughter Madeleine, at age 20, married Canadian André-Joseph Jacquet in July 1769 in St.-Joseph Parish, Sinnamary, and remarried, at age 24, to fellow Acadian Joseph Saunier there in January 1773.  Madeleine died at Sinnamary in July 1775, age 26.  Her mother Anne had died by then. 

Alexandre, fils's fifth and youngest son Pierre-Isidore, called Isidore, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1732, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, another daughter of Claude LeBlanc and Madeleine Boudrot, in c1752 probably at Minas and settled there.  Madeleine gave Pierre-Isidore a son in c1753.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  They, too, were held at Liverpool, where Madeleine gave Isidore a daughter in c1761.  They were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763, where Isidore worked as a laborer.  Madeleine gave Isidore two more sons in St.-Mathieu and St.-Martin des Champs parishes, Morlaix, in 1764 and 1766.  Their daughter died in St.-Mathieu Parish in July 1764, and their youngest son died in St.-Martin Parish in March 1766.  In November of that year, Isidore took his family to St.-Malo.  They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where, between 1767 and 1772, Madeleine gave him four more children, three sons and a daughter.  Two of the sons died young.  Isidore followed older brothers Claude and Jean-Baptiste to Poitou in 1773.  Madeleine gave him another son at Châtellerault in March 1774.  In March 1776, they, too, retreated with other Poitou Acadians to Nantes, where, in St.-Jacques Parish in 1776 and 1778, Madeleine gave Isidore two more daughters--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, from 1753 to 1778.  The youngest daughter also died young.  Isidore died in Ste.-Croix Parish, Nantes, in August 1782, age 50.  In 1785, his widow Madeleine and five of their children, three sons and two daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge but did not remain there.  Madeleine died near Carencro in the Attakapas District in November 1804, in her early 70s.  One of her Trahan daughters, Marie-Jeanne, married into the Boutin and Marks families at Opelousas in the 1790s.  None of her three Trahan sons seems to have married. 

Alexandre, père's fourth son Claude l'aîné, born probably at Minas in c1694, married Marie-Louise, daughter of François Tillard and Marguerite Leprince, in c1724 probably at Minas.  Bona Arsenault places the family at Pigiguit and says that, between 1726 and 1745, Marie-Louise gave Claude nine children, seven daughters and two sons.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  Claude may have become a widower by then.  In August 1752, a French official counted Claude and his nine children at Anse-au-Matelot on the island's south shore and said nothing about wife Marie-Louise.  Two daughters married into the Henry and Daigre families on the island soon after the counting.  The British deported members of the family from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, Boulogne-sur-Mer, and Rochefort, France, in late 1758.  Claude died on the crossing to St.-Malo, in his early or mid-60s.  His younger son also died from the rigors of the crossing.  A daughter married into the LeBlanc family at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in 1763, and another into the Seillon family of Toulouse at Rochefort in August 1767.  His older son also married in France.  Four of Claude l'aîné's children, a son and three daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785, where the unmarried daughter married into the Hébert family. 

Older son Auguste or Augustin, born probably at Minas in c1735, followed his family to Île St.-Jean.  The British deported him to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in 1758-59, when he was in his early 20s.  At age 28, he married Bibianne, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Marguerite Gautrot of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in St.-Nicolas Parish, Boulogne-sur-Mer, in July 1764.  They moved on to Île d'Aix near Rochefort by March 1767, when a daughter was born there.  They moved to Rochefort by November 1768, when a son was born in Notre-Dame Parish.  Another daughter was born in c1773, perhaps at Rochefort.  Later that year the family went to Poitou, where another son was born in c1775.  They retreated with other Poitou Acadians to Nantes in December 1775.  Between 1776 and 1779, Bibianne gave Augustin three more children, two sons and a daughter--seven children, three daughters and four sons, in all.  By 1785, only their oldest daughter, then age 12, was still living.  That year, Augustin, Bibianne, and their daughter emigrated to Spanish Louisiana and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  They had no more children in the colony.  Bibianne died by December 1795, when Augustin was listed in an upper Lafourche census without a wife.  He was still alive in April 1797, in his early 60s, when he was counted with his daughter in another Valenzuela District census on the upper Lafourche.  Daughter Marie-Modeste married into the Maurice family on the Lafourche, so the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Claude l'aîné's younger son Fiacre, born probably at Minas in c1740, followed his family to Île St.-Jean.  In late 1758, the British deported Fiacre with his father and the family of Marie Trahan and her husband Jean Pineau to St.-Malo, France, aboard the ill-fated transport Duc Guillaume, which suffered a mishap on the crossing.  His father died on the crossing, but Fiacre made it to the Breton port.  Six days after the ship's arrival, Fiacre died in a local hospital, age 18, probably from the rigors of the crossing. 

Alexandre, père's fifth son, name unrecorded, born probably at Minas in the 1690s, died young. 

Alexandre père's sixth son René, born probably at Minas in c1701, married Marguerite, daughter of Philippe Melanson and Marie Dugas, at Grand-Pré in October 1725 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, who also places the family at Pigiguit, Marguerite gave René a daughter, Marguerite, in c1730.  Other records give them two more daughters in c1741 and c1745, and three sons, birth years undetermined--six children, three sons and three daughters, in all.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring, and they were repatriated to Morlaix and Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in the spring of 1763.  René died in St.-Martin de Champs Parish, Morlaix, in May 1769, in his late 60s.  Wife Marguerite died there in March 1772, in her late 60s.  Their younger daughters married into the Trahan and Gautrot families at Morlaix and Boulogne-sur-Mer.  They and a brother emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Oldest son Alexis, born probably at Pigiguit, birth year unrecorded, married cousin Marguerite, 30-year-old daughter of Antoine Leprince and Anne Trahan, in c1755.  The British deported them to Virginia soon after their marriage, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  They were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Marguerite gave him a daughter in St.-Martin Parish, Morlaix, in February 1765.  Marguerite died there in April 1778, age 53.  Alexis promptly remarried to Françoise-Thomase Menier, perhaps a local, widow of Guillaume-Gilles Poupon, in St.-Martin Parish in April 1779.  They did not follow his siblings to Louisiana in 1785. 

René's son René, fils, born probably at Pigiguit, birth year unrecorded, probably followed his family to Virginia and England.  According to a church service record from St.-Joseph Parish, Boulogne-sur-Mer, dated 18 April 1763, René, "Acadien mort en Angleterre au il était prisonnier de guerre suivant les nouvelles qu'on en a recu," that is, he was an Acadian prisoner of war who died in England before that date.  One suspects that he was not so much a prisoner of war as one of the hundreds of Acadian exiles being held in England and that he died on the eve of repatriation to France.  Though most members of his family were repatriated to Morlaix, one of his sisters, Anne-Pélagie, landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer in the spring of 1763.  The church record says nothing of his being married. 

René's son Eustache, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, birth year unrecorded, followed his family to Virginia, England, and Morlaix, where he married Marie, daughter of Grand-Pré notary René LeBlanc and his second wife Marguerite Thébeau and widow of Cyprien Leprince, in St.-Martin des Champs Parish in February 1766.  They were still at Morlaix in September 1784, made their way down the coast to St.-Malo, and followed his sisters to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Alexandre père's seventh son Paul, born probably at Minas in c1703, married Marie, daughter of Jean Boudrot and Cécile Corporon, in c1735 probably at Minas and likely remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1749, Marie gave Paul seven children, five daughters and two sons.  They, too, moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Paul, Marie, and their seven children at Anse-au-Matelot near older brother Claude on the south end of the island.  Marie gave Paul another son probably on the island in 1752.  Their oldest daughter married on the island in February 1754.  The family evidently left the island soon afterwards and sought refuge in Canada.  Marie gave Paul yet another son in 1757, perhaps in Canada--nine children, five daughters and four sons, in all.  Marie died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse across from Québec City in late February 1758, victim, most likely, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the exiles in the area from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Paul died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse in April 1761, in his late 50s.  His children remained in the area.  Four of his daughters married into the Marquis, Daigle, Mazerolle, Turgeon, and Dallaire families on Île St.-Jean and at Québec and St.-Charles de Bellechasse.  Two of his sons also married in Canada.

Older son Charles, born probably at Minas in c1740, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and Canada.  He married Marie, daughter of Marc Isabel and Marthe Couture, at St.-Charles de Bellechasse in 1766.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1780 and 1792, Marie gave Charles four daughters, who married into the Coté, Batouel, Cabot, and Guillot families at St.-Charles de Bellechasse. 

Paul's third son Pierre-Janvier, born probably on Île St.-Jean in c1752, followed his family to Canada.  He married Cécile, daughter of Antoine Rousseau and Cécile Noël, at St.-Michel de Bellechasse across from Québec City, in November 1778.

Alexandre père's eighth son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Minas in c1705, married Catherine-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Boudrot and Marie Corporon, in c1735 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1754, Catherine-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste 10 children, seven daughters and three sons.  They, too, moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Jean-Baptiste, Catherine, and eight of their children, two sons and six daughters, at Anse-au-Matelot near older brothers Claude and Paul.  Their two older daughters married on the island in 1753 and 1756.  They, too, evidently left the island before 1758 and sought refuge in Canada.  Jean-Baptiste died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse in February 1758, in his early 50s, victim, most likely, of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of his fellow exiles in the area from the summer of 1757 through the spring of 1758.  His older brothers Jean and Étienne and brother Paul's wife also were likely victims of the epidemic.  Jean-Baptiste's widow Catherine-Josèphe remarried to a Girouard at Québec in 1762.  Some of her Trahan children remained in the area.  Three of her and Jean-Baptiste's daughters married into the Deschamps, Pinet, and Cyr families on Île St.-Jean and at St.-François-du-Sud below Québec City.  At least one of Jean-Baptiste's sons also married in Canada. 

Second son Pierre-Élie, born probably at Minas in c1745, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and Canada.  He married felllow Acadian Marie-Madeleine Brun in c1770, place unrecorded.  She gave him a daughter, Louise, in 1771 and died at Québec in June 1790.  Did Pierre-Élie remarry?  His daughter married into the Martin dit Beaulieu family at Québec in 1798, so the blood of the family line may have endured. 

Alexandre père's ninth and youngest son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1713, married Anne, daughter of Claude Thériot and Marguerite Cormier, at Grand-Pré in October 1735.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1752, Anne gave Joseph five children, three sons and two daughters.  They also moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Joseph, Anne, and their five children at Anse-au-Matelot near his older brothers.  They did not leave the island before its dérangement.  The British deported the family to France in late 1758.  Joseph died at Boulogne-sur-Mer in November 1759, in his mid-40s, soon after his arrival.  His older daughter Marie-Modeste married into the Boudrot family in France and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  All three of Joseph's sons married, two of them in France, one in Louisiana.  A grandson also emigrated to the Spanish colony.  One wonders what happened to younger daughter Marguerite. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born probably at Minas in c1737, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to France, where he worked as a sailor.  He married Marie-Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Leprince le jeune and his first wife Judith Boudrot of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in St.-Nicolas Parish, Boulogne-sur-Mer, in November 1762.  In 1764, they followed other Acadians to the new French colony of Guiane on the northeastern coast of South America but did not remain.  Back in France, they settled at Rochefort before moving on to Île d'Aix near La Rochelle by 1766, when Marie gave Joseph, fils a son and a daughter.  They returned to Rochefort by April 1769, when she gave him another son in Notre-Dame Parish there, but the boy evidently died young--three children, two sons and a daughter, only one of whom survived childhood.  Joseph, fils died by September 1772, in his late 20s or early 30s, when Marie, called a widow, and their older son arrived at St.-Malo from Rochefort.  Marie-Sophie evidently took her Trahan son to Poitou soon after reaching St.-Malo and retreated with other Poitou Acadians to Nantes in 1775.  Her son became a day laborer there.  They were still at Nantes in September 1784, when they appeared on a list of Acadians who agreed to go to Spanish Louisiana the following year.  From New Orleans, they did not follow most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche but chose to settle in the Attakapas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Marie-Sophie, who did not remarry, died by September 1798, when the priest who recorded her son's marriage noted that the mother of the groom was dead.  She would have been in her early 50s that year. 

Older son Antoine-Joseph, born on Île d'Aix near La Rochelle, France, in c1766, followed his parents to Rochefort and his widowed mother to St.-Malo, Poitou, and Nantes, where he worked as a day laborer.  He followed his mother and a maternal aunt to Spanish Louisiana and settled with them on the western prairies.  In his early 30s, he married Marie-Françoise-Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Mire and Madeleine Cormier of Cabahannocer and Côte Gelée, at Attakapas in September 1798.  They settled on upper Bayou Vermilion.  He died in Lafayette Parish in February 1834, in his late 60s.  His daughter married into the Hébert family.  His two sons also married, into the Landry, Broussard, and Hébert families, and perhaps into the Guidry family as well. 

Joseph, fils's younger son Firmin, baptized in Notre-Dame Parish, Rochefort, April 1769, age not given, died by September 1772, when his widowed mother and older brother, but not him, reached St.-Malo from Rochefort. 

Joseph, père's second Mathurin, born probably at Minas in c1744, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to Boulogne-sur-Mer France, where he worked as a sailor.  He did not remain in the northern French fishing port.  In his late 20s, he married Thérèse-Marguerite, daughter of locals Pierre Lahaye and Thérèse Chevallier, in Notre-Dame Parish, Rochefort, in August 1773.  Soon after their marriage, they followed other Acadians in the port cities to Poitou, where, at Châtellerault in July 1774 and August 1775, Thérèse gave Mathurin two daughters.  In December 1775, while Mathurin likely was at sea, Thérèse and their two daughters retreated with other Poitou Acadians to Nantes, where the younger daughter died in May 1776.  Mathurin joined them at nearby Chantenay by July 1777, when son Mathurin, fils was baptized there; the boy died the following October.  Thérèse gave Mathurin another daughter at Chantenay in January 1779, but this daughter, too, died in infancy--four children, three daughters and a son, in all, only one of whom, oldest daughter Marie-Modeste, may have survived childhood.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Joseph, père's third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born probably at Minas in c1749, followed his family to Île St.-Jean soon after his birth and to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in 1758.  He did not remain there, nor at Rochefort, where he likely worked as a sailor and where he witnessed brother Mathurin's marriage in Notre-Dame Parish in August 1773.  By September 1784, when he would have been a bachelor in his mid-30s, he evidently was the Jean-Bte. Trahan who appeared with the family of Jean-Bte. Boudrot and Marie-Magdeleine Trahan, likely his older sister Marie-Modeste, on a list of Acadians at Nantes who agreed to emigrate to Spanish Louisiana.  He evidently followed his sister and her family to the colony the following year and likely was the Jean-Baptiste Trahan who, in his late 30s, married cousin Élisabeth, also called Isabelle, 36-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Richard and François Thériot, at Ascension on the river in May 1788 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Élisabeth also had come to Louisiana from France, with two of her older unmarried sisters.  Jean died at Lafourche by January 1791, in his early 40s, when his wife was listed as a widow in a Valenzuela District census.  They evidently were that rare Acadian couple who had no children.337

Gaudet

Jean Gaudet, who arrived in the late 1630s, became the colony's oldest and most long-lived family progenitor.  He married twice, first to a woman whose name has been lost to history, and then to Nicole Colleson in Acadia.  His first wife gave him three children, a son and two daughters, born in France.  Jean's daughters from his first wife married into the Mercier, LeBlanc, Hébert, and Gareau families.  Jean's son from his first wife also created a family of his own.  Second wife Nicole gave Jean another son, who also created his own family.  Jean died at Port-Royal after 1678, at age about 103.  His descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Chignecto, Minas, in Canada (before Le Grand Dérangement), and on Île St.-Jean in the French Maritimes.  At least 13 of Jean's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and five from France in 1785.  However, the majority of Jean's descendants could be found in Canada and greater Acadia, as well as in France, after Le Grand Dérangement.  

Older son Denis, by Jean's first wife, born in France in c1625, came to Acadia with his family in the late 1630s and married Martine Gauthier at Port-Royal in c1645; she was six years older he was.  Between 1646 and 1657, Martine gave Denis five children, two sons and three daughters, all of whom married.  Martine died probably at Port-Royal after 1678, in her late 60s or early 70s.  Denis, who did not remarry, died at Port-Royal in October 1709, in his mid-80s.  His daughters married into the Vincent, Daigre, Fardel, and Aucoin families.  Though he fathered only two sons, Denis's line of the family was by far the larger one. 

Older son Pierre l'aîné, born at Port-Royal in c1652, married Anne, daughter of Jean Blanchard and Radegone Lambert and widow of François Guérin, at Port-Royal in c1672.  Between 1673 and 1690, Anne gave Pierre l'aîné nine children, six sons and three daughters, including a set of twin daughters.  According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, Pierre l'aîné and his family were living at Chignecto 1714.  His daughters married into the Mirande, Lavielle, Caissie dit Roger, and Arseneau families.  One of them settled at La Baleine on Île Royale.  All of his sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Bernard dit le Vieux, born at Port-Royal in c1673, married Jeanne, daughter of Claude Thériot and Marie Gautrot, at Port-Royal in c1693 and settled on the haute-rivière.  Between 1695 and 1720, Jeanne gave Bernard eight children, three sons and five daughters.  In June 1714, Bernard and his family, along with cousins Guillaume Gaudet and Denis Gaudet le jeune, sailed to Île Royale to look at land there.  They evidently did not care for what they saw on the French-controlled island.  Bernard died at Annapolis Royal in March 1751, age 77.  Wife Jeanne died four days later, age 75.  Four of their daughters married into the Belliveau and LeBlanc families, two of them to brothers and another to their sisters' cousin.  Youngest daughter Isabelle, wife of Joseph LeBlanc of Grand-Pré, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Two of Bernard's three sons also created their own families.  One of them joined his sister in Louisiana. 

Oldest son Pierre dit Pitre, born at Port Royal in c1695, married Marie, daughter of Charles Belliveau and Marie Melanson, at Annapolis Royal in November 1720 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1742, Marie gave Pierre eight children, six sons and two daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Oldest daughter Anne married into the Dupuis family, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, and remarried into the Boudreaux family there.  Pierre dit Pitre died after November 1767, place unrecorded.  All six of his sons created their own families in greater Acadia and Canada. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1723, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of René Aucoin and Madeleine Bourg of Rivière-aux-Canards, at Grand-Pré in 1747.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Madeleine gave Pierre, fils a son in 1763.  After exile, the family settled at Memramcook, present-day Westmorland County, New Brunswick.  Pierre, fils was an ancestor of noted Acadian genealogist Placide Gaudet of nearby Cap-Pelé. 

Pierre dit Pitre's second son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in c1726, married Scholastique, daughter of Alexandre Hébert and Marie Dupuis, at Annapolis Royal in January 1750, and remarried to Nathalie Robichaud in 1755.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in 1755.  In 1763, Charles and his household of eight appeared on a repatriation list of Acadian families in Connecticut "who desire to go to France."  They went, instead, to Canada and settled at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence below Montréal.  Charles died at L'Assomption in 1805, in his late 70s. 

Pierre dit Pitre's third son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born at Annapolis Royal in c1730, married cousin Jeanne Gaudet probably while in exile.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1768, Jeanne gave Jean four children, all daughters.  The family was counted at Cap-des-Maringouins, today's Cap Maringouin, southeastern New Brunswick, in 1769. 

Pierre dit Pitre's fourth son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1732, married Anne-Gertrude, daughter of Charles LeBlanc and Madeleine Girouard, in c1756 during exile, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1758 and 1772, Anne-Gertrude gave Joseph seven children, four sons and three daughters.  Arsenault says that the family was living "at Annapolis," probably Annapolis Royal, in 1769 and had moved on to Baie Ste.-Marie, Nova Scotia, in 1774.  Joseph died on Bay St. Mary in 1802, age about 70.

Pierre dit Pitre's fifth son René-Poncy, born at Annapolis Royal in c1735, married Félicité, daughter of Pierre Comeau and Marie-Madeleine Lord, in c1766 while still in exile.  The marriage was revalidated at Baie Ste.-Marie, Nova Scotia, in October 1769.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1770 and 1773, Félicité gave René-Poncy two sons.  The family was counted at Baie Ste.-Marie in 1774. 

Pierre dit Pitre sixth and youngest son Bonaventure, born at Annapolis Royal in c1742, married Marie, daughter of Guillaume Bourgeois and Anne Hébert, in a civil ceremony in 1766 evidently while still in exile, place unrecorded, and revalidated the marriage at L'Assomption, Canada, in November 1767.  Bonaventure died at nearby St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in 1816, in his early 70s.

Bernard's second son Claude, born at Port-Royal in c1698, evidently did not survive childhood. 

Bernard's third and youngest son, also named Claude, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1713, married Catherine-Josèphe, daughter of René Forest and Françoise Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in August 1737 and likely remained there.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Claude, Catherine, and two of their sons emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Both of their sons married twice, into the Bourgeois, LeBlanc, and Comeaux families, but only one of the lines endured. 

Pierre l'aîné's second son Pierre, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1675, married Cécile, daughter of Jean-Aubin Mignot dit Aubin and Anne Dugas, in c1700 probably at Port-Royal.  According to genealogist Stephen White, in the early 1700s, Cécile gave Pierre, fils a daughter and a son.  Pierre, fils died at Port-Royal between 1707 and 1708, in his early 30s, during Queen Anne's War, so one wonders if his death was war-related.  Cécile remarried to Louis Poirier in c1708.  Pierre's daughter married into the Haché dit Gallant and Caissie families and settled at Chignecto.  One wonders what happened to her and her family in 1755.  Pierre, fils's son also created a family of his own. 

Only son Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in c1707, married Marie, daughter of Louis Doucet and Marguerite Girouard, probably at Chignecto in c1731 and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1742, Marie gave Jean-Baptistet six children, three sons and three daughters.  The family escaped the British in 1755 and took refuge in Canada.  They were living at Québec in 1759.  According to Stephen White, Jean-Baptiste died after September 1762 probably in Canada.  After the war with Britain, his family settled at Nicolet, across the St. Lawrence from Trois-Rivières.  His daughters married into the Ratier, Richard, Simoneau, and Orillon families at Nicolet and at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets downriver from Nicolet.  One of his sons also created his own family.

Second son Joseph, born at Chignecto in c1733, followed his family into exile in 1755 and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Comeau and Brigitte Savoie, at Québec in January 1759.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1776, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph seven children, four sons and three daughters.  They settled at Nicolet.  Two of their daughters married into the Orillon and Lemire families there.  One of Joseph's sons also created his own family there.

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born in exile in c1760, probably in Canada, and married Geneviève, daughter of Charles Orillon and Marie-Anne Richard, at Nicolet in February 1781. 

Pierre l'aîné's third son Claude, born at Port-Royal in c1677, married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Blou and Marie Girouard, probably at Chignecto in c1700 and remained there.  According to Stephen White, between 1703 and 1721, Marguerite gave Claude eight children, three sons and five daughters.  Bona Arsenault awards the couple two more sons, the youngest born in c1724.  Claude died after 1754-55 probably in exile.  According to Stephen White, Claude's daughters married into the Bernard, Boudrot, Hébert, Richard, and Gauthier families.  Arsenault insists that two of Claude's daughters married into the Poirier and Girouard families as well.  All of his sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Pierre le jeune, born at Port-Royal in c1703, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Hébert and Isabelle Landry, probably at Chignecto in c1721 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1724 and 1733, Marguerite gave Pierre le jeune a son and two daughters.  Pierre le jeune died probably at Chignecto before June 1740, when Marguerite remarried to Pierre Cyr at Beaubassin.  One of Pierre's daughters married into the Poirier family.  His son created a family of his own.

Only son Michel, born at Chignecto in c1730, married Madeleine Arseneau probably at Chignecto in c1751.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1752 and 1780, Madeleine gave Michel seven children, six sons and a daughter.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Michel died at Lotbinière, on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec and Trois-Rivières, in April 1800, in his late 60s or early 70s.  Two of his sons created their own families in Canada.

Oldest son Michel, fils, born at Chignecto in c1752, followed his family into exile and married Françoise, daughter of Joseph LeMay and Marie-Geneviève Auger, in January 1782, place unrecorded.  They settled at Bécancour, farther upper the St. Lawrence from Lotbinière and across from Trois-Rivières.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1783 and 1805, Françoise gave Michel, fils 11 children, seven sons and four daughters. 

Michel, père's sixth and youngest son Pierre, born in Canada in c1780, married Thérèse, daughter of Antoine Auger and Marguerite Auger of St.-Jean-Deschaillon, at St.-Pierre de Montmagny on the lower St. Lawrence in November 1807 but settled on the upper river at Lotbinière. 

Claude's son Claude, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1706 (Arsenault says 1712), married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Germain Girouard and Marie Doucet, at Beaubassin in September 1734 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1748, Marie-Madeleine gave Claude, fils four children, two sons and two daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Claude, fils died at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Canada, in January 1762, age 56.  His daughters married into the Cyr and Banlier families at St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu and St.-Antoine-de-Chambly on the Richelieu.  Both of his sons also created their own families.

Older son Joseph, born at Chignecto in c1740, followed his family into exile in 1755, one wonders where, and married Marie-Josephe, daughter of Denis Petitot dit Saint-Seine III and Marie-Josèphe Granger, in Canada in c1765.  Joseph remarried to Catherine, daughter of Charles Bussières and Catherine LeBrodeur, at St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Canada, in September 1800.

Charles, fils's younger son François, born at Chignecto in c1742, followed his family into exile in 1755, one wonders where, and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Bousquet and Marie-Judith LeBrodeur, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly, Canada, in January 1768.

Claude, père's son Charles dit Marin, born at Chignecto in September 1716, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Cormier and Marie-Anne Cyr, probably at Chignecto in c1739 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1758, Marie gave Charles seven children, three sons and four daughters.  One wondered what happened to them, in 1755.  Charles dit Marin died at Bécancour, across from Trois-Rivières on the upper St. Lawrence, in December 1794, in his late 70s.  Three of his daughters married into the Bourg, Belliveau, and Delisle families at Bécancour and St.-Charles-sur-Richelieu.  Two of his sons also created their own families at Bécancour and on the Richelieu. 

Second son François, born at Chignecto in c1743, followed his family into exile in 1755, one wonders where, and married Marie-Françoise, daughter of Antoine Poisson and Charlotte Deshaies-Tourigny, at Bécancour in January 1773.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1774 and 1794, Marie-Françoise gave François a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters.  In his early 50s, François remarried Geneviève, daughter of Alexis Poisson and Madeleine Lavigne, at Bécancour in 1794.  One wonders if she gave him anymore children.  Three of his daughters by first wife Marie-Françoise married into the Dubois-Lafrance, Durand, and Desilets families at Gentilly and nearby St.-Grégoire above and below Bécancour.  Two of his sons also created their own families in the area.

Second son François, fils, by first wife Marie-Françoise Poisson, born in Canada in c1781, married Marie-Didace, daughter of Alexis Beaudet and Agnès Brunelle, at Gentilly in September 1805. 

François, père's third son Charles, by first wife Marie-Françoise Poisson, born in Canada in c1786, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Panneton and Françoise Rocheleau, at Gentilly in July 1805. 

Charles dit Marin's third and youngest son Charles, fils, born at Chignecto in c1747, followed his family into exile in 1755, one wonders where, and married Marguerite-Marie, daughter of François Phaneuf and Marguerite Forget-Despaties, at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu in February 1773.

According to Bona Arsenault, Claude, père also had a son named Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in c1724, who married Anne, daughter of Charles Bourgeois and Madeleine Cormier, in c1756 while in exile.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  According to Arsenault, between 1757 and 1775, Anne gave Joseph six children, three sons and three daughters.  Joseph died at St.-Ours on lower Rivière Richelieu, in June 1809, in his mid-80s.  Two of Joseph's daughters married into the Thibault and Ayot families at St.-Ours.  His sons also created their own families on the lower Richelieu. 

Oldest son Félix, born in exile in c1757, place unrecorded, married Marie-Thérèse, daughter of Joseph Blanchard and Marguerite LeBlanc, at St.-Ours in November 1779. 

Joseph's second son Amable, born in exile in c1761, place unrecorded, married Élisabeth, daughter of Joseph Benoit and Françoise Daigle, at St.-Ours in March 1782, and remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Duguay and Marie Forest, at St.-Ours in October 1791. 

Joseph's third and youngest son Jean, born in c1768, place unrecorded, married Marguerite, another daughter of Joseph Benoit and Françoise Daigle, at St.-Ours in June 1794. 

Pierre l'aîné's fourth son Abraham, born at Port-Royal in c1679, married Agnès, daughter of Germain Girouard and Marie Bourgeois, probably at Chignecto in c1701 and settled there.  Between 1703 and 1714, Agnès gave Abraham six children, three sons and three daughters.  In the summer of 1714, Abraham, along with fellow Acadians Charles and François Arseneau from Chignecto, sailed to Île Royale to look at land there.  Abraham evidently did not care for what he saw on the French-controlled island.  That same year, in his mid-30s, he remarried to Marie, daughter of Vincent Breau and Marie Bourg, probably at Chignecto.  Between 1716 and 1723, Marie gave him five more children, a son and four daughters--11 children, four sons and seven daughters, by two wives.  Abraham witnessed a burial at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in August 1723, so he may have moved his family from Chignecto to the French-controlled island before taking them to Canada.  He died at Berthier-sur-Mer on the lower St. Lawrence in November 1728, in his late 40s.  His daughters from his first wife married into the Grenier or Garnier, Guénet, Giquet or Giguet, and Le Paulmier families in Canada.  Only one of his daughters from his second wife married, into the Huret dit Rochefort family at L'Islet on the lower St. Lawrence.  Only one of his four sons created his own families, also in Canada.

Abraham's oldest son, name unrecorded, from first wife Agnès Girouard, was born at Chignecto in c1703 and died there four years later. 

Abraham's second son Pierre, by first wife Agnès Girouard, born at Chignecto in c1706, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Angélique, daughter of Noël Pelletier and Madeleine Matte, at Québec in January 1733.  He died at the Hôtel-Dieu, Québec, the following April, in his late 20s.  His line of the family evidently died with him. 

Abraham's third son Paul, by first wife Agnès Girouard, followed his family to Canada and died at Québec in April 1733, age 20.  He did not marry. 

Abraham's fourth and youngest Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Marie Breau, born probably at Chignecto in c1716, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Félicité, another daughter of Noël Pelletier and Madeleine Matte, at Pointe-aux-Trembles, below Montréal, in September 1742 and remained there.  Jean-Baptiste died probably in Canada after January 1797, in his early 90s. 

Pierre, l'aîné's fifth son Augustin, born at Port-Royal in c1786, married Agnès, daughter of Sébastien Chiasson and Marie Blou, at Beaubassin in February 1713 and remained at Chignecto.  Between the early 1710s and 1742, Agnès gave Augustin 14 children, six sons and eight daughters.  Augustin died after 1754-55 probably in exile.  One wonders what happened to him and his family in 1755.  Five of his daughters married into the Poirier, Girouard, Gaudet, and Cormier families.  All six of his sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Pierre, born at Chignecto in December 1719, married Anne, daughter of Germain Girouard and Marie Doucet, at Beaubassin in November 1740 and remained at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1764, Anne gave Pierre six children, two sons and four daughters.  The family escaped the British in 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By 1760, they had taken refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where daughter Catherine married into the Bonnevie family in July of that year.  Pierre and his family of four were among the 1,003 Acadians who surrendered at Restigouche with the French garrison there in October 1760.  The British held them at Fort Cumerland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, near their home at Chignecto, for the rest of war.  After the war, they followed other Acadians to Île Miquelon, a French-controlled island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where French officials counted them in 1767.  To relieve overcrowding on the island, the French transported them to France later in the year.  Pierre worked as a sailor in the mother country.  Wife Anne died in St.-Nicolas Parish, La Rochelle, in April 1770.  Pierre and his family were still in the coastal city in 1772.  A year later, they went to Poitou with hundreds of other Acadians to settle on land owned by an influential nobleman near the city of Châtellerault.  Pierre's daughter Marie died at Archigny south of Châtellerault in September 1774, age 12 1/2.  Pierre remarried to Marie-Henriette, daughter of Louis Pothier and Cécile Nuirat and widow of Jean-Baptiste Rassicot, at Châtellerault in October 1775.  Marie-Henriette gave him no more children.  In November 1775, Pierre, his new wife, and his two remaining daughters from first wife Anne retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Pierre died at Nantes in July 1781, age 61.  In 1785, wife Marie-Henriette emigrated to Spanish Louisiana with three of her Rassicot children.  None of Pierre's daughters followed their stepmother there.  One of them, in fact, Catherine, widow of Amand Bonnevie, returned to Île Miquelon in 1784. 

Older son Joseph, by first wife Anne Girouard, born at Chignecto in c1744, followed his family into exile in 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, he married Jeanne Arseneau in c1765, place unrecorded, and she gave him a son named Joseph, fils that year, again place unrecorded.  One wonders what happened to them after that date. 

Augustin's second son Michel, born at Chignecto in c1725, married Marie-Josèphe, another daughter of Germain Girouard and Marie Doucet, probably at Chignecto in c1750 and remained in the area.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1752 and 1774, Marie-Josèphe gave Michel nine children, five sons and four daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Michel died at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Canada, in February 1789, age 64.  Three of his daughters married into the Buteau, Caron, and Bernard families at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly farther up the Richelieu.  Two of his older sons also created their own families in the Richelieu valley.

Oldest son Joseph, born at Chignecto in c1752, followed his family into exile in 1755 and married Théotiste, daughter of Pierre Henry and Marguerite Brasseau, at St.-Charles-sur-Richelieu in February 1773.

Michel's second son Michel, fils, born in exile in c1759, married Geneviève, daughter of Jean Brasseau and Geneviève Roy, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in January 1782. 

Augustin's third son Louis, born at Chignecto in c1728, married Marie, daughter of François Hébert and Anne Bourg, probably at Chignecto in c1751 and remained in the area.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1752 and 1770, Marie gave Louis seven children, two sons and five daughters.  The family escaped the British in 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By 1760, they were at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where one of their daughters was baptized in July of that year.  They either surrendered to, or were captured by, the British in the early 1760s and also were held at Fort Cumerland at Chignecto.  After the war with Britain, they followed other Acadians, including older brother Pierre, to Île Miquelon, where French officials counted them in 1767.  To relieve overcrowding on the island, the French transported them to France later in the year.  French officials counted them at La Rochelle in 1770 and 1772.  By 1773, they had moved to Nantes, where their youngest son was born--among the earliest Acadians to settled in that port.  A Spanish official counted them at Nantes in September 1784.  Unlike brother Pierre, Louis survived his time in France.  He, wife Marie, and three of their children, two daughters and a son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Oldest daughter Marie, who had married Frenchman Guillaume Gaubert in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in January 1783, remained in France.  One wonders what happened to Louis's older sons, Jean and Pontiff, counted with the family at Fort Cumberland in August 1763.  Did they die in exile or on Île Miquelon or did they choose to remain in greater Acadia or France?  They did not accompany their family to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Louis and his much smaller family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Louis's succession, probably post-mortem, was filed at what became the Lafourche Parish courthouse in August 1801.  He would have been in his early 70s that year.  Daughter Marguerite married into the Arseneaux family in Louisiana.  His son François-Louis married into the Caissie dit Roger and Falgout families, settled on the river and on upper Bayou Lafourche, and created a vigorous line.

Augustin's fourth son Jean, born at Chignecto in c1730 (Arsenault says 1747), may have followed his family into exile in 1755, and imprisonment in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s, but he evidently did not follow them to Île Miquelon.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Melanson and Marie-Josèphe Granger, in c1767 and revalidated the marriage at Caraquet, present-day northeastern New Brunswick (Bona Arsenault says the marriage was revalidated at Pigiguit, now Windsor, Nova Scotia), in August 1768.  According to Arsenault, between 1767 and 1770, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean four children, a son and three daughters.  Nova Scotia officials counted them at Tintamarre, today's Upper Sackville, New Brunswick, in 1763, and at Windsor in 1772.  They moved on to Village des Beaumont, today's Boudreau Village, on the lower Petitcoudiac River in today's southeastern New Brunswick.  Jean died at nearby Memramcook in August 1822, in his early 90s. 

Augustin's fifth son Paul dit Paul-Augustin, born at Chignecto in January 1733, escaped the British in 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He, too, took refuge at Restigouche by 1760.  He married Marie dite Manette, daughter of François Bourg and Marie Belliveau, at Restigouche in January 1760.  Between 1760 and 1766, Manette gave Paul two children, a son and a daughter.  Paul, Manette, and their infant son either surrendered to, or were captured by, the British in the early 1760s and also were held at Fort Cumberland.  They, too, chose to go to Île Miquelon and were counted there in 1766.  Paul remarried to Rose, daughter of Pierre Gautrot and Agnès LeBlanc, on the island in August 1767.  Between 1768 and 1777, Rose gave Paul four more children, another son and three more daughters.  The family was counted on the island in 1776, perhaps having returned from France after being sent there in the late 1760s.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured the island and deported the Acadians there to France.  French officials counted Paul and his family at St.-Malo later in the year.  Like older brother Pierre, Paul did not survive his sojourn in France.  He died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, a suburb of St.-Malo, in April 1779, age 48.  None of his children followed their kinsmen to Louisiana in 1785.  Paul's widow Rose returned to North America in 1784 and settled on Île St.-Pierre, near Île Miquelon.  Her oldest daughter Appolonie-Rose married into the Girardin family on Île Miquelon in 1788 and died on Île St.-Pierre in July 1848.  Rose's son also survived childhood and created his own family in the Gulf of St. Lawrence region.

Second son Joseph le jeune, by second wife Rose Gautrot, born on Île Miquelon in c1775, followed his family to France in 1778 and his widowed mother back to North America in 1784.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Boudreau and Anne Arsenault, on îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in October 1797.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1798 and 1818, Marguerite gave Joseph seven children, three sons and four daughters.  At least one of their sons created his own family on the islands.

Oldest son Jean-Joseph, born in the islands in c1798, married Pélagie, daughter of François Lapierre and Anne Cormier, in the islands in August 1819.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1820 and 1822, Pélagie gave Jean-Joseph three children, a son and two daughters. 

Augustin's sixth and youngest son Joseph dit Chaculot, born at Chignecto in c1740, escaped the British in 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and probably was held with his family at Fort Cumberland in the early 1760s.  Chaculot married Marie-Blanche, daughter of Michel Bourg and Marguerite-Josèphe Bourgeois, in a civil marriage carried out by Joseph Guegeun in August 1763 perhaps at Fort Cumberland.  Chaculot and Marie-Blanche also chose to go to Île Miquelon, where their marriage was revalidated in June 1766.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1764 and 1767, Marie-Blanche gave Joseph dit Chaculot two children, a daughter and a son.  They did not remain on Île Miquelon.  Nova Scotia officials counted them at Jolicoeur on Rivière Missaguash, today's Jolicure, New Brunswick, not far from their old home at Chignecto, in the late 1760s.  They remained there until 1784, when British authorities removed the Acadians from the Chignecto area and gave their lands to American Loyalists recently expelled from the United States.  Joseph and his family crossed Mer Rouge, now Northumberland Strait, to St. John Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, now Prince Edward Island, and settled at Malpèque on the island's northwest coast, which before 1758 had been an Acadian settlement on French Île St.-Jean.  Joseph dit Chaculot died after September 1812, in his late 60s or early 70s, probably on Prince Edward Island. 

Pierre, l'aîné's sixth and youngest son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1690, married Marie, daughter of François Breau and Marie Comeau, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1729 and likely remained there.  In 1755, the family escaped the British at Annapolis Royal and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, the British and ended up a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Jean died either during exile or in prison.  His widow Marie and three of their children, two sons and a daughter, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via French St.-Domingue in 1765.  Her daughter survived childhood but did not marry, but both of her Gaudet sons married in the Spanish colony.  One of the lines thrived on what became known as the Acadian Coast, but the other line did not endure. 

Older son Charles, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1730, followed his famliy into exile and imprisonment.  In 1765, he emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax with his widowed mother and siblings and settled with them at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where he married cousin Cécile Breau, widow of George Clouâtre, in May 1768.  They remained on the river.  Their three sons married, into the Bergeron, Bourgeois, and Lacroix famliies and created vigorous lines in what became St. James and Ascension parishes. 

Jean's younger son Jérôme, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1740, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and his widowed mother to Louisiana in 1765.  He settled with them at Cabahannocer and married fellow Acadian Marie Doucet there in the 1770s.  They, too, remained on the Acadian Coast and evidently were that rare Acadian couple who had no children of their own. 

Denis's younger son Pierre le jeune, born at Port-Royal in c1654, married Marie, another daughter of Jean Blanchard and Radegone Lambert, at Port-Royal in c1675 and remained there; Pierre le jeune's older brother had married Marie's sister Anne.  Between 1676 and 1698, Marie gave Pierre le jeune 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  Pierre le jeune died at Annapolis Royal in December 1741, in his late 80s.  Two of his daughters married into the Pellerin and Préjean families.  Six of his seven sons created their own families, but not all of the line endured. 

Oldest son Pierre dit Will Denis, born at Port-Royal in c1676, married Madeleine, daughter of Étienne Pellerin and Jeanne Savoie and widow of Charles Calvé dit La Forge, at Port-Royal in January 1707 and remained there, but they had no children.  (Madeleine also had given no children to her first husband.)

Pierre le jeune's second son Antoine, born at Port-Royal in c1678, married Marie dite Louise-Marie, daughter of Michel Bourg and Élisabeth Melanson, in c1712 and settled at Tintamarre, Chignecto.  According to Stephen White, between the early 1710s and 1735, Louise-Marie gave Antoine eight children, including three sons and four daughters.  Bona Arsenault gives them another son.  Antoine died probably at Chignecto after October 1740, in his 60s.  His daughters married into the Belliveau, Bourgeois, Richard, and Poirier families.  Two of his sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Charles, born at Chignecto at 1718, survived exile.  One wonders what happened to him in 1750 and 1755. He died at Bécancour, Canada, in January 1787, in his late 60s.  He did not marry.   

Antoine's second son Pierre-Antoine, born at Chignecto in November 1722, may not have survived childhood. 

Antoine's third son Michel, born probably at Chignecto in the 1720s, married Madeleine, daughter of Paul Arseneau and Madeleine Hébert, probably at Chignecto in c1752 and likely remained in the area.  One wonders what happened to them in 1750 and 1755.  Michel died at Lotbinière, Canada, in April 1800. 

Antoine's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born, according to Arsenault, in c1723, married Madeleine Dugas in c1749 probably at Chignecto.  Arsenault says that between 1750 and 1764, Madeleine gave Joseph five children, four sons and a daughter.  The family escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By 1759, they had found refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where their daughter was baptized in November of that year.  One wonders what happened to them after the the fall of Restigouche in 1760.  After the war with Britain, they followed other Acadians to Île Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where French officials counted them in 1765.  What happened to them after that date?

Pierre le jeune's third son Germain, born at Port-Royal in c1680, lived to adulthood but did not marry. 

Pierre le jeune's fourth son Guillaume, born at Port-Royal in c1683, married Marie, daughter of Abraham Boudrot and Cécile Melanson, at Port-Royal in October 1709 and moved on to Chignecto by the 1720s.  Between 1712 and the 1720s, Marie gave Guillaume seven children, three sons and four daughters.  Bona Arsenault gives the couple another son in the early 1730s.  In June 1714, Guillaume, along with younger brother Denis le jeune, cousin Bernard Gaudet, and their families, sailed from Annapolis Royal to Île Royale in a charroi, probably piloted by Guillaume, to look at land there.  They evidently did not care for what they saw on the French-controlled island.  Guillaume died between 1735 and 1741, in his 50s, place unrecorded, but it likely was Annapolis Royal.  His daughters married into the Poirier, Cormier, Bernard, and Deveau families, and one of them moved on to Île St.-Jean.  Two of Guillaume's three sons created their own families. 

Older son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1712, married Anne, daughter of Martin Richard and Marie Cormier, at Beaubassin in February 1735 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1751, Anne gave Charles three children, a son and two daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1750 and 1755.  Their daughter Marguerite married into Doucet family on Île Miquelon in August 1767.  Charles died probably on the island after his daughter's marriage. 

Guillaume's second son Jean, born at Annapolis Royal or Chignecto in c1723, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Gaudet and Marguerite Hébert, at Beaubassin in February 1748 and remained at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, Jean remarried to another couisn, Anne Gaudet, who gave him a daughter in 1768, place unrecorded.  Jean and his family escaped the British in 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, the British and held at Fort Cumberland, formerly Beauséjour, near their home at Chignecto, until after the war with Britain.  One wonders where they settled after exile. 

Guillaume's third and youngest son, name unrecorded, born probably at Chignecto between 1724 and 1726, evidently died young, unless he was the Joseph Gaudet born in c1732 who, Bona Arsenault says, married Anne Richard, place and date unrecorded.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  According to Arsenault, between 1760 and 1772, Anne gave Joseph six children, two sons and four daughters.  Arsenault says the family settled at Lande à Decoux, Île Madame, off the southern coast of Cape Breton Island in 1771 and was counted at St.-Pierre on Cape Breton Island the following year. 

Pierre le jeune's fifth son Denis le jeune, born at Port-Royal in November 1685, sailed to Île Royale with older brother Guillaume, a navigator, and cousin Bernard Gaudet and their families in June 1714 to look at land there.  Denis evidently did not care for what they saw.  He married Anne, daughter of Toussaint Doucet and Marie Caissie, in c1717 probably at Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1718 and 1728, Anne gave Denis six children, three sons and three daughters.  They resettled at Chignecto.  Denis le jeune died probably at Chignecto between April 1730 and 1731, in his mid-40s.  His daughters married into the Poirier, Nuirat, and Deveau families.  His sons created their own families at Chignecto. 

Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1718, married Marie-Marguerite, daughter of François Arseneau and Marguerite Bernard, at Beaubassin in November 1740 and remained in the area.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1741 and 1744, Marie-Marguerite gave Pierre two children, a son and a daughter.  One wonders what happened to them in 1750 and 1755. 

Denis le jeune's second son Joseph, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1723, married cousin Jeanne, daughter of Augustin Gaudet and Agnès Chiasson, at Beaubassin in January 1746.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1747 and 1750, Jeanne gave Joseph two children, a daughter and a son.  One wonders where they went in 1755.  Joseph's son created a family of his own after the war with Britain.

Only son Joseph, fils, born at Chignecto in c1750, followed his family into exile in 1755, one wonders where, and married Charlotte, daughter of Charles Lavigne and Madeleine Petitpas, on Île Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland in November 1773.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1774 and 1781, Charlotte gave Joseph, fils three daughters.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British deported them to La Rochelle, France.  Arsenault says Joseph, fils died at La Rochelle before 1784, when his widow returned to Île Miquelon with two of their daughters. 

Denis le jeune's third and youngest son Charles dit Chayé, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1727, married Marguerite, daughter of François Bourg and Catherine Cormier, at Beaubassin in February 1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1764, Marguerite gave Charles six children, three sons and three daughters.  The family escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  They were at Miramichi in 1762; were either captured by, or surrendered to, the British soon afterwards; and were held at Fort Edward, formerly Pigiguit, until the end of the war with Britain.  Nova Scotia officials counted them at Pointe-à-Beauséjour, Chignecto, in 1764.  They moved on to Île Miquelon by 1765.  One of their daughters, Rosalie, married into the Briand family on the island in February 1770.  Charles and his family remained on the island until 1778, when, during the American Revolution, the British captured the island and deported the Acadians there to La Rochelle, France.  Charles died at La Rochelle in February 1779, in his early 50s.  His oldest son died there the same month, and his middle son, who became a sailor, died at La Rochelle three years later.  If any of Charles's other children were still in France in 1785, none followed their cousins to Spanish Louisiana. 

Oldest son Félix, born at Chignecto in c1748, followed his family into exile in 1755 and to Île Miquelon, where he married Marie-Anne, daughter of François Cormier and Marie Bourgeois of Chignecto, in October 1774.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Anne gave Félix at least one son on the island.  Félix and his family also were deported to La Rochelle in 1778.  Another son was born there in 1778.  Félix died at La Rochelle in February 1779, in his late 20s.  His widow evidently returned to North America with their young sons, but only one of the lines survived. 

Older son Pierre, born on Île Miquelon in c1775 or 1777, followed his parents to La Rochelle in 1778.   His widowed mother returned to North America perhaps in 1784 with other Acadian exiles who did not care to remain in the mother country.  Pierre settled on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where he married Appoline, daughter of Michel Boudreau and Modeste Boudreau, in August 1801.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1802 and 1820, Appoline gave Pierre nine children, three sons and six daughters. 

Félix's younger son Joseph, born probably at La Rochelle, France, in c1778, likely followed his widowed mother back to North America, but he did not remain there.  He died at Le Havre, France, in November 1802, age 24, still a bachelor. 

Charles dit Chayé's second son Pierre, born, according to Bona Arsenault, on Île Miquelon in c1758 (it likely was later), and followed his family to France, where he worked as a sailor.  He died at La Rochelle in September 1782, age 24.  He probably did not marry. 

Pierre le jeune's sixth son Jean dit Varouël, born at Port-Royal in c1690, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Abraham Brun and Anne Pellerin, at Annapolis Royal in November 1718 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1720 and 1750, Madeleine gave Jean a dozen children, six sons and six daughters.  Jean and members of his family escaped the British in 1755 and took refuge in Canada.  He died at Québec in July 1757, age 67, perhaps a victim of smallpox.  Three of his daughters married into the Arsenault and Bastarache families.  At least one of his sons created his own family. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit Varouël, born at Annapolis Royal in c1720, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Bastarache and Marguerite Forest, at Annapolis Royal in February 1751.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1754 and 1766, Anne gave Jean-Bapiste three children, all daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  In 1769, British authorities counted the family at Cap-des-Maringouins, today's Cap Maringouin, southeastern New Brunswick. 

Pierre le jeune's seventh and youngest son Bernard dit Blèche, born at Port-Royal in c1681, married Marguerite, another daughter of Étienne Pellerin and Jeanne Savoie, at Annapolis Royal in January 1716; his oldest brother Pierre dit Will Denis had married Marguerite's sister Madeleine.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1717 and 1724, Marguerite gave Bernard four children, three sons and a daughter.  Bernard remarried to Marie, daughter of Claude Doucet and Marie Comeau, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1724.  According to Arsenault, between 1725 and 1739, Marie gave Bernard eight more children, four sons and four daughters--a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters, by both wives.  Bernard died probably at Annapolis Royal after January 1747, in his 50s. His oldest daughter by first wife Marguerite married into the Brun and Caron families.  Four of his sons by both wives created their own families.

Second son Germain, by first wife Marguerite Pellerin, born at Annapolis Royal in c1719, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Bastarache and Angélique Richard, at Annapolis Royal in January 1747.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1752, Marguerite gave Germain four children, three sons and a daughter.  Germain remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Thibodeau and Marie Préjean, at Annapolis Royal in November 1753.  According to Arsenault, in 1754 and 1755, this second Marguerite gave Germain three more children, twin sons and a daughter--seven children, five sons and two daughters, by two wives.  The British deported the family to New York in 1755.  Germain, his wife, and six children appeared on a repatriation list in the colony in 1763.  When the British allowed them to leave, the family chose to go not only to Canada, where most of them settled at Yamachiche, below Trois-Rivières, in c1767, but also to the French Antilles.  Germain's daughter Marie, by first wife Marguerite, was a merchant on the French-controlled island of Martinique in July 1782 when she married into the Framery family at Le Mouillage on the island.  According to Bona Arsenault, at least one of Germain's sons created his own family in Canada. 

Third son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marguerite Bastarache, born at Annapolis Royal in c1752, followed his family to New York and Canada.  He married Marie-Louise, daughter of Joseph Rocheleau and Marie Rivard, at Yamachiche in November 1785. 

Bernard dit Blèche's third son Amand-Grégoire, by first wife Marguerite Pellerin, born at Annapolis Royal in c1724, married Marie, daughter of Joseph Bourg and Louise Robichaud, at Annapolis Royal in February 1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1751 and 1753, Marie gave Amand-Grégoire three children, a son and twin daughters. What happened to them in 1755? 

Bernard dit Blèche's fourth son Joseph-Bernard, by second wife Marie Doucet, born at Annapolis Royal in c1726, married Cécile, another daughter of Antoine Thibodeau and Marie Préjean, at Annapolis Royal in January 1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, Cécile gave Joseph-Bernard a daughter in 1749.  What happened to them in 1755? 

Bernard dit Blèche's fifth son Charles-Alexandre, by second wife Marie Doucet, born at Annapolis Royal in c1728, married Nathalie, daughter of Prudent Robichaud, fils and Françoise Bourgeois, in c1755.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1766 and 1768, Nathalie gave Charles-Alexandre two sons, place unrecorded.  The family was counted at St.-Sulpice, Canada, in 1767 and further down at Pointe-aux-Trembles, near Montréal, in 1770. 

Jean's younger son Jean, fils, by second wife Nicole Colleson, born at Port-Royal in c1653, married Françoise, daughter of Pierre Comeau and Rose Bayon, at Port-Royal in c1672.  In 1673 and 1674, Françoise gave him a daughter and a son.  Their daughter married into the Doiron family.  Jean, fils remarried to Jeanne Henry at Port-Royal in c1680.  She gave him three more children, all daughters, two of whom married into the Lejeune dit Briard and Benoit families.  Jean, fils remarried again--his third marriage--to Jeanne Lejeune dit Briard, widow of François Joseph, at Port-Royal in c1694.  She gave him no more children.  Despite his many marriages, Jean, fils's line of the family was substantially smaller than that of older half-brother Denis.  According to Bona Arsenault, Jean, fils resettled at Pigiguit. 

Only son Jean III, by first wife François Comeau, born at Port-Royal in c1675, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Jean Bourg and Marguerite Martin, at Port-Royal in c1697.  Between 1698 and 1702, Élisabeth gave Jean III three children, two sons and a daughter.  By 1701, Jean III and his family were living on Rivière-Kenescout at Minas, where he died after 1707, in his 50s.  By 1714, his widow had moved the family to nearby Pigiguit.  Both of their sons created their own families, but only one of the lines seems to have endured.  Did Jean III's daughter marry?

Older son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1698, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of François Pitre and Anne Préjean, at Annapolis Royal in May 1728.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1729 and 1750, Marie-Madeleine gave Pierre ten children, seven sons and three daughters.  They moved to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  Pierre died on the island in August 1752, in his mid-50s.  A few days after his death, a French official counted Marie-Madeleine and nine of their children, six sons and three daughters, on the north side of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior.  The official described Pierre's widow as "poor."  One of her daughters married into the Boudrot family on the island in October 1755, was deported to Cherbourg, France, in 1758, and remained in the mother country in 1785 when some of her cousins emigrated to Louisiana.  One, perhaps two, of Pierre's sons married on Île St.-Jean before the deportation.  At least one of them also was deported to Cherbourg in 1758. 

Third son Dominique, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1733, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Denis Boudrot and Agnès Vincent, on the island in October 1755; Marie-Josèphe was a sister of Dominique's sister Dorothée's husband Alexandre.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Dominique a daughter in 1757.  The British deported them to Cherbourg, France, in 1758.  Twin sons Dominique, fils and Prosper were baptized at Très Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in late November 1759 but died the following day.  Two daughters were born at Cherbourg in c1761 and March 1763, but the yonunger one did not survive childhood.  Dominique took his family to Le Havre by 1765, when another son was born there.  Two more daughters were born at La Havre in 1768 and 1771--at least eight children, five daughters and three sons, between 1757 and 1771, in greater Acadia and France.  In 1785, Dominique, if he was still alive, chose to remain in France.  His daughters married into the La Perrelle, Robert, and Hertevent families at Le Havre.  His surviving son also created his own family there.

Third and youngest son Jean-Charles, born at Le Havre in c1765, was a 32-year-old sailor when he married Marie-Rose, 49-year-old daughter of Guillaume-Antoine L'Hurier and Anne-Geneviève LeVerdier, at Le Havre in March 1797. 

Charles, who Bona Arsenault insists was one of Pierre's sons, born, Arsenault says, in c1734, place unrecorded, but it likely would have been Annapolis Royal, married Marie-Rose Bastarache at Port-La-Joye on Île St.-Jean in c1755.  Arsenault says Marie-Rose gave Charles a daughter on the island in 1756.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758. 

Pierre's son François, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1737, followed his family to Île Ste.-Jean and Cherbourg, France, where he died in December 1759, age 22.  He evidently did not marry. 

Jean III's younger son Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in c1702, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jérôme Darois and Marie Gareau, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1727 and resettled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1749, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste seven children, two sons and five daughters.  They, too, moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Jean-Baptiste, wife Marie-Josèphe, and six of their children, two sons and four daughters, at Anse-du-Nord-Est on the south shore of the island.  The official noted that Jean-Baptiste was "always ill, and poor."  Two of his daughters married into the Thibodeau and Brousse families on the island before 1758.  The British deported Jean-Baptiste and his family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Not all of them survived the crossing.  Jean-Baptiste died at Hôtel-Dieu, St.-Malo, in November 1759, in his late 50s, perhaps from the rigors of the crossing.  Daughter Marie-Blanche, widow of Breton tailor Louis-Julien Brousse, remarried into the Boullot family at St.-Malo.  Marie-Blanche's younger brother Joseph-Ignace emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 but did not marry.  Sister Marie-Josèphe married into the Comeau family at Yamachiche, Canada, in February 1766, so she must have eluded the British in 1758. 

Older son Joseph-Ignace, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  In October 1761, he embarked on the ship Duchesse de Grammont probably as a privateer, was captured by the British and held as a prisoner of war in England until the spring of 1763.  Back in France, he settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, a suburb of St.-Malo, working probably as a sailor.  Still a bachelor in his early 40s, he emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 from St.-Malo aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, and followed his fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  He does not seem to have married in the Spanish colony, so his father's line of the family, except for its blood, likely died with him. 

Jean-Bapitste's younger son Paul-Marie, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1749, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  He died at the hospital at St.-Malo in November 1758, age 11, probably from the rigors of the crossing.338

Gautrot

François Gautrot, a late 1630s arrival, married twice.  The Acadian branch of his line comes from his second wife.  François's first wife Marie, her family name unrecorded, who he married in France, gave him two children, a daughter and a son--Marie, who married into the Potet and Dupuis families and who settled in Acadia; and Charles, who did not remain in the colony.  François's second wife Edmée or Aimée Lejeune gave him nine more children, four daughters and five sons.  Their daughters married into the Thériot, Labat dit Le Marquis, Girouard, and Lanoue families.  Three of their sons married and, like their sisters, settled in Acadia.  François died probably at Port-Royal before 1693, probably in his 70s.  His descendants settled in Canada (before Le Grand Dérangement); at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal; Minas, Pigiguit, and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; and in the French Maritimes.  At least 48 of François's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, from Maryland in the late 1760s, and especially from France in 1785--the largest concentration of Gautrots in the Acadian diaspora.  However, descendants of François of Martaizé and Port-Royal, in much smaller numbers, also could be found in greater Acadia, Canada, and France after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Charles l'aîné, by first wife Marie ____, born at Port-Royal in c1639, one of the first French children born in the colony, left Acadia after he came of age and married Françoise, daughter of Martin Cousin and Marie Hubert of St.-Nicolas-des-Champs, Paris, at Québec in October 1665.  He favored the family name Gottreau.  He and Françoise lived for a time at Beauport before settling at Charlesbourg near Québec.  Between 1669 and 1681, Françoise gave Charles six children, at least three sons and two daughters.  Charles died at Charlesbourg in December 1714, age 74.  Only one of his daughters married, into the Brousseau and Valade families at Charlesbourg.  Two of his three sons reached adulthood, but neither married.  They both died at Charlesbourg in their early 20s, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure. 

François's second son Jean, by second wife Edmée Lejeune, born at Port-Royal in c1648, was counted in the first census of Port-Royal in 1671 in his early 20s, but he did not marry.

François's third son François, fils, by second wife Edmée Lejeune, born at Port-Royal in c1657, married Marie, also called Sébastienne, daughter of Vincent Brun and Renée Breau, at Port-Royal in c1677 and remained there.  In c1678, Marie dite Sébastienne gave François, fils a son.  François, fils died at Port-Royal by 1683, in his mid-20s.  Marie remarried to Abraham Bourg.  François, fils's son survived childhood, married, and created a vigorous line at Cobeguit in the Minas Basin. 

Only son François III, born at Port-Royal in c1678, married Louise, daughter of Martin Aucoin and Marie Gaudet, at Port-Royal in 1708 and settled at Cobeguit.  Between 1709 and 1727, Louise gave François III nine children, seven sons and two daughters.  Françoise III took his family to Île St.-Jean in c1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted François III, Louise, and an unmarried daughter at Anse-à-Pinnet on the island's south shore, near three of his sons and their families.  Louise may have died on the island a few years later.  The British deported François III and members of his family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He sailed with one of his daughters and her family and survived the crossing, but he died in a St.-Malo hospital, in his early 80s, soon after he reached the Breton port.  Both of his daughters survived childhood, but only one of them married, into the Bourg family.  Six of François III's sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Cobeguit in c1709, married Agnès, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Françoise Landry, at Grand-Pré in October 1731 and settled on Rivière-aux-Canards at Minas before returning to Cobeguit.  Between 1732 and 1749, Agnès gave Pierre at least 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  He likely was the Pierre Gotrau who represented Cobeguit before the reconstituted Nova Scotia Council at Halifax at the end of July 1749.  Pierre moved his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750, perhaps after Agnès's death, and remarried to Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Pierre Thériot and Marie Bourg and widow of ___ Landry and Pierre Melanson, probably on the island in c1752.  In August 1752, a French official counted Pierre, Élisabeth, eight of his children by his first marriage, and two of her children by her previous marriages--20-year-old Pierre Landry and 17-year-old Pierre Melanson--at Anse-à-Pinnet near his parents and younger brothers. (His oldest son Charles, who would have been age 16 at the time, was not with them; he may have remained at Minas.)  According to Bona Arsenault, Élisabeth gave Pierre another daughter in 1753--11 children,  seven sons and four daughters, by two wives.  They evidently left the island before 1758 or escaped the British roundup on the island that year, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By 1760, they have joined hundreds of other Acadian refugees at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  The British attacked the French stronghold there in late June 1760 but failed to capture the place.  The following October, another naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  Pre. Gautrau and his family of 10 appear on a list of Acadians at Restigouche dated 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender.  They were held as prisoners of war at Chédabouctou on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia.  After the war finally ended, Pierre, Élisabeth, and their unmarried children followed other Acadians to the French-controlled fishery island, Miquelon, off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where French officials counted the couple and five of their children in 1767.  That year, to alleviate overcrowding on the island, French officials coaxed many of the Acadians, including the Gautrots, to move on to La Rochelle, France.  Pierre died in St.-Nicolas Parish, La Rochelle, in September 1769, age 61.  Two of his daughters by his first wife Agnès evidently remained on Miquelon or returned to the island from their short sojourn in France, where they married into the Gaudet and Barbier families in August 1768 and June 1769.  Three of Pierre's sons created families of their own in France and greater Acadia, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.

Oldest son Charles, born at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, in October 1736, may not have followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 but remained at Minas, or if he followed them to the island he may have returned to British Nova Scotia before they were counted at Anse-à-Pinnet in August 1752.  The British deported Charles from Minas to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent him on to England in the spring of 1763.  He married fellow Acadian Catherine Michel either at Minas or, more likely, in England, but she did not survive the ordeal there.  A young widower now, in May 1763 Charles was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the repatriation transport La Dorothée with the family of Jean Melanson, perhaps a kinsman of his stepmother Élisabeth Thériot.  Charles remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Jean Melanson and Cécile Aucoin of Minas, at St.-Suliac near St.-Malo in September 1763.  She gave him a son there in 1764.  In November 1765, Charles, Madeleine, and their infant son followed her widowed father to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  They settled at Le Coquet near Locmaria.  Between 1766 and 1781, Madeleine gave Charles five more children there, three sons and two daughters.  One of the sons died young.  Charles's oldest son married a local French girl on the island.  In 1785, Charles, Madeleine, and their three youngest children, two sons and a daughter, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where one of the sons already had gone.  Two of their oldest children, a son and a daughter, chose to remain in the mother country.  Charles and Madeleine's daughter Rosalie-Charlotte married into the Aucoin family on the upper Lafourche.  Their youngest son also married there.  Wife Madeleine died by January 1788, when Charles was listed in an upper Lafourche census without a wife.  At age 53, he remarried again--his third marriage--to Luce-Perpétué, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bourg and Marie-Madeleine Hébert and widow of Pierre Hébert and Félix Boudrot, at Ascension on the river in November 1789.  Luce-Perpétué, in her mid-50s at the time of their marriage, also was a native of Minas, had been deported to France from Île St.-Jean, and had come to Louisiana in 1785 with her first husband.  She gave Charles no new children.  

Oldest son Jean-Charles, by second wife Madeleine Melanson, born at St.-Suliac, near St.-Malo, France, in July 1764, followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer.  He married local Frenchwoman Marie-Madeleine Galoudec at Bangor on the island in 1784.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1785 and 1798, Marie-Madeleine gave Jean-Charles seven children, five daughters and two sons, on the island.  They did not follow his family to Louisiana in 1785 but remained at Grand-Cosquet on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  Jean-Charles died there in 1804, age 40.  One of his sons also created a family of his own there.

Younger son Pierre-Charles, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1798, worked as a sailor.  He married Marie-Élisabeth, daughter of Marc Leport and Marie-Michelle Clément of Kerseau near Locmaria, at Locmaria on the island in 1826.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1826 and 1836, Marie gave Pierre-Charles three children, two daughters and a son, on the island. 

Charles's second son Jean-Pierre, by second wife Madeleine Melanson, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1766, died young. 

Charles's third son Joseph-Benoît, by second wife Madeleine Melanson, born at Locmaria, Belle-Île-en-Mer, in October 1786, followed, or, more accurately, preceded, his family to Louisiana in 1785 and followed his fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married Marie-Françoise, daughter of Frenchman Guillaume Montet and his Acadian wife Marie-Josèphe Vincent of Belle-Île-en-Mer, at New Orleans in May 1789.  They may have known one another on the Breton isle.  Marie-Françoise died soon after they married, and Joseph-Benoît remarried to Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Germain Bergeron and Marie LeBlanc, at Ascension on the river in November 1790.  They settled on the upper Lafourche.  Their daughters married into the Cedotal, Daigle, Mazerolle, Templet, Theriot, and Trahan families.  Joseph-Benoît's two sons married on the upper bayou into the Arceneaux and Coupelle families. 

Charles's fourth and youngest son François-Marie, by second wife Madeleine Melanson, born near Locmaria, Belle-Île-en-Mer, in February 1771, followed his parents to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and settled with them on upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married Félicité-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Laure Bourg, at Ascension in March 1792.  They settled on the upper Lafourche in what became Assumption Parish.  François-Marie died there in December 1824, age 53.  His daughters married into the Arceneaux, Aucoin, Daigle, Delaune, and Hébert families.  Two of his four sons married on the upper bayou, into the Coupelle and Aucoin families. 

Pierre's second son Joseph, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, in c1737, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and was counted with them at Anse-à-Pinnet two years later.  He evidently followed his father and stepmother to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and to Restigouche.  Probably while still in exile, perhaps in the prison compound at Halifax, he married Marie Bourg.  According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him a son in 1764.  They followed his famiy to Île Miquelon and were counted there in 1767.  One wonders what happened to them after that date. 

Pierre's third son Basile, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1741, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and was counted with them at Anse-à-Pinnet two years later.  He evidently followed his father and stepmother to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and to Restigouche.  Sometime in the early 1760s, he either was captured by, or surrendered, to British forces in the area, who held him in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, for the rest of the war.  After the war, if he followed his family to Île Miquelon he did not remain there.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Girouard and Madeleine LeBlanc, in c1766, place unrecorded, perhaps on Miquelon.  However, the marriage was "rehabilitated" not on the island but at Halifax in Nova Scotia in May 1771.  One wonders what happened to them after that date.   

Pierre's fourth son Honoré le jeune, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and was counted with them at Anse-à-Pinnet two years later.  He evidently followed his father and stepmother to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, to Restigouche, and perhaps into the British prison compound at Chédabouctou.  He followed his parents to Île Miquelon and probably to La Rochelle, France.  If he went to La Rochelle, he did not remain there.  He returned to Miquelon by 1770 and married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Comeau and Anne Doucet, on the island in May 1771.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Honoré le jeune two children, a son and a daughter, in 1771 and 1773.  In 1778, after the French joined the Americans in their struggle against Britain, the redcoats captured Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre and deported the Acadians there to La Rochelle.  Honoré and Anne's son Jean-Baptiste was born in St.-Nicolas Parish, La Rochelle, in June 1783, but the family did not remain.  They were back on Miquelon later in the year and then moved to nearby Île St.-Pierre. 

François III's second son Charles dit Maringouin (Mosquito), born probably at Cobeguit in c1711, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry, at Grand-Pré in October 1737.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Maringouin a daughter in 1741.  Other records give them two sons in the early 1740s.  They evidently moved on to the French Maritimes after August 1752, and the British deported them to Boulogne-sur-Mer, Picardie, France, in late 1758.  Charles died in St.-Joseph Parish there in July 1760, age 48.  His sons married in France, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Older son Charles, fils, born probably at Minas in c1741, followed his family to the French Maritimes and to Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1758-59.  He married Anne-Pélagie, called Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians René Trahan and Marguerite Melanson, in St.-Joseph Parish, Boulogne-sur-Mer, in August 1763.  They settled in St.-Nicolas Parish in the northern fishing center before moving to St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Morlaix, in Brittany in 1765.  They were still at Morlaix in September 1784.  Between  1764 and 1784, in both cities, Pélagie gave Charles 11 children, four daughters and seven sons.  The oldest child, a daughter, died soon after her birth.  In 1785, Charles, Pélagie, and six of their children, four sons and two daughters, emigrated to Louisiana and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Three of their sons, who would have been ages 16, 14, and 10 in 1785, did not go with them.  Did they, too, died young?  Their infant son who went with them to the Spanish colony may not have survived the crossing.  The couple had no more children in Louisiana.  Their daughters married into the LeBlanc and Havard or Navarre families on the upper Lafourche.  Only one of Charles's sons in Louisiana married, into the Seville or Silvy family, and created a vigorous family line in Terrebonne Parish. 

Maringouin's younger son Gervais, born probably at Minas in c1744, followed his family to the French Maritimes and to Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1758-59, but, like his family, he did not remain.  He married Marguerite, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Leprince le jeune and his fist wife Judith Boudrot, on Île d'Aix near La Rochelle in February 1766, when other members of his family were at Morlaix in Brittany.  One wonders what brought Gervais to La Rochelle and if he and his wife had any children.  If they were still alive in 1785, they did not follow their kinsmen to Spanish Louisiana. 

François III's third son, name unrecorded, born probably at Cobeguit before 1714, probably died young. 

François III's fourth son Honoré, born at Cobeguit in c1716, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Robichaud and Claire LeBlanc, in c1745 probably at Cobeguit.  Between 1746 and 1753, Marguerite gave Honoré at least three children, two sons and a daughter.  Despite becoming an appeaser to British rule after the construction of Halifax in 1749, Honoré and his family evidently followed other Cobeguit habitants across Mer Rouge to Île St.-Jean sometime between the summer of 1755 and the spring of 1756 to escape the British roundups in the area.  Marguerite died on the island by 1758.  The British deported Honoré and his children to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  One of his sons married into the Bourg family at nearby St.-Suliac.  Honoré remarried to Jeanne, daughter of Jean Lebert dit Jolycoeur and Jeanne Breau, at Plouër-sur-Rance near St.-Malo in January 1761.  They settled at nearby Pleslin.  Between 1761 and 1765, at Pleslin, Jeanne gave Honoré three more children, two sons and a daughter--at least six children, four sons and two daughters, by two wives, in greater Acadia and France.  Wife Jeanne died at Hotel-Dieu, St.-Malo, in February 1767, age 45.  Honoré did not remarry again and may have died in France before 1785.  Three of his sons by both wives, one of them married, and a daughter by his first wife, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.  Honoré's daughter married into the Hébert family on upper Bayou Lafourche.  His three sons also created their own families in the Spanish colony, but, except for their blood, none of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Marin, by first wife Marguerite Robichaud, born probably at Cobeguit in c1747, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and his widowed father and younger siblings to St.-Malo, France.  They settled at Pleslin on the west side of the river south of the Breton port.  Marin married Gertrude, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourg and Françoise Benoit, at St.-Suliac, across the river, in May 1768.  Between 1769 and 1773, at St.-Suliac, Gertrude gave Marin three children, a daughter and two sons.  Their daughter died young.  They may have gone to Poitou in 1773 and retreated to the port city of Nantes with other Poitou Acadians later in the decade.  Gertrude gave Marin at least two more children, a son and a daughter, in 1774 and 1776, perhaps in Poitou.  Spanish officials counted Marin, Gertrude, and their youngest children at Nantes in September 1784.  They emigrated to Spanish Louisiana the following year, followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, and had more children there.  Marin remarried to Marguerite-Ange, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph-Ange Dubois and Anne Michel and widow of Jean Daigle and Charles Granger, at Ascension on the river in January 1792.  They settled on the upper Lafourche, where she gave him three more children--10 children, four daughters and six sons, by two wives, in France and Louisiana.  Marin died in Assumption Parish in May 1808, in his early 60s.  His daughters by both wives married into the Barrilleaux and Granger families.  Sadly, none of his four sons either taken to or born in Louisiana created their own families. 

Honoré's third son Jean-Charles, by second wife Jeanne Lebert, was born at Pleslin, France, in November 1761, where he became a sailor.  He followed his siblings to Louisiana in 1785 on a later ship and settled with them on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Soon after his arrival, he married Françoise-Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians François Blanchard and Hélène-Judith Giroir, at Ascension on the river in February 1786.  Françoise-Hélène also was a native of the St.-Malo area and had come to Louisiana on the same vessel Jean-Charles had taken.  They settled on the upper Lafourche, where they had two sons.  Jean-Charles died at Lafourche in February 1793, age 32.  Neither of his sons seems to have married, so his line of the family may have died with him. 

Honoré's fourth and youngest son Pierre-Joseph, by second wife Jeanne Lebert, born at Pleslin, France, in March 1763, followed his siblings to Louisiana in 1785 and settled with them on upper Bayou Lafourche.  At age 33, he married Geneviève-Charlotte-Marguerite of Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Giroir and Marie-Marguerite Daigle, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in March 1796.  Pierre Joseph died in Assumption Parish in August 1816, age 53.  Two of his four daughters married into the Aucoin and LaFontaine families.  Only one of his four sons married, into the Theriot family, but the son and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

François III's fifth son Alexandre, born probably at Cobeguit in c1718, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Hébert and Marie-Claire Dugas, probably at Cobeguit in c1744.  Between 1745 and 1751, Marguerite gave Alexandre four children, three sons and a daughter.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Alexandre, Marguerite, their four children, and a 13-year-old Gautrot nephew at Anse-à-Pinnet near his parents and brothers.  Marguerite gave Alexandre two more children, a son and a daughter, on the island in 1754 and 1756.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Five of their six children died at sea!  They settled on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo at Ploubalay, Trigavou, and Pleslin, where, between 1760 and 1772, Marguerite gave Alexandre seven more children, four sons and three daughters, two of whom died in childhood.  Two of Alexandre and Marguerite's sons married in France, and one of them died there.  Alexandre also died in France.  Widow Marguerite, three of her Gautrot children--a married son, an unmarried son, and an umarried daughter--along with a Gautrot grandson, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.  Marguerite never remarried.  Her daughter Victoire-Andrée married into the Boudreaux family in the Spanish colony.  Marguerite's unmarried Gautrot son and grandson also married there. 

Oldest son François-Hilaire, born probably at Cobeguit in c1745, followed his family to Anse-à-Pinnet and to St.-Malo, France.  He was the only one of their six children who survived the crossing to France.  He settled with his parents at Ploubalay, Trigavou, and Pleslin and married Hélène-Catherine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Daigle and Marie Boudrot, at Trigavou in November 1764.  Between 1766 and 1773, Hélène gave François-Hilaire four children, a son and three daughters.  He took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Hélène gave him four more sons there from 1774 to 1780, but the youngest two died as infants.  As their birth dates reveal, when most of the Poitou Acadians retreated to the port city of Nantes in late 1775 and 1776, François-Hilaire and his family remained in Poitou.  Hélène died at Leigné-les-Bois, Poitou, in September 1780, age 40, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  François-Hilaire died there in April 1782, in his late 30s.  At least one of his children joined his kinsmen at Nantes by September 1784.  When François-Hilaire's widowed mother emigrated to Louisiana in 1785, she took with her not only three of her children, but also François-Hilaire's oldest son.  One wonders what happened to François-Hilaire's other surviving children, who, if they were still living, would have been ages 14, 12, 11, and 8 in 1785.  They did not follow their kinsfolk to the Spanish colony. 

Oldest son Charles, born at Trigavou, France, in January 1766, followed his family to Poitou, his paternal grandmother to Nantes and Louisiana, and settled with her and his other kin on upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married Marie-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Pitre and his first wife Isabelle Dugas, at New Orleans in June 1789.  They settled at Ascension on the river.  He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  Charles died in Ascension Parish in June 1836, age 70. 

Alexandre's fifth son Pierre-Grégoire, born at Trigavou, France, in March 1760, became a carpenter when he came of age.  One wonders if he followed his older brother to Poitou in 1773.  If not, he made his way to Nantes by September 1784 and joined his widowed mother and siblings there.  He married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Michel and Marguerite Pitre, probably at Nantes in late 1784 or 1785.  When they emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 with his widowed mother, younger siblings, and a nephew, wife Madeleine was pregnant.  She gave birth to a daughter aboard ship.  They baptized her at New Orleans in October and named her Martina or Martine after Spanish Intendente Martin Navarro, who stood as godfather for Acadian newborns.  The daughter probably died young.  Pierre-Grégoire and Madeleine settled with their relatives on upper Bayou Lafourche, and Madeleine gave Pierre-Grégoire more children in Louisiana.  Their surviving daughter married into the Waguespack family.  She died by May 1805, when Pierre-Grégoire remarried to Sophie Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and his second wife Marie Benoit and widow of Mathurin Comeaux, at Assumption on the upper bayou.  Sophie was a native of St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo and had come to Louisiana on the same ship Pierre-Grégoire had taken.  She gave him more children--eight children, four daughters and four sons, by two wives, in Louisiana.  Pierre-Gregoire and Sophie's daughter married into the Chataignier family.  Only one of his four sons married, the youngest one by second wife Sophie, into the Guidry family and settled in Terrebonne Parish. 

Alexandre's sixth son Jean-Alain, born at Pleslin, France, in September 1764, also followed his widowed mother to Nantes by September 1784.  The following year, he followed her and his siblings to Louisiana.  Soon after they reached the Spanish colony, he married Madeleine-Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Pitre and his second wife Marguerite Boudrot, at New Orleans in January 1786.  They settled with his family on uper Bayou Lafourche and may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

François III's sixth son Joseph, born probably at Cobeguit in c1723, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Hébert and Marguerite Bourg, probably at Cobeguit in c1749 and moved on to Île St.-Jean after 1752, perhaps with other Cobeguit habitants in 1755 or 1756.  Between 1749 and 1756, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph four children, three daughters and a son, at Cobeguit and on the island.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  All of their children died at sea.  Joseph and Marie-Josèphe settled near St.-Malo at St.-Servan-sur-Mer and St.-Suliac, where, between 1759 and 1763, she gave him four more children, three daughters and another son, all but one of whom died in childhood.  Wife Marie-Josèphe died at St.-Suliac in February 1764, age 30.  Joseph remarried to Anne, daughter of Germain Pitre and Marie-Josèphe Girouard and widow of Louis Bourg, at St.-Suliac in November 1764.  Between 1765 and 1771, Anne gave Joseph four more children, a daughter and three sons, one of whom died young.  Joseph took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Anne gave him another son there--13 children in all by both wives.  In March 1776, after nearly three years of effort, Joseph, Anne, and seven of their children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Joseph, Anne, and six of their children, five sons and a daughter, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.  Their daughter, in her early 20s, may not have survived the crossing.  Joseph and his family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph died there by January 1788, when wife Anne was called a widow in a Valenzuela District census.  She did not remarry.  Her and Joseph's sons married into the Thériot, Arcement, Gautreaux, Borne, Ozelet, and Aucoin familes on the upper bayou, and all but one of their lines endured. 

François III's seventh and youngest son François IV, born probably at Cobeguit in c1724, married Marie, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Françoise Landry, at Grand-Pré in July 1748 and followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1751.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1748 and 1751, Marie gave François IV two sons on the island.  In August 1752, a French official counted François IV, Marie, their two sons, and 17-year-old orphaned nephew Charles Gautrot, son of oldest brother Pierre, at Anse-à-Pinnet near his parents and older brothers.  François IV remarried to Françoise, daughter of Jean Daigre and Marie-Anne Breau, in c1754 probably on Île St.-Jean.  She gave him two more sons in 1755 and 1756.  François IV died probably at Anse-à-Pinnet in 1757 or 1758, in his early 30s, on the eve of the island's dérangement.  The British deported his widow and children to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Françoise crossed with two of her Gautrot sons, who died at sea.  She died in a St.-Malo hospital soon after reaching the Breton port.  One wonders what happened to François IV's sons by first wife Marie. 

François, père's fourth son Claude, by second wife Edmée Lejeune, born at Port-Royal in c1659, married Marie, daughter of Bonaventure Thériot and Jeanne Boudrot, probably at Port-Royal in c1684 and moved to Minas by the early 1690s.  Between 1685 and 1709, Marie gave Claude 13 children, 10 daughters and three sons.  Claude died at Minas in March 1733, age 76.  Nine of his daughters married into the LeBlanc, Hébert, Brun, Landry, Babin, Daigre, Benoit, Breau, and Richard families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1768.  Two of his sons created families of their own at Minas. 

Oldest son Jean, born perhaps at Minas in c1697, married Anne, daughter of Jacques à René LeBlanc and Catherine Landry, at Grand-Pré in January 1719 and remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1721 and 1736, Anne gave Jean six children, five daughters and a son.  Jean died at Minas in November 1747, age 50.  The British deported his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Two of his daughters married into the Granger, Landry, and Forest families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.  One wonders what happened to his son Joseph. 

Claude's second son Charles, born perhaps at Minas in c1704, married Marie-Josèphe, another daughter of Jacques à René LeBlanc and Catherine Landry, at Grand-Pré in October 1725 and remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1747, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles eight children, seven sons and a daughter.  The British deported members of the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Charles died in Maryland before July 1763, in his late 50s or early 60s.  Two of his sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1765 and 1766. 

Oldest son Joseph, born at Minas in c1728, married Claire, daughter of Joseph Boudrot and Anne LeBlanc of Pigiguit, in c1752.  The British deported them to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  One wonders what happened to them there and after the war. 

Charles's third son Amand-Paul, born at Minas in January 1732, may have served as a domestic in the household of Sr. Louis-Amand Bugeaud at Minas.  Amand-Paul was still a bachelor when the British deported him to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  He married fellow Acadian Marie Landry there in c1758.  Amand-Paul, Marie, a daughter, and a LeBlanc orphan appeared on a repatriation list at Newtown on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  They emigrated to Louisiana in 1766 and settled in the established Acadian communities of Cabahannocer, where his younger brother had gone the year before, and at Ascension, all above New Orleans on what became known as the lower Acadian Coast.  They had more children in the Spanish colony.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1780, Marie gave Amand six children, four daughters and two sons.  In the 1790s, Amand-Paul acquired land on the upper Vermilion across the Atchafalaya Basin in the Attakapas District.  His daughters married into the Allain, Brasseaux, Dugas, and Hébert families on the river.  His surviving son Jérôme, born at Ascension, moved to Attakapas, married into the Dugas family, and established a western branch of the Gautreaux family.

Charles's fourth son Charles, fils, born at Minas in c1734, escaped the British roundup at Minas in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either was captured by, or surrendered to, British forces and was held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  He married Françoise, daughter of Michel Bourg and Marguerite Bourgeois, probably in one of those compounds in September 1762.  According to Bona Arsenault, Françoise gave Charles, fils a son in 1764.  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" on Île Miquelon in May 1766, so they had gone to the French-controlled island off the southern coast of Newfoundland after the war.  One wonders why the family did not appear in the French census of the island's residents in 1767.  Had they resettled elsewhere? 

Charles, père's fifth son Simon, born at Minas in March 1736, escaped the British roundup at Minas in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either was captured by, or surrendered to, British forces and was held at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, for the rest of the war.  He married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Ambroise Breau and Marie-Madeleine Michel of Chepoudy, probably at Fort Edward before July 1762.  They emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1765 and, still childless, settled at Cabahannocer.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1778, Madeleine gave Simon six children, five sons and a daughter, but Louisiana records give them more.  Through grant and purchase, Simon created a large plantation near Welcome, present-day St. James Parish.  The property, used primarily for sugar production, was held by the family for over a century.  Simon died in St. James Parish in November 1814.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Simon died at "age about 80 yrs."  His daughters married Breaux and Gautreaux cousins.  All eight of his sons married, into the LeBlanc, Breaux, Richard, Melançon, Duhon, Landry, and Babin families on the river, and most of them remained there.  One of his sons and some of his grandsons, however, joined the Acadian exodus from the river to the Bayou Lafourche valley, and another grandson joined his first cousin on the western prairies. 

Claude's third and youngest son Joseph, born at Minas in June 1708, evidently died young. 

François, père's fifth son Charles le jeune, by second wife Edmée Lejeune, born at Port-Royal in c1661, married Françoise, daughter of René Rimbault and Anne-Marie ____, at Port-Royal in c1684.  They moved on to Minas and settled on Rivière Gaspereau.  Between 1685 and 1710, Françoise gave Charles 11 children, five sons and six daughters.  Charles died at Minas between April 1723 and October 1725, in his early 60s.  Four of his daughters married into the Célestin, Breau, Daigre, and Hébert families.  All of his sons created families of their own at Minas.   

Oldest son François le jeune, born probably at Port-Royal in June 1685, followed his family to Minas and married Marie, daughter of Michel Vincent and Marie-Josèphe Richard, at Grand-Pré in October 1709.  They lived at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in the late 1710s and early 1720s.  Between 1710 and 1734, Marie gave François le jeune 11 children, four sons and seven daughters.  In c1750, Françoise le jeune took his family to Île St.-Jean.  In August 1752, a French official counted François le jeune, Marie, and six of their unmarried children, three sons and three daughters, at Anse-au-Comte-St.-Pierre on the island's south coast.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  François le jeune died in the crossing, in his early 70s.  Wife Marie also died in the crossing, in her late 60s.  Five of their daughters married into the Cyr, Barrieau, Thibodeau, Bouard, Boudrot, and Aucoin families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from France.  All of François le jeune's sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Jean, born at Minas in November 1710, married Élisabeth, daughter of Louis Cyr and Marie-Josèphe Michel, probably at Minas in c1735.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Jean, Élisabeth, and five of their children, a son and four daughters, at Anse-au-Comte-St.-Pierre near his parents.  One wonders what happened to Jean and his family in 1758.  Jean died in February 1767, place unrecorded, in his late 50s. 

François le jeune's second son François, fils, born at Minas in August 1724, married in c1746 probably at Minas a woman whose name had been lost to history.  She gave him a son in c1746.  In c1750, perhaps a widower now, he followed his parents to Île St.-Jean was counted with them at Anse-au-Comte-St.-Pierre in August 1752.  Later that year, he remarried to Anne, daughter of François Naquin and Angélique Blanchard, probably on the island.  Between 1752 and 1756, Anne gave François, fils three more children, two daughters and a son, there.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Their four children died at sea.  François, fils and Anne settled at nearby Plouër-sur-Rance, where, in 1761 and 1762, she gave him two more daughters.  They also lived at St.-Suliac across the river from Plouër and St.-Méloir-des-Ondes in the countryside northeast of St.-Suliac.  François, fils may have signed up for privateer duty soon after the birth of his youngest daughter.  If so, he may have been captured by the Royal Navy and held in England as a prisoner of war.  He died in England in April 1763, age 39, on the eve of the Acadians' repatriation to France.  Anne remarried to a Dugas at St.-Suliac in September 1765.  Twenty years later, daughter Rose-Marie Gautrot followed her mother and stepfather to Louisiana and married into the Daunis family there. 

François le jeune's third son Charles le jeune, born at Minas in December 1729, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750, and was counted with them at Anse-au-Comte-St.-Pierre in August 1752.  He married Marie Boudrot probably on the island in c1755.  They evidently left the island before late 1758 or ecaped the British roundup there, crossed Mer Rouge, and took refuge in Canada.  Charles le jeune remarried to Anne, daughter of Claude Bourg and Judith Guérin and widow of Charles Melanson, at St.-Charles de Bellechasse below Québec in November 1758, and remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Jean Ringuet and Marie-Geneviève Duchesne, at Baie-St.-Paul below Québec in June 1764.  Charles le jeune died in Canada in November 1793, age 64. 

François le jeune's fourth and youngest son Pierre-Mathurin, born probably at Minas in c1734, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750 and was counted with them at Anse-au-Comte-St.-Pierre in August 1752.  He married Anne-Rosalie, daughter of Jean Daigre and Marie-Anne Breau, probably on the island in c1755.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758.  Pierre-Mathurin died between June 1795 and August 1798, in his early 60, place unrecorded.    

Charles le jeune's second son Charles, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1686, married Madeleine, daughter of Guillaume Blanchard and Huguette Gougeon, at Annapolis Royal in May 1712 and followed his family to Minas, where they also settled on Rivière Gaspereau.  From the early 1710s to 1730, Madeleine gave Charles, fils eight children, four sons and four daughters.  The family evidently moved on to the French Maritimes after August 1752.  The British deported them to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in late 1758.  Charles, fils died there in November 1759, age 75.  Three of his daughters married into the LeBlanc, Landry, and Dupuis families.  Only two of his sons created families of their own. 

His oldest son, name unrecorded, born at either Annapolis Royal or Minas before 1714, probably died in infancy. 

Charles, fils's second son Joseph, born at Minas in November 1719, probably died young. 

Charles, fils's third son Charles III, born probably at Minas in the 1720s, married Marie, daughter of Charles Dupuis and Élisabeth LeBlanc, in c1755 perhaps at Minas.  One wonders what happened to them that year and during Le Grand Dérangement. 

Charles, fils's fourth and youngest son Alexis, born probably at Minas in c1730, followed his family to the French Maritimes after August 1752 and to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in late 1758.  He married Marguerite-Louise, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Haché and Anne-Marie Gentil and widow of Pierre Deveau, at Boulogne-sur-Mer in January 1761.  Between 1763 and 1765, Marguerite-Louise gave Alexis three daughters, the oldest of whom died seven days after her birth.  In May 1766, Alexis, Marguerite-Louise, and their surviving daughters sailed from Boulogne-sur-Mer to St.-Malo and settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  In 1767 and 1770, Marguerite-Louise gave Alexis two more children, both sons.  Alexis took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Both of his sons died there.  In December 1775, Alexis, Marguerite-Louise, and their two daughters followed other disgruntled Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where he worked as a laborer and carpenter.  Alexis died at Chantenay near Nantes in July 1782, in his early 50s.  Wife Marguerite-Louise died there in June 1784, age 55.  Their daughters, now in their early 20s, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, and one of them married into the Molaison family there, so the blood of this family line survived in the Bayou State. 

Charles le jeune's third son Claude, born probably at Port-Royal in c1692, followed his family to Minas and married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Landry and Catherine Thibodeau, at Grand-Pré in August 1713.  They also settled on Rivière Gaspereau.  Between 1714 and 1737, Marguerite gave Claude a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters.  Only two of their daughters married, into the Richard dit Sapague (Sapin) dit Turpin and Clémenceau (Clémenson) dit Corporon families.  Six of Claude's sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Claude, fils, born at Minas in c1714, married Geneviève-Salomé, daughter of Antoine Hébert and Jeanne Corporon, at Annapolis Royal in February 1737.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1738 and 1751, Geneviève gave Claude, fils seven children, two daughters and five sons.  In August 1752, A French official counted Claude, fils, Geneviève, and five of their children at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in the island's interior.  Evidently members of Claude, fils's family left the island and returned to peninsula Nova Scotia before 1755.  In the fall of that year, the British deported sons Jean-Baptiste and Michel, and perhaps others members of the family, from Minas to Virginia, and Virginia officials sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  According to son Jean-Baptiste's marriage record, dated 1 September 1764 at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, both Claude, fils and Geneviève were deceased by then.  One wonders when and where they died and what became of their other children counted on Île St.-Jean. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born perhaps at Annapolis Royal in the early 1740s, was counted with his family at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie on Île St.-Jean in August 1752; the French official who conducted the survey said Jean-Baptiste was age 7, but he probably was older.  Perhaps after the death of his parents, Jean-Baptiste followed relatives to peninsula Nova Scotia, most likely to Minas.  The British deported him and a younger brother to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  In May 1763, aboard L'Ambition, Jean-Baptiste, his brother, and their paternal aunt Cécile, a widow, and her Richard family, were repatriated with other Acadian exiles in England to St.-Malo, France.  Jean-Baptiste and his brother followed their aunt to nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where Jean-Baptiste worked as a seaman.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Lejeune and Françoise Guédry, at St.-Servan in September 1764.  Between 1765 and 1773, Anne gave Jean-Baptiste five children, all daughters.  One of them died young.  In 1773, Jean-Baptiste took his family to Poitou.  In November 1775, after over two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Wife Anne died at Chantenay near Nantes in November 1782, age 42.  Jean-Baptiste may have died soon after.  His three surviving daughters emigated with relatives to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  One of the older daughters, Marie-Geneviève, married into the Goloa famiy on the river, and the youngest daughter, Pélagie-Marie (one of the author's maternal ancestors), married a Trahan at Opelousas. 

Claude, fils's third and youngest son Michel, born probably on Île St.-Jean in c1751, was counted with his family at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie on the island in August 1752; the French official said he was age 9 months.  Perhaps after his parents died, Michel was taken by relatives to peninsula Nova Scotia, most likely to Minas.  He followed an older brother to Virginia in the fall of 1755, to England in the spring of 1756, and to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763, while he was still young.  He settled with a widowed aunt at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer and was still there in 1772.  One wonders what happened to him after that date.  If he was still living in 1785, he did not accompany his kinsmen to Louisiana.

Claude, père's second son Benoît dit Bénoni, born at Minas in January 1718, married Marie-Josèphe Labauve in c1745 perhaps at Minas and died by 1754.  One wonders what happened to his family in 1755. 

Claude, père's third son Jean, born probably at Minas in c1719, married Euphrosine, daughter of Louis Labauve and Anne LaVache, probably at Minas in c1740.  In 1741 and 1748, Euphrosine gave Jean at least two children, a daughter and a son.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  Wife Euphrosine died in England.  In May 1763, Jean and his children were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard La Dorothée.  They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where daughter Marie-Madeline married a Benoit widower in July 1763.  In April 1764, Jean and son Joseph embarked on Le Fort to settle at Cayenne in the South American colony of French Guiane.  Neither of them appears on the list of Acadians at Sinnamary, Cayenne, dated 1 March 1765.  One wonders what happened to them.  Did they die there, or did they return to France like other Acadians who went to Guiane did?  They did not go to Louisiana. 

Claude, père's fourth son Charles, born at Minas in May 1723, married in c1750, probably at Minas, a woman whose name has been lost to history.  One wonders if the British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and if Virginia officials sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  If so, they may have had a son named Mathurin. 

Mathurin, born in c1756 either in Virginia, on the voyage to England, or in England, became an orphan at an early age.  He was raised in England by paternal aunt Cécile Gautrot, widow of Jean-Baptiste Richard dit Sapin of Minas.  In May 1763, along with his aunt and his Richard and Gautrot cousins, Mathurin was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard L'Ambition.  He followed his aunt to nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he was still living in 1772.  His aunt died at Cenan, Poitou, France, in March 1780, age 65.  Did Mathurin follow her and his cousins there in 1773, when he would have been in his late teens?  Did he marry and have a family of his own?  If he was still living in 1785, in his late 20s, he did not follow his Gautrot and Richard kinsmen to Spanish Louisiana. 

Claude, père's fifth son Alexis, born at Minas in August 1729, married in c1749, probably at Minas, a woman whose name has been lost to history.  One wonders if the British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and if Virginia officials sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  If so, they may have been the parent of Mathurin, born in c1756.

Claude, père's sixth son Joseph, born at Minas in May 1731, married in c1752, probably at Minas, a woman whose name has been lost to history.  One wonders if the British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and if Virginia officials sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  If so, they may have been the parent of Mathurin, born in c1756.

Claude, père's seventh and youngest son Pierre, born at Minas in March 1734, died the following November, age 8 months.   

Charles le jeune's fourth son Pierre, born probably at Port-Royal in c1694, followed his family to Minas, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre-Alain Bugeaud and Élisabeth Melanson, in c1716.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1717 and 1735, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre seven children, three daughters and four sons.  Wife Marie-Josèphe died at Minas in June 1735, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  In his early 50s, Pierre remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Lejeune and Marie Thibodeau and widow of Alexandre Trahan, in c1747 perhaps at Minas.  Probably a widower again, Pierre moved on to Île St.-Jean by August 1752, when a French official counted him, now age 58 and a widower, with the family of Claude Trahan le jeune, his stepson, at Anse-au-Matelot on the island's south shore.  In late 1758, the British deported Charles le jeune and his family to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.  One wonders if Pierre went with them.  His three daughters by first wife Marie-Josèphe married into the Granger, Daigre, and LeBlanc families at Minas and in England, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from France.  One of his sons also emigated to the Spanish colony.  One wonders what happened to Pierre's other sons.

Second son Pierre, fils, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Bugeaud, born at Minas in June 1730, followed his father to Île St.-Jean in the early 1750s, probably after August 1752.  Pierre, fils married Marie-Louise, daughter of Claude-Antoine Duplessis and Catherine Lejune, on the island in c1758, on the eve of the island's dérangement.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, later that year.  Pierre and Marie-Louise survived the crossing, she despite her pregnancy.  Their son Nicolas was born at St.-Malo in March 1759, two months after they reached the Breton port, but he died a few months later.  Pierre worked as a farm hand and a carpenter in France.  Between 1761 and 1772, at Châteauneuf on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo and and at St.-Servan-sur-Mer next to the port, Marie-Louise gave Pierre eight more children, five daughter and three more sons.  Most of them died young, two of them, ages 9 and 4, when the family was part of the settlement effort in the Poitou region.  They also had another daughter there in 1774.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, Pierre, Marie-Louise, four of their children, and Marie-Louise's widowed mother retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Wife Marie-Louise gave Pierre, fils another daughter there in 1778, but she also died young.  She was their eleventh child.  In 1785, Pierre, fils, Marie-Louise, and Marguerite-Adélaïde, age 11, their youngest surviving child, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  If still living, daughter Reine-Anastasie, who would have been age 20, son Joseph-Marie age 18, and Louise-Modeste age 13 that year, chose to remain in France.  From New Orleans, Pierre, fils, his wife, and his daughter followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  He and Marie-Louise had no more children in Louisiana.  Pierre, fils died in Assumption Parish in March 1804, in his early 70s.  His daughter married into the Friou family. 

Charles le jeune's fifth and youngest son Jean, born probably at Port-Royal in c1704, followed his family to Minas and married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Hébert and Isabelle Pellerin, at Grand-Pré in October 1725.  They remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1745, Marguerite gave Jean seven children, five daughters and two sons.  Jean died at Minas between 1745 and 1749, in his 40s.  One wonders what happened to his family in 1755. 

François, père's sixth and youngest son Germain, by second wife Edmée Lejeune, born at Port-Royal in c1668, probably died young.340

Thériot

Jean Thériot and his wife Perrine Rau, late 1630s arrivals, created a large and influential family in the colony.  Between 1637 and 1654, Perrine gave Jean seven children, five sons and two daughters, all of whom married, but not all of the sons had children.  Their daughters married into the Thibodeau and Guilbeau families.  Their oldest son's line was especially robust.  Jean and Perrine's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis; Minas and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; Chignecto; and in the French Maritimes.  They were especially numerous at Minas, where Jean's youngest son was a pioneer settler.  At least 43 of Jean's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, Maryland in the late 1760s, and especially from France in 1785.  Others of his descendants, probably in greater numbers, could be found in Canada, greater Acadia, France, and the French Antilles after Le Grand Dérangement.  They were especially numerous in France, where, despite the blandishments of kinsman Olivier Terriot, many refused to resettle in Louisiana. 

Oldest son Claude, born in c1637 perhaps at Martaizé, France, or aboard ship on the eve of his parent's arrival at La Héve, followed his family to Port-Royal, where he married Marie, daughter of François Gautrot and his second wife Edmée Lejeune, in c1661.  Between 1662 and 1693, at Port-Royal, Marie gave Claude 14 children, five sons and nine daughters.  Claude died at Annapolis Royal in September 1725, in his late 80s.  His line of the Thériot family was the largest.  Eight of his daughters married into the LeBlanc, Landry, Babin, Gaudet, Belliveau dit Blondin, Robichaud dit Niganne, Blanchard, and Richard dit Beaupré families.  Three of his sons also created families of their own.   

Oldest son Germain le jeune, born at Port-Royal in c1662, married Anne, daughter of Michel Richard and Madeleine Blanchard, at Port-Royal in c1686 and followed his uncle Pierre to Minas, where he and Anne settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  Between 1687 and 1713, Anne gave Germain 11 children, seven sons and four daughters, there.  In August 1714, Germain received permission from authorities on Île Royale to settle on the French-controlled island, but he and Anne remained at Minas.  She died there in May 1745, in her early 70s; her burial record does not call her a widow, nor had she remarried, so Germain le jeune likely was still living.  If so, he would have been in his early 80s at the time of her death.  Their daughters married into the Melanson, LeBlanc, and Blanchard families, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  Five of Germain le jeune's seven sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest son Claude le jeune, born at Port-Royal or Minas in c1687, married Marguerite, daughter of François Cormier and Marguerite LeBlanc, in c1710 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  Between 1711 and 1731, Marguerite gave Claude le jeune 11 children, including seven daughters and three sons.  Claude le jeune died at Minas in May 1730, in his early 40s.  Six of his daughters married into the Surette, Benoit, Bourg, Trahan, and Doucet families, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.  All three of Claude le jeune's sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Paul, born probably at Minas in c1716, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Hébert and Marie-Josèphe Blou, at Grand-Pré in c1739 and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled at Chignecto.  According to Arsenault, between 1741 and 1759, Anne gave Paul eight children, four daughters and four sons.  The family evidently escaped the roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  In 1765, Paul was a miller at Rivière-Ouelle on the lower St. Lawrence.  He died at nearby Kamouraska in August 1792, in his late 70s.  His daughters married into the Lévesque, Bernard, Richard, and Paradis families at Rivière-Ouelle and Kamouraska.  His sons also married there. 

Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Chigencto in c1742, followed his family to Canada and married Louise-Geneviève, daughter of Étienne Gauvin, at Rivière Ouelle in January 1766.  According to Bona Arsenault, Louise-Geneviève gave Pierre two sons in 1768 and 1770.  Both of his sons married.

Older son Paul le jeune, born probably at Rivière Ouelle in c1768, married Françoise, daughter of Pierre Dancosse and François Fournier, at Kamouraska in October 1790. 

Pierre's younger son Joseph, born probably at Rivière Ouelle in c1770, married Marie-Rose, daughter of Toussaint Michaud and Marie-Rose Côté, at Kamouraska in January 1793. 

Paul's second son Jean, born probably at Chigencto in c1744, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Bérubé, at Rivière-Ouelle in January 1769. 

Paul's third son Paul, fils, born probably at Chigencto in c1752, followed his family to Canada and married Genèviève, another daughter of François Bérubé, at Rivière-Ouelle in January 1776.  At age 44, remarried to Véronique, another daughter of Pierre Dancosse and Françoise Fournier, at Kamouaska in April 1796. 

Paul, père's fourth and youngest son Jacques, born in exile in c1759, followed his family to Canada and married Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Grandmaison and his Acadian wife Marguerite Thibodeau, at Kamouraska in January 1781. 

Claude le jeune's second son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1719 married cousin Agnès, daughter of Pierre Cormier and Catherine LeBlanc, in c1746 and likely settled at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1765, Agnès gave Joseph 10 childen, five sons and five daughters.  The family evidently escaped the roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After 1759, they moved on to Canada, perhaps following his older brother Paul, and settled near him on the lower St. Lawrence.  Joseph died at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière near Kamouraska in November 1765, in his mid-40s.  Three of his daughters married into the Sénéchal, Dutremble, and Dufour families in the area.  Three of his sons also married there.

Oldest son Jacques-Léon, born probably at Chignecto in c1747, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Françoise, daughter of Joseph Fortin and Claire Dumontier, at St.-Jean-Port-Joli near Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière in February 1786. 

Joseph's second son Anselme, born probably at Chignecto in c1748, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Romaine, daughter of Joseph-François Thibault and Marie-Claire Jean, at L'Islet above St.-Jean-Port-Joli in January 1775. 

Joseph's fifth and youngest son Antoine, born probably at St.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière in c1765, the year of his father's death, married Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Dionne Marguerite Hudon, at Kamouraska in October 1794, and remarried to Apolline, daughter of Laurent Leclerc and Josèphte Samson of Lévis and widow of Michel Jean, at St.-Jean-Port-Joli in October 1796. 

Claude le jeune's third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in March 1721, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Germain Girouard and Jeanne Barrieau, at Beaubassin in June 1745 and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste a son in c1746.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1755. 

Germain le jeune's second son Jean, born probably at Minas in c1690, married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Bourg and Élisabeth Melanson, at Beaubassin in October 1712 and settled at Minas.  Between 1713 and 1739, Madeleine gave him 11 children, five daughters and six sons.  Jean died at Minas in December 1751, in his early 60s.  All of his children, meanwhile, moved to Aulac, Chignecto, by 1744.  His daughters married into the Granger, Doucet dit Jean Prudent, Cormier, Landry, and LeBlanc families.  Three of his sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in April 1726, followed his family to Aulac, Chignecto, by 1755 and married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Bourgeois and Marie-Françoise Cormier, in c1749, place not given, but it likely was Chignecto, where, at Aulac, between 1750 and 1755, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste at least three children, a son and two daughters.  They evidently were the John Terieau family the British deported from Chignecto to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  In September 1756, colonial authorities agreed to let them live with a "Mr. Peter Sinkler" in St. Philip's Parish, Charles Town.  Jean-Baptiste died before August 1763, when wife Marguerite, a widow, son Joseph Teriau, age 13, and daughter Magdelaine Teriau, age 8, appeared on a repatriation list circulating in the colony.  Evidently daughter Théotiste, called Totice, also had died by then.  One wonders what happened to them after 1763.  They did not join his younger brother in Spanish Louisiana. 

Jean's second son Pierre, born at Minas in June 1730, probably died young. 

Jean's third son Joseph, born at Minas in June 1732, followed his family to Aulac, Chignecto, by 1744.  He evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Madeleine, another daughter of Pierre Bourgeois and Marie-Françoise Cormier, in c1758, place unrecorded.  During the late 1750s or early 1760s, he and his family either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a Nova Scotia prison compound for the rest of the war.  Joseph, Madeleine, and their two young daughters emigrated to Louisiana in 1765 from Halifax via French St.-Domingue and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where Madeleine gave him six sons.  Joseph died probably at Cabahannocer before November 1796, in his early 60s.  His daughters married into the Bourgeois and LeBlanc families.  Four of his sons married into the Berteau, Michel, Richard, and LeBlanc families on the river.  One of his grandsons became a prominent sugar planter at the edge of the coastal marshes in Terrebonne Parish. 

Jean's fourth son Charles, born at Minas in January 1736, evidently died young. 

Jean's fifth son Alexis, born at Minas in July 1738, also died young. 

Jean's sixth and youngest son Hilarion-Charles, born at Minas in October 1739, followed his family to Aulac, Chignecto, by 1744.  He evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  He married Marie, daughter of Jean Belliveau and Madeleine Gaudet, in c1761, no place given.  They were at Annapolis Royal, probably in a prison compound there, in 1763.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1772, Marie gave Hilarion four children, a daughter and three sons.  They did not follow his older brother Joseph to Louisiana but settled on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay in eastern Nova Scotia. 

Germain le jeune's third son Jacques, born at Minas in c1691, married Marie, also called Marguerite, daughter of René LeBlanc and Anne Bourgeois, at Grand-Pré in October 1713 and remained there.  Between 1714 and 1725, Marie-Marguerite gave Jacques five children, three sons and two daughters.  Jacques, in his mid-30s, remarried to Marie, daughter of Prudent Robichaud and Henriette Petitpas and widow of Jean Doucet, at Annapolis Royal in June 1726 but settled at Minas.  Between 1727 and 1733, Marie gave him four more children, a daughter and three sons--nine children, six sons and three daughters, by two wives.  His daughters by first wife Marie-Marguerite married into the Landry and Babin families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.  Three of his six sons by both wives created their own families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785. 

His oldest son, name unrecorded, by first wife Marie LeBlanc, born at Minas in c1714, died young.  

Jacques's second son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marie LeBlanc, born at Minas in September 1723, also died young. 

Jacques's third son Étienne, by first wife Marie LeBlanc, born at Minas in January 1725, married Hélène, daughter of Abraham Landry and Isabelle Blanchard, in c1747 probably at Minas.  Hélène gave Étienne a son at Minas in May 1748.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  Hélene gave him a daughter there in November 1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Estienne, as he called him, Helenne, and their two children on the south side of Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in the island's interior.  In 1755 and 1757, Hélène gave Étienne two more sons. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  They all survived the crossing and settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river below St.-Malo, where in 1760 and 1765, Hélène gave Étienne two more sons--six children, five sons and a daughter, in all between 1748 and 1765.  Only three of the sons, including Olivier le jeune, the future shoemaker of Nantes who would coax hundreds of his fellow Acadians to emigrate to Spanish Louisiana, seem to have survived childhood.  Olivier, the oldest surviving son, "studied Latin between 1770-1772," while in his late teens, perhaps under Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre, now a champion of the Acadians exiled in France, probably at Nantes.  After the abbé died at Nantes in September 1772, Olivier returned to his father at Pleudihen.  Meanwhile, Hélène died at la Ville de Coquenais near Pleudihen in August 1769, age 45, and Étienne, at age 45, remarried to Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Bourgeois and Marie LeBlanc and widow of Joseph Robichaud and Charles Boudrot, at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1770, but they settled at Pleudihen.  She gave him no more children.  Daughter Françoise by first wife Hélène married Jacques Valoir, a local boy, at Pleudihen in November 1773.  That same year, Étienne took his wife and three sons to Poitou.  After two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where wife Madeleine died in May 1780, age 53.  Étienne, at age 55, remarried again--his third marriage--to local Frenchwoman Marguerite Vallois, widow of Pierre Dubois and Olivier Dubois, at Chantenay near Nantes in November 1780.  She gave him no more children.  Étienne died in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in November 1781, age 56.  His widow Marguerite remarried to a Boudrot widower--her fourth marriage!--at Chantenay in September 1782.  Étienne's sons Olivier, a shoemaker, and Jacques, a calico-printer, both by first wife Hélène, married into the Aucoin and Guérin families at Chantenay and Nantes in 1777 and 1783.  They, with younger brother Jean-Charles, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, as did their stepmother Marguerite Vallois and her Boudrot husband.  However, brothers Joseph and Pierre, who would have been ages 37 and 28 in 1785, if they were still living, chose to remain in France, as did sister Françoise and her family.  Jean-Charles married into the Landry family in Louisiana and settled near brother Jacques on the upper Lafourche.  Olivier settled at Ascension on the river, where he became a respected member of his community. 

Jacques's fourth son Jean-Jacques, by second wife Marie Robichaud, born at Minas in May 1728, married in c1749, probably at Minas, a woman whose name has been lost to history.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Jean-Jacques, at age 34, remarried to Marguerite-Josèphe, 24-year-old daughter of Charles Richard and Catherine-Josèphe Gautrot, in c1762 probably in England.  They were repatriated from Southampton to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where, between 1763 and 1778, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Jean-Jacques eight children, six daughters and two sons.  Three of the children, a daughter and both sons, died as infants.  The family did not go to Poitou or to Nantes in the 1770s but remained at St.-Servan, where wife Marguerite-Josèphe died in July 1782, age 43.  Jean-Jacques emigrated to Spanish Louisiana with five daughters in 1785.  They settled on the river above and below Baton Rouge.  He did not remarry.  Two of his daughters married into the Dupuis and Kling families on the river. 

Jacques's fifth son Olivier, by second wife Marie Robichaud, born at Minas in November 1730, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Anne Landry, in c1754 probably at Minas.  The British deported the couple to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  They were repatriated from Southampton to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where wife Marguerite soon died.  Olivier, at age 35, remarried to cousin Madeleine, 27-year-old daughter of Charles Thériot and Françoise Landry and widow of Simon Comeau, at St.-Servan in July 1765.  Madeleine gave Olivier a daughter at St.-Servan in April 1766.  Wife Madeleine died in May, age 28, probably from the rigors of childbirth.  The daughter, Natalie-Marie, died at St.-Servan in November 1772, age 6 1/2.  Olivier, who did not remarry, died at St.-Servan in June 1773, age 42.  He fathered no sons, so his family line died with him. 

Jacques's sixth and youngest son Pierre, by second wife Marie Robichaud, born at Minas in August 1733, probably died young. 

Germain le jeune's fourth son Joseph le jeune, born probably at Minas in the 1690s, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Melanson and Marguerite Dugas, probably at Minas in c1720 and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, who confuses this Joseph with his uncle Joseph à Claude, between 1720 and 1743, Marguerite gave him 13 children, eight sons and five daughters.  One of their daughters married into the Hébert family.  At least three of Joseph le jeune's sons created families of their own in greater Acadia and France.

Oldest son René, born at Minas in c1720, married Anne, daughter of notary René LeBlanc and his second wife Marguerite Thébaut, at Minas in November 1744.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1748 and 1749, Anne gave René two sons.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1755.  One of their sons married in greater Acadia.

Older son Joseph, born at Minas in c1748, followed his family into exile.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel dit Miqueteau Boudrot, fils and Anne dite Jeanne Fougère, at Neireichak, today's Arichat on the south shore of Île Madame, Nova Scotia, in November 1771. 

Joseph le jeune's third son Joseph, fils, born at Minas in c1723, married Angélique Landry in c1746.  According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him a son in 1747.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Minas in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge either on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or in Canada.  Joseph, fils remarried to Marie-Josèphe Girouard in c1759, place unrecorded.  According to Arsenault, between 1760 and 1771, she gave Joseph, fils six more children, three sons and three daughters--seven children, four sons and three daughters, by two wives.  They were living on Rivière St.-Jean in 1768, perhaps having come down from Canada.  They resettled at Caraquet on the Gulf shore in present-day northeastern New Brunswick.  One of their daughters married into the Godin family at Caraquet.  Four of their sons also married.

Oldest son Joseph III, born at Minas in c1747, followed his family into exile.  He married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Thibodeau and Marie LeBlanc, on Rivière St..-Jean in April 1768.  One wonders if they remained there or followed his family to Caraquet.  According to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine gave Joseph III two sons in 1772 and 1773. 

Joseph, fils's second son Pierre, born in exile in c1760, married fellow Acadian Marie-Louise Godin in c1781, place unrecorded, and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Pinet and his Canadian wife Marie Vienneau, at Caraquet in June 1789. 

Joseph, fils's third son Victor, born in exile in c1761, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Thibodeau and Anne Landry, at Caraquet in November 1789. 

Joseph, fils's fifth and youngest son François, born probably at Caraquet in c1771, married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians René Haché and Marguerite Blanchard, at Caraquet in June 1795. 

Joseph le jeune's fourth son Isaac, born at Minas in February 1730, married Madeleine Broussard, date and place unrecorded, perhaps at Minas.  They moved on to the French Maritimes, date unrecorded, from which the British deported them to Cherbourg, France, in 1758-59.  Isaac, evidently now a widower, moved on to St.-Malo, which he reached in February 1759.  He settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer and promptly signed up for corsair duty aboard Le Duc de Choiseul, which left St.-Malo in December.  The ship was "disarmed," probably by the French, in February 1761, and Isaac returned to St.-Servan.  He remarried to Marie, 26-year-old daughter of François Priou and Marie Lemordant of Louisbourg, Île St.-Jean, at St.-Malo in August 1761.  He was still in the Breton port in 1764, when he, perhaps with his wife, sailed to Île Miquelon, a French-controlled island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  In 1767, to ease overcrowding on Miquelon, French authorities coaxed the fisher/habitants on the island to resettle in France.  Isaac, and perhaps his wife, were among them.   Many of the islanders returned to the Newfoundland islands in 1768, but Isaac remained in France.  He died at Hotel-Dieu, St.-Malo, in January 1769, age 38.  One wonders if he fathered any children.

Germain le jeune's fifth son, name unrecorded, born probably at Minas in the early 1700s, died young. 

Germain le jeune's sixth son, name unrecorded, born probably at Minas in the early 1700s, also died young.  

Germain le jeune's seventh and youngest son Germain, fils, born at Minas in c1713, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Catherine Hébert, at Grand-Pré in November 1734.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1736 and 1737 Marguerite gave Germain, fils two children, a daughter and a son.  Germain, fils died at Minas in July 1737, in his mid-20s.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1755. 

Claude's second son Jean le jeune, born at Port-Royal in c1670, married Jeanne, daughter of René Landry and Marie Bernard, at Port-Royal in c1691.  They followed his older brother and uncle to Minas, where he and Jeanne settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  Between 1692 and June 1710, at Minas, Jeanne gave Jean 10 children, six daughters and four sons.  Their daughters married into the LeBlanc, Bourg, Babin, and Trahan families.  Three of Jean's sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son François, born at Minas in c1694, died there in January 1710, age 16. 

Jean, le jeune's second son Jean, fils, born probably at Minas c1696, married Marie, daughter of Olivier Daigre and Jeanne Blanchard, at Annapolis Royal in October 1722 but likely settled at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1744, Marie gave Jean, fils 10 children, nine daughters and a son.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  The English held them at Falmouth.  Jean, fils died there in c1758, in his early 60s, perhaps of smallpox.  Eight of his daughters married into the Landry, Aucoin, Granger, and Querel families, six of them to Grangers.  His son also married a Granger.

Only son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in c1740, followed his family to Virginia and England, where, in October 1760, he married Marie-Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Granger and Madeleine Landry.  Marie-Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste a daughter in England in 1761.  They were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Marie-Marguerite gave him another daughter there in 1764.  In November 1765, they followed other exiles from England, including an uncle, to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Le Cosquet near Locamaria at the southern end of the island.  In 1766 and 1769, Marie-Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste two sons there.  They did not remain; soon after the birth of the younger son, the family returned to Morlaix.  Between 1772 and 1783, at Morlaix, Marie-Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste six more daughters--10 children, eight daughters and two sons, between 1761 and 1783.  Well-versed in English, Jean-Baptiste served as an interpreter for Jean Rosten, "who abjured Calvinism."  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Jean le jeune's third son Charles, born probably at Minas in c1706, married Françoise, daughter of Antoine Landry and Marie-Blanche LeBlanc, at Grand-Pré in November 1727 and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Françoise gave Charles a son in 1733.  Other records say it was c1737 and give them two daughters and another son in 1735, 1745, and 1746.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  The English held them at Bristol, where their older son and older daughter married, the daughter into the Aucoin family in c1758.  The family was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763.  They may have settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo.  Their daughter Anne married into the Dupuis family there in July 1764.  Evidently Charles and Françoise followed other Acadian exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765.  According to Arsenault, French officials counted Charles and Françoise there in 1767.  There is no evidence that their children also lived on the island.

Older son Jean-Charles, called Charles, fils, born at Minas in c1737, followed his parents to Virginia and England.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Boudrot and Angélique Doiron of Pigiguit, at Bristol in 1757 or 1758.  According to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France, Marie gave Charles, fils a son and a daughter in England in 1758 and 1760.  They were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763 and settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where Charles, fils worked as a seaman.  They did not follow his parents to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765.  Between November 1765 and 1773, Marie gave Charles, fils four more children, two daughters and two sons--six children, three sons and three daughters--at St.-Servan.  Two of the younger children, a daughter and a son, died young.  Charles, fils took his family to Poitou in 1773 and, after two years of effort, retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Oldest daughter Osite-Perpétué, called Perpétué, married a Spiger/Garnier from Switzerland at Nantes in October 1782, and second daughter Marie-Madeleine married a Thibodeau there in February 1783.  Oldest son Joseph also married, into the Aucoin family at Nantes in 1783.  Joseph's infant son died there in April 1784.  Meanwhile, Charles, fils's youngest son Louis-Alexandre died at nearby Chantenay in July 1783, age 10.  Charles, fils died by 1785, when wife Marie, now his widow, and their three married children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Marie and her family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where daughter Perpétué remarried to a Mallet and daughter Marie-Madeleine to a Gautrot.  Marie did not remarry.  Son Joseph and his wife, who crossed to Louisiana on separate ships, had more children on the Lafourche, but, except for its blood, his family line did not endure. 

Charles, père's younger son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in c1746, followed his parents to Virginia, England, and St.-Malo, France.  He settled at Plouër-sur-Rance probably with his parents.  He was still there in 1772, so he evidently did not follow them to Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1765.  Was he the Jean-Baptiste Thériot who married Anne-Angélique Briand, probably a local, at Plouër in c1772 and fathered a son, Jean-Baptiste, fils, that same year?  If so, they remained at St.-Malo and emigrated from there to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District above Baton Rouge, but their son did not remain there.  In 1797, Jean-Baptiste Thériot, fils, now age 25, was working as an engagé with the family of Widow Isabelle Dugas on upper Bayou Lafourche.  One wonders if he had left the river after his parents died and if he married. 

Jean le jeune's fourth and youngest son Germain le jeune, born at Minas in November 1707, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Michel Hébert and Isabelle Pellerin, in c1729 probably at Minas and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Germain a daughter in 1730.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1755. 

Claude's third son Claude, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1678, married Agnès, daughter of Martin Aucoin and Marie Gaudet, in c1703 probably at Minas, where he had followed his older brothers and uncle Pierre.  Claude, fils and Agnès settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  Between 1704 and 1728, Agnès gave Claude, fils 11 children, six sons and five daughters.  Claude, fils died at Rivière-aux-Canards in October 1752, in his early 70s.  His daughters married into the Landry, LeBlanc, Daigre, Richard, and Trahan families.  Five of his sons also created families of his own, and four of them, along with their widowed mother and one their sisters, died from smallpox in England in 1756 only weeks apart. 

His oldest son, name unrecorded, born probably at Minas in c1704, died young. 

Claude, fils's second son Jean-Baptiste dit Janis, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in April 1709, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Landry and Marguerite Forest, probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in May 1734 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1737 and 1753, Marie-Josèphe gave Janis eight children, six daughters and two sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Janis died at Falmouth, England, in August 1756, victim, most likely, of the smallpox epidemic that killed many Acadian exiless there, and was buried at St.-Gluvias church in nearby Penryn.  Three of his daughters married into the Granger and Daigre families at Falmouth in 1758, 1760, and 1762.  His older son also married there.  Janis's family was repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Another daughter married into Boudrot family at Morlaix.  In November 1765, his widow, their younger children, and all of their married children, followed other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany, where they settled at Kerxo or Kerso, Kervellant, and Lanno near Sauzon on the northern end of the island, and at Bortemont near Bangor in the island's interior.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Older son Jean, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in February 1741, followed his family to Virginia and England.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians François Granger and Anne Landry, at Falmouth in c1762.  Marguerite gave Jean a son in August 1763 at Morlaix, France, where they were repatriated the previous spring.  They followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765 and settled at Bortémont near Bangor.  Between 1766 and 1785, Marguerite gave Jean seven more children on the island, five daughters and two sons--eight children, three sons and five daughters, in all.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  French officials counted them still on the island in 1791, but the following year Jean, Marguerite, and seven of their children were counted at Auray in southern Brittany. 

Claude, fils's third son Pierre, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in 1714, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Antoine Dupuis and Marie-Josèphe Dugas, at Rivière-aux-Canards in October 1738 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1751, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre six children, four daughters and two sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Joseph died at Falmouth, England, in November 1756, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that killed many Acadian exiles there, and, like older brother Janis, was buried at St.-Gluvias church in nearby Penryn.  His widow Marie-Josèphe and their children were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Her oldest daughter married into the LeBlanc family at Morlaix in September 1765.  In November, Marie-Joséphe and her children followed other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled at Parlavant near Bangor.  Her third daughter married into the Jacquier family near Le Palais on the eastern shore of the island in October 1780.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Older son Pierre, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1750, followed his family to Virginia and England and his widowed mother to Morlaix and Belle-Île-en-Mer.  In 1792, during the French Revolution, Pierre, at age 42, was serving as a soldier on Île de France in India.  One wonders if he married and if he survived his service in India. 

Pierre's younger son Charles-Grégoire, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1751, followed his family to Virginia and England and his widowed mother to Morlaix and Belle-Île-en-Mer.  In 1773, he was working as a sailor at Morlaix and requested to join other Acadian exiles in Poitou.  One wonders if he went there and if he married. 

Claude, fils's fourth son Cyprien, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in February 1718, married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Landry and Marie Melanson, at Rivière-aux-Canards in June 1741 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1750, Marguerite gave Cyprien five children, a son and four daughters.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Cyprien died at Falmouth, England, in December 1756, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that killed many Acadians there, and, like his older brothers, was buried at St.-Gluvias church in nearby Penryn.  Marguerite remarried to a Daigre at Falmouth in 1757.  She and her family, including her Thériot children, were repatraited to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Her son married in France but did not remain. 

Only son Pierre, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1743, followed his family to Virginia and England and his widowed mother to Morlaix, France.  They did not follow relatives to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765.  Pierre married cousin Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Trahan and Élisabeth Thériot, in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Morlaix, in January 1766.  Élisabeth gave Pierre a son there in July 1769.  Pierre took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Élisabeth gave him another son at Pouthume near Châtellerault in July 1775, but the boy died the following February.  In March 1776, Pierre and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Between 1777 and 1781, in St.-Jacques and St.-Similien parishes, Nantes, Élsabeth gave him four more children, two sons and two daughters--six children, four sons and two daughters, in all.  All four of the youngest children born at Nantes died young, leaving Pierre and Élisabeth only their oldest son, Pierre-Marie.  Wife Élisabeth died in St.-Similien Parish in July 1784, age 38.  The following year, Pierre and his son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Pierre remarried there twice, to a Daigle and a Breaux, in 1786 and 1790.  His son also married, into the Hébert family on the upper Lafourche, created a vigorous line, and was among the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join his ancestors. 

Claude, fils's fifth son Charles, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in 1720, married Élisabeth, daughter of Jean Trahan and Marie Hébert, at Rivière-aux-Canards in March or May 1758 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Élisabeth gave Charles a daughter in 1749.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Charles died at Falmouth, England, in October 1756, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that killed many Acadians there, and, like his older brothers, was buried at St.-Gluvias church in nearby Penryn.  Élisabeth remarried to a Daigre widower at Falmouth in September 1762.  She and her family, including her Thériot daughter Marie, were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763 and followed other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765.  They settled at Chubiguer near Le Palais.  Daughter Marie married a Daigre at Le Palais in 1773 and remarried to a local Ferry there in 1776.  Neither she nor her husband emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Claude, fils's sixth and youngest son Simon-Joseph, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in 1728, married Françoise, daughter of Olivier Daigre and Françoise Granger, at Rivière-aux-Canards in May 1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1749 and 1753, Françoise gave Simon-Joseph two children, a son and a daughter.  Simon-Joseph died at Minas in October 1752, in his mid-20s.  The British deported his widow and children to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  They were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Widow Françoise remarried to a Daigre widower there in October 1763 and, with her two Thériot children, followed him and other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765, where they settled at Kerbellec near Le Palais.  Françoise's daughter Élisabeth Thériot married a Landry on the island in 1774.  Françoise Daigre, her second husband Pierre Richard, and four of her Richard children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Daughter Élisabeth Thériot and her family evidently stayed in the mother country.  Françoise's Thériot son also married, but not in France.

Only son Paul, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1749, followed his widowed mother and younger sister to Virginia, England, and Morlaix and his mother and stepfather to Le Palais, Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1765.  He did not remain there.  He didn't even remain in France.  According to Bona Arsenault, Paul, at age 33, married Marie-Charles, daughter of Edmé Hurpeau and Marie-Charlotte-Danielle Brassard, at Québec City in November 1782.  Was he a sailor?  Did he remain in Canada? 

Claude, père's fourth son Pierre le jeune, born at Port-Royal in c1684, died at Annapolis Royal in 1711, age 27.  He did not marry. 

Claude, père's fifth and youngest son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in c1687, also, according to Stephen A. White, died at Annapolis Royal in 1711, age 24.  He, too, did not marry.  Bona Arsenault, however, confusing this Joseph with his nephew Joseph, fourth son of brother Germain le jeune, insists that Joseph à Claude settled at Minas, where his wife was giving him children as late as 1743.  White is followed here. 

Jean's second son Jean, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1639, married at Port-Royal in c1671 a woman whose name has been lost to history.  Wherever they may have settled, the names and fate of their children, if they had any, also have been lost.

Jean's third son Bonaventure dit Venture, born at Port-Royal in c1641, married Jeanne, daughter of Michel Boudrot and Michelle Aucoin, at Port-Royal in c1666 and settled there.  Between 1667 and 1679, at Port-Royal, Jeanne gave Venture four children, all daughters.  Jeanne died at Port-Royal in May 1710, age 65.  Venture never remarried.  He evidently followed a daughter to Minas and died there in May 1731, age 90.  Three of his daughters married into the Gautrot, Landry, and Granger families.

Jean's fourth son Germain was born at Port-Royal in c1646.  He married Andrée, daughter of Vincent Brun and Renée Breau and a native of La Chaussée, France, at Port-Royal in c1668 and moved on to Minas.  Between 1669 and 1673, Andrée gave Germain three children, two sons and a daughter.  Germain died at Port-Royal in c1676, in his late 20s or early 30s.  Andrée remarried to an Hébert.  Germain's daughter married into the Aucoin family at Minas.  Both of his sons also created families of their own.   

Older son Germain, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1669, married Anne, daughter of François Pellerin and Andrée Martin, in c1690 probably at Minas and resettled at Cobeguit in c1702.  Between 1691 and 1710, at Minas and Cobeguit, Anne gave Germain, fils 11 children, six daughters and five sons.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean probably in the late 1740s.  Germain, fils died at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in August 1750, in his early 80s.  Five of his daughters married into the Doiron, LeBlanc, Henry dit Le Neveu, Benoit, Boisseau, and Vigneron families.  Three of them settled in the French Maritimes.  All of Germain, fils's sons created families of their own, and all of them moved on to the French Maritimes in c1750.  Four of them settled in the same community on the Atlantic shore of Île Royale. 

Oldest son Charles, born at Minas in c1692, married Angélique, daughter of Charles Doiron and Françoise Gaudet of Pigiguit, at Grand-Pré in October 1718 and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled at Cobeguit.  According to Arsenault, between 1719 and 1740, Angélique gave Charles eight children, four daughters and four sons, including a set of twins.  Their oldest daughter married into the Thibodeau family at Pigiguit in 1738.  Members of the family moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  Another daughter married into the Quimine family on the island in Novembr 1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Charles, Angélique, and six unmarried children at Anse-aux-Morts on the southeast shore of Île St.-Jean.  Two more daughters married into the Richard and Thibodeau families on the island in November 1753 and c1755, and their twin sons also married there.  The British deported members of the family from Louisbourg to France in late 1758.  Charles died on the crossing, in his mid-60s.  All of his sons married. 

Oldest son Honoré, born at Cobeguit in c1730, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, was counted with them at Anse-aux-Morts in August 1752, and married Isabelle, daughter of Alain Bugeaud Mardeleine Boudrot of Minas, on the island in c1754.  According to Bona Arsenault, Isabelle gave Honoré a daughter and a son in 1755 and 1757.  The British deported them to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758.  One wonders if Isabelle and their children survived the crossing.  Honoré moved on to St.-Malo in February 1759 and settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance, on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  He remarried to Marie-Judith, 24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Fouquet and Marie-Judith Poitevin of Île St.-Jean, at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1760.  They settled at Pleudihen.  Between 1761 and 1774, Marie-Judith gave Honoré seven more children, two sons and five daughters--nine children, three sons and six daughters, by two wives.  None of the sons survived childhood, nor did two of the daugthers.  The family evidently remained at Pleudihen when other exiles in the area ventured to the interior of Poitou in 1773-74, nor did they join other Acadian exiles at Nantes in the late 1770s.  Moreover, no member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Charles's second son Charles, fils, Honoré's twin, born at Cobeguit in c1730, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, was counted with them at Anse-aux-Morts in August 1752, and married Marguerite, another daughter of Alain Bugeaud and Madeleine Boudrot, on the island in c1756.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Charles, fils a son on the island in 1757.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758. 

Charles's third son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born at Cobeguit in c1736, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, and was counted with them at Anse-aux-Morts in August 1752.  The British deported him to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758.  In his early 30s, he married Charlotte Le Baron of Normandy in c1769 probably at Cherbourg.  Their daughter had been born there in 1768.  In October 1769, they arrived "with a passport" at St.-Malo and settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance near his older brother Honoré.  Charlotte gave Jean two more children, another daughter and a son, there in 1770 and 1772.  The younger daughter died an infant.  Jean evidently did not follow other Acadian exiles to Poitou in 1773 or join other Acadian exiles at Nantes in the late 1770s.  Like brother Honoré, no member of this family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.

Charles's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born at Cobeguit in c1741, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, and was counted with them at Anse-aux-Morts in August 1752.  The British deported him to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758.  In July 1759, he arrived at St.-Malo from Cherbourg and settled near two of his older brothers at Pleudihen-sur-Rance, where he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Broussard and Osite Landry, in November 1767.  Madeleine gave Joseph two sons at La Coquenais near Pleudihen in 1769 and 1771.  They both died young.  Wife Madeleine died at La Coquenais in January 1772, age 24.  Joseph, in his early 30s, remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Melanson and Françoise Granger, at Pleudihen in February 1774.  Between 1774 and 1776, at La Coquenais and Villeaubel, Marie gave Joseph three more children, two sons and a daughter--five children, four sons and a daughter, by two wives.  Only the youngest son survived childhood.  As the birth of his younger children reveal, Joseph did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join other Acadian exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  Like his older brothers, no member of Joseph's family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Germain, fils's second son Pierre, born at Minas in c1694, married Marguerite, daughter of Jérôme Guérin and Isabelle Aucoin, in c1724 perhaps at Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1748, Marguerite gave Pierre 10 children, five sons and five daughters.  They moved on to Île Royale probably in c1750, where one of their sons married.  In April 1752, a French official counted Pierre, Marguerite, and nine children at Baie-de-Mordienne on the Atlantic coast of the big island.  Second daughter Marie-Madeleine married into the Blain family on Île Royale in February 1755.  The British deported Pierre, Marguerite, five of their unmarried children, and the married daughter and her family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Pierre, in his early 60s, died on the crossing, as did two of his unmarried children, a daughter and a son.  Another son died from the rigors of the crossing.  Fourth daughter Françoise married into the Benoit family at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in February 1760.  Neither she nor any of her siblings emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, though one of Françoise's Benoit sons did go there and created a robust family line on the southwest prairies. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Cobeguit in c1727, followed his family to Île Royale and was counted with them at Baie-de-Mordienne in April 1752.  Jean-Baptiste evidently left the island soon after the counting, returned to Nova Scotia, and was deported to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  In his early 30s, he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Cyr and Madeleine Poirier of Chignecto, in the Bay Colony in November 1760.  Marie gave Jean-Baptiste two children, a son and a daughter, in 1762 and 1763, the older child born at Roxbury, Massachusetts.  At war's end, Jean-Baptiste took his family to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where his and Marie's marriage was "rehabilitated" in November 1763 and their daughter was baptized the following month.  Between 1765 and 1781, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste nine more children, six sons and three, including a set of twins--11 children, seven sons and four daughters, in all.  In 1767, to relieve overcrowding on the island, the French coaxed many of the fisher/habitants on Miquelon to resettle in France.  Jean-Baptiste and his family sailed to St.-Malo aboard the schooner Creole, reached the Breton port in November, but returned to the island aboard the same vessel the following March.  They buried three of their young children, two sons and a daughter, on Miquelon in 1770, 1774, and 1776.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre and deported the fisher/habitants to France.  Jean-Baptiste and his family arrived at St.-Malo aboard the Jeannette in November 1778 and settled in nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where their two youngest children were born and buried.  One of them died of smallpox two months after his birth.  They also buried a 6-year-old daughter there.  The family could not return to the Newfoundland islands until 1784.  They did not remain on the fishing island.  By the 1790s, Jean-Baptiste and most of his family joined other Acadians from the Newfoundland islands in the îles-de-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, now a part of Québec Province, Canada.  At least three of his sons married and settled there. 

Oldest son Louis, born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, in October 1762, followed his family to Île Miquelon and to France and back.  He married fellow Acadian Anastasie Cormier in c1785 probably on Miquelon.  They evidently followed his family to the Madeleines.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1793 and 1809, Anastasie gave Louis nine children, four sons and five daughters.  At least one of their sons married.

Oldest son Louis-Michel-Hyppolite, called Hyppolite, born on Île Miquelon or in the Madeleines in c1793, married Anne, daughter of Michel Gould and Sophie Penn, in October 1816 probaby in the Madeleines.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1817 and 1821, Anne gave Hyppolite three children, two sons and a daughter. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son Jean-Baptiste, fils, called Jean, baptized on Île Miquelon in August 1765, age not given, followed his family to France and back.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Anne-Agnès Poirier, on Miquelon in November 1788.  They most likely followed his family to the Madeleines.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1792 and 1796, Anne-Agnès gave Jean four children, two daughters and two sons.  Their two sons married. 

Older son Pierre-Sébastien, born on Île Miquelon or in the Madeleines in c1793, married Gracieuse, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arsenault and Geneviève Boudrot, probably in the Madeleines in September 1815.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1817 and 1821, Gracieuse gave Pierre-Sébastien three children, a daughter and two son. 

Jean's younger son Jean-Gratien, born probably in the Madeleines in c1796, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Vigneau and Marie Arsenault, in September 1815 probably in the Madeleines.  According to Bona Arsenault, beween 1818 and 1821, Julie gave Jean-Gratien three children, two daughters and a son. 

Jean-Baptiste's fifth son Pierre, twin of brother Xavier, who died a week after his birth, was born on Île Miquelon in April 1774.  Pierre followed his family to France and back and to the Madeleines, where he married Catherine, daughter of Germain Montigny and Marie-Catherine Audy, in October 1798.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1799 and 1817, Catherine gave Pierre six sons.  At least one of them married.

Oldest son Marcel, born probably in the Madeleines in c1799, married Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and Rosalie Briand, in September 1820 probably in the Madeleines.  According to Bona Arsenault, Ursule gave Marcel a daughter in 1822. 

Pierre's second son Joseph, born at Cobeguit in c1729, followed his family to the French Maritimes in c1750.  He married Marie-Rose, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Gaudet and Marie-Josèphe Darois of Pigiguit, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in September 1751.  They settled with his family at Baie-de-Mordienne, where a French official counted the childless couple in April 1752.  Between 1753 and 1758, Marie-Rose gave Joseph three children, two daughters and a son, on the island.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Marie-Rose and their three children died on the crossing.  Joseph settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, but he did not remain.  In March 1760, he signed up for privateer service and left St.-Malo in March 1760 aboard the ship Hardy.  The Royal Navy captured the vessel and held its crew, including Joseph, in a prison compound in England until the end of the war.  After his release in 1763, he returned to St.-Servan and remarried to Jeanne-Françoise, daughter of Robert Guilbert and Gilette-Anne Visez of Plevenon, Diocese of St.-Brieuc, Brittany, in February 1764 at St.-Malo.  He worked as a sailor out of the Breton port.  In March 1764, soon after their marriage, Joseph shipped out on Les Trois Frères for Île Miquelon and returned to St.-Malo in January 1766.  He likely spent time with his older brother Jean-Baptiste at Miquelon.  Jeanne-Françoise gave Joseph two daughters at St.-Malo in 1765 and 1766, the older daughter conceived before Joseph left for the Newfoundland islands.  In 1770-71, he was reported to be in the Indies "in the capacity of a wheelwright."  He was back with his family at St.-Malo in 1772.  He did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did he join other Acadian exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  Unsurprisingly, neither he nor any member of his family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.

Pierre's third son Anselme, born at Cobeguit in c1738, followed his family to Île Royale and was counted with them at Baie-de-Mordienne in April 1752.  He was still unmarried when he crossed to St.-Malo in 1758 with his parents and four siblings.  He died at sea, age 20. 

Pierre's fourth son Fabien, born at Cobeguit in c1742,  followed his family to Île Royale and was counted with them at Baie-de-Mordienne in April 1752.  He did not cross with them to St.-Malo, however, so he likely died on the island before 1758, in his teens. 

Pierre's fifth son Brisset, born at Cobebuit in c1744, followed his family to Île Royale and was counted with them at Baie-de-Mordienne in April 1752.  He crossed with his family to St.-Malo but died in a hospital there in early December 1758, age 15, soon after reaching the Breton port. 

Germain, fils's third son Claude, born at Minas in c1696, married Marie, another daughter of .Jérôme Guérin and Isabelle Aucoin, in c1726 perhaps at Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1727 and 1746, Marie gave Claude nine children, six daughters and three sons.  They, too, moved on to Île Royale in c1750.  In April 1752, a French official counted Claude, Marie, and nine children at Baie-de-Mordienne near older brother Pierre.  Four of their daughters married into the Thomas, Boutin, and Quemener families on Île Royale in 1752 and 1753 and into the Lacase family at Rochefort, France, in June 1763, so at least one member the family was deported to France in 1758-59.  One wonders what happened to the rest of them then. 

Germain, fils's fourth son François, born probably at Cobeguit in c1703, married Françoise, yet another daughter of Jérôme Guérin and Isabelle Aucoin, in c1729 perhaps at Cobeguit.  Between 1730 and 1750, Françoise gave François 11 children, seven daughters and four sons.  They, too, moved on to Île Royale in c1750.  In April 1752, a French official counted François, Françoise, and their 11 children at Baie-de-Mordienne near older brothers Pierre and Claude.  Between 1752 and 1758, Françoise gave François two more children, a daughter and a son--13 children, eight daughters and five sons.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  François, in his mid-50s, along with five of his children, including the youngest three, died in the crossing or from its rigors.  Françoise, who never remarried, settled with her eight remaining children at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Three of her daughters married into the Henry, Blanchard, Landry, and Granger families at St.-Servan in 1761, 1766, 1767, and 1776, and one of them, Gertrude, died there in 1772.  Françoise and three of her daughters--Marie, who never married; Marguerite-Josèphe and her Henry husband; and Anne and her Granger husband--emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.  Anne remarried there--her third marriage--to an Italian named Barbero.  Françoise's only surviving married son chose to remain in France, but the widow of her younger married son did go there with a daughter and remarried in the Spanish colony. 

Oldest son Pierre, born at Cobeguit in c1734, followed his family to Île Royale and his widowed mother to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he married Jeanne-Louise, daughter of locals Louis-Laurent LeBlond and Marie-Anne Feste, in November 1760.  They were still at St.-Servan in 1772, without children.  Did they have any children or leave the St.-Malo area?  They did not follow his widowed mother and sisters to Spanish Louisiana. 

François's second son Théodore, born at Cobeguit in c1742, followed his family to Île Royale and his widowed mother to St.-Servan.  At age 34, he married Anne-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Henry and Marie-Madeleine Pitre, at nearby Pleurtuit in February 1777.  They settled at St.-Servan, where she gave him two daughters in 1778 and 1780, but the older daughter probably died young.  Théodore died probably at St.-Servan in the early 1780s.  Anne-Josèphe and their younger daughter Anne-Angélique followed her widowed mother-in-law and Théodores's sisters to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Anne-Josèphe promptly remarried to a Boudrot widower there.  Daughter Anne-Angélique married into the Julien family on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

François's third son Cirille, born at Cobeguit in c1744, followed his family to Île Royale and his widowed mother to St.-Servan, where he worked as a sailor.  He embarked on the ship Americain at St.-Malo in February 1769 and landed at Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, later in the year.  He died there in his mid-20s.  He did not marry. 

François's fourth son Joseph, born probably at Baie-de-Mordienne in c1750, died, at age 8, with his father and four siblings on the crossing to St.-Malo. 

François's fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born probagly at Baie-de-Mordienne in the mid-1750, died with his father and siblings on the crossing to St.-Malo. 

Germain, fils's fifth and youngest son Germain III, born probably at Cobeguit in c1705, married Catherine-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Benoit and Marie-Anne Breau, in c1732 perhaps at Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1749, Catherine-Josèphe gave Germain III 10 children, six daughters and four sons.  They, too, moved on to Île Royale in c1750.  In April 1752, a French official counted Germain III, Catherine-Josèphe, and 10 children at Baie-de-Mordienne near older brothers Pierre, Claude, and François.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758.  Three of their daughters married into the Georges or Georget, Dailli or Duhier, and Perchet families on Martinique in the French Antilles in 1765 and 1766, and two of them died there in 1767 and 1789.  Did the rest of the family also settle on the French island? 

Germain, père's younger son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1671, married Marie, daughter of Martin Bourg and Marie Potet, at Minas in c1698 and settled briefly on Rivière-St.-Antoine before moving on to Cobeguit by 1703.  Between 1699 and 1720, at Minas and Cobeguit, Marie gave Pierre 10 children, four sons and six daughters.  Their daughters married into the Arsement, Pitre, Boudrot, Landry, Melanson, Gautrot, and Girouard families, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Only one of Pierre's sons created a family of his own. 

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1699, married Françoise, daughter of Pierre Melanson and Marie Blanchard, at Grand-Pré in October 1725 and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled at Cobeguit.  Joseph was recorded as having taken the oath of allegiance to the British crown in April 1730.  According to Arsenault, between 1726 and 1754, Françoise gave Joseph a dozen children, nine sons and three daughters.  He took his family, including a married son and his family, to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  They had another son on the island in 1751, and their second son married there that year.  Their daughter married into the Henry family on the island.  In August 1752, a French official counted Joseph, Françoise, and seven unmarried children at Rivière-de-l'Ouest on the south side of the island.  Françoise gave Joseph another son probably on the island in 1754--at least 11 children, seven sons and four daughters, in all.  The family evidently left the island before its dérangement in 1758 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During the late 1750s or early 1760s, the family either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Joseph died during exile, no date or place given.  In 1764-65, his widow Françoise and four of her unmarried sons emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via French St.-Domingue.  They settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where the sons married into the Daigre,  Granger, Henry, Guillot, and Mouton families on the river.  One of them settled on the western prairies.  Françoise and Joseph's oldest sons also married, but they did not follow their widowed mother to Spanish Louisiana.

Oldest son Alexis, born at Minas in c1726, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Robichaud and Marie Léger, probably at Minas in c1747.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1751, Madeleine gave Alexis four children, two daughters and two sons.  Other records say they had a fifth child.  They, too, moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750 but did not settle near his family.  In August 1752, a French official counted Alexis, Madeleine, and three children at Bédec on the island's southwestern shore.  They likely left the island before its dérangement in 1758 or escaped the British roundup that year, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Alexis died during exile.  Widow Madeleine was counted with five children on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Neither she and nor any of her Thériot children emigrated to Louisiana.  One wonders where they settled.  Île Miquelon?  Greater Acadia?  The French Antilles? 

Joseph's second son Joseph dit Le Bonhomme, born at Minas in c1728, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750 and married Marie-Josèphe Pitre there in c1751.  Marie-Josèphe gave Bonhomme a son soon after their marriage.  In August 1752, a French official counted Bonhomme, Marie-Josèphe, and their 7-month-old son at Bédec near his older brother Alexis.  Unlike his brother, Bonhomme remained on the island, where, in 1753 and 1758, Marie-Josèphe him two daughters.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Only Bonhomme survived the crossing.  In March 1759, soon after his arrival in late January, he received permission to go to Cherbourg in Normandy.  Was he the Joseph Thériot, Acadian, who died at Cherbourg in December 1759.  The Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish priest who recorded the burial did not give Joseph's parents' names or mention a wife and says he died at age 27.  Bonhomme would have been age 31. 

Pierre's second son François, born probably at Cobeguit in the early 1700s, survived childhood but did not marry.  He and brothers Joseph and Pierre, fils are recorded as having taken the oath of allegiance to the British crown in April 1730.  Did he marry?  One wonders what happened to him in 1755, if he was still living. 

Pierre's third son Pierre, fils, born at Cobeguit in September 1712, may have settled at Minas, where he was recorded as having taken the oath of allegiance with his older brothers in April 1730.  He did not marry.  Was he still living in 1755? 

Pierre's fourth and youngest son, name unrecorded, born probably at Cobeguit in c1713, evidently died young.

Jean's fifth and youngest son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1654, married Cécile, daughter of René Landry and Marie Bernard, at Port-Royal in c1678.  Soon after their marriage, they pioneered the settlement on Rivière St.-Antoine, later called Rivière-des-Habitants, at Minas.  Jean served as a judge at Minas, where he and Cécile became that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  Pierre died at Minas in March 1725, in his early 70s.341

Boudrot

Michel Boudrot, the long-time colonial judge at Port-Royal, a late 1630s arrival, and his wife Michelle Aucoin created one of the largest and most influential families in the colony.  Between 1642 and 1666, Michelle gave Michel 11 children, seven sons and four daughters, all of whom married.  Their daughters married into the Robichaud, Thériot, Bourg, Babineau, and Poirier families.  Michel and Michelle's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Minas and Pigiguit, Chignecto, and in the French Maritimes, on Île Royale as well as Île St.-Jean.  At least 103 of the judge's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, Maryland in the late 1760s, Île St.-Pierre in 1788, and especially from France in 1785.  However, a substantial number of Michel's descendants could be found in Canada, greater Acadia, France, and the French Antilles after Le Grand Dérangement.  

Oldest son Charles, born at Port-Royal in c1646, married Renée, daughter of Antoine Bourg and Antoinette Landry, at Port-Royal in c1672.  Between 1673 and 1683, Renée gave Charles eight children, five sons and three daughters.  Charles remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean Corporon and Françoise Savoie, probably at Port-Royal in c1686 and settled at Minas and Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  Between 1688 and 1707, Marie gave Charles a dozen more children, seven sons and five daughters.  Charles, who fathered 20 children by his two wives, died at Ste.-Famille after 1714, in his late 60s.  Six of his daughters from both wives married into the Trahan, Babin, Thibodeau, Bugeaud, and Girouard families.  Eight of his 12 sons from both wives created their own families, but not all of the lines endured. 

His oldest son, by first wife Renée Bourg, born at Port-Royal in c1673, name unrecorded, probably died young.  

Charles's second son Charles, fils, by first wife Renée, by first wife Renée Bourg, born at Port-Royal in c1674, married Marie, daughter of Étienne Rivet and Marie Comeau, in c1700 probably at Rivière-de-l'Ascension, Minas, where they settled.  In c1714, Marie gave Charles, fils one child, a son, whose name has been lost to history and who likely died young, so this line of the family did not endure.  

Charles, père's third son René, by first wife Renée Bourg, born at Port-Royal in c1678, married in c1701, according to Stephen White, a woman whose name has been lost to history.  Bona Arsenault insists René's wife was Agnès, sans doute daughter of Pierre Vincent and Anne Gaudet of Port-Royal, and that René married her in c1712.  They settled at Rivière-de-l'Ascension in the Minas Basin.  According to White, René fathered a single child, a daughter named Élisabeth or Isabelle, born in c1701, who married into the Pitre family in c1724.  Arsenault calls René's daughter Madeleine, says she was born in c1724, and that she married into the Boisseau family in c1748.  René died at Minas in June 1748, age 69.  Except for its blood, this line of the family died with him, though one wonders what became of his daughter after 1755. 

Charles, père's fourth son Claude, a twin, by first wife Renée Bourg, born at Port-Royal in c1683, probably died young. 

Charles, père's fifth son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, Claude's twin, by first wife Renée Bourg,  married Cécile, another daughter of Jean Corporon and Françoise Savoie, probably at Port-Royal in c1702 and settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  Between 1703 and 1721, Cécile gave Jean-Baptiste nine children, six sons and three daughters.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Louise, daughter of Louis Saulnier and Louise Bastineau dit Peltier, in c1722 and settled at Minas.  Between 1723 and 1742, Louise gave Jean-Baptiste seven more children, three sons and four daughters--16 children, nine sons and seven daughters, by both wives.  Jean-Baptiste took his family to Île St.-Jean in 1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Jean-Baptiste, Louise, and three of their unmarried children at La Traverse on the island's south shore.  The British deported Jean and his family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Jean, age 56 at the time, did not survive the crossing, nor did wife Louise.  His daughters by both wives married into the Trahan, Hébert, Davoux, Landry, Roussin, and Pineau or Pinaud families in greater Acadia and France.  Seven of his nine sons created families of their own at Minas, Pigiguit, and in the French Maritimes. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, also called Jean, by first wife Cécile Corporon, born probably at Minas in the early 1700s, married Catherine, daughter of Pierre Brassaud and Gabrielle Forest, at Grand-Pré in October 1729 and settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1740, Catherine gave Jean-Baptiste, fils three children, all daughters.  According to Stephen White, Jean-Baptiste, fils died probably at Ste.-Famille by 1752, age unrecorded.  Arsenault, however, insists that Jean-Baptiste, fils took his family to Île St.-Jean, escaped the British in 1758, and found refuge at Restigouche on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Arsenault says that Jean-Baptiste, fils's daughters married into the Denis, Brun, and Landry families at Port-La-Joye on Île St.-Jean and Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France notes that Marguerite, born in c1741, daughter of Jean Boudrot and Catherine Brasseau, married into the Pitre family at La Gouesnière near St.-Malo in November 1759, became a widow in 1782, and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 with six of her Pitre chldren.  She settled with them on upper Bayou Lafourche and did not remarry.  So the blood of Jean's family line survived in greater Acadia and in the Bayou State. 

Jean's second son Pierre, by first wife Cécile Corporon, born probably at Minas in c1708, married Anne, daughter of Michel Hébert and Isabelle Pellerin, at Grand-Pré in February 1732 and settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1748, at Minas and Ste.-Famille, Anne gave Pierre eight children, four sons and four daughters, including a set of twins.  Other sources hint that she gave him two more sons, in 1737 and c1755.  Pierre died by 1755.  At least two of his sons created their own families in France and Louisiana.

Older son Pierre, fils, baptized at Grand-Pré in October 1737, evidently moved to the French Maritimes after his father died, likely after 1752, and was deported to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  In February 1759, he received permission to move on to Rochefort to find work, but he was unsuccessful.  He returned to St.-Malo in October and "settled" at nearby Trigavou on the west side of Rivière Rance.  He married cousin Françoise, daughter of François Daigre and Marie Boudrot of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, at Trigavou in November 1763.  Between 1764 and 1771, Françoise gave Pierre, fils four children, a son and three daughters.  Pierre, fils took his family to Poitou in the early 1770s.  Having eschewed the intrigues of his fellow Acadians against their benefactor the Marquis de Pérusse, when 900 of the Acadians in Poitou retreated to Nantes in late 1775, Pierre, fils and Françoise were among the 300 Acadians who chose to remain.  Between 1773 and 1780, at Châtellerault and Bonneuil-Matours, she gave him four more children, three sons and a daugher, but the two older children, a son and a daughter, died young.  No member of the family emigrated to Louisiana, so they likely remained in Poitou.  One wonders if Pierre, fils's surviving sons--Isaac, born in October 1764; Benjamin, baptized in October 1777; and Paul, baptized in January 1780--as well as his daughters--Marie-Josephe, born in October 1766; and Françoise-Mathurine in April 1769--created their own families in France. 

Pierre, père's younger son Augustin-Rémi, born at Minas or Pigiguit in c1755, evidently was deported to Maryland in 1755 perhaps with his widowed mother and older siblings.  If so, his mother died in the Chesapeake colony.  In July 1763, a repatriation list noted that an orphan named Rémis Budro was living at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac with the family of Acadian Jean-Charles Bro.  Rémi followed the Breaus to Louisiana in 1767-68 and went with them to Fort San Luìs de Natchez on the river above Baton Rouge, where, again called Rémi, he was described soon after his arrival as a 13-year-old orphan.  The following year, Spanish Governor-General O'Reilly released the Acadians from the isolated settlement.  None of them remained.  Rémi, perhaps after following the Breaus to one of the Acadian settlements downriver, chose to settle in the Attakapas District, where, after 1781, he was consistently called Augustin by the census takers.  He married Judith-Philippe, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Martin and Jeanne Comeau of Annapolis Royal, probably at Attakapas in c1777.  As a 12-year-old orphan, she had come to Attakapas with the Broussards in the spring of 1765.  She gave Rémi all of his children.  Called Augustin-Rémi by the recording priest, he remarried to cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Benoit and his first wife Susanne Boudreaux and widow of Amand Martin and André Favron, at Opelousas, north of Attakapas, in July 1815.  Augustin dit Rémi died in St. Landry Parish in June 1830.  The Opelousas priest who recorded the burial called him Rémi and noted that he died at age 85.  He probably was in his late 70s.  His daughters, all by his first wife, married into the Boone and Prejean families.  Three of his four sons, also by his first wife, married into the Ritter, Caruthers, and Lacase families and settled near Grand Coteau. 

Jean's third son Honoré l'aîné, by first wife Cécile Corporon, born at Pigiguit in December 1708, likely died young. 

Jean's fourth son Benjamin, by first wife Cécile Corporon, born probably at Pigiguit in the early 1710s, married Cécile, daughter of Jean Melanson and Marguerite Dugas and widow of Claude Richard, in c1754, perhaps at Minas.  The British deported them to Maryland in 1755.  Cécile gave Benjamin at least one child, a daughter, in c1755, either at Pigiguit or in Maryland.  He and Cécile evidently died in Maryland before July 1763, when daughter Marie, now an 8-year-old orphan, appeared on a repatriation list with the family of François Hébert at Fredericktown/Georgetown on the colony's Eastern Shore.  Marie followed relatives to Louisiana in 1767 and settled at San Gabriel on the Mississippi above New Orleans.  She married cousin Amand, son of Paul Hébert and Marguerite-Josèphe Melançon, probably at San Gabriel in September 1776, so the blood of this family survived.  Amand also had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767 and probably had known Marie from childhood.  Two of their grandsons became prominent men in Louisiana affairs:  Paul Octave Hébert served as governor of Louisiana in the early 1850s, and Paul Octave and his first cousin Louis Hébert rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Confederate army during the War of 1861-65.  Marie died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in August 1847, a widow in her early 90s. 

Jean's fifth son Antoine, by first wife Cécile Corporon, born probably at Pigiguit in c1717, married Brigitte, daughter of Jean-Michel Apart and Élisabeth Hébert, at Grand-Pré in July 1747 and moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1751.  According to Bona Arsenault, in c1748 Brigitte gave Antoine a son, Jean-Baptiste le jeune.  In August 1752, a French official counted Antoine, Brigitte, son Jean-Baptiste, and Brigitte's infirm brother Alexis Apart near Antoine's father and his brother Zacharie at La Traverse on the island's south shore.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  In February 1759, soon after the family reached the port, son Jean-Baptiste died in a St.-Malo hospital, age 11.  Between 1760 and 1772, at Trigavou near St.-Malo, Brigitte gave Antoine eight more children, five sons and three daughters, one of whom, a daughter, did not survive childhood.  In 1773, Antoine took his family to Poitou and retreated with other disgruntled Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in December 1775.  He died at St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, France, in April 1776, age 58.  Brigitte did not remarry.  She took five of her unmarried children, three sons and two daughters, to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Her married son also went there.  One of her daughters married into the Rassicot family in Louisiana.  Three of her sons created their own families in France and Louisiana.  Only one of the lines survived in the Bayou State, but it did so magnificently. 

Second son François-Xavier, born at Trigavou, France, in March 1760, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Dugas and his second wife Marguerite Cyr of Boulogne-sur-Mer, at St.-Martin de Chantenay, near Nantes, in May 1785.  They emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 and settled at Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge.  François-Xavier remarried to Marie-Françoise, daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Anne Hébert, at nearby San Gabriel in May 1787 and died at San Gabriel in February 1798, age 27.  His daughters married into the Acoste, Tircuit, and Trosclair famiies.  Only one of François-Xavier's four sons married, into the Edelmer family at St. Gabriel, but the line does not seem to have survived. 

Antoine's third son Charles-Michel, born at Trigavou in October 1761, followed his famliy to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother to Louisiana.  He settled on upper Bayou Lafourche near his siblings, but he did not marry.

Antoine's fourth son Joseph, born at Trigavou in February 1765, followed his famliy to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother to Louisiana.  He married Marie-Jeanne Langlinais, a native of France, at Ascension on the Mississippi above New Orleans in February 1791.  One wonders if he fathered any children. 

Antoine's fifth son Étienne, born at Trigavou in December 1766, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother to Louisiana.  He married Victoire-Andrée, daughter of Alexandre Gautrot and Marguerite Hébert, at Ascension in January 1788 and settled on Bayou Lafourche.  Their daughter married into the Martin and Stephen families.  Nine of Étienne's 10 sons married into the Toups, Pontiff, Lefevre, Thibodeaux, Barbier, Brunet, and Broussard families and created on Bayou Lafourche one of the largest Boudreaux families lines in the Bayou State.  

Antoine's sixth and youngest son Jean-Pierre, born at Trigavou in December 1772, may have followed his family to Poitou and Nantes.  Though he would have been only age 12 when his widowed mother and five older siblings left Paimboeuf for New Orleans in late August 1785, he not accompany them to the Spanish colony, so he may have died in France. 

Jean's sixth son Zacharie, by first wife Cécile Corporon, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1721, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Daigre and Françoise Doucet, in c1748 perhaps at Ste.-Famille and moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1751.  Between 1749 and 1758, Marguerite gave Zacharie five children, three sons and two daughters, on the island.  In August 1752, a French official counted Zacharie, Marguerite, two of their children, and orphan Marguerite Boudrot next to his parents at La Traverse on the island's south shore.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Zacharie and Marguerite survived the voyage aboard one of the Five Ships, but all of their children died at sea!  They settled at Trigavou near St.-Malo and created another family.  Between 1760 and 1770, at Trigavou, Marguerite gave Zacherie six more children, five sons and a daughter--11 children, eight sons and three daughters, in all--but two of the younger sons and the daughter did not survive childhood.  Zacharie took his family to Poitou in the early 1770s and in October 1775 retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  At age 61, Zacharie remarried to Frenchwoman Marguerite Vallois, widow of Pierre and Olivier Dubois and Étienne Thériot, at Chantenay near Nantes in September 1782.  She gave him no more children.  Zacharie took his second wife, his youngest son, and a stepson to Louisiana in 1785 aboard L'Amitié and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  All three of his remaining sons married into the Landry, Gautrot, and Ferguson families in France and Louisiana.  His oldest son's line of the family was especially vigorous. 

Jean's seventh son, another Jean-Baptiste, fils, by second wife Louise Saulnier, born at Minas in August 1723, married Lucie, daughter of Jean Trahan and Marie Girouard, at Louisbourg, Île Royale, in October 1752.  Between 1754 and 1755, Lucie gave Jean-Baptiste, fils three children, a daughter and two sons, on the island.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  All three of their children died at sea.  They lived for a time at La Martin on the Rue des Fougeurs in St.-Malo before moving to La Rochelle in February 1759.  One wonders what happened to them after that date.  They did not emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Jean's eighth son Honoré le jeune, by second wife Louise Saulnier, born at Minas in March 1728, married Élisabeth, daughter of Jean Hébert and Marie-Claire Dugas, in c1753 probably in the French Maritimes and settled there.  In c1754 and c1758, Élisabeth gave Honoré two children, a son and a daughter.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Both of the children died at sea.  Honoré, age 29, and Élisabeth, age 24, died in a hospital at St.-Malo in March 1759, probably from the rigors of the crossing, so the deportation to France wiped out the entire family. 

Jean's ninth and youngest son Mathurin, by second wife Louise Saulnier, born probably at Minas in c1742, probably died young. 

Charles, père's sixth son Jérôme, by second wife Marie Corporon, born probably at Minas in c1688, evidently died young.  

Charles, père's seventh son Denis, by second wife Marie Corporon, born probably at Minas in c1690, married Agnès, daughter of Michel Vincent and Marie-Josèphe Richard, at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1709 and moved on to the French Maritimes.  Between 1710 and 1731, Agnès gave Denis 10 children, six sons and four daughters, all of whom married.  Denis died at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in February 1754, in his mid-60s.  His daughters married into the Richard, Boisseau, Hébert dit Manuel, Livois, and Gaudet families. 

Oldest son Charles le jeune, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1710, married Cécile, daughter of Pierre Thériot and Marie Bourg, in c1735 and moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1751.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1745, Cécile gave Charles three children, two sons and a daughter.  A French official counted Charles, Cécile, and their three children at Anse-à-Pinnet on the island's south shore in August 1752.  The British deported them to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in 1758.  Charles remarried to Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Claude Bourgeois and Marie LeBlanc and widow of Joseph-Prudent Robichaud, at Très-Ste.-Trinité, Cherbourg, in August 1762, but they returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer, where Madeleine gave him another son in 1764.  In May 1766, Charles took his family to St.-Malo aboard the ship Le Hazard.  They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Charles died at the Hôtel-Dieu, St.-Malo, in November 1766, age 55.  His youngest son was born posthumously at St.-Servan in May 1767--five children, four sons and a daughter, by two wives.  Widow Madeleine remained at St.-Servan until 1769, when she moved to neary Pleudihen-sur-Rance.  She remarried to widower Étienne Térriot at St.-Servan in February 1770 and became the stepmother of Étienne's son Olivier, the cobbler of Nantes who, 15 years later, would help coax hundreds of his fellow Acadians in France to go to Louisiana.  Two of Charles's children--his only daughter, who had married into the Richard family at Nantes, and his youngest son, who he never knew--emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 with second wife Madeleine and her new family.  One wonders what happened to Charles's older sons Charles-Olivier and François from his first wife who, as teenagers, had been counted with their parents on Île St.-Jean in 1752. 

Charles le jeune's fourth and youngest son Joseph, by second wife Marie-Madeleine Bourgeois, born posthumously at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in May 1767, followed his widowed mother to Nantes, Louisiana, and the Attakapas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  He married Élisabeth- or Isabelle-Apolline, daughter of Pierre Trahan and Marguerite Duhon of Pigiguit and Belle-Île-en-Mer, at Attakapas in November 1792.  They settled on Bayou Vermilion.  Joseph died in Lafayette Parish in December 1838, age 71.  His daughters married into the Landry and Simon families.  His three sons married into the Labauve and Simon families and created vigorous lines on the prairies. 

Denis's second son Olivier, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in June 1712, married Henriette, daughter of Jérôme Guérin and Isabelle Aucoin, in c1740 and moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1749, Henriette gave Olivier five children, two sons and three daughters.  A French official counted Olivier, Henriette, and their five children at Anse-à-Pinnet in August 1752.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  By then, the couple had seven children, four sons and three daughters.  All but one of their children died at sea or from the rigors of the crossing.  Wife Henriette died at St.-Malo in March 1759, age 45, two months after reaching the port.  Olivier remarried to Anne, daughter of Charles Dugas and Anne-Marie Benoit, at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across from St.-Malo in May 1762.  Between 1763 and 1767, at nearby Trigavou, Anne gave Olivier three more children, two sons and a daughter--10 children, six sons and four daughters, by two wives.  They also lived at Ploubalay and Langrolay, on the west side of the river south of St.-Énogat, between 1759 and 1772.  Olivier's daughter Madeleine-Josèphe by first wife Henriette married into the Guillot family at Trigavou.  Olivier, Anne, and their two youngest children emigrated to Louisiana on La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Olivier's oldest daughter Madeleine-Josèphe and her family had gone to the Spanish colony on an earlier ship.  Olivier died by January 1788, when his wife was listed in a Bayou Lafourche census as a widow.  Daughter Marie married into the Brunet family in the Spanish colony, and his son Jean-Baptiste married into the Pitre family and settled on Bayou Lafourche. 

Denis's third son Jean, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1714, married Marguerite, daughter of August Comeau and Jeanne Levron, at Annapolis Royal in February 1738.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1738 and 1747, Marguerite gave Jean six children, four sons and two daughters.  They settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  Jean drowned in the river there in 1747, age 33.  Marguerite remained at Pigiguit.  The British deported most of the family to Massachusetts in 1755.  After the war with Britain ended, members of the family chose to emigrate to Canada, where Jean's daughters married into the Létourneau and Cailla families at Trois-Rivières and Baie-du-Fèvre across Lac St.-Pierre from Trois-Rivières.  One of Jean's sons, however, did not go to Massachusetts or to Canada. 

Second son Félix le jeune, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1742, was deported to Virginia in 1755 and then sent on to England the following year.  The British held him with other Acadian exiles at Falmouth until 1763, when he and other Acadians in England were repatriated to France.  He landed at Morlaix in Brittany and married Anne-Gertrude, called Annette, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Thériot and Marie-Josèphe Landry of Rivière-aux-Canards, in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Morlaix, in July 1764.  Anne gave Félix le jeune a son, Simon-Bruno, at Morlaix, in May 1765.  That November, they followed Anne's family to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Kerxo, Sauzon.  Anne gave Félix a daughter there in August 1767.  The family left the island in the late 1760s or early 1770s and moved on to Quimper in southwestern Brittany, where Félix served as "commis des Fermes du Roi" at l'Aberlidut in the Parish of Poasponder.  Anne gave Félix another daughter at Quimper in November 1773 and another son there in May 1777.  Félix remarried to Frenchwoman Marie Lagatu at Quimper in the late 1770s or early 1780s.  She gave him two more daughters at Quimper in 1783 and 1792, so when hundreds of his countrymen, including one of his paternal uncles and several first cousins, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, Félix and his family remained in France.  Rising through the ranks of the Breton bureaucracy, he served as a customs officer at Douanes near Quimper during the early years of the French Revolution.  

Denis's fourth son Anselme, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1719, married Geneviève Girouard in c1744.  Between 1745 and 1758, Geneviève gave Anselme six children, four sons and two daughters.  Anselme took his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted him, Geneviève, and three of their children at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Anselme, age 39, and five of his children died during the crossing.  His oldest daughter died in a St.-Malo hospital in late November 1758, age 10, soon after reaching the port.  wife Geneviève, left alone by the death of her husband and all of her children, died probably in the same hospital in late December, age 38, so the North Atlantic crossing wiped out the entire family. 

Denis's fifth son Félix, born probably at Ste.-Famille in c1723, married Jeanne, daughter of François Boisseau and Marie-Anne Saulnier, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in September 1752, after the counting there.  According to Bona Arsenault, in c1754 Jeanne gave Félix a daughter, Élisabeth.  The family either returned to peninsula Acadia after 1755 or escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge in Canada.  Félix died at Québec in December 1757, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees there that fall and winter.  His family remained in Canada.  Daughter Élisabeth married into the Richard family at Cap-Santé on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec and Trois-Rivières, so the blood of this family endured.  

Denis's sixth and youngest son Alexandre, born probably at Ste.-Famille in the 1720s, married Anastasie-Dorothée, daughter of Pierre Gaudet and Marie-Madeleine Pitre, at Port-La-Joye in October 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, in c1757, Anastasie gave Alexandre a son, Pierre.  One wonders what happened to them after 1758. 

Charles, père's eighth son Paul, by second wife Marie Corporon, born, according to Stephen White, in c1692, evidently died young.  According to Bona Arsenault, however, Charles's son Paul, born in c1703, married Marie-Josèphe Doiron in c1731.  Arsenault says that, between 1732 and 1748, Marie-Josèphe gave Paul six children, two sons and four daughters, and that the oldest daughter, Marie-Josèphe, married into the Closquinet family at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in January 1751.  Arsenault evidently confused this Paul with the younger Paul dit Petit Paul, son of Charles's younger brother Claude. 

Charles, père's ninth son Pierre, by second wife Marie Corporon, born probably at Minas in the c1693, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Hébert and Marie-Anne Doucet, at Grand-Pré in November 1714 and settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  Between the mid-1710s and 1733, Madeleine gave Pierre six children, two sons and four daughters, all of whom married.  Their daughters married into the Doiron, Thibodeau, Landry, and Clouâtre families, and three of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland and France.  Pierre's two sons created families of their own but did not go to Louisiana. 

Older son Basile, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in June 1718, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Girouard and Marie Doiron, in c1745 perhaps at Pigiguit and moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1750.   Between 1746 and 1758, Marguerite gave Basile eight children, four sons and four daughters.  In August 1752, a French official counted Basile, Marguerite, and their three oldest children in the household of a Sr. Emard at Havre-St.-Pierre on the island's north coast.  The British deported Basile and his family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758 aboard the transport Supply.  Three of their children died at sea.  Between 1760 and 1764, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance south of St.-Malo, Marguerite gave Basile three more children, a son and two daughters.  One of his older daughters married into the Moyse family in France and remained there.  Two of his sons created their own families in France and also remained. 

Oldest son Pierre-Paul, born probably at Pigiguit in c1746, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo, where he worked as a seaman.  He married Marie, daughter of Jean Moyse and Marie Blanchard, at St.-Suliac on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo in January 1765.  Between 1766 and 1771, at La Chapelle de Mordreux, today's Mordreuc, near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, south of St.-Suliac, Marie gave Pierre-Paul four children, three daughters and a son.  Pierre-Paul took his family to Poitou in the early 1770s, and Marie gave him another son there in 1774.  In early 1776, they retreated with other disgruntled Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Between 1777 and 1783, Marie gave Pierre-Paul three more children, a son and two daughters, at Nantes and buried the son who had been born in Poitou.  They did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.

Basile's fifth and youngest son Jean-Cyprien, born at Mordreux near Pleudihen in August 1761, was living with his parents there into the early 1770s and followed them to Poitou and Nantes.  While a resident of St.-Donatien Parish, Nantes, he married Élisabeth, daughter of Pierre Broussard and Madeleine Landry and widow of Joseph Melanson, at Pleudihen in November 1784.  They remained there.  In August 1785, Élisabeth gave Jean-Cyprien twins, a daughter and a son, at La Coquenais, near Pleudihen.  They did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Pierre's younger son Augustin, born probably at Pigiguit in c1731, moved to the French Maritimes, was deported to St.-Malo, France, in 1758, and married Osite dite Dosithée, daughter of Jean Landry and Madeleine Melanson and widow of Jean Broussard, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance near St.-Malo in August 1760.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1773, Osite gave Augustin five daughters, and says the family was counted at St.-Malo in c1762 and 1772.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., in his study of the Acadians in France, says that between 1761 and 1773, Osite gave Augustin eight children, a son and seven daughters, all but two of the daughters dying in childhood.  Osite died at La Coquenais, near Pleuidhen, in September 1779, age 48.  Augustin remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Étienne Comeau and Marie-Josèphe Landry, at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in January 1781.  Madeleine gave him another daughter at La Coquenais in 1782.  Arsenault, who says nothing of Augustin's remarriage, implies that he emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785, but Louisiana records say otherwise:  the two Augustin Boudrots who did go to the Spanish colony did so in the 1760s from Halifax or Maryland, when Augustin à Pierre was living in France. 

Charles, père's tenth son Antoine, by second wife Marie Corporon, born probably at Minas in c1694, married Cécile, daughter of Pierre Brassaud and Gabrielle Forest, in c1719 probably at Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1721 and 1739, Cécile gave Antoine eight children, six sons and two daughters.  The family moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1750.  Two years later, in August 1752, a French official counted Antoine, Cécile, five of their younger children, and an orphaned nephew at Grande-Anse on the south shore of the island.  Some members of the family escaped the British in 1758, but Antoine, Cécile, and two of their sons, one married, the other still a bachelor, did not.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, which they reached aboard the transport Supply in March 1759.  Antoine died at nearby St.-Servan in March 1768, age 75.  Cécile died there in February 1761, age 75.  At least four of their sons created their own families, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  A nephew, likely a grand nephew, the identity of whose parents is difficult to determine, also created a family of his own and emigrated to Louisiana in 1785. 

Second son Charles, born probably at Pigiguit in c1724, married Marie-Josèphe Doucet, place and date unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1770, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles nine children, five sons and four daughters.  The family moved to Île St.-Jean in 1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Charles, Marie-Josèphe, and three of their daughters at Anse-à-Dubuisson in the island's interior.  They escaped the British in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge in Canada.  They were counted at Ste.-Foy near Québec in 1759 and at Repentigny near Montréal in 1768.  One of their sons created his own family.

Fifth and youngest son Charles, fils, born probably at Repentigny in c1770, married Marie, daughter of Amable Jetté and Marie-Anne Mauriceau, at Repentigny in November 1791. 

Antoine's third son Antoine, fils, born probably at Pigiguit in c1725, married Marie LeBlanc, place and date unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1752 and 1772, Marie gave Antoine, fils six children, two sons and four daughters.  They moved to Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area in 1755, escaped the British, and sought refuge in Canada.  They were counted at St.-Charles de Bellechasse in the interior south of Québec in 1758, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly on Rivière Richelieu east of Montréal in 1761, and at St.-Philippe-de-Lapierre across from Montréal in 1774.  Two of Antoine, fils's daughters married into the Brault and Boudrot families at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie and nearby L'Acadie.  One of his two sons created his own family.

Older son Firmin, born in c1752, followed his family to the trois-rivières and Canada and married Marie, daughter of Alexis Brault and Marguerite Barriault, at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie in February 1776. 

Antoine, père's fourth son Victor, born probably at Pigiguit in c1728, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Catherine-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Hébert and Marie-Madeleine Doiron, at Port-La-Joye on the island in January 1752.  A French official counted them with a 17-year-old Boudrot orphan at Grande-Anse on his father's homestead on the south shore of the island in August of that year.  Between 1752 and 1758, on the island, Catherine gave Victor three children, a son and two daughters.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Their second daughter died at sea.  They settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, where Victor worked as a carpenter.  Between 1760 and 1770, at St.-Suliac, Catherine gave Victor six more children, three sons and three daughters--nine children, four sons and five daughters, in greater Acadia and France.  Two of the younger children died as infants. Catherine died at Hôtel-Dieu, St.-Malo, in April 1772, age 40.  Victor remarried to Geneviève, daughter of Charles Richard and Catherine Gautrot of Grand-Pré and widow of Simon dit Pierre Pitre, at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in August 1773.  Perhaps because he was a carpenter and not a farmer, Victor did not follow dozens of his fellow Acadians to Poitou.  Between 1774 and 1785, at St.-Servan, Geneviève gave him five more children, three sons and two daughters--14 children, seven sons and seven daughters, by two wives.  Two of his Geneviève's children died as infants.  Victor's oldest daughter by first wife Catherine married into the LeLorre family in France.  One wonders if second son Pierre, born at St.-Suliac in August 1764, was still alive in 1785.  That summer, from St.-Malo, Victor took his family--wife Geneviève, six of his unmarried children by both wives, a son-in-law, and a stepdaughter--to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers aboard La Ville d'Archangel to Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  Victor died there in his late 50s by September 1787, when his wife remarried.  Victor's three younger daughters by both wives married into the Calegan, Silvi or Silvy, Clément, and Navarre families at Baton Rouge and on Bayou Lafourche.  The older son by his first wife who had come with him to Louisiana did not marry, but the younger son by second wife Geneviève married into the LeBlanc family and settled on the upper Lafourche.  Three years after Victor took his family to Louisiana and a year or so after his death, his fourth son, Jean-Baptiste, appeared in the colony, one of the few to go there directly from greater Acadia, in this case from Île St.-Pierre off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  This son also married, into the LeBlanc and Benoit families, and settled on the Lafourche. 

Antoine, père's fifth son Prudent, born probably at Pigiguit in c1734, followed his parents to Île St.-Jean, and aboard the Supply to St.-Malo in 1758.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Étienne Comeau and Marie Landry of Grand-Pré, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, near St.-Malo, in October 1763.  In 1765 and 1767, at St.-Servan, Marie-Josèphe gave Prudent two children, daughter Marguerite and son Jean-Baptiste.  Prudent died at St.-Servan in February 1782, age 47.  One wonders what happened to his family after his death.  Did he take his family to Poitou in the early 1770s and return to the St.-Malo suburbs?  Was his son the Jean-Baptiste Boudrot who married Anastasie Benoit in c1775?  The couple had a son, Jean, at Cenan, Poitou, in May 1776.  No member of this family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. 

Antoine, père's nephew--likely a grand nephew--Ignace, born in c1748, probably at Pigiguit, was counted with Antoine Boudrot's family at Grande-Anse, Île St.-Jean, in August 1752.  The French official making the survey noted that Ignace was "their nephew, orphan, without father and mother."  Ignace followed his relatives to France in 1758 aboard the transport Supply and settled with them at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where, like his first cousin Victor, he worked as a carpenter.  In January 1772, Ignace, now age 24, received permission to work at Morlaix, on the northwest coast of Brittany.  Later that month, he was working in the Royal Artillery Corps, one wonders in what capacity.  At age 32, Igance married Frenchwoman Anne Pierson in c1780.  In 1781 and 1783, Anne gave Ignace two sons.  They were counted in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in 1783.  Their second son was baptized there in September, and their first son died there in October, age 2.  They then moved on to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Britanny, where they were counted in September 1784.  Ignace followed his cousin Victor to Louisiana in 1785 aboard a later ship and also settled at Bayou des Écores north of Baton Rouge.  Anne gave him another son in the Spanish colony--three sons in all, in France and Louisiana--but the youngest son probably died young.  Only one of Ignace's sons, Charles, born at Nantes in September 1783, seems to have survived childhood, but there is no evidence in Louisiana records that he created his own family.  Ignace's line of the family, then, probably did not endure. 

Charles, père's eleventh son François, by second wife Marie Corporon, born probably at Minas in the 1690s, married Angélique, daughter of Abraham Doiron and Anne Babin, in c1720 probably at Pigiguit and settled on the l'Assomption side of the river.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1721 and 1737, Angélique gave François seven children, five sons and two daughters.  The family was deported to Virginia in 1755, sent on to England in 1756, and held at Bristol.  François's daughters married into the Vincent and Thériot families at Pigiguit and in England.  All five of his sons, including one with a serious handicap, created their own families.  Did François die in England, in his 60s or 70s?

Oldest son Alexandre, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1723, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Vincent and Marie Richard, probably at Pigiguit in c1753.  In c1754, Madeleine gave Alexandre a son, Jean-Baptiste.  The British deported them to Virginia in 1755, sent them on to England in 1756, and held them at Bristol, where Alexandre died soon after their arrival, victim, perhaps, of a smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian exiles there.  Madeleine remarried to a Breau widower at Bristol in c1760.  Madeleine was again a widow in May 1763, when she and her two sons, Jean-Baptiste Boudrot, who would have been age 9 at the time, and Joseph Breau, fils, only a few years old, were repatriated to France aboard the transport La Dorothée.  Marguerite and her sons settled at St.-Suliac on the river south of St.-Malo.  She remarried again--her third marriage--to a Dugas widower at nearby St.-Servan in January 1764.  Her Boudrot son created his own family.

Older son Jean-Baptiste, born at Pigiguit in c1754, lived with his mother and stepfather at St.-Suliac until 1772 and then followed them to Poitou.  He married Marie-Modeste, daughter of Joseph Trahan and Anne Thériot, at St.-Jean-L'Evangeliste, Châtellerault, Poitouk in October 1774.  Marie-Modeste gave Jean-Baptiste a son at Châtellerault in 1775, but the boy died nine days after his birth.  In December, Jean-Baptiste and Marie-Modeste retreated with other disgruntled Poitou Acadians to the port of Nantes, where she gave him four more children, two sons and two daughters, but the younger son did not survive childhood.  In 1785, Jean-Baptiste, Marie-Modeste, and their three remaining children, a son and two daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana aboard the first of the Seven Ships from France.  They settled at Manchac near Baton Rouge, where Jean-Baptiste remarried to Anne-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Henry and his first wife Marie-Madeleine Pitre of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, and widow of Théodore Thériot, in February 1786, not long after his arrival, so first wife Marie-Modeste may have died soon after reaching New Orleans.  Anne-Josèphe evidently gave Jean-Baptiste no more children.  He and his family joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche in the 1790s, and he died in Lafourche Interior Parish in June or July 1832, age 78.  His two daughters, from his first wife, married into the Aucoin, Dubois, and Henry families in Louisiana.  His surviving son Jean-Constant married into the Henry family and settled on the upper Lafourche.

François's second son Germain, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1724, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Trahan and Charlotte Comeau, probably at l'Assomption in c1745.  The British deported them to Virginia in 1755, sent them on to England in 1756, and held them at Bristol.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite and died at Bristol in 1757 "avec tous ses enfants," but he does not say how many children they had.  Albert J. Robichaux, in his study of the Acadians in France, says Marguerite died at Bristol in August 1756 but mentions no children.  One wonders if she was a victim of smallpox.  Germain remarried to Anne, daughter of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry and widow of Charles-Honoré LeBlanc, at Bristol in c1758.  Between 1759 and 1768, Anne gave Germain four more children, a son and three daughters, in England and France.  They were repatriated to France in May 1763, reached St.-Malo aboard La Dorothée, and settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo until March 1773, when they joined other Acadian exiles on the British-controlled Isle of Guernsey off the west coast of Brittany.  Returning surreptitiously to North America, they engaged in the fisheries in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with other refugees.  Arsenault says Anne gave Germain two more children, a son and a daughter, in c1775 and c1778 probably in greater Acadia.  Arsenault also hints that, by October 1792, Germain had become a pioneer settler at Chéticamp on the west coast of Cape Breton Island, present-day Nova Scotia. 

Youngest son Joseph, born in c1775, married cousin Anne, daughter of Paul Chiasson and Louise Boudrot, at Chéticamp in c1810. 

François's third son Félix, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in April 1729, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Jeanne Bourgeois, at l'Assomption in May 1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1764, Marie-Josèphe gave Félix two children, a daughter and a son, at Pigiguit and in France.  The British deported the family to Virginia in 1755, sent them on to England in 1756, held them at Bristol, and in 1763 repatriated them to France, where Félix worked as a carpenter.  The family was counted at St.-Mathieu-de-Morlaix Parish, Brittany, in 1764, where they had come in, and at Boudrun, Sauzon, Belle-Île-en-Mer, in 1767, where they had gone with other exiles from England in November 1765.  Marie-Josèphe died at Sauzon in 1773, and Félix remarried to Madeleine Hébert, perhaps widow of Pierre Blanchard.  She evidently gave him no more children.  His daughter Félicité by first wife Marie-Josèphe married into the Lejeune family at Nantes, France, in November 1782.  His son by his first wife also created a family of his own in France.  Félix took his second wife but no children to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  His married daughter Félicité crossed with her husband on the same transport, Le St.-Rémi, and his son Joseph-Simon crossed on the last of the Seven Ships with his wife.  At age 58, Félix remarried again--his third marriage--to Luce-Perpétué, daughter of François Bourg and Marie-Madeleine Hébert and widow of Pierre Hébert, at Ascension on the river above New Orleans in August 1787.  She gave him no more children.  Félix died by November 1789, age 60, when his wife remarried at Lafourche.   His married daughter and her husband proved to be that rare Acadian couple who would have no children.  However, his only son Joseph-Simon by first wife Marie-Josèphe married into the Brossier family in France and created a substantial family line in Louisiana.

François's fourth son Amand, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1730, became blind at the age of 12.  The British deported him to Virginia in 1755, sent him on to England in 1756, and he was repatriated to France in May 1763.  He arrived at St.-Malo aboard La Dorothée with younger brother Jean-Charles and his family and lived with them at Plouër-sur-Rance, near St.-Malo.  In spite of his infirmity, at age 39, Amand married Marie, daughter of Guillaume Couillard and Marie Hesry of Plouër in April 1769.  Between 1770 and 1776, Marie gave Amand four children, all sons, two of whom died young.  One wonders how he supported his family beyond the French dole.  He remarried to Marie-Perrine, daughter of Charles Nogues and François Raimond of nearby La Fresnais at Plouër in February 1777.  Marie-Perrine gave Amand another son in 1777, but the boy died nine days after his birth.  She also gave him two daughters at Plouër.  They did not follow other Acadians to Poitou in 1773 nor to Nantes in 1775-76.  Amand, wife Marie-Perrine, and five children, three sons and two daughters, sailed to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel directly from St.-Malo in late 1785.  From New Orleans, they either followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores north of Baton Rouge or went directly to upper Bayou Lafourche.  One of his daughters from second wife Marie-Perrine married into the Aucoin family on Bayou Lafourche.  All three of his surviving sons from both of his wives also married, into the Boudreaux, Thibodeaux, and Billardin families, on the upper Lafourche, but two of the lines did not endure. 

François's fifth and youngest son Jean-Charles, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in 1733, was deported to Virginia in 1755, sent on to England in 1756, and held with his family at Bristol.  He married Agnès, daughter of Jean Trahan and Charlotte Comeau, at Bristol in 1758.  In England, in 1760 and 1761, Agnès gave Jean-Charles two children, a son and a daughter.  They were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 aboard the La Dorothée.  Jean-Charles worked as a wood polisher and wigmaker in France.  Between 1765 and 1772, at Plouër-sur-Rance, Agnès gave him four more children, two sons and two daughters.  Jean-Charles took his family to Poitou in the early 1770s and, with other Poitou Acadians, retreated to Nantes in December 1775.  Agnès gave Jean-Charles another daughter at Nantes in February 1776 but died there the following June, age 34, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Jean-Charles remarried to Marguerite-Victoire, daughter of Charles Guédry and his first wife Adélaïde-Madeleine Hébert of Île Royale, in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in August 1780.  Between 1781 and 1785, Marguerite-Victoire gave Jean-Charles three more children, two sons and a daughter, at Nantes, but the daughter did not survive childhood.  Jean-Charles also buried two of his sons at Nantes--third son Pierre, age 9, in August 1777; and oldest son Jean-Charles, age 23, in June 1783--both from his first wife Agnès.  His oldest daughter Marie, born in England, married into the Havard family at Nantes.  In 1785, Jean-Charles, Marguerite-Victoire, and four of his younger unmarried children, two sons and two daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana with his married daughter Marie, who was pregnant on the voyage, and oldesst son Joseph-Marie.   They followed their fellow passengers to Bayou Lafourche.  Marguerite-Victoire gave Jean-Charles another daughter on Bayou Lafourche--11 children, five sons and six daughters, by two wives, in England, France, and Louisiana.  One of his daughters married into the Heusé family in Louisiana, and his oldest daughter Marie may have remarried into the Forgeron family there as well.  All three of Jean-Charles's surviving sons married, into the Darois, Duhon, and Henry families Louisiana, and two of them created substantial lines. 

Charles, père's twelfth and youngest son Joseph, by second wife Marie Corporon, born at Ste.-Famillie, Pigiguit, in 1700, married Anne, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Marguerite Richard, in c1723 probably at Ste.-Famille and also lived at Grand-Pré.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1724 and 1745, Anne gave Joseph 10 children, four sons and six daughters.  The British deported members of the family to Pennsylvania in 1755.  Four of Joseph's daugthers married into the Trahan, Gautrot, and LeBlanc families at Minas and in Pennsylvania.  Oldest son Joseph, fils, born in c1724, went to Pennsylvania with younger sisters Claire and Catherine but may not have married.  Only one of Joseph, père's sons seems to have created his own family, in France. 

Second son Pierre, born in c1735, evidently moved on to the French Maritimes after 1752 and was deported to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  He "settled" at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo and married cousin Anne, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Judith Belliveau and widow of Jacques-René Haché dit Gallant, there in November 1763.  Anne gave Pierre a son in October 1765, on the eve of their going to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  Between 1767 and 1771, Anne gave Pierre three more children, at least one son and one daughter, on the island.  The family, including four children from Anne's first marriage, did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 but remained on Belle-Île.  Pierre died at Bangor in c1791.  Members of the family, including two married children, Joseph and Anne-Marie-Michelle, moved on to Lorient on the mainland of Brittany, where they were counted in 1792 during the French Revolution.  Others remained on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  Wife Anne died at Le Palais on Belle-Île in 1804.  The name of daughter Anne-Marie-Michelle's husband has been lost.  Both of Pierre's sons created their own families.

Older son Joseph-Ian, born at St.-Énogat in October 1765, married on Belle-Île-en-Mer a woman whose name has been lost to history.  After his father's death, they moved to Lorient, Brittany, where they were counted in 1792.

Pierre's younger son Jean-Marie, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1771, remained on the island with his widowed mother after 1792 and married cousin Marie-Augustine, daughter of Étienne Clavey and Élizabeth Granger, at Bangor in 1801.  Jean-Marie died at Antoureau near Le Palais on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1816, age 45. 

Michel's second son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1655, married Marguerite, daughter Jacques Bourgeois and Jeanne Trahan, at Port-Royal in c1676 and settled at Minas, where Marguerite gave him only one child, a daughter named Marie-Anne, who married into the Arseneau family, so the blood of this family line survived.  Jean died at either Minas or Chignecto by November 1679, when his wife remarried at Chignecto. 

Michel's third son Abraham, born at Port-Royal in c1657, married Cécile, daughter of Charles Melanson and Marie Dugas, at Port-Royal in c1686 and remained there.  He spoke English as well as French, was literate in both languages, and worked as a pilot and merchant at the colonial capital, trading extensively with New Englanders, with whom he got along well.  In early 1693, during King William's War, Acadian Commander Villebon sent Abraham to Boston to obtain information from the New Englanders--a dangerous assignment, considering that England and France were still at war.  Abraham was successful in obtaining valuable information for the Acadian commandant.  Cécile gave Abraham six children, three sons and three daughters, all of whom married.  Abraham died at Port-Royal in c1701, in his early 40s.  His daughters married into the Gaudet, Mius d'Entremont, and Bourg families.  All three of his sons married Landry sisters. 

Oldest son Charles dit Charlot, born at Port-Royal in c1687, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Claude Landry and Marguerite Thériot, at Port-Royal in February 1707 and moved on to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, formerly Fort St.-Pierre, in the mid-1710s, where he worked as a navigator and boat builder.  Between 1707 and 1724, Marie-Josèphe gave Charlot eight children, three sons and five daughters, at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal and Port-Toulouse.  Charlot died at Port-Toulouse in c1726, in his late 30s.  Two of his daughters married into the Richard and Bourg families at Port-Toulouse.  One of them--Anne, widow of Charles Bourg, and six of her children--emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1764-65.  All three of Charlot's sons created their own families in the French Maritimes. 

Oldest son Charles, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1714, followed his family to Île Royale, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Fougère and Marie Bourg, at Port-Toulouse in c1740, and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1747, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles, fils three children, a son and two daughters.  Charles, fils died before October 1760 either on the island or in exile.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1758.  One of Charles, fils's daughters married into the Clergé family and settled at Chezzetcook, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the late 1760s.  One wonders what happened to his son and other daughter. 

Charlot's second son Joseph, born at Port-Toulouse in c1717, a navigator like his father, married Marie-Rosalie, called Rosalie or Rose, daughter of Charles Arseneau and Cécile Breau of Malpèque at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, Île St.-Jean, in May 1743 and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1774, Rose gave Joseph nine children, four sons and five daughters.  In August 1752, a French official counted Joseph, Rose, and six of their children at Malpèque on the island's northwest coast, next to Rose's parents and younger siblings.  They escaped the British in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After the war, perhaps after spending time at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, they settled in the British-controlled fishery at Carleton in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, present-day Québec Province.  Two of Joseph's daugthers married into the LeBlanc family at Carleton.  Two of his four sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born probably on Île St.-Jean in c1744, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Madeleine Girouard, in c1760 during exile.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1777 and 1786, Marguerite gave Joseph, fils five children, two sons and three daughters, at Carleton. 

Joseph, père's fourth son François, born perhaps in Gaspésie in c1764, married Charlotte, daughter of Charles Bernard and Élisabeth LeBlanc, at Carleton in May 1787.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1788 and 1818, Charlotte gave François a dozen children, six sons and six daughters, at Carleton. 

Charlot's third and youngest son Pierre, born at Port-Toulouse in c1722, married, according to Stephen White, Cécile, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Vécot and Marie Chiasson, in c1749.  Bona Arsenault says the Pierre who married Cécile Vécot was sans doute a son of Charlot's youngest brother François dit Manne.  White, of course, is followed here.  Arsenault says that between 1749 and 1760, Cécile gave Pierre six children, four sons and two daughters.  A French official counted Pierre, Cécile, and two of their children--Marie-Josèphe, age 19 months; and Félix, age 2 months--at Tracadie on the north shore of Île St.-Jean in August 1752.  Both White and Arsenault agree that Pierre, whoever his father may have been, remarried to Madeleine Bourg, though Arsenault calls her Marie-Madeleine.  Arsenault says the remarriage was in c1762, but White says it was in c1758, on the eve of the islands' dérangement.  Neither Arsenault nor White reveal the fate of Pierre and his family when the British struck in 1758.  One wonders if Pierre's son Félix by first wife Cécile was still alive then.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., in his study of the Acadians in France, notes that second wife Madeleine gave Pierre two sons, Jean and Louis, and that Jean was "born about 1759 in the Parish of Saint-Pierre of Chiboutou[sic] in Acadie," which may have been Chebouctou, the original name for Halifax, Nova Scotia, or Chédabouctou, where Acadians were held in the final days of the war.  Arsenault gives the couple a daughter, Céleste, in c1760.  Arsenault says Pierre and his family were counted on Île Miquelon in c1765, the destination of many detainees in Nova Scotia.  White says Pierre à Charlot was on the island in 1767 and died in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in September 1771, in his late 40s.  Arsenault places Pierre à François in France in c1772 but says nothing of his death.  Pulling this and other data together, the likely scenario for the family is:  They escaped the British roundup on Île St.-Jean in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, but were captured soon afterwards and held in Nova Scotia until the war with Britain ended in 1763.  Pierre's oldest son Félix may not have survived exile or imprisonment.  From Halifax or Chédabouctou, probably in 1764, Pierre and his famliy--Madeleine, daughter Marie-Josèphe, and sons Jean and Louis--followed other Acadian refugees from Nova Scotia to Île Miquelon to work in the French-controlled fishery there.  While living on the island, Madeleine gave Pierre another daughter, Célestine-Sibilias, in c1765, though Arsenault insists daughter Céleste, as he calls her, was born in c1760.  Later in the decade, overcrowding on the island compelled Pierre and other Acadians to try their luck in France.  They may have been among the Miquelonois sent to France by French officials in 1767 to relief overcrowding on the island.  Pierre died at Cherbourg in 1771, so he and his family did not return to Miquelon with other deported fisher/habitants in 1768.  In early 1773, Widow Madeleine, still at Cherbourg, took her children to Poitou, where Pierre's daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Delaune family.  In October 1775, Madeleine, her three Boudrot children, and stepdaughter Marie-Josèphe and her family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Stepdaughter Marie-Josèphe and her husband, with her half-sister Célestine, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, and Célestine married into the Guidry and Augeron families there.  According to Robichaux, both of Pierre's remaining sons by second wife Madeleine created their own families in France, but neither of the sons went to Louisiana.  Arsenault would have us believe that two of Pierre's sons by first wife Cécile--Félix, born in c1752 (the one counted with Pierre and his first wife at Tracadie); and Jean, born in c1757--went to Louisiana in 1785 and married into the Hébert and LeBlanc families on Bayou Lafourche, but Louisiana records say otherwise:  none of the Félix and Jean Boudrots who went to the Spanish colony had a father named Pierre.  One wonders what happened to Pierre's widow Madeleine Bourg in France.  She did not accompany her daughters to Louisiana. 

Oldest son Félix, by first wife Cécile Vécot, born at Tracadie, Île St.-Jean, in c1752, may have died on Île St.-Jean before 1758 or in Nova Scotia during imprisonment, on Île Miquelon, or in France during exile. 

Pierre's second son Jean, by second wife Madeleine Bourg, born in exile in c1759, followed his parents to Île Miquelon and Cherbourg and his widowerd mother to Poitou and Nantes, where he married Anne-Léonore, daughter of Jean Granger and Madeleine Melanson of Grand-Pré, in St.-Pierre-de-Réze Parish, Nantes, in November 1785.  As the date of their marriage reveals, they did not go to Louisiana that year.  

Pierre's third and youngest son Louis, by second wife Madeleine Bourg, born in exile in c1760, followed his parents to Île Miquelon and Cherbourg and his widowed mother to Poitou and Nantes, where he worked as a seaman.  He married Perpétué, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Dugas and Marguerite Benoit, in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in November 1777.  In 1779 and 1780, at Nantes, Perpétué gave Louis two children, a son and a daughter.  The daughter, Marie-Adélaïde, was listed as an orphan in a Spanish census at Nantes in September 1784.  She emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 with her maternal grandfather Jean-Baptiste Dugas aboard the same ship on which two of her paternal aunts crossed.  She married into the Carret and Blanchard families on upper Bayou Lafourche.  The rest of her family, including her brother, if they were still alive, remained in France. 

Abraham's second son Michel dit Miquetau, born at Port-Royal in c1689, like his older brother a navigator and boat builder, married Anne, another daughter of Claude Landry and Marguerite Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in January 1714.  They followed his older brother to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale.  Between 1714 and 1725, Anne gave Miquetau seven children, four sons and three daughters.  Miqutau remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Broussard and Marguerite Bourg, at Port-Toulouse in c1727.  She evidently gave him no more children.  He died between November 1732 and May 1733, in his early 40s.  One of his daughters married into the Pothier family on Île St.-Jean.  According to Bona Arsenault, another daughter married into the Richard family.  All four of Miquetau's sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Michel dit Miquetau, fils, born at Annapolis Royal or Port-Toulouse in c1717, married Anne dite Jeanne, daughter of Jean Fougère and Marie Bourg, in c1749 in the French Maritimes and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1753, Jeanne gave Miquetau, fils three children, a son and two daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758.  One of their daughters married into the Thériot family at Arichat on the south shore of Île Madame in November 1771, so that may give a clue. 

Miquetau, père's second son Joseph dit Castor, born probably at Port-Toulouse in c1721, married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Chiasson and Marie-Josèphe Arseneau, in c1749 on one of the Maritime islands.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1770, Marguerite gave Castor a dozen children, six sons and six daughters.  They settled at Étang-des-Berges on the north coast of Île St.-Jean, where a French official counted with them with a 2-year-old daughter in August 1752.  Arsenault says Joseph dit Castor and his family were still living on Île St.-Jean in 1761, so they evidently had escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758 and either hid in the woods for the nex few years or crossed Mer Rouge to the mainland, avoided the British again, and made their way back to the island in the final months of the war.  Or Arsenault may be wrong in his date.  After the war with Britain ended in 1763, British officials counted Castor and his family at Chédabouctou on the upper Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia in 1764, which hints that they had escaped the British on Île St.-Jeanin 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, but either surrendered to, or were captured by British forces in the area, and held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1764, they moved on to Île Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland, but they did not remain.  Perhaps escaping overcrowding on the French fishing island, they followed other Acadians to the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  Joseph dit Castor died there in August 1808, in his late 80s.  Five of his six sons created their own families there. 

Oldest son Michel le jeune, born on Île St.-Jean or in exile in c1758, married cousin Modeste Boudreau probably in the Madeleines in c1782.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1783 and 1802, Modeste gave Michel seven children, five sons and two daughters.  Four of their five sons created their own families.

Oldest son Charles, born probably in the Madeleines in c1785, married Marie, daughter of Jean Richard and Charlotte Vigneau, probably in the Madeleines in September 1810.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1811 and 1822, Marie gave Charles eight children, five sons and three daughters. 

Michel le jeune's second son Placide, born probably in the Madeleines in c1792, married Victoire, daughter of Louis Terrieau and Anastasie Cormier, probably in the Madeleines in October 1813.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1815 and 1821, Victoire gave Placide four daughters. 

Michel le jeune's third son Joseph le jeune, born probably in the Madeleines in c1794, married Hélène, daughter of Mélème Cyr and Marguerite Briand, probably in the Madeleines in August 1814, and remarried to Margaret, daughter of Morgan Doyle and Anne Power, probably in the Madeleines in July 1819. 

Michel le jeune's fourth son Michel-Firmin, called Firmin, born probably in the Madeleines in c1796, married Pélagie, daughter of Hyppolite Cormier and Anne Gaudet, probably in the Madeleines in September 1820.  According to Bona Arsenault, Pélagie gave Firmin a daughter in 1821. 

Joseph dit Castor's third son François, born in exile in c1762, married cousin Marie Boudrot probably in the Madeleines in c1782.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1782 and 1793, Marie gave François six children, three sons and three daughters.  Their sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Lazare, born probably in the Madeleines in c1788, married Rose, daughter of Jacques Vigneau and Anastasie Cyr, probably in the Madeleines in November 1809.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1811 and 1821, Rose gave Lazare five children, two sons and three daughters. 

François's second son Joseph le jeune, born probably in the Madeleines in c1790, married Anne, daughter of Jean Terriot and Anne Richard, probably in the Madeleines in September 1810.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Joseph  three children, two sons and a daughter.

François's third and youngest son Joachim, born probably in the Madeleines in c1793, married Mélanie, daughter of Hyppolite Cormier and Anne Gaudet, probably in the Madeleines in August 1817.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1818 and 1820, Mélanie gave Joachim two daughters. 

Joseph dit Castor's fourth son Firmin, born in exile in c1763, married another cousin Marie Boudrot probably in the Madeleines in c1786.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1787 and 1788, Marie gave Firmin two sons, one of whom created his own family. 

Younger son Joseph le jeune, born probably in the Madeleines in c1788, married Marguerite Landry probably in the Madeleines in c1796.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1796 and 1801, Marguerite gave Joseph three children, two sons and a daughter. 

Joseph dit Castor's fifth son Jean, born in c1768, married Victoria Terriot probably in the Madeleines in c1791.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1792 and 1810, Victoria Jean 10 children, three sons and seven daughters.  Two of their sons created their own families.

Oldest son Jean-Léandre, called Léandre, born probably in the Madeleines in c1792, married cousin Julienne, daughter of Antoine Arsenault and Louise Boudrot, probably in the Madeleines in October 1816.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1818 and 1820, Julienne gave Léandre two sons. 

Jean's second son Damas, born probably in the Madeleines in c1793, married cousin Marie, daughter of Marie, another daughter of Antoine Arsenault and Louise Boudrot, in October 1822.

Joseph dit Castor's sixth and youngest son Joseph, fils, born in c1770 perhaps on Île Miquelon, married Marie, daughter of Paul Gaudet and Marie Gautrot, probably in the Madeleines in October 1794.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1795 and 1814, Marie gave Joseph, fils nine children, two sons and seven daughters. 

Miquetau, père's third son Jean dit Miquetau, born at Port-Toulouse in c1723, married Françoise, daughter of Abraham Arseneau and Jeanne Gaudet, at Beaubassin in February 1746 but returned to Port-Toulouse in 1750 to engage in the wood-carrying trade to Louisbourg.  In February 1752, a French official counted Jean, Françoise, and three of their children at Port-Toulouse.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1771, Françoise gave Jean a dozen children, at least five sons and six daughters.  They escaped the British in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  One of their daughters was baptized at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in July 1760.  One suspects that the British either captured them or accepted their surrender in the early 1760s and held them as prisoners in Nova Scotia.  After the war ended, they moved on to Île Miquelon, the French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  If the French deported them to France in 1767 to relieve overcrowding on the island, they likely returned the following year.  The British may have deported them to La Rochelle, France, in 1778 during the American Revolution.  If so, they again refused to remain in the mother country.  They returned to North America and settled at Cascapédia, today's New Richmond, a British-controlled fishery in Gaspésie, present-day Québec Province.  Jean dit Miquetau died at Cascapédia in August 1798, age 75.  Four of his daughters married into the Poirier, Bourgeois, Cyr, and Caissie families on Miquelon, at La Rochelle, and in Gaspésie.  Two of his sons also married, but one of the line may not have endured. 

Second son Jean, fils, born at Port-Toulouse in c1750, married Louise, daughter of Paul Cyr and Marie-Josèphe Richard, on Île Miquelon in May 1774.  He died on the island before 1776, so his family line probably died with him. 

Jean dit Miquetau's fourth son Joseph, born in probably on Île Miquelon in c1768, settled on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

Miquetau, père's fourth and youngest son Charles dit Madousse, born at Port-Toulouse in c1724, married Marguerite, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Fougère, at Port-Toulouse in c1754 and likely remained there.  One wonder what happened to them 1758. 

Abraham's third and youngest son François dit Manne, born at Port-Royal in c1692, married Jeanne, yet another daughter of Claude Landry and Marguerite Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in January 1717 and moved on to the French Maritimes in the 1720s.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1717 and 1744, Jeanne gave François 15 children, five sons and 10 daughters, including a set of twins.  François and his growing family were counted at St.-Pierre-du-Nord on the north shore of Île St.-Jean in 1727 and at Port-Toulouse on Île Royale in 1739.  Five of François's daugthers married into the Haché dit Gallant, Arsenault, and Doucet families.  At least one of François dit Manne's sons created his own family.

Oldest son Pierre, twin of his brother Basile, born at Annapolis Royal in c1722, according to Bona Arsenault, followed his family to the French Maritimes and married Cécile, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Vécot and Marie Chiasson of Île St.-Jean, probably on the island in c1748.  However, according to genealogist Stephen White, it was Pierre, third and youngest son of Charles dit Charlot, François dit Manne's oldest brother, who married Cécile Vécot.  According to Arsenault, between 1749 and 1752, Cécile gave François dit Manne's Pierre three children, a daughter and two sons.  In August 1752, a French official counted Pierre, Cécile, and two of their children, the daughter and the younger son, at Tracadie on the north shore of Île St.-Jean.  Both White and Arsenault agree that the Pierre who married Cécile Vécot remarried to Marie-Madeleine or Madeleine Bourg.  Arsenault says they married in c1762, but White says it was in c1758.  Arsenault says, in 1759 and 1760, during exile, that Marie-Madeleine gave Pierre three more children, two sons and a daughter.  Both genealogists agree that Pierre and his family settled on Île Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where, Arsenault says, they were counted in c1765.  White says Pierre à Charlot and second wife Madeleine Bourg were counted on Miquelon in 1767 and that he died at Cherbourg, France, in September 1771, in his late 40s.  Arsenault places Pierre in France in c1772 but says nothing of his death there. 

Michel's fourth son Michel, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1659, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Thomas Cormier and Marie-Madeleine Girouard, probably at Chignecto in c1690.  Between 1691 and the early 1700s, Marie gave Michel, fils seven children, four sons and three daughters, all of whom married.  Michel, fils died at Chignecto between 1707 and February 1714, in his late 40 or early 50s.  His daughters married into the Lambert, LeBlanc, and Chiasson families. 

Oldest son Michel-Joseph, born at Port-Royal in c1693, married Anne, daughter of Jean Caissie and Anne Bourgeois, at Beaubassin in February 1718 and died there the following May, evidently before he could father any children. 

Michel, fils's second son Anselme, born in 1700 or 1701 probably at Port-Royal, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Gaudet and Marguerite Blou, in c1725 probably at Chignecto and likely settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1747, Marguerite gave Anselme seven children, five sons and two daughters.  Anselme died probably at Chignecto before February 1765.  Four of his five sons created their own families.

Oldest son François, born probably at Chignecto in c1728, married Marie, daughter of Michel Bourgeois and Marguerite Girouard, at Beaubassin in February 1748.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Anselme's second son Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in c1739, escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and perhaps at Restigouche at the head of the Baie-des-Chalours.  He married cousin Jeanne-Marie, daughter of Jacques Haché dit Gallant and Marie-Josèphe dite Josette Boudrot of Île St.-Jean, at Restigouche in January 1761, three months after the French garrison there surrendered.  The British likely held them in the area.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1780, Jeanne-Marie gave Joseph five children, four sons and a daughter.  After the war with Britain ended, they settled at nearby Miscou, where they were counted in 1778, and were among the pioneers settlers at Petit-Rocher, present-day New Brunswick, on the south shore of the Baie des Chaleurs west of Miscou. 

Anselme's fourth son Pierre, born probably at Chignecto in c1743, escaped the British in 1755 and found refuge in Canada.  He married Marie-Ursule, daughter of Étienne Allaire and Josèphe Arniel-Lusignan, at St.-Ours on lower Rivière Richelieu in February 1765. 

Anselme's fifth and youngest son Étienne, born probably at Chignecto in c1747, also found refuge in Canada.  He married cousin Marie, daughter of Pierre Boudreau and Marie Richard, at St.-Philippe-de-La Prairie, in the interior south of Montréal, in June 1771.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1772 and 1774, Marie gave Étienne two sons at St.-Philippe, where the family remained. 

Michel, fils's third son Claude le jeune, born in c1703 probably at Port-Royal, moved to the French Maritimes in the early 1720s and married Marie-Judith, called Judith, daughter of Jean Belliveau and Cécile Melanson of Chignecto, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1724.  They moved on to the north shore of Île St.-Jean in 1732 and were still there in 1743.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1727 and 1743, Judith gave Claude le jeune nine children, three sons and six daughters.  In August 1752, a French official counted Claude le jeune, Judith, and six of their children at Tracadie on the north shore of Île St.-Jean.  They escaped the British roundup of 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the early 1760s, and held as prisoners at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, in Nova Scotia until the end of the war.  In 1764, they chose to go to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coat of Newfoundland.  Claude le jeune died before October 1765, when his family was counted on Miquelon.  His widow Judith died on the island in December 1774.  His daughters married into the Haché dit Gallant, Boudrot, Arseneau, Chiasson, Cyr, and Hébert families on Île St.-Jean, in France, and on Île Miquelon.  All three of his sons created their own families.  None emigrated to Louisiana. 

Oldest son André-Claude dit Le Petit Claude, born at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, Île St.-Jean, in September 1732, evidently escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758 and married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Osselet or Ozelet and Jeanne Moyse, in c1760 while in exile.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1771, Madeleine gave Petit Claude four children, all daughters.  They were at Fort Cumberland in 1764 and followed his family to Île Miquelon, where they were counted in 1765, 1776, and 1778.  The British captured the island during the American Revolution and deported them and dozens of other island Acadians to La Rochelle, France, in late 1778.  Wife Madeleine died in St.-Nicolas Parish, La Rochelle, in June 1779 not long after reaching the Aunis port.  Daughter Marie married into the Vigneau family in St.-Jean's Parish, La Rochelle, in January 1783.  Petit Claude took two of his daughters, Anne and Geneviève, back to Île Miquelon in 1784.  One wonders if daughter Marie and her husband went with them.  Louisiana records show that they did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. 

Claude le jeune's second son Michel, born probably at Tracadie, Île St.-Jean, in c1733, evidently escaped the British on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the mainland.  He married Angélique, daughter of Claude Poirier and Marguerite Cyr, at Pointe-à-Beauséjour, Chignecto, in December 1764, after the war had ended and perhaps while being held in Fort Cumberland there.  They followed his family to Île Miquelon after the British released them and "rehabilitated" their marriage on the island in October 1765.  Perhaps to escape overcrowding on the island, they moved to France in 1767 and settled at Nantes, where Angélique died soon after their arrival.  Later in the decade, Michel joined other Acadians on Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  He was counted at Runello, in the forest near Bangor, in 1768.  He remarried to Marie-Anne, daughter of Charles Granger and Françoise LeBlanc, at Bangor on the island in January 1769.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1779, Marie-Anne gave Michel four children, a son and three daughters.  The family was counted at Coquet on the island in 1773.  They did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They were counted at Kernest on the island in 1791, in the early years of the French Revolution.  Michel died probably on the island in 1811, in his late 70s.  Two of his daughters married into the Granger and Labado families on Belle-Île in 1795 and 1801. 

Claude le jeune's third and youngest son Pierre dit Chaculot, born probably at Tracadie, Île St.-Jean, in c1743, followed his family into exile, into imprisonment in Nova Scotia, and to freedom on Île Miquelon.  He likely was deported to France in 1767 to relieve overcrowding on the island and returned with other Miquelonois the following year. Still a bachelor, now in his mid-30s, he, too, was deported by the British to La Rochelle in 1778.  Like older brother Petit Claude, he refused to remain in the mother country.  He returned to Île Miquelon in 1784, but he did not remain there either.  He moved on to the ïles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and married Rose Gautreau, widow of Paul Gaudet, in July 1799. 

Michel, fils's fourth and youngest son Paul, born in early 1700s at Port-Royal or Chignecto, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Hébert and Isabelle Landry, in c1731 perhaps at Chignecto, where they may have remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1747, Marie gave Paul seven children, five sons and two daughters.  One of their daughters married into the Doucet family.  One wonders what happened to Paul and Marie and their large family in 1755. 

Michel's fifth son Olivier, born at Port-Royal in c1661, married Isabelle, daughter of Claude Petitpas and Catherine Bugaret, in c1686 probably at Port-Royal and remained there.  In c1687, Isabelle gave Olivier a son, Jean-Baptiste, who survived childhood but probably did not marry, so this line of the family likely died with him. 

Michel's sixth son Claude, born at Port-Royal in c1663, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau and Jeanne Thériot, perhaps at Port-Royal in c1682 and moved to Minas, where they settled on Rivière-des-Habitants.  Between 1683 and 1698, Anne-Marie gave Claude eight children, three sons and five daughters.  Claude remarried to Catherine, daughter of Jean Meunier and Marguerite Housseau, in c1700 perhaps at Minas.  From the early 1700s to 1725, Catherine gave Claude 13 more children, six sons and seven daughters.  Claude remarried again--his third marriage--to Madeleine, daughter of Jean Corporon and Françoise Savoie and widow of Bernard Doucet dit Laverdure and François Leclerc dit Laverdure, at Annapolis Royal in August 1735.  She gave him no more children.  Claude, who fathered 21 children, nine sons and 12 daughters, by his first two wives, died at Minas in March 1740, in his late 70s.  His daughters by both wives married into the Hébert, Aucoin, LeBlanc, Daigre, and Doiron families, including three sets of brothers.  All of his sons by his first two wives created their own families. 

Oldest son Claude, fils, by first wife Anne-Marie Thibodeau, born at Port-Royal in c1683, married Catherine, daughter of Jean Hébert and Marie-Anne Doucet and the sister of three of his sister's husbands, probably at Minas in c1706 and settled on Rivière-des-Habitants.  Between 1708 and 1734, Catherine gave Claude, fils 10 children, six sons and four daughters.  Their daughters married into the Dugas, Thériot, Landry, LeBlanc, and Clouâtre families, and one of them, Élisabeth, wife of Étienne LeBlanc, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Five of Claude, fils's six sons created their own families in Nova Scotia and Canada. 

Oldest son Claude III, born at Minas in December 1708, married Judith, daughter of Claude Landry and Madeleine Doucet, at Grand-Pré in December 1747 in his late 30s and likely settled there.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1757 and 1760, Judith gave Claude III three children, a son and two daughters.  After the war with Britain, the family returned to greater Acadia and settled on Baie Ste.-Marie on the western coast of British Nova Scotia with other Acadian exiles.  One of Claude III's daughters married into the Thibault family. 

Claude, fils's second son Joseph, born at Minas in December 1718, married Hélène, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Landry and Marguerite Comeau, at Grand-Pré in September 1743 and likely settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1745 and 1747, Hélène gave Joseph two daughters.  Stephen White says Joseph died before April 1769.  One wonders what happened to Joseph's daughters in 1755. 

Claude, fils's third son Pierre, born at Minas in November 1723, married Marie, daughter of Germain Richard and Marguerite Daigre, in c1749 probably at Minas and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1751 and 1754, Marie gave Pierre two children, a daughter and a son.  Arsenault says Pierre died in c1754, but genealogist Stephen White says he died between February 1765 and October 1766 in exile.  One wonders where.  Arsenault says members of the family settled at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie, Canada, in 1771.  Pierre's daughter married a Boudrot cousin at St.-Philippe. 

Claude, fils's fourth son Jean, born at Minas in June 1725, never married.  According to Bona Arsenault, he settled at St.-Philippe-de-La-Prairie, Canada, in June 1771, probably with older brother Pierre.  He died at L'Acadie, today's St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu, east of Montréal, in May 1796, age 70. 

Claude, fils's fifth son Olivier, born probably at Minas in c1730, married Ludivine Landry probably at Minas in c1754.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Olivier remarried to Euphémie-Anastasie, daughter of Joseph Breau and Marie-Blanche Boudrot, in c1779 perhaps at Memramcook, present-day southeastern New Brunswick, where he died after October 1786.

Claude, fils's sixth and youngest son Charles, born at Minas in June 1734, married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Clouâtre and Marguerite LeBlanc, in c1753 probably at Minas.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Charles remarried to Marie-Louise, daughter of Canadians Laurent Perrault and Louis Boileau, at St.-Luc above Québec in November 1802, in his late 60s.  

Claude, père's second son Michel le jeune, by first wife Anne-Marie Thibodeau, born probably at Minas in c1685, married Cécile, daughter of Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Hébert, in c1708 probably at Minas and also settled on Rivière-des-Habitants.  Between 1709 and 1728, Cécile gave Michel le jeune 11 children, seven sons and four daughters, all of whom married.  At age 47, Michel le jeune remarried to Anne, daughter of Jean Préjean and Andrée Savoie and widow of François Pitre dit Nordest at Annapolis Royal in April 1732.  She gave him no more children.  His daughters married into the Daigre, Préjean, Pellerin, and Dupuis families. 

Oldest son François dit Lami, by first wife Cécile LeBlanc, born at Minas in August 1710, married Marguerite, daughter of François Pitre and Anne Préjean, in c1731 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1754, Marguerite gave Lami nine children, three sons and six daughters, including a set of twins.  Arsenault insists that the British deported the family to New York in 1755.  According to Stephen White, François dit Lami died at Québec in late November 1757, age 47, victim, perhaps, of a smallpox epidemic that struck Acadian refugees there that fall and winter, so he probably did not go to New York.  Arsenault says his widow Marguerite remarried at Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières, Canada, in January 1768.   One suspects that she and her Boudrot children had been in Canada all along.  Five of Lami's daughters married into the Vallée, Ricard, Desfossés, Provencher dit Villebrun, and Beaulaurier families at Nicolet and Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pérade, between Québec and Trois-Rivières.  All three of his sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Charles, born probably at Minas in c1735, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Clouâtre and Marguerite LeBlanc, in c1756 during exile, though Arsenault also says Charles, fils, sixth and youngest son of Michel le jeune's older brother Charles, married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Clouâtre, in c1753.  Arsenault insists that between 1757 and 1770, Madeleine gave this Charles seven children, four sons and three daughters, that they settled at Trois-Rivières in 1767 and at L'Acadie on Rivière Richelieu southeast of Montréal in 1768.  Arsenault says two of their daughters married into the Labrecque and Cyr families at L'Acadie, and that three of Charles's four sons created their own families.

Oldest son Mathurin, born in exile in c1757, married Marie, daughter of Michel Lanoue and Madeleine Brun, at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie in the interior southeast of Montréal in July 1780.

Charles's third son Joseph, born in c1764, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Lanoue and Marie-Josèphe Brun, at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie in January 1784. 

Charles's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born in c1766, married Marguerite, daughter of François Boissonneau and Josephte Lefebvre, at nearby L'Acadie in February 1803. 

François dit Lami's second son Athanase, born probably at Minas in c1736, evidently escaped the British there in 1755 and likely found refuge in Canada.  He married Félicité, daughter of Charles Orillon and Anne Richard of Annapolis Royal, in c1760 during exile.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1771, Félicité gave Athanase six children, two sons and four daughters.  They were counted at Deschambault between Québec and Trois-Rivières in 1761, Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pérade farther upriver in 1763, Nicolet in 1765, nearby Baie-du-Fèbvre in 1771, Nicolet again in 1778, and moved on to Petit-Rocher on the south shore of the Baie des Chaleurs near today's Bathurst in northeastern New Brunwick.

François dit Lami's third and youngest son Osias, born probably at Minas in c1743, evidently escaped the British there in 1755 and found refuge in Canada.  He married Marie-Anne, another daughter of Charles Orillon and Anne Richard, at Nicolet, Canada, in November 1764.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1789, Marie-Anne gave Osias eight children, four sons and four daughters, at Nicolet.  His daughters married into the Poirier, Simonneau, Bourg, and Villate dit Beausoleil families at Nicolet.  All four of his sons created their own families. 

Oldest son François, born probably at Nicolet in c1768, married Élizabeth, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Foucault-Lemire and Angélique Loisseau, at Nicolet in June 1793.

Osias's second son Joseph, born probably at Nicolet in c1770, married Marguerite, another daughter of Jean-Baptiste Foucault-Lemire and Angélique Loisseau, at Nicolet in August 1796. 

Osias's third son Louis, born probably at Nicolet in c1776, married Marie Deshaies at Nicolet in July 1800.

Osias's fourth and youngest son Pierre, born probably at Nicolet in c1780, married Marguerite Bourg at Nicolet in January 1801. 

Michel le jeune's second son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Cécile LeBlanc, born probably at Minas in c1715, married Agnès, another daughter of François Pitre and Anne Préjean, in c1738 probably at Minas and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1745, Agnès gave Jean-Baptiste three children, two sons and two daughters.  The family evidently escaped the British in 1755 and took refuge in Canada.  While in exile or after Le Grand Dérangement, Jean-Baptiste took his family to Baie-St.-Paul on the lower St. Lawrence.  One of his daughters married into the Guérin family at St.-Joachim above Baie-St.-Paul.  One of his two sons created his own family.

Second son François, born probably at Minas in c1744, followed his family into exile in 1755 and married Marie-Sophie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Martel and Marie-Clotilde Desbiens, at Baie-St.-Paul in July 1769. 

Michel le jeune's third son Michel, fils, by first wife Cécile LeBlanc, born probably at Minas in c1716, married, according to Stephen White, Claire, daughter of Jean Comeau le jeune and Catherine Babin, in c1742 probably at Minas.  Between 1742 and 1748, Claire gave Michel, fils at least three children, two sons and a daughter.  The British deported the family to Virginia in 1755 and Virginia authorities sent them on to England in 1756.  Michel, fils and Claire died there.  In late May 1763, as part of the repatriation of the Acadians in England to France, sons Joseph and Michel and daugther Marguerite took the ship Dorothée to St.-Malo and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  One wonders what became of daughter Marguerite.  Only one of Michel, fils's two sons seems to have created his own family. 

Older son Joseph, born at Minas in c1742 or 1744, followed his parents to Virginia and England and his siblings to St.-Malo.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Richard dit Sapin and Cécile Gautrot, at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in June 1763, soon after their arrival from England, so they may have known one another in England and perhaps at Minas.  Between 1764 and 1773, at St.-Servan and nearby Plouër-sur-Rance, Marguerite gave Joseph seven children, at least four sons and two daughters, only three of whom, the oldest daughter and two sons, survived childhood.  Joseph took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Marguerite gave him another daughter there in 1774.  In November 1775, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Between 1776 and 1782, Marguerite gave Joseph four more children at Chantenay near Nantes, two sons and two daughers, but only one of the sons and one of the daughters survived childhood.  They also buried their daughter who had been born in Poitou.  In 1785, Joseph, Marguerite, and their remaining four children, two sons and two daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Marguerite was pregnant on the voyage, and another son was born to them probably at New Orleans.  They moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph's daughters married into the Crochet and Dagbert families in Louisiana.  Two of his three sons married into the LeBlanc, Bertrand, and Dugas families, and two of them created substantial lines on the Lafourche. 

Michel, fils's younger son Michel III, born at Minas in c1748, followed his family to Virginia and England and his siblings to St.-Malo aboard La Dorothée.  In March 1767, now age 18, he "went to England," which means he likely joined other Acadian exiles in the British-controlled Channel Islands who were making their way back to North America.  One wonders what happened to him there. 

Michel le jeune's fourth son René, by first wife Cécile LeBlanc, born at Minas in 1717, married Judith, yet another daughter of François Pitre and Anne Préjean, in c1745 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, in c1753 Judith gave René a son, Pierre.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Did they escape the British at Minas and seek refuge in Canada?  Stephen White says René died between 1756 and 1757, likely in exile, perhaps in Canada.  Arsenault says René died in c1758, and that Judith remarried at St.-Joachim below Québec in November 1760, during exile.  René's son created his own family.

Only son Pierre, born probably at Minas in c1753, probably followed his family to Canada, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Canadians François Tremblay and Marie-Josèphe Dufour, on Île-aux-Coudres in the lower St. Lawrence in July 1774. 

Michel le jeune's fifth son Pierre, by first wife Cécile LeBlanc, born at Minas in December 1720, married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Dupuis and Marie-Josèphe Dugas, in c1750 probably at Minas.  Stephen White says Pierre died before August 1763, probably in exile.  According to Bona Arsenault, Pierre, son of Michel le jeune, first married Marie, daughter of Joseph Préjean and Marie-Louise Comeau of Chepoudy in c1743; she gave him a son, Augustin, in c1745; and then he remarried to Marguerite Dupuis in c1750.  Arsenault says Pierre died in either Maryland or Connecticut in c1760; that his son Augustin accompanied his maternal uncle, Amand Préjean, to Louisiana; and that Pierre's second wife Marguerite was counted in Connecticut in 1763 with five unnamed children.  Louisiana records show no Augustin, son of Pierre Boudrot and Marie Dupuis, in Louisiana.  One wonders what were the names of Pierre's other children. 

Michel le jeune's sixth son Honoré, by first wife Cécile LeBlanc, born at Minas in January 1724, married in c1753 a woman whose name has been lost to history.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Michel le jeune's seventh and youngest son Olivier, by first wife Cécile LeBlanc, born at Minas in May 1728, married Anne-Marie, another daughter of Antoine Dupuis and Marie-Josèphe Dugas, in c1752 probably at Minas.  Anne-Marie gave him a son, Simon, at Minas in c1753.  They escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  They evidently had more children in exile.  In October 1760, Olivier and his family of five were among the 1,003 Acadians who surrendered to a British naval force at Restigouche and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  British officials counted Olivier and his family of six at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in August 1762.  In 1764-65, now a widower, Olivier emigrated to Louisiana with his 12-year-old son Simon.  One wonders what happened to the rest of his children and who they were.  He and his son settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, on what came to be known as the Acadian Coast.  Olivier, at age 39, remarried to Anne, daughter of Pierre Gaudet and Marie Belliveau and widow of Michel Dupuis, at Cabahannocer in October 1767.  She gave him no more children.  Olivier died at Cabahannocer in November 1782, age 54.  His son Simon created a vigorous line on the Acadian Coast. 

Claude, père's third son Joseph, by first wife Anne-Marie Thibodeau, born in c1687, married Françoise, daughter of Jean Comeau le jeune and Catherine Babin, at Grand-Pré in July 1712 and settled on Rivière-des-Habitants and Rivière-aux-Canards.  Between 1714 and the 1730s, at Minas, Françoise gave Joseph 14 children, seven sons and seven daughters, including a set of twins.  Members of the family was deported from Village des Comeau at Minas to Virginia in 1755 and sent on to England in 1756.  Joseph died in England before the repatriation of May 1763, in his late 60s or early 70s.  Widow Françoise accompanied her twin sons to St.-Malo aboard the ship La Dorothée late that May and died at Hotel-Dieu, St.-Malo, the following July, in her early 70s.  Three of their daughters married into the Saulnier and Dupuis families.  Four of Joseph's seven sons created their own families, but only one, if any, of their lines eundued. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born probably at Minas in the 1710s, married in c1749 a woman whose name had been lost to history.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Joseph, père's second son Antoine, born probably at Minas in the 1720s, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Anne Thériot, in c1750.  They evidently eluded the British in 1755 and, either during exile or after Le Grand Dérangement, found refuge in Canada.  One wonders if Marie-Josèphe gave him any children, or if any of the ones she may have given him survived the rigors of exile.  Antoine, perhaps in his 70s, remarried to Françoise, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Françoise Landry and widow of Louis-Sylvain Dupuis, at L'Acadie in the interior east of Montréal in September 1801. 

Joseph, père's third son Jean-Baptiste, a twin, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1732, followed his family to Virginia, England, and France.  He, his widowed mother, his twin brother, and his brother's wife, arrived at St.-Malo from England aboard the transport Dorothée in late May 1763.  After his mother's death at St.-Malo, Jean-Baptiste settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Daigre and Marguerite Granger, at nearby Plouër-sur-Rance in March 1764.  Between 1764 and 1773, at Plouër and St.-Servan, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste five children, two sons and three daughters, three of whom, a son and two daughters, died in childhood.  Jean-Baptiste took his family, including twin brother Pierre, to Poitou in 1773, and Marie-Josèphe gave him another son there in May 1775.  The following March, after the death of his younger brother, Jean-Baptiste and his family followed other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where, between 1777 and 1782, Marie-Josèphe gave him four more sons, all of whom died in childhood.  They also buried the son who had been born to them in Poitou, leaving only two children, daughter Marie-Rose and son Jean-François, of the 10 they had been given.  Jean-Baptiste died in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in November 1783, age 51.  His two remaining children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 with their widowed mother, who remarried to a Thériot widower soon after their arrival.  Marie-Josèphe died on upper Bayou Lafourche by June 1790, when her second husband remarried again; she would have been in her mid- or late 40s at the time of her passing.  Daughter Marie-Rose married into the Bourg family in the Spanish colony and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Only surviving son Jean-François, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in September 1773, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his sister and widowed mother to Louisiana.  He lived with his mother and stepfather on upper Bayou Lafourche and remained there after he came of age.  In January 1798, at age 24, he was living alone on his six-arpent lot fronting the bayou.  He never married, so his father's line, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Joseph, père's fourth son Pierre, his brother Jean-Baptiste's twin, married Marie Thériot in c1755 probably at Minas on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement.  They were deported to Virginia in 1755, sent on to England in 1756, repatriated to France in the spring of 1763, and went to St.-Malo with his widowed mother and twin brother.  Pierre, likely a widower now, followed his twin brother Jean-Baptiste to Poitou and died at Châtellerault there in February 1776, age 44, on the eve of his family retreat to Nantes.  His family line evidently died with him. 

Joseph, père's fifth son Abraham, born probably at Minas, as well as his sixth and seventh sons, their names lost to history, evidently died young. 

Claude, père's fourth son Étienne, by second wife Catherine Meunier, born at Minas in November 1725, married Marie-Claire, daughter of Martin Aucoin and Catherine Thériot of Rivière-aux-Canards, at Grand-Pré in November 1725 and likely remained at Minas.  From 1730 to 1742, Marie-Claire gave Étienne at least three sons at Minas.  The British evidently deported the family to Virginia in 1755, sent them on to England in 1756, and Étienne, and perhaps Marie-Claire as well, died there before May 1763, when the the Acadians in England were repatriated to France.  Three of their sons, still bachelors, arrived at St.-Malo aboard the Dorothée in May 1763.  Two of these sons created their own families in France. 

Oldest son Marin, born at Minas in c1732, followed his family to Virginia and England and his younger brothers Charles and Étienne, fils to St.-Malo aboard La Dorothée.  He settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the river south of the Breton port and married Pélagie, daughter of Pierre Barrieau and Véronique Girouard, there in May 1765.  Between 1767 and 1772, at Pleudihen, Pélagie gave Marin four children, three sons and a daughter, but their daughter died an infant.  Marin took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Pélagie gave him another son there, and they buried two others.  In December 1775, Marin, Pélagie, and their remaining sons retreated with dozens of other Poitou Acadians to the Nantes.  Pélagie gave Marin four more children at Nantes, two sons and two daughters--nine children, six sons and three daughters, between 1767 and 1783, most of whom died young.  Marin, Pélagie, and their remaining two children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Marin died at Ascension on the river above New Orleans in October 1786, age 54.  His daughter Marie-Anne married into the Pitre family in the Spanish colony.  Hs only surviving son Étienne le jeune married into the Doiron family and created an impressive family line on Bayou Lafourche. 

Étienne's second son Charles, born at Minas in c1737, followed his family to Virginia and England and his brothers Marin and Étienne, fils to St.-Malo aboard La Dorothée.  Charles lived at nearby Pleudihen-sur-Rance from 1763 to 1767 and moved on to Nantes, on the other side of Brittany, where he died in July 1767, age 30--one of the first Acadian exiles to go there.  He did not marry. 

Étienne's third and youngest son Étienne, fils, born at Minas in c1743, followed his family to Virginia and England and his brothers Marin and Charles to St.-Malo, where Étienne, fils worked as a seaman and a joiner.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Thibodeau and Susanne Comeau, at Pleudihen-sur-Mer in May 1764.  Between 1765 and 1771, Marguerite gave Étienne, fils four children in the Pleudihen area.  Étienne, fils took his family to Poitou in 1773, and Marguerite gave him another son there.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to Nantes and settled in several church parishes there.  Marguerite gave Étienne, fils four more children in the lower Loire port:.  They also buried their youngest son.  In 1785, Étienne, fils, Marguerite, and seven of their children, four sons and three daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marguerite gave Étienne, fils another daughter there--10 children, five sons and five daughters, between 1765 and 1790 in France and Louisiana.  Étienne, fils died in Lafourche Interior Parish in January 1825, age 84.  His daughters married into the Ayo, LeBlanc, and Boudreaux families on Bayou Lafourche.  Four of his sons also married, into the Pitre, Barrieau, Hébert, and Caissie dit Roger family, but not all of the lines endured.

Claude, père's fifth son Paul dit Petit Paul, by second wife Catherine Meunier, born at Minas in October 1707, married Madeleine-Josèphe, called Josette, daughter of Charles Doiron and Françoise Gaudet, in c1730 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault (who says the Paul Boudrot who married Madeleine-Josèphe Doiron was a son of Charles, not Claude), between 1732 and 1748, Marie-Josèphe gave Paul six children, two sons and four daughters.  According to genealogist Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. in his study of the Acadians in France, between 1735 and 1754, Marie-Madeleine gave Paul seven children, four sons and three daughters.  Petit Paul took his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750.  Arsenault says oldest daughter Marie-Josèphe, born in c1732, who Robichaux does not mention, married into the Closquinet family at Port-La-Joye on the island in January 1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Petit Paul, Madeleine-Josèphe, and five of their children--Marguerite; Françoise; Jean-Charles, called Charles; Anne; and Basile--at Rivières-des-Blonds in the island's interior near younger brother Pierre.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Petit Paul, age 51, and two of his youngest children--Basile, age 10; and Mathurin--did not survive the crossing.  Widow Marie-Madeleine died in a St.-Malo hospital in late November 1758, age 54, soon after reaching the port.  Youngest son Joseph died probably in the same hospital in late December, age 4.  Daughters Marguerite, Françoise-Marie, and Anne married into the Hébert, Landry, Closquient, Dugas, Haché dit Gallant, and Daigre families in France and Louisiana, and all three of them emigrated to the Spanish colony in 1785.  Petit Paul's only remaining son created his own family in France and Cayenne.

Oldest son Jean-Charles, called Charles, born at Minas in c1740, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo, France.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Haché dit Gallant and Cécile Lavergne, at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across from St.-Malo, in November 1763.  The following April, he, Marie-Josèphe, and other Acadian exiles took the ship Le Fort to French Guiane on the northeastern coast of South America.  Marie-Josèphe did not survive the venture, and she evidently gave Charles no children there.  At age 35 (the recording priest said 38), Charles remarried to Marie-Marguerite, daughter of François-Robert Du Mesnil and Thérèse Le Botte and widow of Sr. Regnauldin, at St. Joseph de Sinnamary, Guiane, in February 1775.  One wonders what became of him after his remarriage. 

Claude, père's sixth son François, by second wife Catherine Meunier, born at Minas in July 1709, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Antoine Thibodeau and Marie Préjean, at Annapolis Royal in October 1730 and evidently moved on to Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1747, Anne-Marie gave François six children, four sons and two daughters.  The British deported the family to Virginia in 1755, sent them on to England in 1756, and held them there with hundreds of other Acadians until the French repatritated them to France in 1763.  François died probably in England before May 1763.  One wonders if wife Anne-Marie Thibodeau also died there.  A married son and three of their unmarried children--Anselme, age 25; François, fils, age 22; and Anne, age 16--took the transport L'Ambition from England to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763.  Daughter Anne married into the LeBlanc in France and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  At least three of François's sons created their own families at Minas and in France, but none of them emigrated to Louisiana.  A grandson, however, may have gone there.

Oldest son Jean-Zacharie, born probably at Minas in c1730, married Marguerite Hébert probably at Minas in c1754.  Either there or in exile, Marguerite gave Jean-Zacherie a son, Joseph, in c1755.  They, too, were deported to Virginia in 1755, sent on to England in the spring of 1756, and held there until May 1763, when they took L'Ambition to St.-Malo, France.  They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where Marguerite died in July 1764, age 26.  Jean-Zacharie died at St.-Servan in April 1765, age 35. 

Only son Joseph, born at either Minas or aboard ship in c1755, followed his family to Virginia in 1755, to England in the spring of 1756, and to France in May 1763.  After the death of his father in April 1765, Joseph, now age 10, went to live with Joseph Célestin dit Bellemère, husband of Marguerite Boudrot.  Joseph's stay with the family was brief.  Joseph Bellemère died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in August 1767, age 39, and Marguerite Boudrot followed her husband to the grave the following month, at age 30, leaving behind three young children.  Joseph was still only 12.  One wonders if he was the Joseph Boudrot who married Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, daughter of Germain Semer and Marie Trahan of Grand-Pré and Le Havre, at St.-Martin de Chantenay, near Nantes, in May 1785, when he would have been age 30.  If so, he emigrated to Louisiana later that year, though not on the same ship as his wife; between 1786 and 1790, she gave him three sons in the Spanish colony; and he died by August 1796, in his early 40s, when his wife remarried at Attakapas.  If this was him, two of his three sons, both born at Attakapas, married into the Savoie and Broussard families and created lasting lines on the prairies.   

François's third son François-Anselme, called Anselme, born probably at Minas in c1738, followed his family to Virginia and England and, with his siblings, took the ship L'Ambition to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763.  He married Ursule, daughter of Jean Daigle and Anne Breau, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance, near St.-Malo, in January 1764.  They lived at Pleudihen in 1763-65 and at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer from 1765 to 1772.  Between 1764 and 1768, at Pleudihen and St.-Servan, Ursule gave Anselme four children, three sons and a daughter.  One wonders what happened to the family after 1772.  They did not go to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

François's fourth and youngest son Joseph-François, called François, fils, born probably at Minas in c1742, followed his family to Virginia and England and his siblings to St.-Malo, France, aboard L'Ambition in May 1763.  François, fils married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Landry and Marie Comeau, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in 1765.  He worked as a sailor.  Marguerite died at St.-Servan in January 1767, age 26, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  François, fils remarried to Euphrosine, daughter of Pierre Barrieau and Véronique Giroir, at nearby Pleudihen in April 1768.  Between 1769 and 1773, at St.-Servan, Euphrosine gave François, fils four sons, the oldest of whom did not survive childhood.  François, fils took his family to Poitou in 1773, and Euphrosine gave him another son there in 1775.  In November of that year, François, fils, Euphrosine, and their four sons retreated with other Poitou Acadians to Nantes, where the couple buried two more of their sons in 1777 and 1780.  François, fils also died there before June 1784, when wife Euphrosine remarried to widower Charles Broussard at St.-Martin de Chantenay.  In 1785, she and her older remaining Boudrot son followed her second husband and his five sons to Louisiana.  Euphrosine's Boudrot son created his own family in the Spanish colony.  One wonders if Jean-Louis, her younger remaining Boudrot son, who would have been only age 12 in 1785, died at Nantes or Chantenay before the family sailed to Louisiana. 

Third son Paul-Marie, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in October 1771, followed his parents to Poitou and Nantes and his mother, older brother, stepfather, and stepbrothers to Spanish Louisiana.  He settled with them at Manchac on the river above New Orleans before moving to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Élisabeth- or Isabelle-Modeste, daughter of Charles Pitre and Anne Henry of St.-Malo, at Assumption in September 1794.  He died a widower in Lafourche Interior Parish in September 1846, age 75.  His daughters married into the Aucoin, Naquin, and Thibodeaux families.  The older of his two sons married a Boudreaux cousin and created a vigorous line on Bayou Lafourche. 

Claude, père's seventh son Jean dit Lami, by second wife Catherine Meunier, born probably at Minas in c1710, married Agathe, another daughter of Antoine Thibodeau and Marie Préjean, at Annapolis Royal in October 1731 and evidently settled at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1748, Agathe gave Lami seven children, three sons and four daughters, but other records give them a fourth son.  The British deported the family to Virginia in 1755 and Virginia authorities sent them on to England in 1756.  One of their sons may have married there in c1758.  A daughter married into the Daigre family at Southampton in c1761.  Jean dit Lami and Agathe may not have survived the ordeal in England; by 1763; half of the exiles who had gone there were dead.  When the family and hundreds of other Acadians being held in England were repatriated to France in May 1763, four of Jean dit Lami and Agathe's unmarried children--Charles, Joseph, Amand, and Anastasie--went to St.-Malo, but their parents were not with them.  Married son Jean-Baptiste and his family, as well as married daughter Marie-Flavie and her family, may have gone from England to St.-Malo on another vessel.  Only one of Jean dit Lami's sons seems to have created a family of his own. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Minas in c1735 or 1736, may have been the Jean-Baptiste Boudrot who married Anastasie, daughter of Jacques dit Jacob Célestin dit Bellemère and Marie Landry of Minas, at Southampton, England, in c1758.  After the Acadians in England were repatriated to France, Jean-Baptiste and his family reached St.-Malo aboard the L'Ambition in May 1763 and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Between 1759 and 1772, in England and France, Anastasie gave Jean-Baptiste six children, four sons and two daughters, but both of their daughters and their youngest son died young.  Jean-Baptiste took his family to Poitou in 1773.  When most of the Poitou Acadians retreated to Nantes in late 1775 and early 1776, Jean-Baptiste and his family remained in Poitou.  In 1774 and 1779, in Poitou, Anastaise gave Jean-Baptiste two more daughters, but the younger one died young.  Their oldest son married a local girl in Poitou in June 1778.  Jean-Baptiste may have died there in the early 1780s, or he may have taken his family to Nantes soon after the birth of his youngest daughter and died in the port city by August 1784, when wife Anastasie remarried to a Comeau widower.  One wonders what happened to Jean-Baptiste and Anastasie's remaining daughter.  Two of their remaining three sons married in France and Louisiana, but only one of the lines endured.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born in England in October 1759, followed his family to St.-Malo and Poitou.  He married Marguerite, daughter of François Bedel dit Picard and Jeanne ____ of Targé, Poitou, at Targé in June 1778.  In 1779 and 1783, in Poitou, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste, fils two children, a daughter and a son, but the daughter died young.  They moved on to Nantes by September 1784.  Another son was born at Chantenay near Nantes in February 1785.  Later that year, Jean-Baptiste, fils, Marguerite, and their two young sons followed his mother, stepfather, and younger brothers to Louisiana.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, and Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste, fils more children,  including four sons, in the Spanish colony.  Jean-Baptiste, fils died at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in August 1799, age 39.  His daughters married into the Lis and Williamson families.  Hs two older sons died young; they may not have survived the crossing from France.  Two of his four sons born in Louisiana married into the Michel and Boudreaux families and created vigorous lines on bayous Lafourche and Terrebonne. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's second son Joseph-Marie, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in March 1766, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes, became a sailor, and followed his mother, stepfather, and brothers to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  He married Anne-Isabelle, daughter of Joachim-Hyacinthe Trahan and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Duhon, at Ascension on the river above New Orleans in February 1786, soon after his arrival, and followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Anne-Isabelle gave Joseph-Marie only one son, who probably died young, so the family line died with him.

Jean-Baptiste, père's third and youngest son Charles, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in January 1769, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and also became a sailor.  He followed his mother, stepfather, and brothers to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche with them, but he did not marry. 

Jean dit Lami's second son Charles, born probably at Minas in c1737, followed his family to Virginia and England and three of his younger siblings to St.-Malo, France, aboard La Dorothée in May 1763.  He lived at nearby Pleudihen-sur-Rance and at St.-Malo, perhaps with his siblings.  Charles, perhaps a sailor, and still a bachelor, died at sea in September 1770, age 32. 

Jean dit Lami's third son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1742, followed his family to Virginia and England and three of his siblings to St.-Malo, France, aboard La Dorothée in May 1763.  He lived at St.-Malo from 1763 to 1770.  In May 1770, he was reported aboard the ship L'Heureux in Guinea and died at "la Coste," perhaps in Guinea, in January 1771, age 29. 

Jean dit Lami's fourth and youngest son Amand, born probably at Minas in c1748, followed his family to Virginia and England and three of his older siblings to St.-Malo, France, aboard La Dorothée in May 1763.  Amand, and perhaps his siblings, lived at nearby Pleudihen-sur-Rance and St.-Malo from 1763 to 1771.  One wonders what happened to Amand after 1771. 

Claude, père's eighth son Pierre, by second wife Catherine Meunier, born probably at Minas in c1712, married Marie, daughter of Louis Doiron and Marguerite Barrieau, at Grand-Pré in August 1733 and moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1752, Marie gave Pierre 10 children, two sons and eight daughters, though they may have had a third son named Augustin.  In August 1752, a French official counted Pierre, Marie, and nine of their children at Rivière-des-Blonds in the island's interior near his older brother Petit Paul.  Pierre remarried to Madeleine, daughter of François Gautrot and Marie Vincent, at Port-La-Joye on the island in November 1753.  The family was deported to France in 1758.  Pierre died at Cherbourg in June 1759, age 47, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  According to Bona Arsenault, Pierre's daughter Anastasie from his second wife Madeleine (though he says Anastasie was born in c1744) married into the Vigneau family on Île Miquelon in June 1771, so Pierre's widow may have taken her family there from France in the 1760s. 

Third son Augustin, by first wife Marie Doiron, born at Minas or Pigiguit probably in the 1740s, may have become separated from his family before they moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1750, or perhaps he went there with them but returned to the Minas Basin before August 1752.  He first appears in Louisiana records in January 1771 when he married Osite, daughter of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry and widow of Alexandre Melanson, at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Osite had come to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766, a widow with six of her Melanson children.  Augustin died by January 1777, when his wife was listed in a Cabahannocer census with four of her Melanson children but no husband.  Stephen White calls the Augustin who married Osite Hébert at Cabahannocer Augustin-Rémi Boudrot, the name of a young Acadian who came to Louisiana from Maryland in February 1768.  Records in the Spanish colony, however, make it evident that the Augustin, son of Pierre Boudrot and Marie Doiron, who married the 40-year-old widow on the river, was not the Augustin-Rémi who, after leaving Spanish Fort San Luìs de Natchez on the river above Baton Rouge, settled on the western prairies.  Louisiana records reveal that the Augustin who remained on the river likely died in the 1770s not long after his marriage, while Augustin-Rémi, who was age 13 when he came to the colony from Maryland, lived to a ripe old age. 

Claude, père's ninth and youngest son Charles, by second wife Catherine Meunier, born at Minas in October 1725, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Doucet and Marie Doiron, in c1747, and moved on to Île St.-Jean with his older brothers in 1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Charles, Marie-Josèphe, and their three daughters at Anse-à-Dubuisson in the island's interior.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1758.  Charles died before August 1781, place unrecorded. 

Michel's seventh and youngest son François, born at Port-Royal in c1666, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Belliveau and Jeanne Bourg, in c1692 probably at Port-Royal.  Between 1694 and 1715, Madeleine gave François nine children, six sons and three daughters.  François died at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal, in September 1733, in his late 60s.  His daughters married into the LeBlanc, Michel, and Dugas families.  Only three of his six sons created their own families.  A grandson emigrated to Louisiana in 1765. 

Oldest son Jean, born probably at Port-Royal in c1694, evidently died young.  

François's second son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in c1697, moved on to the French Maritimes and married Marguerite, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marie-Madeleine Landry, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1722.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1722 and 1738, Marguerite gave Joseph five children, four sons and a daughter, on the island.  Joseph died at Port-Toulouse before 1752.  In August of that year, a French official counted Marguerite with their three youngest children at La Briquerie near Port-Toulouse.  Joseph's daughter married into the LeBlanc family.  All four of his sons created their own families.

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born probably at Port-Toulouse in c1722, married Judith, daughter of Jean Fourgère and his first wife Marie Bourg, in c1751 probably at Port-Toulouse, where he worked as a coaster.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1752 and 1771, Judith gave Joseph, fils six children, a son and five daughters.  They, too, were counted at La Briquerie in August 1752 with their infant daughter.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758.  After Le Grand Dérangement, they returned to Cape Breton Island, formerly Île Royale, and settled at Petit-de-Grat on the southeast coast of Île Madame, Nova Scotia. 

Joseph, père's second son Pierre, born probably at Port-Toulouse in c1727, married cousin Marie-Josèphe, called Josette, Dugas in c1752 and remained on Île Royale.  They, too, were counted near his widowed mother at La Briquerie in August 1752.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758. 

Joseph, père's third son Louis, called Louison, born probably at Port-Toulouse in c1733, was counted with his widowed mother at La Briquerie in August 1752.  One wonders what happened to him in 1758.  He married Barbe, daughter of Jean Fougère and his second wife Madeleine Belliveau, probably on Île Royale in c1760, during exile.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1770, Barbe gave Louis four children, three sons and a daughter.  They, too, returned to Cape Breton Island after the Great Upheaval and settled at Petit-de-Grat. 

Joseph, père's fourth and youngest son Charles, born probably at Port-Toulouse in c1738, was counted with his widowed mother at La Briquerie in August 1752.  He marrried Madeleine, daughter of Jacques Chiasson and Marie Arseneau of Chigecto, probably at Port-Toulouse in c1755.  What wonders what happened to them in 1758.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1756 and 1772, Madeleine gave Charles five children, four sons and a dauthter.  Arsenault says they were counted on Île St.-Jean in 1762, so one wonders if they had escaped the British round up there or on Île Royale in 1758.  After the war with Britain finally ended, they moved on to Île Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where they were counted in 1764, 1765, and 1767, and probably returned to the island from France in 1768.  They then resettled on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where they were counted in 1772.  Charles died in the Madeleines in September 1810, in his early 70s.  All four of his sons created their own families.

Oldest son Louis, born in c1756, place unrecorded, married Louise Dugas probably in the Madeleines in c1785.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1785 and 1809, Louise gave Louis 11 children, three sons and eight daughters.  Three of their daughters married Boudrot first cousins.  At least one of Louis's sons created his own family.

Oldest son Louis-Jean-Marie, born probably in the Madeleines in c1793, married Marie, daughter of Jacques Vigneau and Anastasie Cyr, probably in the Madeleines in October 1816.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1817 and 1822, Marie gave Louis three children, a son and two daughters.   

Charles's second son Firmin, born in c1763, place unrecorded, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Bourg and Madeleine Cyr, probably in the Madeleines in February 1795.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1796 Anne gave Firmin two sons, both of whom created their own families.

Older son Joseph le jeune, born probably in the Madeleines in c1796, married Batilde, daughter of Jean Vignot and Marie Terriot, probably in the Madeleines in September 1815.  According to Bona Arsenault, Batilde gave Joseph a son in 1820. 

Firmin's younger son Jean, born probably in the Madeleines in c1796, married Esther, another daughter of Jean Vignot and Marie Terriot, probably in the Madeleines in November 1819.  According to Bona Arsenault, Esther gave Jean a daughter in 1821.   

Charles's third son Joseph le jeune, born probably on Île Miquelon in c1765, married cousin Élisabeth Boudrot probably in the Madeleines, date unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1787 and 1796, Élisabeth gave Joseph eight children, five sons and eight daughters, probably in the Madeleines.  All five of their sons created their own families.

Oldest son Benoît, born probably in the Madeleines in c1787, married first cousin Geneviève, daughter of his Louis Boudrot and Louise Dugas, his uncle and aunt, probably in the Madeleines in September 1803.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1807 and 1822, Geneviève gave Benoît six children, three sons and three daughters.

Joseph le jeune's second son Placide, born probably in the Madeleines in c1788, married Céleste, daughter of Étienne Vignot and Louise Cyr, probably in the Madeleines in September 1808.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1811 and 1816, Céleste gave Placide three sons.

Joseph le jeune's third son Joseph, fils, born probably in the Madeleines in c1789, married Marguerite, daughter of Amant Chiasson and Marguerite Doucet, probably in the Madeleines in November 1809.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1811 and 1821, Marguerite gave Joseph, fils five sons. 

Joseph le jeune's fourth son Charles le jeune, born probably in the Madeleines in c1793, married first cousin Sophie, another daughter of Louis Boudrot and Louise Dugas, probably in the Madeleines in August 1814.  According to Bona Arsenault, Sophie gave Charles two daughters in 1816 and 1819.

Joseph le jeune's fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably in the Madeleines in c1796, married first cousin Élizabeth, yet another daughter Louis Boudrot and Louise Dugas, probably in the Madeleines in September 1817.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1821 Élizabeth gave Jean-Baptiste a son. 

Charles's fourth and youngest son Thomas, born perhaps in the Madeleines in c1772, married Marie Landry probably in the Madeleines in c1795.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1802 and 1804, Marie gave Thomas two children, a son and a daughter. 

François's third son François, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1701, may have died young. 

François's fourth son Michel le jeune, born at Port-Royal in July 1706, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Anne-Marie, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Marie Thériot, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1725.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1740, Anne-Marie gave Michel four children, three sons and a daughter.  One wonders wha happened to the family in 1755.  Their daughter married into the Dupuis family.  All three of Michel's sons created their own families.  Two of them in fact married sisters of their sister's husband.  One of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. 

Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1728, married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Dupuis and Marie-Josèphe Dugas of Grand-Pré, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1750.  The British deported them to New York in late autumn of 1755.  One wonders what happened to them after 1755. 

Michel, le jeune's second son Michel, fils, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1729, married Anne-Marie, another daughter of Antoine Dupuis and Marie-Josèphe Dugas, in c1758 perhaps on Île Royale on the eve of the island's dérangment.  What happened to them after 1758?  According to Bona Arsenault, Michel, fils emigrated to Spanish Louisiana, but records there say otherwise. 

Michel, le jeune's third and youngest son Jean, born probabaly at Annapolis Royal in c1740, evidently escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawernce shore.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph dit L'Officier Guilbeau and Madeleine Michel, in the late 1750s during exile.  Sometime in the early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  The couple, sans children, appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Their son Jean-Charles dit Donat was born there soon after the counting.   In late 1764-65, Jean, Marguerite, and their infant son followed her parents to Louisiana.  In April 1765, at New Orleans, Jean's name appeared on a list of members of the recently-arrived Broussard party who sought to exchange their Canadian card money for legitimate French funds.  Later that month, Jean, Marguerite, and their son followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche in the Attakapas District, where they survived the epidemic that devastated the Teche valley community that summer and fall.  The couple had no more children in Louisiana.  Jean died by the late 1760s, in his mid- or late 20s, when his wife remarried at Attakapas.  Jean's son married into the Comeaux family and created a vigorous line of the family on the western prairies.

François's fifth son Charles, born at Port-Royal in March 1709, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Denis Petitot dit Saint-Seine and Marguerite Landry, at Annapolis Royal in November 1734 and likely settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1754, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles 10 children, three sons and seven daughters, including a set of twins.  They escaped the British in 1755 and made their way to Canada, where they were counted at Québec in 1758.  Charles died at Dechambault on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec and Trois-Rivières in March 1778, age 68.  One of his daughters, Nathalie, married into the de Fleury family at Deschambault.  According to Bona Arsenault, at least one of Charles's sons created his own family. 

Oldest son Isaïe, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1746, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Eustache Bélisle and Marie Rolet, at Deschambault in January 1773. 

François's sixth and youngest son Pierre dit Grand Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1712, married Madeleine, daughter of Ambroise Melanson and Françoise Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in January 1735.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1749, Madeleine gave Grand Pierre six children, all sons.  Grand Pierre remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Charles Belliveau and Marguerite Granger, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1753.  What happened to the family in 1755?  According to Bona Arsenault, one of Grand Pierre's sons by his first wife created his own family.

Third son Basile, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1739, evidentyl moved on to the French Maritimes and was deported to France in 1758.  He married Madeleine, daughter of Charles Mius d'Entremont and Marguerite Landry of Pobomcoup, at Très-Ste.-Trinité, Cherbourg, in May 1764 and died there, age 32, in September 1771.356

Bourg

Antoine Bourg, a late 1630s arrival, and his wife Antoinette Landry created one of the largest and most influential families in Acadia.  Between 1643 and 1667, Antoinette gave Antoine 11 children, five sons and six daughters, all of whom married.  Antoine died at Port-Royal between October 1687 and 1693, in his late 70s or early 80s.  His daughters married into the Breau, Belliveau, Boudrot, Brun, Comeau dit L'Esturgeon, and Allain families.  All five of Antoine's sons married and created vigorous lines.  His and Antoinette's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Chignecto, Minas and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin, Rivière St.-Jean, and in the French Maritimes, and their youngest son and a grandson became important colonial officials.  At least 116 of Antoine's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, Maryland in the late 1760s, and France in 1785.  Ninety-five of them came on six of the Seven Ships from France.  Only the Héberts and the Trahans outnumbered the Bourgs in the Seven Ships expedition.  However, a substantial number of Antoine's descendants could be found in Canada, greater Acadia, France, and the French Antilles after Le Grand Dérangement.  

Oldest son François, born at Port-Royal in c1643, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Boudrot and Michelle Aucoin, at Port-Royal in c1665 and remained there.  Between 1666 and 1684, Marguerite gave François seven children, three sons and four daughters.  François died at Port-Royal in c1684, in his early 40s, and his wife remarried to a Babineau.  Three of François's daughters married into the Richard, Maissonat dit Baptiste, LeBlanc, and Melanson families.  Two of his three sons created their own families.  The younger married son became an important colonial official.  

Oldest son Michel dit Michaud, born at Port-Royal in May 1666, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Charles Melanson and Marie Dugas, at Port-Royal in c1689 and settled at Chignecto.  Between 1690 and the early 1700s, at Port-Royal and Chignecto, Élisabeth gave Michaud 11 children, six sons and five daughters.  Michaud died probably at Chignecto between 1714 and November 1721, in his early 50s.  His five daughters married into the Cyr, Vigneau dit Maurice, Gaudet, Bourgeois, Thériot, and Hébert families.  Four of Michaud's five sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Michel, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1692, married Marie, daughter of Alexis Cormier and Marie LeBlanc, at Beaubassin in October 1713 and remained at Chignecto.  From the 1714 to 1737, Marie gave Michel, fils 11 children, six sons and five daughters, all of whom married.  Michel, fils died probably at Chignecto between February 1746 and August 1754, in his late 50s or early 60s.  His daughters married into the Poirier, Bourgeois, Richard, Leprince, Bergeron, and Vigneau families. 

Oldest son Michel dit Michaud le jeune, born at Chignecto in May 1719, married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of Claude Bourgeois and Anne Blanchard, at Beaubassin in January 1741 and settled there.  According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1759, at Chignecto, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Michaud le jeune six children, two sons and four daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1750 and 1755.  They likely escaped the roundup at Chignecto in 1755, took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, were captured by, or surrendered to, the British in the early 1760, held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war, and chose to resettled in French territory.  In 1767, the family was counted on Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the south coast of Newfoundland, before moving to Pigiguit, today's Windsor, in Nova Scotia.  According to Stephen White, Michaud le jeune, at age 61, remarried to Anne, daughter of Jacques Léger and Anne Amireau and widow of Louis Allain, in c1780 perhaps in Nova Scotia.  One suspects she gave him no more children.  Michel dit Michaud le jeune died at Cumberland, Nova Scotia, in November 1790, age 71.  Two of his daughters married into the Gautrot and Gaudet families.  One wonders if any of his sons created their own families. 

Michel, fils's second son Pierre dit Canique, born probably at Chignecto in c1722, married Anne dite Nanette, daughter of Pierre Cormier and Marie-Anne Cyr, at Beaubassin in February 1746.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1747 Nanette gave Canique a daughter.  According to Stephen White, Pierre remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Vigneau and Marguerite Arseneau, probably at Chignecto in c1750.  They evidently escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  White says Pierre remarried again--his third marriage--to Anne Richard, widow of Bénoni Granger, in c1756 while in exile.  Arsenault records this as Pierre's second marriage and says it occurred in c1750, perhaps a typo.  According to Arsenault, between 1757 and 1771, Marie-Anne, as he calls her, gave Pierre eight more children, six sons and two daughters, including a pair of twins--nine children in all.  The family was counted at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in 1765 and at St.-Charles-sur-Richelieu in the interior east of Montréal in c1771.  Pierre dit Canique died at St.-Charles-sur-Richelieu in June 1790, age 68.  One of his daughters by third wife Anne married into the Hogue family at St.-Charles.  Two of his six sons by third wife Anne created their own families. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born in exile in c1757, perhaps in Canada, where he married Marie-Louise, daughter of Canadians Jean Archambault and Marie-Charlotte Bousquet, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly upriver from St.-Charles on the Richelieu in November 1785. 

Pierre dit Canique's second son Basile, born in exile c1758, perhaps in Canada, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Canadians Jacques Denis dit Lafrance and Marie-Françoise Fournier, at Lavaltrie on the upper St. Lawrence below Montréal in June 1778. 

Michel, fils's third son Antoine-Bénoni, called Bénoni, born, according to Stephen White, in c1724 probably at Chignecto, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jacques Hébert and Jeanne Gautrot, probably at Chignecto in c1752.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Bénoni a son, Joseph, in c1756 during exile.  They likely escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Bénoni remarried to Félicité, daughter of Joseph Bourgeois and Anne LeBlanc and widow of Pierre Leprince, at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence in November 1760 while still in exile.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1766, Félicité gave Bénoni three more children, a son and two daughters.  They were counted on Rivière St.-Jean in 1763 but returned to Canada.  They were counted at Bécancour again in 1765.  Bénoni died at St.-Grégoire de Nicolet downriver from Bécancour in December 1813, age 89.  One of his daughters, Rosalie, by second wife Félicité, married into the Prince family, probably fellow Acadians, probably at Bécancour; Rosalie's son Jean-Charles Prince (1804-60) became the first bishop of the diocese of St.-Hyacinthe, Canada, in 1852.  Bénoni's son by first wife Marie-Josèphe created his own family.

Older son Joseph, born in exile in c1756, perhaps in Canada, followed his family to Rivière St.-Jean and back to Canada, where he married Marie-Anne, daughter of Antoine Desilets and Françoise LeBlanc, at Bécancour in January 1785. 

Michel, fils's fourth son Jacques dit Canique, born at Chignecto in May 1732, married Marguerite, another daughter of Pierre Cormier and Marie-Anne Cyr, at Chignecto in August 1754.  They evidently escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1755 and 1768, Marguerite gave Jacques six children, two sons and four daughters.  They were counted at Québec in 1758 and remained in Canada.  Jacques dit Canique died at St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu in January 1789, age 56.  Two of his daughters married into the Lafrenaye-Leclerc and Painchaud families at St.-Ours.  One wonders if any of Jacques dit Canique's sons created their own families in the northern province. 

Michel, fils's fifth son Jean dit Jeannotte, born at Chignecto in October 1734, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of François Arseneau and Anne Bourgeois, in c1760 during exile.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1765, Marie-Madeleine gave Jeannote four children, two sons and two daughters.  They may have eluded the British in 1755 but were captured later.  They appeared on a repatriation list in the prison barracks at Halifax in August 1763.  After the war, they followed other Acadian refugees to Île Miquelon, off the south coast of Newfoundland, where they were counted in 1766.  Perhaps to escape overcrowding on the island soon after their arrivaal, or perhaps, having been sent by French officials to France in 1767 to relieve overcrowding on the island, they returned to North America in 1768 and moved on to Cocagne on the lower Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they were counted in c1770.   Jeannotte died near Cocagne, New Brunswick, in January 1811, age 76.  One of Jeannotte's daughters married into the Hébert and Bourgeois dit Vielland families probably at Cocagne.  One of his sons created his own family there.

Younger son Fabien, born at either Halifax or on Île Miquelon in c1764, followed his family perhaps to France and back to North America, and certainly to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Anne, daughter of Michel Richard dit Laplate and Marguerite Babineau, in c1785 probably at Cocagne. 

Michel, fils's sixth and youngest son Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in c1737, evidently escaped the British roundup there in 1755, sought refuge in Canada, and married Marie, daughter of Michel Bergeron dit d'Amboise, in the early 1760s in Canada.  Joseph died at Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières in June 1797, age 60. 

Michaud l'aîné's second son François le jeune, born at Port-Royal or Chignecto in c1698, married Catherine, daughter of François Cormier and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Beaubassin in November 1721.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1722 and 1724, at Chignecto, Catherine gave François three children, a son and two daughters.  François remarried to Marie, daughter of Antoine Belliveau dit Blondin and Marie Thériot, probably at Chignecto in c1730, and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1746, at Chignecto, Marie gave François nine more children, six sons and three daughters--a dozen children in all.  The family escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  They were counted at Québec in 1758.  François died at Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières in January 1771, in his early 70s.  His five daughters by both wives married into the Gaudet, Blanchard, and Bergeron families.  Six of his seven sons by both wives created their own families.

Oldest son François, fils by first wife Catherine Cormier, born at Chignecto in c1723, followed his family to Canada, where he married Marie, daughter of Honoré Prince and Élisabeth Forest and widow of Jean Bourgeois, at Bécancour in February 1767 in his mid-40s.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave François, fils a son in 1768.  François, fils remarried to Madeleine, another daughter of Antoine Belliveau and Marie Thériot, at Nicolet below Bécancour in August 1783.  François, fils died at St.-Grégoire near Nicolet in May 1808, age 85.  His son created his own family.

Only son Michel, by first wife Marie Prince, born at Bécancour in c1768, married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Brassard and Marie-Antoinette Pinard, at Nicolet in November 1791. 

François, père's second son Pierre, the oldest by second wife Marie Belliveau, born at Chignecto in c1733, followed his family to Canada, where he married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Bourgeois and Anne LeBlanc of Annapolis Royal and widow of Joseph Dupuis, at Bécancour in February 1775 in his early 40s.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1776 and 1786, Marguerite gave Pierre five children, three sons and two daughters.  Pierre died at St.-Grégoire in September 1807, age 74.  One of Pierre's daughters married ia Belliveau cousin at St.-Grégoire.  Two of his three sons also created their own families in the area.

Oldest son Simon le jeune, born at Bécancour in c1776, married Rosalie, daughter of Charles Bergeron and Madeleine Poirier, at nearby Nicolet in June 1802.

Pierre's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Bécancour in c1779, married Louise, daughter of Jean Bruneau and Anne Babin, at St.-Grégoire in October 1802. 

François, père's third son Simon, born at Chignecto in c1735, followed his family to Canada, where he married Rosalie, daughter of Charles Gaudet and Marie Cormier, at Bécancour in February 1762 during exile.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1779, Rosalie gave Simon nine children, six sons and three daughters, including a set of twins.  Simon died at Nicolet downriver from Bécancour in June 1799, age 64.  One of his daughters married into the Bourgoies family at Nicolet.  Three of his six sons also created their own families.

Oldest son François-Simon, born at Bécancour in c1763, married Marie-Anne Comtois in c1785.

Simon's second son Charles, born at Bécancour in c1767, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Richard, at Nicolet in 1799, and remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of François Belliveau and Marie LeBlanc, at nearby St.-Grégoire in October 1803. 

Simon's sixth and youngest son Vital, born probably at Bécancour in c1777, married Marie, daughter of Antoine Rivard and Marie Beaudry, at St.-Grégoire in February 1804. 

François, père's fourth son Joseph, born at Chignecto in c1737, followed his family to Canada, where, at age 26, he married 17-year-old Marie Bergeron in c1763.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1786, Marie gave Joseph a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, including a set of twins.  Joseph died at Nicolet in June 1797, age 60.  Three of his daughters married into the Desilets, Richard, and Bergeron families.  Six of his eight sons created their own families. 

Second son Joseph, fils, born in Canada in c1764, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Prince and Marie Thibodeau, at Nicolet in November 1790. 

Joseph, père's fourth son Grégoire, born in Canada in c1768, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Prince and Madeleine Forest, at Nicolet in February 1797. 

Joseph, père's fifth son Michel, born in Canada in c1770, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter Jean-Baptiste Doucet and Marie Richard, at Trois-Rivières in February 1800. 

Joseph, père's sixth son Pierre, born in Canada in c1776, married Louise, daughter of Louis Doucet and Marguerite Belliveau, at St.-Grégoire in July 1806. 

Joseph, père's seventh son David, born in Canada in c1778, married Madeleine, daughter of Honoré Hébert and Madeleine Leprince, at St.-Grégoire in January 1806. 

Joseph, père's eighth and youngest son François le jeune, born in Canada in c1786, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Hébert and Perpétué Landry, at St.-Grégoire in February 1803. 

François, père's fifth son Jean, born at Chignecto in c1742, followed his family to Canada, where he married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Poirier and Marguerite Cyr, at Québec in August 1764.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1768, Marguerite gave Jean three children, two sons and a daughter.  Jean died at St.-Denis on Rivière Richelieu east of Montréal in May 1770, age 28.  One of his sons created his own family.

Younger son Joseph le jeune, born in Canada in c1766, married Marie-Madeleine Lauzière at Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières in August 1805. 

François, père's seventh and youngest son Raphaël, born at Chignecto in c1746, followed his family to Canada, where he married Marie, daughter Jean Poirier and Madeleine Forest, at Bécancour in November 1771.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1795, Marie gave Raphaël 11 children, seven sons and four daughters.  Arsenault says that Raphaël helped establish the settlement of Godefroy near Bécancour.  One of his daughters married into the Hébert family at nearby Nicolet.  His three oldest sons created their own families.

Oldest son Raphaël, fils, born at Bécancour in c1772, married Marie, daughter of Louis Desilets and Catherine Frigon, at Trois-Rivières in August 1802.

Raphaël, père's second son Pierre-Noël, born at Bécancour in c1775, married Marie Brassard in c1798. 

Raphaël, père's third son François le jeune, born at Bécancour in c1783, married Marguerite, daughter of David Belliveau and Marie Gaudet, at St.-Grégoire in January 1809. 

Michaud l'aîné's third son Pierre, born probably at Chignecto in the early 1700s, married Cécile, another daughter of François Cormier and Marguerite LeBlanc, probably at Chignecto in c1722 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1741, at Chignecto, Cécile gave Pierre four children, a daughter and three sons.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1755.  They may have escaped the British roundup, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area, held in a Nova Scotia prison compound for the rest of the war, and, after the war ended, chose to resettle on the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon.  Pierre's daughter married into the Poirier family, no place given.  Two of his three sons also created their own families, one of them on one of the Newfoundland islands.

Older son Pierre-Paul, born at Chignecto in c1738, followed his family into exile, perhaps to the Gulf shore, and married Madeleine, daughter of Paul Sire or Cyr and Marie-Josèphe Richard, on Île Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland in January 1764 after imprisonment in Nova Scotia.  They were counted on the island on 1767 and 1776.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1775, Madeleine gave Pierre six children, four sons and two daughters.  After the British captured the island in 1778 during the American War for Independence, they deported Pierre and his family to La Rochelle, France, where he died in 1779, age 41.  His widow and children--Arsenault does not name them--returned to North America pobably in 1784 and settled on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  Three of her four sons created their own families on the islands.

Second son Joseph, born on Île Miquelon in c1767, followed his family to France and back to North America and married Madeleine Haché probably in the Madeleines in c1792.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1793 and 1808, Madeleine gave Joseph eight children, five sons and three daughters.  At least one of their sons created his own family.

Second son Joseph-Constant, born probably in the Madeleines in c1796, married Julie, daughter of Joseph Gaudet and Marguerite Boudrot, probably in the Madeleines in September 1820.  According to Bona Arsenault, Julie gave Joseph-Constant a daughter in 1822.

Pierre-Paul's third son Mèlem, born on Île Miquelon in c1773, followed his family to France and back to North American and married Brigitte, daughter of Joseph Boudrot and Louise Arsenault, probably in the Madeleines in October 1798.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1799 and 1815, Brigitte gave Mèlem six children, three sons and three daughters.

Pierre-Paul's fourth and youngest son Pierre, born on Île Miquelon in c1775, followed his family to France and back to North America and married Angélique, daughter of Joseph Bourgeois and Angélique Boudrot, probably in the Madeleines in July 1800.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1801 and 1811, Angélique gave Pierre five children, a son and four daughters. 

Pierre's younger son Jean, born at Chignecto in c1740, followed his family into exile and married Jeanne Chiasson in c1763, no place given.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1764 and 1766, Jeanne gave Jean two children, a son and a daughter.  They were counted on Île Miquelon in 1764 and 1766.  One wonders what happened to them in 1767 and 1778. 

Michaud l'aîné's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Chignecto in the early 1700s, married Marie, daughter of Claude Thériot and Marguerite Cormier, probably at Chignecto in c1733 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1748, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste three children, a son and two daughters.  They were counted at Aulac west of Rivière Missaguash in 1754.  One wonders what happened to them the following year.  One of their daughters married into the Thibodeau family from Chepoudy after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Michaud l'aîné's fifth son Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in the late 1700s or early 1710s, married Anne, daughter of Alexis Cormier and Marie LeBlanc, probably at Chignecto in c1733 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1746, at Chignecto, Anne gave Joseph six children, four sons and two daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  One of their daughters married into the Bourgeois family on Île St.-Jean and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Two of Joseph's four sons created their own families and remained in greater Acadia. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born at Chignecto in c1733, followed his family into exile, perhaps to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and married Catherine, daughter of Ambroise Comeau and Marguerite Cormier of Chepoudy, in c1760 while in exile, perhaps on the Gulf shore.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1783, Catherine gave Joseph, fils 10 children, five sons and five daughters, including a set of twins.  After the war, they settled in the British-controlled fishery at Bonaventure in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, present-day Québec Province.  Joseph, fils's daughters married into the Landry, Robichaud, Arsenault, Guignard, and Bourdages families at Bonaventure.  Two of his five sons created their own families.

Oldest son Joseph III, born probably at Bonaventure in c1776, married Jeanne-Rebecca, daughter of Pierre Loubert and Euphrosine Landry, at Bonaventure in January 1799.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1800 and 1823, Jeanne gave Joseph III a dozen children, nine sons and three daughters.  Their daughters married into the Lavache, Poirier, and Gauthier families at Bonaventure.  Three of Joseph III's sons created their own families there. 

Fourth son Joseph IV, born at Bonaventure in c1806, married Rose, daughter of Alexandre Bernard and Élizabeth Arsenault, at Bonventure in 1834.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1837 and 1847, Rose gave Joseph IV five children, two sons and three daughters.

Joseph III's eighth son Hubert, born at Bonaventure in c1816, married Rose, daughter of Alain Bujold and Geneviève Cayouette, at Bonaventure in August 1841.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1842 and 1857, Rose gave Hubert eight children, five sons and three daughters.

Joseph III's ninth and youngest son Pierre, born at Bonaventure in c1819, married Monique, daughter of Hilarion Albert and Marie Landry of Grande-Anse, New Brunswick, at Bonaventure in May 1849.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1849 and 1859, Monique gave Pierre six children, five sons and a daughter. 

Joseph, fils's third son Jean-Urbain, born probably at Bonaventure in c1779, married Julienne, daughter of Pierre Poirier and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Bonaventure in January 1802.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1803 and 1807, Julienne gave Jean-Urbain three children, two sons and a daughter.  Their daughter married into the Bujold family at Bonaventure, and both of their sons created their own families there.

Older son Pierre-Joseph, born at Bonaventure in c1803, married Louise, daughter of Jean Goulet and Appoline Comeau of Maria, at Bonaventure in September 1831.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1834 and 1849, Louise gave Pierre-Joseph eight children, five sons and three daughters. 

Jean-Urbain's younger son Jean-Ubald, born at Bonaventure in c1805, married Lucille, daughter of Jean-Marie Bernard and Lutine Babin and widow of Joseph Cayouette, at Bonaventure in October 1833.

Joseph, père's fourth and youngest son Jean, born at Chignecto in c1746, followed his family into exile, perhaps on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and married Marie, daughter of Pierre Surette and Catherine Breau of Minas, in c1765, place unrecorded.  The marriage was blessed at Halifax in June 1769.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1765 and 1766, Marie gave Jean two daughters.  They settled on Rivière St.-Jean, present-day New Brunswick, in 1770. 

Michaud l'aîné's sixth and youngest son Alexandre, born probably at Chignecto in the late 1700s or early 1710s, evidently did not survive childhood.   

François's second son Alexandre dit Bellehumeur, born at Port-Royal in c1671, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Melanson and Marguerite Mius d'Entremont, at Port-Royal in c1694 but settled at Minas, where, from 1711 to 1744, Alexandre served as a surveyor, a delegate to the colonial Council, and as a judge and notary.  Between 1695 and 1722, at Minas, Marguerite gave Bellehumeur 15 children, seven sons and eight daughters.  A widower, he followed his daughter Anne, wife of resistance fighter Joseph LeBlanc dit Le Maigre, to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, where a French official counted them in February 1752; the official said Bellehumeur was age 84.  Probably in 1758, after the fall of Louisbourg that July, Bellehumeur followed his daughter's family across Mer Rouge into refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He died at Richibouctou on the Gulf shore in 1760, in his late 80s (his burial record says he was 102!).  His daughters married into the LeBlanc, Babin, Doucet, Godin dit Lincour and dit Châtillon dit Préville, and Landry families.  One of the younger ones emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.  Five of Bellehumeur's eight sons created their own families.  His youngest son emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. 

Oldest son Pierre, born at Minas in the early 1700s, may not have survived childhood. 

Bellehumeur's second son Alexandre, fils, born at Minas in October 1709, married Marie, daughter of René Hébert and Marie Boudrot, at Grand-Pré in January 1734.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1755, Marie gave Alexandre, fils seven children, five sons and two daughters.  They evidently escaped the British in 1755 and found refuge in Canada.  Arsenault says Alexandre, fils was a flour vendor at St.-François-du-Sud near Montmagny on the St. Lawrence below Québec in 1768.  He died at St.-François-du-Sud in June 1770, age 60.  One of his daughters married into the Dumas family at Montmagny.  Four of his five sons created their own families there.

Alexandre, fils's second son Joseph le jeune, born probably at Minas in c1747, followed his family to Canada, where he married Marie-Félicité, daughter of Jean Morin and Félicité Lemieux, at Montmagny in January 1776. 

Alexandre, fils's third son François, born probably at Minas in c1749, followed his family to Canada, where he Marie-Louise, daughter of Charles Doyon and Marie-Louise Rancourt, at St.-Joseph-de-Beauce on Rivière Chaudière in the interior south of Québec City in November 1775, and remarried to Marie-Louise Dion at Ste.-Marie-de-Beauce farther downriver in February 1794. 

Alexandre, fils's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Minas in c1750, followed his family to Canada, where he married Marie-Françoise, daughter of Antoine Morin and Marguerite Daviau, at Montmagny in October 1770. 

Alexandre, fils's fifth and youngest son Paul, born at either Minas or in exile in 1755, followed his family to Canada, where he married Marguerite Bernard at Montmagny in September 1787. 

Bellehumeur's third son Paul, born at Minas in c1715, married Judith, daughter of Guillaume Hébert and Marie-Josèphe Dupuis, at Grand-Pré in February 1740 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1747, Judith gave Paul four children, two sons and two daughters.  The British deported them to Pennsylvania in 1755.  They were still there in June 1763.  Paul died probably in Pennsylvania before November 1771.  One wonders why they remained in the Quaker colony. 

Bellehumeur's fourth son Michel, born at Minas in c1717, married Jeanne, also called Anne, daughter of Étienne Hébert and Anne Dugas, probably at Minas in c1743 and settled at Village des Aucoin at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1754, at Minas, Jeanne gave Michel seven children, three sons and four daughters.  The British deported them to Virginia in 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England in 1756.  Wife Jeanne died there, and Michel remarried to Brigitte, daughter of René Martin and Marie Mignier and widow of Séraphin Breau, in England in January 1759.  They were repatriated to France aboard La Dorothée in May 1763 with other Acadians in England and settled at St.-Suliac, on the river south of St.-Malo.  They were counted at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1766 but did not remain in France.  In 1771, one of their married daughters returned to North America, followed by a son in 1772 via one of the British-controlled Channel Islands off the western coast of Brittany.  The rest of the family followed in 1774.  Back in North America, they helped establish the Acadian settlement at the British-controlled fishery at Carleton in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, where their oldest son was serving as a missionary.  According to Stephen White, Michel died soon after the family reached the warm water bay.  His daughters from both wives married into the Gravois, Bourg, LeBlanc, Richard, and Arsenault families in France and Gaspésie, and one of them, Marie-Madeleine by first wife Jeanne, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Île St.-Pierre in 1788.  One of Michel's three sons became a priest in France and served as a missionary in Gaspésie, and another of Michels's son created his own family in Gaspésie. 

Oldest son Joseph-Mathurin, called Mathurin, born at Minas in c1744, followed his family to Virginia, England, and France.  In 1767, at age 23, he went to Paris with stepbrother Jean-Baptiste Breau to study for the priesthood with Father du Saint-Esprit.  Mathurin and Jean-Baptiste were sent to Canada in 1772 to serve as a missionaries on the Baie des Chaleurs, where their family joined them two years later.  Mathurin remained at his post on Chaleur Bay until 1795 and died at St.-Laurent near Montréal in August 1797, age 53. 

Michel's second son Charles, born at Minas in c1750, followed his family to Virginia, England, and France.  In March 1772, with the purpose of returning to North America, he slipped away to the British-controlled Isle of Jersey off the western coast of Brittany, and his family followed two years later.  Charles married Théotiste, daughter of Jean Savoie and Anne Landry of Miramichi, at Carleton in Gaspésie in June 1778, where his older brother was serving as a missionary.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1779 and 1792, Théotiste gave Charles five children, two sons and three daughters.  His three daughters married into the Bernard, Degrâce, LeBlanc, and Caissie families at Carleton.  His two sons also created their own families there.

Older son Édouard-Jean-Michel, born at Carleton in c1781, married Henriette, daughter of Claude Landry and Hélène Dugas, at Carleton in November 1810.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1811 and 1813, Henriette gave Édouard two children, both daughters.  He remarried Félicité, daughter of Pierre Audet and Louise Arsenault, at Carleton in January 1817.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1818 and 1821, Félicité gave Édouard three more daughters.

Charles's younger son Constant-Amand, born at Carleton in c1792, married Clarisse, daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Françoise Dugas, at Carleton in November 1810, on the same day his older brother Édouard married his first wife.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1813 and 1826, Clarisse gave Constant eight children, two sons and six daughters. 

Michel's third and youngest son Pierre, born at Minas in c1752, followed his family to Virginia, England, and France.  Did he also accompany them to North America in the 1770s, or did he remain in the mother country? 

Bellehumeur's fifth son Bénoni, born at Minas in November 1718, married Françoise, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Anne Thériot, at Grand-Pré in January 1745 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1745 and 1747, Françoise gave Bénoni two children, a daughter and a son.  The British deported them to Pennsylvania in 1755.  They were still there in June 1763.  Bénoni died probably in Pennsylvania before November 1771.  Why did they remain in the British colony? 

Bellehumeur's sixth son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in October 1720, may not have survived childhood. 

Bellehumeur's seventh and youngest son Joseph, born at Minas in May 1722, married Marie Landry probably at Minas in c1744 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1748, Marie gave Joseph three children, two sons and a daughter, but other records hint that she gave him at least six children.  The British deported them to Pennsylvania in 1755.  They were still there in June 1763, when Joseph wife Marie and six children appeared on a repatriation list circulating in the colony.  Perhaps soon after the counting they slipped away and returned to Nova Scotia.  Joseph, Marie, and five of their children, four sons and a daughter, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Joseph died before July of that year, when his wife remarried to a Savoie widower in New Orleans, so Joseph may not have survived the voyage.  Marie took her children to the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans and died by October 1766, when her second husband remarried at New Orleans.  Joseph's daughter Marguerite married into the Cormier family at Cabahannocer and followed her husband across the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District, where, still in her 20s, she died by January 1779, when her husband remarried.  Two, perhaps three, of Joseph's four sons created their own families on the river and the prairies. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born at Minas in December 1745, followed his family to Pennsylvania, Nova Scotia, and Louisiana, settled with them at Cabahannocer, and may have married fellow Acadian Marie Dugas at New Orleans in c1768.  One wonders if he fathered any children and if he remained at Cabahannocer.

Joseph's second son Pierre, born at Minas in c1750, followed his family to Pennsylvania, Nova Scotia, and Louisiana.  He married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Cormier, père and Madeleine Richard of Chignecto and sister of his sister Marguerite's husband, at St.-Jacques of Cabahannocer in January 1772.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1771[sic] and 1778, Anastasie gave Pierre six children, a son and six daughters, but Louisiana records give them two more sons in 1781 and 1788.  Their daughters married into the Guidry and LeBoeuf families.  Two of Pierre's three sons married into the Oubre and Belmere families on the river, but only one of the lines endured. 

Joseph's third son Jean, born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in c1759, followed his famliy to Nova Scotia and Louisiana and settled with them at Cabahannocer on the river, but he did not remain there.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and Marguerite Dugas, at Opelousas west of the Atchafalaya Basin in March 1784.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1786 and 1810, Marguerite gave Jean 13 children, six sons and seven dauthters, but Louisiana records give them seven sons.  Jean died at his home at La Prairie Basse du Grand Coteau at the southern edge of St. Landry Parish in January 1814, age 55.  His daughters married into the Babineaux, Beard, Benoit, Breaux, Caruthers, and Royer families on the prairies.  Five of his seven sons married into the Mayhe, Léger, Desormeaux, Savoie, and Richard families, but not all of the lines endured. 

Joseph's fourth and youngest son Charles, born c1762 probably in Pennsylvania, followed his parents to Nova Scotia and Louisiana and settled with them at Cabahannocer, where, at age 15, he was counted with brother Pierre in January 1777.  He then disappears from the historical record.  He probably did not marry. 

François's third and youngest son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1683, survived childhood but did not marry. 

Antoine's second son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1646, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Martin and Catherine Vigneau, at Port-Royal in 1667.  Between 1668 and 1690, Marguerite gave Jean nine children, two sons and seven daughters.  Jean died at Port-Royal between 1693 and 1698, in late 40s or early 50s.  Six of their daughters married into the Thibodeau, Naquin dit L'Étoile, Dubois, Robichaud dit Cadet, Gaudet, Turpin dit La Giroflée, Triel dit Triquel dit Patron, and Guérin dit Laforge families.  Both of Jean's sons created families of their own at Minas and Cobeguit.

Older son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1684, married Marie-Catherine, daughter of Nicolas Barrieau and Martine Hébert, probably at Port-Royal in c1706 and settled at Minas.  Between 1707 and 1717, at Minas, Marie-Catherine gave Jean, fils six children, four sons and two daughters, all of whom married.  Jean, fils remarried to Françoise, daughter of Martin Aucoin and Marie Gaudet, probably at Minas in c1719.  Between 1720 and 1732, at Minas, Françoise gave Jean, fils six more children, two sons and four daughters.  Jean, fils took his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Jean, fils, Françoise, and four of their unmarried children at Rivière-de-l'Ouest on the south side of the island near son Charles and his family.  Jean, fils died on the island in February 1757, age 74.  His daughters by both wives married into the Dugas, Breau, LeBlanc, Doiron, Pitre, and Landry families at Cobeguit and on Île St.-Jean.  Five of his six sons from both wives created their own families, most of them devastated by the deportations of 1758.

Oldest son Jean III (who Bona Arsenault attributes to Jean's first cousin Michel dit Michaud), by first wife Marie-Catherine Barrieau, born at Minas in c1707, married Marie, daughter of Marc Pitre and Jeanne Brun and widow of Charles Lapierre, in c1733 probably at Minas and moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1751.  According to Arsenault, between 1735 and 1748, Marie gave Jean III five children, three sons and two daughters.  In August 1752, a French official counted Jean III, Marie, and their five children at Rivière-des-Blonds on the south shore of the island near his brothers Alexandre and François.  The British deported Jean III and his family to France in 1758.  Wife Marie died at sea.  Oldest daughter Marguerite died in a St.-Malo hospital in March 1756, age 26, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Jean III died at Village aux Génilles near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, on the river south of St.-Malo, in April, age 52, probably from the rigors of deportation.  His remaining daughter, Marie, married into the Henry family in France.  All three of his sons created their own families in the mother country, and one of them, along with a nephew, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. 

Oldest son Jean IV, born probably at Minas in c1735, followed his family to Île St.-Jean.  He married Marie Aucoin in c1758 on the eve of the island's dérangement.  They survived the deportation to St.-Malo and settled at nearby Pleudihen-sur-Rance.  Between 1760 and 1764, Marie gave Jean IV three children, a son and two daughters, but the younger daughter died young.  Jean IV remarried to Anne-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Daigre and Marie Breau, at Pleudihen in May 1767.  Between 1768 and 1785, at Pleudihen, Anne-Josèphe gave Jean IV 13 more children, four sons and nine daughters, four of whom, a son and three daughters, died young.  As the birth dates of his younger children indicate, Jean IV did not take his family to Poitou in the early 1770s nor to Nantes later in the decade.  In 1785, only a few weeks after their youngest daughter was born, Jean IV, Anne-Josèphe, and eight of their children, three sons and five daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  His oldest children from first wife Marie--Joseph-Firmin and Rose-Perrine, who would have been ages 25 and 24 in 1785--and a daughter from his second wife--Anne-Jeanne, only age 10 in 1785--either died in France or chose to remain in the mother country (one suspects that the 10-year-old was dead by then).  From New Orleans, Jean IV and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  Anne-Josphe gave Jean IV no more children in Louisiana.  Their three youngest children, two sons and a daughter, evidently died at Bayou des Écores.  When the Acadians abandoned the settlement in the early 1790s, Jean IV took his family to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Four of his daughters, all from second wife Anne-Josèphe, married into the Comeaux, Albert, Aucoin, and Henry families on the river and on the upper Lafourche.  Only one of his sons married, into the Comeau family, but his family line did not survive. 

Jean III's second son François, born probably at Minas in c1738, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Anne Aucoin, perhaps the sister of his older brother, in c1758 on the eve of the island's dérangement.  They survived the deportation to St.-Malo and settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance.  Between 1760 and 1774, Anne gave François seven children, a son and six daughters, but the son and three of youngest daughters did not survive childhood.  François, evidently a sailor, died at age 36 "on le Roche de L'isle Aigot" in March 1775 and was buried at Pleudihen.  His two older daughters married into the Daigre family in France.  None of them, nor their mother Anne, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785. 

Jean III's third son Charles, born probably at Minas in c1746, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo, France, where he worked as a seaman.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Thibodeau and Susanne Comeau, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance in January 1768.  Between 1769 and 1771, at Pleudihen, Anne gave Charles three children, a son and two daughters, but the daughters died young.  Charles took his family to Poitou in 1773, and Anne gave him two more children there, a daughter and a son, but they lost this daughter as well.  Charles, Anne, and their two sons retreated to the port city of Nantes with dozens of other Poitou Acadians in November 1775.  She gave him two more sons there in 1776 and 1779, but both of them died in childhood.  Charles died at Nantes by December 1781, when Anne remarried in Ste.-Croix Parish to a Frenchman from Rennes, Brittany.  She and her second husband remained in France in 1785.  Her younger Bourg son, Alexis, born at Châtellerault in July 1774, evidently remained with her.  Her older Bourg son, however, emigrated to the Spanish colony.

Oldest son Pierre-Jean, born at La Villeger near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in August 1770, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes.  Still in his teens, he was the only member of his immediate family to go to Louisiana, likely aboard one of the Seven Ships in 1785.  He first appears in Louisiana records on upper Bayou Lafourche in January 1791.  He worked as an engagé, or hired hand, with several families into the late 1790s and married Madeleine-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre-Olivier Pitre and Rosalie Hébert of Nantes, at Assumption on the upper bayou in June 1798.  Their daughter married into the Guillot family.  Seven of Pierre-Jean's eight sons also married, into the Roger, Thibodeaux, Boudreaux, Hernandez, Guillot, LeBlanc, and Lopez families, and most of the lines endured in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

Jean, fils's second son Alexandre, by first wife Marie-Catherine Barrieau, born at Minas in January 1709, married Ursule, daughter of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry, at Grand-Pré in October 1735 and moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1750.  Between 1736 and 1757, Ursule gave Alexandre eight children, three sons and five daughters.  In August 1752, a French official counted Alexandre, Ursule, and six of their chldren at Rivière-des-Blonds near his brothers Jean and François on the south shore of the island.  Alexandre died during the deportation to St.-Malo, France, in 1758, age 49.  Four of his younger children also died at sea; only a married son and his son's wife, and two of Alexandre's daughters, survived the crossing with wife Ursule.  She settled with her son and daughters at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across from St.-Malo and remarried to a Melanson widower there in April 1761; she gave him no more children.  Two of Alexandre's daughters married into the Doiron and Henry families in France, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Only one of Alexandre's three sons created a family of his own. 

Oldest son Joseph le jeune, born probably at Minas in c1736, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Marguerite Aucoin in c1758, on the eve of the island's dérangement.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, soon after their marriage, they survived the crossing and settled at St.-Énogat near his widowed mother and two sisters.  Between 1760 and 1777, at St.-Énogat, Marguerite gave Joseph 10 children, three sons and seven daughters, but three of them died young.  Joseph le jeune did not take his family to Poitou or Nantes, nor did he and his family emigrate to Spanish Louisiana.  He may have been the Joseph Bourg, an aging fisherman, counted at Pleurtuit near St.-Énogat in 1793 during the French Revolution.  One wonders how many of his remaining children--Joseph, fils, born in May 1760; Jean-Christophe, born in December 1761; Hélène-Germain in March 1765; Marguerite-Josèphe in August 1767; Anne-Françoise in May 1769; Isabelle-Laurence in August 1773; and Charles-Simon in July 1777--created their own families in the mother country.   

Jean, fils's third son Joseph, by first wife Marie-Catherine Barrieau, born at Minas in c1711, married Françoise, daughter of Joseph Dugas and Claire Bourg, probably at Minas in c1735 and moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1751.  (Bona Arsenault attributes Joseph to Jean, fils's cousin Pierre à Martin.)  According to Arsenault, between 1736 and 1752, Françoise gave Joseph eight children, four sons and four daughters.  In August 1752, a French official counted Joseph, Françoise, and their eight children on the north side of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the interior of the island.  Joseph remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Henry and Marie Hébert, at Port-La-Joye on the island in July 1754.  According to Bona Arsenault, who does not mention Joseph's first marriage, Marie gave Joseph another son on the island in c1756.  The British deported them to France in 1758.  Joseph died in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, France, in December 1758, age 47, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  One of Joseph's younger daughters married into the Longuépée family in France and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  His oldest son emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, so he may not have accompanied his family to France. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, by first wife Françoise Dugas, born probably at Minas in c1735, was counted with his family at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in August 1752.  He may have returned to British Nova Scotia sometime between then and 1755, escaped the British roundup in 1755, and joined other Acadian refugees on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, or he may have left Île St.-Jean between 1755 and 1758 and gone from the island directly to the Gulf shore.  It is also possible, but not likely, that he followed his family to France in 1758 but managed to return to North America soon after his arrival.  He married Anne-Marguerite or Marguerite-Anne Léger in the late 1750s or early 1760s while in exile, either was captured by, or surrendered to the British, and ended up in a Nova Scotia prison camp with hundreds of other Acadians.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1761 and 1763, Anne-Marguerite gave Joseph three children, twin daughters and a son.  In 1765, now a widower with two young children (one of his twin daughters having died by then), he followed other Acadian refugees in Nova Scotia to Louisiana and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  He remarried to fellow Acadian Marie LeBlanc, widow of Joseph Richard, at Cabahannocer in March 1767.  Arsenault says that between 1766[sic] and 1771, Marie gave Joseph four more children, two sons and two daughters.  Louisiana records show that in May 1771 Marie gave Joseph a set of twins, a son and a daughter.  She may have died giving birth to them.  Joseph remarried again--his third marriage--to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles La Croix dit Durel and Judith Chiasson of Île St.-Jean and widow of Joseph Préjean, at Ascension on the river above Cabahannocer in June 1772.  They remained at Cabahannocer, later called St.-Jacques and St. James.  Arsenault says Marguerite gave Joseph another daughter in 1774.  Joseph died in St. James Parish in January 1812, in his late 70s.  His daughters by his three wives married into the Vesiers, Torbert, Gravois, Causin, and Verret families.  Two of his sons by his first two wives--the older one born in Nova Scotia, the younger one the twin born at Cabahanncoer--married into the Blanchard and Mire families and created lasting lines on the river.  The younger son's line was especially vigorous. 

Jean, fils's fourth son François l'aîné, by first wife Marie-Catherine Barrieau, born at Minas in c1717, married Marie-Josèphe, another daughter of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry, at Grand-Pré in November 1739, settled at Cobeguit and moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1751.  Between 1740 and 1754, at Cobeguit and on Île St.-Jean, Marie-Josèphe gave François seven children, three sons and four daughters.  In August 1752, a French official counted François, Marie-Josèphe (he called her Marguerite), and five of their children at Rivière-des-Blonds on the south shore of the island near his brothers Jean and Alexandre.  Marie-Josèphe died on the island soon after 1754.  The British deported François and his children to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  François, age 41, died during the crossing, as did his three youngest children, a son and two daughters.  Another daughter died in a St.-Malo hospital in March 1759.  His only remaining daughter, Françoise, married into the Henry family in France.  His two older sons also created their own families there and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana, but neither of the lines seems to have survived there. 

Older son Charles le jeune, born at Cobeguit in c1740, followed his family to Île St-Jean and his widowed father to St.-Malo, France.  He settled at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across from St.-Malo, and married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Françoise Thériot, at nearby Pleurtuit in February 1767.  They remained at St.-Énogat.  In 1773, they did not go to Poitou with most of the other Acadians in the St.-Malo area, nor did they move on to Nantes in 1775-76 when most of the Poitou Acadians resettled there.  They did emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed most of their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores on the river above Baton Rouge.  In the early 1790s, when most of the Acadians at Bayou des Écores abandoned the settlement, Charles and Marguerite resettled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where they evidently spent their final days.  They evidently were that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

François l'aîné's younger son Jean le jeune, born probably at Cobeguit in c1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and his widowed father to St.-Malo, France.  He settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  In March 1760, he signed on for corsair duty aboard La Biche, was captured by the Royal Navy, and held in an English prison-of-war compound until the end of the war.  In May 1763, he was repatriated to France with other Acadians in England and returned to St.-Malo.  He joined his older brother at St.-Énogat and married Marie, daughter of Ambroise Dupuis and Anne Aucoin of Minas, at Plouër-sur-Rance, south of St.-Énogat, in February 1768.  Between 1769 and 1772, at St.-Énogat, Marie gave Jean le jeune four children, a son and three daughters, but the son and one of the daughters died young.  Jean le jeune took Marie and their two daughters to Poitou in 1773.  In 1774, Marie gave him another daughter there, but the baby died in September 1775.  Three months later, Jean le jeune, Marie, and their two remaining daughters retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where Marie gave Jean le jeune another daughter in October 1776.  They were back at St.-Énogat, probably by ship, in August 1778.  From then until 1785, at St.-Énogat, Marie gave Jean le jeune four more children, three sons and a daughter--10 children in all--but the daughter and one of the sons evidently died young.  Jean le jeune, Marie, and their five remaining children, two sons and three daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They followed the most of their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores on the river above Baton Rouge.  When the Acadians abandoned the settlement in the early 1790s, Jean le jeune and his family were among the minority of them who remained.  Sons Yves-Jean and Jean-Baptiste-Simon-Louis, ages 6 and 1 in 1785, may not have survived childhood or even the crossing from France; Louisiana records reveal no marriages for them.  Nor do any of Jean le jeune's three daughters--Marguerite-Marie, Isabelle-Germaine, and Marie, ages 16, 12, and 8 in 1785--appear in Louisiana marriage records.  Daughter Isabelle-Germaine may have resettled on upper Bayou Lafourche and lived to a ripe old age. 

Jean, fils's fifth Charles, by second wife Françoise Aucoin, born at Minas in c1720, married Madeleine-Marguerite Blanchard perhaps at Minas in c1746 and moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1755, Madeleine-Marguerite gave Charles five children, two sons and three daughters.  In August 1752, a French official counted Charles, Madeleine, and three of their children at Rivière-de-l'Ouest on the south side of the island near his father.  They evidently left the island before the British roundup of 1758 and sought refuge in Canada.  Charles died at Québec in December 1757, age 37, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees there that fall and winter. 

Jean, fils's sixth and youngest son François le jeune, by his second Françoise Aucoin, born at Minas in c1732, survived childhood but did not marry.    

Jean, père's younger son Louis (who Bona Arsenault calls François-Louis and attributes to Jean's younger brother Martin), born probably at Port-Royal in c1690, married Cécile, daughter of François Michel and Marguerite Meunier, in c1721, place unrecorded, and moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1750.  According to Arsenault, between 1722 and 1744, Cécile gave Louis eight children, four sons and four daughters.  In August 1752, a French official counted Louis, Cécile, and seven of their children at Rivière-aux-Crapauds on the south shore of the island near his married son Jean-Baptiste.  Louis died in 1758 during the crossing to France, in his late 50s.  Wife Cécile did not remarry in France.  After burying three of her sons there, she may have followed her youngest son from Pleudihen-sur-Rance to Poitou and Nantes in the 1770s and died at St.-Martin de Chantenay, near Nantes, in August 1781, age 86.  Two of her daughters married into the Guillot, Metra, and Hamon families in France.  All four of her sons created their own families on Île St.-Jean and in France.  None of them, including the youngest, were still living when hundreds of their fellow Acadians emigrated to Louisiana in 1785, but Cécile's married daughters, as well as her youngest son's widow and three of her sons, did go to the Spanish colony. 

Oldest son Eustache, born in Nova Scotia in c1722, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Marguerite, daughter of Abraham Daigre and Marie Boudrot, at Port-La-Joye on the island in October 1752, two months after a French official had counted him with his parents and siblings at nearby Rivière-aux-Crapauds.  Between 1752 and 1757, Marguerite gave Eustache three children, two sons and a daughter, on the island.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Eustache, age 36, and all of his children died during the crossing.  Eustache, in fact, died in the English port of Plymouth when their ship took refuge there before moving on to St.-Malo.  Widow Marguerite, alone now, survived the crossing.  In April 1759, three months after reaching St.-Malo, she secured permission to move on to Cherbourg in Normandy.  In November 1763, at Le Havre, where she evidently resettled, she remarried to a Lavergne from Chignecto. 

Louis's second son Jean-Baptiste, born in Nova Scotia in c1723, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Marie-Françoise, called Françoise, daughter of Thomas Doiron and Anne Girouard, at Port-La-Joye in January 1751.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1752 and 1753, Françoise gave Jean-Baptiste two children, a son and a daughter.  In August 1752, a French official counted Jean-Baptiste, Françoise, and their 7-month-old son at Rivière-aux-Crapauds on the south shore of the island near his parents and siblings.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758. 

Louis's third son Louis, fils, born in Nova Scotia in c1731, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Anne, daughter of Germain Pitre, in c1758 on the eve of the island's dérangement.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Louis, fils died at the hospital in St.-Malo in March 1759, age 28, from the rigors of the crossing, before he could father any children.  His widow Anne Pitre remarried to a Gautrot widower at St.-Suliac, south of St.-Malo, in November 1764, gave him more children, and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Louis, père's fourth and youngest son Charles, born in Nova Scotia in c1738, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo, France, where he married Madeleine Blanchard in c1759 soon after reaching the port.  Between 1760 and 1773, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance, on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, Madeleine gave Charles seven children, three sons and four daughters, four of whom, three daughters and a son, died young.  Charles took his family, likely including his mother Cécile, to Poitou in 1773.  Madeleine gave him another son there in 1776, but the boy died less than a week after his birth.  In early 1776, Charles, Madeleine, and their three remaining children, probably with his mother Cécile in tow, retreated with dozens of other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Madeleine gave Charles another son there in 1777--nine children in all.  Charles died at Nantes before September 1784, in his 40s.  Oldest son Lucien married probably at Nantes in the early 1780s.  In 1785, Widow Madeleine, who never remarried, took her two unmarried sons to Louisiana.  Her married son also took his family there.  The younger sons created their own families in the Spanish colony.  One wonders if Charles and Madeleine's oldest daughter Cécile-Jean[sic], born at Pleudihen-sur-Rance in April 1760, survived childhood, and, if so, did she marry in France; she did not go with her family to Louisiana. 

Oldest son Lucien, born at Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in October 1763, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and became a carpenter.  He married Marie-Élisabeth or -Isabelle, daughter of Pierre Trahan and Marguerite Duhon of Rivière-aux-Canards, probably at Nantes in the early 1780s.  They followed his widowed mother and two younger brothers to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, but they did not follow them and most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Instead, they followed Marie-Élisabeth's family to the Attakapas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin and settled on upper Bayou Vermilion.  Marie-Élisabeth was pregnant on the voyage and gave birth to their first child, a son, at Attakpas in April 1786.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1786 and 1803, Marie-Isabelle gave Lucien six children, three sons and three daughters.  Lucien died in Lafayette Parish in September 1841, age 77.  His daughters married into the Broussard, Duhon, and Montet families.  All three of his sons married, into the Duhon, Landry, and Parr families, and established lasting lines on the western praires. 

Charles's third son Jean-Charles, called Charles, born at Pleudihen-sur-Rance in July 1773, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and younger brother to Spanish Louisiana.  He lived with his mother and younger brother on upper Bayou Lafourche until 1798, when he followed her to the Attakapas District, where his older brother had settled in 1785.  Charles, at age 34, married Marie-Louise, daughter of Jean Trahan and Madeleine Hébert of Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, at Attakapas in October 1798, on the same day and at the same place where his younger brother Joseph-Florent married Marie-Louise's sister.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1802 and 1803, Marie-Louise gave Charles two daughters.  He died "of dropsy" in Lafayette Parish in January 1824, age 50.  One of his daughters married into the Frederick family.  Having had no sons, this family line, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou States.

Charles's fifth and youngest son Joseph-Florent, the second with the name, baptized at St.-Martin de Chantenay, near Nantes, in October 1777, followed his widowed mother and older brother to Spanish Louisiana.  He lived with his mother and brother on upper Bayou Lafourche until 1798, when he followed them to the Attakapas District, where his oldest brother had settled in 1785.  At age 21, Joseph married Jeanne-Félicité, called Félicité, another daughter of Jean Trahan and Madeleine Hébert, at Attakapas in October 1798, on the same day and at the same place where his older brother Jean-Charles married Félicité's sister.  According to Bona Arsenault, from 1799 to 1810, Félicité gave Joseph four children, two sons and two daughters, but Louisiana records give them a third son.  Joseph died in Lafayette Parish in March 1840, age 62.  His daughters married into the Desormeaux and Mire families.  Two of his three sons married into the Thibeaux and Landry families and established vigorous lines on the prairies.

Antoine's third son Bernard, born at Port-Royal in c1648, married Françoise, daughter of Vincent Brun and Renée Breau, at Port-Royal in c1670 and remained there.  Between 1671 and 1692, Françoise gave Bernard 13 children, two sons and 11 daughters.  Bernard died at Port-Royal, date unrecorded.  Nine of his daughtesr married into the Daigre, Dugas, Guilbeau, Melanson, Babineau dit Deslauriers, and Granger families.  Only one of his two sons created his own family, but the line was a vigorous one. 

Older son René, born at Port-Royal in c1676, survived childhood but did not marry. 

Bernard's younger son Abraham le jeune, born at Port-Royal in c1685, married Marie, daughter of Claude Dugas and Françoise Bourgeois, at Port-Royal in November 1709 and remained there.  Between 1712 and 1735, Françoise gave Abraham le jeune 11 children, seven sons and four daughters, all of whom married.  Abraham le jeune died at Annapolis Royal in April 1751, age 66.  His daughters married into the Comeau, Babineau dit Deslauriers, Pellerin, and Amireau families.  

Oldest son François, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1712, married Madeleine, daughter of Alexandre Comeau and Marguerite Doucet, at Annapolis Royal in November 1735.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1750, at Annapolis Royal, Madeleine gave François seven children, four sons and three daughters.  According to Stephen White, François died at Annapolis Royal in April 1751, age 39, on the same day and at the same place where his father died.  According to Arsenault, at least one of François's sons created his own family. 

Oldest son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1736, escaped the British in 1755 and married Marie Girouard in c1759 during exile.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Joseph a daughter at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in September 1760, soon after the British attacked the French stronghold.  Joseph likely was one of the Joseph Bourgs counted with a thousand other Acadians at Restigouche in late October 1760.  One wonders what happened to him and family after 1760. 

Abraham le jeune's second son Claude, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1716, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Alexandre Lord and Marie-Françoise Barrieu, at Annapolis Royal in January 1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1754, at Annapolis Royal, Marie-Josèphe gave Claude three children, all sons.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Did they escape the British, seek refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, surrender to, or were captured by, British forces in the area, and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia?  Claude died in exile before 1760, in his 40s, while being held in the prison compound at Halifax.  One wonders what happened to his wife and sons. 

Abraham le jeune's third son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1718, married Marguerite-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Charles Blanchard and Madeleine Girouard, at Annapolis Royal in January 1744.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1758, at Annapolis Royal, Petitcoudiac, and in exile, Madeleine gave Joseph five children, all daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  According to Stephen White, Joseph died between 1754 and 1757, place not mentioned, but Arsenault contends that Joseph à Abraham settled at Batiscan on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec and Troise-Rivières in c1766 after Le Grand Dérangement.  According to Arsenault, four of Joseph's daughters married into the Caissie, Thifault, and Lemnay families at Batiscan. 

Abraham le jeune's fourth son Honoré, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1720, married Madeleine, daughter of François Amireau and Madeleine Lord of Pobomcoup, at Annapolis Royal in February 1749 and settled there.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Abraham le jeune's fifth son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1726, married Cécile, daughter of René Doucet and Marie Broussard, at Annapolis Royal in January 1752.  According to Bona Arsenault, Cécile gave Charles a daughter in 1753.  Arsenault says the British deported Charles and his family to Massachusetts in 1755, but Charles appeared on a repatriation list in Connecticut in 1763.  Cécile and their daughter, whose name, Arsenault says, has been lost to history, died either at Annapolis Royal or in New England during exile.  Charles remarried to Anne, daughter of Joseph Richard and Anne Bastarache, in Connecticut in February 1764 and sanctified the marriage at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, today's Chambly, east of Montréal, in October 1768.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1779, in New England and Canada, Anne gave Charles nine more children, seven sons and two daughters.  According to Bona Arsenault, at least four of Charles's sons, all by second wife Anne, created their own families in Canada.

Second son Jean-Joseph, born perhaps in Connecticut in c1766, followed his parents to Canada and married Louise, daughter of Pierre Dumas and Charlotte-Perrine Boutin, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in September 1793. 

Charles's fourth son Joseph, born probably at Chambly, Canada, in c1772, married Marguerite, daughter of Nicolas Arcan and Marguerite Frenet, at nearby St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in July 1799. 

Charles's fifth son Pierre, born probably at Chambly in c1773, married Marie-Émery, daughter of Marie-Ours Coderre and Josephte Casavant, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in October 1794. 

Charles's sixth son Alexis-Amable, born probably at Chambly in c1774, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Renaud and Marguerite Audet-Lapointe, in September 1797. 

Abraham le jeune's sixth son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1731, evidently escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  He married Marie-Thérèse, daughter of Pierre Daunay and Marie-Josèphe Denoyon, at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Canada, in February 1772. 

Abraham le jeune's seventh and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1735, likely escaped the British in 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, but may have surrendered to, or been captured by, them in the early 1760s.  After the war with Britain ended in 1763, he moved to Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where he married Jeanne, daughter of Claude Chaillou and Marthe Bastrate and widow of Nicolas Cuomel, in October 1763.  In 1764 and 1767, she gave him a son and a daughter on Île St.-Pierre and on nearby Île Miquelon.  In 1767, French authorities compelled Jean-Baptiste and other island Acadians to emigrate to La Rochelle, France, to ease overcrowding on the Newfoundland islands.  They did not return to the fishery islands with other Acadians in 1768.  In 1769 and 1771, Jeanne gave Jean-Baptiste two more sons probably at La Rochelle.  In 1773, Jean-Baptiste took his family to Poitou.  Sadly, their oldest son died at Monthoiron near Châtellerault, in July 1774, but Jeanne gave Jean-Baptiste another son there in June 1775--five children, four sons and a daughter, in all.  In March 1776, Jean-Bapiste, Jeanne, and their four remaining children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Jean-Baptiste died at the Hôtel-Dieu there in August 1777, age 42.  Widow Jeanne, still unmarried, emigrated with her four children to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Jeanne died before December 1795, when her children were counted in a Lafourche valley census without her.  Daughter Marie-Geneviève married into the Moulard family at New Orleans soon after they reached the Spanish colony and followed her family to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Jeanne's three remaining Bourg sons reached adulthood in Louisiana, but only two of them created their own families there.

Second son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at La Rochelle, France, in c1769, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother to Louisiana.  He married François-Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians François Blanchard and Hélène-Judith Giroir and widow of Jean-Charltes Gautrot, at Ascension on the river above New Orleans in February 1793 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Jean-Baptiste, fils died in Assumption Parish in April 1831, age 62.  Two of his eight sons married Moulard and Bourg cousins on the river and on Bayou Lafourche, and the lines likely survived. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's third son André, born in France in c1771, followed his famliy to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother to Louisiana.  He was counted with her on upper Bayou Lafourche in  January 1791, age 19, but then disappears from the historical record.  He probably did not marry.

Jean-Baptiste, père's fourth and youngest son Charles, born at Monthoiron, Poitou, France, in June 1775, followed his family to Nantes and his widowed mother to Louisiana.  He married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dupuis and his second wife Marie Landry of Minas, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in February 1797; Élisabeth also had been born in Poitou.  Charles died in Assumption Parish in November 1828, age 54.  Two of his five sons married into the Thériot and Dupuis on the upper bayou, and the lines likely endured. 

Antoine's fourth son Martin, born at Port-Royal in c1650, married Marie, daughter of ___ Potet and Marie Gautrot, at Port-Royal in c1674 and settled at Cobeguit in the early 1700s.  Between 1676 and the early 1700s, Marie gave Martin 11 children, seven sons and four daughters.  Martin died at Cobeguit, no date given.  His daughters married into the Thériot and Aucoin families.  Five of his seven sons created their own families.  

Oldest son Abraham le jeune, born at Port-Royal in c1678, married Anne, daughter of Claude Dugas and Françoise Bourgeois, probably at Port-Royal in c1704 and settled at upper Cobeguit, where he served as a delegate to the colonial Council.  Between 1707 and 1710, Anne gave him three children, a son and two daughters.  Abraham le jeune remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean Thériot and Jeanne Landry, probably at Cobeguit in 1711.  Between 1712 and the early 1730s, at Cobeguit, Marie gave Abraham le jeune six more children, four sons and two daughters--nine children in all.  His daughters by both wives married into the Robichaud, Hébert, and Dugas families.  Four of his five sons by both wives created their own families. 

Oldest son Pierre, by first wife Anne Dugas, born at Cobeguit in October 1707, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Gautrot and Louise Aucoin, probably at Cobeguit in c1735, though Bona Arsenault insists that Pierre à Abraham married Marie Landry in c1728.  According to Arsenault, Marie gave Pierre a daughter in c1730 who married into the Vécot family on Île St.-Jean.  According to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France, between 1737 and 1747, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre four children, two sons and two daughers.  Stephen White says Pierre died before 23 January 1759, which implies that his entire family had moved on to the French Maritimes, probably Île St.-Jean, and was deported to France in 1758.  Robichaux agrees:  Pierre, age 51, died at sea during the crossing.  Younger daughter Marguerite-Josèphe, age 12, died at St.-Malo in early February 1759, soon after reaching the Breton port, and older son Ambroise, age 19, died at St.-Malo in March, most likely from the rigors of the crossing.  Widow Marie-Josèphe took her two remaining children to Pleslin on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo.  She did not remarry.  Daughter Françoise-Josèphe emigrated to Spanish Louisiana with her younger brother, lived to a ripe old age, and never married, but her brother did. 

Second son Jean-Pierre le jeune, also called Pierre, fils, born probably at Cobeguit in c1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St-Malo and settled with his widowed mother and older sister at Pleslin.  In 1768, at age 25, he began studying for the priesthood under the notorious Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre but ended his studies in 1772 after the abbé died.  Jean-Pierre le jeune evidently returned to Pleslin to live with his mother and sister.  He worked as a foreman.  In 1785, now age 42 and still single, he emigrated to Spanish Louisiana with his older sister and an umarried cousin, Élisabeth, daughter of Claude Bourg.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  At age 46, in June 1789, Jean-Pierre le jeune married Marguerite, 46-year old daughter of Michel Richard and Françoise Thériot, at St.-Jacques of Cabahannocer on the river, but they settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Despite her age, Marguerite gave Jean-Pierre a son, Jean-Pierre, fils, who died in May 1806, age unrecorded, but he could not have been more than 15 or 16.  This line of the family died with him. 

Abraham le jeune's second son, name unrecorded, from second wife Marie Thériot, born at Cobeguit in the early 1710s, died an infant. 

Abraham le jeune's third son Jean-Pierre, by second wife Marie Thériot, born at Cobeguit in the late 1710s, married Élisabeth, daughter of Jean Hébert and Marie-Marguerite Landry, probably at Cobeguit in c1742.  According to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France, Marie-Josèphe, age 9, and Théodore, age 12, orphan children of Jean Bourg and Isabelle Hébert, were deported to St.-Malo, France, probably from Île St.-Jean in 1758 with the family of François Bourg and survived the crossing.  Stephen White says Jean-Pierre à Abraham died before 23 January 1759, so the childrens' parents evidently did not survive the crossing.  Robichaux says Marie-Josèphe lived with her brother at Pleslin near St.-Malo until she died there in December 1762, age 13.  Her brother, on the other hand, survived childhood and created his own family.

Only son Théodore, born probably at Cobeguit in c1746, accompanied his family to Île St.-Jean and his younger sister to St.-Malo in 1758 and settled at nearby Pleslin.  He married Anne, daughter of Joseph Granger and Marguerite Gautrot and widow of Pierre Bonnière, at St.-Coulomb, in the countryside east of St.-Malo, in June 1764 and settled there.  Between 1765 and 1770, Anne gave Théodore four children, a son and three daughters, but the youngest daughter died young.  Théodore, Anne, and their three remaining children did not go to Poitou in 1773 or to Nantes with other St.-Malo-area Acadians later in the decade, but they did emigrate to Louisiana in 1785, directly from St.-Malo.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Anne gave Théodore no more children in the Spanish colony.  Their daughters married into the Simoneaux and Daunis families on the Lafourche.  Théodore's only son married into the LeBlanc family and settled on the bayou.  

Jean à Abraham le jeune, Bona Arsenault insists, married Marie-Anne Térriot in c1735 and that she gave him two sons in c1741 and 1742, perhaps at Cobeguit.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1755.  Arsenault says both of Jean's sons by Marie-Anne created their own families during and after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Older son François, born probably at Cobeguit in c1741, married Isabelle, daughter of Jean Broussard and Anne LeBlanc, at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia, in August 1768.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1771 and 1772, Isabelle gave François two children, a son and a daughter.  Arsenault gives no clue as to François's comings and goings during and after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Jean's younger son Jean, fils, born probably at Cobeguit in c1742, married Marie Hébert in c1762 during exile.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1769, Marie gave Jean, fils three children, all sons.  Jean, fils remarried to Anne, daughter of Louis Belliveau and Louise Haché of Annapolis Royal, in c1770.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Jean, fils a daughter in 1773.  Again, Arsenault gives no clue as to Jean, fils's comings and goings during and after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Abraham le jeune's fourth son Alexandre, by second wife Marie Thériot, born at Cobeguit in c1719, married Marguerite-Josèphe Hébert probably at Cobeguit in c1747 and moved on to the French Maritimes after 1752.  Between 1747 and 1754, at Cobeguit and in the Maritimes, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Alexandre four children, all daughters.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  The two younger daughters died at sea.  Alexandre, Marguerite-Josèphe, and their remaining daughters settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, and Marguerite-Josèphe gave him no more children there.  Alexandre took his family to Poitou in 1773 and died at Senillé near Châtellerault in October 1774, age 55.  Marguerite-Josèphe and her two Bourg daughters retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where her younger daughter Marguerite married into the Aucoin family, bore a son, and soon became a widow, too.  Older daughter Marie-Rose died in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in February 1782, age 33.  Marguerite-Josèphe, her widowed daughter, and grandson Firmin Aucoin emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  The daughter remarried into the Garidel family in the Spanish colony, but her mother never remarried. 

Abraham, le jeune's fifth and youngest son Joseph, by second wife Marie Thériot, born at Cobeguit in c1733, followed his family to the French Maritimes and married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of Paul Dugas and Anne-Marie Boudrot, probably on Île St.-Jean in c1758 on the eve of the island's dérangement.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, soon after their marriage, and Marguerite-Josèphe died at sea.  She gave him no children.  Joseph remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Granger and Anne Richard and widow of Alain Bugeaud of Grand-Pré, at Pleurtuit on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo in June 1760.  They settled across the river St.-Coulomb before moving to the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Between 1761 and 1770, Marie-Madeleine gave Joseph six children, four sons and two daughters, but the oldest son died in childhood.  Joseph took his family to Poitou in the early 1770s.  In March 1776, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where their oldest surviving son married.  In 1785, Joseph, Marie-Madeleine, and four of their unmarried children, two sons and two daughters, emigrated to Louisiana.  Their married son and his family also went there on the same vessel.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Wife Marie-Madeleine, age 54 when they reached New Orleans, gave Joseph no more children in the Spanish colony.  Their older daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Bujole family on the river.  Their younger daughter Élisabeth-Blanche lived to a ripe old age but never married.  Three of Joseph's sons married into the Dugas, Bujole, Landry, Boudrot, and Hébert families in France and in Louisiana, and two of them created substantial lines on Bayou Lafourche.

Martin's second son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1682, married Marguerite, daughter of Martin Blanchard and Marguerite Guilbeau, in c1706 and also settled at Cobeguit.  According to Stephen White, between 1708 and the mid-1710s, Marguerite gave Pierre five children, all sons, three of whom married.  Bona Arsenault insists that Marguerite gave Pierre another son named Joseph in c1711 (White attributes him to Pierre's cousin Jean, fils) and a daughter named Anne in c1722 who married two Blanchard cousins.  Pierre died at Cobeguit before Le Grand Dérangment, date unrecorded. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Cobeguit in July 1708, if he survived childhood may not have married. 

Pierre, père's second son François, born at Cobeguit in c1709 (Bona Arsenault says c1717), married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Hébert and Marie-Marguerite Landry, in c1735 probably at Cobeguit.  Arsenault says Marguerite gave François a daughter in 1738.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France shows that Marguerite gave him two sons as well in c1741 and c1744.  Their daughter Marguerite- (Arsenault calls her Madeleine-)Josèphe married into the Robichaud family probably at Cobeguit.  François remarried to Émilie, also called Émilienne, daughter of Philippe Thibodeau and Isabelle Vincent and widow of Pierre Doiron, in c1746 probably at Cobeguit and moved on to Île St.-Jean perhaps in late 1755 or early 1756 to avoid the British roundups in Nova Scotia.  Between 1748 and 1756, at Cobeguit and on the island, Émilie gave François four more children, a son and three daughters--seven childrens in all.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Wife Émilie and all four of their children either died at sea or in a St.-Malo hospital soon after the family reached the Breton port.  François died in the hospital at St.-Malo in February 1759, age 50, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Only François's older children from his first marriage survived the crossing, but all of his Robichaux grandchildren also died at sea.  Both of his remaining sons created their own families in France, and his daughter Marguerite-Josèphe and son-in-law Alexandre Robichaux had many more children there.  One of François's sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  The other one remained in France. 

Older son Athanase, by first wife Marguerite Hébert, born probably at Cobeguit in c1741, followed his father and stepmother to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo and settled at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across from St.-Malo, where he worked as a sailor and navigator.  He married cousin Luce or Louise, daughter of Joseph Breau and Ursule Bourg, at nearby St.-Suliac in February 1768.  In 1769 and 1773, Luce gave Athanase three sons, but two of them died young.  He took his family to Poitou in 1773, and Luce gave him another son there in 1775.  In December of that year, Luce and her sons followed other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Athanase was not with them.  He likely had become so frustrated with providing a living for his family in Poitou that he returned to sea.  When his third son died in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in June 1776, age 3, one wonders if Athanase was back with his family to mourn the loss of another child.  In 1779 and 1785, at Nantes, Luce gave him two more children, another son and a daughter--six children in all.  These youngest children also did not survive childhood.  Athanase, Luce, and their remaining son emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.  The death of their daughter, Marie-Rose, in late June 1785, in fact, forced the family to take a later ship to the Spanish colony.  When they reached Louisiana, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Athanase died by January 1788, when his wife was listed in a Lafourche valley census as a widow.  She had given him no more children there.  Their remaining son married, into the Melanson family, and settled on the upper Lafourche.

François's younger son Joseph, by first wife Marguerite Hébert, born at Cobeguit in c1744, followed his father and stepmother to Île St.-Jean and his older married sister and her family to St.-Malo.  He settled near them and his older brother at St.-Énogat and married cousin Anne, daughter of Joseph Melanson and Anne Bourg, at St.-Énogat in January 1767.  Between 1768 and 1779, Anne gave Joseph ten children, three sons and seven daughters, but six of them, all of the sons and three of the daughters, died young.  Joseph did not take his family to Poitou or Nantes, nor did he and his family emigrate to Spanish Louisiana.  One wonders how many of his remaining children--Marguerite-Théodose, born in November 1768; Jeanne-Perrine in August 1772; Josèphe-Marguerite in September 1773; and Anne in January 1775--married in the mother country. 

Pierre, père's third son, his name unrecorded, born at Cobeguit in the early 1710s, died probably as an infant. 

Pierre, père's fourth son Jean, born at Cobeguit in c1713, married Françoise, daughter of Jean Benoit and Marie-Anne Breau, in c1740 probably at Cobeguit and moved on to Île Royale in the late 1740s or early 1750s.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1756, at Cobeguit and in the French Maritimes, Françoise gave Jean six children, two sons and four daughters, but other records give them two more sons--eight children in all.  In late March 1752, a French official counted Jean, Françoise, and six of their children at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse in the interior of Île Royale near his first cousin Pierre à Ambroise.  The British deported Jean and his family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  One of their daughters died at sea.  Jean, age 46, Françoise, age 35, and youngest son Théodore, age 7, died at St.-Suliac near St.-Malo in June 1759, three months after reaching the port.  Six of Jean and Françoise's children survived the crossing, but two of the younger sons, Joseph and Jean-Baptiste, ages 8 and 6 in 1758, may have died in France, dates unrecorded.  Jean's three remaining daughters married into the Hébert and Gautrot families at St.-Suliac and Nantes.  The youngest, Marie, died at Nantes in November 1780, and her older sisters, Luce-Perpétué and Gertrude, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785, where Luce-Perpétué remarried into the Mazerolle family.  Jean's oldest son created his own family in France and also emigrated to the Spanish colony. 

Oldest son Marin, also called Martin, born at Cobeguit in c1741, followed his family to Île Royale and St.-Malo.  He lived with his parents and younger siblings at St.-Suliac, remained there after his parents died, and married Marie-Osite, called Osite, daughter of Olivier Daigre and Angélique Doiron of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, at Plouër-sur-Rance, across the river from St.-Suliac, in January 1763.  Between 1764 and 1781, at Plouër, Marie-Osite gave Marin nine children, five sons and four daughters, all of whom, amazingly, survived the rigors of childhood in a refugee community.  Marin did not take his family to Poitou or Nantes, but he did take them to Louisiana directly from St.-Malo in 1785.  They followed mosts of their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District above Baton Rouge.  Marie-Osite gave him had no more children in the Spanish colony.  Like most of their fellow Acadians at Bayou des Écores, they did not remain.  In the mid-1790s, after a series of hurricanes caused extensive flooding along the bayou, most of Marin's family followed other Acadians to upper Bayou Lafourche; one of the daughters and her husband, as well as a son and his wife, resettled at Baton Rouge.  Marin died at either Bayou des Écores or on the upper Lafourche by December 1795, when Marie-Osite was counted in a Lafourche valley census without a husband.  Their daughters married into the Aucoin, Dupuis, Felteman, and Landry families at Bayou des Écores, Baton Rouge, and on Bayou Lafourche.  All five of Marin's sons married, into the Aucoin, Blanchard, Bertrand, and Breau families, and settled on the river and Bayou Lafourche.

Pierre, père's fifth and youngest son Claude, born probably at Cobeguit in the 1710s, married Anne, daughter of Joseph Henry and Christine Pitre, in c1751 (Bona Arsenault says c1755) probably at Cobeguit.  Arsenault says Anne gave Claude a son, Jean-Michel, in c1757.  If Stephen White's marriage date is followed here, and it is, they may also have had a daughter, Élisabeth/Isabelle, born at Cobeguit in c1752.  Claude, Anne, and their daughter may have escaped the British roundup in the Minas Basin between the summer of 1755 and the spring of 1756 and sought refuge, along with the entire population of Cobeguit, on Île St.-Jean.  If Claude and Anne were still alive, the British likely deported them to France in 1758.  Their infant son may not have survived the crossing, but daughter Isabelle, who would have been age 6 in 1758, certainly did.  If she was an orphan when she reached the mother country--the port of her arrival unknown--she probably lived with relatives until she came of age.  In her early 30s, still unmarried, perhaps motivated by a widower she had met at Nantes, she emigrated to Louisiana with two older Bourg cousins.  She married François, son of locals Jean Friou and Antoinette Pru of Paimboeuf, France, and widower of Susanne Robichaux, at New Orleans in September 1785 soon after they reached the Spanish colony aboard the same vessel.  She settled with her French husband and teenage stepson on upper Bayou Lafourche, where she gave François more children, including at least two more sons.  Isabelle died in Assumption Parish in December 1819.  The priest who recorded the burial said she was age 76 at the time of her death, but he likely meant to write 67.  If she was the daughter of Claude Bourg and Anne Henry of Cobeguit, the blood of that family line, at least, survived in the Bayou State. 

Martin's third son Ambroise, born at Port-Royal in c1686, married Élisabeth, daughter of Pierre Melanson and Marie Blanchard, in c1714 probably at Annapolis Royal and may have remained there.  After 1717, Élisabeth gave Ambroise five children, three sons and two daughters, all of whom married.  Their daughters married into the LeBlanc, Daigre, and Pitre dit Marc families. 

Oldest son Ambroise, fils, born in the mid- or late 1710s, probably at Annapolis Royal, married Anne, daughter of Antoine Breau and Marguerite Dugas, in c1745 probably at Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Ambroise, fils a son, Ambroise III, in c1757, place unrecorded. 

Ambroise, père's second son Pierre le jeune, born in c1717, married Madeleine, daughter of Charles Hébert and Marguerite Dugas, in c1751 at either Cobeguit or in the French Maritimes.  According to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine (he calls her Marguerite) gave Pierre a daughter in c1756.  In late March 1752, a French official counted Pierre le jeune, Madeleine, and their infant child, as yet unnamed, at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse in the interior of Île Royale near his first cousin Jean à Pierre.  Pierre le jeune and his family perished aboard the British transport Duke William, which sank in a North Atlantic storm in December 1758 on its way to St.-Malo, France. 

Ambroise, père's third and youngest son Joseph married Julie Arseneau in c1769.  One wonders where. 

Martin's fourth son François, born at Port-Royal in c1688, married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Hébert and Isabelle Pellerin, at Grand-Pré in 1717 and remained there.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France, as well as Stephen White's work and Louisiana records, reveal that François and Madeleine had, between 1721 and 1744, at least seven children, four sons and three daughers, that the family moved on probably to Île St.-Jean after 1752, and that François and Madeleine's children, at least, were deported to France in 1758.  All three of their daughters married:  Anne into the Blanchard family either at Minas or on Île St.-Jean and the Dugas family in France; Françoise into the Naquin family on Île St.-Jean and the Guillot family in France; and Luce-Perpétué into the Hébert family in France and the Boudrot and Gautrot families in Louisiana.  Daughter Anne also emigrated to the Spanish colony.  Three of François's four sons created their own families, but only one of the lines survived, in Louisiana.

Oldest son Michel, born, Albert Robichaux insists, "on Isle St. Jean" in c1721, but it likely was at Minas late in the decade, married Cécile, daughter of François Moyse dit Latreille, fils and Marie Brun, probably at Minas in c1749 and followed his family to Île St.-Jean.  Between 1751 and 1758, at Minas and on the island, Cécile gave Michel four children, two sons and two daughters.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  All four of their children died at sea, and Michel died in St.-Malo in March 1759, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Widow Cécile, now alone, settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of Rivière Rance, where she remarried to a Dugas widower in June 1768.  She gave him no more children, at least who appeared in French records, and died in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in December 1776, age 52. 

François's second son Pierre, born probably at Minas in c1730, followed his family to Île St.-Jean.  He was still single when the British deported him to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  He traveled on a different ship from most of the rest of the family--they on one of the so-called Five Ships, he, younger sister Françoise and her family on Supply. He reunited with his family at St.-Suliac after he reached St.-Malo in March 1759.  He married Anne-Marie, daughter of Jacques Naquin and Jeanne Melanson, sister of his sister Françoise's first husband Joseph, at St.-Suliac in January 1761.  Between 1763 and 1772, Anne-Marie gave Pierre six children, two sons and four daughters, but all but one of the daughters and the younger son died young; the oldest daughter, in fact, died of smallpox at age 10.  The family lived for a time in La Rochelle, where Anne-Marie gave Pierre another daughter in c1774.  Pierre and his family went to Poitou that year, but, like most of the Acadians who had gone there, they did not remain.  They retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in March 1776.  In 1779 and 1781, Anne-Marie gave Pierre two more children, a daughter and a son--nine children in all--but the two youngest ones also died young.  They also buried their 16-year-old daughter Marguerite in St.-Nicolas Parish in October 1784.  Pierre, Anne-Marie, and their remaining three children, a son and two daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Pierre died by January 1788, when his wife was listed in a Lafourche valley census as a widow; one wonders if he even survived the crossing to Louisiana.  Widow Anne-Marie did not remarry.  She died in Assumption Parish in September 1822, in her mid-80s.  Older daughter Jeanne remained a spinster and died in Assumption Parish in February 1839, age 73.  Younger daughter Georgine-Victoire married into the Daigle family on Bayou Lafourche.  Anne-Marie and Pierre's surviving son married into the Livois family in the Spanish colony and settled on the Lafourche. 

François's third son Anselme, born probably at Minas in c1736, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo, France.  Less than a week after his arrival, he died in the hospital at St.-Malo in February 1759, age 33, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  He did not marry. 

François's fourth and youngest son Alain, born probably at Minas in c1741, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo, France.  He settled with his family at St.-Suliac, where he worked as a day laborer.  In 1761, now age 20, he signed up for corsair service aboard Le Tigre and was promptly captured by the British.  He remained in an English prison from March of that year until the end of the war two years later.  After his return to St.-Malo in June 1763, he lived with younger sister Luce-Perpétué at St.-Sulaic.  He married cousin Anne-Marie, daughter of Joseph Comeau and Marguerite Hébert, at St.-Suliac in January 1764.  From 1764 to 1773, Anne-Marie gave Alain seven children, three sons and four daughters, but only three of them, a son and both daughters, survived childhood.  Alain took his family to Poitou in 1773, and Anne-Marie gave him another son there.  In 1775 or 1776, they followed other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where they appear on a church record in July 1776.  Between 1776 and 1783, in St.-Similien and St.-Nicolas parishes, Anne-Marie gave Alain five more children, all of them sons.  All but one of them died young.  They also buried 12-year-old Marguerite-Tarsile in St. Nicolas Parish in August 1782, and their son who been born in Poitou also died at Nantes.  When Alain and Anne-Marie emigrated to Louisiana in 1785, only three of their 13 children, a son and two daughters, followed them there.  Daughter Marie-Geneviève married into the Dugas family in the Spanish colony.  Youngest son Louis-Alexis, called Alexis, age 2, appears on the embarkation but not the debarkation record of Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, so the boy evidently died at sea.  Alain died in Assumption Parish in October 1827, age 86.  Only the blood of this long-suffering family survived in the Bayou State. 

Martin's fifth son Charles, born at Port-Royal in c1698, married Cécile, another daughter of Pierre Melanson and Marie Blanchard, probably at Minas in c1720 and moved to Cobeguit by the 1730s.  From the early 1720s to the late 1730s, at Minas and Cobeguit, Cécile gave Charles at least four children, two sons and two daughters.  Older daughter Cécile married into the Breau family in the early 1740s.  According to Stephen White, Charles died before 1750, likely at Cobeguit.  Daughter Cécile and her family moved on to Île Royale, where a French official counted them at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse in the interior of the island in March 1752.  From the summer of 1755 to the spring of 1756, the entire population of Cobeguit escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia by fleeing across Mer Rouge to Île St.-Jean.  Charles's widow Cécile, if she was still alive, and her three younger children may have been among the ones who fled.  Her younger daughter Marguerite-Josèphe married into the Henry family on Île St.-Jean in May 1756.  Her older son married there a year later.  The British deported members of the family to France in 1758.  Cécile likely had died by then.  Her children sailed aboard different vessels and landed in Cherbourg in Normandy as well as St.-Malo in Brittany.  Older daughter Cécile died at St.-Malo in November 1758, one of the many passengers who died from the rigors of crossing aboard the transport Duc Guillaume.  Charles and Cécile's three younger children survived their sojourn in France and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Older son Ambroise le jeune, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1732 (Bona Arsenault says c1736), followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Anne-Josèphe, daughter of Claude Pitre and Isabelle Guérin at Port-La-Joye on the island in June 1757.  The British deported them to Cherbourg, France, in 1758.  Anne-Josèphe gave Ambroise a daughter in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in December 1759.  Five days after their daughter was born, Anne-Josèphe died, evidently from the rigors of giving her birth.  Ambroise remarried to Marie-Modeste, daughter of Jacques Molaison and Cécile Melanson of Pobomcoup, at Très-Ste.-Trinité in July 1763.  They lived for a time across the bay at Le Havre before moving on to St.-Malo in January 1773.  Between 1764 and 1783, at Le Havre, Cherbourg, and Pleurtuit on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, Marie-Modeste gave Ambroise 11 more children, three sons and eight daughters.  Only two of them died young.  When hundreds of other Acadians in the St.-Malo area went to Poitou in the early 1770s, Ambroise and Marie-Modeste remained at Pleurtuit.  When most of the Poitou Acadians retreated to Nantes in late 1775 and early 1776, Ambroise and his family did not join them there.  Ambroise and Marie-Modeste did, however, emigrate to Spanish Louisiana, directly from St.-Malo in 1785, taking nine of their children with them; only two of their remaining children were sons.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to a new Acadian settlement at Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  Marie-Modeste gave Ambroise another daughter there in March 1786--their 13th child-- so she must have been pregnant on the voyage from St.-Malo, but the couple also buried their younger son Ambroise, fils and daughter Modeste at the bayou settlement.  Ambroise died at Bayou des Écores by July 1790, when Marie-Modeste remarried to 24-year-old Joseph-Constans Granger there; she was age 40 at the time of her remarriage.  Ambroise would have been in his mid- or late 50s at the time of his death.  Four of his seven remaining daughters, all by second wife Marie-Modeste, married into the Bernard du Montier, Blanchard, Seguin, and Thibodeaux families at Bayou des Écores or Baton Rouge.  His only remaining son married into the LeBlanc family and, like his sisters, was among the few Acadians at Bayou des Écores who did not resettle on the lower river or on upper Bayou Lafourche.  He went, instead, to what became West Baton Rouge Parish.

Charles's younger son François-Xavier, born at Cobeguit in c1738, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, was deported to St.-Malo, France, in 1758, and settled at nearby Pleurtuit.  In May 1760, Françoix-Xavier signed up for corsair duty aboard Le Jason, was captured by the Royal Navy, and was held in England as a prisoner of war.  In May 1763, he was repatriated to France with other Acadians in England and returned to Pleurtuit, where he married Élisabeth, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Anne Thériot, in September 1763.  Between 1764 and 1780, at Pleurtuit, Élisabeth gave François-Xavier at least nine children, six sons and three daughters, but two of the sons died as infants at nearby Crehen.  François-Xavier did not take his family to Poitou in the early 1770s, nor did he and Élisabeth join other Acadians in Nantes when the Poitou venture failed in 1775.  They remained at Pleurtuit, where François-Xavier remarried to Marguerite-Pélagie, daughter of Pierre Henry and Marie-Madeleine Pitre, in July 1781.  In 1783 and 1785, Marguerite gave François-Xavier two more children, a son and a daughter.  François-Xavier, Marguerite, and seven of their children--four sons and three daughters--emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 directly from St.-Malo.  One of their older sons, François-Xavier or Augustin-Xavier, who would have been age 17 in 1785, either had died by then or chose to remain in the mother country.  François-Xavier and his family followed his older brother Ambroise to Bayou des Écores on the river above Baton Rouge.  Marguerite gave François-Xavier more children there, including another son, but the couple also buried their year-old daughter, Anne-Victoire, who had been born only weeks before they left St.-Malo.  François-Xavier either died at Bayou des Écores in the early 1790s, or, when most of the Acadians abandoned the bayou settlement, he led his family to upper Bayou Lafourche and died there.  His daughters married into the Hébert, Colonne, and Fremin families on the upper Lafourche.  Four of his sons by both wives, all born in France, married into the Schmitt or Smith, Canade, Rentrop, and Berthelot families and settled on the bayou.

Martin's sixth and seventh sons, their names unrecorded, born probably at Port-Royal in the early 1700s, evidently died in infancy.  

Antoine's fifth and youngest son Abraham, born at Port-Royal in c1662, married Marie dite Sébastienne, daughter of Vincent Brun and Renée Breau and widow of François Gautrot, fils, at Port-Royal in c1683.  Between 1684 and 1697, Marie dite Sébastienne gave Abraham eight children, six sons and two daughters.  Abraham served as a delegate to the Nova Scotia Council at Annapolis Royal from 1720 until 1726, when he asked to be relieved of his duties "because of lameness and infirmity."  In September 1727, he and two other Acadian delegates ran afoul of Lieutenant-Governor Lawrence Armstrong, who accused them of encouraging their fellow Acadians to refuse to take an unqualified oath of allegiance to the new King Geogre II.  Armstrong threw the younger delegates into the Fort Anne dungeon but allowed Abraham, "'in consideration of his great age'"--he was 65--"'to leave the province as soon as possible, but without his goods.'"  Abraham likely remained.  He died probably at Annapolis Royal after April 1736, when his wife's burial record called her his wife, not his widow.  He would have turned 74 that year.  His daughters married into the Broussard and Fougère families.  Five of his six sons created their own families at Minas, Annapolis Royal, and in the French Maritimes.  

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in c1684, survived childhood but did not marry.   

Abraham's second son Claude, born at Port-Royal in c1688, married Judith, daughter of Jérôme Guérin and Isabelle Aucoin of Cobeguit, at Grand-Pré in 1717.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1718 and 1741, at Annapolis Royal, Judith gave Claude a dozen children, six sons and six daughters.  Three of their daughters married into the Babineau dit Deslauriers, Melanson, Gautrot, and Michel families, and another may have married into the Naquin family and emigrated to Louisiana from France.  At least two of Claude's sons created their own families.

Second son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1726, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Doucet and Françoise Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in February 1750.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Claude's third son Claude, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1728, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Guilbeau and Madeleine Forest, at Annapolis Royal in November 1751.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1772, at Annapolis Royal, in exile, and in Canada, Marie gave Claude, fils seven children, two sons and five daughters.  They escaped the British in 1755 and took refuge in Canada, where they were counted at St.-Joachim below Québec City in 1760 and 1765, at St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu east of Montréal in 1767, and at St.-Denis farther up the Rivière Richelieu in 1770.  Two of their daughters married into the Carpentier and Leclave families at St.-Denis.  One of Claude, fils's two sons created his own family. 

Younger son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at St.-Denis, Canada, in c1772, married Marie-Louise, daughter of Pierre Liré and Marie-Louise Phaneuf, at St.-Denis in April 1773 [Arsenault probably meant 1793], and remarried to Élizabeth, daughter of François Gareau-Saintonge and Élizabeth Dufault, at St.-Ours, Canada, in January 1804. 

Abraham's third son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1689, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of François Broussard and Catherine Richard, at Annapolis Royal in January 1714.  Between 1715 and 1718, Élisabeth gave Pierre three children, all daughters, two of whom married into the Guérin and Doucet families.  Élisabeth died at Annapolis Royal in December 1718, and Pierre moved on to the French Maritimes, motivated, perhaps, by what happened to his father in 1727.  Pierre remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Claude Landry and Marguerite Thériot and widow of Charles dit Charlot Boudrot, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1727.  In 1729, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre another daughter at Port-Toulouse.  She remained in the French Maritimes and married into the Vécot family on Île St.-Jean.  Pierre died probably at Port-Toulouse before 1734.    

Abraham's fourth son Michel, born at Port-Royal in c1693, became a carpenter.  He married Anne, daughter of Abraham Boudrot and Cécile Melanson, at Annapolis Royal in April 1720.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1722 and 1739, Anne gave Michel eight children, five sons and three daughters.  In the late 1720s, motivated, perhaps, by the fate of his father, Michel took his family to Tracadie on the north shore of Île St.-Jean, where they were counted in 1734.  In August 1752, a French official counted Michel, Anne, and seven of their children at Tracadie near brother Charles.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758.  Michel died before 1761 perhaps while in exile.  Two of his daughters married into the Doucet and Hébert families, one of them on Île Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland in 1766.   At least one of Michel's sons created his own family.

Son Michel, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1722, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Anne Belliveau there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Michel, fils a son, Pierre, in 1741.  Oddly, when a French official counted Michel, fils's famliy at Tracadie in August 1752, Michel, fils, age 30, was listed with them, but the official said nothing of his wife or son.  One wonders what happened to him in 1758. 

Abraham's fifth son Charles, born at Port-Royal in c1695, followed his older brothers to the French Maritimes.  He married Anne, daughter of Charles dit Charlot Boudrot and Marie-Josèphe Landry, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1726, and moved to Tracadie on the north shore of Île St.-Jean, where he and his family were counted in 1734.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1727 and 1750, Anne gave Charles 10 children, six sons and four daughters, on the islands, but other records show them with 11 children.  In August 1752, a French official counted Charles, Anne, and 11 of their children, six sons and five daughters, at Tracadie near his brother Michel.  Three of their older sons married on the island between 1752 and 1755.  Charles and his family escaped the British in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  In late October 1760, Charles, called le vieux, the elder, was counted at Restigcouhe with a family of 13--among the 1,003 Acadians recently surrendered to a British naval force from Québec.  The British held them in a prisoner compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, Charles, Anne, and their 11 children appeared on a repatriation list with hundreds of other Acadian refugees at Halifax.  Charles must have died soon after.  In 1764-65, Anne, now a widow, and six of her children, two sons and four daughters, followed the Broussards from Halifax to Louisiana and settled on Bayou Teche.  Her daughters married into the Thibodeaux, Pitre, Guilbeau, Sonnier, Savoie, and Landry families at Attakapas and Opelousas (daughter Gertrude's marriage to Amand Thibodeau at New Orleans in February 1765 was, in fact, the earliest recorded Acadian marriage in Louisiana).  Both of Anne's sons who accompanied her to Louisiana also created their own families in the Opelousas District, but only one of the lines endured.  Anne was still alive in 1771, when a Spanish census taker found her with daughter Gertrude in Attakapas.  Anne would have turned 62 that year. 

Oldest son Charles, fils, born in the French Maritimes in c1727, followed his family to Île St.-Jean.  He married Angélique, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Vécot and Marie Chiasson of Chignecto, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Tracadie, in November 1753, and remarried to Marguerite Landry in c1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1756 and 1757, Marguerite gave Charles, fils two children, a son and a daughter.  Evidently the British deported Charles, fils and his family to France in 1758.  A Catherine, daughter of Charles Bourg and Marguerite Landry married into the Bertrand family at Cherbourg in February 1764.  Catherine, her husband, and their seven children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  One wonders what happened to her brother in France.  He did not go to Louisiana. 

Charles's second son Sylvain, born in the French Maritimes in c1728, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Madeleine Landry in c1752.  One wonders where they were on the island that August; they do not appear in the Franch census.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1754 and 1757, Madeleine gave Sylvain two children, a son and a daughter.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758.

Charles's fourth son Claude, born in the French Maritimes in c1732, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Anne Henry in c1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Claude a son, Jean-Michel, in 1757.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758. 

Charles's seventh son L'ange, born at Tracadie in c1748, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana.  He married Anne-Marie, called Marie, daughter of Pierre Thibodeaux and Françoise Sonnier, probably at Opelousas in c1776.  Marie gave L'ange two daughters but no sons.  He died at Opelousas in June 1788, age 40.  Except perhaps for its blood, his line of the family died with him. 

Charles's eighth and youngest son Joseph, born at Tracadie in c1750, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana.  He married Susanne, another daughter of Pierre Thibodeaux and Françoise Sonnier, probably at Opelousas in c1780.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1782 and 1809, at Opelousas, Susanne gave Joseph 10 children, six sons and four daughters.  Their daughters married into the Figurant and Lavergne families and perhaps into the Rous family as well.  Four of Joseph's six sons also married, into the ____, Hébert, Guidry, and Lavergne families, and another took up with a mulatresse libre and fathered a "natural" son by her.  Two, perhaps three, of the family lines endured. 

Abraham's sixth and youngest son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in c1698, married Louise, daughter of Alexandre Robichaud and Anne Melanson, at Annapolis Royal in November 1733.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1724 and 1744, at Annapolis Royal, Louise gave Joseph nine children, two sons and seven daughters.  Two of their daughters married into the Savoie and Gaudet families.  At least one of Joseph's sons created his own family.

Older son Joseph, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1738, was deported to Massachusetts in 1755.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Amireau and Marguerite Lord of Pobomcoup, at Boston, and the marriage was validated at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Montréal in 1767.339

Bourgeois

Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois, founder of the Chignecto settlement, came to Acadia aboard the St.-François in 1641.  He and his wife Jeanne Trahan created one of the most influential families in the colony.  Jeanne gave Jacob 10 children, three sons and seven daughters.  Six of their daughters married into the Cyr, Girouard, Boudrot, Mirande dit Tavarre, Maissonat dit Baptiste, Dugas, LeBlanc, and Comeau dit Des Loups-Marins families.  Daughter Marguerite's third husband Pierre Maissonat dit Baptiste, a widower from Bergerac, France, was a notorious privateer who fought the English during King William's and Queen Anne's wars.  All three of Jacques dit Jacob's sons married, but family lines came only from the two older ones.  Jacob and Jeanne's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Chignecto, and in the French Maritimes.  At least 20 of his descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and the French Antilles in the late 1760s and 1770s.  But most of Jacques dit Jacob's progeny could be found in Canada and greater Acadia after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Charles, born at Port-Royal in c1646, married Anne, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Doucet, in c1668 at Port-Royal and may have followed his father to Chignecto in the early 1670s.  Between 1670 and 1678, Anne gave Charles four children, two sons and two daughters.  Charles died between 1677 and 1679, in his early 30s.  One of his daughters married into the Caissie family.  Both of his sons created their own families.  His older son's line was especially vigorous.  Many of the Acadian Bourgeoiss who emigrated to Louisiana came from the younger son's branch of the family.   

Older son Charles, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1673, married Marie, daughter of Guillaume Blanchard and Huguette Gougeon, at Port-Royal in c1692 and settled at Chignecto.  Between 1693 and 1713, Marie gave Charles, fils 10 children, six sons and four daughters, all of whom married.  Their daughters married into the Nuirat, Héon, Poirier, and Sire or Cyr families.  All six of Charles, fils's sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Charles III, born at Chignecto in c1695, married Madeleine, daughter of Alexis Cormier and Marie LeBlanc, at Beaubassin in February 1718.  According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1719 and 1737, Madeleine gave Charles III six children, five sons and a daughter.  Charles III remarried to Marie dite Louise-Marie, daughter of Michel dit Michaud Bourg and Élisabeth Melanson and widow of Antoine Gaudet, at Beaubassin in July 1741.  She may not have given him anymore children.  Charles III died at Chignecto by October 1754.  His daughter married into the Carret family.  One of his sons was deported to South Carolina in 1755, but most of them escaped the British roundup.  All five of them created families of their own.

Oldest son Charles IV, born at Chignecto in c1719, married Anne, daughter of Michel Poirier and Françoise Arseneau, at Beaubassin in February 1743.  They settled at Aulac west of Rivière Missaguash.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1751, Anne gave Charles four children, two sons and two daughters.  Charles remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Pitre and Anne Préjean of Annapolis Royal and widow of Charles Simon dit Boucher and Charles Girouard, probably at Chignecto in c1752.  She gave him at least three more children, two sons and a daughter, born at Chignecto and in exile.  The British deported Charles, Marie, and their children to South Carolina in 1755.  In August 1763, Charles, Marie, three of his children from first wife Anne (only son Jean, who would have been age 18, was missing) and three children from Marie's second marriage to Charles Girouard appeared on a repatriation list in the southern colony.  One wonders what happened to them after 1763. 

Charles III's second son Michel le jeune, born at Chignecto in c1722, married Marguerite, daughter of Martin Richard and Marie Cormier, in c1750 probably at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1754 and 1768, Marguerite gave Michel seven children, five sons and two daughters.  Other sources note that their oldest son was born in c1750, soon after their marriage.  The family escaped the British roundup in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  They were counted at Québec in 1757 and settled at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly on Rivière Richelieu east of Montréal.  Their daughters married into the Guertin and Cottard families.  Three of Michel le jeune's five sons also created their own families.

Oldest son Félix, born at Chignecto in c1750, followed his family to Canada and married Marie, daughter of Jean Chiasson and Marguerite-Anne Bernard, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in January 1777.  Félix died at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu in November 1812, in his early 60s. 

Michel le jeune's second son David, born at Chignecto in c1754, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean Cormier and Marie-Madeleine Bernard, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in January 1780.  David died at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu in January 1808, in his mid-50s.

Michel le jeune's fifth son Michel, fils, born at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Canada, in September 1767, married Marguerite, daughter of Louis Quay dit Dragon and Marguerite Cartier, at St.-Dénis-sur-Richelieu in January 1792, and remarried to Marie-Louise, daughter of Joseph Goguet and Monique Goulet, at St.-Hyacinthe-les-Maskoutains in March 1810. 

Michel le jeune's sixth and youngest son Joseph, born in Canada in c1768, married Marie-Louise, daughter of Jacques Girouard and Marie-Françoise Gaudet, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in January 1792, and remarried to Marie-Desanges, daughter of Jacques Gauvin and Marie Paquet, at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu in August 1814. 

Charles III's third son Pierre, born at Chigencto in c1723, married Marie, another daughter of Martin Richard and Marie Cormier, at Beaubassin in February 1746.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Pierre a daughter in c1748.  They, too, escaped the British roundup in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Pierre remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Bernard and Cécile Gaudet and widow of Jean Mignault, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in February 1763.  Pierre's daughter by first wife Marie married into the Migneau family at Chambly. 

Charles III's fourth son Claude, born at Chignecto in c1734, may also have escaped the British roundup in 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St.-Lawrence shore, and was captured by them a few years later and held as a prisoner in Nova Scotia.  After the war with Britain ended, he followed other Acadian exiles to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  He married Marie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Vigneau and Anne Poirier, on the island in January 1764.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1782, Marie gave Claude eight children, four sons and four daughters.  French authorities coaxed them and other habitants/fishermen into leaving the island in 1767 to relief overcrowding.  They were counted at La Rochelle, France, in 1768, but they returned to Île Miquelon soon after their arrival or sometime in the 1770s.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured the Newfoundland islands and deported the inhabitants to La Rochelle.  Claude and his family were still living at the French port in 1782, but, again, they did not remain there.  Claude took his family back to Île Miquelon in 1784, but this time they moved on to Canada.  They settled at Nicolet on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières, where Claude died in October 1801, in his late 60s.  Three of his daughters married into the Richard, Bergeron, and Benoit families at Nicolet.  Three of his four also sons created their own families.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably on Île Miquelon in c1766, followed his family to France twice and then to Canada and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Poirier and Marguerite Thibodeau, at Nicolet in October 1797.

Claude's third son Jacques, born probably at La Rochelle, France, in c1777, followed his family to Canada and married cousin Éléonore Vigneau probably at Nicolet in March 1813, and remarried to Madeleine Bourque in February 1816. 

Claude's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born probably at La Rochelle in c1779, followed his famliy to Canada and married Madeleine, daughter of Charles Bergeron and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, at St.-Grégoire near Nicolet in July 1807. 

Charles III's fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Chignecto in c1737, evidently escaped the British roundup there in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  He married Marie-Élisabeth, daughter of Honoré Prince and Isabelle Forest, at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in February 1762.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1765, Marie-Élisabeth gave Jean-Baptiste three children, two sons and a daughter.  Jean-Baptiste died in c1765, perhaps at Bécancour.  One of his sons created his own family.

Younger son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Bécancour in c1765, married Françoise, daughter of Joseph Richard and Françoise Cormier, at Bécancour in October 1789, remarried to Monique, daughter of Simon Bourg and Rosalie Gaudet, at nearby Nicolet in January 1796, and remarried again--his third marriage--to Françoise, daughter of Pierre Rouillard and Thérèse Lemire, at Nicolet in May 1801. 

Charles, fils's second son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1699, married Marie-Françoise, daughter of Pierre Cormier and Catherine LeBlanc, at Beaubassin in August 1722 and settled at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1725 and 1747, Marie gave Pierre seven children, five sons and two daughters.  Pierre was counted at Aulac west of Rivière Missaguash in 1754.  One wonders if he was a widower by then and if he had moved to Aulac from the east sise of Missaguash in 1750.  At least one of his married sons moved on to Île St.-Jean either before or after 1755.  In the fall of that year, the British deported Pierre to South Carolina.  The following spring, the governor of that colony allowed Acadians sent there to return to greater Acadia if they could acquire their own boats.  Pierre's younger brother Michel led a group of 78 refugees north; Pierre was among them.  In August, the British intercepted them at Long Island, New York, and promptly dispersed them to various communities in the lower part of the colony.  Colonial officials sent Pierre to North Castle, Westchester County, on the lower Hudson, where he was counted without a wife or children in late August 1756.  He died during exile probably in New York.  His daughters married into the Babin, Thériot, and Berteau families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  All of his five sons created their own families, and two of them emigrated to Louisiana in 1765. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Chignecto in c1733, either escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge on Île St.-Jean or went to the island between 1752 and 1755.  He married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter Joseph Bourg and Anne Cormier of Chignecto, at Port-La-Joye on the island in February 1757.  They evidently escaped the British roundup there in 1758, crossed Mer-Rouge, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, fell into British hands a few years later, and were held as prisoners in Nova Scotia until the end of the war.  Jean-Baptiste, Madeleine, and their two sons emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in 1765.  Madeleine was pregnant on the voyage and gave birth to a third son at New Orleans soon after the family reached the colony.  They settled at Cabahannocer on the Mississippi above New Orleans.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Osite, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Melançon and Madeleine LeBlanc and widow of Jean-Pierre LeBlanc, at Cabahannocer/St.-Jacques in February 1776.  In his early 70s, Jean-Baptiste remarried again--his third marriage--to Rosalie LeBlanc, widow of cousin Paul Bourgeois, fils, at St.-Jacques in January 1804.  Jean-Baptiste died in St. James Parish in March 1816, in his early 80s.  Five of his six sons, all by first wife Madeleine, two born in greater Acadia, the others in Louisiana, married into the Sonnier, LeBlanc, Arceneaux, and Godin families and created vigorous lines on the river. 

Pierre's second son Michel, born at Chignecto in c1734, married Marie Le____.   They escaped the British in 1755, took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, fell into British hands a few years later, and were held as prisoners in Nova Scotia until the end of the war.  Probably a childless widower now, Michel emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and followed older brother Jean-Baptiste and his family to Cabahannocer.  Michel remarried to Rose-Osite, called Osite, Gautrot of Grand-Pré, widow of Olivier Forest, at New Orleans in May 1767.  They settled at Cabahannocer.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1769 and 1775, Osite gave Michel four children, two sons and two daughters.  Michel's daughters married into the Duhon and Michel families.  His older son married  into the Thibodeaux family and created a vigorous line on the river. 

Pierre's third son Claude, born at Chignecto in c1736, escaped the British in 1755 and married Anne Bourg in c1761 during exile.  One wonders where they sought refuge after 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1762 and 1765, Anne gave Claude two children, a daughter and a son.  They were counted on Rivière St.-Jean in 1768. 

Pierre's putative fourth son Jean, born at Chignecto in c1739, escaped the British in 1755 and, according to Bona Arsenault, married Madeleine Hébert in c1762 during exile.  Arsenault says Madeleine gave Jean a daughter in c1763, that Jean died in c1765, no place given, and Madeleine remarried to a Comeau, who took her to Pigiguit, present-day Windsor, Nova Scotia, by April 1768, where their marriage was "rehabilitated."  Arsenault also says Jean's daughter Marie-Anne was baptized on Rivière St.-Jean in July 1768, age 5.  But Arsenault was referring to the wrong Jean Bourgeois.  According to Stephen A. White, Jean à Pierre did not die in 1765 but emigrated to Louisiana with three of his siblings from a prison compound in Nova Scotia that year.  He settled with them at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans and was counted there in April 1766 with a woman and two slaves in his household, so he evidently married during exile or soon after he reached the colony, his wife's name unknown, and was one of the earliest Acadian slaveholders in the colony.  One wonders if this first wife gave Jean any children.  In January 1768, Jean remarried to fellow Acadian Louise-Ludivine, called Ludivine, Granger at Cabahannocer.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1770 and 1775, Ludivine gave Jean three children, two sons and a daughter, but Louisiana records say she gave him five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1770 and 1787.  Jean's daughter married into the Arceneaux families.  His four sons married at Cabahannocer/St. James into the Mire, Thibodeaux, and LeBlanc families, but only two of the lines endured. 

Pierre's fifth and youngest son Joseph, born at Chignect in c1741, evidently escaped the British in 1755 and married Félicité, daughter of Pierre Belliveau and Jeanne Gaudet of Annapolis Royal, in c1764, place unrecorded.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Pigiguit, now Windsor, Nova Scotia, in August 1768.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1765 and 1766, Félicité gave Joseph two children, a daughter and a son, but they had many more children, especially sons, during the following years.  Joseph died at Memramcook, present-day southeastern New Brunswick, in November 1833, in his early 90s.  According to Bona Arsenault, six of his sons settled in the Memramcook area. 

Charles, fils's third son Honoré, born at Chignecto in c1702, married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Michel Richard and Agnès Bourgeois, at Annapolis Royal in July 1726.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1745, Marie gave Honoré six children, three sons and three daughters.  Perhaps as a widower, Honoré moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean Pichard and Claudine Deron and widow of Henri L'Hôtellier, on the island before August 1752.  That month, a French official counted him, Marie-Madeleine, and two of his children from his first marriage on the south side of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Honoré and his family, along with dozens of other Acadian exiles, perished that December aboard the British transport Violet which sank in a North Atlantic storm.  Meanwhile, Marie, one of Honoré's oldest daughters, married into the Girouard and LeBlanc families at Annapolis Royal and Massachusetts and was not with her father and stepmother when they were deported to France in 1758.  Marie and her second husband survived Le Grand Dérangement and were counted on Île Miquelon in 1767, so the blood of Honoré's line survived. 

Charles, fils's fourth son Michel, born at Chignecto in the early 1700s, married Marguerite, daughter of Germain Girouard and Jeanne Barrieau, in c1728 perhaps at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1729 and 1746, Marguerite gave Michel seven children, two sons and five daughters.  Their sons escaped the British in 1755 and fled to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  The British deported the rest of the family to Georgia.  With permission from Georgia authorities, in the spring of 1756 Michel headed north to greater Acadia, stopping at Charles Town, South Carolina, on the way.  The governor of that colony also approved the venture, so Michel gathered a group of 78 refugees, including his older brother Pierre, and resumed the long voyage home.  In August, after months of effort, British forces intercepted them at Long Island, New York, and dispersed them to various communities in the lower Hudson valley.  Colonial officials sent Michel to Eastchester, Westchester County, where he was counted with a wife and four children in late August 1756.  They were still in New York in 1763, when Michel, père, called le vieux, or old man, a widower now, appeared on a repatriation list with two children.  According to Stephen White, Michel died before February 1782, place unrecorded.  His oldest daughter married into the Boudrot family.  His two sons also created families of their own.  

Older son Joseph dit Jean, born at Chignecto in c1734, married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Hébert and Anne Arseneau, at Beaubassin in c1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1756 and 1773, Marguerite gave Joseph seven children, a son and six daughters.  They escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During the fall of 1760, they endured another British roundup at Restigouche, at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  One of their daughters was baptized there the following December.  Joseph and his family may have surrendered to the redcoats soon afterwards; British officials counted them at Chédabouctou near Canso on the Atlantic coast in 1764, one of several prison compounds in British Nova Scotia.  They moved on to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where French officials counted them in 1767 and 1776.  By the latter date, Joseph had become of widower.  The British captured the Newfoundland islands in 1778 during the American Revolution and deported the inhabitants to La Rochelle, France.  Joseph and his family were among them.  Joseph died in France in March 1779, in his mid-40s, soon after he reached the mother country.  His children returned to Île Miquelon in 1784.  Two of his daughters married into the Chaignon and Poirier families on the island.  Back on Miquelon, Joseph's only son Joseph dit Jean, age 17 in 1784, went to live with his sister Marguerite and her husband Jacques Poirier, who had married on the island in January 1774.  One wonders if son Joseph dit Jean created his own family. 

Michel's younger son Michel, fils, born at Chignecto in c1736, escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Like older brother Joseph, he made his way up to Restigouche, where he also endured another British roundup in the fall of 1760.  He may have been the Michel Bourgeois counted with a thousand other Acadians at Restigouche in late October 1760.  Michel, fils married Marie, daughter of Jean Haché dit Gallant and Marguerite Gravois of Chignecto, at Restigouche in January 1761.  One wonders what happened to them after their marriage. 

Charles, fils's fifth son Jean-Baptiste, born at Chignecto in c1706, married Anne, daughter of René Bernard and Anne Blou, at Beaubassin in February 1733 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1746, Anne gave Jean-Baptiste six children, four sons and two daughters.  They escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  They were counted among the Acadian refugees at Québec in 1757 and moved on to Montréal, where Jean-Baptiste died in January 1789, age 85.  One of his daughters married into the Blache family at Montréal.  At least one of his sons created his own family in Canada.

Son Michel le jeune, born at Chignecto in c1742, followed his family to Canada and married Thérèse, daughter of Joseph Laberge and Louise-Madeleine Ladouceur, at Île de Jésus, today's Laval, northwest of Montréal in October 1768. 

Charles, fils's sixth and youngest son Jean-Jacques dit Petit Jacques, born at Chignecto in c1709, married Marie, daughter of Michel Bourg, fils and Marie Cormier, at Beaubassin in February 1733 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1746, Marie gave Petit Jacques six children, two sons and four daughters.  The British deported them to South Carolina in 1755.  They may have been among the Acadian exiles the South Carolina governor allowed to return to greater Acadia during the spring of 1756.  In July and August, the boats of some of the north-bound Acadians were intercepted in New York and Massachusetts.  Petit Jacques and his family may have been among the exiles detained in Massachusetts.  Petit Jacques, Marie, and two of their children appeared on a repatriation list at Boston in August 1763.  When colonial authorities allowed them to leave, Petit Jacques, Marie, son Joseph, and a Bourg niece chose to go to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where they were counted in 1767.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British deported the Acadians on the Newfoundland islands to La Rochelle, France.  Petit Jacques died in St.-Jean Parish, La Rochelle, in April 1779, age 70.  Two of his daughters married into the Vigneau family, place not given.  His son did not remain in France.

Only surviving son Joseph, born at Chignecto in c1746, followed his family to South Carolina, Massachusetts, and Île Miquelon, where he married Angélique, daughter of Jean Boudrot and Françoise Arsenault, in January 1771.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1771 and 1787, Angélique gave Joseph nine children, six sons and three daughters.  Other sources give them more sons.  The British deported them from Miquelon to La Rochelle, France, in 1778, but they did not remain.  They returned to North America probably in the early 1780s and settled on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  Six of their sons created their own famililes on the remote Gulf islands.

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born on Île Miquelon in c1771, died later in the year. 

Joseph, père's second son, also named Joseph, fils, born on Île Miquelon in c1772, followed his family to France and the îles-de-la-Madeleine, where he married double cousin Madeleine, daughter of François Boudrot and Marie Boudrot, at Havre-Aubert in October 1794.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1795 and 1817, Madeleine gave Joseph, fils 11 children, five sons and six daughters.  Joseph, fils died at Havre-Aubert in March 1830, in his late 50s. 

Joseph, père's third son Jean-Baptiste, born on Île Miquelon in c1774, followed his family to France and the îles-de-la-Madeleine, where he married Marie, daughter of Amand Chiasson and Marguerite Doucet, at Havre-Aubert in January 1794.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1794 and 1814, Marie gave Jean eight children, four sons and four daughters.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Marie, daughter of Jacques Deveau and Théotiste Lapierre, at Havre-Aubert in August 1819.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1820 Marie gave Jean another daughter.  Jean-Baptiste died at Havre-Aubert in May 1839, in his mid-60s. 

Joseph, père's sixth son Simon or Siméon, born on Île Miquelon in August 1776, followed his family to France and the îles-de-la-Madeleine, where he married cousin Angélique, daughter of Jean Cormier and Marie Boudrot, at Havre-Aubert in September 1803.  Simon died at Havre-aux-Maisons in the islands in May 1856, age 80. 

Joseph, père's seventh son Jacques, born on Île Miquelon in November 1787, followed his family to the îles-de-la-Madeleine, where he married double cousin Barbe, daughter of Joseph Boudrot and Élisabeth Boudrot, at Havre-Aubert in January 1811.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1811 and 1820, Barbe gave Jacques four children, three sons and a daughter.  Jacques remarried to Anne-Esther, daughter of Charles Hébert and Rosalie Vigneau, at Havre-Aubert in April 1826.  Jacques died at Bassin in the islands in December 1854, age 67. 

Joseph, père's eighth and youngest son Charles-Hyacinthe, born on Île Miquelon in December 1789, followed his family to the îles-de-la-Madeleine, where he married Françoise, daughter of Joseph Bourg and Modeste Haché, at Havre-Aubert in August 1811.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1812 and 1820, Françoise gave Charles five children, four sons and a daughter.  Charles drowned in April 1831, age 41, when a schooner owned by Louis Chiasson capsized in a storm. 

Charles, père's younger son Claude, born at Port-Royal in c1674, married Anne, another daughter of Guillaume Blanchard and Huguette Gougeon, probably at Chignecto in c1701 and settled there.  Between 1702 and 1732, Anne gave Claude 10 children, six sons and four daughters, all of whom married.  Their daughters married into the Hugon, Arseneau, Bourg, Gravois, and de Saint-Julien de La Chaussée families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana in 1765. 

Oldest son Paul, born at Chignecto in c1705, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Brun and Anne Gautrot, at Annapolis Royal in November 1727.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1748, Marie gave Paul eight children, five sons and three daughters.  Paul remarried Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Cormier and Marie-Anne Cyr, in c1749 probably at Chignecto.  She gave him another son.  According to Arsenault, Paul and his family were counted at Malpèque on northwest coast of Île St.-Jean in 1757, which means they either had gone to the island from Chignecto after 1752 or escaped the British at Chignecto in 1755 and took refuge on the island, where their son was born.  They evidently escaped the British again in 1758, after the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg that year, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  According to Stephen A. White, Paul died during exile at Miramichi on the Gulf shore in c1760, age 55 (which means he, and most of his family, were not deported to France in 1758; not so his youngest son).  Two of his daughters, by first wife Marie-Josèphe, married into the Darois and Broussard families and followed the Beausoleil Broussards from Halifax to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Paul's sons from his first wife also created their own families, and four of them emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. 

Oldest son Paul, fils, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Brun, born at Chignecto in c1732, followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Rosalie LeBlanc in c1760, was imprisoned with her in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s, and emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via French St.-Domingue in 1765.  They settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where they were joined later in the year by his three younger brothers.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1770 and 1778, Rosalie gave Paul, fils four children, a son and two daughters.  Louisiana records give them more children.  Paul died at Cabahannocer/St.-Jacques in March 1797, age 66.  His daughters married into the Bergeron, Breau, LeBlanc, and Part families.  All four of his sons married, into the Babin, Henry, Gautreaux, and Part families.  Three of them joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, where, like their brother who remained on the river, they created vigorous lines. 

Paul, père's second son Joseph, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Brun, born at Chignecto in c1736, followed his family into exile and married Marie, daughter of Claude Girouard and Madeleine Vincent of Pigiguit, at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in November 1759.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Joseph a daughter in 1760.  After the fall of Restigouche, they eithier surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held as prisoners in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  With one daughter, but perhaps not their first one, they followed the Broussards to Louisiana from Halifax in 1764-65 and settled with them on lower Bayou Teche west of the Atchafalaya Basin, but they did not remain.  An epidemic struck the Teche valley Acadians that spring and summer, compelling Joseph to take his family to Cabahannocer on the river, where older brother Paul, fils had settled.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1774, in imprisonment and in Louisiana, Marie gave Joseph three more children, all daughters.  Louisiana records give them two sons as well.  Joseph died in St. James Parish, formerly Cabahannocer, in December 1812, in his late 70s.  His daughters married into the Landry, Melançon, and Picou families.  His sons married into the Pitre and Judice families on the river. 

Paul, père's third son Michel le jeune, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Brun, born at Chignecto in c1741, followed his family into exile and imprisonment, and his brothers and the Broussards to Louisiana in 1764-65.  He also went to Bayou Teche and retreated to the river with his brothers that fall.  He married Anne-Osite, daughter of Abraham dit Petit Abram Landry and probably his first wife Élisabeth LeBlanc, at Cabahannocer on the river in May 1768 and moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche in the early 1790s.  Oddly, Bona Arsenault says Michel le jeune married twice, to Osite Landry and Anne Landry, when in truth he married only once, to Anne-Osite.  Arsenault says that between 1769 and the late 1770s, she gave him six children, two sons and four daughters, but Louisiana records give them more sons.  Their daughters married into the Arceneaux, Foret, Haché, Louvière, Pitre, and Savoie families.  Three of Michel le jeune's four sons married into the Thériot, Stiven, and LeBlanc families on the river.  Two of them followed their father to the upper Lafourche and another moved on to the western prairies.  They all created vigorous lines. 

Paul, père's fourth son Pierre, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Brun, born at Chignecto in January 1745, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and his brothers and the Broussards to Louisiana in 1764-65.  He followed his brothers from Bayou Teche to the river in the fall of 1765 and married Marie, daughter of Michel Bergeron and Marie Hébert of Annapolis Royal and Rivière St.-Jean, at Cabahannocer on the river in November 1767.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1769 and 1777, Marie gave Pierre three children, two sons and a daughter, but Louisiana records give them many more children.  Pierre died in St. James Parish in January 1815, in his late 60s.  His daughters married into the Chole or Jolie, Gaudet, Gravois, LeBlanc, and Moulard families.  Four of his six sons married, into the Savoie, Langlinais, Bergeron, and Landry families.  One of them resettled on upper Bayou Lafourche and two of them on the western prairies.  They all created vigorous lines. 

Paul, père's fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Madeleine Cormier, born perhaps at La Planche, Chignecto, in the late 1740s, followed his family to the west, or French, side of Chignecto in 1750 and to Malpèque on Île St.-Jean by 1757, perhaps after escaping the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755.  In 1758, Jean-Baptiste, still a boy, somehow became separated from his family during the island's dérangement and was deported to France.   He either landed at, or moved on, to the naval port of Rochefort, where a local Frenchman, Nicolas-Gabriel Albert, who had lived at Louisbourg, Île Royale, until the early 1750s and whose second wife was an Acadian Benoit, served as Jean-Baptiste's "curator" until he came of age.  Jean-Baptiste had been a resident of Rochefort for at least four years when, in his early 20s, with permission from his "curator," he married 25-year-old Henriette Bonneau of St.-Denis d'Oléron on Île d'Oléron, east of Rochefort, at the naval port in 1770.  She gave him three children there:  Marie, or Mary, in c1771; Guillaume in c1772; and Jean-Baptiste-Antoine in February 1774.  Jean-Baptiste and his family, along with Nicolas Albert and his family, went from Rochefort to Poitou in 1774 with hundreds of other exiles languishing in the port cities.  Henriette gave Jean-Baptiste another son, Jacques-Augustin, in St.-Jean l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, in July 1775.  After two years of effort, Jean-Baptiste "and [his] family of 5 persons" were slated in March 1776 to retreat with other Poitou Acadians in the fourth and final convoy from Châtellerault to the lower Loire port of Nantes, but they did not go there.  They went, instead, to La Rochelle, which was closer than Nantes to Henriette's family on Île d'Oléron.  They then likely returned to Rochefort.  One wonders which of their four children had died by then.  Though he likely knew that his four older half-brothers had settled in Louisiana 20 years earlier, Jean-Baptiste, probably because he had married a French woman who had no intention of leaving her family again, did not follow over 1,500 of his fellow Acadians to the Spanish colony in 1785.  His and Henriette's daughter married into the Barriteau family at Rochefort in 1789.   

Claude's second son Claude, fils, born at Chignecto, according to Stephen A. White, in c1707, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Germain Cormier and Marie LeBlanc, in c1730 probably at Chignecto and settled at Rivière La Plance.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1749, Anne-Marie gave Claude, fils six children, all sons.  Family historian Marc Bourgeois gives them five sons.  Members of the family evidently escaped the British at Chignecto in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada, settling at La Prairie across from Montréal.  Claude, fils may have died at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pérade below Trois-Rivières in January 1770, age 62, though Marc Bourgeois suspects this is another Claude Bourgeois, "accadien."  It is certain that wife Anne died at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie, in the interior southeast of Montréal, near her younger sons, in May 1777.  Four of her and Claude, fils's sons married and settled on the upper St. Lawrence.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit Bercas, born at Chignecto in c1733, evidently escaped the roundup at Chignecto and also sought refuge in Canada.  He married Marguerite Cyr in c1758, place unrecorded, during exile.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1770, Marguerite gave Bercas five children, four sons and a daughter, in Canada.  According to Marc Bourgeois, between 1760 and 1780, the couple had 10 children, seven sons and three daughers, all in Canada.  The family was counted at Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence in 1764 and 1767 and at L'Acadie on Rivière Richelieu southeast of Montréal in c1770.  Their daughters married into the Melanson, Marseault, and Remiard families in Canada.  Five of Jean-Baptiste dit Bercas's seven sons also created their own familes in Canada.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born perhaps on the lower St. Lawrence in c1760, married Marie-Julie, daughter of Eustache Panneton and Marie-Julie Peladeau, at Montréal in February 1795.  Jean-Baptiste, fils died at Montréal in June 1822, in his early 60s. 

Jean-Baptiste dit Bercas's second son Joseph-Antoine, born at La-Pocatière, Kamouraska, on the lower St. Lawrence, in March 1762, married Rosalie, also called Marie-Rose, daughter of Olivier Dupuis and Marie-Anne Boudreau, at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie, across from Montréal, in February 1783.  Joseph-Antoine died at nearby L'Acadie in September 1825, age 63. 

Jean-Baptiste dit Bercas's third son Henri, born at Kamouraska in May 1767, married Marie, daughter of Joseph Coupal or Coupel dit Lareine and Marie Jourdonnet, at L'Acadie in April 1800.  Henri died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, northeast of Montréal, in December 1843, age 76. 

Jean-Baptiste dit Bercas's fifth son Ambroise, born at Laval, Île-Jésus, in September 1771, married Marie-Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Montminy and Marie-Françoise Rémil, at L'Acadie in November 1793, and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Vincent and Marie Daigle, at L'Acadie in February 1803. 

Jean-Baptiste dit Bercas's seventh and youngest son Michel le jeune, born at Lachine near Montréal in December 1774, married Françoise, daughter of Nicolas Antoine and Catherine Magnan dit Champagne, at L'Acadie in January 1798. 

Claude, fils's son Clément, born at Chignecto in c1744, followed his family to Canada and married Agnès, daughter of Pierre Lanoue and Ursule Brun, at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie in July 1780. 

Claude, fils's son Michel le jeune, born at Chignecto in c1748, followed his family to Canada and married cousin Nathalie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Comeau and Anne Bourgeois, at Laprairie in February 1773.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1774 and 1776, Nathalie gave Michel three children, a son and two daughters. 

Claude, fils's fifth and youngest son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1749, followed his family to Canada and married Apolline, daughter of Pierre Brosseau and Marie-Anne Deneau, at Laprairie in August 1778. 

Claude, père's third son Joseph, born in c1711 at Chignecto, married Marie, daughter of Guillaume Cyr and Marguerite Bourg, at Beaubassin in February 1733.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1745, Marie gave Joseph three children, two sons and a daughter.  They escaped the British in 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and made their way to Restigouche, at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where they encountered another British roundup in the fall of 1760.  The British likely held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Their daughter married into the Arsenault dit Bénéry family at Restigouche in July of 1760.  After the war, she settled with her family on Miquelon, the French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  One of Joseh's sons died during exile. 

Second son Jean, born at Chignecto in c1739, followed his family into exile in 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, he married Madeleine Hébert in c1762, no place given, perhaps in one of the prison compounds in Nova Scotia, and she gave him a daughter in c1763.  Arsenault says Jean, husband of Madeleine Hébert, died in c1765, no place given, and that she remarried to a Comeau, who took her to Pigiguit, present-day Windsor, Nova Scotia, by April 1768, where their marriage was "rehabilitated."  Arsenault also says Jean's daughter Marie-Anne by Madeleine was baptized on Rivière St.-Jean in July 1768, age 5, so the blood of the line endured in greater Acadia. 

Claude, père's fourth son Michel, born at Chignecto in the early 1710s, married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Gaudet and Marie Bourg, at Beaubassin in November 1734.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1742 and 1745, Marguerite gave Michel two children, both sons.  Michel remarried to Marie, daughter of Pierre Doucet and Marie Cormier, at Beaubassin in June 1748.  They may have been deported to Georgia or South Carolina in 1755 and joined other Acadians the following spring in a valiant attempt to return to greater Acadia by boat.  They, too, may have been intercepted at Long Island, New York, and detained in that colony for the rest of the war.  In 1763, Michel Bourgeois with his wife and seven children appeared on a repatriation list in New York.  According to Stephen White, Michel died before February 1780, no place given.  One wonders where they went after 1763.  To Canada, where most of the exiles from New York resettled?  To the French Antilles, where some of them went?  They did not go to Spanish Louisiana.   

Claude, père's fifth son Olivier, born at Chignecto in c1723, married Marguerite, daughter of Paul Cyr and Agnès Cormier, at Beaubassin in November 1747, and remarried to Marie Cormier in c1754 probably at Chignecto.  The British deported them to Georgia in 1755.  According to a repatriation list, they were still there, with four of their children, in 1763.  The following year, they were among the dozens of Acadians from the seaboard colonies who French officials lured to St.-Domingue to help construct a new French naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the north shore of the island.  Marie did not survive the ordeal in the tropical wilderness.  When in late 1764 and 1765 some of Olivier's kinsmen passed through Cap-Français on their way to New Orleans, Olivier did not join them.  He remarried again--his third marriage--to Françoise Vincent, widow of ____ and Pierre Martin, in c1766 probably at Môle St.-Nicolas and died there in October 1778, age 55. 

Claude, père's sixth and youngest son Jean-Jacques, born at Chignecto in the mid-1720s, married Claire Bourg in c1745 probably at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1746, Claire gave Jean-Jacqeus three children, a son and two daughters.  Jean-Jacques remarried to Marie, daughter Pierre Cyr and Claire Cormier, probably at Chignecto in c1754.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.   

Jacques dit Jacob's second son Germain, born at Port-Royal in c1650, married Madeleine, daughter of Antoine Belliveau and Andrée Guyon, at Port-Royal in c1673 and followed his father to Chignecto.  Between 1674 and 1679, Madeleine gave Germain three children, two sons and a daughter.  He remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Doucet, probably at Chignecto in c1682.  Between 1683 and 1708, Madeleine gave Germain 10 more children, two sons and eight daughters.  Germain was a habitant at Chignecto and also a merchant at Port-Royal and was active against the British in both King William's and Queen Anne's wars.  He died in captivity at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1711, in his early 60s.  His daughters from both wives married into the Breau, Poirier, Richard dit Lafond and dit Beaupré, Girouard, Robichaud dit Prudent, and LeBlanc families, three of them to brothers.  Three of Germain's four sons by both wives created their own families. 

Oldest son Guillaume le jeune, by first wife Madeleine Belliveau, born probably at Chignecto in c1674, married Marguerite, daughter of Abraham Mius de Pleinmarais and Marguerite de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, in c1700.  In 1702, Marguerite gave Guillaume a daughter.  He remarried to Catherine-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau and Jeanne Thériot, at Port-Royal in February 1705.  Between 1708 and 1734, Catherine-Josèphe gave Guillaume 11 more children, four sons and seven daughters.  Guillaume died at Annapolis Royal in August 1747, age 73.  Seven of his eight daughters by both wives married into the Thibodeau, Caissie, Breau, Cottard, Comeau, Maillet, and Forest families.  Three of his four sons, all by second wife Catherine, created their own families. 

Oldest son Michel, born at Minas in January 1713, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Dugas and Claire Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in January 1739.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1753, Anne gave Michel seven children, two sons and five daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Guillaume le jeune's second son Sylvain, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1715, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Comeau and Susanne Bézier, at Annapolis Royal in February 1749.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1749 and 1751, Anne gave Sylvain two children, a son and a daughter.  Sylvain died at Annapolis Royal in May 1751, age 36.  Anne remarried to Charles Mouton perhaps at Chignecto in c1755 and, with her two children, followed him into exile, to South Carolina or Georgia.  In early 1756, with permission of the colonial governor, they, with other exiles, attempted to return to their homes by boat.  They got as far as Long Island, New York.  Colonial officials refused to let them go any farther, so they were detained at La Rochelle for the rest of the war.  They chose to resettle in the French Antilles.  Charles, Anne, and her Bourgeois children, son Joseph and daughter Anne-Esther, were counted at Champflore, Martinique, in January 1766.  Joseph evidently died at Champflore the following August, age 17.  Later in the decade, Anne-Esther, still in her teens, followed her mother, stepfather, and stepbrother to Spanish Louisiana, settled with them at Cabahannocer/St.-Jacques on the river above New Orleans, and, at age 18, married into the Blanchard family there in c1769, so the blood of this line endured, in the Bayou State.

Guillaume le jeune's third son Guillaume, fils, born Annapolis Royal in May 1717, married Anne, daughter of Alexandre Hébert and Marie Dupuis, at Annapolis Royal in February 1741.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1752, Anne gave Guillaume, fils six children, two sons and four daughters.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in 1755.  In 1767, they moved on to Canada and settled at St.-Jacques-de-l'Achigan north of Montréal.  Guillaume, fils died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in November 1794, age 77.  One of his daughters married into the Lanoue family. 

Guillaume le jeune's fourth and youngest son Amand, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1721, evidently died young. 

Germain's second son Michel, by first wife Madeleine Belliveau, born at Chignecto in c1679, evidently died young.  

Germain's third son Joseph dit Jacques, by second wife Madeleine Dugas, born at Chignecto in c1691, married Anne, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Madeleine Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in January 1719 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1720 and 1746, Anne gave Joseph 13 children, four sons and nine daughters.  In the early 1730s, Joseph served as a delegate from Annapolis Royal to the colonial Council.  The British deported him and his family to Massachusetts in 1755.  In August 1763, Joseph, Anne, four of their children, two sons and two daughters, appear on a repatriation list circulating in that colony.  Joseph died at Beverly, northeast of Boston, in 1764, in his early 70s.  In 1767, most of his family followed their fellow exiles to Canada.  Widow Anne and her children settled at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières.  Six of her and Joseph's daughters married into the Prince, Richard, Benoit, Robichaud, and Dupuis families.  Three of Joseph's sons also created their own families, at Annapolis Royal, in Massachusetts, and in Canada. 

Oldest son Joseph-Grégoire, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1722, married Catherine, daughter of Abraham Comeau and Marguerite Pitre, at Annapolis Royal in February 1749.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1752 and 1765, Catherine gave Joseph-Grégoire seven children, four sons and three daughters.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in 1755.  In 1767, Joseph-Grégoire followed his family to Canada, where he settled at St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu in the interior northeast of Montréal and then moved up to Nicolet on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières.  He remarried to Thérèse, daughter of Simon Hubert and Marie-Anne Larue and widow of François Précourt, at Nicolet in June 1774.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Joseph-Grégoire died at Nicolet in April 1803, in his early 80s.  One of his daughters married into the Précourt family at Nicolet.  All four of his sons created their own families at Nicolet and in the Richelieu valley. 

Oldest son Grégoire, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1753, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada, where he married Marie-Séraphique, daughter of Jean-Simon LeBlanc and Marie Landry, at St.-Jacques-de-l'Achigan in February 1777.

Joseph-Grégoire's second son Jean-Baptiste, born perhaps at Annapolis Royal in c1755, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Lamoureaux and Marie-Josèphe Goulet, at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu northeast of Montréal in November 1779. 

Joseph-Grégoire's third son Joseph, born probably in Massachusetts in c1756, followed his family to Canada, where, Bona Arsenault contends, he married Marie-Séraphie, daughter of Jean-Simon LeBlanc and Marie Landry, at St.-Jacques-de-l'Achigan in February 1777.  They settled at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu.

Joseph-Grégoire's fourth and youngest son Jean-François, born probably in Massachusetts in c1758, followed his family to Canada, where he married Marie-Ursule, daughter of Étienne Desaultels and Marie-Anne Meunier, at St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu near St.-Antoine. 

Joseph dit Jacques's third son Pépin-Gauthier, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1734, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada, where he settled near his family at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet.  Pépin married Marie, daughter of Joseph-Pierre Poirier and Madeleine Doiron and widow of Olivier Thibodeau, at Bécancour above Nicolet in February 1783. 

Joseph dit Jacques's fourth son Claude, born at Annapolis Royal in c1736, followed his family to Masschusetts but not to the St. Lawrence River valley.  He married Anne dite Nanette, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Bourque and Marie Thériault of Chignecto in c1760, place unrecorded.  Claude died at Menoudie, Nova Scotia, in c1769, in his early 30s, so he evidently returned to greater Acadia in the 1760s, when his family moved on to Canada.

Joseph dit Jacques's fifth and youngest son Joseph-Timothée, born at Annapolis Royal in  May 1739, followed his family to Massachusetts.  He married Isabelle, daughter of Guillaume Ouinet, actually Winniett, and Louise dite Lisette Robichaud, at Boston in January 1769; Isabelle was a granddaughter of the Nova Scotia shaker and mover William Winniett, Sr.  She and Joseph-Timothée followed his family to Canada and "rehabilitated" the marriage at Pointe-aux-Trembles above Montréal in December 1775.  According to Bona Arsenault, Isabelle gave Joseph-Timothée a daughter in c1770.  They resettled at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Pointe-aux-Trembles, where Joseph-Timothée died in c1777, in his late 30s. 

Germain's fourth and youngest son Claude le jeune, by second wife Madeleine Dugas, born at Chignecto in c1695, married Marie, also called Marguerite, another daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Madeleine Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in November 1721 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1749, Marie gave Claude 11 children, five sons and six daughters, including a set of twins.  In 1755, the British deported Claude le jeune and members of his family from Annapolis Royal to Massachusetts, where they were counted at Amesbury in September 1756, having come there from Newbury the previous January.  The couple were still at Amesbury in 1760, with three sons and two daughters, ages 25 to 17, all unmarried.  The family may have joined other exiles at Boston in 1762 or 1763.  Marc Bourgeois places Claude, wife Marguerite, and youngest son Germain with son Abel and his family and daughter Marguerite and her Gaudet husband in Connecticut in 1763.  If so, they did not remain in that colony.  Claude le jeune died in Massachusetts, perhaps back at Amesbury, by March 1766, in his late 60s or early 70s.  In 1767 and c1773, members of his family moved from Massachusetts to Canada and settled at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, L'Assomption, and  Bécancour below Montréal.  Widow Marguerite, who did not remarry, died probably at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in c1781.  Three, perhaps four, of her and Claude le jeune's daughters married into the Robichaud, Boudrot, Thériot, Dupuis, and Gaudet families in Canada, one of them in France, and another at Boston, the marriage validated at New Orleans, where she and her Gaudet husband had gone in 1765--the only member of her immediate family to settle in the Spanish colony.  All five of Claude le jeune's sons created their own families.

Oldest son Pierre-Benjamin, born at Annapolis Royal in c1726, married Cécile, daughter of René Aucoin and Madeleine Bourg of Grand-Pré, in c1752.  They moved to Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement.  According to Bona Arsenault, Cécile gave Pierre-Benjamin a daughter in 1755.   They escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières later that year and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Pierre-Benjamin remarried to Anne, daughter of René LeBlanc and Anne Thériot, in c1761 during exile, no place given.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1768, Anne gave Pierre-Benjamin four more children, two sons and two daughters.  Pierre-Benjamin took his family to Rivière St.-Jean in 1768 and then to Memramcook, present-day southeastern New Brunswick, in 1770.  He remarried--his third marriage--to Anne, daughter of Jacques Thébeau and Anne Melanson, in c1770, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1771 and 1778, third wife Anne gave Pierre-Benjamin seven more children, three sons and four daughters.  Pierre-Bejamin remarried twice more, his fourth marriage, date unrecorded, to a woman whose name has been lost to history, and his fifth marriage to Anne Thibodeau in c1780.  Pierre-Benjamin died at Grande-Digue on the coast north of Memramcook in November 1821, in his mid-90s.  Five of his daughters by his first three wives married into the Arsenault, LeBlanc, and Thébeau families.  All five of his sons by his second and third wives created their own families. 

Oldest son Pierre Nabor, by second wife Anne LeBlanc, born in c1766, married Henriette, daughter of Germain Thibodeau.

Pierre-Benjamin's second son Joseph-Romain, by second wife Anne LeBlanc, born in c1768, married Marie Arsenault.

Pierre-Benjamin's fourth son Mathurin, by third wife Anne Thébeau, born in c1776, married Marie Robichaud.

Pierre-Benjamin's fifth and youngest son Allain, by third wife Anne Thébeau, married Marguerite Bourque. 

Claude le jeune's second son Joseph-Abel, called Abel, born at Annapolis Royal in c1733, followed his family to Massachusetts, was as Amesbury in 1760, and married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Doucet and Anne Bourg of Salisburty, Massachusetts, by secular priest François Landry in c1762.  After appearing on a repatriation list in Connecticut in 1763 and a colonial census in Massachusetts in June 1766, they moved on to Canada, where they validated their marriage at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in September 1767.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1788, in New England and Bécancour, Marguerite gave Abel nine children, five sons and four daughters.  Two of his daughters married into the Desilets and Leduc families at Trois-Rivières.  Three of his five sons created their own families.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably in New England in c1763, followed his family to Canada and married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Provencher dit Ducharme and Marie-Pélagie Bellefeuille, at Bécancour in October 1788.

Abel's third son Pierre, born probably at Bécancour in c1774, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Levasseur and Marie-Anne Dahornay, at Bécancour in January 1801, and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of François Cormier and Marie Bouvet. 

Abel's fifth and youngest son Louis, born probably at Bécancour in c1782, married Julie, daughter of Joseph Arsenault and Marie Vigneau, at nearby St.-Grégoire in November 1813. 

Claude le jeune's third son Amand, born at Annapolis Royal in c1735, followed his family to Massachusetts in 1755, was at Amesburg in 1760, and married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Dugas and Marie-Josèphe Melanson, living in Sturbridge, probably by secular priest Louis Robichaud at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in c1764.  They moved on to Canada, validated their marriage at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Montréal in July 1767, and settled at nearby St.-Jacques de l'Achigan.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1780, Marguerite gave Amand nine children, four sons and five daughters, including a set of twins.  One of their daughters married into the Dupuis family.  Three of their four sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Abraham, born at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in c1770, married Marie-Angélique, daughter of Joseph Breau and Anastasie Benoit, at St.-Jacques in March 1794. 

Amand's second son Claude le jeune, born at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in c1774, married Isabelle, daughter of Charles-Benjamin Martin and Marie-Thérèse Robichaud, at St.-Jacques in June 1798. 

Amand's third son Jean-Baptiste, born at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in c1778, married Marie-Vénérade, daughter of Hilaire Poirier and Marie-Angélique Dugas, at St.-Jacques in February 1807. 

Claude le jeune's fourth son Amable, born at Annapolis Royal in c1737, followed his family to Massachusetts and may have been counted at Amesbury with the rest of the family in 1760.  He married Marie-Louise, called Louise, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Richard and Marguerite Robichaud, probably at Cambridge, Massachusetts, by secular priest Louis Robichaud in the early 1760s.  They also moved on to Canada, perhaps as late as the early 1770s, validated their marriage at L'Assomption in August 1774, and settled at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan. 

Claude le jeune's fifth and youngest son Germain, born at Annapolis Royal in c1749, followed his family to Massachusetts, was at Amesbury in 1760, followed his widowed mother to Canada in 1767, and married Ludivine-Élisabeth, daughter of Charles Belliveau and Osite Dugas, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in June 1776. 

Jacques dit Jacob's third and youngest son Guillaume, born at Port-Royal in c1655, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Martin d'Aprendestiguy de Martignon and Jeanne de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, probably on Rivière St.-Jean after 1686.  In c1690, Marie-Anne gave Guillaume a daughter, who married into the LeBlanc family at Port-Royal.  Guillaume died by 1693, in his late 30s.  His family line, except for its blood, died with him.354

Poirier

Fisherman Jean Poirier and his wife Jeanne Chabrat, 1641 arrivals, created what became a large family in the colony although Jeanne gave him only two children, a son and a daughter.  Jean died in the colony in c1654, in his late 20s.  His daughter married into the Caissie dit Roger family.  His son created a family of his own, and his son's many sons transformed the family into a fairly large one in the colony.  Jean and Jeanne's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Chignecto, Minas, and in the French Maritimes.  They were especially numerous at Chignecto.  At least 10 of the fisherman's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Georgia in 1764, Halifax in 1765, and Haiti via Cuba in 1809.  Even more of them could be found in Canada, greater Acadia, France, and the French Antilles after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Only son Michel, born at Port-Royal in c1650 or 1651, married Marie, daughter of Michel Boudrot and Michelle Aucoin, in c1673 probably at Port-Royal.  They settled at Chignecto, which they helped pioneer.  Between 1674 and 1695, Marie gave Michel 11 children, nine sons and two daughters.  Michel died at Chignecto, date unrecorded.  One of his daughters married into the Pothier family.  Seven of his nine sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Michel, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1674, married Madeleine, daughter of Germain Bourgeois and Madeleine Dugas, probably at Chignecto in c1698 and remained there.  Between 1700 and the mid-1720s, Madeleine gave Michel, fils 13 children, eight sons and six daughters, including a set of twins.  Their daughters married into the Arseneau, Cyr, Cosset, and Vigneau dit Maurice families.  Seven of Michel, fils's eight sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Michel III, born at Chignecto in c1700, married Françoise, daughter of Abraham Arseneau and Jeanne Gaudet, in c1723 probably at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1720 and 1723, Françoise gave Michel III two daughters.  Michel III remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Abraham Brun and Anne Pellerin, at Annapolis Royal in July 1726.  According to Arsenault, between 1733 and 1750, Marie-Josèphe gave Michel III seven more children, five sons and two daughters--nine children, four daughters and five sons, by two wives.  Michel III died by January 1752, place unrecorded.  His daughters married into the Carret, Bourgeois, Tousignant, and Lemay families in Nova Scotia and Canada.  Three of his sons also married. 

Second son Grégoire, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Brun, born at Chignecto in c1735, evidently escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  He married Geneviève, daughter of Thomas Guenet and Marie-Anne Maheu, at St.-Charles de Bellechasse across from Québec in January 1759. 

Michel III"s third son Michel IV, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Brun, born at Chignecto in c1736, evidently escaped the British roundup there with his older brother but may have remained on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore instead of moving on to Canada.  Michel IV married fellow Acadian Judith Richard in c1759, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1769, Judith gave Michel IV four children, two sons and two daughters.  They were at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs when their family of five appeared on a list of surrendered Acadians there dated 24 October 1760.  The British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  They probably were one of the families headed by a Michel Poirye listed on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  British officials counted them at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia, in 1771.  One wonders what happened to them after that date.  Did they remain in greater Acadia or join his brothers in British Canada? 

Michel III's sixth and youngest son Pierre, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Brun, born at Chignecto in c1750, evidently escaped the British roundup there with his older brothers and, with one of them, sought refuge in Canada.  Pierre married Marie-Louise, daughter of Joseph Gagné and Josette Landry, at Beauce on upper Rivière Chaudière south of Québec City in c1772. 

Michel, fils's second son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born at Chignecto in c1702, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Germain Savoie and Marie Breau, at Annapolis Royal in October 1727.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1745, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste le jeune six children, four sons and two daughters.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and took refuge in Canada.  Arsenault says Jean-Baptiste le jeune died in c1756, place unrecorded, and his widow died at Québec in December 1757, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadians in the Québec area in the summer, fall, winter, and spring of 1757-58.  One of their daughters married into the Proux family at Montmagny.  Three of Jean-Baptiste's sons also married in Canada.

Oldest son Jacques, born at Chignecto in c1742, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Fournier and Marie-Madeleine Morin, at St.-Thomas de Montmagny below Québec in January 1769.  Jacques remarried to Véronique, daughter of Joseph Bouchard and Marguerite Côté, at Montmagny in October 1779. 

Jean-Baptiste le jeune's third son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1743, followed his family to Canada and married Élisabeth, daughter of Charles Couture and Élisabeth Fournier, at St.-Thomas de Montmagny in January 1764. 

Jean-Baptiste le jeune's fourth and youngest son Sébastien, born at Chignecto in c1745, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Anne, daughter of Jean Petit and Marie Carette, in c1775, place unrecorded.  They settled at Rimouski on the south shore of the lower St. Lawrence.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1778 and 1792, Marie-Anne gave Sébastien seven children, two daughters and five sons.  Sébastien died at Rimouski in April 1821, in his mid- or late 70s.  His daughters married into the Gagné and Richard families there.  Four of his five sons also settled on the lower St. Lawrence. 

Oldest son Pierre-Sébastien, born probably at Rimouski in c1780, married Agathe, daughter of Jean Ruest and Rosalie Gagnon, there in February 1803 and settled on the north shore of the lower St. Lawrence.

Jean-Baptiste le jeune's second son Joseph, born at Rimouski in c1785, married Appoline, another daughter of Jean Ruest and Rosalie Gagnon, there in February 1806 and also settled on the north shore. 

Jean-Baptiste le jeune's third son Germain, born at Rimouski in c1785, married Geneviève, daughter of Gabriel St.-Laurent and Brigitte Bernier, there in May 1809 and joined his brothers on the north shore. 

Jean-Baptise le jeune's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, born at Rimouski in c1788, married Anastasie Mignot-Labrie there in November 1809 and joined his brothers on the north shore. 

Michel, fils's third son Joseph, born at Chignecto in c1705, married Jeanne, daughter of Guillaume Gaudet and Marie Boudrot of Annapolis Royal, in c1730, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1748, Jeanne gave Joseph five children, four daughters and a son.  The family moved on to Île Royale in 1750.  In February 1752, a French official counted Joseph, Jeanne, and their four children at Port-Toulouse on the island.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758.  Joseph's son created a family of his own.

Only son Joseph, fils, born probably at Chignecto in c1737, followed his family to Port-Toulouse.  He may have left the island before 1758 or escaped the British roundup there later that year.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Nicolas Lavigne and Marie-Anne Clémenceau of Port-Toulouse, in c1760, place unrecorded, but it could not have been on the island.  One wonders what happened to them after that date. 

Michel, fils's fourth son Ambroise, born at Chignecto c1708, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Augustin Gaudet and Agnès Chiasson, in c1732, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1744, Marie gave Ambroise five children, three sons and two daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  At least one of their sons married. 

Second son Joseph dit Maître, born at Chignecto in c1738, evidently escaped the British roundup there in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Maître married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham Arsenault and Marie-Josèphe Savoie of Île St.-Jean, in c1760, place unrecorded.  After the war, they settled with Grande-Digue, present-day eastern New Brunswick.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Maître two children, a son and a daughter, in 1767 and 1770.  Their daughter married into the LeBlanc family.  Their son also married.

Only son Raphaël, born in c1767, place unrecorded, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Marguerite Saulnier and sister of his sister Marguerite's husband, in c1788, place unrecorded, but it probably was in the Grande-Digue area. 

Michel, fils's fifth son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1711, according to Stephen A. White, evidently died young.  Bona Arsenault insists that Pierre à Michel, fils married Cécile, daughter of Jean-Jacques Nuirat and Marie-Jeanne Bourgeois, in c1732, place unrecorded.  Arsenault says Cécile gave Pierre a son in c1732 probably at Chignecto.  White, followed here, says it was Pierre, fils à Pierre, Michel, fils's nephew, not his son, who married Cécile. 

Michel, fils's sixth son Claude dit Glodiche, born at Chignecto in c1715, married Anne, daughter of Michel Bourg and Marie Cormier, at Beaubassin in November 1734.  She evidently gave him no children.  Glodiche remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Guillaume Cyr and Marguerite Bourg, in February 1740 probably at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1754, Marguerite gave Glodiche eight children, five daughters and three sons.  The family escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Arsenault says Marguerite gave Glodiche three more children, a son and two daughters, in 1758 and 1760, including a set of twins.  By 1760, they had moved up to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Claude and his family of 10 appear on a list of surrendered Acadians still at Restigouche, dated 24 October 1760.  The British held them in the prison compound at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Beauséjour, not far from their home, where Glodiche and his family of 10 appeared on a repatriation list in August 1763.  Marguerite gave Glodiche two more daughters in 1763 and 1765--13 children, nine daughters and four sons, in all.  To avoid British rule, the family resettled on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where French officials counted them in 1767.  On orders from the King to relieve overcrowding, the French sent the fisher/habitants on Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre to France later that year, but Glodiche and his family, like the majority of the islanders, returned to Miquelon the following year.  French officials counted them on the island in 1776.  Two years later, during the American Revolution, the British captured the Newfoundland islands and deported the Acadians there to France.  In 1784, after the war had ended and the British returned the islands to France, Glodiche and his family returned to Île Miquelon a second time.  Glodiche and Marguerite celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage in 1790.  Glodiche died on the island in June 1791, in his late 70s.  Three of his daughters married into the O'Nell, Boudrot, and Hébert families in greater Acadia and on Île Miquelon.  Three of his sons also married, on Miquelon.  One of them became a ship captain and returned to France, as did two of Glodiche's grandsons by an older son. 

Oldest son Alain, born at Chignecto in c1744, followed his family into exile, to Fort Cumberland, to Île Miquelon, and to France and back and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Boudrot and Françoise Arsenault, on the island in September 1770.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1771 and 1782, Marie gave Alain six children, four daughters and two sons.  They were counted on Miquelon in 1776, deported to La Rochelle, France, in 1778, and returned to the island in 1784, where they remained. 

Glodiche's second son Jacques, born at Chignecto in c1749, followed his family into exile, to Fort Cumberland, to Île Miquelon and to France and back.  Jacques worked as a ship's carpenter on the island when he was there and married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourgeois and Marguerite Hébert, in January 1774.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1775 and 1782, Marguerite gave Jacques three children, two daughters and a son.  Other records give them another son.  The family was counted on Miquelon in 1776 and deported to La Rochelle, France, in 1778.  One of their daughters died there at age 2 in June 1784.  The family returned to Île Miquelon soon after their daughter's death.  Marguerite gave Jacques another son on the island in c1785, but they did not remain.  They returned to France, where another daughter was born at Ingouville northeast of Le Havre in 1797--at least six children, three daughters and three sons.  His remaining sons created families in the Le Havre area. 

Oldest son Charles, born in St.-Sauveur Parish, La Rochelle, in March 1779, died in St.-Jean Parish there the following August. 

Jacques's second son Jacques, fils, born in St.-Jean Parish, La Rochelle, in c1780, returned with his family to Île Miquelon and, when he was old enough, became a sailor.  He did not remain on the island.  Jacques, fils married Marguerite, 26-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Blin and Madeleine Terrio of Île St.-Pierre, Newfoundland, at Ingouville near Le Havre, where he worked as a ship's carpenter, in September 1800.  Between 1801 and 1813, at Ingouville, Marguerite gave Jacques, fils 10 children, six daughters and four sons, including a set of twins.  Many of their children died young. 

Jacques, père's third and youngest son Joseph, born on Île Miquelon in c1785, soon after his family returned there, also moved on to France.  He married, at age 31, Catherine-Victoire, 24-year-old daughter of Jean-Guillaume Leard or Liard and Marie Godefroy of Gravville, France, at Graville near Le Havre, France, in July 1816.  He became a "captain of ships."  Catherine-Victoire gave him daughters at Ingouville in 1819 and 1820.  Joseph, at age 37, remarried to 22-year-old Joséphine-Désirée Gentil of Fecamp at Etretat, France, in August 1822.  Joséphine gave Joseph a son at Ingouville in 1824.

Glodiche's third son Louis, born at Chignecto in c1752, followed his family into exile, to Fort Cumerland, Île Miquelon, France, back to Miquelon, and back to France, where he married Jeanne, 19-year-old daughter of Bernard Darrochy or Arroguy and Geneviève Dingle of Rochefort, in St.-Nicolas Parish, La Rochelle, in April 1780.  They followed his family back to Miquelon in 1784.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1781 and 1784, at La Rochelle and back on Miquelon, Jeanne gave Louis three daughters.  They did not remain on the island.  Louis became a ship's carpenter and "captain of ships," and his work took him back to France.  They settled at Ingouville near Le Havre.  Jeanne gave Louis two sons there in c1790 and July 1798, but they both died young.  One of Louis's daughters married into the Vigneau family at Ingouville in November 1802.  Jeanne, now age 44, gave her 52-year-old husband another son at Ingouville in October 1805--at least six children, three daughters and three sons. 

Michel, fils's seventh son François, born at Chignecto in Auguste 1722, married Geneviève, another daughter of Jean-Jacques Nuirat and Marie-Jeanne Bourgeois, at Beaubassin in October 1746 and likely remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, Geneviève gave François a son, Félix, in 1748.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Michel, fils's eighth and youngest son Abraham, born at Chignecto in c1725, married Marie-Josèphe Bourg probably at Chignecto by January 1752.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Marie-Josèphe gave Abraham a daughter, Marie, in c1756.  They moved on to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where Abraham, in his late 30s, remarried to Agnès, daughter of Charles Belliveau and Marie Melanson and widow of Honoré Lanoue, in January 1761.  They either were captured by, or surrendered to British forces in the area, who The held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Agnès gave Abraham a son, Pierre, in c1764 in one of the compounds.  His daughter and son, now young orphans, emigrated to Louisiana probably from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1765 and settled in the established Acadian community Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Daughter Marie married into the Dupuis family at Cabahannocer and died on the river in March 1855, age 99, one of the last Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join her ancestors.  Abraham's son also married, on the western prairies, and created a vigorous line.

Only son Pierre, by second wife Agnès Belliveau, born in Nova Scotia in c1764, evidently followed his older half-sister from Halifax to Louisiana via French St.-Domingue and settled with her at Cabahannocer.  He first appears in Louisiana records at Cabahannocer in January 1777, when a Spanish official counted him on the left, or east bank, of the river, an orphan living with the family of Jean-Baptiste Léger and Cécile Poirier, his second cousin.  Probably after he came of age, he crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakpas District, where he married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis-Charles Babineaux and Anne Guilbeau, in September 1787.  They settled at Grande Pointe on the upper Teche.  Their daughters married into the Cohem, Dugas, Dupuy, Guilbeau, Richard, and Theriot families.  Pierre's only son also married, into the Theriot family, and created a vigorous family line. 

Michel, père's second son Claude, born at Port-Royal or Chignecto in c1676, lived at least into his early 20s but did not marry.   

Michel, père's third son Pierre, born at Port-Royal or Chignecto in c1680, married Agnès, daughter of Thomas Cormier and Marie-Madeleine Girouard, probably at Chignecto in c1705.  Between the 1706 and the late 1720s, Agnès gave Pierre 10 children, nine sons and a daughter.  Joseph died at Chignecto in July 1744, in his mid-60s.  His daughter married into the Bugeaud family.  All of his sons also married. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Chignecto in c1706, married, according to Stephen A. White, Cécile, daughter of Jean-Jacques Nuirat and Marie-Jeanne Bourgeois, in c1728 probably at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, the Cécile Nuirat who married Pierre Poirier gave him a son in c1732.  White says this Pierre, fils died at Chignecto by February 1733, age unrecorded.  Members of the family moved on to Île St.-Jean. 

Only son Jean-Baptiste, born at Chignecto in c1732, moved on to Île St.-Jean perhaps after August 1752 and married Anne, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Vécot and Marie Chiasson, on the island in either November 1752 or February 1757.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758. 

Pierre, père's second son Bernard, born at Chignecto in c1708, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of François Michel dit La Ruine and Marguerite Meunier, in c1732 probably at Chignecto and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1756, Marie-Madeleine gave Bernard five children, three daughters and two sons.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Bernard died by November 1758, place unrecorded, probably in Canada.  French officials counted members of the family at St.-Charles de Bellechasse across from Québec that year and at St.-Thomas de Montmagny below Québec in 1766.  Two of Bernard's daughters married into the Hébert and Lefebvre families in those communities.  Two of his sons also married in the area.

Older son Jean, born at Chignecto in c1741, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Élisabeth, daughter of Claude-Joseph Bouchard and Élisabeth Thibault, at St.-Thomas de Montmagny in February 1766.

Bernard's younger son François, born in exile, perhaps in Canada, in c1756, married Louise LeGuerre at St.-Pierre de Sorel on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Montréal. 

Pierre, père's third son Michel le jeune, born at Chignecto in c1710, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of René LeBlanc and Jeanne Landry, at Grand-Pré in October 1735, but they may have settled at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1748, Marie-Madeleine gave Michel le jeune four children, two sons and two daughters.  Other records give them another son.  Arsenault says the British deported the family to "Carolina" in the fall of 1755, but their oldest son evidently did not go with them.  According to Stephen A. White, Michel le jeune died by April 1779, place unrecorded, perhaps in French St.-Domingue.  His daughter Marie married into the Cormier and Michaut families, the second time in French St.-Domingue.  His youngest son also married there, but his oldest son ended up in Louisiana. 

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in c1740, escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and married fellow Acadian Marie-Anne, called Anne, Bourgeois, date and place unrecorded.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotial for the rest of the war.  They came to Louisiana from Halifax via French St.-Domingue in 1765 and settled near his cousins at Cabahannocer on the river, where Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the Mississippi in January 1777.  Two years later, they owned a slave.  All of their children were born in Louisiana.  Joseph died near Convent, St. James Parish, formerly Cabahannocer, in January 1811.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Joseph was age 68 when he died.  He was closer to age 71.  His daughters married into the Gaudet and Part families.  His only son Jean does not seem to have survived childhood, so, except for its blood, this family line may have died with Joseph. 

Third and youngest Michel, fils, born perhaps in South Carolina, date unrecorded, married Victoire dite Delle, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Jourdain and Marie-Anne Werling, at Môle St.-Nicolas, French St.-Domingue, in February 1783.  Delle gave Michel, fils a daughter there in October 1786. 

Pierre, père's fourth son Guillaume, born at Chignecto in c1712, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Marie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Forest and Marie-Élisabeth Labarre, in c1739 probably at Chignecto and settled there.  According to Arsenault, between 1740 and 1744, Marie gave Guillaume three children, two daughters and a son.  The British deported the family to Georgia or South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  Guillaume, evidently a widower, and five children appeared on a repatriation list in South Carolina in August 1763.  Later that year or in 1764, members of the family resettled in French St.-Domingue, today's Haiti.  Guillaume died by August 1776, when wife Marie remarried to a Ronval from France at Môle St.-Nicolas, site of the new French naval base on the northwest tip of the island.  One of Guillaume's daughters married into the Giroir family there in August 1776 11 days after her mother remarried. 

Pierre, père's fifth son François, born at Chignecto in c1716, married Anne, daughter of Germain Girouard and Jeanne Barrieau, at Beaubassin in September 1740.  They settled at Pointe-à-Beauséjour, Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1747, Anne gave François three children, two daughters and a son.  According to Stephen A. White, François remarried to Madeleine Dugas in c1749 probably at Chignecto.  In 1749 and 1750, Madeleine gave François two more sons.  The British deported the family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  François remarried again--his third marriage--to Théotiste dite Catherine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Breau and Catherine-Josèphe Bourgeois, in c1760 probably in South Carolina.  She gave him another daughter in c1761--six children, three daughters and three sons, by three wives.  François, Théotiste, sons Louis, age 15, and Joseph, age 13, and daughter Victoire, age 2, along with a 15-year-old Breau orphan, perhaps Théotiste's younger sister, appeared on a repatriation list in South Carolina in August 1763.  After the war ended, François took his family to the French Antilles.  Wife Catherine died at Fort-Royal, Martinique, in September 1769, age unrecorded.  François died there September 1772, in his late 50s or early 60s.  His youngest daughter by third wife Théotiste married into the Sasamy family in French St.-Domingue.  One of his sons also married there. 

Third and youngest son Joseph, by second wife Madeleine Dugas, born at Pointe-à-Beauséjour in c1750, followed his family to South Carolina and to the French Antilles.  If he followed his father and stepmother to Martinique, he did not remain there.  In his late 30s, he married Marie-Louise, daughter of Marie-Catherine Dubay, at Bombarde, French St.-Domingue, in November 1787. 

Pierre, père's sixth son Joseph, born at Pointe-à-Beauséjour in c1717, married Marguerite, daughter of Germain Girouard and Jeanne Barrieau, at Beaubassin in September 1740 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Joseph a daughter in 1744.  The British deported the family to one of the seaboard colonies, probably a southern one, in the fall of 1755.  After the war ended, François took his family to French St.-Domingue.  He died at Môle St.-Nicolas on the island in October 1776, in his late 50s, a widower. 

Pierre, père's seventh son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born at Chignecto in April 1720, married Marie, daughter of Jean Hébert and Isabelle Bourg, at Beaubassin in February 1746 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste le jeune a daughter in 1748.  The British deported the family to Georgia in the fall of 1755.  They appeared on a repatriation list in Georgia in August 1763.  What happened to them after that date?

Pierre, père's eighth son Claude le jeune, born at Chignecto in February 1723, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Arseneau and Marguerite Hébert, at Beaubassin in January 1746 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Claude le jeune a daughter in 1748.  One wonders what happened to the family in the fall of 1755. 

Pierre, père's ninth and youngest son Paul, born at Chignecto in c1726, married Marguerite, daughter of Paul Doiron and Marguerite Doucet, at Beaubassin in June 1747.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Paul a daughter in 1748.  The British deported the family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  Paul remarried to Thérèse Carret probably in South Carolina in c1762.  They appeared on a repatriation list in South Carolina in August 1763.  What happened to them after that date?

Michel, père's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, born at Chignecto in April 1682, married Marie, another daughter of Thomas Cormier and Marie-Madeleine Girouard, probably at Chignecto in c1706.  Between the 1700s and 1733, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste nine children, three sons and six daughters.  Jean-Baptiste died at Chignecto by September 1748, in his late 60s.  His daughters married into the Chiasson, Hébert, Doiron, Landry, and Léger families.  One of them was among the first Acadian exiless to go to Louisiana.  All of Jean-Baptiste's sons also married.  One of them, like his older sister, was among the first Acadian exiles in Louisiana, but most of his sons resettled in Canada. 

Oldest son Joseph le jeune, born at Chignecto in c1711, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Doiron and Anne LeBlanc, in c1732, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1742, Madeleine gave Joseph le jeune five children, three sons and two daughters.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the family to Pennsylvania, so they may have been living at Minas.  Joseph's widow remarried to a Thibodeau widower from Minas in July 1764, probably in the Quaker colony.  In 1766 or 1767 she led her family to Canada.  They settled on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières, where many of the exiles from the seaboard colonies, including Doirons, settled.  One of their daughters married into the Thibodeau and Bourgeois families at Bécancour.  Their three sons also settled in the area.

Oldest son Jean, born at Chignecto in c1733, married Marie, daughter of François Forest and Marie-Josèphe Girouard, in c1750, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Jean a daughter in 1751.  The British deported them to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  They appeared on repatriation list in that colony in June 1763.  They followed his family to Canada in the late 1760s.  Arsenault says Marie gave Jean two more children, a son and a daughter, in 1765 and 1771, the younger one probably in Canada--three children, two daughters and a son, in all.  Jean died at Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières in January 1823, in his late 80s.  His daughters married into the Bourque family there.  His son also settled in the area.

Only son Jean-Baptiste, born probably in Pennsylvania in c1765, followed his family to Canada and married Marie, daughter of Ignace Caron and Marie-Anne Thibodeau, at Rivière-du-Loup, today's Louiseville, across Lac-St.-Pierre from Nicolet. 

Joseph le jeune's second son Pierre dit Canique, born at Chignecto in c1734, evidently escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  He married Madeleine, another daughter of François Forest and Marie-Josèphe Girouard, in c1758, place unrecorded.  British authorities counted them at Rivière-Ouelle on the lower St. Lawrence in 1759.  They had moved up to Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières by 1771.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1759 and 1774, Madeleine gave Canique seven children, three daughters and four sons.  They were living at nearby St.-Grégoire de Nicolet in 1780.  Canique died there in February 1821, in his late 80s.  His daughters married into the Benoit and Pellerin families at Nicolet, two of them to brothers.  Three of his sons married sisters and settled in the area.

Oldest son Pierre dit Doiron, born in Canada in c1760, married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bergeron and Madeleine Bourg, at Nicolet in January 1787. 

Pierre dit Canique's second son Jean-Baptiste dit Canique, born in Canada in c1765, married Madeleine, another daughter of Michel Bergeron and Madeleine Bourg, at Nicolet in January 1787, and, at age 44, remarried to Josette, daughter of Joseph Belliveau and Marie Bibeau, at St.-Grégoire de Nicolet in June 1809. 

Pierre dit Canique's third son Joseph, born probably at Bécancour in c1771, married Marguerite, yet another daughter of Michel Bergeron and Madeleine Bourg, at Nicolet in August 1792, and, at age 31, remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Héon and Marie Rhault, at Nicolet in July 1804. 

Joseph le jeune's third and youngest son Joseph, fils, born at Chignecto in c1738, evidently escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  He was counted at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière near Rivière-Ouelle on the lower St. Lawrence in 1759 and married fellow Acadian Marguerite Thibodeau that year, place unrecorded.  They had moved up to Bécancour by 1770 and were living at St.-Grégoire de Nicolet in 1780.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1759 and 1782, Marguerite gave Joseph, fils 10 children, seven daughters and three sons.  Joseph, fils, called Pierre by the recording priest, died at Nicolet in November 1825, in his his late 80s.  Six of his daughters married into the Belliveau, Rèche, Pellerin, Morin, Bourgeois, and Pinard families at Nicolet.  One of his sons also married there. 

Second son Joseph III, born probably at Bécancour in c1771, married Louise, daughter of Joseph Morin and Marie-Louise Pinard-Lauzier, at Nicolet in January 1795. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son Pierre le jeune, born at Chignecto in March 1720, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Gaudet and Marguerite Hébert, at Beaubassin in June 1745 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1766, Marie gave Pierre le jeune 10 children, five sons and five daughters.  They escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  French officials counted them at Québec in 1757 and at Cap-St..-Ignace below the city in 1765.  They moved upriver to Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières by 1767.  Pierre died at Nicolet in March 1785, age 65.  Four of his daughters married into the Bergeron, Forest, and Lemire families at Nicolet.  Three of his sons also married in the area.

Second son Pierre, fils, born at Chignecto in c1753, followed his family to Canada and, at age 38, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Osias Boudrot and Anne Orillon, at Nicolet in February 1791.

Pierre le jeune's third son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born probably at Chignecto in c1754, followed his family to Canada and, at age 32, married Marie-Agathe, daughter of Joseph Genest dit Labarre and Agathe Bourbeau dit Verville, at Bécancour in May 1786. 

Pierre le jeune's fifth and youngest son François, born in Canada in c1766, married Marie-Julie, called Judith, daughter of Joseph Morin and Marie Saucier, at Pointe-du-Lac near Trois-Rivières in March 1794, and, at age 48, remarried to Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Régis Part and Marie Belliveau, in August 1814. 

Jean-Baptiste's third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, called Jean, born at Menoudy, Chignecto, in February 1733, was still unmarried in the fall of 1755 when the British deported him to one of the southern colonies.  He may have been among the exiles in South Carolina and Georgia who, the following spring, were allowed by those colonies' respective governors to return to greater Acadia by boat but did not make it any farther than Long Island, New York.  He married cousin Marie-Madeleine, called Madelene, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Richard and Catherine Cormier of Chignecto, in c1759, place unrecorded.  One wonders if it was in New York. Madeleine gave Jean two sons in May 1760 and June 1762, perhaps in New York.  If so, they did not remain after the war ended.  Having consulted three related families with them in New York, they evidently chose to follow them not back to greater Acadia but southward, perhaps to the French Antilles.  Jean and Madeleine appeared on a repatriation list at Charles Town, South Carolina, in August 1763, with three children, and they also were counted in Georgia that year, as were the other three families.  In December 1763, Jean, his wife, and their two young sons, along with the three other related families--the Cormiers, Landrys, and Richards (Jean's wife was a Richard remember), 21 exiles in all--ventured from Savannah, Georgia, to Mobile, Alabama, where his and Madeleine's marriage was "rehabilitated" by the priest there.  With the other families, they then moved on to New Orleans, which they reached in February 1764--the first documented Acadian exiles in Louisiana.  In April, French officials sent the four families to Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where other exiles, including Poiriers and Richards, joined them from Halifax the following year (one wonders if the four families had contacted the exiles at Halifax and coaxed them into coming to the Mississippi valley settlement).  Madeleine gave Jean more children in Louisiana, including three more sons--at least eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1760 and the early 1780s.  Jean died at Cabahannocer in January 1785, age 51.  His daughters, all born in Louisiana, married into the Bernard, Clouâtre, Part, and Picou families.  One of his younger sons, Michel, also born in Louisiana, married into the Landry family and created a vigorous line on the river. 

Michel, père's fifth son Louis, born at Chignecto in January 1684, married Cécile, daughter of Jean-Aubin Mignot dit Aubin and Anne Dugas and widow of Pierre Gaudet, in c1708 probably at Chignecto.  Between the late 1700s and 1722, Cécile gave Louis seven children, two sons and five daughters.  Louis died at Chignecto by November 1747, in his early 60s.  Three of his daughters married into the Caissie dit Roger, Mouton, and Arseneau families.  Both of his sons married and remained in greater Acadia after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Older son Pierre, born at Chignecto in January 1719, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Arseneau and Françoise Mirande, at Beaubassin in February 1740 and likely settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1748, Marguerite gave Pierre five sons.  Pierre died in c1749, probably at Chignecto, and Marguerite remarried to a Bernard widower there.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After the war, they resettled at Bonaventure and Carleton, British-controlled fisheries in Gaspésie along the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Three of their sons settled there.

Second son Charles dit Commis, born at Chignecto in c1741, followed his family into exile and to Gaspésie, where he married cousin Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Bujold and Marie Poirier, in c1768.  They settled at Bonaventure.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1769 and 1792, Claire gave Commis 13 children, six daughters and seven sons.  Four of their daughters married into the Babin, Arbour, and Henry families at Bonaventure.  Four of Commis's sons also settled there. 

Oldest son Pierre le jeune, born at Bonaventure in c1771, married Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Babin and Anne Cyr, there in January 1796.  Pierre captained his own goélette, or schooner.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1797 and 1819, Euphrosine gave Pierre 11 children, four daughters and seven sons.  Three of their daughters married into the Forest, Couture, and Gauthier families, two of them at Bonaventure.  Four of their sons also married at Bonaventure.

Oldest son Charles le jeune, born at Bonaventure in c1799, married, at age 35, Marie Louise, daughter of Charles Cavanagh and Louise Loubert, there in September 1834.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1835 and 1839, Marie Louise gave Charles le jeune three children, two sons and a daughter.  Charles, who worked as a merchant at Bonaventure, died there in May 1839, age 40. 

Pierre le jeune's third son Félix, born at Bonaventure in c1807, became a cobbler.  He married Angélique, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Boisvert and Marguerite Janel of St.-Hyacinthe, Québec Province, at Bonaventure in January 1830.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1831 and 1849, Angélique gave Félix five children, four sons and a daughter. 

Pierre, le jeune's fifth son Polycarpe, born at Bonaventure in c1813, married Frances-Isabella, daughter of John Rafter and Anne Burton, there in October 1837.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1842 and 1849, Frances-Isabella gave Polycarpe five children, two sons and three daughters.  They settled at nearby Cacapédia, now New Richmond, by 1847. 

Pierre, le jeune's seventh and youngest son Pierre-Alexis, born at Bonaventure in c1814, married cousin Marie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Poirier and Charlotte Arseneau, there in January 1845. 

Commis's third son Maximien or Maxime, born at Bonaventure in c1776, married cousin Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians François-Placide Bujold and Marie-Josèphe Bernard, there in July 1803.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1804 and 1818, Scholastique gave Maximien seven children, three daughters and four sons. 

Commis's fourth son Charles, born at Bonaventure in c1780, married, at age 30, Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Charlemagne Arbour and Angélique Babin, there in January 1810.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1810 and 1830, Angélique gave Charles 10 children, two daughters and eight sons. 

Commiss's sixth son Paul, born at Bonaventure in c1789, married Oliviette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Arsenault and Anne-Blanche Robichaud, there in January 1813.  According to Bona Arsenault, Oliviette gave Paul a daughter in 1814.  Paul, at age 41, remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Cormier and Mathurine LeBlanc, at Bonaventure in August 1830.  Arsenault says between 1831 and 1848, Marguerite gave Paul nine more children, four daughters and five sons--10 children, five daughters and five sons, by two wives. 

Pierre's third son Pierre dit Chiche, born at Chignecto in c1743, followed his family into exile and to Gaspésie, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Marie-Josèphe Daigle, in c1772.  They also settled at Bonventure.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1773 and 1789, Marguerite gave Chiche nine children, five sons and four daughters.  Three of their daughters married into the Bujold, Bourg, Ferlatte, and Gauthier families at Bonaventure.  Four of their sons also married there.

Second son Fabien, born at Bonaventure in c1774, married Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Gauthier, fils and Théotiste Landry, there in January 1799.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1799 and 1822, Angélique gave Fabien 13 children, six sons and seven daughters. 

Chiche's third son David, born at Bonaventure in c1776, married Madeleine, fellow Acadians François-Placide Bujold and Marie-Josèphe Bernard, there in July 1799.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1800 and 1815, Madeleine gave David seven children, five daughters and two sons. 

Chiche's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, born at Bonaventure in c1779, married, at age 31, Élisabeth-Charlotte, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Arseneau and Anne-Marie Robichaud, there in January 1810.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1810 and 1822, Élisabeth-Charlotte gave Jean-Baptiste eight children, seven sons and a daughter. 

Chiche's fifth and youngest son Ange, born at Bonaventure in c1780, married, at age 32, Louise, daughter fellow Acadians Charlemagne Arbour and Angélique Babin, there in January 1812.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1812 and 1833, Louise gave Ange nine children, five children and four daughters, including a set of twins. 

Pierre, père's fifth and youngest son Hilaire, born at Chignecto in c1748, followed his family into exile and to Gaspésie, where he married Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dugas and Anne LeBlanc, at Carleton in October 1773.  They settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1774 and 1792, Angélique gave Hilaire 10 children, six children and four sons. 

Louis's younger son Charles, born at Chignecto in c1722, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Chiasson and Madeleine Boudrot, at Beaubassin in February 1746.  She gave him no children.  Charles remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Maurice Vigneau and Marguerite Comeau, at Beaubassin in November 1747 and moved on to Île Royale in c1750.  Marguerite gave Charles a son that year.  In February 1752, a French official counted Charles, Marguerite, and their young son at Port-Toulouse on the island.  They either left Île Royale after the counting or escaped the British roundup there in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the mainland.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1771, Marguerite gave Charles four more children, three sons and a daughter.  British officials counted them at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia, in 1771. 

Michel, père's sixth son Charles, born at Chignecto in c1688, probably died young.  

Michel, père's seventh son François, born at Chignecto in c1691, married Marie, daughter of Michel Haché dit Gallant and Anne Cormier, at Beaubassin in November 1715.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1716 and 1726, Marie gave François six children, two daughters and four sons.  François died at Chignecto in c1727, in his mid- or late 30s.  Widow Marie remarried to a Rassicot on Île St.-Jean, the Acadian settlement on which her parents pioneered in 1720.  François's daughters married into the Massier dit Ladouceur and Olivier families perhaps on Île St.-Jean.  Three of his sons also married. 

Oldest son François, fils, born at Chignecto in c1719, married Cécile, daughter of François Labauve and Madeleine Belou, at Beaubassin in February 1746.  Between 1746 and 1750, Cécile gave François four children, three daughters and a son.  In 1750, François, fils took his family to Île St.-Jean.  Cécile gave him another daughter in early 1752.  That August, a French official counted François, fils, Cécile, and their five children at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in the island's interior.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1757, Cécile gave François, fils three more children, two daughters and a son--eight children, six daughters and two sons, in all, at Chignecto and on the island.  Arsenault says they were living lower down at Petite-Ascension on Île St.-Jean in 1757.  The British deported them to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758.  They lost two daughters there in December 1758, soon after their arrival, and in January 1764.  They did not follow François, fils's younger brother Joseph dit Gourdiec to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765, nor did they follow other Acadian exiles to Poitou in 1773.  . 

François, père's second son Joseph dit Gourdiec, born at Chignecto in c1721, married Isabelle, daughter of Mathieu Brasseau and Jeanne Célestin dit Bellemère, at Beaubassin in November 1746.  She gave him no children.  Gourdiec remarried to Ursule, daughter of Louis Renault or Renaud and Marie Lapierre of Minas, at Beaubassin in October 1748.  Ursule gave him a daughter in 1750.  The following year, he took his family to Île St.-Jean.  In August 1752, a French official counted Joseph, Ursule, their daughter, and Ursule's mother and brother on the south side of Rivière-de-Peugiguit in the island's interior.  Between 1754 and 1758, Ursule gave him four more children, three daughters and a son.  In late 1758, the British deported them to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Supply.  Three of their children died at sea or in a St.-Malo hospital soon after their arrival.  They settled in the suburb of St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across from the Breton port.  Between 1760 and 1764, at St.-Énogat and nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Ursule gave Gourdiec three more children, two sons and a daughter--eight children, five daughters and three sons, on Île St.-Jean and in France.  In November 1765, Gourdiec took his family to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany, where many of the exiles recently arrived from England chose to go.  Joseph dit Gourdiec and his family settled at Kersau near Locmaria on the island's southeast coast.  Joseph died at Locmaria in June 1776, in his mid-50s.  One of his daughters died there in March 1785.  Despite Bona Arsenault's assertion, no member of this family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana later that year or ever. 

François, père's fourth and youngest son Michel, born at Chignecto in c1726, married Pétronille, daughter of Pierre Mire and Marie Forest of Pigiguit, at Beaubassin in February 1748.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Michel, père's eighth son Jacques, born at Chignecto in c1693, married Anne, daughter of François Cormier and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Beaubassin in January 1716.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1717 and 1724, Anne gave Jacques two children, a son and a daughter.  Jacques died at Chignecto by 1728, in his early 30s.  His daughter married into the Hébert family.  His son also married.

Only son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1717, married Isabelle, daughter probably of Joseph Hébert and Marie-Anne Boudrot, at Chignecto in August 1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1747, Isabelle gave Pierre three children, a son and two daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Michel, père's ninth and youngest son Joseph, born at Chignecto in c1695, married Anne, daughter of René Bernard and Madeleine Doucet, at Chignecto in October 1719 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1722 and 1744, Anne gave Joseph five children, three sons and two daughters.  The British deported members of the family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  Joseph died before February 1762, in his mid- or late 60s, place unrecorded, but it probably was South Carolina.  One of his daughters married into the Doucet family.  Two of his sons also married. 

Oldest son Paul, born at Chignecto in c1722, married Anne, daughter of Germain Hébert and Anne Caissie of Minas, at Beaubassin in October 1743.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1745 and 1747, Anne gave Paul two sons.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Joseph's second son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1723, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Bourg and Cécile Cormier, at Beaubassin in November 1743.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1748, Marguerite gave Pierre three sons.  Other records give them a daughter.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After the war, they settled at Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Their daughter evidently did not escape the roundup at Chignecto, was sent to one of the southern seaboard colonies, and ended up in French St.-Domingue, where she married into the Thioulet and Bordassy families and remained.  At least one of Pierre's sons married in Gaspésie. 

Oldest son Pierre dit Parrot, born at Chignecto in c1744, followed his family into exile and to Gaspésie, where he married fellow Acadian Anne Gaudet in c1766.  They settled at Carleton.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1785, Anne gave Parrot seven children, three daughters and four sons. Their daughters married into the Arseneau and Hébert families at Bonaventure.  Their sons also settled in the area. 

Oldest son Hilaire, born at Carleton in c1775, married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Arseneau and Marguerite Thériault, at nearby Bonaventure in November 1801.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1802 and 1821, Scholastique gave Hilaire eight children, four daughters and four sons.  Hilaire, at age 60, remarried to Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Cyr and Louise Boudreau, at nearby Cascapédia, today's New Richmond, in August 1835. 

Parrot's second son Nicolas, born at Carleton in c1778, married fellow Acadian Victoire Léger at Caraquet, New Brunswick, on the south shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, in August 1796.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1798 and 1814, Victoire gave Nicolas seven children, five sons and two daughters. 

Parrot's third son Pierre-René, born at Carleton in c1780, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaac Bernard and Victoire Robichaud, at Bonaventure in January 1809.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1814 and 1826, Marguerite gave Pierre five children, four daughters and a son. 

Parrot's fourth and youngest son Vital, born at Carleton in c1782, married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Gauthier, fils and Théotiste Landry, at Bonaventure in January 1812.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1812 and 1827, Louise gave Vital seven children, four daughters and three sons.  Vital, at age 49, remarried to fellow Acadian Julienne Thériault, widow of Jules Pitre, of Grande-Anse on the south shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, at Bonaventure in September 1831.  According to Arsenault, between 1832 and 1845, Julienne gave Vital six more children, three daughters and three sons--13 children, seven daughters and six sons, by two wives.355

Dugas

Abraham Dugas, the gunsmith-turned-justice, an early 1640s arrival, and his wife Marguerite Doucet created a large family in the colony.  Marguerite gave Abraham eight children, three sons and five daughters.  Their daughters married into the Melanson, Bourgeois, Mignot dit Châtillon, Arseneau, and LeBlanc families.  All of Abraham's sons created families of their own.  His oldest son's line was especially vigorous.  Abraham died at Port-Royal by 1700, in his late 70s or early 80s.  His and Marguerite's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Chignecto, and Minas and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin, in British Nova Scotia; and on Rivière St.-Jean, Île St.-Jean, and Île Royale, controlled by the French before Le Grand Dérangement.  At least 89 of Abraham's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, French St.-Domingue in the late 1760s, and especially from France in 1785.  Perhaps most of the gunsmith's descendants, however, could be found in Canada, greater Acadia, and France after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Claude, born probably at Port-Royal in c1649, married Françoise, daughter of Jacques Bourgeois and Jeanne Trahan, at Port-Royal in c1673.  Between 1674 and 1692, Françoise gave Claude a dozen children, nine daughters and three sons.  Claude remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Bernard Bourg and Françoise Brun, at Port-Royal in 1697.  Between 1698 and 1715, this Marguerite gave Claude 10 more children, five daughters and five sons--22 children, 14 daughters and eight sons, by both wives.  Claude died at Annapolis Royal in October 1732, in his early 80s.  His daughters by both wives married into the Melanson, Forest, Bourg, Part dit La Forest, Thibodeau, Hébert, Broussard, Brun, Aubois dit Dubois, Bergeron dit d'Amboise, Amireau, and Belliveau families.  One of them emigrated to Louisiana in 1765.  All of eight of his sons created families of their own.  

Oldest son Claude, fils, by first wife Françoise Bourgeois, born probably at Port-Royal in c1677, married Jeanne, another daughter of Bernard Bourg and Françoise Brun, probably at Port-Royal in the early 1700s, settled at Cobeguit, and died there by November 1723, in his mid-50s.  From the early 1700s to 1709, Jeanne gave Claude, fils five children, three sons and two daughters.  Their daughters married into the Babineau dit Deslauriers and Doucet families.  All of Claude, fils's sons married. 

Oldest son Claude III, born in the early 1700s, married, according to Stephen A. White, Anne, daughter of Jean Hébert and Marie-Marguerite Landry, in c1727.  They likely settled at Cobeguit.  However, Bona Arsenault insists that Claude III, sans doute son of Claude Dugas, fils and Jeanne Bourg, married Marguerite, daughter of François Coste and Madeleine Martin of Annapolis Royal, in c1725, no place given; that, between 1728 and 1747, Marguerite gave Claude III five children, four sons and a daughter; and that Claude III remarried to Marie-Madeleine Fougère in c1750, no place given.  According to White, Marguerite, daughter of François Coste and Madeleine Martin, married Joseph dit le jeune, son of Claude Dugas, père and his second wife Marguerite Bourg and Claude III's uncle, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1725.  Arsenault places Claude III and his family at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, France, in 1762, which means the British deported them from the French Maritimes, probably Île St.-Jean, to France in late 1758.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France notes that three of Claude Dugas's sons (Robichaux does not name their mother) ended up in France, but they may have been sons of Joseph dit le jeune, not Claude.  Two, perhaps three, of the brothers ended up in Louisiana. 

Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Cobeguit in c1728, married Marguerite Daigre in c1752.  Between 1753 and 1757, Marguerite gave Pierre three daughters.  They evidently escaped to Île St.-Jean after the summer of 1755.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  They settled at nearby Plouër-sur-Rance, where Pierre worked as a carpenter and where Marguerite gave him two more daughters in 1761 and 1764.  In 1773, they became part of the settlement scheme in the interior of Poitou.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, Pierre, Marguerite, and three of their daughters retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  The two oldest daughters, Anne-Osite and Marguerite-Blanche, married into the Hébert and Bourg families at Nantes and nearby Chantenay in 1778 and 1784.  In 1785, Pierre, Marguerite, and their two unmarried daughters, Anne-Marie and Marie-Victoire, along with their married daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana and settled on the Opelousas prairies west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Pierre and Marguerite had no more children in the colony.  Pierre died there by March 1808, when wife Marguerite was described as a widow in her burial record.  Second daughter Marguerite-Blanche and her husband evidently settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Pierre and Marguerite's youngest daughter Marie-Victoire married into the Richard family at Opelousas.  Oldest daughter Anne-Osite remarried into the Granger family at nearby Attakapas.  So the blood of the family endured in the Bayou State. 

Claude III's third son Charles, born probably at Cobeguit in c1737, evidently escaped with his family to Île St.-Jean after the summer of 1755.  The British deported him to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in late 1758, where he married fellow Acadian Marguerite Granger in c1761.  In 1762 and 1764, at Boulogne-sur-Mer, Marguerite gave Charles two children, a daughter and a son.  In May 1766, Charles, Marguerite, and their two children took the brigantine Hazard to St.-Malo.  They settled in the suburb of St.-Servans-sur-Mer before moving upriver to Plouër-sur-Rance, near his brothers, in 1769.  Between 1766 and 1772, Marguerite gave Charles four more children, two sons and two daughters, but one of the daughters died young.  Wife Marguerite died at la Ville de La Croix Guguel near Plouër in March 1773, age 35.  Later in the year, Charles took his five children to Poitou.  His youngest daughter died there in July 1774, age 2.  In September 1775, Charles remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Daigre and Marguerite Granger, in St.-Jean-Baptiste l'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, Poitou.  In November, after two years of effort, Charles, Marguerite, and his four remaining children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Between 1776 and 1781, this Marguerite gave Charles three more children, two sons and a daughter, but both of the sons died young.  Wife Marguerite died at Nantes in April 1784, age 32.  The following year, Charles, still unmarried, and his five children, two daughters and three sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  They settled in the Attakapas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin near older brother Pierre.  At age 60, Charles remarried--his third marriage--to Françoise, 50-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Trahan and Jeanne Daigle and widow of Pascal Hébert, at Attakapas in July 1797.  Françoise also had come to Louisiana from France in 1785.  Needless to say, she gave Charles no more children.  Charles died in St. Martin Parish in January 1809, in his early 70s.  His daughters married into the Richard family at Opelousas and Attakapas.  His sons married into the Martin, Gautreaux, and Dugas families at Attakapas.  Two of the lines endured there. 

Claude III's fourth and youngest son Amand, born, according to Bona Arsenault, probably at Cobeguit in either c1747 or c1755, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and his oldest brother Pierre and his family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He settled with them at Plouër-sur-Rance, moved to St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1766, and returned to Plouër in 1771.  He may have been the Amand Dugas who ventured to Louisiana by January 1779, when an Acadian of that name married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians René Robichaux and Marguerie Martin dit Barnabé, at Attakapas west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  The couple settled at Anse La Butte on upper Bayou Vermilion between present-day Lafayette and Breaux Bridge, near two of Amand's Dugas cousins.  Amand died at his home at La Butte in October 1823 after a long illness.  The Vermilionville priest, who called him Armand and did not give his parents' names, says he died "at age 68 yrs.," but Amand, son of Claude III, would, according to the birth year given in Arsenault's Cobequit section, have been age 76.  Amand was one of the first to be buried behind the new church, St. John the Evangelist, in Vermilionville.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1824.  His daughters married into the Cormier and Sonnier families.  Four of his five sons married into the Sonnier, Brasset or Brasseaux, Dugas, and Chiasson families, and three of them created vigorous lines.  During the late antebellum period, some of his descendants moved to East Texas, but most of them remained on the southwest Louisiana prairies.  Note that the two older brothers of Amand, sons of Claude III, emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785 and also settled on the prairies west of the Atchafalaya Basin, a move perhaps inspired by their youngest brother. 

Claude, fils's second son Charles, born in the early 1700s, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Jean Benoit and Marie-Anne Breau, in c1730 probably at Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1749, Anne-Marie gave Charles eight children, four daughters and four sons.  Other records give them two more children, another son and another daughter.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean perhaps in 1755 or 1756.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Charles died on the crossing, in his late 50s.  His two youngest children also died at sea.  Widow Anne-Marie moved the family to St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across from St.-Malo, where she died in September 1772, age 70.  Two of Charles's daughters married into the Boudrot and Quimine families in France and emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.  A younger daughter followed her sisters to the Spanish colony and married into the Aillet family there.  At least two of Charles's sons married in France, and one of them followed his sisters to Louisiana.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Cobeguit in c1737, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to France and his widowed mother to St.-Énogat, where he worked as a fisherman.  In the early 1760s, following the war with Britain, Jean-Baptiste signed on to the ship L'Aimable-Thérèse and was reported as having deserted the vessel at New Orleans in July 1765.  He would have been there about the time some of his Dugas cousins from Halifax arrived in the colony.  He did not remain there.  He had returned to Le Havre, France, by October 1767 and was back at St.-Malo in November.  At age 30, he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Grossin and Marie Caissie of Île St.-Jean, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, across from St.-Énogat, in February 1768.  Between 1768 and 1774, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste four children, three daughters and a son, two of whom died young.  In 1773, Jean-Baptiste and his family went to Poitou.  In November 1775, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Another son was born to them there in December 1775, but he also died young.  They also lost their older son there.  Jean-Baptiste, Marie, and their surviving daughter Marie-Josèphe emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge on the river above New Orleans and had no more children there.  Marie died at Baton Rouge in July 1809, in her early 70s.  Jean-Baptiste was still alive and also in his early 70s at the time.  His daughter married into the Lebert family at Baton Rouge, so the blood of the family may have endured there. 

Charles's second son Pierre-Ignace, born at Cobeguit in c1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to France and his widowed mother to St.-Énogat.  In January 1761, when he would have been age 17 or 18, he was an engagé with the Compagne des Indes, place unrecorded.  He was still alive in 1771, in his late 20s.  One wonders what happened to him after that date.  He did not follow his siblings to Louisiana in 1785. 

Charles's fourth son Antoine, born at Cobeguit in c1747, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to France and his widowed mother to St.-Énogat, where he married Véronique, daughter of Énogat Cholus and Anne Jagoux of St.-Énogat, in June 1775.  They remained at St.-Énogat and did not follow Antoine's family to Louisiana in 1785. 

Claude, fils's third and youngest son Pierre, born at Cobeguit in c1709, married Isabelle, called Élisabeth, daughter of Abraham Bourg and Marie Thériot, in c1733 probably at Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1751, Élisabeth gave Pierre eight children, five daughters and three sons.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1752.  In August 1752, a French official counted Pierre, Élisabeth, and their eight children, ages 18 to 1, at Anse-à-Pinnet on the island's southeast coast.  Another son was born to them on the island in c1755.  The British deported Pierre, Isabelle, and six of their children to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758, so one wonders if three of their children died before the island's dérangement.  Élisabeth died at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1759, age 46, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Their son Pierre, fils, age 13, died the following month.  Pierre took his surviving children to nearby St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Servan.  In his early or mid-50s, he remarried to Marie-Madeleine, 39-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Vincent and Marie Granger and widow of Alexandre Boudrot and Joseph Breau, at St.-Servan in January 1764.  They settled at St.-Suliac.  She gave him no more children.  Pierre died at St.-Suliac in April 1771, in his early 60s.  Two of his daughters married into the Blanchard and Pitre families in France, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  One wonders if his surviving son Prosper also married in the mother country. 

Claude, père's second son Joseph, by first wife Françoise Bourgeois, born probably at Port-Royal in c1680, married Claire, yet another daughter of Bernard Bourg and Françoise Brun, probably at Port-Royal in c1699 and settled at Cobeguit.  Between 1700 and 1724, Claire gave Joseph a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters.  Their daughters married into the Dupuis, Hébert, Bourg, and LeBlanc families.  One of them, along with her family, perished on the crossing to St.-Malo, France, in December 1758, so she and her family likely had gone to one of the French Maritime islands before that date.  All seven of Joseph's sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Joseph dit Petit Jos, born probably at Port-Royal in c1700, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Jean Hébert and Marie-Marguerite Landry, in c1720 probably at Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1720 and 1747, Anne-Marie gave Petit Jos a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters.  Other records give them two more children, a son and a daughter, in 1744 and 1747.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Petit Jos, Anne-Marie, and four of their children, two daughters and two sons, ages 18 to 5, at Grande-Ascension on the southeast coast of the island.  In 1755, Petit Jos acted as a courier for Abbé Le Loutre probably between Le Loutre's headquarters at Chignecto and Île St.-Jean.  Nova Scotia Lieutenant-governor Charles Lawrence offered 20 pounds sterling to any Acadian who captured Petit Jos or any of the other Acadian couriers, but none of his fellow Acadians took up the offer. The British deported Petit Jos and his family, along with hundreds of other island Acadians, to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Petit Jos died on the crossing, in his late 50s.  So did wife Anne-Marie and their 14-year-old son Jean.  Two of their daughters married into the Henry and Hébert families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.  Four of Petit Jos's sons and a grandson also emigrated to the Spanish colony, but only two of the lines endured there. 

Second son Charles, born at Cobeguit in c1724, married Euphrosine Thériot probably at Cobeguit in the 1740s.  They may have followed his parents to Île St.-Jean after August 1752 or escaped to the island with the rest of the Acadians still at Cobeguit after the summer of 1755.  The British deported Charles, Euphrosine, and 6-year-old niece Perpétué Dugas to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Wife Euphrosine died at the St.-Malo hospital in February 1759, age 34, from the rigors of the crossing.  Charles settled at nearby St.-Suliac, where he remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Naquin and Angélique Blanchard of Cobeguit and widow of François Gautrot, in September 1765.  They settled at nearby St.-Méloir-des-Ondes and seem to have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  They evidently did not go to Poitou in 1773.  Charles, Anne, her 22-year-old daughter Rose-Marie Gautrot from her first marriage, and a 9-year-old orphan emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Charles died there by January 1788, in his 60s, when wife Anne was listed in a census as a widow. 

Petit Jos's third son Alexis le jeune, born at Cobeguit in c1726, married Anne Bourg in c1745 probably at Cobeguit.  Between 1746 and 1758, in greater Acadia, Anne gave Alexis le jeune six children, two daughters and four sons.  They may have followed his parents to Île St.-Jean after August 1752 or escaped to the island with the rest of the Acadians still at Cobeguit after the summer of 1755.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Wife Anne and all of their children but the eldest daughter died at sea.  Alexis le jeune and 20-year-old daughter Anne-Josèphe settled at St.-Suliac, where he remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians François Moyse dit Latreille, fils and Marie Brun of Cobeguit, in June 1760.  Marguerite gave Alexis le jeune another daughter in May 1762.  Wife Marguerite died of complications of giving birth at St.-Suliac the day her daughter was born.  Alexis le jeune did not remarry again.  Daughter Anne-Josèphe married into the Hébert family at St.-Suliac in 1768.  Alexis le jeune and his younger daughter did not follow Anne-Josèphe and her husband to Poitou in 1773, but they did join them at Nantes by September 1784 and followed them Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed the Héberts and most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Alexis le jeune died in September 1795, in his late 60s.  His younger daughter married into the Juncal family on the upper Lafourche. 

Petit Jos's fourth son Ambroise, born at Cobeguit in c1728, married Marguerite Henry probably at Cobeguit in c1750.  Marguerite gave Ambroise a son in c1751, soon after they moved on to Île St.-Jean.  In August 1752, a French official counted Ambroise, Marguerite, and their 10-month-old son near Ambroise's parents at Grande-Ascension on the southeast coast of the island.  Between 1754 and 1757, Marguerite gave Ambroise three more children, two daughters and a son, on the island.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Two of the younger children died at sea, and the youngest child, a son, died at St.-Malo soon after their arrival.  Wife Marguerite died in March 1759, age 30, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Ambroise took his remaining child, son Ambroise, fils, now age 7, to St.-Suliac, where père died in October 1760, age 32.  His son was raised by relatives. 

Oldest son Ambroise, fils, born at Cobeguit in c1751, followed his parents to Grande-Ascension, Île St.-Jean, and to St.-Malo.  After his father died at nearby St.-Suliac in 1760, Ambroise, fils lived with relatives. When he came of age, he worked as a sailor.  He married Marie-Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Pitre and Geneviève Arcement of Cobeguit, at St.-Suliac in March 1773.  Later that year, they went to Poitou.  A daughter was born there in December 1774.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Between 1776 and 1784 at Nantes, Marie-Victoire gave Ambroise, fils four more children, two daughters and two sons, but the older son died young.  Their oldest child also died in the Loire port.  In 1785, Ambroise, fils, Marie-Victoire, and their three children, two daughters and a son, emigrated to Louisiana.  Another daughter was born to them aboard ship.  From New Orleans, they followed mosts of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they had more children.  Ambroise, fils died in Assumption Parish in March 1816, age 65.  His daughters married into the Boudreaux, Daniau, Doiron, Fernandes, Matherne, and Plaisance families.  Three of his five sons also married, into the Berthelot, Bernard, and Bourgeois families, and remained on the Lafourche. 

Petit Jos's fifth son Pierre, born at Cobeguit in c1733, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750, and married Anne-Josèphe Henry of Cobeguit in c1752.  A French official counted them near his parents and older brother Ambroise at Grande-Ascension that August.  Between 1754 and 1757, Anne-Josèphe gave Pierre three children, a son and two daughters.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  All of their children died at sea.  Pierre and Anne-Josèphe settled at St.-Suliac near his family.  Between 1760 and 1764, she gave Pierre three more children, two daughters and a son, but the daughters died in infancy.  Wife Anne-Josèphe died at St.-Suliac in May 1766, age 35, and Pierre remarried to Cécile, another daughter of François Moyse dit Latreille, fils and Marie Brun of Cobeguit and widow of Michel Bourg, at St.-Suliac in June 1768.  Pierre, Cécile, and his surviving son Joseph, age 11, also went to Poitou.  In March 1776, after nearly three years of effort, they reteated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Wife Cécile died at Nantes in December 1776, age 52.  Pierre remarried again--his third marriage--to Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques LeBlanc and Marguerite Labauve, at St.-Martin de Chantenay, near Nantes, in August 1779.  In 1782 and 1785, Rose gave Pierre two more children, both daughters.  Pierre, Rose, and their young daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Pierre's son Joseph, if he was still living, would have been age 23.  He did not go with them.  From New Orleans, Joseph and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  They had another daughter in Louisiana, who married into the Thibodeaux family.  Pierre's older daughters evidently died young, one of them, perhaps, on the crossing to the Spanish colony.  Pierre died in Assumption Parish in October 1813, age 79 1/2.  His family line, except perhaps for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Petit Jos's sixth son Joseph, fils, born at Cobeguit in c1742,  followed his family to Grande-Ascension, Île St.-Jean, where he was counted with them in August 1752.  The British deported him with his family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He followed his older brothers and younger sister to St.-Sulaic, where he worked as a pit sawyer.  At age 19, he married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Henry and Anne Aucoin, in June 1761 at St.-Suliac.  Between 1762 and 1768, Anastasie gave Joseph, fils four children, a son and three daughters.  Wife Anastasie died at St.-Suliac in March 1769, age 29.  Joseph, fils remarried to Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Barrieau and Véronique Giroir, at nearby Pleudihen-sur-Rance in May 1770.  They settled at St.-Suliac.  In 1771 and 1773, this Anastasie gave Joseph, fils two more children, a son and a daughter.  In 1773, Joseph, fils and his family followed older brother Pierre to Poitou, where Anastasie gave Joseph, fils another son in January 1775.  That December, after two years of effort, Joseph, fils, Anastasie, and their seven children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  There, between 1778 and 1783, Anastasie gave him three more children, two daughters and a son, but the son died in infancy--the only one of Joseph, fils's 10 children to die in the mother country.  In 1785, Joseph, fils, Anastasie, and their nine children, three sons and six daughters, followed three of his older brothers to Louisiana and to upper Bayou Lafourche.  He and Anastasie had no more children there.  He died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1833, age 91.  Five of his daughters married into the Daigle, Prejean, Caruthers, Guillot, Aucoin, and Lerois familes, and one of them settled on the western prairies.  His three sons married into the Landry, Clément, and Naquin families.  The oldest son settled on the western prairies, but his brothers remained on Bayou Lafourche.

Petit Jos's seventh and youngest son Jean, born at Cobeguit in c1744, followed his family to Grande-Ascension, Île St.-Jean, where he was counted with them in August 1752.  The British deported him with his family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He died on the crossing, age 14, with his father and mother. 

Joseph, père's second son Alexis, born at Cobeguit in June 1708, married Marie, daughter of Jean Bourg and Marie-Catherine Barrieau, in c1731 probably at Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1751, Marie gave Alexis 11 children, six daughters and five sons.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Alexis, Marie, and nine of their children, five sons and four daughters, ages 20 to 3, at Malpèque on the island's northwest coast.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758.  According to Arsenault, two of Alexis's daughters married into the Richard family. 

Joseph, père's third son Paul, born probably at Cobeguit in c1709, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Catherine Hébert, at Grand-Pré in June 1734.  They may have settled at Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1737 and 1753, Anne-Marie gave Paul four children, two sons and two daughters.  Other records give them seven children, five daughters and two sons, between 1738 and 1753.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean probably after August 1752, perhaps after the summer of 1755.  Two of their daughters married into the Henry and Hébert families in c1758, on the eve of the island's dérangement.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Paul's older son, 19-year-old Paul, fils, died soon after they reached the Breton port.  Wife Anne-Marie died at the hospital at St.-Malo in February 1759, age 47, also from the rigors of the crossing.  Paul took his family to Pleurtuit on the west side of the river near St.-Malo.  In 1760, they crossed Rivière Rance to St.-Coulomb, in the countryside east of St.-Malo.  Two more of Paul's daughters married into the Giroir and Pitre families St.-Coulomb and Pleurtuit.  Meanwhile, Paul remarried to Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Blanchard and Françoise Breau and widow of Alexis Aucoin, at Ploubalay, near Pleurtuit, in June 1760.  In 1761 and 1764, Hélène gave Paul two more daughters.  In 1773, Paul took his family to Poitou.  In March 1776, after nearly three years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where wife Hélène died, age 65, in October 1782.  Paul did not remarry again.  In November 1784, at nearby Chantenay, his and Hélène's older daughter Marie-Osite married into the Dupuis family.  Paul and two unmarried children, a son from his first wife and a daughter from his second, along with three of his married daughters from both of his wives, one of them now a widow, along with their families, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 on the same vessel.  From New Orleans, they followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Paul's younger daughter Anne married into the Dumene family there.  His son Simon, at age 39, married into the Bourg family on the upper Lafourche and created a successful line there. 

Joseph, père's fourth son Claude le jeune, born at Cobeguit in c1712, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Michel Aucoin and Jeanne Bourg, in c1732 probably at Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1748, Marie-Josèphe gave Claude le jeune eight children, five sons and three daughters.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1751.  In August 1752, a French officials counted Claude le jeune, Marie-Josèphe, and their eight children, ages 16 to 4, on the north side of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior.  Wife Marie-Josèphe died soon after the counting, and Claude le jeune remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Louis Cyr and Marie-Josèphe Michel, on the island in September 1753.  The British deported the family to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in late 1758.  One of Claude le jeune's daughters died in the northern fishing port from the rigors of the crossing.  Between 1759 and 1766, at Boulogne-sur-Mer and on Île d'Aix, near La Rochelle, Marguerite gave Claude le jeune five more children, three sons and two daughters, but two of the sons died young.  In 1773, Claude le jeune took his family to Poitou.  Wife Marguerite died there.  In March 1776, after nearly three years of effort, Claude le jeune and three of his children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Claude le jeune died probably at Nantes in the late 1770s or early 1780s, in his 60s or 70s.  His daughter Marguerite by his second wife married into the Boudrot family at Chantenay near Nantes in May 1785, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana later that year, and died at Manchac south of Baton Rouge, age 26, within a year of her arrival.  She was the only member of her immediate family to go to the Spanish colony. 

Second son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Aucoin, born probably at Cobeguit in c1738, followed his parents and siblings to Île St.-Jean, where he married fellow Acadian Marguerite-Josèphe Doiron perhaps on the eve of the island's dérangement.  The British deported them with his father, stepmother, and siblings to Boulogne-sur-Mer, where he became a sailor.  Between 1759 and 1764, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste le jeune four children in the northern fishing port, three sons and a daughter.  Their daughter died young.  In 1765, they followed Jean-Baptiste's father and stepmother to Île d'Aix, La Rochelle, where, in 1765 and 1766, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste le jeune two more children, a daughter and a son.  They moved on to Rochefort, where she gave him another son in 1770.  One wonders if Jean-Baptiste le jeune and Marguerite-Josèphe followed his father and stepmother to Poitou in 1773.  Jean-Baptiste le jeune died by September 1784, when his wife was called a widow on a Spanish list of Acadians at Nantes who intended to emigrate to Louisiana.  Three unnamed sons also appeared on the list.  Marguerite-Josèphe, who never remarried, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 aboard one of the Seven Ships.  She was listed singly on the passenger list, but a Dugas who may have been a younger son crossed on the same vessel with his French wife, and an older son crossed to Louisiana on a later vessel, but neither of the lines seems to have endured in the Bayou State. 

Oldest son Claude-Bernard, born at St.-Nicolas, Boulogne-sur-Mer, in August 1759, followed his family to Île d'Aix and Rochefort and his widowed mother to Nantes.  In late August 1785, he stowed away on one of the Seven Ships from France and followed most of his fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 26, he married Marguerite, 34-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Benoit and Élisabeth Theriot and widow of Joseph Précieux, in February 1786.  Marguerite, a native of Anse-au-Matelot, Île St.-Jean, also had crossed from France on the same vessel, so she and Claude-Bernard likely had met aboard ship.  His widowed mother, who in August 1785 had gone from New Orleans to Baton Rouge with mosts of her fellow passengers, was living with Claude-Bernard and Marguerite on the upper Lafourche by January 1791.  Claude-Bernard and Marguerite seem to have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Jean-Baptiste le jeune's third son Jean-Pierre, born at St.-Nicolas, Boulogne-sur-Mer, in July 1764, followed his family to Île d'Aix and Rochefort and his widowed mother to Nantes, where he married French woman Jeanne Cabon, date unrecorded.  They crossed to Spanish Louisiana on the same vessel as his mother and followed most of their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge on the river.  They then disappear from Louisiana records, so the family line may not have endured.

Joseph, père's fifth son Olivier, born probably at Cobeguit in the 1710s, married ____, daughter of Jérôme Guérin and Isabelle Aucoin, in c1754.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Joseph, père's sixth son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Cobeguit in c1719, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Benoit and Marie-Anne Breau, in c1740 probably at Cobeguit.  Between 1742 and 1753, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste six children, three sons and three daughters.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Madeleine, daughter of François Moyse and Marie Brun, in c1754 or 1755 probably at Cobeguit, on the eve of their going to Île St.-Jean.  In 1756 and 1758, Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste two more daughters on the island.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Wife Madeleine and their two youngest daughters died at sea.  Jean-Baptiste took his surving children to nearby St.-Suliac, where he remarried again--his third marriage--to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bourg and Madeleine Hébert and widow of Jean-Baptiste Blanchard, in September 1760.  They settled at nearby St.-Méloir-des-Ondes, where, between 1761 and 1764, Anne gave Jean-Baptiste three more children, two daughters and a son, including a set of twins.  Two of his sons by first wife Marguerite married at St.-Suliac and nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  In 1773, they went to Poitou.  In March 1776, after nearly three years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Son Mathurin died there, age 17, in August 1780.  Jean-Baptiste, third wife Anne, 21-year-old daughter Anne, and granddaughter Marie-Adélaïde Boudrot, daughter of his daughter Perpétué by first wife Marguerite, emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge before joining the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Daughter Anne married into the Crochet family there.  Neither of Jean-Baptiste's surviving sons followed him to the Spanish colony, but one of his Dugas grandsons did. 

Oldest Jean-Baptiste, fils, by first wife Marguerite Benoit, born probably at Cobeguit in c1742, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to St.-Malo, France.  He settled with his widowed father and siblings at St.-Suliac, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Séraphin Breau and Brigitte Martin of Annapolis Royal, in February 1764.  Marie had come to France with her family via Virginia and England the year before.  In 1765, she and Jean-Baptiste, fils settled near his father's family at St.-Méloir-des-Ondes, returned to St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1766, were back at St.-Méloir in 1768, at nearby La Gouesnière in 1770, and at Château Malo in 1771.  Between 1764 and 1772, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste, fils five children, three sons and two daughters, one of whom died young.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste, fils another son in 1780.  They evidently did not join his father and younger brother in Poitou in the early 1770s, nor did they follow his father to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  At least one of ther sons married in France.

Fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste III, born in France in c1780, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Angélique, daughter of Pierre Robillard and Marguerite-Gauthier Landreville, at St.-Sulpice, perhaps in the south of France, in September 1803. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's second son Marin, by first wife Marguerite Benoit, born probably at Cobeguit in c1748, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to St.-Malo, France, and settled with his widowed father and siblings at St.-Suliac and St.-Méloir-des-Ondes.  Marin married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Boudrot and Marie-Josèphe Doiron and widow of Joseph Clossinet, at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in November 1766.  Between 1767 and 1773, at St.-Servan, Françoise gave Marin four children, all sons, all but one of whom died young.  In 1773, they followed his father and stepmother to Poitou, where a daughter was born to them in May 1775.  That November, after two years of effort, Marin, Françoise, his two children, and two of her children from her first marriage, retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where, between 1776 and 1779, they lost their daughter born in Poitou and Françoise gave Marin two more children, a daughter and a son, both of whom died young.  Marin died at nearby Chantenay in November 1783, age 36.  His widow Françoise and her remaining Dugas son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge, where François remarried to a Daigre widower--her third marriage.  She and her Dugas son followed her new husband to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the son created a family of his own. 

Fourth, youngest, and only surviving son Jean-Pierre-Marin, called Pierre, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in October 1773, followed his parents to Poitou, to Nantes and Chantenay, and his widowed mother to Louisiana in 1785.  They settled at Manchac near Baton Rouge, where she remarried, and he followed her and his stepfather Charles Daigre to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Pierre married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arcement and Marie Hébert, at Ascension on the river in May 1794 and settled on the upper Lafourche.  Pierre died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1832, age 59.  His daughters married into the Boudreaux, Maillet, Richard, and Talbot families.  One of his two sons married into the Robichaux family and remained on the Lafourche.

Jean-Baptiste, père's third son Olivier, by first wife Marguerite Benoit, born probably at Cobeguit in c1750, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to St.-Malo, France, and settled with his widowed father and siblings at St.-Suliac and St.-Méloir-des-Ondes.  According to Bona Arsenault, Olivier became a navigator and was recorded in Newfoundland in 1767 and 1768.  He did not follow any of his family to Louisiana in 1785. 

Joseph, père's seventh and youngest son Charles dit le jeune, born probably at Cobeguit in c1724, married Euphrosine, daughter of Joseph Thériot and Françoise Melanson, in c1752 perhaps at Cobeguit and moved on to Île St.-Jean probably in 1755 or 1756.  The British deported them to France in late 1758.  Charles remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Naquin and Angélique Blanchard and widow of François Gautrot, at St.-Suliac near St.-Malo in September 1765.  Charles died before 1788, in his 60s, place unrecorded.  Did he have children by either of his wives? 

Claude, père's third son François, by first wife Françoise Bourgeois, born probably at Port-Royal in c1688, married Claire, another daughter of Bernard Bourg and Françoise Brun, at Annapolis Royal in October 1713 and remained there.  Between 1714 and 1734, Claire gave François 11 children, four sons and seven daughters.  Six of their daughters married into the Bourgeois, Orillon dit Champagne, Lord dit Gold, Doucet dit Maillard, Trottier, Robichaud, and Marant families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from French St.-Domingue in 1765.  Three of François's sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Louis dit Plaisent, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1714, married Cécile, daughter of Alexandre dit de Ru Girouard and Marie Le Borgne de Bélisle, at Annapolis Royal in February 1740.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1747, Cécile gave Louis five children, two daughters and three sons.  Louis died at Annapolis Royal in July 1747, in his early 30s.  What happened to the family in 1755?

François's second son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1716, married Anne, daughter of Jean-Baptiste David and Marguerite Lapierre, at Annapolis Royal in February 1743.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1743 Anne gave Joseph a daugher.  He died at Annapolis Royal in January 1746, age 30.  What happened to his family in 1755? 

François's third son François, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1720, died at Annapolis Royal in October 1740, age 20, before he could marry. 

François's fourth and youngest son Paul, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1725, married Brigitte, daughter of Ambroise Melanson and Marguerite Comeau, in c1751 probably at Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1752 and 1775, Brigitte gave Paul a dozen children, six daughters and six sons.  They may have escaped the British roundup in 1755 and sought refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean before moving on to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the early 1760s, they either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and held in the prisoner compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit.  After the war, the family followed other Acadians to Grosses-Coques on Baie St.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, on the western coast of Nova Scotia.  Four of Paul's daughters married into the Thibodeau, Doucet, Saulnier, and Gaudet families.  Four of Paul's sons also created their own families on Baie Ste.-Marie.

Third son Charles dit Berquette, born in c1769, perhaps on Baie Ste.-Marie, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Doucet and Anastaise Amirault, in c1794, and remarried to Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Bruno Comeau and Nathalie Amireau, in c1814, probably on Baie Ste.-Marie. 

Paul's fifth son Pierre dit Pilon, born in c1773, perhaps on Baie Ste.-Marie, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Denis Doucet and his Anglo-Canadian wife Marie Walsh; remarried to Rosalie, another daughter of Bruno Comeau and Nathalie Amireau, place and date unrecorded; remarried again--his third marriage--to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Amable Doucet and Marie Gaudet and widow of Joseph Saulnier, place and date unrecorded; and remarried yet again--his fourth marriage--to Marcelline, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Thériault and Appoline Bastarache and widow of Joseph Krolin dit l'Écosse, place and date unrecorded, all probably on Baie Ste.-Marie. 

Paul's sixth and youngest son Paul, fils, born in c1775, perhaps on Baie Ste.-Marie, married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Deveau and Marie-Austère Batarache, place and date unrecorded  They settled at Météghan on Baie Ste.-Marie. 

Claude, père's fourth son Joseph dit le jeune, by second wife Marguerite Bourg, born probably at Port-Royal in c1699, moved to Île Royale, where, according to Stephen A. White, he married Marguerite, daughter of François Coste and Madeleine Martin, at Port-Toulouse in c1725.  According to Bona Arsenault, however, Marguerite, daughter of François Coste and Madeleine Martin of Annapolis Royal, married Claude III, son of Claude Dugas, fils and Jeanne Bourg, who would have been Joseph dit le jeune's nephew.  What happened to this family in 1755?  (See Claude III's line for the possible sons of Joseph dit le jeune.)

Claude, père's fifth son Louis, by second wife Marguerite Bourg, born at Port-Royal in November 1703, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Alexandre Girouard dit de Ru and Marie Le Borgne de Bélisle, at Annapolis Royal in October 1734.  Between 1737 and 1740, Marie-Josèphe gave Louis three children, two daughters and a son.  Louis died at Annapolis Royal in July 1740, in his late 30s.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported members of the family to Connecticut.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Lanoue dit Laguerre family in Connecticut in a civil ceremony in c1764 and "rehabilitiated" the marriage at L'Assumption, British Canada, in September 1767.  Meanwhile, Louis's daughter Marguerite married into the Richard family probably at Malpeque, Île St.-Jean, in c1752.  They then evidently crossed Mer Rouge to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in the 1750s, ended up in a prison compound in Halifax, emigrated from there to Spanish Louisiana in 1765 via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled in the Opelousas District west of the Atachafalaya Basin. 

Only son Pierre, born, according to Stephen A. White, at Annapolis Roayl in July 1737, did not marry and may not have survived childhood.  

According to Bona Arsenault, Joseph Dugas, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1739, also was a son of Louis Dugas and Marie-Josèphe Girouard, but Stephen A. White, followed here, says otherwise.  In 1755, Joseph, in his mid-teens, was deported to Connecticut, where, at age 25, he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Prudent Robichaud and Marie-Josèphe Richard, in c1764.  After the Connecticut authorities allowed the exiles to leave, Joseph and his family chose to return to greater Acadia, settling at what became Anse-aux-Belliveau on Baie Ste.-Marie on the western shore of Nova Scotia.  Joseph, in fact, is celebrated as the first Acadian exile to settle in the Baie St.-Marie area, arriving there in 1768.  His and Marie-Josèphe's marriage was "rehabilitiated" on Baie Ste.-Marie in September 1769.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1780, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph seven children, four daughters and three sons, including a set of twins, in Connecticut and on Baie Ste.-Marie.  Three of their daughters married into the Comeau and Belliveau families on the bay.  Their sons also created families there.

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born in c1768, married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadian Frédéric dit Soudic Belliveau and Marguerite LeBlanc, in c1792 probably on Baie Ste.-Marie.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Grosses-Coques on Baie Ste.-Marie in July 1799.  Why did the marriage need "rehabilitation"?

Joseph, père's second son Jean dit Bonhomme, born probably on Baie Ste.-Marie in c1771, married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François dit Maza Comeau and Félicité LeBlanc, in c1794 probably on Baie Ste.-Marie. 

Joseph, père's third and youngest Basile, born probably on Baie Ste.-Marie in c1777, married Marie-Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Salvador Comeau and Anastasie Belliveau, in c1805 probably on Baie Ste.-Marie. 

Claude, père's sixth son Charles, by second wife Marguerite Bourg, born at Port-Royal in February 1709, married Anne, daughter of François Robichaud dit Niganne and Madeleine Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in January 1732 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1750, Anne gave Charles nine children, four daughters and five sons.  Four of their sons created their own families.  Three of the sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1765. 

Oldest son Joseph le jeune, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1734, evidently escaped the British in 1755, followed his family into exile in 1755, and married fellow Acadian Madeleine Melanson in c1757, place unrecorded, perhaps in Canada.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1758 and 1762, Madeleine gave Joseph le jeune three daughters.  They were at St.-Charles de Bellechasse across from Québec City when the Canadian citadel fell in September 1759.  They evidently remained in Canada.  One of their daughters married into the Barbeau family at Québec. 

Charles's second son Charles, fils, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1736, followed his family into exile, and, according to Bona Arsenault, married fellow Acadian Cécile Landry in c1760, place unrecorded (he likely was confusing this Charles with Charles-Ignace, also born in c1736, son of Charles, père's brother Claude le jeune).  Arsenault says that between 1765 and 1780, Cécile gave Charles, fils four children, a daughter and three sons, says the family was counted by British officials at Québec in 1771, and that they were living at Rivière-du-Loup, today's Louisville, above the city, in 1791.  Other sources, however, including Arsenault himself, paint a different picture.  Charles dit Charlitte, as he is called in Louisiana records, son of Charles Dugas and Anne Robichaud dit Niganne of Annapolis Royal, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and Agnès Thibodeau of Peticoudiac, place and date unrecorded.  They may have been the couple held at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in July 1762.  They may also have been the couple with two others in the family at Fort Edward in August of that year.  They followed her family to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1764-65 and to lower Bayou Teche that spring.  They brought no children to Louisiana but had at least three of them there.  According to Arsenault, between 1773 and 1776, Marguerite gave Charles three children, a daughter and two sons.  Charlitte died at Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche in September 1808, in his early 70s.  His sons married into the Bonin and LeBlanc families and created vigorous lines on the Teche. 

Charles, père's third son Jean, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1739, followed his family into exile and his brothers to Louisiana in 1764-65 but did not remain on the lower Teche.  In the fall of 1765, he evidently retreated with other Attakapas Acadians to Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans to escape a Teche Valley epidemic.  Jean married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dupuis and Isabelle LeBlanc, at Cabahannocer in the late 1760s and returned to Attakapas.  They settled near one of his brothers at Anse La Butte on upper Bayou Vermilion and at nearby Grand Prairie.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1770 and 1794, Marguerite gave Jean 11 children, six sons and five daughters.  Jean died at Grand Prairie in September 1809, in his late 60s.  His daughters married into the Babineaux, Dugas, Gautreaux, Guilbeau, and LeBlanc families.  Four of his six sons married into the Duhon, Poirier, Gautreaux, and Breaux families and created lasting lines on the prairies. 

Charles, père's fifth and youngest son Pierre, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1750, followed his family into exile and his older brothers to Louisiana in 1764-65.  He remained on lower Bayou Teche despite the epidemic that struck down many of his fellow Teche Valley Acadians.  Pierre married Anne dite Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thibodeaux and Brigitte Breaux, at Attakapas in July 1772.  They settled at Anse La Butte and Grand Prairie near older brother Jean.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1774 and 1800, Nanette gave Pierre nine children, six daughters and three sons.  Pierre died in Lafayette Parish in the late 1820s, in his late 70s.  His daughters married into the Bernard, Breaux, Dupleix, Markham, Martin, and Mouton families.  Two of his sons married into the Mouton, Milhomme, and Guidry families, but only one of the lines endured. 

Claude, père's seventh son Claude le jeune, by second wife Marguerite Bourg, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1712, married Marguerite, daughter of François Boudrot and Madeleine Belliveau, at Annapolis Royal in November 1734 and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1752, Marguerite gave Claude le jeune seven children, four sons and three daughters.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted Claude le jeune, Marguerite, and son Jean, probably Jean-Baptiste, at Grafton in August 1761.  They were still in the colony in August 1763, when they appeared on a repatriation list with three sons and two daughters.  In June 1766, Glaude, as he was called, and his family of seven, were listed among "the French" still in Massachusetts "Who Wish to go to Canada."  British officials counted them at Ste.-Foy near Québec in 1772.  Claude le jeune died of smallpox at Québec in April 1786, age 73.  At least two of his sons created families of their own.  

Oldest son Charles-Ignace, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1736, followed his family to Massachusetts and married fellow Acadian Cécile Landry in c1762 probably in that colony.  According to Bona Arsenault, they may have been the couple who, between 1765 and 1780, had four children, a daughter and three sons; were counted by British officials at Québec in 1771; and were living at Rivière-du-Loup, today's Louiseville, above the city in 1791.  Their daughter married into the Leclair family at Louiseville.  One of their sons also created his own family there.

Oldest son Charles, fils, born probably at Québec in c1771, married Angélique, daughter of Alexis Leclair and Angélique Renaud, at Louiseville in January 1798. 

Claude le jeune's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1752, followed his family to Massachusetts and to Canada, and married Louise Rouillard at Québec in January 1786. 

Claude, père's eighth and youngest son Michel, by second wife Marguerite Bourg, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1715, married Élisabeth, daughter of Prudent Robichaud and Henriette Petitpas, at Annapolis Royal in February 1743 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1754, Élisabeth gave Michel five children, two sons and three daughters.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  In July 1760, officials in Essex County, Massachusetts counted Michel, "a sickly man," wife Élisabeth, and children Amand, Marie-[Josèphe], Modeste, Joseph, and Anne in that community.  After the war ended, the family followed other exiles in New England to Canada.  They settled at Rimouski on the lower St. Lawrence.  Michel, despite being "a sickly man," died probably in Canada after January 1786, in his 70s.  One of his daughter married into the Rolet family in Canada.  At least one of his sons created his own family there.

Older son Amand, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1744, followed his family to Massachusetts and to Canada.  He married Madeleine, daughter of Augustin Marin and his Acadian wife Marie Doiron of L'Îsle-Verte on the lower St. Lawrence in c1772.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Cap-Chat on the north shore of the Gaspé peninsula in September 1800.  They settled upriver at Rimouski. 

Abraham's second son Martin, born probably at Port-Royal in c1656, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Petitpas and Catherine Bugaret, probably at Port-Royal in c1677.  In 1678 and 1680, Marguerite gave Martin two children, a son and a daughter.  Martin died at Port-Royal in c1680, in his mid-20s.  His wife remarried to a Guédry.  Martin's daughter married into Cressonnet dit Beauséjour family.  His son also created a family of his own. 

Only son Abraham dit Grivois, born probably at Port-Royal in c1678, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Claude Landry and Marguerite Thériot, in c1702 probably at Port-Royal.  Between 1703 and 1714, Marie-Madeleine gave Grivois six children, two daughters and four sons.  Marie-Madeleine died at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1717, so they lived on the island in the 1710s.  They did not remain.  After a long illness, Grivois died at Annapolis Royal in May 1720, in his early 40s.  His daughters married into the Bergeron dit de Nantes and Boudrot families, and one of them settled at Port-Tolouse.  All four of his sons also married.  One of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.   

Oldest son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in April 1705, followed his family to Port-Toulouse and back to Nova Scotia.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Alexandre Robichaud and Anne Melanson, at Annapolis Royal in January 1728 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1751, Marguerite gave Joseph 11 children, seven daughters and four sons.  Maguerite died at Annapolis Royal in c1752.  Joseph evidently did not remarry.  The British deported Joseph and his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  In 1756, colonial officials counted Joseph and five of his children--Anne, Mary, Elizabeth, Mohach?[Monique], and Peter--at Marblehead.  After the war ended, they chose to go to Canada.  Joseph died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Montréal in April 1788, age 83.  Six of his daughters married into the Thibodeau, Gourdeau, Petitpas, Forest, and Pellerin families.  One of his sons also created his own family in the area.

Second son Alexandre, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1732, followed his family into exile in Massachusetts.  He married Marie-Josette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Brossard and Cécile Babin, in c1758 probably in New England.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josette gave Alexandre a son in 1774.  They settled at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, where their son created a family of his own.

Only son François, born probably at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in c1774, married fellow Acadian Angélique Dupuis at at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in September 1803. 

Grivois's second son Claude, born at Port-Royal in January 1710, followed his family to Port-Toulouse and back.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Melanson and Anne Granger, at Annapolis Royal in May 1731 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1760, Marie-Josèphe gave Claude 10 children, six daughters and four sons.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755 aboard the transport Helena.  They were held at Salem until January 1757, when they were reassigned to Sturbridge, from which some of their children were parceled out to other communities and where Claude received a half-interest in a sawmill.  Claude "and his wife" were counted at Huxbridge [actually Sturbridge] in August 1761.  In 1764 and 1765, Claude and his family appeared on lists of Acadians who chose to leave the province.  Again, in June 1766, Claude and his family of nine were listed among "the French" still in Massachusetts "Who Wish to go to Canada."  They left soon after.  British officials counted them at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence above Trois-Rivières with a large contingent of exiles from New England in July 1767.  They helped pioneer the Acadian community of nearby St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, where Claude died in September 1792, age 82.  One of his daughters married into the Belliveau family.  What about his sons? 

Grivois's third son Jean, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1712, followed his family to Port-Toulouse and back to Nova Scotia.  He married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Gabriel Godin and Andrée-Angélique Jeanne of Rivière St.-Jean, in c1734 at either Annapolis Royal or on Rivière St.-Jean and settled at Ékoupag on the river, where French officials counted them in 1739 with three children, one of them perhaps Joseph, who married into the Bergeron family on the river.  They evidently escaped the British on the river in 1758-59 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By 1760, they were at Restigouche at head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  In late October of that year, after the French surrendered the outpost to the British, Jean Dugas "fils de Pre.," as he was called, with eight people in his household, appears on a list of 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche.  In the early 1760s, they were held as prisoners of war in Nova Scotia.  In August 1763, Jean, his wife, and eight children appeared on a repatriation list in the prison barracks at Halifax.  In 1764-65, they emigrated with other Rivière St.-Jean Acadians to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  In the spring of 1765, Jean, Marie-Charlotte, and six of their children, five sons and a daughter, along with their putative son Joseph and his family, followed the Broussards from New Orleans to lower Bayou Teche.  Marie-Charlotte died on the Teche that July, age unrecorded.  Jean died in September, age 43, probably in the same epidemic that killed his wife, and was buried at "the first camp lower down."  Son Joseph also died in the epidemic.  Jean and Marie-Charlotte's surviving children, along with son Joseph's widow and their children, retreated with other Teche valley Acadians to Cabahannocer on the river.  Jean's daughter married into the Landry family on the river and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  His younger sons married into the Babin, LeBlanc, and Forest families, remained on the river, and created vigorous lines there. 

Grivois's fourth and youngest son Abraham, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1714, followed his family to Port-Toulouse and back to Nova Scotia.  He settled at Chignecto before returning to Île Royale, where he married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Fougère and his first wife Marie Bourg, in c1735.  They also lived for a time at today's D'Escousse on the north shore of Île Madame.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1753, Marguerite gave Abraham, fils eight childern, four daughters and four sons.  In February 1752, a French official counted Abraham (he called him Habraham Du Gas), Marguerite, and five of their children, three daughters and two sons, ages 16 years to 18 months, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, with the notation that they had been in the colony since 1719, probably referring to Abraham, fils's father's presence there decades earlier.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758.  Abraham, fils died at Arichat on the south shore of Île Madame in October 1771, age 56, so he may have escaped the British roundup of 1758 on the island and sought refuge somewhere in greater Acadia.  Two of his daughters married into the Richard and Landry families on Île Madame.  One of his sons also created his own family there.

Oldest son Jean, born in c1739, was counted with his family at Port-Toulouse in February 1752 and followed them into exile.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Landry and Josette LeBlanc, before witnesses, place unrecorded, in c1766, and "rehabilitated" the marriage at D'Ecousse, Île Madame, in October 1771.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1771, Marie gave Jean four children, three sons and a daughter.  They remained on Île Madame. 

Abraham's third and youngest son Abraham, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1661, married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Guilbeau and Catherine Thériot, probably at Port-Royal in c1685, where he worked as a navigator and carpenter before moving to Minas.  Between 1686 and the 1710s, Jeanne gave Abraham, fils six children, four daughters and two sons.  Their daughters married into the Hébert, Breau, Landry, Richard, and LeBlanc families.  Only one of Abraham, fils's sons created his own family.   

Older son Joseph, born at Minas in c1690, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Richard and Marguerite Landry, at Grand-Pré in January 1711.  A few years later, they moved to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, where Joseph worked as a royal carpenter, navigator, builder, and merchant, which allowed him to become wealthy enough to own West-African household slaves.  Between 1711 and 1731, Marguerite gave Joseph nine children, four sons and five daughters.  Joseph died probably at Port-Toulouse in September 1733, in his early 40s, evidently of smallpox; three of his children also died in the epidemic.  Widow Marguerite remarried to Sieur Philippe-Chares de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, great-grandson of former Acadian governor Charles La Tour, place and date unrecorded.  With some of her Dugas children, she returned to Grand-Pré.  Daughter Jeanne Dugas married into the Bois family at Port-Toulouse, to which she had returned, perhaps with a brother, by 1752.  Jeanne and her husband, Pierre, a "coaster," escaped the British roundup on Île Royale in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and took refuge probably at Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and then at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chalours with two of her brothers and their families. In the early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area.  The British held her and her family in the prison compound at Fort Cumberland, Chignecto, until the end of the war.  They resettled first at Cascapédia in the British fishery at Gaspésie, north of Restigouche, then became pioneer settlers of Chéticamp on the Gulf shore of Île Royale, another British-controlled fishery, where Jeanne served as the fishing community's midwife until her death in 1817 at age 86.  Three of Joseph and Marguerite's four sons also created families of their own.  

Oldest son Charles, born at Minas in December 1711, married cousin Anne, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Françoise Landry, at Grand-Pré in January 1739 and worked there as a ship's carpenter.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1755, Anne gave Charles 10 children, five sons and five daughters, including a set of twins.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  British officials counted them at Restigouche in January 1761, so they likely had escaped the British roundups of the late 1750s and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After the war, they settled at the British-controlled fishery at Carleton in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, where, during the absence of missionaries, Charles presided over religious ceremonies.  He died at Carleton in January 1801, age 89.  Four of his daughters married into the LeBlanc, Landry, and Poirier families at Carleton.  Four of his sons also created their own families in the Baie des Chaleurs region. 

Oldest son Charles, fils, born probably at Minas in c1739, followed his family into exile and to Gaspésie, where he married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bugeaud and Marie-Josèphe Landry, at Bonaventure, east of Carleton, in c1772.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1790, Félicité gave Charles, fils six children, all sons.  They settled near his family at Carleton. 

Charles, père's second son Joseph, a twin, born probably at Minas in c1742, followed his family into exile and to Gaspésie, but he did not remain there.  He married fellow Acadian Agathe Landry and settled at Caraquet, on the south shore of the Baie des Chaleurs in present-day northeastern New Brunswick. 

Charles, père's third son Pierre, Joseph's twin, followed his family into exile and to Gaspésie, where he married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Robichaud and Claire LeBlanc, at Carleton in April 1776.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1777 and 1781 Françoise gave Pierre two children, a son and a daughter. 

Charles, père's fifth and youngest son Abraham le jeune, born probably at Minas in c1747, followed his family into exile and to Gaspésie, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bujold and Marguerite Cormier of Bonaventure, at Carleton in April 1776, a week after his brother Pierre's marriage. 

Joseph's second son Joseph, fils, born at Grand-Pré in c1714, was brought to Île Royale as an infant.  While still a teenager, he commanded a ship, the Nouveau Commerçat, in the coasting trade between Île Royale and Île St.-Jean.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph LeBlanc dit Le Maigre and Anne Bourg, in c1740 probably on the island, where he continued his maritime trade.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1749, Marguerite gave Joseph, fils seven children, six daughters and a son, including a set of twins.  From 1737 to 1745, Joseph, fils and a partner fulfilled a contract to suppy meat from British Nova Scotia to the French at Louisbourg and became even wealthier in the coastal trade.  Like his father-in-law, a notorious smuggler and Acadian partisan, Joseph, fils provided the French governor at Louisbourg with intelligence on the British in Nova Scotia.  He continued his impromptu espionage for the French, and sometimes for the British, even during King George's War of the 1740s.  This continued until Mi'kmaq from Île Royale plundered his ship at Tatamagouche on the north shore of Nova Scotia and forced him to retire to his native Minas.  He returned to Port-Toulouse in 1749, after the British returned Île Royale to the French.  In February 1752, a French official counted Joseph, fils, now a widower, and five of his children, four daughters and a son, ages 10 to 3, and a 22-year-old Breau niece, at Port-Toulouse, living on land deeded to his father.  Giving up on farming, he returned to the sea and, until 1756, engaged in the business of ferrying Acadian refugees and their provisions from embattled Nova Scotia to the south shore of Île St.-Jean.  In 1758, after the fall of Louisbourg, he and his family escaped the British roundup on Île Royale and sailed up to Québec, where the governor-general commissioned him as a privateer.  He also engaged in espionage and, again, escaped capture.  He was operating out of Richibouctou on the Gulf shore in early 1760, after the fall of Québec and before the fall of Montréal, which, for all practical purposes, ended the war in the region.  By then he was a major in the Restigouche partisan militia.  The British counted him and his family at Restigouche in January 1761, three months after the French garrison there surrendered to a British naval force from Québec.  As a partisan leader as well as a privateer, he, along with his family, were transported to Nova Scotia on Governor Belcher's orders and held there as prisoners, at first at Fort Cumberland at Chignecto and then at Halifax, from which he escaped.  In October 1762, his late 40s, Joseph, fils remarried to Louise, also called Isabelle, daughter of Abraham Arseneau and Jeanne Gaudet and widow of Jean Vigneau dit Maurice, at Chédabouctou on the Atlantic shore of Nova Scotia.  Louise gave him no more children.  After the war, he and Louise, refusing to remain under British rule, chose, along with many other Acadians, to settle on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  They were on the island in May 1766 when their marriage was "rehabilitated" at the church there.  In 1767, in response to overcrowding on the island and a royal decreee, French officials coaxed many of the Acadians there to emigrate to France. That November, Joseph, fils, Louise, and two of his children, Joseph III and Marie, along with dozens of other island fisher/habitants, reached St.-Malo aboard Joseph, fils's schooner Creole, but they did not remain in France.  They returned to Île Miquelon the following March, but he was unable to regain his fortune.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured the island and deported the island Acadians, including Joseph, fils and wife Louise, to France.  They crossed on the transport Jeannette and reached St.-Malo that November.  Joseph, fils died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, in January 1779, age 63, perhaps from the rigors of the crossing.  Louise died at St.-Servan the following June, age 63.  Three of Joseph, fils's daughters married into the Cyr, Babin, and Vigneau families in Nova Scotia and on Île Miquelon.  His son also created his own family on Miquelon. 

Only son Joseph III, by first wife Marguerite LeBlanc, born probably at Port-Toulouse in c1747, was counted with his widowed father and four sisters there in February 1752.  He followed his family into exile and to Île Miquelon, where he married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Bourg and Marguerite Vigneau, in April 1772.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1774 and 1776 Anastasie gave Joseph III two children, both daughters.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in 1778 aboard La Jeannette.  A third daughter was born to them that year, but she died an infant.  Wife Anastasie died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in June 1779, age 27.  Joseph III and his daughters may have remained in France. 

Joseph, père's third son Abraham le jeune, born at Port-Toulouse in c1726, after the death of his father in the early 1730s "returned" to Grand-Pré with his mother, some of his siblings, and his stepfather and married Marguerite, daughter of Bernard LeBlanc and Marie Bourg, there in July 1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1774, Marguerite gave Abraham le jeune nine children, eight daughters and a son.  They escaped the British roundup of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chalours.  In October 1860, Abraham le jeune and his family of 10 were among the 1,003 Acadian refugees still at Restigouche.  Abraham, in fact, was named as one of the seven capitaines of the garrison's militia.  Afterwards, the British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  In August 1763, Abraham, his wife, and seven children appeared on a repatriation list in the prison barracks at Halifax.  After the war, they chose to follow their kinsmen to Île Miquelon, where French officials counted them in 1766.  By the following year, the French-controlled fishery island had become so overcrowded that French officials, obeying a roya decree, urged many of the fisher/habitants to move on to France.  Abraham le jeune and his family were among them.  They evidently returned to the island later in the decade or in the early 1770s.  Four of Abraham le jeune's daughters married into the Landry, Melays, Briand, and Vigneau families on the island in the 1760s and 1770s.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British deported them to La Rochelle, France.  One wonders if they remained in the mother country or returned to Miquelon in 1784, after the British retroceded the island to the French. 

Joseph, père's fourth and youngest son Étienne, born probably at Port-Toulouse in February 1729, died there in November 1730, age 1 1/2. 

Abraham, fils's younger son, name unrecorded, born probably at Minas in the 1700s or early 1710s, died young.350

Girouard

François Girouard dit La Varenne and his wife Jeanne Aucoin, early 1640s arrivals, created a large, influential family in the colony.  Between 1648 and 1660, at Port-Royal, Jeanne gave François five children, two sons and three daughters.  Their daughters married into the Blou, Cormier, and Lord dit Lamontagne families.  Both of François and Jeanne's sons created families of their own.  The older son's line was especially vigorous.  François died at Port-Royal before 1693, in his late 60s or early 70s.  Wife Jeanne did not remarry.  She died at Annapolis Royal in April 1718, in her late 80s.  Her and François's descendants settled at Chignecto, Minas, and in the French Maritimes, but most of them remained at Annapolis Royal.  At least 17 of François dit La Varenne's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and especially from France in 1785.  A significant number of François's descendants, probably most of them, could be found also in Canada, greater Acadia, and the French Antilles after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Older son Jacques dit Jacob, born at Port-Royal in c1648, married Marguerite, daughter of François Gautrot and Edmée Lejeune, at Port-Royal in c1670.  Between 1671 and 1698, Marguerite gave Jacob 14 children, 10 sons and four daughters.  Jacob died at Port-Royal in October 1703, in his mid-50s.  Three of his daughters married into the Granger, Doucet, and Richard dit Beaupré families.  Nine of his sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest son Alexandre dit de Ru, born at Port-Royal in November 1671, married Marie, daughter of former Acadian governor Alexandre Le Borgne de Bélisle and Marie de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, daughter of another former governor, at Port-Royal in c1694 and remained there.  Alexandre earned the honorific sieur.  Between 1695 and 1721, Marie gave Sr. Alexandre 11 children, eight daughters and three sons.  Sr. Alexandre died at Annapolis Royal in September 1744, in his early 70s.  Six of his daughters married into the Mouton, Blanchard, Forest, Guilbeau, Dugas, and Johnson dit Jeanson families.  Two of his sons also created their own families in the Annapolis valley, but neither of the lines seems to have survived Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Bernard dit de Ru, born at Port-Royal in April 1697, died there in October 1703, age 6 1/2. 

De Ru's second son Louis, born at Port-Royal in January 1705, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Antoine Blanchard and Élisabeth Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in October 1727 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1729 and 1751, Marie-Josèphe gave Louis 10 children, four daughters and six sons.  The British deported Louis and his family to New York in the fall of 1755.  Their ship was blow off course to Antigua in the West Indies, and they did not reach New York Harbor until the following May.  Soon after their arrival, colonial officials counted Louis Giroid, his wife, and six children at Huntington on Long Island.  In 1763, Louis Girouart, his wife, and five children appeared on a repatriation list in the colony.  After the war ended that year, Louis and his family chose to resettle not in Canada but in the French Antilles.  Louis died at Champflore, Martinique, in March 1766, age 61.  Two of his daughters married into the Dumont and Breguera families at St.-Pierre on the island, and one of them died there in November 1776.  One wonders if any of Louis's sons created their own families on the island, or if they even survived exile.

De Ru's third and youngest son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1718, married Jeanne, daughter of Charles Martin and Jeanne Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in September 1743.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1752, Jeanne gave Pierre four children, three daughters and a son.  Arsenault says the British deported the family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755--a unique destination for Annapolis valley exiles, so they may have moved on to Minas before Le Grand Dérangement.  They, too, chose to go to the French Antilles.  According to Stephen A. White, Pierre died before September 1783 perhaps in French St.-Domingue, today's Haiti.  Meanwhile, oldest daughter Natalie married into the Bujeaud family at Philadelphia in February 1763.  In June of the year, she, her husband, and their child appeared on a repatriation list in the colony.  Pierre's daughter Félicité married into the Demars and Baritau families, the second marriage at Môle St.-Nicolas, French St.-Domingue, in February 1786, and daughter Josèphe married into the Castille family there in September 1783, so Pierre evidently had taken his family from Pennsylvania to the sugar colony in 1764. 

Jacques dit Jacob's second son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1673, married Marie, daughter of Jean Comeau l'aîné and Françoise Hébert, in c1697 and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  Between 1698 and 1708, Marie gave Pierre six children, two daughters and four sons.  Pierre remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean Doiron and Marie Trahan, at Grand-Pré in November 1709.  They remained at Minas.  Between 1710 and 1731, this Marie gave Pierre nine more children, four sons and five daughters--15 children, seven daughters and eight sons, by both wives.  Arsenault gives Pierre and second wife Marie a son named Pierre, fils, born in c1727, but Stephen A. White disagrees.  Pierre, père's daughters by both wives married into the Trahan, Doiron, Barrieau, Pitre, LeBlanc, Boudrot, Benoit, and Landry families.  Four of his eight sons by both wives, as well as his putative son, also created families of their own. 

Oldest son Claude, by first wife Marie Comeau, born perhaps at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1699, married Madeleine, daughter of Clément Vincent and Madeleine Levron, at Annapolis Royal in June 1726.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1729 and 1747, Madeleine gave Claude seven children, four sons and three daughters.  They moved on to Île Madame off the southern coast of French-controlled Île Royale in c1749.  In late February 1752, a French official counted Claude, Marie, and eight of their children on Île Madame.  Second daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Larot family probably on the island in c1755.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup in the French Maritimes in 1758 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before moving on to Canada.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe remarried into the Bourgeois family at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in March 1761.  British officials counted Claude and rest of his family at Beaumont below Québec City in 1765.  Claude died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse southeast of Beaumont in March 1768, in his late 60s. 

Pierre's second son Pierre, fils, by first wife Marie Comeau, born perhaps at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1701, died at Minas in January 1719, age 18 or 19, before he could marry. 

Pierre's third son Jacques dit Jacob le jeune, by first wife Marie Comeau, born perhaps at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1707, married Marie, daughter of François Boisseau dit Blondin and Marie-Anne Saulnier, at Grand-Pré in July 1730 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Jacques no children, that he remarried to Marie-Josèphe Arseneau, place and date not given, and that, between 1739 and 1755, she gave him four children, two daughters and two sons.  Stephen A. White recognizes only the first marriage, which produced at least seven children.  At least one, perhaps two, of Jacques's sons by Marie Boisseau moved on to the French Maritimes between 1752 and 1755.  The British deported members of the family from Minas to Connecticut in the fall of 1755 and may have deported one of their sons from Minas to Virginia that fall.  In 1763, Jacque Guirroire or Giroire, his unnamed wife, and five unnamed children appeared on a repatriation list in Connecticut.  According to Arsenault, however, two of Jacques's children by Marie-Josèphe, a daughter and a son, married at Cap-St.-Ignace, Canada, in 1761 and 1763, the daughter into the Bernier family.  According to White, after the war ended in 1763, instead of following most of his fellow exiles in New England to Canada, Jacques went, instead, to French St.-Domingue, taking his wife and children with him.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Richard family at Mirebalais in the island's interior in September 1764.  The same month, Jacques's daughter Marguerite, born in Connecticut, died at Mirebalais, age 8.  Jacques died there the following December, in his late 50s.  No member of his family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in the mid-or late 1760s.  Daughter Marguerite married into the Delahaye family at La Croix-des-Bouquets on St.-Domingue in October 1770.  Several of Jacques's sons also created their own families, in France, Canada, and Louisiana. 

Jacques's son Charles, by first wife Marie Boisseau, born probably at Minas in c1731, evidently moved on to the French Maritimes between 1752 and 1755, before the roundups in Nova Scotial.  The British deported him to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 with his paternal aunt Anne Girouard, her Doiron husband, and their large family.  He settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he married local Frenchwoman Michelle Patru, widow of Pierre Pirou, in June 1761.  He worked as a calker.  He and his wife evidently had no children.  They did not remain in the St.-Malo area.  In September 1784, a Spanish official counted them at Nantes on the other side of the Breton peninsula.  Charles and his wife emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and settled on the river below New Orleans, away from most of his fellow Acadians. 

Jacques's putative older son Pierre, by supposed second wife Marie-Josèphe Arseneau, born in c1740, followed his family into exile and, according to Bona Arsenault, married Louise, daughter of Jean Fournier and Marie-François Dumas and widow of Louis Richard, at Cap-St.-Ignace on the St. Lawrence below Québec City in April 1763.  In his late 50s, Pierre remarried to Marie-Anne, daughter of Pierre Gamache and Geneviève Bélanger, at Cap-St.-Ignace in November 1799. 

Jacques's son Amand, born probably at Minas in c1741, may have been deported to Virginia in the autumn of 1755.  If so, Virginia officials sent him on to England the following spring with the other exiles held in the Old Dominion.  In May 1763, after months of negotiations between the British and French governments, the Acadians in England were repatriated to France.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France notes that "Amand ...," son of Jacques Giroire and Marie Boisseau, "arrived at St. Malo from prison in England in 1763."  This implies that Amand may have been a captured privateer, not a refugee, at the time of his repatriation.  He settled in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer and married Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Daigre and his second wife Anne-Marie Breau of Minas and Rivières-des-Blancs, Île St.-Jean, at nearby Pleudihen-sur-Rance, on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, in May 1764.  Between 1765 and 1769, at nearby Mordreuc and La Gravelle, Marguerite gave Amand four children, three sons and a daughter.  The oldest son died young.  Robichaux notes that Amand "drowned on a ship off the coast of Guernsey in January 1769," so he evidently was a sailor.  His youngest child, a daughter, was born posthumously in May.  Marguerite remarried to a Clossinet in November 1774.  In 1785, Marguerite emigrated with her new husband and her Girouard daughter, Geneviève-Charlotte-Marguerite, to Louisiana.  Marguerite's two surviving Girouard sons, Jean-Yves and Michel-Jean, would have been ages 19 and 18 that year.  If they were still living, they chose to remain in the mother country.  Their sister Geneviève married into the Gautrot family in the Spanish colony. 

Pierre's fourth son Étienne, by first wife Marie Comeau, born perhaps at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in December 1708, evidently died young. 

Pierre's fifth son Charles, by his second wife Marie Doiron, born perhaps at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in November 1710, also died young. 

Pierre's sixth son Honoré, by second wife Marie Doiron, born perhaps at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1714, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Thériot and Marie Bourg, probably at Minas in c1740.  Between 1742 and 1758, Marie-Josèphe gave Honoré six children, three daughters and three sons.  They moved on to the French Maritimes after August 1752, and the British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Their three youngest children, a daughter and two sons, died on the crossing.  The family settled at Pleslin on the west side of Rivière Rance southwest of the Breton port, where, in September 1761, Marie-Josèphe gave Honoré another daughter.  They also settled at St.-Suliac across the Rance.  Their oldest daughter married into the Blanchard family at Pleslin in October 1763 and emigrated with her husband and children to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Prosper's oldest son also married in the St.-Malo area and emigrated to Louisiana.  Honoré died in France by September 1784, in his 60s, when a Spanish official counted his wife and their two younger daughters at Nantes without him and called Marie-Josèphe a widow.  She and the two daughters also emigrated to Louisiana, and the daughters married into the Hébert and Landry families there. 

Oldest son Prosper-Honoré, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1744, followed his family to the French Maritimes and France and settled with them at Pleslin and St.-Suliac.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Dugas and Marie Boudrot, at St.-Coulomb, in the countryside southeast of St.-Malo, in February 1764.  Between 1765 and 1771, she gave him five children, three daughters and two sons.  All survived childhood except the older son.  Prosper-Honoré took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Marie gave him another daughter there in December 1774, but she died the day after her birth.  In November 1775, after two years of effort, Prosper and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Marie gave him two more sons there in 1776 and 1778, but the older son died young.  In 1785, Prosper, Marie, and their six surviving children, three daughters and three sons, emigrated to Louisiana and followed their relatives and most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their daughters married into the Guillot, Landry, and Blanchard families on the upper bayou.  Two of Prosper's three surviving sons married into the Landry and LeBlanc families and also settled on Bayou Lafourche. 

Pierre's seventh son Louis dit Paul, by second wife Marie Doiron, born perhaps at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1716, married Marie, daughter of Charles Thibodeau and Françoise Comeau, probably at Minas in c1736.  Between 1737 and 1752, Marie gave Louis dit Paul at least six children, three daughters and three sons.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted the family at Malpèque on the northwest shore of the island.  They evidently escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and were held in the prison compound Halifax for the rest of the war.  Paul Gripeoire, actually Louis dit Paul, and five children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  No wife was attributed to Paul, so he likely was a widower by then.  According to Bona Arsenault, one of Louis dit Paul's daughters married into the Arsenault and Soly families during exile, the second marriage at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in November 1760.  Two of his sons also created their own families.  One of them emigrated to Louisiana in 1765, where he created one of the largest lines of the family there. 

Oldest son Gervais, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1744, followed his family to Malpèque, into exile, and to the prison compound at Halifax, but he did not follow his younger brother to Louisiana.  Gervais married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Thériot and Madeleine Robichaud, in c1766 probably in Nova Scotia (the marriage was "rehabilitated" at Halifax in July 1768).  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1767 and 1768, Madeleine gave Gervais two children, both sons, probably in Nova Scotia. 

Louis dit Paul's second son Firmin dit La Prade, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1749, followed his family to Malpèque, into exile, and to the prison compound at Halifax, where he was listed with his family in August 1763.  He was the only member of his immediate family to go to Louisiana.  He arrived at New Orleans sometime in 1765 and settled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Cormier, père and Madeleine Richard of Chignecto, in January 1771.  Madeleine and her family had come to the colony in February 1764, among the first Acadian exiles to settle there.  The couple were still on the east bank of the river at Cabahannocer in January 1777.  In the early 1780s, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled at Côte Gélée in the Attakapas District, where they established a western branch of the Girouard family.  Firmin died "at his home at La Côte Gelée," then in St. Martin but now in Lafayette Parish, in July 1820, age 72.  His daughters married into the Bernard, Breaux, Granger, Landry, and Thibodeaux families.  All five of his sons married, into the Broussard, Thibodeaux, Landry, Derouen, and Valleau families on the prairies, but only two of the lines endured beyond the 1830s. 

Pierre's putative son Pierre, fils, by second wife Marie Doiron, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1727, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Cécile, daughter of Joannis D'Etchevery and Françoise Rhault, in c1750 perhaps on Île Madame.  In late February 1752, a French offiical counted Pierre, fils, Cécile, their unnamed infant, and her sister Madeleine, age 17, at Petit Degrat on the southeast side of Île Madame.  According to Arsenault, between 1752 and 1771, Cécile gave Pierre, fils eight children, six sons and two daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758. 

Pierre's eighth and youngest son Jean, also called Jean-Baptiste, from second wife Marie Doiron, born perhaps at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in June 1729, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine, daughter of Claude LeBlanc and Madeleine Boudrot, in c1749, perhaps at Pigiguit.  Arsenault says that, between 1750 and 1772, Madeleine gave Jean six children, three daughters and three sons.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Minas in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in the prison compound at Halfiax for the rest of the war.  According to Arsenault, they were counted at Halifax in 1763 and at Tracadie, northeastern Nova Scotia, in 1785.  Arsenault says one of their daughters married into the Gautrot family at Halifax in November 1770.  According to Arsenault, Jean/Jean-Baptiste's three sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Nicolas, born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1753, followed his family into exile and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  He married fellow Acadian Angélique Petitpas in c1776, place unrecorded.

Jean/Jean-Baptiste's second son François, born in exile in c1762, perhaps in the prison compound at Halifax, married fellow Acadian Marie Petitpas in c1785, place unrecorded. 

Jean/Jean-Baptiste's third and youngest son Joseph, born probably in Nova Scotia in c1772, married Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Angélique Daigle, in c1796, place unrecorded. 

Jacques dit Jacob's third son Jacques, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1674, married Anne, daughter of Claude Petitpas and Catherine Bugaret, at Port-Royal in November 1704.  Between 1705 and 1717, Anne gave Jacques, fils seven children, six daughters and a son.  Jacques, fils remarried to Jeanne, daughter of François Amireau dit Tourangeau and Marie Pitre, at Annapolis Royal in November 1725.  Between 1727 and 1729, Jeanne gave Jacques, fils three more sons.  Jacques, fils drowned in the Annapolis Royal in June 1741, in his late 60s.  Five of his daughters married into the Forest, Doiron, Lambert, and Comeau families.  All four of his sons from both wives created families of their own, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana. 

Oldest son Charles, by first wife Anne Petitpas, born at Port-Royal in December 1707, married Anne, daughter of Jean-Jacques Nuirat and Marie-Jeanne Bourgeois, in c1739, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, they settled at Chignecto and, between 1740 and 1745, Anne gave Charles four children, three daughters and a son.  Charles died between 1752 and November 1754, in his mid-40s, probably at Chignecto (Arsenault says he died in c1750).  According to Arsenault, Charles's widow remarried to a French Canadian at Québec in November 1754, so the family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755.  Charles's second daughter married into the Chamberland family at Québec in October 1763.  One wonders what happened to his son Eusèbe. 

Jacques, fils's second son Pierre, by second wife Jeanne Amireau, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1717, married Marie-Blanche, daughter of René Granger and Angélique Comeau, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1752.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1753 Marie-Blanche gave Pierre a son.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Jacques, fils's third son Jean, by second wife Jeanne Amireau, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1728, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Mouton and Marguerite Poirier, at Chignecto in 1755.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Jacques, fils's fourth and youngest son Joseph, by second wife Jeanne Amireau, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1729, evidently escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the region and held in a prisoner compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1764-65, he followed the Broussards to Louisiana from Halifax to via Cap-François, French St.-Domingue.  At age 35, Joseph married Ursule, daughter of René Trahan and Élisabeth Darois and widow of Joseph-Grégoire Broussard, at New Orleans in April 1765, one of the earliest Acadian marriages in the colony.  They followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche soon after their marriage.  Both of them died in late October, victims of a mysterious epidemic that struck the Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  Joseph fathered no children, so his line of the family died with him. 

Jacques dit Jacob's fourth son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1676, was still being counted with his family at Port-Royal in 1700.  He did not marry.   

Jacques dit Jacob's fifth son François, born at Port-Royal in c1680, married Anne, daughter of Germain Bourgeois and Madeleine Dugas, at Port-Royal in February 1708.  Between 1708 and 1733, Anne gave François 10 children, six sons and four daughters.  François, in his late 50s, remarried to Marie, daughter of Charles Guilbeau and Anne Bourg and widow of Joseph Forest, at Annapolis Royal in January 1737.  In 1740 and 1743, Marie gave François two more daughters--a dozen children by both wives.  François died at Annapolis Royal between February 1746 and November 1752, in his late 60s or early 70s.  Three of his six daughters by both wives married into the LeBlanc, Benoit, and Blanchard families.  Three of his six sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest son François, fils, by first wife Anne Bourgeois, born at Port-Royal on Christmas night 1708, died at Annapolis Royal in October 1720, age 11. 

François's second son Charles, by first wife Anne Bourgeois, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1714, died there in April 1716, age 2. 

François's third son Charles, the second with the name, by first wife Anne Bourgeois, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1719, also died young. 

François's fourth son Pierre dit Malouin (an odd nickname for someone who never went to France), by first wife Anne Bourgeois, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1721, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Forest and Marie Guilbeau, his stepsister, at Annapolis Royal in February 1743.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1755, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre six children, three sons and two daughters.  According to Arsenault, the family moved to Memramcook in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto in 1752, to nearby Petitcoudiac in 1755, escaped the British roundup in the area that year, and sought refuge in Canada, where they were counted at Québec in 1758.  Marie-Josèphe and one of their sons died at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence soon after.  Pierre remarried to Madeleine, daughter of François Doucet and Marie Poirier and widow of François Cormier, at Deschambault above Québec in February 1760.  According to Arsenault, in 1760 and 1762, Madeleine gave Pierre three more children, a daughter and two sons, including a set of twins.  Pierre died at L'Assomption in October 1763, age 42.  Four of his daughters by both wives married into the Martin and Picot families.  At least one of his sons created his own family.

Third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Madeleine Doucet, born in Canada in c1762, married Marie-Agathe, daughter of Louis Boissel and Marie Desnoyers, place unrecorded, in May 1785. 

François's fifth son Jean-Baptiste dit Mangeau, by first wife Anne Bourgeois, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1725, married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Françoise Thériot, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1751.  Jean-Baptiste died at Tracadie, Nova Scotia, in c1808, in his early 80s. 

François's sixth and youngest son Joseph dit Malouin, by first wife Anne Bourgeois, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1731, married Françoise, daughter of Guillaume Blanchard and Jeanne Dupuis, at Annapolis Royal in November 1752.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1754 Françoise gave Joseph a son.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada, where they were counted at Québec in 1757.  Wife Françoise died there that year, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees in the area that fall and winter and into the following spring. Joseph remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Paul Arseneau and Madeleine Hébert, at Québec in July 1758.  According to Arsenault, between 1760 and 1771, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph six more children, three daughters and three sons.  British officials counted them at Deschaillons below Trois-Rivières in 1761, at Repentigny near Montréal in 1768, and at L'Assomption in 1771.  Joseph dit Malouin died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Montréal in October 1792, age 61. 

Jacques dit Jacob's sixth son Claude, born at Port-Royal in c1684, married Élisabeth, daughter of Guillaume Blanchard and Huguette Gougeon, at Port-Royal in February 1709.  Between 1710 and 1720, Élisabeth gave Claude four children, two daughters and two sons.  Claude died at Annapolis Royal in March 1738, in his mid-50s.  His daughters married into the Landry, Thibodeau, and Hébert families.  Only one of his sons created a family of his own. 

Older son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1717, married Rosalie, daughter of Alexandre Hébert and Marie Dupuis, at Annapolis Royal in January 1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1742 Rosalie gave Joseph a son.  Joseph remarried to Nathalie dite Anastasie, daughter of Jean-Simon LeBlanc and Jeanne Dupuis, at Annapolis Royal in February 1748 and likely remained there.  According to Arsenault, between 1749 and 1772, Anastasie gave Joseph nine more children, five daughters and four sons.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  In August 1763, Joseph Guiroire, wife Natalis, and six unnamed children, a son and five daughters, were listed on a French repatriation list in the Bay Colony.  They followed most of their fellow exiles in New England to Canada and settled at St.-Ours on lower Rivière Richelieu, where British officials counted them in 1767.  They had more children there.  Joseph died at St.-Ours in August 1776, age 61.  Three of his daughters married into the Vel-Sansoucy, Gazaille-Saint-Germain, and Duhamel families there.  Three of his sons also created their own families on the lower Richelieu. 

Third son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Nathalie LeBlanc, born probably in Massachusetts in c1763, followed his family to Canada and married Agathe, daughter of François Allaire and Marie Labossière, at St.-Ours in November 1784. 

Joseph's fourth son Pierre, by second wife Nathalie LeBlanc, born probably at St.-Ours in c1769, married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Pierre Duhamel and Marguerite Dupré and sister of his older sister Élisabeth's husband François, at St.-Ours in February 1791. 

Joseph's fifth and youngest Joseph, fils, by second wife Nathalie LeBlanc, born probably at St.-Ours in c1772, married Véronique, daughter of Joseph Hamelin-Leganière and Véronique Ayot, at St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu above St.-Ours in February 1796. 

Claude's younger son François, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1720, evidently died young.  

Jacques dit Jacob's seventh son Guillaume, born at Port-Royal in October 1685, married Marie, daughter of René Bernard dit Renochet and Madeleine Doucet, in c1713 probably at Annapolis Royal, where they remained.  Between 1714 and the early 1730s, Marie gave Guillaume eight children, six daughters and two sons.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Guillaume died at Québec in late November 1757, age 72, victim, perhaps, of a smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees in the area that fall and winter and into the following spring.  Five of his daughters married into the Martin dit Barnabé, Aubois, Richard, Blanchard, and Dupuis families.  Both of his sons created families of their own. 

Older son Guillaume, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1721, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Blanchard and Anne Robichaud, at Annapolis Royal in February 1745 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1746 and 1748, Anne gave Guillaume, fils two daughters.  Other records hint that they had more children.  Arsenault says the family moved to Memramcook in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto by 1752.  They likely escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the summer and fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, the family either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area, who held them in a prisoner compound in Nova Scotia.  They may have been Guillaume Giro and his family of six listed on a repatriation list at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in the summer of 1763. In August 1763, Guillame Giroy, his unnamed wife, and five unnamed children appeared on another repatriation list, this time at Halifax, so they may have been transferred there.  They were among the relatively few Acadians held in Nova Scotia who chose to resettle in Canada, perhaps because so many of their loved ones had gone there.  British officials counted the family at Ste.-Croix-de-Lotbinière, today's St. Croix, on the upper St. Lawrence in 1767.  Guillaume, fils died there in June 1795, age 73.  His daughters married into the Leclerc and Boisvert families there.  He evidently had no sons, at least none who created their own families. 

Guillaume, père's younger son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in Ocotber 1726, married Théotiste, daughter of Pierre Dupuis and Jeanne Richard, at Annapolis Royal in February 1751.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1752 and 1774, Théotiste gave Pierre seven children, four sons and three daughters.  They likely escaped the British roundup at Annapolis in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  British officials counted them at Lotbinière in 1762 and at St.-Ours in 1767.  Pierre's daughters married into the Duhamel, Gariépy, and Valentin families at St.-Ours.  Three of his sons also created their own famiies there.

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1752, followed his family to Canada and married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean LeBlanc and Marie Landry, at St.-Ours in September 1775. 

Pierre, père's third son Jean-Baptiste, born probably in Canada in c1760, married Marie-Angélique, daughter of Joseph Blouin and Madeleine Turcot, at St.-Ours in June 1780. 

Pierre, père's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born probably at St.-Ours in c1769, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Lord and Marie-Josèphe Garceau, at St.-Ours in September 1791. 

Jacques dit Jacob's eighth son Denis, born at Port-Royal in c1688, married Marguerite, daughter of Nicolas Barrieau and Martine Hébert, at Grand-Pré in October 1709 but died there two months after their marriage, having fathered no children.  Marguerite remarried to a Doiron at Cobeguit. 

Jacques dit Jacob's ninth son Charles, born at Port-Royal in c1689, married Anne, daughter of Jean Bastarache and Huguette Vincent, at Annapolis Royal in November 1713.  Between 1716 and 1731, Anne gave Charles eight children, five sons and three daughters.  Anne died at Annapolis Royal in September 1737, age 43.  At age 55, Charles remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Pitre and Anne Préjean and widow of Charles Simon dit Boucher, at Annapolis Royal in June 1744.  Between 1745 and 1751, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles four more children, three sons and a daughter--a dozen children by two wives.  His daughters from his first wife married into the Blanchard, Pellerin, and Comeau families.  Four of his older sons created families of their own.  Charles died in his late 50s or early 60s by April 1751, when Marie-Josèphe remarried to a Bourgeois widower at Annapolis Royal.  The British deported the family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755. 

Oldest son Charles, fils, by first wife Anne Bastarache, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1716, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Michel Thibodeau and Agnès Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in May 1739.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1753, Marie-Madeleine gave Charles, fils six children, three sons and three daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Did Charles, fils and his wife get deported to South Carolina along with his stepmother and her family and a younger brother and his family?  Arsenault says Charles, fils died in exile before August 1763, in his 40s, perhaps in the southern colony.  One of his daughters married into the Poirier and Bonnefon families, the second marriage at Môle St.-Nicolas, French St.-Domingue, in November 1778, a clue that she may have come to the big island from a southern British colony.  At least one of Charles, fils's sons created a family of his own, in Canada.

Oldest son Charles III, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1740, may have escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755 and married fellow Acadian Marie Granger probably at Québec in c1768.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Charles III a daughter in 1769.  Marie died in late January 1769, soon after her daughter's birth, place unrecorded. 

Charles, père's second son Joseph dit Bistet, by first wife Anne Bastarache, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1720, married Anne, daughter of François Doucet and Marie Poirier, at Beaubassin in July 1743.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1749 Anne gave Bistet a daughter.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area, who held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Joseph dit Bistet remarried to Jeanne dite La Touchenette, daughter of Pierre Belliveau and Jeanne Gaudet, in c1761 during exile, place unrecorded.  Bistet and his family appear on a repatriation list in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in 1763.  According to Arsenault, in 1763 and 1767, Jeanne gave Bistet two more daughters.  British officials counted them on lower Rivière St.-Jean in 1767, so after the war they chose to remain in greater Acadia.  They moved on to Bouctouche on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, today's northeastern New Brunswik, where Joseph dit Bistet died in 1803 or 1804, in his early 80s.  His three daughters married into the Belliveau, LeBlanc, and Bastarache families, one of them at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia. 

Charles, père's third son François, by first wife Anne Bastarache, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1726, married Claire, daughter of René Richard and Marguerite Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in February 1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1751, Claire gave François three children, two sons and a daughter.  François remarried to Catherine-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Martin and Jeanne Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in February 1754.  According to Arsenault, in 1754 Catherine-Josèphe gave François another daughter.  The British evidently deported the family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  François remarried again--his third marriage--to Marguerite Poirier probably in South Carolina before August 1763, when François, wife Marguerite, and sons Joseph, age 17, and François, fils, age 15, appeared on a repatriation list in the southern colony.  At least one of his sons created a family of his own in the French Antilles.

Older son Joseph, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1745, followed his family to South Carolina and to Môle St.-Nicolas, French St.-Dominguie, where he married fellow Acadian Madeleine Poirier probably in the late 1760s.  She gave him at least two sons there in the 1770s, but both of them died young.  Joseph remarried to Marie, daughter of Stephen Hosmin or Hoffman and Marie Staipe of Empabard, Diocese of Speyer, Germany, at Môle St.-Nicolas in May 1780.  Between 1781 and 1785, Marie gave Joseph at least three more children, two sons and a daughter, but the second son died young.  Joseph died at Môle St.-Nicolas in May 1785, age 40. 

Charles, père's fourth son Basile, by first wife Anne Bastarache, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1728, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Doucet and Marie Poirier, in c1754 probably at Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, the family moved to Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  Arsenault says that Marie-Josèphe gave Basile a daughter in 1755.  According to Arsenault, the British deported Basile to South Carolina in the fall of 1755 without his wife or daughter.  Basile died in the southern colony between January 1756 and July 1758, in his late 20s.  Wife Marie-Josèphe, meanwhile, took refuge in Canada, where French officials noted that daughter Anastasie, age 2, died at Québec in 1757, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees in the area that fall and winter and into the following spring.  After learning of the fate of her husband, Marie-Josèphe remarried to a French Canadian at nearby Ste.-Foy in January 1760. 

Charles, père's fifth son Grégoire, by first wife Anne Bastarache, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1731, died there in June 1734, age 2 1/2. 

Charles, père's sixth son Anselme, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Pitre, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1747, probably died young.

Charles, père's seventh son Grégoire, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Pitre, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1748, followed his family to South Carolina in 1755 and was listed on a repatriations list with his mother, stepfather, and siblings there in August 1763.  Where did he go after that date? 

Charles, père's eighth and youngest son Bonaventure, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Pitre, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1751, followed his family to South Carolina in 1755 and was listed with his mother, stepfather, and siblings there in August 1763.  Where did he go after that date? 

Jacques dit Jacob's tenth and youngest son Germain le jeune, born at Port-Royal in c1691, married Marie, daughter of Toussaint Doucet and Marie Caissie, in c1710 and settled at Chignecto.  Between 1711 and the late 1730s, Marie gave Germain le jeune 10 children, six sons and four daughters.  Bona Arsenault gives them a seventh son named François, born in c1722.  Germain le jeune and members of his family escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Germain le jeune died at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in July 1760, in his late 60s, perhaps during the British attack on the French stronghold there.  His daughters married into the Gaudet and Poirier families.  All six of his sons, and his putative son as well, created families of their own. 

Oldest son Germain dit Jacques, born probably at Chignecto in c1711, married Marie, daughter of Charles Arseneau and Françoise Mirande, at Beaubassin in November 1733.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1755, Marie gave Germain dit Jacques five children, two sons and three daughters.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the summer and fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  In his early 50s, Germain dit Jacques remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Henry and Marguerite Brasseur, at L'Islet on the St. Lawrence below Québec in July 1763.  According to Arsenault, between 1767 and 1785, Marguerite gave Gemain dit Jacques five more children, two daughter and three sons--10 children by two wives.  Germain dit Jacques died at St.-Hyacinthe on Rivière Yamaska northeast of Montréal in May 1779, in his late 60s.  Three of his daughters by both wives married into the Dupont, Cloutier, and Blanchet families on the lower St. Lawrence and at St.-Hyacinthe.  Two of his sons by both wives also created their own families at St.-Hyacinthe. 

Second son Victor, by first wife Marie Arseneau, born probably at Chignecto in c1748, followed his family to Canada, and married Marie-Marguerite Lacoste-Languedoc, widow of François Archambault, in c1775, place unrecorded, perhaps St.-Hyacinthe. 

Germain dit Jacques's fifth and youngest son Alexis, by second wife Marguerite Henry, born probably at L'Islet in c1785, married Marie-Charlotte Sanschagrin at Présentation near St.-Hyacinthe in November 1809. 

Germain le jeune's second son Pierre, born probably at Chignecto in c1719, married Marguerite, daughter of Augustin Gaudet and Agnès Chiasson, at Beaubassin in November 1740 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1755, Marguerite gave Pierre four children, two sons and two daughters.  Other records give them another son in c1751.  Arsenault says the family was at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in 1755, so they may have escaped the British roundup at Chignecto that year and crossed Mer Rouge to the French-controlled island.  The British deported at least one member of the family to France in late 1758.  Pierre died in exile, place unrecorded, before August 1763. 

Second son Dominique, born probably at Chignecto in c1751, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and evidently was deported to France in late 1758.  One wonders where he landed.  He became a sailor in the mother country and, in the early 1770s, followed hundreds of fellow Acadians to Poitou.  While a resident of Cenan, Poitou, he married Agnès, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Broussard and Ursule LeBlanc, at Archigny, Poitou, in February 1775.  In December, with other Poitou Acadians, they retreated to the port city of Nantes.  In 1776 and 1778, Agnès gave Dominique two children, a daughter and a son, in the lower Loire port.  The daughter and perhaps the son died young.  Dominique died at nearby Chantenay in December 1778, age 27.  Agnès remarried to a Pothier widower at Chantenay in November 1783 and followed him and his children by his first marriage to Spanish Louisiana two years later. Her Girouard son, Jean-Dominique, who would have been age 7 in 1785, did not go with them, so he likely had died young like his older sister. 

Germain le jeune's putative son François, born at Chignecto in c1722, according to Bona Arsenault, married Marguerite Poirier in c1745 probably at Chignecto.  Arsenault says in 1746 and 1748, Marguerite gave François two children, a son and a daughter.  Other records give them two sons.  The British deported the family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  In August 1763, François, wife Marguerite, and sons Joseph, age 17, and François, fils, age 15, appeared on a repatrition list in the southern colony.  One wonders where they resettled after that. 

Germain le jeune's third son Michel, according to Stephen A. White, was born probably at Chignecto in c1723.  According to White, Michel, son of Germain le jeune, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Haché and Madeleine LeBlanc, in c1744 probably at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, Michel à Germain le jeune was born in c1710, married Marie Thibodeau in c1735, that between 1736 and 1747 Marie gave Michel à Germain le jeune five children, three daughters and two sons, that the family settled at Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, and that their oldest daughter married into the Comeau family there in March 1756, which would have been during exile.  Arsenault would have us believe that the Michel born in c1723 who married Marguerite Haché was the fifth son of Germain le jeune's older brother François, not of Germain le jeune, and that, between 1749 and 1756, Marguerite gave Michel à François four children, two daughters and two sons.  Arsenault hints that the family of Michel à François escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada, that French authorities counted the family at Québec in 1757, and that two of their children, Marguerite and Pierre, died there, victims, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees in the area that fall and winter.  White says Michel à Germain le jeune, born in c1723, died at Gentilly on the upper St. Lawrence near Trois-Rivières in March 1797, in early 70s.  According to Arsenault, Michel à François's surviving son created his own family.

Younger son Joseph, born in exile in c1756, followed his family to Canada, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Grandbois and Félicité Baillargeon, at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in February 1777.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1778 and 1786, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph five children, two sons and three daughters.  Joseph remarried to Josèphe, daughter of Jacques Normandeau dit Deslauriers and Marie-Catherine Tinon, at nearby Gentilly in February 1790.  They settled at Bécancour.  According to Arsenault, between 1790 and 1808, Josèphe gave Joseph seven more children, five daughters and two sons--a dozen children by two wives. 

Germain le jeune's fourth son Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in the mid-1720s, married Agnès, daughter of Claude Gaudet and Marguerite Blou, in c1750 probably at Chignecto.  They evidently escaped the roundup there in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Joseph died at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu northeast of Montréal in January 1767, in his early 40s, and that his widow remarried to a Richard at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in February 1768.  

Germain le jeune's fifth son Claude, born probably at Chignecto in c1728, married Marie, daughter of Michel Bernard and Marie Brasseur, in c1754 (Bona Arsenault says c1759), probably at Chignecto.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  According to Arsenault, between 1760 and 1779, Marie gave Claude nine children, a son and eight daughters.  Claude died at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu in July 1816, in his late 80s.  Four his daughters married into the Langlois, Phaneuf, and Archambault families, two of them to brothers, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly.  His son also created his own family there.

Only son Justinien, born probably in Canada in c1762, married Charlotte, daughter of Louis Sasseville and Charlotte Archambault, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in October 1784. 

Germain le jeune's sixth and youngest son Jacques, born at Chignecto in November 1733, married Françoise, another daughter of Augustin Gaudet and Agnès Chiasson, in c1754 (Bona Arsenault says c1761) probably at Chignecto.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  According to Arseanult, between 1762 and 1776, Françoise gave Jacques eight children, three sons and five daughters.  Jacques died at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu in April 1813, age 79.  Four of his daughters married into the Chartier, Bernard, and Bourgeois families at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly.  Two of his sons also created their own families there.

Oldest son Joseph, born probably in Canada in c1762, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Dumas and Charlotte-Perrine Boutin, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in January 1788. 

Jacques's third and youngest son François married Osithe, daughter of Thierry Langlois and Marie-Osithe Bernard, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in February 1794. 

François's younger son Germain, born at Port-Royal in c1656, followed two of his brothers-in-law to Chignecto in c1672 and helped pioneer a new Acadian settlement there.  Germain married Marie, daughter of Jacques Bourgeois and Jeanne Trahan and widow of Pierre Cyr, at Beaubassin in June 1680 and remained.  Between 1681 and 1685, Marie gave Germain three children, a son and two daughters.  Germain died at Chignecto in c1686, in his early 30s. One of his daughters married into the Gaudet family.  His son also created a family of his own at Chignecto. 

Only son Germain, fils, born at Chignecto in April 1681, married Jeanne, daughter of Nicolas Barrieau and Martine Hébert, probably at Chignecto in c1703 and settled there.  From the early 1700s to the 1720s, Jeanne gave Germain, fils nine children, six daughters and three sons, including a set of twins.  Four of their daughters married into the Bourgeois, Poirier, and Thériot families.  All three of Germain, fils's sons created families of their own at Chignecto.   

Oldest son Michel, born at Chignecto in the early 1700s, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Jean-Jacques Nuirat and Marie-Jeanne Bourgeois, at Chignecto in February 1733, and, according to Stephen A. White, remarried to Marie, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau l'aîné and Anne-Marie Bourg, in c1735, probably at Chignecto.  Bona Arsenault says Michel, son of Germain, fils, married only once, to Anne-Marie Nuirat, and that it was Michel, son of Germain le jeune, who married Marie Thibodeau, that they settled at Chepoudy, and that, between 1736 and 1747, Marie gave Michel à Germain le jeune five children, three daughters and two sons.  White says Michel à Germain, fils died probably at Chignecto in c1735.  According to Arsenault, Michel à Germain le jeune's older daughter Marie married into the Comeau family at Chepoudy in March 1756, which would have been during exile. 

Germain, fils's second son François dit Menu, born at Baie-Verte, Chignecto, in c1710, married Marie, daughter of Michel Poirier and Jeanne Bourgeois, at Chignecto in January 1735 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1738 and 1746, Marie gave Menu five children, three daughters and two sons.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canda.  Menu, in his early 50s, remarried to Catherine-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Boudrot and Marie Corporon and widow of Jean-Baptiste Trahan, at Québec in November 1762.  She evidently gave him no more children.  François dit Menu died at Québec in May 1790, age 80.  One of his daughters married into the Benet dit Ollier family at Québec.  One of his sons also created his own family there.

Older son Joseph, by first wife Marie Poirier, born probably at Chignecto in c1742, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Anne, daughter of Joachim Desmolliez and Marie-Josèphe Auger, at Québec in January 1766.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1769 and 1771, Marie-Anne gave Joseph three children, all son.  At least one of their sons created his own family.

Oldest son Jean, born probably at Québec in c1769, became a river pilot and drowned near Île du Bic in the St. Lawrence estuary, date unrecorded.  He evidently did not marry. 

Joseph's second son Joseph, fils, born probably at Québec in c1770, became an architect, engineer, and navigator.  He married Marie-Anne, daughter of Jean Baillargé and Louise Parent, at Québec in February 1793. 

Joseph, père's third and youngest son François, born probably at Québec in c1771, drowned off the coast of Spain, date unrecorded.  He evidently did not marry. 

Germain, fils's third and youngest son Jacques, born at Chignecto probably in the 1720s, married Marie, daughter of Honoré Bourgeois and Marie-Jeanne Richard, at Chignecto in August 1748.  He died in exile before April 1760, place unrecorded.  Did he and his wife have any children?345

Hébert

Antoine, older of the Hébert brothers who arrived in the early 1640s, and his wife Geneviève Lefranc created a smaller branch of the family in the colony.  Between 1649 and 1656, Geneviève gave Antoine three children, two sons and a daughter.  Their daughter married into the LeBlanc family.  Both of their sons were named Jean, and both survived childhood, but only the younger one created a family of his own.  Antoine and Geneviève's descendants settled at Grand-Pré and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin, at Chignecto, and in the French Maritimes.  At least 162 Héberts from both branches of the family, many from this one, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, Maryland in the late 1760s, and especially from France in 1785.  Significant numbers of Antoine's descendants, perhaps most of them, also could be found in greater Acadia, France, the French Antilles, and especially in Canada after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Older son Jean l'aîné, born at Port-Royal in c1649, was counted in the first Acadian census of 1671 at age 22, so he survived childhood, but he did not marry. 

Antoine's younger son Jean le jeune, born at Port-Royal in c1653, married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of Pierre Doucet and Henriette Pelletret, at Port-Royal in c1676.  By 1693 they had resettled at Minas.  Between 1677 and the early 1700s, Henriette gave Jean le jeune 14 children, eight sons and six daughters.  Jean le jeune died probably at Minas by 1707, in his early 50s.  Bona Arsenault says Jean le jeune died at Minas in November 1710.  Four of his daughters married into the LeBlanc, Boudrot, and Saulnier families.  Seven of his eight sons also created their own families.  

Oldest son Jacques, born at Port-Royal in c1677, married Jeanne, daughter of Claude Gautrot and Marie Thériot, in c1703 probably at Minas but moved on to Chignecto.  Between 1704 and 1735, Jeanne gave Jacques 10 children, five sons and five daughters.  Jacques died at Québec in November 1756, age 80, evidently having escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  His daughters married into the Arseneau, Bergeron dit de Nantes, Bernard, Bourg, Doucet, and Ricard families.  Four of his five sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest son Jacques dit Boudiche, born in c1704, married Anne, daughter of Abraham Arseneau and Jeanne Gaudet, in c1728 probably at Chignecto, but they may have moved on to Minas or returned to Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1750, Anne gave Jacques dit Boudiche 11 children, seven sons and five daughters.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported members of the family to Massachusetts.  They appeared on a repatriation list in the Bay Colony in August 1763.  They chose to resettle on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where French officials counted them in 1767 and 1776.  They likely went to France in 1767 and returned to the island in 1768.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre and deported the Acadians there to La Rochelle, France, including the Héberts.  Jacques dit Boudiche died at St.-Nicolas Parish, La Rochelle, in June 1779, age 75.  His widow returned to Miquelon in 1784.  Two of his daughters married into the Cyr and Melanson families in Massachusetts and on Miquelon.  Five of his sons also created their own families.

Oldest son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1731, evidently left greater Acadia on the eve of exile and married Jeanne, daughter of René dit Renochet Bernard and Anne Blou of Chignecto, at Québec in January 1755.  They remained in Canada.  Pierre died at Lobinière on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec and Trois-Rivières in July 1776, in his mid-40s.  His wife remarried to one of his Hébert first cousins also named Pierre. 

Jacques dit Boudiche's second son Jean, born at Chignecto in c1736, followed his family to Massachusetts in 1755 and to Île Miquelon after 1763.  He married Rose, daughter of Jean Cyr and Anne Bourgeois, on the island in March 1764.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1792, Rose gave Jean 10 children, six sons and four daughters.  Other records give them another son.  They were counted on Miquelon in 1767, on the eve of their going to La Rochelle, France, to reduce overcrowding on the island.  One of their sons was born at La Rochelle in c1768.  The family was back on Miquelon in 1776.  The British deported them to La Rochelle in 1778.  One of their daughters was born in St.-Jean Parish, La Rochelle, in December 1782.  They probably returned to North America with his widowed mother in 1784.  Jean and his family settled not on Miquélon but at Bonaventure, a British-controlled fishery in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Jean died there in October 1810, in his early 70s.  One of his daughters married into the Bujold family at Bonaventure.  His oldest son stayed in France, but his younger sons settled at Bonaventure.

Second son Jean, fils, also called Jean-François, born at La Rochelle in c1768, followed his family back to Île Miquelon, returned to France with them in 1778, returned with them to North America in 1784, likely followed them to Gaspésie later in the decade, and, now a sailor, married fellow Acadian Geneviève Briand of Miquelon at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the mid-1790s.  They returned to France by March 1799, when a son was born at Ingouville northeast of Le Havre.  Jean, fils worked as a ship's carpenter as well as a sailor in the mother country.  He died at Ingouville in October 1811, in his early 40s.  One wonders if any of his children created their own families in the mother country.

Oldest son Jean-François, born at Ingouville in March 1799, died there in November 1800, age 1 1/2. 

Jean, fils's second son Joseph-Hippolyte was born at Ingouville in November 1800. 

Jean, fils's third son Pierre-Prosper was born at Ingouville in August 1802 and died at his widowed mother's house in Ingouville in June 1824, age 23.  He evidently did not marry. 

Jean, fils's fourth son Alphonse-Honoré was born at Ingouville in May 1810 and died there in July 1819, age 9. 

Jean, père's fifth son François, born probably on Île Miquelon in c1776, followed his family to France and back, and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Poirier and Anne Gaudet, at Bonaventure in May 1809.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave François a son, Jean, in c1812.  François died at Bonaventure in May 1855, in his late 70s.

Jean, père's sixth son Joseph, born at La Rochelle in c1783, returned to North America and married Marguerite, another daughter of Pierre Poirier and Anne Gaudet, at Bonaventure in May 1805.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1807 and 1820, Marguerite gave Joseph seven children, two sons and five daughters.  Joseph died at Bonaventure in October 1828, in his mid-40s. 

Jean, père's seventh and youngest son Louis-Victor, born at La Rochelle or at Bonaventure in the 1780s, married Olivette, daughter of fellow Acadians François-Placide Bujold and Marie-Josèphe Bernard, in January 1818, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, Olivette gave Louis-Victor two children, a daughter and a son, in 1820 and 1824. 

Jacques dit Boudiche's third son Joseph, born at Chignecto in c1739, did not follow his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  After being held at Fort Beauséjour that autumn, he escaped and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Boudrot and Judith Belliveau, in c1760, place unrecorded, but it probably was on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1772, Louise gave Joseph seven children, five daughters and two sons.  They were counted at Shippagan on south shore of the Baie des Chaleurs in 1762, moved on to Île Miquelon in 1765 and were still living there in 1776.  The British deported them to La Rochelle, France, in 1778.  One of their daughters married into the Turgot family at La Rochelle.  Joseph and his family evidently returned to Miquelon in 1784.  In the summer of 1794, during yet another war between France and Britain, the British recaptured îles St.-Pierre and Miquelon and detained the islanders at Boston and Halifax for three years.  In 1797, the British deported the islanders at Halifax to Bordeaux and Le Havre, where they arrived in July and August.  Joseph and his family were sent to Le Havre and were living at Les Pentents there in April 1798 when they petitioned the French government to allow them to return to La Rochelle.  One wonders if their request was granted and if they returned to the Newfoundland islands in the 1810s with other Acadian refugees.

Jacques dit Boudiche's fifth son Jacques, fils, born at Chignecto in c1744, followed his family to Massachusetts, Île Miquelon, and La Rochelle, France, where he died in St.-Nicolas Parish in July 1779, age 35, a month after his father died there.  Jacques, fils evidently did not marry. 

Jacques dit Boudiche's sixth son Charles, born at Chignecto in c1748, followed his family to Massachusetts and Île Miquelon.  He married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Vigneau and Madeleine Cyr, on the island in January 1771.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1794, Rosalie gave Charles 10 children, four daughters and six sons.  Other records give them another son.  They were still on Miquelon in 1776.  The British deported them to La Rochlle, France, in 1778, and they returned to Miquelon in 1784.  They then moved on to the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  At least four of their sons created families there.

Second son Isaac, born on Île Miquelon in c1776, followed his family to La Rochelle and to the Madeleine islands.  He married Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Chiasson and Marguerite Doucet, there in July 1800.

Charles's third son Pierre-Roche, born probably in La Rochelle in the late 1770s, followed his family back to Île Miquelon and to the Madeleine islands, where he married Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourgeois and Angélique Boudreau, in August 1804.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1805 and 1820, Émilie gave Pierre-Roche six children, five daughters and a son. 

Charles's fourth son Étienne, born in St.-Jean Parish, La Rochelle, in April 1780, died there at age 2 in June 1782.

Charles's fifth son Jean, born probably at La Rochelle on c1782, followed his family back to Île Miquelon and to the Madeleine islands, where he married Adélaïde, another daughter of Amand Chiasson and Marguerite Doucet, in November 1809.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1810 and 1822, Adélaïde gave Jean six children, two daughter and four sons. 

Charles's sixth son Simon, born on Île Miquelon or in the Madeleine islands in c1788, married Amarie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arsenault and Geneviève Boudreau, in September 1811, and remarried to fellow Acadian Julie Bourgeois in c1815.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1817 and 1822, Julie gave Simon three children, a daughter and two sons. 

Jacques dit Boudiche's seventh and youngest son Ambroise, born at Chignecto in c1750, followed his family to Massachusetts and Île Miquelon, where he married Marie, daughter of Claude Poirier and Marguerite Cyr, in January 1774.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1776 and 1783, Marie gave Ambroise four children, two sons and two daughters.  They were still living on Miquelon in 1776.  The British deported them to La Rochelle, France, in 1778, and they returned to Miquelon in 1784. 

Jacques's second son Pierre dit le Jeune, born probably at Chignecto in the early 1700s, married Marie-Anne, daughter of René dit Renochet Bernard and Anne Blou, in c1737 probably at Chignecto and settled at Tintamarre easat of the Missaguash.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1740 and 1742, Marie-Anne gave Pierre dit le Jeune two children, a daughter and a son.  Other records give them an older son born in 1739.  Pierre dit le Jeune died probably at Chignecto before 1752, in his late 40s or early 50s.  His widow Marie-Anne may have taken her children to the French Maritimes soon after Pierre dit le Jeune's death, and the British may have deported them to France in late 1758.  One son married at Chantenay near Nantes and, along with his younger brother, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France and settled on the western prairies.

Older son Pierre, fils, born at Tintamarre, Chignecto, in c1739, may have followed his widowed mother to the French Maritimes and to France, where he worked as a day laborer.  One wonders where.  At age 44, he married Charlotte, daughter of fellow Acadians Christopher Pothier and Anne Boudrot and widow of Paul Patry, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes, France, in November 1783.  In 1785, Pierre, fils, Charlotte, their infant son Pierre-Joseph, a Patry stepdaughter, and his bachelor brother emigrated to Spanish Louisiana and settled on the western prairies.  Pierre, fils and Charlotte had no more children in the Spanish colony.  Pierre died at his home at Carencro in February 1818, in his late 70s.  His only son Pierre-Joseph married into the Guilbeau family at Carencro, but the family line did not endure.

Pierre dit le Jeune's younger son Jean-Baptiste, born at Tintamarre in c1745, may have followed his widowed mother to the French Maritimes and to France, where he also worked as a day laborer.  One wonders where.  In 1785, at age 40, he followed his older brother to Spanish Louisiana and settled with him on the western prairies.  Jean-Baptise did not marry.  He died at Attakapas in October 1801, in his mid- or late 50s. 

Jacques's third son Magloire, born probably at Chignecto in c1715, married Anne, daughter of Guillaume Cyr and Marguerite Bourg, in c1743 probably at Chignecto and likely settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1768, Anne gave Magloire six children, three sons and three daughters.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the family to Massachusetts, so they may have moved from Chignecto to Annapolis Royal or Minas before 1755.  Magloire and his family appeared on a repatriation list in the Bay Colony in August 1763.  They, too, chose to resettle not in Canada but on Île Miquelon, where French officials counted them between 1773 and 1776.  The British deported them to La Rochelle, France, in 1778.  A son died in St.-Jean Parish, La Rochelle, in October 1780.  Magloire died there the following December, age 66, and widow Anne died there in January 1781.  One of their daughters married into the Coste family on Île Miquelon and another into the same family at La Rochelle.  One of their sons also married on the island but moved on to Canada.

Oldest son Félix, born at Chignecto in c1744, followed his family to Massachusetts and Île Miquelon, where he married Esther, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Vigneau and Anne Poirier, in November 1771.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1773 and 1795, Esther gave Félix 11 children, seven sons and five daughters.  They were still on the island in 1776.  The British deported them to La Rochelle, France, in 1778, and they evidently were among the islanders who returned to North America in 1784.  If they returned to Miquelon, they did not remain there.  They were living at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in 1789.  One of their daughters married into the Vigneau family at Bécancour in 1801.  Three of Félix's sons also created families in the area.

Oldest son Félix, fils, born probably on Île Miquelon in c1773, followed his family to France and Canada and married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Baudon-Larivière and Marie-Louise Tessier, at Bécancour in June 1801. 

Félix, père's second son Amand, born probably on Miquelon in c1776, followed his family to La Rochelle, France, in 1778.  He died in St.-Jean Parish. La Rochelle, in May 1779, age 3. 

Félix, père's third son Jacques, born probably at La Rochelle in c1780, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Vincent Cyr and Marie-Angélique Vigneau, at Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières and above Bécancour in October 1804. 

Félix, père's fourth son François, born in St.-Jean Parish, La Rochelle, in July 1783, followed his family to Canada and married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Prince and Marie-Madeleine Bergeron, at nearby St.-George-de-Nicolet in January 1809. 

Magloire's second son Charles, born at Chignecto in c1751, followed his family to Massachusetts, Île Miquelon, and La Rochelle.  He died in St.-Jean Parish, La Rochelle, in October 1780, age 24.  He probably did not marry. 

Jacques's fourth son Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in c1719, married Marie-Louise, daughter of Jacques Chiasson and Marie-Josèphe Arseneau, at Beaubassin in August 1740 and likely settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1755, Marie-Louise gave Joseph four children, two daughters and two sons.  One of their sons was baptized at St.-Pierre-du-Nord on Île St.-Jean in May 1751, so the family may have gone there to escape the chaos at Chignecto after 1750.  They may have returned to peninsula Nova Scotia soon after they reached the island (they were not counted in the French census on the island in August 1752), escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755, and headed up to Canada.  Joseph died at St.-Jean-Deschaillons on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec and Trois-Rivières in February 1803, age 84.  One of his daughters married into the Mailhot at nearby Lobinière in 1774.  His two sons also married in Canada.

Older son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1747, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and Canada.  He married Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians René dit Renochet Bernard and Anne Blou and widow of Pierre Hébert, one of this Pierre's first cousins, at Lotbinière in November 1779. 

Joseph's younger son Jacques, born on Île St.-Jean in April 1751, followed his family to Canada and married fellow Acadian Angélique Bernard in c1772, no place given. 

Jacques's fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, also called Jean dit Gros Jean, born at Chignecto in January 1723, according to Stephen A. White did not marry.  However, Bona Arsenault insists that Jean dit Gros Jean married cousin Anne-Marie Hébert in c1753, place unrecorded.  According to Arsenault, between 1754 and 1771, Anne-Marie gave Gros-Jean three children, a daughter and two sons.  Arsenault says the British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755 (few, if any, of the Chignecto exiles went to that colony), and they resettled on Île Miquelon, where French officials counted them in 1765 and 1776.  The British deported them to La Rochelle, France, in 1778.  Jean died in St.-Nicolas Parish there in September 1779, in his mid- or late 50s.  His widow and children returned to Miquelon in 1784. 

Jean le jeune's second son Pierre dit Laprade or La Pradelle, born at Port-Royal in c1679, married Isabelle (Bona Arsenault calls her Jeanne), daughter of Antoine Landry and Marie Thibodeau of Chignecto, in c1702.  They settled at Chignecto.  Between 1704 and 1708, Isabelle/Jeanne gave Pierre four children, two sons and two daughters.  He remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jacques Blou and Marie Girouard, probably at Chignecto in c1710.  Between 1713 and the 1720s, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre six more children, four sons and two daughters--10 children from both wives.  Pierre dit Laprade died after 1754-55, place unrecorded.  His daughters married into the Gaudet, Cyr, Boudrot, Thériot, and Cormier families.  All six of his sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Jean dit Laprade, by first wife Isabelle Landry, born probably at Chignecto in the early 1700s, married, according to Stephen A. White, Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of Michel Bourg and Élisabeth Melanson, in c1723, probably at Chignecto.  Bona Arsenault insists that Jean à Pierre dit Laprade's wife was Claire Dugas and that they married in c1730, place unrecorded, but, according to White, Arsenault is confusing this Jean with his first cousin Jean III, son of Jean, fils, who married Marie-Claire Dugas in c1727.  Arsenault says the Jean Hébert who married Isabelle Bourg was sans doute son of Joseph à Jean le jeune; that, between 1733 and 1744, Isabelle gave him four children, three sons and a daughter; the British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755 (the destination of few, if any, Chignecto exiles); and, after the war with Britain, they chose to settle on Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where French officials counted them in 1767.  Evidently their daughter married into the Poirier and Flamerie de Marquisant families, the second marriage at Môle St.-Nicolas, French St.-Domingue, to a French surgeon.  One of Jean's sons created his own family. 

Second son Paul dit Laprade, born at Chignecto in c1738, followed his family to Massachusetts and Île Miquelon.  He married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Marc Villalon or Villalong and Jeanne Osselet or Ozelet of Île Royale, on Miquelon in January 1765.  Between 1766 and 1778, Marie-Anne gave Paul seven children, three daughters and four sons.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre and deported the island Acadians to France.  Most went to La Rochelle, but Paul and his family were sent aboard the schooner Marie-Anne to St.-Malo via Cancale.  They reached the Breton port in November.  The following January, their youngest daughter Marie died at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  In October of that year, Marie-Anne gave Paul another son--eight children in all, but the boy was born posthumously.  Paul died at St.-Servan in March 1779, in his early 50s.  His youngest son, Gabriel-Simon, died the following year.  According to Arsenault, Widow Marie-Anne and daughter Rosalie also died at St.-Servan.  Her and Paul's remaining five children--daughter Cécile, age 17, and sons Charles, age 15, François, age 13, Jean, age 11, and Paul, fils, age 9--returned to Île Miquelon with other Acadian refugees in 1784.  One wonders what happened to them after that date. 

Pierre dit Laprade's second son Pierre dit Perroche, by first wife Isabelle Landry, born probably at Chignecto in the early 1700s, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Claude Gaudet and Marguerite Blou, in c1730 probably at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1729 and 1754, Madeleine gave Pierre 10 children, four sons and six daughters.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and took refuge in Canada.  Arsenault says French officials counted them at Québec in 1767 and that they were living at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly on Rivière Richelieu east of Montréal in 1767.  Stephen A. White says Pierre died between December 1758 and February 1764, place unrecorded.  Perhaps it was at Chambly.  Four of his daughters married into the Lacoste, Archambault, Goguet, and Marest families at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly.  Two of his sons also married in Canada.

Second son of Pierre, fils, born at Chignecto in c1734, followed his family to Canada and married cousin Marie-Félix Hébert in c1759, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Félix gave Pierre, fils a daughter in 1770.  They were living at St.-Michel-d'Yamaska on lower Rivière Yamaska between Trois-Rivières and Montréal that year. 

Pierre dit Perroche's fourth and youngest son Jacques, born at Chignecto in c1748, followed his family to Canada and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Trahan and Marie Hébert of Pigiguit, at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie across from Montréal in September 1769.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Jacques a son in 1770. 

Pierre dit Laprade's third son Joseph, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Blou, born at Chignecto in c1713, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Poirier and Marie Cormier, at Beaubassin in January 1734.  According to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine gave Joseph a daughter in 1741.  Joseph drowned in April 1742, age 29; his death was recorded by the Beaubassin priest.  One wonders what happened to his family in 1755. 

Pierre dit Laprade's fourth son François, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Blou, born at Chignecto in c1714, married Marie-Josèphe, another daughter of Jean-Baptiste Poirier and Marie Cormier, in c1740 probably at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave François a son in 1741.  François also drowned in the spring of 1742, age 28; his death was recorded at Beaubassin the following September.  His son created a family of his own.

Only son Jean-Baptiste, born at Chignecto in c1741, likely escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Or the British may have deported him to one of the seaboard colonies in 1755.  After the war with Britain, he chose to resettle on Île Miquelon, where he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourg and Anne Boudrot, in June 1766.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1772, Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste three children, two sons and a daughter. 

Pierre dit Laprade's fifth son Claude, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Blou, born at Chignecto in March 1720, married Marguerite, yet another daughter of Jean-Baptiste Poirier and Marie Cormier, at Beaubassin in November 1741.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Claude two children, a daughter and a son, in 1756 and 1757. 

Pierre dit Laprade's sixth and youngest son Paul, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Blou, born probably at Chignecto in the 1720s, married Marie Bourg in c1750 probably at Chignecto.  The British deported them to South Carolina in 1755.  With six children, two sons and four daughters, they appeared on a repatriation list in South Carolina in August 1763 and evidently followed other Acadians in the seaboard colonies to French St.-Domingue in 1764.  Paul died by November 1777, place unrecorded.  When one of his daughters married an Hébert cousin from Minas at Môle St.-Nicolas on the island in early November 1777, the recording priest noted that the bride's father was deceased. 

Jean le jeune's third son Jean, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1681, married Marie-Marguerite, another daughter of Antoine Landry and Marie Thibodeau, in c1701 perhaps at Minas.  According to Stephen A. White, between 1702 and 1725, Marie-Marguerite gave Jean, fils a dozen children, five daughters and seven sons.  Jean, fils remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Leprince and Marguerite Hébert and widow of François Tillard, at Grand-Pré in April 1734.  They moved across the basin to Cobeguit, where she gave him no more children.  Jean, fils and Marguerite died at Cobeguit, dates unrecorded.  According to Stephen A. White, Jean, fils's daughters married into the Dugas, Bourg, and Hébert families.  Bona Arsenault gives Jean, fils and first wife Marie-Marguerite two more daughters who married into the Henry and Guédry families.  All seven of his sons created families of their own.  Five of them emigrated to Île Royale in the early 1750s, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. 

Oldest son Charles l'aîné, by first wife Marie-Marguerite Landry, born at Minas in c1703, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Dugas and Claire Bourg, in c1723 probably at Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1747, Marguerite gave Charles l'aîné seven children, three sons and four daughters.  Other records give them an older son in 1724.  In c1751, the family joined other Acadians from Cobeguit at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse in the interior of Île Royale, where, in March 1752, a French official counted Charles, Marguerite, and their seven children.  Their two older sons married at Cobeguit in c1750 and on Île Royale in c1754, and their second daughter may have married into the Aucoin family on the island.  In late 1758, the British deported Charles l'aîné, Marguerite, and their unmarried children to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Duke William that sank in a North Atlantic storm in mid-December.  All of the family, and nearly all of the exiles, aboard the vessel perished.  Charles l'aîné's two married sons, their wives and children, and his married daughter and her husband were deported to the Breton port at the same time but on other vessels.  Both sons and the daughter survived the crossing, so the entire family did not perish in the crossing.  The married daughter and one of the married sons, along with the other son's widow, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, but no new Hébert family lines came of it there. 

Oldest son Pierre le jeune, born at Cobeguit in c1724, married Marie Robichaud probably at Cobeguit in c1750.  They joined his family in the French Maritimes after 1752, perhaps along with other Cobeguit habitants, in 1755-56.  Between 1751 and 1756, Marie gave Pierre le jeune four children, three sons and a daughter.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758; they not cross on the same vessel as his parents and younger siblings.  Three of their children died at sea.  Three and a half months after they reached the Breton port, Marie and their oldest son died of smallpox at Ploubalay, on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, leaving Pierre le jeune without a family.  He remarried to cousin Luce-Perpétué, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bourg and Madeleine Hébert, at nearby Trigavou in January 1762.  They settled at nearly Pleslin before moving to nearby Tréméreuc.  Between 1763 and 1780, Luce-Perpétué gave Pierre le jeune a new family--eight children, three sons and five daughters.  Four of them, two daughters and two sons, died young.  Pierre le jeune did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did he join his younger brother and other Acadian exiles at Nantes in the late 1770s.  Pierre le jeune died at la Ville Hervy near Tréméreuc in September 1781, in his late 50s.  In 1785, widow Luce-Perpétué and her three Hébert daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Her surviving son, Pierre-Joseph, would have been age 22 in 1785.  If he was still alive, he chose to remain in the mother country.  Luce-Perpétué and her daughters followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Luce-Perpétué remarried twice, into the Boudrot and Gautrot families.  Her Hébert daughters married into the Cedotal, Dominguez, Thériot, and LeBlanc families on the bayou, so the blood of this family endured in the Bayou State. 

Charles l'aîné's second son Ambroise le jeune, born probably at Cobeguit in c1730, followed his family to Île Royale.  He married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Lejeune and Françoise Guédry of Minas, probably on the island in c1755.  Félicité gave Ambroise le jeune two daughters in 1755 and 1757.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758; happily, they, too, did not cross on the same vessel as his parents and unmarried siblings.  Unhappily, although Ambroise le jeune and Félicité survived the crossing, their daughters did not.  The now-childless couple settled at Ploubalay and moved to nearby Pleslin soon afterwards.  Between 1760 and 1774, Félicité gave Ambroise 10 more children in the St.-Malo area, six sons and four daughters.  Five of the children, three sons and two daughters, died young.  Ambroise le jeune took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Félicité gave him another daughter--their thirteenth child--at Châtellerault in 1775.  In March 1776, the family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  One of their sons died there.  Between 1777 and 1781, Félicité gave Ambroise le jeune three more children, the last one their sixteenth, at nearby Chantenay, but these children also died young.  Ambroise le jeune and his family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They were supposed to have taken the fifth ship but crossed instead on the last of the Seven Ships.  Astonishly, Ambroise le jeune and Félicité took with them only one of their children, 16-year-old daughter Gertrude. They had lost two children on the crossing from the Maritimes to France, buried four children at St.-Malo-area villages and four more at Nantes--10 in all.  Five of their other children, if they were still alive, would have been ages 25, 24, 22, 11, and 10 in 1785.  Perhaps the three older children chose to remain in France.  One suspects the two younger children, like so many of the others, had not survived childhood.  When Ambroise le jeune, Félciité, and Gertrude, accompanied by a 20-year-old Gautrot niece, reached the Spanish colony, they chose to settle in the Isleño community of San Bernardo on the river below New Orleans, where few of their fellow Acadians had gone.  Ambroise le jeune died there in the late 1780s, in his late 50s.  His long-suffering widow Félicité remarried to a Salier probably at New Orleans, where she died in September 1792, in her early 50s.  Daughter Gertrude married into the Tardit family, so the blood of this remarkable family may have endured in the Bayou State. 

Jean, fils's second son Jean III, by first wife Marie-Marguerite Landry, born at Minas or Cobeguit in the early 1700s, married, according to Stephen A. White, Marie-Claire, called Claire, another daughter of Joseph Dugas and Claire Bourg, in c1727 perhaps at Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1747, Claire gave Jean nine children, seven daughters and two sons.  Jean died perhaps at Cobeguit before 1751.  His oldest daughter married into the Blanchard family probably at Cobeguit.  In 1751, Claire took their children to Île St.-Jean.  A French official counted her and eight unmarried children at Grande-Anse on the island's southeastern shore in August 1752.  The older son and second daughter married into the Blanchard family on Île St.-Jean.  The British deported Claire and her family, including her married daughters and son, to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Her younger son died at sea, as did her daughters' husbands.  Claire died in a St.-Malo hospital in February 1759, age 62, soon after reaching the Breton port.  Four of her Hébert daughters married or remarried into the Aucoin and Briand families in France.  Her older Hébert son and a daughter emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Her four other daughters, if they were still alive that year, chose to remain in France. 

Older son Pierre le jeune, born probably at Cobeguit in c1736, followed his widowed mother and siblings to Île St.-Jean in 1751 and married Madeleine Blanchard there in c1755.  She gave him two daughters on the island in 1756 and 1758.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  The daughrers died at sea, and wife Marguerite died at St.-Malo soon after she and Pierre le jeune reached the Breton port.  Pierre le jeune, now without a family, settled at Ploubalay southwest of St.-Malo and remarried to Susanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pitre and Marguerite Thériot and widow of Jean-Baptiste-Olivier Henry, at nearby Pleutuit in June 1760.  They settled at Ploubalay, where, between 1761 and 1774, Susanne gave Pierre le jeune seven more children, two daughters and five sons.  They then resettled at nearby Tréméreuc, where another daughter was born in 1775--eight children in all--but she died there at age 7 in 1783.  As the birth and death of his younger child shows, Pierre le jeune did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did he join other Acadian exiles at Nantes in the late 1770s.  Pierre le jeune, Susanne, six of their children, a daughter and five sons, and a 35-yar-old Henry stepdaughter from Susanne's first marriage, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana directly from St.-Malo in 1785.  Their second daughter Anne-Josèphe, who would have been age 20 in 1785, did not go with them.  One wonders why not.  From New Orleans, Pierre le jeune and his large family followed most of their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores, in the New Feliciana District on the river north of Baton Rouge.  Pierre le jeune's daughter married into the Aucoin family at Manchac below Baton Rouge.  His sons married into the Aucoin, Henry, Thibodeau, and Bourg families on the river and upper Bayou Lafourche, and all of them settled on the Lafourche. 

Jean III's younger son Jean IV, born probably at Cobeguit in c1740, followed his widowed mother and siblings to Île St.-Jean in 1751.  In late 1758 or early 1759, at age 19, he died during the crossing to France. 

Jean, fils's third son Pierre, by first wife Marie-Marguerite Landry, born at Minas or Cobeguit in the early 1700s, married Marguerite, daughter of Abraham Bourg and Anne Dugas, in c1730 perhaps at Cobeguit.  Between 1734 and 1746, Marguerite gave Pierre at least two children, a daughter and a son.  Their daughter married into the Gautrot family probably at Cobeguit.  Pierre took his family to Île St.-Jean after 1752, perhaps with other Cobeguit habitants who escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia in 1755-56 by crossing Mer Rouge.  The British deported Pierre's children, at least, to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  The son traveled with his married sister, so Pierre and Marguerite may have died on Île St.-Jean before the islands dérangement.  Their daughter Marie-Josèphe and her Gautrot husband, along with her brother, survived the crossing, but the couple lost all of their children at sea.  They settled at St.-Suliac, on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  After giving her husband three more children, two of whom died young, Marie-Josèphe died at St.-Suliac in 1764, age 30.  Her brother joined them at St.-Sulaic and created his own family. 

Only son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Cobeguit in c1746, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and his older sister to St.-Malo, France.  He married Luce-Perpétué, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourg and Françoise Benoit of Cobeguit, at St.-Suliac in April 1766.  Between 1767 and 1774, Luce-Perpétué gave Jean-Baptiste four children, three daughters and a son.  Jean-Baptiste worked as a shoemaker in the mother country.  He took his family to Poitou in 1774 and retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in March 1776.  In 1776 and 1778, Luce-Perpétué gave Jean-Baptiste two more daughters, but they died young.  Jean-Baptiste died in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in September 1779, age 33.  In 1785, Luce-Perpétué and her four older children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where she remarried to a Mazerolle in 1788.  Her Hébert daughters married into the Blanchard, Gautreaux, and Landry families on the upper bayou.  Her Hébert son also created his own family there. 

Only son Jean-Olivier-Marie, born at St.-Suliac, France, in March 1769, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and sisters to Louisiana.  He married Nathalie-Marie, called Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Aucoin and his second wife Cécile Richard, at Ascension on the river above New Orleans in October 1787.  They settled on the upper Lafourche.  Jean-Olivier died by April 1816, when he was recorded as deceased in a daughter's marriage record.  His daughters married into the Aucoin, Breau, and Delaune families.  His two sons married into the Judice, Aucoin, and Landry families and settled on the river and the upper bayou. 

Jean, fils's fourth son Joseph, by first wife Marie-Marguerite Landry, born at Minas or Cobeguit in c1710, married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of Jean Benoit and Marie-Anne Breau, in c1733 perhaps at Cobeguit.  Between 1735 and 1744, Isabelle gave Joseph at least seven children, four sons and three daughters, including a set of twins.  Joseph remarried to Cécile, daughter of Pierre Melanson and Marie Blanchard and widow of Charles Bourg, in c1750 perhaps at Cobeguit.  The following year, they followed older brother Charles l'aîné to Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale, where, in March 1752, a French official counted Joseph, Cécile, and his seven children.  Joseph died between October 1756 and August 1763, place unrecorded.  One of his sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, by first wife Isabelle Benoit, born probably at Cobeguit in c1735, followed his father and stepmother to Île Royale.  In late 1758, the British deported him, still a bacherlor, to St.-Malo, France.  None of his siblings accompanied him on the transport he took.  He settled at St.-Énogat, across from St.-Malo, before moving to nearby Pleurtuit, where he married  Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Comeau and Marie Landry, in August 1763.  They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Between 1764 and 1777, at St.-Servan and nearby Plouër-sur-Rance, Françoise gave Joseph, fils 10 children, six daughters and four sons.  Six of the children, three daughters and three sons, died young.  Joseph, fils did not take his family to Poitou or join his fellow exiles at Nantes.  Wife Françoise died at St.-Servan in December 1778, age 35.  Joseph, fils remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Daigre and Angélique Doiron of Cobeguit and widow of Jean-Baptiste Landry and Honoré Richard, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was at St.-Servan in the late 1770s or early 1780s.  She gave him another son in 1785.  Later that year, Joseph fils, Marguerite, his three surviving children by first wife Françoise, their infant son, and a Richard stepdaughter from Marguerite's second marriage, emigrated to Louisiana directly from St.-Malo.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores above Baton Rouge.  Joseph, fils's older son married into the Longuépée family on the river. 

Joseph, père's third son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, from first wife Isabelle Benoit, born probably at Cobeguit in c1745, followed his father and stepmother to Île Royale.  In 1758, the British deported Baptiste and a sister to Cherbourg, France, and they moved on to St.-Malo to join members of their family in July 1759.  Baptiste resided at Pleurtuit and died at the Hôtel-Dieu, St.-Malo, in May 1768, in his early 20s.  He did not marry. 

Jean, fils's fifth son Ambroise, by first wife Marie-Marguerite Landry, born at Cobeguit in c1712, married Marie-Madeleine, another daughter of Abraham Bourg and Anne Dugas, in c1735 probably at Cobeguit.  Between 1736 and 1750, Marie-Madeleine gave Ambroise at least six children, two daughters and four sons.  In c1751, they followed his older brothers to Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale, where, in March 1752, a French official counted Ambroise, Marie-Madeleine, and their six children.  Between 1753 and 1757, Marie-Madeleine gave Ambroise three more children, two sons and a daughter.  Their older daughter married into the Moyse family on the island.  In late 1758, the British deported Ambroise, Marie-Madeleine, and their younger children, along with their married daughter and her family, to St.-Malo, France.  Wife Marie-Madeleine and the three younger children died at sea, and their married daughter died from the rigors of the crossing.  Ambroise, at age 52, remarried to Hélène, daughter of Pierre Aucoin and Catherine Comeau and widow of Claude Trahan, at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo in March 1764.  She gave him no more children.  One of his sons studied for the priesthood in the mother country but did not complete his studies.  Ambroise took his family to Poitou in 1773 and retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in December 1775.  He died in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in January 1778, in his mid-60s.  In 1785, his three surviving sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana, but only one of them created an enduring family line there. 

Second son Ambroise, fils, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Bourg, born probably at Cobeguit in c1745, followed his family to Île Royale and St.-Malo, France, where he worked as a house carpenter.  He followed his family to Poitou in 1773 and retreated with them to Nantes in December 1775.  He emigrated with his younger brother Jean-Pierre to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Ambroise, fils never married.  Area church records reveal that he witnessed many marriages at the Assumption church on the upper Lafourche, so he may have been a lay official of the parish.  He died at Assumption in May 1813, in his late 60s. 

Ambroise, père's third son Jean-Pierre, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Bourg, born probably at Cobeguit in c1747, followed his family to Île Royale and St.-Malo, France.  He followed his family to Poitou in 1773 and retreated with them to Nantes in December 1775.  He emigrated to Spanish Louisiana with older brother Ambroise, fils in 1785 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  At age 40, he married Eudoxile, 40-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Girouard and Marie-Josèphe Thériot, at Ascension on the river in October 1787 and settled on the upper Lafourche.  They had no children.  Jean-Pierre died at Assumption in November 1824, in his late 70s. 

Ambroise, père's fourth and youngest son Isaac, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Bourg, born probably at Cobeguit in c1750, followed his family to Île Royale and St.-Malo, France.  From 1768 until 1772, with other young Acadian exiles, Isaac studied for the priesthood under Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre; Isaac's studies ended with the death of the notorious priest in September 1772.  He probably followed his family to Poitou in 1773 and retreated with them to Nantes in December 1775.  In July 1780, at age 30, Isaac married Marie-Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Eustache Daigre and Madeleine Dupuis of Minas, at St.-Nicolas Parish "a Gigant," Nantes.  Between 1782 and 1785, Marie gave Isaac three children, a son and two daughters.  The older daughter died young.  Soon after the birth of their second daughter, the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Isaac's older brothers soon joined him there.  Marie-Margeruite gave Isaac many more children in the Spanish colony.  Isaac died at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in April 1822, in his early 70s.  His daughters married into the Aucoin, Barrilleaux, Cedotal, Doiron, Landry, and Potier families on the bayou.  His four sons married into the Guidry, Comeaux, Doiron, and Malbrough families on the Lafourche, and one of them settled on the river. 

Jean, fils's sixth son François, by first wife Marie-Marguerite Landry, born at Cobeguit in c1714, married Isabelle Bourg in c1738 probably at Cobeguit.  Between 1739 and 1749, Isabelle gave François seven children, four sons and three daughters.  In c1751, they followed his older brother Ambroise to Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale, where, in March 1752, a French official counted François, Isabelle, and eight children, the youngest one, a daughter, still unnamed.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Wife Isabelle and four of their children died in the crossing.  François took his three surviving children, a son and a daughter, to Pleslin on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, where he worked as a carpenter.  His daughters married into the Doiron and LeBlanc families in France.  His surviving son also married there, too.  François took his family to Poitou in 1773.  After two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  In 1785, still an unmarried widower, François and his three married children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  He and his two daughters followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge.  François died at Manchac in May 1787, age 75.  His surviving son, with his family, crossed on a later ship and followed their fellow passengers to a new settlement on the river above Manchac. 

Second son Joseph, born at Cobeguit in c1744, followed his family to Île Royale and St.-Malo and settled with his widowered father and sister at nearby Pleslin.  Joseph married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Aucoin and Anne Trahan, at nearby Plouër-sur-Rance in March 1764.  Between 1765 and 1778, at Plouèr, Marie-Madeleine gave Joseph eight children, six daughters and two sons.  Three of the children, a son and two daughters, died young.  Joseph did not take his family to Poitou or join his fellow exiles at Nantes but remained in the St.-Malo area.  In 1785, he, Marie-Madeleine, and two of their daughters emigrated to Louisiana directly from St.-Malo.  Three of their other children, two daughters and a son, who would have been ages 20, 14, and 13 in 1785, if they were still alive, chose to remain in the mother country; one suspects that the two younger ones were dead when their parents and sisters sailed to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, Joseph and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to the new Acadian settlement of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  Joseph and Marie-Madeleine had no more children in the colony.  Did their daughters marry there? 

Jean, fils's putative son Jean, born, according to Bona Arsenault, at Cobeguit in c1722, married Anne Bourg in c1744.  According to Arsenault, between 1745 and 1750, Anne gave Jean three children, a daughter and two sons, including Basile, born in c1747.  Arsenault says they followed his brothers to Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale, but Jean and his family do not appear in the March 1752 counting there.  If they did go to the island, the British likely deported them to France in 1758.  If so, one wonders where they landed. 

Older son Basile, born probably at Cobeguit in c1747, followed his family to Île Royale and France, where he may have married fellow Acadian Marie-Marthe Dupuis and became a merchant ship officer at Morlaix in northwest Brittany.  They did not emigrate to Louisiana in 1785.  Marie-Marthe gave Basile two daughters in St.-Martin Parish, Morlaix, in1786 and 1788. 

Jean, fils's seventh and youngest son Charles le jeune, by first wife Marie-Marguerite Landry, born at Cobeguit in c1725, married Marguerite-Josèphe Bourg of Chignecto in c1749 probably at Cobeguit.  In 1750 and 1751, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Charles le jeune two sons.  They, too, followed his older brothers to Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale, where, in March 1752, a French official counted Charles le jeune, Marguerite-Josèphe, and their two young sons next to brother François.  In 1754, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Charles le jeune a daughter.  In late 1758, the British deported them to St.-Malo, France.  Charles le jeune, his younger son Athanase, age 7, and daughter Marie-Rose perished on the crossing.  Widow Marguerite-Josèphe and their surviving son settled at Pleslin.  In 1773, they went to Poitou, and, after two years of effort, retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Marguerite-Josèphe, who never remarried, died in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in December 1776, age 49.  Children of one of her sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. 

Older son Charles, fils, born at Cobeguit in c1750, followed his family to Île Royale and to St.-Malo and his widowed mother to Pleslin, Poitou, and Nantes, where he resided in St.-Nicolas Parish and worked as a joiner.  He married Anne-Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dugas and Marguerite Daigre of Cobeguit, in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in October 1778.  Between 1779 and 1782, in St.-Similien, Anne-Osite gave Charles, fils three children, a son and two daughters.  Charles, fils died probably in St.-Similien between September 1784 and May 1785, in his early 30s.  In May 1785, Anne-Osite, called a widow, and their three children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana aboard the second of the Seven Ships.  They did not follow most of their fellow passangers to upper Bayou Lafource but settled, instead, on the western prairies, where Anne-Osite remarried to a Granger widower in 1791.  Her older Hébert daughter married into the Broussard family at Attakapas.  Her younger daughter lived to age 50 but never married.  Her Hébert son also created his own family in what became St. Martin and Lafayette parishes.

Only son Charles dit Charlot, baptized in St.-Similien, Parish, Nantes, in August 1779, age unrecorded, followed his widowed mother and sisters to New Orleans and Attakapas.  He married stepsister Anne-Geneviève, called Geneviève, daughter of Joseph Granger and his first wife Anne-Geneviève Babin of Opelousas, at Attakapas in May 1802.  Charlot died in Lafayette Parish in November 1760, in his early 80s--one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join his ancestors.  His daughters married into the Hébert, LeBlanc, Leger, and Trahan families on the prairies.  Four of his eight sons also married, into the Landry, Trahan, and Thibodeaux families. 

Jean le jeune's fourth son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in November 1685, married Anne Marie or Marie-Anne, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Anne-Marie Thibodeau, in c1707 perhaps at Minas and settled at Chignecto.  Bona Arsenault calls Joseph's first wife Marguerite Thibault and insists that Marie-Anne Boudrot was his second wife.  Anne-Marie/Marie-Anne gave Joseph a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters.  When did Joseph die?  His daughters married into the Pothier, Levron, Arseneau, Melanson, Poirier, Babin, Forest, and Daigre families.  Four of his sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born perhaps at Chignecto in c1708, married Anne, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Poirier and Marie Cormier, at Beaubassin in February 1733.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1741, Anne gave Joseph, fils five children, two daughters and three sons.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the summer and fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During the late 1750s or early 1760s, they were either captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Joseph, fils died during exile before August 1763, place unrecorded.  One of his daughters married into the Chalet and Pittalugue families, the second marriage in French St.-Domingue in 1778.  One of his sons married during exile.  Joseph, fils's wife evidently died before 1765, when three of her sons emigrated to Louisiana

Oldest son François, born at Chignecto in c1735, followed his family into exile in the fall of 1755 and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  He was still a bachelor when he emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap Français, French St.-Domingue, with his younger brothers.  They settled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  François married probably to a fellow Acadian, her name lost to history, at Cabannocer in the 1760s, and remarried to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Trahan and Marie-Louise Tillard, at Cabahannocer in January 1771.  All of François's children were from this marriage.  At age 59, he remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Landry and Marie Hébert and widow of Pierre Chiasson, at Cabahannocer in November 1794.  François died at Cabahannocer in November 1798.  The St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer priest who recorded the burial said that François was age 70 when he died, but he was closer to 63.  His older son married into the Poirier family and settled in what became St. James Parish. 

Joseph, fils's second son Joseph III, born at Chignecto in c1736, followed his family into exile in the fall of 1755 and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  He evidently married in exile, but the name of his wife has been lost to history.  He followed his brothers from Halifax to Louisiana in 1765 and settled with them at Cabahannocer, where he remarried to fellow Acadian Anne Préjean, widow of Joseph Savoie, in December 1767.  Anne also had come to Louisiana from Halifax.  Joseph III's older son married into the Landry and Trosclair families and remained in St. James Parish. 

Joseph, fils's third and youngest son Pierre le jeune, born at Chignecto in c1738, followed his family into exile in the fall of 1755 and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  He followed his older brothers to Louisiana in 1765 and settled with them at Cabahannocer, where he married Anne-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel dit de Nantes Bergeron and his second wife Marie Dugas of Rivière St.-Jean, in July 1767.  They moved upriver to San Gabriel in the 1770s and settled on the right bank of the river there.  Their daughter married into the Migott family.  None of their three sons married. 

Joseph, père's second son Pierre, born at Chignecto in the 1710s, married Isabelle, daughter of François Cormier and Marguerite LeBlanc, in c1741 probably at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, who says Pierre was born in c1720, between 1742 and 1750, Isabelle gave him three children, two sons and a daughter.  Pierre remarried in c1753 probably at Chignecto to a woman whose name has been lost to history.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  His younger son emigrated to Louisiana perhaps in 1765, in his late teens, and married there in the early 1770s. Pierre died before April 1773, when the Louisiana priest who recorded the son's marriage noted that the groom's parents were deceased. 

Older son Paul, by first wife Isabelle Cormier, born at Chignecto in c1742, may have died young.

Pierre's younger son Prosper-Sébastien, called Sébastien, from first wife Isabelle Cormier, born at Chignecto in c1749, followed his family into exile and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Still in his teens, he may have followed other exiles from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue in 1765.  If so, he likely would have settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  In May 1773, he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Dupuis and Anne Richard, at Ascension on the river above Cabahannocer.  Marie had come to Louisiana with her family from Maryland in 1768.  In April 1777, Prospe-Sébastien and Marie held seven arpents on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension and owned a single slave.  Prosper-Sébastien died by January 1787, when his wife remarried to a Part at San Gabriel, just upriver from Ascension.  Their daughter married an Hébert cousin.  Three of Sébastien's five sons also married, into the Robeau, Babin, and Braud families, but, except for the blood, none of their family lines seems to have endured in the Bayou State. 

Joseph, père's third son François dit Canadien, born at Chignecto in May 1719, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Abraham Arseneau and Jeanne Gaudet, at Beaubassin in August 1742 and likely settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1760, Marie-Anne gave François six children, four sons and two daughters.  The family escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and took refuge in Canada.  They were at St.-Charles de Bellechasse across from Québec in 1758.  They then moved up to Châteauguay on the upper St. Lawrence below Montréal, where François died in April 1780, age 60.  Members of the family were still at Châteauguay in 1786.  One of Canadien's daughters married into the Brunet family at Lachine near Montréal.  One of his sons also created his own family in the area.

Fourth son Adrien, born in Canada in c1760, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Leduc and Marie-Josèphe Lalonde, at Les Cèdres above Montréal in November 1767. 

Joseph, père's fourth son Jean le jeune, born probably at Chignecto in the early 1730s, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Bertrand le jeune and Anne Doucet, probably at Chignecto in the early 1750s.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Jean le jeune died by September 1763, place unrecorded. 

Joseph, père's fifth and youngest son, name unrecorded, died young.  

Jean le jeune's fifth son René dit Groc, born perhaps at Minas in c1689, married Marie, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Anne-Marie Thibodeau, in c1707 and settled at Rivière-des-Habitants, Minas.  Between 1708 and 1731, Marie gave Groc a dozen children, nine sons and three daughters.  The British deported members of the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  They appeared on a repatriation list in the colony in 1763.  After 1766, they chose to resettle in Canada.  Groc died at Laprairie across from Montréal in August 1768, age 80.  His daughters married into the Bourg, LeBlanc, and Dupuis families, and one of them died in French St.-Domingue.  Eight of his nine sons also created their own families, three of them marrying Dupuis sisters.  One son ended up in France, another in St.-Domingue, but the others resettled in Canada. 

Oldest son Jean le jeune, born at Minas in April 1708, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Charles Doiron and Françoise Gaudet, in c1730 probably at Minas and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1749, Madeleine gave Jean eight children, three sons and five daughters.  In c1750, Jean le jeune, perhaps a widower, took his family to Île St.-Jean, where, at age 43, he remarried to Véronique, daughter of Louis Cyr and Marie-Josèphe Michel, at Port-La-Joye in January 1752.  In August 1752, a French official counted Jean le jeune, Véronique, and seven of his children at Grand-Anse on the island's southeastern shore.  In 1754, Véronique gave Jean le jeune another daughter--nine children by two wives.  His older daughters married into the Boudrot and Arcement families on the island.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  One of Jean le jeune's daughters died in the crossing, and wife Véronique and another daughter died soon after the family reached the Breton port.  Jean le jeune died at St.-Sulaic on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo in April 1774, age 66.  Two of his daughters married into the Robichaux and Pitre families in France.  Two of his sons also married in the mother country, on the same day and at the same place, in fact.  Five of his children, three daughters and two sons, most of them married, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.  His oldest daughter Catherine-Josèphe had died at St.-Malo in April 1772, but her Boudrot husband, his new wife, and many of his children also went to Louisiana.  One of Jean le jeune's daughters who went to Louisiana and remarried into the LeBlanc family there.  Two of Jean le jeune's sons established families on upper Bayou Lafourche, and a grandson by his oldest son established another vigorous line of the famiy at Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge.

Oldest son Pierre, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Doiron, born at Minas in c1732, followed his family to Grande-Anse, Île St.-Jean, and married Anne, daughter of Pierre Benoit and Élisabeth LeJuge, on the island in c1753.  In 1754 and 1757, Anne gave Pierre two children on the island, a son and a daughter.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  That settled at Châteauneuf on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  Pierre died there in April 1759, age 27, three months after their arrival, and daughter Élisabeth, age 2, died in May.  The following year, widow Anne took her son to nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where she remarried to Jean-Baptiste Hébert, a widower and distant cousin of Pierre, in February 1770.  Soon after the marriage, Anne and her new husband received permission to move from St.-Malo to La Rochelle, but they did not remain there.  They were at Locmaria, Belle-Île-en-Mer, off the southern coast of Brittany in January 1772; at Rochefort near La Rochelle later in the year; and followed other Acadian exiles to Poitou in 1773, where they remained after 1776, when most of the Poitou Acadians had moved on to the port city of Nantes.  Anne's second husband died at Cenan, Poitou, in June 1778, and her son from her first marriage married at Cenan the following year.  By September 1784, she, along with her two Hébert sons, by both husbands, had joined other Acadian exiles at Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, and they followed her to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Only son Jean-Pierre, born probably at Grande-Anse, Île St.-Jean, in c1754, followed his parents to St.-Malo, France.  After his father's death at Châteauneuf, he followed his mother to nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer and was age 16 when his mother remarried there to another Hébert.  Jean-Pierre likely followed them to La Rochelle, Belle-Île-en-Mer, Rochefort, and Poitou.  When most of the Poitou Acadians retreated to the port city of Nantes in late 1775 and early 1776, Jean-Pierre remained in Poitou with his mother, stepfather, and their family.  His stepfather died at Cenan, Poitou, in June 1778, and his twice-widowed mother evidently remained in the province.  At age 25, Jean-Pierre married Marguerite, daughter fellow Acadians Pierre Moulaison and Marie-Josèphe Doucet, in January 1779 at Cenan.  Wife Marguerite died the following October, age 30, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Jean-Pierre, his mother, a widow again, and his Hébert half-brother did not remain in Poitou.  By 1784, they had joined other Acadian exiles at Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, where, at age 30, Jean-Pierre remarried to Anne-Dorothée, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Doiron and Anne Thibodeau, in May 1784.  Anne-Dorothée was a native of St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbour from St.-Malo.  She gave Jean-Pierre a daughter at Paimboeuf in January 1785.  Later that year, Jean-Pierre, Anne-Dorothée, and their infant daughter, along with his mother and her other Hébert son--12-year-old Jean-Charles from her second marriage--emigrated to Spanish Louisiana aboard the same vessel.  They followed their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge, where Anne-Dorothée gave Jean-Pierre more children.  Their daughters married into the Breau, Dupuis, and Lopez families on the river.  Three of Jean-Pierre's seven sons also married, into the Landry, Gareuil, and Templet familes and settled in what became Iberville Parish. 

Jean le jeune's second son Joseph-Ignace, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Doiron, born at Minas in c1747, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to St.-Malo, France, and settled with his widowered father and siblings at St.-Suliac, on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  Joseph-Ignace married cousin Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Marie Hébert, at St.-Suliac in February 1768.  Between 1769 and 1774, Anne gave Joseph-Ignace four children, three sons and a daughter, but two of them died young.  In 1774, he took his family to Poitou, and they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in December 1775.  Between 1776 and 1783, Anne gave Joseph-Ignace four more children, a daughter and three sons, but two of the sons died young.  In 1785, Joseph-Ignace, Anne, and their four surviving children, three sons and a daughter, emigated to Spanish Louisiana.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they had more children, including another son.  Wife Anne died by May 1805, when, in his late 50s, Joseph-Ignace remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Pitre and Geneviève Arcement and widow of Jean-Nicolas Bertrand, at Assumption on the upper bayou.  Joseph-Ignace died in Lafourche Interior Parish on the middle bayou in September 1821, in his early 70s. His daughters married into the Boudreaux and Roger families.  Three of his four sons also married, into the Comeaux, LeBlanc, and Préjean families.  The oldest one, with an unmarried brother, resettled on the western prairies.   

Jean le jeune's third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Doiron, born at Minas in c1748, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to St.-Malo, France, and settled with his widowered father and siblings at St.-Suliac.  Jean-Baptiste married Anne-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Dugas and Anne Bourg, at St.-Suliac in February 1768--on the same day and at the same place his older brother Joseph-Ignace married Anne-Josèphe's Dugas cousin.  Between 1788 and 1772, Anne-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste three sons.  He took his family to Poitou in 1774.  Anne-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste another son at Leigné-les-Bois, Poitou, in October 1774, but the boy died four days after his birth.  In December 1775, the family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to Nantes.  Their oldest son Alexis-Toussaint died in Ste.-Croix Parish, Nantes, in 1776, and, between 1776 and 1782, Anne-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste four more children, two daughters and two sons, but the daughters died young.  In 1785, Jean-Baptiste, Anne-Josèphe, and their four surviving sons followed his older brother Joseph-Ignace to Louisiana.  Another son was born aboard ship or at New Orleans--nine children by two wives.  They followed his brother to upper Bayou Lafourche and had no more children in Louisiana.  Jean-Baptiste died in Ascension Parish on the river in March 1819, in his early 70s.  Three of his five sons married into the LeBlanc, Guillot, and Thibodeaux families and created vigorous lines in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

René dit Groc's second son Pierre, born at Minas in April 1710, married Élisabeth, daughter of Jean Dupuis and Marguerite Richard, in c1735 probably at Minas and also settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1750, Élisabeth gave Pierre four children, two sons and two daughters. The British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Pierre, Élisabeth, and nine children appeared on a repatriation list in that colony in 1763.  After 1766, they resettled in Canada.  Pierre died at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie across from Montréal in March 1788, age 78.  His daughters married into the LeBlanc and Smith families in Connecticut, and one of them followed her family to Laprairie.  Pierre's sons also created their own families, in Connecitcut and at Laprairie.

Older son Fabien, born at Minas in c1741, followed his family to Connecticut, where he married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Germain Landry and Cécile Forest of Pigiguit, in c1762.  They followed his family to Laprairie.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1768 and 1772, Anastasie gave Fabien three children, a son and two daughters.

Pierre's younger son Simon-Pierre, born at Minas in c1750, followed his family to Connecticut, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians François Richard and Marie-Geneviève David of Annapolis Royal, at New Haven in November 1771.  They followed his family to Laprairie, where their marriage was "rehabilitated" in February 1775.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Simon-Pierre two daughers in 1772 and 1774. 

René dit Groc's third son Joseph, born at Minas in November 1711, married Madeleine, daughter of Antoine Dupuis and Marie-Josèphe Dugas, at Rivière-aux-Canards in 1740.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1740 and 1742, Madeleine gave Joseph two children, a son and a daughter.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Joseph remarried to Anne, daughter of Joseph Bourg and Louise Robichaud and widow of Jean Doucet, probably in Connecticut in 1762.  According to Arsenault, between 1762 and 1773, Anne gave Joseph five more children, two sons and three daughters.  Joseph, Anne, and nine children appeared on a repatriation list in Connecticut in 1763.  After 1766, they resettled in Canada; their marriage was "rehabilitated" at Laprairie across from Montréal in October 1774.   Joseph died at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie in March 1780, age 68.  His daughter by first wife Madeleine married into the Forest family in Connecticut.  His three sons by both wives created their own families in Canada.

Oldest son Joseph, fils, by first wife Madeleine Dupuis, born at Minas in c1740, followed his family to Connecticut and Canada, where he married cousin Madeleine-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Hébert and Cécile Dupuis, at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie in October 1769.  Joseph, fils died at Laprairie in August 1827, in his late 80s. 

Joseph, père's second son David, by second wife Anne Bourg, born in Connecticut in c1762, followed his family to Canada, where he married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Landry and Marguerite Landry, at L'Acadie on Rivière Richelieu southeast of St.-Philippe in February 1787. 

Joseph, père's third and youngest son Jacques, by second wife Anne Bourg, born in Connecticut or Canada in c1767 and married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Landry and Madeleine Landry, at L'Acadie in February 1793. 

René dit Groc's fourth son Charles, born at Minas in c1715, married Marguerite, daughter of René LeBlanc and Jeanne Landry, at Grand-Pré in January 1739.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1739 Marguerite gave Charles a son.  Charles remarried to Ursule, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Forest and Madeleine Célestin dit Bellemère of Pigiguit, in c1745 probably at Minas.  According to Arsenault, between 1746 and 1765, Ursule gave Charles seven more children, two daughter and five sons--eight children by two wives.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  They appeared on a repatriation list in that colony in 1763.  After 1766, they also resettled in Canada.  Charles died at Laprairie in January 1770, age 55.  Three of his sons by his second wife created their own families. 

Second son Simon-Pierre, by second wife Ursule Forest, born at Minas in c1752, followed his family to Connecticut and Canada, where he married Marie-Louise, daughter of Pierre Mombleau and Marie Laroche, at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie in October 1773. 

Charles's third son Paul-Olivier, by second wife Ursule Forest, born at Minas in c1754, followed his family to Connecticut and Canada, where he married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Lanoue and Ursule Brun, at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie in February 1776.  Paul-Olivier remarried to fellow Acadian Marie-Anne Granger at nearby L'Acadie in September 1795.  He was named captain of the L'Acadie company of militia in April 1821 and died there in September 1836, in his early 80s. 

Charles's fourth son Charles, fils, the second with the name, by second wife Ursule Forest, born in Connecticut in c1761, followed his family to Canada, but he did not remain there.  He married Julie Hubert at St.-Louis, present-day Missouri, then a Spanish outpost on the upper Mississippi, in September 1792. 

René dit Groc's fifth son Olivier, born at Minas in March 1723, married Cécile-Josèphe, another daughter of Jean Dupuis and Marguerite Richard, in c1744 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1771, Cécile gave Olivier nine children, six daughters and three sons.  According to Stephen A. White, the British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Arsenault says they went to Boston, Massachusetts.  In 17663, Olivier Hébert, "his wife," and six children appeared on a repatriation list in Connecticut.  In August of that year, Olivier Heber, with no wife and six children, appeared on a repatriation list in Massachusetts, so they may have moved from Connecticut to Massachusetts that year after wife Cécile passed.  After 1766, they also chose to resettle in Canada.  Olivier died at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie in August 1798, age 75.  Four of his daughters married into the Dupuy, Hébert, Lanctôt, and Barbeau families at St.-Philippe.  Two of his sons also married there.

Oldest son Pierre, born probably in Connecticut in c1757, followed his family to Massachusettes and Canada and married Catherine Guertin probably at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie in c1782.  He served as the first captain of that community's company of militia

Olivier's second son Joseph-Ignace, born probably in Connecticut in c1758, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada and married Josèphte Beauzet at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie in c1781.  He remarried Josèphte Dantaye, widow of Captain Guillaume Lamothe, probably at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie in c1801. 

René dit Groc's sixth son Jacques, born at Minas in March 1725, married Marie, daughter of Germain Landry and Cécile Forest, in c1748 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1770, Marie gave Jacques six children, four daughters and two sons.  According to Stephen A. White, the British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Arsenault says they went to Connecticut.  In August 1763, Jacques Hébert, wife Marie, and eight children, two sons and six daughters, appeared on a repatriation list in Massachusetts.  After 1766, they, too, resettled in Canada.  Jacques died at Laprairie in January 1770, age 45.  His daughters married into the Bourassa, Hébert, Surprenant, and Robert families there.  His sons also married.

Older son Jacques, fils, born probably in Massachusetts in c1758, followed his family to Canada and married Louise Demers in c1782, place unrecorded. 

Jacques, père's younger son Joseph, born probably at Laprairie in c1770, married cousin Marie Hébert in c1795, and remarried to Suzanne Bluteau in c1801, place unrecorded. 

René dit Groc's putative son Paul, born at Minas in c1726, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Lapierre and Marie Saulnier, probably at Minas in c1752.  According to Arsenault, Marguerite gave Paul a son, Pierre, in 1748.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

René dit Groc's seventh son François, born at Minas in March 1727, died three weeks after his birth

René dit Groc's eighth son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in October 1728, married Ephrosine or Éphigénie, yet another daughter of Jean Dupuis and Marguerite Richard, probably at Minas in c1750.  The British deported them to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  In 1764, they followed fellow exiles not to Canada but to French St.-Domingue.  Their daughter married into the Delphin family at Mirebalais in the interior of the island February 1775, so the family remained in the sugar colony.

Son Joseph, born in Conneciticut in c1763, followed his family to French St.-Domingue and was baptized at Mirebalais in December 1764, age 18 months (one record of his birth says he was baptized at age 18 years, obviously an error).  Did he create a family of his own? 

René dit Groc's ninth and youngest son Amand, born at Minas in February 1731, married Françoise, daughter of Jean Gautrot and Anne LeBlanc, in c1753 probably at Minas.  The British deported them to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  They appeared on a repatriation list in that colony in 1763.  According to Bona Arsenault, Françoise gave Amand a son, Paul, who other records call Paul-Hippolyte, in 1761.  After 1766, they resettled in Canada.  They were counted at Laprairie-de-la-Madeleine across from Montréal in 1768.  Amand died at nearby L'Acadie in the Rivière Richelieu valley in January 1807, age 75.  His son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. 

Only son Paul-Hippolyte, called Hippolyte, born in Connecticut in c1761, followed his family to Laprairie, but he did not remain there.  He may have followed a first cousin to St. Louis on the upper Mississippi after he came of age and then moved down to lower Louisiana in the late 1780s--one of the few Acadians to come to the Spanish colony via the upper Mississippi.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Michel and his second wife Marie Léger, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans in February 1790.  Their daughters married into the Desormeaux and Pertuit families.  Though Paul-Hippolyte's older son survived childhood, he did not marry, so, except for its blood, the family line did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Jean le jeune's sixth son Augustin, born probably at Minas after 1693, married Anne, another daughter of Claude Boudrot and Anne-Marie Thibodeau, at Grand-Pré in September 1712 and settled at Rivière-des-Habitants before moving to Rivière Gaspereau near Grand-Pré in the early 1720s.  Between 1713 and 1737, Anne gave Augustin 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  One of their daughters married into the Landry family.  Six of Augustin's seven sons created families of their own.  The British deported Augustin and his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted Augustin and Anne at Waltham in 1756, with the notation:  "unfit for business."  They were still at Waltham the following year.  In 1761, now in their late 60s, they were living at Lexington in Middlesex County near two of their sons. 

Oldest son Augustin, fils, born at Minas in c1713, married Marguerite-Bonne, daughter of Claude Landry and Madeleine Doucet, at Grand-Pré in August 1736 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1737 and 1753, Marguerite-Bonne gave Augustin, fils seven children, six sons and a daughter.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them with six unmarried children, two daughters and four sons, at Watertown, Middlesex County, in 1761.  The family appeared on a repatriation list in the Bay Colony in August 1763.  After 1766, they resettled in Canada, at Trois-Rivières on the upper St. Lawrence above Québec.  Augustin, fils died by October 1773 probably at Trois-Rivières.  Two of his sons created families in Canada.

Second son Joseph, born at Minas in c1741, followed his family to Massachusetts, where he married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians René Thibodeau and Anne Boudrot of Pigiguit, in February 1763.  They followed his family to Trois-Rivières, where their marriage was "rehabilitated" in July 1767.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1771, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Joseph four children, a son and three daughters.  Joseph remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Corriveau and Marie Simoneau, at Yamaska southwest of Trois-Rivières in June 1775, and, in his late 60s, remarried again--his third marriage--to Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Blais and Anne Godard, at Yamaska in August 1809. 

Augustin, fils's fifth son Charles, born at Minas in c1747, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada and married Anne-Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Doucet and Marie-Josèphe Robichaud, at Québec in October 1773. 

Augustin, père's second son Pierre, born at Minas in c1718, married Marie-Josèphe, called Josèphe and Joséphine, daughter of Pierre Clouâtre and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Grand-Pré in October 1747 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre a son in 1748.  Other records give them three more children, two daughters and another son, between 1751 and 1755.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755, where they had at least three more children.  Colonial officials counted Pierre, Marie-Josèphe, and five children, two sons and three daughers, at Waltham in 1756, with the notation that Pierre was "fit for business" but Marie-Josèphe was "unfit for business by reason of her being with child."  Colonial officials counted them with seven children, three sons and four daughters, at Newton, Middlesex County, in 1761.  They were still in the colony in August 1763.  The following year they followed other Acadians in New England not to Canada but to French St.-Domingue.  Pierre died by January 1777, place unrecorded, but it probably was on St.-Domingue.  One of his daughters married into the Poirier and Guenewer families, the second marriage at Môle St.-Nicolas on the big island.

Younger son Jean, born at Minas in the early 1750s, followed his family to Massachusetts and to French St.-Domingue.  He married cousin Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Hébert and Marie Bourg of Chignecto and South Carolina, at Môle St.-Nicolas in November 1777; the priest who recorded the marriage noted that the groom's father was deceased. 

Augustin, père's third son Jean dit Jean-Augustin, born at Minas in May 1721, moved to Chignecto and married Anne, daughter of Jacques Poirier and Anne Cormier, at Beaubassin in July 1744.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Jean-Augustin two sons, Joseph and Basile, in 1746 and 1748.  The British deported them to Georgia in the fall of 1755.  They appeared on a repatriation list in that colony in 1763.  One wonders what happened to them after that date.  Was the Basile Hébert who married Marie-Marthe Dupuis in France, who became a merchant ship officer, and who chose to remain at Morlaix Jean dit Jean-Augustin's younger son?  If so, how did he get from Georgia to France? 

Augustin, père's fourth son Charles, born at Minas in November 1723, married Marguerite-Monique, daughter of Germain Landry and Cécile Forest, in c1755 probably at Minas.  Soon after their marriage, the British deported them to Massachusetts, where colonial officials counted them at Andover in July 1760.  With them were three children, two daughters and a son, ages 4, 2, and 1.  They appeared on a repatriation list in the Bay Colony with four children, a son and three daughters, in August 1763.  After 1766, they resettled in Canada.  Charles died at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence above Montréal in April 1770, age 46.  One wonders what happened to his children. 

Augustin, père's fifth son Joseph, born at Minas in May 1726, married Anne dite Nanette, daughter of Charles Dugas and Anne Robichaud, in c1753 probably at Minas.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them at Lincoln in 1760.  They were still in the colony in August 1763.  One wonders if he was the Joseph Hébert, "an Acadian," who died at Mirebalais in the interior of French St.-Domingue in January 1765, age 38. 

Augustin, père's sixth son Olivier, born at Minas in August 1728, married Marie-Josèphe ____ in c1752 probably at Minas.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them at Newton in 1757.  They were still in the colony in August 1763.  One wonders what happened to them after that date. 

Augustin, père's seventh and youngest son Antoine, born at Minas in May 1731, was deported to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755 and married a woman there whose name has been lost to history.  Colonial officials counted them at Waltham in 1756, with the notation that the wife was age 25 and both were "fit for business."  One wonders what happened to them after 1763. 

Jean le jeune's seventh son François, born probably at Minas in the early 1700s, married Anne, daughter of Michel Bourg and Élisabeth Melanson, in c1726, place unrecorded.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  François died before October 1762, place unrecorded. 

Jean le jeune's eighth and youngest son, whose name has been lost to history, born probably at Minas in the early 1700s, died young.

Hébert

Antoine's younger brother Étienne and his wife Marie Gaudet created a larger branch of the Hébert family in the colony.  Between 1651 and 1670, Anne gave Étienne 10 children, five daughters and five sons.  Étienne died in c1670, on the eve of the first Acadian census.  Marie remarried to army sergeant Dominique Gareau at Port-Royal in c1676 and gave him a daughter.  Her and Étienne's daughters married into the Forest, LePrince, Comeau, Pinet, and Barrieau families.  All of Étienne's sons also created their own families.  His and Anne's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal; Grand-Pré and l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the Minas Basin; at Memramcook in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; at Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable; and in the French Maritimes.  Many of his descendants were among the 162 Héberts who emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, Maryland in the late 1760s, and France in 1785.  Significant numbers of Étienne's descendants, perhaps most of them, also could be found in greater Acadia, France, the French Antilles, and especially in Canada after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Emmanuel, perhaps a twin, born at Port-Royal in c1653, married Andrée, daughter of Vincent Brun and Renée Breau, at Port-Royal in c1680.  They moved on to Minas.  Between 1681 and 1687, Andrée gave Emmanuel six children, five sons and a daughter.  Emmanuel died at Minas in November 1744, in his early 90s.  His daughter married into the Thibodeau family.  Four of his sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Guillaume, born at Port-Royal in c1681, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Martin Dupuis and Marie Landry, at Grand-Pré in January 1711 and settled there.  Between 1712 and 1726, Marie-Josèphe gave Guillaume eight children, five sons and three daughters.  Guillaume died at Minas before October 1732, in his late 40s or early 50s.  His daughters married into the Landry, Bourg, and LeBlanc families.  All five of his sons created their own families.  Three of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana--two from Maryland and another from France. 

Oldest son Paul, born at Minas in April 1712, married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of Philippe Melanson and Marie Dugas, at Grand-Pré in May 1736 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1737 and 1758, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Paul 11 children, eight sons and three daughters.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  They appeared on a repatriation list at Georgetown on the Eastern Shore in July 1763.  Two of Paul's older sons married into the LeBlanc and Landry families in the Chesapeake colony.  Paul, Marguerite-Josèphe, and seven of their unmarried children, three daughters and four sons, along with their two married sons and their families, emigrated to Louisiana in 1767 and settled at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans.  Paul died at St.-Gabriel on the river in July 1805, in his early 90s.  Two of his daughters married into the Dupuis, Brunneteau, Moreno, and Guidry families on the river.  His younger sons married into the Forest, Richard, Boudrot, and Breau families in the Spanish colony and settled on the river.  Two of his descendants by sixth son Amand graduated from West Point, became Confederate generals, and one of them served as governor of Louisiana in the 1850s.

Guillaume's second son Simon-Pierre, born at Minas in May 1717, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Allain and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Grand-Pré in February 1746 and settled there.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Guillaume's third son Bénoni, born at Minas in August 1720, married Madeleine, another daughter of Pierre Allain and Marguerite LeBlanc, in c1752 probably at Minas.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported them to Virginia, and Virginia authorities sent them on the England in the spring of 1756.  They were held at Southampton, where wife Madeleine died.  In May 1763, Bénoni was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the ship L'Ambition.  He did not remarry, nor did he join other Acadian exiles from England on Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in November 1765.  He died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo at the end of February 1767, age 46.  e and his wife evidently were that rare Acadian family who had no children. 

Guillaume's fourth son Charles, born at Minas in c1722, married Élisabeth, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Jeanne Thériot, at Grand-Pré in August 1748 and settled there.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  They, too, were held at Southampton, from which they were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763.  Two of their daughters married into the Landry and Henry families in France.  They may have joined other Acadians in Poitou in the early 1770s.  They certainly joined them at Nantes by the early 1780s.  Wife Élisabeth died in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in February 1784, age 63.  The following year, Charles, with his younger widowed daughter and a Henry grandson, emigrated to Louisiana.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Charles did not remarry.  His older daughter Marie-Josèphe, who, if still alive, would have been a widow in 1785, did not follow her father and sister to the Spanish colony, but her Landry son, Pierre-Joseph, age 15 in 1785, did follow his relatives there and became an artist and a successful planter in what became Iberville Parish. 

Guillaume's fifth and youngest son Ignace, born at Minas in November 1724, married Marie LeBlanc in c1752 probably at Minas.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  They appeared on a repatriation list at Georgetown on the Eastern Shore in July 1763.  A widower, Ignace emigrated to Louisiana in 1767 with son Jean-Baptiste and daughter Marie and settled at San Gabriel.  At age 49, he remarried to Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Babin and Marie Landry and widow of Joseph Babin, at San Gabriel in January 1773.  She gave him no more children.  Ignace died at San Gabriel in November 1783, age 59.  Neither his son nor his daughter married, so his line of the family died with him. 

Emmanuel's second son Jean-Emmanuel, born at Port-Royal in c1683, married Madeleine, daughter of Claude Dugas and Françoise Bourgeois, at Port-Royal in January 1704 and settled on the haute rivière above Port-Royal before moving on to Minas (Bona Arsenault says Pigiguit) by the early 1720s.  Between 1706 and 1731, Madeleine gave Jean-Emmanuel 14 children, 10 sons and four daughters.  Bona Arsenault gives them an eleventh son.  Jean-Emmanuel died probably at Minas before February 1748, in his early or mid-60s.  One wonders what happened to his widow and children in 1755.  Widow Madeleine died at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence above Trois-Rivières in August 1766, in her late 70s.  Her and Jean-Emmanuel's daughters married into the Daigre, Pageot, Cyr, LeBlanc, Richard, and Doucet dit Maillard families.  Nine of Jean-Emmanuel's sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Charles dit Emmanuel or Manuel, born at Port-Royal in January 1706, married Marie-Claire, called Claire, daughter of Bernard Daigre and Marie-Claire Bourg, in c1728, perhaps at Minas and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  Between 1731 and 1744, Marie-Claire gave Charles seven children, six sons and a daughter.  In c1750, Charles, Claire, and most of their family moved on to Île St.-Jean, where, in August 1752, a French official counted Charles, who he called Charles Emanuel, Claire, and six of their children at St.-Pierre-du-Nord on the island's north shore.  In late 1758, the British deported Charles dit Manuel, Claire, and most of their unmarried children to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Violet, which sank in a North Atlantic storm off the coast of southwest England during the second week of December.  All of them aboard the vessel perished.  Charles dit Manuel's daughter Marie, who evidently crossed to France on a different vessel, married into the Haché dit Gallant family at Cherbourg in January 1761.  Two of Charles dit Manuel's sons also crossed on a different vessel and lived to tell of it.  Neither of his them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. 

Oldest son Charles dit Manuel, fils, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in  February 1731, married Marie, daughter of Joseph Poirier and Jeanne Arseneau of Chignecto, at Memramcook in the trois-rivières area in November 1751.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1754 and 1758, Marie gave Charles, fils three children, two sons and a daughter.  They escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières/Chignecto area in 1755 and joined his family at St.-Pierre-du-Nord on Île St.-Jean by June 1756, when a daughter was baptized there at age four months.  In late 1758, the British deported them aboard the transport Ruby destined for St.-Malo, France.  In mid-December, a North Atlantic storm drove the Ruby to the Portuguese Azores, where it was wrecked on the rocks of Pico Island.  Marie and their children perished in the mishap.  Charles, fils was among the 87 survivors the Portuguese transported aboard Santa Catarina to Portsmouth, England, which they reached in early February 1759.  The British loaded them aboard the Bird and sent them on to Le Havre, France, where they arrived a week and a half later.  From Le Havre, Charles, fils went to Cherbourg and then moved on to St.-Malo, which he finally reached in mid-September, 10 months after he and his family had left Chédabouctou Bay.  He remarried to local Frenchwoman Jeanne Lucas at St.-Servan near St.-Malo in May 1763.  That year and in 1765, she gave him two more daughters; the youngest daughter died a few weeks after her birth.  Wife Jeanne died in February 1765 probably from the complications of childbirth, and Charles, fils remarried again--his third marriage--to Frenchwoman Marie-Jeanne-Louise-Madeleine, daughter of Jacques LeCoq and Madeleine Laurent of Châteauneuf on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in July 1765.  In November of that year, Charles, fils, Marie, and his surviving daughter Marie-Théotiste followed other Acadian exiles to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled Kervarigeon near Bangor in the island's southern interior.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1773, Marie gave Charles, fils three more children, two daughters and a son.  In February 1767, Charles, fils gave his declaration to French authorities on his line of the Hébert family in Acadia.  He died on the island before 1773, when his widow and children moved to Morlaix in northwest Brittany.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Charles dit Manuel, père's fifth son Alexis, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1742, was counted with his family at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, Île St.-Jean, in August 1752.  In 1758, in his mid-teens, he did not cross with his parents and siblings on Violet but made the crossing to France on another vessel.  He was at Le Havre in May 1765 when he married cousin Marie-Anastasie, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles-Paul Hébert and Claire Mius d'Azy of Cap-Sable, in Notre-Dame Parish.  Marie-Anastasie gave Alexis two sons there in 1765 and 1767.  The family did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Jean-Emmanuel's second son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in October 1707, probably died young.  Bona Arsenault confuses this Pierre with Pierre le jeune, fourth son of Antoine le jeune.

Jean-Emmanuels's third son Jean-Baptiste dit Manuel, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1711, married Claire, daughter of Charles Robichaud dit Cadet and his second wife Marie Bourg, in c1735 probably at Annapolis Royal.  Bona Arsenault says the family resettled at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area.  According to Arsenault, between 1750 and 1755, Claire gave Jean-Baptiste three children, two daughters and a son, but other records give them two older sons.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  They appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  A daughter married into the Bourgeois and Richard families while in exile.  An older son also married during Le Grand Dérangement.  Jean-Baptiste dit Manuel died probably at Halifax before late 1764 or early 1765, when his widow, three unmarried daughters, an unmarried son, an Hébert grandson, and a married son and daughter emigrated to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  His daughters married into the Martin, Verret, Hébert, Oubre, and Milhomme families in the Spanish colony.  His son and grandson also created families there, on the western prairies. 

Oldest son Joseph dit Pepin, born in c1739, followed his family into exile.  He married cousin Françoise Hébert probably in the prison compound at Halifax in c1762.  She gave him a son, Louis, in c1764.  Soon after their son's birth, they followed his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana via Cap-Français and settled with them in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Françoise gave Pepin many more children in the Spanish colony.  In the 1770s, they followed his widowed mother and siblings across the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District and settled at Fausse Pointe on the lower Teche.  Pepin died of a stroke probably at Fausse Pointe in October 1790, in his early 50s.  His daughters married into the Guilbeau, Hébert, Labauve, Landry, and LeBlanc families.  Four of his five sons, including Louis, married into Broussard, Guilbeau, Prevost dit Collet, Fostin, and Hébert families on the prairies. 

Jean-Baptiste dit Manuel's second son Jean, born in the 1740s, followed his family into exile and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  He married Madeleine Gaudet during exile.  She gave him a son probably at Halifax in c1763.  Jean and Madeleine evidently died in the prison compound by late 1764 or early 1765, when their son followed his widowed grandmother to Louisiana. 

Only son Jean-Louis, born probably at Halifax in c1763, was a very young orphan when he followed his widowed paternal grandmother and his paternal aunts and uncles to Louisiana via Cap-Français, in 1764-65.  He lived with his grandmother, two aunts, and an uncle at Cabahannocer and followed them to the Attakapas District in the 1770s.  He married first cousin Marie-Rose, called Rose and Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Agnés Hébert of Cabahannocer, at Attakpas in April 1790; Rose's mother was Jean-Louis's paternal aunt.  They settled near his uncle at La Côte-aux-Puces, the Flea Coast, on the lower Teche near the Spanish settlement of Nueva Iberia.  Their daughters married into the Labauve and LeBlanc families.  Their three sons married into the Bonvillain, Hébert, and Bourgeois families on the lower Teche. 

Jean-Baptiste dit Manuel's third and youngest son Mathurin, born probably in c1754, followed his family into exile and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia and his widowed mother and sisters to Louisiana in 1765.  He settled with them at Cabahannocer and then followed his widowed mother and siblings to the Attakapas District in the 1770s.  At age 33, he married Catherine, daughter of Gaspard Doré and Marguerite Crebe of St.-Charles des Allemands on the river, at Attakpas in January 1787 and settled at La Côte-aux-Puces.  Their daughter married into the Paynne family.  Two of their three sons married into the Romero and Garyo or Gary families from Nueva Iberia. 

Jean-Emmanuel's fourth son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1715, married Madeleine, daughter of Alexandre Trahan and Marie Pellerin and widow of Jean-Baptiste Massier or Massié, in c1735 perhaps at Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, they settled at Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1747, Madeleine gave Joseph five children, three daughters and two sons, including a set of twins.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Liverpood, where Joseph likely died before June 1763, in his mid- or late 40s.  Widow Madeleine and her family were repatriated to France in the spring of 1763 and followed other Acadian exiles who had been held in England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in November 1765.  Two of Joseph's daughters married into the LeBlanc and Tiernay families at Liverpool and followed their widowed mother to Belle-Île-en-Mer.  Madeleine died there in 1766, age 62.  One of her and Joseph's sons also had married at Liverpool but did not follow his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer.  According to Bona Arsenault, Joseph and Madeleine's second daughter Madeleine-Pélagie emigrated to Louisiana with her Irish huband in 1785, but neither appears on the passenger lists of any of the Seven Ships.  She, in fact, was counted at Morlaix, France, a widow, in December 1791. 

Older son Olivier, born probably at Pigiguit in c1738, followed his family to Virginia and England, where he married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Madeleine Lalande, in December 1757.  Two daughters were born in England in c1758 and 1759.  They were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  A daughter was born in St.-Mathieu Parish there in July 1764.  Later that year, they followed other Acadians to Sinnamary in French Guiane, where French officials counted them and two daughters, ages 8 and 6, in March 1765.  They did not remain; French officials counted the family back at Morlaix in 1767.  Another daughter was born in St.-Mathieu Parish, Morlaix, in August 1770.  None of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Daughter Rose married into the Le Bechee family in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Morlaix, in August 1786; the recording priest noted that her father was deceased. 

Joseph's younger son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Pigiguit in c1745, followed his family to Virginia, England, and France and his widowed mother to Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1766, but he did not remain there.  He evidently became a sailor in the mother country and was reported at sea in 1767.  He was at Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, Brittany, in 1773, and evidently joined other Acadian exiles in Poitou soon afterwards.  One wonders if he married.  He did not emigrate to Louisiana Spanish in 1785. 

Jean-Emmanuel's fifth son Michel dit Manuel, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1717, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Claude Benoit and Jeanne Hébert, in c1748 probably at Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, they settled at Chignecto.  Arsenault says that between 1751 and 1755, Élisabeth gave Michel three children, a son and two daughters.  They evidently escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Michel remarried to Anne, daughter of Jean Darois and Marguerite Breau, in c1756 perhaps in Canada.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Michel remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Denis Boudrot and Agnès Vincent and widow of Pierre Boisseau, at Québec in May 1758.  According to Arsenault, Marie-Madeleine gave Michel a son in 1762.  Michel died at Champlain on the upper St. Lawrence above Trois-Rivières in May 1796, age 79.  His daughters married into the Grenier, Pichet, and Marion families at Louiseville above Trois-Rivières and at Québec.  His two sons also created their own families in the Trois-Rivières area.

Older son Joseph, by first wife Élisabeth Benoit, born at Chignecto in c1751, followed his family to Canada and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Landry and Marie Bourg, at Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières in January 1774.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1775 and 1787, Marie gave Joseph five children, three sons and two daughters. 

Michel's younger son Pierre, by third wife Marie-Madeleine Boudrot, born in Canada in c1762, married Marie, daughter of Jacques Lefebrve dit Lacroix and Marie Roy, at Cap-de-la-Madeleine across from Bécancour in January 1792. 

Jean-Emmanuel's sixth son Claude dit Manuel, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1719, married Marguerite, another daughter of Charles Robichaud dit Cadet and Marie Bourg, in c1748 probably at Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, they settled at Chignecto.  Arsenault said that between 1753 and 1761, Marguerite gave Claude six children, three sons and three children.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  They were living at Québec in 1757, at St.-Laurent on Île d'Orléans below Québec in 1758, and at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in 1761.  Claude died at Bécancour in January 1799, age 80.  Two of his daughters married into the Élie and LeMay dit Poudrier families.  One of his sons also created his own family in the area. 

Oldest son Amable, born at Chignecto in c1753, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Monique, daughter of Pierre Coulombe and Marie-Anne Côté, at Bécancour in October 1774.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1775 and 1797, Marie-Monique gave Amable 11 children, eight daughters and three sons.  Four of their daughters married into the Deshaies, Rheau, Cormier, and Provencher families at Bécancour.  Amable's three sons also created families in the area.

Oldest son François-Amable, born probably at Bécancour in c1783, married Victoire Rivard dit Lavigne at Gentilly below Bécancour in July 1807. 

Amable's second son Joseph, born probably at Bécancour in c1787, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Cormier and his Canadian wife Marie Ducharme, at Bécancour in March 1813. 

Amable's third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Bécancour in c1790, married Marie-Julie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Descormiers dit Guillaume and Marie Montreuil, at Gentilly in February 1717. 

Jean-Emmanuel's seventh son Bénoni dit Manuel, born at Annapolis Royal  or Minas in c1719, married Jeanne, daughter of François Savoie and Marie Richard, at Beaubassin in November 1741 and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled at Memramcook in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, Jeanne gave Bénoni a daughter in 1743.  Other records give them three more children, another daughter and two sons, between 1748 and 1754.  They escaped the British roundup in the Chignecto area in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and were held in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, where British offiials counted them in 1762.  Bénoni died probably at Fort Edward before 1765.  His oldest daughter married into the Robichaud family, place unrecorded, but it probably was at Fort Edward.  His three younger children, two sons and a daughter, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français in 1765, two of them with the Broussards--the first Acadian Héberts to go to the Spanish colony.  His daughter married into the Broussard family in the Spanish colony.  Both of his sons also created families there, on the western prairies. 

Older son Joseph-Pepin, born at Chignecto in c1748, followed his family into exile in the autumn of 1755 and into the prison compound at Fort Edward in the early 1760s.  He and two of his siblings emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1764-65 and, with his sister, followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche in the spring of 1765.  Spanish officials counted them in the "District of the Pointe" in April 1766.  Joseph-Pepin married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Trahan and Marguerite Broussard, at Attakpas in April 1771.  Their daughters married into the Broussard and Duhon families.  All five of Joseph-Pepin's sons married on the prairies, into the Trahan, Duhon, Préjean, Mouton, and Landry families, but two of the lines did not endure.    

Bénoni dit Manuel's younger son Jean-Charles, called Charles, born at Chignecto in 1751, followed his family into exile in the autumn of 1755 and into the prison compound at Fort Edward in the early 1760s.  Two of his older siblings emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1764-65 and followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche.  Charles, on the other hand, traveled with the family of first cousin Joseph dit Pepin Hébert and settled with them at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Later in the decade, however, Jean-Charles joined his siblings on the western prairies, where he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians René Robichaux and Marguerite Martin dit Barnabé of Île St.-Jean, at Attakapas in April 1773.  They settled on the upper Vermilion at the northern edge of the Attakapas District.  Charles died in Lafayette Parish in October 1830, in his late 70s; the Vermilionville priest who recorded the burial said that Charles died at age 93!  His daughters married into the Boudreaux, Breaux, Fostin, Guidry, and Lambert famiies.  His three sons also married on the prairies, into the Richard, Achée, and Frederick families, and each of the lines endured. 

Jean-Emmanuel's putative son Jean-Baptiste dit Benjamin, sans doutte, Bona Arsenault says, son of Jean Hébert and Madeleine Dugas of Port-Royal and Pigiguit, born in c1722, married Marie-Anne Amireau in c1747 probably at Chignecto.  They evidently escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  They were living at Québec in 1758 and at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in 1760.  According to Arsenault, between 1758 and 1778, Marie-Anne gave Jean-Baptiste dit Benjamin eight children, six daughters and two sons.  One of their daughters married into the Gaudreau family at nearby Nicolet.  Jean-Baptiste dit Benjamin's two sons also created families there.

Older son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born probably at Bécancour in c1763, married, at age 40, Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and Sophie Bourgeois, at Nicolet in June 1803. 

Jean-Baptiste dit Benjamin's younger son Joseph, born perhaps at Bécancour in c1767, married, at age 32, Véronique, daughter of Amable René and Madeleine Varennes, at Nicolet in November 1799. 

Jean-Emmanuel's eighth son Amand dit Manuel, born at Minas in September 1725, married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Richard and Marie-Josèphe Bourgeois, at Annapolis Royal in February 1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, they settled at Chignecto.  They evidently escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Amand remarried to Marie, daughter of Pierre Poirier and Louise Caissie, at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in November 1759.  Amand served as a captain in the Acadian militia there.  He and his family of four appear on a list of Acadians who surrendered at Restigouche, dated 24 October 1760.  During the early 1760s, the British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  One wonders what happened to them after 1763. 

Jean-Emmanuel's ninth son François, born at Minas in July 1727, married Madeleine, daughter of François Savoie and Marie Richard, in c1751 probably at Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, they settled at Chignecto, where, Arsenault says, Madeleine gave François two daughters in 1752 and 1753.  They evidently escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  François, in his mid-60s, remarried to Marie-Josèphe dite Josette, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Leroux and Marie-Élisabeth Pageot, at Charlesbourg near Québec in October 1791.  He died at St.-Joachim on the St. Lawrence below Québec in September 1801, age 74.  His younger daughter by first wife Madeleine married into the Boucher family at St.-Joachim in 1777. 

Jean-Emmanuel's tenth and youngest son Olivier-Jérôme, born at Minas in July 1731, married, according to Stephen A. White, Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Savoie and Marie Haché, in c1755, place unrecorded.  Bona Arsenault says that, sans doutte, Marie-Madeleine's parents were François Savoie and Marie Richard of Annapolis Royal; White is followed here.  According to Arsenault, Olivier and Marie-Madeleine settled at Chignecto, where, Arsenault says, she gave him a son, Firmin, in 1756.  They evidently escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Olivier-Jérôme died at Rivière-du-Loup, today's Louiseville, on the upper St. Lawrence below Trois-Rivières in June 1798, age 66.  What happened to his son?

Emmanuel's third son Jacques, born at Port-Royal in c1684, married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Landry and Marie Thibodeau, in c1706 probably at Port-Royal and settled at Minas.  Between 1707 and 1734, Marguerite gave Jacques 15 children, 10 daughters and five sons.  Jacques died at Minas in December 1747, age 63.  His daughters married into the Doucet, Gautrot dit Maringouin, Bourg, Melanson, LeBlanc, Boudrot, Granger, and Allain families, and two of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland and France.  All of his sons created families of their own.  Three of them also emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland and France, but one of them died at sea. 

Oldest son Charles, born at Minas in November 1708, married Marguerite, daughter of François LeBlanc and Jeanne Hébert, at Grand-Pré in May 1733 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1758, Marguerite gave Charles two children, a daughter and a son.  Other records give them three sons between 1740 and 1755.  Charles took his family to the French Maritimes after August 1752, and the British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Wife Marguerite and their younger son died at sea.  Charles took his two surviving sons to the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Énogat, todays Dinard, across from St.-Malo.  At age 55, he remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean Caissie and Cécile Hébert and widow of Michel Grossin, at St.-Malo in March 1764.  She gave him no more children.  They moved to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, across from St.-Énogat, in 1770.  Charles's sons married to fellow Acadians in France, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Oldest son Charles, fils, born at Minas in c1740, followed his family to the French Maritimes and to St.-Malo, France, and settled with his widowed father and brother at St.-Énogat and St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  He married Marguerite-Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Valet dit Langevin and Brigitte Pinet of Île St.-Jean and widow of Paul Pitre, at nearby St.-Suliac in January 1770.  Marguerite-Louise gave Charles, fils two children, a daughter and a son, in 1770 and 1772.  The daughter died the day after her birth.  They moved to nearby St.-Servan by 1765.  In 1773, Charles, fils, Marguerite-Louise, and their son followed other Acadian exiles to Poitou, where Marguerite-Louise gave Charles, fils another daughter in 1775.  That December, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where, in 1777 and 1779, Marguerite-Louise gave him two more daughters--five children in all.  The younger daughter died young.  Charles, fils and Marguerite-Louise evidently died at Nantes, dates unrecorded.  In 1785, their son, their surviving daughter, and Marguerite-Louise's son Martin-Bénoni Pitre from her first marriage crossed to Spanish Louisiana on the last of the Seven Ships.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where the daughter, Marie-Louise, married into the LeBlanc family.  Her Pitre half-brother also created his own family, but not her Hébert brother. 

Only son Joseph-Marie le jeune, born at St.-Suliac, France, in December 1772, followed his parents to Poitou and Nantes and his younger sister and an older half-brother to Louisiana and upper Bayou Lafourche.  Still a teenager, he was living with them at Valenzuela in January 1788, after which he disappears from Louisiana records.  He evidently did not marry. 

Charles, père's second son Joseph, born at Minas in c1749, followed his family to the French Maritimes and to St.-Malo, France, and settled with his widowed father and brother at St.-Énogat before moving to nearby St.-Suliac.  He married Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean De La Forestrie and his first wife Marie Bonnière of St.-Pierre-du-Nord, Île St.-Jean, at Plouër-sur-Rance, across the river from St.-Suliac, in July 1772.  Jeanne gave Joseph a son at Plouër in 1773.  Later that year, they followed other Acadian exiles to Poitou, where Jeanne gave him another son at Archigny south Châtellerault in 1775.  That November, Joseph, Jeanne, and their two sons retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  There, between 1777 and 1785, Jeanne gave Joseph three more children, two daughters and a son--five children in all.  Joseph, Jeanne, and their five children--three sons and two daughters, one of them still an infant--emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph died there before January 1788, when wife Jeanne was listed in a Valenzuela District census as a widow.  She remarried to a Benoit the following year, and she and her Hébert children followed him to the western prairies.  Her Hébert daughters married into the Lebert, Bodin, and Olivier families on the western prairies.  Two of her Hébert sons married into the Jeannot and Dumesnil families on the prairies, and her youngest Hébert son married into the Pitre family on the upper Lafourche. 

Jacques's second son François, born at Minas in April 1710, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Melanson and Marguerite Dugas, at Grand-Pré in November 1732 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1752, Marie-Josèphe gave François 10 children, nine sons and a daughter.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  François, now a widower, and his children appeared on a repatriation list at Georgetown on the Eastern Shore in July 1763.  Three of his sons married into the Landry and LeBlanc families in the Chesapeake colony.  François took six of his unmarried children, five sons and a daughter, to Spanish Louisiana in 1767.  His three married sons also followed him there.  François died at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans in March 1789, age 79.  His daughter married into the Landry family in the colony.  Six of his sons married or remarried into the Dupuis, Landry, Babin, and Thibodeaux families on the Acadian Coast.  

Jacques's third son Amand, born at Minas in April 1720, married Geneviève, daughter of René Babin and Isabelle Gautrot, at Grand-Pré in February 1744 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1752, Geneviève gave Amand five children, three sons and two daughters.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  The family--Amand, Geneviève, youngest son Charles le jeune, and their three daughters--appeared on a repatriation list at Newtown in July 1763.  One wonders what happened to older sons René and Joseph, who disappear from the historical record.  Amand took his family to Louisiana in 1767 but died at sea, in his late 40s.  His widow and four children, a son and three daughters, followed their fellow exiles to San Gabriel on the river.  Remaining son Charles did not marry, but daughters Geneviève, Marguerite, and Marie-Josèphe married into the André or Andro, Derouen, Landry, Jeannot, and Forest families on the river and the prairies, so the blood of the family line likely endured in the Bayou State. 

Jacques's fourth son Jacques, fils, born at Minas in October 1723, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Thériot and Marguerite Melanson, at Grand-Pré in October 1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1746 and 1748, Maguerite gave Jacques, fils two sons, one of them born posthumously.  Jacques, fils died there in December 1747, in his mid-20s.  One wonders if his death was war-related and what happened to his family in 1755. 

Jacques, père's fifth and youngest son Joseph-Marie, born at Minas in April 1734, was deported to Virginia in the fall of 1755 and sent on to England the following spring.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and Cécile Granger, in c1758 probably at Southampton.  Marguerite gave Joseph-Marie a son in England in 1760.  In May 1763, they were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Ambition and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Marguerite gave Joseph-Marie a daughter at St.-Servan in 1764.  Wife Marguerite died there in May 1765, age 32.  Joseph-Marie remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Benoit and Marie-Madeleine Thériot and widow of René Rassicot, at St.-Servan in January 1766.  Between 1769 and 1773, Marie gave Joseph-Marie three more children, all daughters, two of whom died young.  Joseph-Marie may not have taken his family to Poitou in 1773.  He nevertheless took them to Nantes, where a Spanish official counted him, Marie, a son and two daughters in September 1784.  Joseph-Marie, wife Marie, three of their children, a son and two daughters, and a Benoit niece emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  His daughters by both wives married into the Culaire, Comeaux, and Gautreaux families on the upper bayou.  His only son Joseph, fils married into the Darembourg family and created a vigorous line in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley.

Emmanuel's fourth son Alexandre, born at Port-Royal in December 1685, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Dupuis and Madeleine Landry, at Annapolis Royal in January 1712 and remained there.  Between 1713 and 1734, Marie gave Alexandre nine children, two sons and seven daughters.  Six of their daughters married into the Richard, Bourgeois, Girouard, Amireau, Gaudet, Forest, and Thibodeau dit Castin families.  Only one of Alexandre's sons married. 

Older son Alexandre, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1713, married Madeleine, daughter of Claude Girouard and Élisabeth Blanchard, at Annapolis Royal in January 1735 and died in early March, victim, perhaps, of the rigors of childbirth.  Alexandre, fils remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Amireau and Madeleine Lord, at Annapolis Royal in January 1740.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1752, Marie-Josèphe gave Alexandre, fils five children, four daughters and a son.  They settled at Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable.  They escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the summer and fall of 1755, but in April 1756 a New-English force from Halifax descended on the Cap-Sable villages and rounded up 72 Acadians, including Alexandre, fils and his family.  Later that month, the British deported them from Halifax aboard the ship Mary.  Their destination was North Carolina, but they landed, instead, at Manhattan, New York, in late April and refused to be taken on to the southern colony aboard the H.M.S. Leopard.  New York authorities agreed to let them stay.  The Héberts were sent to Southampton, Suffolk County, on Long Island.  In the 1760s, they followed fellow exiles to Canada.  British officials counted them at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence above Montréal in 1770.  Alexandre, fils died at L'Assomption in May 1781, age 68.  One of his daughters married into the Pelchat family at L'Assomption.  One wonders what happened to Alexandre, fils's son. 

Alexandre, père's younger son, name unrecorded, died at Annapolis Royal in April 1727, two days after his birth .   

Emmanuel's fifth and youngest son Martin, born at Port-Royal in c1687, was counted there in 1700, age 13, but he did not marry. 

Étienne's second son Étienne, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1654 (Bona Arsenault hints that Étienne, fils was brother Emmanuel's twin), married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Comeau and Rose Bayon, at Port-Royal in c1679 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas.  Between 1680 and the early 1700s, Jeanne gave him 11 children, four sons and seven daughters.  Étienne, fils died at Minas in November 1713, in his late 50s.  Six of his daughters married into the Henry dit Robert, Caissie, Benoit, Boucher dit Des Roches, Villedieu, and Trahan families.  Two of his four sons created their own families.   

Oldest son Antoine, born at Port-Royal or Minas in c1680, was counted at Minas in 1693, age 10.  If he survived childhood, he did not marry.

Étienne, fils's second son Étienne III, born at Minas in November 1685, married Anne, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Jeanne Guilbeau, after 1707 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas.  Between 1709 and 1724, Anne gave Étienne III eight children, five sons and eight daughters.  One wonders if Étienne III was still alive in 1755 and transported to Connecticut with his family, if he followed them to French St.-Domingue in 1764, and was "La Vielle" Hébert, "an old Acadian," who died at Mirebalais on the sugar island in December 1764, age 78.  Two of his daughters married into the Galerne, Bertrand, Trahan, and Bourg families, and the younger one died in England.  Four of his five sons created families of their own.  All of them emigrated to French St.-Domingue and died there within weeks of one another. 

Oldest son Simon, born at Minas in c1709, was still a bachelor in the fall of 1755 when the British deported him to Connecticut.  In his early 50s, he married Marie-Josèphe Bourg probably in Connecticut in c1760.  They appeared on a repatriation list in the colony in 1763.  Later that year or in early 1764, they followed other Acadian exiles not to Canada but to French St.-Domingue.  Simon died at Mirebalais in the island's interior in October 1764, age 55.  A son also died there that month.

Son Jean-Pierre, born at Mirebalais in August 1764, was baptized there two months later, on the eve of his death.

Étienne III's second son Pierre, born at Minas in February 1713, married Marguerite Richard in c1732 probably at Minas and settled there.  The British deported them to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  They appeared on a repatriation list in the colony in 1763 and followed his older brother to French St.-Domingue.  Pierre died at Mireabalais in October 1764, age 51, a few days before his older brother Simon died there.  One of Pierre's sons created a family in the sugar colony.

Son Paul, born probably at Minas in the 1740s or early 1750s, followed his family to Connecticut and Mirebalais, French St.-Domingue, where he married Anne-Marie, daughter of Pierre Repuce or Repussard and Élisabeth Lefevre, in May 1776.  Anne-Marie gave him a son at Mirebalais in November 1781. 

Étienne III's third son Emmanuel le jeune, born at Minas in c1719, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jacques Levron and Marie Doucet, at Annapolis Royal in August 1731.  Arsenault says that, between 1733 and 1742, Marie-Josèphe gave Emmanuel le jeune four children, a son and three daughters.  Stephen A. White, followed here, says Emmanuel le jeune was married only once, to Marie, daughter of Jean Babin and Marguerite Thériot, at Grand-Pré in October 1744 and settled there; Arsenault says Marie was Emmanuel le jeune's second wife.  Other records give Emmanuel le jeune and Marie at least four sons.  White says the British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  They appeared on a repatriation list in the colony in 1763 and followed his older brothers to French St.-Domingue in 1764.  Emmanuel le jeune died at Mirebalais in September 1764, age 45, a month before his older brothers died there.  Three of his sons also perished in the tropical colony soon after the family's arrival. 

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1751, followed his family to Connecticut and French St.-Domingue.  He died at Mirebalais in September 1764, age 13. 

Emmanuel le jeune's second son Alexis le jeune, born probably at Minas in c1754, followed his family to Connecticut and French St.-Domingue.  He died at Mirebalais in October 1764, age 10. 

Emmanuel le jeune's third son Paul, born probably in Connecticut in c1759, followed his family to French-Domingue.  He was baptized at Mirebalais, age 5, in Sepember 1764, and died there, age 6, the following December. 

Emmanuel le jeune's fourth son Joseph-Alexis, born in Connecticut, date unrecorded, and followed his family to French St.-Domingue.  He was baptized at Mirebalais, age unrecorded, in August 1764.  Did he create his own family there? 

Étienne III's fourth son Jean, born at Minas in December 1724, probably died young. 

Étienne III's fifth and youngest son Alexis, born at Minas in c1725, was, like his oldest brother Simon, still a bachelor when the British deported him to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Alexis married Marie-Josèphe dite Rose or Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Richard and Marie-Madeleine Blanchard, in Connecticut in c1761.  Rose gave him a son in Connecticut.  They appeared on a repatriation list in the colony in 1763.  Alexis and Rose followed his older brothers to French St.-Domingue, where, in September 1764, their marriage was revalidated at Mirebalais.   Alexis died at Mirebalais in November 1764, age 40, the last of his brothers to die in the colony (his marriage revalidation record says he died in February 1766).  His widow remarried twice to Frenchmen at Mirebalais. 

Only son Michel, born in Connecticut in early 1764, was baptized at Mirebalais, age 5 months, in September 1764.  He died 10 days after his baptism.  The revalidation of his parents' marriage soon after his death recognized his legitimacy. 

Étienne, fils's third son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born at Minas in June 1692, married Élisabeth, daughter of Pierre Granger and Isabelle Guilbeau, at Grand-Pré in January 1720 and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled in the valley of Petit-Ruisseau, Pigiguit.  According to Arsenault, between 1733 and 1743, Élisabeth gave Jean-Baptiste six children, two daughters and four sons.  Other records give them two more daughters.  According to Arsenault, the British deported members of the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them at Worcester in 1760.  They were still in the colony in August 1763.  After 1766, they followed oldest son Étienne le jeune to Canada.  Jean-Baptiste died at Nicolet on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in July 1787, age 95.  His daughters married into the LeBlanc and Niquet families on the river above Trois-Rivières.  His four sons also created their own families in the area. 

Oldest son Étienne le jeune, born at Pigiguit in c1736, was, according to his biographer, separated from his family and deported to Maryland in 1755.  He reunited with his family in Massachusetts and, according to his biographer, led them to Canada, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Babin and Catherine LeBlanc, at Trois-Rivières in October 1769.  They settled across the river at Bécancour.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1770 and 1787, Marie-Josèphe gave Étienne le jeune nine children, four daughters and five sons.  Three of his daughters married into the Bergeron, Proulx, and Bélliveau families at nearby Nicolet and St.-Grégoire.  Four of Étienne le jeune's five sons also created families in the area.

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Bécancour in c1772, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Raphaël Bourg and Madeleine Poirier, at Nicolet in January 1797. 

Étienne le jeune's third son Pierre, born probably at Bécancour in c1777, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Richard and Madeleine Pellerin, at nearby St.-Grégoire in February 1807. 

Étienne le jeune's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Bécancour in c1779, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Belliveau and Marie LeBlanc, at Nicolet in May 1801, and remarried to Judith, daughter of Antoine Lemire, perhaps a fellow Acadian, and widow of Antoine Marcotte, at nearby Baie-du-Fèbvre in December 1807. 

Étienne le jeune's fifth and youngest son Étienne, fils, born probably at Bécancour in c1782, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Belliveau and Geneviève Morin, at Nicolet in January 1807. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son Honoré, born at Pigiguit in c1738, followed his family to Massachusetts, where he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Leprince and Judith Richard of Annapolis Royal, date unrecorded.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Bécancour in November 1771.  They settled at nearby Nicolet.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1786, Madeleine gave Honoré nine children, five daughters and four sons.  Four of their daughters married into the Vincent, Richard, Bourg, and Vigneau families in the Nicolet area.  Honoré's sons also married there. 

Oldest son Honoré, fils, born probably at Nicolet in c1774, married Marie-Anne, daughter of François Manseau and Josette Bergeron, at nearby Baie-du-Fèbvre, in January 1808. 

Honoré, père's second son Raphaël, born probably at Nicolet in c1775, married Thérèse Fauteux, place and date unrecorded. 

Honoré, père's third son Joseph-Chrysostôme, born probably at Nicolet in c1778, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Pierre Héon and Marie Rheault, at nearby St.-Grégoire in April 1807. 

Honoré, père's fourth and youngest son Pierre, born probably at Nicolet in c1781, married Marie-Louise, another daughter of François Manseau and Josette Bergeron, at St.-Grégoire in July 1818. 

Jean-Baptiste's third son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at Pigiguit in c1741, followed his family to Massachusetts, where he married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Françoise Landry of Minas, at Boston in August 1762.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Trois-Rivières, Canada, in July 1769.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1771, Marie-Rose gave Jean-Baptiste four children, a son and three daughters.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arsenault and Françoise Poirier of Chignecto, at Bécancour in November 1771.  According to Arsenault, between 1772 and 1781, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste five more children, two sons and three daughters--nine children by two wives.  Jean-Baptiste died at Nicolet in May 1796, in his mid-50s.  Four of his daughters by both wives married into the Bergeron, Bélliveau, and Painchaud families in the area.  Two of his sons also created their own families at Nicolet.

Oldest son Honoré le jeune, by first wife Marie-Rose LeBlanc, born probably at Boston in c1763, followed his family to Canada and married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Prince and Anne Richard, at Nicolet in January 1794.  He remarried to Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Brault and Anne Daigle, at Nicolet in May 1802. 

Jean-Baptiste, fils's second son Firmin, by second wife Marie-Rose Arsenault, born probably at Bécancour in c1772, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Bourg and Rosalie Gaudet, at Nicolet in January 1801. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born at Pigiguit in c1743, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada.  He married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and Madeleine Bourque of Annapolis Royal, at Bécancour in November 1771.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1793, Madeleine gave Joseph 10 children, six daughters and four sons.  Joseph died at nearby St.-Grégoire in March 1821, in his late 70s.  Three of his daughters married into the Prince, Pratte, and Bélliveau families at Nicolet.  At least one of his sons married in the area.

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Bécancour in c1778, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Lamothe and Catherine Bouret, at St.-Grégoire in January 1803. 

Étienne, fils's fourth and youngest son, name unrecorded, born probably at Minas in the early 1700s, died young. 

Étienne, père's third son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1659, married Jeanne, daughter of Jean Doiron and Marie-Anne Canol, at Port-Royal in c1692 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  Between 1693 and 1717, Jeanne gave Jean a dozen children, six sons and six daughters.  Four of their daughters married into the Henry dit Le Vieux, Guédry, Lacroix, and Vincent dit Clément families.  All six of Jean's sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Charles, born in c1693, married Catherine, daughter of Louis Saulnier and Louise Bastineau dit Peltier, in c1726 perhaps at Pigiguit.  Between 1732 and 1749, Catherine gave Charles seven children, two daughters and five sons.  In c1750, they followed other Acadians to Île St.-Jean, where, in August 1752, a French official counted Charles, Catherine, and their seven children at Anse-aux-Pirogues on the south side of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior.  They either left the island after 1755 or escaped the British roundup there in late 1758 and sought refuge in Canada.  Charles died at Québec in September 1761, age 68.  His daughters married into the Michel dit Laruine and Vincent dit Clément families on Île St.-Jean.  Four of his sons also created their own families on the island and in Canada. 

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Pigiguit in c1733, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Vincent dit Clément and his first wife Élisabeth Michel of Annapolis Royal, at Port-La-Joye on the island in July 1754.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1755 and 1770, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph six children, three sons and two daughters.  They evidently left the island before its dérangement and sought refuge in Canada.  They were living at Québec in 1756 and at St.-Charles de Bellechasse across from Québec in 1757.  By 1767, they had moved on to Madawasaka on upper Rivière St.-Jean in present day New Brunswick/Maine. 

Charles's second son Simon, born probably at Pigiguit in c1737, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to Canada.  He married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Bernard Poirier and Marie-Madeleine Michel, at St.-Charles de Bellechasse in November 1758.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1759 Madeleine gave Simon a daughter.  He remarried Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Caissy and Catherine Poirier, at St.-Charles de Bellechasse in May 1761.  According to Arsenault, between 1762 and 1773, this Madeleine gave Joseph five more children, three sons and two daughters--six children by two wives.  The family moved on to Nepisiguit, today's Bathurst in northeastern New Brunswick, by 1773.  Their daughter married into the Melanson family there. 

Charles's third son Jean, born probably at Pigiguit in c1739, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and Canada.  He married Blanche, another daughter of Jean Vincent and Élisabeth Michel, at Québec in August 1761.  According to Bona Arsenault, Blanche gave Jean a son, Pierre, in 1773.  They were counted at Madawaska on the upper St.-Jean with five children in 1793. 

Charles's fourth son Pierre, born probably at Pigiguit in c1745, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and Canada, where he married Louise Blais, widow of Michel Daillet dit Daguerre, at Québec in January 1770. 

Jean's second son Michel le jeune, born in c1694, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Mius d'Azy and Marie Amireau, in c1734 perhaps at Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1737 and 1750, Marguerite gave Michel le jeune eight children, five sons and three daughters.  In c1750, they moved to Île St.-Jean.  Michel le jeune died at Port-La-Joye on the south side of the island in April 1751, age 57.  In August 1752, a French official counted his widow Marguerite and seven children at Port-La-Joye.  Most members of the family either left the island before 1758 or escaped the British roundup there later that year and took refuge in Canada.  One of Michel le jeune's daughters married into the Doiron family at Baie-St.-Paul on the St. Lawrence below Québec.  At least one of his five sons also created a family there.  Another son created a family in France. 

Oldest son Cyprien, born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1737, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and Canada.  He married Félicité-Luce, daughter of Jean Ringuet and Marie-Geneviève Duchesne, at Baie-St.-Paul in January 1766.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1769, Félicité gave Cyprien three children, two daughters and a son. 

Michel le jeune's third son Ferdinand, born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1741, followed his family to Île St.-Jean but not to Canada.  The British deported him to Rochefort, France, in late 1758, where he worked as a day laborer.  He married Marie-Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Leber and Marie Lebeau, in Notre-Dame Parish, Rochefort, in May 1761.  One wonders what happened to him after his marriage.  He did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 with other Acadian exiles. 

Jean's third son Jean, fils, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in 1699, married Marguerite, daughter of Alexandre Trahan and Marie Pellerin, at Ste.-Famillie, Pigiguit, in 1722 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1725 and 1746, Marguerite gave Jean, fils seven children, four sons and three daughters.  Their two older sons married at Minas.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring, and they were held at Liverpool.  Three of their daughters married into the LeBlanc and Trahan families at Liverpool in 1757 and 1758.  Two of their sons married and another remarried there between 1759 and 1763.  Wife Marguerite died at Liverpool in 1759, and Jean, fils remarried to Englishwoman Esther Mares dit Courtenay or Courtney there in October 1762.  The following spring, they were repatriated to Morlaix, France.  In November 1765, they followed other Acadian exiles from England to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Borderhouat, Locmaria, on the southeast end of the island.  They were still there in 1767, when, that November, Jean, fils gave a declaration on his family lineage to French officials.  Jean, fils died on the island in March 1773, age 74.  Three of his sons and their families emigrated to South America from France in the 1760s.  Another son and a daughter, along with Jean, fils's second wife Esther, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.

Oldest son Alain, by first wife Marguerite Trahan, born at Pigiguit in c1725, married Henriette, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Thibodeau and Marguerite Boudrot, at Minas in October 1746 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1753, Henriette gave Alain four children, two sons and two daughters.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England the following spring.  Alain remarried to Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Saulnier and Marguerite Vincent of Minas, at Liverpool in December 1759.  They followed his family to Morlaix, France, but they did not remain there.  In late 1764, they followed other family members to Sinnamary in French Guiane, South America.  The venture proved to be fatal--Alain, Françoise, and their children perished in the tropical colony. 

Jean, fils's second son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marguerite Trahan, born at Pigiguit in c1729, married Anne, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Anne Thériot, at Minas in c1751.  Anne gave Jean-Baptiste a son soon after their marriage and two daughters in the late 1750s.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  The family was repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763, and they, too, went to French Guiane in late 1764.  Son Jean-Baptiste, fils died there in December 1764, and wife Anne and younger daughter Marie likely died there after March 1765.  Jean-Baptiste and daughter Anne returned to France, where he remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Benoit and Élisabeth LeJuge and widow of Pierre Hébert, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in February 1770.  In August, they received permission to move on to La Rochelle, but they did not remain there either.  They joined his family on Belle-Île-en-Mer by January 1772, when a son was born at Locmaria, and moved on to Rochefort by August.  In 1773, Jean-Baptiste took his family to Poitou.  When most of the Poitou Acadians retreated to the port city of Nantes in late 1775 and early 1776, Jean-Baptiste and his family remained in Poitou.  His daughter Anne from first wife Anne married a Frenchman named Martin at Cenan, Poitou, in August 1776.  Jean-Baptiste died at Cenan in June 1778, age 50.  In September 1784, a Spanish official counted his widow Anne and an unnamed son with other Acadians at Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, so she likely had joined other Acadians there in the late 1770s or early 1780s.  She and her son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  Her stepdaughter and her French husband chose to remain in Poitou.  Anne's Hébert son created a family of his own in the Baton Rouge area.

Second son Jean-Charles, by second wife Anne Benoit, born at Locmaria, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in January 1772, followed his parents to Rochefort and Paimboeuf and his widowed mother to Louisiana.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to Manchac below Baton Rouge, where, at age 31, Jean-Charles married Marie-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Landry and Anne-Marie Forest, in May 1803.  She gave him a son, Joseph Joachim, in March 1804, but he died at age seven months.  At age 37, Jean-Charles remarried to Martine, 24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Breau and Élisabeth LeBlanc, at Manchac in May 1809; Martine, named for her godfather, Spanish intendente Martin Navarro, had been born aboard one of the Seven Ships when her family crossed from France.  She gave Jean-Charles a daughter.  He died at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1812, age 40.  Martine remarried to an Aucoin.  Jean-Charles's daughter married into the Melançon family, so the blood of the family survived in the Bayou State. 

Jean, fils's third son Pierre-Pascal, called Pascal, from first wife Marguerite Trahan, born at Pigiguit in c1735, followed his family to Virginia and England, where he married Françoise, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Trahan and Jeanne Daigre, in January 1763.  They were repatriated to Morlaix, France, soon after their marriage.  According to Bona Arsenault, Françoise gave Pascal a daughter in c1764.  They, too, went to French Guiane in late 1764, and French officials counted them, along with an Hébert orphan, at Sinnamary in March 1765.  The official noted that Pascal was suffering from "fievre."  Pascal, age 32, and daughter Élisabeth, age 1 1/2, died in April.  Widow Françoise, now alone, returned to France.  She was living with her brother Pierre Trahan on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1767 and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  She remarried to a Dugas widower on the western prairies in 1797, age 50. 

Jean, fils's fourth and youngest son Amable, by first wife Marguerite Trahan, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1742, followed his family to Virginia and England, where he married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in Liverpool in c1761.  Between 1762 and 1780, in England and France, Marie-Anne gave Amable at least nine children, six daughters and three sons.  They followed his family to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Amable worked as a carpenter in the mother country.  In 1765, they followed his father and stepmother to Belle-Île-en-Mer, but they did not remain.  After his father's death, French officials counted them at Quimper in southern Brittany in 1773.  Later that year, they followed other Acadian exiles to Poitou.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Wife Marie-Anne died there in May 1780, probably from the rigors of giving birth to her ninth child.  In 1785, Amable, still unmarried, five of his children, a son and four daughters, one of the daughters married, and his widowed stepmother Esther Courtenay emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  They settled on the Acadian Coast above New Orleans.  Amable did not remarry.  Three of his daughters married into the LeBlanc, Landry, and Duplantre families in France and on the river.  His remaining son survived childhood but did not marry, so, except for its blood, this family line did not endure in the Bayou State.  

Jean, père's fourth son Étienne le jeune, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the early 1700s, married Marie-Josèphe, called Josèphe, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Catherine Meunier, at Grand-Pré in August 1734 and likely settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Étienne le jeune a son in c1740.  Other records give them another son in c1743.  The family may have moved on to the French Maritimes after 1752, and most of them may have escaped the roundup on the island in 1758.  If so, the ones who did escape took refuge in Canada.  Étienne le jeune died before February 1761 perhaps in Canada.  His older son created his own family there.  His younger son suffered a different fate.

Older son Jean, born at Minas in c1740, may have followed his family to the French Maritimes and followed them to Canada.  Jean married Thérèse Pouliot at St.-Charles de Bellechasse across from Québec in c1761, and remarried to Thérère Chartier there in c1764. 

Étienne le jeune's younger son Mathurin, born at Minas in c1743, evidently followed his family to the French Maritimes, but he did not escape the British roundup there.  In late 1758, the British deported him with the family of Blaise Thibodeau and Catherine Daigre, relatives perhaps, to St.-Malo, France.  Blaise and Catherine lost all four of their children at sea.   Mathurin died in a hospital at St.-Malo in late February 1759, age 16, soon after they reached the Breton port. 

Jean, père's fifth son Joseph, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1715, married Anne, daughter of Marcel Saulnier and Élisabeth Breau, in c1740 probably at Minas and settled there.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Liverpool.  Joseph died in England or France before 1765, in his 40s. 

Jean, père's sixth and youngest son Paul dit Benjamin, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit in c1717, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Lejeune and Jeanne Benoit, in c1741 perhaps at Minas.  Between 1741 and 1745, Marie-Josèphe gave Paul at least three children, two sons and a daughter.  In c1749, Paul, perhaps now a widower, took his family to Île St.-Jean.  Paul dit Benjamin remarried to Marie, daughter of Paul Michel and Marie-Josèphe Vincent, at Port-La-Joye on the island in January 1751.  She gave him two more daughters in 1752 and 1754.  In August 1752, a French official counted Paul, who he called "an imbecile," Marie, and their four children at Anse-aux-Pirogues in the island's interior.  The British deported at least one of their sons to France in 1758.  One wonders what happened to the rest of the family. 

Younger son Louis, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Lejeune, born probably at Minas in the early 1740s, followed his family to Île St.-Jean.  In late 1758, still in his teens, the British deported him perhaps with other members of his family to St.-Malo, France.  Louis died at nearby Châteauneuf in June 1759, perhaps from the rigors of the crossing, soon after reaching the Breton port. 

Étienne, père's fourth son Michel, born at Port-Royal in c1666, married Isabelle, daughter of François Pellerin and Andrée Martin, at Port-Royal in c1691 and settled at Rivière Gaspereau, Minas.  Between 1692 and 1717, Isabelle gave Michel 16 children, seven sons and nine daughters.  Michel died at Minas in January 1736, age 70.  Eight of his daughters married into the Le Mordant dit Lanoy, Bourg, Coupiau dit Desaleur, Apart, Gautrot, Richard, Boudrot, Thériot, and Monmellian dit Saint-Germain families.  Six of his seven sons also created families of their own.   

Oldest son François, born at Minas in c1692, died, according to Stephen A. White, before 1701.  Bona Arsenault, however, insists that François married Marie-Anne, daughter of Michel Bourg and Élisabeth Melanson, in c1720, place unrecorded, probably at Chignecto.  According to Arsenault, between 1722 and 1742, Marie-Anne gave François five children, four sons and a daughter.  Arsenault says they settled at Memramcook in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto in 1752.  François and most of his family evidently escaped the British roundup in the Chignecto area in 1755 and took refuge in Canada.  Arsenault says Marie-Anne and their daughter, also named Marie-Anne, died at Québec in September 1756, and François was living at St.-François-de-l'Îe-d'Orléans below Québec in 1758.  His sons, according to Arsenault, created families of their own in greater Acadia and Canada. 

Oldest son François, fils, born perhaps at Chignecto in c1722, married cousin Marguerite Bourg probably at Chignecto in c1744.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave François, fils a son in c1750.  They either escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 or were deported to a seaboard colony and, after the war, chose to resettle in Canada.  Their son created a family of his own there.

Only son Victor, born at Chignecto on c1750, followed his family into exile and Canada.  He married Marie-Thérèse Chabot at St.-Charles de Bellechasse below Québec in November 1773. 

François, père's second son Jean-Baptiste, born perhaps at Chignecto in c1728, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Joseph Gravois and Marie Cyr, probably at Chignecto in c1749.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Anne gave Jean-Baptiste two children, a daughter and a son, in 1750 and 1752.  They either escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 or were deported to a seaboard colony and, after the war, chose to resettle in Canada.  Their daughter married into the Niquet family at Nicolet on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in 1770.  Did their son survive exile? 

François, père's third son Joseph, born perhaps at Chignecto in c1734, followed his family to Memramcook and to Canada.  He married Marie-Bénonie-Charlotte, daughter of Charles Poulin and Claire Deblois dit Grégoire, at St.-François-de-l'Îe-d'Orléans in October 1762.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1778, Marie gave Joseph eight children, five sons and three daughters.  One of their daughters married into the Lessard family at Ste.-Famille on Île-d'Orléans.  Three of Joseph's sons also created their own families on the island and farther upriver.

Oldest son Joseph-Marie, born probably on Île-d'Orléans in c1764, married Marie-Madeleine Guyon at Ste.-Famille on the island in 1793. 

Joseph's fourth son Pierre, born probably on Île-d'Orléans in c1772, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Brassard and Marie-Antonia Pinard, at Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières in June 1798. 

Joseph's fifth and youngest son François, born probably on Île-d'Orléans in c1775, married Marie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Prince and Marie-Josèphe Lavasseur, at Nicolet in October 1804. 

François, père's fourth and youngest son Paul, born perhaps at Chignecto in c1742, followed his family to Memramcook.  He evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières area in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either was captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and held in the British prison compound at Fort Cumberland, formerly Beauséjour, Chignecto.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Abraham Arsenault and Marguerite Nuirat of Malpèque, Île St.-Jean, in c1763 probably at Fort Cumberland.  They appeared on a repatriation list there in late August 1763.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1780, Marguerite gave Paul seven children, three daughters and four sons.  After the war, they chose to resettle not in British Canada but on Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  French officials counted them there in 1767, but they did not remain.  Paul took his family to Cocagne on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in present-day eastern New Brunswick, where he died in February 1828, in his late 80s.  Arsenault adds that Paul was a pioneer settler of Cocagne, where many Arsenaults, including members of Paul's wife's family, resettled.  Their daughters married into the Bourque and Poirier families.  All four of their sons also created families in what became New Brunswick.

Oldest son Jean, born on Île Miquelon in c1766, followed his family to Cocagne and married cousin Marie Arsenault in c1788. 

Paul's second son Pierre, born on Île Miquelon in c1767, followed his family to Cocagne and married Polonie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jeannotte Bourque and Marie Arsenault, in c1790. 

Paul's third son Joseph, born in c1768, married Judith, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Després and Madeleine Bourque, in c1792. 

Paul's fourth and youngest son François, born in c1770, married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Gueguen and Marie Caissy, at St.-Basile de Madawaska on upper Rivière St.-Jean in c1800. 

Michel's second son Germain, born at Minas in the early 1690s, married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of Jean Caissie and Anne Bourgeois and widow of Michel-Joseph Boudrot, in c1720 probably at Minas and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1743, Anne gave Germain seven children, six daughters and a son.  According to Arsenault, two of their older daughers married into the Poirier and Caissie families, one of them at Chignecto.  The British deported Germain and his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Germain died there before July 1763, when his his widow and two children, daughter Madeleine and son Baptiste, appeared on a repatriation list at Annapolis.  One wonders what happened to them after 1763.  They did not go to Spanish Louisiana. 

Michel's third son Michel, fils, born at Minas in the early 1700s, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Gautrot and Françoise Rimbault, at Grand-Pré in May 1726, but they did not remain there.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean by October 1728, when a daughter was baptized at St.-Pierre-du-Nord on the north side of the island.  They were counted at Rivière-du-Nord in the interior of the island in 1734.  According to Bona Arsenault, the family lived at Louisbourg on Île Royale from 1737 to 1742.  Arsenault says that, between 1727 and 1740, Marguerite gave Michel, fils eight children, two daughters and six sons.  Michel, fils remarried to Claire, daughter of François Boisseau and Marie-Anne Saulnier, probably on one of the Maritime islands in c1748 or 1749.  According to Arsenault, between 1750 and 1752, Claire gave Michel, fils three more children, two sons and a daughter.  In August 1752, a French official counted Michel, fils, Claire, and nine of their children at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in the interior of Île St.-Jean.  Claire gave him at least three more children, two daughters and a son, between 1752 and 1758--14 children by two wives.  In late 1758, the British deported Michel, fils, Claire, their six youngest children, and, on another vessel, his third son by first wife Marguerite, to St.-Malo, France.  The crossing proved disastrous for the family.  Michel, fils, Claire, and three of their children died at sea, and the three other children with them died in a St.-Malo hospital soon after the vessel reached the Breton port, but his older son survived the crossing.

Third son Pierre, by first wife Marguerite Gautrot, born at Havre-St.-Pierre, Île St.-Jean, in c1737, was counted with his family at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in August 1752.  He evidently was still living with his father, stepmother, and half-siblings on the island in late 1758.  The British deported him to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 and, unlike his family, who traveled on another vessel, he survived the crossing.  He settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer but did not remain there.  In May 1760, now age 24, he embarked on the corsair Le François.  The following March he deserted the vessel, place unrecorded.  He was back at St.-Servan in 1762, so he escaped capture by the Royal Navy.  He married local Frenchwoman Françoise, daughter of Joseph Dudouit and Laurence Hervi of St.-Servan, at St.-Servan in October 1765.  Françoise gave Pierre a son at St.-Servan in 1766, but the boy died a month after his birth.  Pierre, perhaps now a sailor or fisherman, was at Newfoundland from 1768 to 1770.  He was back at St.-Servan by December 1770.  Françoise gave him a daughter there in July 1772.  No member of this family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Michel, père's fourth son Emmanuel le jeune, born at Minas in the early 1700s, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jacques Levron and Marie Doucet, at Annapolis Royal in August 1731.  Emmanuel le jeune died perhaps at Annapolis Royal by 1746.  One wonders what happened to his family in 1755. 

Michel, père's fifth son René, born at Minas in February 1708, married in c1736 probably at Minas a woman whose name has been lost to history.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Michel, père's sixth son Guillaume, born at Minas in October 1709, married Marie-Josèphe, called Josèphe, daughter of Antoine Thibodeau and Marie Préjean, at Annapolis Royal in April 1731.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1747, Marie-Josèphe gave Guillaume eight children, six sons and two daughters.  The British deported most of the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  One wonders what happened to them after 1763.  At least one son ventured to South America and died there.

Second son Pierre, born at Minas in c1734, evidently was deported not to Maryland but to Virginia in 1755.  If so, Virginia officials sent him and hundreds of other Acadians in the Old Dominion to England in the spring of 1756.  He evidently married fellow Acadian Marie Trahan in England.  In the spring of 1763, he and his wife were repatriated to France with the other Acadians in England.  A son was born in St.-Mathieu Parish, Morlaix, in May 1764.  Soon afterwards, Pierre and his family followed other Acadian exiles to Sinnamary in French Guiane, South America, where French officials counted him in March 1765.  For some reason, the French official who compiled the March 1765 list did not count Pierre and Marie together.  Their infant son Joseph was not on the list, so he likely had died by then.  Wife Marie died at Sinnamary in late May 1765, age 22.  Pierre remained in the tropical colony, drowned in Rivière Sinnamary the first of February 1773, age 36, and was buried in the local cemetery.  His burial record notes that at the time of his death he was married to Marie Dischant, perhaps a corruption of Marie Trahan's name.  If a second wife existed, one wonders if she gave him any children.

Michel, père's seventh and youngest son Joseph, born at Minas in the 1710s, married, according to Stephen A. White, Madeleine, daughter of Jean Boudrot and Cécile Corporon, in c1734, place unrecorded.  Bona Arsenault says sans doutte that Madeleine's parents were Claude Boudrot and his second wife Catherine Meunier; White is followed here.  According to Arsenault, between 1734 and 1745, Madeleine gave Joseph seven children, five daughters and two sons, including a set of twins.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Étienne, père's fifth and youngest son Antoine le jeune, born perhaps posthumously at Port-Royal in c1670, married Jeanne, daughter of Jean Corporon and Françoise Savoie, probably at Port-Royal in c1691.  They settled on the haute rivière above Port-Royal.  Between 1692 and 1719, Jeanne gave Antoine le jeune 15 children, seven sons and eight daughters.  In his late 60s, Antoine le jeune remarried to Anne, daughter of Charles Orillon dit Champagne and Marie-Anne Bastarache, at Annapolis Royal in February 1737.  Between 1738 and the early 1740s, Anne gave Antoine le jeune three more children, two daughters and a son--18 children, eight sons and 10 daughters, by two wives.  Antoine le jeune died at Annapolis Royal before July 1753, in his late 70s or early 80s.  Eight of his daughters by both wives married into the Breau, Duon dit Lyonnais, Maillet, Aubois, Mius d'Azy, Gautrot, Saulnier, and Deveau families.  All eight of his sons by both wives created families of their own.  His youngest son emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. 

Oldest son Louis dit Baguette, by first wife Jeanne Corporon, born at Port-Royal in c1692, married Anne-Marie, called Marie, daughter of Louis-Noël Labauve and Marie Rimbault, at Annapolis Royal in May 1722.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1736, Anne-Marie gave Louis six children, four daughters and two sons.  In c1749, Louis took his family to Île St.-Jean.  In August 1752, a French official counted Louis, Marie, and three of their children, a son and two daughters, at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in the island's interior.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup on the island in late 1758 and sought refuge in Canada.  Louis dit Baguette died at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in February 1778, age 86.  Three of his daughters married into the Cellier and Pedreman families.  One of his sons also created a family of his own.

Older son Jean-Désiré, called Désiré, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1724, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Lebert dit Jolicoeur and Jeanne Breau, at Grand-Pré in October 1746.  In 1747 and 1752, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Désiré two children, a daughter and a son.  They followed his parents to Île St.-Jean in 1749.  A French official counted Jean, Marie, and their two young children next to his family at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie.  They evidently left the island before its dérangement in 1758; French officials counted them at Québec in 1757.  Their daughter married into the Gely family there in May 1768.  Wife Mary-Josèphe died at Québec in December 1769. 

Louis's younger son Jean, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1729, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in August 1752.  Did he follow his family to Canada later in the decade?  Did he marry?  One wonders what happened to him in 1755 or 1758. 

Antoine le jeune's second son Pierre l'aîné, by first wife Jeanne Corporon, born at Port-Royal in August 1703, married Jeanne, daughter of François-Marie Bastarache and Agnès Labauve, at Annapolis Royal in January 1731 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, who confuses Pierre l'aîné with his younger brother Pierre le jeune, between 1732 and 1754, Jeanne gave Pierre 10 children, five daughters and five sons.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  They were still in the colony in 1763.  Pierre l'aîné and his family chose to resettle not in Canada but on the French island of Martinique, where they were counted in 1766.  Pierre l'aîné died before November 1773, perhaps on the island.  One of his daughters married into the DeCresnes and Man families, the second marriage on the French island of Guadaloupe, but she died on Martinique.  One wonders what happened to Pierre l'aîné's sons. 

Antoine le jeune's third son Charles-Paul, by first wife Jeanne Corporon, born at Port-Royal in December 1706, married Claire, daughter of Joseph Mius d'Azy and Marie Amireau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1731 and moved on to Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable by 1738.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1738, Claire gave Charles three children, two sons and a daughter.  Other records give them a third son in c1742, and two more daughters in c1743 and c1744.  British forces rounded them up with other Cap-Sable-area families in the spring of 1759, held them at Georges Island, Halifax, and deported them to England the following November.  The English promptly sent them on to Cherbourg, France, which they reached in mid-January 1760.  Charles-Paul died in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in March 1760, age 53, soon after reaching the Norman port, perhaps from the rigors of the crossing.  His daughters married into the La Pierre, Mercier, Hébert, and Le Breton families at Cherbourg and Le Havre.  At least two of his sons created families in France.

Oldest son Charles, fils, born at Annapolis Royal or Pobomcoup in c1731, married Anne-Théotiste, daughter of François Viger and Claire Lejeune of Pobomcoup, probably there in c1754.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1755 and 1760, Anne gave Charles three sons.  In the spring of 1759, British forces rounded up the family with other Cap-Sable-area families, held them on Georges Island, Halifax harbor, and deported them to England the following November.  The British promptly sent them on to Cherbourg, France, which they reached in mid-January 1760.  Charles, fils and Anne baptized second son François, who had been born at the end of April 1759 while the family was hiding from the British.  François died in April, age 1, a week after the death of his older brother Isidore, age 4 or 5.  Meanwhile, Charles, fils died in Très Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in March 1760, age 30, four days before his father died there.  Charles, fils and Anne's third son Jean-Charles may have been born posthumously at Cherbourg soon after Charles, fils's death.  Widow Anne remarried to a Landry at Cherbourg in November 1768.  According to Arsenault, she followed her Hébert son Jean-Charles to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 aboard Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, but neither Anne, Jean-Charles, nor her second husband Jean Landry appear on any of the Seven Ships' passenger lists.  They likely remained in France. 

Charles-Paul's second son Joseph, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1733, evidently married Félicité, daughter perhaps of Charles Savoie and Françoise Martin of Annapolis Royal, at Pobomcoup in the mid- or late 1750s, fell into British hands there, and followed his family to Halifax, where a son was born.  They followed his family to England and then to Cherbourg, France, in 1759-60.  Their son was baptized in the Norman port soon after their arrival.  Wife Félicité died in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in March 1760, in her early 20s.  Joseph died there the following August, age 28. 

Son Joseph-David, born at Halifax in October 1759, followed his family to Cherbourg, France.  He was baptized in Trés-Ste.-Trinité Parish, age 3 months, in January 1760, before his parents died.  He likely was raised by relatives.  If he was still alive in 1785, he did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana with most of the other Acadians still in France. 

Charles-Paul's third and youngest son Dominique, born at Pobomcoup in c1742, followed his family to Halifax, England, and Cherbourg.  After the death of his father and older brother, Dominique moved to Le Havre, where he married Marie-Marguerite, 22-year-old daughter of locals Philippe Viard and Marie-Marguerite-Geneviève Barois, in Notre-Dame Parish in July 1765.  If they were still living, they did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, nor did any of their children. 

Antoine le jeune's fourth son Pierre le jeune, by first wife Jeanne Corporon, born at Port-Royal in March 1708, married Isabelle Saulnier in c1735 probably at Annapolis Royal and settled there.  Bona Arsenault confuses Pierre le jeune with Pierre, second son of Jean-Emmanuel, who probaby died young.  According to Arsenault, Isabelle was a daughter of Marcel Saulnier and Élisabeth Breau of Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, but Stephen A. White, followed here, does not give her parents' names.  Arsenault says that between 1736 and 1751, Isabelle gave Pierre eight children, six sons and two daughters.  The British deported the family to New York in the fall of 1755.  Their transport, the Experiment, was blown off course to Antigua and did not reach New York harbor until May 1756.  Pierre le jeune, Isabelle, and three of their children appeared on a repatriation list in the colony in 1763.  Pierre le jeune died by January 1765, in his mid- or late 50s, place unrecorded.  Isabelle also had died by then.  One of their daughters married into the Rebin family at St.-Pierre, Martinique, in January 1765; the priest who recorded the marriage noted that both of the bride's parents were deceased.  One wonders what happened to Pierre le jeune and Isabelle's other children after 1763. 

Antoine le jeune's fifth son Jean, by first wife Jeanne Corporon, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1714, married Marguerite, daughter of Sr. Jean Mouton and Marie Girouard, at Annapolis Royal in July 1743.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1747 and 1753, Marguerite gave Jean two daughters.  Other records give them two sons in 1746 and 1753.  They moved on to Chignecto and to the French Maritimes after August 1752, but they did not remain there.  They evidently were among the Acadians captured at Cap-Sable in 1758 or 1759, transported to Halifax, held there with other Cap-Sable Acadians, deported to England in November 1759, and sent on to Cherbourg, France, which they reached in January 1760.  Jean died in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in March 1760, age 46, the same month and in the same place his older brother Charles-Paul died.  Jean's surviving son married three times in France and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Jean's oldest daughter Marie married into the Lamoureaux family in France, also emigrated to Louisiana, and remarried into the Bruno family there.  His youngest daughter Anne, who followed her older siblings to Poitou in 1773, died there at Cenan in October 1774, age 15.

Older son Étienne, born at Cap-Sable in c1746, was captured with his family at Cap-Sable, sent with them to Halifax, and was deported with them to Cherbourg, France, via England in November 1759.  He arrived at Cherbourg in January 1760 and, though only in his early teens, worked as a sailor.  He moved on to Le Havre, where, in Notre-Dame Parish, he married Marie, 27-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Lavergne and Françoise Pitre, in January 1767.  Between 1767 and 1773, Marie gave Étienne at least four children at Le Havre, two sons and two daughters.  They followed other Acadian exiles in the port cities to Poitou in 1773, and Marie gave Étienne another son at Cenan in 1775.  The following November, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where Marie gave him two more children, twins, a daughter and a son, in September 1778.  The son died a week after his birth.  Marie died a few weeks later, in October 1778, age 40, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Étienne remarried to another Marie, this one daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourg and Françoise Benoit of Cobeguit, in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in August 1779.  She died at Nantes in November 1780, age 28, and Étienne remarried again--his third marriage--to Anne-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Breau and Marie-Josèphe Guillot, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes in August 1781.  Anne-Madeleine gave Étienne another daughter in May 1785.  Later that year, Étienne, Anne-Madeleine, and his five surviving children, three sons and two daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana and followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Étienne's succession record, probably post-mortem, was filed at what became the Interior Parish courthouse in Thibodauxville in August 1805.  He would have been in his late 50s at the time.  His daughters married into the Deveau and Boutary families on the Lafourche.  His two older sons also married, into the Doiron and Dantin families on the upper bayou and created vigorous lines there. 

Jean's younger son Joseph, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1753, followed his family to Halifax, England, and France.  He died in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in April 1760, age 7, a month after his father died there. 

Antoine le jeune's sixth son Joseph, by first wife Jeanne Corporon, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1715, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean Hébert and Marie-Marguerite Landry, in c1746 probably at Annapolis Royal.  Joseph died before 1754, in his early 40s, place unrecorded, but it probably was at Annapolis Royal.  One wonders what happened to his family in 1755. 

Antoine le jeune's seventh son Alexandre, by first wife Jeanne Corporon, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1717, married Madeleine, daughter of Augustin Comeau and Jeanne Levron, at Annapolis Royal in February 1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1753, Madeleine gave Alexandre three children, a son and two daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Antoine le jeune's eighth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste dit Cobit, called Baptiste, from second wife Anne Orillon, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1737, evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis in the fall of 1755.  He married Marie-Rose, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau and Élisabeth Trahan, in September 1760 while in exile.  In the late 1760s, they either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Baptiste, now a widower without children, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1765 and settled on the prairies.  He remarried to cousin Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Bénoni Hébert dit Manuel and Jeanne Savoie, probably at Attakapas in c1770.  She gave him all of his children.  Baptiste died at Attakapas in August 1783, in his mid- or late 40s.  His daughters married into the Duhon, LeBlanc, Meaux, and Mercier families.  His two sons also married, into the Breaux, Hébert, Bonin, and Trahan families on the prairies.353

Blanchard

Jean Blanchard, an early 1640s arrival, and his wife Radegonde Lambert created an influential family in the colony.  Between 1643 and 1656, Radegonde gave Jean six children, three sons and three daughters.  Jean was last counted in an Acadian census in 1686, age 75.  Radegonde, 10 years younger than Jean, also died after that date.  Their daughters married into the Richard dit Sansoucy, Guérin, and Gaudet families.  Two of Jean's sons created families of their own.  His and Radegonde's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Minas and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin, Chignecto, Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, and in the French Maritimes.  They were especially numerous at Annapolis Royal.  At least 59 of Jean's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, Maryland in the late 1760s, and especially from France in 1785, but a substantial number of Jean's descendants also could be found in Canada and greater Acadia after Le Grand Dérangement.

Oldest son Martin, born at Port-Royal in c1647, married Françoise, daughter of Daniel LeBlanc and Françoise Gaudet, at Port-Royal in c1671.  Between 1672 and 1677, Françoise gave Martin three children, two daughters and a son.  Martin remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Guilbeau and Catherine Thériot, at Port-Royal in c1686.  Between 1689 and 1712, Marguerite gave Martin eight more children, four sons and four daughters--11 children, six daughters and five sons, by two wives.  Five of his daughters by both wives married into the Doucet, Melanson, Bourg, and Landry families.  All five of Martin's sons created families of their own.  

Oldest son René, by first wife Françoise LeBlanc, born at Port-Royal in c1677, not to be confused with his first cousin of the same name and birth year, married Anne, daughter of René Landry and Marie Bernard, in c1700 and settled at Minas.  Between 1701 and 1729, Anne gave René nine children, four sons and five daughters.  Their daughters married into the LeBlanc, Naquin, Trahan, Melanson, and Thibodeau families.  Only two of René's four sons created their own families. 

Oldest son René, fils, born at Port-Royal or Minas in c1701, married Marguerite, daughter of Germain Thériot and Anne Richard, at Grand-Pré in July 1726 and settled there.  According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1750, Marguerite gave René, fils 11 children, six sons and five daughters.  The British deported him, Marguerite, and most of the surviving members of their family to Maryland in 1755.  They appeared on a repatriation list at Baltimore in July 1763.  René, fils, now in his late 60s, and members of the family in the Chesapeake colony emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1766 and 1767 and settled at Cabahannocer and San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans.  René, fils died at nearby Ascension in September 1788, age 87.  Two of his daughters married into the Landry and Allain families in Maryland and Louisiana.  His youngest daughter survived childhood but evidently did not marry.  At least three of his sons married, the oldest in greater Acadia and the younger two in Maryland.  Only the two younger sons accompanied their father to Louisiana, where the younger one served as a colonial official under the Spanish. 

Oldest son Olivier, born at Minas in c1728, married Catherine, daughter of Pierre Amireau and Anne Brun of Chepoudy, probably at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, in c1753.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1780, Catherine gave Olivier 14 children, 11 sons and three daughters.  They escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and, in the early 1760s, either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area, and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  At war's end, they chose to remain in greater Acadia while most of his family, who had been deported to Maryland, resettled in Spanish Louisiana.  Olivier and his family settled in the British-controlled fishery at Caraquet on the south shore of the Baie des Chaleurs in present-day northeastern New Brunswick.   Two of their daughters married into the Haché and Boudreau families at Caraquet.  Three of Olivier's sons--Urbain-Thadée, who would have been age 24; Fidèle, who would have been 23; and Romain, who would have been age 21--died at sea, place unrecorded, in November 1793.  One suspects they perished on a fishing voyage.  Five of Olivier's other eight sons created their own families. 

Second son Thadée, born in c1760, married Judith, daughter of Olivier Léger and Marie-Josèphe Hébert, at Caraquet in June 1784. 

Olivier's third son Désiré, born probably at Caraquet in c1765, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Cormier and Anastasie Aucoin, at Caraquet in June 1789. 

Olivier's fourth son Isidore, born probably at Caraquet in c1768, married Élizabeth, daughter of Olivier Legouf and Marie-Josèphe Hébert, at Caraquet in July 1791. 

Olivier's eighth son Ephrem, born probably at Caraquet in c1773, married Julie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Robichaud and Félicité Cyr, probably at Caraquet in c1795. 

Olivier's ninth son Raphaël, born probably at Caraquet in c1775, married Pélagie, daughter of Pierre Doucet and Marie Haché, at Caraquet in June 1795. 

René, fils's second son Joseph, born at Minas in c1730, followed his family to Maryland, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of probably Alexandre Landry and Anne Flan, in c1758.  They followed their families to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 and settled at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1774, Marie gave Joseph five children, three sons and two daughters.  Louisiana records show that Marie gave him another son at San Gabriel in 1774.  Joseph died at San Gabriel in the mid-1770s, in his mid-40s.  His daughters married into the Comeaux, Landry, and LeBlanc families in Louisiana.  Three of Joseph's four sons, the oldest born in Maryland, the younger ones at San Gabriel, married into the Bujole, LeBlanc, and Richard families on the river, and two of the lines endured there.

René, fils's fifth son Anselme, born at Minas in c1741, followed his family to Maryland, where he married Esther LeBlanc in the early 1760s.  According to Bona Arsenault, Esther gave Anselme two sons in Maryland in 1765 and 1766, but Louisiana records dispute the birth date of the second son and note that a daughter was born to them in c1763.  In 1767, Anselme followed his older brother to San Gabriel on the Mississippi, where the second son was born in c1768.  Esther gave him a third son at San Gabriel in c1778, but the boy died an infant.  Anselme did well in the Spanish colony.  In 1779, he received the contract from Governor Gálvez to clear land and build houses for the first Isleños community in the colony, Villa de Valenzuela on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Anselme served as lieutenant and then captain of militia in the Valenzuela District, and from August 1781 to mid-1784 he served as that district's commandant, one of the few Acadians elevated to that important post.  In July 1785, the colony's intendente, Martin Navarro, appointed Anselme commissioner to welcome and supervise the settlement of hundreds of Acadian refugees from France, some of whom were Anselme's cousins.  In the early 1790s, Anselme served again as a district commandant, this time of the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, where dozens of his fellow Acadians had settled in 1786.  He died at New Orleans in November 1799, age 58.  His daughter married into the Mollère family.  His two older sons, one born in Maryland, the other at San Gabriel, married into the Clouâtre and Hébert families and established vigorous lines on the river. 

René, père's second son Joseph, born at Grand-Pré in January 1712, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Vincent and Jeanne Trahan, in c1735 probably at Minas.  The British deported them to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Joseph died there by June 1763, when Marguerite was called a widow on a repatriation list, which also counted four of her Blanchard children. 

René, père's third son Jean, born probably at Minas in the 1710s, probably died young. 

René, père's fourth and youngest son Étienne, born at Grand-Pré in June 1729, moved on to the French Maritimes and was deported to St.-Malo, France, in late November 1758.  He "resided with the widow Launay at Bassablons," near St.-Servan,-sur-Mer a suburb of St.-Malo, "until his death" in April 1759, age 29.  He was still single.  

Martin's second son Pierre, by second wife Marguerite Guilbeau, born at Port-Royal in c1692, married Françoise, daughter of Antoine Breau and Marguerite Babin, in the late 1710s perhaps at Annapolis Royal and may have moved on to Cobeguit at the eastern end of the Minas Bastin.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1718 and 1736, Françoise gave Pierre seven children, four sons and three daughters.  The family moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Pierre, Françoise, and four of their children at La Traverse on the island's south shore.  Two of Pierre's daughters married into the Aucoin and Dugas families.  Pierre, Françoise, and two of their sons died during the deportation to France in 1758.  At least one of Pierre's sons created his own family, but the line did not survive. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born probably at Cobeguit in c1722, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean Hébert and Claire Dugas, perhaps at Cobeguit in c1749.  Between 1750 and 1754, Marie gave Pierre, fils two sons.  They followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1751 and also were counted at La Traverse in August 1752.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758, with devastating results.  Pierre, fils and his two sons died at sea.  Only wife Marie-Madeleine survived the crossing.  She settled at Ploubalay, on the west said of the river south of St.-Malo. 

Martin's third son Martin, fils, by second wife Marguerite Guilbeau, born at Port-Royal in c1693, married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of Martin Dupuis and Marie Landry, at Grand-Pré in October 1714 and settled at Cobeguit.  Between 1715 and 1731, Isabelle gave Martin, fils six children, three sons and three daughters.  According to Bona Arsenault, Isabelle gave Martin, fils another son, Germain, in c1723.  Two of their daughters married into the Aucoin family.  All of his sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Anselme, born at Cobeguit in c1717, married Marie, daughter of Jean Robichaud and Marie Léger, in c1736, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1737 and 1745, Marie gave Anselme three children, a son and two daughters.  Anselme remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Noël Doiron and Marie Henry, in c1747, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1750, Marguerite gave Anselme three more daughters.  The family moved on to Île Royale, where a French official counted Anselme, Marguerite, and six of his children from both wives at St.-Esprit on the Atlantic coast in February 1752.  They were deported to France in 1758.  Anselme died at Rochefort in September 1759, age 42, not long after reaching the mother country.  His son created his own family in France.

Only son Joseph le jeune, by first wife Marie Robichaud, born at Cobeguit in c1743, followed his family to Île Royale and Rochefort, France.  He moved on to St.-Malo in 1763 and married Gertrude, daughter of François Thériot and Françoise Guérin, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, near St.-Malo, February 1766.  Between 1766 and 1769, Gertrude gave Joseph le jeune two children, a son and a daughter.  Their daughter died a day after her birth, and Gertrude died at St.-Servan in August 1772, age 27.  Joseph le jeune remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean Henry and Marie Carret, at St.-Servan in January 1773.  Marie gave Joseph le jeune another son in 1774.  What happened to the family after that date? 

Martin, fils's second son Jean, born perhaps at Cobeguit in the late 1710s or early 1720s, married Catherine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Forest and Marie-Élisabeth Labarre, in c1744, place unrecorded.  What happened to them in 1755?  Jean died at Yamaska, Canada, in September 1789, in his 70s.

Martin, fils's putative son Germain, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1723, married Marie-Josèphe Aucoin in c1745, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Germain a son, Jean, in 1746.  One wonders what became of them after 1755.   

Martin, fils's youngest son Joseph, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1731, moved to the French Maritimes and married Anne-Symphorose, daughter of Pierre Hébert and Marguerite Bourg, in c1758, on the eve of the islands' dérangement.  The British deported them to France in 1758.  They were counted at St.-Sulac, on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, in 1760.  Between 1761 and 1771, at St.-Suliac, Anne-Symphorose gave Joseph six children, four sons and two daughters, one of whom died an infant.  Joseph took his family to Poitou in the early 1770s and retreated to the lower Loire port of Nantes with other Poitou Acadians in March 1776.  He and Anne buried their oldest son, Joseph-Jean-François, age 15, at Nantes in June 1776, but between 1776 and 1781, Anne gave Joseph three more children, two sons and a daughter.  Only the daughter survived infancy.  Joseph died in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in December 1783, age 52.  His widow and six of their children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.  Their two remaining daughters married into the Trahan, Comeaux, and Bourg families on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Three of Joseph's four surviving sons created their own families in France and Louisiana, but only two of the lines endured. 

Second son Laurent-Olivier, born at St.-Suliac, France, in August 1765, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings Louisiana in 1785>  He married Anne-Simone, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Madeleine Dugas, at Ascension on the river above New Orleans in July 1786.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Laurent died in Assumption Parish on the upper Lafourche in June 1816, age 51.  His only daughter Marie evidently did not marry.  Four of his five sons married into the Landry, Guillot, and Templet families and created their own lines on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Joseph's third son Pierre-Joseph, born at St.-Suliac in September 1769, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana in 1785.  He married Marguerite-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Aucoin and his second wife Cécile Richard, at Ascension in July 1790.  They, too, settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Pierre-Joseph died in St. James Parish on the river in August 1827, age 57.  His daughters married into the Folley and Landry families.  Three of his four sons married into the Guillot, Thomas, and Hébert families and created their own lines on the upper Lafourche. 

Joseph's fourth son Louis-Suliac, born at St.-Suliac in October 1771, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana in 1785.  He settled with them on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Louis-Suliac died in Assumption Parish on the upper Lafourche in May 1793, age 22, still a bachelor. 

Joseph's fifth son Élie, born probably in Poitou in c1774, followed his family to Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana in 1785.  He married cousin Eudoxe-Marie-Gillette, daughter of fellow Acadians François Blanchard and Hélène-Judith Giroir, at Ascension in January 1793.  They, too, settled on the upper Lafourche.  Élie died in Assumption Parish in December 1845, age 71.  He and his wife seem to have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children, so his line of the family died with him. 

Martin, père's fourth son Joseph, by second wife Marguerite Guilbeau, born probably at Port-Royal in c1694, married Anne, another daughter of Martin Dupuis and Marie Landry, at Grand-Pré in July 1718 and may have moved on to Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, from 1722 to 1733, Anne gave Joseph five sons.  Other records show that she gave him three others sons between 1722 and 1741.  Joseph took his family to Île St.-Jean after 1752.  Along with wife Anne, he died during the deportation to France in 1758.  All of their sons created families of their own, but two of the families perished in the deportation to France, and other lines did not endure. 

Oldest son Jean, perhaps Jean-Baptiste, born at Cobeguit in c1722, married Anne Bourg probably at Cobeguit in c1744.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1755, Anne gave Jean five children, two sons and three daughters.  They followed his parents to Île St.-Jean, where they were counted on Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the interior of the island in August 1752 and were deported to France in 1758.  According to Bona Arsenault, they were counted at St.-Méloir-des-Ondes, in the countryside east of St.-Malo, in 1763.  One of their sons created a family of his own. 

Older son Jean-Grégoire, called Grégoire, born probably at Cobeguit in c1745, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo, France, where he became a wood polisher.  He married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Livois and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Poirier, probably in Poitou in c1774.  Marie-Madeleine gave Grégoire a daughter at Châtellerault, Poitou, in February 1775, but the girl died at age 1.  In March 1776, Grégoire and Marie retreated to the lower Loire port of Nantes with other Poitou Acadians.  Between 1776 and 1785, in Nantes, Marie gave him three more children, a daughter and two sons.  Grégoire, Marie, and their three children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  She gave him no more children there.  Jean-Grégoire died in Assumption Parish on upper Bayou Lafourche in October 1811, age 66.  His daughter married into the Landry family on Bayou Lafourche.  Both of his sons also married, into the Aucoin, Boudreaux, Dupuis, and Peltier families, and settled on the Lafourche.

Joseph's second son Germain, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1722, married Marguerite Bourg probably at Cobeguit in c1745.  Between 1746 and 1758, Marguerite gave Germain six children, three sons and three daughters.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean after 1752 and were deported to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Marguerite and five of the children--Ambroise, age 10; Charles le jeune, age 7; Marguerite, age 5; Marie, age 2; and Perinne, born on the crossing in December--either died at sea or in a St.-Malo hospital soon after reaching the port.  Only Germain and his oldest son Jean, age 12, survived the crossing.  Germain remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Michel Aucoin and Marie Henry of Cobeguit, at Langrolay, on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, in March 1762.  Between 1763 and 1765, in the St.-Malo area, Marie-Josèphe gave Germain four more children, all daughters, including a set of twins, all of whom died as infants.  Germain's only surviving child created his own family.  One wonders what happened to Germain and Marie-Josèphe in France.  They did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Oldest son Jean, born probably at Cobeguit in c1746, followed his family to France and his father to Langrolay.  He married step-aunt Élisabeth, daughter of Michel Aucoin and Marie Henry of Cobeguit, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, in July 1765.  Between 1766 and 1773, at Pleudihen, Élisabeth gave Jean four children, three sons and a daughter.  They also lived at St.-Suliac north of Pleudieh and across the river at Langrolay.  One wonders what became of them after 1773.  They did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.   

Joseph's third son Joseph, fils, born perhaps at Cobeguit in the early 1720s, married Marguerite-Josèphe or -Geneviève Pitre probably at Cobeguit in c1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Joseph a son, François-Xavier, in c1747.  Other records show that, between 1748 and 1756, she gave him four other children, three sons and a daughter.  Joseph, fils took his family to Île St.-Jean after 1752, and the British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  The four youngest children--Guillaume, age 10; Michel, age 7; Joseph-Mathurin, age 5; and Marguerite-Modeste, age 2--died at sea.  Joseph, fils survived the crossing but died in a St.-Malo hospital in February 1759, age 39, soon after reaching the port.  Only daughter Marguerite and oldest son François-Xavier, age 11, survived the rigors of the crossing. They settled at nearby St.-Suliac.  One wonders what became of them after 1759.  They did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Joseph, père's fourth son Alexis, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1725, moved on to Île St.-Jean after 1752 and married Marie, daughter of Jean Pitre and Marguerite Thériot, at Port-La-Joye on the island in October 1753.  Between 1754 and 1757, Marie gave Alexis three children, a son and two daughters.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758 aboard one of the so-called Five Ships.  All three of the children died at sea.  Alexis died in a St.-Malo hospital in early February 1759, age 34, soon after reaching the port.  Wife Marie gave birth to daughter Nicole a day after Alexis's death.  She and the baby died a week later, so none of the family survived deportation. 

Joseph, père's fifth son Jean, who would have been the second with the name, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1727, married Françoise, daughter of François Moyse dit Latreille and Marie Brun, probably at Cobeguit in c1751 and moved on to Île St.-Jean after 1752.  Between 1752 and 1757, Françoise gave Jean three childern, a son and two daughters.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in November 1758.  All three children and Jean died at sea.  Widow Françoise gave birth to son Jean-Antoine at St.-Malo in February 1759, soon after reaching the port.  The baby died a day after his birth, and Françoise died a week later, so none of this family survived the deportation. 

Joseph, père's sixth son François, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1731, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, was deported to France in 1758, and married Hélène-Judith, daughter of Honoré Girouard and Marie-Josèphe Theriot, at Pleslin on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo in October 1763.  Between 1765 and 1773, at St.-Suliac across the river, Hélène gave François three children, all daughters.  They went to Poitou in the early 1770s.  Hélène gave François a son there in April 1775.  They retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in March 1776.  Between 1777 and 1782, Hélène gave François four more children, two sons and two daughters, in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes.  Both sons and the younger daughters died as infants.  François, Hélène, and four of their children, their daughters and a son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  François died at Assumption on upper Bayou Lafourche in January 1794, age 63.  His three daughters married into the Gautreaux, Bourg, Blanchard, and Comeaux families on the upper Lafourche.  His remaining son evidently survived childhood but did not marry, so his father's line, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State.  

Joseph, père's seventh son Charles, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1733, followed his family to the French Maritimes, was deported to France in 1758, and married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Dugas and Isabelle Bourg, at St.-Suliac in January 1762.  Between 1764 and 1770, Marie gave Charles four children, two sons and two daughters, at St.-Suliac.  The older daughter died a day after her birth.  They also went to Poitou in 1773.  Wife Marguerite-Josèphe died at Châtellerault, Poitou, in February 1775, age 36.  Charles and his three children retreated to Nantes with other Poitou Acadians in March 1776.  Daughter Marie died there in July 1777, age 7.  Charles and his two sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 on the last of the Seven Ships.  He did not remarry in Louisiana but died probably on upper Bayou Lafourche by January 1788, in his early 50s.  Both of his sons married, into the Hébert, Girouard, and Aucoin families, and settled on the Lafourche. 

Joseph, père's eighth and youngest son Bénoni, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1741, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in the summer of 1755, and to France in late 1758.  He married Agnès, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dugas and Isabelle Bourg, at St.-Suliac in February 1764.  She gave him a son at St.-Malo who died the following August, soon after his birth.  Wife Agnès died two days later, probably from the rigors of childbirth.  Bénoni remarried to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Forest and Claire Vincent, at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west bank of the river south of St.-Malo, in February 1766.  Between 1767 and 1773, Madeleine gave Bénoni four children, two sons and two daughters, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo and at St.-Suliac.  They also went to Poitou in 1773, and Madeleine gave Bénoni another son there in April 1775.  In March 1776, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to Nantes, where Bénoni worked as a day-laborer and seaman.  He and Madeleine buried their year-old son in Ste.-Croix Parish, Nantes, in April 1776.  Between 1776 and 1782, in Ste.-Croix Parish, Madeleine gave Bénoni four more children, three daughters and a son--10 children, five sons and five daughters, by two wives between 1764 and 1782.  Bénoni, Marguerite, and six of their children, three daughters and three sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and also settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Bénoni died in Assumption Parish in July 1821, age 80.  His daughters, all from second wife Madeleine, married into the Forest, Moyse, and Pitre families on the upper Lafourche.  Two of his three sons, from second wife Madeleine, also married, into the Templet and Trahan families, and settled on the bayou and the river.  Bénoni's youngest son may not have survived the crossing from France. 

Martin, père's fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Marguerite Guilbeau, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1712, married Anne, daughter of François Bourg and Madeleine Hébert, in c1744.  Like his older brothers, he moved on to Île St.-Jean, in 1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Jean-Baptiste, Anne, and three of their children at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior.  Jean-Baptiste died probably on the island before 1758.  One wonders what happened to his family in 1758. 

Jean's second son Guillaume, born at Port-Royal in c1650, married Huguette, daughter of Antoine Gougeon and Jeanne Chebrat, at Port-Royal in c1673.  Between 1674 and 1697, Huguette gave Guillaume a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters.  During the late 1690s, Guillaume secured a grant of seigneurie from Acadia's Commandant Villebon on lower Rivière Petitcoudiac in the area west of Chignecto known as the trois-rivières.  His daughters married into the Bourgeois, Daigre, Leprince, Girouard, and Gautrot families.  Five of his seven sons also created their own families.   

His oldest son, name unrecorded, born at Port-Royal in c1675, died young.   

Guillaume's second son René, born probably at Port-Royal in c1677, not to be confused with his first cousin of the same name and birth year, married Marie, daughter of Germain Savoie and Marie Breau, at Port-Royal in January 1708 and remained there.  Between 1709 and 1731, Marie gave René 13 children, six sons and seven daughters, including a set of twins, at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal.  René died at Annapolis Royal in 1754, age 77.  His family was deported to Massachusetts in 1755.  Four of his daughters married into the Haché dit Gallant, Lord, and Maillet families.  Five of his six sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Jean, born at Port-Royal in March 1709, married Marie-Rose, called Rose, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau le jeune and Anne-Marie Aucoin, in c1733 and settled at Petitcoudiac.  According to Bona Arsenault, Jean remarried to Catherine Forest in c1744.  Between 1734 and 1770, according to Arsenault, Jean's two wives gave him 10 children, four sons and six daughters.  The family resettled at nearby Chepoudy, escaped the British in 1755, and sought refuge in Canada.  They were counted at Québec in 1757, at St.-François-du-Sud near Montmagny below Québec in 1760, at nearby Berthier in 1763, and at St.-Michel d'Yamaska in the interior south of Trois-Rivières in 1767.  Two of his daughters by second wife Catherine married into the Laplante and Bergeron families at Yamaska and nearby Nicolet.  Only one of his sons created his own family.

Older son Jean-Baptiste by second wife Catherine Forest, born in the trois-rivières in c1745, followed his family to Canada, and married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Paul Petit and Marie Fontaine, at Varennes near Montréal in February 1774. 

Rene's second son Paul, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1710, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Étienne Martin and Marie-Jeanne Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1739 and settled at Petitcoudiac.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1758, Marie-Josèphe gave Paul five children, two sons and three daughters.  The family resettled at Chepoudy, moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1756, left the island soon afterwards, and sought refuge in Canada.  They were counted at Québec in 1757 and 1758 and at Repentigny north of Montréal in 1763.  Paul died at Repentigny in March 1765, age 54.  Only one of his two sons created his own family.

Older son Vincent, born probably in the trois-rivières in c1742, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and Canada.  He married cousin Marie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Blanchard and Marguerite Girouard, at Repentigny in October 1768. 

René's third son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1713, married Marie, daughter of François Bourg and Catherine Cormier, at Beaubassin in February 1743 and settled at Petitcoudiac.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Pierre a daughter in c1744.  He died perhaps at Petitcoudiac in the mid-1750s, in his early 40s.  Widow Marie and their daughter escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Daughter Marie married into the Laure family at Kamarouska on the lower St. Lawrence in August 1764 so the blood of this family line may have endured. 

René fourth son René, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1716, probably died young. 

René's fifth son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1719, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Dupuis and Anne Richard, at Annapolis Royal in January 1744.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1754, Marguerite gave Joseph three children, two sons and a daughter.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

René's sixth and youngest son, a second René, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1724, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Jean Comeau and Madeleine Amireau, in c1747 probably at Annapolis Royal.  Records show that Isabelle gave Rene, fils a daughter and a son probably at Annapolis Royal in c1751 and c1752.  They evidently escaped the British roundup in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  René, fils died at Québec in January 1758, victim, perhaps, like his paternal uncle Charles, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees that fall and winter.  Evidently his widow Isabelle and their children retreated from Canada back to greater Acadia, where they were either captured by, or surrendered to, the British in the early 1760s and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Isabelle may not have survived the experience.  Her daughter Marguerite and son Victor, now in their early teens, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1764-65.  Marguerite married into the Broussard dit Beausoleil family on the river.  Son Victor also married in the Spanish colony. 

Only son Victor, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1752,  followed his family to Canada, where his father died in a smallpox epidemic at Québec later in the decade, and his widowed mother back to greater Acadia and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Victor's mother may not have survived the experience.  With older sister Marguerite and other Nova Scotia refugees, Victor, now in his early teens, came to Louisiana in 1765 and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  He married Anne-Perpétué, called Perpétué, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Duhon and Marie Vincent, at nearby Ascension in February 1775.  Soon after their marriage, they followed his sister and her Broussard husband to the Attakapas District, the first Acadian Blanchards to settle on the western prairies.  Victor died a widower in St. Martin Parish in December 1822, age 70.  Evidently he and Perpétué were that rare Acadian couple who had no children, so his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Guillaume's third son Antoine, born at Port-Royal in c1679, married Élisabeth, daughter of Claude Thériot and Marie Gautrot, at Annapolis Royal in January 1707.  Between 1708 and 1728, Élisabeth gave Antoine 10 children, three sons and seven daughters, at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal.  Antoine died at Annapolis Royal in October 1750, in his early 70s.  Four of his daughters married into the Girouard, Richard, and Cormier families, and one of them, Anne, emigrated to Louisiana in 1765.  All three of Antoine's sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1714, married Marguerite, daughter of Guillaume Girouard and Marie Bernard, at Annapolis Royal in July 1743.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1760, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste five children, two sons and three daughters.  The family escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  They were counted at Québec in 1757, Dechambault in 1760, and Repentigny in 1768.  Jean-Baptiste died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan near Montréal in July 1779, age 65.  Two of his daughters married into the Blanchard and Langlois families at Repentigny.  One wonders what happened to his sons. 

Antoine's second son Honoré, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1716, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Girouard and Anne Bastarache, at Annapolis Royal in January 1739.  They evidently escaped the British in 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore but, in the early 1760s, were either captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and sent to the prison compound at Halifax.  They appeared on a repatriation list there in August 1763.  One wonders what happened to them after that date. 

Antoine's third and youngest son Paul, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1718, married Judith, daughter of Paul Savoie and Judith Michel, in c1746 probably at Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1748 and 1749, Judith gave Paul two sons.  They evidently escaped the British in 1755 but were captured by, or surrendered to, the British in the early 1760s and sent to a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  As teenagers, their two sons emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and created their own families there.   Paul and Judith did not go to Louisiana, so they may have survived exile. 

Older son Joseph, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1748, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755, followed his family into exile, and, with them in the early 1760s, either surrendered to, or was captured, by, British forces in the area and sent to a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Joseph came to Louisiana in 1765 as an orphaned teenager with his younger brother and settled with him at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Joseph married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Dupuis and Anne Gaudet, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in November 1772.  Between 1774 and 1778, Marie gave Joseph three daughters at Cabahannocer, one of them born posthumously:  Joseph died at Cabahannocer in August 1778, age 30.  All of his daughters married, into the Bernard, Richard, Breaux, and Savoie families, two on the river and one on the prairies.  Joseph fathered no sons, so his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Paul's younger son Pierre, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1749, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and followed his family into exile.  With them in the early 1760s, he either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Pierre came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765 with his old brother and settled with him at Cabahannocer.  Pierre married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Charles Breau and Marie Benoit, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in February 1778.  Between 1778 and 1787, at Cabahannocer, Marguerite gave Pierre five children, four daughters and a son.  Pierre died probably in the early 1800s in St. James Parish, formerly Cabahannocer.  His daughters married into the Michel and Thibodeaux families.  His son also married, into the Bernard family, and created a vigorous line in St. James Parish. 

Guillaume's fourth son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1687, may have survived childhood but did not marry.   

Guillaume's fifth son Guillaume, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1690, married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Dupuis and Madeleine Landry, at Annapolis Royal in January 1714.  Between 1714 and January 1736, Jeanne gave Guillaume, fils nine children, two sons and seven daughters, at Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, Jeanne gave Guillaume, fils two more sons in 1718 and 1733.  Guillaume, fils died at Annapolis Royal in February 1752, in his early 60s.  Six of his daughters married into the Comeau, Émery dit Coderre, Savoie, Dufaut, and Girouard dit Malouin families.  All but one of his sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Guillaume III, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1714, died there at age 2 1/2  in October 1713. 

Guillaume, fils's putative son Pierre, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1718, married Julienne, daughter of Pierre Vincent and Marie Granger of Pigiguit, in c1740.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1741 and 1746, Jeanne gave Pierre a son and a daughter.  The couple evidently escaped the British roundup in 1755 and took refuge in Canada.  Pierre and Julienne were counted at Québec in 1758.  Their son's fate was different for some reason. 

Only son François-Olivier, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1741, evidently did not escape the British roundup there in 1755.  (One wonders how he became separated from his parents)  He married fellow Acadian Euphrosine LeBlanc, a widow, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in October 1761 while in exile.  One wonders what happened to them.  They do not appear on the repatriation lit in that colony in June 1763.  

Guillaume, fils's second or third son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1722, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Marguerite Bourgeois, at Annapolis Royal in October 1747.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1767, Marguerite gave Joseph four children, three sons and a daughter.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755 and took refuge in Canada.  Joseph remarried to Françoise-Marguerite, daughter of Charles Daigre and Françoise Doucet and widow of François Benoit, at St.-Ours, on lower Rivière Richelieu, in November 1770.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1771 and 1775, Françoise-Marguerite gave Joseph three more daughters.  Three of his daughters by both wives married into the Gaudet, Gatineau-Brindamour, and Jacob families.  One of his three sons created his own family.

Third and youngest son Joseph, fils was born in c1767 probably in Canada, and married Marguerite, daughter of François Benoit and Françoise Daigle, at St.-Ours in February 1793. 

Guiallume, fils's putative son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1733, married Marguerite Comeau in c1755, either at Annapolis Royal on the eve of exile or in exile, perhaps on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste a daughter, Élizabeth, in c1760.  They were counted at Yamachiche on the lower St. Lawrence in 1767.  Their daughter married into the Gauthier family at Yamachiche in February 1779.  They evidently had no sons. 

Guillaume, père's sixth son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1695, married Anne, daughter of Alexandre Robichaud and Anne Melanson, at Annapolis Royal in November 1718.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1719 and 1742, Anne gave Pierre six children, three sons and three daughters.  Records show that Anne gave Pierre another son in c1739, perhaps at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières.  Members of the family evidently escaped the British in 1755 but were captured by, or surrendered to, them in the early 1760s and sent to a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  One of Pierre's daughters married into the Girouard family.  All four of his sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1719, married Anne, daughter of Étienne Martin and Marie-Josèphe Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1744.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Pierre, fils twin sons in 1755.  One wonders what became of them after that date. 

Pierre, père's second son Alexandre, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1721, married Anne, daughter of Antoine Brun and Françoise Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1751.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Alexandre a daughter in 1751.  One wonders what became of them in 1755. 

Pierre, père's third son Joseph, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1739, may have been deported to South Carolina in 1755, returned to greater Acadia by boat in 1756, took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, was captured by, or surrendered to, Britith forces in the area in the early 1760s, and sent him to a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  He followed his younger, married brother Amable to Louisiana in 1764-65 and settled with them at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where he married fellow Acadian Anne-Esther, called Esther, Bourgeois, in c1769.  Between 1770 and 1786, Anne-Esther gave Joseph seven children, three daughters and four sons, at Cabahannocer.  Joseph's daughters Félicité and Modeste married into the Bourg and Cahier families.  His three olders sons married into the Fontenot, Picou, Berteau, and Bertrand families.  They settled on the river, on upper Bayou Lafourche, and in the Attakapas District and helped establish new centers of Blanchard family settlement in the Bayou State.  

Pierre, père's fourth and youngest son Amable, born in c1742 probably at Petitcoudiac, was deported to South Carolina in 1755, may have returned to greater Acadia by boat in 1756, was captured by the British in the early 1760s, and sent to a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  He married Nathalie, daughter of François Girouard and Marie Guilbeau, in c1762 probably in Nova Scotia.  They emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1764-65.  Nathalie gave Amable a son either at sea or at Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in c1765.  From New Orleans Amable took his family to Cabahannocer, where Nathalie gave him at least six more children, three daughters and three sons--seven children, four sons and three daughters, in all.  One of Amable's daughter married into the Arnaud family.  Only one of his sons married, into the Mouton family at Cabahannocer, and perpetuated the family line in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Guillaume, père's seventh and youngest son Charles, born at Port-Royal in c1697, married Madeleine, daughter of Alexandre Girouard and Marie LeBorgne de Bélisle, at Annapolis Royal in January 1718.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1719 and 1739, Madeleine gave Charles 10 children, four sons and six daughters.  They evidently escaped the British roundup in 1755 and took refuge in Canada.  Charles died at Québec in December 1757, age 60, victim, perhaps, of a smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees in Canada that fall and winter.  Three of his daughters married into the Belliveau, Bourg, and Breau families.  One of his sons created his own family.

Oldest son Charles, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1728, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Mathieu Forest and Madeleine Guilbeau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1749.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles, fils a daughter in 1750.  One wonders what became of them in 1755. 

Jean's third and youngest son Bernard, born at Port-Royal in c1653, was counted with his family in the first Acadian census of 1671, age 18, but he did not marry.357

Landry

René Landry l'aîné, an early 1640s arrival, and his wife Perrine Bourg created the first, and what proved to be the smaller, branch of the Landry family in Acadia.  Between 1646 and 1663, Perrine gave René l'aîné five children, three daughters and two sons.  René l'aîné died at Port-Royal between 1678 and 1686, in his 60s.  His daughters married into the Doucet, Comeau, Granger, Richard dit Beaupré, and Dupuis families.  Both of his sons created families of their own.  Most of their descendants remained at what became Annapolis Royal, but others settled at Cap-Sable and in the French Maritimes.  The Landrys constituted the largest Acadian family to emigrate to Louisiana--at least 204 of them went there bearing the name, from Georgia in 1764, Halifax in 1765, Maryland in the 1760s, and France in 1785.  Only four of them, all siblings, came from this line of the family, among the 54 Landrys who went to Louisiana from France.  After Le Grand Dérangement, most of l'aîné's descendants could be found not in Louisiana but in France, on Newfoundland, and in British Canada.  They were especially numerous along the north shore of Lac-St.-Pierre on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Montréal, and in the British-controlled fishery at Carleton in Gaspésie along the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs. 

Older son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1658, married Madeleine, daughter of Étienne Robichaud dit Cadet and Françoise Boudrot, at Port-Royal in c1682 and remained there.  Between 1683 and 1698, Madeleine gave Pierre six children, five sons and a daughter.  Their daughter married into the Mius d'Entremont de Pobomcoup family.  All five of Pierre's sons married, but not all of the lines endured.   

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1683, married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Mius d'Entremont de Pobomcoup and Anne de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, in c1712 and settled at Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable, where Marguerite's family held a seigneurie.  Between 1715 and 1724, Marguerite gave Pierre, fils five children, three sons and two daughters.  They evidently were among the Cap-Sable-area Acadians captured by the British there in September 1758, transported to Georges Island, Halifax harbor, the following month, held there for a year, deported from Halifax to England in November 1759, and sent on to Cherbourg, France, where they arrived in January 1760.  They were still at Cherbourg in 1773, when Pierre, fils would have been in his late 80s.  Wife Marguerite also was still alive, but she was reported to be "trés infirme et grabataire," that is, very infirm and bedridden.  Pierre, fils died by 1775, in his early 90s, when his widow was listed at Cherbourg with two of her Landry sons.  Their daughters married into the Melanson and Bourg families in Nova Scotia.  Pierre, fils's three sons reached middle-age, but only one of them seems to have married.  If they were still alive, none of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  

Oldest son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1715, was baptized at Cap-Sable in December 1716, captured by the British at Cap-Sable in September 1758, transported to Georges Island, Halifax harbor, the following month, held there for a year, deported from Halifax to England in November 1759, and sent on to Cherbourg, France, where he arrived in January 1760.  French officials counted him at Cherbourg in 1761, 1767, and 1772, when he would have been well into his middle age.  Cherbourg officials noted that in 1773 Joseph, now in his late 50s, was "perclus de ses membres, suite des fatigues de la dernière guerre et fruite dans les bois," that is, crippled as a result of his efforts in the last war and his efforts "in the woods."   Joseph was still living with his mother at Cherbourg in 1775.  He did not marry, nor did he emigrate to Spanish Louisiana. 

Pierre, fils's second son Pierre III, born at Annapolis Royal in c1720, was captured by the British at Cap-Sable in September 1758, transported to Halifax the following month, held there for a year, deported from Halifax to England in November 1759, and sent on to Cherbourg, France, where he arrived in January 1760.  French officials counted him at Cherbourg, probably living with older brother Joseph, in 1761, 1767, and 1772.  Cherbourg officials noted that in 1773, when Pierre would have been in his early 50s, he was "presque impotent des jambes, pour les mêmes raisons," that is, as crippled as his older brother Joseph and for the same reasons.  Pierre was still living with his widowed mother at Cherbourg in 1775.  Like older brother Joseph, Pierre neither married nor emigrated to Louisiana. 

Pierre, fils's third and youngest son Grégoire, born at Annapolis Royal in c1724, was captured by the British at Cap-Sable in September 1758, transported to Halifax the following month, held there for a year, deported from Halifax to England in November 1759, and sent on to Cherbourg, France, where he arrived in January 1760.  He, too, was counted at Cherbourg in 1767 and 1772, living, most likely, with his older brothers.  He was not listed with his mother and older brothers at Cherbourg in 1775.  The French official who compiled the list noted that Grégoire was living in the city with "son Pierre," but said nothing of the boy's mother. 

Pierre, père's second son Jean-Baptiste dit Toc, born at Port-Royal in c1690, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Melanson and Marie Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in January 1714 and settled there.  Between 1715 and 1733, Marguerite gave Toc six children, three sons and three daughters.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Marguerite died at Québec in February 1758, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadians in the area from the fall of 1757 into the spring of 1758.  One of her and Toc's daughters married into the Raymond family and, according to Bona Arsenault, a younger one married into the Janot family.  All three of Toc's sons survived childhood, but only one of them created a family of his own. 

Oldest son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1715, died there in August 1733, age 18. 

Toc's second son Jean-Baptiste dit Croqs, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1721, was a middle-aged bachelor when he escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  At age 39, he married Catherine, daughter of Jean Breau and Catherine Thibodeau, at St.-Joachim on the St. Lawrence below Québec in July 1760.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1779, Catherine gave Croqs 10 children, four sons and six daughters.  Croqs died at St.-Joachim in June 1798, age 77.  Two of his daughters married into the Guérin and Lessard families at St.-Joachim.  What happened to his sons? 

Toc's third and youngest son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in c1733, followed his family into exile in Canada in 1755.  He died at Québec in April 1758, in his mid-20s, a late victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadians in the Canadian capital in the fall, winter, and spring of 1757-58 and which took the lives of his widowed mother and two older sisters.  Charles did not marry.   

Pierre, père's third son René, born at Port-Royal in c1693, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Abraham Mius de Pleinmarais and Marguerite de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, at Annapolis Royal in October 1717 and settled on the Mius's seigneurie at Pobomcoup.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1718 and 1744, Marie-Josèphe gave René eight chldren, five daughters and three sons.  René and his family evidently were among the Cap-Sable-area Acadians captured by the British in September 1758, transported to Georges Island, Halifax harbor, the following month, held there for a year, deported from Halifax to England in November 1759, and sent on to Cherbourg, France, where they arrived in January 1760.  René died there the following March, in his late 60s, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  His daughters married into the D'Entremont, Granger, and Landry families at Pobomcoup and in France.  Two of his sons also created their own families at Pobomcoup and in France, but only one of the lines endured.  Two of René's grandsons and two of his granddaughters, all from his oldest son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785--perhaps the only descendants of René Landry l'aîné to go to the Spanish colony.

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1721, married Cécile, daughter of Joseph Mius d'Entremont and Marie Amireau of Pobomcoup, at Annapolis Royal in July 1750.  They likely settled at Pobomcoup.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1751 and 1757, Cécile gave Joseph three children, two sons and a daughter.  They evidently were among the Cap-Sable-area Acadians captured by the British in September 1758, transported to Halifax, held there for a year, deported to France via England, and landed at Cherbourg in January 1760.  Joseph remarried to Jeanne-Marie-Madeleine, daughter of locals Antoine Varangue and Jeanne Le Terrier of Cherbourg, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in April 1763.  Between 1763 and 1773, she gave him at least three more sons and three daughters at Cherbourg.  Joseph took his family to Poitou in 1773.  One of his younger sons died at Châtellerault soon after they arrived, and his oldest son married a fellow Acadian at Cenan near Châtellerault in August 1775.  Joseph, père died at nearby Archigny in November 1774, in his early 50s.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, Jeanne-Marie-Madeleine and five of her children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  One of her and Joseph, père's younger daughters died in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, age 6, in September 1777.  Jeanne-Marie-Madeleine died there in April 1780, age 40.  Four of her and Joseph, père's children, two sons and two daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Joseph, père's oldest son Joseph, fils, called Joseph dit Bernardeau, from first wife Cécile, and his family chose to remain in the mother country.  In the Spanish colony, Joseph, père and Jeanne-Marie-Madeleine's daughters married into the Cancieni and Marois families on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their sons also created families there, but only one of the lines endured.   

Oldest son Joseph, fils, dit Bernardeau, from first wife Cécile Mius d'Entremont, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1752, followed his family to Halifax, Cherbourg, and Poitou.  He married Marie-Théotiste, called Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Girouard and Marguerite Gaudet, at Cenan, Poitou, in August 1775.  In December 1775, they retreated with his widowed stepmother, his five half-siblings, and dozens of other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes and settled in the suburb of Chantenay.  Between 1777 and 1782, Théotiste gave Bernardeau three children there, two sons and a daughter.  The older son died soon after his birth.  In 1785, Bernardeau and Théotiste chose not accompany his four Landry half-siblings to Spanish Louisiana. 

Third son Aimable-Étienne, by second wife Jeanne-Marie-Madeleine Varangue, born in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in December 1765, followed his family to Poitou and his widowed mother to Nantes and accompanied three of his siblings to Louisiana in 1785.  He settled with them on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Aimable married Ursule-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Pitre and Ursule Breaux, at Ascension on the river above New Orleans in February 1788.  They settled on the upper Lafourche.  Aimable died in Assumption Parish in July 1832, age 67.  His daughters married into the Barrilleaux, Colon, Forest, and Hunot families.  Three of his five sons married into the Landry, Forest, and Boudreaux families on the Lafourche.  

Joseph's fifth and youngest son Abraham-Isaac, by second wife Jeanne-Marie-Madeleine Varangue, born in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in February 1772, followed his family to Poitou and his widowed mother to Nantes and accompanied three of his siblings to Louisiana in 1785.  He settled with them on upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Anne-Olive, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Aucoin and Marie-Geneviève Theriot, at Assumption in November 1795.  Abraham died in Assumption Parish in October 1816, age 44.  His only son, perhaps his only child, died young, so the family line did not endure. 

René's third and youngest son René, fils, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1733, married Marie, daughter of Jacques d'Entremont and Margeuerite Amireau of Pobomcoup, at Annapolis Royal in July 1753 and probably settled at Pobomcoup.  They, too, were captured at Pobomcoup in September 1758, transported to Halifax, held there for a year, deported to France via England, and landed at Cherbourg in January 1760.  René, fils died in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in May 1760, age 26  One wonders if he fathered any children. 

Pierre, père's fourth son François dit Micas, born at Port-Royal in c1696, married Marie, daughter of Jean Belliveau and Madeleine Melanson, at Annapolis Royal in January 1723 and also may have settled at Cap-Sable.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1742, Marie gave Micas seven children, three daughters and four sons.  Micas and his family evidently were among the cape-area Acadians captured by the British in September 1758, transported to Halifax the following month, held there for a year, deported from Halifax to England in November 1759, and sent on to Cherbourg, France, where they arrived in January 1760.  Micas died in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in April 1760, in his early 60s.  One wonders if the Marie Landry who died in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish in April 1760, age 30, was a daughter of Micas.  Micas's daughter Anne married into the D'Entremont family at Cherbourg in February 1764 but was a widow by 1775.  Members of the family were still at Cherbourg in 1775, but not all of them remained in France.  According to Arsenault, three of Micas's sons returned to greater Acadia and worked as fishermen. 

Oldest son Jean, born at Annapolis Royal or Pobomcoup in c1730, followed his family to Halifax, England, and Cherbourg, France, where he married Anne-Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians François Vigé and Claire Lejeune and widow of Charles Hébert, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish in November 1768.  Anne-Théotiste gave Jean two daughters and a son at Cherbourg in 1771 and 1775.  The son died young.  According to Bona Arsenault, Jean returned to North America and became a cod fisherman on the Petit-Nord peninsula of Newfoundland. 

Micas's second son François, fils, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1733, followed his family to Halifax, England, and Cherbourg, France, where he died in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish in March 1760, age 26.  He probably did not marry. 

Micas's third son Pierre, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1739, followed his family to Halifax, England, and Cherbourg, France.  In 1775, a French official counted him at Cherbourg evidently living alone.  According to Bona Arsenault, Pierre also returned to North America and became a fisherman.  One wonders if he married. 

Micas's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born probably at Pobomcoup in c1742, followed his family to Halifax, England, and Cherbourg, France, where he married cousin Madeleine-Helli, daughter of fellow Acadians René Landry and Marie-Josèphe Mius de Pleinmarais of Pobomcoup, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish in June 1771.  From 1771 to 1774, Madeleine gave Joseph at least three daughters at Cherbourg, two of whom died young.  They, too, were counted at Cherbourg in 1775.  According to Bona Arsenault, Joseph also returned to North America and became a fisherman.

Pierre, père's fifth and youngest son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in c1698, married Anne, daughter of Charles Melanson and Anne Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in January 1735.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1744, Anne gave Joseph six children, three daughters and three sons.  Joseph died at Annapolis Royal in February 1744, in his mid-40s.  Members of the family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Two of Joseph's daughters married into the Barrieau and Verreault families at Québec and St.-Joachim below the city.  One of his sons also created this own family in British Canada.

Third and youngest son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in c1740, followed his family to Canada and married Marguerite-Ursule, daughter of Pierre Gamache and Geneviève Bélanger, at Cap-Saint-Ignace on the south side of the St. Lawrence below Québec in October 1771. 

René l'aîné's younger son Claude, born at Port-Royal in c1663, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Thériot and Marie Gautrot, at Port-Royal in c1683 and remained there.  Between 1684 and 1713, Marguerite gave Claude 10 children, four sons and six daughters.  Claude died at Annapolis Royal in December 1740, in his late 70s.  Five of his daughters married into the Dugas dit Grivois, Boudrot, Bourg, and Petitot dit Saint-Seine families, and three of them settled at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale.  All four of his sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Claude, fils, also called Claude dit le Jeune, born at Port-Royal in c1690, married Marie, daughter of Jean Babineau and Marguerite Boudrot, at Annapolis Royal in April 1711 and settled there.  Between 1712 and 1735, Marie gave Claude, fils eight children, five sons and three daughters.  Claude, fils, his wife, and members of his family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Claude, fils died at Québec in January 1758, in his late 60s, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadians in the area from the fall of 1757 into the spring of 1758.  Wife Marie had died at Québec the previous November, age 68, probably a victim of smallpox.  None of their daughters married, and one of them died at Québec in December 1757, victim, most likely, of the smallpox epidemic that killed her parents and an older brother.  Three of Claude, fils's five sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Claude III, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1714, married Anne, daughter of Charles Belliveau and Marguerite Granger, at Annapolis Royal in February 1742 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1751, Anne gave Claude III four children, two daughters and two sons.  In the fall of 1755, Claude III, his wife, and members of his family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal and sought refuge in Canada.  Claude III died at Québec on the last day of December 1757, age 43, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that killed his parents and a younger sister.  According to Arsenault, his daughter Jeanne and son Claude IV, ages 15 and 10 in 1758, also died at Québec, victims, perhaps, of the same epidemic. 

Claude, fils's second son Pierre dit Minique, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1717, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Pierre Breau and Anne-François Dupuis, in c1748 probably at Annapolis Royal.  The British deported Minique and his family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  One wonders what happened to them after 1763.  Minique died after 8 January 1787, place unrecorded. 

Claude, fils's third son François, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1725, was still a bachelor when he escaped the British roundup at Annapolis in the fall of 1755.  He also sought refuge in Canada and died at Québec in August 1773, age 42, still unmarried. 

Claude, fils's fourth son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1731, may have died young. 

Claude, fils's fifth and youngest son Jean dit Bourget, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1735, escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and followed his family to Canada.  At age 30, he married Marie-Marguerite, daughter of Canadians Charles Renaud and Marie-Jeanne Balan dit Lacombe, at Charlesbourg near Québec in January 1766.  He died at Charlesbourg in late December 1782, age 47. 

Claude, père's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in c1693, married Anne, daughter of master surgeon Denis Petitot dit Saint-Seine and Marie Robichaud, at Annapolis Royal in January 1717 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1718 and 1739, Anne gave Jean-Baptiste five children, three sons and two daughters.  Jean-Baptiste and most of his family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  According to Arsenault, one of his sons and his family were deported to Massachusetts.  Jean-Baptiste died at Québec on Christmas Eve 1757, in his early 60s, a victim, most likely, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadians in the area from the fall 1757 into the spring of 1758 and also killed his older brother.  One of his daughters married into the Doucet family.  All three of his sons, including the one sent to New England, created their own families in British Canada.

Oldest son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1718, married Anne, daughter of François Raymond and Anne Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1743.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1754, Anne gave Joseph seven children, five daughters and two sons, including a set of twins.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis in the fall of 1755 and followed his family to Canada.  Joseph died at Maskinongé on the upper St. Lawrence near Trois-Rivières in 1786, in his late 60s.  Three of his daughters married into the Éthier, Masson, and Lesieur-Desaulniers families in the Trois-Rivières-Sorel area.  One of his sons also created a family there.

Older son Joseph dit Frot, born at Annapolis Royal in c1745, followed his family to Canada.  He married Antoinette, daughter of Joseph Lampron dit Charité and Françoise Desdiel-Labrèche, at Maskinongé in February 1775.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1777 and 1798, Antoinette gave Frot 10 sons. 

Jean-Baptiste's putative son Jean, born, according to Arsenault, in c1720, married Marie Comeau in c1740.  Arsenault says Marie gave Jean a daughter in c1745, that the family escaped the roundup at Annapolis in the fall of 1755 and took refuge at Chepoudy across the Bay of Fundy.  Arsenault says they nevertheless were deported to Massachusetts, where Jean and his family of five were counted at Boston in 1764.  Their oldest daughter married into the Gélinas family at Yamachiche near Trois-Rivières in October 1765.  One wonders if the rest of the family settled there. 

Jean-Baptiste's third and youngest son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in c1726, married Euphrosine, daughter of Jacques Doucet and Marie Pellerin, at Annapolis Royal in June 1751.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Pierre remarried to fellow Acadian Élisabeth LeBlanc in c1760, place unrecorded, but it likely was in Canada.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1774, Élisabeth gave Pierre four children, three sons and a daughter.  Pierre died at Maskinongé near Trois-Rivières in 1804, in his late 70s.  His daughter by second wife Élisabeth married into the Sicard de Carufel family at Maskinongé.  His three sons also created families there.

Oldest son Joseph, by second wife Élisabeth LeBlanc, born in Canada in c1762, married Geneviève Meunier at Maskinongé in 1785. 

Pierre's second son François, by second wife Élisabeth LeBlanc, born in Canada in c1765, married Marguerite, daughter of Gabriel Gauthier and Augustine Dupaul, at Maskinongé in November 1786. 

Pierre's third and youngest son Pierre, fils, by second wife Élisabeth LeBlanc, born in Canada in c1767, married Marguerite Brissard dit Saint-Germain at Maskinongé in November 1789. 

Claude, père's third son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in March 1704, married Cécile, daughter of Alexandre Robichaud and Anne Melanson, at Annapolis Royal in January 1726 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1748, Cécile gave Pierre 11 children, eight daughters and three sons.  The British deported most of the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Pierre, Cécile, and six of their children, five daughters and a son appeared on a repatriation list in the Bay Colony in August 1763.  Probably in 1766, they followed other exiles in New England to Canada.  Pierre died at Lachine above Montréal in May 1774, age 70.  One of his daughters married into the Thibodeau family, and at least one of his sons created a family of his own.

Putative oldest son Joseph, born, according to Bona Arsenault, in c1730, evidently, while still a bachelor, escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada, where he married Josèphte Barbeau at Maskinongé near Trois-Rivières in c1756.  According to Arsenault, between 1756 and 1763, Josèphte gave Joseph three daughters.  Joseph, says Arsenault, remarried to Marie-Geneviève, daughter of Augustin Vermette and Josette Journeau, at Maskinongé in June 1768.  According to Arsenault, between 1769 and 1782, Marie-Geneviève gave Joseph eight more children, three more daughters and five sons.  They remained at Maskinongé.  Joseph's daughters by his second wife married into the Alary and Sicard families at Maskinongé.  Two of his sons also married there.

Second son Augustin, by second wife Marie-Geneviève Vermette, born probably at Maskinongé in c1776, married Marie-Josèphe Élie there in January 1795. 

Joseph's fifth and youngest son Pierre, by second wife Marie-Geneviève Vermette, born probably at Maskinongé in c1782, married Euphrosine Marchand there in c1804. 

Claude, père's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1713, married Jeanne, daughter of Prudent Robichaud and Henriette Petitpas, at Annapolis Royal in October 1734 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1755, Jeanne gave Joseph 10 children, seven daughters and three sons.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  In the 1760s, perhaps in 1766, Joseph and members of his family followed other exiles in New England to Canada.  Joseph died at Deschambault on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec and Trois-Rivières in February 1768, age 54.  Some of his children remained there, while others resettled in Gaspésie on the the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Five of Joseph's daughters married into the Guitet, Loubère or Loubert, Rivard, Gauthier, and Hamelin families at Boston, Québec, Deschambault, and Bonaventure in Gapésie.  His three sons also created their own families in Gaspésie and on the St. Lawrence. 

Oldest son Claude le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in c1746, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada, where he married Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dugas and Anne LeBlanc of Gaspésie, at Québec in October 1770.  They settled at Carleton in Gaspésie, where Claude le jeune worked as a sailor.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1771 and 1792, Hélène gave Claude le jeune 14 children, seven sons and seven daughters.  Their daughters married into the Allard, Bujold, Loubert, Bernard, and Bourg families at Carleton.  Six of Claude le jeune's sons also married there, four of them to sisters.

Oldest son Joseph, born at Carleton in c1771, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Marin LeBlanc and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Carleton in January 1794. 

Claude le jeune's third son Nicolas, born at Carleton in c1773, married Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Bujold and Marie Bernard, at Carleton in February 1803. 

Claude le jeune's fourth son Sébastien-Étienne, born at Carleton in c1775, married Lucille, another daughter of Mathurin Bujold and Marie Bernard, at Carleton in January 1799, and remarried to Émérance, daughter of François Painchaud and Angélique Drouin, probably at Carleton in October 1813. 

Claude le jeune's fifth son Raymond, born at Carleton in c1776, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc and Marguerite Boudreau, at Carleton in January 1801. 

Claude le jeune's sixth son Sévère, born at Carleton in c1778, married Gilberte, also called Marie-Gilles, another daughter of Mathurin Bujold and Marie Bernard, at Carleton in January 1805. 

Claude le jeune's seventh and youngest son Marcel, born at Carleton in c1787, married Élisabeth, yet another daughter of Mathurin Bujold and Marie Bernard, at Carleton in January 1811. 

Joseph's second son Florent, born at Annapolis Royal in c1749, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada, where he married Marguerite Grégoire at Deschambault in January 1773. 

Joseph's third and youngest son Jean, born at Annapolis Royal in c1754, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada.  He followed older brother Claude le jeune to Gaspésie, where he married Marthe, another daughter of Charles Dugas and Anne LeBlanc, at Carleton in May 1776.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1777 and 1794, Marthe gave Jean eight children, six daughters and two sons, at Carleton. Their daughters married into the Arseneau, Allain, Comeau dit Clerc, LeBlanc, and Offroy families there.  Jean's two sons also married at Carleton. 

Older son Hippolyte, born at Carleton in c1787, married Marguerite-Zité, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Bujold and Marie Bernard and widow of Pierre Forest, at Carleton in January 1814. 

Jean's younger son Jean-Baptiste, born at Carleton in c1794, married Antoinette, another daughter of Mathurin Bujold and Marie Bernard, at Carleton in c1816.346  

Rimbault

René Rimbault, an early 1640s arrival, and his wife Anne-Marie ____ created a small family in the colony.  Anne-Marie gave him seven children, two sons and five daughters.  Four of their daughters married into the Lapierre dit Laroche, Labauve, Gautrot, Longuépée, and Biron dit Le Gelée families.  Only one of René's sons married, but he and his wife produced no children.  René and Anne-Marie's daughters and their children settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also at Minas and in the French Maritimes.  If any of René's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none carried the family's name there.

Older son François, born probably at Port-Royal in c1656, who became a miller, married Marie, daughter of Antoine Babin and Marie Mercier, in c1686, no place recorded, and settled at Minas, where François died in January 1719, in his early 60s.  Marie gave him no children.

René's younger son, René, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1674, evidently died young.357a

Cormier

Thomas Cormier, who first came to Acadia with his parents in 1644 and returned by c1678, and his wife Marie-Madeleine Girouard created a large family at Chignecto, which Thomas helped pioneer in the late 1670s.  Between 1670 and 1688, Madeleine, as she was called, gave Thomas 10 children, six daughters and four sons, including a set of twins, at Port-Royal and Chignecto.  Five of their daughters married into the Boudrot, Haché dit Gallant, Cyr, and Poirier families, two of them, the twins, to brothers.  All four of Thomas's sons married LeBlancs from Minas, three of them sisters and the other the sisters' first cousin.  Thomas and Madeleine's descendants remained at Chignecto--specifically at Ouescoque, near today's Amherst, Nova Scotia, on the north side of a bend of the Cumberland Basin southeast of the village of Beaubassin--among the few early Acadian families that did not branch out to other Fundy settlements or retreat to the French Maritimes.  At least 16 of Thomas's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Georgia in 1764, Halifax in 1765, and Haiti via Cuba in the early 1800s.  Many more of them also could be found in greater Acadia and Canada after Le Grand Dérangment. 

Oldest son François, born at Port-Royal in c1672, married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Hébert of Minas, in c1692 at Chignecto.  Between 1693 and 1723, Marguerite gave him 14 children, five sons and nine daughters.  Eight of François's daughters married into the Thériot, Richard, Poirier, Daigre, Bourg, Hébert, LeBlanc, Cyr, and Landry families.  Four of his five sons married, three of them to sisters.  François died at Chignecto in November 1733, in his early 60s.   

Oldest son Pierre dit Rossignol, born at Chignecto in c1695, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Jean Cyr and Françoise Melanson, at Beaubassin in November 1718.  According to Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1719 and 1745, Marie-Anne gave Pierre dit Rossignol 13 children, five sons and eight daughters.  He died at Chignecto between February 1746 and August 1754, in his early or late 50s.  Six of his daughters married into the Migneau, Gaudet, Bourg, Champoux dit Saint-Père, and Allain families, some of them in Canada.  Four of his five sons created families of their own. 

Second son Jean-François, born at Chignecto in c1726, married cousin Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Michel Cyr and Madeleine Bourgeois, at Beaubassin in May 1747.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area in the early 1760s, and were held in prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1766, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-François seven children, three sons and four daughters.  From 1766 to 1771, the family lived on Île Miquelon, off the southern coast of Newfoundland, having gone there, perhaps, from confinement in Nova Scotia.  Jean-François died on the island in October 1771, age 45.  Either soon after his death or before the British captured the island in 1778, his family moved to St.-Ours, on the lower Richelieu in the upper St. Lawrence valley.  Jean-François's daughters married into the Richard, Gabory, Pichot, Lusignan, and Lavoie families on Miquelon and at St.-Ours.  All three of his sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son François dit Duverger, born at Chignecto in c1752, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and married Madeleine, daughter of Étienne Papillon and Madeleine Vel, at St.-Ours in October 1779. 

Jean-François's second son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1754, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and married Marie-Reine, daughter of Joseph Levitre and Marie-Reine Lamoureaux, at St.-Ours in January 1781. 

Jean-François's third and youngest son Joseph, born probably on Île Miquelon in c1766, married Marie-Constance, another daughter Joseph Levitre and Marie-Reine Lamoureaux, at St.-Ours in November 1792. 

Pierre dit Rossignol's third son Jean dit Thierry, born at Chignecto in c1728, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Bernard and Cécile Gaudet, in c1760 in exile, so he evidently escaped the British in 1755 and found refuge in Canada, where he married a fellow Acadian.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1771, Marie-Madeleine gave Thierry seven children, four sons and three daughters.  He died at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, south of St.-Ours, in June 1792, age 64.  Two of his daughters married into the Bourgeois and Phaneuf families at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly, south of St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu.  Three of his four sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Jean, born in c1764 probably in Canada, married Catherine, daughter of Simon Corbell and Marie Savard, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in October 1783. 

Thierry's third son Firmin, born probably in Canada in c1769, married Marie-Catherine, daughter of Pierre Phaneuf and Catherine Blais, at St.-Anthony-de-Chambly in July 1787. 

Thierry's fourth and youngest son Félix, born probably in Canada in c1771, married Geneviève, daughter of Jean Lamoureaux-Courtemanche and Marguerite Tétreault of St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in January 1791. 

Pierre dit Rossignol's fourth son François dit Rossignol, born at Chignecto in c1735, married Jeanne-Victoire, daughter of Honoré Prince and Élisabeth Forest, at Bécancour, across from Trois-Rivières, in January 1760 during the exile, so he, too, escaped the British in 1755 and found refuge in Canada.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1779, Jeanne-Victoire gave François dit Rossignol 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  At age 61, François dit Rossignol remarried to cousin Geneviève, daughter of Joseph Richard and Françoise Cormier, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet, near Bécancour, in February 1796.  According to Bona Arsenault, Geneviève gave him four more children, a son and three daughters, between 1797 and 1803 at St.-Grégoire--14 children, eight sons and six daughters, by two wives.  François dit Rossignol died St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in March 1810, age 75.  François dit Rossignol's daughters by his first wife married Héon, Rheau, Poisson, and Triganne-Laflèche families at Bécancour.  Six of his eight sons by both wives also created families of their own. 

Oldest son Simon, from first wife Jeanne-Victoire Prince, born in exile probably at Bécancour in c1760, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Françoise Cormier, at Bécancour in June 1783.  Simon died at St.-Grégoire in May 1811, age 51. 

François dit Rossignol's second son Jean, from first wife Jeanne-Victoire Prince, born at Bécancour in c1765, married Angélique Ducharme there in c1795. 

François dit Rossignol's fifth son Pierre, from first wife Jeanne-Victoire Prince, born at Bécancour in c1770, married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marie-Anne Arsenault, at Bécancour in June 1793. 

François dit Rossignol's sixth son Joseph, from first wife Jeanne-Victoire Prince, born at Bécancour in c1773, married cousin Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Champoux and his Acadian wife Marie Cormier, at Bécancour in August 1795. 

François dit Rossignol's seventh son Martin, from first wife Jeanne-Victoire Prince, born at Bécancour in c1775, married Marie-Radegonde Tiffau in c1798 probably at Bécancour. 

François dit Rossignol's eighth and youngest son François-Bruno, from second wife Geneviève Richard, born probably at St.-Grégoire in c1797, married fellow Acadian Marie-Judith Poirier at St.-Grégoire in February 1815. 

Pierre dit Rossignol's fifth and youngest son Pierre, fils, the second with the name, born at Chignecto in c1742, followed members of his family into exile and perhaps imprisonment and married Madeleine, another daughter of Honoré Prince and Élisabeth Forest, at Bécancour in April 1771.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1776, Madeleine gave him three children, a son and two daughters.  At age 53, Pierre, fils remarried to Marie-Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Vigneau and Anne Bourgeois, at Bécancour in April 1795.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Angélique gave him three more sons between 1795 and 1797--six children by two wives.  One of Pierre, fils's daughters by his first wife married into the Painchaud family of Île-aux-Grues on the lower St. Lawrence at Bécancour.  One wonders what happened to his sons. 

François's second son Paul, born at Chignecto in c1708, survived childhood but did not marry; he died at Chignecto after April 1741, probably in his 30s.   

François's third son François, fils, born at Chignecto in c1710, married Anne, another daughter of Jean Cyr and Françoise Melanson, at Chignecto in c1730.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1742, Anne gave François, fils six children, five sons and a daughter.  François, fils died at Chignecto in March 1741, age 31, and Anne remarried to an Arseneau in February 1746.  According to Bona Arsenault, the British deported Anne and her younger Cormier children to England in 1755, a most unusual destination of Acadian exiles that year.  Repatriated to France in 1763, they refused to remain in the mother country.  They returned, instead, to North America and settled on Île Miquelon in 1764.  Anne died on the island in December 1774.  François, fils and Anne's daughter Marie married into the LeMâle family in England in c1755; the marriage was blessed on Île Miquelon in August 1764.  Four of François, fils's five sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son François III, born at Chignecto in c1731, followed his family into exile and was counted on Île Miquelon in 1778, when the British captured Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre and deported the Acadians there to France.  They evidently returned to North America in 1784.  François III and his family--one wonders if his wife was Marie Bourgeois--settled on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

François, fils's third son Joseph, born at Chignecto in c1734, followed his family into exile and married Anne Vigneau dit Maurice in c1759 perhaps in England.   According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1776, Anne gave Joseph five children, a son and four daughters.  In the late 1770s they moved from Île Miquelon to Chédabouctou, now Guysborough, on the upper Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia. 

François, fils's fourth son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1740, followed his family into exile and married cousin Marie-Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Cyr and Marie-Josèphe Richard, in c1764; the marriage was blessed on Île Miquelon in February 1766.  They remained on the island, where, according to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Modeste gave Joseph seven children, two sons and five daughters, between 1765 and 1776. 

François, fils's fifth and youngest son Jean le jeune, the second with the name, born at Chignecto in c1742, followed his family into exile and married Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Vigneau and Marie-Anne Arsenault, on Île Miquelon in November 1765.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1782, Modeste gave Jean le jeune seven children, four sons and three daughters.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British deported Jean, his family, and other island Acadians to La Rochelle, France, where Modeste died in c1782.  Jean le jeune remarried to Anne Poirier, widow of Pierre Onel, at La Rochelle in September 1783.  She gave him no more children.  Did they return to Île Miquelon in 1784? 

François, père's fourth son Joseph, born at Chignecto in the 1710s, married Françoise, yet another daughter of Jean Cyr and Françoise Melanson, at Beaubassin in November 1733.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1742, Françoise gave Joseph four sons, three of whom created families of their own.  One wonders what happened to members of the family in 1755. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born at Chignecto in c1734, married Marie, daughter of Jean Vigneau dit Maurice and Isabelle Arsenault, in c1761 while in exile, perhaps in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  They settled on Île Miquelon, where they were counted in 1764 and 1776.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1782, Marie gave Joseph, fils 10 children, two sons and eight daughters. 

Joseph, père's second son Jean, born at Chignecto in c1737, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Vigneau and Catherine Arsenault, on Île Miquelon in August 1764.  They, too, were counted on the island that year and in 1776.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1783, Rosalie gave Jean eight children, five sons and three daughters. 

Joseph, père's third son Pierre le jeune, born at Chignecto in c1738, married Isabelle, daughter of Jacques Chiasson and Marie Arsenault, in c1762 while in exile.  They were counted on Île Miquelon in 1764 but moved on to Chédabouctou, now Guysborough, Nova Scotia.  According to Bona Arsenault, Isabelle gave Pierre le jeune a son in c1764, probably on the island.   

François, père's fifth and youngest son Jean, born at Chignecto in April 1718, married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Hébert and Marie-Josèphe Blou, at Beaubassin in November 1740.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1741 and 1746, Madeleine gave Jean a son and a daughter.  Jean died before May 1777, place unrecorded.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1755. 

Thomas's second son Alexis, born at Port-Royal in c1676, married Marie, another daughter of Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Hébert, at Chignecto in c1697.  Between 1698 and 1721, Marie gave Alexis 10 children, four sons and six daughters.  His daughters married into the Bourg, Bourgeois, Arseneau, Cyr, and Richard families.  The youngest daughter, Catherine, born in c1721, was, with her Richard husband, among the first Acadians to emigrate to Louisiana, in 1764.  Three of Alexis's four sons created families of their own.   

Oldest son Pierre dit La Côte, born at Chignecto in c1702, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Cyr and Françoise Melanson, at Chignecto in c1721.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1724 and 1746, Marguerite gave La Côte eight children, two sons and six daughters.  Pierre dit La Côte died at Chignecto in July 1748, in his mid-40s.  In 1754, La Côte's family moved to Aulac, on the western side of the Missaguash.  This allowed them to escape the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755.  They were among the many Acadian families who sought refuge at Québec and remained in Canada.  Five of Pierre dit La Côte's daughters married into the Richard, LeBlanc, Martin dit Barnabé, Thibaud, and Champoux dit Saint-Père families in Canada.  Only one of Pierre dit La Côte's sons created his own family. 

Older son Jean dit Tibier, born at Chignecto in c1735, escaped the roundup at Chignecto with his family, sought refuge in Canada, and married Angélique, daughter of Charles Provencher dit Ducharme and Madeleine Desrosiers, at Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières in January 1767.  They remained at Bécancour.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1790, Angélique gave Tibier 11 children, five sons and six daughters.  Five of their daughters married into the Ducharme, Rheault, Comeau, Desilets, and Hébert families at Bécancour.  All five of Tibier's sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Joseph, born at Bécancour in c1767, married Marie-Louise, daughter of François Levasseur and Marie-Charlotte Gaillou, at Bécancour in October 1798. 

Tibier's second son Jean, born at Bécancour in c1770, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Amable Hébert and his Canadian wife Marie Coulombe, at Bécancour in November 1801. 

Tibier's third son Alexis, born at Bécancour in c1775, married Marie-Angèle, another daughter of François Levasseur and Marie-Charlotte Gaillou, at Bécancour in November 1807. 

Tibier's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, born at Bécancour in c1785, married Marie, daughter of Laurent Lacourse and Marie-Madeleine Levasseur, at Bécancour in January 1815. 

Tibier's fifth and youngest son Charles, born at Bécancour in c1787, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Dubois and Marguerite Bourbeau, at Bécancour in October 1812.   

Alexis's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Chignecto in the 1710s, married Marie, daughter of Jean Thériot dit Bernard and Madeleine Bourg, at Chignecto in c1734.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1738 and 1743, Marie gave him three sons.  Jean-Baptiste died at Chignecto by c1745, in his 30s.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1755.  All three of his sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Alexis le jeune, born at Chignecto in c1738, married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Gauthier and Marguerite Bujold of Annapolis Royal, in c1770.  They settled at Bonaventure, a British-controlled fishery on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs in present-day Québec Province, before crossing the Baie des Chaleurs to Caraquet, in eastern New Brunswick, where Alexis le jeune died in April 1808, age 70.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1773 and 1792, Élisabeth gave him nine children, seven sons and two daughters. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son Joseph, born at Chignecto in c1740, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Savoie and Anne Landry of Chepoudy, in c1764, place not given.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1770, Madeleine gave Joseph three children, two sons and a daughter.  Joseph remarried to fellow Acadian Josèphe LeBlanc in c1771 and settled at Caraquet the following year.  In c1781, they crossed the Baie des Chaleurs to Gaspésie and settled at Cascapédia, another British-controlled fishery.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1794, Josèphe gave Joseph 11 more children, five sons and six daughters--14 children, seven sons and seven daughters, by two wives. 

Jean-Baptiste's third and youngest son Jean, born at Chignecto in c1743, married fellow Acadian Anastasie Aucoin in c1765.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1770 and 1786, she gave him five children, four sons and a daughter.  In the early 1780s, Jean joined his older brother Joseph at Cascapédia.   

Alexis's third son Joseph, born at Chignecto in the 1710s, married Marie, daughter of Jacques Arseneau and Marie Poirier, at Chignecto in c1739.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 to 1748, she gave him four daughters.  What happened to the family in 1755? 

Alexis's fourth and youngest son, born at Chignecto in 1718, evidently died young, his name lost to history.

Thomas's third son Germain, born at Chignecto in c1680, married Marie, daughter of André LeBlanc and Marie Dugas of Minas, at Chignecto in c1703.  Between 1705 and the late 1720s, Marie gave Germain a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters.  Germain died at Chignecto between 1752 and 1755, in his early 70s.  His daughters married into the Doucet, Bourgeois, Comeau, and LeBlanc families.  Seven of his eights sons created families of their own.    

Oldest son Pierre dit Le Grand Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1705, married Anne-Marie, called Marie, daughter of Marc Pitre and Jeanne Brun, at Chignecto in c1728.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1729 and 1740, Anne-Marie gave him three children, two sons and a daughter.  Other records hint that they may have had a second daughter in c1737.  Grand Pierre remarried to Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau le jeune and Anne-Marie Aucoin, at Beaubassin in January 1742.  According to Arsenault, in 1742 and 1744 at Chignecto, Jeanne gave Grand Pierre a daughter and a son--six children, three sons and three daughters, by both wives.  One wonders what happened to Grand Pierre, Jeanne, and their younger children in 1755.  Did they escape the British and follow his oldest son Perrault and his family to Canada?  They probably did not follow his daughter Marie and son Jacques to one of the Maritime islands.  Evidently none of his daughters married, one of whom died in France, and only one of his three sons seems to have created a family of his own.

Oldest son Pierre dit Perrault, by first wife Anne-Marie Pitre, born at Chignecto in c1729, married Judith, daughter of Michel Haché dit Gallant and Madeleine LeBlanc, at Chignecto in c1752.  They escaped the British roundup there in fall of 1755 and took refuge at Canada.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1754 to 1774, Judith gave Perrault six children, two sons and four daughters.  They settled on the upper St. Lawrence at Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières, where Perrault died in 1791, age 62.

Grand Pierre's second son Jacques, by first wife Anne-Marie Pitre, born at Chignecto in c1740 or 1741, followed his older sister Marie to the Maritime Islands after 1752, perhaps after escaping the roundup at Chignecto in 1755.  In late 1758, the British deported them to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Duc Guillaume, which left the Maritime islands late that summer and, after a mishap at sea, reached the Breton port the first of November.  The crossing finished Marie; she died in a St.-Malo hospital a week after their arrival, age 21, still unmarried.  Jacques lived in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer until February 1760, when at age 19, he "embarked on the ship Le Prince Édouard," perhaps a corsair.  His ship evidently escaped capture by the Royal Navy.  He was back at St.-Malo in June 1762, when he stood as godfather for the daughter of a fellow Acadian, Augustin Doucet dit Justice, at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo.  Jacques then disappears from the historical record.  One wonders if he married.  If he was still living, he did not join his Cormier cousins in Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Germain's second son Germain, fils, born at Chignecto in the 1710s, married Anne, daughter of Guillaume Gaudet and Marie Boudrot, at Beaubassin in January 1741.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1741 and 1743, Anne gave Germain, fils a son and a daughter at Chignecto.  Germain, fils died at Chignecto by September 1746, in his 30s.  One wonders what happened to his children in 1755.   

Germain, père's third son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born at Chignecto in the mid- or late 1710s, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Louis Hugon and Marie Bourgeois, at Chignecto in c1740.  The Brtish evidently deported them to South Carolina in 1755.  Jean remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Lanoue and Marie-Josèphe Landry and widow of Jean-Baptiste Thibodeau, in South Carolina before August 1763 while in exile.  One wonders if Jean fathered children by either of his wives or where did he and his second wife go after 1763. 

Germain, père's fourth son Jean, born at Chignecto in March 1718, died an infant.   

Germain, père's fifth son Pierre dit Le Petit Pierre, born at Chignecto in June 1720, married Marie, daughter of François Doucet and Marie Poirier, at Beaubassin in February 1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Petit Pierre a son at Chignecto in c1750.  The family escaped the British foundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and found refuge in Canada. 

Only son Raphaël, followed his family to Canada.  At age 32, he married Marie-Claire, daughter of Antoine Biberon dit Argentcourt and Claire Lacoste, at Trois-Rivières on the upper St. Lawrence in February 1782.   

Germain, père's sixth son François le jeune, born at Chignecto in the early or mid-1720s, married Madeleine, another daughter of François Doucet and Marie Poirier, at Beaubassin in February 1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 to 1756, Madeleine gave François le jeune five children, three sons and two daughters.  François le jeune died in exile in New York by January 1760, in his late 30s.  One wonders what happened to his children.   

Germain, père's seventh son Charles, born at Chignecto in c1726, evidently escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  He married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians François LeBlanc and Jeanne Hébert and widow of Amand dit Thomas Breau, at St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu northeast of Montréal in November 1778, in his early 50s.  According to Bona Arsenault, Charles fathered no children.  He died at St.-Ours in May 1796, age 70.   

Germain, père's eighth and youngest son Michel, born at Chigneco probably in the late 1720s, married Anne Doucet at Chignecto in c1753.  What happened to them in 1755?  Were they deported to South Carolina? 

Thomas's fourth and youngest son Pierre dit Palette, born at Chignecto in March 1682, married Catherine, yet another daughter of Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Hébert of Minas, at Chignecto in c1702.  Between the early 1700s and the 1720s, Catherine gave Pierre 11 children, four sons and seven daughters.  Pierre died at Chignecto by July 1730, in his mid- or late 40s.  His and Catherine's daughters married into the Bourgeois, Thibodeau, Landry, Dupuis, Cyr dit Croc, Thériot, and Babin families.  Three of his four sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Pierre à Palette, born at Chignecto in the early 1700s, married Cécile, daughter of Jean Thibodeau and Marguerite Hébert, at Grand-Pré in July 1730 and settled at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1750, Cécile gave Pierre à Palette 10 children, nine sons and a daughter.  Pierre dit Palette died at Chignecto between 1750 and 1752, in his late 40s or early 50s.  Daughter Marie-Cécile married into the Chouinard family in Canada.  Two of his sons, Joseph and Michel, escaped the British in 1755 but evidently became separated from their family and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Both brothers created families of their own in greatr Acadia and Louisiana.  Pierre's other sons, five of whom married, remained in greater Acadia. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born at Chignecto in c1733, escaped the British in 1755 and found refuge in Canada, where he served in the Acadian militia at Québec.  He married Madeleine, daughter of Alexis Landry and Marguerite Aucoin of Minas, at Kamouaska on the lower St. Lawrence in July 1762 while in exile.  From Kamouaska, they moved to St.-Basile-de-Madawaska on upper Rivière St.-Jean, where they remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1770 and 1784, Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste le jeune seven children, four sons and three daughters.  He died at St.-Basile-de-Madawaska in July 1803, age 70.  Two of his daughters married into the Thibodeau and Sansfaçon families at St.-Basile.  Three of his four sons created their own families. 

Second son Pierre le jeune, born probably at St.-Basile in c1773, married cousin Marie-Rose, daughter of Joseph Soucy and his Acadian wife Marie Thibodeau, at St.-Basile in June 1799, and remarried to Marie-Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Daigle and Marie-Théotiste Cyr, at St.-Basile in April 1818. 

Jean-Baptiste le jeune's third son Joseph, born probably at St.-Basile in c1774, married cousin Olive, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Thibodeau and Madeleine Pothier, at St.-Basile in July 1792. 

Jean-Baptiste le jeune's fourth and youngest son Alexis, born at St.-Basile in c1784, married cousin Marie-Anne, daughter of Louis Sansfaçon and his Acadian wife Madeleine Thibodeau, at St.-Basile in October 1805. 

Pierre à Palette's second son Pierre dit Pierrot, born at Chignecto in c1734, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Pierre Gaudet and Marguerite Hébert, at Chignecto in c1755, on the eve of exile.  That autumn, the British captured Pierrot and a younger brother, held them at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Beauséjour, and then placed them aboard a ship bound for South Carolina.  Pierrot made a dramatic escape from the British transport and rejoined his wife and widowed mother at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas on lower Rivière St.-Jean.  In 1756, they moved on to Québec, where, from 1758 to 1760, Pierrot and his brothers served in the Acadian militia and fought at Québec.  In 1760, Pierrot took his family to L'Islet, on the lower St. Lawrence, remained there until 1764, and then moved to Madawaska on upper Rivière St.-Jean, where older brother Jean-Baptiste le jeune had settled.  Pierrot remained at Madawaska into the early 1770s before moving downriver to Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas.  Meanwhile, according to Bona Arsenault, between 1756 and 1770, Marie-Anne gave Pierrot seven children, five sons and two daughters.  Unable to secure title to their land at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas, soon to be called Fredericton, the family was displaced by American Loyalists who flooded into the area after 1783.  In 1787, Pierrot led his family to the trois-rivières area of southeastern New Brunswick, where their odyssey had begun 32 years earlier.  They settled on the west bank of lower Rivière Memramcook, near present-day Taylor Village, and there they remained.  Four of Pierrot's five sons created families of their own. 

Second son François le jeune, born in Canada in c1758, married Anne-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Pinet and Monique Trahan of Grand-Pré, at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1780 and followed his family to Memramcook.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1792 and 1803, Anne-Marie gave François le jeune nine children, all sons, at Memramcook. 

Pierrot's third son Claude, born in Canada in c1759, married fellow Acadian Marguerite Roy probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1780 and settled at far off Barachois on the eastern coast of the Gaspé Peninsula north of Perché. 

Pierrot's fourth son Joseph-Michel, born probably at L'Islet in c1761, married fellow Acadian Louise Roy probably at St.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1782.  They followed his family to Memramcook. 

Pierrot's fifth and youngest son Ignace, born probably at Madawaska in c1770, married fellow Acadian Colette-Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Bonaventure LeBlanc and Rosalie Belliveau, at Memramcook in c1791 or c1794. 

Pierre à Palette's third son Étienne, born at Chignecto in c1738, evidently was deported to South Carolina in 1755 and disappears from the record, so one wonders if he survived the voyage. 

Pierre à Palette's fourth son François le jeune, born at Chignecto in c1739, escaped the British in 1755 and followed his family to Canada.  He married Anastasie, daughter of Paul Melanson and Marie Thériot, at St.-Pierre-de-Montmagny on the lower St. Lawrence in August 1761.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1785, Anastasie gave François le jeune five children, three sons and two daughters.  They also left the lower St. Lawrence valley, lived for a time at Madawaska, and followed older brother Pierrot to Memramcook in 1787.  All of François le jeune's sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son François, fils, born in Canada in c1772, married fellow Acadian Marguerite Landry at Memramcook in c1800.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1807 and 1825, she gave him eight sons at Memramcook. 

François's second son Sylvain, born perhaps at Madawaska in c1784, married fellow Acadian Appoline Léger at Memramcook in c1806.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1809 and 1822, she gave him five sons there. 

François's third and youngest son Germain, born perhaps at Madawaska in c1785, married fellow Acadian Marie LeBlanc at Memramcook in c1804.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1811 and 1812, she gave him two sons there. 

Pierre à Palette's fifth son Joseph, born at Chignecto in c1740, evidently became separated from his family in 1755 and married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Saulnier and Anne Hébert of Petitcoudiac, in c1759 while in exile probably on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By the summer of 1763, when Joseph, Marguerite, and his younger brother Michel were languishing in the prison compound at Halifax, Marguerite had given Joseph two children, including a daughter born in c1763.  Joseph, Marguerite, their daughter, and brother Michel emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1764-65.  They settled in the Opelousas District at Bellevue Prairie, where Marguerite gave Joseph two more daughters, a set of twins.  Joseph remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Michel and Jeanne Breau and widow of Michel Brun and Victor Comeau, at Attakapas, south of Opelousas, in April 1771.  They also settled at Bellevue Prairie.  Between 1772 and 1776, Anne gave Joseph three more children, two sons and another daughter.  Joseph died probably at Bellevue Prairie in August 1795, age 55.  His daughters by both wives married into the Babineaux, Granger, Thibodeaux, and Arceneaux families.  Both of his sons by his second wife also married, into the Richard, Thibodeaux, and Guilbeau families at Opelousas and Attakapas. 

Pierre à Palette's sixth son Michel, born at Chignecto in 1741, followed older brother Joseph into exile and imprisonment, emigrated with him to Louisiana, and also settled in the Opelousas District, at Prairie des Femmes, nt far from Prairie Bellevue.  Michel married Anne dite Nanette, another daughter of Jacques Saulnier and Anne Hébert and widow of Basile Babin, probably at Opelousas in c1769.  Nanette gave Michel two sons.  Michel remarried to Catherine, daughter of Johann Georg Stahlin, later Stelly, of Albershausen, Württemberg, Germany, and Chrisine Edelmayer of St.-Charles des Allemands on the lower German Coast above New Orleans, probably at Opelousas in c1774.  Catherine gave Michel four more children, three sons and a daughter.  Michel remarried again--his third marriage--to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Breaux and Claire Trahan and widow of Étienne Benoit, at Attakapas in February 1789.  She gave him no more children.  Michel died at Prairie des Femmes in December 1790, age 49.  His only daughter, by second wife Catherine, married into the Royer and Sutter families.  All five of his sons by his first two wives married into the Benoit, Guilbeau, Rodrigues, Miller, Dugas, Meaux, Ledoux, and LeBlanc families, creating the largest line of the Cormier family in the Bayou State. 

Pierre à Palette's eighth son Jacques, born at Chignecto in c1749, was captured by the British in 1755, escaped from Fort Cumberland, rejoined his family, and followed them to Canada.  After the war with Britain, he headed back down Rivière St.-Jean and married Marie-Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pothier and Marie-Josèphe Hébert, at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1770.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1771 and 1776, Marie-Osite gave Jacques three sons.  They settled at Bouctouche, on the eastern New Brunswick coast, north of Memramcook.  Two of Jacques's three sons created families of their own. 

Second son Hubert, born probably on the lower Rivière St.-Jean in c1773, married fellow Acadian Pélagie Girouard in c1804 perhaps at Bouctouche.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1809 and 1825, she gave him six sons.  

Jacques's third and youngest son Charles, born perhaps on lower Rivière St.-Jean in c1776, married fellow Acadian Angélique Girouard in c1802.  They settled at Memramcook.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1804 and 1818, Angélique gave Charles five sons.  

Pierre à Palette's ninth and youngest son Amand, born at Chignecto in c1750, followed his family to Canada and Rivière St.-Jean and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Roy and Marie-Annette D'Amours de Chauffor, at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas on the lower St.-Jean in September 1774.  They moved up to Madawaska in 1777, and then joined his brothers at Memramcook in 1787.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1775 and 1788, Marie-Josèphe gave Amand six sons, all of whom created families of their own. 

Oldest son Philippe, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas  in c1775, married fellow Acadian Marie-Blanche Suret probably at Memramcook. 

Amand's second son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1776, married fellow Acadian Adélaïde Bourque probably at Memramcook in c1806, where they remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1809 and 1820, she gave him three sons. 

Amand's third son Béloni, born perhaps at Madawaska in c1778, married fellow Acadian Madeleine Landry at Memramcook in c1802. 

Amand's fourth son François dit Francis, born probably at Madawaska in c1780, married Marguerite Landry at Bouctouche in c1805.  According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him a son in c1808. 

Amand's fourth son Pierre, born perhaps at Madawaska in c1785, married cousin Osithe Cormier at Memramcook in c1808.  According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him seven sons between 1808 and 1826.  In 1818 they moved to Cap-Pelé, on the New Brunswick coast northeast of Memramcook. 

Amand's fifth and youngest son Denis, born probably at Memramcook in c1788, married fellow Acadian Anne Allain in c1813 probably at Memramcook, remarried to a Girouard, place and date unrecorded, and remarried again--his third marriage--to a Bellefontaine, both fellow Acadians, place and date unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, three of his sons were born in 1814, 1817, and 1822.   

Pierre, père's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Chignecto in c1709, married Madeleine, daughter of Martin Richard and Marguerite Bourg, at Beaubassin in August 1733.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1753, Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste six children, a son and five daughters, at Chignecto.  In 1755, the British deported Jean-Baptiste, Madeleine, and their daughters to Georgia.  In the spring of 1756, they and other refugees, with encouragement from the governors of Georgia and South Carolina, attempted to return to greater Acadia by boat, but Jean-Baptiste and his family, along with other exiles, got no farther than Long Island, New York, where the British held them for the rest of the war.  They, along with three related families--Landrys, Poiriers, and Richards--headed back south at war's end, perhaps with the intention of settling in the French Antilles.  Jean-Baptiste, his wife, and daughters appeared on a repatriation list in South Carolina in August 1763, but they did not remain there either.  They returned to Georgia soon after the listing.  With the three other related families, they left Savannah for Mobile, formerly a part of French Louisiana, in December 1763 and reached New Orleans the following February--the first recorded Acadian exiles to venture to the Mississippi colony.  The French caretaker government sent them to Cabahannocer on the river just above the German Coast.  Jean-Baptiste and Madeleine's daughters married into the Lemire dit Mire, Poirier, Landry, Girouard, and Bourg families.  Two settled on the western prairies, but the others remained on the river.  Meanwhile, only son Jean-Baptise, fils, at age 21, became separated from the family in 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and was imprisoned in British Nova Scotia until the end of the war.  With two of his first cousins, he followed his family to Louisiana from Halifax via French St.-Domingue in 1764-65.  He married into the Bourg and Blanchard families on the river and in the Attakapas District, where he remained.  His only son also created a family of his own on the western prairies. 

Pierre, père's third son Michel, born at Chignecto in the early 1710s, probably died young.   

Pierre, père's fourth and youngest son François dit Palette, born at Chignecto in October 1719, married Anne, daughter of Jacques Chiasson and Marie-Josèphe Arseneau, at Beaubassin in July 1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1750, Anne gave François four sons at Chignecto.  One wonders what became of them in 1755.359

LeBlanc

Daniel LeBlanc, who arrived in c1645, and his wife Françoise Gaudet, who was three years his senior, created what became the largest Acadian family in British Nova Scotia.  Between 1651 and 1664, Françoise gave Daniel seven children, six sons and a daughter.  Their daughter married into the Blanchard family.  Five of their sons also married and created vigorous family lines.  Both Daniel and Françoise died at Port-Royal between 1695 and 1700, in their 70s.  Their descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal; Minas, Pigiguit, and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; Chignecto; as well as in Canada (before Le Grand Dérangement) and the French Maritimes.  They were especially numerous at Minas, where they were among the earliest settlers.  At least 164 of Daniel's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, from Maryland in the late 1760s, and from France in 1785.  Many of Daniel's descendants also could be found in Canada, greater Acadia, France, especially on Belle-Île-en-Mer, and in the French Antilles after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Jacques, born at Port-Royal in c1651, married Catherine, daughter of Antoine Hébert and Geneviève Lefranc, in c1673, probably at Port-Royal, and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled at Rivière-des-Habitants, Minas, in the early 1690s.  Between c1674 and 1692, Catherine gave Jacques 13 children, seven sons and six daughters.  Jacques died at Minas after May 1731, in his late 70s.  His daughters married into the Cormier, Breau, Boudrot, and Haché dit Gallant families, three of them to Cormier brothers from Chignecto.  Six of his seven sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1674, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Richard and Madeleine Blanchard, in c1698, probably at Port-Royal and settled at Minas.  According to Stephen A. White, between 1699 and 1720, Marguerite gave Jean 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  Jean died at Minas in June 1747, in his early 70s.  His daughters married into the Melanson, Boudrot, and Granger families.  Six of his seven son created families of their own. 

Oldest son Pierre, born at Minas in c1700, married Anne, daughter of Jean Thériot and Jeanne Landry, at Grand-Pré in October 1721 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1740, Anne gave Pierre 10 children, six daughters and four sons, including a set of twins.  Other records give them a fifth son.  Three of their daughters married into the Bourg, Boudrot, and Hébert families.  One of their sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.

Second son Jean-Pierre, called Pierre, born at Grand-Pré in April 1726, perhaps a twin, married cousin Osite, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Melanson and Madeleine LeBlanc of Grand-Pré, probably at Minas in c1752.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  The couple, with two sons, appeared on a repatriation list at Snow Hill on the colony's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  They emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1766.  Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in 1769.  Jean-Pierre died probably at Cabahanncoer in the 1770s, and Osite remarried to an Acadian Bourgeois.  Her and Pierre's only daughter married a Bourgeois stepbrother.  Pierre's three sons married into the Arceneaux, Duhon, Bernard, and Michel families.  Two of them remained on the river, and another one moved out to the western prairies during the late colonial period. 

Jean's second son Jean, fils, born at Minas in c1706, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Claude Thériot and Agnès Aucoin, in c1728, probably at Minas and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1740, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean, fils five children, two daughters and  three sons.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported Jean, fils and members of his family to Virginia, and Virginia officials sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  They were held at Falmouth, where Jean, fils and Marie died, date unrecorded.  What happened to their children after 1763?  One of their sons, who evidently was sent to another seaboard colony other than Virginia, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana by 1770 perhaps from Maryland. 

Jean's third son Jacques, born at Minas in February 1709, married Henriette, daughter of Martin Dupuis and Marie Landry, at Grand-Pré in June 1731.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1732 and 1734, Henriette gave Jacques two children, a daughter and a son.  Jacques died at Minas in April 1735, age 26.  His daughter married a LeBlanc cousin.  One wonders what happened to his widow and children, married and unmarried, in 1755. 

Jean's fourth son Paul, born at Minas in February 1711, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe Hébert in c1732, probably at Minas.  According to Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Paul a daughter in 1733. Stephen A. White says nothing of Paul's marriage or his fathering a daughter.  Was he still living in 1755? 

Jean's fifth son Charles, born at Minas in c1722 (says Bona Arsenault), married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Vincent and Jeanne Trahan, probably at Minas in c1739 and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine gave Charles a son in c1746.  They also had an older son.  The British deported the family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Wife Marguerite died of smallpox in 1756, soon after reaching the colony.  Charles was banished from the colony in 1757 by British commander-in-chief Loudon for being a French agitator and was never heard from again.  One of his sons emigrated to French St.-Domingue, and the other remained in the colony. 

Older son François, born at Minas probably in the early or mid-1740s, followed his family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755, where he became a carpenter.  After the war, he emigrated with other Pennsylvania exiles to French St.-Domingue, settled at Port-au-Prince, and acquired property there.  He did not marry, so his younger brother inherited his propery. 

Charles's younger son Charles, fils, born at Minas in c1746, followed his family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  His father also died during exile.  Raised by an aunt, Charles, fils remained at Philadelphia, where, after inheriting his older brother François's property in French St.-Domingue, he made a fortune in general merchandise, coffee imports, and real estate.  Like his older brother, Charles, fils never married.  He died in Philadelphia in August 1816, age 70, with an estate worth between $20,000 and $36,000, a substantial fortune in that day.  He refused to write a will in his final days and died intestate.  A number of close relations, hearing of it, lay claim to Charles, fils's estate in a Philadephia court.  Litigation dragged on for a dozen years, until 1828, when the court awarded Charles, fils's fortune to his first and second cousins.  Because of the passing of time, however, even after a lengthy search, especially in the St.-Charles-des-Mines parish registers at St. Gabriel, Louisiana, only 16 heirs could be found who were eligible to share in what was left of Charles, fils's fortune. 

Jean's sixth son Joseph, born at Minas in c1718, married Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, Landry probably at Minas in c1741 and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1755, Marguerite gave Joseph six children, four sons and two daughters.  Other records give them another daughter--seven children in all.  The British evidently deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Joseph, and evidently Marguerite as well, died in the Chesapeake colony before July 1763.  Their oldest daughter married into the Landry family in Maryland.  At least five of Joseph's  children, two sons and three daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  The younger daughters did not marry, but the sons did.  Joseph's oldest son may have remained in Maryland.  Another son settled on Île Miquelon, off the southern coast of Newfoundland, by 1772. 

Oldest son Paul-Marie, born probably at Minas in c1742, followed his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  He appeared on a repatriation lists with two of his younger siblings at Baltimore in July 1763.  When they emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1767, Paul-Marie evidently remained in the Chesapeake colony.  If so, one wonders what happened to him there. 

Joseph's second son Joseph, fils, born probably at Minas in c1748, if he was still living, followed his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755, but he was not listed with three of his siblings at Baltimore in July 1763.  One wonders where he may have been.  He did not follow them to Spanish Louisiana in 1767, when he would have been age 19. 

Joseph, père's third son Simon, born probably at Minas in c1749, considering his age, probably followed his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Like brother Joseph, fils, however, he was not listed with his siblings at Baltimore in July 1763, when he would have been age 13.  One wonders where he may have been.  He did not follow four of his siblings to Spanish Louisiana in 1767, when he would have been in his late teens, nor did he remain in Maryland with oldest brother Paul-Marie.  Simon settled, instead, on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, in the late 1760s or early 1770s.  He married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Cyr and Madeleine Poirier, on the island in April 1772.  Between 1773 and 1778, Rosalie gave Simon three children, two sons and a daughter.  French officials counted the family on the island in 1776; the oldest son had died by then.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured Île Miquelon and neary Île St.-Pierre and deported the islands' fisher/habitants to La Rochelle and other French ports that autumn.  Simon and his family landed at St.-Malo in late November.  Their daughter died at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer the following February.  In 1780 and 1782, Rosalie gave Simon two more sons--five children in all.  When Simon took his family back to greater Acadia in 1784, they settled on Île St.-Pierre. 

Joseph, père's fourth and youngest son Pierre, born probably at Minas in October 1753, followed his family to Maryland while still very young and was listed with older siblings Paul and Rose on a repatriation list at Baltimore in July 1763, when he would have been age 9.  He followed four of his older siblings to Spanih Louisiana in 1767 and settled with them at San Gabriel on the Acadian Coast.  When a Spanish official counted him on the "left bank ascending" at San Gabriel in March 1777, he was a 23-year-old bachelor with a male slave, substantial numbers of livestock, and six arpents of frontage on the river.  He married Marguerite-Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Janvier Breaux and Rose-Osite Landry, at nearby Ascension in October 1778.  They evidently settled near the boundary between the Ascension and San Gabriel districts.  Pierre died near San Gabriel in November 1790, age 37.  His daughter married into the Dupuis family.  Four of his six sons also married, into the Babin, LeBlanc, Bujole, Allain, Landry, and Dodd families on the river. 

Jean's seventh and youngest son Michel dit Michaud, born at Minas in October 1720, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Trahan and Marie Hébert, probably at Minas in c1741 and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1748, Marie-Josèphe gave Michaud four children, three daughters and a son.  Other records give them another son--five children in all.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Michaud died there before July 1763.  His daughters married into the Hébert, Babin, and Landry families, and two of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1767.  His younger son followed his sisters there. 

Older son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1746, if he was still living, accompanied his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  He may have died there, unless he was the Joseph LeBlan listed with his widowed mother and two sisters on a repatriation list at Baltimore in July 1763, but this probably was Joseph's younger brother. 

Michaud's younger son Joseph-Michel, born and baptized at Baltimore, Maryland, in December 1758, likely was the Joseph LeBlan listed with his widowed mother and two sisters at Baltimore in July 1763.  He followed his mother and two sisters, one of them married, to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 and settled with them at San Gabriel on the river below Baton Rouge.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Landry and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Babin, at San Gabriel in June 1781.  His baptism in Maryland was "rectified" at the St. Gabriel church in January 1819, when he was age 60.  He died at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1833, age 74.  His daughters married into the Babin and LeBlanc families, and perhaps into the Dupuis family as well.  Only three of his six sons married, into the Chiasson, Brasset, and Hernandez families on the river. 

Jacques's second son Jacques, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1677, married, according to Stephen A. White, Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Anne-Marie Thibodeau, in c1715, probably at Minas.  Bona Arsenault says Jacques, fils married Élisabeth, daughter of Charles Boudrot and Renée Bourg of Pigiguit, in c1707; White is followed here.  Jacques, fils died at Minas between 1719 and 1723, in his early 40s.  According to Arsenault, between 1716 and 1719, Élisabeth gave Jacques, fils three children, a daughter and a son.  Their daughter married into the Aucoin family.  Both of Jacques, fils's sons also created families of their own. 

Older son Joseph, born at Minas in c1718, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Paul Melanson and Marie Thériot, at Grand-Pré in November 1742.  They settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1753, Marie-Madeleine gave Joseph five children, four sons and a daughter.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  After the war, probably in the late 1760s, they followed other Acadian exiles from New England to Canada and settled at Yamachiche on the upper St. Lawrence above Trois-Rivières.  Two of Joseph's younger sons created their own families on the upper St. Lawrence.

Third son Étienne, the second with the name, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1753, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada.  He married Marie-Amable, daughter of Joseph Rivard-Loranger and Geneviève Côté, at Yamachiche in November 1778 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1779 and 1800, Marie gave Étienne eight children, six sons and two daughters.  Étienne died at Saint-Polycarpe west of Montréal in December 1834, in his early 80s.  His daughters married into the Desjarlais and Dupuis familes at nearby Soulanges.  His six sons also created their own families in the area, and four of them married sisters.

Oldest son Étienne, fils, born perhaps at Yamachiche in c1779, followed his family to the Saint-Polycarpe area and married Eugénie, daughter of Amable LeMay and Josephte Lauseraie, at Soulanges in February 1805. 

Étienne, père's second son Jean-François-Régis, born perhaps at Yamachiche in c1785, married Josette, another daughter of Amable LeMay and Josephte Lauseraie, at Soulanges in August 1806. 

Étienne, père's third son Charles, born perhaps at Yamachiche in c1790, married Catherine, yet another daughter of Amable LeMay and Josephte Lauseraie, at Soulanges in February 1814. 

Étienne, père's fourth son Alexis, born perhaps at Yamachiche in c1792, married Ursule, daughter of David Lécuyer and Françoise Gémier, at Soulanges in February 1814.

Étienne, père's fifth son Joseph, born perhaps at Yamachiche in c1794, married Catherine, daughter of Antoine Deschamps and Marie Laboussadière, at Soulanges in June 1815. 

Étienne, père's sixth and youngest son Jean, born perhaps at Yamachiche in c1800, married Marguerite, yet another daughter of Amable LeMay and Josephte Lauseraie, at St.-Anicet across from Soulanges in July 1821. 

Joseph's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Rivière-aux-Canards or Massachusetts in c1755, followed his family to Canada, where he married Marie Fortin in c1775, place unrecorded.  They settled at Contrecoeur on the St. Lawrence between Sorel and Montréal.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1776 and 1784, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste two sons who created their own families on the upper St. Lawrence.

Older son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born in Canada in c1776, married Amable, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Blais and Marie-Anne Godard, at Yamachiche above Trois-Rivières in January 1799. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's younger son Pierre, born in Canada c1784, married Brigitte, daughter of Joseph Chenay and Marie-Rose Bélanger, at Yamachiche in October 1806. 

Jacques, fils's younger son Pierre, born at Minas in c1719, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Babin and Angélique Landry, at Grand-Pré in October 1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1767, Marie-Madeleine gave Pierre eight children, six daughters and two sons.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  After the war, probably in the late 1760s, they did not go to Canada but chose to resettle at Pointe-de-l'Église, today's Church Point on St. Mary's Bay, western Nova Scotia.  Pierre died there in July 1799, age 80. 

Jacques, père's third son Pierre, born probably at Port-Royal in c1684 (Bona Arsenault says c1690), married Marie, daughter of René Landry and Anne Thériot, at Grand-Pré in November 1718 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1719 and 1723, Marie gave Pierre three children, a daughter and two sons.  Pierre died at Minas in May 1745, in his early 60s.  His daughter married into the Melanson family.  One of his sons also created a family of his own.

Older son Pierre, fils, born at Minas in c1721, married Élisabeth Hébert in c1742, probably at Minas and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1747, Élisabeth gave Pierre, fils three children, a son and two daughters.  Pierre, fils died at Minas in June 1746, in his mid-20s.  His younger daughter evidently was born posthumously. 

Jacques, père's fourth son René le jeune, born probably at Port-Royal in December 1685 (Bona Arsenault says c1686), married Jeanne, daughter of Claude Landry and Catherine Thibodeau, in c1708, probably at Minas, and remained there.  Between 1709 and 1729, Jeanne gave René le jeune 13 children, four daughters and nine sons.  Three of his daughters married into the Poirier, Hébert, and Benoit families.  Eight of his nine sons created families of their own, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. 

Oldest son Claude, born at Minas in August 1710, married Judith dite Judique, daughter of Pierre Benoit le jeune and Élisabeth LeJuge, at Grand-Pré in February 1738 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1748, Judique gave Claude seven children, four daughters and three sons.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them at Concord in 1757 and at Boston in 1760.  They were still in the colony in August 1763.  One wonders what happened to them after that date. 

René le jeune's second son Jean-Baptiste, who Bona Arsenault calls Jean, born at Minas in 1715, married Marguerite, daughter of René Hébert and Marie Boudrot, at Grand-Pré in July 1741 and settled there.  According to Arsenault, between 1742 and 1769, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste 13 children, six sons and seven daughters.  Arsenault says the British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755, but, according to Stephen A. White, they were listed on a repatriation list in Connecticut in 1763.  Later in the decade, they followed other Acadian exiles in New England to Canada and settled at Yamachiche on the upper St. Lawrence above Trois-Rivières.  Five of their daughters married into the Bellemare, Thibodeau, Melanson, Milette, and Proulx families at Yamachiche.  Three of Jean-Baptiste's sons also created their own families there.

Second son Pierre, born probably at Minas in c1746, followed his family to New England and Canada.  He married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Trahan and Anne Landry, at Yamachiche in October 1772.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1773 and 1791, Madeleine gave Pierre nine children, five daughters and four sons.  Pierre, in his mid-50s, remarried to Françoise, daughter of Joseph Germain and his Acadian wife Françoise Guilbault, at Yamachiche in March 1801.  According to Arsenault, Françoise gave Pierre two more sons in 1802 and 1803--11 children by two wives.  Pierre died at Yamachiche in July 1803, in his late 50s.  Four of his daughters by first wife Madeleine married into the Gendron, Lavergne, Hudon-Beaulieu, and Gélinas families at Yamachiche.  One of his sons also married there.

Oldest son Joseph, by first wife Madeleine Trahan, born probably at Yamachiche in c1775, married Amable Germain there in September 1797. 

Jean-Baptiste's four son Jean, fils, born probably at Minas in c1748, followed his family to New England and Canada.  In his early 40s, he married Marie, daughter of Hyppolite Philippeau-Bellehumeur and Catherine Ménard, at Montréal in October 1791. 

Jean-Baptiste's fifth son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1754, followed his family to New England and Canada.  In his early 30s, he married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Benoit and Anne Thibodeau, at Yamachiche in July 1786. 

René le jeune's third son Charles, a twin, born at Minas in 1717, married Anne, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Catherine Meunier, at Grand-Pré in September 1745 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1754, Anne gave Charles four children, two sons and two daughters.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., however, records two daughters and a son during that time.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  They were held at Southampton, where Anne died in August 1756, soon after arrival, age 35.  Charles remarried to Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Gautrot and Marie-Josèphe Bugeaud and widow of Pierre Daigre, at Southampton in 1758.  Between 1759 and 1761, Madeleine gave Charles three more sons.  They were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763 and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Charles worked as a day laborer and carpenter in the mother country.  In 1763 and 1765, Madeleine gave Charles two more daughters--eight or nine children by both wives.  Not all of the children survived childhood:  second son by Madeleine died at St.-Servan in March 1768, age 8.  His oldest son by first wife Anne drowned at Pont-Nicau near St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across from St.-Malo, in May 1770, age 15.  His youngest son by second wife Madeleine died at St.-Servan in October 1761, age 10.  Charles took his family, including two Daigre stepchildren, to Poitou in 1773 and retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in December 1775.  His oldest daughter by first wife Anne married into the Aucoin and Mancel families at Nantes and nearby Chantenay in November 1776 and September 1783, and his second daughter by first wife Anne married into the Granger family at Chantenay in September 1780.  Charles, wife Madeleine, and their younger daughter emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Oldest son Joseph by second wife Madeleine, who would have been in his mid-20s in 1785, did not go with them.  Charles's oldest daughter Madeleine and her French husband also remained in the mother country.  His second daughter evidently had died before September 1784, when her Granger husband was counted at Nantes without a wife.  Soon after Charles and his family reached the Spanish colony, daughter Marguerite-Geneviève married into the Duhon family at New Orleans and settled with her husband at San Bernardo on the river below the city.  Charles and Madeleine, if they survived the crossing, followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  None of his sons having gone to the colony, this line of the family did not take root in the Bayou State. 

René le jeune's fourth son François, Charles's twin, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine and also Anne, daughter of Germain Cormier and Marie LeBlanc, at Beaubassin in c1744 and settled at Pointe-à-Beauséjour, Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1753, Anne gave François five daughters.  The British deported the family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  François died at Prince Frederick in that colony in November 1756, age 39.  After the war ended, at least three of his daughters, and perhaps his widow, moved on to French St.-Domingue and settled at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest coast of the sugar colony.  Two of his daughters married into the Poirier, Bivier, and Lingre families. 

René le jeune's fifth son Pierre, born at Minas in August 1718, married Claire, another daughter of Claude Boudrot and Catherine Meunier, at Grand-Pré in October 1740.  According to Bona Arsenault, Claire gave Pierre a son in 1741.  Pierre remarried to Marie-Claire, called Claire, another daughter of Pierre Benoit le jeune and Élisabeth LeJuge, probably at Minas in c1742 and settled there.  According to Arsenault, in 1743 and 1745, this Claire gave Pierre two daughters.  Other records give them a third daughter--at least four children, a son and three daughters, by two wives.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them at Framington in 1757 and 1760.  They were still in the Bay Colony in August 1763.  Pierre's son, who married in Massachusetts, chose to follow his wife's family back to British Nova Scotia.  After the war, Pierre and Claire, if they were still living, and certainly their daughters, resettled not in greater Acadia but in French St.-Domingue.  In the late 1770s and early 1780s, the daughters married into the Doucet, De La Chelle, and D'Ambreville families at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest coast of the sugar colony. 

Only son Pierre, fils, by first wife Claire Boudrot, born probably at Minas in c1741, followed his family to Massachusetts, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Amirault and Claire Dugas of Cap-Sable, in c1760.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1767 and 1769, Marguerite gave Pierre, fils two children, a daughter and a son.  In the late 1760s, they chose to settle at Cap-Sable, Nova Scotia, Marguerite's home.  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" there in August 1769. 

René le jeune's sixth son René, fils, born at Minas in June 1722, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Babin and Madeleine Bourg, at Grand-Pré in c1744 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1758, Marie gave René, fils five children, four sons and a daughter.  Other records give them another child.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  In August 1761, colonial officials counted René, fils, Marie, and six of their children in Worcester County with the notation that they had been ordered to move to Hampshire County, farther to the west, along with cousin François LeBlanc, fils and his family.  They were still in the colony in August 1763, and colonial officials counted them there with six sons and a daughter in 1767.  Did they remain? 

René le jeune's seventh son Olivier, born at Minas in April 1724, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Martin Aucoin and Élisabeth Boudrot, at Grand-Pré in November 1747 and remained there.  The British deported the family to Philadelphia in the fall of 1755.  Olivier died in exile, perhaps in Pennsylvania, between 1756 and 1762, in his 30s.  What happened to his family after the war ended? 

René le jeune's eighth son Joseph, born at Minas in May 1726, probably died young. 

René le jeune's ninth and youngest son Joseph dit Jambo, born at Minas in February 1729, married Marguerite, 19-year-old daughter of Pierre Trahan and Madeleine Comeau, at Grand-Pré in August 1750 and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  According to Arsenault, in 1752 and 1754, Marguerite gave Jambo two children, a son and a daughter.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Liverpool, where wife Marguerite died.  Jambo remarried to Anne, also called Agnès, 32-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Marguerite Trahan, at Liverpool in January 1758.  Jambo, his new wife, and his two children were repatriated to Ploujean, Morlaix, northern Brittany, France, in the spring of 1763, where Jambo worked as a seaman and a carpenter.  Anne gave Jambo another daughter at Morlaix in May 1765.  Later that year, they followed other Acadian exiles from England to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany, where they settled at Kerlédan near Sauzon on the north side of the island.  According to Arsenault, between 1767 and 1771, Anne gave Jambo three more children, a daughter and two sons, on the island.  They moved on to Quimper in southern Brittany by 1773.  Later that year, Jambo took his family to Poitou, where another son was born in August 1775--seven children by two wives.  Jambo and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in December 1775.  Their youngest son died there in August 1776, age 11 months.  A Spanish official counted Jambo, Anne, two sons, and two daughters still at Nantes in September 1784.  Ten months later, they emigrated to Spanish Louisiana on the first of the Seven Ships.  Jambo's two oldest children by first wife Marguerite, a son and a daughter, who would have been ages 33 and 32 in 1785, did not go with them.  The daughter married into the Huart and Poty or Potty families in France and died in a hospital at Bordeaux in June 1819, in her mid-60s.  From New Orleans, Jambo and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge.  Their daughters married into the LeBlanc and Boudreaux families on the river.  Neither of Jambo's remaining sons seems to have married, so, like older brother Charles, only the blood of this line seems to have endured in the Bayou State. 

Jacques père's fifth son François, born probably at Port-Royal in c1688, married Marguerite, another daughter of Claude Boudrot and Anne-Marie Thibodeau, at Grand-Pré in September 1712 and remained there.  Between 1713 and 1739, Marguerite gave François a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported François, Marguerite, and their younger children to Massachusetts.  Colonial authorities counted François, Marguerite, and their sons Pierre and Simon at Needham in 1760-61.  François died there in c1761, in his early 70s.  After the war ended, his widow Marguerite took two of their younger children not to Canada but to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where French officials counted them in 1767.  They likely were among the islanders sent to France later that year to alleviate overcrowding on Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre.  Marguerite died after May 1767, in her late 60s or early 70s, place unrecorded; it may have been on the island or in France.  One, perhaps two, of her LeBlanc daughters married into the Aucoin family and perhaps into the Breau and Templet families as well, and one of them may have emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.  Six of François's eight sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest son François, fils, born at Minas in c1713 (Bona Arsenault says c1714), married, according to Stephen A. White, Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of Joseph Dugas and Claire Bourg, in c1738, probably at Minas.  Arsenault says Isabelle was sans doute daughter of Joseph Dugas and Marguerite Richard; White is followed here.  According to Arsenault, between 1739 and 1764, Isabelle gave François, fils 11 children, seven daughters and four sons.  They moved from Minas to Île Royale in the late 1740s or early 1750s.  In late March 1752, a French official counted François, fils, Isabelle, and six of their children, three sons and three daughters, at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse in the interior of the island, but they evidently returned to Minas before 1755.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of that year.  Colonial officials counted them at Oxford in Worcester County in 1757.  Officials counted François, fils, Isabelle, and seven of their children still in Worcester County in August 1761 with orders to move to Hampshire County, to the west, along with cousin René LeBlanc and his family.  François, fils and his large family were still in the colony in August 1763.  Later in the decade, they followed other Acadian exiles in New England to Canada.  François, fils died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan northeast of Montréal in August 1790, in his late 70s.  Five of his daughters married into the Gauthier dit Landreville, Galarneau, Brousseau, Brien-Durocher, and Bédard families at St.-Jacques and nearby L'Assomption.  Two of his sons also created their own families in the area.

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1741, followed his family to Île Royale, back to Minas, and to Massachusetts, where he married cousin Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Dugas and Marie-Josèphe Melanson, in c1766.  They followed his family to Canada and "rehabilitated" their marriage at L'Assomption in July 1767 and settled at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, where Joseph served as captain of militia.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1774, Marie-Madeleine gave Joseph four children, two daughters and two sons.  Their daughters married into the Pellerin and Lanoue families at St.-Jacques.  One of Joseph's sons also married in the area.

Younger son Joseph, fils, born probably at St.-Jacques in c1774, married Marie-Catherine, daughter of Antoine Cassé and Marie-Abathe Piché, at nearby St.-Sulpice in January 1798. 

François, fils's third son Jean-Baptiste was born probably in the early 1750s after the family returned to Minas.  Bona Arsenault says Jean-Baptiste was born in c1749, but the boy was not counted with his family at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale, in March 1752.  He followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Doucet and Françoise Haché, at L'Assomption in August 1778.

François, père's second son Joseph, born at Minas in November 1718, married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Girouard and Marie Doiron of Pigiguit, in c1740, probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1756, Madeleine gave Joseph eight children, four sons and four daughters.  In c1750, they moved from Minas to Île St.-Jean, where, in August 1752, a French official counted Joseph, Madeleine, and six of their children, two sons and four daughters, at Malpèque on the northwest shore of the island.  They evidently escaped the British roundup on Île St.-Jean in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they may have escaped more British roundups.  They settled at the British-controlled fishery at Carleton in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Joseph died there in March 1818, age 99.  His daughters married into the Comeau, Bernard, Boudrot, and Landry families at Carleton.  His sons also created their own families there.

Oldest son Basile, born probably at Minas in c1741, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, into exile, and to Gaspésie, where he married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourg and Anne Hébert and sister of Paris-educated Catholic missionary Joseph-Mathurin Bourg, at Carleton in April 1776. Basile and Victoire remained at Carleton.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1777 and 1790, Victoire gave Basile six children, four daughters and two sons. 

Joseph's second son Joseph, fils, born probably at Minas in c1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, into exile, and to Gaspésie, where he married cousin Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Dugas and Anne LeBlanc, in c1772.  They settled at Carleton.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1773 and 1790, Françoise gave Joseph, fils nine children, five sons and four daughters. 

Joseph, père's third son Pierre, born probably at Minas in c1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, into exile, and to Gaspésie, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Anne Thériot, at Carleton in November 1776.  They remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1777 and 1789, Marie gave Pierre six children, four sons and two daughters. 

Joseph, père's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born in exile in c1756, followed his family to Gaspésie, where, in his early 30s, he married Charlotte, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bujold and Marguerite Cormier, at Carleton in May 1787.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1789 and 1808, Charlotte gave Jean 10 children, four sons and six daughters. 

François, père's third son Charles, born at Minas in May 1723, married, according to Stephen A. White, Marie, daughter of Nicolas Barrieau and ____, in c1748, probably at Minas and remained there.  Bona Arsenault says Marie was daughter of Jacques Barillot and Marie-Anne Turpin of Pigiguit; White is followed here.  According to Arsenault, between 1751 and 1769, Marie gave Charles 11 children, five sons and six daughters.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  They were still in the colony in August 1763.  Charles and most of his family followed his widowed mother and three of his younger brothers to Île Miquelon, where French officials counted them in 1765 and 1767.  They likely went to France that year with other islanders to alleviate crowding on Miquelon and Île St.-Pierre.  If so, they promptly returned to greater Acadia.  British officials counted them at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia, in 1770.  They moved on to Bouctouche in present-day southeastern New Brunswick.  Charles died at nearby Memramcook, New Brunswick, in c1800, in his late 70s.  His daughters married into the Bourque, Richard, LeBlanc, Allain, and Guoguen families.  Four of his five sons also created their own families.

Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Minas in c1751, followed his family to Massachusetts, Île Miquelon, Nova Scotia, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Saulnier and Marie Coste of Nicook, perhaps Néguac, in c1772, no place given. 

Charles's second son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1753, followed his family to Massachusetts, Île Miquelon, Nova Scotia, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where he married Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian René Landry, in c1775, no place given.  They settled at Bouctouche. 

Charles's fourth son Charles, fils, born probably on Île Miquelon in c1765, followed his family to Nova Scotia and the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where he married fellow Acadian Madeleine Girouard in c1786, no place given, and remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Brault and Madeleine Boudreau of Bouctouche, no place or date given, but it probably was on the Gulf shore. 

Charles, père's fifth and youngest son François, born probably on Île Miquelon in c1766, followed his family to Nova Scotia and the Gulf os St. Lawrence shore, where he married Hélène, another daughter of Joseph Brault and Madeleine Boudreau, in c1788, no place given, but it probably was on the Gulf shore. 

François, père's fourth son Pierre, born at Minas in November 1725, was a 30-year-old bachelor when he followed his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  He was counted with his parents and younger brother Simon at Needham in 1760.  Pierre married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Bourgeois dit Lafond and Marie-Jeanne Richard and widow of Jacques Girouard, in April 1760, probably at Needham.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1767, Marie gave Pierre four children, two daughters and two sons.  The family was still in Massachusetts in August 1763.  Soon after they appeared on the repatriation list in the Bay Colony, they followed his widowed mother and three of his brothers to Île Miquelon, where their marriage was "rehabilitated" in October 1763.  They were still on the island in 1765 and 1767.  They likely went to France in 1767 with other islanders.  If so, they promptly returned to greater Acadia.  British officials counted them at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1768.  Soon after, they followed his older brother Charles to present-day southeastern New Brunswick.  Pierre died at Memramcook there in c1805, age 80. 

François, père's fifth son Étienne, born at Minas in February 1728, died there in December 1731, age 3 1/2. 

François, père's sixth son Amand, born at Minas in January 1731, died there in January 1732, age 1. 

François, père's seventh son Jacques le jeune, born at Minas in November 1732, was a 23-year-old bachelor when he followed his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755, but he did not remain there.  He married Nathalie dite Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Breau and Anne-Françoise Dupuis, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in c1758 (Bona Arsenault says c1757).  According to Arsenault, between 1759 and 1768, Nathalie gave Jacques le jeune six children, five daughters and a son.  They returned to Massachusetts by August 1763, when they appeared on a repatriation list in that colony.  Later that year, they followed his widowed mother and three of his brothers to Île Miquelon, where French officials counted them in 1767.  They may have gone to France that year with other islanders.  If so, they returned to greater Acadia and settled on the Atlantic coast northeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Jacques died at nearby Chezzetcook in c1776, in his early 40s.  His daughters married into the Maillet, Jeanson, Landry, Thibodeau, and Richard families, one of them at Annapolis Royal and several of them on the Gulf shore in present-day eastern New Brunswick.  His son also created a family of his own.

Only son Simon le jeune, born probably in Pennsylvania in c1760, followed his family to Massachusett, Île Miquelon, and British Nova Scotia, but he did not remain there.  He married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian René Richard of Nicook, perhaps Néguac, in c1782, no place given, but it probably was on the Gulf shore of persent-day eastern New Brunswick. 

François, père's eighth and youngest son Simon, born at Minas in October 1734, followed his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  He was counted with his parents and older brother Pierre at Needham in 1760.  After the war, he followed his widowed mother and three older brothers to Île Miquelon by 1767, when French officials counted him there.  If he went to France that year with other islanders, he promptly returned to greater Acadia.  He married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Comeau and Marie Henry dit Robert, in c1771, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine gave Simon a daughter in 1772.  British officials counted them at Birch Cove, in today's southwestern New Brunswick, in 1772.  They crossed over to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore to today's southeastern New Brunswick, where Simon died at St.-Louis-de-Kent in January 1816, age  81. 

Jacques, père's sixth son Bernard, born probably at Port-Royal in c1690 (Bona Arsenault says in c1693), married Marie, daughter of Alexandre Bourg dit Bellehumeur, notary and judge, and Marguerite Melanson, at Grand-Pré in February 1714 and settled there.  According to Stephen A. White, between the 1710s and 1737, Marie gave Bernard seven children, five daughters and two sons.  Arsenault gives them a third son and only three daughters.  The British evidently deported members of the family to New England in the fall of 1755.  Bernard died in exile between 1755 and August 1763, in his 50s or early 60s.  His widow Marie and some of her LeBlanc children moved on to French St.-Domingue in late 1763 or 1764.  Marie died at Mirebalais in the interior of the sugar colony in November 1764, age 69.  Four of their daughters married into the Landry and Dugas families, one of them on Île Miquelon.  One, perhaps both, of Bernard's sons created their own families. 

Older son Joseph dit Bouquet, born at Minas in March 1724, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Olivier Daigre and Françoise Granger, at Rivière-aux-Canards in June 1747 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1767, Marie-Josèphe gave Bouquet five children, three sons and two daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in the fall of 1755.  If they escaped the British roundup at Minas, they likely sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they evidently escaped more British roundups.  According to Stephen A. White, in 1765, two years after the war had ended, British officials counted them at the British-controlled fishery at Bonaventure in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Arsenault, however, says that in 1767 French authorities counted Joseph dit Bouquet and his family at Baie-du-Château on Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany, where many of his LeBlanc cousins who had been held in England had gone two years earlier.  If Arsenault is correct, Bouquet and his family, after the 1765 counting at Gaspésie, may have resettled on Île Miquelon, which, like Gaspésie, also contained a fishery, this one controlled by the French.  By 1767, Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre had become so crowded French authorities, obeying a royal decree, sent most of the island Acadians to France, hence the possibility of the family being counted on Belle-Île-en-Mer later that year.  Even if this is a correct interpretation of Arsenault's information, Bouquet and his family did not remain in France.  Arsenault says they were counted at Carleton near Bonaventure, no date given, after their sojourn in the mother country.  Both Arsenault and White agree that Joseph dit Bouquet died at nearby Cascapédia, today's New Richmond, Gaspésie, in September 1801, age 77--perhaps never having left there.  His daughters married into the Poirier and Cormier families.  His sons also created families of their own in Gaspésie.

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1750, followed his family into exile and to Gaspésie, where he married Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Doucet and Anne Arsenault, in c1777, no place given.  They settled at Carleton.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1778 and 1795, Modeste gave Joseph seven children, six sons and a daughter. 

Bouquet's second son Jean-Baptiste, born in exile in c1764, followed his family to Gaspésie, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Cormier and Madeleine Savoie, at Cascapédia/New Richmond in January 1787 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1785[sic] and 1809, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste 13 children, nine sons and two daughters. 

Bouquet's third and youngest son Pierre, born perhaps in Gaspésie in c1767, married, in his early 30s, Barbe, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Bariault and Élisabeth Landry, at Carleton in January 1800. 

Bernard's younger son Pierre, born at Minas in August 1737, may have died young, or he may have been the Pierre LeBlanc who the British deported to Virginia in the fall of 1755 and who Virginia authorities sent on to England the following spring.  If this was him, he married fellow Acadian Marie-Blanche Landry in England, probably at Bristol, in c1757.  Marie-Blanche gave husband Pierre two daughters there in 1758 and 1760.  The family was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled in the surburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer before moving to Le-Légué near St.-Brieuc on the Breton coast west of St.-Malo in 1771.  Pierre worked as a carpenter in the mother country.  Between 1763 and 1770, at St.-Servan, Marie-Blanche gave him seven more children, four sons and five daughters, including a set of twins--nine children in all.  Five of the younger children, three sons and two daughters, died before their second birthday, and their second daughter, born in England, died at age 7 in July 1767.  In 1773, Pierre took his wife and remaining children to the interior of Poitou.  In March 1776, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Their oldest daughter married into the Daigre family at nearby Chantenay in March 1783.  Two years later, Pierre, Marie-Blanche, an unmarried daughter, and their married daughter and her husband emigrated to Spanish Louisiana on the same vessel.  The married daughter may not have survived the crossing.  From New Orleans, Pierre and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to Bayou Lafourche.  Wife Marie-Blanche died at Ascension on the upper bayou in July 1786, in her early 50s, soon after their arrival.  Pierre, in his mid-50s, may have remarried to Anne, 47-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and his first wife Madeleine Doiron and widow of Pierre Robichaux, at Ascension in August 1790, and he may have been the Pierre LeBlanc whose succession was filed at the Interior Parish courthouse in December 1810.  If this was Pierre à Bernard, he would have been in his early 70s that year.  His younger daughter married into the Boudreaux family on the upper Lafourche.  Since none of Pierre's sons made it to Louisiana, this line of the family did not take root in the Bayou State. 

Jacques, père's seventh and youngest son Ignace, born probably at Port-Royal in c1692, was counted there with his family the following year, but he may not have survived childhood. 

Daniel's second son Étienne, born at Port-Royal in c1656, was age 15 when Father Molin counted him with his family at Port-Royal in 1671, the first Acadian census.  He did not marry.

Daniel's third son René, born at Port-Royal in c1657, married Anne, daughter of Jacques Bourgeois and Jeanne Trahan, at Port-Royal in c1678 and moved on to Minas in the late 1680s.  Between c1678 and the late 1690s, at Port-Royal and Minas, Anne gave René 10 children, eight sons and two daughters, including a set of twins.  René died at Minas in January 1734, in his late 70s.  Anne, who did not remarry, died at Minas in December 1747, age 87.  Their daughters married into the Thériot and Landry families.  Six of René's sons created families of their own.   

Oldest son Jacques le jeune, born at Port-Royal in c1678 (Bona Arsenault says c1680), married Catherine, daughter of René Landry and Marie Bernard, at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1700 (Arsenault says c1699) but settled at Grand-Pré.  Between 1700 and 1726, Catherine gave Jacques le jeune 14 children, eight daughters and six sons.  Catherine died at Minas at Easter 1754, in her early 70s.  Jacques le jeune died there in October 1755, in his late 70s, during the first days of exile.  His daughters married into the Gautrot, Granger, Melanson, Thibodeau, Babin, and LeBlanc families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana.  All of his sons also created their own families, and three of them emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax, Maryland, and France. 

Oldest son Jean-Jacques, born at Minas in c1702, married Madeleine, daughter of Germain Thériot and Anne Richard, in c1725, probably at Minas and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1729 and 1744, Madeleine gave Jean-Jacques eight children, six sons and two daughters.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Southampton, where Jean-Jacques and Madeleine died, dates unrecorded.  In the spring of 1763, some of their children, along with the other Acadians held in England, were repatriated to France. 

Second son Joseph, born at Minas in January 1731, followed his family to Virginia and England.  Still a bachelor in his early 30s, he was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  One wonders what happened to him there.  He did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Jean-Jacques's fourth son François, born at Minas in November 1736, followed his family to Virginia and England.  Still a bachelor in his late 20s, he was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  One wonders what happened to him there.  He did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Jean-Jacques's sixth and youngest son Augustin-Marie, born at Minas in June 1742, followed his family to Virginia and England.  Still a bachelor in his early 20s, he was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer perhaps with his older brother.  One wonders what happened to him there.  He did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Jacques le jeune's second son Jacques, fils, born at Minas in September 1708, married Catherine- or Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Forest and Cécile Richard, at Grand-Pré in June 1730 and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled at Pigiguit.  According to Arsenault, between 1734 and 1752, Catherine-Josèphe gave Jacques, fils six children, three sons and three daughters.  Other records give them a fourth son.  Arsenault says the British deported members of the family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Their oldest son escaped the roundup at Pigiguit and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Their second son, who followed them to Pennsylania, married a fellow Acadian there.  Jacques, fils took his family to Maryland by July 1763, when he, Catherine, and five of their unmarried children, three daughters and two sons, appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore.  Evidently Jacques, fils's second son and his wife did not follow him to the Cheaspeake family.  Jacques, fils's two younger sons married fellow Acadians in Maryland after the 1763 counting.  Jacques, fils, his wife, two married sons and their families, and three unmarried daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.  They settled near his oldest son on river at Cabahannocer, where Jacques, fils died in February 1795, age 87.  His daughters married into the Lanoux and Babin families on the river. 

Oldest son Marcel, born probably at Pigiguit in c1734, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By 1760, he had moved north to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where he appears on a list of surrendered Acadians there dated 24 October 1760.  A month later, he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Breau and Ursule Bourg of Cobeguit at Restigouche.  The British held them in the prison compound at Fort Edward, formerly Pigiguit, within sight of his old home, until the end of the war.  Marie-Josèphe gave Marcel a daughter at Fort Edward in c1762.  In 1765, the family emigrated with other Nova Scotia exiles to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled in the established Acadian community at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  The following year, his parents and siblings joined him there from Maryland.  Marie-Josèphe gave Marcel more children in the colony.  In late summer 1779, in his mid-40s, Marcel may have served as a fusileer in the Acadian Coast company of militia that fought under Governor Bernardo Gálvez against the British at Fort Bute and Baton Rouge.  The date and place of Marcel's death have been lost.  His daughters married into the Chiasson, Dugas, and Melançon families.  Marcel's two sons also married, into the Godin dit Bellefontaine, Lalande, and Breaux families.  The older son remained on the river, but the younger one moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Jacques, fils's second son René, born probably at Pigiguit in c1740, followed his family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  He married fellow Acadian Anne Blanchard probably at Philadelphia in c1761.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1776, Anne gave René eight children, three sons and five daughters.  René and Anne evidently did not follow his family to Maryland in the early 1760s but, after the war, moved on to Arichat, a British-controlled fishery on the north shore of Île Madame, Nova Scotia.  Three of their daughters married into the Boudreau and Forest families.  All three of René's sons created families of their own at the Arichat fishery.

Oldest son Hyacinthe, born probably in Pennsylvania in c1762, followed his parents to Arichat and married fellow Acadian Marie Vincent of Pomquet on the North Shore of Nova Scotia, place and date unrecorded.  They settled at Arichat, where, according to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Hyacinthe nine children. 

René's second son Gaétan dit Cajetan, born probably at Arichat in c1768, married fellow Acadian Marguerite Boudreau, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was at Arichat.  They also settled at Arichat, where, according to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Cajetan 10 children, six sons and four daughters.  Cajetan died at Arichat in c1850, in his early 80s. 

René's third and youngest son Mathurin, born probably at Arichat in c1772, married Modeste-Catherine Fougère or Forgues, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was at.  They settled at Arichat, where, according to Bona Arsenault, Modeste gave Mathurin a dozen children, 10 sons and two daughters.  At least one of their sons resettled in the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Charles, born probably at Arichat in c1780, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Cormier and Marie Boudreau, on one of the Gulf islands in October 1806. 

Jacques, fils's third son Sylvain, born probably at Pigiguit in c1741, followed his family to Pennsylvania and Maryland.  He married cousin Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, LeBlanc, in Maryland in c1763.  She gave him a son there in c1765.  The following year, they followed his parents and siblings to Spanish Louisiana and settled with them at Cabahannocer.  Sylvain remarried to fellow Acadian Marie-Josèphe, called Josèphe, Babin at Cabahanncoer in the late 1760s and settled at nearby Ascension.  Sylvain was a first corporal in the Ascension militia during the Spanish campaign against the British on the lower Mississippi in 1779.  He died in Ascension Parish in July 1807, in his late 60s.  His daughters married into the Babin, Beres, Bourdier, Breaux, Landry, LeBlanc, Melançon, Prince, and Trahan families.  Three of his five sons by both wives married into the Godin dit Lincour, LeBlanc, and Blanchard families at Ascension. 

Jacques, fils's fourth and youngest son Paul, born probably at Pigiguit in c1743, followed his family to Pennsylvania and Maryland.  He married fellow Acadian Agnès, also called Anne, Babin in Maryland in the mid-1760s.  In 1766, Paul, Anne, and their infant son followed his parents and siblings to Spanish Louisiana and settled with them at Cabahannocer.  Anne gave Paul a daughter and more sons.  Paul's daughter married into the Gautreaux family.  Four of his eight sons also married, into the Bourgeois, Surette, Part, Mire, and Duhon families on the river. 

Jacques le jeune's third son Honoré, born at Minas in November 1710, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Guillaume Trahan and Jacqueline Benoit, at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1731 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1753, Marie-Josèphe gave Honoré five children, four sons and a daughter.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Liverpool, where wife Marie-Josèphe died in c1763.  Honoré and his family, including a son who married at Liverpool, were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Two years later, they followed his younger brothers to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Bordustard near Le Palais on the eastern side of the island.  Honoré died near Le Palais in November 1791, age 81.  His daughter married into the Daigre family at Morlaix, followed her husband to Belle-Île-en-Mer, and, like her parents and most of her brothers, remained there after 1785.  At least three of Honoré's sons created their own families, one of them in Spanish Louisiana. 

Oldest son Charles le jeune, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in August 1734, followed his family to Virginia and England and was held with them at Liverpool.  Charles le jeune married Anne dite Annette, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians René Landry and Marie-Rose Rivet of Rivière-aux-Canards, at Liverpool in May 1758.  The couple followed his family to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Annette gave Charles le jeune a daughter in August of that year, so she was pregnant in the crossing from England.  In May 1765, Annette gave Charles le jeune a son in St.-Mathieu's Parish, Morlaix.  Later that year, Charles le jeune took his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled at Bordrehouant near Bangor in the center of the island.  Between 1768 and 1779, Annette gave Charles le jeune at least three more children on the island, two daughters and a son--five children in all.  In 1785, Charles le jeune's older son, now a 20-year-old bachelor, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  The rest of the family remained on Belle-Île-en-Mer, where Charles le jeune died in c1803, in his late 60s.  His widow Annette, who evidently did not remarry, died on the island in c1821, on her early 80s.  Two of their daughters married into the Le Floch and Caric families on the island.  Both of Charles le jeune's sons married, one in Spanish Louisiana, the other on Belle-Île-en-Mer. 

Older son Claude-Marie, born at Morlaix, France, in May 1765, followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer and came of age there.  In October 1785, still a bachelor, he sailed out of Nantes on the last of the Seven Ships going to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, he joined other Acadian exiles, including his uncle Joseph LeBlanc, on upper Bayou Lafourche, where the Spanish granted Claude-Marie six arpents of frontage.  By 1791, still a bachelor, Claude-Marie had increased his frontage on the bayou to seven arpents.  At age 29, he married Marguerite-Anastasie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Benoît Comeaux and Anne Blanchard of Chepoudy and Petitcoudiac, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in June 1794.  Marguerite-Anastasie was born at Cherbourg, France, and had come to the colony aboard the fifth of the Seven Ships.  They remained on the upper bayou.  Claude-Marie's succession, probably post-mortem, was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish couthouse in Thibodauxville in February 1816.  He would have been in his early 50s at the time.  His daughters married into the Bruce, Ledet, Picou, and Poché families.  Two of his four sons also married, into the Bergeron and Foret families, and remained in Lafourche Interior Parish.

Charles le jeune's younger son Claude-Marie-Auguste, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in May 1779, married Marie-Catherine, daughter of locals Guillaume Thomas and Marie-Louse Caric of Kerhohan, at Bangor in c1809.  They settled at Kerchen on the island.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Catherine gave Claude-Marie-Auguste two children, a son and a daughter, in 1814 and 1819. 

Honoré's second son Raymond, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in Januuary 1742, followed his family to Virginia, England, and Morlaix, France, where he married Marie-Josèphe, 25-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Thériot and Marie-Josèphe Dupuis of Rivière-aux-Canards, in September 1765.  Later that year, they followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled near them at Bordustard near Bangor.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1781, Marie-Josèpe gave Raymond six children, two daughters and four sons, on the island.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Arsenault says Raymond not only was a land owner on the island, but in 1792, during the early days of the French Revolution, his fellow citizens chose him as a municipal officer at Le Palais.  He died at Bordustard in c1807, in his mid-60s.  Marie-Josèphe died there in c1811, in her early 70s.  One of their daughters married into the Gallenne family on the island.  At least one of their sons also created a family there.

Third son Jean-Baptiste-Guillaume, born near Le Palais in June 1777, married, in his mid-30s, fellow Acadian Marie-Julienne Landry, also a native of the island, at Bangor in c1812.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Julienne gave Jean-Baptiste-Guillaume a son in c1816. 

Honoré's third son Paul, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in July 1751, followed his family to Virginia, England, Morlaix, and Belle-Île-en-Mer.  He married Marie-Anne, daughter of locals Paderne Matelot and Anne Quelec, at Le Palais on the island in July 1774 and settled near his brother at Bordustard.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1775 and 1779, Marie-Anne gave Paul three children, two sons and a daughter; the daughter died young.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Paul remarried to Frenchwoman Marie-Françoise Le Matelot d'Auray on the island in c1788.  According to Arsenault, between 1789 and 1800, Marie-Françoise gave Paul six more children, five sons and a daughter--nine children by two wives.  Paul died at Bordustard on the island in c1808, in his late 50s. 

Seventh and youngest son Jean-Marie, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1800, became a cannoneer in the French artillery.  He died at Basse-Terre, Guadaloupe, in c1825.  One wonders if he married. 

Honoré's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in January 1753, followed his family to Virginia, England, Morlaix, and Belle-Île-en-Mer, but he did not remain there.  By September 1784, he had returned to Morlaix, where he appears on a list of Acadians who wanted to emigrate to Spanish Louisiana, which he did, alone, the following year.  From New Orleans, he followed most of his fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where, in his mid- or late 30s, he married fellow Acadian Marguerite Forest soon after reaching the colony.  At age 40, Joseph remarried to Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians François Landry and Marie-Rose Dugas, at Ascension in November 1793.  They remained on the upper bayou.  Joseph died in Assumption Parish in August 1836, in his early 80s.  His daughters, all by second wife Marie-Rose, married into the Girot, Landry, LeBlanc, and Mollère families.  Four of his six sons by both wives also married, into the Aucoin, Landry, and Breaux families on the Lafourche.  

Jacques le jeune's fourth son Charles, born at Minas in August 1718, married Élisabeth, 23-year-old daughter of Jean Thibodeau and Marguerite Hébert, at Grand-Pré in September 1741 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1752, Élisabeth gave Charles six children, three daughters and three sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Penryn-Falmouth until they were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Two years later, Charles, Élisabeth, and their children followed his brothers to Belle-Île-en-Mer, where they settled at Keroudé near Bangor.  Charles died near Bangor in April 1772, age 54.  Neither his widow Élisabeth, nor any of their children, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Élisabeth died in the house of sieur Jacques Cholet, her son-in-law, at Le Palais on the east end of the island in 1807, in her late 90s.  Two of her other daughters also married, into the Daigre and Richard families.  At least two of Charles and Élisabeth's sons created their own families in France.   

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in April 1746, followed his family to Virginia, England, Morlaix, and Belle-Île-en-Mer.  In the 1770s or early 1780s, he left the island and returned to the Morlaix area.  He married Françoise-Charlotte, daughter of locals Maitre François Lavanant and Mme. Barbe-Anne Ferroc, at Guerlesquin near Morlaix in June 1781.  Jean-Baptiste served as notaire royal et procureur fiscal de jurisdiction, as well as maire of Guerlesquin, quite an accomplishment for an Acadian exile.  Françoise-Charlotte gave him two sons in 1784 and 1786.  As the birth year of his second son attests, and as his vaunted position asserts, Jean-Baptiste did not take his family to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Charles's second son Olivier, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1748, followed his family to Virginia, England, Morlaix, and Belle-Île-en-Mer.  He may have been the Olivier Landry who died near Bangor on the island in May 1783.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give Oliver's parents' name, his age, or mention a wife.  If this was Olivier à Charles, he would have died in his mid-30s. 

Charles's third and youngest son Anselme, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in January 1752, followed his family to Virginia, England, Morlaix, and Belle-Île-en-Mer, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of locals Jean-Marie Houin and Marie-Josèphe Le Luc, at Le Palais in May 1782.  By 1785, the family was living on Rue de l'Église in Lorient, southern Brittanay.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1783 and 1792, Marie-Josèphe gave Anselme nine children, four daughters and five sons.  As the birth dates of his children reveal, Anselme did not take his family to Spanish Louisiana. 

Jacques le jeune's fifth son Joseph, born at Minas in February 1720, married Isabelle, daughter of Bernard Gaudet and Jeanne Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in July 1742 and evidently remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1762, Isabelle gave Joseph seven children, four daughters and three sons.  They escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, eventually seeking refuge at the French stronghold of Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either or surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia until the end of the war.  Joseph, Isabelle, and four of their children, two daughters and two sons, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1765 and settled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Joseph died at St. James, formerly Cabahannocer, on the Acadian Coast, in July 1805, age 85.  His daughters married into the Breau, Duhon, and LeBlanc families at Restigouche and on the Acadian Coast, and two of them resettled on the western prairies and on upper Bayou Lafourche.  His surviving sons married, into the LeBlanc, Doiron, Godin dit Bellefontaine, and Bourgeois families, and settled on the Acadian Coast and the western prairies. 

Jacques le jeune's sixth and youngest son Simon, born at Minas in April 1723, married Marguerite, 21-year-old daughter of Jean Bourg and Françoise Aucoin, at Cobeguit on the east end of the Minas Basin in August 1743.  They evidently settled near his family at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1750, Marguerite gave Simon four children, a daughter and three sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on the England the following spring.  They were held at Penryn-Falmouth, where Marguerite died and Simon remarried to Marie, 34-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Trahan and Élisabeth Thériot and widow of François Granger, in August 1757.  They were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  According to Arsenault, in 1764 Marie gave Simon another son.  In late 1765, Simon and his family followed two of his older brothers to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled at Keroudé in the Bangor district near his brother Charles.  Simon's oldest daughter Françoise by first wife Marguerite remained at Morlaix and, in 1767, at age 22, joined the Ursuline order of nuns there.  According to Arsenault, between 1766 and 1776 on Belle-Île-en-Mer, Marie gave Simon four more children, two sons and two daughters--nine children by two wives.  In 1776, the family was living at Bortémont near Bangor.  Simon's oldest son by first wife Marguerite, meanwhile, had moved to Chantenay near Nantes in southern Brittany, where he married an Hébert in April 1782.  The following year, Simon and the rest of his family joined his oldest son at Chantenay.  Two of his and Marie's children, a daughter and a son, died at Chantenay in 1783 and 1784, ages 7 and 17.  In 1785, Simon, Marie, two of their younger sons, their youngest daughter, and his married son and his family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana aboard the first of the Seven Ships.  Simon's older sons from first wife Marguerite, who would have been in their late 30s in 1785, did not accompany their family to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Simon and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge and later moved downriver to Ascension on the Acadian Coast, where Simon died in February 1802, age 78.  His daughter married into the Landry and LeBlanc families on the river and upper Bayou Lafourche.  His two younger sons also married, into the LeBlanc, Longuépée, and Brasseaux families, settled on the river and the western prairies and created vigorous lines.  Simon's oldest son and his Hébert wife remained on the river, but his line did not endure. 

René's second son François, born at Port-Royal in c1680 (Bona Arsenault says c1682), married Jeanne, daughter of Jean Hébert and Marie-Anne Doucet, in c1703, probably at Minas and settled there.  Between 1703 and 1729, Jeanne gave François a dozen children, six sons and six daughters.  The British deported members of the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted François, Jeanne, and their son Jacques le jeune and his family at Braintree in April 1757.  They were still in the colony in August 1763.  Later in the decade, they followed other exiles in New England to British Canada.  François died at St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu in March 1770, in his early 90s.  His daughters married into the Landry dit Labbé, Thibodeau, Hébert, Breau, and Cormier families.  Five of his six sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest son François, fils, born at Minas in c1703, married Anne, daughter of Jean Benoit and Marie-Anne Breau, in c1728, place unrecorded.  Bona Arsenault says they married in c1727 at Cobeguit.  According to Arsenault, in 1728 and 1730, Anne gave François, fils three children, two sons and a daughter, including a set of twins.  François, fils died at Minas in April 1733, age 30.  According to Arsenault, widow Anne died in c1755 at Baie-Verte on the North Shore, across from Île St.-Jean, perhaps while she and her children were fleeing the British roundup in Nova Scotia late that summer.  One wonders what happened to the rest of the family after 1755. 

François, père's second son Jacques le jeune, born at Minas in c1706, married Catherine, daughter of Pierre Landry and Madeleine Broussard, at Grand-Pré in September 1727 and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1750, Catherine gave Jacques le jeune three children, a daughter and two sons. The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them with Jacques le jeune's parents at Braintree in April 1757.  Jacques le jeune died probably in Massachusetts before August 1763, in his 50s.  According to Arsenault, one of his sons moved on to Maryland.  What happened to him, his mother, and his siblings after 1763? 

François, père's third son Joseph, born at Minas in August 1712, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Ambroise Bourg and Élisabeth Melanson, c1735, probably at Minas and settled at Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1738 and 1758, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph seven sons.  Joseph took his family to Île St.-Jean in c1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Joseph, Marie, and five of their sons at Havre-de-la-Fortune on the east coast of the island.  According to family historian Tyler LeBlanc, in late 1755 or 1756 Joseph returned to British Nova Scotia, specifically to Chignecto, "possibly to join the resistance."  Wife Marie-Josèphe and their sons remained on Île St.-Jean, though the birth date of the youngest son--1758--hints that if Joseph did leave the island soon after the Nova Scotia deporations, he returned to Île St.-Jean and then went back to Nova Scotia.  According to Stephen A. White, Joseph died at Cobeguit during the winter of 1757-58, in his mid- or late 40s, two years after the settlers remaining at Cobeguit had abandoned the village and crossed to Île St.-Jean.  One wonders why Joseph had returned to the abandoned settlement and if he died there from wounds he suffered in the resistance.  By the time the British struck on Île St.-Jean in late 1758, Joseph's family may have recrossed Mer Rouge and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, or they may have been among the minority of islanders who escaped the 1758 roundup and fled to the Gulf shore.  According to Tyler LeBlanc, Marie-Josèphe and her family returned to British-controlled St. John's Island after the war and settled at Havre-de-la-Fortune, where she likely remained.  According to Arsenault, at least one of Joseph's sons created a family of his own in greater Acadia after the war.  At least one other son created his own family there.

Second son Simon-Joseph, born probably at Cobeguit in c1740, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and into exile.  He married Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians François Arsenault and Marguerite Bernard, in c1764, no place given, but it evidently was where no Roman Catholic priest was available.  They lived on St. John's Island, later Prince Edward Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, from 1765 to 1771.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1771, Osite gave Simon-Joseph three daughters.  The couple "rehabilitated" their marriage at Nepisiguit, today's Bathurst, on the Gulf shore of eastern New Brunswick, in January 1772. 

According to descendant Tyler LeBlanc, Joseph's seventh and youngest son Georges-Robert, born perhaps posthumously at Havre-de-la-Fortune, Île St.-Jean, in c1758, followed his family into exile and back to St. John's Island, but he did not remain there.  In the 1780s, he helped pioneer the Acadian settlement on Margaree River south of Chéticamp on the west coast of Cape Breton Island.  Some of Georges-Robert's descendants, LeBlanc notes, moved to Sydney, Nova Scotia--formerly Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale--to work in the steel industry.  They also settled at Louisbourg down the coast. 

François, père's fourth son Honoré, born at Minas, probably did not survive childhood. 

François, père's fifth son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in October 1725, married Marie, daughter of Jean Landry and Madeleine Melanson, at Grand-Pré in November 1745 and settled at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1753, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste three sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, where Marie died perhaps aboard ship, age 31. Virginia officials deported Jean-Baptiste, his sons, and all of the other Acadians in Virginia to England the following spring.  Jean-Baptiste and his sons were held at Southampton, where he remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Célestin dit Bellemère and Marie Landry of Minas, in August 1758.  Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste another son at Southampton in September 1761.  The family was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763.  They settled at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across from St.-Malo, where a daughter was born in April 1764.  A year and a half later, the family followed other Acadian exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Kernest or Keruest near Bangor in the island's interior.  Between 1766 and 1775, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste five more children on the island, three sons and two daughters--10 children by two wives.  In February 1767, Jean-Baptiste gave his declaration to French officials detailing his family's ordeals during exile.  His oldest son by first wife Marie died near Bangor in October 1773, age 26, evidently before he could marry.  Jean-Baptiste, père and his family did not remain on the island.  In the late 1770s or early 1780s, they moved on to Chantenay, a suburb of the lower Loire port of Nantes, where Jean-Baptiste's oldest son by second wife Marguerite married into the De La Forestrie family.  Jean-Baptiste died at Chantenay in September 1782, age 56.  Six of his children by second wife Marguerite, four sons and two daughters, including the married one and his family, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 aboard the same vessel.  Two of Jean-Baptiste's sons by first wife Marie, who would have been ages 37 and 32 in 1785, and his oldest daughter by second wife Marguerite, who would have been age 21 that year, did not go to Louisiana.  Nor did Jean-Baptiste's widow Marguerite go there; she either had died on Belle-Île-en-Mer or at Chantenay or, most unlikely, chose to remain in France with one of her children.  Her and Jean-Baptiste's daughters who went to the Spanish colony married into the Hébert, Gerbaut, and Achée families on upper Bayou Lafourche and the river, and one of them moved on to the western prairies.  Jean-Baptiste's three younger sons who went to Louisiana also married there, into the Gautreaux, Gaudet, and Pitre families, and his oldest son by Marguerite remarried into the Bertrand family on upper Bayou Lafourche, where all of them settled. 

François, père's sixth and youngest son Bénoni, born at Minas in October 1729, married Marguerite, daughter of Guillaume Hébert and Marie-Josèphe Dupuis, at Grand-Pré in August 1748 and likely settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1755, Marguerite gave Bénoni three daughters.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Bénoni died there by July 1763, in his 30s.  In July 1763, widow Marguerite and their three daughters appeared on a repatriation list at Snow Hill on Maryland's Eastern Shore.  Marguerite evidently died in the colony before April 1767, when two of her LeBlanc daughters, Marie-Marguerite and Marie, left Baltimore for Spanish Louisiana.  The daughters married into the Bergeron, Gaudet, and Paquette families on the river and upper Bayou Lafourche, so the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

René's third son René, fils, the celebrated notary of Grand-Pré, born at Port-Royal in c1682 (Bona Arsenault says c1684), married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Pierre Melanson and Marguerite Mius d'Entremont and widow of Pierre-Alain Bugeaud, at Grand-Pré in July 1709.  According to Stephen A. White, between 1710 and 1718, Élisabeth gave René, fils five children, including two sons and two daughters.  Arsenault gives the couple only a son and two daughters.  At age 38, René, fils remarried to Marguerite, 15-year-old daughter of Pierre Thébeau and Marie-Jeanne Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in November 1720.  According to White, between 1721 and 1748, Marguerite gave the notary 17 more children, 11 daughters and six sons, including a set of triplets and three sets of twins--22 children by both wives.  Arsenault gives them another son.  René, fils, perceived by the British as an accommodator, replaced Alexandre Bourg dit Bellehumeur as notary at Grand-Pré in December 1744.  Five years later, on Christmas Day 1749, Mi'kmaq under Abbé Le Loutre "accosted and beat" the notary at his home at Grand-Pré and dragged him and his 18-year-old son Simon to the partisan stronghold at Petitcoudiac.  Wife Marguerite and some of the other children, her youngest only age 1 1/2, also were taken to Petitcoudiac.  According to Thomas Pinchon, upon learning that her husband would not be released and that her son had been sent to Canada, Marguerite died "of grief."  She was age 45.  After his release, René, fils, in c1752, at age 70, remarried again--his third marriage--to a woman whose name has been lost to history.  She gave him no more children.  Despite his reputation as an accommodator and his suffering at the hands of the Indians and his fellow Acadians, the British deported René, fils and members of his family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  He died at Philadelphia after 6 February 1758, in his late 70s.  Nine of his daughters by two of his wives married into the Meunier, Babin, Thériot, Bonhomme, Leprince, Trahan, Broussard, Grajon, Robertson, Babuty, and Bordages families, and one, from his second wife, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.  Five of his eight sons from two of his wives also created families of their own, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland. 

Oldest son Benjamin, by first wife Isabelle Melanson, born at Annapolis Royal in 1711, probably died young. 

René, fils's second son Désiré, by first wife Isabelle Melanson, born probably at Minas in c1717, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Abraham Landry and Marie Guilbeau, in c1740 probably at Grand-Pré in c1740 and settled there.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  They appeared on a repatriation at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  Désiré, Marie-Madeleine, and 10 of their children, six sons and four daughters, emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.  They had another son in the Spanish colony.  Three of their daughters married into the Landry, Babin, and LeBlanc families.  Six of their sons, including the youngest, married into the Arceneaux, Melançon, Babin, and Landry families on the river. 

René, fils's putative son Jean-Jacques, who, according to Bona Arsenault, was René, fils and second wife Margerutie Thébeau's oldest son, was, Arsenault says, born in c1723.  Stephen A. White does not include Jean-Jacques among the couple's many children, so one wonders if Jean-Jacques was an Acadian LeBlanc.  According to Arsenault, Jean-Jacques married Marie, daughter of Frenchman Charles Héon and his Acadian wife Anne Clémenceau of Chignecto, in c1755, no place given.  Arsenault notes in detailing the marriage that Jean-Jacques LeBlanc was "médecin à Champlain," that is, a physician of Champlain, which was in Canada, not greater Acadia. 

René, fils's third son René III, a twin, by second wife Marguerite Thébeau, born at Minas in November 1731, married Anne, daughter of René Blanchard and Marguerite Thériot, in c1752, probably at Grand-Pré and settled there.  René III and his wife evidently escaped the British roundup at Minas in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia until the end of the war.  One wonders what happened to them after 1763.  René III died after January 1811, in his early 80s, place unrecorded. 

René, fils's fourth son Simon, René III's twin, by second wife Marguerite Thébeau, was age 18 in December 1749 when Mi'kmaq, on orders from Abbé Le Loutre, kidnapped him and his father at their home at Minas and took them to the partisan stronghold at Petitcoudiac.  The abbé sent Simon to Canada as a messenger, and French authorities held him there for a time.  Simon survived his ordeal in Canada, returned to Minas, and in c1754 married a woman whose name has been lost to history.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

René, fils's fifth son Joseph-Marie, by second wife Marguerite Thébeau, born at Minas in May 1738, evidently died young. 

René, fils's sixth son Pierre-Benjamin, called Benjamin, another twin, by second wife Marguerite Thébeau, born at Minas in January 1740, may have followed his family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Pierre-Benjamin married cousin Marie, daughter of Charles Dugas and Anne LeBlanc, in c1764 perhaps in the Quaker Colony or in Canada.  They settled at the British-controlled fishery at Carleton in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1787, Marie gave Pierre-Benjamin 13 children, four sons and nine daughters.  Pierre-Benjamin died at Carleton in February 1805, age 65.  His daughters married into the Audet, Bouchard, Essiambre, Boudreau/Boudrot, Mius d'Entremont, Barriault, Jeanson, and Cyr families at Carleton.  His sons also created families of their own there.

Oldest son Benjamin, fils, born in exile in c1765, followed his family to Gaspésie and married cousin Judith, daughter of fellow Acadians François Comeau and Marie LeBlanc, at Carleton in November 1789.  They settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1791 and 1810, Judith gave Benjamin, fils 10 children, seven sons and three daughters. 

Benjamin, père's second son Luc, born probably at Gaspésie in c1768, married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Guillaume Jeanson and Marie Aucoin, at Carleton in October 1790.  They settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1792 and 1815, Élisabeth gave Luc a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters. 

Benjamin, père's third son Désiré, born probably at Carleton in c1775, married cousin Victoire, another daughter of François Comeau and Marie LeBlanc, at Carleton in January 1798.  They settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1798 and 1815, Victoire gave Désiré nine children, three daughters and six sons. 

Benjamin, père's fourth and youngest son Hilaire, born probably at Carleton in c1779, married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bernard and Élisabeth LeBlanc, at Carleton in May 1804.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Hilaire two daughters in 1806 and 1808. 

René, fils's seventh son Paul-Marie, by second wife Marguerite Thébeau, born at Minas in May 1742, evidently died young. 

René, fils's eighth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste-Marie, called Jean-Baptiste, from second wife Marguerite Thébeau, born at Minas in June 1744, may have followed his family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Jean-Baptiste married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Boudrot and Marie-Rosalie Arseneau, in c1770, probably in Canada.  They also settled at Carleton in Gaspésie.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1773 and 1793, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste 10 children, five daughters and five sons.  Jean-Baptiste died at Carleton in November 1824, age 80.  Three of his daughters married into the Allain, Landry, and LeBlanc families at Carleton.  At least two of his sons also created their own families there.

Oldest son Jean, born probably at Carleton in c1776, married Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dugas and Françoise Robichaud, at Carleton in January 1801 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1802 and 1824, Sophie gave Jean 10 families, six sons and four daughters. 

Jean-Baptiste's fourth son Wencelas, born probably at Carleton in c1790, married cousin Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean LeBlanc and Charlotte Bujold, at Carleton in May 1816 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1817 and 1836, Félicité gave Wencelas 10 children, seven sons and three daughters. 

René, père's fourth son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1684 (Bona Arsenault says c1685), married Jeanne, daughter of Jean Thériot and Jeanne Landry, at Grand-Pré in October 1711.  Beween 1712 and 1736, Jeanne gave Pierre 10 children, six sons and four daughters.  Pierre died at Minas between June 1746 and August 1748, in his early 60s.  Three of his daughters married into the Hébert, Leprince, and Thériot families.  Five of his six sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Paul, born at Minas in September 1712, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Michel Richard and Agnès Bourgeois, at Annapolis Royal in November 1735 and may have settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1746, Marie-Madeleine gave Paul three children, a daughter and two sons.  Paul died before 1756, perhaps in the early months of exile.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1755. 

Pierre's second son Charles-Honoré, born at Minas in the mid-1710s, married Anne, daughter of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry, at Grand-Pré in August 1741 and likely settled there.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1755.  Charles-Honoré died between 1755 and 1758 during exile, place unrecorded. 

Pierre's third son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in October 1720, married Cécile, another daughter of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry, probably at Grand-Pré in c1748 and likely settled there.  Cécile gave him a son in c1749.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  They were held at Southampton, where Cécile died.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to fellow Acadian Ursule Breau probably at Southampton in c1759.  She gave him two more sons in c1760 and 1761.  Jean-Baptiste, Ursule, and his three sons were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763 and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where the second son died the following September at age 3.  The oldest son by first wife Cécile married a Frenchwoman at St.-Servan in May 1774.  Jean-Baptiste, Ursule, and their youngest son ventured to Poitou in 1773 and retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in March 1776.  Jean-Baptiste died in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in February 1784, age 63.  His widow, his unmarried son, and a granddaughter by his oldest son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, by first wife Cécile Hébert, born at Minas in c1749, followed his family to Virginia, England, and France and settled with them at St.-Servan0sur-Mer, where he married Andrée-Françoise, daughter of locals François Le Bourgeois and Jacquemine Chevalier, in May 1774.  Andrée gave Jean-Baptiste, fils two daughters at St.-Servan in 1774 and 1778.  They evidently did not follow his parents to Poitou and Nantes, nor did Jean-Baptiste, fils and Andrée-Françoise follow his father and stepmother to Louisiana.  Their older daughter, however, age 11 in 1785, did make her way to Nantes after September 1784 and accompanied her paternal step-grandmother and a paternal uncle to the Spanish colony, where she married into the Giroir family on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's third and youngest son Simon, by second wife Ursule Breau, born probably at Southampton, England, in October 1761, followed his family to St.-Malo, France, and settled with them at St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  He was still there in 1771 and followed his parents to Poitou and Nantes later in the decade.  After he came of age, he worked as a day laborer.  He followed his widowed mother and a niece to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Simon married Anne-Marie dite Annette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Daigle and Luce-Perpétué Bourg, at Ascension in April 1788.  Annette also had come to Louisiana aboard one of the Seven Ships.  She gave him a son in August 1789.  Simon died at Lafourche by January 1790, in his late 20s, when his wife remarried there.  His son probably died young, so this family line did not endure in the Bayou State.

Pierre's fourth son Pierre, fils, born at Minas in April 1726, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Antoine Landry and Marie-Blanche LeBlanc, probably at Minas in c1752.  The British deported them to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  They were still there in 1763.  Later that year or in 1764, they followed other Acadian exiles in the British seaboard colonies to French St.-Domingue.  French officials sent them to Mirebalais in the interior to work to provide cheap labor for tobacco and indigo planters.  Pierre, fils died at Mirebalais in December 1765, age 39. 

Only son Pierre III, born in Connecticut in c1762, was counted with his family there the following year.  He followed them to Mirebalais, where he was baptized in late August 1764, age 2.  He died at Mirebalais during the third week of September. 

Pierre's fifth son Daniel, born at Minas in May 1729, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Babin and Madeleine Bourg, probably at Minas in c1749 and remained there.  The British deported them to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  They were still there in June 1763.  According to Bona Arsenault a son was born in Philadelphia in c1766.  They moved on to Maryland, but they did not follow their fellow exiles to Spanish Louisiana in the late 1760s.  Instead, they were among the dozens of Acadian exiles who remained in the Chesapeake colony.  Daniel died at Baltimore and was buried at St. Peter Church's there in May 1810, age 81.  Durng his long residence in Maryland, he likely changed his surname to White.  According to Arsenault, one of his sons ended up in France. 

Joseph, born in Philadelphia in c1766 (Bona Arsenault says his mother was Marguerite Landry, not Marguerite Babin), became, according to Arsenault, a watchmaker at Bordeaux, France.  One wonders when he got there and what brought him to the French port.  Arsenault says Joseph married Frenchwoman Marie-Josèphe Pauché at Bordeaux in c1795. 

Pierre's sixth and youngest son Joseph, born at Minas in September 1733, probably died young.   

René, père's fifth son Joseph, a twin, born at Port-Royal or Minas in c1688, did an infant.   

René, père's sixth son Étienne, Joseph's twin, was counted with his family at Minas, age 5, in 1693.  He did not remain there.  Perhaps to escape British control, he moved to Québec, where Canadian officials counted him in 1716, age 25.  He worked as a navigator.  In November of that year, he married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of Joseph Mailloux and Louise Achon, at Québec and likely remained.  According to Bona Arseanault, between 1717 and 1723, Marie-Anne gave Étienne three daughters. 

René, père's seventh son Claude, born probably at Minas in c1691, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Marie, sans doute daughter of Jean Thériot and Jeanne Landry, in c1715, no place given; if these were her parents, Marie would have been a sister of Claude's older brother Pierre.  Stephen A. White records no such marriage for Claude, but Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., perhaps following Arsenault, does.  Robichaux, however, gives no parents for Marie, nor a marriage date and place, and lists no children for them.  White says Claude's only marriage was to Jeanne, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Jeanne Guilbeau, at Grand-Pré in May 1718.  They remained there.  According to Arsenault, between 1719 and 1739, Jeanne gave Claude 11 children, six sons and five daughters, including a set of twins.  Robichaux gives the couple only eight children between 1719 and 1737, four sons and four daughters.  Arsenault is followed here.  Claude likely served as a delegate from Minas to the new Nova Scotia colonial Council at Halifax in July 1749.  The British deported Claude and members of his family to Virginia in 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  They probably were held at Southampton.  Claude died there before May 1763, in his late 60s or early 70s.  Widow Jeanne was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Four of her LeBlanc daughters married into the Richard, Robichaud, Granger, and Landry families at Minas and in Engand and France, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Four of her and Claude's sons also created families of their own, but not all of the lines endured.  One of their grandsons emigrated to Louisiana from France.

Oldest son Félix, a twin, born at Minas in September 1719, married Marie-Josèphe, 21-year-old daughter of Jean Thériot and Madeleine Bourg, at Grand-Pré in October 1742.  They moved on to Chignecto after 1743.  According to Bona Arsenault and Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., between 1743 and 1757, Marie-Josèphe gave Félix six children, four sons and two daughters.  According to testimony Félix gave to French officials in France, he served in the Acadian militia at Fort Beauséjour in the summer of 1755, after which the British deported him, perhaps without his family, to South Carolina.  According to his account, he "escaped" from Charles Town, but he likely was part of one of the small-boat expeditions the South Carolina governor sanctioned in the spring of 1756 to rid the colony of Acadians.  Félix succeeded in reaching Rivière St.-Jean with other Acadian refugees.  There, if he had been apart from them, he reunited with his family.  According to Félix's account, Lieutenant Charles des Champs des Boishébert, in command of the resistance in the region, appointed him as a royal courier to relay messages between Louisbourg and Québec.  According to Arsenault, Félix and his family were on Île St.-Jean in 1757.  After the fall of Louisbourg in July 1758, the British deported the family to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, aboard the transport Neptune.  Marie-Josèphe gave Félix another son, Jean-Pierre, in St.-Nicolas Parish, Boulogne-sur-Mer, in early December 1759--their seventh child.  The boy died two days after his birth, and his mother died the following day.  In 1764, Félix and his children sailed from Boulogne-sur-Mer to St.-Malo and settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  According to Arsenault, Félix and his family were among the Acadian exiles in France who chose to go to the Îles Malouines, today's Falkland Islands in c1764.  (Robichaux says nothing of their being a part of the failed venture to the distant islands.  According to Paul Delaney's chronology of Le Grand Dérangement, the Acadians who went to Îles Malouines left St.-Malo aboard two vessels in September 1763, when Félix and his family were still at Boulogne-sur-Mer.)  If Félix and his children did go to the Malouines, they returned to St.-Malo by November 1769, when Félix's second son married at St.-Servan.  In 1772, after he had moved to Plélo in northern Brittany between St.-Malo and Morlaix, Félix learned that he had been removed from a "general roll" of Acadian exiles in France eligible for a royal subsidy.  After recounting to French officials his adventures in North America and securing witness testimony from fellow Acadians that he was a native of Minas, he was granted his subsidy.  In October 1772, Félix's younger daughter married into the Le Tollierec family at Plélo; her husband was a local Frenchman.  At age 54, the old resistance fighter remarried to Anne, 53-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Michel and Marguerite Forest and widow of Joseph Dubois, at St.-Servan in November 1773, so his stay in Plélo had been a short one.  Soon after his remarriage, Félix took his family to Poitou with hundreds of other Acadian exiles languishing in the French coastal cities.  He died at Châtellerault, Poitou, in November 1775, age 55.  The following month, his widow Anne and two of her children from her first marriage retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Anne remarried to a Landry widower in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in October 1777, remarried again--her fourth marriage--to a Daigre widower at nearby Chantenay in February 1785, and followed her fourth husband to Spanish Louisiana later that year.  Félix's third son Étienne, now a middle-aged bachelor, and his younger daughter Élisabeth and her French husband, also emigrated to Louisiana in 1785; the son remained a bachelor there.  Félix's youngest son and older daughter, who would have been ages 35 and 34 in 1785, did not follow their brother and sister to the Spanish colony.  Meanwhile, Félix's two oldest sons returned to greater Acadia in the 1770s, settled at the British-controlled fishery at Carleton in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, and established vigorous lines there. 

Oldest son Amand-François, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Thériot, born at Minas in October 1743, escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and followed his mother into exile on Rivière St.-Jean, where they reunited with his father in 1756.  Amand followed his family to Île St.-Jean, to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, his widowed father to St.-Malo, perhaps to the Malouines, and back to St.-Malo.  Amand married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Duon and Angélique Aucoin, in c1773, either in one of the St.-Malo suburbs or in Poitou, where they likely followed his father and stepmother.  If so, they did not remain there.  They returned to greater Acadia in the 1770s and settled at Carleton in Gaspésie, where British officials counted them in 1779, during the American Revolution.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1774 and 1789, Marie gave Amand eight children, three sons and five daughters. 

Félix's second son Pierre-Marin, called Marin le jeune, from first wife Marie-Josèphe Thériot, born probably at Chignecto in c1745, followed his family into exile, to Île St.-Jean, to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, his widowed father to St.-Malo, perhaps to the Malouines, and back to St.-Malo.  He married double cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean LeBlanc and Madeleine Thériot, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in October 1769.  Marguerite gave Marin le jeune two daughters at St.-Servan in 1770 and 1772.  They may have followed his father and stepmother to Poitou in 1773.  If so, they did not remain there.  They followed his older brother back to North America and also settled at Carleton in Gaspésie.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1776 and 1792, Marguerite gave Marin le jeune nine more children, two daughters and seven sons--11 children in all. 

Félix's third son Étienne, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Thériot, born probably at Chignecto in c1749, followed his family into exile, to Île St.-Jean, to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, his widowed father to St.-Malo, perhaps to the Malouines, and back to St.-Malo.  He may also have followed his father and stepmother to Poitou and retreated on his own to Nantes in 1775 or 1776.  When his older brothers returned to North America and settled in the fishery at Gaspésie, Étienne, still a bachelor, remained in France, but not for long.  He emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, he followed his fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche and was last counted there in April 1797, a 47-year-old bachelor with three slaves.  He died at New Orleans in August 1799, age 50, still a bachelor, so his father's family line did not take root in the Bayou State. 

Claude's second son Amand, Félix's twin, died at Minas in October 1742, age 23, before he could marry. 

Claude's third son François, born at Minas in c1725, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Anne Michel in c1750, place unrecorded.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. does not include François among Claude's sons.  Arsenault says Anne gave François a son and a daughter in 1753 and 1757 and that the family was on Île St.-Jean in 1757.  If so, the British deported them to France in late 1758.  Arsenault says they were at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in 1769.  So why does Robichaux not include them in his study of the Acadians in France?  Arsenault says François's son created a family of his own, but not in France.

Only son Charles, born in c1753, would have followed his family to Île St.-Jean and France.  If he went to France, he did not remain there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Charles married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Grégoire Daigle and Marguerite-Josèphe Henry, at Bonaventure in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs in March 1780.  According to Arsenault, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Charles a son there in 1783. 

Claude's fourth son Marin, born at Minas in c1726, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Anne, daughter of Pierre Cormier and Marguerite Cyr, at Beaubassin July 1748 and settled near his oldest brother Félix at Pointe-à-Beauséjour.  The British deported Marin and his family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  According to Arsenault, in 1755 and 1761, Anne gave Marin two daughters, but other records give them five children.  He was one of three South Carolina Acadians who, in August 1763, communicated with the French ambassador in London seeking permission from the King to move to French soil.  "Marain", as he signed himself, Anne, and two of their daughters, age 8 and 2, appeared on a repatriation list compiled in South Carolina in August 1763 that Marin and the others sent on to the French official.  Soon after the counting, they followed other Acadians in the seaboard colonies to French St.-Domingue, where French officials put them to work on the new naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the north shore of the island.  They evidently remained in the sugar colony.  One of their daughters married into the Feraud family at Môle in April 1776. 

Claude's fifth son Étienne, born at Minas in April 1727, may have died young like older brother Amand.  

Claude's sixth and youngest son Alain, born at Minas in February 1732, was still a bachelor in his early 20s when he followed his family to Virginia in the fall of 1755 and to England the following spring.  He married Anne-Marie, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Babin and Marguerite Dupuis, at Southampton in October 1756.  They may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  They were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Two years later, they followed other Acadian exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Kerlédan near Sauzon on the north end of the island.  They were still there in March 1767, when Alain gave his declaration to French officials about his family's origins and their recent activities.  Alain and Anne-Marie did not remain on the island.  In the spring of 1774, they joined an expedition sponsored by fishery manager Charles Robin of the Isle of Jersey which, via that Channel island, transported more than a hundred Acadians in France to work in the Robin fishery at Gaspésie.  The couple crossed on one of two vessels, the Hope or the Bee, which left St.-Helier on the south coast of Jersey in April and a month later reached Robin's headquarters at Paspébiac on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Alain and Anne-Marie settled at nearby Carleton, where British authorities counted them in 1777. 

René, père's eighth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in c1697, evidently followed older brother Étienne to Canada after Acadia fell under British control.  He died at Hôtel-Dieu, Québec, in January 1718, age 21.  He evidently did not marry. 

Daniel's fourth son André, born at Port-Royal in c1659, married Marie, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Doucet, at Port-Royal in c1683 and followed his brothers to Minas.  According to Stephen A. White, between 1684 and 1710, at Port-Royal and Minas, Marie gave André 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  Bona Arsenault gives the couple another daughter.  Marie died at Minas in January 1734, in her late 60s.  André did not remarry.  He died at Minas in May 1743, in his mid-80s.  His daughters married into the Cormier, Doiron, Léonard, and Robichaud families, and perhaps into the Clouâtre family as well.  All seven of his sons created families of their own.  

Oldest son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1684, married Jeanne, daughter of Guillaume Bourgeois and Marie-Anne d'Aprendestiguy de Martignon, at Port-Royal in January 1704 but settled at Grand-Pré.  According to Stephen A. White, between 1705 and 1732, Jeanne gave Jean 10 children, six sons and four daughters.  Jean died at Minas in the early 1750s, in his late 60s or early 70s.  His daughters married into the Le Borgne de Bélisle, Trahan, Boudrot, and Bugeaud families, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.  Five of Jean's sons created families of their own.   

Oldest son Jean dit Dérico, born at Minas in July 1703, married Françoise, daughter of René Blanchard and Anne Landry, at Grand-Pré in July 1726 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1746, Françoise gave Dérico five children, three sons and two daughters.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Liverpool.  Dérico's older daughter married into the Trahan family there in January 1758.  Dérico and his family were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Two years later, they followed other Acadian exiles from England to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Bernantec near Sauzon on the north end of the island.  Dérico died at Bernantec in September 1779, age 76.  His widow Françoise died on the island in 1785, in her early 80s.  His oldest son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  His younger sons and both daughters, one of whom married into the Le Port family on Belle-Île-en-Mer, remained in France.  His older daughter died on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1789, age 43. 

Oldest son Pierre, born at Minas in August 1734, was still a bachelor in his early 20s when he followed his family to Virginia and England.  He married Françoise, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Trahan and Élisabeth Thériot, at Liverpool in January 1758.  Françoise gave Pierre a daughter there in October 1761.  In the spring of 1763, Pierre and his family were repatriated to Morlaix, France.  Françoise gave him another daughter there in September 1763.  Two years later, they followed other Acadian exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled at Borderun near Sauzon.  Between 1766 and 1771, Françoise gave Pierre three more children on the island, a daughter and two sons, all of whom died young.  They did not remain.  Pierre took his family back to Morlaix by 1773, when Françoise gave him another daughter.  They followed other Acadian exiles in the coastal cities to Poitou later that year.  In December 1775, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Between 1776 and 1784, at Nantes and nearby Chantenay, Françoise gave Pierre three more children, two daughters and a son--nine children in all.  They lost an older daughter and an older son at Nantes, and two of the youngest daughters born there evidenty died young.  Pierre, Françoise, and their four surviving children, three daughters and a son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where, at age 56, Pierre evidently remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and his first wife Madeleine Doiron and widow of Pierre Robichaux, at Ascension in August 1790.  She gave him no more children.  Pierre's succession, likely post-mortem, was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in December 1810; he would have been age 76 that year.  Two of his three surviving daughters by first wife Françoise married into the Michel family on the river and upper Bayou Lafourche.  His surviving son married into the Hébert family on the upper Lafourche, created a vigorous line there, and was one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join his ancestors.  

Dérico's second son Alexis, born at Minas in February 1742, followed his family to Virginia, England, and France and settled with them at Bernantec near Sauzon on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  He was counted with his family there in 1765, age 22.  He did not follow his older brother to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, when he would have been in his early 40s.  One wonders what happened to him in the mother country. 

Dérico's third and youngest son Charles, born at Minas in February 1745, followed his family to Virginia, England, and France and settled with them at Bernantec near Sauzon on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  He was counted with his family there in 1765, age 20.  He did not follow his older brother to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, when he would have been age 40.  One wonders what happened to him in the mother country. 

Jean's second son, name unrecorded, born at Minas, probably died in infancy. 

Jean's third son Joseph, born at Minas in c1709, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Lalande and Anne Prétieux, at Grand-Pré in July 1730 and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1742, Marie-Madeleine gave Joseph six children, a son and five daughters.  Marie-Madeleine died at Pigiguit in c1754.  The British deported Joseph and his family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Liverpool.  Joseph died there in 1756, soon after his arrival, in his mid- or late 40s.  His surviving children, including a married son, were repatraited to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763, and French officials counted them still there the following year.  Four of Joseph's daughters married into the Hébert, Guidry, Trahan, and Levron families on Île St.-Jean, at Liverpool, and at Morlaix.  One of them settled on Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  The others settled at Morlaix, and on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  One of his sons created his own family on Belle-Île, and another became a French soldier. 

Older son Joseph, fils, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in May 1731, followed his widowed father and siblings to Virginia and Liverpool.  Joseph, fils married Marie-Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Madeleine Trahan, at Liverpool in February 1757, soon after his father died there.  Marie gave Joseph, fils a daughter in August 1763 probably after they were repatriated to Morlaix that spring.  Marie gave Joseph, fils a son at Morlaix in March 1765.  Two years later, Joseph, fils and his family joined other Acadians exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled at Bernatec near Sauzon on the north end of the island.  Between 1768 and 1772, Marie gave Joseph, fils five more children on the island, four daughters and a son--seven children in all.  By 1773, they had returned to Morlaix and may have followed other Acadian exiles in the coastal cities to a nobleman's fief in Poitou.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Joseph, père's younger son Désiré-Gaspard, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1740, followed his widowered father and siblings to Virginia, England, and Morlaix.  According to Bona Arsenault, by 1767 Désiré-Gaspard had become a soldier in the royal artillery corps at Brest in western Brittany, southwest of Morlaix. 

Jean's fourth son Pierre, born at Minas in c1715, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Gautrot and Madeleine Blanchard, at Grand-Pré in November 1737 and settled there before moving to l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1738 and 1755, Marguerite gave Pierre three children, a daughter and two sons.  Other records give them a second daughter--four children in all.  The family moved on to Île St.-Jean after August 1752.  After the fall of Louisbourg in July 1758, the British deported them to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.  Pierre died in St.-Nicolas Parish, Boulogne-sur-Mer, in November 1759, in his early 40s.  (Arsenault says he died there in c1767, but French church records say otherwise.)  Members of the family were still at Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1763.  Pierre's older daughter married into the Trahan family there in July 1764.  In 1766, their older son, having left Boulogne-sur-Mer, died on Île d'Aix near Rochefort, age 18, before he could marry.  Pierre's widow Marguerite took her older son and younger daughter, both in their 20s, to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  In December 1775, Marguerite and her two children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  They settled at nearby Chantenay, where Marguerite died in July 1779, age 63.  Her younger daughter married a Caillouet from Canada at St.-Martin de Chantenay in November 1784.  The following year, both of her daughters, their husbands, and their children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana on separate vessels.  From New Orleans, they settled at Cabahannocer on the river above the city and on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their surviving brother, if he was still living in 1785, evidently remained in France, so this family line did not take root in the Bayou State. 

Jean's fifth son Sylvain, born at Minas in November 1719, married Anne, daughter of Antoine Leprince and Anne Trahan, at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1743 and may have settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1761, Anne gave Sylvain four daughters.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  Sylvain died at Liverpool, England, in 1756, age 37.  His widow and daughters were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763 and were counted in the North Breton port in 1767.  None of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  According to Arsenault, Sylvain's second daughter Marie married into the Belliveau family at Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières, Canada, in January 1778, so she managed to return to North America.  Arsenault notes that Sylvain's widow Anne Leprince, his third daughter Anastasie LeBlanc, and Abbé Clech were guillotined by revolutionairies in July 1794, during the Terror, no place recorded, when Anastasie would have been age 34. 

Jean's sixth and youngest son Claude, born at Minas in April 1723, married Marie-Josèphe, 23-year-old daughter of Louis Longuépée and Anne Brassaud, at Cobeguit on the eastern end of the Minas Basin in October 1748 and settled there.  In 1751 and 1752, at Cobeguit, Marie-Josèphe gave Claude two children, a daughter and a son.  In 1755 or 1756, they crossed Mer Rouge to Île St.-Jean with fellow villagers to escape the British in Nova Scotia.  Marie-Josèphe gave him two more children, a son and a daughter, on the island.  After the fall of Louisbourg in July 1758, the British deported Claude and his family to France aboard the transport Tamerlane, which reached St.-Malo in mid-January 1759.  The two younger children died at sea.  Later that month, Claude's older daughter died at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, age 8, from the rigors of the crossing, leaving only a single child.  Claude and his family settled in the St.-Malo suburbs of La Gouesnière and St.-Méloir-des-Ondes, where, in 1760 and 1762, Marie-Josèphe gave Claude two more sons--six children in all.  Marie-Josèphe died at La Pahorie near St.-Méloir in September 1762, age 36.  At age 39, Claude remarried to Marie-Josèphe, 44-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hébert and widow of Amand Breau and Charles-Benjamin Mius d'Azy of Pobomcoup, at nearby St.-Servan in February 1763 (Arsenault, who calls Claude's new wife Marie, says her parents were Pierre Guidry and Marguerite Brasseau; Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. is followed here).  This Marie-Josèphe gave Claude no more children.  Two years later, in late 1765, Claude, Marie-Josèphe, and his sons followed Claude's older brother Dérico to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled at Bordicado near Sauzon.  Marie-Josèphe died at Morbihan near Sauzon in August 1767, age 47.  Claude returned to St.-Malo by June 1768, when, at age 45, he remarried again--his third marriage--to Dorothée, 36-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians François Richard and Marie Martin and widow of Alexis Comeau, at St.-Servan.  She gave him no more children.  They were still at St.-Servan in 1773 but do not seem to have followed other Acadians there to Poitou.  By September 1784, however, they had joined other exiles at Nantes on the lower Loire, where most of the Acadians who had gone to Poitou resettled in the mid-1770s.  His second son by first wife Anne-Josèphe died in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in February 1781, age 20, before he could marry.  The following year, Claude, wife Dorothée, and her mother-in-law from her first marriage emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  His other sons by first wife Marie-Josèphe, who would have been ages 36 and 23 in 1785, did not accompany their father to the Spanish colony.  Claude and Dorothée settled at Ascension on the river above New Orleans.  In June 1788, Claude clashed with district commandant Louis Judice over levee maintenance.  Claude died at Ascension in August 1800, age 77.  Since none of his sons accompanied him to Louisiana, this line of the family did not take root in the Bayou State. 

André's second son Pierre, born at Port-Royal of Minas in c1689, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Michel Boudrot and Marie-Madeleine Cormier, probably at Minas in c1712 and settled at Grand-Pré.  Between 1713 and 1727, Élisabeth gave Pierre six children, three daughters and three sons.  Pierre died during exile after 1756, place unrecorded.  One of his daughters married into the Dupuis family.  Two of his three sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Paul, born probably at Minas in c1716, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Pierre Gautrot and Marie-Josèphe Bugeaud, at Grand-Pré in August 1743 and likely settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1745 and 1747, Élisabeth gave Paul two daughters. The British deported them to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  They evidently had another child in the Quaker Colony.  Paul, Élisabeth, and their three children appeared on a repatriation list in Pennsylvania in June 1763.  One wonders what happened to them after that date. 

Pierre's second son Jean, born at Minas in March 1722, probably died young. 

Pierre's third and youngest son Charles, born probably at Minas in the mid-1720s, married Madeleine, daughter of Bernard Daigre and Angélique Richard, in c1744, probably at Minas and settled there.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  What happened to them after that date? 

André's third son Jacques le jeune, born probably at Minas in the early 1690s (Bona Arsenault says c1698), married Catherine, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Catherine Meunier, at Grand-Pré in November 1718.  According to Arsenault, Catherine gave Jacques le jeune a daughter in 1719.  He remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Louis-Noël Labauve and Marie Rimbault, at Grand-Pré in October 1731.  According to Arsenault, between 1733 and 1742, Marguerite gave Jacques le jeune five more children, three sons and two daughters--six children by two wives.  Jacques le jeune died at Minas in January 1743, probably in his early 50s.  His daughter by first wife Catherine married into the Lejeune family probably at Pigiguit and followed her husband to Île St.-Jean and France but died in the crossing.  One of Jacques le jeune's daughters by second wife Marguerite married into the Dugas family in France and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  A son by second wife Marguerite emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1767, and another went to French St.-Domingue.

Second son Bonaventure, by second wife Marguerite Labauve, born at Minas in November 1734, may have married Marie Thériot at Minas in the early 1750s.  If this was him, she gave him a son in c1751 and a daughter in c1753.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755, and in July 1763 the couple appeared on French repatriation list at Baltimore with a son, three daughters, and a Richard orphan.  Another son was born to them soon after the counting.  In 1767, they emigrated to Spanish Louisiana with five children, three daughters and two sons, and settled at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans.  They had no more children in the colony.  Bonavenuture died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1811.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Bonaventure was age 80 when he died, but he probably was closer to 76.  His daughters married into the Babin, Biven, Culere or Dulaire, Dubois, Goudeau, Landry, Longuépée, and Rivet families, one of them four times, and she outlived all four of her husbands.  Another daughter married thrice.  Both of Bonaventure's sons married and created their own families on the river, but one of the lines did not endure. 

Jacques le jeune's third and youngest son Anselme, by second wife Marguerite Labauve, born at Minas in December 1739, evidently was deported to one of the British seaboard colonies in the fall of 1755, when he was still in his teens.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Martin dit Barnabé and Marguerite Cyr of Pointe-à-Beauséjour, Chignecto, date and place unrecorded.  After the war, Anselme emigrated to French St.-Domingue probably in late 1763 or 1764 to work on a new French naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest coast of the sugar colony.  He may have married Marie there.  She gave him at least two daughters in the colony.  Anselme died at Môle St.-Nicolas in August 1776, in his late 30s.  Marie remarried to two Frenchmen there in January 1779 and August 1782.  One of her LeBlanc daughters married a Cyr cousin at Bombarde, St.-Domingue, in January 1786. 

André's fourth son Claude-André, born at Minas in c1696, married Madeleine, daughter of François Boudrot and Madeleine Belliveau, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1719 (Bona Arsenault says c1720).  Bona Arsenault says they settled at Minas.  According to Arsenault, between 1722 and 1743, Madeleine gave Claude-André 10 children, four sons and six daughters.  If Claude-André and Marguerite had settled at Minas after their marriage, they, or at least Claude-André, did not remain there.  In August 1752, a French official counted Claude-André, now a widower, and three of his younger children, two daughters and a son, ages 20, 11, and 9, living with the family of Claude Trahan and Anne LeBlanc, his son-in-law and oldest daughter, at Anse-au-Matelot on the south shore of Île St.-Jean; Claude and Anne had moved from Pigiguit to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  After the fall of Louisbourg in July 1758, the British deported Claude-André and members of his family to France.  Claude-André died in St.-Nicolas Parish, Boulonge-sur-Mer, in October 1765, in his late 60s.  Two of his younger daughters married into the Caissie and Girouard families.  Two of his younger sons and their families emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. 

Third son Charles, born at Minas in April 1734, may have followed his widowered father to Île St.-Jean in the early 1750s, but he was not counted with him and the family of his older sister Anne at Anse-au-Matelot in August 1752.  Charles married 27-year-old Anne Benoit in c1758 on one of the Maritime islands.  Later that year, the British deported them to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Tamerlane.  They settled on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo at Chàteauneuf, where Anne gave Charles a son in September 1761 and where Charles worked as a day laborer and a sawyer.  Anne died at Châteauneuf in September 1761, age 30, probably from the rigors of childbirth.  Charles remarried to Rosalie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Trahan and Marie Tillard, at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1763.  Between 1763 and 1772, Rosalie gave Charles six more children, three daughters and three sons.  All but one of the sons survived childhood.  Charles took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Rosalie gave him another son there in June 1774, but the boy died a month after his birth.  In December 1775, Charles, Rosalie, and his six surviving children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Between 1776 and 1784, Rosalie gave Charles five more children, three daughters and two sons, in Ste.-Croix Parish, Nantes--13 children by two wives.  Only the youngest of these five children, a son, survived childhood.  His oldest son by first wife Anne married into the Hébert family at Nantes.  In 1785, Charles, Rosalie, and six of their unmarried children, three daughters and three sons, emigrated to Louisiana.  Charles's oldest son and his family took an earlier vessel to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, Charles and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where his oldest son joined him.  Charles's daughters married into the Bourg, Boudreaux, and Hébert families on the Lafourche.  Two of Charles's sons also married, into the Boudreaux, Hébert, and Labiche families, on the upper bayou.  The youngest son, who was an infant when he came to the colony, died on Bayou Lafourche in February 1750, in his mid-60s, still a bachelor. 

Claude-André's fourth son Paul, born probably at Minas in c1743, followed his widowered father to Île St.-Jean and was counted with him, three sisters, and a brother-in-law at Anse-au-Matelot in August 1752.  The British deported him with members of his family to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in late 1758.  After his father's death in October 1765, Paul moved on to St.-Malo, which he reached on 1 July 1766, and settled near his older brother Charles at St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  He worked as a carpenter and day laborer in the mother country.  Paul married cousin Anne, 24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians François Boudrot and Anne-Marie Thibodeau of Minas, at St.-Servan in May 1770.  Anne gave Paul two daughters there in 1771 and 1773.  They followed his older brother Charles to Poitou in 1773.  Paul's younger daughter died at Châtellerault, Poitou, in August 1774, and Anne gave him a son in Poitou in April 1775.  In December of that year, Paul, Anne, and their two surviving children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Between 1776 and 1785, in Ste.-Croix Parish, Nantes, and at nearby Chantenay, Anne gave Paul five more children, a son and four daughters.  Only two of the younger children, two daughters, survived childhood.  Paul's older son died in Ste.-Croix Parish in September 1777, age 2 1/2, and his oldest daughter died at nearby Chantenay in January 1784, age 12.  Paul, Anne, their remaining two daughters, and a Trahan niece emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed mosts of their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge but moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche in the early 1790s.  Anne gave Paul more children in Louisiana, a son and two more daughters--11 children in all.  Their daughters married into the Caissie dit Roger, Boudreaux, Bergeron, and Rousseau families on the upper bayou.  Their son, born at Baton Rouge, married into the Bourg family on the upper Lafourche, but the line did not endure.

André's fifth son François, born at Minas in c1698, married, according to Stephen A. White, Cécile, another daughter of Claude Boudrot and Catherine Meunier, in c1722, probably at Minas, but Bona Arsenault insists that the François who married Cécile Boudrot was the oldest son of Jacques le jeune à René, not the fifth son of André; White is followed here.  According to Arsenault, from 1723 to 1725, Cécile gave François three daughters.  According to White, François remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of René Labauve and Anne Lejeune, in c1728, perhaps at Minas.  Arsenault says the François who married Marie Labauve was a son of Jean à Jacques, père, not André; White is followed here.  One of François's daughters by first wife Cécile married into the Doucet family. 

André's sixth son Joseph-André, born at Minas between 1701 and 1703 (Bona Arsenault says c1705), married Marie, daughter of Jacques Granger and Marie Girouard, at Grand-Pré in July 1726 and likely remained there.  According to Arsenault, between 1730 and 1739, Marie gave Joseph four daughters.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  One wonders what happened to them after that date. 

André's seventh and youngest son Charles-André, born at Minas in September 1710 (Bona Arsenault says c1707), married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean-François Flan and Marie Dupuis, at Grand-Pré in October 1730 and remained there.  According to Arsenault, between 1731 and 1746, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles five children, four sons and a daughter.  Charles-André died in exile between 1756 and May 1764, in late 40s or early 50s.  What happened to the family in 1755? 

Daniel's fifth son Antoine, born at Port-Royal in c1662, married Marie, another daughter of Jacques Bourgeois and Jeanne Trahan, at Port-Royal in c1681; Marie was the sister of Antoine's oldest brother René's wife Anne.  Antoine and Marie also settled at Minas.  Between 1682 and 1703, at Port-Royal and Minas, Marie gave Antoine 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  Antoine died at Minas by July 1730, in his late 60s.  His daughters married into the Landry, Allain, Richard, and Dupuis families.  All seven of his sons created families of their own.    

Oldest son Antoine, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1682, married Anne, daughter of Antoine Landry and Marie Thibodeau, in c1703 (Bona Arsenault says c1705), at Minas, and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled at Rivières-des-Habitant.  According to Stephen A. White, between 1704 and 1729, Anne gave Antoine, fils 10 children, five sons and five daughters.  Antoine, fils died at Minas in January 1739, in his late 50s.  According to Bona Arsenault, the British deported Antoine, fils's widow Anne and plusieurs de ses enfants to Boston, Massachusetts, in the fall of 1755.  Three of her and Antoine, fils's daughters married into the Granger and Richard families, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  Three of his five sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Antoine III, born at Minas in c1704 (Bona Arsenault says c1706), married Marie, daughter of Charles Babin and Madeleine Richard, at Grand-Pré in July 1726.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1743, Marie gave Antoine III six children, three sons and three daughters.  Antoine III died at Minas in January 1744, age 40.  The British deported members of the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England in May 1756.  One wonders what happened to them there. 

Antoine, fils's second son Paul, born at Minas in October 1707, married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Forest and Cécile Richard, at Grand-Pré in November 1730 and remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1747, Madeleine gave Paul six children, four daughters and two sons.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Paul died in exile probably in the Bay Colony before August 1763, in his 50s.  Later in the decade, his widow and children evidently followed other Acadian exiles in New England to Canada.  One of his daughters married into the Doucet family there.  His two sons also created their own families on the upper St. Lawrence. 

Older son Olivier, born probably at Minas in c1739, followed his family to Massachusetts and his widowed mother to Canada.  At age 36, he married Monique, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Robichaud and Jeanne Bourgeois, at Québec City in July 1775. 

Paul's younger son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Minas in c1742, followed his family to Massachusetts and his widowed mother to Canada.  He married fellow Acadian Marguerite Landry at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence northeast of Montréal in November 1766, probably soon after they arrived in Canada. 

Antoine, fils's third son Anselme, born at Minas in c1714, died at Grand-Pré in December 1739, age 25, still a bachelor. 

Antoine, fils's fourth son Simon-Pierre, born at Minas in c1721, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Thériot and Agnès Aucoin, at Rivière-aux-Canards in early 1744 (Bona Arsenault says in c1745).  According to Arsenault, Marguerite gave Simon a son in c1754.  Arsenault says the British deported the family to New York, but they probably went to Massachusetts, in 1755.  Marguerite gave him more children in exile.  Simon, Marguerite, and three of their children appeared on a repatriation list in the Bay Colony in August 1763.  Later in the decade, they followed other Acadian exiles in New England to Canada.  Simon-Pierre died at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence northeast of Montréal in December 1789, in his late 60s.  At least one of his sons created his own family in Canada. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Minas in c1754, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada.  He married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Thibodeau and Anne Pellerin, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan northeast of Montréal in January 1778. 

Antoine, fils's fifth and youngest son Olivier, born at Minas in September 1726, evidently died in childhood.   

Antoine père's second son Charles, born at Port-Royal in c1684, married Marie, daughter of Claude Gautrot and Marie Thériot, in c1705, probably at Grand-Pré.  According to Stephen A. White, between 1706 and 1728, Marie gave Charles nine children, seven daughters and two sons.  Charles died at Minas in December 1737, in his early 50s.  His daughters married into the Clouâtre, Landry, and Richard families, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1768.  His sons also created their own families. 

Older son Mathurin, born at Minas in October 1722, married Élisabeth, daughter of Jean Babin and Marguerite Thériot, at Grand-Pré in October 1747 and settled there.  What happened to the family in 1755?  Mathurin died in exile before May 1763, place unrecorded. 

Charles's younger son Pierre, born at Minas in August 1725, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Paul Bugeaud and Marguerite Doucet, probably at Minas in c1754.  What happened to the family in 1755? 

Antoine père's third son Pierre dit Pinou or Pinaud, born at Port-Royal in c1689, married Françoise, daughter of Antoine Landry and Marie Thibodeau, at Grand-Pré in February 1711 and settled there.  According to Stephen A. White, between 1712 and 1736, Françoise gave Pinou 15 children, nine daughters and six sons.  The British deported members of the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them at Shrewsbury in 1757 and 1760.  They were still in the colony in August 1763.  Later in the decade, they followed other Acadian exiles in New England to Canada.  Wife Françoise died at Lavaltrie between Trois-Rivières and Montréal in October 1767, in her early 70s.  Pinou died at Hôpital général, Montréal, in October 1769, in his early 80s.  Eight of his daughters married into the Gautrot, Broussard, Dugas, Dupuis, Boudrot, and Hébert families.  Five of his six sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest son Victor, born probably at Minas in the late 1710s, married Marie, daughter of René Aucoin and Madeleine Bourg, in c1740, probably at Minas.  Bona Arsenault says the Victor LeBlanc who married Marie Aucoin in c1740 was the youngest son of Claude à René.  Stephen A. White, followed here, says Victor, husband of Marie Aucoin, was the oldest son of Pierre dit Pinou.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. says the Marie Aucoin who married Victor LeBlanc in c1740 was a daughter of Joseph Aucoin and Anne Trahan of Minas; again, White is followed here.  Arsenault and Robichaux give Victor a birth year of c1721, which would have made him Pinou's second son, not his oldest.  Arsenault says Victor à Claude and wife Marie settled at Beaubassin in 1743, soon after their marriage.  According to Arsenault, between 1741 and 1758, Marie gave Victor à Claude four children, two daughters and two sons.  Robichaux says Marie gave Victor five children, two daughters and three sons, between 1741 and 1747.  White says Victor à Penou died between 1745 and 1751, no place given.  Robichaux says Victor died by 1751, when wife Marie remarried to Grégoire, son of Jacques Maillet and Madeleine Hébert of Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas.  After 1752, Grégoire, Marie, and their two sets of children crossed to Île St.-Jean probably to escape the troubles in British Nova Scotia.  After the fall of Louisbourg in July 1768, the British rounded up most of the Acadian habitants on Île St.-Jean, including Grégoire and his family, and deported them to France.  Grégoire, Marie, and their seven children--four LeBlancs and three Maillets--crossed on the transport Tamerlane, which reached St.-Malo in mid-January 1759.  Grégoire, Marie, her four LeBlanc children, and the oldest Maillet child, a daughter, survived the voyage, but the younger Maillet children died at sea.  The family settled on the west side of river south of St.-Malo at Plouër-sur-Rance, where wife Marie died the following April, age 39, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Her LeBlanc children were ages 18, 16, 15, 15, and 12 at the time of their mother's death.  The older LeBlanc children, Marie and Élisabeth dite Maillet, married into the Bonnière, Robichaux, and Breau families at Plouèr.  In 1773, they followed their husbands to the interior of Poitou and retreated to the lower Loire port of Nantes with other Poitou Acadians in 1775.  Marie remarried to a Henry at Chantenay near Nantes and, along with younger sister Élisabeth, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Two of Victor's three sons also married in France and emigrated to Louisiana. 

Oldest son Pierre, born at Minas in c1744, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to France and settled with his widowered stepfather at Plouër-sur-Rance.  Pierre also lived at St.-Méloir-des-Ondes in the countryside east of St.-Malo.  He worked as a joiner in the mother country.  He married Anne-Josèphe, called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Lebert and Anne Robichaux of Rivière-aux-Canards, at Plouër in February 1767; she was the sister of his younger brother Olivier's future wife.  Between 1768 and 1773, Anne gave Pierre four sons at Plouër.  Pierre took his family to Poitou in 1773, where his youngest son died in September 1774.  In December 1775, Pierre and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port of Nantes.  Between 1776 and 1782, Anne gave Pierre four more children, two sons and two daughters--eight children in all.  Only one of the younger children, a son, survived childhood.  Pierre, Anne, and their four surviving sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 aboard the first of the Seven Ships.  From New Orleans, they followed most of their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge.  At age 43, Pierre remarried to Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Richard and his first wife Catherine-Josèphe Gautrot and widow of Simon dit Pierre Pitre and Victor Boudrot, probably at Baton Rouge in September 1787.  She gave him another daughter--nine children by two wives.  Pierre died at Manchac in August 1815, in his early 70s, a widower again.  His daughter by second wife Geneviève married into the Guidry family at Baton Rouge.  Every one of his four sons, all from first wife Anne and all born in France, may have died young; there is no evidence in area church records that any of them married, so only the blood of this line seems to have endured in the Bayou State. 

Victor's second son Amand, Pierre's twin, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to France and settled with his stepfather at Plouër-sur-Rance.  One wonders what happened to him in the mother country.  He did not accompany his brothers to Spanish Louisiana. 

Victor's third and youngest son Olivier, born at Minas in c1747, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to France and settled with his stepfather at Plouër-sur-Rance.  Still a bachelor in his mid-20s, he may have followed his older brother Pierre and his family to Poitou in 1773.  If not, he joined them at Nantes before June 1781, when he married 20-year-old Marie-Madeleine, another daughter of Charles Lebert and Anne Robichaux, in St.-Léonard Parish.  Marie-Madeleine was a native of Plouër.  They settled at Chantenay near Nantes, where, in 1782 and 1784, Marie-Madeleine gave Olivier two children, a daughter and a son.  They followed his brother Pierre to Spanish Louisiana on a different vessel.  Though his brother had gone to the Baton Rouge area, Olivier and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  They had two more sons in Louisiana--four children in all.  Marie-Madeleine died on the upper Lafourche by November 1790, when Olivier, at age 43, remarried to Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Richard and Marguerite Landry, at Ascension on the river.  She gave him no more children.  They resettled in the Baton Rouge District near his brother.  Olivier died there in January 1808, in his early 60s.  His daughter married into the Bourg family at Baton Rouge.  His two younger sons also married, into the Blanchard and Hébert families on the river.  One of his grandsons settled for a time on the western prairies. 

Pinou's second, or perhaps oldest, son Théodore, born at Minas in December 1719, married Marie, daughter of François Cormier and Marguerite LeBlanc of Chignecto, at Beaubassin in June 1740 and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled at nearby Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  Arsenault says Marie gave Théodore two daughters in 1741 and 1745.  One wonders what happened to the family in the fall of 1755. 

Pinou's third son Augustin, born at Minas in November 1724, married Françoise, daughter of Jean Hébert and Élisabeth Granger, probably at Minas in c1752.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1766, Françoise gave Augustin seven children, five sons and two daughters.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted "Justin" "his wife," and four of their children, three sons and a daughter, at Rutland in Worcester County in August 1761.  They were still in the colony in August 1763.  Later in the decade, they followed other Acadian exiles in New England to Canada and settled on the upper St. Lawrence.  Augustin died at Yamachiche above Trois-Rivières in July 1786, age 61.  One of his daughters married into the Thibodeau dit Castin family at Yamachiche.  All five of his sons created their own families in Canada, three of them in present-day New Brunswick and two of them on the upper St. Lawrence.

Oldest son Jean, born at Minas in c1753, followed his family to Massachusetts, where he was counted with his family at Rutland in August 1761.  Later in the decade, he followed them to Canada, but he did not remain with them on the upper St. Lawrence.  He married fellow Acadian Marguerite Bourgeois in c1775, place unrecorded, and settled at Ruisseau-des-Renards, today's Fox Creek, southeastern New Brunswick, where he died in May 1807, in his early 50s. 

Augustin's second son Augustin, fils, born at sea on the voyage to Massachusetts in December 1755, was counted with his family at Rutland in August 1761.  Later in the decade, he followed them to Canada, but, like older brother Jean, he did not remain with them on the upper St. Lawrence.  He married fellow Acadian Cécile Cormier in c1777 and also settled at Fox Creek, where he died in March 1807, in his early 50s. 

Augustin, père's third son Charles, born probably in Massachusetts in c1758, was counted with his family at Rutland in August 1761.  Later in the decade, he followed them to Canada, but, like his older brothers, he did not remain with them on the upper St. Lawrence.  He married fellow Acadian Marie-Josèphe Cormier, no date recorded, probably at Memramcook, present-day southeastern New Brunswick, remarried to fellow Acadian Marie Duguay, no date recorded, probably at Memramcook, and remarried again--his third marriage--to fellow Acadian Marguerite Gouguen, no date recorded, probably at Memramcook. 

Augustin, père's fourth son Joseph, born probably in Massachusetts in c1761, followed his family to Canada later in the decade and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Anne Brault, at Nicolet across from Yamachiche in January 1787. 

Augustin, père's fifth and youngest son Étienne, born probably in Massachusetts in c1763, followed his family to Canada later in the decade and married Marie, daughter of Pierre Tessier and Marguerite Gélinas, at Yamachiche in February 1789. 

Pinou's fourth son Joseph, born at Minas in February 1726, married Anne, daughter of François Moyse and Marie Brun, probably at Minas in c1754 and likely moved to the French Maritimes.  Anne gave Joseph two sons, Joseph, fils and François, in c1755 and c1758.  After the fall of Louisbourg in July 1758, the British deported them to St.-Malo, France.  Both sons died at sea.  Joseph died in a St.-Malo hospital in mid-February 1759, age 33, soon after reaching the Breton port.  His widow settled at nearby St.-Suliac, remarried to a Guédry, and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  

Pinou's fifth son Pierre-Raymond, born at Minas in January 1731, died there three days after her birth. 

Pinou's sixth and youngest son Pierre-Hilaire, born at Minas in January 1736, followed his family to Massachusettes in the fall of 1755.  He was counted with them at Shrewsbury in 1757 and 1760.  He evidently moved on to Connecticut, where he married Marie-Isabelle, daughter of Pierre Hébert and Élisabeth Dupuis, at Guilford in October 1762.  According to a French repatriation list, they were still in Connecticut the following year.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1772, Marie-Isabelle gave Pierre-Hilaire four children, two sons and two daughters.  Probably after 1766, they followed other Acadian exiles in New England to Canada and settled at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie across from Montréal.  At age 48, Pierre-Hilaire remarried to Marie-Catherine, daughter of Charles Granger and Marguerite Lanoue, at L'Acadie, today's St.-Jean-de-Richelieu, southeast of Laprairie, in October 1784.  Pierre-Hilaire died in June 1802, age 66, place unrecorded.  One of his daughters by first wife Marie-Isabelle married into the Duquet family at L'Acadie.  One of his sons also created a family there. 

Older son Pierre, born in New England in c1763, followed his family to Canada, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Trahan and Marie Richard, at L'Acadie in November 1781. 

Antoine père's fourth son Jean dit Des Sapins, Fir Trees, born at Port-Royal or Minas in c1691 (Bona Arsenault says c1693), married Anne, daughter of René Landry and Anne Thériot, at Grand-Pré in February 1715 and settled there.  According to Arsenault, between 1715 and 1736, Anne gave Des Sapins seven children, four sons and three daughters.  Arsenault says Des Sapins died at Brest, France, in 1744 or 1745, but Stephen A. White, followed here, says Des Sapins remarried to Marguerite ____ in exile before July 1763, place unrecorded.  What happened to the family in 1755.  Two of his daughters by first wife Anne married into the Daigle and Babin families.  Two of his sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Minas in c1715 or 1716, married, at age 30, cousin Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Melanson and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Grand-Pré in January 1745 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste a son there in 1746.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Southampton, where wife Marguerite died soon after their arrival.  Jean-Baptiste and his son were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763.  Two years later, they followed other Acadian exiles from Virginia to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Loqueltas near Sauzon on the north end of the island.  Jean-Baptiste died at Loqueltas in September 1766, age 51.  French officials counted his son, now in his early 20s, still at Loqueltas the following year. 

Only son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean (Bona Arsenault also calls him Joseph), born at Rivière-aux-Canards in October 1746, followed his parents to Virginia and England and his widowered father to St.-Malo and Belle-Île-en-Mer.  After his father's death in 1766, Jean remained on the island.  The following year, now in his early 20s, he gave information to French officials about his family and Rivière-aux-Canards.  Jean did not follow his kinsmen to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Did he marry?

Des Sapins's fourth and youngest son Blaise, born probably at Minas in c1725, married cousin Marie-Josèphe, another daughter of Joseph Melanson and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Grand-Pré in September 1747.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Blaise a daughter in 1748.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1755.   

Antoine père's fifth son Jacques dit Petit Jacques, born at Minas in 1695, married Cécile, 21-year-old daughter of Martin Dupuis and Marie Landry of Minas, in c1716 probably at Minas.  Bona Arsenault says they settled there.  According to Arsenault, between 1717 and 1736, Cécile gave Petit Jacques nine children, four daughters and five sons.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1748.  In August 1752, a French official counted Petit Jacques, Cécile, and six of their children, four sons and two daughters, at Rivière-de-Peugiguit in the island's interior.  In late 1758, the British deported Petit Jacques, his youngest son, the son's wife, and seven other LeBlancs to St.-Malo, France, aboard the ill-fated transport Duc Guillaume.  Petit Jacques age 63, died during the crossing.  Only his son, his son's wife, and three of the LeBlancs in the entouage reached the Breton port.  Oddly, Petit Jacques's widow Cécile, along with their oldest son, did not reach France until May 1763, from England not from Île St.-Jean, so she may have returned to Minas after the August 1752 counting at Rivière-de-Peugiguit.  When the British deported her son and his family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, Cécile likely was with them.  Virginia authorities sent them on to England in the spring of 1756, and they were repatriated to St.-Malo in May 1763.  They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where her youngest son, who had been deported from the French Maritimes with his father, already had settled.  Cécile followed her oldest son and his family to Poitou in 1773 and retreated with them to the port city of Nantes in October 1775.  She died at Chantenay near Nantes in February 1780, in her mid-80s.  Two of her LeBlanc daughters married into the Landry family.  At least two of her LeBlanc sons, the oldest and the youngest, created families of their own.

Oldest son Jean-Jacques, born at Minas in January 1723, married Ursule Aucoin probably at Minas in c1750.  They did not follow his family to Île St.-Jean but remained at Minas, where Ursule gave him a son and a daughter in 1751 and 1753.  The British deported the family, including Jean-Jacques's mother, to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  One suspects that wife Ursule died either in Virginia, aboard ship, or in England.  Jean-Jacques, his widowed mother, and his two children were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  At age 43, Jean-Jacques remarried to Nathalie, 32-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Pitre and Anne Comeau of Rivière-aux-Canards and widow of Paul Boudrot, at St.-Servan in February 1766.  Nathalie and her family also had been deported to Virginia.  She had married her first husband in England and was a childless widow when she reached St.-Malo in May 1763.  Between 1767 and 1772, Nathalie gave Jean-Jacques four more children, three daughters and a son, at St.-Servan.  One of the daughters died in childhood.  In 1773 and 1774, hundreds of Acadians from St.-Malo and other French ports chose to go to the interior of Poitou to work on a nobleman's land near Châtellerault.  Many of the Acadians who went to Poitou did not care for the venture from the start.  One of them was Jean-Jacques, who proved to be an especially sharp thorn in the sides of the settlement's promoters.  Back in March 1772, Jean-Jacques, "one of the Acadian representatives of the Saint-Malo department," a French historian informs us, had submitted a petition to the French government to pay for the emigration of Acadian families to Spanish Louisiana.  Like an earlier entreaty by other Acadians in 1766, Jean-Jacques's petition also was rejected.  Perhaps responding to Acadian frustrations, a council meeting of the King's ministers that summer sparked the idea of settling the exiles on land belonging to Louis-Nicolas, marquis de Pérusse des Cars, near Châtellerault.  Jean-Jacques and his family were among the St.-Malo Acadians who grudgingly went to Poitou, but he did not give up on the idea of going to Louisiana: "... from this date more or less"--March 1772--the historian continues, Jean-Jacques "constantly argued in favor of an emigration to Louisiana, an option that for him seemed as being the most politically acceptable for the government and thus the most likely to succeed."  In November 1774, while still residing in Poitou, the smooth-talking Acadian managed to meet with Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, King Louis XVI's new controller general, at Versailles.  One suspects that Jean-Jacques discussed with the powerful official not only Acadian emigration, but also the problems plaguing his countrymen in Poitou.  Beginning in October 1775, after two years of fruitless effort, most of the Poitou Acadians, including Jean-Jacques and his family, retreated in four convoys from Châtellerault to the lower Loire port of Nantes.  Jean-Jacques, Nathalie, and his widowed mother took the fourth and final convoy out of Poitou in March 1776.  Soon after they settled at Chantenay near Nantes, Nathalie gave Jean-Jacques a third son--seven children by both wives--but the son died at age 2 1/2 in January 1779.  The Poitou fiasco and concern for his children must have motivated Jean-Jacques all the more to take his family to Louisiana.  His name appears on another petition for emigration to the colony in 1777, but this petition also was rejected.  After Jean-Jacques died at Chantenay in November 1781, age 58, "the Louisiana destination gathered even less support among the Acadians than in his lifetime, as he had been the main promoter of this emigration."  A few years later, Frenchman Henri-Marie Peyroux de la Coudrenière, long-time resident of French Louisiana, and Acadian Olivier Térrio, a master cobbler living in Nantes, took up the cause.  By the summer of 1785, they had succeeded in coaxing nearly 1,600 of Terrio's fellow Acadians into going to Spanish Louisiana.  Among them were Nathalie Pitre, Jean-Jacques's widow, and two of their teenage children, a son and a daughter.  Jean-Jacques's older children by first wife Ursule, a son and a daughter, who would have been ages 34 and 32 in 1785, as well as his and Nathalie's youngest daughter, who would have been age 13 in 1785, did not follow Nathalie to the Spanish colony.  One suspects that the youngest daughter had died by then.  From New Orleans, Nathalie and her two surviving children followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Daughter Marie-Geneviève married into the Bourgeois family on the nearby Acadian Coast.  Son Jean-Baptiste also married there, into the Boudreaux family, and created a vigorous line of the family. 

Petit Jacques's fifth and youngest son Casimir, born probably at Minas in c1734, married Marie, daughter of Charles Daigre and Françoise Doucet, in c1758 (Bona Arsenault says c1756), place unrecorded, but it probably was on one of the French Maritime islands.  In the fall of 1758, the British deported the couple, Casimir's father, and seven LeBlanc relatives aboard the transport Duc Guillaume, which reached St.-Malo the first of November.  Only Casimir, Marie, and three of the LeBlanc relatives reached the Breton port.  Wife Marie died in a local hospital in late December, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Casimir settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer until February 1767, when, according to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., he went to England, perhaps to the Isle of Jersey from which he could return to greater Acadia to work in the British-controlled fisheries there.  If he did return to North America, one wonders where he settled and if he remarried. 

Antoine père's sixth son Joseph dit Le Maigre, the Skinny, born at Minas in March 1697, married Anne, daughter of Alexandre Bourg dit Bellehumeur, judge and notary at Minas, and Marguerite Melanson, at Grand-Pré in February 1719 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1740, Anne gave Le Maigre eight children, six sons and two daughters.  During King George's War of the 1740s, Le Maigre became a notorious resistance fighter.  After appearing on a list of partisans to be arrested by British authorities, he was compelled to move on to the French Maritimes in the autumn of 1747.  In February 1752, a French official counted Le Maigre, Anne, her 84-year-old father, and three of their unmarried children, two sons and a daughter, among the "new settlers" at Port-Toulouse on Île Royale.  They evidently escaped the British roundup on the island in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  (Anne's father Bellehumeur Bourg died at Richibouctou on the Gulf shore in 1760, in his late 80s.)  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and held in a prisone compound in Nova Scotia.  Le Maigre, his wife, and one of their children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  After the war ended, they were among the Acadians who chose to resettle on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Anne died there in July 1766.  By then, Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre had become so overcrowded that French officials, obeying a royal decree, compelled most of the Acadians there to emigrate to France in 1767, Le Maigre among them.  In France, the old resistance fighter went to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany, where many Acadians, including his oldest son, had settled two years earlier.  Le Maigre died at Kervaux near Le Palais on Belle-Île-en-Mer in October 1772, age 75.  His daughters married into the Dugas and Gauthier families, one of them on Île Miquelon.  All of his sons also created their own families, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  .

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born probably at Minas in April 1722, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Landry and Marie Babin, at Grand-Pré in November 1745, while his father was involved in the Acadian resistance during King George's War.  One suspects Joseph, fils may have taken part in the resistance as well.  Between 1746 and 1750, Marie gave Joseph, fils three sons at Minas and Pigiguit.  Marie died probably at Pigiguit in February 1751, in her early 20s, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Joseph, fils remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Claude Babin and Marguerite Dupuis, at Grand-Pré in August 1752, while his parents and younger siblings were in virtual exile at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale.  Marguerite evidently gave Joseph, fils no more children.  The British deported him and most of his family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England the following spring.  His youngest son, who would have been age 5 in 1755, somehow became separated from the family and, perhaps with one of Joseph, fils's brothers, was deported to Maryland.  Joseph, fils and the rest of his family were held at Southampton.  Wife Marguerite died there in 1756 soon after their arrival.  At age 38, Joseph, fils remarried again--his third marriage--to Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Bernard Daigre and Angélique Richard, at Southampton in November 1761.  In c1762, Angélique gave Joseph, fils another son, probably at Southampton.  Joseph, fils and his family were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763.  They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where another son was born in June 1764.  A year and a half later, they followed other Acadian exiles, most of them also from England, to recently-liberated Belle-Île-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Kervaux near Le Palais on the east end of the island.  French officials counted them still at Kervaux in February 1767, when Joseph, fils furnished information to French authorities on the history of his family.  According to Arsenault, between 1766 and 1772, Angélique gave Joseph, fils six more children, five sons and a daughter, including a set of twins.  In 1767, from Île Miquelon, Joseph, fils's father, the old resistance fighter, and younger brother Alexandre, a former captain of militia at Restigouche in greater Acadia, joined Joseph, fils and his family at Kervaux.  Probably soon after his father's death in 1772, Joseph, fils and his third wife evidently left Belle-Île-en-Mer and made their way back to greater Acadia.  They may have settled on Île Miquelon, where his family had been, or in the British-controlled fishery at Arichat on the north shore of Île Madame, now part of British Nova Scotia.  According to Arsenault, in 1774 and 1776, in greater Acadia, Angélique gave Joseph, fils two more children, a son and a daughter--13 children in all, 11 sons and two daughters, by two of his three wives.  At least two of Joseph, fils's older sons by his first and third wives created families of their own in greater Acadia.  According to Bona Arsenault, Joseph, fils's younger children Firmin, Anselme, twins Paul and Charles-Ignace, Euphrosine, Augustin, and Angélique, along with older brother Victor, also returned to greater Acadia and settled at Arichat.  A son by his first wife emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767. 

Oldest son Joseph III, by first wife Marie Landry, born at Minas in September 1746, may have followed his family to Virginia and England, but he was not with them when they were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763, when he would have been age 16.  He likely died in exile. 

Joseph, fils's second son Simon, by first wife Marie Landry, born at Minas in January 1748, followed his family to Virginia, England, St.-Servan, and Belle-Île-en-Mer and accompanied them back to North America.  In April 1772, he married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Cyr and Madeleine Poirier of Chignecto, on Île Miquelon, where his grandfather and uncle had lived in the 1760s.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1773 and 1776, Rosalie gave Simon two sons probably on the island.  Did he follow his family to Arichat?

Joseph, fils's third son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marie Landry, born at Pigiguit in c1750, evidently became separated from his family in the fall of 1755 and was deported not to Virginia but to Maryland perhaps with one of his paternal uncles.  He followed three sibling orphans to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 and settled at San Gabriel on the river below Baton Rouge.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Comeaux and Marguerite Babin, at nearby Ascension in December 1775.  When Spanish officials counted them on the "right bank ascending" at San Gabriel in March 1777, they owned a slave.  Their daughters married into the Blanchard and Hébert families.  Only two of Jean-Baptiste's four sons married, into the Richard and LeBlanc families, but neither of the lines seems to have endured beyond the second generation. 

Joseph, fils's fourth son Victor, by third wife Angélique Daigre, born born probably at Southampton, England, in c1762, followed his family to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Belle-Île-en-Mer, and greater Acadia, where he settled at Arichat.  Did he marry? 

Joseph, fils's fifth son Moïse-Jean, by third wife Angélique Daigre, born probably at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in June 1764, followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer and back to greater Acadia.  He married Marthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Godin dit Bellefontaine and Marguerite Thériot, at Arichat, no date given.  

Le Maigre's second son Simon, born probably at Minas in c1726, married cousin Élisabeth, daughter of Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Landry, at Grand-Pré in July 1748 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  They had a least one son, in c1752.  According to Bona Arseanult, the British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  One wonders what happened to Simon and Élisabeth there.  The fate of their son, however, is well documented. 

Anselme, perhaps their only son, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1752, followed his parents to Maryland in the fall of 1755, but, despite his tender age, did not remain there.  In the early 1760s, perhaps an orphan now, he somehow hooked up with his paternal uncle Alexandre LeBlanc at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and, according to Bona Arsenault, followed him and his paternal grandfather to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  In 1767, Anselme went to France with uncle Alexandre, his grandfather, and other island Acadians to alleviate overcrowding on the island and likely stayed for a time on Belle-Île-en-Mer with his kinsmen.  Now a young bachelor, he returned to Île Miquelon by 1778, when, during the American Revolution, the British deported him with other island Acadians aboard the brigantine Jeannette to St.-Malo, France, which he reached in November.  He married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Cyr and Madeleine Poirier, at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in December 1779.  Victoire gave Anselme a daughter there in October 1782.  They either returned to Île Miquelon in 1784 with 600 other islanders or remained in France.  If they remained in the mother country, they did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Le Maigre's third son Olivier, born probably at Minas in c1729, married cousin Marguerite, another daughter of Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Landry, at Grand-Pré in c1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1752 and 1754 Marguerite gave Olivier two children, a son and a daughter.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Arsenault says Marguerite gave Olivier two more daughters in the Chesapeake colony in 1756 and 1758.  What happened to them after the war ended? 

Le Maigre's fourth son Alexandre, born probably at Minas in c1732, moved to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, after February 1752 and married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Boudrot and Marguerite Dugas of Annapolis Royal, at Port-Toulouse later in the year.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1772, Marguerite gave Alexandre five sons.  He and Marguerite either returned to British Nova Scotia soon after their marriage and escaped the British roundups there in the fall of 1755, or they escaped the British roundup in the Martime islands in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge at Restigouche, the French stronghold at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where Alexandre served as a captain in the Acadian militia.  Alexandre and his family of four, including an infant son, appear on a list of surrendered Acadians at Restigouche dated 24 October 1760.  The British sent them to the prison compound at Halifax for the rest of the war.  After the war, they, along with a nephew, followed his parents, also held at Halifax, to Île Miquelon, where French officials counted them in 1766.  If Alexandre and his family were still on Miquelon the following year, they likely were sent to France along with his widowered father and other island Acadians to alleviate overcrowding on the island.  Alexandre and his family, with his nephew in tow, followed his widowed father to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled near older brother Joseph, fils.  One wonders if Alexandre and his family remained there.  If they remained in France, they did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Le Maigre's fifth son Paul, born probably at Minas in c1734, would have been a bachelor in his early 20s when he escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Anne, daughter of Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour and his second wife Marguerite Richard of Louisbourg and a great-granddaughter of former Govenor Charles La Tour, at Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1758.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Paul two sons in 1759 and 1760, by which time they had sought refuge at Restigouche, where Paul, along with older brother Alexandre, served as captain of the Acadian militia.  Paul and his family of four also appear on the list of surrendered Acadians at Restigouche dated 24 October 1760.  Their younger son was baptized at Restigouche in November 1761, perhaps on the eve of their going to the prison compound at Halifax, where British officials counted them in 1762.  According to Arsenault, in 1762 and 1764, Anne gave Paul two more sons.  After the war, they followed his parents and older brother Alexandre to Île Miquelon, where they were counted in 1764 and 1766.  They likely went to France in 1767 and soon returned to Île Miquelon.  According to Arsenault, in 1766 and 1768, Anne gave Paul two more children, both daughters--six children in all.  Wife Anne died on Île Miquelon in 1769, and Paul died there in 1771, in his late 30s.  Four of their children were still on the island in 1776.  Two years later, during the American Revolution, the British deported the Acadians on Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre to La Rochelle, France.  Among them were Paul's four children--Paul, fils, age 19; Charles-André, called André, age 18; Étienne, age 16; and Anne-Adélaïde, age 12.  One wonders what happened to his other two children, who would have been ages 14 and 10 in 1778.  At least one of Paul's sons returned to Île Miquelon in 1784.  Evidently the others remained in France.  None of them followed other Acadians in France to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Second son Charles-André, baptized at Restigouche in November 1761, age unrecorded, followed his family to Halifax, Île Miquelon, and La Rochelle, France.  He probably returned to Île Miquelon in 1784.  He  married Anne Lavigne there in March 1785, and remarried to Anne Laforge probably on the island, date not given. 

Le Maigre's putative sixth and youngest son Jean, also called Jean-Charles, born probably at Minas in c1736, was still a teenager when the British deported him to Maryland with two of his older brothers in the fall of 1755.  Jean married fellow Acadian Judith-Marguerite Landry in Maryland in c1756.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1757 and 1762, Judith gave Jean four children, three sons and a daughter.  Jean, wife Juditte, and their four children appeared on a French repatriation list at Baltimore in July 1763.  They emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 and settled at San Gabriel on the river below Baton Rouge.  They had no more children in the colony.  Their daughters married into the Landry and Provinché families.  Their sons also married, into the Forest, Trahan, and Hébert families, and the youngest one settled on the western prairies. 

Antoine père's seventh and youngest son René le jeune, born at Minas in 1701, married Anne, daughter of Germain Thériot and Anne Richard, probably at Minas in c1722 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1722 and 1750, Anne gave René le jeune 14 children, seven sons and seven daughters.  The family escaped the British roundup at Minas in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  René le jeune and his wife died of hunger in the refugee camp at Miramichi in 1759.  He was age 58.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, at least four their children were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and were held in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  At least five of René le jeune's daughters married, into the Léger, Bourgeois, and Broussard families, and two of them emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1764-65.  One of them, Rose, a 30-year-old widow with no children when she reached the colony, chose to remain in New Orleans and become an Ursuline nun.  She took the name Sister Sainte Monique and died of small pox in the city in February 1773, age 38.  Meanwhile, her older sister Isabelle, wife of Victor Broussard, died in the mysterious epidemic that struck the Teche valley Acadians in the summer and fall of 1765.  Five of René le jeune's sons also married.  Three of them followed their sisters to Louisiana, survived the fevers, and created vigorous family lines there. 

Oldest son Étienne, born at Minas in November 1722, married Élisabeth, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Catherine Hébert, at Grand-Pré in October 1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1765, Élisabeth gave Étienne 10 children, six daughters and four sons.  Like his parents, Étienne and his family escaped the roundup at Minas in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After surrendering to, or being captured by, the British, they were held in the prison camp at Fort Cumberland, formerly Beauséjour, Chignecto, until the end of the war.  In 1764-65, Étienne, Élisabeth, and seven of their children, four sons and three daughters, followed two of his younger brothers and two of his younger sisters to Louisiana, but they did not follow them to lower Bayou Teche.  They settled, instead, at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Étienne and Élisabeth had no more children in Louisiana.  He died probably at Cabahannocer by September 1769, in his late 40s, when wife Élisabeth was listed in a census there as a widow.  Their three daughters married into the LeBlanc, Landry, Robichaux, Lamothe, and Lecompte families on the river and upper Bayou Lafourche.  Three of Étienne's four sons also married, into the LeBlanc and Theriot families, on the river and the upper Lafourche. 

René le jeune's second son Simon-Joseph, called Simon, born at Minas in 1736/37, followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Catherine Thibodeau in c1758, probably at Miramichi, where his parents starved to death the following year.  Soon after, Simon and Catherine either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the region and were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  The couple with three children, one of them perhaps his youngest brother Petit René, appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  In 1764-65, Simon, Catherine, and three of their young children, two sons and a daughter, followed the Beausoleil Broussards--three of his sisters had married sons of resistance leader Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil--to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  Catherine was pregnant on the voyage and gave birth to another daughter aboard ship or at Cap-Français on New Year's Day 1765.  The child was baptized at New Orleans on 20 February 1765, soon after they reached the city.  Simon's name appears on a list of  Acadian exiles attempting to exchange their Canadian card money for French funds at New Orleans in April 1765.  Soon after, he and his family, including brother Petit René, followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche in the Attakapas District.  Wife Catherine died at Attakapas in November 1765, perhaps a late victim of the mysterious epidemic that struck the Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  His youngest daughter also died that winter or the following spring.  Simon remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit L'Officier Guilbeau and Madeleine Michel and widow of Jean Boudrot, at Attakapas in c1768.  Marguerite and her first husband also had come to Louisiana in February 1765 with the Broussards, and her father had died in the same epidemic that had killed Simon's first wife and perhaps his youngest daughter.  Simon and Marguerite settled near Carencro at the northern edge of the Attakapas District and at Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  She gave him more children.  Marguerite died at their home at "La Pointe" in March 1814, in her early 70s.  Simon, who did not remarry again, died at his home at "La Pointe" in December 1815, in his late 70s.  Neither of his daughters by first wife Catherine married, but his daughters by second wife Marguerite married into the Barras, Comeaux, and St. Julien families on the prairies.  Seven of his nine sons by both wives married into the Broussard, Thibodeaux, Savoie, Wiltz, Duhon, and Dugas families on the prairies, and most of the lines endured.  Simon's, in fact, was the first as was well as the largest LeBlanc family line established on the western prairies. 

René le jeune's third son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Minas in c1739, evidently followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in the fall of 1755, and his siblings into a prison compound in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  Where did he go after the war?  According to Bona Arsenault, he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Boudrot and Hélène Landry, in c1770, place unrecorded, but it was not in Spanish Louisiana. 

René le jeune's fourth son Pierre-Victor, born probaby at Minas in c1742, evidently followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in the fall of 1755, and his siblings into a prison camp in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  He did not follow five of his siblings to Louisiana but remained in greater Acadia.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Saulnier and Marie Savage, probably in Nova Scotia in c1765, and they "rehabilitated" the marriage at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia, in August 1768.  They settled at Memramcook, persent-day southeastern New Brunswick.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1782, Marguerite gave Pierre-Victor seven children, five sons and two daughters.  Pierre-Victor died at Memramcook in May 1817, in his mid-70s.  One of his daughters married into the Poirier family there.  All five of his sons also created families there.

Oldest son Joseph-Ignace, born in Nova Scotia in c1766, followed his family to present-day southeastern New Brunswick and married Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians René Richard and Perpétué Bourgeois, probably at Memramcook in c1788.  According to Bona Arsenault, Modeste gave Joseph-Ignace at least 11 children, eight sons and three daughters.  He died at Memramcook in March 1855, in his late 80s. 

Pierre-Victor's second son Simon, born probably at Memramcook in c1771, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Poirier and Marguerite Arsenault, in c1793 at Memramcook.  Simon's wife's brother Raphaël married his sister Marguerite. 

Pierre-Victor's third son Hilarion, born probably at Memramcook in c1778, married Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Isidore Doiron and Anne Donai, at Memramcook in November 1810.  According to Bona Arsenault, Isabelle gave Hilarion at least nine children, five sons and four daughters.  He died at Memramcook in 1846, in his late 60s. 

Pierre-Victor's fourth son Nicolas, born probably at Memramcook in c1780, married cousin Charlotte, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Marie-Josèphe Cormier, probably at Memramcook in c1801, and remarried to Marie, daughter of François Porrel and Marie Noiles, probably at Memramcook, date not given. 

Pierre-Victor's fifth and youngest son François, born probably at Memramcook in c1782, married cousin Marie-Antoinette dite Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin LeBlanc and Ludivine Dupuis, probably at Memramcook in c1805.  According to Bona Arsenault, Nanette gave François at least 10 children, six sons and four daughters. 

René le jeune's fifth son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1743, evidently died young. 

René le jeune's sixth son Sylvain, born probably at Minas in c1745, also probably died young. 

René le jeune's seventh and youngest son René dit Petit René, born probably at Minas in c1750 or 1751, followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in the fall of 1755 and watched his parents starve to death at Mirimachi when he was age 8 or 9.  He followed his older siblings into imprisonment in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s and probably was counted with the family of older brother Simon at Halifax in August 1763.  Still in his teens, he followed brothers Étienne and Simon and two of his older sisters, both married to Broussards, to Louisiana in 1764-65.  From New Orleans, he followed Simon and one of his sisters, part of the extended family of the Beausoleil Broussards, to lower Bayou Teche.  In 1769 and again in 1771, when he was in his late teens and early 20s, a Spanish official counted Petit René in the household of Petit Jos Broussard, his brother-in-law from Petit Jos's first marriage to older sister Anastasie, who had died in a prison camp in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s; Petit Jos was the oldest surviving son of resistance fighter Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil.  Petit René married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Trahan and Marguerite Broussard, at Attakapas in c1775.  Marguerite also had come to Louisiana with the Broussards in 1765; her maternal grandfather, in fact, was Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil, Joseph dit Beausoleil's older brother.  Petit René and Marguerite settled on the lower Vermilion River.  Petit René died at his home on the lower Vermilion in August 1809, in his late 50s.  His daughters married into the Bodin, Bouquet, Bourgeois, Broussard, Langlinais, Melançon, and Trahan families.  Two of his four sons married into the LeBlanc and Duhon families on the prairies, but only the youngest son's line endured.   

Daniel's sixth and youngest son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1664, married Marie, daughter of Claude Thériot and Marie Gautrot, at Port-Royal in c1684.  Marie gave him a son before she died in the late 1680s or early 1690s.  Pierre remarried to Madeleine, daughter of François Bourg and Marguerite Boudrot, previously "married" to privateer and bigamist Pierre Maisonnat dit Baptiste, in c1697 at Port-Royal.  Between 1698 and 1716, Madeleine gave Pierre eight more children, five sons and three daughters.  Unlike his brothers, who settled at Minas, Pierre remained at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, where he served as captain of militia.  He was wounded in the siege of Port-Royal in June 1707.  He died at Annapolis Royal in November 1717, in his early 50s.  Wife Madeleine died there after December 1730, in her 50s.  Two of their daughters married into the Bourgeois family.  Five Pierre's six sons, all by second wife Madeleine, also created families of their own. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, by first wife Marie Thériot, born at Port-Royal in c1685, was still living with his father and stepmother at Port-Royal in 1701, when he was age 17.  He did not marry. 

Pierre, père's second son Joseph dit Cajétan, by second wife Madeleine Bourg, born at Port-Royal in c1698, married Marguerite, daughter of Germain Bourgeois and Madeleine Dugas of Chignecto, at Annapolis Royal in 1721 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1721 and 1742, Marguerite gave Cajétan 10 children, six daughters and four sons.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them at Methuen in 1760.  Later in the decade, they followed other Acadian exiles in New England to Canada.  Cajétan died at St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu northeast of Montréal in October 1775, in his late 70s.  Three of his daughters married into the Richard, Leprince, Blanchard, Gourdeau, and Belliveau families.  Three of his four sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1726, did not remain there.  He married Claire-Cécile, daughter of Claude Benoit and Jeanne Hébert of Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, at Grand-Pré in c1746.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1757, Claire-Cécile gave Joseph, fils four children, two sons and two daughters.  They may also have been deported to New England in the fall of 1755 and followed fellow exiles to Canada in the 1760s.  British officials counted them at St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu in c1767.  Their two daughters married into the Meunier and Chapdelaine families at St.-Denis and St.-Ours.  One of Joseph, fils's sons also created his own family in the area.

Younger son Pierre, born probably at Minas in c1753, followed his family into exile and to St.-Denis-de-Richelieu, where he married Madeleine Goulet, widow of Michel Baulier-Laperle, in September 1778. 

Cajétan's second son Basile, born at Annapolis Royal in c1727, married Anne, daughter of René Richard and Marguerite Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in November 1752; Anne's brother Joseph was Basile's oldest sister Madeleine's husband.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1754 and 1756, Anne gave Basile two children, a son and a daughter.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Anne died in the colony in the late 1750s, and Basile remarried to fellow Acadian Marie Landry.  According to Arsenault, between 1760 and 1781, Marie gave Basile seven more children, four sons and three daughters.  Probably in the late 1760s they followed other Acadian exiles in New England to Canada and settled at L'Assomption northeast of Montréal.  Basile died at L'Assomption in May 1801, in his mid-70s.  His four daughters by both wives married into the Mercier, Sénécal, Le Roullier, and Vaillant families.  One of his sons also created a family of his own.

Fourth son Édouard, by second wife Marie Landry, born at Annapolis Royal in c1750, followed his family to Connecticut and Canada.  At age 46, he married Marie-Angélique, daughter of François Proulx and Marie Desnoyers, at L'Assomption in February 1796.  They settled at nearby St.-Jacques de l'Achigan. 

Cajétan's fourth and youngest son Cajétan, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1735, was still a young bachelor when he followed his family to New England in the fall of 1755, and he was still a bachelor when he followed them to Canada in the 1760s.  He married Marie-Amable, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Martin, perhaps a fellow Acadian, and Marie-Josèphe Massier dit Saint-François, at St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu in August 1772.  Cajétan, fils died at St.-Denis in 1781, in his mid-40s.  One wonders if he fathered any children. 

Pierre, père's third son Jean-Simon, called Simon, from second wife Madeleine Bourg, born at Port-Royal in August 1703, married Jeanne, daughter of Jean Dupuis and Anne Richard, at Annapolis Royal in November 1722 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1724 and 1744, Jeanne gave Jean-Simon eight children, four sons and four daughters.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted Simon, Jeanne, and four of their younger adult children at Westboro, Worcester County, in August 1761.  They were still in the colony in August 1763.  Later in the decade, they and members of the family followed other Acadian exiles in New England to Canada.  They settled at St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu east of Montréal.  Jean-Simon died there between February 1766 and September 1775, in his 60s or 70s.  Two of their daughters married into the Girouard and Forest families.  Two of Jean-Simon's sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Jean dit Pitre, born at Annapolis Royal in c1724, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Landry and Marie-Josèphe Savoie, at Annapolis Royal in January 1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1751 and 1769, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean dit Pitre nine children, seven daughters and two sons.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  They evidently were the Jno. LeBlanch, age 36, Mary his wife, age 30, and children Molly, age 10, Collect, age 7, Sarah, age 3, and Peter, age 2 counted at Lynn in Essex County, Massachusetts, in July 1760.  Later in the decade, they followed his family to Canada and settled at St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu by c1767.  Jean dit Pitre's daughters married into the Bélanger, Martin, Girouard, Bourgeois, Choquet, Joubert, Gariépy, and Charpentier families at St.-Denis and St.-Ours.  One of his sons also created a family of his own in the area. 

Younger son Pierre-Marie, born probably in Massachusetts in c1759, was counted with his family at Lynn, age 2, in July 1760.  Later in the decade, he followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Anne, daughter of Louis Audet-Lapointe and Catherine Larose, at St.-Denis-de-Richelieu in November 1783. 

Jean-Simon's second son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1729, married Marguerite, daughter of Louis Robichaud and Jeanne Bourgeois, at Annapolis Royal in January 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1755 and 1762, Marguerite gave Joseph three children, two daughters and a son.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  They evidently were the Joseph White, age 30, Mary[sic] his wife, age 29, Mary a daughter, age 4, and an infant [daughter Marie-Marguerite] counted at Charlestown in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in 1761.  Later in the decade, they followed his family to Canada.  British officials counted them at Québec in c1768.  One of their daughters married into the Dumont family at Québec.  Joseph's son also married there.

Only son Louis-Édouard, born probably in Massachusetts in c1762, followed his family to Canada later in the decade, and married Angélique Ethrington at Québec City in April 1783. 

Pierre, père's fourth son Pierre, fils, the second with the name, by second wife Madeleine Bourg, born at Port-Royal in November 1708, married Françoise, daughter of Jean Thériot and Jeanne Landry, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1729 and evidently moved on to Rivière-aux-Canards at Minas.  Françoise gave Pierre, fils at least four children, two sons and two daughters.  The British deported members of the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Four of Pierre, fils and Françoise's children, one of them recently married, were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763.  According to Stephen A. White, Pierre, fils died in exile between 1755 and September 1763, in his late 40s or early 50s.  One of his daughters married into the Bourg family in France, and both of his sons created families of their own there.  The married daughter, the older son, and the widow of the younger son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.

Older son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1740, followed his family to Virginia and England, where he married fellow Acadian Élisabeth Aucoin in c1763.  They were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 with three of his siblings, Élisabeth, Simon, and Marguerite.  Jean worked as a shoemaker in the mother country.  One wonders if he and wife Élisabeth followed other Acadian exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer in late 1765 or to Poitou in 1773.  Later that decade or in the early 1780s, they moved to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where a Spanish official placed them on a list of Acadians who wished to go to Louisiana in September 1784; they were counted with an orphaned niece but no children.  Still childless, the couple emigrated to the Spanish colony the following year.  They settled first at San Bernardo below New Orleans before moving on to the Opelousas prairies.  Jean died by August 1797, in his late 50s, when his wife remarried at Opelousas.  His family line died with him. 

Pierre, fils's younger son Simon, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1746, followed his family to Virginia, England, and St.-Malo, France, resided at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of the Breton port, and worked as a sailor.  He married Anne-Rosalie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Forest and Claire Vincent of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in November 1766.  She gave Simon two sons at St.-Servan in 1767 and 1780, but only the older son survived childhood.  One suspects that the 13-year gap between his sons' births reflected Simon's work as a seaman.  Anne-Rosalie was a widower by 1785, when she followed hundreds of other Acadian exiles in France to Spanish Louisiana.  Son Pierre-Simon LeBlanc, who would have been age 18 in 1785, did not accompany her.  One wonders if he, too, had become a sailor. 

Pierre, père's fifth son Paul dit Polet, by second wife Madeleine Bourg, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1711, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of René Richard and Marguerite Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in October 1732 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1758, Marie-Josèphe gave Polet 14 children, 10 sons and four daughters, including a set of twins.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  They were still in the colony in August 1763.  Later in the decade, they followed other Acadian exiles in New England to Canada.  They settled at Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières.  Polet died at nearby Bécancour in March 1773, in his late 50s or early 60s.  Two of his daughters married into the Arsenault and Richard families.  Seven of his sons also created their own families. 

Second son Charles-Grégoire dit Charlitte dit Le fort, born at Annapolis Royal in c1734, was still a young bachelor in the fall of 1755, when he evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, he and two younger brothers either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  In c1762, perhaps in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, Charlitte married Théotiste, daughter of Pierre dit Piau Belliveau and Jeanne Gaudet.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1788, Théotiste gave Charlitte seven children, six sons and a daughter.  After the war, they settled near her family at Memramcook in present-day southeastern New Brunswick.  Five of Charlitte's sons created families of their own there.

Oldest son Charles-Ignace, born in Nova Scotia or at Memramcook in c1763, married cousin Anne Belliveau probably at Memramcook. 

Charlitte's second son Joseph-Bonaventure dit Cartel, born probably at Memramcook in c1766, married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Germain Pellerin and Marie Belliveau, probably at Memramcook in c1788. 

Charlitte's third son Isaac, born probably at Memramcook in c1768, married fellow Acadian Marguerite Richard of Richibouctou up the shore probably at Memramcook in c1790. 

Charlitte's fourth son Pierre dit Good Bread, born probably at Memramcook in c1770, married Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Brun dit Nanon and Anne Girouard, probably at Memramcook in c1792. 

Charlitte's sixth and youngest son Paul, born probably at Memramcook in c1788, married Nanette, another daughter of Pierre Brun and Anne Girouard, probably at Memramcook in c1810. 

Polet's fourth son Bonaventure, born at Annapolis Royal in c1738, was in his late teens in the fall of 1755 whe he, along with two of his brothers, evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, he and his brothers either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  In c1763, perhaps in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Bonaventure married Rosalie, another daughter of Pierre dit Piau Belliveau and Jeanne Gaudet, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1784, Rosalie gave Bonaventure eight children, four daughters and four sons.  After the war, they, too, settled at Memramcook near her family.  Bonaventure's daughters married into the Fournier, Cormier, and Bourg families at Memramcook.  His sons also created families of their own there. 

Oldest son Jean-Isaac, born probably at Memramcook in c1767, married fellow Acadian Anastasie Gaudet probably at Memramcook in c1788.  Jean-Isaac died there in 1827, in his late 50s or early 60s. 

Bonaventure's second son Pierre dit Pierrot, born probably at Memramcook in c1771, married cousin Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Marie Barillot, probably at Memramcook in c1796.  Pierrot died there in 1837, in his mid- or late 60s. 

Bonaventure's third son Joseph, born probably at Memramcook in c1780, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Cormier and Marie Godin, probably at Memramcook in c1801.  Joseph died there in 1825, in his mid-40s. 

Bonaventure's fourth and youngest son Amand le jeune, born probably at Memramcook in c1782, married Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Gaudet and Marie Melanson, at Memramcook in May 1808, and remarried to Nathalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Breau and Marie-Blanche Boudreau, at Memramcook in November 1817.  Amand died there in 1859, in his late 70s. 

Polet's fifth son Amand, born at Annapolis Royal in c1740, followed members of his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  He was still in the colony in January 1764, when he married in a civil ceremony cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon LeBlanc and Marguerite Thériot, at Boston.  Later in the decade they followed other Acadian exiles in New England to Canada.  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" at Québec in July 1767. 

Polet's sixth son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1742, was only in his early teens in the fall of 1755, but he evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal and joined two of his older brothers on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, he and his brother either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  In c1761, perhaps in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Joseph married Agnès, yet another daughter of Pierre dit Piau Belliveau and Jeanne Gaudet.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1772, Agnès gave Joseph four children, two daughters and two sons.  They, too, resettled near her family at Memramcook.  Joseph died there in 1819, in his late 70s.  His daughters married into the Gaudet and Bastarache families at Memramcook.  His sons also created their own families there.

Older son Jean-Frédéric, born probably at Memramcook in c1768, married fellow Acadian Henriette Gautreau of Barachois at Memramcook in c1790.  Jean-Frédéric died there in 1854, in his mid- or late 80s. 

Joseph's younger son Joseph, fils, born probably at Memramcook in c1772, married fellow Acadian Marguerite Gaudet at Memramcook in c1794.  Joseph, fils died there in 1861, in his late 80s. 

Polet's seventh son Paul, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1745, likely followed his parents to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755 and to Canada in the late 1760s.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Hébert and Anne Thibodeau, at L'Assomption northeast of Montréal in October 1774.  They settled at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet on the St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1775 and 1795, Marie gave Paul, fils a dozen children, eight daughters and four sons.  Six of his daughters married into the Proux, Richer, Bourg, Girard, Genest-Labarre, and Gaudet families at St.-Grégoire and Nicolet.  His sons also created families of their own there.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at St.-Grégoire in c1776, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bergeron and and his second wife Marie-Josèphe Richer, at Nicolet in January 1805. 

Paul, fils's second son François le jeune, born probably at St.-Grégoire in c1785, married Madeleine, another daughter of François Bergeron and Marie-Josèphe Richer, at St.-Grégoire in January 1813. 

Paul, fils's third son Joseph, born probably at St.-Grégoire in c1790, married Angèle Camiré in c1812, place unrecorded, and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Forest and Modeste Poirier, at St.-Grégoire in August 1820. 

Paul, fils's fourth and youngest son Paul III, born probably at St.-Grégoire in c1795, married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Marie Bourg, at St.-Grégoire in January 1823. 

Polet's eighth son Basile, born at Annapolis Royal in c1748, likely followed his parents to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755 and to Canada in the late 1760s.  He married fellow Acadian Marie Landry probably in Canada in c1768.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1768 and 1769, Marie gave Basile two children, a daughter and a son.  Basile remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians François Amirault and Marguerite Robichaud, at Trois-Rivières in January 1780.  They settled at nearby St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet.  Basile died there in 1820, in his early 70s.  His daughter married into the Sénéchal family at L'Assomption northeast of Montréal. 

Polet's ninth son François, born at Annapolis Royal in c1751, probably followed his parents to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755 and to Canada in the late 1760s.  He married Marie-Josèphe Pichette probably in Canada in January 1778.  They settled at Maskinongé above Trois-Rivières in 1781 and at nearby Rivière-du-Loup, today's Louiseville, in 1785. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1781 and 1787, Marie-Josèphe gave François three sons.  

Pierre, père's sixth and youngest son Charles dit Chat, by second wife Madeleine Bourg, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1716, married Madeleine, daughter of François Girouard and Anne Bourgeois, at Annapolis Royal in January 1735 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1750, Madeleine gave Chat eight children, five daughters and three sons.  One wonders what happened to them in the fall of 1755.  British officials counted Chat at Annapolis Royal in 1763, so he and his family may have escaped the British roundup in 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area, and were held in Nova Scotia until the end of the war.  One wonders if, in 1763, he was among the Acadians supervising the reconstruction and maintance of Acadian-built dykes and aboiteaux in the Annapolis area which now belonged to so-called New English "planters."  By c1768, they had resettled at Pointe-de-l'Église, now Church Point on St. Mary's Bay, southeast of Annapolis Royal.  Charles dit Chat died at Anse-des-LeBlanc near Church Point in September 1805, age 89.  Three of his daughters married into the Gaudet, Belliveau, and Comeau families.  His sons also created families of their own.

Oldest son Charles dit Charlitan, born at Annapolis Royal in c1738, followed his family into exile in 1755 and settled with them on Baie Ste.-Marie, Nova Scotia, where he married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Melançon and Anne Melançon, in 1780.  According to Arsenault, Charlitan died at Anse-des-Leblanc in c1850, age 112.  One wonders how many children he and his wife may have had.

Chat's second son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in c1740, followed his family into exile in 1755 and settled with them at Baie Ste.-Marie.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre dit Piau Belliveau and Jeanne Gaudet, in a civil ceremony in c1766, place unrecorded.  They revalidated their marriage at Annapolis Royal in October 1769 and settled near his family on Baie Ste.-Marie.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1772, Marguerite gave Pierre three sons. 

Chat's third and youngest son Joseph dit Joppe, born at Annapolis Royal in c1750, followed his family into exile in 1755, and probably settled with them on Baie Ste.-Marie.  He married fellow Acadian Anne Doucet, no date given, perhaps on the bay.342

Belliveau

Antoine Belliveau, who arrived in c1645, and his wife Andrée Guyon created a good-sized family in the colony.  In c1652 and c1654, Andrée gave Antoine only two children, a son and a daughter.  Daughter Madeleine was the first wife of prominent colonist Germain Bourgeois of Beaubassin.  Antoine's only son created a family of his own.  Most of Antoine and Andrée's descendants remained at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but some of them settled at Chignecto and in the French Maritimes.  One of Antoine's descendants may have emigrated to Louisiana, but no family line was established there.  After Le Grand Dérangment, the great majority of Antoine's descendants could be found in greater Acadia and Canada, and perhaps a few remained in France.   

Only son Jean, a carpenter as well as a farmer, born at Port-Royal in c1652, married Jeanne, daughter of Antoine Bourg and Antoinette Landry, at Port-Royal in c1673.  Between 1674 and 1680, Jeanne gave Jean four children, three sons and a daughter, at Port-Royal.  Jean remarried to Cécile, daughter of Charles Melanson and Marie Dugas and widow of Abraham Boudrot, at Port-Royal in c1703, in his early 50s.  Between 1704 and 1711, Cécile gave Jean three more children, a son and two daughters--seven children by two wives.  Jean, Cécile, and their children moved on to the French Maritimes in the early 1720s, settling first at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, before moving to Île St.-Jean later in the decade.  Jean died at Tracadie on the north shore of the island, in either 1734 or 1735, in his early 80s.  Jean's daughters by both wives married into the Boudrot, Fourgère, and Dugas families, two of them in the French Maritimes.  All four of Jean's sons created their own families, the older three choosing to remain at Port-Royal.   

Oldest son Jean, fils, called le jeune, by first wife Jeanne Bourg, born at Port-Royal in c1674, married Madeleine, another daughter of Charles Melanson and Marie Dugas, at Port-Royal in c1696.  Between 1697 and 1706, Madeleine gave Jean le jeune five children, a daughter who married into the Landry family and four sons, three of whom created families of their own.  Jean le jeune died at Port-Royal in September 1707 from "blessures graves," serious injuries, likely wounds suffered in battle against a force of New English at Port-Royal the previous June. 

Oldest son Charles, born at Port-Royal in c1697, married Marguerite, daughter of René Granger and Marguerite Thériot, at Grand-Pré in November 1717 but settled at Annapolis Royal, where he worked as a pilot and ship's carpenter.  According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1721 and 1739, Marguerite gave Charles eight children, two sons and six daughters, at Annapolis Royal.  The British captured members of the family in the fall of 1755 and deported them to Massachusetts and North Carolina.  In early December, soon after the British deportation fleet left the Annapolis Basin, Charles, at age 58, heroically masterminded the seizure of the British transport Pembroke, bound for North Carolina.  After spending a month in hidiing in the Baie Ste.-Marie, Belliveau, in January 1756, brought the vessel safely into lower Rivière St.-Jean, where he and his fellow passengers eluded a British patrol sent out to capture them.  Charles took his family to Canada.  He died at Québec in January 1758, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck Acadian refugees in the area that fall and winter.  Two of his daughters married into the Pellerin and Landry families.  His two sons created their own families. 

Older son Charles dit Chaillot, born at Annapolis Royal in c1731, married Osite, daughter of Claude Dugas and Marie-Josèphe Melanson, at Annapolis Royal in January 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1755 and 1769, Osite gave Chaillot nine children, four sons and five daughters, including a set of twins.  The British deported Charles, Osite, and their oldest child to Massachusetts in 1755.  After the war, they chose to join their relations in Canada.  They were counted at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Montréal in 1767.  They lived also at nearby L'Assomption.  Three of Chaillot's daughters married into the Langlois dit Lachapelle, Bourgeois, and Duprat families at St.-Jacques.  Three of his four sons also created their own families. 

Second son Joseph, born in New England in c1763, followed his family to Canada and married Marie, daughter of Pierre Beaudin and Marie-Charlotte Dupuis, at Grande-Rivière in Gaspésie, southwest of Percé, in present-day Québec Province, date unrecorded. 

Chaillot's third son Pierre, born probably in Canada in c1767, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Charles Ratel and Anne Breau, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in January 1791; remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians François Dupuis and Monique Richard, at St.-Jacques in January 1795; and remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Louis Rivet and Marie-Louise Jeannot, at nearby St.-Sulpice in June 1803. 

Chaillot's fourth and youngest son Charles, fils, born at St.-Jacques in c1769, married Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Richard and Ludivine Bourgeois, at St.-Jacques in February 1792.

Charles, père's younger son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in c1734, followed his family to Canada but did not remain there.  He married Anne, daughter of Joseph Girouard and Anne Doucet, in c1765, place unrecorded; the marriage was revalidated at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia, in 1768.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1781, Anne gave Pierre seven children, five sons and two daughters.  They settled at Memramcook, in southeastern New Brunswick, where Pierre died in 1820, age 86.  Pierre's daughters married into the LeBlanc and Bourg families at Memramcook.  Three of Pierre's seven sons married probably at Memramcook.

Oldest son Pierre-Germain, born in c1766, married cousin Marie-Ludivine Belliveau. 

 Pierre's four son Jean, born in c1779, married Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Gaudet and Marie Melanson. 

Pierre's fifth and youngest son, name not given, born in c1780, married Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Melanson.

Jean le jeune's second son Jean III, born at Port-Royal in c1699, married Marie-Madeleine dite Madelichon, daughter of Bernard Gaudet and Jeanne Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in November 1730.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1749, Madelichon gave Jean III nine childern, six sons and three daughters, at Annapolis Royal.  Jean III died at Baie Ste.-Marie, Nova Scotia, his date of death unrecorded.  One wonders if he died in December 1755 or January 1756 while he and his fellow Annapolis Acadians were hiding from the British aboard the recently captured Pembroke before moving on to Rivière St.-Jean.  His family took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore after they escaped the British on Rivière St.-Jean.  Jean III's daughters married into the Comeau, Thériot, and LeBlanc families.  Three of his sons created their own families and settled in Nova Scotia, not far from their childhood homes. 

Fourth son Joseph-Jacques, called Jacques, born at Annapolis Royal in c1738, followed his family into exile and married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Robichaud and Marguerite Comeau, in 1770, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1797, Marguerite gave Jacques nine children, two sons and seven daughters, including a set of twins.  The family settled at Anse-aux-Belliveau, today's Belliveaus Cove on St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia.  Jacques died there in 1835, age 97.  Jacques's daughters married into the Maillet, Guidry, Robichaud, LeBlanc, Doucet, and Comeau families.  His sons created their own families probably on St. Mary's Bay. 

Older son Charles dit Morpain, born in c1774, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Comeau and Félicité LeBlanc, date unrecorded; and remarried to Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Amable Doucet and Marie Gaudet, in 1813. 

Jacques's younger son Jean dit Mouna, born in c1780, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Amirault and Marguerite Doucet, in 1812. 

Jean III's fifth son Frédéric dit Soudic, born at Annapolis Royal in c1742, married Marie-Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Madeleine Girouard, in 1768 perhaps in Nova Scotia.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1769 and 1783, Marie-Modeste gave Soudic seven children, three sons and four daughters.  They also settled on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia, where Frédéric died in 1835, age 93.  Soudic's daughters married into the Melanson, Dugas, and Doucet families.  His three sons also created their own families.

Oldest son Frédéric dit Tikine, born in c1769, perhaps in Nova Scotia, married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Lanoue and Marie Melanson, in 1793, place unrecorded, and settled at Pointe-de-l'Église, today's Church Point, on St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia. 

Soudic's second son Anselme, born in c1776, perhaps in Nova Scotia, married Anne, another daughter of Amand Lanoue and Marie Melanson, in 1799, place unrecorded. 

Soudic's third and youngest son Joseph, born in c1783 probably in Nova Scotia, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas l'Ancien and Marie Robichaud, in 1801, place unrecorded. 

Jean III's sixth and youngest son Charles-Marin, born at Annapolis Royal in c1747, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Madeleine Babin, in October 1774 probably in Nova Scotia.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1775 and 1793, Madeleine gave Charles-Marin nine children, five sons and four daughters, including a set of twins.  They settled at Anse-aux-Belliveau, Nova Scotia.  Charles-Marin's daughters married into the Gaudet and LeBlanc families.  All five of his sons created their own families. 

 Oldest son Charles-Marin dit Sucre, born in c1781 probably at Anse-aux-Belliveau, married Nathalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Anne Melanson, in 1808, place unrecorded.  They settled at Grosses-Coques near Church Point on St. Mary's Bay. 

Charles-Marin, père's second son Joseph-Charles dit Lescargot, born in c1783 probably at Anse-aux-Belliveau, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians François dit Maza Comeau and Félicité Comeau, in 1807, place unrecorded and settled at St.-Bernard near Belliveaus Cove. 

Charles-Marin, père's third son François, born in c1786 probably at Anse-aux-Belliveau, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians René-Poncy Gaudet and Félicité LeBlanc, in 1811, place unrecorded, and settled at Anse-aux-Belliveau. 

Charles-Marin, père's fourth son Pierre-Isaïe, born in c1791 probably at Anse-aux-Belliveau, married Marie, another daughter of François dit Maza Comeau and Félicité Comeau, in 1823, place unrecorded; remarried to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques d'Entremont and Angélique Bourque, place unrecorded; and settled at Anse-aux-Belliveau. 

Charles-Marin, père's fifth and youngest son Germain dit Benjamin, born in c1793 probably at Anse-aux-Belliveau, married Madeleine, another daughter of Charles LeBlanc and Anne Melanson, in 1828, place unrecorded, and settled Grosses-Coques. 

Jean le jeune's third son Louis, born at Port-Royal in c1700, died young. 

Jean le jeune's fourth and youngest son Pierre dit Piau, born at Port Royal in August 1706, married Jeanne, another daughter of Bernard Gaudet and Jeanne Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in January 1728.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1755, Jeanne gave Piau 11 children, one son and ten daughters.  Unlike older brother Charles and Jean III and their families, Piau and his family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis in 1755 and found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held at Fort Edward, fomerly Pigiguit, today's Windsor, Nova Scotia, until the end of the war.  Around 1770, Piau took his family to Memramcook, present-day southeastern New Brunswick, and died there, date unrecorded.  Village-des-Piau was named after him.  His daughters married into the Granger, Girouard, Pellerin, Amirault, LeBlanc, Bourgeois, Thénault, Babineau, and Babin families, three of them to LeBlanc brothers.  His son also created his own family.

Only son Joseph dit Jospiô, born at Annapolis Royal in c1747, followed his family into exile.  He married cousin Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Gaudet dit Varonel and Anne Bastarache, in c1773 probably at Memramcook.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1774 and 1782, Marie-Josèphe gave Jospiô five children, four sons and a daughter.  They remained at Memramcook.  Jospiô remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Cyprien Dupuis and Françoise Préjean, in c1784 probably at Memramcook.  According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him no more children.  His daughter married into the Richard family.  All four of his sons created their own families probably at Memramcook.

Oldest son Pierre, born in c1776 probably at Memramcook, married fellow Acadian Marguerite Bourque in c1797.

Jospiô's second son Joseph dit Piaujau, born in c1777 probably at Memramcook, married Isabelle, daughter of  fellow Acadian Pierre Melanson, in c1798.

Jospiô's third son Thomas, born in c1778 probably at Memramcook, married Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadian Sylvain Babineau, no date given. 

Jospiô's fourth and youngest son David, born in c1782 probably at Memramcook, married Henriette, another daughter of Sylvain Babineau, in November 1806. 

Jean, père second son Charles dit Bideau, by first wife Jeanne Bourg, born at Port-Royal in c1678, married Marie, yet another daughter of Charles Melanson and Marie Dugas, in c1698 probably at Port-Royal.  Between 1700 and 1725, Marie gave Bideau 13 children, including three sons and eight daughters, and a set of twins whose gender was not recorded.  Five of Bideau's daughters married into the Gaudet, Lanoue, and Poirier families, four of them to Lanoue brothers.  Two of Bideau's three sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Charles, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1702, married Agnès, yet another daughter of Bernard Gaudet and Jeanne Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in October 1725.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1748, Agnès gave Charles, fils 10 children, five sons and five daughters.  After exile, members of the family settled in Nova Scotia.  Charles, fils's daughters married into the David, Robichaud, Mius d'Entremont, and Amirault families.  Two of his sons created their own families.

Oldest son Charles III, born at Annapolis Royal in c1729, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Bastarache and Marguerite Forest, at Annapolis Royal in January 1755.  The British deported them to Massachusetts that fall.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1756 and 1764, Marguerite gave Charles III four children, a son and three daughters.  After the war, they chose to return to Nova Scotia, settling with his family at Pubnico, formerly Pobomcoup, north of Cap-Sable.  Two of Charles III's daughters married into the Larkins and Babin families at Pubnico.  His son also created a family of his own.

Only son Joseph, born in New England in c1760, married Marie-Osithe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourque and Marie-Rose Surette, place and date unrecorded, and settled at Ste.-Anne-du-Ruisseau-de-l'Anguille northwest of Pubnico. 

Charles, fils's fourth son Isidore, born at Annapolis Royal in c1737, married Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Amirault and Jeanne Laure of Pobomcoup, place and date unrecorded, and settled at Pubnico. 

Bideau's second son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1711, died at Annapolis Royal in his early 20s before he could marry. 

Bideau's third and youngest son François, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1714, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Blanchard and Madeleine Girouard, at Annapolis Royal in January 1742 and died there between 1748 and 1751, in his mid- to late 30s.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1748, Marie-Josèphe gave François three daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Jean, père's third son Antoine dit Blondin, by first wife Jeanne Bourg, born at Port-Royal in c1680, married Marie, daughter of Claude Thériot and Marie Gautrot, in c1701 probably at Port-Royal.  Between 1703 and 1722, Marie gave Blondin nine children, at least five sons and three daughters.  Their daughters married into the Bourg and Granger families.  Three of Blondin's five sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Charles le jeune, born at Port-Royal in 1705, married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of Claude Dugas and Marguerite Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in October 1732.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1750, Anne gave Charles le jeune eight children, four sons and four daughters.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  After the war, they chose to resettle at Québec, where they were counted in 1767.  One of Charles le jeune's daughters married into the Goodchild family at Québec.  Only one of his sons created his own family.

Oldest son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1733, followed his family to Massachusetts.  He married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Marguerite Bourgeois and widow of Charles Richard, in New England in November 1762.  According to Bona Arsenault, Félicité gave Joseph a son in c1764. They followed his family to Canada and settled at Maskinongé on the north shore of Lac St.-Pierre below Trois-Rivières, where they were counted in 1765. 

Son Charles le jeune, born probably in New England in c1764, married Agathe, daughter of Pierre Marchand and Élizabeth Sicard, at Maskinongé in February 1803. 

Blondin's second son Jean-Baptiste, the first with the name, born at Port-Royal in May 1710, died an infant. 

Blondin's third son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in the early 1710s, married Marie, daughter of Antoine Gaudet and Marie Bourg, at Beaubassin in October 1733.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1748, Marie gave Joseph six children, five sons and one daughter.  In 1752, they were counted at Tintamarre, present-day Sackville, New Brunswick, west of the Missaguash.  Joseph remarried to Marie Bourg in the early 1750s, perhaps at Annapolis Royal.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755 (no ships from Chignecto were sent to that colony, hence the supposition that Joseph had moved his family to Annapolis Royal).  After the war, they chose to join their kinsmen in Canada, where they settled at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières.  Three of Joseph's five sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Chignecto in c1735, followed his family into exile and married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Madeleine LeBlanc, at Bécancour in January 1765.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1788, Félicité gave Pierre a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters.  Pierre died at nearby St.-Grégoire in May 1810, age 75.  Four of his daughters married into the Pichet, Bergeron, Charest, and Hébert families at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet.  Two of his seven sons created their own families. 

Second son Joseph, born in Canada in c1767, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bergeron and Rosalie Bourg, at Nicolet in November 1790.

Pierre's sourth son François, born in Canada in c1773, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Bourg and Marguerite Bourgeois, at St.-Grégoire in October 1808. 

Joseph's third son François, born probably at Chignecto in c1745, followed his family into exile and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Sylvain LeBlanc and Anne Prince, at Bécancour in January 1773.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1779 and 1788, Marie gave François five children, two sons and three daughters.  François died at nearby St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in March 1835, age 90.  His daughters married into the Bourg, Hébert, and Dupuis families.  Both of his sons created their own families.

Older son François, fils, born in Canada in c1784, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Poirier and Rose Bergeron, at St.-Grégoire in November 1808. 

François, père's younger son Joseph le jeune, born in Canada in c1786, married Judith, another daughter of Pierre Poirier and Rose Bergeron, at St.-Grégoire in February 1813. 

Joseph's fifth and youngest son Joseph, fils, born probably at Chignecto in c1748, followed his family into exile and married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Bibeau and Marguerite Ritchot, at St.-François-du-Lac southwest of Nicolet in January 1773.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1774 and 1789, Marguerite gave Joseph, fils eight children, three sons and five daughters.  Joseph, fils died at Nicolet in April 1789, age 41.  Two of his daughters married into the Dupuis and Poirier families.  All three of his sons created their own families.

Oldest son Joseph III, born in Canada in c1778, married cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Belliveau and Élisabeth Doucet, at Trois-Rivières in November 1812. 

Joseph, fils's second son Pierre le jeune, born in Canada in c1782, married fellow Acadian Marie-Louise Hébert, widow of cousin François Belliveau, at St.-Grégoire in July 1811.  

Joseph, fils's third and youngest son François le jeune, born in Canada in c1789, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Poirier and his Canadian wife Louise Morin, at St.-Grégoire in January 1818. 

Blondin's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, the second with the name, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1713, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Melanson and Marie-Madeleine Petitot dit Saint-Seine, at Annapolis Royal in January 1741.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1762, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste eight children, six sons and two daughters.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in 1755 and held them at Boston.  After the war, they chose to resettle in Canada.  Jean-Baptiste died at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières in 1808, age 95.  His daughters married into the Doucet and Élie families at Bécancour and Trois-Rivières.  Five of his six sons created their own families.

Oldest son Joseph le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in c1741, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada and married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Françoise Cormier of Chignecto, at Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières in January 1772.  They settled at nearby Nicolet.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1793, Rosalie gave Joseph le jeune 10 children, six sons and four daughters.  Their daughters married into the Vigneau, Morin, Prince, and Parenteau families at Nicolet.  Three of Joseph le jeune's six sons created their own families.

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born probably at Nicolet in c1772, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Timothée Prince and Anne Richard, at Nicolet in October 1798.

Joseph le jeune's third son François d'Assise, born probably at Nicolet in c1778, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Madeleine Richard, at Nicolet in July 1802.

Joseph le jeune's fifth and youngest son David le jeune, born probably at Nicolet in c1787, married Josephte, daughter of Augustin Morin and his Acadian wife Josette Babin, at Nicolet in September 1811. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son Charles le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in c1744, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada and married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Doucet and Anne Bourg, at Bécancour in January 1773.  They settled at Nicolet.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1773 and 1793, Élisabeth gave Charles le jeune 10 children, five sons and five daughters.  Their daughters married into the Vigneau, Belliveau, Bergeron, Poirier, and Beaudet families at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet.  All five of Charles le jeune's sons created their own families.

Oldest son Charles, fils, born probably at Nicolet in c1773, married Angélique, daughter of Charles Beaumier and Marie-Angèle Ducharme, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in February 1808. 

Charles le jeune's second son François, born probably at Nicolet in c1775, married Élizabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Breau and Marie-Anne Daigle, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet, in October 1807. 

Charles le jeune's third son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Nicolet in c1777, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Maurice Janvier and Élise Foucaut, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet, in January 1803, and remarried to Félicité, another daughter of Pierre Breau and Marie-Anne Daigle, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in April 1822. 

Charles le jeune's fourth son Joseph, born probably at Nicolet in c1781, married Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bergeron and Josette LeBlanc, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in October 1809.

Charles le jeune's fifth and youngest son Pierre, born probably at Nicolas in c1783, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Poirier and Marie-Rose Bergeron, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in January 1808. 

Jean-Baptiste's third son David, born at Annapolis Royal in c1746, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada and married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Gaudet and Marie Cormier of Chignecto, at Bécancour in January 1773.  The settled at Nicolet.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1774 and 1788, Marguerite gave David six children, five sons and a daughter.  Their daughter married into the Bourg family at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet.  All five of David's sons created their own families.

Oldest son David, fils, born probably at Nicolet in c1774, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Raphaël Bourg and Marie Poirier, at Nicolet in September 1801. 

David, père's second son Simon, born probably at Nicolet in c1775, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Hébert and Marie Arsenault, at Nicolet in September 1801. 

David, père's third son François, born probably at Nicolet in c1782, married Marie-Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Hébert and Marie-Josèphe Babin, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in January 1807. 

David, père's fourth son Joseph, born probably at Nicolet in c1784, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Prince and Madeleine Héon, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in May 1808. 

David, père's fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Nicolet in c1788, married Julie, daughter of Michel Lamothe and Angélique Pinard, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in October 1810; and remarried to Constance, daughter of Vincent Dubé and his Acadian wife Rosalie Bergeron, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in January 1829. 

Jean-Baptiste's fifth son Jean, born at Annapolis Royal in c1755, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada and married Marie-Geneviève, daughter of Augustin Morin and Judith Talbot, at Bécancour in February 1780.  They settled at Nicolet.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1780 and 1800, Marie-Geneviève gave Jean 10 children, three sons and seven daughters.  Five of their daughters married into the Bergeron, Richard, Gaudet, Hébert, and Harrison families at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet.  Two of Jean's three sons created their own families.

Second son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born probably at Nicolet in c1788, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Jean-Baptiste Poirier and his Canadian wife Anastasie Caron, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet January 1818.

Jean's third and youngest son Joseph, born probably at Nicolet in c1790, married Marie, daughter fellow Acadians Pierre Poirier and Marie-Rose Bergeron, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in February 1817. 

Jean-Baptiste's sixth and youngest son François, born probably at Boston, Massachusetts, in c1758, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Aimée, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Poirier and Marguerite Thibodeau, at Nicolet in February 1787.  They settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1789 and 1800, Marie-Aimée gave François seven children, three sons and four daughters.  Two of their daughters married into the Macé and Pinard families at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet.  All three of François's sons created their own families.

Oldest son François, fils, born probably at Nicolet in c1789, married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian François Gaudet and his Canadian wife Françoise Poisson, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in November 1811.

François, père's second son Joseph, born probably at Nicolet in c1790, married fellow Acadian Madeleine Prince at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet, date unrecorded. 

François, père's third and youngest son David le jeune, born probably at Nicolet in c1800, married Marie-Rosalie, daughter of Alexis Richer and his Acadian wife Marie-Josèphe Darois, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in October 1820. 

Blondin's fifth and youngest son Paul, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1717, survived childhood and settled at Annapolis Royal, but he did not marry.  The British deported him to Massachusetts in 1755, and he, too, was repatriated to Canada after the war with Britain.  He was counted at Nicolet in 1767. 

Jean, père's fourth son Louis, by second wife Cécile Boudrot, born at Port-Royal in May 1708, followed his parents and sisters to the French Maritimes, married Louise, daughter of Michel Haché dit Gallant and Anne Cormier, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in June 1735 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1759, Louise gave Louis nine children, three sons and six daugthers, on the island.   A French official counted Louis, Louise, and six of their children at Tracadie on the island's north shore in August 1752.  The family escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and likely found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  If so, sometime in the early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Louis and his family were counted on Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery sland off the southern coast of Newfoundland, in 1767, so they likely had gone there, probably from Nova Scotia, following the war with Britain.  Louis died on Miquelon in December 1775, age 67.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured the island and deported members of Louis's family to La Rochelle, France.  Some of them may have remained in the mother country.  Louis's widow Louise died at La Rochelle in October 1779.  Five of their daughters married into the Doucet, Gautrot, Bourg, Buot, Testard dit Paris, and Leclair families.  Evidently none of Louis's sons created families of their own.  One of his daughters died at LaRochelle in 1779, another at Memramcook, southeastern New Brunswick, in 1820.  Two of his other daughters settled at Rustico on the north shore of Prince Edward Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, not far from their childhood home at Tracadie.348

Petitpas

Claude Petitpas, sieur de LaFleur, the notary, who arrived in c1645, and his wife Catherine Bugaret created an influential family in the colony.  Catherine gave Claude 13 children, eight sons and five daughters.  Their daughters married into the Dugas, Guédry dit Grivois dit Laverdure, Forest, Boudrot, Richard, Robichaud, and Girouard families.  Only three of their many sons created families of their own.  In the summer of 1680, Claude Petitipas, père was serving as royal notary at Jemseg on lower Rivière St.-Jean.  His and Catherine's descendants, however, settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Mirliguèche and Musquodoboit on the Atlantic coast, and on Île Royale in the French Maritimes, where they were especially numerous.  If any of Claude's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none carried the family's name there. 

Oldest son Bernard, born probably at Port-Royal in c1659, married a woman whose name had been lost to history in c1685 and settled at Mirliguèche on the Atlantic coast.  They likely were that rare Acadian couple who had no children.

Claude's second son Claude, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1663, married Marie-Thérèse, a Mi'kmaw, after 1686, and settled at Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and at Musquodoboit up the coast from Mirliguèche.  He became an interpreter and Indian agent for the British after the fall of Port-Royal.  Claude, fils remarried to Françoise, daughter of Pierre Lavergne and Anne Bernon, at Annapolis Royal in January 1721, in his late 50s, moved to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, and died there in c1731, in his late 60s.  First wife Marie-Thérèse gave him seven children, four sons and three daughters.  Second wife Françoise gave him four more children, all sons, all of whom married--11 children, eight sons and three daughters, by two wives.  Claude, fils's daughters, all from his first wife, married into the Marres dit La Sonde, Moyse dit Latreille, and Coste families, and all of them settled in the French Maritimes.  Five of Claude, fils's sons also created their own families.   

Oldest son Barthélémy, by first wife Marie-Thérèse, born probably at Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in c1687, married Madeleine, daughter of François Coste and Madeleine Martin, in c1715, place unrecorded.  Barthélémy also served as agent-interpreter among the Mi'kmaq, befriended the British, but later turned against them.  As a result, they captured him in 1745, about the time the British took Louisbourg, and he died in a Boston prison in January 1747, age 60.  

Claude, fils's second son Paul, by first wife Marie-Thérèse, born in c1695, place unrecorded, became a navigator at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, but did not marry. 

Claude, fils's third son Joseph, by first wife Marie-Thérèse, born in c1699, place unrecorded, also became a navigator at Port-Toulouse and did not marry.   

Claude, fils fourth son Isidore, by first wife Marie-Thérèse, born in c1706, place unrecorded, was sent by his father to Boston to attend Harvard divinity school, dropped out, escaped to Québec, from whence Canadian authorities sent him to Rochefort, France, to train for a naval career, but Isidore was a reluctant student, so the French sent him to Martinique as a soldier, where he likely died before he could marry, age unrecorded.   

Claude, fils fifth son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Françoise Lavergne, born at Port-Toulouse in c1722, married Françoise, daughter of Pierre Bertaud dit Montaury and Marie Martin, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, Île St.-Jean, in September 1742.  What happened to them in 1758?   

Claude, fils's sixth son Jacques, by second wife Françoise Lavergne, born at Port-Toulouse in c1724, married Françoise, daughter of Jean Breau and Anne Gautrot, at Port-Toulouse in c1749.  What happened to them in 1758?

Claude, fils's seventh son Louis, by second wife Françoise Lavergne, born at Port-Toulouse in c1726, married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Pouget and Françoise Moyse, in c1752 in the French Maritimes.  What happened to them in 1758?  Louis remarried to Marie-Josèphe dite Rosette, daughter of Joseph Dugas and Marguerite Coste and widow of Pierre Boudrot, in c1761 during exile, place unrecorded.  

Claude, fils's eighth and youngest son Joseph, by second wife Françoise Lavergne, born at Port-Toulouse in c1731, married Louise, daughter of Jean Fougère and Marie-Madeleine Belliveau, in c1754 probably on Île Royale.  What happened to them in 1758?  Joseph remarried to Marguerite, another daughter of Jean Breau and Anne Gautrot and widow of Georges Manet, at Chezzetcook, near Halifax, in c1767, after exile. 

Claude, père's third son Jean, born probably at Port-Royal in c1664, probably died young.

Claude, père's fourth son Jacques, born probably at Port-Royal in c1666, married Geneviève, daughter of Jean Serreau de Saint-Aubin, seigneur of Passamaquoddy, and Marguerite Boileau, in c1690 probably at Port-Royal, but likely settled with Geneviève's family at Passamaquoddy.  In August 1692, during King William's War, Jacques and brother-in-law Charles Serreau de Saint-Aubin and their families were captured by New-English raiders under Colonel Benjamin Church.  They were still being held at Boston in November when Jacques and Charles were released in a scheme to capture capitaine de sauvages Jean-Vincent de Saint-Castin.  Despite their families being held as hostages, Jacques and Charles alerted the French authorities to the desperate scheme. Jacques died at Port-Royal in c1694, in his late 20s, a year before his wife and children were ransomed from their Boston prison by her father, the seigneur; one wonders if Jacques's wartime activities and his concern for his family hastened his death.  In the two years between their marriage and their capture, Geneviève gave Jacques two children, both sons, only one of whom created a family of his own.   

Older son Jean, born probably at Port-Royal in c1691, died at Annapolis Royal in June 1713, in his early 20s, before he could marry.  

Jacques's younger son Nicolas, born probably at Port-Royal in the 1690s, married Madeleine, daughter of André Simon dit Boucher and Marie Martin, at Annapolis Royal in January 1714 and moved on to the French Maritimes, where he settled Petit-Dégrat on Île Royale, near Port-Toulouse.  Madeleine gave him eight children, six sons and two daughters.  Nicolas, well into his middle age, remarried to Osite-Blanche, daughter of Jean Benoit and Marie-Josèphe Thériot, on Île Royale in March 1756.  Osite-Blanche gave him three more children, two sons and a daughter--11 children, eight sons and three daughters, by two wives.  What happened to him and his family in 1758?  His daughters by his first wife married into the Guyon dit Dion, Mulot, Ozanne, and Vergues dit La Sagette families, on Île Royale, in France, and in French Guiane during exile.  Only four of his eight sons created families of their own, in France, Guiane, and greater Acadia. 

Oldest son Nicolas, fils, by first wife Madeleine Simon, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1714, probably died young. 

Nicolas, père's second son François, by first wife Madeleine Simon, born at Port-Toulouse in c1718, also died young. 

Nicolas, père's third son Nicolas-François, by first wife Madeleine Simon, born at Petit-Dégrat in c1722, married Marie, daughter of Claude Harot and Julienne Chancerel, on Île Royale in November 1751.  What happened to them in 1758?  Nicolas-François died at St.-Louis de Rochefort, France, in July 1761, age 38, during exile.  Were he and his family deported there from Île Royal in 1758? 

Nicolas, père's fourth son Jean-Jacques, by first wife Madeleine Simon, born at Petit-Dégrat in c1726, married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Jean Darembourg and Marie-Anne Pichot, in c1748 on Île Royale.  Were he and his family deported to France from Île Royale in 1758?  Jean-Jacques died at Sinnamary, French Guiane, in June 1765, age 39, probably after going there from France the year before. 

Nicolas, père's fifth son Dominique, by first wife Madeleine Simon, born at Louisbourg, Île Royale, in May 1732, died a few days after his birth. 

Nicolas, père's sixth son Germain-Sébastien, by first wife Madeleine Simon, born at Louisbourg in February 1725, died at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs after January 1761, in his late 20s or early 30s, before he could marry.  Did he escape the British roundup on Île Royale in 1758, cross Mer Rouge, and seek refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore? 

Nicolas, père's seventh son Barnabé dit Nicolas, by second wife Osite-Blanche Benoit, born at Louisbourg in c1756, married Agnès, daughter of Jean-Jacques Clory and Marie-Josèphe Josse, in c1787 and settled at D'Escousse, Cape Breton Island.  Did he and his wife escape the British roundup on Île Royale in 1758 and chose to remain in greater Acadia after the war had ended? 

Nicolas, père's eighth and youngest son Joseph-Michel, by second wife Osite-Blanche Benoit, born at Louisbourg probably on the eve of the island's dérangement in late 1758, followed his family into exile, perhaps on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After the war, he evidently remained in greater Acadia and spent time at Caraquet in present-day northeastern New Brunswick.  He married Madeleine, daughter of David Downey dit Downing and Dorothée Boudrot, in c1788, place unrecorded, and settled at Grande-Digue, Shediac, today's eastern New Brunswick. 

Claude, père's fifth son Paul, born probably at Port-Royal in c1675, was counted there in 1693, age 22, but evidently did not marry.

Claude, père's sixth son Charles, born probably at Port-Royal in c1676, also was counted there in 1693, age 18, but evidently did not marry. 

Claude, père's seventh son Martin, born probably at Port-Royal in c1677, was counted there in 1693, age 15, but evidently did not marry.

Claude, père's eighth and youngest son Pierre, born probably at Port-Royal in c1681, was counted there in 1693, age 10, but probably did not marry.360

Lejeune

Pierre Lejeune dit Briard, a late 1640s arrival, and his Doucet wife whose given name has been lost to history created a family that was small in the beginning.  They had no daughters, but their two sons created vigorous lines.  Pierre dit Briard's descendants settled at La Hève, Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Minas and Pigiguit in the Minas Basin, and on Île St.-Jean and Île Royale in the French Maritimes, where they were especially numerous by the early 1750s.  At least 22 of Pierre dit Briard's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in the late 1760s and from France in 1785.  Some of Briard's descendants, in smaller numbers, could be found in greater Acadia, Canada, France, and French Guiane after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Older son Pierre dit Briard, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1656, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau and Jeanne Thériot, in c1678 at Port-Royal.  They were counted at La Hève on the Atlantic coast in 1686, were back at Port-Royal by 1698, were counted at Petit-Rivière near La Hève in 1704, and moved on to Pigiguit in the Minas Basin by 1712.  Between 1687 and 1704, Marie gave Pierre dit Briard, fils nine children, four sons and five daughters.  Four of their daughters married into the Boutin, Roy, Trahan, Gautrot, Labauve, Rimbault, and Duplessis families, most of them at Minas.  Daughter Catherine's second husband, Claude-Antoine Duplessis, became a surgeon at Havre-St.-Pierre on Île St.-Jean, and one of their daughters emigrated to French Guiane from France.  All four of Pierre dit Briard, fils's sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Pierre III, born probably at La Hève in c1689, married Jeanne, daughter of Martin Benoit and Marie Chaussegros, at Grand-Pré in September 1712 and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled at Pigiguit before moving on to Cobeguit.  Between the early 1710s and 1731, Jeanne gave Pierre III 10 children, six sons and four daughters.  In c1750, Pierre III, Jeanne, and some of their younger children moved to Bedec on southwest coast of Île St.-Jean, where, in August 1752, a French official counted the couple and two of their unmarried children, a daughter and a son.  Three of their daughters married into the Froiquingont, Guédry dit Grivois, and Hébert families, and two of them were lost with their entire families during the deportation from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  All six of Pierre III's sons created families of their own, and three of them also perished in late 1758 in the deportation to France.  The deportation to France, in fact, devastated this branch of the family. 

Oldest son Bruno, born probably at Minas in the 1710s, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jacques Levron and Marie Doucet and widow of Emmanuel Hébert, in c1745 and settled at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Bruno a son and a daughter in 1746 and 1748.  They moved to the French Maritimes after 1752.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  The family was lost aboard the British transport Duke William, which sank in a North Atlantic storm the second week of December.  Bruno was in his mid- or late 40s when he died. 

Pierre III's second son Pierre IV, born probably at Minas in c1720, married Marie, daughter of Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Boudrot, at Grand-Pré in July 1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1751, Marie gave Pierre IV four children, two sons and two daughters.  They followed his family to Bedec, Île St.-Jean, where a French official counted Pierre IV, Marie, and their children in August 1752.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758. 

Pierre III's third son Jean, born probably at Minas in c1724, married Marguerite, another daughter of Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Boudrot, in c1748 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1749 and 1751, Marguerite gave Jean two children, a daughter and a son.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, a French officials counted Jean, Marguerite, and their children at Grande-Anse on the southeast coast of the island.  Marguerite gave Jean two more children, a daughter and two sons, between 1752 and 1758--five children, two daughters and three sons, in all.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Marguerite and all of the children died at sea.  Jean died in a hospital at St.-Servan near the Breton port in March 1759, in his mid-30s, from the rigors of the crossing. 

Pierre III's fourth son Éloi, born probably at Minas in c1724, married Rosalie, daughter of Joseph Mius d'Azy and Marie Amireau of Cap-Sable, in c1746 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1751, Rosalie gave Éloi three children, two sons and a daughter.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  A French official counted Éloi, Rosalie, and their children at Grande-Anse near his brother Jean in August 1752.  Rosalie gave Éloi two more daughters on the island in 1754 and 1758.  The British deported Éloi and his family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  All but their older son died at sea.  Éloi was in his early 30s.  His son married in France. 

Older son François, born probably at Minas in c1747, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was deported with them to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  He was the family's only survivor.  He resided with a M. Baude at St.-Thual south of St.-Malo in 1759 and remained there until 1766, when he moved to Lamballe, southwest of the Breton port.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Richard and Cécile Gautrot, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in August 1767.  He returned to St.-Thual after the marriage and then moved back to St.-Servan.  Anne gave François a daughter at St.-Servan in August 1769.  In December 1771, he received permission to take his family to Morlaix in northern Brittany.  Anne gave him a son there in May 1772.  François died by January 1776, in his late 20s, when Anne remarried to a Levron in St.-Martin de Champs Parish.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Pierre III's fifth son Augustin, born probably at Minas in c1726, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Chênet and Marie-Anne Denis dit Jean, at Port-La-Joye on the island in November 1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Augustin, Marie-Josèphe, and their young daughter at Bedec near members of his family.  Augustin and his family also perished in the sinking of the Duke William in December 1758.  He died in his early 30s.   

Pierre III's sixth and youngest son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1731, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with his parents and a sister at Bedec in August 1752.  Joseph married Anne-Théotiste, daughter of Mathieu Brasseur and Anne-Marie Pitre, at Port-La-Joye in September 1753.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Joseph a son in c1755.  They left the island before the deportation of 1758 and sought refuge in Canada.  Joseph remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Canadians Simon Deblois dit Grégoire and Marguerite Guérard, in St.-François Parish on Île d'Orléans below Québec in April 1757.  They settled at nearby St.-Michel de Bellechasse and at Charlesbourg.  According to Arsenault, Madeleine gave Joseph another son in 1758. 

Pierre dit Briard, fils's second son Germain, born probably at La Hève in c1693, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Alexandre Trahan and Marie Pellerin, in c1717 probably at Pigiguit and settled on the l'Assomption side of the river.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1718 and 1722, Marie-Anne gave Germain two children, a daughter and a son.  According to Stephen A. White, followed here, Germain remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Guédry and Madeleine Mius d'Azy, in c1735 probably at Pigiguit.  According to Arsenault, who confuses this Germain with his older first cousin of the same name, Germain and Marie married in c1729, that this was his only marriage, and that he and Marie lived for a time at La Hève and on Île St.-Jean.  Arsenault says that between 1730 and 1749, Marie gave Germain six children, five sons and a daughter--eight children, six sons and two daughters, by two wives.  In c1750, they followed dozens of fellow Acadians to Baie-des-Espagnols on the Atlantic coast of Île Royale.  In April 1752, a French official counted Germain, Marie, and five of their children, four sons and a daughter, at the Spanish Bay.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758.  According to Arsenault, Germain's daughter by first wife Marie-Anne married into the Serrier or Cellier and Benoit families, the second time on Île St.-Jean.  Most of Germain's sons also created families of his own, in Canada and greater Acadia.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marie-Anne Trahan, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1722, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Clémenceau dit Beaulieu and Anne Roy, in c1742, place unrecorded; it probably was Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1754, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste six children, four sons and two daughters.  In c1750, Jean-Baptiste took his family to Île St.-Jean.  In August 1752, a French official counted the couple and five children, four sons and a daughter, at Anse-au-Matelot on island's southern coast.  The British deported at least one member of the family to France in late 1758.  Others may have escaped the British roundup on the island in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before moving on to Canada.  Two of Jean-Baptiste's sons married in Canada in the 1760s and 1770s.  Another settled in greater Acadia and France.

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Pigiguit in c1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Anse-au-Matelot in August 1752.  He somehow became separated from his family, and the British deported him to France in late 1758.  He married Marie-Marthe or -Martine Roy, place and date unrecorded, but it may have been at Rochefort, France, soon after his arrival.  If so, he would have been in late teens at the time of the wedding.  Marthe/Martine gave him two children, a daughter and a son, in St.-Nicolas and St.-Louis parishes, Rochefort, in October 1759 and February 1761.  The son died in July 1761, age 5 months.  Joseph took his family back to greater Acadia by 1764, when they were counted on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  They may have had another daughter on the island.  In 1767, in an attempt to relieve overcrowding on Île Miquelon, French officials, obeying a royal decree, coaxed most of the island's fisher/habitants to emigrate to France, Joseph and his family probably among them.  If they went to France, they likely returned to Miquelon the following year, as most of the islanders did.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre and deported the islanders to France.  Joseph and his family ended up at La Rochelle, where a daughter married into the Caumeau family in St.-Nicolas Parish in February 1781.  Marthe/Martine gave Joseph another daughter in St.-Nicolas Parish in May 1779, but she died in St.-Jean Parish, La Rochelle, in January 1784.  One wonders if Joseph and Marthe/Martine returned to Île Miquelon with other islanders after the death of their daughter, or if they remained in France. 

Second son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born probably at Pigiguit in c1745, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Anse-aux-Matelot in August 1752.  He followed them into exile in 1758 and married Marie-Louise, daughter of Charles Forgues and Louise Couture, at St.-Charles de Bellechasse below Québec in c1766. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's third son François-Olivier, born probably at Pigiguit in c1749, was taken to Île St.-Jean as an infant and counted with his family at Anse-au-Matelot in August 1752.  He followed them into exile in 1758 and married Françoise Forgues, widow of François Ratté, at St.-Charles de Bellechasse in July 1774.  One wonders if Françoise was a sister of François-Olivier's older brother's wife Marie-Louise.  In his late 50s, François-Olivier remarried to Josette Dutil at nearby St.-Gervais in c1807. 

Germain's third son Chrysostôme dit Christophe, by second wife Marie Guédry, born probably at Pigiguit in c1740, followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, and was counted with them in April 1752.  He evidently escaped the roundup on the island in 1758, while in his late teens.  One wonders where he sought refuge during the war.  He married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Gallant and Osite Lavergne, in c1767, place unrecorded.  They returned to Île Royale, now called, again, Cape Breton Island.  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" at Petit-Bras-d'Or on the island in August 1771. 

Germain's fourth son Germain, fils, by second wife Marie Guédry, born probably at Pigiguit in c1741, followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, and was counted with them in April 1752.  He, too, evidently escaped the roundup on the island in 1758, while still in his teens, and may have followed his older brother into exile, wherever they may have gone.  Germain, fils married Marie-Anne, daughter of Marc Lasonde and Judith Petitpas, in c1766, place unrecorded.  They "rehabilitated" the marriage at Petit-Bras-d'Or in August 1771. 

Germain's fifth son Paul, by second wife Marie Guédry, born probably at Pigiguit in c1747, followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, and was counted with them in April 1752.  He, too, evidently escaped the roundup on the island in 1758 and married Angélique-Hélène, daughter of Mi'kmaqs Joseph and Jeanne, in c1765.  They, too, "rehabilitated" their marriage at Petit-Bras-d'Or in August 1771. 

Pierre dit Briard, fils's third son Jean, born at La Hève or Port-Royal in c1697, married Françoise, daughter of Claude Guédry and Marguerite Petitpas, in c1725 probably at Pigiguit and lived for a time at Cap-Sable.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1749, Françoise gave Jean 11 children, six sons and five daughters, including a set of twins.  In c1750, they followed relatives to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale.  In April 1752, a French official counted them there with eight children, five sons and three daughters.  In late 1758, the British deported them to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Supply, which did not reach the Breton port until March 1759.  Jean died at Châteauneuf on the east said of the river south of St.-Malo in May 1759, in his early 60s, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Wife Françoise and three of their children, two sons and a daughter, survived the voyage, but a son and a daughter also died from the rigors of the crossing.  Three of Jean's daughters married into the Trahan, Benoit, and Hébert families on Île Royale and Île St.-Jean and were deported with their families to France.  Three of Jean's sons created their own families, and two of them, along with a younger sister, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.  Their mother Françoise did not accompany them.  She followed her children to Poitou in 1773, retreated with them to the lower Loire port of Nantes in December 1775, and died at nearby Chantenay in March 1780, age 80. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born probably at Pigiguit in c1726, married Judith Viger of Cap-Sable in c1748, probably at Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, Judith gave Jean-Baptiste le jeune two children, a son and a daughter, in 1749 and 1752.  In c1750, they followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, where a French official counted the couple with their two children in April 1752.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758.

Jean's second son Eustache, born probably at Pigiguit in December 1732, followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, and was counted with them there in April 1752.  He married Marie, daughter of Ignace Carret and Cécile Henry, at Louisbourg in May 1753.  Marie gave Eustache two daughters on the island in 1754 and 1757.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Eustache and Marie survived the crossing, but their two daughters died at sea.  The couple settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo and in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where, between 1760 and 1771, Marie gave Eustache seven more children, four sons and three daughters.  Two of the children, a son and a daughter, did not survive childhood.  Wife Marie died at St.-Servan in November 1772, age 42.  Eustache, at age 40, remarried to Jeanne-Perrine, 33-year-old daughter of locals Jean Gicquel and Perrine Le Couet of nearby Plouër-sur-Rance in June 1773.  Soon after the marriage, Eustache took his family to Poitou in 1773 and, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians, including his aging widowed mother, to the port city of Nantes in December 1775.  Eustache worked as a ship's carpenter there.  Between 1781 and 1784, Jeanne gave Eustache three more children, two daughters and a son, at nearby Chantenay--a dozen children by two wives--but two of the youngest children died as infants.  Eustache's oldest son married into the Doiron family at Nantes or nearby Chantenay.  In 1785, Eustache, Jeanne, four of his unmarried children, two daughters and two sons, his married son and his wife, and a Gautrot niece, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana aboard the first of the Seven Ships.  Eustache's daughter Geneviève-Charlotte, who would have been age 20 in 1785, if she was still living, did not accompany her family to Louisiana.  Evidently Eustache's youngest daughter Marie-Rose, called Rosalie, who would have been age 2, died during the crossing; she appears on the ship's embarkation list, but not on its debarkation list.  From New Orleans, Eustache and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river below Baton Rouge, where they remained.  His surviving daughter married into the Babin family at Baton Rouge.  His younger sons also married, into the Pitre and Lebert families.  One remained at Baton Rouge, and the other joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Eustache's oldest son, who settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish, died there in April 1854, age 94--one of the last Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join his ancestors. 

Jean's third son Jérôme, born probably at Pigiguit in c1735, followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, and was counted with them there in April 1752.  He married Élisabeth Dugas probably on the island in c1758.  Later that year, the British deported the childless couple, along with his family, to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Supply.  Jérome died on the crossing, and Élisabeth died in August 1759, several months after she reached the Breton port, probably from the rigors of the crossing. 

Jean's fourth son Grégoire, born probably at Pigiguit in c1737, followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, and was counted with them there in April 1752.  In late 1758, the British deported him to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Supply, which did not reach the Breton port until early March 1759.  He settled at nearby Châteauneuf and became a sailor.  In April 1760, he embarked from St.-Malo on the corsair Hercules, was captured by the Royal Navy, and spent the rest of the war in an English prison.  He returned to St.-Malo in June 1763 and settled near his older brother Eustache at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where, at age 27, Grégoire married Charlotte, 17-year-old daughter of locals Pierre Descrouttes and Élisabath Gallison, in February 1764.  Charlotte died at St.-Servan in January 1767, age 19 or 20, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Grégoire remarried to Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dubois dit Dumont and Madeleine Vécot of Île St.-Jean, at St.-Servan in June 1767; Hélène called herself a Dumont.  Between 1768 and 1772, at St.-Servan and nearby Pleurtuit and St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, Hélène gave Grégoire three children, a son and two daughters.  The son died an infant.  Grégoire and his family followed his older brother Eustache to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  Hélène gave Grégoire another daughter at Châtellerault, Poitou, in May 1774, but the baby died the following August.  Meanwhile, their second daughter died there in July.  In December 1775, Grégoire, Hélène, and their surviving daughter retreated with brother Eustache, their widowed mother, and other Poitou Acadians to the port of Nantes.  Hélène gave him five more children, two daughters and three sons, at nearby Chantenay.  Only two of the children, both sons, survived childhood.  In 1785, Eustache, Hélène, and their three surviving children, a daughter and two sons, along with a Gautrot niece, followed brother Eustache and his family to Spanish Louisiana aboard the first of the Seven Ships.  From New Orleans, they followed Eustache to Manchac south of Baton Rouge, where they remained.  Hélène gave Grégoire another daughter but no more sons in the colony--at least 10 children in all by his second wife.  Grégoire died at Baton Rouge in July 1826, a widower, in his late 80s.  His daughters married into the Trahan and Longuépée families.  His sons married into the Tardit and Gibson families at Baton Rouge and settled near their cousins in West Baton Rouge Parish. 

Jean's fifth son Barnabé, born probably at Pigiguit in c1742, followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, and was counted with them there in April 1752.  The British deported him with his family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He died at Châteauneuf in May 1759, age 17, probably from the rigors of the crossing, before he could marry. 

Jean's sixth and youngest son Jean-Charles, born probably at Pigiguit in c1749, followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, and was counted with them there in April 1752.  The British deported him with his family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He survived the crossing and settled with his widowed mother at Châteauneuf before moving to nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1762.  He worked as a sailor in France.  In 1773, he followed other Acadians in the St.-Malo area to Poitou.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Trahan and Anne Thériot, in St.-Jean L'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, Poitou, in August 1774.  She gave him a son there in August 1775.  In December of that year, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  They settled in Ste.-Croix Parish, where their son died in February 1776, age 6 months.  Marguerite gave Jean-Charles another son at nearby Chantenay in March 1777, but the boy died the following November.  Jean-Charles died at Chantenay in November 1778, age 29.  Marguerite remarried to a French weaver from La Rochelle in St.-Donatien Parish in December 1782 and gave him at least three children.  Not surprisingly, she and her French husband did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Pierre dit Briard, fils's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in July 1704, married Cécile, daughter of Jean Pitre and Françoise Babin, in c1727 (Bona Arsenault says c1724) probably at Pigiguit.  According to Arseanault, they lived for a time at Cobeguit.  According to Arsenault, between 1725 and 1750, Cécile gave Joseph 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  In c1750, they followed relatives to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale.  In April 1752, a French official counted them there with seven children, six sons and a daughter.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 aboard the transport Violet, which sank in the same North Atlantic storm that doomed the Duke William during the second week of December.  No one, neither officers nor crew, survived the sinking of the Violet.  Joseph died at age 54.  One of his daughters married into the Trahan family at Louisbourg.  Four of his older sons also married in the French Maritimes before the 1758 deportation.  One suspects that the fate of all four sons and their families was similar to that of their parents. 

Oldest son Alexis, born probably at Pigiguit in c1725, married cousin Madeleine Lejeune dit Briard in c1748, no place given, perhaps at Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1757, Madeleine gave Alexis four children, three daughters and a son.  Alexis, Madeleine, and their daughter followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, where, in April 1752, a French official counted the couple with two daughters.  By 1757, they had moved to Trois-Rivières on the east coast of Île St.-Jean, where a daughter was baptized that year.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758.  Did they perish with his family aboard the Violet?

Joseph's second son Charles, born probably at Pigiguit in c1729, married Marie, daughter of Charles Leroy and Marie-Charlotte Chauvet, in c1750 either at Pigiguit or on Île Royale.  They were counted with her family at Baie-des-Espagnols in April 1752.  They had no children.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758.  Did they perish with his family aboard the Violet?

Joseph's third son Joseph, fils, born probably at Pigiguit in c1733, followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnol, Île Royale, and was counted with them there in April 1752.  The French official noted that Joseph, fils, age 19, was "unfit for the militia."  He evidently was fit for other things.  He married Marguerite-Josèphe Corporon probably on the island in c1756.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Joseph, fils a daughter in 1757, the year they moved on to Île St.-Jean.  She gave him a son probably on Île St.-Jean in c1758, on the eve of the island's dérangement.  Later that year, the British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the so-called Five Ships.  Marguerite and evidently both of their children died on the crossing.  Joseph died at Châteauneuf near St.-Malo in March 1759, in his late 30s, probably from the rigors of the crossing. 

Joseph, père's fourth son Basile, born probably at Pigiguit in c1735, followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnol, Île Royale, and was counted with them there in April 1752.  He did not remain on Île Royale.  He married Anne-Marie, daughter of Ignace Carret and Cécile Henry, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord on the north shore of Île St.-Jean in September 1758, on the eve of the island's dérangement.  One wonders what happened to them that year.  Did they perish with his family aboard the Violet?

Pierre dit Briard's younger son Martin dit Briard dit Labrière, born probably at Port-Royal in c1661, married Jeanne-Marie or Marie-Jeanne Kagigconiac, a Mi'kmaw, in c1684 probably at La Hève, which for decades had been a Mi'kmaq and Métis community.  Between 1685 and 1963, Jeanne-Marie gave Martin Labrière five children, three sons and two daughters.  Martin Labrière remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean Gaudet and Jeanne Henry, in c1699 and settled at Minas before moving to Port-Maltais near La Hève, where they were counted in 1708.  Between 1700 and 1719, Marie gave Martin Labrière seven more children, fives sons and two daughters, including a set of twins.  Martin Labrière remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie Arnault or Renaud dit Grislard, widow of Jacques Carne, at Grand-Pré in October 1729.  She gave him no more children, so Labrière fathered a dozen children by his first two wives, eight sons and four daughters.  Two of his daughters married into the Labauve and Viger families.  Four of his eight sons also created families of their own.   

Oldest son Claude dit Briard, by first wife Jeanne-Marie Kagigconiac, born probably at La Hève in c1685, married Anne-Marie, another daughter of Jean Gaudet and Jeanne Henry, at Port-Royal in September 1705 and settled at Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1706 and 1719, Anne-Marie gave Claude two daughters.  He died probably at Pigiguit in November 1725, in his late 30s.  His daughters married into the Benoit and Roy families.  Arsenault says Claude and Anne-Marie also had a son, Eustache, but White, followed here, says that Eustache was Claude's younger brother, not his son. 

Martin Labrière's second Germain, by first wife Jeanne-Marie Kagigconiac, born probably at La Hève in c1689, was counted there with his family in 1708, age 19.  Stephen A. White offers no marriage for him.  Bona Arsenault confuses this Germain with his younger first cousin of the same name. 

Martin Labrière's third son Bernard, by by first wife Jeanne-Marie Kagigconiac, born probably at La Hève in c1693, was counted there with his family in 1708, age 15.  According to Bona Arsenault, Bernard married Isabelle Saulnier in c1720, place unrecorded.  Stephen A. White says nothing of the marriage. 

Labrière's fourth son Théodore, by second wife Marie Gaudet, born probably at La Hève in c1700, married ____, daughter of Jean Landry and Cécile Melanson, in c1721 and died by c1752, in his early 50s.   

Labrière's fifth son Paul dit Briard, a twin, by second wife Marie Gaudet, born at Port-Royal in October 1702, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Benoit le jeune and Élisabeth LeJuge, in c1724 and settled at Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1752, Marie gave Paul 10 children, four sons and six daughters.  Other records may give them another son--perhaps 11 children in all.  They followed relatives to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale.  Their oldest daughter may have married into the LeRoy family there.  In April 1752, a French official counted them there with nine children, three sons and six daughters.  His oldest son already had married and was counted with his family near them.  In 1754, Paul, Marie, and some of their younger children may have followed his oldest son to Halifax by boat, settled with them at Mirliguèche near Lunenburg on the Atlantic coast south of Halifax, was imprisoned with them on Georges Island, Halifax, in September 1755, and deported to North Carolina aboard the sloop Providence the following December.  Members of the family, perhaps including Paul and Marie, moved from North Carolina to Pennsylvania in c1760.  Some moved on to Maryland by July 1763.  Paul dit Briard died in exile by 1761, perhaps in Pennsylvania or Maryland, in his late 50s.  At least three of his daughters were deported to France probably from Île Royale in 1758-59.  One lost her entire family--her husband and six children--in the crossing, remarried to a LaRoque in France, and gave him many children.  Another married into the Morland family at Rochefort in July 1763 and followed him to French Guiane soon afterward.  Her sister also ventured to the South American colony and married into the Rigaud family at Sinnamary in August 1767.  One, perhaps two, of Paul dit Briard's sons created their own families, and most of their children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Pigiguit in c1728, married Marguerite, daughter perhaps of Étienne Trahan and Marie-Françoise Roy of Pigiguit, probably at Pigiguit in c1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1750 and 1752 Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste two children, a son and a daughter.  Other records give them two more sons and another daughter between 1749 and 1756--five children, three sons and two daughters, in all.  In c1750, Jean-Baptiste, Marguerite, and their two sons followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, where, in April 1752, a French official counted the couple, their two sons, and a infant daughter.  In 1754, Jean-Baptiste followed some of his relatives back to Halifax by boat and, on the governor's insistence, settled with them at Mirliguèche near Lunenburg on the Atlantic coast near Halifax.  In September 1755, in the first weeks of Le Grand Dérangement, the British imprisoned them on Georges Island, Halifax, and deported them to North Carolina aboard the sloop Providence in December.  In c1760, the war still on, they moved to Maryland.  Two, perhaps three, of their children, called orphans, were counted with Breau and Trahan families at Port Tobacco, Maryland, in July 1763, so Jean-Baptiste and Marguerite had died by then.  Five of their children, three sons and two daughters, followed relatives to Spanish Louisiana from Port Tobacco in 1769.  Their British vessel, the Britannia, missed the mouth of the Mississippi and grounded on the Texas coast.  Spanish forces arrested them, held them at the nearby presidio of La Bahia, and they were released to walk to Natchitoches, Louisiana, after being held for several months.  They reached Natchitoches in October 1769, minas 13-year-old sister Nanette, who remained at the Spanish mission at El Orcoquisac, near today's Liberty, Texas, on the road to Natchitoches.  Older daughter Marguerite married into the Croque, Crook, or Crooks family there on the Red River.  She, her husband, and her three brothers followed relatives to the Acadian Coast, where the middle brother married in the early 1770s.  Later in the decade, he and his three siblings followed relatives to the Opelousas District, where all four of the orphans settled.  Only one of the three sons married a fellow Acadian, not unusual for Acadians who settled in the Opelousas region, and two of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, called Jean, born probalby at Pigiguit in c1749, followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, and was counted with them there in April 1752.  He followed his family to Halifax and Mirliguèche, to the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax, to North Carolina, Maryland, the coast of Texas, Natchitoches, the Acadian Coast, and the Opelousas prairies.  At age 30, he married Isabelle Outré at Avoyelles or Opelousas in c1779.  His family line did not endure. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's second son Blaise, born probably at Pigiguit in c1750, followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, and was counted with them there in April 1752.  He followed them to Halifax, Mirliguèche, to the prison compound on Georges Island, Halifax, to North Carolina, Maryland, the coast of Texas, Natchitoches, and the Acadian Coast.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Breau and Marguerite Gautrot of San Gabriel, at nearby Ascension in November 1773.  Later in the decade, he followed his relatives to the Opelouas prairies.  Bayou Blaise Lejeune is named for him.  His daughters married into the Doucet and Trahan families.  Four of his five sons married into the Quintero, Bock, Janise, and Carrière families and created vigorous lines on the southwest prairies. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's third and youngest son Joseph, born in North Carolina in c1756, perhaps a twin of sister Nanette, followed his family to Maryland, the coast of Texas, Natchitoches, the Acadian Coast, and the Opelousas District.  He married Perrine dit Patsy, daughter of Gilbert Hayes and Jeanne Jackson of Carolina, at Opelousas in c1782.  They settled on the southwest prairies near his older brothers.  Joseph, at age 66, remarried to Marie or Mary, daughter of Michel Ritter and Marie Louise Stelly and widow of Jean Teller or Taylor, in St. Landry Parish in May 1822, and sanctified the marriage at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in October 1843.  Perhaps under the influence of his wives, by the 1820s Joseph had anglicized his surname to Young.  He died in St. Landry Parish in October 1847.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Joseph died at age 110, but he was 91.  His daughters, all by first wife Patsy, married into the Barton, Bechum, Bihm, Lacombe, Ortega or Ortego, Prudhomme, and Reed families.  Five of his six sons, all by first wife Patsy, married into the Ritter, Bihm, Fontenot, and Prudhomme families, and most of them, like their sisters, called themselves Young. 

Paul dit Briard's putative second son Amand, was born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1730.  If he was Paul dit Briard's son, he did not follow his family to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale.  He remained, instead, at Pigiguit, and married Anastasie, 18-year-old daughter of Jean-Baptiste Levron and Françoise Labauve of Minas, at Minas or Pigiguit in c1755.  Soon after the marriage, the British deported them to Virginia, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  The British held them at Liverpool.  Between 1756 and 1763, Anastasie gave Amand at least two sons.  They were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763 and settled in St.-Martin des Champs Parish.  They did not follow other Acadians exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in November 1765.  Between 1764 and 1773, in St.-Martin Parish, Anastasie gave Amand four more children, two more sons and two daughters.  Amand took his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Between 1776 and 1783, in St.-Jacques Parish and at nearby Chantenay, Anastasie gave Amand three more daughters--nine children, four sons and five daughters.  One of the daughters did not survive childhood.  Amand's oldest son married at Nantes.  Amand died at Chantenay in May 1784, in his early 50s.  The following year, his widow Anastasie, who never remarried, six of her and Amand's unmarried children, two sons and four daughters, and her married son and his wife emigrated to Spanish Louisiana on two of the Seven Ships.  Her third son Pierre-Paul, who would have been age 21 if he was still living, did not follow them to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Anastasie and her children, including her married son, followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Three of Anastasie's Lejeune daughters married into the Menou or Menous, Chiasson, and Trahan families on the upper bayou.  Her two younger Lejeune sons also married and settled on the Lafourche. 

Oldest son Jean, born at Liverpool, England in c1756, followed his family to Morlaix, Poitou, and Nantes, where he married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Félix Boudrot and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, in St.-Nicolas Parish in November 1782.  In 1785, they emigrated to Spanish Louisiana and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  They were that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  Jean died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1824, in his late 60s. 

Amand's second son Joseph, born at Liverpool in c1763, followed his family to Morlaix, Poitou, and Nantes, and his widowed mother and siblings to Spanish Louisiana.  He married Bonne-Marie-Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Germain Landry and Cécile Chênet dit La Garenne, at New Orleans in November 1785, soon after they reached the colony on the same ship.  They settled near their families on upper Bayou Lafourche.  At age 35, Joseph remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Lebert and Madeleine Lapierre and widow of Pierre-Janvier Guidry, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in September 1798.  A succession in Joseph's name, not post-mortem, had been filed in what became the Thibodauxville courthouse, Interior Parish, in August 1798.  Joseph died in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1825, in his early 60s.  His daughters, by first wife Bonne-Marie, married into the Daigle and Levron families.  Two of his three sons also married, into the Thibodeaux and Ledet families on the Lafourche. 

Amand's fourth and youngest son Alexis-Simon, born at Morlaix, France, in March 1773, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and siblings to Spanish Louisiana.  He married Françoise-Barbe, called Barbe, daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Trahan and his first wife Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc and sister of one of his sister's husbands, at Assumption in January 1794.  They lived on the upper Lafourche near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes before moving down bayou to Lafourche Interior Parish.  Alexis died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1835, age 62.  His successions were filed at the Thibodauxville and Houma courthouses in December 1835 and September 1836, so he may have owned property in Terrebonne Parish as well as Lafourche Interior.  His daughters married into the Hébert, LeBlanc, Molaison, Pontiff, and Thibodeaux families.  Four of his six sons also married, into the LeBlanc, Bernard, Doucet, and Baudoin families on the Lafourche. 

Labrière's sixth son Martin, Paul's twin, by second wife Marie Gaudet, was living with his family at Port-Maltais on the Atlantic coast in 1705 and was counted with them at La Hève in 1708, age 6.  According to Bona Arsenault, he settled near his brother Paul at Pigiguit and married Marie Renaud at Grand-Pré in October 1729.  Stephen A. White says nothing of the marriage.  Were they still living in 1755?    

Labrière's seventh son Eustache dit Briard, by second wife Marie Gaudet, born at Minas in August 1715, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Jacques Barrieau and Anne-Marie Turpin, in c1747 probaby at Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and1760, Marie-Anne gave Eustache five children, three daughters and two sons.  In c1749, they followed Marie-Anne's family to Île Madame off the southeast coast of Île Royale, where Eustache worked as a coaster.  A French official counted him, Marie-Anne, and two daughters at Point à Jacob on the north side of Île Madame in late February 1752.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758.  Eustache died probably in exile by 1760, in his early 40s.  His three daughters married into the Martin dit Barnabé and Vienneau families, two of them on Rivière St.-Jean in what became New Brunswick in 1768.  Both of his sons also married, one of them in Canada.

Older son Joseph, born probably on Île Madame in c1755, followed his family into exile.  He married Marie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Massier and Marie Poirier, at Québec in June 1780.  According to Bona Arsenault, Joseph was the ancestor of the Lejeunes of Petit-Rocher and Rivière-des-Ormes in today's northeastern New Brunswick. 

Eustache's younger son Louis dit Louison, born in c1758 either on Île Madame or in exile, married Marguerite Marquis dit Clermont in c1782, place unrecorded, perhaps in Canada. 

Labrière's eighth and youngest son Pierre, by second wife Marie Gaudet, born probably at Minas in c1719, died there in September 1736, age 17.364

Savoie

François Savoie, a late 1640s arrival, and his wife Catherine Lejeune created a large family in the colony.  Between 1652 and 1670, Catherine gave him nine children, six daughters and three sons.  Their daughters married into the Corporon, Triel dit Laperrière, Pellerin, Levron dit Nantois, Préjean dit Le Breton, and Chiasson families.  Only François's oldest son created a family of his own.  Most of François and Catherine's descendants remained at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but they settled also at Minas, Chepoudy, and in the French Maritimes.  At least 14 of their descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  More of them could be found in greater Acadia, the French Antilles, France, and especially in Canada after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Germain, born at Port-Royal in c1654, married Marie, daughter of Vincent Breau dit Vincelotte and Marie Bourg, at Port-Royal in c1678.  Between 1682 and 1709, Marie gave François a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters.  Germain died in December 1729, in his mid-70s, probably at Annapolis Royal.  Marie, who did not remarry, died at Annapolis Royal in October 1749, in her late 80s.  Three of their daughters married into the Blanchard, Babineau dit Deslauriers, and Poirier families.  Five of Germain's sons also created their own families.   

Oldest son Germain, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1682, married Geneviève, daughter of Nicolas Babineau and Marie-Marguerite Granger, at Port-Royal in January 1709.  Between 1710 and 1738, Geneviève gave Germain, fils 10 children, six sons and four daughters.  Three of their daughters married into the Dupuis, Pellerin, and Lanoue families.  Five of Germain, fils's six sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Jean dit Djanne, born at Port-Royal in February 1710, married Anne, daughter of Charles Landry and Catherine-Josèphe Broussard, at Annapolis Royal in August 1735 and settled at Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1739 and 1742, Anne gave Djanne two children, a son and a daughter.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada or on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Djanne died before June 1791, in his late 70s or early 80s, place unrecorded.  His daughter married into the Cormier family, place and date unrecorded, but it most likely was in northeastern New Brunswick in c1764.  Did Djanne's son Pierre-Paul also marry? 

Germain, fils's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1712, married Marguerite, daughter of Guillaume Blanchard and Jeanne Dupuis, at Annapolis Royal in May 1737.  What happened to them in 1755? 

Germain, fils's third son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1714, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Martin and Jeanne Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in February 1738.  Bona Arsenault says the British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Oddly, a Pierre Scavoy, wife Marie Scavoy, and three unnamed children appeared on a French repatriation list in Pennsylvania in June 1763; Stephen A. White says this was them.  Had they been allowed to move to the Quaker Colony in the late 1750s or early 1760s?  What became of them after the counting?  Did they remain in Pennsylvania? 

Germain, fils's fourth son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1717, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Bourg and Louise Robichaud, at Annapolis Royal in February 1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1752, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph four children, two daughters and two sons.  One wonders what happened to the family in the fall of 1755.  Joseph died before October 1760, in his late 30s or early 40s, place not given. 

Germain, fils's fifth son François, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1724, died there in June 1734, age 9. 

Germain, fils's sixth and youngest son Amand-Grégoire, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1727, married Jeanne-Victoire, another daughter Guillaume Blanchard and Jeanne Dupuis, at Annapolis Royal in February 1749.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1754, Jeanne-Victoire gave Amand-Grégoire four sons.  The British deported the family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  Amand, Victoire, and sons Joseph and Marin appeared on a French repatriation list in the southern colony in August 1763.  One wonders what happened to them after the counting.  Did they remain in South Carolina?  Did they follow other Acadian exiles from the seaboard colonies to French St.-Domingue?  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. 

Germain, père's second son François le jeune, born at Port-Royal in c1684, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Alexandre Richard and Isabelle Petitpas, at Port-Royal in November 1707.  They moved on to Minas in the early 1720s.  Between 1709 and the late 1720s, Marie-Josèphe gave François le jeune 13 children, six daughters and seven sons, including a set of twins.  Five of their daughters married into the Arseneau, Comeau, Hébert dit Manuel, and Thibodeau families.  All seven of François's sons created families of their own.  Two of them emigrated to Louisiana in 1765. 

Oldest son François, fils, born at Port-Royal in November 1710, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Thibodeau and Françoise Comeau, in c1736, place not given by Stephen A. White.  Bona Arsenault says they married in c1734 at Chepoudy.  According to Arsenault, between 1735 and 1754, Marguerite gave François, fils four sons.  The family escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Marguerite gave Françoise, fils a daughter in c1756 probaby at Québec.  François, fils died before August 1762, place not given, but it likely was in Canada.  Three of his four sons created families there and in greater Acadia.

Putative oldest son Joseph-André, born perhaps at Chepoudy in c1735, followed his family to Canada.  He married Thérèse, daughter of fellow Acdians Pierre Arbour and Susanne Moreau of Île St.-Jean, in c1756 probably in Canada, where her family had resettled before Le Grand Dérangement.  They were at St.-Charles de Bellechasse across from Québec City the following year.  According to Bonas Arsenault, between 1757 and 1771, Thérèse gave Joseph-André six daughters.  British officials counted them on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758 and 1771, so they had moved back to greater Acadia during the war. 

François, fils's second son Simon, born at Chepoudy in c1739, followed his family to Canada.  He married Louise, daughter of Michel LeMaître and Élisabeth Trotter, at Rivière-du-Loup, today's Louiseville, on the north shore of Lac-St.-Pierre above Trois-Rivières, in August 1762. 

François, fils's third son Joseph, born at Chepoudy in c1752, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Josèphe-Marguerite, daughter of Jean Marcoux and Marie-Josèphe Lemieux, at Berthier-en-Haute, today's Berthierville, on the upper St. Lawrence northeast of Montréal, date unrecorded.

François, père's second son Jean-Baptiste, a twin, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1715, married Marie, daughter of Michel Haché and Madeleine LeBlanc, at Beaubassin in August 1734 and settled near his brother at Chepoudy.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1752, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste six children, four daughters and two sons.  The family escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada, where French officials counted them in 1756.  Jean-Baptiste died at St.-Cuthbert on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Montréal in December 1787, age 72.  One of his daughters married into the Robert family, place not given.  Two of his sons married where their parents had taken them. 

Older son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at Chepoudy in c1748, followed his family to Canada.  He married Geneviève, daughter of Pierre Lebeau and Geneviève Brisset, at Île Supas near St.-Cuthbert in June 1771. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's younger son Pierre, born at Chepoudy in c1752, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Louise, daughter of Louis Paquin and Marie-Josèphe Lesieur, at St.-Cuthbert in March 1772.

François, père's third son Honoré, Jean-Baptiste's twin, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1715, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Joseph Comeau and Marie Roy, in c1738 probably at Annapolis Royal and followed his older brothers to Chepoudy.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1742, Anne-Marie gave Honoré three children, two daughters and a son.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  In his late 40s, Honoré remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Canadians Pierre Arcand and Véronique Cochon and widow of Paul Paquin, at Deschambault on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec City and Trois-Rivières in February 1764.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Honoré died at Deschambault in September 1797, age 82.  One of his daughters married into the Moraud family at distant Berthier-en-Haut near Montréal, but his son remained where his parents had taken him.

Only son François le jeune, born at Chepoudy in c1741, followed his family to Canada.  He married Geneviève, daughter of Paul Paquin and Marie-Josèphe Arcand, at Deschambault in November 1767. 

François, père's fourth son Charles dit Jean-Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1721, married in c1746 a woman whose name has been lost to history.  Charles remarried to cousin Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Richard and Marie-Madeleine Girouard and widow of Pierre Forest, probaby at Annapolis Royal in c1752.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawreence shore, where Charles again became a widower.  He remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Judith, daughter of Claude Arseneau and Marguerite Richard, of Malpèque, Île St.-Jean, at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in January 1761, after the French garrison there had surrendered to a British force from Québec the previous October.  Soon after their marriage, the couple either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  In August 1763, Cherl Savois, his wife, and three children, one of them a Desroches nephew Judith had raised from infancy, appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax near Charles's younger brother Joseph and his family.  Judith gave Charles a son there probably just before the counting.  In 1764-65, Charles, Judith, their son, and their nephew followed other exiles at Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, St.-Dominguie, and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1769 and 1780, Judith gave Charles nine more children, six sons and three daughters, including two sets of twins--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, in all.  Spanish authorities counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in 1766, 1769, and 1777.  In the late 1780s or early 1790s, the family joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, establishing a new center of Savoie family settlement there.  Charles died on the Lafourche by December 1795, in his early 70s, when his wife was listed in a Valenzuela District census without a husband.  She did not remarry.  Their daughters married into the Bourgeois and Broussard families on the bayou and the prairies.  Five of Charles's sons also married, into the Landry, Bourgeois, Bergeron, Rome, and Duhon families.  One son settled on lower Bayou Teche, two returned to the river, and the other two remained in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley. 

François, père's fifth son Simon dit Saint-Sauveur, born at Minas in August 1723, married Anastasie-Françoise, called Françoise, another daughter of Charles Thibodeau and Françoise Comeau, in c1745, place unrecorded.  They, too, escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and followed other exiles to Canada.  According to Stephen A. White, Simon remarried to Angélique, daughter of Canadians Jacques Delinel and Marie-Louise Saintonge, at St.-Sulpice on the upper St. Lawrence northeast of Montréal in January 1761.  Angélique gave Simon a son in c1763, though Bona Arsenault attributes the child to first wife Anastasie, not recognizing Simon's second marriage.  Simon died at Berthier-en-Haut northeast of Montréal in December 1795, age 72.  His son created a family of his own.

Only son Michel, by second wife Angélique Delinel, born in Canada in c1763, married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Ignace Avard and Marie-Louise Beaucher, in Ste.-Famille Parish, île d'Orléans below Québec City, in 1784. 

François, père's sixth son Joseph, born at Minas in June 1727, married, according to Stephen A. White, Anne, daughter of Joseph Préjean and Marie-Louise Comeau, in c1758, no place given, but it probably was during exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Joseph a daughter in 1759.  They may have taken refuge in the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  The British attacked Restigouche in July 1760, and another British force accepted the garrison's surrender the following October.  A Joseph Savoye with a family of four appears on a 24 October 1760 list of 1,003 Acadians surrendered with the garrison; this may have been Joseph à François.  The British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, Joseph, Anne, and two children appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax near his older brother Charles and his family.  Joseph, Anne, and their daughter, now age 5, followed Charles and his family from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1764-65.  Anne was pregnant on the voyage and gave birth to a son either aboard ship or at New Orleans soon after their arrival.  They followed Charles and his family to Cabahanncoer, where Anne gave Joseph another son in November 1766.  Joseph died by December 1767, in his late 30s, when Anne remarried to an Hébert at Cabahannocer.  Their older son married into the Landry family and followed his uncle Charles to upper Bayou Lafourche. 

François, père's seventh and youngest son Pierre, born probaby at Minas in the late 1720s, married Anne-Félicité, called Félicité, daughter of Jean Lord and Marie-Madeleine Comeau of Chepoudy, in c1756 while in exile, perhaps in Canada.  According to Bona Arsenault, Félicité gave Pierre a daughter in 1759, place unrecorded.  Pierre remarried to Anne, daughter of Claude Melanson and Marguerite Babineau, at Charlesbourg below Québec in July 1761.  One wonders where they settled after the war ended. 

Germain, père's third son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1690, died on the upper river at Port-Royal in November 1710, age 20.  He did not marry. 

Germain, père's fourth son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1692, married Marie, daughter of Jean Dupuis and Anne Richard, at Annapolis Royal in November 1718.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1719 and 1729, Marie gave Jean five children, two sons and three daughters.  Jean remarried to Ursule, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau le jeune and Anne-Marie Aucoin, in c1745, probably at Annapolis Royal.  Both of Jean's sons by his first wife married.  Daughter Marie, by his second wife, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in the mid-or late 1760s and married into the Jacquet/Nieto and Alvarez families there.  None of Jean's other descendants emigrated to Louisiana. 

Older son Jean-Baptiste or Jean dit Jane, by first wife Marie Dupuis, born at Annapolis Royal in c1719, married Marie, daughter of François Bastarache and Agnès Labauve, in c1742, no place given, and settled in the trois-rivères area west of Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1760, Marie gave Jean six children, five sons and a daughter.  They evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they may have surrendered to, or been captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  After the war, they returned to the Gulf shore and settled at Bouctouche and Négouc in what became eastern New Brunswick.  Their daughter married into the Allain family at Miramichi there in 1786.  All of Jean dit Jane's sons also settled in the area.

Oldest son Pierre dit Au Fils, born probably in the trois-rivières in c1743, followed his family into exile.  He married fellow Acadian Marie Bujeau in c1765, place not given, and settled at Néguac, where he died in January 1806, in his early 60s. 

Jean dit Jane's second son Joseph, born probably in the trois-rivières in c1745, followed his family into exile.  He married fellow Acadian Marguerite Bujeau in c1767, no place given, and settled at Néguac, where he died in Januaru 1810, in his mid-60s. 

Jean dit Jane's third son François, born probably in the trois-rivières in c1748, followed his family into exile.  He married fellow Acadian Anne Poirier in c1770, no place given, and settled at Néguac. 

Jean dit Jane's fourth son Amand, born probably in the trois-rivières in c1750, followed his family into exile.  He married fellow Acadian Anastasie Breau in c1774, no place given, and settled at Pointe-du-Chéne down the shore from Néguac. 

Jean dit Jane's fifth and youngest son Jean, fils, born probably in the trois-rivières in c1755, followed his family into exile.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Allain and Anne Léger, in c1780, no place given, and settled at Bouctouche. 

Jean's younger son Pierre, by fist wife Marie Dupuis, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1727, married Élisabeth Thibodeau in c1750, place not given.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Germain, père's fifth son Paul, born at Port-Royal in c1696, married Judith, daughter of Jacques Michel and Catherine Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in November 1722 and moved on to Chepoudy.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1741, Judith gave Paul seven children, four daughters and three sons.  Stephen White says she gave him five daughters and two sons between 1723 and 1743.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Paul died before July 1772, in his 70s, place not given.  According to Arsenault, at least two of his sons married, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana in 1765.  Stephen White says only the younger of Paul's two sons went to Louisiana. 

Oldest son François-Joseph, born probably at Chepoudy in c1730, married Anne Aucoin, place and date not given. They evidently followed his family into exile, during which he lost his wife.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1765, now a middle-aged widower, François followed other exiles from Halfiax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  In one of the earliest Acadian marriages in colonial Louisiana, François, at age 35, remarried to fellow Acadian Marie Landry of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, widow of Joseph Bourque, at New Orleans in July 1765.  She evidently died soon after the marriage, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth, and François remarried again--his third marriage--to fellow Acadian Anne Thibodeau at Cabahannocer in October 1766.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1767 and 1768, this Anne gave François two children, a daughter and a son.  They moved to the Attakapas District, where Anne soon died.  In his late 30s, François remarried yet again--his fourth marriage--to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Ambroise Martin dit Barnabé and his second wife Madeleine dite Émilienne Comeaux of Chignecto, at Attakapas in August 1769.  According to Arsenault, between 1770 and 1780, Marie-Jeanne gave François six more children, three sons and three daughters--eight children, four daughters and four sons, by two wives.  François died at Attakapas in December 1780, age 50.  His daughters by both wives married into the Benoit, Guidry, Gilchrist, LeBlanc, and Prejean.  Three of his sons also married, into the Potier, Cormier, Blanchard, Breaux, and Guilbeau families, one of them three times.  They all remained on the prairies.  (Stephen White does not place François-Joseph with this family line.) 

Paul's second son Charles, born probably at Chepoudy in c1732, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Anne Thibodeau in c1754, no place given, but it probably was in the trois-rivières.  According to Arsenault, Anne gave Charles a daughter in 1754.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Arsenault insists that Charles and his wife emigrated to Louisiana with his brothers in 1785, but Louisiana records say otherwise.  (Stephen White does not place Charles with this family.) 

Paul's third and youngest son Pierre, born at Chignecto (Arsenault says Chepoudy) in June 1741, followed his family into exile, into captivity, and to Louisiana in 1765, but he did not settle near his older brother at Cabahannocer (because, according to Stephen A. White, Pierre had no older brothers named François-Joseph and Charles).  He followed two married sisters to Opelousas instead.  In April 1766, a Spanish official noted that Pierre, still a bachelor, was in Courtableau's Company of Opelousas milita.  He was still at Opelousas in 1771, still unmarried, living with brother-in-law Charles Comeaux, also of Chepoudy, and his younger sister Anastasie.  In his early 30s, Pierre married Louise dit Lise, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bourg and Anne Boudreaux, probably at Opelousas in July 1772; Opelousas would not get its own church until 1776, so the marriage was recorded by the priest from Pointe Coupée, who acted as a missonary to the district.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1775 and 1787, Louise gave Pierre six children, five daughters and a son.  Other records give them another son in c1774, seven children in all.  Pierre owned four slaves, ran 60 head of cattle, and owned a dozen horses and 20 hogs in 1785.  Though still a resident of Opelousas, Pierre died at San Gabriel on the river in March 1788, age 47, and was buried there.  His death was certified by the Opelousas priest later in the month, and his succession was recorded at Opelousas in May.  His daughters married into the David, Dupré, Guidry, and Richard families.  Both of his sons married, into the Babin and Comeaux families, but only one of the lines endured.  (Stephen White places Pierre in this family line as the younger son of two, the first, whose name has been lost, having died in the early 1750s.) 

Germain, père's sixth son Claude, born at Port-Royal in c1698, died at Annapolis Royal in May 1728, in his late 20s.  He did not marry.   

Germain, père's seventh and youngest son Charles, born at Port-Royal in May 1703, married Françoise, daughter of Étienne Martin and Marie-Jeanne Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1730.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1752, Françoise gave Charles 10 children, seven daughters and three sons.  The British deported most of the family to New York in the fall of 1755.  After a harrowing voyage aboard the transport Experiment, which was driven by a storm to Antigua, the ship finally reached Manhattan in early May 1756.  Colonial officials promptly sent Charles, his wife, and eight children to New Rochelle, Westchester County, north of Manhattan.  Meanwhile, daughter Félicité may have married into the Hébert family at Pobomcoup in the mid- or late 1750s, before Le Grand Dérangement, was captured by the British in a raid on Cap-Sable in the spring of 1759, held on Georges Island, Halifax, deported to Cherbourg, France, later in the year, and died in the Breton port in March 1760, in her mid-20s.  Charles's daughter Marguerite, still in her teens, and his youngest son, despite his tender age, evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755 and followed relatives into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and ended up in a prison compound in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  Marguerite became the second wife of Joseph-Grégoire dit Petit Jos Broussard, oldest surviving son of resistance leader Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil, probably at Halifax in c1763.  Meanwhile, Charles died in New York before 1763, probably in his late 50s, when his widow Françoise and eight of their children appeared on a French repatriation list in the colony.  One of Charles's younger daughters, Ludivine dite Divine, likely followed her family from New York to French Martinique soon after the counting and married into the Man family at St.-Pierre on the island in November 1770, age 18.  One of her older brothers also may have gone to the French island.  Sister Marguerite and their youngest brother emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1764-65 with her Broussard in-laws. 

Second son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1747, according to Bona Arsenault, followed his family to Antigua and New York and may have followed members of his family to Martinique in the early 1760s.  A Joseph Savoie "of Acadie" died at St.-Pierre on the island in November 1764, age 20.  The priest who recorded the burial did not give the young Acadians' parents' names.  Joseph à Charles, following Arsenault's birth year, would have been age 17 at the time of his death. 

Charles's third and youngest son Jean dit Valois, born at Annapolis Royal in c1749 or 1750, despite his young age, escaped the roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, perhaps with older sister Marguerite, who later married a Beausoleil Broussard.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, he and whoever was watching over him--likely his sister--either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  He may have been the Jean Savoie counted at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in August 1762 with no one else in his household, but he likely was too young to be on his own at that time.  In 1764-65, he followed other Acadian exiles, including his older sister and a dozen other Savoies, from Nova Scotia to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled with Savoie cousins from Annapolis Royal at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans while his sister followed her Broussard husband to Bayou Teche.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre-Paul Boutin and his first wife Ursule Guidry, at Ascension on the river above Cabahannocer in November 1773 and followed her family to Opelousas, where he settled near Savoie cousins from Chepoudy.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1774 and 1792, Marguerite gave Jean 10 children, eight daughters and two sons.  In 1796, in the Grand Coteau area at the southern edge of the Opelousas District, Jean owned six slaves.  He died in the district in October 1803, in his early 50s.  His succession was recorded at Opelousas the following March.  His daughters married into the Andrus, Caruthers, Inogoso, Leger, Meche, Peck, Smith, and Venable families.  His son married into the Stelly and Prejean families at Opelousas. 

Francois's second Francois, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1663, probably died young.

François's third and youngest son Barnabé, born at Port-Royal in c1665, also probably died in childhood.343

Breau

Vincent Breau, a c1652 arrival, and his wife Marie Bourg created a large extended family in the colony.  Between 1662 and 1685, Marie gave Vincent a dozen children, six sons and six daughters.  Four of their daughters married into the Savoie, Gaudet, Lebert dit Jolycoeur, and Saulnier families.  Five of Vincent's six sons created their own families.  His and Marie's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also at Minas, Pigiguit, and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin, and in the French Maritimes.  At least 95 of Vincent's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, Maryland in the late 1760s, and France in 1785.  A substantial number of them, perhaps the majority, also could be found in Canada, greater Acadia, France, and New England after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Antoine, born at Port-Royal in c1666, married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Babin and Marie Mercier, probably at Port-Royal in c1687 and settled at Minas and Pigiguit.  Between 1688 and the late 1720s, Marguerite gave Antoine 11 children, five sons and six daughters.  Five of their daughters married into the Benoit, Blanchard, Darois, and Arseneau families.  All five of Antoine's sons created their own families.   

Oldest son Antoine, fils, born probably at Minas in c1688, married Marguerite, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Jeanne Guilbeau, at Grand-Pré in November 1710 and settled at Pigiguit before moving on to Cobeguit.  According to genealogist Stephen A. White, between 1712 and 1734, Marguerite gave Antoine, fils 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  Other records give them two more sons.  Two of their daughters married into the Aucon, Guilbeau, and Bourg families.  All of Antoine, fils's sons, however many there were, created their own families. 

Oldest son Joseph l'aîné, born at Minas or Pigiguit in c1712, married Ursule, daughter of Jean Bourg and Marie-Catherine Barrieau, in c1735 probably at Cobeguit.  According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1756, Ursule gave Joseph 13 children, three sons and nine daughters.  The family moved to Île St.-Jean in 1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Joseph, Ursule, and 10 of their daughters at Rivière-de-l'Ouest on the south side of the island.  The British deported most of the family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Wife Ursule and youngest son Simon-Joseph, age 2, did not survive the crossing aboard one of the so-called Five Ships.  Joseph settled at Pleurtuit and St.-Suliac, on both sides of the river south of St.-Malo, and was still at St.-Suliac in 1772.  A decade later, Joseph, now an invalid, was living with other Acadians in the lower Loire port of Nantes.  He died there in May 1782, age 70.  Three of his younger daughters married into the Doiron, Pitre, Bourg, and Thériot families in France.  Along with his youngest surviving son, who also married in France, Joseph's younger daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Meanwhile, Joseph and Ursule's oldest daughter Marie-Josèphe and oldest son Joseph, fils, ages 22 and 20 in 1758, escaped the British roundup on Île St.-Jean.  Marie-Josèphe married into the LeBlanc famliy at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs and emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Joseph, fils also married at Restigouche, but he did not follow his siblings to the Spanish colony. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born probably at Cobeguit in c1738, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, though he was not counted with them on Rivière-de-l'Ouest in 1752.  He evidently escaped the British rounup on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He and older sister Marie-Josèphe moved on to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where Joseph, fils married Anne Arsenault in c1760.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Pierre, fils a daughter named Rosalie, baptized at Restigouche in February 1761.  One wonders where they went after their daughter was baptized.  Into a prison compound in Nova Scotia?  Remained in the Restigouche area?  They did not go to Louisiana. 

Joseph l'aîné's second son Joseph-Gabriel, born probably on Rivière-de-l'Ouest, Île St.-Jean, in c1753, followed his family to St.-Malo, France, settled at nearby Pleurtuit and St.-Suliac, and worked as a sailor.  In his early 20s, he went to the interior of Poitou with hundreds of fellow Acadians from the port cities of France and remained in Poitou when most of the Acadians there retreated to the port city of Nantes in late 1775 and early 1776.  He married Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of André Templet and his first wife Marie Deveau of Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, at Archigny, Poitou, in September 1777.  Between 1778 and 1781, at Archigny, Marguerite gave Joseph-Gabriel three children, two sons and a daughter.  Soon after the birth of their third child, they joined other Acadians at Nantes and settled in St.-Nicolas Parish.  Their daughter died there in May 1782, age 1, and their younger son may have died there as well.  In 1783 and 1785, Marguerite gave Joseph-Gabriel two more daughters at Nantes, but the older one died an infant.  Joseph-Gabriel, Marguerite, and their two surviving children, son Joseph and daughter Eulalie, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  After following the most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, Marguerite gave Joseph-Gabriel more children, including another son.  Joseph-Gabriel died in St. James Parish on the river in August 1822, in his late 60s.  His daughters married into the LeBlanc, Richard, and Romagosa families.  His two sons married into the Daigle and Berteau families.  The older one remained on the upper Lafourche, and the younger son settled in St. James Parish. 

Antoine, fils's second son Antoine III, born at Cobeguit in May 1719, married Cécile, daughter of Pierre Bourg and Cécile Cormier, in c1743 probably at Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1757, Cécile gave Antoine III five children, two sons and three daughters.  The family moved to Île Royale in 1751.  In late March 1752, a French official counted Antoine III, Cécile, and four of their children at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse in the island's interior.  Arsenault says they moved to Île St.-Jean in 1757.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in 1758, with devastating results.  Only Antoine III and 12-year-old daughter Cécile survived the rigors of the crossing aboard the British transport Duc Guillaume.  Antoine III remarried to Marie, daughter of Joseph Dugas and Marie-Anne Hébert, at St.-Suliac, near St.-Malo, in April 1761.  She gave him another son, François-Xavier, at St.-Suliac in March 1762.  Daughter Cécile married into the Henry family at St.-Suliac and was the only member of her immediate family to emigrate to Spanish Louisiana. 

Antoine, fils's third son Alexis, born probably at Cobeguit in c1722 (not found with this family in Stephen White's genealogy), married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of René Guillot and Marguerite Doiron of Cobeguit, probably at Cobeguit in c1745.  Between 1746 and 1758, Marie gave Alexis six children, a son and five daughters.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Alexis, Marie, and four of their daughters at Grande-Anse on the island's south shore.  The British deported them, along with his youngest brother Joseph le jeune, to St.-Malo, France, aboard the British transport Supply in 1758-59.  Two of Alexis's children died at sea.  Wife Marie must have been pregnant on the voyage.  Daughter Élisabeth-Renée, born at Trigavou, on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, in May 1759, two months after their arrival, died 12 days after her birth.  Alexis and Marie remained at Trigavou, where, between 1759 and 1765, Marie gave him three more children, a son and two daughters--nine children in all.  Daughter Marie died at Trigavou in November 1764, age 15, and son Pierre died there in August 1767, age 5.  The family likely went to Poitou in the early 1770s and retreated to Nantes with other Poitou Acdians in 1775 or 1776.  Spanish officials counted the family at Nantes in September 1784.  With Alexis and Marie was only their youngest daughter Marguerite-Blanche, who would have been age 19.  Older daughter Madeleine had married into the Hébert family at Chantenay near Nantes in August 1781.  One wonders what happened to his older daughters Anne and Victoire, who had crossed with the family in 1758 and would have been ages 36 and 34 in 1784.  Alexis, Marie, and Marguerite-Blanche, along with Madeleine and her husband, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 aboard L'Amitié and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Alexis and Marie were still living on the upper bayou in January 1798, in their early 70s.  Daughter Marguerite-Blanche married into the Dantin family, remained on the Lafourche, and was one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join her ancestors.

Antoine, fils's fourth son Jean, born probably at Cobeguit in the early 1720s, married Madeleine Hébert dit Lebon in c1745 probably at Cobeguit.  Madeleine gave him a daughter, Marie-Madeleine, there in c1746.  Jean died perhaps at Cobeguit by 1751, age unrecorded.  Madeleine remarried to Charles Guédry in c1751.  They moved on to Île Royale, where, in March 1752, a French official counted Charles, Madeleine, her daughter Marie-Madeleine Breau, Madeleine and Charles's newborn daughter Marguerite Guédry, and four of his younger brothers at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse in the interior of the island.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Daughter Marie-Madeleine survived the crossing aboard the transport Supply and lived with her mother and stepfather at Bonnaban and Pleurtuit near St.-Malo.  She died at nearby St.-Suliac in February 1763, age 17, before she could marry.

Antoine, fils's fifth son Amand, born probably at Cobeguit in the mid-1720s, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hébert, in c1745.  Marie gave Amand a daughter, Marguerite, in c1746.  He died probably at Cobeguit before 1749.  Marie and Marguerite likely were among the Cobeguit Acadians who escaped the British in 1755 or 1756, crossed Mer Rouge, and found refuge on Île St.-Jean.  Widow Marie may have died on the island.  In 1758, daughter Marguerite was deported with her uncle Charles Breau, his wife, and their infant son to St.-Malo, France, aboard the British transport Duc Guillaume.  The crossing took its toll on the 12-year-old.  She was sent to the hospital at St.-Malo, where she lingered for 15 days before dying from the rigors of the crossing. 

Antoine, fils's sixth son Pierre, born probably at Cobeguit in c1726, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Guédry and Marguerite Brassaud of Cobeguit, probably at Cobeguit in c1751.  Soon after their marriage, they followed his older brother Antoine III to Île Royale and also were counted at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse in late March 1752.  Living with them was their newborn daughter, not yet named--perhaps Agnès--and his younger sister Marie-Josèphe.  According to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., Marguerite gave Pierre a son, Pierre, fils, on the island in c1754.  Bona Arsenault insists she also gave him a son named Jean-Charles in c1753, but Louisiana records reject this.  Pierre, père was killed during the British siege of Louisbourg in 1758, in his early 30s.  The British deported widow Marguerite and her children to France later in the year.  Daughter Agnès married into the Leprince family at Rochefort in August 1770.  Marguerite's son also created his own family in France. 

Pierre, fils, born at Port-Dauphin, Île Royale, in c1754, followed his widowed mother and siblings to France in 1758.  He became a sailor there and one of the first Acadians to reside in the port city of Nantes, in c1770.  He married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean La Garenne and Anne Potier, at St.-Martin de Chantenay, near Nantes, in August 1780, after hundreds of Acadians retreated to the port city from the interior of Poitou in late 1775 and early 1776.  When most of his fellow Acadians emigrated from France to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, Pierre, fils and his family did not follow.

Antoine, fils's seventh son Charles, born probably at Cobeguit in c1726, followed his oldest brother Joseph to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and was counted with Joseph and his family at Rivière-de-l'Ouest in August 1752.  Charles, at age 30, married Marguerite-Cécile, daughter of Jacques LeBlanc and Cécile Dupuis, probably on Île St.-Jean in c1756.  The British deported Charles, Marguerite, infant son Dominique, and his 12-year-old niece Marguerite Breau to St.-Malo, France, aboard the British transport Duc Guillaume in 1758.  Dominique died during the crossing.  Wife Marguerite was pregnant during the terrible crossing.  Daughter Jeanne-Françoise, born less than two weeks after the family reached the Breton port, died on November 16, three days after her birth.  Charles died at nearby St.-Servan in December, age 35, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Widow Marguerite remarried to widower André Templet and helped create another family, which she and her husband took to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Antoine, fils's eighth son Blaise, born probably at Cobeguit in the late 1720s or early 1730s, married in c1754 a woman whose name has been lost to history.  The following year, Blaise's wife gave him a son, François.  Late that summer, the family followed the rest of the Acadians at Cobeguit to Île St.-Jean.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Son François, age 3, died at sea.  One wonders what happened to the rest of the family. 

Antoine, fils's ninth and youngest son Joseph le jeune, born probably at Cobeguit in c1738 (not found with this family in Stephen White's genealogy), may have been among the Cobeguit Acadians who escaped the British in 1755 or 1756, crossed Mer Rouge, and found refuge on Île St.-Jean, where four of his older brothers had gone.  He was deported to France with brother Alexis and his family in 1758-59 aboard the British transport Supply.  Joseph le jeune did not linger at St.-Malo.  In December 1759, exactly nine months after his arrival, he shipped out on Le Duc de Choiseul, probably a privateer, but his life as a sailor was short-lived.  He died at Port-de-Paix, on the north coast of French St.-Domingue, today's Haiti, in November 1760, age 22. 

Antoine, père's second son Alexandre, born probably at Minas in the mid-1690s, married Marie, another daughter of Abraham Dugas and Jeanne Guilbeau and widow of René Landry, in c1716 (Bona Arsenault says c1720) probably at Pigiguit and settled there.  According to Arsenault, between 1725 and 1740, Marie gave Alexandre four sons, but other records give the couple a fifth son.  The British deported the family to Maryland in 1755.  Four of Alexandre's sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1766 and 1768. 

Oldest son Alexis, born at Pigiguit in c1724, married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Trahan and Madeleine Comeau, probably at Pigiguit in c1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1765, Madeleine gave Alexis six children, four sons and two daughters.  The British deported the family to Maryland in 1755.  They appeared on a French repatriation list at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in July 1763.  Alexis, with younger brother Honoré, led the third contingent of Acadian exiles from Maryland to Louisiana in 1767-68.  Spanish Governor Ulloa insisted that the party of 150 exiles settle at Fort San Luìs de Natchez on the Mississippi far above Baton Rouge, but the Breau brothers refused to go there.  Forced into hiding, the brothers and their families could only "watch" as the Spanish escorted the rest of their brethren to the distant post.  After a Creole-led rebellion overthrew Ulloa later in the year, Spanish Governor-General Alejandro O'Reilly allowed the Breaus and their party to settle where they wanted.  Alexis took his family to Cabahannocer, where brother Jean-Baptiste had settled two years earlier.  Alexis's younger daughter married into the Melanson family on the river.  All four of his sons, born at Pigiguit and in Maryland, married into the Breau and Melanson families on the river, three of them to Breau cousins.  One of them resettled in the Attakapas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin. 

Alexandre's second son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born at Pigiguit in c1725, married Élisabeth Henry probably at Pigiguit in the late 1730s.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1751, Élisabeth gave Baptiste three children, two sons and a daughter.  Other records give them two more children, another son and another daughter.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Marie-Rose, called Rose, Landry probably at Pigiguit in the late 1740s.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1759, Marie gave Baptiste at least three more children, a son and two daughters.  By 1755, oldest son Félix, who would have been age 16 that year, evidently had moved on to the French Maritimes.  The British deported the rest of the family to Maryland in 1755.  Baptiste, Rose, and seven children appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  Baptiste, Rose, and six of their children emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766 and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  A married daughter followed them to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  Baptiste's daughters from both wives married into the Breau and Broussard families, three of them to cousins, and perhaps into the Richard familly as well.  Two of Baptiste's three sons by both wives, including his wayward son Félix, married into the Thomas, Clouâtre, and Landry familes in France and Louisiana.  One son remained in France, but the other sons followed their parents to Louisiana, where neither of the lines endured.  One wonders if the line in France did. 

Oldest son Félix, by first wife Élisabeth Henry, born at Pigiguit in c1739, evidently moved on to the French Maritimes before 1755 and was deported to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  There, he became a sailor.  In December 1759, he shipped out on the privateer Le Duc de Choiseul and was back in port by late January 1760, when, at age 21, he married a local girl, 19-year-old Perrine, daughter of Joseph Thomas and Josseline Hyacinthe, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo.  Félix was soon back at sea, was captured by the Royal Navy, and held as a prisoner of war in England until May 1763.  He returned to his wife at St.-Servan, and, between 1764 and 1774, she gave him four children there, a daughter and three sons.  During that time, Félix was at sea aboard L'Aigle in 1765 and 1766, which took him with other Acadians from France to the Îles Moulines, today's Falkland Islands, but he did not settle with them there.  In 1774, back at St.-Servan, he turned landward and took his family to the interior of Poitou with hundreds of other exiles languishing in the coastal cities.  Like most of his fellow Acadians, Félix did not remain.  In November 1775, with other Poitou Acadians, he and his family retreated to the lower Loire port of Nantes, where Félix likely resumed the life of a sailor.  Between early 1776 and 1779, Perrine gave him three more daughters at nearby Chantenay--seven children, four daughters and three sons, between 1764 and 1779.  All of the younger daughters did not survive childhood.  The family returned to St.-Servan by September 1781, and Félix likely remained a sailor.  When most of the Acadians still living in France emigrated to Louisiana in 1785, Félix, despite having close family in the Spanish colony, chose to remain in the mother country.

Alexandre's third son Honoré, born at Pigiguit in c1731, married Anne-Madeleine Trahan at Pigiguit in the early 1750s.  The British deported them to Maryland in 1755.  They, too, appeared on a French repatriation lists at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in July 1763.  Honoré, with older brother Alexis, helped organize the third contingent of Acadian exiles who emigrated from Maryland to Louisiana in 1767-68.  He, too, defied Spanish Governor Ulloa and had to go into the hiding with his wife and children.  When Governor-General O'Reilly decreed in 1769 that they could settle wherever they chose, Honoré followed older brother Alexis to Cabahannocer, and there they remained.  He and Anne-Madeleine had taken three children, two daughters and a son, to the Spanish colony.  She gave him more daughters there.  Honoré's daughters married into the Quintero, Ququerier, and Simoneaux families.  His only son married into the Trahan family and joined the Acadian exodus from the river to Bayou Lafourche.  

Alexandre's fourth son Joseph-Charles, born at Pigiguit in c1734 (Bona Arsenault says c1728), married Marie-Josèphe Landry at Pigiguit in c1755.  The British deported them to Maryland later that year.  They also appeared on a repatriation list at Port Tobacco in July 1763.  They followed his older brothers Alexis and Honoré to Louisiana in 1767-68, lived for a time at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and resettled at San Gabriel on the river above Cabahannocer in 1769.  Their daughters married into the Comeaux, Hébert, Landry, and Melançon families.  All four of Joseph-Charles's sons, two of them born in Maryland, married into the Hamilton, Landry, Daigre, and Henry families.  One of Joseph-Charles's great-grandsons, Joseph Arsène Breaux of Iberia Parish, served as chief justice of the Louisiana State Supreme Court in the early 1900s.

Alexandre's fifth and youngest son Pierre le jeune, born at Pigiguit in c1740, likely followed his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, Pierre married Marguerite Guitry, probably Guidry, no place and date given.  Arsenault says she gave Pierre a daughter named Marie, no date of birth given.  If this couple existed, one wonders what happened to them after 1763. 

Antoine, père's third son Jean, born probably at Minas in c1699, married Anne, daughter of Charles Gautrot and Françoise Rimbault, in c1722 perhaps at Minas and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  Bona Arsenault insists that Jean was a son of Antoine's brother Pierre, but Stephen White says otherwise.  According to Arsenault, between 1723 and 1737, Anne gave Jean 10 children, four sons and six daughters, including a set of twins, and that Jean and his family were at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in 1752.  White says Jean died at Minas in February 1747, in his late 40s.  A French official counted Anne, "widow of Jean Braud," and six of their children--Joseph, age 26; Marie, age 22; Ermant [Amand], age 20; Anne, age 18; Marguerite, age 15; and Madeleine, age 14--at Port-Toulouse in February 1752.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Two of Jean's daughters married into the Petitpas and Guédry families.  At least one of his sons created his own family.

Second son Amand, born at Minas in c1731, followed his widowed mother to Port-Toulouse and the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area and held as a prisoner in Halifax for the rest of the war.  He married Théotiste, daughter of Jacques Bonnevie and Marguerite Lord of Annapolis Royal, at Halifax in the early 1760s and rehabilitated the marriage on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, in October 1765.  They were still on the island in 1767.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1772, Théotiste gave Amand four children, all sons.  One wonders what happened to the family after 1772. 

Antoine, père's fourth son Pierre le jeune, born at Minas in the mid-1700s, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Gautrot and Marie Thériot, at Grand-Pré in June 1726 and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, the Pierre who married Marguerite Gautrot was sans doute son of Pierre Breau and Anne Melanson and was born in c1720; White is followed here.  Between 1733 and 1748, Marguerite gave Pierre at least five children, three sons and two daughters.  The British deported most of the family to Maryland in 1755.  Their second son, however, was deported to Virginia, sent on to England in 1756, and repatriated to France in 1763.  According to Stephen White, Pierre died before July 1763, perhaps in Maryland.  Arsenault says Pierre died at Québec in February 1767.  White, again, is followed here.  Pierre's widow Marguerte, their oldest son, and their two daughters emigrated to Spansih Louisiana from Maryland in 1768.  Their second son emgrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.  Pierre's daughters married into the Lejeune and Orillion dit Champagne families in the Spanish colony.  His two surviving sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Jean-Charles, born probably at Minas in c1733, married Marie Benoit probably at Minas in the early 1750s.  Between 1754 and 1766, Marie gave Jean-Charles at least four children, two sons and two daughters.  The British deported the family to Maryland in 1755.  Jean-Charles, Marie, two of their children, and a Boudrot orphan, appeared on a repatriation list at Port Tobacco in July 1763.  The family followed his Breau cousins to Louisiana in 1767-68, lived for a time at Fort San Luìs de Natchez far up the river above Baton Rouge, and resettled at San Gabriel on the river in 1769.  Marie gave him more children in the colony.  Their daughters married into the Arceneaux, Berteau, Blanchard, Gautreaux, and Melançon families.  Three of his four sons, one of them born in Maryland, married into the Landry, Bourgeois, and Gautreaux families and created vigorous lines on the river. 

Jean le jeune's second son Honoré, born probably at Minas in c1735, was deported not to Maryland but to Virginia in 1755.  Virginia authorities sent him and the rest of the exiles there to England in 1756.  Along with dozens of his fellow Acadians, he was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Dorothée in May 1763.  He settled on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo at Plouër-sur-Rance, where he married Élisabeth dite Maillet, daughter of Victor LeBlanc and Marie Aucoin of Tintamarre, Chignecto, in February 1766.  He worked as a carpenter.  Between 1766 and 1772, at Plouër and nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Élisabeth gave Honoré four children, three sons and a daughter.  The youngest son died an infant, but the others survived childhood.  In the early 1770s, Honoré took his family to Poitou, where Élisabeth gave him another son in August 1774.  They retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in December 1775.  Élisabeth gave him four more children there, two sons and two daughters, and son Élie died there at age 9 in August 1783.  Honoré, Élisabeth, and seven of their children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  One wonders if oldest son Jean-Charles-Pierre, born at St.-Servan in November 1766, was still alive in 1785 and chose to remain in the mother country.  Honoré and Élisabeth followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge, near where his family had been living since 1769.  He and Élisabeth had no more children in Louisiana.  She died in Iberville Parish in January 1808, age 64.  The St. Gabriel priest who recorded her burial called her the "spouse" of Honoré Breaux, not his widow.  Three of their daughters married into the Aucoin, Foret, Guidry, Hébert, and Landry families in the Spanish colony.  Honoré's two sons married into the Hébert and Trahan families in Louisiana, but neither of their family lines endured. 

Antoine, père's fifth and youngest son Charles, born probably at Minas in the early 1700s, married Claire, daughter of Alexandre Trahan and Marie Pellerin, at Grand-Pré in November 1729 and settled there and at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1750, Claire gave Charles six children, a son and four daughters.  Other records give the couple two more sons.  The British deported the family to Maryland in 1755.  They, too, appeared on a repatriation list at Port Tobacco in July 1763.  Charles died in Maryland after the 1763 listing, and his widow Claire took two of their sons and three of their daughters to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1767-68.  Also going with her were one of her son's widows and three of the son's children.  Claire died at Fort San Luìs de Natchez on the river above Baton Rouge soon after the family reached the remote settlement.  One of her daughters married into the Benoit and Cormier families on the river and the western prairies, and the other two became Ursuline nuns at New Orleans.  Two of Charles's three sons, one of them born posthumously, created their own families in the Spanish colony.

Oldest son Antoine, born probably at Pigiguit in c1736, married Marguerite Landry, place and date unrecorded.  The British deported them to Maryland in 1755.  Antoine, Marguerite, and three of their children also appeared on a repatriation list at Port Tobacco in July 1763.  Antoine and Marguerite, with five children, two sons and three daugters, followed his widowed mother to Louisiana in 1767-68, lived for a time at Natchez, and resettled at San Gabriel on the river above Cabahannocer in 1769.  They had no more children in Louisiana.  Antoine died at San Gabriel by March 1777, when his wife was listed in a San Gabriel census as a widow.  Two of his daughters married into the Landry family.  His two sons married into the Aucoin, Babin, and Guidry families and remained on the river.

Charles's second son Simon-Pierre, born probably at Pigiguit in the 1730s, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Landry and Marie-Josèphe Richard, in the early 1750s.  They followed his family to Maryland in 1755.  Between 1754 and 1767, Marguerite gave Simon at least five children, two sons and three daughters.  Simon-Pierre died in Maryland before December 1767, when his widow and children left for Louisiana.  His last two children, twins Augustin and Marianne, may have been born posthumously.  Marguerite followed her widowed mother-in-law to Natchez in 1768 and resettled probably at San Gabriel.  She did not remarry.  Her and Simon's oldest daughter married into the Rivet family and remained on the river.  Her and Simon's older son also created his own family there. 

Older son Jean-Baptiste-Pierre, called Pierre, born at Pigiguit or in Maryland in c1755, followed his widowed mother to Natchez and San Gabriel.   He married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Dardenne and Marie-Louise Legee, at Ascension on the river below San Gabriel in July 1779.  Jean-Baptiste-Pierre died at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in October 1822, in his late 60s.  His daughters married into the Billings, Catoire, Lambremont, Lelusseau, Nerault, Suire, and Vigé families.  Six of his seven sons married into the Staub, Nerault, Barque, Rivas or Rivet, Chenevert, Vigé, Badeaux, and DeGruise families on the river.  One of the lines did not endure. 

Charles's third and youngest son Pierre le jeune, born probably at Pigiguit in c1741, followed his family to Maryland in 1755.  He appeared on a repatriation list with his family at Port Tobacco in July 1763.  He followed his siblings to Louisiana in 1767-68, lived for a time at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, and resettled at Ascension on the river above New Orleans in 1769 before moving up to San Gabriel.  He was still a bachelor there in March 1777.  He evidently did not marry.

Vincent's second son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1670, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Germain Bourgeois and Madeleine Belliveau, in c1694 probably at Port-Royal.  Between 1695 and the early 1700s, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre five children, two sons and three daughters.  Pierre remarried to Anne, daughter of Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Hébert, in c1705 (Bona Arsenault says c1718) and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas.  Between 1706 and the early 1720s, Anne gave Pierre him nine more children, four sons and five daughters, so Pierre fathered 14 children in all.  The British deported Pierre and his family to Massachusetts in 1755.  He died at Braintree, near Boston, in c1758, in his late 70s.  Seven of his eight daughters by both wives married into the Aucoin, Surette, Dupuis, Babineau dit Deslauriers, Thibodeau, and Léger families.  Two of them emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax and Maryland in 1765 and 1768.  All six of Pierre's sons by both wives created their own families, and most ended up in Canada. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Bourgeois, born probably at Port-Royal in the late 1690s, married Anne-Françoise, daughter of Jean Dupuis and Anne Richard, at Annapolis Royal in November 1722.  One wonders if they settled on Île Ste.-Croix, the old French outpost on Passamaquoddy Bay, and what happened to them after 1755.  One of their sons ended up in France and another in French St.-Domingue.

Pierre III, born "at Ste.-Croix, Acadie," in c1746, became a seaman.  He married Marie, daughter of Vincent Deveau and Marie Buot of Chignecto, at Ste.-Croix Parish, Bordeaux, France, in June 1770.  One wonders how, and when, Pierre III got to France.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1778, Marie gave Pierre III at least four children, a son and three daughters.  Their daughters remained at Bordeaux and married into the Barrigrand or Darrigrand and Thiac families.  Their son Pierre IV died at Bordeaux in September 1779, age 4. By then, Pierre III had become a "maitre d'equipage," or crewmaster aboard whatever shipped he sailed. 

Charles "of Sainte-Croix in Acadie," born probably in the 1740s, married cousin Marie-Angélique Bourgeois of Pointe-à-Beauséjour, Chignecto, at Môle St.-Nicolas, French St.-Domingue, in November 1777.  Charles was a common laborer at the time of his marriage but soon became a master carpenter.  One wonders when, and from where, he reached the French naval base.  Between 1778 and 1783, Marie gave Charles three daughters at Môle. 

Pierre, père's second son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Bourgeois, born probably in the early 1700s, married Élisabeth, daughter of Martin Henry and Marie Hébert, perhaps at Minas in c1725.  Bona Arsenault confuses Jean, son of Pierre's brother Antoine, with Jean-Baptiste, son of Pierre.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1755.  According to Stephen White, Jean-Baptiste died before January 1759, probably in exile. 

Pierre, père's third son Joseph, by second wife Anne LeBlanc, born probably at Minas in c1707, married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau l'aîné and Anne-Marie Bourg, perhaps at Minas in c1733.  According to Bona Arsenault, Élisabeth was a daughter of Michel Thibodeau and Agnès Dugas of Annapolis Royal, but Stephen White says otherwise.  Arsenault says they settled at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières west of Chignecto in 1739 and then resettled at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas.  Arsenault says that between 1738 and 1748, Élisabeth gave Joseph five children, four sons and a daughter.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in 1755 and held them at Braintree south of Boston.  In 1767, with other Acadian exiles in New England, they moved on to Canada.  Joseph and his family settled at L'Assomption northeast of Montréal, and he died soon afterwards, in his early 60s.  Three of his sons created their own families in Canada.

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born at Minas in c1739, followed his family to Massachusetts, where he married Marie-Anne, daughter of Michel Picot and Anne Babin of Annapolis Royal, in c1761.  They followed his family to Canada and rehabilitated their marriage at L'Assomption in July 1767.  They settled at Laprairie across the St. Lawrence from Montréal.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1777, Marie-Anne gave Joseph, fils six children, two sons and four daughters.

Joseph, père's second son Amand, born at Minas in c1740, followed his family to Massachusetts, where he married Madeleine, daughter of Germain Dupuis and Marie Granger, in c1763.  They followed his family to Canada, rehabilitated their marriage at Laprairie in July 1767, and there they remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1784, Madeleine gave Amand eight children, five sons and three daughters.

Joseph, père's fourth and youngest son Jean-Anselme, born at Minas in c1748, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada.  He married Marie-Geneviève, daughter of René Ménard and Marie-Catherine Létourneau, at St.-Joseph-de-Chambly on Rivière Richelieu east of Montréal in January 1773. 

Pierre, père's fourth son Pierre le jeune, the second with the name, by second wife Anne LeBlanc, born probably at Minas in c1713, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Germain Dupuis and Marie Granger, perhaps at Minas in c1737.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1759, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre five children, two sons and three daughters.  Other records give them an older son.  The British deported most of the family to Massachusetts in 1755 and held them at Nantucket.  In 1767, with other Acadian exiles in New England, they moved on to Canada and settled at L'Assumption northeast of Montréal.  Pierre le jeune died at St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu across the St. Lawrence in December 1788, age 75.  Two of his daughters married into the Chenet and Courtemanche families at L'Assomption and St.-Denis.  Evidently their oldest son, who would have been age 15 in 1755, was not deported to Massachusetts with the rest of his family.

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born probably at Minas in c1740, evidently was deported to Maryland in 1755.  He married Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, LeBlanc in that colony in the early 1760s.  She gave him at least two children there, a son and a daughter.  Pierre, wife Marguerite, and daughter Marie appeared on a French repatriation list at Annapolis in July 1763.  Their son Paul was born at Baltimore in c1764.  By 1766, Pierre was a widower.  Perhaps in that year, he and son Paul emigrated to Louisiana with the first contingent of Maryland exiles and settled with them at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Pierre remarried to Brigitte, daughter of Pierre Forest and Marie Lejeune, at Cabahannocer in January 1776.  She gave him more children.  His daughters by second wife Brigitte married into the Bertrand, Breau, Landry, and Lavernge families.  Four of his five sons, including oldest son Paul, married into the Landry, Humbot, Breau, Parent, LeBlanc, Richard, and Thériot familes and remained on the river, but some of his grandsons moved on to the western prairies. 

Pierre, père's fifth son Paul, by second wife Anne LeBlanc, born at Minas in July 1717, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Landry and Marie-Josèphe Doucet, perhaps at Minas in c1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1759, Marie-Josèphe gave Paul seven children, four sons and three daughters.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in 1755.  In 1767, with other Acadian exiles in New England, they moved on to Canada and settled at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Montréal.  Paul died at St.-Jacques in June 1783, age 65.  Three of his four sons created their own families in Canada.

Oldest son Joseph le jeune, born at Minas in c1743, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada, where he married Anastasie Benoit at L'Assomption northeast of Montréal in November 1766.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1765 and 1769, Anastasie gave Joseph two children, both daughters.

Paul's second son Jean, born at Minas in c1745, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada and married Suzanne, daughter of Germain Dupuis and Angélique LeBlanc, at L'Assomption in July 1771. 

Paul's fourth and youngest son Pierre, born in Massachusetts in c1759, followed his family to Canada, where he married Anne, daughter of Jean Daigle and Marie-Josèphe Thériot, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Montréal in October 1778.  They settled at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet across the St. Lawrence from Trois-Rivières.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1780 and 1801, Anne gave Pierre six children, two sons and four daughters. 

Pierre, père's sixth and youngest son Amand dit Thomas, by second wife Anne LeBlanc, born probably at Minas in c1721, married Madeleine, daughter of François LeBlanc and Jeanne Hébert, at Grand-Pré in February 1743.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1761, Madeleine gave Amand seven children, three sons and four daughters.  During King's George's War of the 1740s, Amand may have been active in the Acadian resistance with fellow Minas partisan Joseph LeBlanc dit Le Maigre and the Beausoleil Broussard brothers of Petitcoudiac.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in 1755 and held them at Braintree south of Boston.  In 1766, with other Acadians exiles in New England, they moved on to Canada and settled at St.-Ours on lower Rivière Richelieu.  Amand died at St.-Ours in July 1773, age 52.  His daughters married into the Thibault, Daigle, Emry-Coderre, and Morin families at St.-Ours and Chambly.  All three of his sons created their own families in Canada.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born at Minas in c1748, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada.  He married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Pierre-Jean Laviolette and Brigitte Fortier, at St.-Ours in November 1771.

Amand dit Thomas's second son Joseph-Richard, born at Minas in c1750, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Terrien and Angélique Bouchard, at St.-Ours in October 1772.

Amand dit Thomas's third and youngest son Joseph-Amand, born probably at Braintree, Massachusetts, in c1761, followed his family to Canada.  He married Geneviève, daughter of Joseph Harnois and Marie Pénisson, at St.-Charles-de-Richelieu south of St.-Ours in October 1787.

Vincent's third son, whose name has been lost to history, died young. 

Vincent's fourth son François, born at Port-Royal in c1674, married Marie, daughter of Jean Comeau le jeune and Catherine Babin, in c1703 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas.  Between 1703 and the 1720s, Marie gave François a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters.  Two of their daughters married into the Gaudet and Daigre families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Six of François's seven sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Jean dit Jean-François, born in c1708, married Catherine, daughter of Antoine Thibodeau and Marie Préjean, at Annapolis Royal in December 1729.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1742, Catherine gave Jean four children, a son and three daughters.  Jean remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Alexandre Richard dit Boutin and Marie Levron, at Annapolis Royal in October 1745.  They settled at Chepoudy in the trois-rivères area west of Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1756, Marguerite gave Jean five more chldren, three sons and two daughters--nine children, four sons and five daughters, by two wives.  They escaped the British in the trois-rivières in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Arsenault says that at Québec in 1757, Jean lost six of his children, victims, perhaps, of a smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees in there that fall and winter.  Evidently none of his sons survived exile.  Two of his daughters by both of his wives married into the Landry, Langlois-Saint-Laurent, and Huot families at Québec and St.-Joachim below the city. 

François's second son Pierre le jeune, born at Minas in July 1709, evidently died young.  

François's third son Chérubin, born at Minas in October 1711, married Marie, daughter of Alexis Aucoin and Anne-Marie Bourg, at Cobeguit in c1735.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1742 and 1744, Marie gave Chérubin two children, a son and a daughter.  Other records give them three more children, two sons and a daughter.  They likely were among the habitants of Cobeguit who escaped the British in 1755 or 1756, crossed Mer Rouge, and took refuge on Île St.-Jean.  The British deported most of the family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Their oldest son, who would have been age 16 in 1758, evidently escaped the British that year.  Chérubin, his wife, and four of their children died either at sea or from the rigors of the crossing aboard one of the so-called Five Ships.  Only daughter Marie-Osite survived the crossing.  She emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785, in her late 30s, but never married.  According to Bona Arsenault, Chérubin's surviving son created his own family, so his father's line may have endured in Canada.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Cobeguit in c1742, followed his family to Île St.-Jean but not to France.  He escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before moving on to Canada.  He married Dorothée, daughter of Adrien Leclerc and Ursule Noël and widow of Ambroise Quentin, at St.-Pierre on Île d'Orléans below Québec in February 1763. 

François's fourth son Sylvain, born probably at Minas in c1713, married Isabelle, daughter of Jérôme Darois and Marie Gareau and widow of René Trahan, at Beaubassin in June 1734.  According to Bona Arsenault, they settled at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  They escaped the British in 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Along with nephew Firmin, son of brother Alexis, who he may have retrieved on the way, Sylvain and Isabelle, still childless, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in 1764-65.  They followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche, where, on the same day in October, Sylvain and Isabelle died in an epidemic that struck the Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  Sylvain was age 52 at the time of his death, Isabelle age 66.  They evidently were that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

François's fifth son Séraphin, born probably at Minas in the mid-1710s, married Brigitte, daughter of René Martin and Marie Mignier, at Annapolis Royal in October 1730.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1746, Brigitte gave Séraphin three children, a son and two daughters.  Arsenault says Séraphin died in c1755; Stephen White says only that Séraphin died before January 1759, in exile.  His widow Brigitte and their three children were deported to Virginia in 1755, and sent on to England in 1756.  Brigitte remarried to widower Michel Bourg in England in January 1759.  The family was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Dorothée in May 1763 and settled at on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo at St.-Suliac and at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  One of Séraphin's daughters married into the Dugas family at St.-Suliac, followed her mother and stepfather to greater Acadia in the late 1760s, and settled in Canada.  Séraphin's only son became a missionary priest in greater Acadia and Canada.

Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1743, followed his widowed mother to Virginia and England and his mother and stepfather to France.  In 1767, at age 24, he went to Paris with stepbrother Joseph-Mathurin Bourg to study for the priesthood with Father du Saint-Esprit.  Jean-Baptiste and Mathurin were ordained priests in November 1772 and sent to Canada  to serve as missionaries on the Baie des Chaleurs, where their family joined them from France two years later.  Until his retirement in 1814, Jean-Baptiste went on to minister to his fellow Acadians at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, nearby St.-Pierre-du-Portage, now L'Assomption, and Longe-Pointe, all near Montréal, and at St.-Roch near Québec City.  He died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in January 1824, in his early 80s.  His father's line of the family died with him. 

François's sixth son Alexis, born at Minas in September 1721, married Marguerite, daughter of Nicolas Barrieau and ____, in c1746 probably at Minas and settled on Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1767, Marguerite gave Alexis eight children, four sons and four daughters, including a set of twins.  The British deported the family to Massachusettes in 1755.  Colonial authorities counted the family at Weymouth south of Boson in either 1760 or 1761.  In 1767, with other Acadians exiles in New England, most of the family moved on to Canada and settled at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie south of Montréal.  Alexis died at nearby L'Acadie in July 1811, age 90.  Three of his daughters married into the Boudrot and Roy families at Laprairie.  All four of his sons created their own families. The one who did not go to Canada emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1764-65. 

Oldest son Joseph, born at Minas in c1747, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada and married Félicité, daughter of Antoine Boudrot and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie in July 1774.

Alexis's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in c1748, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada and married Charlotte, daughter of Pierre Brosseau and Marie-Anne Deneau, at Laprairie in November 1774. 

Alexis's third son Firmin, born at Minas in c1749, followed his family to Massachusetts but not to Canada.  After the war, he either moved on to Nova Scotia in c1763 or followed other Acadians from New England to French St.-Domingue in 1764.  Either from Halifax or Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, Firmin, likely with the help of his uncle Sylvain (Firmin was still in his teens), reached Louisiana with the Broussard dit Beausoleil party in February 1765 and followed them to Bayou Teche that spring.  (His uncle and aunt did not survive the year.)  Firmin married cousin Marguerite, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Breau and Marie-Rose Landry of Pigiguit, at Ascension on the river above New Orleans but returned to the Attakapas District, where, in 1771, he purchased land at Grand Pointe on upper Bayou Teche.  He died at Grand Pointe in October 1808, in his late 50s.  His daughters married into the Arceneaux, Bonin, Breaux, Broussard, Guidry, Hébert, and Thibodeaux families.  Six of his seven sons, born either on the river or on Bayou Teche, married into Guilbeau, Dugas, Martin, Broussard, Girouard, Carmouche, and Picou families and created vigorous lines on the western prarieis.  One of his daughters-in-law, Scholastique Mélanie, called Mélanie, Picou, wife of his youngest son Agricole, founded the town of Pont-Breaux, today's Breaux Bridge, St. Martin Parish, in the 1830s.

Alexis's fourth and youngest son Charles, born in Massachusetts in c1757, followed his family to Canada and married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Dominique Clouâtre and Françoise Boudrot, in October 1779, place unrecorded.

François's seventh and youngest son Joseph, born probably at Minas in the 1720s, married in c1752 a woman whose name has been lost to history.  The British deported them to Virginia in 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England in 1756.  The British held them at Bristol.  Joseph remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Vincent and Marie Granger and widow of Alexandre Boudrot, in c1760 probably at Bristol.  She gave him a son, Joseph, fils, at Bristol in February 1761.  Joseph, père died probably at Bristol in the early 1760s.  His widow and son, along with one of her Boudrot sons, were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Dorothée in May 1763.  They settled at St.-Suliac, on the river south of St.-Malo.  Marie-Madeleine remarried again--her third marriage--to widower Pierre Dugas at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in January 1764 and died at Chantenay, near Nantes, in January 1785, age 63.  Her Breau son married in France and emigrated to Louisiana. 

Only son Joseph, fils, born at Bristol, England, in February 1761, followed his widowed mother to France in May 1763 and settled with her at St.-Suliac, near St.-Malo.  He became a sailor in France and married Marie-Blanche, daughter of Louis-Athanase Trahan and Marguerite LeBlanc of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, and Sauzon, Belle-Île-en-Mer, at St.-Martin de Chantenay, near Nantes, in May 1785.  They emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge on the river above New Orleans.  All of their children were born at Baton Rouge.  Joseph, fils died there in May 1813, age 53.  His daughter married into the Thériot family.  Three of his four sons married, into the Templet and LeTullier families.  Two stayed on the river, but the oldest one joined the Acadian exodus from the river to Bayou Lafourche. 

Vincent's fifth son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1678, married Anne, daughter of Guyon Chiasson dit La Vallée and Jeanne Bernard, in c1700 probably at Port-Royal.  Between 1700 and the early 1720s, Anne gave Jean nine children, five sons and four daughters.  Jean died at Annapolis Royal in April 1751, in his early 70s.  Three of his daughters married into the Guilbeau, Michel, and Melanson families.  All of his five sons created their own families.   

Oldest son Ambroise, born at Port-Royal in October 1705, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Jacques Michel and Catherine Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in October 1726 and moved on to Chepoudy in the trois-rivières.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1727 and 1741, Marie-Anne gave Ambroise four children, three sons and a daughter.  Other records give them another daughter, born in c1743, as well as another son.  The family escaped the British roundup at Chepoudy in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  After the war, Ambroise was pioneer settler at Néguac near Miramichi in today's eastern New Brunswick.  Ambroise died probably at Néguac before January 1768.  Two of his daughters married into the Melanson, Moreau, and Gautrot families and emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  All three of his sons created their own families, in southeastern New Brunswick, Louisiana, and France. 

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Chepoudy in c1727, followed his parents into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawerenc shore.  He married Marie-Blanche Boudreau in c1760 while still in exile, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1780, Marie-Blanche gave Joseph 11 children, two sons and nine daughters.  They settled at Memramcook, not far from their old home at Chepoudy, in today's southeastern New Brunswick.  Joseph died at Memramcook in May 1811, in his early 80s.  Eight of his daughters married into the Boudreau, Gauvin, LeBlanc, Bourgeois, and Gallant families at Richibouctou and Grande-Digue on the eastern New Brunswick shore, and at Bonaventure, a British-controlled fishery in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  One of his sons created his own family on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. 

Second son Joachim, born probably in eastern New Brunswick in c1772, married Victoire, daughter of Joseph Blanchard and Marie Henry of St.-Charles-de-Kent, at Richibouctou in April 1809.  

Ambroise's second son Athanase, born probably at Chepoudy in c1735, followed his parents into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By late the late 1750s, he had taken refuge at Restiouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Isabelle Gaudet, at Restigouche in February 1760.  The British attacked the outpost that summer and accepted its surrender that October.  Athanase and his family were counted in the prison compound at Fort Edward, formerly Pigiguit, in August 1762.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1775, Marie gave Athanase five children, two sons and three daughters.  Other records give them two more sons.  After the war, they emigrated to Louisiana in 1765 and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  They brought only two children with them to the Mississippi valley colony but had more children there.  Their daughters married into the Arceneaux, Bernard, and Breaux families on the western prairies.  All four of Athanase's sons married, into the Arceneaux, Dugas, Blanchard, and Braud families.  Two remained on the river, and two followed their sisters to the western prairies.

Ambroise's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born at Chepoudy probably in the early 1740s, followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore but somehow ended up in the hands of the British, who deported him to Rochefort, France, in 1758, probably from Île Royales.  Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Élisabeth Girard, widow of Jean Martin, in St.-Louis Parish, Rochefort, in January 1768.  The priest who recorded the marriage noted that Jean-Baptiste had been a resident of the city for 10 years.  Neither he nor his wife emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Jean's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in November 1707, married Catherine-Josèphe, daughter of Guillaume Bourgeois and Catherine-Josèphe Thibodeau, at Annapolis Royal in April 1731 and likely settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1750, Catherine gave Jean-Baptiste nine children, three sons and two daughters.  The family evidently escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Jean-Baptiste died in exile probably in Canada before February 1762.  At least one of his sons created his own family.

Oldest son Théodore, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1732, married Marie Michel in c1755, place unrecorded, and followed his family to Canada, where they were counted at Québec in 1757.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1757 and 1759, Marie gave Théodore two children, a son and a daughter.  They moved to St.-Charles de Bellechasse in the interior southeast of Québec City in 1758.  Théodore remarried to Élisabeth, daughter of Joseph Thibodeau and Anne Savoie, at Québec in February 1762.  They settled at nearby Charlesbourg.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1763 and 1770, Élisabeth gave Théodore two more children, both daughters.  One of their daughters married into the Derome family a Québec. 

Jean's third son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1712, married Marie, daughter of Jean Melanson and Marie-Madeleine Petitot, at Annapolis Royal in November 1735 and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1753, Marie gave Pierre eight children, three sons and five daughters.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in 1755.  They evidently were among the Acadians in New England who resettled in Canada in the late 1760s.  Pierre died before September 1772, when his family was counted at Laprairie across from Montréal, Canada.  One of his daughters married into the Lanoue family.  Did any of his sons survive exile and create families of their own? 

Jean's fourth son Antoine, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1717, married Ursule, daughter of Charles Blanchard and Madeleine Girouard, at Annapolis Royal in January 1746; and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Laurent Doucet and Anne Pellerin, at Annapolis Royal in November 1747.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1765, Marguerite gave Antoine nine children, a son and eight daughters.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in 1755.  After the war, they followed many of their fellow refugees to Canada, where, in c1769, they settled at Chambly on Rivière Richelieu east of Montréal.  Antoine died at St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu in December 1772, age 55.  Five of his daughters married into the Chalifou, Cayau-Laroc, Monmaquet, Gatbois, Dépot, and Dubé-Delorme families, none of them Acadians, at St.-Ours and Chambly.  His son created his own family in the Richelieu valley. 

Only son Joseph, born in c1765 perhaps in Connecticut, followed his family to Canada and married Agathe, daughter of Jacques Émery-Coderre and Catherine Joubert, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in November 1791. 

Jean's fifth and youngest son Simon, born probably at Annapolis Royal in the early 1720s, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Michel and Marie Boudrot, at Annapolis Royal in January 1746.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1753, Marie-Josèphe gave Simon four children, all sons.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in 1755.  When their fellow Acadians emigrated to Canada or the French Antilles in the 1760s, Simon and his family remained in Massachusetts.  One wonders why.  He died at Plympton in March 1804, in his early 80s. 

Vincent's sixth and youngest son René, born at Port-Royal in c1685, married Marie, daughter of Antoine Hébert and Jeanne Corporon, at Annapolis Royal in December 1715 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1716 and 1737, Marie gave René seven children, three sons and four daughters.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in 1755.  They were counted at Hanover in 1758 and 1760, and they were still in the colony in 1763.  After 1766, they moved on to Canada.  René died at St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu in December 1768, age 83.  One of his three sons established his own family in Canada. 

Third son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in c1728, followed his family to Massachusetts in 1755.  Before witnesses, there being no priest in the New-English colony, Charles married Marie-Osite, daughter of Jacques Célestin dit Bellemère and Marie Landry, in Massachusetts in the late 1750s or early 1760s and revalidated the marriage at Trois-Rivières, Canada, in July 1767.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1769, Marie-Osite gave Charles five children, three sons and two daughters.  They moved to St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu northeast of Montréal in c1769.  Charles remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Blouin and Madeleine Turcot, at St.-Ours in July 1770.  In c1775, they moved upriver to St.-Denis-sur-Richelieu.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1771 and 1783, Madeleine gave Charles seven more children, five sons and two daughters--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, by two wives.  At least two of Charles's eight sons by both wives created their own families in the Richelieu valley.

Third son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marie-Osite Célestin dit Bellemère, born in Canada in c1769, married cousin Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Belour and Madeleine Turcot, at St.-Ours in July 17[9]0. 

Charles's sixth son Nicolas, by second wife Madeleine Blouin, born probably at St.-Ours in c1775, married Marguerite, daughter of François Beaulieu and Marguerite Pépin-Lachance, at La Présentation near St.-Hyacinthe, Québec Province, in October 1809.349

Richard

Michel dit Sansoucy Richard, an early 1650s arrival, first wife Madeleine Blanchard and second wife Jeanne Babin, created a large family in the colony.  Between 1657 and 1677, Madeleine gave Sansoucy 10 children, four sons and six daughters, including a set of twins.  In 1684 and 1686, Jeanne gave him two more sons--a dozen children, six sons and six daughters, by two wives.  Sansoucy died at Port-Royal between 1686 and 1689, in his late 50s.  All of his children married, his daughters from both wives into the Brossard (Broussard), Thériot, Babin, Vincent, Forest, and LeBlanc families.  His descendants settled at Minas, Chignecto, and in the French Maritimes, but most of them remained at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal.  At least 66 of Sansoucy's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Georgia in 1764, Halifax in 1765, Maryland in the late 1760s, and especially from France in 1785.  They also could be found in France, especially on Belle-Île-en-Mer; in the French Antilles; in greater Acadia; and in Canada after Le Grand Dérangement.  They were especially numerous on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières. 

Oldest son René dit Beaupré, by first wife Madeleine Blanchard, born at Port-Royal in c1657, married Madeleine, daughter of René Landry l'aîné and Pérrine Bourg, in c1680 at Port-Royal.  Between 1681 and 1688, Madeleine gave Beaupré five children, four sons and a daughter.  He died probably at Port-Royal by 1693, in his mid-30s.  His daughter married into the Dupuis family.  Three of his four sons also created families of their own.   

Oldest son Michel dit Beaupré, born at Port-Royal in c1681, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Germain Bourgeois and Madeleine Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in November 1712.  Between 1713 and 1736, Marie-Josèphe gave Michel dit Beaupré a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, including a set of twins.  He died probably at Annapolis Royal by February 1748, in his mid- to late 60s.  Three of his daughters married into the Robichaud, Hébert dit Manuel, and Lefebvre dit Descôteaux families.  Seven of his eight sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Michel, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1713, married Françoise, daughter of Claude Thériot and Agnès Aucoin, in c1740 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1754, Françoise gave Michel, fils five children, three daughters and two sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Michel, fils died on the voyage from Virginia to England, age 42.  His widow Françoise remarried to a Trahan at Falmouth in 1758.  Françoise, widowed again, and her Richard children were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  She died there in August 1773, age 51.  Her younger son married at Morlaix and, in 1785, followed his three unmarried sisters to Spanish Louisiana, where two of them married into the Trahan and Bourg families on Bayou Lafourche. 

Younger son Charles, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1754, followed his family to Virginia and England and his twice widowed mother to Morlaix, France, where he became a tailor.  At age 31, Charles married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Trahan and Marguerite Trahan, in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Morlaix, in February 1785.  They followed his older sisters to Spanish Louisiana later in the year and settled with them on upper Bayou Lafourche, where all of their children were born.  Charles died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1825, age 71.  His daughters married into the Aucoin, Breaux, Daigle, and Lelorec families on the bayou.  His younger son also married there, into the Landry family.

Michel dit Beaupré's second son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1715, married Anne, daughter of Sr. Jean Mouton and Marie Girouard, at Annapolis Royal in January 1749.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Joseph a daughter in 1752.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Joseph died in exile between 1755 and July 1757, place unrecorded. 

Michel dit Beaupré's third son Jean-Baptiste dit Jani, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1718, married Françoise, daughter of Guillaume Girouard and Marie Bernard, at Annapolis Royal in November 1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1754, Françoise gave Jani six children, four sons and two daughters.  The family evidently escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia until the end of the war.  They appeared on a French repatriation list at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Beauséjour, Chignecto, in August 1763.  They remained in greater Acadia, settling on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in what became eastern New Brunswick.  Jani died at Richibouctou, New Brunswick, in March 1796, age 77.  His daughters married into the Allain and Richard families.  His sons also married in the area. 

Oldest son Amable, born in c1746, probably at Annapolis Royal, followed his family into exile and remarried to fellow Acadian Marguerite Boudrot at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia, in March 1771.  They settled at Richibouctou.  One wonders who Amable's first wife may have been.

Jani's second son Joseph, born in c1748, probably at Annapolis Royal, followed his family into exile and married fellow Acadian Félicité Gaudet in c1772, place unrecorded.  They settled at Richibouctou.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1776 and 1778, Félicité gave Joseph three children, a daughter and three sons. 

Jani's third son Jean, born in c1749, probably at Annapolis Royal, followed his family into exile and married fellow Acadian Anastasie LeBlanc in c1772, place unrecorded.  In his late 40s, Jean remarried to cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Maillet and Marguerite Richard, at Richiboutou in July 1798. 

Jani's fourth and youngest son François, born in c1750, probably at Annapolis Royal, followed his family into exile and married fellow Acadian Judith Allain, place and date recorded. 

Michel dit Beaupré's fourth son Joseph-Grégoire, called Grégoire, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1724, married Hélène, daughter of Jean-Emmanuel Hébert and Madeleine Dugas, in c1747 probably at Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1751 and 1755, Hélène gave Grégoire three children, a daughter and two sons.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Joseph-Grégoire died at Québec on Christmas Eve 1757, age 33, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian exiles there from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  His widow remarried to a Doucet widower at Trois-Rivières in July 1764, so the family remained in British Canada.  Her and Grégoire's daughter married into the Doucet family at Trois-Rivières.  Their two sons also married in the area.

Older son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1752, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Darois and Anne Thibodeau, at St.-Grégoire across from Trois-Rivières, place and date unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1774 and 1780, Marie-Marguerite gave Joseph five children, a son and four daughters.  Joseph remarried to cousin Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Françoise Cormier, at nearby Bécancour in February 1781.  According to Arsenault, between 1782 and 1800, Marie-Madeleine gave Joseph 10 more children, three sons and seven daughters--15 children, four sons and 11 daughters, by two wives.  They settled at a place called La Portage between Lac St.-Paul and the village of Godefroy, and at St.-Grégoire and Bécancour.  According to Arsenault, Joseph is the ancestor of the Richards of Portage.  Three of his daughters by second wife Marie-Madeleine married into the Landry, Thibodeau, and Lamothe families at St.-Grégoire.  One of his sons also married.

Second son Pierre, by second wife Marie-Madeleine Richard, born probably at Bécancour in c1782, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Thibodeau and Élise LeBlanc of Yamachiche, at St.-Grégoire in September 1803, and, at age 38, remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean-Charles Jalbert and Marie Grondin of Trois-Rivières, at St.-Grégoire in February 1820. 

Grégoire's younger son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal or in exile in c1755, followed his family to Canada.  He married Agathe, daughter of Joseph Feuilleteau and Marie-Josèphe Bigot, at Bécancour in May 1777.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1778 and 1792, Agathe gave Pierre eight children, seven sons and a daughter.  They settled at Grande-Rivière.  According to Arsenault, Pierre is the ancestor of the Richards of Ste.-Angèle-de-Laval across from Trois-Rivières.  At least four of his sons married in the area.

Oldest son Joseph-Pierre, born in c1778, place not given, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Prince and Marie Babineau, at Nicolet in March 1802. 

Pierre's third son Jean-Baptiste, born in c1782, place not given, married Charlotte Tiffeau in c1807, place unrecorded. 

Pierre's sixth son Charles, born in c1788, place not given, married Marie-Louise, daughter of Antoine Beaubin and Thérèse Parent of St.-François, at St.-Grégoire in January 1816. 

Pierre's seventh and youngest son Grégoire, born in c1790, place not given, married Marie, daughter of David Darois and Madeleine Houde and widow of Pierre Lavasseur, at Bécancour in January 1815. 

Michel dit Beaupré's fifth son Amand, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1726, evidently escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Amand married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Gaudet and Marie Doucet, at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets below Trois-Rivières in February 1760.  They settled upriver at Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1770, Marie gave Amand three sons.  Amand died at Nicolet in February 1770, age 56.  Two of his sons married in the area.

Second son Amand, fils, born in Canada in c1764, married Marie-Josèphe Vilatte dit Beausoleil at Nicolet in September 1790. 

Amand, père's third and youngest son Louis-Joseph, born probably at Nicolet in c1770, married Marie-Josèphe Provencher there in October 1798. 

Michel dit Beaupré's sixth son Honoré, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1730, died there in May 1751, age 20, before he could marry. 

Michel dit Beaupré's seventh son Basile, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1733, evidently moved on to Minas.  The British deported him to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent him on to England the following spring.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Granger and Françoise LeBlanc of Rivière-aux-Canards, at Falmouth in August 1757.  Marie gave Basile a son there in August 1759.  They were still in the Falmouth-Penryn area in the spring of 1763, when they were repatriated to Morlaix in nothern Brittany, France.  Marie gave Basile another son at Morlaix in September 1763 soon after their arrival.  They followed other exiles from England to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in November 1765 and settled at Bedex near Bangor in the island's interior.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1772, Marie gave Basile seven more children on the island, three sons and four daughters--nine children, five sons and four daughters, in all.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They remained, instead, on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  Members of the family were still there in 1792, during the French Revolution.  Basile died at Bangor in November 1819, age 86.  Two of his daughters married into the Oliéric and L'Huillier families on the island.  Two of his sons also created their own familes there.

Third son Pierre-Marie, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1766, married Guillemette Illiaquer, place and date unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1793 and 1801, Guillemette gave Pierre-Marie four children, two daughters and two sons.  Both of his sons married on the island.

Oldest son Joseph-Bruno, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1797, married Marie-Sainte, daughter of Pierre-André Thomas and Julienne Thomas of Kerguelène, at Bangor in 1824. 

Pierre-Marie's younger so Jean-Marie, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1801, married Marie-Renée Thomas at Bangor in 1822.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1824 and 1837, Marie-Renée gave Jean-Marie four children, three sons and a daughter. 

Basile's fifth and youngest son Charles-Grégoire, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1774, married Marie-Michelle, daughter of Pierre Illiaquer of Bordureau, at Locmaria on the island in 1796.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1797 and 1813, Marie-Michelle gave Charles-Grégoire seven children, five daughters and two sons.  At least one of his sons married.

Younger son Joseph, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1804, married Marie-Josèphe Le Matelot and settled at Bornor on the southern coast.  Joseph, probably a sailor, died at Rouen in 1827, age 23, aboard the ship Charles-Édouard-des-Sables.

Michel dit Beaupré's eighth and youngest son Amable, a twin of sister Nathalie, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1736, evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In c1759, during exile, he married a woman whose name has been lost to history, place unrecorded.  Probably soon after the marriage, he and his wife either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held at Annapolis Royal until the end of the war.  They appeared on a repatriation list there in 1763.  Amand remarried to fellow Acadian Marguerite Boudrot in c1770, place unrecorded.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia, in March 1771, so they remained in greater Acadia.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Amable a son in 1772.  They settled first on St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia, where they were counted in 1774, but moved on to Memramcook, in today's southeastern New Brunswick, where Amable died in November 1806, age 70. 

René dit Beaupré's second son Antoine, born at Port-Royal in c1684, survived childhood but did not marry.   

René dit Beaupré's third son Pierre dit Beaupré, born at Port-Royal in c1686, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jacques Girouard and Marguerite Gautrot, at Annapolis Royal in January 1712.  Between 1713 and 1730, Marie-Madeleine gave Pierre dit Beaupré 10 children, eight sons and two daughters.  He died at Annapolis Royal in April 1730, in his early 40s.  His daughters married into the Forest and Savoie families.  Six of his eight sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1713, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Antoine LeBlanc and Anne Landry, at Grand-Pré in August 1740 and settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1752, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre, fils six children, three daughters and three sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Liverpool, where wife Marie-Josèphe died in April 1761.  Oldest daughter Marie married an Hébert there.  In the spring of 1763, Pierre, fils and five of his children were repatriated to Morlaix in northern Brittany.  Pierre, fils, at age 50, remarried to Françoise, 33-year-old daughter of Olivier Daigre and Françoise Granger of Rivière-aux-Canards and widow of Simon-Joseph Thériot, at Morlaix in October 1763 soon after their arrival.  She gave Pierre, fils another son at Morlaix in February 1765.  His second daughter Catherine married a Trahan from l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the Breton port in June 1765.  His oldest son also married there that year.  In November 1765, the blended family followed other Acadian exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled Kerbellec near Le Palais on the eastern coast of the island.  According to Arsenault, between 1766 and 1772, Françoise gave Pierre, fils four more children, three sons and a daughter, on the island--11 children, four daughters and seven sons, by two wives.  Third daughter Brigitte, by Pierre, fils's first wife, married into the Guillemot and Richard families on the island in the 1770s.  By September 1784, Pierre, fils had taken his family to Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in southeast Brittany.  He, Françoise, and four of their unmarried children, three sons and a daughter, ages 20 to 11, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.  Pierre, fils's older daughters Marie, Catherine, and Brigitte, by first wife Marie-Josèphe, if they were still alive in 1785, remained in France, as did some his older sons, if they, too, were still living.  However, two of Pierre, fils's grandsons from his oldest son Joseph-Ignace followed him to Louisiana on separate vessels.  According to Father Hébert's study of the Acadians in France, members of Pierre, fils's family were counted at Vannes in southeast Brittany in 1792 during the French Revolution.  Pierre, fils died at Baton Rouge in November 1794, age 81.  His daughter Marie-Jeanne, by second wife Françoise, married a Daigre cousin there.  Two of his sons also married in the Baton Rouge area, and one of them created a vigorous line there. 

Oldest son Joseph-Ignace, by first wife Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, born at Ste-Famille, Pigiguit, in February 1743, followed his family to Virginia, England, and Morlaix, France, where he married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Élisabeth Thériot of Rivière-aux-Canards, in St.-Martin des Champs Parish in February 1765.  They followed his father and stepmother to Belle-Île-en-Mer later in the year and settled at Kerourdé near Sauzon on the north shore of the island before moving to Bangor in the interior of the island.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1788, Marguerite gave Joseph-Ignace 13 children, six sons and seven daughters.  In 1785, two of his older sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana aboard separate vessels and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  French officials counted Joseph-Ignace and 10 of his children still on the island.  Joseph-Ignace died on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1815, in his early 70s.  One of his daughters married into the Le Matelot family at Bangor.  At least one of his other sons created a family there.  One wonders what happened to the rest of his many children. 

Oldest son Jean-Charles le jeune, born near Le Palais, Belle-Île-en-Mer, in January 1766, followed his paternal grandfather to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, but he did not follow him to Baton Rouge.  Jean-Charles le jeune settled, instead, on upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married Perrine-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arcement and Marie Hébert, at Ascension on the river above New Orleans in September 1789.  Jean-Charles le jeune died at Assumption on the upper Lafourche by January 1794, in his 20s, when his wife remarried at Assumption.  They evidently had no children, so this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Joseph-Ignace's second son Basile-Marie, born near Bangor, Belle-Île-en-Mer, in April 1767, followed his paternal grandfather and older brother to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and also settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  He married Marie-Anne-Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Benoît Comeaux and Anne Blanchard, at Ascension in May 1788.  They settled on the upper Lafourche near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes.  Basile Marie, at age 61, remarried to Henriette, 33-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Baptiste Paul Bourgeois and Marguerite Babin and widow of Mathurin Boudreaux and Pierre Aysenne, at Thibodauxville on the middle Lafourche in April 1828.  Basile Marie, at age 72, remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Olive, daughter of Charles Pontiff and Catherine Hoffman of St. John the Baptiste Parish and widow of Dominique Badeaux, at Thibodaux in April 1839.  Basile Marie died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1845, age 78.  His daughters, all by his first wife, married into the Boudreaux, Bourgeois, Guillot, and Legendre families.  All seven of his sons, by his first and second wives, also married, into the Rassicot, Breaux, Bergeron, Landry, Guillot, Bourgeois, Thibodeaux, and Poché families. 

Joseph-Ignace's third son Pierre-Ange, born near Bangor on Belle-Île-en-Mer in May 1770, remained on the island and married Marie-Perrine, daughter of Jean-Pierre Causic and Marie-Agathe Thomas, at Bangor in 1794.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Perrine gave Pierre-Ange eight children, six daughters and two sons.  Two of the daughters died young. 

Pierre, fils's second son Jean-Charles, by first wife Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, born probably at Ste.-Famillie, Pigiguit, in c1745, followed his family to Virginia, England, and Morlaix, France.  According to Bona Arsenault, Jean-Charles "embarqué pour les Îles" in 1767, but Arsenault does not identify les Îles, the islands.  Did Jean-Charles marry? 

Pierre, fils's third son Simon, by first wife Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1752, may have died young. 

Pierre, fils's fourth son Anselme, by second wife Françoise Daigre, born at Morlaix, France, in February 1765, followed his family to Belle-Île-Mer soon after his birth, and his father, stepmother, and siblings to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and settled with them at Baton Rouge.  He died there in January 1786, age 21, soon after their arrival.  He did not marry. 

Pierre, fils's fifth son Simon-Joseph, called Joseph, from second wife Françoise Daigre, born near La Palais, Belle-Île-en-Mer, in October 1766, followed his father, stepmother, and siblings to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed them to Baton Rouge.  He married Perpétué, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Aucoin and Marie-Geneviève Theriot, probably at Baton Rouge in January 1788.  Their daughter married into the Doiron family.  Two of Joseph's five sons also married, into the Blanchard and Dauterive families at Baton Rouge. 

Pierre, fils's sixth son Julien-Marie, by second wife Françoise Daigre, born near Le Palais in November 1768, may have died young. 

Pierre, fils's seventh and youngest son Pierre-Auguste, called Auguste, from second wife Françoise Daigre, born near Le Palais in January 1774, followed his father, stepmother, and siblings to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed them to Baton Rouge.  He married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Charles Dardenne and Louise Laget of Natchitoches, at Baton Rouge in December 1796.  Auguste died at Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, across from Baton Rouge, in March 1809, age 35.  His line of the family died with him. 

Pierre dit Beaupré's second son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1715, evidently died young. 

Pierre dit Beaupré's third son Joseph dit Vieux, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1717, married Anne, daughter of Antoine Blanchard and Élisabeth Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in January 1744.  According to Bona Arsenault, beween 1744 and 1750, Anne gave Joseph three daughters.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they were either captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  According to Arsenault, Anne gave Joseph two more daughters in 1760 and 1763.  After considering a move to British-controlled Canada, Joseph and his family--including wife Anne, two daughters, and a Richard nephew--emigrated, instead, to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Another daughter was born in the Spanish colony soon after their arrival, and a seventh daughter in 1769.  Joseph dit Vieux died at his son-in-law Basile Landry's home at Ascension on the river in February 1777, age 59.  Only two of his daughters married, into the Landry and Guilbeau families on the river and the prairies.  Joseph dit Vieux fathered no sons, so only the blood of his family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Pierre dit Beaupré's fourth son Simon, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1721, evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  He died at Québec in December 1757, in his late 30s, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian exiles there from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  He did not marry. 

Pierre dit Beaupré's fifth son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1724, married Isabelle, daughter of Pierre Guilbeau and Madeleine Forest, at Annapolis Royal in January 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, Isabelle gave Jean-Baptiste a daughter in c1755.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of that year and sought refuge in Canada.  Wife Isabelle died at Québec in December 1757, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian exiles there, including two of her brothers-in-law, from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Marie-Anne, daughter of Canadians François Charest and Marie-Josèphe Mercure, at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pérade above Québec in September 1764.  According to Arsenault, between 1765 and 1782, Marie-Anne gave Jean-Baptiste nine more children, six daughters and three sons--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, by two wives.  Jean-Baptiste died at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pérade in March 1800, age 76.  Three of his daughters married there into the Tassé, Tessier, and Vallée families.  At least one of this sons married.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, by second wife Marie-Anne Charest, born probably at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pérade in c1768, married Geneviève, daughter of François Morand and Marie-Josèphe Gervais, there in June 1788.  In his early 40s, he remarried to Angélique Leduc in October 1811 at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pérade. 

Pierre dit Beaupré's sixth son Amand, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1726, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Broussard and Cécile Babin, at Annapolis Royal in August 1754.  They may have escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Amand died before 2 December 1757, in his late 20s or early 30s, perhaps at Québec, perhaps, like two of his brothers and a sister-in-law, a victim of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian exiles there from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Amand's widow remarried to a Marrier on Île Jésus, Montréal, in June 1761.  One wonders if she and Amand had been that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Pierre dit Beaupré's seventh son François dit François Magdelaine, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1727,  married Madeleine, another daughter of Jean-Baptiste Broussard and Cécile Babin, at Annapolis Royal in November 1753.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  François died at Québec in December 1757, age 30, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian exiles there, including two brothers and a sister-in-law, from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.

Pierre dit Beaupré's eighth and youngest son Claude, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1730, evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755 and, according to Stephen A. White, married Rosalie, daughter of Charles Thibodeau and Brigitte Breau, in c1761 probably in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Bona Arsenault insists that Claude sought refuge in Canada during exile and remained single.  White is followed here.  A Claude Richard, his wife, and child appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Claude died by 1765, either in Nova Scotia or on the way to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, after fathering another child, this one a son.  In January 1766, soon after reaching New Orleans, his widow Rosalie remarried to a Canadian Lachaussée and settled with him at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  She died there by February 1768, when her husband remarried.  Her Richard son Joseph, only an infant when he reached the colony, probably was raised by his stepfather, who died in 1769, and then by relatives.  Joseph moved on to the western prairies by the early 1790s, married into the Castille family, and settled there.

René dit Beaupré's fourth and youngest son René dit Beaupré, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1688, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Thériot and Marie Gautrot, at Annapolis Royal in January 1712.  Between 1713 and the early 1730s, Marguerite gave René dit Beaupré, fils nine children, three sons and six daughters.  René, fils and Marguerite, along with members of their family, evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  René, fils died at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in December 1776, in his late 80s.  Wife Marguerite died there the following year, in her early 80s.  Five of their daughters married into the LeBlanc, Amireau, Girouard, and Leprince families.  All three of René dit Beaupré, fils's sons created their own families in British Canada. 

Oldest son Joseph dit Canadien, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1718, married Madeleine, daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Marguerite Bourgeois, at Annapolis Royal in July 1743.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1756, Madeleine gave Joseph six children, three sons and three daughters.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Joseph died at Québec in December 1757, age 39, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian exiles there from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  His widow Madeleine remarried to a Leprince at Nicolet on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières.  One of Canadien's daughters married into the Belliveau family at Bécancour.  One of his sons also married in the area.

Oldest son Michel, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1744, followed his family to Canada and married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Pellerin and Marie-Josèphe Belliveau, at Nicolet in February 1772.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1773 and 1792, Madeleine gave Michel 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  Michel died at nearby St.-Grégoire in February 1829, in his mid-80s.  Two of his daughters married into the Bourg and Hébert families in the area.  Five of his sons also married there, two of them to sisters.

Third son Françoise d'Assise, born in c1777, place not given, married Angèle, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and Marie Bergeron, at Nicolet in November 1801. 

Michel's fourth son Charles-Auguste dite Augustin, born in c1782, place not given married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Hébert and Madeleine Prince, at Nicolet in October 1804. 

Michel's fifth son Joseph, born in c1784, place not given, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Belliveau and Geneviève Morin, at St.-Grégoire in February 1813, and, at age 40, remarried to Luce, daughter of Marcel Dionne and François Dubé there in August 1824. 

Michel's sixth son Michel, fils, born in c1790, place not given, married, in his early 30s, Marie-Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Poirier and Marguerite Bergeron, at St.-Grégoire in February 1821. 

Michel, père's seventh and youngest son David, born in c1792, place not given, married Marguerite, another daughter of Joseph Poirier and Marguerite Bergeron, at St.-Grégoire in  February 1814. 

René dit Beaupré, fils's second son René dit Petit René, whose dit was ironic, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1726, married Perpétué, daughter of Joseph Bourgeois and Anne LeBlanc, at Annapolis Royal in February 1749 but settled at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, Perpétué gave Petit René a son in 1751.  On 1 October 1755, because of his bulk, he was the last man allowed to escape from a tunnel at Fort Lawrence in a breakout led by Acadian resistance leader Joseph Broussard dit Beauseleil.  Petit René evidently joined the resistance in present-day southeastern New Brunswick, and, like the others, he and his family either surrended to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Petit René did not follow the Broussards or his Richard cousins to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1764-65 but chose to remain in greater Acadia.  According to Arsenault, between 1765 and 1768, Perpétué gave Petit René three more children, two daughters and a son--four children, two sons and two daughters, in all.  The family was living on Rivière St.-Jean in present-day New Brunswick in 1765 and 1766, was at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia, in 1768, and moved on to Memramcook, not far from his old home at Chignecto.  Petit René died at Memramcook in February 1811, age 84.  According to Arsenault, he was the ancestor of the Richards of Memramcook and nearby Shediac, Aboujagane, and Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick. 

René dit Beaupré, fils's third and youngest son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1729, married Félicité, another daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Marguerite Bourgeois, at Annapolis Royal in November 1753.  According to Bona Arsenault, Félicité gave Charles a son in 1755.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Charles died at Boston in c1760, in his early 30s.  His widow remarried to a Belliveau in the Bay Colony in 1762.  In 1767, they followed other exiles in New England to British-controlled Canada and settled at St.-Ours on lower Rivière Richelieu northeast of Montréal. 

Only son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1755, followed his parents to Massachusetts and his mother and stepfather to Canada.  He was baptized at Québec in December 1767, age 12, and followed his family to St.-Ours, where he married Marguerite, daughter of André Chapdelaine and Agnès Mongrain, in March 1783. 

Michel dit Sansoucy's second son Pierre, by first wife Madeleine Blanchard, born at Port-Royal in c1661, married Marguerite, daughter of René Landry le jeune and Marie Bernard, in c1686 and settled at Minas.  Between 1689 and the 1710s, Marguerite gave Pierre 10 children, seven sons and three daughters, all of whom married, three of the sons to sisters.  Their daughters married into the Dugas, Saint-Étienne de La Tour, Daigre, and Granger families.   

Oldest son René le jeune, born at Minas in c1689, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Vincent Babin and Anne Thériot, in c1711 probably at Minas, where they settled.  Between 1712 and 1724, Marie-Josèphe gave René six children, five sons and a daughter.  Marie-Josèphe died at Minas in March 1738, age 46.  René did not remarry.  Their daughter married into the Landry family.  Four of his five sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest son Pierre le jeune, born at Minas in September 1712, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Granger and Isabelle Guilbeau, at Grand-Pré in November of 1735 and settled there.  Marguerite gave Pierre at least one son, in 1744, and perhaps a daughter.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Pierre, now a widower, and Anne-Marie Richard, perhaps a daughter, appeared on a French repatriation list at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in July 1763.  His son Amand, also counted at Port Tobacco, had recently married into the Breau family there.  Pierre followed his son, his son's family, and a Boudrot orphan to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  A decade later, in March 1777, Pierre was still living on the east side of the river at San Gabriel, where he held six slaves, four males and two females, on his six-arpent farm.  His son also settled at San Gabriel and created a vigorous line there. 

René le jeune's second son Claude, born at Minas in c1716, married Cécile, daughter of Jean Melanson and Marguerite Dugas, at Grand-Pré in November 1740.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1746, Cécile gave Claude four children, two daughters and two sons.  Claude died at Minas in February 1747, in his early 30s.  The British deported members of the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755, where two of his children, a daughter and a son, appeared on a repatriation list with other families at Baltimore in July 1763.  They emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1767.  The daughter, Marguerite, married into the Hébert family there.  The son also married. 

Older son Charles, born at Minas in c1742, if he survived childhood, followed his parents to Maryland in 1755.  One wonders what happened to him there.  He did not follow his younger siblings to Spanish Louisiana in the 1760s.

Claude's younger son Joseph, born at Minas in c1744, followed his family to Maryland in 1755, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 with a younger sister, and settled at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Landry and Anne Flan, at nearby Ascension in June 1774.  They settled at San Gabriel.  Joseph remarried to cousin Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Dupuis and Anne Richard and widow of Joseph Breaux, at Ascension in April 1784.  Joseph died at San Gabriel in November 1793, in his late 40s.  His daughters from both wives married into the Babin, Blanchard, Landry, LeBlanc, McDougal, Aucoin, and Comeaux families.  Two of his three sons from both wives also married, into the Landry and Brasset families on the river. 

René le jeune's third son Joseph, born at Minas in December 1718, married Marie-Blanche, called Blanche, daughter of Claude LeBlanc and Jeanne Dugas, at Grand-Pré in February 1745.  Between 1746 and 1753, Blanche gave Joseph three children, two sons and a daughter.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Southampton.  Blanche gave Joseph two more daugters in England in 1757 and 1762.  The family was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Blanche gave Joseph two more children there, a daughter and a son, in 1764 and 1767--seven children, three sons and four daughters, in all.  The youngest child, a son, died in infancy.  The family was still at St.-Servan in 1772.  They moved on to Morlaix in northern Brittany by 1786, so they did not follow their fellow exiles to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They were still at Morlaix in 1791, during the French Revolution.  One wonders if any of Joseph and Blanche's children created families of their own in France. 

A Joseph Richard, born probably at Minas in c1748, evidently was exiled to Virginia in the fall of 1755, sent on to England the following spring, and repatriated to France in the spring of 1763.  He married Marie-Jeanne Daniel, a Frenchwoman, probably in the 1770s, place unrecorded.  She gave him a daughter at Roscoff near Morlaix, Brittany, in c1775.  A Spanish official counted Joseph with his daughter but no wife at Morlaix in September 1784.  Joseph took his daughter to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, and they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph did not remarry.  He last appears in Louisiana records in January 1791, age 42, at Valenzuela on the upper Lafourche with his daughter Marie-Isabelle, now age 16, on six arpents of bayou frontage.  One wonders if he was Joseph-Amant, oldest child and son of Joseph and Blanche, who Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. says was born in c1746 and landed with his family at St.-Malo in May 1763, when he would have been in his mid-or late teens.  He could have moved on to Morlaix down the Breton coast, where he worked as a cooper, married, and raised his daughter before heading to Louisiana, where his daughter married into the Daigre family.  He fathered no sons, so, except perhaps for its blood, his line did not endure in the Bayou State.  . 

René le jeune's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born at Minas in 1721, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Cécile Gautrot in c1745 at Minas and says that, between 1746 and 1754, Cécile gave Jean-Baptiste three children, a son and two daughters.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France says Jean-Baptiste Richard dit Sapin, born in c1721, no parents given, married Cécile Gautrot, no parents given, in c1742, probably at Minas, and that, between 1743 and 1752, Cécile gave Sapin six children, four daughters and two sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Robichaux says Cécile gave Jean-Baptiste dit Sapin another son in 1756--seven children, four daughters and three sons, in all.  Robichaux implies that Sapin died in England, noting that his widow Cécile Gautrot and six of their children, four daughters and two sons, recently repatriated to France, disembarked from the ship Ambition at St.-Malo on 22 May 1763.  Cécile's daughter Marguerite married into the Boudrot family at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1763, and daughter Anne into the Lejeune family there in 1767.  Anne moved on to Morlaix in northern Brittany and remarried to a Levron widower there in 1776.  Meanwhile, Cécile followed her children to the interior of Poitou in 1773 and died at Cenan there in March 1780, age 65.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Basse, actually Basset, family in Poitou in 1776.  Robichaux and Louisiana records show that Marguerite and Marie-Josèphe and their husbands emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, where Marie-Josèphe remarried into the Ménard and Gracia families, that sister Marie-Geneviève followed her sisters to Louisiana and married into the Jaineman family there, and that Anne and her Lejeune husband remained in the mother country.  None of Sapin's and Cécile's three sons, who would have been ages 39, 33, and 29 in 1785, if they were still living, chose not to follow their sisters to the Spanish colony. 

Stephen A. White says Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, fourth son of René Richard le jeune, born at Minas in August 1721, married not Cécile Gautrot but Marguerite-Geneviève, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Landry and Marguerite Gautrot, in c1745, probably at Minas.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. says the Marguerite Landry, no parents, birth year, or birthplace given, married to Jean Richard, born in c1721, no parents or birth place given, and gave him three children, a son and two daughters, between 1746 and 1754.  All sources agree that the British deported Jean Richard, Marguerite Landry, and their family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  In May 1763, Jean, now a widower, and his three children were repatriated to St.-Malo and settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where they were still living in 1772.  According to Robichaux, youngest daughter Marguerite died "at the hospital" probably at St.-Servan in January 1768, age 14.  White and Robichaux say Jean Richard, husband of Marguerite Landry, died at St.-Servan in December 1777, age 56.  Robichaux and Louisiana records say older daughter Rose, age 30 but still single, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 with relatives and married into the LeBlanc family there.  Jean's son also created his own family, but not in Spanish Louisiana. 

Only son Pierre, born probably at Minas in c1746, followed his parents to Virginia, England, and St.-Servan, where he married Marguerite-Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Robichaud and Claire Babin, in September (says Arsenault) or November (says Robichaux) of 1767.  According to both Arsenault and Robichaux, Marguerite-Pélagie gave Pierre two daughters at St.-Servan in 1770 and 1771.  On the last day of 1773, when he was age 27, Pierre fell into the sea from the deck of the ship Gracieuse and drowned.  One wonders what happened to his family after that date.  Neither of his daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

René le jeune's fifth and youngest son Amand, born at Minas in January 1724, probably died young.  

Pierre's second son Jean, born at Minas in c1691, married Jeanne, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Jeanne Guilbeau, at Grand-Pré in January 1714 but died by May 1718, when his wife remarried to a LeBlanc widower at Minas.  Stephen A. White says of the couple "Aucune progéniture connue," or "no known offspring," but Bona Arsenault, with the qualifier "sans doute," gives them a son in 1720, two years after Jeanne remarried!  White is followed here.   

Pierre's third son Pierre, fils, born probably at Minas in the early 1700s, married Cécile, daughter of Pierre Granger and Isabelle Guilbeau, at Grand-Pré in July 1726.  Between 1727 and 1747, Cécile gave Pierre, fils eight children, six daughters and two sons.  The youngest daughter died an infant.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Pierre, fils died by May 1763, place unrecorded, but it likely was in England.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Landry family in England in 1763.  Widow Cécile, unmarried daughter Cécile, and her married sons Jean and Pierre and their families were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May of 1763.  They settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Daughter Cécile married into the Aucoin family at St.-Servan in 1765.  Cécile followed her children to Poitou in 1773.  After two and a half years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  They settled across the river at Rezé, where Cécile died in December 1776, age 73.  Four of her married children, two daughters and two sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Older daughters Marie, Anne, and Marguerite would have been ages 58, 56, and 52 that year.  If they were still living, they chose to remain in the mother country. 

Older son Jean, born at Minas in February 1731, followed his family to Virginia and England and married fellow Acadian Marguerite Landry of Minas there in c1758.  Marguerite gave Jean two children, a daughter and a son, in England in 1759 and 1762.  They were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Both of their children died there the following July and September.  Between 1765 and 1770, at St.-Servan, Marguerite gave Jean three more children, two sons and a daughter--five children, two daughters and three sons, in all.  Only the youngest son survived childhood.  They were counted at St.-Servan in 1772, so they did not follow other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in November 1765.  Nor did Jean take his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  By September 1784, however, he, Marguerite, and their son had joined other Acadian exiles at Nantes on the lower Loire.  The family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  They had no more children in the colony.  Jean died by December 1795, when wife Marguerite was listed in a Valenzuela District census without a husband.  Surviving son Jean-Pierre married into the Aucoin family on the upper bayou, but the family line did not endure. 

Pierre, fils's younger son Pierre III, born at Minas in April 1736, followed his family to Virginia and England and married fellow Acadian Marie-Blanche, called Blanche, LeBlanc there in c1762.  They were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where, between 1763 and 1773, Blanche gave Pierre III five children, three daughters and two sons.  Two of their daughters and a son died young.  As the dates of their children's births reveal, the family did not follow other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1765.  Pierre III did take his family to Poitou in 1773.  In March 1776, after two and a half years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  They settled in the suburb of Rezé, where, from 1776 to 1785, Blanche gave Pierre III four more children, a daughter and three sons--nine children, four daughters and six sons, in all.  Another daughter and two more sons died at Rezé, leaving them with only three children.  Pierre III, Blanche, two sons, a daughter, and a Richard cousin emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  They had no more children in the colony.  Pierre III died in Assumption Parish in November 1815, age 79.  His daughter married into the Landry family.  None of his sons married, so only the blood of the family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Pierre, père's fourth son Jacques, born at Minas in c1707, married Anne, daughter of Charles LeBlanc and Marie Gautrot, at Grand-Pré in June 1730.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Jacques two sons in 1731 and 1733.  Jacques remarried to Anne, daughter of Pierre Granger and Isabelle Guilbeau, at Grand-Pré in January 1735.  According to Arsenault, between 1735 and 1747, this Anne gave Jacques six more children, five daughters and a son--eight children, three sons and five daughters, by two wives.  Jacques remarried again--his third marriage--to Marguerite, daughter of Michel Hébert and Isabelle Pellerin and widow of Jean Gautrot, in c1750 probably at Minas.  She evidently gave Jacques no more children.  The British deported Jacques and his blended family to Maryland in the fall of 1755, but at least one son did not go.  Jacques died by July 1763, when his widow, two of his sons, Joseph and Paul, from previous marriages, and seven of her Gautrot children appeared on a repatriation list at Newtown on Maryland's Eastern Shore.  Daughter Élisabeth/Isabelle by his second wife, counted at Newtown with younger sister Anne, married into the Brasseur dit Brasseaux family in Maryland and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1767.  A son by his first wife ended up in France, where he died, but the son's daughter went to Louisiana with her widowed mother in 1785.  One wonders what happened to his sons and daughter Anne in Maryland. 

Second son Charles-Ignace, called Charles, by first wife Anne LeBlanc, born at Minas in c1733, became separated from his family in the fall of 1755 and ended up in France, perhaps via the French Maritime islands, to which he may have escaped in 1755.  At age 29 (the recording priest said he was 27), he married Cécile, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Boudrot and his first wife Cécile Thériot of Anse-à-Pinnet, Île St.-Jean, in St.-Nicolas Parish, Boulogne-sur-Mer, in February 1763.  In August 1766, they received permission to move to St.-Malo, where they settled in the surburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Cécile gave Charles a daughter there in c1771.  By September 1784, she was a widow and living with her daughter and a younger brother at Nantes in southeast Brittany.  She, her Richard daughter Marie-Rose, and her half-brother Joseph Boudrot, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche before moving on to the Attakapas District.  Cécile Boudreaux died there in 1822, in her late 70s.  She never remarried.  Her Richard daughter, age 14 when she crossed to Louisiana, may not have survived the crossing or may have died before her mother moved to the prairies.  She did not marry, so not even blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Pierre, père's fifth son Charles, born at Minas in April 1710, married Catherine-Josèphe, daughter of Claude Gautrot and Marie Thériot, at Grand-Pré in August 1734.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1746, Catherine-Josèphe gave Charles five children, two sons and three daughters.  Catherine-Josèphe died at Minas in March 1747, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Southampton.  Charles, at age 47, remarried to Anne-Judith, daughter of Jean Comeau l'aîné and Françoise Hébert and widow of René Gisé dit Des Rosiers, in England in September 1757.  She evidently gave Charles no more children.  Charles's oldest daughter Marguerite-Josèphe married into the Thériot family in England on the eve of repatriation.  The family was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Wife Anne died there in July 1777, in her 60s.  Oldest daughter Marguerite-Josèphe died at St.-Servan in July 1782, age 42.  If Charles was still alive in 1785--he would have been in his mid-70s--he chose to remain in France.  Youngest daughter Geneviève married into the Pitre and Boudrot families in France, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, remarried to a LeBlanc widower in the Baton Rouge area, and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where she died in 1825, a widow again.  Charles's surviving son married in France but resettled in greater Acadia, not Spanish Louisiana. 

Older son Paul, by first wife Catherine-Josèphe Gautrot, born at Minas in c1736, followed his family to Virginia and perhaps to England.  When his family was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763, Paul was not with them. 

Charles's younger son Joseph, by first wife Catherine-Josèphe Gautrot, born at Minas in November 1740, followed his family to Virginia, England, and St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he worked as a seaman.  Joseph married Marie, also called Luce, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourg and Anne Hébert, at St.-Servan in January 1771.  Marie gave Joseph two sons in 1771 and 1773.  The older one died in infancy.  Instead of going to the interior of Poitou in 1773, Joseph and his family made their way back to greater Acadia, perhaps via the British-controlled Channel island of Jersey, and settled in the fishery in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Between 1775 and 1780, at Carleton in Gaspésie, Marie gave Joseph four more children, three daughters and a son--six children, three sons and three daughters, in all.  Their daughters married into the Legalet, Allard, and LeBlanc families at Carleton.  One of their sons also married, but he settled elsewhere.

Second son Pierre-Michel, born in 1773 perhaps in France, followed his family to greater Acadia and became a navigator.  In his early 30s, he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Dion and Élisabeth Dolbec, at Québec in October 1805.  They settled at Tracadie, northeastern New Brunswick, in 1808.  In 1809 and 1812, at Tracadie, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre-Michel two sons. 

Pierre, père's sixth son Joseph, born at Minas in February 1712, married Marguerite-Charlotte, another daughter of Charles LeBlanc and Marie Gautrot, at Grand-Pré in February 1735 and remained  there.  Accordingt to Bona Arsenault, beween 1735 and 1750, Marguerite-Charlotte gave Joseph seven children, two daughters and five sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Southampton.  A daughter married into the Doucet family in England.  According to Arsenault, Joseph and Marguerite-Charlotte died in England.  Members of the family, including youngest son Jean-Charles, called Charles, were repatriated from Southampton to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in the spring of 1763 and moved on to St.-Malo.  Charles, only age 13 in 1763, was, according to Arsenault, cared for by his older sister Marie-Blanche and her husband Pierre Doucet.  In November 1765, members of the family followed other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  Marie-Blanche, husband Pierre, their young son, and probably her brother Charles settled at Anvort near Sauzon on the northern end of the island.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Pierre, père's seventh and youngest son Paul, born probably at Minas in the 1710s, married Madeleine, yet another daughter of Charles LeBlanc and Marie Gautrot, in c1740.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1750, Madeleine gave Paul five children, four sons and a daughter.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Paul died in the Chesapeake colony by July 1763, in his 40s, his widow and four sons appeared on a repatriation list at Newtown on the colony's Eastern Shore.  One of his sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  One wonders what happened to his other three sons in Maryland. 

Oldest son Mathurin, born at Minas in June 1741, followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and was counted with his widowed mother and three brothers--Amand, Pierre, and Jacques--at Newtown in July 1763.  Mathurin married fellow Acadian Élisabeth, or Isabelle, Landry in the Cheasapeake colony in c1765.  Still childless, they followed relatives to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 and settled with them in the new Acadian community of San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans before crossing the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District.  Mathurin died probably at Grand Coteau at the southern end of the district in December 1796, age 55.  His two sons married into the Cormier and Patry families and created vigorous lines on the prairies. 

Michel dit Sansoucy's third son Martin, by first wife Madeleine Blanchard, born at Port-Royal in c1665, married Marguerite, daughter of François Bourg and Marguerite Boudrot, in c1691 probably at Port-Royal and settled at Chignecto by the late 1690s.  Between 1692 and 1719, Marguerite gave Martin 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  Martin died probably at Chignecto by February 1748, in his late 70s or early 80s.  His daughters married into the Doucet, Caissie, Arseneau, and Cormier families.  Six of his seven sons also created families of their own, and one of them, the youngest, was among the first Acadian exiles to go to Louisiana.    

Oldest son Martin, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1692, followed his family to Chignecto and married Marie, daughter of François Cormier and Marguerite LeBlanc, probably at Chignecto in c1713.  They settled at Pointe-à-Beauséjour.  Between 1714 and 1734, Marie gave Martin, fils 10 children, five sons and five daughters.  Four of their daughters married into the Gaudet, Bourgeois, and Bernard families, two of them to brothers.  All five of Martin, fils's sons married. 

Oldest son Martin III, born probably at Chignecto in the 1710s, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Cormier and Marguerite Cyr, in c1736 probably at Chignecto.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1755.  Martin III died before November 1763, place unrecorded, in his mid- or late 40s. 

Martin, fils's second son Pierre, born probably at Chignecto in c1719, married Anne, daughter of Antoine Gaudet and Marie Bourg, at Beaubassin in October 1740.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Pierre remarried to Agnès, daughter of Claude Gaudet and Marguerite Blou and widow of Joseph Girouard, at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu near Montréal in February 1768. 

Martin, fils's third son Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in c1720, married Françoise, another daughter of Pierre Cormier and Marguerite Cyr, at Beaubassin in January 1742 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1748, Françoise gave Joseph four children, two sons and two daughters.  The family may have escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada, unless they went there via one of the British seaboard colonies.  According to Arsenault, between 1760 and 1767, Françoise gave Joseph four more daughters--eight children, two sons and six daughters, in all.  Joseph died of smallpox at Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières in February 1770, in his late 40s.  Five of his daughters married into the Belliveau, Richard, Cormier, and Bourgeois families at Bécancour and nearby St.-Grégoire.  His two sons also married there. 

Older son Joseph, fils, born at Chignecto in 1742, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Simon dit Boucher and Marie-Josèphe Pitre of Annapolis Royal, at Champlain below Trois-Rivières in January 1767.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1784, Marie-Anne gave Joseph, fils 10 children, seven sons and three daughters, including a set of twins.  One of their daughters married into the Héon and Michel families in the Bécancour area.  Six of Joseph, fils's sons also married in the area. 

Oldest son Joseph III, born in Canada in c1767, married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Bourgeois and Marie Vigneau, at Nicolet in November 1790.  Joseph III died at nearby St.-Grégoire in November 1741, in his early 70s. 

Joseph, fils's second son Jean-Noël, born in Canada in c1769, married, in his late 30s, cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Prince and Judith Richard, at St.-Grégoire in November 1808.  Jean-Noël died there in July 1841, in his early 70s. 

Joseph, fils's third son David, born in Canada in c1771, married cousin Marie-Charles, daughter of Pierre Richard and Élisabeth Palardy, at St.-Grégoire in February 1801, and died there in April 1827, in his mid-50s. 

Joseph, fils's fourth son Joseph-Charles, born in Canada in c1774, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Laurent Tourigny and Anne Leprince, at St.-Grégoire in July 1800.  In his early 50s, he remarried to Marie-Louise Bary, widow Bergeron, at St.-Grégoire in November 1827. 

Joseph, fils's fifth son Pierre, born in Canada in c1778, married Marguerite, daughter of Étienne Sévigny and Marie-Anne Dubois, probably at Nicolet in October 1803 and died there in March 1828, age about 50. 

Joseph, fils's seventh and youngest son François, born in Canada in c1784, married Émilie Boisvert, date and place unrecorded, and worked as a trader at Québec City. 

Joseph, père's younger son Jean-Baptiste, born at Chignecto in c1746, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Françoise, daughter of Joseph Lavasseur and Marie-Françoise Deshaies, at Bécancour in January 1774.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1776 and 1788, Marie-Françoise gave Jean-Baptiste four children, three sons and a daughter.  Their daughter married into the Talbot dit Gervais and Belliveau families probably at Bécancour.  Two of his sons also married in the area. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born probably at Bécancour in c1776, married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Joseph Deshaies and Marie-Josèphe Dubois, there in September 1800.  Jean-Baptiste, fils died at Bécancour in April 1844, age 43.  He was the ancestor of Édouard Richard (1844-1904), noted politician, businessman, historian, archivist, and author of Acadia: Missing Links of a Lost Chapter in American History. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's third and youngest son Joseph, born probably at Bécancour in c1784, married, in his late 30s, Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Genest dit Labarre and Josephte Desnoyers, at Bécancour in January 1821.  According to Bona Arsenault, they had no children. 

Martin, fils's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born probably at Chignecto in c1728, married Madeleine, daughter of René Bernard and Anne Blou, in c1749 probably at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine gave Jean a daughter in 1752.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Jean remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Canadians Jean-Baptiste Hamel and Marie-Geneviève Grenier and widow of Gervais and Étienne Houde, at Lotbinière above Québec in November 1762.  According to Arsenault, between 1763 and 1771, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean five more children, three daughters and two sons--six children, four daughters and two sons, by two wives.  Jean died at Lotbinière in June 1775, in his late 40s.  Three of his daughters by both wives married into the Migné, Hamel, and Tousignant families at Lotbinière.  His sons also married there. 

Older son Jean-Baptiste, fils, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Hamel, born probably at Lotbinière in c1766, married Marie-Élisabeth, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Faucher and Marie-Angélique Lemay, at Lotbinière in March 1794. 

Jean's younger son Augustin, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Hamel, born probably at Lotbinière in c1770, married Marie, daughter of Louis Tousignant and Marie-Anne Jourbert dit Boisvert of St.-Jean Deschaillons, sister of one of his sister's husbands, at Lotbinière in September 1793. 

Michel, fils's fifth and youngest son François dit Martinet, born probably at Chignecto in c1734, evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  He married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Canadians Joseph Ouellet and Madeleine Bouchard, at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière on the south shore of the lower St. Lawrence in November 1762.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1769, Marie-Charlotte gave François dit Martinet two daughters.  He died at Lotbinière on the upper St. Lawrence in April 1770, in his mid- or late 30s.  One of his daughters married into the Langlois family at Lotbinière. 

Martin, père's second son Alexandre, born at Port-Royal or Chignecto in c1695, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Jean Thibodeau and Marguerite Hébert, in c1724 probably at Chignecto and moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1741.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1725 and 1747, Marie-Madeleine gave Alexandre nine children, five sons and four daughters.  In August 1752, a French official counted Alexandre, Madeleine, and six of their unmarried children, three sons and three daughters, ages 17 to 9, at Malpèque on the northwest shore of Île St.-Jean.  The family either left the island after the counting or, more likely, escaped the British roundup there in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  One of Alexandre's daughters married into the Deveau family and settled on Île Madame, south of Île Royale.  Two of his sons emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. 

Oldest son Paul, born probably at Chignecto in c1725, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Marie-Renée, called Renée, Boudrot probably at Malpèque in c1746.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1752, Renée gave Paul five children, two sons and three daughters.  In August 1752, a French official counted Paul, Herre as he called Renée, and three of their children, two sons and a daughter, ages 5 years to 2 months, at Malpèque near his parents and siblings.  One wonders what happened to their two older daughters before the counting and what happened to the family in 1758.  One of the older daughters married into the Martin family, no place or date given. 

Alexandre's second son Pierre, born probably at Chignecto in c1729, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Marguerite, daughter of Alexis Dugas and Marie Bourg of Cobeguit, probably at Malpèque in c1752.  That August, a French official counted Pierre and Marguerite, still childless, at Malpèque near their families.  They, too, escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where Pierre evidently participated in the Acadian resistance with his cousins, the Broussard dit Beausoleil brothers of Peticoudiac.  Sometime in the early 1760s, Pierre and his family either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  They appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Pierre, Marguerite, three of their sons, and a younger brother emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1764-65.  They followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche but resettled on Bellevue prairie, south of the present-day Opelousas, among the first Acadians to settle in that district.  Marguerite gave Pierre more children in the colony, including a daughter and three more sons.  Pierre, in his late 60s, remarried to Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Aucoin and Anne Trahan and widow of Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc, at Opelousas in August 1797.  Élisabeth, a native of Minas, had come to Louisiana from France in 1785.  She gave Pierre no more children.  Pierre died at Opelousas in May 1806, in his late 70s.  His daughter married a Bourg cousin.  All six of his sons also maried, into the Thibodeaux, Dugas, Lavergne, Brasseaux, and Janise families on the prairies.  Most of the Richards of southwest Louisiana descend from Pierre and his first wife Marguerite. 

Alexandre's third son Michel, born probably at Chignecto in c1732, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Marie, another daughter of Alexis Dugas and Marie Bourg, probably at Malpèque in c1752.  In August of that year, a French official counted Michel and Marie, still childless, at Malpèque near his family.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758. 

Alexandre's fourth son Jean, born probably at Chignecto in c1734, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with his parents and siblings at Malpèque in August 1752.  He married Marguerite Dugas probably at Malpèque in c1756.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Jean a son in c1775 in greater Acadia, so they likely were not deported to France in 1758-59 but escaped to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or Canada. 

Only son Jean, fils, born "au Cap-Breton," formerly Île Royale, in c1775, was at Matane on the lower St. Lawrence in c1800.  He married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Sébastien Poirier and Anne-Marie Petit, at Rimouski, also on the lower St. Lawrence, in April 1804. 

Alexandre's fifth son Joseph, born either at Chignecto or on Île St.-Jean in c1741, was counted with his parents and siblings at Malpèque in August 1752, and followed them to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in the late 1758.  Sometime in the early 1760s, he surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia until the end of the war.  He married Marie Gaudet in c1762, place unrecorded, but it may have been in one of the prison compounds.  They did not follow his brothers Pierre and Victor to Louisiana in 1764-65 but remained in greater Acadia.  British officials counted them at Petitcoudiac in what became southeastern New Brunswick in 1769. 

Alexandre's sixth and youngest son Victor, born probably at Malpèque, Île St.-Jean, in c1747, was counted with his parents there in August 1752, followed them to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  He likely was one of the four "children" who appeared on a repatriation list with brother Pierre at Halifax in August 1763.  Victor followed his older brother to Louisiana in 1764-65 and also settled on Belleveu prairie in the Opelousas District, where he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Cosme Brasseur dit Brasseaux and Élisabeth Thibodeaux, in the mid-1770s.  She had come to Louisiana from Maryland the previous decade.  He died in St. Landry Parish in September 1808, in his early 60s.  His daughters married into the Bijeaux, Cormier, Estilette, and Thibodeaux families.  Two of his four sons also married, into the Vasseur and Richard families. 

Martin, père's third son Michel, born probably at Chignecto in c1697 married Madeleine, daughter of Louis Doucet and Marguerite Girouard, in c1733 probably at Chignecto and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1748, Madeleine gave Michel four sons.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Michel died by October 1760, place unrecorded, perhaps at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  If so, members of the family evidently retreated north across the bay to Gaspésie, where two of Michel's sons settled in the fishery there. 

Second son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born at Chignecto in c1742, followed his family into exile and married fellow Acadian Rosalie Gaudet at Bonaventure in Gapésie in c1766.  According to Bona Arsneault, between 1767 and 1782, Rosalie gave Jean five children, two daughters and three sons.  The family was still at Bonaventure in 1784. 

Michel's fourth and youngest son François, born at Chignecto in c1748, followed his family into exile and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Daigle and Marie Hébert at Bonaventure in c1770.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1771 and 1788, Marie gave François eight children, three daughers and five sons.  In 1788, they crossed the Baie des Chaleurs and settled near Shippagan, New Brunswick, on the south shore of the bay. 

Martin, père's fourth son Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in c1705, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Comeau dit Grandjean and Marie Roy, in c1732 probably at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph a daughter in 1733.  Other records give them a son in c1736.  Joseph remarried to Anne, daughter of Guillaume Girouard and Marie Bernard, at Annapolis Royal in June 1738.  According to Arsenault, between 1740 and 1745, Anne gave Joseph three more children, two sons and a daughter.  Other records give them another son--six children, two daughters and four sons, by two wives.  The family moved on to the French Maritimes after August 1752 and were captured by the British there in 1758.  Joseph, Anne, and four of their children, two sons and two daughters, died during the crossing to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Joseph was in his early 50s.  His youngest son, age 12, died in a St.-Malo hospital soon after reaching the Breton port.  His oldest son escaped the roundup on the island and emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Comeau, born probably at Chignecto in c1736, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and either left the island before 1758 or escaped the British roundup there that year, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married Agnès, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Hébert dit Manuel and Claire Robichaud of Cobeguit and widow of ____ Bourgeois, in greater Acadia, date unrecorded, during exile.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia until the end of the war.  In 1765, with two children, a son and a daughter, they emigrated to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahanncoer on the river above New Orleans.  Their marriage was validated at Cabahannocer in November 1766.  Agnès gave Joseph, fils more children there.  At age 36, Joseph, fils remarried to Marie-Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Martin dit Barnabé and Marie Brun of Annapolis Royal and widow of Barthélémy Godin dit Bellefontaine, at nearby Ascension in August 1772.  She gave him more children.  Joseph, fils's daughters by both wives married into the Martin, DeRohan, Hébert, Labauve, Bernard, and Theriot families.  One of his four sons by his second wife also married, into the Melanson and Ory families. 

Martin, père's fifth son Pierre, born probably at Chignecto in the 1700s or early 1710s, married Madeleine, daughter of Toussaint Doucet and Marie Caissie, at Beaubassin in August 1733.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1748, Madeleine gave Pierre three children, two daughters and a son.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Martin, père's sixth son Paul, born probably at Chignecto in c1716, died there at age 5 in February 1721  

Martin, père's seventh and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Chignecto in February 1719, married Catherine, daughter of Alexis Cormier and Marie LeBlanc, in c1740 probably at Chignecto.  The British deported the family to Georgia in the fall of 1755.  They evidently were among the exiles allowed to return to greater Acadia by boat the following spring but got no farther than Long Island, New York.  If so, they were back in Georgia in 1763.  With three other related families--the Cormiers, Landry, and Poiriers--they were among the first Acadian exiles to emigrate to Louisiana.  With four children, two sons and two daughters, one of the daughters recently married, they reached New Orleans from Savannah via Mobile in February 1764.  By April, they were settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans with the other three families.  Jean-Baptiste and Catherine had no more children in the colony.  In his late 50s, Jean-Baptiste remarried to Anne, daughter of Étienne Martin and Marie-Jeanne Comeau and widow of Pierre Blanchard and Joseph Forest, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in July 1778.  She gave him no more children.  Jean-Baptiste died probably at Cabahannocer after July 1786, in his late 60s.  His daughters married into the Poirier and Caissie dit Roger families in exile and at Cabahannocer.  His older son also married, into the Bourgeois family on the river and created a vigorous line there. 

Michel dit Sansoucy's fourth son Alexandre l'aîné, by first wife Madeleine Blanchard, born at Port-Royal in c1668, married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of Claude Petitpas and Catherine Burgaret and widow of Olivier Boudrot, in c1690 probably at Port-Royal.  Between 1691 and 1709, Isabelle gave Alexandre l'aîné nine children, four sons and five daughters.  He died at Port-Royal in October 1709, in his early 40s.  One wonders if his death was war-related.  His daughters married into the Savoie, Dupuis, Bastarache, and Thibodeau families.  Three of his four sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest son Pierre dit Pitre, born at Port-Royal in c1696, moved to the French Maritimes and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Boudrot and Marie-Josèphe Landry, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in the early 1720s.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1747, Marie-Josèphe gave Pitre 10 children, three daughters and seven sons.  Pitre remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Antoine LeBlanc and Marie Bourgeois and widow of Pierre Allain, at Port-Toulouse in c1751.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Pitre and his family were not counted at Port-Toulouse in February 1752, so they may have left the island soon after their marriage.  Wherever they may have taken refuge in 1755, they did not escape the British.  According to Arsenault, Pitre and members of his family were held at Chédabouctou on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia probably during the final years of the war.  Others were held at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, and Fort Cumberland, Chignecto.  After the war, they followed other exiles to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where French officials counted them in 1767.  To relieve overcrowding on the island, they were compelled to move on to France later that year but returned to the island the following year.  They were still there in 1776, living with his youngest son Pépin.  Pierre dit Pitre died on Île Miquelon in January 1778, in his early 80s.  Two of his daughters married into the Cyr and Vigneau families.  Four of his sons also created their own families.

Oldest son Pierre, fils, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Boudrot, born in c1727, married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Bourg and Marie Cormier, at Beaubassin in June 1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1751 and 1755, Madeleine gave Pierre, fils three children, a daughter and two sons.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Pierre, fils died at Québec in January 1758, in his early 30s, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian exiles there from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  His family remained in Canada, settling at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières, at Verchères below Montréal, and at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu and St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu east of Verchères.  Pierre, fils's daughter married into the Hébert family at Bécancour.  His two sons also married on the upper St. Lawrence.

Older son Pierre III, born probably at Chignecto in c1750, followed his  family to Canada and married Marie-Élisabeth, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Palardy and Élisabeth Bouvier, at Verchères in October 1774; remarried to cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul LeBlanc and Marie-Josèphe Richard, at Bécancour in February 1784; and, at age 36, remarried again--his third marriage--to Angélique, daughter of Étienne Papillon and Marie Viel, at St.-Ours in July 1786.  They settled at nearby St.-Charles-sur-Richelieu.   

Pierre, fils's younger son Jean-Marie, born probably at Chignecto in c1754, followed his family to Canada and married Catherine, daughter of François Phaneuf and Marguerite Forget-Despatie, at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu in January 1778. 

Pitre's second son Joseph, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Boudrot, born perhaps on Île St.-Royale in c1732, married Anne Poirier, place and unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Joseph a son in 1752.  The family evidently escaped the British roundups of the 1750s and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  According to Arsenault, Anne gave Joseph a daughter in 1757.  Arsenault says they were at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in 1761 after the French had surrendered the stronghold to the British.  According to Arsenault, the British held Joseph and his family in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, Nova Scotia, for the rest of the war.  Arsenault also places the family at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, Chignecto, in August 1763, when they would have appeared on French repatriation list there.  According to Arsenault, in 1761 and 1763, Anne gave Joseph two more sons.  After the war, by 1766, the family had resettled on Île Miquelon.  According to Arsenault, between 1766 and 1778, Anne gave Joseph six more children, four daughters and two sons, including a set of twins--10 children, six sons and four daughters, but they may have had two more daughters--a dozen children in all.  In 1767, to relieve over crowding on the island, French officials, obeying a royal decree, ordered the fisher/habitants, including the Richards, to France, but they returned the following year.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre and deported the island Acadians to France.  According to Arsenault, Joseph died at La Rochelle in May 1779, in his late 40s.  Members of his family, including his widow Anne, returned to Miquelon in 1784.  Sadly, Arsenault attributes much of this information--the wife's name, the children's names and birth years, the movements of the family, to another Joseph Richard, son not of Pierre dit Pitre but of Pierre-Toussaint, a cousin, so one has to wonder which attribution is correct.  The following information on the children of Joseph à Pierre dit Pitre Richard and Anne Poirier is a blending of information found in several of Arsenault's volumes.  Arsenault says three of Joseph and Anne's daughters married into the Vignault, Terriot, and Briand families on Miquelon and in the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the late 1780s and early 1790s. 

Oldest son Mélème, born in the early 1750s, followed his family into exile, into a prison compound in Nova Scotia, to Île Miquelon, and to France and back twice.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Vigneau or Vignault and Marie Bourgeois, at La Rochelle, France, in March 1783 on the eve of their returning to Miquelon.  Mélème, also called Melem and Hélène by Bona Arsenault, died, according to Arsenault, on Miquelon in October 1838, in his early 80s. 

Joseph's second son Joseph, fils, born in c1760 or 1761 probably in greater Acadia, followed his family into a prison compound in Nova Scotia, to Île Miquelon, and to France and back twice.  According to Bona Arsenault, Joseph, fils married fellow Acadian Marie Vigneau in c1784, but Arsenault also says it was older brother Mélème who married Marie Vigneau.  Arsenault also says Marie gave Joseph, fils a son, Joseph III, in c1784 and implies that they resettled on the îles-de-la-Madeleine. 

Joseph, père's third son Jean, born, according to Bona Arsenault, at Fort Cumberland in c1763, followed his family to Île Miquelon, where he was baptized in June 1766, and to France and back twice.  He married Charlotte, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Vigneau and Rose Cyr of Chignecto, on Miquelon in January 1787.  They resettled on the îles-de-la-Madeleine.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1792 and 1809, Charlotte gave Jean seven children, five daughters and two sons. 

Joseph, père's fourth son Pierre, born probably on Miquelon in c1769, followed his family to France and back and married Rosalie, daughter of François Briand and Marguerite Sceau, on Miquelon in January 1791.  They, too, resettled on the îles-de-la-Madeleine.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1792 and 1808, Rosalie gave Pierre eight children, two daughters and six sons. 

Joseph, père's fifth son Anselme, born probably on Miquelon in c1775, followed his family to France and back and married fellow Acadian Geneviève Etcheverry in c1796 or c1800, no place given.  They settled in the îles-de-la-Madeleine.  According to Bona Arsenault, Geneviève gave Anselme two daughters in 1822.  Anselme died on one of the remote islands in December 1843, in his late 60s. 

Joseph, père's sixth and youngest son Étienne, born on Miquelon or at La Rochelle, France, in c1778, died in St.-Jean Parish, La Rochelle, in April 1779. 

Pitre's fifth son Germain le jeune, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Boudrot, born in c1744, evidently escaped the British roundups in the 1750s and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  He appeared on a repatriation list at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Beauséjour, Chignecto, in August 1763.  He followed members of his family to Île Miquelon after the war and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-François Cormier and Marie-Josèphe Cyr of Chignecto, on the island in September 1767.  They, too, were sent to France later that year and returned in 1768.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1768 and 1777, Marie gave Germain six children, four daughters and two sons.  The British deported them to France in 1778.  Germain le jeune died at La Rochelle in May 1779, in his mid-30s.  A son died there the following month.  Germain's widow Marie and four of her Richard children, a son and three daughters, returned to Miquelon in 1784, but they did not remain there.  One of Germain's daughters married into the Thibault family at St.-Ours on lower Rivière Richelieu northeast of Montréal in January 1795.  Germain's surviving son also married there. 

Older son Germain, fils, born probably on Île Miquelon in c1774, followed his family to La Rochelle, his widowed mother back to Miqueon, and moved on to Canada.  He married Marie, daughter of Pierre-Noël Sullière and Marie-Charlotte Bourgault-Lacroix, at St.-Ours in October 1798. 

Germain, père's younger son Jean, born probably on Île Miquelon in c1777, followed his family to La Rochelle, France, and died there in St.-Jean Parish in June 1779, age 2. 

Pitre's seventh and youngest son Pépin dit Menouche, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Boudrot, born in c1747, evidently escaped the British roundups in the 1750s, followed his family into exile, into the prison compound at Chédabouctou, and, in 1767, to Île Miquelon, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians René Poirier and Anne Gaudet, in May 1770 after returning from France.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1771 and 1776, Marie gave Menouche three children, a son and two daughters.  They were still on the island in 1776.  The British deported them to La Rochelle, France, in 1778, and they returned to the island in the early 1780s.  One of Pépin's daughters married into the Etcheverry family on Miquelon in April 1789. 

Alexandre l'aîné's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in c1699, married Marguerite, daughter of François Robichaud and Madeleine Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in February 1730.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1751, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste 10 children, six daughters and four sons.  Jean-Baptiste died at Annapolis Royal in March 1751, in his early 50s.  The British deported members of his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them at Westford and Littleton in 1761.  Perhaps as late as the early 1770s, they followed other exiles in New England to British Canada and settled at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence northeast of Montréal.  Three of their daughters married into the Melanson, Bourgeois, and Dupuis families, one of them in New England in 1769, and settled in Canada.  At least one of Jean-Baptiste's sons created his own family there.

Oldest son Victor, born at Annapolis Royal in c1736, followed his family to Massachusetts and married Ludivine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourgeois and Marie LeBlanc, there in c1761.  He likely was the Victor Richard with wife Mariee and a daughter still in Massachusetts in August 1763.  The marriage was "revalidated" at L'Assomption, Canada, in August 1774.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1770, Ludivine gave Victor three children, two daughters and a son.  By 1784, the family was living on Ruisseau Vacher at nearby St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in the interior north of Montréal.  One of Victor's daughters married into the Mirault/Amirault family in the area.  His son also married.

Only son Joseph, born in c1770, followed his family to Canada and married Clémence, daughter of Germain Touin and Marie-Charlotte Millet, at Repentigny below Montréal in July 1795. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son Frédéric, born at Annapolis Royal in c1738, followed his widowed mother to Massachusetts, where he was counted with her at Littleton in 1761.  The colonial official said he was age 20, but he was closer to 23.  If he followed his family to Canada in the 1760s or 1770s, he may not have created a family of his own. 

Alexandre l'aîné's third son Germain, born at Port-Royal in May 1703, married Marguerite, daughter of Olivier Daigre and Jeanne Blanchard, at Annapolis Royal in February 1728 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Germain a son in 1730.  Others records give them three more children, including a daughter in c1744 and another son perhaps in the early 1730s.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Germain, now a widower with four children, appeared on a repatriation list in Connecticut in 1763.  Later that year or the following, they followed other Acadian exiles in the British seaboard colonies to French St.-Domingue.  Germain died at Mirebalais in the island's interior in November 1764, age 61. 

Older son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1730, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Granger and Anne Belliveau, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1750 or 1751.  Marie gave Joseph a son in 1751.  The British deported them to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Marie gave Joseph a daughter there in c1761 or 1762.  They followed his family to French St.-Domingue, where their marriage was attested to at Mirebalais in September 1764.  The attestation also recognized the legitimacy of their three children--Marie-Josèphe, Joseph, fils, and Marguerite--who had been baptized at Mirebalais the previous month.  Two of the children died young, Marguerite at age 3 and Joseph, fils at age 14, at Mirebalais in March and October 1765.  Joseph, père died at Mirebalais in November 1765, a week after his father died there.  The priest who recorded Joseph's burial said he died at age 38, but he probably was closer to 35.  

Germain's younger son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal probably in the early 1730s, followed his family to Connecticut, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Girouard and Marie Boisseau, date unrecorded, but it probably was in the early 1760s.  Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre two sons in c1761 or 1762 and c1764.  Soon after the birth of their second son, they followed Pierre's widowed father and older brother to French St.-Domingue, where Pierre and Marie-Josèphe's marriage was attested to at Mirebalais in September 1764.  This legitimized their sons, who died at ages 2 years and 8 months in November.  A Pierre Richard, no parents' names or wife's name given, died at Mirebalais in December 1764, age 35.  This probably was Pierre à Germain.  Strangely, a church record in Father Hébert's study of the Acadians in French St.-Domingue says Alexandre, son of Pierre Richard and Marie-Josèphe Girouard, died at Mirebalais in November 1773, age 2--probably a duplication of the November 1764 burial record for this son. 

Alexandre l'aîné's fourth and youngest son Michel, born at Port-Royal in September 1706, died at Annapolis Royal in January 1721, age 15, after a long illness. 

Michel dit Sansoucy's fifth son Michel dit Lafond, by second wife Jeanne Babin, born at Port-Royal in c1684, married Agnès, daughter of Germain Bourgeois and Madeleine Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in February 1707, where he worked as a merchant.  Between 1707 and 1721, Agnès gave Lafound eight children, five sons and three daughters, all of whom married.  Their daughters married into the Bourgeois, Lanoue, and LeBlanc families.   

Oldest son Michel dit Lafond, fils, born at Port-Royal in November 1708, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Antoine Blanchard and Élisabeth Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in November 1730.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1751, Marie-Madeleine gave Michel 10 children, six daughters and four sons.  The British deported the family to New York in late fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them there in May 1756, and they appeared on a French repatriation list there in 1763.  Later that year or the following, Michel, fils and members of his family emigrated to Maritinique in the French Antilles, while a daughter, Rose, and her husband went to French St.-Domingue.  Michel dit Lafond, fils died at St.-Pierre, Martinique, in October 1764, age 55.  His daughter Agnès married into the Saint-Jean family on Martinique in 1770.  Daughter Rose married into the Hébert, LaGarenne, and Dubuisson families, the last two marriages in St.-Domingue.  One wonders if any of Michel, fils's sons created their own families. 

Fourth and youngest son Michel dit Lafond III, born at Annapolis Royal in c1752, followed his parents to New York and Martinique, where he became a "tailleur d'habits," or tailor.  He died at La Mouillage on the island in May 1783, age 30.  The priest who recorded his burial said nothing of a wife or children. 

Michel dit Lafond, père's second son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in February 1710, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Antoine LeBlanc and Anne Landry, at Grand-Pré in August 1733 and settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  Between 1740 and 1747, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph at least three children, two sons and a daughter.  Other records hint that they may have had an older son born in c1736.  The British deported most members of the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Putative son Joseph, fils, age 19 in 1755, evidently escaped the British roundup at Pigiguit and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Joseph, père died probably in the Chesapeake colony before July 1763, in his late 40s or early 50s.  His daughter married into the Forest family there.  Meanwhile, sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, Joseph, fils either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia until the end of the war.  In 1764-65, Joseph, fils followed other Acadian exiles in Nova Scotia to Louisiana and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Meanwhile, his widowed mother and her three younger Richard children, including the married daughter, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1767/  With the other 1767 arrivals, they settle at San Gabriel on the river above Cabahannocer.  Widow Marie-Josèphe's younger sons Simon-Henry and Paul married into Landry and Babin families in the Spanish colony.  Simon remained on the river, but Paul moved on to the western prairies.  Oldest brother Joseph, fils evidently did not marry. 

Michel dit Lafond, père's third son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1717, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Alexandre Hébert and Marie Dupuis, at Annapolis Royal in May 1739.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1754, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste five children, three daughters and two sons.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste another son there in 1758--six children, three daughters and three sons, in all.  In 1766 or 1767, the family followed other exiles in New England to British Canada.  They settled at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence below Montréal.  Jean-Baptiste died at nearby St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in November 1799, age 82.  Two of his daughters married into the Mirault/Amirault and Forest families.  At least one of his sons also married. 

Third and youngest son Jean, born in Connecticut in c1758, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Anne, also called Mathurine, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Terriot and Marie Fouquet, in January 1778 probably at L'Assomption. 

Michel dit Lafond, père's fourth son Zacharie, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1720, married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, another daughter of Antoine Blanchard and Élisabeth Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in January 1746.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1754, Isabelle gave Zacharie four daughters.  The British deported the family to New York in late fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them there in May 1756, and they appeared on a French repatriation list there in 1763.  Later that year or the following, the family emigrated to Martinique in the French Antilles.  Zacharie died at St.-Pierre on the island in November 1764, age 43, three weeks after his older brother Michel, fils died there.  Three of his daughters married into the Benoit, Martin, and Eymar families on Martinique, the last one in 1782, so the blood of this family line endured. 

Michel dit Lafond, père's fifth and youngest son Victor, born at Annapolis Royal in c1721, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Richard, not a kinsman, and Anne Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1744.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Victor a daughter in 1746.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them at Duxbury in 1757.  They were still in the colony in 1763.  Probably in 1766 or 1767, they followed other exiles in New England to British Canada and settled in the established Acadian community of Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières.  Victor died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Montréal in May 1795, in his early 70s.  His daughter married into the Prince family at Bécancour, so the blood of this family line endured. 

Michel dit Sansoucy's sixth and youngest son Alexandre dit Boutin, the second son named Alexandre, from second wife Jeanne Babin, born at Port-Royal in c1686, married Marie, daughter of François Levron and Catherine Savoie and widow of Jean Garceau dit Tranchemontagne, at Annapolis Royal in December 1711 and remained there.  Between 1712 and 1727, Marie gave Boutin six children, three sons and three daughters.  The British deported Alexandre dit Boutin to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted him at Bradford in July 1760, noting that he was age 70 and "infirm"; he was 74.  He died in the colony probably soon after the counting.  His daughters married into the Doiron, Breau, and Raymond families.  Only one of his three sons created a family of his own.  

Oldest son Pierre-Toussaint, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1712, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Denis Boudrot and Agnès Vincent, in c1732 and settled at Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1746, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre-Toussaint seven children, five sons and two daughters.  The family moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1749.  According to Stephen A. White, Pierre-Toussaint died there in May 1751, age 38.  A French official counted his widow Marie Boudrot and six of their children, five sons and a daughter, on the north side of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the interior of the island in February 1752.  In late 1758, the British deported Marie-Josèphe, "veuve Richard," and three of her children, a daughter and two sons, to St.-Malo, France.  She and her son Thomas died in a St.-Malo hospital soon after they reached the Breton port.  The other children survived the crossing.  Despite these facts, Arsenault insists that Pierre-Toussaint remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Daigle and Angélique Doiron of Pigiguit, at Plouër-sur-Rance, on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo in January 1767.  White is followed here.  Pierre-Toussaint's older daughter Marie-Blanche married into the Pitre family at Pleudihen-sur-Rance, across the river from Plouër,  in 1764 and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Four of Pierre-Toussaint's five sons also created their own families.

Oldest son Pierre, born at Pigiguit in c1733, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourque and Marie Cormier, at Chignecto in June 1748.  They followed his family to Île St.-Jean soon after their marriage, and Pierre, but not his wife, was counted with his widowed mother and five siblings at Rivière-du-Nord-Est on the island in August 1752.  Was Pierre already a widower, or is Arsenault wrong about the nature of this marriage?  Arsenault himself says that the Pierre Richard who married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Bourg and Marie Cormier, in June 1748 was a son of Pierre dit Pitre Richard, not Pierre-Toussaint Richard, so the marriage detailed here probably did not exist.  Arsenault says Pierre à Pierre-Toussaint remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thériot and Angélique Doiron, at Port-La-Joye on the island in November 1755--evidently a first and only marriage for this Pierre.  According to Arsenault, Anne gave Pierre a daughter in 1757.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1758.  They did not cross with his widowed mother and younger siblings to St.-Malo, so they may have left, or escaped from, Île St.-Jean before the island's dérangement. 

Pierre-Toussaint's second son Paul, born at Pigiguit in c1737, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, and was counted with his widowed mother and siblings at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in August 1752.  The British deported him not to St.-Malo but to Cherbourg, Normandy, France, in late 1758.  He reunited with his family at St.-Malo in April 1759 and then moved on to Brest, in far-west Brittany, in April 1760, where he worked as a seaman.  One wonders what happened to him after that date. 

Pierre-Toussaint's third son Joseph, born at Piguiguit in c1739, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, and was counted with his widowed mother and siblings at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in August 1752.  According to Bona Arsenault, he did not remain.  Arsenault says he married Anne-Agnès Poirier of Chignecto probably at Chignecto in c1754, but, again, Arsenault seems to be confusing two separate men, in this case Joseph, son of Pierre-Toussaint, with Joseph, son of Pierre dit Pitre, who Arsenault says married Anne Poirier, place and date unrecorded.  Arsenault goes on to say that, in 1754 and 1755, Anne-Agnès gave Joseph à Pierre-Toussaint two daughters, but it likely was a son and a daughter.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Arsenault says that, between 1757 and 1763, Anne-Agnès gave Joseph à Pierre-Toussaint three more children, a daughter and two sons.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they would have either surrendered to, or been captured by, British forces in the area, who would have held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Arsenault places this family at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, Chignecto, in August 1763, evidently on French repatriation list.  By 1767, Arsenault goes on, the family had resettled on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Normandy.  Arsenault says that, between 1767 and 1778, Anne-Agnès gave Joseph à Pierre-Toussaint seven more children, four daughters and three sons--a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, in all--many of them the same children Arsenault attributes to Joseph à Pierre dit Pitre Richard and his wife Anne Poirier!  If they had gone to Miquelon, Joseph à Pierre-Toussaint Richard and his family would have been compelled to go to France in 1767 to relieve overcrowding on the island and likely would have returned to Miquelon with other island Acadians the following year.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British also would have deported this family, along with all the other islanders, to France.  Significantly, Arsenault says nothing of the family's 1767 and 1778 movements, so, if they existed, they likely had not gone to Île Miqueon but settled elsewhere. 

Pierre-Toussaint's fourth son Honoré, born at Pigiguit in c1742, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, and was counted with his widowed mother and siblings at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in August 1752.  The British deported him with his widowed mother and two siblings to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  They settled St.-Suliac and Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of river south of St.-Malo before crossing the river to Plouër-sur-Rance, where, at age 25, he married Marguerite, 27-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Daigle and Angélique Doiron and widow of Jean-Baptiste Landry, in January 1767.  Between 1767 and 1773, Marguerite gave Honoré four children, three sons and a daughter.  All of his sons died young.  Honoré died probably in the St.-Malo area in the 1770s or early 1780s.  His widow remarried to an Hébert widower in France.  Honoré's daughter Marguerite-Marie emigrated to Spanish Louisiana directly from St.-Malo in 1785 with her mother and stepfather and married into the Patin family at Pointe Coupée on the river, so the blood of the family endured in the Bayou State. 

Pierre-Toussaint's fifth and youngest son Thomas, born at Pigiguit in c1746, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with his widowed mother and siblings at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in August 1752.  The British deported him with his widowed mother and two siblings to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Thomas died in a St.-Malo hospital in late November 1758, age 12, less than a month after reaching the Breton port. 

Boutin's second son Claude, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1715, evidently died young.   

Boutin's third and youngest son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1727, died there in September 1747, age 20, before he could marry.  Judging by the date of his death, one wonders if Joseph was a casualty of King George's War.363

Thibodeau

Pierre Thibodeau, a 1654 arrival, became an affluent miller at Prée-Ronde on the haute rivière above Port-Royal and founder of the Chepoudy settlement in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  He and his wife Jeanne Thériot created one of the largest and most influential families in the colony.  Between 1661 and 1689, Jeanne gave Pierre 16 children, nine daughters and seven sons, all of whom married.  Pierre died on the haute rivière in December 1704, in his early 70s.  Jeanne died at Annapolis Royal in December 1726, in her early 80s.  Their daughters married into the Landry, Lejeune dit Briard, Robichaud dit Cadet, Boudrot, de Goutin, Le Borgne de Bélisle, D'Amours de Louvières, and Bourgeois families.  Pierre and Jeanne's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also in the Minas Basin at Pigiguit; at Chignecto; Chepoudy and Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières; and in the French Maritimes.  At least 55 of Pierre's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, Maryland in the late 1760s, and France in 1785.  One of their descendants, in fact, an army officer sent to New Orleans in the 1740s, was the first native-born Acadian to settle in Louisiana.  Many, perhaps most, of Pierre and Jeanne's descendants also could be found in Canada, greater Acadia, and France after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Pierre l'aîné, born at Port-Royal in c1670, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Jean Bourg and Marguerite Martin, in c1690 probably at Port-Royal and settled at Minas and along Rivière Ste.-Croix on the l'Assomption side of the river at Pigiguit--"Thibodeau Village."  Between 1691 and the 1710s, Anne-Marie gave Pierre l'aîné a dozen children, five daughters and seven sons.  Bona Arsenault gives them an eighth son.  Pierre l'aîné died at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, date unrecorded.  His daughters married into the Comeau, Barrieau, Lanoue, Breau, and Girouard families.  All of his sons married.  Several of his grandchildren emigrated to Louisiana. 

Oldest son Philippe, born probably at Minas in c1693, married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of Michel Vincent and Marie-Josèphe Richard, in c1715, place not given.  According to Bona Arsenault, they settled at Pigiguit.  According to Arsenault, between 1716 and 1727, Élisabeth gave Philippe four children, a daughter and three sons.  Other records give them more daughters.  The British deported members of the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted Philippe and Élisabeth at Roxbury in August 1760.  In August 1763, Philipe Thibaudot, wife Isabelle, and two daughters were still in the colony.  Not all of their children ended up in Massachusetts.  Their daughter married into the Doiron family at Minas.  Philippe's sons also married.  One of the sons, and a grandson from another son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.

Oldest son François, born at Pigiguit in c1717, married Marie-Anastasie, called Anastasie, daughter of Charles Thériot and Angélique Doiron of Cobeguit, at Pigiguit in 1738.  They settled on the l'Assomption side of Rivière Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1748, Anastasie gave François three children, two sons and a daughter.  Other records give them a third son.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Liverpool.  Anastasie gave François two more daughters in England in 1756 and 1758--at least six children, three sons and three daughters, in all.  François died at Liverpool before the spring of 1763, in his mid- or late 40s, when Anastasie and their children were repatriated to Morlaix, France.  Her oldest son married probably at Morlaix soon after their arrival.  In late 1763 or early 1764, members of the family may have gone to French Guiane on the northeast coast of South America, where colonial officials counted several Thibaudots at Sinnamary, Cayenne, in March 1765, two of them perhaps children of François and Anastasie.  If so, one of them, at least, did not remain.  In the fall of 1765, Anastasie and at least four of her children, two sons and two daughters, including the son counted at Sinnamary, followed other Acadian exiles to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Le Cosquet in the Locmaria district on the southeast end of the island.  She may have taken a third son there.  None of the sons remained on the island but moved on to Lorient in southern Brittany.  A younger daughter remained and married into the Fierdebras family on the island in 1784.  Members of the family were still at Lorient in 1792, none of them having followed their fellow Acadians to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Oldest son François-Éloi, called Éloi, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in June 1744, followed his family to Virginia and England and his widowed mother to Morlaix.  He evidently married fellow Acadian Anne Hébert in England or at Morlaix.  She gave him a daughter at Morlaix in January 1764.  Later that year, perhaps as a young widower, Éloi may have gone to French Guiane, where colonial officials counted an Éloi Thibaudot, age 23, at Sinnamary, Cayenne, in March 1765.  If this was him, he did not remain.  Back at Morlaix, he followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled with them near Locmaria.  In February 1776, in his early or mid-30s, he remarried Marie-Françoise, daughter of François Léger and Jeanne Provost of Belle-Île-en-Mer, evidently not fellow Acadians, and widow of Antoine Adam, at Lorient in southern Brittany.  They evidently remained in France in 1785. 

François's second son Charles-Joseph, called Joseph, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in February 1746, followed his family to Virginia and England and his widowed mother to Morlaix and Belle-Île-en-Mer.  According to Bona Arsenault, he married fellow Acadian Anne Hébert before 1773, when French officials noted that he was working as a sailor at Lorient in southern Brittany.  Other records say that it was older brother Éloi who married Anne Hébert.  In 1773, Joseph seems to have followed other Acadian exiles to the interior of Poitou.  One wonders if he remained there. 

François's third and youngest son Martin-Joseph, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the late 1740s, followed his family to Virginia and England and his widowed mother to Morlaix and Belle-Île-en-Mer, but, like his brothers, he did not remain on the island.  He married Marie-Louise, "minor" daughter of Yves Morvan and Marie-Josèphe Caillitte, at Lorient in January 1770 and evidently remained in France in 1785. 

Philippe's second son Pierre, born at Pigiguit in the late 1710s or early 1720s (and not found in Bona Arsenault's work), married cousin Hélène, 22-year-old daughter of François Gautrot and Marie Vincent of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1741.  Between 1742 and 1752, Hélène gave Pierre at least three children there, a son and two daughters.  The British may have deported Hélène, at least, to Massachusetts perhaps aboard the transport Seaflower in the fall of 1755.  By 1759, when colonial officials counted her at Malden north of Boston, she was a widow.  She remarried to Jean-Baptiste Buard, a Frenchman from Paris, in c1762 or 1763, place not given, but it likely was in England.  One wonders how she could have gone from Massachusetts to England between 1759 and 1762.  Did she take her children with her?  The records are clear that in May 1763, Hélène, her new husband, and three of her children--son Jean and daughters Josèphe and Osite--were repatriated from England to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Dorothée, so one suspects that the British had deported Hélène and her family not to Massachusetts but to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and that Virginia authorities had sent them on to England the following spring.  The family settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, but not all of them remained there.  In 1764, Hélène, husband Jean-Baptiste, and daughter Osite sailed aboard Le Fort to French Guiane on the northeast coast of South America.  Both Jean-Baptiste Buart, age 28, of Legui en Brie, France, and Helenne Gotro, his wife, of de la Cadie, appear in a 1 March 1765 census of the settlement at Sinnamary, Cayenne, French Guiane, but daughter Osite was not with them.  Did she die by then?  Daughter Marie-Josèphe, called Josèphe, married into the Metra family at Pleudihen in January 1774 and remarried into the Henry family at Chantenay near Nantes in 1785.  Son Jean also married twice in France, and, with sister Josèphe, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Jean, perhaps the only son, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1742, likely followed his family to Virginia and England and his widowed mother, stepfather, and sisters to St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763.  He settled with them at Pleudihen-sur-Rance, where he married Françoise, daughter of locals Guillaume Huere or Huert and Marie Ameline, in February 1764.  They did not follow his relatives to French Guiane in April, nor did they go to Belle-Île-en-Mer with other Acadian exiles from England in 1765.  Between December 1764 and August 1772, at Pleudihen, Françoise gave Jean four children, three daughters and a son.  One of the daughters died young.  Jean took his family to Poitou in 1773 and, with other Poitou Acadians, retreated to the port city of Nantes in December 1775.  Françoise died at nearby Chantenay in January 1781, age 40.  Jean, in his early 40s, remarried to Marie, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Dugas and Françoise Durand, at St.-Martin de Chantenay in May 1785.  A few weeks later, Jean, Marie, and two of his children from his first marriage--son Jacques-Joseph-Nicolas, age 18, and daughter Marie-Jacquemine, age 13--emigrated to Louisiana.  Jean's older surviving daughter, Jeanne-Nicole-Damase, who had accompanied her family to Poitou and Nantes and would have been age 20 in June 1785, if she were still living, did not accompany her family to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, Jean took his family to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Marie gave him more children, including another son.  A daughter was baptized at New Orleans in July 1798, so the family may have spent some time in the city; strangely, the baptismal record called Jean Pedro.  Jean died by October 1803, in his late 50s, when wife Marie remarried at Assumption on the upper Lafourche.  His daughters by both wives married into the Boudreaux, Benoit, Dubois, and Guidry families on the bayou.  One wonders what happened to his daughter who remained in France.  His son by first wife Françoise married into the Vincent dit Clément family on the Lafourche and created a vigorous family line there. 

Philippe's third son Charles dit Charlie, born at Pigiguit in c1723, moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  He married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Henry and Marie Hébert at Port-La-Joye on the island in February 1751.  Madeleine gave Charlie a daughter in early 1752.  The following August, a French official counted the couple and their infant daughter at Rivière-de-l'Ouest on the south end of the island.  Madeleine gave Charlie another daughter on the island in 1755.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Charlie and Madeleine survived the crossing, but both of their daughters died at sea.  They settled at Pleurtuit on the west bank of the river below the Breton port and lived for a time at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo.  Between 1760 and 1769, at Pleurtuit and surrounding villages, Madeleine gave Charlie six more children, two sons and four daughters, including a set of twins--eight children in all.  All but the older son survived childhood.  The family did not follow other Acadians to Poitou in 1773 or to Nantes later in the decade.  Charlie, Madeleine, and their five children, four daughters and a son, nevertheless followed most of the Acadians still in France to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian settlement of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District above Baton Rouge.  Their daughters married into the Courtois, Pitre, Aucoin, and Hébert families on the river, and the two younger ones resettled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Charlie's son Pierre-Charles married into the Bourg family and created a vigorous family line in the Baton Rouge area. 

Philippe's fourth and youngest son Amand, born at Pigiguit in c1727, married Agnès, daughter of Bernard Pellerin and Marguerite Gaudet, at Annapolis Royal in October 1748.  Agnès gave Amand a son in c1752.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted Ammond Tobado, Margaret Tobado, Joseph Tobado, another Margaret Tobado, and Charles and Mary Tobado at Dorchester in August 1760, so Agnès evidently had given him more children after 1752.  One of their sons, at least, went to Canada in the late 1760s. 

Older son Joseph, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1752, followed his family to Massachusetts and resettled in Canada.  He married Marie-Euphrosine, daughter of Nicolas Perreault and Madeleine Rivet, at L'Assomption northeast of Montréal in July 1773. 

Pierre l'aîné's second son Alexandre, born probably at Minas in c1694, married Françoise, daughter of Martin Benoit and Marie Chaussegros, in c1715, place not given, and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  According to Arsenault, in 1723 and 1731, Françoise gave Alexandre two daughters, one of whom, Marguerite, married into the Doiron family at Pigiguit, followed her husband to Île St.-Jean in c1750, and died soon after their arrival.  Alexandre and his wife also moved on to Île St.-Jean, where Alexandre died at Port-La-Joye (Arsenault says Grande-Anse) in January 1752, in his late 50s.  That same month, his younger daughter Anne married into the Doiron family at Pointe-Prime on the island; her husband, in fact, was her older sister's brother.  Alexandre's widow Françoise evidently returned to Pigiguit.   According to Arsenault, the British deported her to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  The British deported younger daughter Anne and her family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  She died there in 1783, two years before her husband and members of her family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. 

Pierre l'aîné's third son Pierre, fils, born probably at Minas in the 1690s, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Boudrot and Marie Corporon, at Grand-Pré in October 1719, moved on to Île St.-Jean, and drowned at Port-La-Joye in November 1723, age unrecorded.  One wonders what happened to his family after his death. 

Pierre l'aîné's fourth son Antoine, born probably at Minas in c1699, married Susanne, daughter of Pierre Comeau and Susanne Bézier, at Annapolis Royal in May 1725.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1750, Susanne gave Antoine 10 children, five sons and five daughters.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in early 1752, where, in August, a French official counted them and their 10 children on the south side of Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in the island's interior.  The British deported members of the family to France in late 1758.  Daughter Marguerite married into the Boudrot family there.  She and a brother emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Second son Blaise, born at Annapolis Royal in c1729, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie.  Later that year, he married Catherine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Daigre and his second wife Marie-Anne Breau of Minas.  Between 1753 and 1758, Catherine gave Blaise four children, three sons and a daughter.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Blaise and Catherine survived the crossing, but all four of their children died at sea.  They settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  Between 1760 and 1770, at Pleudihen and nearby Mordreuc and La Ville Ger, Catherine gave Blaise eight more children, four sons and four daughters--a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters, in all.  Half of the children born in the Pleudihen area died young.  Blaise took his family to Poitou in 1773 and, with other Poitou Acadians, retreated to the port city of Nantes in December 1775.  They settled at Rezé across the Loire from Nantes, where one of their older surviving daughter died at age 14 in June 1778.  Blaise and Catherine's oldest son Firmin-Charles married into the Thériot family at nearby Chantenay in February 1783.  Blaise, Catherine, their three unmarried children, two sons and a daughter, and their married son and his family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the two younger sons, François-Jean and Joseph-Marie, married into the Guérin and Arcement families, and, with their older brother, created vigorous family lines.  Blaise's surviving daughter Élisabeth-Jeanne evidently did not marry. 

Antoine's third and youngest son Simon, born at Annapolis in c1732, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with his family at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie.  He married Marie-Rose, 16-year-old daughter of Michel Loyal and Marie Vrieux or Vérieux of France, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord on the island in November 1756.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758. 

Pierre l'aîné's fifth son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1699, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Guillaume Bourgeois and Marguerite Mius de Pleinmarais, at Annapolis Royal in October 1722.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1744, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph eight children, seven sons and a daughter.  Other records give them an eighth son in 1746.  They, too, moved on to Île St.-Jean, in c1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Joseph, Marie-Josèphe, and seven of their children next to brother Antoine and his family on the south side of Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in August 1752.  Arsenault says the British deported Joseph "avec sa famille" to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  This would have required them to return to peninsula Nova Scotia after the counting on Île St.-Jean since no Acadians were sent from the Maritime islands directly to Pennsylvania.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France, however, shows that the British deported at least five of Joseph and Marie-Josèphe's eight sons and his only daughter to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Only one of the sons survived the crossing.  Arsenault insists that Joseph remarried to fellow Acadian Marie-Josèphe Aucoin, a widow, at Philadelphia in April 1762.  In June 1763, Joseph Thibodeau, "Marie Joseph Thibodeau his wife with seven children" appeared on a French repatriation list in Pennsylvania.  This probably is the source by which Arsenault places Joseph à Pierre l'aîné Thibodeau in the Quaker Colony, but the number of children he would have had there in 1763 makes no sense in light of what Robichaux says of six of his children in 1758-59.  Three of his older sons married in Nova Scotia, on Île St.-Jean, and in France, and one of his grandsons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. 

Jean dit La Croix, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1723, sans doute one of Joseph's sons, says Bona Arsenault, married, according to Arsenault, Anne Pellerin in c1750, place not given, perhaps at Annapolis Royal, where they remained.  According to Arsenault, Anne gave Jean dit La Croix a son in 1754.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Arsenault says that, between 1757 and 1766, Anne gave Jean dit La Croix four more children, three daughters and a son--five children, three daughters and two sons.  Colonial officials counted Jean dit La Croix and his family of seven at least three times, no dates given.  Jean La Croix Tibodo and his family of eight next appear on a "List of Names of the French Who Wish to Go to Canada," dated June 1766.  The family resettled in Canada that year, when British officials counted them at Québec City.  They moved upriver to L'Assomption northeast of Montréal, where they were counted in 1768.  Arsenault says Anne gave Jean dit La Croix two more daughters in 1768 and 1770--seven children, two sons and five daughters, in all.  Jean dit La Croix died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan near L'Assomption in November 1811, in his late 80s.  His daughters married into the LeBlanc, Thienel, and Robinet families, three of them to brothers, at St.-Jacques.  His sons also married.

Older son Jean-Élie, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1754, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada.  He married fellow Acadian Marie Thériot, widow of Jean Daigle, at St.-Jacques in March 1775. 

Jean dit La Croix's younger son Joseph, born in Massachusetts in c1762, followed his family to Canada.  He married cousin Rose Thibodeau, widow of Joseph Mazerolle, in c1785, place not given. 

Joseph's second son Prosper, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1725, married cousin Hélène, sans doute, according to Bona Arsenault, daughter of Antoine Barrieau and Angélique Thibodeau, in c1745, no place given.  According to Arsenault, between 1746 and 1755, Hélène gave Prosper four daughters.  According to Arsenault, the family moved on to Île St.-Jean by 1755.  They evidently left the island before its dérangement in 1758 and sought refuge in Canada.  Three of their daughters married into the Oudin, Legris-Lepine, and Dubord families at Montréal, Québec City, and Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pérade on the upper St. Lawrence in the early and mid-1770s. 

Joseph's third son Olivier, born, according to Bona Arsenault in c1729, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in August 1752.  Olivier married Madeleine daughter of Michel Aucoin and Marie-Josèphe Henry, in c1756 probably on the island, so, contrary to Bona Arsenault's assertion, Olivier did not follow his father back to peninsula Nova Scotia and end up in Pennsylvania.  According to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France, Madeleine gave Olivier à Joseph a son on Île St.-Jean in c1757.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Their infant son, along with three of Olivier's younger brothers and his only sister, died at sea.  A fourth brother died soon after reaching the Breton port.  Madeleine was pregnant on the voyage and gave birth to another son aboard ship in December.  The boy was baptized at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in late January, soon after their arrival, but died a few days later.  Wife Madeleine died on the first day of March 1759, age 22.  Olivier, now sans wife, children, brothers, and sister, settled at Langrolay-sur-Rance on the west bank of the river south of St.-Malo, but he did not remain there.  In 1760, he crossed the river to Pleudihen-sur-Rance.  He worked as a seaman probably out of the nearby port of Mordreuc on the Rance.  At age 31, Olivier remarried to Élisabeth, 34-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Boudrot and Madeleine Hébert and widow of Jean-Baptiste Doiron at Pleudihen in August 1760.  Between 1761 and 1768, at Pleudihen and Mordreuc, Élisabeth gave Olivier four more children, two daughters and two sons--six children, four sons and two daughters, by two wives.  The older daughter died young, but the younger daughter and the sons survived childhood.  Olivier took his famliy to Poitou in 1773, and in December 1775 they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Olivier died in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in January 1782, in his early 50s.  His younger surviving son married at Nantes in the early 1780s.  The son and his family, along with his widowed mother and sister, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.  Olivier's older surviving son, René-Marie, who also had followed his family to Poitou and Nantes, would have been age 22 in 1785.  If he were still alive, he did not follow his mother and younger siblings to the Spanish colony.  Olivier's daughter Élisabeth-Marie, called Marie, married into the Clouâtre family at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans and settled on Bayou Lafourche.  Olivier's married son established a vigorous family line on the upper bayou. 

Olivier's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste-Pierre dit Alequin, by second wife Élisabeth Boudrot, born at Mordreuc near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in April 1765, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes, where he worked as a calker.  He married Marie-Rose, called Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph D'Amours de Chauffours and Geneviève Leroy of Rivière St.-Jean and widow of Jean-Baptiste Rassicot, fils, probably at Chantenay near Nantes by 1785.  They, along with his widowed mother and a younger sister, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Rose was pregnant when they left Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, and gave birth to a son on the crossing.  The family lived briefly at Manchac/San Gabriel on the river below Baton Rouge before joining the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Rose gave him more children in the colony, including sons.  Jean-Baptiste-Pierre, at age 39, remarried to Martine, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Achée and Marie-Modeste Pinet, at Assumption on the upper Lafourche in November 1804.  She had come to Louisiana aboard the same ship as he did and gave him many more children.  Jean-Baptiste-Pierre died in Lafourche Interior Parish in April 1836, age 71.  His daughters from both wives married into the Chiasson, Lejeune, Boudreaux, Cureau, D'Huee or Dué, Martin, Pitre, Richard, and Toups families.  Three of his eight sons by both wives also married, into the Hébert and Forgeron families, and remained on the Lafourche. 

Joseph's fifth son Joseph, fils, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1735, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in August 1752.  The British deported him to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He died at sea, age 23.

Joseph, père's sixth son Charles, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1741, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in August 1752.  The British deported him to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He died at sea, age 17. 

Joseph, père's seventh son Basile, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1742, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in August 1752.  The British deported him to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He survived the crossing but not its rigors.  He died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in March 1759, age 17.

Joseph, père's eighth and youngest son Firmin, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1746, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in August 1752.  The British deported him to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He died at sea, age 12. 

Pierre l'aîné's sixth son Jean-Baptiste dit La Croix, born probably at Minas in c1702, married Marguerite, another daughter of Charles Boudrot and Marie Corporon, in c1726 probably at Pigiguit.  Judging by his dit, they evidently settled on the L'Assomption side of Rivière Pigiguit, perhaps on Rivière St.-Croix.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste two children, a daughter and a son, in 1727 and 1730.  Their daughter Henriette married into the Hébert family at Minas in 1746 but settled at Pigiguit.  The British deported members of the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them at Reading in 1756.  Meanwhile, the British deported daughter Henriette and her family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England the following spring.  Henriette died there by December 1759, when her husband remarried at Liverpool.  Jean-Baptiste and Marguerite's son also created his own family.

Only son Jean-Baptiste dit La Croix, fils, born probably at Pigiguit in c1730, followed his parents to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  He married Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Germain Landry and Cécile Forest, in Massachusetts in November 1761.  In August 1763, Jean Thibaudot, wife Isabelle, and a daughter were still in the colony.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1770, in Massachsetts and Canada, Isabelle gave Jean-Baptiste, fils five children, three daughters and two sons.  As the August 1763 counting suggests, the oldest daughter was born before that date.  In June 1766, Jean Baptiste Tibodo and his family of five appear on a "List of Names of the French Who Wish to Go to Canada."  British officials counted them at Québec City in 1766.  They settled at L'Assomption northeast of Montréal. 

Pierre l'aîné's seventh and youngest son René dit Castin, born in c1706 probably at Minas, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Boudrot and Madeleine Hébert, in c1731 probably at Pigiguit.  The settled at St.-Croix on the l'Assomption side of Rivière Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, beween 1730 and 1752, Anne gave René seven children, five sons and two daughters.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  In August 1763, René, wife Anne, and an unnamed son also appeared on a French repatriation list in the Bay Colony.  Their daughters married into the Hébert and Mazerolle families in Massachusetts and resettled in Canada.  Their sons also married, two of them in Masschusetts, and settled in Canada or greater Acadia.

Oldest son Charles, born probably at Pigiguit in c1730, followed his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755, but he did not follow his siblings to the St. Lawrence valley.  He married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Dugas and Brigitte Melanson, on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia, in October 1774. 

Castin's second son Alain-Castin, born probably at Pigiguit in c1732, followed his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  He married Natalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Hébert and Marie Dupuis, in Massachusetts in August 1761.  She gave him two sons before August 1763, when Castain, as they called him, Natalie, and their two sons appeared on a repatriation list in Massachusetts.  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" at Trois-Rivières on the upper St. Lawrence in July 1767.  They settled at nearby Yamachiche on the north shore of Lac St.-Pierre.  According to Bona Arsenault, Natalie gave Alain-Castin another son in 1768. 

Oldest son Joseph, born in Massachusetts in c1762, followed his family to Canada.  He married cousin Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin LeBlanc and Françoise Hébert, at Yamachiche in April 1783. 

Alain-Castin's third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born in Canada in c1768, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Landry and Marie Hébert, at Yamachiche in July 1793. 

Castin's third son Alexis, born probably at Pigiguit in c1742, followed his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Germain Dupuis and Marie Granger of Minas, in Massachusetts in December 1763.   According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1774, Marguerite gave Alexis four children, a son and three daughters.  In June 1766, colonial officials counted Alexis Tibodo and his family of five on a "List of Names of the French Who Wish to Go to Canada."  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" at Trois-Rivières in July 1767.  They settled at Yamachiche near Trois-Rivières before moving to Sunbury County, New Brunswick, on lower Rivière St.-Jean, in 1787.  Two of their daughters married into the Robichaud and Comeau families at Néguac and Tracadie in northeastern New Brunswick on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, on the other side of New Brunswick. 

Castin's fourth son Étienne dit Bruno, born probably at Pigiguit in c1751, followed his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Like oldest brother Charles, he did not follow his famly to Canada.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Yves dit Evan Thibeau and Marie-Françoise Melanson of Annapolis Royal, on Baie Ste.-Marie, Nova Scotia, in October 1774. 

Castin's fifth and youngest son Joseph dit Castin, born probably at Pigiguit in c1752, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc and Marguerite Hébert, at Yamachiche in February 1776. 

Pierre, père's second son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1674, married Marguerite, daughter of Emmanuel Hébert and Andrée Brun, at Port-Royal in February 1703 and settled at Minas.  Between 1703 and 1723, Marguerite gave Jean a dozen children, at least four daughters and seven sons.  Jean died at Minas in December 1746, in his early 70s.  His daughters married into the Richard, Cormier, LeBlanc, and Aucoin families.  Five of his six sons also married.  

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit Cramatte, born probably at Minas in c1706, married Marie, daughter of François LeBlanc and Jeanne Hébert, at Grand-Pré in January 1727.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1729 and 1750, Marie gave Cramatte 11 children, four sons and seven daughters.  Family historian Tyler LeBlanc says Cramatte and family moved to Cobeguit and then to Chignecto in the late 1740s or early 1750s.  They were living at Aulac on the west side of Rivière Missaguash in 1752, perhaps forced there by the disruption of 1750.  They then returned to Cobeguit, considered joining their kinsmen on Île St.-Jean, but, following a son-in-law, moved, instead, to Ste.-Anne-du-Pay-Bas on lower Rivière St.-Jean by 1754.  When the British struck the lower Rivière St.-Jean settlements in 1758-59, the family evidently sought refuge in Canada via the St.-Jean portage.  If so, not all of them remained there.  According to Arsenault, in 1770, members of the family were at Ékoupag on the lower St.-Jean not far above Ste.-Anne-dur-Pay-Bas.  Cramatte died at St.-Basile, farther up the St.-Jean, in April 1795, age 89.  Five of his daughters married into the Guillot dit Grandmaison, Cyr, Pothier, Theriot, and Violet families in Nova Scotia, at Madawaska and Ékoupag on Rivière St.-Jean, and on the lower St. Lawrence.  Three of his sons also married and settled on upper Rivière St.-Jean and across the province on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.

Germain le jeune, born perhaps at Minas in c1728, sans doute a son of Jean-Baptiste dit Cramatte, says Bona Arsenault, married, according to Arsenault, Françoise-Madeleine, called Madeleine, Préjean, in c1752, no place given.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755 but from where is not clear.  According to Arsenault, between 1757 and 1760, Françoise gave Germain le jeune three children, a daughter and two sons, probably in the Bay Colony.  Other records give them more children.  They were still in Massachusetts in August 1763, when Germain Thibaudot, wife Magdelaine, and six children, three sons and three daughers, appeared on repatriation list there.  Germain le jeune remarried to Marie Babineau in c1765, no place given.  According to Arsenault, between 1766 and 1774, Marie gave Germain le jeune six more children, three sons and three daughters.  One suspects some of these children came from first wife Madeleine.  After the family was allowed to leave Massachusetts, they resettled probably near his family on Rivière St.-Jean, where British officials counted them in 1768.  They moved on to Richibouctou on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore by 1770.  Two of Germain le jeune's daughters by both wives married into the Melanson, Vautour, and Bourgeois families.  Two of his sons also created their own families.

Second son Jean-David, by first wife Françoise Préjean, born probably in Massachusetts in c1760, married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques LeBlanc, in c1781, no place given.  Where did they settle? 

Germain le jeune's third son Amand, perhaps by second wife Marie Babineau, born in either Massachusetts or greater Acadia in c1766, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians René Landry and Madeleine Boudreau, in c1788, no place given.  Where did they settle? 

Cramatte's second son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Minas in c1731, married Marie-Anne-Françoise, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Babin and Marguerite Thériot, in c1755 either at Minas or in the first weeks of exile.  They evidently escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia and sought refuge in Canada.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1757 and 1775, Marie-Anne-Françoise gave Jean-Baptiste five children, two daughters and three sons.  After the war, they followed his family to upper Rivière St.-Jean and settled at Madawaska.  Members of the family also settled on the lower St. Lawrence.  Their daughters married into the Côté and Soucy families at Kamouraska there.  Jean-Baptiste's sons also married on the lower St. Lawrence and upper Rivière St.-Jean.

Oldest son Joseph, born probably in Canada in c1770, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Côté and Josephte Albert, at L'Isle-Verte on the lower St. Lawrence in September 1795. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son Étienne, born probably in Canada in c1772, married Judith, daughter of Joseph Paradis and Judith Lavasseur, at Kamouraska in October 1795. 

Jean-Baptiste's third and youngest son Jean-François, born probably in Canada in c1775, married Euphrosine, daughter of Jean Cyr and Marguerite Dumont-Guéret and widow of Firmin Cyr, at St.-Basile de Madawaska in November 1805. 

Cramatte's third son Olivier, born probably at Minas in c1732, evidently escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and followed members of his family to Canada.  In his early 30s, he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pothier and Marie-Josèphe Hébert of Chignecto, at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière on the lower St. Lawrence in September 1765.  They followed his family to upper Rivière St.-Jean.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1786, Madeleine gave Olivier nine children, eight sons and a daughter.  Olivier died at St.-Basile de Madawaska in February 1801, in his late 60s.  His daughter married into the Cyr family.  Seven of his sons also married on the upper St.-Jean.

Oldest son Olivier, fils, born in c1766, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Cormier and Madeleine Landry, at St.-Basile de Madawaska in July 1792.

Olivier, père's second son Paul-Grégoire, born in 1768, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Lavasseur and his Acadian wife Madeleine Landry, at St.-Basile de Madawaska in October 1794. 

Olivier, père's third son Firmin, born in c1770, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Cyr and Marie-Anne Guilbaut, at St.-Basile de Madawaska in November 1795. 

Olivier, père's fourth son Paul, born in c1774, married fellow Acadian Marie-Anne Cormier, no place and date given, and, in his late 30s, remarried to Marguerite Gagné, widow of Joseph Michaud, St.-Basile de Madawaska in August 1813. 

Olivier, père's fifth son Tousssaint, born in c1775, married Marie-Esther-Thérèse, another daughter of Jean-Baptiste Cormier and Madeleine Landry, at St.-Basile de Madawaska in June 1799. 

Olivier, père's sixth son Georges, born in 1781, married, in his early 30s, cousin Françoise Thibodeau in c1802, no place given, and settled at St.-Basile de Madawaska.  

Olivier, père's seventh son Jean-Baptiste, born in c1785, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Jean Tardif and Marie-Anne Dubé, no place given, in January 1810. 

Jean's second son Pierre, born probably at Minas in the 1700s, married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Cormier and Catherine LeBlanc, in c1731 probably at Chignecto.  Bona Arsenault says they settled at Aulac on the west side of Rivière Missaguash and at nearby Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area.  Arsenault says that, between 1732 and 1741, Madeleine gave Pierre five children, three daughters and two sons.  They evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  If so, sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.   Pier Tibaudo, "widow", and four children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  According to Stephen A. White, Pierre died before June 1766, no place given.  Two of his daughters married into the Ouellet and Saindon families at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière and Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence.  His older son settled on the upper St. Lawrence, and his younger son emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax.

Older son Olivier, born in c1733 probably at Chignecto, married Marie, daughter of Jean Bourg and Marie Thériot of Aulac, at Beaubassin in October 1754.  The British deported the family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Olivier a son in c1757.  Olivier remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Poirier and Madeleine Doiron and widow of another Olivier Thibodeau, in c1761, probably in the Quaker Colony.  She evidently gave him no more children.  In June 1763, Ollivier Thibodeau, wife Marie Poirié, and a child, probably his son by first wife Marie, appeared on a repatriation list in Pennsylvania.  Later in the decade, they followed other exiles from the upper seaboard colonies to Canada and settled at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières, where Olivier died in March 1776, in his early 40s.  His son married there.

Only son Joseph, by first wife Marie Bourg, born in Pennsylvania in c1757, followed his father and stepmother to Bécancour, where he married Josette, daughter of Joseph Rivard-Lavigne and Josette Pré-Richard, in August 1779. 

Pierre's younger son Charles, born in c1739 (Arsenault says c1741) probably at Chignecto, evidently followed his family to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and into the prison compound at Halifax.  Charles did not follow his family to Canada but emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1765.  He settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans and may have lived briefly in the Attakapas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  If so, he returned to the river and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Landry and Cécile Poirier, at Cabahannocer in c1768.  They remained on the river.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1770 and 1777, Marie gave Charles four children, three daughters and a son.  Other records give them more children, including five more sons, as late as 1796.  Charles died near Convent, St. James Parish, in September 1820, a widower in his early 80s.  His daughters married into the Bourgeois and Caillouet families.  Five of his six sons married, into the Blanchard, LeBlanc, Martin, Gautreaux, and Landry families.  Two of them and a grandson joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, and a grandson crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to St. Landry Parish, but the others remained in what became St. James Parish.  Most of them settled near Convent, on the left, or east, bank of the river, where their immigrant ancestor had lived and died. 

Jean's third son Germain, born at Minas in March 1709, married Judith, daughter of Jacques à René LeBlanc and Catherine Landry, at Grand-Pré in August 1742 and settled at nearby Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1747, Judith gave Germain three daughters.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Germain died at Falmouth in late October or early November 1756, age 47, victim, perhaps, of smallpox and was buried at nearby St.-Gluvias church, Penryn, in November 1756.  Wife Judith also died that year.  Their daughters were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  The oldest daughter, Marie, married into the Granger family at Morlaix.  In November 1765, she, her husband, and her younger sisters followed other Acadian exiles from England to newly-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  French officials counted them there in 1767.  The youngest daughter, Anne, married into the Loréal family at Bangor on the island in January 1769.  Neither sister followed other Acadian exiles to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Second daughter Élisabeth, at age 45, married into the Merlin family at Le Palais on the island in 1790 and died there in 1808, in her early 60s.  Sister Marie died on the island in 1811, in her late 60s; and sister Anne died there in 1812, in her mid-60s.

Jean's fourth son Charles, born at Minas in March 1711, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Philippe Melanson and Marie Dugas and widow of Charles Babin, at Grand-Pré in February 1735 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1748, Anne-Marie gave Charles eight children, two sons and six daughters, including a set of twins. The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Anne-Marie gave Charles another son in c1758--nine children, three sons and six daughters, in all.  Charles, now a widower, and six of his children, four daughters and two sons, appeared on a repatriation list at Snow Hill on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  They moved on to Pennsylvania after the counting.  Charles, at age 53, remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Jean Doiron and Anne LeBlanc and widow of Joseph Poirier, at St. Joseph church, Philadelphia, in July 1764.  They followed other exiles to Canada later in the decade.  Charles died at Bécancour on the upper Lafourche across from Trois-Rivières in November 1779, age 68.  A daughter married into the Blanchard and Aucoin families at Philadelphia and Bécancour.  A son also created a family of his own.

Third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably in Marland in c1758, followed his widowed father and older siblings to Pennsylvania and Canada.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Reau and Agathe Laflamme, at Bécancour in February 1781. 

Jean's fifth son Olivier, born at Minas in October 1719, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Melanson and Marguerite Dugas, at Grand-Pré in November 1739.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1748, Madeleine gave Olivier five children, two sons and three daughters.  The British deported the family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  In June 1763, Olivier, Madeleine, six children, and an orphan were still in the colony .  Later in the decade, they resettled in Canada.  British officials counted them at Québec City in 1771.  One of Olivier's daughters married into the Caron family at Philadelphia in 1762.  Two of his sons also created families of their own, in Canada. 

Older son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in c1740, followed his family to Pennsylvania and probably to Québec.  Bona Arsenault says he may have been the Jean-Baptiste à Olivier who married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Dugas and Marguerite Robichaud, in c1766, no place given, settled at Deschambault on the upper St. Lawrence in 1767, at Ste.-Foy near Québec City in 1771, and at L'Assomption north of Montréal in 1775, and that, in his early 50s, remarried to Marie Goulet at L'Assomption in November 1790.  However, Arsenault also says it is likely that another Jean-Baptiste à Olivier whose mother was a Melanson married Marguerite Dugas and Marie Goulet. 

Olivier's younger son Paul, born at Minas in c1746, followed his family to Pennsylvania and Québec.  He married Françoise, daughter of François Deguise and Marie-Françoise Jourdain, at Québec City in November 1771. 

Jean's sixth and youngest son Joseph, born at Minas in May 1721, married in c1749, probably at Minas, a woman whose name has been lost to history.  The British deported them to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Joseph, at age 40, remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Aucoin and Élisabeth Boudrot and widow of Olivier LeBlanc, at Philadelphia in April 1762.  Joseph, wife Marie-Josèphe, and seven of their children appeared on a repatriation list in the Quaker Colony in June 1763.  They, too, resettled in Canada. 

Jean's seventh and youngest son Alexis, born, according to Stephen A. White, in c1723, probably at Minas, married Marie-Anne, daughter of René Blanchard and Anne Landry, in c1747, no place given.  Bona Arsenault says Alexis was the youngest son of Pierre l'aîné, not Jean; White is followed here.  According to Arsenault, Marie gave Alexis a son in c1754.  The British deported the family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Arsenault says Marie gave Alexis another son in c1756.  One wonders if she gave him a third son in the Quaker Colony in c1761.  According to White, Alexis, at age 39, remarried to Catherine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Landry and widow of Jean-Baptiste Babin, at Philadelphia in February 1762.  In June 1763, Alexis, Catherine, and seven children appeared on a repatriation list in the Quaker Colony.  The family followed other exiles from Pennsylvania to Canada, where British officials counted them at Bécancour, Louiseville, and Nicolet near Trois-Rivières.  Alexis died at Nicolet in July 1802, age 79.  His oldest sons settled in Canada, and another son may have resettled in Spanish Louisiana. 

Oldest son Simon, by first wife Marie-Anne Blanchard, born in c1754, followed his family to Pennsylania and Canada.  He married Marie-Anne, daughter of Canadians Joseph Drolet and Marie-Anne Dechambre, at Québec City in June 1775. 

Alexis's second son Étienne, by first wife Marie-Anne Blanchard, born probably in Pennsylvania in c1756, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Louise, daughter of Canadians Jacques Chartré and Marie-Louise Rancin, at Québec City in February 1778. 

If the Henry Schuyler Thibodaux who emigrated to Spanish Louisiana by the early 1790s and served briefly as the governor of the State of Louisiana in late 1824 was Alexis's third son by first wife Marie-Anne Blanchard, Alexis's family line thrived also in the Bayou State. 

Pierre, père's third son Antoine, born at Port-Royal in c1676, married Marie, daughter of Jean Préjean and Andrée Savoie, at Port-Royal in October 1703 and remained there.  Between 1704 and 1727, Marie gave Antoine 11 children, eight daughters and three sons.  Antoine died between November 1753 and November 1758, in his 70s.  Seven of his daughters married into the Breau, Boudrot, Hébert, Gaudet, Doiron, and Robichaud families.  His three sons also married. 

Oldest son Antoine, fils, born at Port-Royal in July 1707, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Landry and Cécile Robichaud, at Annapolis Royal in November 1743 and remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1760, Marguerite gave Antoine, fils five sons.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  In July 1760, at Danvers, colonial officials counted Antne. Tibedo, age 59 [actually 53]; Mary[sic], his wife, age 35, described as "very sickly"; Jno. son age 13; David, age 8; Joseph, age 6, "sickly"; Peter, age 4; and Mother?[sic].  Antoine, fils died in the Bay Colony between 1760 and August 1763, in his early or late 50s.  At least two of his sons created families of their own.

Third son Joseph-Tranquille, born at Annapolis Royal in c1752, followed his family to Massachusetts and his widowed mother and brothers to Canada in the mid- or late 1760s.  At age 31, he married Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in the countryside north of Montréal. 

Antoine, fils's fifth and youngest son Louis, born in Massachusetts after July 1760, followed his widowed mother and older brothers to Canada in the mid- or late 1760s.  In his early 30s, he married Marguerite, daughter of Pascal Brault-Pominville and Thérèse Leduc, at Pointe-Claire on the St. Lawrence above Montréal in August 1794.  Louis served as a notary there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1795 and 1815, Marguerite gave Louis 11 children, five sons and six daughters.  He died at Rigaud on the lower Ottawa River in 1824, in his early or mid-60s.  One of his daughters became a nun, and another married into the Laflamme family at Montréal.  Four of his sons also married. 

Oldest son Louis, fils, born probably at Pointe-Claire in c1795, married Suzanne, sister of Dr. Chénier of St.-Eustache, at Pointe-Claire in February 1821.  Louis, fils also served as a clerc-notaire. 

Louis, père's third son Barthélémy, born probably at Pointe-Claire in c1798, married Geneviève Brabant at Rigaud in January 1823. 

Louis, père's fourth son Léon, born probably at Pointe-Claire in c1799, married Julie Faucher in 1825, place not given, and remarried to Louise Légault in 1835, place not given. 

Louis, père's fifth and youngest son Eusèbe, born in Canada in c1815, married Virginie Lanthier at L'Orignal, Ontario, in July 1849 and died at Montebello, Québec, in March 1901, in his mid- or late 80s. 

Antoine's second son Zacharie, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1719, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Claude Girouard and Élisabeth Blanchard and widow of Charles Landry, at Annapolis Royal in February 1754.  She evidently gave him no children.  The British deported Zacharie, Marie-Josèphe, and three of his Landry stepdaughters to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  Zacharie, his wife, and two stepdaughters appeared on a French repatriation list in the southern colony in August 1763.  One wonders where they went after the counting.  They likely did not go to French St.-Domingue, and they certainly did not go to Spanish Louisiana. 

Antoine's third and youngest son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1727, was deported to South Carolina with older brother Zacharie in the fall of 1755.  Joseph married Marie, daughter of Charles Landry and Marie-Josèphe Girouard and his brother Zacharie's stepdaughter, in c1759 probably in South Carolina.  Marie gave Joseph two sons in c1760 and August 1763.  In late August, the couple and their two sons were still in the colony.  One wonders where they went after the counting.  Joseph died before 1774, place not given.  They likely did not go to French St.-Domingue, and they certainly did not go to Spanish Louisiana. 

Pierre, père's fourth son Pierre le jeune, born at Port-Royal in c1678, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Martin Aucoin and Marie Gaudet, at Port-Royal in November 1706.  Between 1707 and 1724, Anne-Marie gave Pierre le jeune 11 children, eight daughters and three sons.  Pierre le jeune died at Annapolis Royal in October 1734, in his mid-50s.  Seven of his daughters married into the Comeau, Blanchard, Brasseur dit Brasseaux, Cormier, Pitre, Morvan, Savoie, Guénard (Ganier), Rivard, and Loiseau dit Francoeur families, and two of them emigrated to Louisiana in 1765 and 1767 from Massachusetts and Maryland.  All three of Pierre le jeune's sons married.  One of them emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 .   

Oldest son Paul, born at Port-Royal in September 1708, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean-Charles Trahan and Marie Boudrot, in c1735, perhaps at Annapolis Royal and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  According to Arsenault, in 1739 and 1744, Marguerite gave Paul two children, a son and a daughter.  Other records give them many more.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, Paul Tibaudau, his wife, and eight children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax.  Despite what Arsenault asserts, this was not the Paul Thibodeau who emigrated to Louisiana in 1765.  His daugher Anne, however, followed the Broussards and a Thibodeau cousin to the colony in 1765, settled with them on lower Bayou Teche, retreated to the river later that year, married a Savoie widow there in October 1766, but died soon after.  One wonders what happened to the rest of the family after the 1763 counting. 

Pierre le jeune's second son Olivier, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1712, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Ambroise Melanson and François Bourg, at Beaubassin in October 1734 and, according to Bona Arsenault, settled at Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area.  Arsenault says that between 1738 and 1756, Élisabeth gave Olivier eight children, six sons and two daughters.  They escaped the British roundup in the fall of 1755 and took refuge in Canada.  Olivier died at Québec in December 1757, in his mid-40s, victim, most likely, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian exiles in the area from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  His daughters married into the Frenette and Baril families at Deschambaut and Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pérade on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec City and Trois-Rivières.  Five of his sons also married in Canada and settled up and down the St. Lawrence valley and on Rivière Chaudière.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born in c1738 perhaps at Chepoudy, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Dugas and Marguerite Robichaud, in c1766, place not given.  British officials counted them at Deschambault in 1767, Ste.-Foy near Québec City in 1771, and L'Assomption north of Montréal in 1775.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1780, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste six children, two sons and four daughters.  Jean-Baptiste, in his early 50s, remarried to Marie Goulet at L'Assomption in November 1790.  One of his sons married. 

Younger son Louis, by first wife Marguerite Dugas, born probably at L'Assomption in c1778, married Pélagie, daughter of Joseph Fontaine and his Acadian wife Ursule Robichaud, at nearby St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in November 1807. 

Olivier's third son Joseph, born in 1745 probably at Chepoudy, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marguerite, daughter of François Rancour and Marie-Claire Jobin, at St.-Joachim below Québec City in February 1769.  They settled St.-Joseph-de-Beauce on the upper Chaudière south of Québec City.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1769 and 1810, Marguerite gave Joseph six children, two daughters and four sons.  Their daughters married into the Veilleux and Drouin families at St.-François-de-Beauce, today's Beauceville, above St.-Joseph.  Their sons also married there.

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born in in Canada c1772, married, at age 30, Marie-Louise Fortin at St.-François-de-Beauce in August 1802. 

Joseph, père's second son Louis, born in Canada in c1776, married Marie-Louise Gagné at St.-François-de-Beauce in February 1801. 

Joseph, père's third son François, born in Canada in c1780, married Catherine Rodrigue at St.-François-de-Beauce in October 1805. 

Joseph, père's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born in Canada in c1782, married Marie-Anne Rodrigue at St.-François-de-Beauce in October 1805, on the same day and at the same place his older brother François married probably to Marie-Anne's sister. 

Olivier's fourth son Jean, born probably Chepoudy in c1746, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Dorothée, daughter of Pierre Viau and Marguerite Poulin, at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pérade in February 1771. 

Olivier's fifth son Anselme, born probably at Chepoudy in c1754, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Germain and Madeleine Bigué-Robert, at Cap-Santé near Deschambaut in April 1781. 

Olivier's sixth and youngest son Urbain, born probably in Canada in c1756, married Anastasie, daughter of Pierre DeBlois and Catherine Létourneau, in Ste.-Famille Parish, Île d'Orléans below Québec City in August 1777.  They settled at Cap-Santé, where Urbain was a merchant.  Their son Pierre-Chrysologue was the father of Canadian senators Isidore and Rosaire Thibodeau. 

Pierre le jeune's third and youngest son Pierre, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1724, married Françoise, daughter of Étienne Saulnier and Jeanne Comeau of Petitcoudiac, in c1751, place not given.  Bona Arsenault says the Pierre who married Françoise Saulnier was a son of Paul Thibodeau and Marguerite Trahan, had been born in c1740, and married Françoise in c1760, no place given.  White is followed here.  Pierre and Françoise evidently escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  According to Arsenault, between 1761 and 1776, Françoise gave Pierre, fils six children, four daughters and two sons.  Other records give them three daughters between 1752 and 1762.  Pier Tibaudo, his wife, and three children, probably their three daughters, appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  They emigrated to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1765 and settled on the western prairies.  They were, in fact, among the first Acadians to settle in the Opelousas District.  More children were born to them there, including two sons.  Pierre, fils died at Opelousas in July 1790, age 65.  His daughters married into the Bourg, Chiasson, Pitre, and Richard families.  His sons married into the Chiasson and Richard families on the prairies and created vigorous lines in what became St. Landry and Acadia parishes. 

Pierre, père's fifth son Michel, born at Port-Royal in c1680, married Agnès, daughter of Claude Dugas and Françoise Bourgeois, at Port-Royal in November 1704.  Between 1705 and 1728, Agnès gave Michel 15 children, seven daughters and eight sons.  Michel died at Annapolis Royal in November 1734, in his early 50s.  Six of his daughters married into the Broussard, Girouard, Comeau, Martin, Aucoin, and Darois families, two of them to Broussard dit Beausoleil brothers, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax with her resistance-fighter husband in 1764-65.  Six of Michel's sons also married.  The widow and children of one of them also emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1764-65. 

Oldest son Michel, fils, born at Port-Royal in May 1708, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Alexandre Richard and Isabelle Petitpas, at Grand-Pré in September 1729.  They settled at Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1752, Anne-Marie gave Michel, fils five children, four sons and a daughter.  Most of the family escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Brirish authorities counted them in Ste.-Famille Parish on Île d'Orléans below Québec City in 1760.  Michel, fils remarried to Marie-Cécile, daughter of Canadians Alexandre Lefebvre and Marie-Geneviève Parent, at St.-Joseph-de-Beauce on upper Rivière Chaudière southeast of Québec City in January 1763.  She evidently gave him no more children.  He died at Ste.-Marie-de-Beauce on the Chaudière below St.-Joseph in June 1770, age 62.  Three of his four sons created families of their own in Canada.

Oldest son Timothée, by first wife Anne-Marie Richard, was born probably at Chepoudy in c1733.  According to Bona Arsenault, the British deported him to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Martin Aucoin and Élisabeth Boudrot of Minas, in c1761, no place given.  Arsenault says they settled at St.-Joseph-de-Beauce in c1762, so, if Arsenault is correct about his deportation, Timothée may have been among the exiles sent to South Carolina and Georgia who, with the permission of those colonies' governors, managed to make their way back to greater Acadia by sea in 1756.  According to Arsenault, between 1762 and 1770, Marguerite gave Timothée four children, three daughters and a son.  Timothée remarried to Marie-Élisabeth, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Bélanger and Marie Vézina of Beauport, at Beauport near Québec in July 1771.  According to Arsenault, between 1772 and 1780, Marie-Élisabeth gave Timothée four more children, two sons and two daughters--eight children, five daughters and three sons, in all.  Three of Timothée's daughters by both wives married into the Camiré, DeBlois, and Boucher families on upper Rivière Chaudière.  His three sons also married there.

Oldest son Jean, by first wife Marguerite Aucoin, born evidently in Canada in c1770, married Louise Bizier at St.-Joseph-de-Beauce in August 1806, and, at age 43, remarried to Marie Drouin there in July 1813. 

Timothée's second son Louis, by second wife Marie-Élisabeth Bélanger, born probably in Canada in c1772, married cousin Marie-Louise Vézina at Beauport near Québec City in July 1792, and, at age 37, remarried to Marie-Josèphe Maheu at St.-François-de-Beauce in November 1809. 

Timothée's third and youngest son Pierre, by second wife Marie-Élisabeth Bélanger, born in Canada in c1778, married Geneviève Jacques at St.-Joseph-de-Beauce in October 1800. 

Michel, fils's second son Joseph, by first wife Anne-Marie Richard, born probably at Chepoudy in c1738, evidently followed his family to Canada.  He died in Ste.-Famille Parish, Île dOrléans, in May 1760, in his early 20s, evidently before he could marry. 

Michel, fils's third son Pierre, by first wife Anne-Marie Richard, born probably at Chepoudy in c1746, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie, daughter of François Proteau and Marie-Anne Bruneau, at Ste.-Marie-de-Beauce in August 1768.  Pierre, at age 70, remarried to Angélique Rousseau, widow of Louis Ouellet, at Ste-Marie-de-Beauce in October 1816. 

Michel, fils's fourth and youngest son Germain, by first wife Anne-Marie Richard, born probably at Chepoudy in c1752, followed his family to Canada and married Germaine Guimont, widow of Pierre-Alexandre Robichaud, at L'Islet on the lower St. Lawrence in November 1787. 

Michel, père's second son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in January 1710, married, according to Stephen A. White, Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Jean-Charles Trahan and Marie Boudrot, in c1740, no place given.  However, Bona Arsenault insists that Pierre à Michel, père married Madeleine, son of Pierre Cormier and Catherine LeBlanc of Chignecto, in c1731.  White says, however, that Madeleine Cormier married Pierre à Jean Thibodeau, not this Pierre.  White is followed here.  One wonders what happened to Pierre and his family in 1755. 

Michel, père's third son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1711, married Anne-Marie, daughter of François Savoie and Marie Richard, in c1738, place not given.  According to Bona Arsenault, Joseph and his family settled at Chepoudy.  Arsenault says that, between 1739 and 1756, Anne-Marie gave Joseph four children, two sons and two daughters.  Arsenault hints that they escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on Île St.-Jean, but they did not remain.  According to Stephen A. White, Joseph died at Québec in December 1757, age 46, victim, most likely, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian exiles in the area from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  His daughters married into the Breau and Nicolas-Vilaire-Dehou families at Québec city in the early and late 1760s.  One wonders what happened to his sons after 1755. 

Michel, père's fourth son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1713, married Brigitte, daughter of Pierre Breau and Anne LeBlanc, in c1739 and settled at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1744, Brigitte gave Charles three children, a son and two daughters.  Othe records give them many more.  The family escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Cherle Tibaudo, his wife, and 11 children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Charles must have died soon after the counting.  Three of his daughters married into the Godin dit Bellefontaine dit Beauséjour, Richard, and Surette families during exile.  His widow and three of their unmarried children, a son and two daughters, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax with the Broussards in 1764-65 and followed them to lower Bayou Teche; Charles was a brother of the Beausoleil Broussard brothers's wives.  Three of Charles and Brigitte's married daughters and their families also followed, and two of them settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  One of them resettled on the western prairies.  The two younger daughters married into the Dugas and D'Amour dit de Louvière families on the prairies.  Two of the married daughters remarried into the Lachaussée and Landry families on the river and the prairies (daughter Rosalie dite Rose, widow Richard, in fact, was the first Acadian exile in Louisiana to marry a non-Acadian there).  Charles and Brigitte's son also married in the Spanish colony, so the family line endured there. 

Oldest son Jean-Anselme, called Anselme, was born either at Petitcoudiac in c1739 or in exile in c1758.  Bona Arsenault seems to be giving Charles and Brigitte two sons, Anselme and Jean dit Anselme, when there may have been only one.  Anselme followed his family into exile and imprisonment at Halifax and his widowed mother and sisters to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1764-65.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Melanson and Anne Landry, at Attakapas in June 1780.  According to Arsenault, between 1781 and 1785, Marguerite gave Anselme three children, a daughter and two sons.  Anselme remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Trahan and Marguerite Duhon, at Attakapas in February 1793.  Arsenault says that between 1795 and 1808, Anne gave Anselme seven more children, a son and six daughters--10 children, seven daughters and three sons, by two wives.  Other records give them three more sons between 1800 and 1812--13 chldren in all.  Anselme's daughters by both wives married into the Broussard, Labauve, Landry, Missionnier, and Thibodeaux families.  Three of his six sons by both wives also married, into the Broussard and Landry families, and settled in what became St. Martin, Lafayette, and Vermilion parishes. 

Michel, père's fifth son François, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1720, evidently died young.   

Michel, père's sixth son Benjamin, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1721, married Isabelle, daughter of his first cousin Philippe Thibodeau and Isabelle Vincent, in c1746 probably at Minas, and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Charles Lanoue and Marie-Josèphe Landry, in c1752 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, they settled at Petitcoudiac, but they likely settled at Pigiguit.  Marguerite gave Benjamin a son in Ste.-Famille Parish there in October 1754.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorites sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Bristol, where Marguerite gave Benjamin a daughter soon after their arrival.  In May 1763, Benjamin, likely a childless widower, was repatriated from Southampton to St.-Malo, France, and settled at St.-Coulomb in the countryside northeast of the Breton port.  He was still there in 1772 and still alone.  If he was alive in 1785, when he would have been in his early 60s, he did not follow his fellow Acadians to Spanish Louisiana.  Nor did either of his children, who may not have survived the crossing to France. 

Michel, père's seventh son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1723, married Marie-Josèphe, another daughter of Charles Lanoue and Marie-Josèphe Landry, at Annapolis Royal in February 1748 and may have remained there.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1755.  Jean-Baptiste died before August 1763, place not given. 

Michel, père's eighth and youngest son Amand-Grégoire, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1724, died at Annapolis Royal in April 1740, age 15.

Pierre, père's sixth son Claude, born at Port-Royal in c1685, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Pierre Comeau l'aîné and Jeanne Bourg, at Port-Royal in November 1709 and remained there.  Between 1710 and 1733, Élisabeth gave Claude 13 children, five daughters and eight sons, including a set of twins.  Only one of their daughters married, into the Lemire family.  Only two of Claude's eight sons married, and one of them emgriated to Louisiana in 1764-65.  

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1713, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Mathieu Doucet and Anne Lord, at Annapolis Royal in August 1744.  One wonders what happened to the family in the 1755.  Jean-Baptiste died at Maskinongé on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Montréal in January 1788, age 75. 

Claude's second son François, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1717, died young. 

Claude's third son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1718, died young. 

Claude's fourth son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1721, died young. 

Claude's fifth son Charles-Élysée, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1726, died young. 

Claude's sixth son Paul, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1728, evidently escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  He married Rosalie, daughter of Joseph Guilbeau dit L'Officier and Madeleine Michel, in c1763 probably at Halifax.  They and a Thibodeau cousin followed her family and the Broussards to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1764-65 and settled with them on lower Bayou Teche.  Rosalie was pregnant on the voyage.  Their first child, a son, was born on the Teche in August but lived only a few days.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1784, Rosalie gave Paul eight children, three sons and five daughters.  Other records give them more sons.  The family settled at La Pointe farther up the Teche, where Paul died in September 1805, age 77.  His daughters married into the Broussard and Trahan families.  Three of his six sons also married, into the Cormier, Broussard, and Thibodeaux families, and settled in what became St. Martin and Lafayette parishes.

Claude's seventh son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1731, evidently died young. 

Claude's eighth and youngest son Grégoire, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1733, died young. 

Pierre, père's seventh and youngest son Charles, born at Port-Royal in c1689, married Françoise, another daughter of Pierre Comeau l'aîné and Jeanne Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in December 1715 and settled at Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1716 and 1734, Françoise gave Charles nine children, six daugthers and three sons.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean probably after August 1752, motivated, perhaps, by the chaos in the Chignecto/trois-rivières area in the early 1750s.  Charles died on Île St.-Jean in August 1756, in his late 60s, two years before the island's dérangement.  His family either left the island soon after Charles's death or escaped the British roundup there in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Four of his daughters married into the Savoie, Pitre, Henry, and Thibodeau families in the trois-rivières.  His three sons also married.  Two of them emigrated from Halifax to Louisiana with their Broussard cousins in the mid-1760s.

Oldest son Claude le jeune, born probably at Chepoudy in c1722, married Marguerite Breau in c1751, no place given, but it probably was in the trois-rivières.  They evidently followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where Claude remarried to Anne-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Gaudet and Marie-Josèphe Darois at Pigiguit, at Port-La-Joye in May 1757.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758. 

Charles's second son Olivier, born probably at Chepoudy in c1732, likely followed his family to Île St.-Jean in the early 1750s.  He evidently left the island soon after his father's death or escaped the roundup on the island in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, probably the latter, he was either captured by, or, more likely, surrendered to British forces in the area and was held in the prison compound at Halifax for the rest of the war.  According to Bona Arsenault, he married cousin Madeleine, daughter of Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil and Marguerite Thibodeau and widow of Jean Landry, in c1763, perhaps at Halifax, but it likely was a few years earlier.  Arsenault says Madeleine gave Olivier three children, two daughters and a son, between 1763 and 1765.  Aulivie Tibeaudau with a wife and three children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Two of the children were his wife's daughters Anne and Isabelle Landry from her previous marriage, and the other child lkely was his and Madeleine's newborn daughter Marie.  Olivier, Madeleine, his two stepdaughters, his daughter Marie, a newborn son, and brother Amand, still a bachelor, followed the Broussards to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1764-65.  From New Orleans, where Olivier was one of the family heads who attempted to exchange his Canadian card money for French funds, they followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche in the spring of 1765.  Madeleine was pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter, Marguerite-Anne, on the Teche on May 10.  The baby lived less than a week.  On the same day their daughter died--May 16--wife Madeleine died from complications of childbirth.  In c1770, in his late 30s, Olivier remarried to fellow Acadian Agnès Brun, widow of Paul Doucet, at Attakapas.  Arsenault says she gave him seven more children, four sons and three daughters, between 1772 and 1784--10 children, five sons and five daughters, by two wives.  Olivier and Agnès validated their marriage, as well as legitimized their children, at Attkapas in September 1786.  Olivier died there in November 1803, age 70.  His daughters by both wives married into the Sonnier, Broussard, Girouard, and Martin families.  Four of his five sons by both wives also married, into the Sonnier, Prejean, Breaux, and Castille families, and settled in what became St. Martin and Lafayette parishes. 

Charles's third and youngest son Amand, born probably at Chepoudy in c1734, likely followed his family to Île St.-Jean in the early 1750s.  He evidently left the island soon after his father's death or escaped the roundup on the island in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore with older brother Olivier.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, probably the latter, he, along with Olivier, was either captured by, or, more likely, surrendered to British forces in the area and was held in the prison compound at Halifax.  Still a bachelor in his early 30s, he accompanied his brother to Louisiana in 1764-65.  Only days after reaching New Orleans, he married Gertrude, 18-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bourg and Anne Boudrot of Tracadie, Île St.-Jean, on 27 February 1765--the first recorded Acadian marriage in Louisiana.  They followed their families to lower Bayou Teche, where their children were born.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1791, Gertrude gave Amand 11 children, six daughters and five sons.  Amand died at his home at La Pointe on the upper Teche in June 1818, in his early or mid-80s.  His daughters married into the Babineaux, Broussard, and LeBlanc famliies, two of them to brothers.  Three of his five sons also married, into the Bernard, Girouard, Duhon, and Thibodeaux families and settled in St. Martin Parish.362

Pinet

Philippe Pinet, born at Port-Royal in c1654, and wife Catherine Hébert, despite the number of their children, created a relatively small family in the colony.  Between 1680 and 1701, at Port-Royal, Chignecto, and Minas, Catherine gave Philippe a dozen children, six sons and six daughters.  Five of their daughters married into the Corporon, Doucet dit Lirlandois, LeBlanc dit Jasmin, Jacquemin dit Lorrain, and Simon dit Boucher families in greater Acadia.  All of Philippe and Catherine's sons married, but not all of their lines endured.  Their descendants settled at Minas, Chignecto, in the French Maritimes, and in Canada before Le Grand Dérangement.  They were especially numerous in the Maritimes.  At least five of their descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.  Even more of them could be found in greater Acadia, France, the French Antilles, and especially in Canada after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Jean, born probably at Port-Royal in c1680, followed his family to Chignecto and Minas and emigrated to Canada after he came of age.  At age 30, he married Marie, daughter of Pierre Morin dit Boucher and Marie-Madeleine Martin and widow of Jacques Cochu, at Québec in February 1710.  Marie also was a native of Port-Royal and had lived at Chignecto until Acadian Governor Meneval threw the entire Morin family out of the colony in the late 1680s as punishment for the indiscretion of one of her older brothers, who was packed off to France.  Her family lived at Gaspésie before moving on to Canada.  In 1716, they were living on Rue Cul-de-Sac, Québec, where Jean worked as a tonnelier, or cooper.  Marie gave him no children.  Jean died in Québec's Hôpital général in July 1744, in his early 60s, a widower. 

Philippe's second son Antoine, born at Chignecto in October 1682, followed his family to Minas and married Marguerite, daughter of André Célestin dit Bellemère and Pérrine Basile, at Grand-Pré in April 1709.  They evidently moved to Canada in the early 1710s to escape British rule in Nova Scotia and then moved on to Île Royale later in the decade.  Between 1710 and 1728, at Minas, Québec, and on Île Royale, Marguerite gave him 10 children, at least six daughters and three sons.  Antoine died on Île Royale in September 1738, in his mid-50s.  Three of his daughters married into the Ballé, Bouillé, Arnoux, and Harnois families on the island.  Only one of Antoine's sons married, and he did so in Canada before Le Grand Dérangement.  

Oldest son Paul, born at Minas in February 1710, died at Québec in October 1714, age 4 1/2. 

Antoine's second son, name unrecorded, was born before 1717, place unrecorded.  When and where did he die?

Antoine's third and youngest son Alexis, born on Île Royale probably in the 1720s, also emigrated to Canada, where he married Marie-Anne, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Gaffé and Marie-Anne Simon, at Québec in November 1750. 

Philippe's third son Noël, born at Minas in August 1683 but baptized at Chignecto in June 1684, married Rose, daughter of Robert Henry and Marie-Madeleine Godin, at Grand-Pré in September 1710.  Between 1711 and 1739, at Minas, Québec, and Rimouski in Canada, Petit-Dégrat on the southeast coast of Île Madame, Chignecto, and on Île St.-Jean, Rose gave Noël 11 children, six sons and five daughters.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1740.  One wonders why they moved so often.  A French official counted Noël, Rose, and five of their unmarried children at Pointe de l'Est on the eastern end of Île St.-Jean in August 1752.  Noël died on the island in May 1755, in his early 70s.  Two of his daughters married into the Vallet dit Langevin, Porcheron, and D'Etcheverry families in the Maritimes and in France.  Four of his six sons also married.   

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Québec in c1711, married Jeanne-Isabelle, daughter of Antoine Pilon and Jeanne Charion, at Beaubassin in January 1746.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1757, at Chignecto and on Île St.-Jean, Jeanne-Isabelle gave Jean-Baptiste six children, four sons and two daughters.  They joined his family at Pointe de l'Est on Île St.-Jean by 1750.  A French official counted them there with three sons in August 1752.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758. 

Noël's second son Joseph, born in the 1720s, place unrecorded, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Bertrand l'aîné and Marie-Françoise Léger, in c1748, place unrecorded, but it probably was at Minas.  Madeleine gave Joseph a daughter, Marie, at Minas in c1752.  One wonders if they were still at Minas in the fall of 1755 and, if so, what happened to them.  Daughter Marie evidently ended up in one of the British seaboard colonies during exile, and she may have been the only member of her extended family who ended up in French St.-Domingue after the war with Britain.  She died at Môle St.-Nicolas, site of the new French naval base on the northwest coast of the sugar island, in July 1776, age 24.  The priest who recorded her burial noted that her parents also were deceased and said nothing of a husband. 

Noël's third son Pierre, born at Petit-Dégrat in c1728, married Geneviève, daughter of Jean Trahan and Marie Girouard, in c1748, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1757, Geneviève gave Pierre six children, five sons and a daughter.  They, too, joined his family at Pointe de l'Est on Île St.-Jean, where a French official counted them with three sons in Auguste 1752.  In late 1758, the British deported them aboard the British transport Duke William, which left Chédbouctou Bay in late November for St.-Malo.  In mid-December, a North Atlantic storm sunk the ship off the southwest coast of England, and Pierre and his family were lost. 

Noël's fourth son Philippe dit Pinel, born on Île St.-Jean in c1731, followed his family to Chignecto and back to Île St.-Jean.  He probably was still on the island in August 1752, but he was not counted with his famiy at Pointe de l'Est.  The British deported him to France in late 1758.  He died in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in early November 1759, in his late 20s, before he could marry.  

Noël's fifth son Charles dit Pinel, born at Chignecto in c1732, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1740.  He was counted with his parents at Pointe de l'Est in August 1752, the only one of their children still with them.  He married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of Charles Lacroix dit Durel and Judith Chiasson, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, near Pointe de l'Est, in April 1753.  Between 1754 and 1758, Anne gave Charles three children, two daughters and a son.  The British deported them to France in late 1758.  One wonders if any of their children, ages 4, 2, and newborn, survived the crossing to Cherbourg, where, between 1760 and 1771, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish and perhaps across the bay at Le Havre, Anne gave Charles four more children, three daughters and a son.  Charles continued his work as a mariner in the mother country.  He nevertheless took his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  Anne gave him another son at La Chapelle-Roux, Poitou, in 1775--eight children, five daughters and three sons, in all.  By September 1784, the family had joined their fellow exiles at Chantenay near Nantes.  One of their daughters married there that November.  The following year, Charles, Anne, and three of their children, an unmarried son, an unmarried daughter, and the married daughter and her family, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Their daughter Jeanne-Charlotte and son Martin-Charles, who would have been ages 25 and 10 in 1785, if they were still living, did not accompany their family to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Charles and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, whrere Charles died by January 1788, in his early or mid-50s, when his wife was listed as a widow in a census.  His daughters married into the Haché, Benoit, and Trahan families in France and Louisiana.  His son Louis married into the Vincent family at New Orleans soon after they reached the colony andl followed his family to upper Bayou Lafourche.  All of the Acadian Pinels of South Louisiana descend from Louis and three of his five sons. 

Noël's sixth and youngest son Michel, born at Tintamarre, Chignecto, in June 1734, probably died young. 

Philippe's fourth son Charles l'aîné, born probably at Minas in the 1690s, moved on to the French Maritimes and married Marie, daughter of Louis Marchand and Marie Godin, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1724.  Between 1725 and 1740, Marie gave Charles five children, three sons and two daughters.  Charles l'aîné died probably at Port-Toulouse before March 1752, when his wife was counted as a widow there.  She also was counted with four unmarried children, not far from her married oldest son.  One wonders what happened to Marie and her other children in late 1758.  The British deported her oldest son and his family to St.-Malo, France, with devastating result.  One of her daughters, Angelique, escaped the British at Port-Toulouse in 1758, married into the Léger family in greater Acadia, and ended up on Île Miquelon, in France, and in Spanish Louisiana. 

Oldest son Charles, fils, born probably at Port-Toulouse in c1725, married Jeanne, daughter of Gabriel Samson and Jeanne Martin dit Barnabé of Annapolis Royal, at Port-Toulouse in c1749.  Jeanne gave Charles, fils a son, Jean, in c1751, who was still unnamed in March 1752, when a French official counted them at Port-Toulouse.  She gave him three more children, another son and two daughters, at Port-Toulouse before 1758.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Queen of Spain, which left Île Royale in September 1758 and reached the Breton port during the third week of November.  The crossing devastated the family.  Charles, fils, Jeanne, their younger son Charles III, and their daughters, Jeannette and Marie, died at sea.  Older son Jean, age 7, was the only surviver.  He went to live with a Mlle. Delien on Rue St.-Sauveur at St.-Malo soon after his arrival and moved to nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1760.  He died there in February 1763, age 11 or 12.  His line of the family died with him.

Philippe's fifth son Charles le jeune dit Petit Charles, born probably at Minas in the 1690s, also moved on to the French Maritimes and married Marie-Louise, daughter of François Testard dit Paris and Marie Doiron, at Port-Toulouse in c1723.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1724 and 1741, Marie-Louise gave Petit Charles nine children, five daughters and four sons.  Petit Charles died on Île Royale in May 1743, in his early 40s.  One of his daughters married into the Ménard and Anquetil or Anctil family on Île Royale.  Two of his sons married in the Maritimes before the islands' dérangement and remained in greater Acadia. 

Oldest son Charles, fils, born probably at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1727, worked as a coaster on the island.  He married Hélène Guidry probably at Port-Toulouse in c1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, Hélène gave Charles, fils a son, Jean-Baptiste, in c1751.  In March of the following year, a French official counted them at Port-Toulouse without a child, so Jean-Baptiste may have been born soon after the counting.  Charles, fils remarried to Marguerite Lavaudier on the island in c1756.  According to Arsenault, Marguerite gave Charles, fils two more sons, Charles and Louis, in 1757 and 1760.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup on the island in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the mainland.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they may have surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  After the war, they followed other Acadian refugees to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  According to Arsenault, Charles, fils's three sons drowned "in the pond" on Miquelon in September 1767.  They would have been ages 16, 10, and 7, respectively.  A few weeks later, French authorities, following an order from the King to relieve overcrowding on Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre, sent most of the islanders to France.  One wonders if Charles, fils and Marguerite were among them or if they chose to remain in greater Acadia.  One also wonders if they had more children. 

Petit Charles's second son Pierre, born probably at Port-Toulouse in c1730, married Monique, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Trahan and Marie-Catherine Boudrot, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in January 1756.  They evidently left the French Maritimes before the islands' dérangement in late 1758 and sought refuge in Canada.  The move proved fatal for wife Monique; she may have been one of the victims of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian exiles in the Québec area from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Pierre remarried to Marie, daughter of Canadian Michel Vienneau, at St.-Charles de Bellechasse across from Québec in October 1758.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1773, Marie gave Pierre three children, two sons and a daughter.  Their daughter married into the Thériot family at Caraquet in present-day northeastern New Brunswick.  If their sons were born in Canada, they did not remain there.

Older son Dominigue, by second wife Marie Vienneau, born probably in Canada in c1765, married Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudrot and Anne Haché, at Nepisiguit, today's Bathurst, in northeastern New Brunswick, in June 1789. 

Pierre's younger son Pierre, fils, by second wife Marie Vienneau, born probably in Canada in c1770, married Barbe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Agathe Landry, at Caraquet in July 1793. 

Philippe's sixth and youngest Philippe, fils, born probably at Minas in c1702, also moved on to the French Maritimes and married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, Michel in c1726 probably on Île Royale.  He died on the island at the home of Jean Martin in January 1733, in his early 30s.358

Melanson

Pierre Mellanson dit Laverdure, fils came to the colony with his parents and two younger brothers in the spring of 1657.  He and his wife Marie-Marguerite Mius d'Entremont created a large, influential branch of the family in the colony.  They were the first to settle at Grand-Pré.  Between 1666 and the early 1690s, at Port-Royal and Minas, Marie-Marguerite gave him 11 children, five sons and six daughters.  Pierre, fils died at Minas after 1714, probably in his 80s.  His daughters married into the Landry, Bourg dit Bellehumeur, Bugeaud, LeBlanc, Le Poupet de Saint-Aubin de La Boularderie, and Jacau de Fiedmont families.  Two of the older daughters' husbands served as officials at Minas, one of them as a surgeon, and the two younger daughters' husbands were French army officers stationed in the colony whose families were a part of the lesser nobility.  Four of Pierre, fils and Marie-Marguerite's five sons created their own families.  Their descendants settled at Minas, Petiticoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, and in the French Maritimes.  Forty-one Melansons, all but one of them from this branch of the family, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, from Maryland in the late 1760s and 1780s, and from France in 1785.  Others could be found in Canada, greater Acadia, and France after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Philippe, born at Port-Royal in c1666, married Marie, daughter of Claude Dugas and Françoise Bourgeois, in c1695 probably at Minas.  From the late 1690s to 1718, Marie gave Philippe 11 children, three sons and eight daughters.  Marie died at Minas in September 1733, in her late 50s.  Philippe did not remarry.  He died at Minas in June 1744, in his late 70s.  Six of his daughters married into the Landry, Trahan, Babin, Thibodeau, and Hébert families, and the youngest one emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  All three of his sons created families of their own.  

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Minas before 1701, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Marguerite Richard of Pigiguit, in c1720 at Minas.  Between 1721 and 1730, Marguerite gave Joseph six children, three sons and three daughters.  Joseph died at Minas before January 1745.  Two of his daughters married into the LeBlanc dit Des Sapins and Poirier families.  One of them died in England, and the other remained in Maryland with her second husband.  Two of Joseph's sons also created families of their own.  Both of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana, one from Maryland in 1767, the other from France in 1785. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born at Minas in January 1721, married Anne Bourg probably at Minas in c1746.  Between 1747 and 1757, Anne gave Joseph, fils seven children, three daughters and four sons.  They were counted at Gaspereau, Minas, in 1752 and moved on to Île St.-Jean after August of that year.  After the fall of Louisbourg in July 1758, the British deported Joseph, fils, Anne, and six of their children, three daughters and three sons, ages 12 to 2, to St.-Malo, France.  The three youngest children, two sons and a daughter, died at sea.  Wife Anne died at Hôtel-Dieu, St.-Malo, in February 1759 probably from the rigors of the crossing, and another daughter died there in March.  Joseph, fils and his surviving children, a daughter and a son, settled across the harbor from St.-Malo at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, where, at age 40, he remarried to fellow Acadian Ursule Hébert, widow of Alexandre Bourg, in April 1761.  She gave him no more children.  The blended family remained at St.-Énogat.  His surviving daughter Anne-Josèphe married a Bourg from Cobeguit in January 1767 at St.-Énogat; he was a sailor.  In September 1772, French authorities noted that Joseph, fils, now in his early 50s, was a laborer living with his wife, a weaver, and a grown son who was a sailor.  Joseph, fils did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join other Acadian exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  They remained in the St.-Malo area.  Joseph, fils and Ursule emigrated to Spanish Louisiana directly from St.-Malo in 1785.  He was, in fact, the only male Melanson to go to that colony from France.  One of Ursule's Bourg daughters and her Henry husband also went to the Spanish colony from St.-Malo, but Joseph, fils's children remained in France.  Joseph, fils and Ursule followed most of their fellow passengers to the new Acadian settlement of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  None of his sons created families of their own, so only the blood of this family line endured, in France. 

Oldest son Germain, born at Minas in c1749, followed his parents to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo, France, and settled with his father at St.-Énogat, where he became a sailor.  He probably did not marry, nor did he follow his father and stepmother to Spanish Louisiana. 

Joseph, fils's second son, perhaps also named Joseph, born, according to family historian Michael Melanson, in c1752, so it may have been at Minas or on Île St.-Jean, died on the crossing to St.-Malo, age 6 or 7. 

Joseph, fils's third and youngest son, Joseph III, born on Île St.-Jean in c1757, died on the crossing to St.-Malo, age 1 or 2. 

Joseph, père's second son Amand, born at Minas in October 1728, married Anne Babin in c1751 probably at Minas.  Anne gave him a son in c1752.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Between 1760 and 1765, Anne gave Amand four more children in the colony, two daughters and two sons.  Amand and his family appeared on a repatriation list at Baltimore in July 1763.  Their second daughter Marguerite died between July 1763 and April 1767, when Amand, Anne, and five of their children, four sons and a daughter, the youngest son a newborn, left Baltimore for Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to San Gabriel d'Iberville on the river south of Baton Rouge, where, between 1771 and 1775, Anne gave Amand three more children, two daughters and a son--nine children in all, five sons and four daughters.  By March 1777, Amand owned a slave, 20 head of cattle, four horses, 16 hogs, and 30 fowl on his 10-arpent frontage along the west bank of the river in the Iberville District.  He died at San Gabriel in December 1781, age 53.  Anne did not remarry.  She died at San Gabriel in November 1801, age 72.  Two of their younger daughters married into the LeBlanc and Landry families at San Gabriel and remained on the western bank of what became Iberville Parish.  Three of Amand's sons married, into the Godin and Landry families on the river, but one of the lines did not endure. 

Joseph, père's third and youngest son Jean, born at Minas in November 1730, did not create a family. 

Philippe's second son Philippe, fils, born at Minas in December 1712, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Trahan and Madeleine Comeau, in c1740 at Minas.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the childless couple to Pennsylvania.  In August 1756, Philippe, fils was one of 14 Acadians who signed a petition beseeching colonial officials to allow the exiles to return to their own country, join their fellow exiles elsewhere, or receive provisions.  The follow month, he and 19 other "Neutrals" signed a petition again asking to be sent back to their own country, join their fellow exiles elsewhere, or be treated like prisoners of war and receive provisions accorded to prisoners.  The governor refused to declare them prisoners of war, insisting that they were still subjects of the British Crown, and dispersed them to various communities in the colony, where he expected them to remain as settlers.  According to kinsmen in France, Philippe, fils died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, date unrecorded.  This implies that after the war ended in 1763, he, and perhaps his wife as well, returned to Nova Scotia. 

Philippe's third and youngest son Pierre le jeune, born at Minas in October 1715, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Marie Landry, at Grand-Pré in February 1745 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  Between 1746 and 1763, Marie-Madeleine gave Pierre le jeune eight children, six daughters and two sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  They were held at Southampton, repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 aboard La Dorothée, and settled in the suburb of St.-Énogat, today's Dinard.  In late November 1765, they joined other Acadian exiles from England on recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled at Le Cosquet near Locmaria on the southeast part of the island, where Pierre III died in November 1766, age 51.  By the mid-1770s, his widw Marie-Madeleine took her family to Concarneau near Quimper in southwestern Brittany and died there in June 1791, age 71.  Her Melanson daughters married into the Daigre, Gallo, Liber or Libéo dit Libert, Paget, Petit dit Klein, Granger, and Collin families on Belle-Île-en-Mer and in southwest Brittany.  Both of her Melanson sons also created their own families in southwest Brittany, where they worked as sailors for the French Republic.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.

Older son Joseph, born at Minas in June 1750, followed his family to Virginia, England, St.-Énogat, Belle-Île-en-Mer, and his widowed mother to Concarneau.  He married Frenchwoman Marie-Jacquette Bonnetis at Concarneau in November 1776.  Between 1779 and 1787, Marie-Jacquette gave Joseph three daughters.  As the birth of their youngest daughter shows, the family did not follow most of the Acadians still in France to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Bona Arsenault places the family also at nearby Lorient in 1788 and 1791.  In July 1794, during the heighth of the French Revolution, Joseph appeared on a list of Acadians and Canadians at Concarneau who still possessed "a right to aid."  The French official noted that he was a sailor with two children, so Marie-Jacquette and their youngest daughter likely had died by then.   He evidently did not remarry nor father any sons. 

Pierre le jeune's younger son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in September 1752, followed his family to Virginia, England, St.-Énogat, Belle-Île-en-Mer, and his widowed mother to Concarneau/Quimper.  In his early 30s, he married Anne LeBeau at Concarneau in January 1784.  She gave him two sons there in 1785 and 1787.  He, too, did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Marie-Michelle Vidal at Concarneau in April 1788.  Between 1789 and 1801, at Concarneau and nearby Quimper, she gave him seven more children, five sons and two daughters--nine children in all, seven sons and two daughters.  Jean-Baptiste also appeared on a list of Acadians and Canadians at Concarneau in July 1794 who were still entitled "to aid."  Like older brother Joseph, Jean-Baptiste was working as sailor "in the service of the French Republic"; the French officials noted that Jean-Baptiste was the father of six children.  If so, Jean-Baptiste's second wife and three of his children evidently were deceased.  Jean-Baptiste died at Concarneau in August 1803, age 50.  One wonders if he had remarried and fathered anymore children, or if any of his daughters and sons created their own families.

Pierre, fils's second son Pierre dit Pedro, born at Port-Royal in c1670, married Marie, daughter of Martin Blanchard and Françoise LeBlanc, in c1695 probably at Minas.  From the late 1690s to 1716, Marie gave Pedro 11 children, eight daughters and three sons.  Probably a widower, Pedro followed one of his daughters and her family to Île St.-Jean in c1750 or 1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Pedro, age 80 (probably 82), living with his widowered son-in-law Pierre Naquin and six of his Naquin grandchildren, at Anse-à-Pinnet on the southeast coast of Île St.-Jean.  One suspects that Pedro died on the island before late 1758, when the British deported most of the islanders, including Jacques Naquin and two of his children, to St.-Malo, France.  Six of Pedro's daughters married into the Landry, Bourg, Pichot, Coupiau dit Desaleur, Hébert, Naquin, and Thériot families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Two of Pedro's three sons created families of their own, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in the 1780s.   

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Minas in January 1712, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Pierre Thériot and Marie Bourg and widow of ____ Landry, in c1734 (family historian Michael Melanson says c1729) at Minas.  Between 1735 and 1739, Élisabeth gave Pierre, fils three children, two sons and a daughter.  Following a long illness, during which he suffered patiently, Pierre, fils died there in November 1739, age 27.  His widow remarried to Pierre Gautrot, a widower, and followed him to Anse-à-Pinnet, Île St.-Jean, in late 1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Élisabeth, third husband Pierre, some of her and his children by their first marriages, and her two Melanson sons, now in their late teens, at Anse-à-Pinnet.  One wonders what happened to her Melanson daughter, Marie-Josèphe, who would have been age 13 at the time and was not one of the children counted.  The British deported the family to France in late 1758.  Pierre Gautrot died at La Rochelle on the Bay of Biscay in September 1769, age 61, so members of the blended family may had landed there in 1759.  One of Élisabeth's Melanson sons remained in the mother country.  The other, who had remained in greater Acadia, was deported to France in the late 1770s. 

Older son Pierre III, born at Minas in May 1735, followed his mother, stepfather, and their blended family to Anse-à-Pinnet.  He married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of René Aucoin and Madeleine Michel, on Île St.-Jean in c1757.  Marie-Madeleine gave Pierre III a daughter in April 1758, on the eve of the island's dérangement.  The British deported them to France in 1758-59, and they landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer, where Pierre III worked as a sailor.  Their daughter, Marie-Madeleine, died in that city in January 1759, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Wife Marie-Madeleine died at Boulogne-sur-Mer in January 1760, age 22.  Pierre III remarried to Marie-Louise, daughter of locals Charles Guilbon and Marie-Marguerite ____, at Boulogne-sur-Mer in September 1761.  Between 1762 and 1768, Marie-Louise gave Pierre III four children, two daughters and two sons.  In 1773, Pierre III and his family followed hundreds of other Acadian exiles in the coastal cities to an influential nobleman's estate near Châtellerault in the interior of Poitou--an odd choice for a sailor.  When most of his fellow Acadians abandoned the Poitou venture in 1775 and 1776 and retreated to the port city of Nantes, Pierre III remained at Cenan near Châtellerault.  Marie-Louise gave him another son in c1776.  She died at Cenan in October 1777, age 41.  Jean III remarried again--his third marriage--to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Renault and Marie-Anne Barbudeau, at nearby Archigny in March 1778.  Madeleine gave him two more children, a son and a daughter, at Cenan in 1779 and 1780--eight children, four daughters and four sons, by three wives.  Most of his children died young, two of them within a month of one another at St.-Phele-de-Maillé near Archigny in the summer of 1780.  Third wife Madeleine died at St.-Phele-de-Maillé in August 1780, age 37, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Pierre III died at St.-Phele-de-Maillé, in January 1781, age 45.  One of his daughters married into the Debien family at St.-Phele in June 1784.  Neither she nor any of her surviving siblings emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Pierre, fils's younger son Joseph, born at Minas in October 1736, followed his mother, stepfather, and their blended family to Anse-à-Pinnet.  He evidently escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758 and sought refuge in greater Acadia.  Sometime in the early 1760s, he either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the region and held in the prison compound at Chédabouctou on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia.  After the war ended in 1763, he followed other exiles to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where he married Anne, daughter of Jacques Hébert and Anne Arseneau, in July 1765.  Between 1766 and 1778, on the island, Anne gave Joseph five children, three daughters and two sons.  French officials counted him, his wife, and their daughter on the island in May 1767.  They likely were among the habitants/fishermen on the island who French officials, obeying a royal decree, sent to France later in the year to relieve overcrowding on Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre.  If so, they were among the majority of the islanders who returned to Miquelon the following year (their second child, also a daughter, was born on Miquelon, not in France, in December 1769).  Bona Arsenault hints that they may have gone to the fishing center at Chédabouctou on the northeast coast of Nova Scotia in 1767, not to France, and returned to Miquelon soon after, but Arsenault may be referring to Joseph's stay at Chédabouctou in the early 1760s, before he moved on to Miquelon.  Their time back on the island was short.  In late 1778, after France became an ally of the Americans during their strugge for independence against Britain, the redcoats captured the Newfoundland islands and deported the Acadians there to France.  Joseph and his family landed at La Rochelle, where he died in February 1779, age 42, perhaps from the rigors of the crossing.  After the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, the Treaty of Paris returned the Newfoundland islands to France, and the Acadians were allowed to return to their island homes.  Joseph's widow Anne and her children were among them.  French officials counted her on Miquelon in 1785 with five children.  Her oldest daughter married into the Sire, probably Cyr, family on the island in February 1789.  One wonders if any of her other children also created families of their own. 

Pedro's second son, name unrecorded, born probably at Minas before 1714, evidently died young.   

Pedro's third and youngest son Joseph, born at Minas in c1716, married cousin Madeleine, daughter of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry, at Grand-Pré in January 1738.  Between 1739 and 1746, Madeleine gave Joseph five children, three daughters and two sons.  Wife Madeleine died at Minas in late November 1746, in her late 20s, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Joseph remarried to cousin Marguerite, daughter of Germain Hébert and Anne Caissie, at Grand-Pré in August 1748.  Marguerite gave Joseph eight more children, six daughters and two sons, 13 children by two wives.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the family to Maryland.  Joseph, Marguerite, and nine children, seven daughers and two sons, appeared on a repatriation list at Annapolis in July 1763.  Two of Joseph and Marguerite's daughters married into the Fellen and Lazare families in the Chesapeake colony, and his oldest son also married there.  Wife Marguerite likely died in Maryland, and most of his children remained there.  Joseph, probably a widower, emigrated to Louisiana probably from Maryland by the mid-1780s.  He died at San Gabriel on the river above the city in December 1786, age 70.  His married daughters Geneviève and Marguerite and their husbands also emigrated to the Spanish colony.  The sisters died at New Orleans within days of one another in October 1796, perhaps in a yellow fever epidemic.  Joseph's only married son did not follow his father and sisters to Louisiana, so this family line did not take root there. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, by first wife Madeleine Hébert, born at Minas in November 1742, followed his family to Maryland, where he married Anastasie _____, perhaps a fellow Acadian, before July 1763, when they were counted at Annapolis.  They likely remained in Maryland. 

Joseph, père's second son Paul-Olivier, by first wife Madeleine Hébert, born at Minas in July 1745, did not follow his family to Maryland but was deported with the family of an Hébert uncle to Virginia in the fall of 1755.  Virginia authorities sent them on to England in the spring of 1756, and they were held at Southampton.  Paul-Olivier followed his uncle to St.-Malo, France, aboard the corvette L'Ambition in May 1763 and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  In February 1766, now in his early 20s, Paul-Olivier sailed to the French-controlled fishery islands of St.-Pierre and Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundlans aboard La St.-Pierre.  He worked as a fisherman in the Newfoundland islands.  One wonders if he married. 

Joseph, père's third son Baptiste, by second wife Marguerite Hébert, was counted with his family at Annapolis in July 1763, no age given.  One wonders what happened to him after that date.  He did not go to Spanish Louisiana. 

Joseph, père's fourth and youngest son Pierre, by second wife Marguerite Hébert, was counted with his family at Annapolis in July 1763, no age given.  One wonders what happened to him after that date.  He did not go to Spanish Louisiana. 

Pierre, fils's third son Jean, born probably at Port-Royal in c1681, married Marguerite, another daughter of Claude Dugas and Françoise Bourgeois of Chignecto, at Port-Royal in January 1701 but settled at Minas.  From the early 1700s to 1724, Marguerite gave Jean 10 children, four daughters and six sons.  +Wife Marguerite died probably at Minas by February 1729, in her late 40s.  Her and Jean's daughters married into the Thériot, Hébert, Thibodeau, Richard, and Boudrot families, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  Five of Jean's six sons also created their own families, and members of four of their families emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland.   

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Minas in c1707, married cousin Madeleine, daughter of Jacques à René LeBlanc and Catherine Landry, at Grand-Pré in February 1729.  Between 1730 and the late 1740s or early 1750s, Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste 10 children, five sons and five daughters.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the family, including a married son and his wife and a married daughter and her husband, to Maryland.  Jean-Baptiste had died either at Minas or in Maryland before July 1763, when Madeleine, now a widow, and four of their children appeared on a repatriation list at Snow Hill on Maryland's Eastern Shore.  Madeleine, who never remarried, three of her Melanson sons, one of them married, and two of her Melanson daughters, one of them married, emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766 and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Only two of her and Jean-Baptiste's daughters married, into the LeBlanc and Bourgeois families, at Minas and in Louisiana.  Four of her and Jean-Baptiste's five sons married, at Minas, in Maryland, and in Louisiana, and three of the lines endured in the Bayou State. 

Oldest son Paul, born at Minas in October 1730, married Marie, daughter of Germain Thériot and Marguerite Boudrot, at Minas in c1750.  Marie gave Paul a son in c1751.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Between 1756 and 1762, Marie gave Paul four more children in the colony, two daughters and two sons.  Paul, Marie, and most of their children also appeared on a repatriation list at Snow Hill in July 1763.  They followed his family to Louisiana in 1766 and settled with them at Cabahannocer.  Marie gave Paul another son at nearby Ascension in May 1770--six children, four sons and two daughters, in all.  Paul died probably at Ascension by 1770, in his late 30s, when his wife was described as a widow in a census there.  His youngest child, a son, may have been born posthumously.  His daughters married into the Breaux, Landry, and Parr families on the river and the western prairies.  Two of his sons survived childhood, but only one of them married, into the Prejean family on the western prairies. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son Joseph, born at Minas in November 1734, followed his family to Maryland, where he married Anne Landry in c1759.  She gave him two children, a son and a daughter, in 1760 and 1763.  They, too, appeared on a repatriation list at Snow Hill in July 1763, followed his family to Louisiana in 1766, and settled at Cabahannocer, where Anne gave Joseph another son in May 1768--three children, two sons and a daughter, in all.  Joseph died at Cabahannocer by September 1769, in his early or mid-30s, when Anne was called a widow in a census there.  She remarried to a Broussard in 1769 or 1770 on the river and followed him to Attakapas in the 1770s.  Her Melançon daughter married into the Thibodeaux family there in 1780.  Her younger Melançon son Simon evidently did not survive childhood.  Her older Melançon son Olivier did reach adulthood, but he probably did not marry, so only the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Jean-Baptiste's third son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at Minas in December 1736, followed his family to Maryland, was listed with them at Snow Hill, and followed his widowed mother and siblings to Cabahannocer, where he married Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dupuis and Élisabeth LeBlanc of Minas, in May 1768.  They settled on the east bank of the river there.  Between 1769 and 1778, Osite gave Jean-Baptiste, fils four children, two sons and two daughters.  Their daughters married into the Landry and Bourg families on the river, and the older one resettled on the western prairies.  Jean-Baptiste, fils's sons also married, into the LeBlanc, Landry, and Gautreaux families on the river. 

Jean-Baptiste père's fourth and youngest son Charles, born at Minas in March 1743, followed his family to Maryland, was listed with them at Snow Hill, and followed his widowed mother and siblings to Cabahannocer.  Charles married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians René Landry and Marie Theriot, at nearby Ascension in February 1768.  They settled on the east bank of the river at Cabahannocer.  Between 1769 and 1787, Félicité gave Charles 10 children, six sons and four daughters.  Charles died at Ascension in May 1787, age 44.  His youngest child, a daughter, probably was born posthumously.  His daughters married into the Capdeville, Richard, Louvière, and Bernard families on the river.  Four of his six sons also married, into the Orillion, LeBlanc, Bergeron, and Gaudet families on the river, the western prairies, and upper Bayou Lafourche.  One of the lines did not endure. 

Jean's second son Paul, born at Minas in September 1708, probably died young.   

Jean's third son Pierre, born at Minas in September 1710, married Rosalie, daughter of René Blanchard and Anne Landry, at Grand-Pré in June 1734.  Between 1735 and 1756, Rosalie gave Pierre eight children, four sons and four daughters.  The British deported most of the family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Their oldest son was on Île St.-Jean at the time.  In September 1756, Pierre and 19 other "Neutrals" signed a petition asking to be sent back to their own country, join their fellow exiles elsewhere, or be treated like prisoners of war and receive provisions accorded to prisoners.  The governor refused to declare them prisoners of war, insisting that they were still subjects of the British Crown, and dispersed them to various communities in the colony, where he expected them to remain as settlers.  In February 1757, Pierre was one of 17 "French Neutrals" protesting the parcelling out of their children to anglophone families and demanded to know their status in the colony--"Subjects, Prisoners, Slaves or Freedmen."  They repeated their assertion of being prisoners of war and again asked to be allowed to leave the province.  Pierre and Rosalie died in Pennsylvania by June 1763, when their seven children appeared on a French repatriation list without them.  Two of the children evidently moved on to Maryland after the counting and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from that colony in 1766.  Only one of Pierre and Rosalie's daughters, Marguerite, married, into the Landry family in Louisiana.  Two of their sons also created families of their own, one in greater Acadia, the other in Louisiana. 

Oldest son Jean-Pierre, born at Minas in February 1735, was living on Île St.-Jean when the British deported his parents and siblings to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  He evidently escaped the roundup on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During the late 1750s or early 1760s, he moved up to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where he married Henriette-Geneviève dite Anne, daughter of Charles Haché dit Gallant and Geneviève Lavergne, in January 1761.  Anne was a native of Île St.-Jean, to which the couple returned after the war, but they did not remain.  Between 1766 and 1779, Anne gave Jean-Pierre four children, two daughters and two sons, on St. John's Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island; and at Nepisiguit, today's Bathhurst, New Brunswick, on the south shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, where they settled in the 1770s.  Their daughters married into the Arsenault and Boudreau families at Nepisiguit.  Both of their sons also married, into the Hébert and Doucet families in Gaspésie, on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, and at Nepisiguit.

Pierre's second son Amand, born at Minas in July 1739, followed his family to Pennsylvania and was listed on a repatriation list with six of his orphaned siblings there in June 1763.  Did he remain in Pennsylvania after the counting?  Did he follow other exiles from that colony to Canada or the French Antilles later in the decade?  Did he follow his siblings to Maryland after the June 1763 counting but remained in the Chesapeake colony?  Did follow them to Maryland but chose to go to French St.-Domingue instead of Spanish Louisiana?  Bona Arsenault sends him to Louisiana with siblings Marguerite and Joseph, but family historian Michael Melanson, followed here, says he did not go with them. 

Pierre's third son Simon, born at Minas in April 1745, followed his family to Pennsylvania and was counted with six of his orphaned siblings there in June 1763.  Did he remain in Pennsylvania after the counting?  Did he follow other exiles from that colony to Canada or the French Antilles later in the decade?  Did he follow his siblings to Maryland after the June 1763 counting but remained in the Chesapeake colony?  Did follow them to Maryland but chose to go to French St.-Domingue instead of Spanish Louisiana? 

Pierre's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born probably in Pennsylvania in c1756, was counted with six of his orphaned siblings there in June 1763.  After the counting, he followed older sister Marguerite to Maryland and from there to Louisiana in 1766.  He settled with her and her new husband Amand Landry on the west side of the river at Cabahannocer and was living with them on the same side of the river at nearby Ascension in 1770, when he was age 15.  In 1777, the Spanish census taker, calling him Joseph dit Dios Rose, age 20, counted him still on the west bank of the river, this time with the family of Amand Gautreaux, for whom Joseph was probably working as an engagé.  Joseph married Marguerite-Gertrude, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Marie-Josèphe Bourg and widow of Augustin Licara or Sierra, at Ascension in February 1779.  She brought four slaves into the marriage.  Between 1780 and 1791, Marguerite-Gertrude gave Joseph eight children, five sons and three daughters.  Joseph died at Ascension in August 1808, age 52.  His daughters married into the Landry and Picou families at Ascension.  Three of his sons also married, into the LeBlanc, Bougeois, and Landry families, and settled in St. James, Ascension, and Iberville parishes, but one of the lines did not endure. 

Jean's fourth son Alexandre, born at Minas in 1717, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Gautrot and Anne LeBlanc, in c1740 probably at Minas.  Between 1741 and 1748, Marie-Josèphe gave Alexandre four children, two sons and two daughters.  She died at Minas in March 1748, probably from the rigors of childbirth.  Alexandre remarried to Osite Hébert probably at Minas in c1749.  Between 1750 and 1754, Osite gave Alexandre three more children, a daughter and two sons.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Between 1756 and 1762, Osite gave Alexandre two more sons in the colony.  The family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1766, reaching New Orleans in September of that year.  They followed other exiles from Maryland to Cabahannocer.  Michael Melanson also says the family appears "on the list of Acadians at New Orleans, in July 1767," but they do not; Alexandre and his family would have been settled at Cabahannocer by then.  Osite gave him another son probably at Cabahannocer in early 1768--10 children in all, seven sons and three daughters, by his two wives.  Alexandre died probably at Cahahannocer before September 1769, in his late 50s or early 60s, when Osite was counted in a census there as a widow.  Only one of Alexandre's daughters, the youngest, married, into the Godin family in Louisiana.  His five younger sons, all by second wife Osite, also married in the Spanish colony, four of them on the river and one of them on the western prairies.  His two older sons by first wife Marie-Josèphe evidently did not create families of their own, nor they did they follow their father and his second family to Louisiana.  His five sons who settled in Louisiana, one of the born there, created vigorous lines in the Bayou State. 

Oldest son Jean-Septime, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Gautrot, born at Minas in July 1741, followed his father and stepmother to Marland in 1755 and appeared with them and five of his half-siblings on a repatriation list at Snow Hill on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  One wonders what happened to him after that date.  He did not follow his family to Spanish Louisiana in 1766.  Did he remain in Maryland?  Did he go from the colony to French St.-Domingue soon after the counting?

Alexandre's second son Joseph, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Gautrot, born at Minas in April 1744, if he followed his family to Maryland in 1755 was not counted with them at Snow Hill in July 1763, when he would have been in his early 20s.  Did he die young? 

Alexandre's third son Pierre-Jacques dit Santiago, by second wife Osite Hébert, born at Minas in c1750 (Bona Arsenault says c1753), followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and to Spanish Louisiana in 1766 and settled with them on the east bank of the river at Cabahannocer, where he married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Landry and Ursule Landry, in July 1773.  Between 1774 and 1798, Élisabeth gave Santiago nine children, six sons and three daughters.  Santiago, in his late 60s, remarried to Marie-Christine, called Christine, daughter of Augustin Landry and Anne-Marie Forest and widow of Grégoire Melançon, at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in January 1817.  She gave him no more children.  His daughters married into the Gautreaux family.  Four of his sons also married, into the LeBlanc, Lanoux, Gautreaux, and Clouâtre families, at Cabahannocer/St. James and St. Gabriel on the river, and one of them joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Alexandre's fourth son Joseph, the second with the name, by second wife Osite Hébert, born at Minas in c1754 (Bona Arsenault says c1752), followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and to Spanish Louisiana in 1766 and settled with them at Cabahannocer, where he married Anastasie, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Breaux and Madeleine Trahan of Pigiguit, in May 1779.  Anastasie was a native of Maryland, and her father was one of the Breau brothers who gave Spanish Governor Ulloa so much grief in 1768 after reaching the colony from Port Tobacco, Maryland.  Anastasie gave Joseph a son at Cabahannocer in October 1780.  She died at nearby Ascension in January 1783, age 20, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Joseph remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Marcel LeBlanc and Marie-Josèphe Breaux, at Ascension in September 1784.  Between 1785 and 1802, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph six more children, three daughters and three sons--seven children, four sons and three daughters, by two wives.  Joseph died by 1810, when wife Marie-Josèphe was described in a census as a widow.  Two of his daughters, all by second wife Marie-Josèphe, married into the Landry and LeBlanc families in St. James Parish.  Only one of Joseph's sons, also by his second wife, married, into the LeBlanc family on the river.

Alexandre's fifth son Étienne, by second wife Osite Hébert, born probably in Maryland in c1756, followed his family to Louisiana in 1766, and settled with them at Cabahannocer, where he married Ludivine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Breaux and Marie Benoit, in April 1780.  Between 1781 and 1786, Ludivine gave Étienne three sons, all of whom created families of their own.   They married into the Mire, Lanoux, and Arceneaux families and settled in St. James Parish. 

Alexandre's sixth son Paul-Olivier, by second wife Osite Hébert, born probably at Snow Hill, Maryland, in c1762, followed his family to Louisiana in 1766, and settled with them at Cabahannocer, where he married Osite-Barbe, another daughter of Marcel LeBlanc and Marie-Josèphe Breaux, in the 1780s.  Between 1786 and 1809, Osite-Barbe gave Paul-Olivier 13 children, nine daughters and four sons.  Osite-Barbe died in St. James Parish in August 1811, age 44.  In his mid-60s, Paul-Olivier remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Athanase Broussard and Anne Bourgeois and widow of Bonaventure Gaudin, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in May 1821.  She gave him no more children.  Six of his daughters married into the LeBlanc, Babin, Arseneaux, Theriot, Daigle, and Breaux families, and perhaps into the Thibodeaux family, on the river.  Three of his sons also married, into the LeBlanc, Champagne, and Gaudin families on the river and upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Alexandre's seventh and youngest son Charles dit Migouin or Miquoin, by second wife Osite Hébert, born probably at Cabahannocer in March 1768, perhaps posthumously, was the only one of his father's many sons born in Louisiana.  Spanish officials counted Charles with his widowed mother and siblings on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in September 1769; he was 17 months old.  He married Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Breaux and Marie-Josèphe Landry and widow of Pierre Comeaux, at Cabahannocer in January 1790.  Between 1790 and January 1802, Claire gave Charles eight children, five daughters and three sons.  Claire died at Cabahannocer in January 1802, age 38, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Charles remarried to Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourgeois and Marie Giroir and widow of Nicolas Picou, at Cabahannocer in August 1803.  Between 1804 and 1815, Scholastique gave Charles four more children, three sons and two daughters--a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons, by two wives.  Charles took his family to the Bayou Teche valley by 1809 and settled near Grande Pointe on the upper bayou.  Charles died there in December 1818, in his early 50s.  His burial record, which exaggerated his age as 54, called him Charles dit Miquoin of Acadie, evidently meaning he was an Acadian.  Three of his daughters from both wives married into the Semere, Guidry, and Martin families in St. Martin Parish.  Three of his sons also married, into the Thibodeaux, Doucet, and Pellerin families on the Teche. 

Jean's fifth son Jacques, born probably at Minas in c1719, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Broussard and Anne Babin, in c1742 probably at Minas.  Between 1743 and 1747, Marguerite gave Jacques three daughters.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Jacques died there before July 1763, in his late 40s or early 50s, when his wife, living with their daughters at Snow Hill on the colony's Eastern Shore, was called a widow on a French repatriation list.  Marguerite and her three daughters emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766 and settled at Cabahannocer.  The daughters married into the Lemire dit Mire, D'Amour dit de Louvière, and Part families on the river, so the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Jean's sixth and youngest son Étienne, born at Minas in July 1724, married Françoise, daughter of Joseph Granger and Anne Richard, at Grand-Pré in January 1747.  Françoise gave him a son the following October.  Étienne took his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  Françoise gave him two more children there, both daughters, in 1750 and 1752.  A French official counted Étienne (he called him Estienne), Françoise, their three young children, a 30-year-old brother-in-law, and a 14-year-old sister-in-law at Grande-Anse on the south shore of the island in August 1752.  Françoise gave Étienne two more daughters on the island in 1754 and 1757, one of them at L'Anse Landry.  The following year, after the fall of Louisbourg, the British deported the family to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.  Françoise gave Étienne two more daughters at Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1761 and 1763.  In the spring of 1766, aboard the brigantine Hazard, they moved on to St.-Malo and settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer before moving to nearby Pleudihen-sur-Rance in 1771.  Soon after reaching St.-Malo, Françoise gave Étienne another daughter--eight children in all, a son and seven daughters.  Wife Françoise, who worked as a spinner and cutter, died at La Tourniolle near Pleudihen in September 1778, age 50.  At least four of her and Étienne's daughters married into the Thériot, Mace, Crête de Saint-Aubin, and Broussard families in France.  Their son also married there.  Étienne remarried to 36-year-old Frenchwoman Charlotte Launay, widow of Joseph Robidou, at Miniac-Morvan south of St.-Malo in February 1783.  She died at La Grande-Tourniolle in February 1785, age 38, probably from the rigors of childbirth; her and Étienne's daughter, his ninth child and eighth daughter, was born eight days before her mother's death and died two days after her birth.  Despite so many of their relatives living there, neither Étienne nor any member of his family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Étienne was still living at St.-Malo in 1787. 

Only son Joseph, born at Minas in October 1747, followed his family to Grande-Anse, Boulogne-sur-Mer, St.-Servan-sur-Mer, and Pleudihen-sur-Rance, where he married cousin Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Broussard and Madeleine Landry, in January 1772.  Later that year and in 1776, at Le Coquenais near Pleudihen, Élisabeth gave Joseph two sons.  Joseph died by November 1784, when his wife remarried at Pleudihen to a Boudrot residing at Nantes.  They settled at Pleudihen, where she gave her second husband a pair of twins in August 1785.  Neither she nor any member of her family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.   However, three of her sons, a Melanson who married a Doiron in France and two Boudrots, did leave France in the early 1800s and resettle in Nova Scotia. 

Pierre, fils's fourth son Paul, born probably at Minas in c1691 married Marie, daughter of Germain Thériot and Anne Richard, at Grand-Pré in November 1712 and remained there.  Between 1717 and 1739, Marie gave Paul nine children, four sons and five daughters.  By 1752, Paul had taken his family to Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  They escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Wife Marie died at Montmagny on the lower St. Lawrence in January 1763, age 70.  One wonders if she was a widow.  Four of her and Paul's daughters married into the Thébeau, Bonnevie dit Beaumont, Dubois, LeBlanc, Bergeron dit d'Amboise, Brun, and Cormier families in greater Acadia and Canada.  All four of Paul's sons created families of their own, and one of their families emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.   

Oldest son Bénoni, born at Minas in August 1720, married Marie, baptized as Marguerite, daughter of Claude Benoit and Jeanne Hébert, in c1742 (Michael Melanson says c1738) probably at Minas.  Between 1739 and 1750, Marie gave Bénoni seven children, three daughters and four sons.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials confined them at Lancaster in June 1756.  The following February, Bénoni complained to the colonial governor and his council of his ill treatment at Lancaster, including the putting out of two of his sons and the beating of one of them.  He asked to be allowed to remove to Weymouth, where he could work as a fisherman.  The governor and his council was amenable to this, but the Massachusetts House ruled that he should remain at Lancaster.  Members of his family were sent to Lunenburg, Hardwick, Rutland, and Leominster in June 1760.  The family was still in Massachusetts in August 1763, when their names appear on a French repatriation list circulating in the colony.  In December 1764, Bénoni's name also appeared on a list of family heads who desired to go to French St.-Domingue.  He was still at Lancaster in August 1765 and March 1766.  Bénoni died at Lancaster of a lengthy illness by March 1766, in his mid-40s.  His widow and children were patriated to Canada later that year or in 1767, when they were counted at Yamachiche on the upper St. Lawrence above Trois-Rivières in early October.  Widow Marie did not remarry.  She died at Yamachiche in June 1780, age 59.  Two of her Melanson daughters married into the Doucet and Loranger families in Massachusetts and at Yamachiche.  Three of her Melanson sons also married in Massachusetts and at Yamachiche.

Oldest son Siméon, born at Minas in c1741, followed his family to Massachusetts, where for a time he was separated from them.  He married Marie ____ in the colony before August 1763, when they appeared with his family on a repatriation list.  They had no children.  One wonders if they had any children later and if they followed his widowed mother and siblings to Canada.

Bénoni's second son Jean, born at Minas in c1743, followed his family to Massachusetts, where for a time he was separated from them.  He followed his widowed mother and siblings to Canada in 1766-67 and died at Lapriaire across from Montréal in January 1770, in his late 70s.  He did not marry. 

Bénoni's third son Joseph, born at Minas in c1747, followed his family to Massachusetts, where for a time he was separated from them.  He followed his widowed mother and siblings to Canada in 1767 and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Loranger and Geneviève Côté, at Yamachiche above Trois-Rivières in October 1774.  In 1776 and 1789, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph two daughters, who married into the Desrosiers dit Lafresnière and Vincent families at Yamachiche.  Bona Arsenault calls Joseph's wife a Rivard-Loranger and gives them a son and two more daughters at Yamachiche between 1794 and 1800. 

Bénoni's fourth and youngest son Étienne, born at Minas in c1748 (Bona Arsenault says c1743), followed his family to Massachusetts, where for a time he was separated from them.  He followed his widowed mother and siblings to Canada in 1767 and was baptized in October 1767 at Yamachiche, where he became a farmer.  He married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc and Marguerite Hébert, at Yamachiche in November 1778.  Between 1779 and 1803, Marie-Anne gave Étienne 15 children, at least nine sons and five daughters.  Marie-Anne died at Yamachiche in May 1803, age 44, three days after giving birth to her fifteenth child.  In his late 50s, Étienne remarried to Marie-Amable, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Hébert and his Canadian wife Rose Corriveau, at Yamachiche in November 1804.  Between 1805 and 1813, Marie-Amable gave Étienne six more children, at least three more sons and another daughter, including a set of twins--at least a dozen sons and half a dozen daughters, 21 children in all by two wives.  Étienne died at Yamachiche in November 1814, in his mid- or late 60s.  Five of his daughters by both wives married into the Cyr, Bergeron, Houde, and St. Pierre families at Yamachiche and nearby St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet.  Seven of his sons by two wives also married, into the Douaire de Bondy, Fortin, Pellerin, Aucoin, Duplessis, and Lesieur families in the area. 

Paul's second son Paul-Honoré, called Honoré, was, according to Michael Melanson, born at Minas in December 1724.  Bona Arsenault says Honoré was born in c1722, sans doutte son of Jean, Paul's older brother; Melanson is followed here.  Honoré married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Ambroise Breau and Marie Michel of Annapolis Royal, in c1748.  They were counted at Petitcoudiac (Arsenault says Chepoudy) in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto in January 1752.  Between 1751 and 1759, Marie-Josèphe gave Paul-Honoré six children, four sons and two daughters.  The family escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotial until the end of the war.  Honoré, his unnamed wife, and six unnamed children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Honoré died there soon after the counting, in his late 30s or early 40s, and his widow and five of their children, three sons and two daughters, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  They settled on the west bank of the river at Cabahannocer, where widow Marie-Josèphe remarried to French Creole François Moreau, fils in June 1770.  She, her Melanson children, and a Moreau son followed François, fils to the western prairies in 1777.  Her Melançon daughters married into the Broussard and Babin families and remained on the prairies.  Three of her Melançon sons also married.  One of them returned to the river, but the other two remained on the prairies. 

Oldest son Joseph, who Bona Arsenault calls Le Vieux, born perhaps at Petitcoudiac in c1751 or 1752, followed his family into exile, into the prison compound at Halfiax, and his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana in 1765.  He settled with them on the west bank of the river at Cabahannocer and followed his stepfather, mother, and siblings to the Attakapas District in 1777.  He married Barbe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Babin and Ursule Landry, at Ascension on the river in October 1778.  A few years later, Joseph returned to Attakapas and settled at L'Anse, probably Anse La Pointe, on upper Bayou Teche.  Between 1779 and 1799, at Ascension and Attakapas, Barbe gave Joseph nine children, three daughters and six sons.  Joseph died at Attakapas in January 1807, in his mid- or late 60s.  Two of his daughters married into the Wiltz and Babineaux families in St. Martin Parish.  Four of his sons also married, into the Trahan, Ledoux, Theriot, and Ringuet families there. 

Paul-Honoré's second son Jean, born in exile in c1756, followed his family into the prison compound at Halifax, where he was counted with them in August 1763, but evidently he did not follow his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana two years later.  Michael Melanson says it was Jean who married fellow Acadian Rose-Luce Doiron at Attakapas in Louisiana in May 1789, when he would have been in his early 30s, but it likely was Jean's younger brother Dominique-Jean dit Minique, often called Jean, who settled on Bayou Teche. 

Paul-Honoré's third son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born in exile in c1757, followed his family into the prison compound at Halfiax and his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana in 1765.  He settled with them on the west bank of the river at Cabahannocer and followed his stepfather, mother, and siblings to the Attakapas District in 1777.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bergeron and Isabelle Arceneaux, probably at Attakapas in c1786.  They returned to the river in the early 1790s.  Between 1787 and 1802, at Attakapas and Cabahannocer, Marguerite gave Baptiste nine children, six daughters and three sons.  Baptiste died in St. James Parish in July 1825, age 68.  Two of his daughters married into the Richard family in St. James Parish.  At least one of his sons survived childhood--he in fact became a successful farmer in St. James Parish and died there at age 83 in April 1883--but he did not marry, so only the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State.

Paul-Honoré's fourth and youngest son Dominique-Jean dit Minique was born in c1762, perhaps in the prison compound at Halifax (Michael Melanson, citing a Cabahannocer census, says he was born in c1759).  Minique, still very young, followed his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana in 1765, settled with them on the west bank of the river at Cabahannocer, and followed his stepfather, mother, and siblings to the Attakapas District in 1777.  Called Jean by the recording priest, Minique, in his late 20s, married Rose-Luce, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Doiron and Marie-Blanche Bernard of Pigiguit, at Attakapas in May 1789.  Rose-Luce, a native of Le Havre, France, had come to Louisiana in 1785 aboard one of the Seven Ships.  The couple remained on the prairies.  Between 1790 and 1798, Rose-Luce gave Jean dit Minique five children, three sons and two daughters.  His daughters married into the Cormier, Breaux, and Bernard families on the prairies.  His three sons also married, into the Broussard, Guidry, and Savoie families on the prairies.

Paul's third son Simon-Joseph, born at Minas in May 1728, married Claire, daughter of Claude Brun and Cécile Dugas of Annapolis Royal , in c1752, place unrecorded.  They were counted at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement.  In 1753 and 1755, at Petitcoudiac, Claire gave Simon-Joseph two children, a son and a daughter.  They likely escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and found refuge perhaps on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before moving on to Canada.  Their daughter married into the Landry family and settled at Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence, on lower Rivière St.-Jean, at Memramcook in the trois-rivières area, and finally at Cap-Pelé on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Their son evidently did not marry, so only the blood of this family line endured. 

Only son Simon, born at Petitcoudiac in April 1753, followed his family into exile.  One wonders if he survived childhood and, if so, did he marry. 

Paul's fourth and youngest son Jean-Antoine, called Jean and Jean-Baptiste, was born in c1732 or 1733 probably at Minas.  The British deported him to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755, and colonial authorities assigned him to Cambridge or Boston.  Jean married Françoise, another daughter of Claude Benoit and Jeanne Hébert, in c1761 at Boston.  Between 1762 and 1773, Françoise gave Jean six children, four sons and two daughters.  In August 1763, Jean, Françoise, and their oldest son appeared on a French repatriation list in the Bay Colony.  In December 1764, still in Massachusetts, Jean appeared on a list of Acadian heads of household who sought passage to French St.-Domingue, but they did not go there either.  In 1765 and 1766, he twice appeared on lists of exiles who sought repartriation to Canada.  In July 1766, the family, with hundreds of other exiles, left Boston for Canada.  They were counted at Québec the following September and were at Yamachiche on the upper St. Lawrence above Trois-Rivières by August 1768.  Jean died at nearby Louiseville in March 1816, in his early 80s.  His daughter married into the Lemay and Sicard families at Louiseville.  Three of his four sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Benjamin, born in Massachusetts in June 1762 (Bona Arsenault says c1774), followed his family to Canada.  According to Michael Melanson, Benjamin was baptized by clergy at Québec in September 1766, age 4, and married Angélique, daughter of Simon Martineau dit St.-Onge and Madeleine Pichet, at Louiseville in September 1794.  Between 1795 and 1815, Angélique gave Benjamin 11 children, at least four sons and six daughters.  Angélique died at Louiseville in May 1816, age 40, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Benjamin did not remarry.  He died at Louiseville in December 1732, age 70.  His six daughters married into the Lemaître dit Auger, Comeau dit Chaillou, Tréschemin dit Poitras, Thibodeau, and Fleury families at Louiseville.  Three of his sons also married, into the Lessard, Génereux, Lefebvre dit Boulanger, Turcot, and Guemond families at Louiseville, Trois-Rivières, St.-Étienne-des-Grès northwest of Trois-Rivières, and St.-Guillaume d'Upton on the south side of the St. Lawrence in the Rivière St.-François valley. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son Pierre, born in Massachusetts in October 1765 (Bona Arsenault says c1769), followed his family to Canada.  He was baptized by clergy at Québec in September 1766 and married Marie-Anne, daughter of Alexis Ayotte and Marie-Anne Laverture, at Maskinongé near Louisville in October 1792.  They moved to Louiseville in 1800, where he farmed and worked as a day laborer, and moved on to Montréal in 1818, where he also worked as a day laborer.  Between 1794 and 1818, Marie-Anne gave Pierre a dozen children, three daughters and nine sons.  He died at Montréal in April 1843, age 77.  His youngest daughter married into the Macoon family at Montréal.  Six of his sons survived childhood, but only four of them married, into the Gauthier, Dallaire, and Dubé families at Montréal and Sorel.

Jean-Baptiste's third son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born in Canada in c1767 (Bona Arsenault says c1762), was baptized at Yamachiche in August 1768.  He married Françoise, daughter of Ignace Caron and Marie-Anne Thibodeau, at Louiseville in February 1798.  He worked as a farmer at Louiseville.  Between 1799 and 1808, Françoise gave Jean-Baptiste, fils six children, at least four sons and a daughter.  Jean-Baptiste, fils died at Louiseville in October 1846, age 79.  His daughter died as an infant, but three of his sons married, into the Vincent, Desjarlais, Fournier, and Bélanger families at Louiseville but moved on to St.-Guillaume d'Upton. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's fourth and youngest son Antoine, baptized at Yamachiche, age unrecorded, in May 1773, may have died before he could marry. 

Pierre, fils's fifth and youngest son, name unrecorded, born probably at Minas after 1693, died there as a child before 1707.365

Melanson

Pierre, fils's younger brother Charles dit La Ramée Mellanson and his wife Marie Dugas created another large branch of the family in the colony.  Between 1664 and 1693, at Port-Royal, Marie gave Charles 14 children, five sons and nine daughters, including a set of twins.  Charles died at Port-Royal or perhaps on a trading venture with son-in-law Abraham Boudrot in 1700 or 1701, in his late 50s.  Marie, who did not remarry, died at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal, in July 1737, in her late 80s.  Eight of her and La Ramée's daughters married into the Basset, de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, Robichaud, Boudrot, Belliveau, Bourg, Cyr, and Landry families, two of them brothers.  One of the sons-in-law died from wounds suffered in battle against the English at Port-Royal in September 1707.  All five of Charles dit La Ramée's sons created families of their own.  Most of his and Marie's descendants remained at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but some of them settled at Minas near their many cousins there, at Chignecto, and in the French Maritimes.  Of the 41 Melansons who emigrated to Louisiana from 1765 to the 1780s, only one belonged to this branch of the family.  The rest could be found in Canada, greater Acadia, and France after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Charles, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1675, married Anne dite Jeanne, daughter of François Bourg and Marguerite Boudrot, in c1700 probably at Port-Royal.  Between 1702 and 1731, Jeanne gave Charles, fils eight children, five sons and three daughters.  The British evidently placed Charles, fils and members of his family aboard the transport Pembroke in late fall of 1755 bound for North Carolina.  Acadians aboard the vessel overwhelmed its captain and crew soon after it left the Annapolis Basin and sailed it to Baie Ste.-Marie, where they hid for a week or so.  They then sailed the vessel across the Bay of Fundy to the mouth of Rivière St.-Jean, where they eluded a British patrol.  After spending the rest of the winter on the river, Charles, fils and his family made their way to Canada via the upper St.-Jean portage.  Charles, fils died at Québec in September 1757, in his early 80s, an early victim, most likely, of the smallpox epidemic that struck hundreds of exiles in the Québec area from the late summer of 1757 into the summer of 1758 and killed three of his children, two sons and a daughter, and three grandchildren.  Two of his daughters married into the Godin dit Bellefontaine dit Boisjoli and Landry families.  One of them died at Québec in December 1757 in the same smallpox epidemic that killed her father and two brothers.  Three of Charles, fils's five sons also created families of their own.   

Oldest son Charles III, born probably at Port-Royal in c1701 or 1702, married Anne, 21-year-old daughter of Claude Granger and Jeanne Guilbeau, at Annapolis Royal in February 1727.  Between 1728 and 1748, Anne gave Charles III nine children, six sons and three daughters.  The British deported members of the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Charles III died before August 1763, in his late 40s, 50s, or early 60s, perhaps at Annapolis Royal or in Connecticut.  In August 1763, Anne, now a widow and head of a family of four, appeared on a repatriation list with them in Connecticut.  Later in the decade, they followed other exiles from New England to Canada.  Two of her Melanson daughters married into the Melanson and Lanoue families at Annapolis Royal and settled in Nova Scotia after Le Grand Dérangement.  All six of her Melanson sons married, two in Nova Scotia, the others in lower and upper Canada. 

Oldest son Jean le jeune, also called Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1728, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Porlier and Anne-Marie La Tour, at Annapolis Royal in January 1755.  One wonders what happened to them that autumn.  Did they follow his family to Connecticut?  Did they escape the British roundup at Annapolis Royal and seek refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or in Canada? 

Charles's III's second son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1733, evidently followed his family to Connecticut in 1755 and likely was one of the four members of his widowed mother's family who appeared on a repatriation list there in August 1763.  He followed his widowed mother and siblings to Canada a few years later and married Marie, daughter of Nicolas Côté and Marie-Claude Levasseur, at L'Isle-Verte on the lower St. Lawrence in c1766.  Between 1767 and 1779, Marie gave Joseph eight children, two sons and six daughters.  Joseph died at L'Isle-Verte in November 1803, age 69.  His daughters married into the Ouellet, Michaud, Dion, Saindon, Chalou, and Côté family at L'Isle-Verte.  His two sons also married, into the Ouellet and Côté families at Kamouraska and L'Isle-Verte and settled at L'Isle-Verte. S

Charles III's third son Charles dit Litan, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1738, escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  British officials counted him at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in 1761.  After the war, Litan remained in greater Acadia.  He married Anne dite Nannette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Léger dit Fluzan and Claire LeBlanc, by a priest from Franklin Manor, a Mi'kmaq reservation south of Chignecto, in August 1765.  They settled at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia, where their marriage was "revalidated" in August 1768.  Between 1766 and 1786, in Nova Scotia, Nannette gave Litan eight children, three daughters and five sons.  Charles dit Litan died in c1789, place unrecorded.  His daughters married into the Brun, DesBarres, and Holmes families and settled at Minudie, south of Chignecto.  All of his sons survived childhood, but only four of them married, into the Surette, Forest, Noils, and Seignon families, and settled at Cap-Pelé in southeastern New Brunswick and at Minudie.

Charles III's fourth son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1742, evidently followed his family to Connecticut in 1755 and likely was one of the four members of his widowed mother's family counted there in August 1763.  He followed his widowed mother and siblings to Canada a few years later.  At age 35, he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Lord and Luce Fontaine, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Montréal in January 1778.  Marguerite had been born in Connecticut.  Between 1779 and 1799, she gave Pierre nine children, seven sons and two daughters.  Neither of their daughters married.  Five of their sons married into the Mireault, Légaré, Gagnon, Langlois dit Lachapelle, and Bourgeois families at St.-Jacques. 

Charles III's fifth son Amable-Pierre or -Poncy, born at Annapolis Royal in c1744, evidently followed his family to Connecticut in 1755 and likely was one of the four members of his widowed mother's family counted there in August 1763.  He, too, went to Canada a few years later.  In his early 30s, he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Richard and Marguerite Robichaud, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in May 1777.  She died at St.-Jacques in April 1790, age 33, before she gave him any children.  Amable remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Lanoue and Marie-Josèphe Dugas, at St.-Jacques in February 1793.  In 1794 and 1804, Margerite gave him two children, a daughter and a son.  Amable died St.-Jacques in November 1826, age 82.  His daughter married into the Mireault family at St.-Jacques.  His son also married a Mireault there. 

Charles III's sixth and youngest son Claude, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1748, evidently followed his family to Connecticut in 1755 and likely was one of the four members of his widowed mother's family counted there in August 1763.  He also followed them to Canada a few years later and married Ludivine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Gaudet and Nathalie Robichaud, at Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montréal, in September 1778.  Ludivine had been born in Connecticut.  They settled near his family at St.-Jacques.  Between 1779 and 1801, Ludivine gave Claude 13 children, eight sons and five daughters.   He died in May 1816, age 67.  Two of his daughters married into the Fontaine and Mireault families at St.-Jacques.  Six of his sons also married, into the Richard, Dugas, and Vaillant families at St.-Jacques. 

Charles, fils's second son Jean, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1712, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Lanoue and Marie Granger, at Annapolis Royal in January 1742.  Between 1742 and 1755, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean seven children, five daughters and two sons.  The British evidently placed Jean and his family aboard the transport Pembroke in the fall of 1755 bound for North Carolina.  Acadians aboard the vessel overwhelmed its captain and crew soon after it left the Annapolis Basin.  After spending the winter on lower Rivière St.-Jean, Jean and his family made their way to Canada via the St.-Jean portage.  Jean died at Québec in May 1758, age 46, victim, most likely, of the same smallpox epidemic that killed three of his younger children, two daughters and a son; his father; a younger brother; and a younger sister.  His two older daughters married into the Créquy, Tousignant, Auger, and Baudet or Beaudet at Lotbinière on the upper St. Lawrence below Trois-Rivières in the 1760s and 1770s.  Neither of his sons survived to create families of their own. 

Charles, fils's third son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1718, escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and followed his family to Canada.  He died at Québec in October 1757, age 39, victim, most likely, of the same smallpox epidemic that had killed his father in September.  He never married.  

Charles, fils's fourth son Pierre dit Parrotte, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1720, married cousin Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Laurent Granger and Marie Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in February 1746.  Between 1747 and 1765, Marie-Josèphe gave Parrotte six children, two daughters and four sons.  Parrotte and his family evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755, but they sought refuge at Petitcoudiac and on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, not in Canada.  Sometime in the early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured, by British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, Parrotte, Marie-Josèphe, and three of their children appeared on repatriation list at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, Chignecto.  They remained in greater Acadia.  In 1768, Parrotte, his wife, and three children were recorded in Kings County, Nova Scotia, as exiles willing to take the oath of allegiance to the British crown.  Later that year, Parrotte was a tenant farmer on the DesBarres estate at Minudie southeast of Chignecto.  His oldest daughter married into the Gaudet family and settled at Chezzetcook near Halifax, and at Memramcook, Pré-d'en-Haut, and Grand-Barachois, southeastern New Brunswick.  Three of his four sons also created their own families in greater Acadia. 

Oldest son Jean dit Janne, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1749, followed his family into exile and into the prison camp at Fort Cumberland.  He married Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Forest and Marie Chiasson, at Franklin Manor south of Minudie in November 1773.  Between 1774 and 1789, at Minudie, Modeste gave Janne seven children, four daughters and three sons.  In 1794, Janne "was the most prosperous Acadian in the region."  He moved to Scoudouc, New Brunswick, between Moncton and Shediac, in 1805, but returned to Minudie, where he died, date unrecorded.  Two of his daughters married into the Babin, LeBlanc, and Comeau families at Minudie and at Memramcook south of Scoudouc.  Two of his sons also married, into the Melanson and Gautreau families at Memramcook, and one of them also settled at Scoudouc. 

Parrotte's second son Pierre, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1752, may have followed his family into exile and into the prison camp at Fort Cumberland.  Bona Arsenault says he married fellow Acadian Rosalie Babin, no place or date given, but family historian Michael Melanson does not recognize this or any marriage for Pierre à Pierre dit Parrotte. 

Parrotte's third son David, born in late 1755, followed his family into exile and into the prison camp at Fort Cumberland.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit Jos-André LeBlanc and Marguerite Hébert, in c1776, place unrecorded.  They settled at Memramcook.  Between 1777 and 1797, Marguerite gave David a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters.  Wife Marguerite died at Memramcook in January 1810, in her early 50s.  David, in his mid-50s and still farming, remarried to Anne dite Nannette, daughter of fellow Acadians René dit Petit René de Beaupré Richard and Perpétué Bourgeois and widow of Pierre dit Pierrotte Melanson, at Memramcook in February 1811.  She gave him no more children.  He received land grants at nearby Scoutouc in 1815 and 1825 and died there in April 1840, in his mid-80s.  Two of his daughters married into the Bourque and Boudreau families in southeastern New Brunswick.  His sons also married, into the Forest, Porelle, Léger, Richard, Babineau, Fournier, Melanson, and Pellerin families in southeastern New Brunswick. 

Parrotte's fourth and youngest son Dominique-Pierre, born in Nova Scotia in c1765, was baptized at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, in August 1768, age 3.  He married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Babin and Madeleine Bourque, at Franklin Manor in November 1783.  Between 1785 and 1805, Rosalie gave Dominique-Pierre five children, three daughters and two sons.  He received a land grant at Shemogue near Petit-Cap on the New Brunswick coast in 1806 and died of yellow fever at Memramcook in August 1813, in his late 40s.  Two of his daughters married into the Bourque and Belliveau families in the Memramcook/Scoudouc area.  His two sons also married, into the LeBlanc and Belliveau families in the area, but only one of the lines endured. 

Charles, fils's fifth and youngest son Claude, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1731, evidently died young.

Charles's second son Ambroise, a twin, born at Port-Royal in March or April 1685, married Françoise, daughter of Bernard Bourg and Françoise Brun, at Port-Royal in November 1705.  Between 1706 and 1715, Françoise gave Ambroise nine children, at least four sons and four daughters, including a set of triplets and two sets of twins.  Wife Françoise died at Annapolis Royal in December 1715, age 35, after giving birth to a set of twins.  Ambroise, at age 34, remarried to Marguerite, 20-year-old daughter of Jean Comeau l'aîné and Françoise Hébert, at Annapolis Royal in January 1719.  Between 1720 and 1745, Marguerite gave Ambroise a dozen more children, eight daughters and four sons--at least eight sons and 12 daughters by two wives, 21 children in all!  (Family historian Michael Melanson says second wife Marguerite gave Ambroise only seven daughters--20 children in all.)  The British evidently placed Ambroise and members of his family aboard the transport Pembroke in the fall of 1755 bound for North Carolina.  Acadians aboard the vessel overwhelmed its captain and crew soon after it left the Annapolis Basin.  After spending the winter on lower Rivière St.-Jean, Ambroise and his family made their way to Canada via the St.-Jean portage.  He died at Québec in early August 1757, age 72, victim, most likely, of the smallpox epidemic that struck hundreds of exiles in the Québec area from the summer and fall of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  His widow Marguerite died of the disease at Québec a few weeks later.  Eight of Ambroise's daughters from both wives married into the Boudrot, Thibodeau, Moulaison, Thibeau or Thibault, Dugas, Bastarache, Morisset or Morisette, Lanoue, and Rivard dit Dufresne families.  Five of his sons from both wives also created families of their own, and one of Ambroise's son's daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.   

Oldest son Charles, a twin, by first wife Françoise Bourg, born at Port-Royal in December 1706, evidently died young.   

Ambroise's second son Joseph, by first wife Françoise Bourg, born at Port-Royal in September 1708, also died young.   

Ambroise's third son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, from first wife Françoise Bourg, born on the haute-rivière at Annapolis Royal in October 1710, married cousin Cécile, daughter of Martin Aucoin and Catherine Thériot, at Grand-Pré in October 1732.  They settled on nearby Rivière-Gaspereau.  Between 1734 and 1755, Cécile gave Jean nine children, four daughters and five sons.  Jean and his family appear on Lieutenant-Colonel John Winslow's list of detained Acadians at Minas as family number 428, Gaspereau Village, Grand-Pré.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held on Guineau Street at Bristol, where wife Cécile, along with their oldest daughter and their six younger children, died--some, if not all, of them in the smallpox epidemic that struck the exiles in Bristol from June to September 1756.  They were buried along with dozens of other victims of the pox at St. John Bedminster Anglican Church in Bristol.  In May 1763, Jean and his surviving children--a 27-year-old daughter and a 23-year-old son--were transported to Southampton with other exiles from Bristol and repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the French frigate Dorothée.  They settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Daughter Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, married fellow Acadian Charles Gautrot, a widower, at nearby St.-Suliac in September 1763.  In late November 1765, Jean, his daughter, her family, and perhaps Jean's son François followed other exiles from England to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  Jean was living at La Cosquet near Locmaria on the southeast coast of the island when he gave his deposition to French authorities in February 1767 at Locmaria.  He died at La Cosquet in April 1782, age 71.  Daughter Madeleine and her Gautrot husband emigrated with two of their children to Louisiana in 1785; she evidently was the only direct descendant of Charles Melanson dit La Ramée to go to the Spanish colony.  Madeleine and her family settled probably on upper Bayou Lafourche.  One wonders what happened to her brother François, who, if he was still living, would have been age 45 in 1785.  He did not follow his sister to Louisiana.  Did he create a family of his own in France? 

Ambroise's fourth son Ambroise, fils, a triplet, by first wife Françoise Bourg, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1714, married Anne, daughter of Joseph Hébert and Anne-Marie Boudrot, at Beaubassin in November 1733.  Between 1735 and 1763, Anne gave Ambroise, fils nine children, four sons and five daughters.  The British deported the family to Georgia in the fall of 1755.  Ambroise, fils died in his 40s probably at Savannah before August 1763, when his wife was called a widow on a French repatriation list circulating in the southern colony.  With her were eight of their children, three sons and five daughters, the six youngest ones, a son and five daughters, identified only by their gender.  None of her Melanson daughters is recorded as having married.  Only her oldest son seems to have created a family of his own. 

Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Chignecto in c1735, if he followed his family to Georgia in the fall of 1755, he did not remain.  If he was not among the exiles in the southern colony who were allowed to return to greater Acadia via boat in the spring of 1756, he escaped the British roundup at Chignecto the previouis fall and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before moving on to Canada.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Bourg, fils and Marie Hébert of Minas, in c1760, place unrecorded.  Between 1760 and 1764, Marguerite gave Pierre four children, three daughters and a son.  Pierre died at Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence in September 1763, age 28.  His wife remarried to a Dumas at St.-François-du-Sud below Québec in 1768 and settled there.  Two of Pierre's daughters married into the Gagné and Tanguay families at St.-François-du-Sud.  His son died a newborn, so only the blood of this family line endured. 

Ambroise, fils's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Chignecto in May 1740, followed his family to Georgia and was counted with his widowed mother at Savannah in August 1763.  One wonders if he married. 

Ambroise, fils's third son Paul, born at Chignecto in January 1745, followed his family to Georgia and was counted with his widowed mother at Savannah in August 1763.  One wonders if he married. 

Ambroise, fils's fourth and youngest son, name and birth date unrecorded, was counted with his widowed mother at Savannah, Georgia, in August 1763.  One wonders if he married. 

Ambroise, père's fifth son Pierre, by second wife Marguerite Comeau, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1727, married cousin Anne-Marie, daughter of his first cousin Charles Melanson III and Anne Granger, in c1755, place unrecorded.  They escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Between 1759 and 1774, Anne-Marie gave Pierre seven sons, four daughters and three sons.  British authorities counted the family at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in August 1762.  A year later, they were being held at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, Chignecto.  After the war, they settled on Baie-Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia.  Pierre died at Church Point on the bay in April 1804, age 76.  Wife Anne-Marie died there in September 1811, age 80.  Their daughters married into the LeBlanc, Comeau, and Thérault families and settled on St. Mary's Bay.  Pierre's three sons also created their own families there.

Oldest son Pierre-Cyriaque, born in exile in c1761, place unrecorded, and baptized at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia, in August 1768, age 7, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Hilarion-Charles Thériault and Marie Belliveau, in c1785, place unrecorded.  They settled on St. Mary's Bay.  Between 1786 and 1806, Marie-Madeleine gave Pierre-Cyriaque nine children, seven daughters and two sons.  Six of their daughters married into the Gaudet, Amirault, Robichaud, Boudreau, and Melanson families on the bay.  One of Pierre-Cyriaque's sons also married, into the Gaudet family on the bay.

Pierre, père's second son Joseph dit le Vieux Pointu, born probably in Nova Scotia in June 1770 and baptized at St. Mary's Bay, age 4, in October 1774, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Frédéric Belliveau and Madeleine LeBlanc, there in November 1796.  They remained on the bay, where, between 1798 and 1822, Madeleine gave Joseph a dozen children, 10 daughters and two sons.  He died in Digby County on the bay by 1840, when his wife was listed as a widow in a catalogue of settlers there.  Six of his daughters married into the Comeau, Blinn, and Doucet families on the bay.  His two sons also married, into the Comeau and Amirault families on the bay. 

Pierre, père's third and youngest son Charles dit Charlitte dit Michaud, born probably on St. Mary's Bay after 1774, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Amable Doucet and Marie-Gertrude Gaudet, probably on the bay in c1801.  Madeleine gave Charlitte a son in September 1802.  Charlitte died on the bay by 1840, when his wife was listed as a widow in a catalogue of settlers there.  His son married into the Dugas family on the bay. 

Ambroise, père's sixth son Jean dit Jean Jeannotte dit Barteau, by second wife Marguerite Comeau, born in the home of Alexandre Robichaud at Annapolis Royal in April 1729 and baptized at Annapolis Royal in January 1730, married Anne dite Jeanne, daughter of Joseph Trahan and Élisabeth Thériot, in c1750, probably at Minas.  Jean Jeannotte was among the hundreds of Acadian men the New-English troops held at Grand-Pré in the summer and fall of 1755, but they were not deported.  They were among the relatively few settlers at Minas who escaped the British roundup there and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  British officials counted them at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in August and October 1762.  After the war, they remained Nova Scotia.  In 1765 and 1767, Jeanne gave Jean Jeanotte two children, a daughter and a son.  In 1768, Jean Jeannotte and Jeanne were counted with other exiles in Kings County, Nova Scotia, who were willing to take the oath of allegiance to the British Crown.  They followed his older brother Pierre to St. Mary's Bay, where in May 1775 they received a 200-acre land grant at Grosses-Coques.  Jean Jeannotte died at nearby Church Point  in October 1806, age 77.  His daughter married into the Comeau family on the bay, and his son also created a family of his own there. 

Only son Paul, born in Nova Scotia in April 1767 and baptized as Hippolite-Paul at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, in August 1768, age 16 months, followed his family to St. Mary's Bay, where he married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Salvatore Comeau and Anastasie Belliveau of Annapolis Royal, in c1789.  The remained on the bay, where, between 1790 and 1800, Anne gave Paul four children, a son and three daughters, who married into the Comeau, LeBlanc, Blinn, and Tucker families on the bay.  Paul's son also married there, into the Thibodeau and Gaudet families.

Ambroise, père's seventh son Désiré, by second wife Marguerite Comeau, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1739, died young.  

Ambroise, père's eighth and youngest son Amand, by second wife Marguerite Comeau, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1741, evidently escaped the British rounup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  British officials counted him at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in October 1761 and October 1762.  After the war, he remained in greater Acadia and married Anne dite La Poule, daughter of Étienne LeBlanc and Élisabeth Boudrot, in c1766, place unrecorded.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Pigiguit, later Windsor, Nova Scotia, in August 1768.  They were on Baie-Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia, in 1769.  Between 1767 and 1792, Anne gave Amand 14 children, 11 sons and three daughters.  During the 1770s the family settled at Grosses-Coques on St. Mary's Bay on 200 acres of land granted to them in May 1775.  Amand died by 1818, probably on the bay.  Widow Anne died at Clare on the bay in October 1836, age 90.  Their daughters married into the Saulnier, LeBlanc, and Gaudet families on the bay.  All of Amand's many sons also created their own families there. 

Oldest son Étienne-Nazare dit Petit Amand, was born in Nova Scotia in January 1767 and baptized there by a missionary to the Mi'kmaq from Rivière St.-Jean in July 1768, age 18 months.  He followed his family to St. Mary's Bay and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Justinien Comeau and Nathalie Bastarache of Annapolis Royal, in c1788.  Between 1789 and 1813, on St. Mary's Bay, Marie-Josèphe gave Étienne-Nazare a dozen children, six sons and six daughters.  Étienne served as a private in the Clare militia in September 1793, during the war between Britain and France in the darkest days of the French Revolution.  Étienne-Nazare died at nearby Meteghan on the bay's eastern shore in 1850, in his early 80s.  Five of his daughters married into the Babin, Robichaud, and Thériault families on the bay.  Five of his six sons also married, into the Pothier, Babin, Belliveau, Saulnier, and Amirault families on the bay. 

Amand's second son Anselme, born on St. Mary's Bay in c1770, married Monique, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Doucet and Marie-Marguerite LeBlanc, in c1796 probably on the bay, and the marriage was "rehabilitated" there in August 1799.  Between 1797 and 1824, Monique gave Anselme seven children, four sons and three daughters.  Anselme died at Clare on the bay in April 1842, in his early 70s.  One of his daughters married into the Saulnier family on the bay.  Three of his sons also married there, into the Thériault, Saulnier, and Robichaud families. 

Amand's third son Charles, born on St. Mary's Bay in June 1771, married Marie-Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Frédéric Belliveau and Madeleine LeBlanc, on the bay in November 1791.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" there in August 1799.  Charles also served as a private in the Clare militia in September 1793.  Between 1792 and 1812, Marie-Scholastique gave Charles seven children, six sons and a daughter.  Charles died in Digby County by 1823, in his late 40s or early 50s.  His daughter married into the Saulnier family on the bay.  Four of his sons also married, into the Doucet, Comeau, Boudreau, Maillet, and Fournier families on the bay, but one of the lines did not endure.

Amand's fourth son Frédéric dit Courteau, born on St. Mary's Bay in November 1772 and baptized there in October 1774, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Comeau and Félicité LeBlanc, on the bay in October 1791, and trhe marriage was "rehabilitated" there in January 1800.  Between 1792 and 1818, Marie gave Frédéric dit Courteau 10 children, six daughters and four sons.  Frédéric also served as a private in the Clare militia in September 1793.  Three of his daughters married into the Gaudet, Amirault, and Doucet families on the bay.  His four sons also married, into the Thibodeau, Thibault, Amirault, Comeau, and Fontaine families on St. Mary's Bay and farther down on the western shore. 

Amand's fifth son Joseph, born on St. Mary's Bay in c1774, married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Comeau and Marie-Rose Robichaud, in November 1794 on St. Mary's Bay.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" there in August 1800.  Between 1795 and 1813, Louise gave Joseph 10 children, seven daughters and three sons.  Six of their daughters married into the Thériault, Comeau, Saulnier, Robichaud, Dugas, and Melanson families on the bay, one of them to a first cousin.  Two of Joseph's sons also married, into the Bertrand and McDonald families on the bay.

Amand's sixth son Dominique dit Minette, born on St. Mary's Bay in c1776, received, while still a bachelor, a land grant at Concession on the bay in June 1799.  He married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Saulnier and Marie-Françoise Aucoin, in c1806, place unrecorded.  Between 1807 and 1828, Geneviève gave Minette 11 children, eight daughters and three sons.  Five of his daughters married into the Martin, Dugas, Trahan, Maillet, and Doucet families on the bay.  Three of his sons also married there, into the Corporon, Comeau, and Thimot families.

Amand's seventh son Jean-Baptiste dit Janni, born on St. Mary's Bay in June 1780, married Cécile, daughter of Pierre Murat and Françoise ____ of France, then living in the United States, and adopted daughter of Casimir LeBlanc and Marie Daigle of St. Mary's Bay, on the bay in August 1800.  Between 1801 and 1828, Cécile gave Janni 13 children, eight sons and five daughters.  Four of their daughters married into the Pothier, Stuart, and Bourneuf families on the bay, two of their husbands Acadian brothers.  Six of Jannie's sons also married, into the Belliveau, Melanson, Surette, Bourneuf, Bonenfant, and Thibodeau families, two of the wives sisters, on the bay. 

Amand's eighth son Bénoni, born on St. Mary's Bay in c1782, married Rosalie, another daughter of Pierre Doucet and Marie-Marguerite LeBlanc, on the bay in May 1800.  Between 1801 and 1827, Rosalie gave Bénoni 13 children, eight daughters and five sons.  In 1830, Bénoni purchased a farm at Gilbert Cove near Plympton on the upper bay.  Six of his daughters married into the Maillet, Thibault, Saulnier, and Thériault families, three of their husbands brothers, on the bay.  Four of his sons married, into the Deveau and Comeau families, two of the wives sisters, on the bay.

Amand's ninth son Paul, born on St. Mary's Bay in c1786, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Thibault and Marguerite Boudreau, in c1811 probably on the bay and settled there.  Paul was a seaman.  Between 1812 and 1832, Madeleine gave him a dozen children, four sons and eight daughters.  Two of their daughters married into the O'Neill and Melanson families on the bay.  Three of Paul's sons also married, into the Ryan, Cartwright, Seely, and Alright families on the bay.

Amand's tenth son Joseph-Ignace, born on St. Mary's Bay in c1790, married fellow Acadian Geneviève Amirault in c1821 probably on the bay.  They settled in Digby County.  Between 1822 and 1830, Geneviève gave Joseph-Ignace four daughters, two of whom married Doucet brothers on the bay, so the blood of this family line endured.

Amand's eleventh and youngest son François, born on St. Mary's Bay in c1792, married Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Robichaud and Marie-Madeleine Hébert, probably on the bay in c1809.  Between 1810 and 1824, Ursule gave François nine children, five sons and four daughters.  François, in his late 30s, remarried to Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Thibodeau and Marie Comeau, at St. John, New Brunswick, in October 1829.  They settled on St. Mary's Bay.  Between 1830 and 1848, Hélène gave François 10 more children, four sons and six daughters--19 children, nine sons and 10 daughters, by two wives.  François died at Digby Neck, Nova Scotia, in November 1868, in his late 70s, and was re-interred at Plympton on upper St. Mary's Bay the following March.  Four of his daughters by both wives married into the Maillet, Comeau, Carbery, and Meehan families on the bay and at Boston, Massachusetts.   Four of his sons by both wives also married, into the Melanson, Doucet, Amirault, Comeau, and Wilson families on the bay, one of them to a first cousin. 

Charles's third son Pierre le jeune, Ambroise's twin, born at Port-Royal in March or April 1685, married Anne, daughter of Laurent Granger and Marie Landry, at Annapolis Royal in November 1712.  Between 1714 and 1724, Anne gave Pierre le jeune five children, three daughters and two sons.  Pierre le jeune died at Annapolis Royal in August 1725, age 40.  Widow Anne did not remarry and died at Annapolis Royal in October 1749, in her mid-60s.  Two of their daughters married into the Dugas and Doucet dit Mézange families.  Only one of Pierre le jeune's sons created a family of his own.  

Older son Pierre, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1715, may have married Marie-Josèphe Belliveau at Annapolis Royal in c1741.  She gave him a daughter in November 1742.  Pierre, fils remarried to, or married, Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Richard and Marguerite Robichaud, at Annapolis Royal in January 1751.  Between 1752 and 1764, at Annapolis Royal and in exile, Isabelle gave Pierre, fils four children, two daughters and two sons.  The family may have escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and taken refuge in Canada, or, less likely, the British deported them to an upper seaboard colony but they do not appear in any colonial records of the late 1750s or 1760s.  Whatever may have been their fate during exile, they ended up in Canada.  British officials counted them at Yamachiche on the upper St. Lawrence above Trois-Rivières in August 1767.  In 1771, Pierre, fils received a concession of land from a Canadian seigneur at Rivières-aux-Glaises near today's Gentilly below Trois-Rivières.  Later in the decade or in the early 1780s, the family moved to St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, north of Montréal, where Pierre, fils died on Christmas Day 1783, in his late 60s.  His youngest daughter married into the Houde family at St.-Jacques.  One of his sons created a family of his own there. 

Older son Joseph, by second wife Élisabeth dite Isabelle Richard, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1754, if he survived infancy followed his family into exile and to Canada, but he evidently did not marry.

Pierre, fils's younger son Pierre III, born in exile in c1764, place unrecorded, was baptized at Yamachiche in August 1767.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Auger and Marie-Josèphte Oui, at nearby L'Assomption in February 1789.  They settled at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan.  Between 1790 and 1802, Marguerite gave Pierre III seven children, four daughters and three sons.  Marguerite died at St.-Jacques in July 1815, age 52.  In his early 60s, Pierre III remarried to Marguerite, 24-year-old daughter of Jean-Baptiste Raineau dit Blanchard and Suzanne Lamothe, at St.-Jacques in November 1827.  She gave him two more daughters in 1829 and 1832--nine children, six daughter and three sons, by both wives.  Pierre III died at St.-Jacques in January 1841, in his late 70s.  Four of his daughters by both wives married into the Brisson, Brien dit Desrochers, Pichet, and Poudrier families at St.-Jacques.  Only one of his sons married, into the Landry family at St.-Jacques.

Pierre le jeune's younger son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1721, probably died young. 

Charles's fourth son Claude, born probably at Port-Royal in c1688, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Babineau and Marguerite Boudrot, at Annapolis Royal in January 1714.  Between 1716 and 1735, Marguerite gave Claude seven children, five daughters and two sons.  Claude died at Annapolis Royal in July 1737, in his late 40s.  Marguerite did not remarry.  The British evidently placed her aboard the transport Pembroke in the fall of 1755 bound for North Carolina.  Acadians aboard the vessel overwhelmed its captain and crew soon after it left the Annapolis Basin and, after taken refuge in Baie Ste.-Marie, sailed it across the Bay of Fundy to the mouth of Rivière St.-Jean.  After spending the rest of the winter on the river, Marguerite followed other Annapolis Royal exiles to Canada via the upper St.-Jean portage.  She died at Québec in December 1757, age 63, victim, most likely, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the exiles in the area from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Three of her Melanson daughters married into the Berier dit Mâchefer, Savoie, and Dugas families in Canada.  Both of her Melanson sons also created families of their own and settled in Canada.   

Older son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1718, married, in his mid-30s, Anne, daughter of Claude Bourg and Judith Guérin, at Annapolis Royal in May 1753.  By 1755, Anne gave Charles three children, two sons and a daughter.  The family also may have been among the Pembroke passengers who escaped deportation in the fall of 1755 and made their way up to Canada by 1757.  Charles died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse below Québec on the last day of December 1757, a victim, like his mother and infant son Charles, fils, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the exiles in the area from the summer of 1757 to the summer of 1758.  His widow Anne remarried to a Gautrot widower at St.-Charles in November 1758 and died by June 1764, when her second husband remarried at nearby Baie-St.-Paul on the north side of the St. Lawrence below Québec.  Her and Charles's Melanson daughter survived childhood but probably did not marry.  Their surviving son created a family of his own in upper Canada.

Older son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in c1754, followed his family into exile and to Canada.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Bourgeois and Marguerite Cyr, at St.-Philippe de Laprairie across from Montréal in April 1782.  Between 1783 and 1808, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste 11 children, five daughters and six sons.  Jean-Baptiste died at Iberville on upper Rivière Richelieu across from St.-Jean-de-Richelieu in May 1834, in his early 80s.  Three of his daughters married into the Laroche, Paquet, and Clavel families in the Montréal/St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu area.  Four of his sons also married, into the Latarte, Duquet, Fréchette, and Demers families in the area.

Claude's younger son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1727, married Anne, daughter of François Robichaud and Angélique Pitre, in c1750 probably at Annapolis Royal.  Between 1754 and 1765, at Annapolis Royal and in Canada, Anne gave Jean-Baptiste four children, three daughters and a son.  They, too, may have been among the Pembroke passengers who escaped deportation in the fall of 1755 and made their way up to Canada by 1757.  Jean-Baptiste died at Québec in November 1785, age 57, and was buried in "le cimetière des picotés," that is, the smallpox cemetery, at Québec.  According to Bona Arsenault, his oldest daughter became a nun at Québec in June 1776, and another daughter married into the Chamard or Chamarre family there.  His son survived childhood but did not create a family of his own.

Only son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at Charlesbourg near Québec in February 1760, settled at St.-Vallier de Bellechasse on the St. Lawrence below the city, where he died in June 1829, age 69.  He did not marry. 

Charles's fifth and youngest son Jean dit Jani, born probably at Port-Royal in c1690, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Surgeon Denis Petitot dit Saint-Seine and Marie Robichaud, at Annapolis Royal in January 1714 and settled there.  Between 1714 and 1735, Marie-Madeleine gave Jani 10 children, five daughters and five sons.  In June 1745, during the early months of King George's War, Jean dit Jani was one of seven delegates representing Annapolis Royal before the colonial Council there.  Most members of the family were deported to Cherbourg, France, in 1759-60, during Le Grand Dérangement.  They were not sent there from either of the French Maritime islands in late 1758, so their movements from 1755 to 1759 are difficult to determine.  A possible scenario could be that in the fall of 1755, Jani and his family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal and, after spending a hard winter on the Bay of Fundy shore, crossed to Chepoudy the following spring and took refuge at the Acadian settlements on lower Rivière St.-Jean.  In 1756 and 1757, while other exiles, including Jani's siblings, moved on to Canada via the upper St.-Jean portage, Jani and most members of his family may have remained on the river, probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas.  Their respite from British oppression would have been short-lived.  In September 1758, after the fall of Louisbourg, British forces struck the Acadian settlements at Cap-Sable and established a garrison in Fort Frederick at the mouth of the St.-Jean.  In October, the British transported the Acadians they had captured at Cap-Sable to the prison compound on Georges lsland, Halifax harbor, and, a few weeks later, deported them to Le Havre, France.  In November, British forces moved up Rivière St.-Jean, burning their way through the lower Acadians settlements.  The following February, 1759, New-English rangers pillaged and burned Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas and murdered two Acadian women and their children there in early March.  The rangers captured several families in the area, perhaps including Jean dit Jani and his family.  Along with more Acadians captured at Cap-Sable, the British transported the St.-Jean exiles to the prison compound at Halifax.  The following November, along with other prisoners on Georges Island, the Melansons would have been shunted aboard the transport Mary and deported to England, and English authorities would have sent them on to Cherbourg, France, where they would have landed during the second week of January 1760.  Jani's wife Marie-Madeleine died in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in late January, age 60, two weeks after she and her family would have reached the Norman port.  Jani died there the following month, in his early 70s.  Four of his daughters married into the Breau, Granger, Belliveau, and Part families at Annapolis Royal and in France, one of them to Eustache Part, whose first wife and young children the rangers had murdered on Rivière St.-Jean.  Most of Jani's family, including an ummarried sister, followed him and Marie-Madeleine to Cherbourg.  One of their daughters had been deported to Massachusetts in 1755 and repatriated to Canada in the late 1760s.  Three of Jani's five sons created families of their own in Nova Scotia and France.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  His oldest son settled in greater Acadia.  His younger sons remained in France. 

Oldest son Charles dit Charlot, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1725, married Anne, daughter of Jean Breau and Anne Chiasson, at Annapolis Royal in January 1746.  Between 1747 and 1764, Anne gave Charlot six children, three daughters and three sons, including a set of twins.  Charlot and his family escaped the roundup at Annapolis Royal and, after taking refuge on Rivière St.-Jean with his family, moved on to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  They appeared on a French repatriation list at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, Chignecto, in August 1763 but remained in Nova Scotia.  In 1768, they appeared on a list of Acadians at Fort Edward, Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, with the notation that they were ready to take the oath of allegiance to the British Crown.  Later that year, they moved on to Minudie south of Chignecto.  By 1789, they had resettled at nearby Memramcook in the trois-rivières area of southeastern New Brunswick.  Two of Charlot's daughters married into the Haché dit Gallant and Thibodeau families and settled in southeastern New Brunswick.  His sons also created families of their own, along the lower Gulf shore and at Memramcook, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Jean, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1748, followed his parents into exile and into the prison compound at Fort Cumberland.  He married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Germain Thibodeau and Madeleine-Blanche Préjean of Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, in c1775 (Bona Arsenault says c1778) and settled on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Between 1776 and 1782, Marie-Rose gave Jean three daughters, who married into the Babineau, Vautour, and Blanchard families in the St.-Louis-de-Kent and Richibucto area on the Gulf shore, so the blood of this family line endured. 

Charlot's second son Pierre dit Pierrotte, born at Annapolis Royal in c1750, followed his parents into exile and into the prison compound at Fort Cumberland.  He married Anne dite Nannette, daughter of fellow Acadians René dit Petit René Richard de Beaupré and Perpétué Bourgeois, in c1778 and settled in the Memramcook area, where they were recorded at Village-d'en-Haut on the west side of Rivière Memramcook in 1792.  Between 1778 and 1798, Nannette gave Pierrotte eight children, four daughters and four sons.  Their daughters married into the Belliveau and Melanson families at Memramcook.  Pierrotte's sons also married there, into the Bourque, Ouellet, Léger, Vienneau, and Landry families. 

Charlot's third and youngest son Charles dit Charlitte, a twin, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1751, followed his parents into exile and into the prison compound at Fort Cumberland and remained with them in Nova Scotia.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Grégoire Broussard and Anne LeBlanc, in c1779, place unrecorded.  In 1792, they were living at Village-d'en-Haut, west of Memramcook, on land once owned by Michel Richard.  They were still living on the west bank of Rivière Memramcook in 1812.  Charlitte died there in December 1824, age 73.  He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Jani's second son Claude le jeune, born in c1727 probably at Annapolis Royal, followed his family into exile and died at Cherbourg, France, in May 1760, age 33, not long after his arrival there.  He did not marry.  The Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish priest who recorded his burial noted that Claude was "du Cap-Sable," which gives a clue that his family had been deported to Cherbourg with exiles from that Acadian settlement. 

Jani's third son Jean, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1728, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Landry and Marguerite Mius d'Entremont, at Annapolis Royal in October 1753.  They, too, ended up at Cherbourg, France, in January 1760.  French authorities counted them there in 1761, 1767, 1772, and 1775.  Jean, fils worked as a ship's carpenter in the Norman port.  Jean, fils may have died by September 1790, when French authorities counted his wife Anne at Le Havre without him.  Did they have any children?

Jani's fourth son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1730, may have followed his family into exile and to Cherbourg, where he may have been the Jean Melanson who died there in early February 1760, age 30, soon after he and his family reached the Norman port.  If so, he did not marry.  

Jani's fifth and youngest son Denis, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1733, followed his family into exile and to Cherbourg, France, where, in his early 30s, he married Frenchwoman Jeanne-Françoise, daughter of Jean Langlois and Marie-Madeleine Coupex, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish in January 1765.  Jeanne-Françoise gave Denis two children, a daughter and a son, in December 1765 and 1769.  In 1767, French officials counted Denis and his family still at Cherbourg and noted that he was a 35-year-old disabled fisherman.  Son Charles died at Cherbourg in March 1772.  They were still there that September, when Denis was described as a fisherman and day laborer and wife Marie-Madeleine as a spinner.  In 1773, Denis and his family followed other exiles in the port cities to the interior of Poitou--an odd choice for a fisherman.  Now a widower, in November 1775, Denis and his daughter, Jeanne-Marie, retreated with other Poitou Acadians in the first convoy from Châtellerault to the port city of Nantes and settled at nearby Chantenay, where he died in August 1776, age 43.  His daughter, who would have been age 9 or 10 in 1785, did not follow other Acadians in France to Spanish Louisiana that year.  One wonders if she married.366

Granger

English sailor Laurent Granger, a late 1650s arrival, and his wife Marie Landry created a large family in the colony.  Between 1668 and 1688, Marie gave Laurent nine children, three daughters and six sons.  Laurent died at Port-Royal between 1700 and 1703, in his late 50s.  His daughters married into the Babineau dit Deslauriers, Lanoue, and Melanson families.  Five of his six sons created families of their own.  His and Marie's descendants settled at Annapolis Royal, Minas, and in the French Maritimes.  At least 19 of the sailor's descendants emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in the late 1760s and from France in 1785.  Most of Laurent's descendants, however, could be found in Canada, greater Acadia, the French Antilles, and especially on Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in February 1671, married Isabelle, daughter of Pierre Guilbeau and Catherine Thériot, at Port-Royal in c1693 but settled at Minas.  Between 1694 and 1719, Isabelle gave Pierre nine children, six daughters and three sons.  Pierre died at Minas in January 1737, age 65.  His daughters married into the Vincent, Hébert, Richard, and Bugeaud families, including a set of brothers.  His three sons also created their own families at Minas. 

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1697, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Richard and Marguerite Landry and sister of two of Joseph's brothers-in-law, at Grand-Pré in January 1719.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1721 and 1740, Anne gave Joseph nine children, three sons and six daughters, including a set of twins.  Joseph remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Gautrot and Marie-Josèphe Bugeaud and widow of Pierre Roy, in c1750 probably at Minas.  She gave him two more sons in 1751 and 1753.  The British deported Joseph, Marguerite, and his younger children to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Joseph died there before June 1760, in his early or mid-60s.  Marguerite remarried to a Landry, and in May 1763, she, her new husband, and her two Granger sons were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard L'Ambition.  They settled in the surburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where they were still living in 1772.  Joseph's daughter Françoise by first wife Anne married into the Melanson family probably at Minas and, along with some of her siblings, followed her husband to Granse-Anse, Île St.-Jean, in c1750 and to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in late 1758.  The family moved on to St.-Malo, and Françoise died in a suburb of the Breton port in September 1778, age 55.  Marie-Madeleine, one of the twins from Joseph's first wife Anne, married into the Bugeaud family at Minas and followed her husband to Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie, Île St.-Jean, in 1752.  The British deported her, her husband, and their two young children to St.-Malo in 1758.  Her husband and children did not survive the crossing or its rigors, and Marie-Madeleine remarried to a Bourg widow at Pleurtuit near St.-Malo in June 1760.  She helped him created a large famiy in the St.-Malo area and emigrated with them to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Her twin sister Anne married into the Bonnière family of Pigiguit at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, Île St.-Jean, in c1752, was deported to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, moved on to St.-Malo, also remarried to a Bourg, at nearby St.-Coulomb near St.-Malo in June 1764, and also emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Their older brother also was deported to France, but did not create a family of his own there.  Two of their younger half-brothers also created their own families and followed their older half-sisters to Spanish Louisiana. 

Oldest son Paul, by first wife Anne Richard, born at Minas in c1721, followed his younger sister Françoise and her husband to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Paul, age 30, with sister Marguerite, age 13, sister Françoise, age 24, brother-in-law Étienne Melanson, age 30, and their three children, ages 4 years to 4 months, at Grande-Anse on the island's southeast shore.  The British may have deported Paul with his sister and brother-in-law to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in 1758-59.  If so, he did not remain in the mother country.  According to Bona Arsenault, he died at St.-Augustin, a fishing center on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in October 1795, in his early 70s.  He evidently did not marry. 

Joseph's fourth son Charles-Benoît, by second wife Marguerite Gautrot, born at Minas in c1751, followed his family to Virginia and England and his widowed mother, stepfather, and their family to St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  When he came of age, he became a sailor.  By 1777, he had moved to Chantenay near Nantes, where, in his late 20s, he married Marie, 31-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Anne Boudrot of Minas, in September 1780.  She gave him a son, Charles-Simon, at nearby Chantenay in April 1781, but the boy died at age 2 1/2 in October 1783.  Marie died at Chantenay, age 34, in July 1782.  Charles-Benoît and a Daigre nephew followed his older half-sisters to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  He settled at first on the river above New Orleans at Baton Rouge, where he married Marguerite-Ange, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph-Ange Dubois and Anne Michel and widow of Jean Daigre, in September 1787.  They were still living near Fort Bute, Manchac, below Baton Rouge, in July 1788 and soon after joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Charles-Benoît died on the upper Lafourche by January 1792, in his early 40s, when his wife remarried at Lafourche.  His only son married into the Mire family on the western prairies.

Joseph's fifth and youngest son Joseph, fils, by second wife Marguerite Gautrot, born at Minas in c1752, followed his family to Virginia and England and his widowed mother, stepfather, and their family to St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  He followed his older brother and two older half-sisters to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  In his early 30s, Joseph, fils married Anne-Marie-Madeleine, 32-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Bernard Savary and Marie Michel dit La Ruine and widow of Pierre Pothier, at Ascension on the river above New Orleans in June 1786, soon after their arrival.  They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche and may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Pierre's second son Charles, born probably at Minas in c1701, married Marie, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Marguerite Richard, at Grand-Pré in July 1726.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1727 and 1745, Marie gave Charles 11 children, five sons and six daughters.  Charles died at Minas in February 1747, in his mid- or late 40s.  Judging by the date of his death--four days before the French-Canadian attack against a New-English force at Grand-Pré--one wonders if Charles was a casualty of King George's War.  The British deported members of the family to Virginia in the autumn of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Two of Charles's daughters married into the Landry family, one of them on Île St.-Jean.  In May 1759, another daughter married a Testard from Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, at Cherbourg, France, after the British deported her there probably from Île Royale in late 1758; she died at Cherbourg in May 1760, age 27.  After members of the family were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, from England in May 1763, two of Charles's unmarried daughters, ages 19 and 37, died at St.-Malo in May and June soon after they reached the Breton port, and a third daughter died there in August 1764, age 27.  At least three of Charles's sons created families of their own in greater Acadia, England, and France.

Oldest son Laurent, born at Minas in June 1727, married Marguerite Hébert probably at Minas.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Marguerite died before May 1763, when Laurent and four of his siblings were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard L'Ambition.  He settled with them at St.-Servan-sur-Mer and did not remarry.  Laurent died in a hospital at St.-Malo in April 1765, age 37.  His line of the family died with him. 

Charles's second son Joseph, born at Minas in c1731, married Anne Dupuis probably at Minas.  They either moved on to the French Maritimes in the 1750s and were deported to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758, or they escaped the British roundup at Minas in the fall of 1755, sought refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean, were captured there by British forces in 1758 or 1759, and deported to Cherbourg from Halifax in 1759-60.  Anne succumbed from the rigors of exile, and Joseph remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Porlier and Anne-Marie de St.-Étienne de La Tour of Annapolis Royal and widow of Gabriel Moulaison, at Très-Ste.-Trinité, Cherbourg, in August 1763.  They moved on to St.-Malo in early 1764 and settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Anne gave Joseph a son there in May 1764.  The family returned to Cherbourg in 1765.  Son Joseph-David was born there in May 1766.  Son Jean-Baptiste-Marie died there in July 1766, age 2.  Joseph died at Cherbourg in May 1768, in his late 30s.  Daughter Madeleine-Luce was born posthumously in late May.  Widow Anne remarried to a Babin widow, her third marriage, in September 1775 in the interior of Poitou.  None of Joseph's surviving children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Charles's fourth son Charles, fils, born at Minas in c1740, followed members of his family to Virginia and England.  He married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude LeBlanc and Jeanne Dugas, in England in c1762.  In May 1763, they were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, with other exiles from England aboard L'Ambition.  They settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where Marie-Madeleine gave him a daughter in June 1763, but the girl died eight days after her birth.  Charles, fils died at St.-Servan the following December, age 23.  Marie-Madeleine remarried to a Landry at St.-Servan in June 1765. 

Pierre's third and youngest son Pierre, fils, born at Minas in August 1719, married Euphrosine, another daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Marguerite Richard, at Grand-Pré in January 1741.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1754, Euphrosine gave Pierre, fils five children, a daughter and four sons.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  In July 1763, Pierre, fils, Euphrosine, and six of their children, two daughters and four sons, appeared on a French repatriation list at Snow Hill on the Chesapeake colony's Eastern Shore.  Pierre, fils died in Maryland between the counting and late June 1766, in his mid-40s.  His widow and three of his children, the oldest daughter and two sons, emigrated to Louisiana in 1766 and settled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Pierre, fils's daughter married into the Landry family and remained on the river, but his two sons, who also married, settled on the western prairies.  Most of the Acadian Grangers of South Louisiana descend from Pierre, fils's sons. 

Second son Joseph, born at Minas in December 1746, followed his family to Maryland and his widowed mother to Cabahannocer, where he married Anne-Geneviève, called Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians René Babin and Madeleine Bourg, in April 1768.  The following year they were still living on the east bank of the river at Cabahannocer.  A year later, they were counted on the east bank of the river at Ascension, upriver from Cabahannocer.  In the 1770s, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District and then moved south to the Attakapas District.  Joseph, at age 44, remarried to Anne-Osite, called Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dugas and Marguerite Daigle and widow of Charles Hébert, at Attakapas in January 1791.  Joseph died at Attakapas in December 1798, age 52.  His daughters, all from first wife Geneviève, married into the Crawford, Doucet, Hébert, Reao, and Simar families, and one of his daughters bore a "natural son" by Spaniard Antoine Martin.  His four sons, all by first wife Geneviève, married into the Landry, Gaspard, and Broussard families on the prairies. 

Pierre, fils's third son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in c1752, followed his family to Maryland and his widowed mother to Louisiana.  In the early or mid-1770s, he followed his older brother to the western prairies.  Jean-Baptiste married Susanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Cormier and his first wife Marguerite Sonnier of Opelousas, at Attakapas in January 1779.  They settled at the southern edge of the Opelousas District before moving south to Côte Gelée in the Attakapas District.  After his wife died, Jean-Baptiste filed successions at the St. Landry and St. Martin parish courthouses in August 1812.  He did not remarry.  He died at Côte Gelée, Lafayette Parish, in September 1842, age 90.  His daughters married into the Granger, Landry, Simon, and Trahan families.  Four of his six sons married into the Duhon, Gautreaux, Pivauteau, and Lopez families on the prairies and on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Laurent's second son Jacques, born at Port-Royal in c1672, married Marie, daughter of Jacques Girouard and Marguerite Gautrot, in c1700 and also settled at Minas.  Between 1701 and 1720, Marie gave Jacques nine children, six sons and three daughters.  Jacques died at Minas in February 1739, in his late 60s.  Two of his daughters married into the LeBlanc and Daigre families.  Four of his six sons created their own families.   

Their oldest son, name unrecorded, born in the early 1700s, died young.   

Jacques's second son Charles, born probably at Minas in c1705, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Bernard Daigre and Angélique Richard and sister of one of his brothers-in-law, at Grand-Pré in February 1738.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1748, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles four children, a daughter and three sons.  The British deported the family to Maryland in 1755.  Charles died there before July 1763, in his 50s, when his family appeared without him on French repatriation list in the colony. 

Jacques's third son Pierre, born at Minas in February 1709, evidently died young.  

Jacques's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born at Minas in August 1710, married cousin Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Gautrot and Marie-Josèphe Bugeaud, at Grand-Pré in July 1736; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1737 and 1754, Marie-Josèphe gave Baptiste 11 children, two sons and nine daughters.  The British deported the family to Maryland in 1755.  In July 1763, Baptiste, Marie-Josèphe, and their 11 children appeared on a repatriation list at Georgetown/Frederickstown on the Eastern Shore.  Baptiste, Marie-Josèphe, and at least one of their children died soon after the counting, and the remaining children, "victims of small pox and twelve years of exile, asked officials to help in returning to Canada."  Did they? 

Jacques's fifth son Joseph, born at Minas in February 1713, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Thériot and Madeleine Bourg, at Grand-Pré in November 1734.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1748, Marguerite gave Joseph four children, two sons and two daughters.  Other records give them another son.  Arsenault says Joseph and his family lived at Chignecto in the 1740s.  What happened to them in 1755?  Joseph died in exile before June 1763, in his late 30s or early 40s.  One, perhaps two, of his sons created families in France. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born at Minas in October 1737, followed his family to Chignecto and likely was on his own when he moved perhaps to Île Royale after August 1752.  The British deported him to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758, and he settled in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  On 6 December 1759, he embarked on the ship Duc de Choiseul, probably as a privateer, and was captured by the Royal Navy.  The British held him in England for the rest of the war, and he was repatriated to St.-Malo in 1763 with the other Acadian exiles in England.  He returned to St.-Servan, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Cyr and Marie-Josèphe Hébert, in June 1763.  In 1764, Marie gave Joseph, fils a son.  In 1765, Joseph, fils, Marie, and their infant son, with other Acadian exiles, left St.-Malo aboard the frigate L'Aigle for the Falkland Islands.  Beween 1766 and 1769, on one of the remote islands, Marie gave Joseph, fils three more children, two daughters and a son.  In late December 1771, Joseph, fils and his family returned to St.-Servan, where, in 1773 and 1774, she gave him two more sons, but the youngest one died eight days after his birth.  Marie died at St.-Servan in February 1775, age 36, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Joseph, fils did not follow other exiles in the port cities to the interior of Poitou in the early 1770s.  He remarried to fellow Acadian Anne Thériot, widow of Pierre Landry, at St.-Servan in February 1776.  Between 1776 and 1779, Anne gave Joseph, fils three more children, two daughters and a son--nine children in all by two wives.  Joseph, fils died probably at St.-Servan before September 1784, when a Spanish official counted Anne with two of their children at the lower Loire port of Nantes and called her a widow.  They may have returned to the St.-Malo area soon after the counting.  Anne, along with a Landry daughter by her first marriage, two Granger stepchildren, and three of her Granger children, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 directly from St.-Malo.  If three of her other Granger stepchildren--Marie; Anne, and Julien-Joseph, ages 19, 18, and 12 in 1785--were still living, none of them accompanied her to the Spanish colony.  Anne and her charges followed most of their fellow passengers to the new Acadian settled at Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, where Anne remarried to a Barbero from Italy--her third marriage--in May 1790.  The family resettled at Baton Rouge in the early 1790s.  Her Granger stepdaughter married into the Lanoir family at Baton Rouge, and her Granger daughters married into the Labauve and Arthacho families there.  Her Granger stepson and her Granger son also created families of their own in Louisiana.

Oldest son Joseph-Constans, by first wife Marie Cyr, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in April 1764, followed his family to the Falklands and back to St.-Servan, and followed his widowed stepmother and siblings to Louisiana.  He married Marie-Modeste, 40-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Moulaison and Cécile Melanson and widow of Ambroise Bourg, at Bayou des Écores or Baton Rouge in July 1790.  Marie-Modeste was a native of Cap-Sable and had come to Louisiana in 1785 with her first husband and large family aboard the same ship Joseph-Constans had taken.  She gave him no children. 

Joseph, fils's fourth and youngest son Pierre-Marie, by second wife Anne Thériot, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in December 1779, followed his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana.  He married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Marguerite Richard of St. Gabriel and Baton Rouge, at Baton Rouge in May 1804.  They settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish.  Their daughters married into the Peyronnin and de Richebourg families.  Only one of Pierre-Marie's four sons married, into the Lejeune family in West Baton Rouge. 

Joseph, père's second son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born at Minas in c1739, followed his family to Chignecto and  evidently followed his older brother to Île Royale after August 1752.  The British deported his brother to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758, but Jean ended up at Rochefort on the Bay of Biscayne, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptise Mazière and Marie Poirier of Île St.-Jean, in St.-Louis Parish in February 1764.  He did not follow his older brother to Spanish Louisiana. 

Jacques's sixth and youngest son Bénoni, born at Minas in January 1720, married Élisabeth, another daughter of Jean Thériot and Madeleine Bourg, at Grand-Pré in October 1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, Élisabeth gave Bénoni a son in 1743.  Bénoni remarried to Anne Richard in c1750 and died probably at Minas before January 1752, in his late 20s or early 30s.  One wonders what happened to his family in 1755. 

Laurent's third son, name unrecorded, born at Port-Royal in c1674, probably died young. 

Laurent's fourth son René, born at Port-Royal in c1676, married Marguerite, daughter of Bonaventure Thériot and Jeanne Boudrot, in c1695 at Port-Royal and moved on to Minas.  Between 1697 and 1715, Marguerite gave René nine children, three daughters and six sons.  René died at Rivière-aux-Canards in November 1740, in his mid-60s.  His daughters married into the Dupuis, Belliveau, and Daigre families.  His sons also created their own families at Minas.  Amazingly, every one of them died in England within a four-month period.  Their widows and children moved on to France, where their sons created many family lines on Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  None of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. 

Oldest son René, fils, born at Port-Royal in June 1703, followed his family to Minas and married Angélique, daughter of Étienne Comeau and Marguerite Forest, at Grand-Pré in February 1727.  They settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1757, Angélique gave René, fils seven children, three sons and four daughters.  The British deported most of the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  One of René, fils's married sons was deported to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  René, fils died at Falmouth, England in September 1756, age 53, victim, mostly likely, of a smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian exiles there in the late summer, fall, and winter of 1756-57.  His and his brother's deaths were recorded in the parish register of St.-Gluvius, an Anglican church at nearby Penryn.  In May 1763, members of the family, with the other English exiles in England, were repatriated from Falmouth to Morlaix, France.  In November 1765, they followed other Acadian exiles from England to newly-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer.  At least one of René, fils's daughters married, into the Girouard family probably at Minas.  His three sons also created their own families at Minas and in France.

Oldest son François, born at Minas in c1731, married Marie, daughter of Joseph Trahan and Élisabeth Thériot of Pigiguit, at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1755.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of that year, and Virginia authorities sent them on to Falmouth, England, the following spring.  François died at Falmouth in September 1756, a victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that killed his father.  He and Marie evidently had no children.  Marie remarried to a LeBlanc widow at Falmouth. 

René, fils's second son Alexis, born at Minas in c1733, evidently resettled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, where he married Marie, daughter of Pierre Landry and Claire Babin, in c1755.  The British deported them to Pennsylvania later in the year.  Alexis died there or in Maryland, where widow Marie and their daughter Anne-Madeleine appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on the Chesapeake colony's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  Marie took her daughter and two younger siblings to Louisiana in July 1767 and  emarried to a Sonnier in the Spanish colony.  Anne-Madeleine married into the Theriot famliy there. 

René, fils's third and youngest son Laurent le jeune, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in January 1741, followed his family to Virginia and Falmouth, England, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Thériot and Marie Landry, in May 1762.  In May 1763, they were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard L'Ambition with other Acadian exiles from England and joined their relatives at Morlaix.  In November 1765, they, too, went to Belle-Île-en-Mer and settled at Lanno, Sauzon.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1776, Marie gave Laurent six children, a daughter and five sons.  In 1769, a fire destroyed the family's buildings and a disease killed off their cattle, so they resettled at Bourtémont near his mother-in-law.  Laurent and his family did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They moved, instead, to Vannes in southern Brittany, where Marie died in c1786, in her late 40s.  Laurent's six children were living in St.-Pierre Parish, Vannes, in 1792 during the French Revolution. 

René, père's second son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in July 1705, followed his family to Minas and married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques à René LeBlanc and Catherine Landry, at Grand-Pré in October 1725.  They settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1736, Marguerite gave Joseph four children, three sons and a daughter.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Joseph died at Falmouth, England in January 1757, age 51, victim, mostly likely, of the smallpox epidemic that killed his older brother.  In May 1763, members of the family, with the other English exiles in England, were repatriated from Falmouth to Morlaix, France.  In November 1765, they followed other Acadian exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer.  Joseph's widow Marguerite LeBlanc and her three Granger sons settled at Le Palais.  Her Granger daughter had married into the Dupuis family at Minas.  Her three Granger sons also created families of their own families, at Minas and in France. 

Oldest son Joseph-Simon, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in December 1727, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Thériot and Marie Daigre, at Rivière-aux-Canards in May 1748.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to Falmouth, England, the following spring.  They, too, were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in May 1763, and went to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765.  They settled at Artourneau near Le Palais.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1751 and 1775, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph-Simon 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  They remained on the island and did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  After the French Revolution began in 1789, his fellow citizens chose him as a municipal magistrate.  Joseph-Simon died on the island in June 1792, in his mid-60s.  Wife Marie-Josèphe died there in 1804, in her early 70s.  Daughter Élisabeth married into the Clavey family of Kervarigeon and died on the island in 1825, in her early 70s.  Five of Joseph-Simon's sons also created their own families on the island. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptise-Toussaint, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1751, followed his family to Virginia, Falmouth, Morlaix, and Belle-Île-en-Mer, but he did not remain there. He married Marie Lalande, perhaps a fellow Acadian, at Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in c1774.  Marie gave him two sons at Paimboeuf in 1775 and 1776.  The younger son died a newborn.  They did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Joseph-Simon's second son Joseph-Simon, fils, born probably at Falmouth in c1758, followed his family to Morlaix and Belle-Île-en-Mer and married Frenchwoman Jeanne Josse of Noyal-Muzillac, Morbihan, in 1766.  They did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Joseph-Simon, père's fourth son Augustin-Vital, born probably at Falmouth in c1761, followed his family to Morlaix and Belle-Île-en-Mer and married Marie-Marthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Melanson and Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc, at Locmaria on the island in July 1783.  The couple farmed near Antourneur, and then Augustin became an innkeeper at Le Palais.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1784 and 1786 Marie-Marthe gave Augustin-Vital two children, a son and a daughter.  Augustin remarried to Jeanne-Françoise, daughter of Jacques Courot and Françoise Pommaréde of Strasbourg, and resettled at Brest at the western tip of Brittany in 1798. 

Joseph-Simon, père's fifth son Félix, born at Morlaix in March 1764, married, in his early 40s, Frenchwoman Jacquette, daughter of _____ Guillec and Marie-Louise Loréal, in 1805, place not given.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1807 and 1815, Jacquette gave Félix three daughters.

Joseph-Simon, père's seventh and youngest son Jean-Simon, born at Le Palais, Belle-Île-en-Mer, in June 1771, married cousin Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Boudrot and his second wife Marie-Anne Granger, at Bangor in 1795.  They settled at Kernest.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1797 and 1809, Françoise gave Joseph-Simon six children, two daughters and four sons.  In 1840, Joseph-Simon owned a house at Antoureau on the island.  One of his daughters married into the Harvoir or D'Arvoir family on the island.  Three of his sons also created their own families there. 

Oldest son Pierre-Auguste, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1797, married Rosalie, daughter of Nicolas Bédex and Marie-Xaintes Benet, at Le Palais in 1819. 

Jean-Simon's third son Isidore, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1804, married Frenchwoman Marie-Anne Cario at Bangor in 1825. 

Jean-Simon's fourth and youngest son Jean-François, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1807, married Marie-Catherine, daughter of Toussaint Loréal and ____ Querel, at Le Palais in 1836. 

Joseph's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, in September 1729, married Marie-Madeleine, another daughter of Jean Thériot and Marie Daigre, at Rivière-aux-Canards in March 1753.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of that year, and Virginia authorities sent them on to Falmouth, England, the following spring.  They, too, were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in May 1763, and went to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1755 and 1772, Marie-Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste six children, a daughter and five sons.  They settled at Andrestol near Le Palais.  They remained on the island and did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Jean-Baptiste died probably at Andrestol in October 1785, age 56.  His daughter married into the LeCame family at Le Palais.  Members of Jean-Baptiste's family were counted at Le Palais in 1792.  Widow Marie-Madeleine died on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1811, in her late 70s.  At least three of Jean-Baptiste's sons created their own families on the island.

Second son Jean-Joseph, born at Morlaix in August 1764, followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer and married Frenchwoman Marie-Vincente LeGloahec at Le Palais in 1791.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1792 and 1794, Marie-Vincente gave Jean-Joseph three daughters.  Jean-Joseph remarried to Frenchwoman Jacquette LeLayec of Carnac at Le Palais in 1798.  They remained at Le Palais.  According to Arsenault, Jacquette gave Jean-Joseph three more children, two sons and a daughter.  Jean-Joseph's two sons created their own families on the island.

Older son Victor-Yves, by second wife Jacquette LeLayec, born at Le Palais in c1800, married Frenchwoman Dame Jego, an ironer, at Le Palais in 1831. 

Jean-Joseph's younger son Auguste, by second wife Jacquette LeLayec, born at Le Palais in c1812, married Frenchwoman Augustine Bamdé of Quinénec northwest of Le Palais at Le Palais in 1841. 

Jean-Baptiste's third son Jean-François, born at Le Palais in June 1767, married cousin Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Frenchman Étienne Clavey and his Acadian wife Élisabeth Granger, at Bangor in 1797.  Jean-François worked as a blacksmith at Sauzon.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1798 and 1811, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-François five children, four daughters and a son.  By 1811, they had moved to Quibéron on the southern coast of Brittany.  Two of their daughters married into the Picaut and LeGuellec families.  Jean-François's son also created his own family.

Only son Jean-Marie, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1799, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph-Michel Daigre and his French wife Jeanne-Françoise Thomas, at Le Palais in c1827. 

Jean-Baptiste's fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at Le Palais in December 1772, married Frencwoman Perrine Féchant of Kergoyet in 1806, place not given.  He worked as a blacksmith at Sauzon.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1808 and 1818, Perrine gave Jean-Baptiste, fils six sons.  Jean-Baptiste, fils died at Sauzon in 1844, in his early 70s.  Two of his sons created their own families.

Oldest son Jean-Simon, born probably at Sauzon in c1808, married Frenchwoman Marie-Anne LeGuellec in c1831, place not given. 

Jean-Baptiste, fils's third son Jean-Marie, born probably at Sauzon in c1809, married Jeanne-Marie, daughter of Pierre-Paul Illiaquer and Dame LaGallenne of Tinéhué, at Le Palais in c1834. 

Joseph's third and youngest son Amand, born at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, in July 1732, followed his family to Virginia and Falmouth, England, where he married Marie-Marguerite, yet another daughter of Jean Thériot and Marie Daigre, in March 1757.  They were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in May 1763, and went to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765.  They settled at Borstang near Le Palais.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1758 and 1772, Marie-Marguerite gave Amand eight children, six daughters and two sons.  The family remained on the island and did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They were still there in 1792, a year after his fellow citizens elected Amand as a municipal official.  He died on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1801, in his late 60s.  Widow Marie-Marguerite died there in 1807, in her early 70s. 

René, père's third son Claude, born at Port-Royal in April 1708, followed his family to Minas, married Brigitte, daughter of Antoine LeBlanc and Anne Landry, at Grand-Pré in October 1728, and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1751, Brigitte gave Claude seven children, three daughters and four sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Claude died at Falmouth, England in late November 1756, age 48, victim, mostly likely, of the smallpox epidemic that killed his older brothers.  In May 1763, members of the family, with the other Acadian exiles in England, were repatriated from Falmouth to Morlaix, France.  In November 1765, they followed other Acadian exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer.  Claude's widow Brigitte LeBlanc settled with three of her Granger sons on the island.  Another son was counted at Brest, France, in 1767.  Her Granger daughters married into the Dupuis, Després de Saintonge, Constant, Le Porteur, and Bornicq families at Rivière-aux-Canards, Falmouth, Morlaix, and Rochefort.  Two of them followed their husbands to Martinique and French Guiane.  Two of the widow's Granger sons created their own families in England and France.

Oldest son Joseph le jeune, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in March 1732, followed his family to Virginia and Falmouth, England, where he married Élisabeth, another daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Thériot, fils and Marie Daigre, in May 1757.  They were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in May 1763, and went to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765.  They settled at Kergoyet near Le Palais.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1769, Élisabeth gave Joseph le jeune five children, three daughters and two sons, including two sets of twins.  Joseph died at Bangor of complications from asthma in October 1773, age 41.  In 1778, at age 44, his widow Élisabeth remarried to a 29-year-old local.  According to Father Donald J. Hébert's study of the Acadians on Belle-Île-en-Mer, "we lose trace of this family after 1779."  None of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Claude's second son Mathurin, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in February 1740, followed his family to Virginia and Falmouth, England, where he married Marie-Geneviève, yet another daughter of Jean Thériot and Marie Daigre, in October 1760.  They were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in May 1763, and went to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765.  They settled near his older brother at Kergoyet.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1776, Marie-Geneviève gave Mathurin eight children, four daughters and four sons, many of whom died young.  In March 1777, Mathurin sold his concession to Simon Féchant and moved to Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, where French officials counted them in 1778.  In 1778 and 1780, Marie-Geneviève gave Mathurin two more sons--10 children in all.  The sons also died young.  Mathurin died at Paimboeuf in September 1780, age 40.  No member of his rapidly diminishing family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Claude's third son Charles, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1748, followed his family to Virginia, Falmouth, England, and Morlaix, France, but he did not follow his widowed mother and three brothers to Belle-Île-en-Mer.  French officials counted him at Brest in Brittany in 1767.  One wonders what happened to him after that date.  If he was still living, he did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

René, père's fourth son François-Marie, born at Port-Royal in September 1710, followed his family to Minas, married Anne, daughter of François Landry and Marie-Josèphe Doucet, at Grand-Pré in November 1734, and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1753, Anne gave François 10 children, six daughters and four sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  François-Marie died at Falmouth, England in early November 1756, age 46, victim, mostly likely, of the smallpox epidemic that killed his older brothers.  In May 1763, members of the family, with the other Acadian exiles in England, were repatriated from Falmouth to Morlaix, France.  In November 1765, they followed other Acadian exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer.  Three of François-Marie's daughters married into the Trahan and Thériot families at Falmouth, and two of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Two of François-Marie's sons also created their own families in England and France, but they did not follow their sisters to Louisiana.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, called Jean, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in March 1740, followed his family to Virginia and Falmouth, England, where he married Marie-Blanche, another daughter of Jean Thériot and Marie Daigre, in October 1761--the sixth of six first cousins to marry into this family from Rivière-aux-Canards!  They were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in May 1763, and went to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765.  They settled near Bortémont near Bangor before moving on to Sauzon, where French officials counted them from 1773 to 1785.  They grew tobacco, and Jean served as a soubrigadier dans les fermes there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1787, Marie-Blanche gave Jean a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters.  Other records give them another child--13 in all.  None of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  In 1792, French officials counted Jean, Marie-Blanche, and their four youngest children at Quimper in southwestern Brittany, where Jean worked as a customs officer. Marie-Blanche, perhaps as a widow, returned to Belle-Île-en-Mer, date not given, where she died in 1811, in her late 70s. 

François-Marie's second son Pierre, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in November 1743, followed his family to Virginia, Falmouth, England, and Morlaix, France, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Germain Thibodeau and Judith LeBlanc of Rivière-aux-Canards, in April 1765.  They followed their kinsmen to Belle-Île-en-Mer that November and settled near Le Palais before moving close to his older brother at Bortémont near Bangor.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1784, Marie gave Pierre a dozen children, six sons and six daughters.  They did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Pierre was still at Bortémont in 1792 with wife Marie and eight children.  Pierre died at Le Palais on the island in 1808, in his early 60s.  Widow Marie died there in 1811, in her late 60s.  Three of Pierre's daughters married into the Thomasic, Bédex, Hamon, and Parmentier families on the island.  One of his sons also created his own family there.

Sixth and youngest son Charles-Marie, born probably at Bortémont in February 1781, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Lucas and Marguerite Loréal of Lorient, Brittany, at Le Palais in c1805. 

René, père's fifth son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1713, married Françoise, another daughter of Jacques à René LeBlanc and Catherine Landry, at Grand-Pré in November 1733 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1753, François gave Charles six children, four daughters and two sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Charles died at Falmouth, England in early November 1756, age 43, victim, mostly likely, of the smallpox epidemic that killed his older brothers.  In May 1763, members of the family, with the other Acadian exiles in England, were repatriated from Falmouth to Morlaix, France.  In November 1765, they followed other Acadian exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer.  Charles's widow Françoise LeBlanc settled with her six children on the island.  She died Kernest in 1793, in her late 70s.  Her Granger daughters married into the Richard, Daigre, Boudrot, and LeDru families at Falmouth and on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  Her sons also created their own families in England and France. 

Older son Charles, fils, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in May 1738, followed his family to Virginia and Falmouth, England, where he married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Daigre and Madeleine Thériot, in December 1757.  They were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in May 1763, and went to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765.  They settled ats Tyneve near Bangor.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1777, Madeleine gave Charles, fils eight children, six sons and two daughters.  They did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  French officials counted most of them still on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1792.  Charles, fils died at Tinéhué on the island in 1795, in his late 50s.  His widow Madeleine remarried and died on the island in 1808, in her early 70s.  Five of Charles, fils's sons created their own families on the island. 

Oldest son Jean-Charles, born probably at Cornouilles near Falmouth in 1760, followed his family to Morlaix and Belle-Île-en-Mer, where he married Marie-Anne, also called Marie-Jeanne, Illiaquer at Bangor in c1783.  They settled at Sauzon, then at Gouelon near Bangor in 1786, and were counted at Kervarigeon, also near Bangor, in 1791.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1784 and 1800, Marie-Anne gave Jean-Charles eight children, seven daughters and a son.  Two of their daughters married into the Lucas and Galène families.  Jean-Charles's son also created his own family on the island.

Only son Charles-Laurent, born probably near Bangor in c1791, married Frenchwoman Dame Thomas at Bangor in 1826.  Charles-Laurent died at Bangor in 1840, in his late 40s. 

Charles, fils's second son Simon-Joseph, born probably at Falmouth in c1762, followed his family to Morlaix and Belle-Île-en-Mer, where he married Frenchwoman Thérèse L'Hermite in c1783.  The settled at Keriéro. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1784 and 1792, Thérèse gave Simon-Joseph five childern, four daughters and a son.  Simon-Joseph died at Keriéro in 1803, in his early 40s. 

Charles, fils's fourth son Jacques-Étienne, born at Bangor in December 1766, married Marie-Reine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre-Joseph Daigre and Marie Thériot, at Le Palais in c1795. 

Charles, fils's fifth son Pierre-Michel, born at Bangor in February 1769, married Frenchwoman Geneviève Guellec or Guallec, a spinner from Magoarellec, at Sauzon in c1793.  They settled at Magoarellec, today's Magorlec, southwest of Sauzon.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1794 and 1811, Geneviève gave Pierre-Michel five children, three daughters and two sons, but the daughters died young.  Pierre-Michel died in "his house at Magoarellec" in 1817, in his late 40s.  His sons created their own families on the island.

Older son Pierre-Charles, born probably at Magorlec in c1800, married Frenchwoman Jeanne Mahe of Grandchamp, Morbihan, at Sauzon in 1818.  They remained at Sauzon.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1819 and 1822, Jeanne gave Pierre-Charles three children, two sons and a daughter. 

Pierre-Michel's younger son Jean-Louis, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1811, married Frenchwoman Marie-Michel leQuerel at Sauzon in c1830. 

Charles, fils's sixth and youngest son Mathurin-Laurent, born at Bangor in August 1777, married Frenchwoman Marianne LeGuirriec, at Bangor in c1801.  They remained at Bangor.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1802 and 1817, Marianne gave Mathurin-Laurent six children, four daughters and two sons, but one of the daughters died young.  Mathurin-Laurent died at Bangor in 1840, in his early 60s.  His two sons created their own families on the island.

Older son Jean-Louis, born probably at Bangor in c1804, married Frenchwoman Joséphine-Eulalie Clément at Le Palais in c1833. 

Mathurin-Laurent's younger son Charles, born probably at Bangor in c1817, married to a Frenchwoman in 1842, place not given. 

Charles, père's younger son Jean-Jacques, called Jacques, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1753, followed his family to Virginia, and Falmouth, England, and his widowed mother to Morlaix, France, and Belle-Île-en-Mer, where he settled near his brother at Le Palais.  He did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, nor did he remain on the island.  In c1792, in his early 30s, he married at Vannes in southern Brittany. 

René, père's sixth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in c1715 married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Landry and Madeleine Melanson, in c1740 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1752, Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste five children, two daughters and three sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Jean-Baptiste died at Falmouth, England in early November 1756, in his early 50s, victim, mostly likely, of the smallpox epidemic that killed his older brothers.  Members of his family probably were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in May 1763, and went to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765.  His daughters married into the Thériot and Trahan families at Falmouth, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France.  One wonders what happened to Jean-Baptiste's sons.  If any of them were still living in 1785, none followed their sister to Louisiana. 

Laurent's fifth son Claude, born at Port-Royal in c1678, married Jeanne, another daughter of Pierre Guilbeau and Catherine Thériot, at Port-Royal in November 1703 and remained there.  Between 1705 and 1729, Jeanne gave Claude 10 children, six daughters and four sons.  Four of their daughters married into the Melanson, Petitot dit Saint-Seine, Johnson dit Jeanson, and Porlier families.  Three of Claude's sons also created their own families.   

Oldest son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in February 1707, married cousin Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of Antoine Belliveau and Marie Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in January 1734; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1747, Anne gave Pierre four children, a son and three daughters.  Pierre died in exile, place not given, before August 1763, in his late 40s or 50s.  Two of his daughters married into the Richard, Machard, and Delaunay families in French St.-Domingue.  His son created his own family in France. 

Only son Jean, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1735, may have escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755, sought refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean, was captured by the British there in the late 1750s, and deported to Cherbourg, France, in 1759-60.  He became a fisherman and married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians René Landry and Marie-Josèphe Mius d'Entremont, at Très-Ste.-Trinité, Cherbourg, in April 1763.  Son Louis was born at Cherbourg in September 1764, Isaac Aimable in May 1765, and Pierre-Clair-Amable in July 1772.  French officials counted the family still at Cherbourg in 1767.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Claude's second son Jean, born at Port-Royal in February 1710, died at Minas in October 1734, age 24, evidently before he could marry.   

Claude's third son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1712, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Alexandre Robichaud and Anne Melanson, at Annapolis Royal in February 1737.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1738 and 1753, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph seven children, five sons and two daughters.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Joseph remarried to Nathalie dite Anastasie, daughter of Charles Doucet and Marie-Madeleine Préjean, in Connecticut in c1761 (the marriage was "rehabilitated" at L'Assomption, Canada, in September 1772).  According to Arsenault, between 1762 and 1772, Anastasie gave Joseph five more children, four sons and a daughter--a dozen children by two wives.  Joseph died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Montréal in July 1792, age 80.  Five of his nine sons by two wives created their own families in greater Acadia and Canada.

Oldest son Joseph dit Don Jacques, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Robichaud, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1738, followed his family to Connecticut.  When most of the Acadian exiles in New England, among them his family, resettled in Canada after 1766, Don Jacques evidently did not follow them there.  He married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Gaudet and Marie-Madeleine Aucoin, at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia in August 1768.  They evidently moved on to Memramcook in southeastern New Brunswick, where Don Jacques died in 1816, in his late 70s. 

Joseph's second son Pierre, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Robichaud, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1744, followed his family to Connecticut.  He married fellow Acadian Marie-Josèphe Lanoue there in 1769 before moving on to Canada.  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence in November 1772.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1770 and 1776, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre three children, two sons and a daughter.  They remained at L'Assomption. 

Joseph's fourth son Marin, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Robichaud, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1746, followed his family to Connecticut.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Lanoue and Anne Belliveau, in Connecticut in 1772 before moving on to Canada.  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence in November of that year.  They settled at St.-Philippe-de-La Prairie across from Montréal in 1779.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1773 and 1781, Marguerite gave Marin four children, three daughters and a son. 

Joseph's sixth son Joseph-David, by second wife Anastasie Doucet, born in Connecticut in c1762, followed his family to Canada.  At age 33, Joseph-David married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles-Benjamin Martin and Thérèse Robichaud, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in January 1795. 

Joseph's seventh son Félix, by second wife Anastasie Doucet, born in Connecticut in c1764, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Reine, daughter of Germain Gariépy and Marie-Josèphe LeBel, at Terrebonne north of Montréal in January 1789. 

Claude's fourth and youngest son Charles, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1725, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Belliveau and Jeanne Gaudet, at Annapolis Royal in February 1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1753, Marguerite gave Charles three sons.  The British deported the family to Connecticut (Arsenault says Massachusetts) in the fall of 1755.  Charles remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Lanoue and Marguerite Belliveau, in New England (Arsenault says Massachusetts) in c1759.  According to Arsenault, between 1760 and 1771, this Marguerite gave Charles six more children, three daughters and three sons--nine children by two wives.  In 1763, Charles Granger and his family of seven persons appeared on a repatriation list in Connecticut, so White is followed here.  The family moved on to Canada, where Charles's second marriage was "rehabilitated" at Laprairie across from Montréal in September 1772.  Charles died at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie across from Montréal in August 1782, in his late 50s.  One of his daughters married into the Landry family at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie.  Two of his sons by both wives also created their own families in the area.

Oldest son Charles, fils, by first wife Marguerite Belliveau, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1749, followed his family to Connecticut and Canada.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Lanoue and Ursule Brun, at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie in February 1775.

Charles, père's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Marguerite Lanoue, born probably in Connecticut in c1763, followed his family to Canada, where he married Angélique Grégoire at L'Acadie east of St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie in January 1794. 

Laurent's sixth and youngest son Laurent, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1688, married Marie, daughter of Bernard Bourg and Françoise Brun, at Annapolis Royal in April 1711 and remained there.  Between 1712 and 1729, Marie gave Laurent, fils nine children, six daughters and three sons.  Four of their daughters married into the Martin, Porlier, and Melanson families.  Two of Laurent, fils's three sons also created families of their own.   

Oldest son Jean, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1716, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Melanson and Marie-Madeleine Petitot dit Saint-Seine, at Annapolis Royal in January 1741.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1764, Madeleine gave Jean six children, three sons and three daughters.  The family may have escaped the British roundup at Annapolis in the fall of 1755, sought refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean, fell into British hands there in the late 1750s, and was deported to Cherbourg, France, in 1759-60.  French officials counted them at Cherbourg in 1761 and 1767.  In 1773, Jean took his family to the interior Poitou--perhaps the only Acadian Grangers to go there.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, they and dozens of other Poitou Acadians retreated to the port city of Nantes.  Jean died at Chantenay near Nantes in May 1785, age 68.  His daughters married into the Blanchard, Moulaison, and Boudrot families at Cherbourg, Chantenay, and Nantes.  None of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  At least one of his sons created his own family in France.

Oldest son Jacques, also called Jean, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1741, followed his family into exile and to Cherbourg, France.  Called Jean de Port Royal by the recording priest, Jacques married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Mius d'Entremont and Marie-Josèphe Moulaison of Cap-Sable, at Très-Ste.-Trinité, Cherbourg, in May 1764.  Between 1766 and 1773, at Cherbourg, Madeleine gave Jacques/Jean a son and two daughters.  He probably followed his father to Poitou in 1773 soon after his second daughter was born.  One wonders what happened to them after the early 1770s.  They did not go to Spanish Louisiana. 

Laurent, fils's second son Laurent III, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1720, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Porlier and Anne-Marie de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, at Annapolis Royal in January 1744.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1750, Marie-Josèphe gave Laurent III three children, two daughters and a son.  Laurent III died at Annapolis Royal in May 1751, age 31.  One wonders what happened to his family in 1755. 

Laurent, fils's third and youngest son Joseph, a twin to sister Marie-Josèphe, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1723, probably died young.368

Pitre

Edge-tool-maker-turned-gunsmith Jean Pitre dit Bénèque, a late 1650s arrival, and his wife Marie Pesseley created another large family in the colony.  Between 1666 and 1688, Marie gave Jean 11 children, six sons and five daughters.  Jean died by c1690, in his early 50s, when his wife remarried to Frenchman François Robin at Port-Royal.  Five of Jean's daughters married into the Amireau dit Tourangeau, Bertrand, Comeau, and Piat dit La Bonté families.  Four of his six sons also created their own families.  His first and fifth son's lines were especially prolific.  Jean and Marie's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also at Chignecto, Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, Cap-Sable; Minas and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin, and in the French Maritimes.  At least 59 of the edge-tool maker's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and especially from France in 1785.  Others could be found in greater Acadia, France, the French Antilles, and especially in Canada after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Claude, born at Port-Royal in February 1671, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Comeau l'aîné and Jeanne Bourg, at Port-Royal in c1696.  Between 1697 and 1707, Marie gave Claude eight children, six daughters and two sons.  Claude remarried to Anne, daughter of Robert Henry and Marie-Madeleine Godin of Cobeguit, at Port-Royal in February 1710.  Between 1711 and 1726, Anne gave Claude eight more children, at least four daughters and two sons--16 children, at least 10 daughters and four sons, by two wives.  Claude died at Annapolis Royal or Chepoudy, in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, by 1752.  His widow Anne was still at Chepoudy in 1755.  Six of his daughters by both wives married into the Aucoin, Chiasson, Lavergne, Robichaud, Doucet, Fardel, and Forest families, some of them in the French Maritimes.  One of them died at St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 and another at Le Havre, France, in 1762.  Three of Claude's sons, from both wives, created families of their own.   

Oldest son Pierre, by first wife Marie Comeau, born at Port-Royal in c1699, married Agathe, daughter of René Doucet and Marie Broussard, at Annapolis Royal in February 1727.  They settled at Chepoudy.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1727 and 1739, Agathe gave Pierre four children, three daughters and a son.  Other records give them another son in 1748--five children, three daughters and two sons, in all.  Their older son married twice probably at Chepoudy before 1755.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivères area in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  The older son moved on to Canada, where he and his family were counted in 1757.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, Pierre and the rest of his family, still in greater Acadia, either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Pierre, Agathe, and four unnamed children appeared in a French repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Pierre, now a widower, and two of his chldren, a daughter and his younger son, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  They settled in the Opelousas District, where the daughter, Françoise, married into the Joubert family, and the son also married there. 

Older son Jean-Baptiste, born at Chepoudy in c1735, married, according to Bona Arsenault, a woman whose name has been lost to history, and, Arsenault insists, remarried to Marie-Anne Thibodeau in c1754, on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement, when he would have been in his late teens.  The young couple evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières area in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  According to Arsenault, Marie-Anne gave Jean-Baptiste two daughters in 1755 and 1757, the younger child in Canada.  Jean-Baptiste remarried again--his third marriage--to fellow Acadian Marie-Anne Surette, widow of Paul Doucet, at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets, today's Les-Becquets, on the upper St. Lawence below Trois-Rivières in March 1761.  According to Arsenault, between 1762 and 1775, Marie-Anne gave Jean-Baptiste eight more children, three daughters and five sons--10 children, five daughters and five sons, by two wives.  They settled at Châteauguay above Montréal, where Jean-Baptiste died in November 1815, age 80.  Three of his daughters, all by his third wife, married into the Laberge and Julien families at Châteauguay.  Four of his sons, also by his third wife, also married there.

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets in c1762, followed his family to Châteauguay, where he married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Couillard and Madeleine Primeau, in February 1784.  Joseph died at Châteauguay in November 1815, in his early 50s. 

Jean-Baptiste's third son Ignace, born in c1767 in Canada, married Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Hébert and his Canadian wife Josette Duranieau, at Châteauguay in February 1791, and remarried to Catherine, daughter of Charles Bergevin and Marguerite Primeau, there in September 1798.  Igance died at Châteauguay in March 1810, in his early 40s. 

Jean-Baptiste's fourth son Jean-Marie, born in Canada in c1770, married Julie, daughter of Pierre Leduc and Marie-Josèphe Lalonde, at L'île Perrot across from Châteauguay in February 1792, and remarried to Marie-Louise, daughter of Basile Lefebvre and Marie-Louise Carignan, at Châteauguay in November 1803. 

Jean-Baptiste's fifth and youngest son Pierre le jeune, born in Canada in c1775, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Julie, daughter of Pierre Leduc and Josephte Cuillerier, at L'île Perrot, in June 1793, and remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Préjean and his Canadian wife Josephte Gagné, at Châteauguay in February 1799. 

Pierre's younger son François, born at Chepoudy in c1748, followed his family into exile and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  He likely was the Fra.s Pitre counted at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in October 1762 without a family; he would have been age 14.  Soon after the counting, the British may have sent him to the prison compound at Halifax, and he was counted there with his parents and siblings in August 1763.  Still in his late teens, he followed his widowed father and an older sister to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1764-65, and followed them to the Opelousas District, among the first Acadians to settle in that community.  He married a Thibodeau at Opelousas in the late 1760s and remained  there.  His was the first, and one of the largest, Pitre family lines in South Louisiana. 

Claude's second son Jean, by first wife Marie Comeau, born at Port-Royal in November 1702, died at Annapolis Royal in October 1717, age 15.   

Claude's third son René, by second wife Anne Henry, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1717, died there a month after his birth.   

Claude's fourth son Joseph, by second wife Anne Henry, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1718, married Catherine-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau le jeune and Anne-Marie Aucoin, at Beaubassin in July 1741 and settled at Chepoudy.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1754, Catherine gave Joseph three children, two sons and a daughter.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières area in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Joseph's older son died there in 1757.  Joseph died before 1765, place unrecorded, probably in Canada.  Widow Catherine-Josèphe remarried a Morvend widower at St.-Françoise-du-Lac, today's Pierreville, on the lower Rivière St.-François, Canada, in May 1769.  Her younger Pitre son left the St. Lawrence valley and settled in the pays d'en haut. 

Older son Flavien, born at Chepoudy in c1746, followed his family to Canada.  He died at Québec in late July 1757, age 11, an early victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the exiles in the area from the summer of 1757 into the the spring of 1758.

Joseph's younger son Jean-Baptiste, born at Chepoudy in c1752, followed his family to Canada and his widowed mother to the upper St. Lawrence, but he did not remain there.  He married Marie-Françoise-Anne, daughter of Pierre-Laurent Saint-Côme and Catherine Barras, at Détroit in the pays d'en haut, or upper country, a part of British Canada, in January 1773. 

Claude's fifth and youngest son Charles, by second wife Anne Henry, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1723, married Marie-Angélique, daughter of Jean Blanchard and Rose Thibodeau, in c1753, place unrecorded.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and took refuge most likely on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before moving up to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  On 24 October 1760, Charles and his family of two appear on a list of 1,003 Acadians who surrendered to a British naval force out of Québec a few days later.  The British held them in the prison compound at Halifax for the west of war.  They appeared on a French repatriation list there, still without children, in August 1763.  They evidently chose to resettle in British Canada.  Charles died at St.-François-du-Lac on lower Rivière St.-François between Trois-Rivières and Montréal in September 1772, age 49.  One wonders if they were that rare Acadian couple who had no children. 

Jean's second son Marc, born at Port-Royal in c1673, married Jeanne, daughter of Sébastien Brun and Huguette Bourg, probably at Port-Royal in c1699 and moved to Cap-Sable.  Between 1700 and c1709, Jeanne gave Marc four children, two sons and two daughters.  Their daughters married into the Lapierre, Bourg, and Cormier families, and one of them died with her entire family in the deportation from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France.  Both of their sons also married. 

Older son Claude-Marc, born at Port-Royal in May 1700, followed his family to Cap-Sable but did not remain there.  He married Isabelle, daughter of Jérôme Guérin and Isabelle Aucoin, at Cobeguit at the eastern end of the Minas Basin in June 1724.  They evidently resettled at Minas at the western end of the Babin, though his oldest children remained at Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1740, Isabelle gave Claude-Marc four children, three sons and a daughter.  The British deported Claude-Marc, Isabelle, and their younger children to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on the England the following spring.  They were held at Liverpool.  Claude-Marc, at age 60, remarried to Madeleine, 41-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jérôme Darois and Marie Gareau and widow of Alexis Trahan, at Liverpool in May 1760.  She evidently gave him no more children.  One of her Trahan sons, Paul, from her first marriage was only age 8 when she remarried, so Claude-Marc helped raise the boy.  The blended family was repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  In November 1765, Claude-Marc took his family to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Triboutoux in the Sauzon district on the north shore of the island.  He died at Sauzon in March 1775, age 75.  Members of his family, perhaps including a younger son, were still living on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1792.  Meanwhile, his oldest son and his family escaped the British roundup at Cobeguit in 1755, took refuge on Île St.-Jean in 1755 or 1756, escaped the roundup there in 1758, were captured by British forces on the mainland, and ended up as prisoners in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s.  Claude-Marc's only daughter Anne-Josèphe, from his first wife, also escaped to Île St.-Jean, married into the Bourg family there in 1757, and was deported to Cherbourg, France, the following year.  She died there in December 1759, age 22, before she had a chance to reunite with her father at Morlaix or on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  No member of Claude-Marc's family, including the ones who escaped the British in Nova Scotia, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. 

Oldest son Joseph, by first wife Isabelle Guérin, born in c1726, married Anne, daughter of Ambroise Bourg and Élisabeth Melanson, at Cobeguit in c1747.  They evidently were among the Cobeguit habitants who moved to Île St.-Jean between late summer 1755 and the following spring to escape the British in Nova Scotia.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Joseph a son on the island in 1757.  They either left the island soon after their son's birth, or escaped the British roundup there in late 1758.  They took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before moving up to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  On 24 October 1760, Joseph and his family of four appear on a list of 1,003 Acadians who surrendered to a British naval force out of Québec a few days later.  The British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  British officials counted a Joseph Pitre and his family of four at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in October 1762.  They may also have been counted at Halifax in August 1763.  After the war, they returned to Île St.-Jean, then British-controlled St. John Island, later renamed Prince Edward Island.  British officials counted them there in 1767.  One wonders if they remained. 

Claude-Marc's second son Alexandre, by first wife Isabelle Guérin, born in c1738, would have been in his late teens in the fall of 1755.  If he were still living, one wonders if he followed his parents to Virginia or his older brother to Île St.-Jean.  Bona Arsenault has no record of him in France or greater Acadia, and he did not go to Louisiana.

Claude-Marc's third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Isabelle Guérin, born in c1740, would have been in his mid-teens in the fall of 1755.  If he were still living, one wonders if he followed his parents to Virginia or his older brother to Île St.-Jean.  Bona Arsenault has no record of him in France or greater Acadia, and he did not go to Louisiana.

Marc's younger son Jean dit Jean-Marc, also called Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in October 1703, followed his family to Cap-Sable.  He married Judith, daughter of Pierre Thériot and Marie Bourg, in c1729, place unrecorded, and settled at Cobeguit.  He and his family, if they were still at Cobeguit in 1755, escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia by moving on to Île St.-Jean.  They, too, either left the island before 1758 or escaped the roundup there that year and sought refuge on the mainland.  They may have moved up to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  On 24 October 1760, a Jean Bte Pitre and his family of four appear on a list of 1,003 Acadians who surrendered to a British naval force out of Québec a few days later.  The British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  Jean-Marc died at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, today's Windsor, Nova Scotia, between July and August 1762, in his late 50s.  His widow and a child were counted there in October.  One wonders what happened to them after 1763. 

Jean's third son, name unrecorded, born at Port-Royal in c1675, died young.

Jean's fourth son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1677, survived childhood but did not marry.  He followed his younger brother Jean, fils to Chepoudy. 

Jean's fifth son Jean, fils, also called Jean-Denis, born at Port-Royal in c1680, married Françoise, daughter of Antoine Babin and Marie Mercier, at Port-Royal in c1698.  According to a descendant, Jean, fils, on the eve of his marriage, along with older brother Pierre, helped build a flourmill at Chepoudy for the settlement's founder, Pierre Thibodeau.  After his marriage, Pierre, fils moved his family to Chepoudy and then to Chignecto.  There, during Queen Anne's War, Jean, fils was captured by a New-English force under Colonel Benjamin Church in July 1704 and held as a hostage at Boston.  After he returned to his family in 1706, he took them to Cap-Sable, where they were counted in 1708, but they did not remain there either.  They were at Pigiguit in the Minas Basin in 1712.  In June 1714, after the war finally ended, Jean, fils took his family to the new French colony of Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island.  They were still there in 1717, but, again, they moved on, this time to Cobeguit at the eastern end of Minas Basin, where they likely remained.  Between 1699 and 1724, in these various locations, Françoise gave Jean a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters.  Their daughters married into the Doiron, Brasseur dit Le Brasseur, Lejeune, Boutin, and Henry dit le Petit-Homme families.  All of their sons also married.  Most of them moved on to Île St.-Jean in the early 1750s and paid a heavy price for "returning" to the French Maritimes:  two of Jean, fils's sons and two of his daughters, along with their families, perished on the crossing from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, in 1758. 

Oldest son Jean III, born at Port-Royal in c1699, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Thériot and Marie Bourg, in c1720, place unrecorded, probably at Cobeguit, where they settled.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1720 and 1738, Marguerite gave Jean III eight children, five sons and three daughters.  Other sources give them four sons, the oldest born in 1725--seven children in all.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1751, where a daughter married into the Henry family.  In August of the following year, a French official counted Jean III, Marguerite, and six of their children, three sons and three daughters, ages 30 to 14, at Rivière-de-l'Ouest on the south side of the island.  Two more of their daughters married into the Blanchard and Henry families after the counting.  The British deported Jean, Marguerite, two unmarried sons, and their oldest son and his family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 aboard the transport Duc Guillaume, which left the Maritimes in September and limped into the Breton port the first of November.  The vessel suffered a mishap at sea, killing many of the passengers.  Jean III, age 59, and Marguerite, age 57, along with their third son and his two daughters, died on the crossing, but Jean III's youngest son survived.  Jean III's three married daughters crossed with their families on other ships.  One of the daughters remarried into the Landry family.  Jean III's youngest son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana with two of his sisters in 1785.   

Oldest son Amand, born probably at Cobeguit in c1725, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Geneviève, sans doute daughter of Pierre-Claude d'Entremont and Anne de Latour of Pobomcoup, in c1746, place unrecorded.  Oddly, no such couple exists, and Arsenault uses the same disclaimor, sans doutte, in calling Amand a son of Jean III.  Moreover, Arsenault is confusing this Amand, son of Jean III, with his uncle Amand, born in c1724, son of Jean, fils.  The uncle married Geneviève Arcement of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1746, not a d'Entremont from Pobomcoup.  One wonders what happened to Amand à Jean III.  Did he survive childhood?  Did he even exist? 

Jean III's second son Jean IV, born probably at Cobeguit in c1732, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest.  He married Françoise, daughter of Jean Henry and Marie Hébert, on the island in February 1754.  According to Bona Arsenault, Françoise gave Jean IV two daughters between 1754 and 1757.  They, too, were deported to St.-Malo, France, aboard Le Duc Guillaume in late 1758.  Only wife Françoise survived the crossing.  She did not remarry and died in France. 

Jean III's third son Pierre, born probably at Cobeguit in c1735, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest.  The British deported him to St.-Malo, France, aboard a different ship in late 1758.  He survived the crossing but died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in March 1759, age 23, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  He did not marry. 

Jean III's fourth and youngest son Anselme, born probably at Cobeguit in c1738, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest.  Anselme crossed to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 aboard Le Duc Guillaume with his parents and survived the crossing.  In early December, a month after his arrival, French officials sent him on to Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay, but he did not remain.  By 1760, he had returned to St.-Malo and settled at Pleurtuit on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo.  In February 1763, at St.-Suliac across the river, he married Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Dugas and Élisabeth Bourg of Cobeguit.  Between 1763 and 1773, at Pleurtuit and St.-Suliac, Isabelle gave Anselme seven children, three sons and four daughters, most of whom survived childhood.  Anselme took his famiy to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  Isabelle gave him another son at Archigny south of Châtellerault in 1774, but the boy died 18 days after his birth.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, Anselme and his large family followed other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Their second son Joseph-François died in St.-Jacques Parish there in April 1776, age 21, soon after they reached the city.  About the same time, Isabelle gave birth to twins, a son and a daughter--their ninth and tenth children, five sons and five daughters.  Wife Isabelle died, age 37, in late April probably from the rigors of childbirth.  The infant son died in early May.  The following October, Anselme, age 38, remarried to Madeleine, 28-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin LeBlanc and Élisabeth Babin, at nearby St.-Sébastien-sur-Loire, across and upriver from Nantes.  She gave him two more daughters there in 1778 and 1780--a dozen children in all, five sons and seven daughters, by two wives.  His youngest daughter, the twin, by first wife Isabelle, died at nearby Chantenay in October 1778, age 22 months.  His two daughters by second wife Madeleine also died young.  Wife Madeleine died at Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes, in January 1781, age 33.  Anselme's younger remaining son, Joachim-Charles, by first wife Isabelle, died at St.-Sébastien, age 16, in May 1785, leaving the widower and father of 12 with only four children, a son and three daughters.  A month and a half after the death of his son, Anselme emigrated to Spanish Louisiana with his four children, who were still unmarried.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  His three daughters married into the Boudrot, Gautrot, and Guillot families on the upper bayou.  His son Jean-Pierre, who was age 21 when he came to the colony, did not marry. 

Jean, fils's second son Joseph, born in c1700, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of René Boudrot and ____, in c1724, place unrecorded, probably at Cobeguit, where they settled.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1725 and 1738, Élisabeth gave Joseph seven children, six sons and a daughter.  Their second son married perhaps at Cobeguit in c1749.  Two years later, the family moved on to Île St.-Jean.  Their third son married on the island in February 1752.  Their daughter married into the Henry dit Le Neveu family there in June.  That August, a French official counted Joseph, Élisabeth, and four of their unmarried sons, age 27 to 14, and an 8-year-old female orphan near his older brother on Rivière-de-l'Ouest.  Their oldest son married on the island in June 1753.  The British deported members of the family to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Duke William (the second with the name), which left Chédabouctou Bay in late November 1758 and sank in a North Atlantic storm in mid-December off the southwest coast of England.  Joseph, in his late 50s, his wife, and their three youngest sons, along with almost all of the ship's passengers, were lost.  Two of their oldest sons and their families also may have perished in the crossing.  Their daughter and another son crossed on other ships, and both of them and their families emigrated to Louisiana. 

Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Cobeguit in c1725, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest.  He married Anne, daughter of Jean Bourg and Françoise Aucoin, on the island in June 1753.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1754 and 1757, on the island, Anne gave Pierre three children, two sons and a daughter.  Did they also perish aboard the Duke William, or did they cross aboard the other ship that sank in the same storm, the Violet?  Stephen A. White suspects that they might have been aboard one of the doomed vessels.

Joseph's second son François, born probably at Cobeguit in c1727, married Rose Henry in c1749, probably at Cobeguit.  They followed his family to Île St.-Jean the following year.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1751 Rose gave François a son, but it actually was a daughter.  In August 1752, a French official counted François, Rose, and their daughter at Rivière-de-l'Ouest near his family.  According to Arsenault, between 1753 and 1757, on the island, Rose gave François three more children, a son and two more daughters--four children in all.  Did they also perish aboard the Duke William, or did they cross aboard the other ship that sank in the same storm, the Violet?  Stephen A. White suspects that they might have been aboard one of the doomed vessels.

Joseph's third son Charles, born probably at Cobeguit in c1729, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Anne, daughter of Jean Henry and Marie Hébert, on the island in February 1752.  The following August, a French official counted the still-childless couple at Rivière-de-l'Ouest near his family.  Anne was pregnant at the time of the counting.  Between 1753 and 1757, she gave Charles three children, a daugther and two sons.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  All of their children died at sea.  The once-again childless couple settled on west side of the river south of St.-Malo at Pleurtuit, where, between 1760 and 1773, Anne gave Charles six more children, three sons and three daughters, most of whom survived childhood.  Charles did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join other exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  Charles, Anne, and three of their children, a son and two daughters, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 directly from St.-Malo.  Their second son Jean-Charles, who would have been age 22 that year, if he was still living, did not accompany his family to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, Charles and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to the new Acadian settlement of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District above Baton Rouge.  Their younger daughter Élisabeth-Modeste married into the Boudrot family on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Their son Joseph-Pierre, who went with them to Louisiana, may not have married. 

Jean, fils's third son Claude-Jean or Jean-Claude, born probably at Port-Royal in c1701, married Marguerite, 16-year-old daughter of Noël Doiron and Marie Henry, in c1724, place unrecorded, probably at Cobeguit, where they settled.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Claude-Jean two sons in 1725 and 1741.  Other records give them three more sons in 1732, 1734, and 1739.  A descendant claims that, between 1725 and 1746, Marguerite gave Claude-Jean eight sons.  The family moved on to Île St.-Jean after August 1752, perhaps in 1755 or 1756 when the entire population of Cobeguit eluded the British roundup in Nova Scotia by escaping to the island.  The British deported most of the family to France in late 1758.  At least four of Claude-Jean's sons landed at Cherbourg in late 1758.  They did not remain there but moved on to St.-Malo in July 1759.  Another son, in his late teens, crossed with an uncle and his family to St.-Malo and lived with his family there until he came of age.  Claude-Jean died on Île St.-Jean or in France before November 1759, in his late 50s.  After he came of age, one of his younger sons returned to greater Acadia by the early 1760s but returned to France, now married with children, a few years later.  One of Claude-Jean's sons and several of his grandchildren from other sons emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785. 

Oldest son Benjamin, born at Cobeguit in c1725, married Jeanne, 33-year-old daughter of François Moyse dit Latreille and Marie Brun and widow of Jean Ozelet, at Cobeguit in c1747; she was 11 years older than Benjamin.  Between 1748 and 1755, Jeanne gave Benjamin three children, two daughters and a son.  They likely were among the Cobeguit habitants who crossed Mer Rouge to Île St.-Jean in 1755 or 1756 to escape the British roundup in Nova Scotia.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Wife Jeanne and the two younger children died at sea.  Benjamin and daughter Agnès survived the crossing and lived for six months on the east side of the river below St.-Malo before moving to nearby La Gouesnière, where, at age 34, Benjamin remarried to Marguerite, 18-year-old daughter fellow Acadians Jean Boudrot and Catherine Brasseau, in November 1759.  They settled at St.-Suliac.  Between 1761 and 1773, Marguerite gave Benjamin six more children, four daughters and two sons.  The older son died young.  Benjamin took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Marguerite gave him another daughter at Châtellerault in July 1775.  In March 1776, Benjamin, Marguerite, and their seven children followed other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes and settled at Rezé across the Loire.  Oldest daughter Agnès married into the Guérin family in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in April 1776, soon after their arrival.  Between 1778 and 1783, in St.-Pierre-de-Rezé Parish, Marguerite gave Benjamin three more sons--13 children, seven daughters and six sons, by two wives.  Their youngest daughter and oldest surviving son died at Rezé in 1777 and 1781, ages 2 and 8, respectively.  Benjamin died in St.-Pierre-de-Rezé Parish in September 1782, age 57, leaving Marguerite with six unmarried children, the oldest one in her early 20s.  In 1785, Marguerite and her six children, four daughters and two sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Her stepdaughter and her family had taken an earlier ship there.  From New Orleans, the extended family followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Three of Marguerite and Benjamin's four surviving daughters married into the Gautrot, Fremin, and Renaud families at New Orleans and on the Lafourche.  Marguerite and Benjamin's youngest son, Jean, also married, into the Bourg family on the upper Lafourche.  Older son Étienne did not marry, so one wonders if he survived the crossing from France.  Marguerite, who did not remarry, died on the bayou after 1788, date unrecorded.  A descendant insists she died in 1806.  If so, she would have been in her mid-60s when she passed. 

Claude-Jean's second son Claude-Jean, fils, born at Cobeguit in c1728 or 1729, moved on to Île St.-Jean by November 1752, when he married Rosalie, daughter of Joseph Henry and Élisabeth Vincent, on the island.  In late 1758, the British deported the couple, along with his younger brothers Paul, François, and Raphaël, to Cherbourg, France, but they did not remain there.  In July 1759, they arrived at St.-Malo and settled on the east side of the river south of the Breton port at Pleudihen-sur-Rance.  Wife Rosalie, who evidently gave him no chilren, if she had survived the crossing to Cherbourg or the move to St.-Malo, died by September 1764, when Claude-Jean, fils, in his mid-30s, remarried to Marie-Blanche, 27-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and Marie-Josèphe Boudrot of Île St.-Jean, at Pleudihen.  Marie-Blanche's parents had died in the crossing to St.-Malo.  Between 1765 and 1769, at Mordreuc near Pleudihen, Marie-Blanche gave Claude-Jean, fils three children, two sons and a daughter.  Only the daughter survived childhood.  Claude-Jean, fils died at Mordreuc in February 1769, age 40.  Marie-Blanche remained in the St.-Malo area and did not remarry.  In 1785, she and her Pitre daughter, Marie-Charlotte, age 17, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Marie-Charlotte married a Boudrot cousin at New Orleans in January 1786, soon after their arrival on separate ships, and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where she died the following November, perhaps from the complications of childbirth.  Her widower remarried to another Pitre in October 1787. 

Claude-Jean's third son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born at Cobeguit in c1730, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Félicité Daigre on the island in c1757.  Félicité gave him a son in 1758.  Later that year, the British deported them to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Duc Guillaume, which suffered a mishap at sea before it limped into the Breton port the first of November.  Jean-Baptiste and Félicité survived the crossing, but their infant son did not.  In early December 1758, a month after they reached St.-Malo, French authorities sent them on to Rochefort down the coast, but they returned to St.-Malo the following year and settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance.  Between 1759 and 1776, at Mordreuc near Pleudihen, Félicité gave Jean-Baptiste 15 more children, six daughters and nine sons--16 children, seven daughters and nine sons, in all.  At least four of the children born in France did not survive childhood.  Jean-Baptiste did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did they joined their fellow exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  In 1785, Jean-Baptiste, Félicité, and six of their childern, four daughters and two sons, emigrated to Louisiana directly from St.-Malo.  Five of their children, four sons and a daughter, who, if they were still living, would have been ages 23 to 9 in 1785, did not accompany their family to the Spanish colony.  Their two oldest surviving sons, in fact, married at Pleudihen in 1786; one wonders what happened to the other children.  From New Orleans, Jean-Baptiste and his family followed most  of their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  Three of their daughters married there into the Courtois, Farine, and Morange families.  Their younger son also married there, but his line may not have endured.  Jean-Baptiste and Félicité evidently moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche in the late 1780s or early 1790s.  Jean-Baptiste died there by December 1795, in his early 60s, when Félicité was listed in an upper bayou census as a widow. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born on Île St.-Jean in c1758, died on the crossing to St.-Malo, France, later in the year.

Jean-Baptiste, père's second son Jean-Marie, born at Mordreuc near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in January 1761, died there the following April. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's third son Jean-Marie, the second with the name, born at Mordreuc near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in February 1762, remained at Pleudihen in 1785 when his family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  He married Rose-Perrine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourg and Marie Aucoin, at Pleudihen in January 1786.  One wonders if they had any children there. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's fourth son Joseph, born at Mordreuc near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in August 1764, remained at Pleudihen in 1785 when his family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  He married Anne, daughter of French locals Jean Portier and Françoise Quemar, at Pleudihen in January 1786, on the same day and at the same place his older brother Jean-Marie married.  One wonders if they had any children there. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's fifth son Pierre, born at Mordreuc near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in October 1765, followed his  family to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and settled with them at Bayou des Écores.  He may not have married. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's sixth son Augustin-François, born at Mordreuc near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, November 1766, died there the following January. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's seventh son Jacques-François, born at Mordreuc near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in November 1767, followed his  family to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and settled with them at Bayou des Écores.  He married Jeanne-Tarsille, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thibodeau and Madeleine Henry, there in January 1788.  Their only son evidently died young, so the family line did not endure. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's eighth son Augustin, born at Mordreuc near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in February 1775, did not follow his family to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, when he would have been only age 10, so he may have died young. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's ninth and youngest son Charles-Paul, born at Mordreuc near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in November 1776, did not follow his family to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, when he would have been only age 9, so he may have died young. 

Claude-Jean's fourth son Paul-Hippolyte, called Paul, born at Cobeguit in c1732, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, three of his brothers to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758 and to St.-Malo in July 1759, and settled with them at Pleudihen-sur-Rance.  At age 31, in February 1763, Paul married Marguerite-Louise, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Vallet and Brigitte Pinet of Île St.-Jean, at nearby St.-Suliac.  Marguerite-Louise gave him two children, a daughter and a son, there 1763 and 1767.  Paul died at St.-Suliac in January 1767, age 36.  His daughter died the following May, age 3.  His son, Martin-Bénoni, survived childhood.  Widow Marguerite-Louise remarried to fellow Acadian Charles Hébert at St.-Suliac in January 1770 and gave him two children in 1770 and 1772.  The family went to Poitou in 1773.  Marguerite-Louise gave husband Charles another daughter there at Archigny south of Châtellerault.  After two years of effort, in December 1775, the blended family followed other Poitou Acadians to the port of Nantes, where Marie-Louise gave Charles two more daughters, but one of them died young.  Martin-Bénoni, who came of age in the early 1780s, worked as a carpenter at Nantes.  In 1785, he and two of his Hébert half-siblings, Joseph and Marie-Louise, ages 12 and 10 respectively, chose to follow the majority of their fellow Acadians in France to Spanish Louisiana.  They took the last of the Seven Ships, La Caroline, out of Nantes in late October and reached New Orleans two months later.  If Marie-Louise Vallet, Charles Hébert, and their youngest surviving daughter Jeanne-Eulalie, who would have been age 8 that year, were still living, they chose to remain in the mother country.  Martin-Bénoni wasted no time taking a wife in the Spanish colony.  At age 19, he married Jeanne, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Dantin and his first wife, Frenchwoman Jeanne Gemier, in the city in January 1786, soon after they reached the colony on separate ships.  Jeanne was a native of St.-André-des-Eaux south of St.-Malo and had crossed with her father and Acadian stepmother on the fifth of the Seven Ships.  From New Orleans, the young couple and their young charges followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Half-brother Joseph did not marry, but half-sister Marie-Josèphe married there.  Martin-Bénoni remained on the Lafourche, lived into his 80s, and created one of the largest Pitre family lines in South Louisiana. 

Claude-Jean's fifth son François, born at Cobeguit in c1734, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, three of his brothers to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758 and to St.-Malo in July 1759, and settled with them at Pleudihen-sur-Rance.  François married Ursule, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Breau and Ursule Bourg of Cobeguit, across the river at Pleurtuit in March 1762.  François died in September, in his late 20s.  A daughter was born posthumously at St.-Bue near Pleurtuit in July 1763.  Ursule did not remarry.  She and her daughter emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Her daughter, Ursule-Françoise, married into the Landry family there. 

Claude-Jean's sixth son Raphaël, born at Cobeguit in c1739, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, three of his brothers to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758 and St.-Malo in July 1759, and settled with them at Pleudihen-sur-Rance.  He died at nearby Mordreuc in June 1763, in his early 20s, before he could marry. 

Claude-Jean's seventh son Olivier, born at Cobeguit in c1741, followed his family to Île St.-Jean.  In late 1758, the British deported him to St.-Malo, France, with the family of his uncle Charles's widow Anne Thibodeau and her five children.  Only he and his aunt survived the crossing.  Olivier worked as a carpenter in France, but he did not remain there.  In the early 1760s, while the war was still on, he found his way back to greater Acadia, perhaps on privateer duty.  He again fell into the hands of the British, who held him at Louisbourg until the war ended.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Moyse dit Latrielle and Marie Petitpas, a kinswoman of his oldest brother Benjamin's first wife, at Louisbourg in April 1763, two months after the war officially ended.  In 1764 and 1765, on what was now being called Cape Breton Island, Marie gave Olivier two children, a son and a daughter.  In early 1766, to escape British rule, they chose to follow her father and other Acadian exiles to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Their children's baptisms, along with their marriage, were recorded at Notre-Dame-des-Ardilers Parish, Miquelon, at the end of May 1766.  The following year, French officials, obeying a royal decree to relieve overcrowding on Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre, ordered the  islanders to resettle in France.  Olivier and his family, perhaps including his father-in-law, sailed to St.-Malo aboard the schooner Créole and reached the Breton port the second week of November.  Olivier and his family settled on the river south of St.-Malo at St.-Suliac near his oldest brother Benjamin.  Wife Marie was pregnant on the voyage to St.-Malo and gave birth to another daughter at St.-Suliac in late December 1767.  The following year, they did not return to Île Miquelon with most of the island Acadians but remained in France.  In 1770 and 1772, at St.-Suliac, Marie gave Olivier two more daughters, but the younger one died of smallpox in June 1773.  Soon after his daughter's death, Olivier and his family followed his oldest brother to the interior of Poitou.  Marie gave Olivier another son there in c1775.  In November of that year, Olivier, Marie, and their four surviving children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  They settled in the suburb of Chantenay, where, in 1777 and 1779, Marie gave Olivier two more daughters--eight children, two sons and six daughters, in all.  The two youngest daughters did not survive childhood.  Olivier died at Chantenay by September 1784, when Marie was called a widow in a Spanish census of Acadians there.  Her older son died at Chantenay in March 1785, age 21.  Widow Marie and her remaining children, two daughters and a son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Marie's Pitre daughters married into the Frilot, Boudrot, Lafond, Zagiro, and Poirau families, one of them, Françoise-Olive, three times, the other, Victoire, twice.  Marie's Pitre son Louis-Constant married into the Guidry family on the upper bayou. 

Claude-Jean's eighth and youngest son Ambroise, born at Cobeguit in c1746, if he survived childhood, would have followed his family to Île St.-Jean, but there is no evidence that the British deported him with five of his older brothers to Cherbourg or St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 or that he escaped from the island to the mainland, which would have been quite a feat for a boy of 12. 

Jean, fils's fourth son Michel, born probably at Port-Royal in c1704, married Marie-Madeleine, another daughter of Noël Doiron and Marie Henry, in c1727, place unrecorded, probably at Cobeguit, where they settled.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1744, Marie-Madleine gave Michel seven children, three daughters and four sons.  In c1750, Michel took his family to Île St.-Jean.  A French official counted Michel, Marie-Madeleine, and their seven children at Pointe-Prime on the island's southeastern shore in August 1752.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Duke William in late 1758, and they, too, perished at sea in a mid-December storm. 

Jean, fils's fifth son Germain dit Germain-Jean, born perhaps at Annapolis Royal in c1714, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Girouard and Marie Doiron, in c1736, place unrecorded.  They settled at Ste.-Famillie, Pigiguit, perhaps before moving on to Minas.  Between 1737 and 1755, Marie-Josèphe gave Germain-Jean at least nine children, three sons and six daughters.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported Germain-Jean, Marie-Josèphe, and four of their children, three daughters and a son, to Connecticut.  Meanwhile, five of their other children, two sons and three daughters, ages 18, 16, 15, 4, and 2, escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia and sought refuge on Île St.-Jean.  Older daughters Marguerite and Anne, still in their teens, married into the Michel and Bourg families on the island in 1757 and 1758.  In late 1758, the British deported the extended family in separate vessels to St.-Malo, France.  After reaching the Breton port in January, they congregated ats St.-Suliac while their parents and other sisters languished in New England.  Marie-Josèphe gave Germain-Jean another son in Connecticut in c1760.  In 1763, Germain Piteve, his wife, mother-in-law, and three children appeared on a repatriation list in Connecticut.  Evidently one of their daughters and one of their older sons were not with the family at the time.  In early 1764, Marie-Josèphe gave Germain-Jean another son--their fifth son and eleventh child.  Later in the year, Germain-Jean and his family followed other exiles in New England to French St.-Domingue, where they were forced to work on a coffee plantation in the island's interior.  Their younger sons were baptized at Mirebalais in early September 1764, Joseph at age 4, Michel at age 8 months, but the boys died there the following February, a day apart.  Meanwhile, Germain-Jean, age 50, and daughter Madeleine, age 20, died on the same day at Mirebalais in October 1764.  Widow Marie-Josèphe, age 42, and son Pierre, age 13, died there in November 1764.  Daughter Camille, age unrecorded, married Frenchman Pierre, fils, son of Pierre Bidaut and Marie Legrand of Belleville near Paris, at La Croix-des-Bouquets near Port-au-Prince in May 1766.  Her sister Élisabeth died at La Croix-des-Bouquets in April 1769, age 26; her burial record says nothing of a husband.  Meanwhile, Germain-Jean's daughter Anne remarried to a Gautrot widower at St.-Suliac, France, in November 1764, and her oldest brother Pierre-Olivier married there in October 1765.  Oldest sister Marguerite died at Nantes, France, in March 1784, age 45.  In 1785, Anne, brother Pierre-Olivier, and their families followed most of the Acadians still in France to Spanish Louisiana.  Their younger brother, Charles, who would have been age 34 that year, if he were still alive, did not accompany them to the Spanish colony, nor did their youngest sister, Marie-Blanche, who would have been age 32. 

Oldest son Pierre-Olivier, born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1737, was in his late teens when he led four of his younger siblings to Île St.-Jean in the mid-1750s.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 on separate vessels.  Pierre-Oliver settled on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo at Pleurtuit before joining his sisters and brothers across the river St.-Suliac in late 1759.  He spent 1761 to 1763 in England, a hint that he had signed up for privateer duty while the war was still on, was captured by the Royal Navy, and held as a prisoner in England until the war finally ended.  After returning to St.-Suliac in 1763, he worked as a day laborer and married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and his first wife Madeleine Doiron, in October 1765.  Between 1766 and 1772, at St.-Suliac, Rosalie gave Pierre-Olivier four children, three daughters and a son.  In 1771, the family lived at Châtelaudren in northern Brittany west of St.-Brieuc but returned to St.-Suliac the following year.  Pierre-Olivier took his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  His only son died there in 1774, age 4.  In March 1776, after two and a half years of effort, the family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Between 1776 and 1784, at nearby Chantenay, Rosalie gave Pierre-Olivier five more children, three daughters and two sons--nine children, six daughters and three sons, in all.  The two older children, a daughter and a son, died young, as did their youngest daughter born at St.-Suliac, who died at age 8 in 1780.  In 1785, Pierre-Olivier, Rosalie, and their four surviving children, three daughters and a son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers, including his sister Anne and her family, to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Wife Rosalie died by January 1791, when Pierre-Olivier was listed in a Lafourche census without a wife.  His daughters remained on the bayou and married into the Goudreau, Guillot, Bourg, and Diez families.  His son Pierre-André also married, into the Bourgeois family on the bayou, and followed his only son to the western prairies in the 1840s. 

Germain-Jean's second son Charles, born perhaps at Minas in c1751, perhaps a twin, followed his siblings to Île St.-Jean in the 1750s when he was still a child and was deported with his older married sister and her husband to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He was still with them at St.-Suliac in 1770, when he would have been age 19.  Did he marry in France?  He did not follow his older siblings to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, when he would have been in his early 30s. 

Geramin-Jean's third son Pierre, born perhaps at Minas in c1751, perhaps Charles's twin, followed his parents to Connecticut and French St.-Domingue.  He died at Mirebalais on the island in November 1763, age 13. 

Germain-Jean's fourth son Joseph, born in Connecticut in c1760, followed his family to French St.-Domingue and was baptized at Mirebalais on 2 September 1764, age 4.  He died there the following February. 

Germain-Jean's fifth and youngest son Michel, born in Connecticut in early 1764, followed his family to French St.-Domingue and was baptized at Mirebalais on 2 September 1764, age 8 months.  He died on M. Deschamps's plantation at Mirebalais the following February, age 1, a day before his older brother Joseph died. 

Jean, fils's sixth son Charles, born in c1720, married, according to Stephen A. White, Anne, daughter of Philippe Thibodeau and Isabelle Vincent of Pigiguit, in c1745, place unrecorded, probably at Cobeguit, where they settled.  Bona Arsenault insists that the Charles born in c1720 was the oldest son of Jean III and married Anne, daughter of Charles Thibodeau and Françoise Comeau of Chepoudy; White is followed here.  According to Arsenault, between 1746 and 1751, Anne gave Charles three children, two daughters and a son.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1751.  In August of the following year, a French official counted Charles, Anne, and their three children at Anse-à-Pinnet on the island's southeastern shore.  In 1754 and 1755, Anne gave him two more daughters--five children, four daughters and a son, in all.  Charles died on the island, in his late 40s, on the eve of its dérangement.  The British deported his widow, five children, and teenaged nephew Olivier, son of Claude-Jean Pitre, to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Anne and the nephew survived the crossing, but four of the children died at sea.  The oldest daughter died in a St.-Malo hospital only three months after reaching the Breton port.  One wonders if Anne remarried and what happened to her and her family after 1759.  None of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. 

Jean, fils's seventh and youngest son Amand, born in c1724, married Geneviève, daughter of Pierre-Claude Arcement and Marie-Josèphe Thériot of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1746, place unrecorded, perhaps at Pigiguit.  They settled at Cobeguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1751, Geneviève gave Amand four children, three sons and a daughter.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1751.  In August of the following year, a French official counted Amant, as he called him, Geneviève, who he called a Hertrement, and their four children at Grande-Anse on the island's southeastern shore.  Geneviève gave Amand four more children, three daughters and a son, on the island between 1753 and 1758.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Supply in late 1758.  Three of their children died at sea, and another died in a local hospital a month after their arrival probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Amand, Geneviève, and their remaining four children settled at St.-Suliac, where Geneviève gave Amand another daughter--their fifth daughter and ninth child--in February 1761.  A son and a daughter married at Pleurtuit, across the river, in 1773 and 1774.  In 1774, Amand took his family to Poitou.  His married children and their families followed.  One of his son's wives gave him a son at Leigné-les-Bois near Châtellerault in July 1775.  In March 1776, after two and a half years of effort, Amand and his family, including his married children and their families, followed other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where another son married in 1779.  Wife Geneviève died at Nantes after September 1784, age 60.  Amand and his unmarried daughter, along with his married daughter and two married sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  His youngest son Charles, who would have been age 27 that year, if he was still living, did not accompany his family to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, Amand and his large family followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  His daughters married into the Dugas in France and the Bertrand family at New Orleans and settled on the bayou.  His two older sons married into the Dugas and Aucoin families in France and created lasting lines on the Lafourche.   

Jean's sixth and youngest son François dit Nordest, born at Port-Royal in c1682, married Anne, daughter of Jean Préjean and Andrée Savoie, at Port-Royal in July 1705.  Between 1706 and 1725, Anne gave Nordest 11 children, four sons and seven daughters, including a set of twins.  Nordest died at Annapolis Royal in December 1725, in his early 40s.  Anne remarried to a Boudrot.  Five of Nordest's daughters married into the Simon dit Boucher, Girouard, Bourgeois, Gaudet, Boudrot, and Provencher dit Villebrun families.  One of them married three times.  Three of Nordest's four sons also created families of their own.    

Oldest son Antoine, born at Port-Royal in July 1706, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Jean Comeau le jeune and Catherine Babin, perhaps at Annapolis Royal in c1731.  They settled at Minas.  Between 1734 and 1749, Marie-Anne gave Antoine five children, three daughters and two sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Their oldest daughter Nathalie married into the Boudrot family in England in 1757 or 1758.  Antoine, meanwhile died at sea, in Virginia, or, most likely, in England, sometime between 1755 and 1763.  In May 1763, widow Marie-Anne, her married daughter and her family, and her unmarried children were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Dorothée and settled in the surburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  They did not follow their fellow exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in November 1765.  Daughter Nathalie remarried to a LeBlanc at St.-Servan in 1766.  A year later, Marie-Anne's older son married at St.-Servan and died there three years later.  Marie-Anne died at St.-Servan in August 1772, age 64.  One wonders what happened to her other Pitre son and two younger Pitre daughters, Marie and Agnès.  They did not go to Belle-Île-en-Mer, nor did they follow their oldest sister Nathalie and their older brother's widow to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.

Older son Simon, born at Minas in c1740, followed his family to Virginia and England and his widowed mother to St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Called Simon Pierre, he married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Richard and Catherine Gautrot of Minas, at St.-Servan in January 1767.  Geneviève gave him a daughter, Geneviève-Marguerite, at St.-Servan in May 1768.  Simon died in the hospital at Pontorson, east of St.-Malo, in October 1770, age 30.  Geneviève remarried to a Boudrot widower at St.-Servan in August 1773 and gave him more children.  With her Pitre daughter, Geneviève followed her husband to Louisiana in 1785.  Her Pitre daughter married into the Lejeune family in the Spanish colony. 

Antoine's younger son Joseph, perhaps also called Antoine, fils, born at Minas in c1748 or 1749, followed his family to Virginia and England and his widowed mother to St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  He did not follow his oldest sister to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  One wonders what happened to him in France. 

Nordest's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1711, married Cécile, daughter of Michel Boudrot and Cécile LeBlanc, in c1733 perhaps at Annapolis Royal.  They settled at Minas before moving on to Chignecto in the late 1730s.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1754, Cécile gave Jean-Baptiste 11 children, five daughtes and six sons.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and took refuge in Canada.  Jean-Baptiste died at Québec in June 1758, age 57, a victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadians in the Québec area in 1757-58.  Widow Cécile settled at Nicolet on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivères by 1760 and remarried to a Pellerin widower there in October 1762.  Two of her Pitre daughters married into the Desfossés and Coltret families at Nicolet.  Two of her Pitre sons also settled there.

Oldest son Michel, born probably at Minas in c1735, followed his family to Chignecto and Canada.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Orillon dit Champagne and Anne Richard, at Québec in May 1759.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1779, Marie-Josèphe gave Michel a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters, including a set of twins.  Did they also settle at Nicolet?  Not all of their sons remained in Canada.

Oldest son Michel, fils, born in Canada in c1767, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Cyprien Boudrot, in c1790, place unrecorded.  Michel, fils died at Bathurst, formerly Nepisiguit, New Brunswick, in January 1817, age 50. 

Michel, père's third son Charles-Olivier, born in Canada in c1772, also settled on the northeast coast of New Brunswick.  He married Céleste, daughter of fellow Acadians François Comeau and Marie Baudry, at Caraquet in April 1796.

Michel, père's fourth son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born in Canada in c1775, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Haché, in c1796, place unrecorded. 

Michel, père's fifth and youngest son Alexis, born in Canada in c1776, married fellow Acadian Marie-Anne Hébert in c1798, place unrecorded. 

Jean-Baptiste's third son Joseph, born probaby at Chignecto in c1746, followed his family to Canada and his widowed mother to Nicolet, where he married Marie-Antoinette, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Lupion and Antoinette Pinard, in June 1770. 

Nordest's third son Simon-Eustache, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1717, married Anne-Marie Hébert in c1737 perhaps at Annapolis Royal.  The also settled at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne-Marie gave Simon-Eustache a daughter, Cécile, in 1748.  Other records give them another daughter, Marguerite, in 1738.  The British deported the family to a New-English colony--Massachusetts or Connecticut--in the fall of 1755.  One wonders if Simon-Eustache, Anne-Marie, and their younger daughter died in New England.  Older daughter Marguerite married Antoine, son of fellow André Faurne or Furne, perhaps Forest, and Anne-Marie Morel, in New England by c1760.  Between 1760 and 1762, she gave Antoine three children, a son and two daughters.  The family followed other exiles in New England to French St.-Domingue in 1764.  They baptized their three children at Mirebalais in the interior of the island on 16 September 1764.  Their marriage was "attested to" at Mirebalais later in the month.  Another daughter, their third, died at Mirebalais in October, age 4 months.  Their fourth daughter was born at Mirebalais in c1766 but died there, age 2 years and 4 months, in February 1769.  A second son was born at Mirebalais in January 1770.  Marguerite died there the following April, age 32, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Thanks to her, at least the blood of her father's line of the family endured in Haiti. 

Nordest's fourth and youngest son François-Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1723, probably died young.369

Guérin

François Guérin, a late 1650s arrival, and his wife Anne Blanchard created a fairly large family in the colony.  Anne gave him five children, two sons and three daughters.  Their daughters married into the Godin dit Châtillon dit Beauséjour, Arseneau, and Doucet families.  Only one of François's sons married, but his family line was substantial.  François and Anne's descendants settled at Chignecto, Cobeguit, and on Île Royale and Île St.-Jean in the French Maritimes, where they were especially numerous by the early 1750s.  At least three of François's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Others could be found in France and the French Antilles after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Older son Jérôme, also called Giraud, born at Port-Royal in c1665, married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of Martin Aucoin and Marie Gaudet, in c1698 probably at Port-Royal and settled at Chignecto and Cobeguit.  Between 1698 and the 1720s, Isabelle gave Jérôme 13 children, five sons and eight daughters.  Seven of their daughters married into the Bourg, Thériot, Pitre, Boudrot, and Dugas families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana.  All five of Jérôme's sons created families of their own, and one of them, with a nephew, also emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.   

Oldest son Pierre, born at Cobeguit in June 1712, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Bourg and Élisabeth Broussard, in c1734 probably at Cobeguit.  Between 1735 and 1749, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre at least seven children, three sons and four daughters.  They moved on to the French Maritimes in c1750.  In April 1752, a French official counted Pierre, Marie-Josèphe, and seven of their children at Baie-de-Mordienne on the Atlantic coast of Île Royale.  Pierre and Marie-Josèphe may have died on the island by late 1758, when six of their children, three sons and three daughters, crossed to St.-Malo aboard the ill-fated transport Duc Guillaume.  Only sons Pierre, fils and Louis, age 23 and 19, survived the crossing or its rigors.  Their younger siblings--Gertrude, age 12; Marie-Josèphe, called Josèphe, age 9; and Agricole and Joseph, ages unrecorded--died at sea or in a St.-Malo hospital soon after arrival.  Louis also ended up in a St.-Malo hospital but was lucky enough to walk away.  He and brother Pierre, fils left St.-Malo for Lorient, southern Brittany, in January 1759.  Pierre, fils, at least, then disappears from the historical record. 

Third son Louis, born probably at Cobeguit in c1742, followed his family to Île Royale and his siblings to St.-Malo, France.  One wonders if he was the Louis Guérin, described as a garçon navigateur or sailor "of Mines," age 34, who died at the home of Joseph Casselin at Môle St.-Nicolas, French St.-Domingue, in January 1776.  Louis à Pierre, born in the Minas Basin, would have been that age at the time.  One wonders how he got to the sugar island and if he married. 

Jérôme's second son François le jeune, born probably at Cobeguit in c1718, married Geneviève, daughter of Joseph Mius d'Azy and Marie Amireau, in c1746, place unrecorded, but it may have been at Pobomcoup, where Geneviève's family lived near Cap-Sable.  Between 1747 and 1751, Geneviève gave François le jeune three daughters.  They moved on to the French Maritimes in c1750 but went not to Île Royale but to Île St.-Jean.  In August 1752, a French official counted François, Geneviève, and their two older daughters at Grande-Ascension on the island's southeast coast.  In late 1758, the British deported them to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Duke William, which sank in a storm off the southwest coast of England in mid-December, taking François and his family and almost all of the other passengers with it.   

Jérôme's third son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Cobeguit in c1719, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of François Bourg and Madeleine Hébert of Chignecto, in c1749 probably at Cobeguit.  Soon after their marriage, they followed other Minas Basin Acadians to Île Royale and settled in the rocky interior of the island at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse.  Son Jean-Pierre was born either in Nova Scotia or on the island in c1750, and another son, Jérôme le jeune, on the island in January 1752.  Late that March, a French official counted Jean-Baptiste, Marie-Madeleine, and their two sons still in the remote settlement next to younger brother Dominique.  Marie-Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste two more children on the island:  Marie-Madeleine in c1754, and Xavier in c1757.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  The two younger children died at sea.  Jean-Baptiste took his family to St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, where Marie-Madeleine gave him two more sons: Joseph in September 1760, and Ambroise in August 1762--six children, five sons and a daughter, in all.  Jean-Baptiste died at St.-Suliac in December 1771, in his early 40s.  Only one of his children seems to have created a family of his own, in France and Spanish Louisiana.

Second son Jérôme le jeune, born at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale, in January 1752, followed his family to St.-Malo, France, and St.-Suliac, where he became a day laborer.  He married fellow Acadian Marie Pitre perhaps at St.-Suliac, date unrecorded.  One wonders if they were part of the settlement scheme in Poitou in the early 1770s and retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in 1775 or 1776.  A son, Jean-Pierre, was born in c1784.  A Spanish official counted Jérôme le jeune, Marie, and their infant son at Nantes in September 1784.  The following year, they emigrated to Spanish Louisiana aboard the fourth of the Seven Ships.  One wonders if their son survived the crossing.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Jérôme's fourth son Dominique, born probably at Cobeguit in c1721, married Anne, daughter of Jacques à François LeBlanc and Catherine Landry, in c1746, place unrecorded.  Anne gave Dominique a daughter, Anne-Josèphe in c1747 soon after their marriage They followed two of his brothers to Île Royale and settled with one of them at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse.  Anne gave him two more daughters, there:  Anastasie, called Nastay, in c1749; and Marguerite in c1751.  In late March 1752, a French official counted Dominique, Anne, and their three daughters at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse next to his brother Jean-Baptiste.  Anne gave Dominique three more children on the island:  Joseph in c1753, François le jeune in c1756, and Marie in October 1758.  Soon after birth of their youngest children, the British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the so-called Five Ships.  Dominigue, Anne, and two of their children--Marguerite and Joseph--survived the crossing, but the other four children died at sea.  Dominique took his family to Ploubalay on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, and then moved to nearby Trigavou, where Anne gave him four more daughters:  Isabelle in October 1760, Françoise in May 1763, Anastasie in February 1766 but died at age 1 1/2 in June 1767, and Brigide in August 1769--10 children, nine daughters and a son, in greater Acadia and France.  Dominique took his family to Poitou in 1773.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Son Joseph married to a fellow Acadian there in April 1776.  Daughter Françoise married into the Thériot family in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes.  Wife Anne died in St.-Jacques Parish in May 1782, age 56.  Dominique, two of his unmarried daughters, Isabelle and Brigide, and the families of his son and his married daughter, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Dominique, in his early 60s, may not have survived the crossing, or he may have died soon after reaching New Orleans.  His daughters Isabelle and Brigide married into the Landry and Thibodeaux families in Louisiana, so the blood of the family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Only son Joseph, born at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale, in c1753, followed his family to St.-Malo, Ploubalay, Trigavou, Poitou, and Nantes, France.  He married Agnès, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Pitre and Jeanne Moyse, in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in April 1776.  Agnès gave him two daughters in the lower Loire port:  Marie-Joséphine in St.-Similien Parish in January 1777, and Françoise in St.-Jacques Parish in April 1784.  Joseph, Agnès., and their younger daughter emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Agnès gave Joseph another daughter, Agnès, in September 1787--three daughters in France and Louisiana.  Joseph died at Assumption on the upper bayou in December 1813, in his early 60s.  One wonders if any of his daughters married. 

Jérôme's fifth and youngest son Charles, born probably at Cobeguit in c1725, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Henry and Marie Hébert, in c1746, place unrecorded.  Marguerite gave Charles two chldren soon after their marriage:  Tarsile in c1747, and Marin in c1749.  In 1750, they followed one of his brothers to Île St.-Jean.  In August 1752, a French official counted Charles, Marguerite, their two children, and his 74-year-old widowed mother at Rivière-de-l'Ouest near the island's southern coast.  Marguerite gave Charles two more children on the island:  Marguerite-Josèphe in c1754, and Alexis in September 1758--four children, two daughters and two sons.  Later that year, the British deported the family to St.-Malo, France.  Marguerite and her two daughters survived the crossing aboard one of the Five Ships.  Older son Marin died at sea, and younger son Alexis and father Charles, age 34, died at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in March 1759.  Marguerite and her daughters remained at St.-Servan.  One wonders what happened to them.  None of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

François's younger son François, fils evidently died young.370

Forest

Dutchman Gereyt, later Michel, de Forest, a late 1650s arrival, and his wives Marie Hébert and Jacqueline dite Jacquette Benoit created a large family in the colony.  Marie gave Michel six children, four sons and two daughters, all of whom married.  Second wife Jacquette gave him another daughter, who also married.  Michel died by 1691 probably at Port-Royal, in his early 50s.  His daughters by both wives married into the Brassaud, Benoit, and Comeau families.  All four of Michel's sons created their own families.  His descendants settled at Annapolis Royal; Grand-Pré, Ste.-Famille, Pigigit, and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; Chignecto; Memramcook and Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; and on Île St.-Jean and Île Madame in the French Maritimes.  At least 48 of the Dutchman's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, Maryland in the late 1760s, and France in 1785.  A substantial number of them also could be found in greater Acadia, Canada, France, and the French Antilles after Le Grand Dérangement.

Oldest son Michel, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1667, married Marie, daughter of Claude Petitpas and Catherine Bugaret, in c1689 and settled at Minas.  Between 1690 and the early 1700s, Marie gave Michel, fils seven children, five sons and two daughters.  Michel, fils remarried to Marie, daughter of André Célestin dit Bellemère and Perrine Bourg, at Grand-Pré in October 1708.  They settled at Cobeguit and then at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  Between 1709 and 1729, this Marie gave Michel, fils five more children, a son and four daughters--a dozen children, six sons and six daughters, by two wives.  Michel, fils died probably at Pigiguit in c1730, in his early 60s.  Five of his daughters from both wives married into the LeMire, Michel, Rullier dit Le Cadien, Bonnière, and Billeray families.  Three of his youngest daughters moved with their husbands to Île St.-Jean before August 1752.  The youngest died on Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, off the southern coast of Brittany.  Only two of Michel, fils's six sons created families of their own, and one of them, along with members of his family, emigrated to Louisiana. 

Oldest son Michel III, by first wife Marie Petitpas, born probably at Minas in c1690, evidently died young.  

Michel, fils's second son François, by first wife Marie Petitpas, born probably at Minas in c1692, also died young. 

Michel, fils's third son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marie Petitpas, born probably at Minas in the early 1690s, married Madeleine, another daughter of André Célestin dit Bellemère and Perrine Bourg, at Grand-Pré in October 1718.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1719 and 1722, Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste a daughter and a son.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Their daughter married into the Hébert family at Laprairie, Canada.  Their son also created his own family. 

Only son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born probably at Minas in c1722, married fellow Acadian Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc in c1745, settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, but moved on to Île Madame off the southern coast of Île Royale in c1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1751, Marie-Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste, fils three children, two sons and a daughter.  In late February 1752, a French official counted Jean-Baptiste (he called him a Forin), Marie-Madeleine, and their three children among the "new settlers" on Île Madame.  Marie-Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste, fils another daughter later that year.  Jean-Baptiste, fils died probably on Île Madame before the fall of 1758, when the British deported Marie-Madeleine and three of their children to St.-Malo, France.  Marie-Madeleine, her older son Olivier-LeBlanc, and her youngest daughter Marie-Josèphe died in a St.-Malo hospital soon after they reached the Breton port.  Older daughter Marguerite-Théodose, age 11 in 1758, did not cross with widowed mother and siblings; one wonders why not.  According to Bona Arsenault, she married Pierre, fils, son of Pierre Rollain and Françoise Gautier of St.-Clément, diocese of Macon, France, at Bout-de-l'Île Montréal, Canada, in June 1761 (which would have made her a 13-year-old bride!).  In France, Marie-Madeleine's younger son Étienne, age 9, was the family's only survivor there.  He settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer with relatives but did not remain in France. 

Younger son Étienne, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1750, followed his family to Île Madame and his widowed mother and siblings to France.  He did not go to Poitou with other Acadian exiles in 1773, nor did he join fellow Acadians in Nantes later in the decade.  He remained, instead, in the St.-Malo area.  One wonders what he did for living after he came of age.  He followed his older cousin Jacques Forest to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Étienne was recorded with no wife on the ship's passenger list, so he probably was still a bachelor in his mid-30s.  He may have been the Étienne Foret who married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Clome and Marie-Anne Thomache, and lived and died on the German Coast just upriver from New Orleans.  Marguerite died at the city's Charity Hospital in April 1796.  Her burial record, written by a Spanish priest, describes her as widow of Estevan Forest.  If this was him, one wonders if he fathered any children.  The church records of both St.-Charles des Allemands and St.-Jean Baptiste des Allemands on the lower and upper German coasts offer no clues.  

Michel, fils's fourth son, name unrecorded, from first wife Marie Petitpas, born probably at Minas before 1701, died young.   

Michel, fils's fifth son, name unrecorded, from first wife Marie Petitpas, born probably at Minas before 1707, also died young. 

Michel, fils's sixth and youngest son Jacques, by second wife Marie Célestin, born probably at Minas in c1709, married Claire, daughter of Michel Vincent and Marie-Josèphe Richard, at Grand-Pré in July 1731.  They settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  Between 1733 and 1750, Claire gave Jacques six children, four sons and two daughters.  Their two oldest sons moved to Île St.-Jean after August 1752 and married there.  Meanwhile, the British deported Jacques, Claire, and their younger children to Virginia in 1755, Virginia officials sent them on to England in the spring of 1756, and they were held at Southampton.  Meanwhile, the British deported Jacques's two older sons and their families from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Jacques and his family were repatriated to St.-Malo in May 1763 aboard La Dorothée and settled on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo at Plouèr-sur-Rance near their older sons.  They moved to nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1766.  Likely because they wished to remain near their loved ones, Jacques, père's and wife Claire did not follow most of their fellow exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in November 1765.  Claire died at St.-Servan in March 1769, age 64.  Jacques did not go to Poitou in 1773, nor did he join his fellow Acadians at Nantes later in the decade.  Two of his daughters married into the Blanchard and LeBlanc families at Plouër and St.-Servan.  His two youngest sons married at St.-Servan, and his oldest son remarried there twice.  Jacques, in his mid-70s, remarried to Frenchwoman Angélique, daughter of André Richer and Madeleine Renoux and sister of his oldest son's fourth wife, probably at St.-Servan in late 1784 or early 1785.  Jacques and his new wife, along with three of his married children, a niece and a nephew, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 directly from St.-Malo.  His two younger surviving sons remained in France.  From New Orleans, Jacques and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to the new Acadian settlement at Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District on the river above Baton Rouge.  Jacques probably died there.  His family did not remain.  His older son resettled at Baton Rouge before moving on to the western prairies.  Jacques's daughters, one of whom had come to the colony on an earlier ship, settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Oldest son Victor, by first wife Claire Vincent, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1733, moved to Île St.-Jean after August 1752.  He married Judith, daughter of François Robichaud and Agathe Turpin, at Port-La-Joye on the island in May 1756.  Judith's sister Anne-Blanche married Victor's younger brother Pierre on the island.  Victor remarried to Anne-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Hébert and Isabelle Benoit, at Port-La-Joye in February 1757.  The British deported them to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758, but they did not remain there.  In July 1759, Victor, Anne-Josèphe, and two of her unmarried siblings reached St.-Malo from Cherbourg, and the couple settled on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo at Pleurtuit before moving to nearby St.-Suliac and Plouër-sur-Rance, closer to his family.  Victor worked as a sawyer.  Between 1760 and 1764, at St.-Suliac and Plouër, Anne-Josèphe gave him six children, four sons and two daughters, including a set of triplets.  One of their sons, not one of the triplets, died young.  Anne-Josèphe died at Plouër in March 1764, age 35, and Victor remarried again--his third marriage--to Frenchwoman Julienne Rosereux probably at St.-Servan in c1766.  Between 1767 and 1778, Julienne gave Victor six more children, three sons and three daughers--a dozen children by his second and third wives.  One of their sons died soon after his birth.  Like his father, Victor did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did he join his fellow Acadians at Nantes later in the decade.  Victor, at age 51, remarried yet again--his fourth marriage--to Marie-Jeanne-Catherine, daughter of St.-Malo locals André Richer and Madeleine Renoux, at St.-Servan in February 1784.  Marie-Jeanne-Catherine's sister Angélique became Victor's stepmother when she married his father Jacques later that year. Victor, Marie-Jeanne-Catherine, and eight of his surviving children, three sons and five daughters, including a married daughter, followed his father Jacques and his family to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  One of the triplets by second wife Anne-Josèphe, son Victor, fils, who would have been age 20, did not accompany them.  They also settled at Bayou des Écores before moving downriver to Baton Rouge.  In the early 1790s, Victor moved his family again, this time to the Opelousas District.  Four of his daughters, by his second and third wives, married into the Landry, Beziné, Vilgemenol or Vilkensol, and Perez families at St.-Malo and New Orleans.  Two of his sons married into the Ardoin and Hébert families at Opelousas, but neither of the lines endured. 

Jacques's second son Pierre, by first wife Claire Vincent, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1734, followed his brother to Île St.-Jean after August 1752.  He married Anne-Blanche, another daughter of François Robichaud and Agathe Turpin, at Port-La-Joye in January 1757.  Anne gave Pierre a daughter in 1758.  In the fall of that year, the British deported them to St.-Malo, France.  Their infant daughter Marie died at sea.  Pierre and Anne setteld at St.-Suliac before crossing the river to Plouër-sur-Rance.  Between 1760 and 1766, Anne gave Pierre three more children, all sons, two of whom died young.  Pierre drowned in July 1768, in his early 30s, and was buried at St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  In 1785, widow Anne and her son Pierre-Joseph, who, if he were still living, would have been age 25, did not follow Pierre's father and older brother to Louisiana.  One wonders if Pierre-Joseph created his own family in the mother country.   

Jacques's third son Jacques, fils, by first wife Claire Vincent, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1745, despite his age, followed his older brothers to Île St.-Jean after August 1752.  In the fall of 1758, the British deported him with brother Pierre and his family to St.-Malo, France, and he followed them to St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  He married Tarsille, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Guérin and Marguerite Henry, there in August 1774.  One wonders if they had any children in the mother country.  They did not follow his father and brother Victor to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Jacques, père's fourth and youngest son Ignace, by first wife Claire Vincent, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1750, followed his family to Virginia, England, and St.-Malo, France, and settled with his parents at Plouër-sur-Rance.  He married Frenchwoman Jeanne-Cécile, daughter of Pierre Descroutes and Élisabeth Calisan, at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in May 1777.  Perhaps because of his marriage to a native of France, he did not follow his father and brother Victor to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Michel's second son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1668, married Cécile, daughter of Michel Richard dit Sansoucy and Madeleine Blanchard, in c1692 and settled at Minas.  Between 1693 and 1712, Cécile gave Pierre nine children, two sons and seven daughters.  Four of their daughters married into the Landry and LeBlanc families.  One of them emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland.  Only one of Pierre's sons created a family of his own.  

Older son Pierre, fils, born at Minas in c1694, married Madeleine, daughter of Vincent Babin and Anne Thériot, at Grand-Pré in January 1718 and settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1720 and 1724, Madeleine gave Pierre, fils four children, two sons and two daughters.  Pierre, fils died at Minas before 1720, in his 20s.  His daughters married into the Rivet and Landry families.  His older son emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland, and his younger son was one of the few Acadian exiles who were allowed to return to their former home in British Nova Scotia. 

Older son Bonaventure, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1723, married Claire, daughter of Étienne Rivet and Anne Leprince, probably at Pigiguit in c1743.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1750, Claire gave Bonaventure four daughters.  Arsenault also gives them a son in 1743, the year of their marriage, and other records hint that they had another son in c1746.  The British deported Pierre and his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Somehow their younger son, who would have been age 9 in 1755, escaped the British roundup at Pigiguit, perhaps with relatives, and found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Their other putative son married a fellow Acadian in Maryland.  In July 1763, Bonaventure, Claire, their four daughters and a Boudrot orphan appeared on a French repatriation list at Upper Marlborough, and their son and his family at Baltimore.  Bonaventure, Claire, and their daughters, as well as his son and his family, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 and followed their fellow exiles to the new Acadian community of San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans.  Three of their daughters married into the Dugas, Hébert, Landry, and Plide families on the river.

Older son Pierre, born perhaps at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1743, followed his family to Maryland, where he married fellow Acadian Marguerite Blanchard in c1762.  They, with infant son Pierre, fils, appeared on a repatriation list at Baltimore in July 1763.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Pierre two more children, a son and a daughter, in the Chesapeake colony in 1764 and 1767.  A few weeks after the birth of their daughter, Pierre, Marguerite, and their three children followed his family to Louisiana and settled at San Gabriel.  Marguerite gave him no more children there.  Pierre remarried to fellow Acadian Marie Breaux, widow of Olivier Babin, at nearby Ascension in December 1775.  According to Arsenault and Louisana church records, between 1776 and 1779, she gave him three more children, a son and two daughters.  Pierre may have died at San Gabriel in May 1781, age 43.  His daughter by first wife Marguerite married into the Dugas family at Ascension.  Neither of his sons by first wife Marguerite seems to have married, and his son by second wife Marie probably died young, so this line of the family, except for its blood, probably did not endure in the Bayou State.  

Bonaventure's younger son Joseph, born perhaps at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1746, evidently escaped the British roundup at Pigiguit in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  While in exile, probably in the early 1760s, perhaps in a prison compound in British Nova Scotia, he married Isabelle Léger.  In 1765, they emigrated to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, with hundreds of other exiles from the prisons of Nova Scotia and settled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  They may have lived for a time at New Orleans in early 1767, about the time that his parents and sisters reached the city from Maryland.  According to Bona Arsenault and Louisiana church records, between 1767 and 1774, Isabelle gave Joseph four children, two sons and two daughters.  Their daughters married into the Dugas and Foret families, and perhaps into the Marois family as well.  Joseph remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Martin and Marie-Jeanne Comeau of Annapolis Royal and widow of Pierre Blanchard, at Cabahannocer in June 1775.  She evidently gave him no more children.  Joseph died by July 1778, in his early 30s, when his wife remarried at Cabahannocer.  His older son evidently died young.  His younger son, also by first wife Isabelle, married into the Bourgeois family, joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, and created a vigorous line there.  

Pierre, fils's yonger son Simon, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1724, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Gautrot and Anne LeBlanc of Grand-Pré, probably at Pigiguit in c1750.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1756 and 1768, Marguerite gave Simon six children, five sons and a daughter.  They were still in the colony in August 1763.  After 1766, they returned to greater Acadia and settled at Windsor, Nova Scotia, their former home at Pigiguit, where British officials counted them in 1771.  One of Simon's sons moved on to Île Madame, Nova Scotia.

Second son Maximien, born probably in Massachusetts in c1758, followed his family back to British Nova Scotia after the war.  He married fellow Acadian Scholastique LeBlanc and settled at Arichat on the south coast of Île Madame, Nova Scotia.  Maximien worked as a merchant and owner of a goëlette fishing boat there.  One of his sons left the island and settled in another fiishing area considerably distant from his birth place. 

Charles, born at Arichat in c1794, moved to Bonaventure a British-controlled fishery on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs in a region called Gaspésie.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Poirier and Euphrosine Babin, at Bonaventure in November 1814. 

Pierre, père's younger son, name unrecorded, born at Minas in the early 1700s, died young.

Michel's third son René, born at Port-Royal in c1670, married Françoise, daughter of Claude Dugas and Françoise Bourgeois, probably at Port-Royal in c1695.  Between 1696 and 1723, Françoise gave René 15 children, eight sons and seven daughters.  René died at Annapolis Royal in April 1751, in his early 80s.  His daughters married into the Robichaud, Bastarache, Guilbeau, Leprince, and Gaudet families.  One of them emigrated to Louisiana.  Seven of his eight sons also created families of their own.   

Oldest son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in c1698, married Marie, daughter of Charles Guilbeau and Anne Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in November 1720.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1730, Marie gave Joseph four children, two daughters and two sons.  Joseph died at Annapolis Royal in January 1730, in his early 30s.  His daughters married into the Girouard and Robichaud families.  His two sons also created their own families.

Older son Pierre le jeune, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1727, married Isabelle, daughter of Simon LeBlanc and Jeanne Dupuis, at Annapolis Royal in June 1749.  According to Bona Arsenault, Isabelle gave Pierre a son in c1755.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  French officials counted them at Québec in 1758. 

Joseph's younger son Joseph, fils, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1730, married Marie, daughter of Guillaume Bourgeois and Catherine Thibodeau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1751.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1751 and 1753, Marie gave Joseph, fils two children, a son and a daughter.  The British deported them to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  One wonders what happened to them after they got there. 

René's second son François, born at Port-Royal in c1700, married Jeanne, daughter of Alexandre Girouard dit de Ru and Marie Le Borgne de Bélisle, at Annapolis Royal in October 1727.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1729 and 1750, Jeanne gave François nine children, five sons and four daughters.  The British deported them to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  They moved on to Canada in the 1760s.  François died at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Montréal in October 1777, age 77.  Two of his daughters married into the Gourdeau and Amireau families.  His five sons also created their own families in New England and Canada.

Oldest son Paul, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1729, married Nathalie, daughter of Alexandre Hébert and Marie Dupuis, at Annapolis Royal in January 1753.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Paul died there in c1760, in his early 30s.  His line of the family may have died with him.  His widow remarried into the Thibodeau family in the Bay Colony. 

François's second son Charles, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1733, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Robichaud and Marie-Madeleine Bourgeois, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1755.  The British deported them to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Charles remarried to Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Marguerite Robichaud, in Connecticut.  They moved on to Canada in the late 1760s.  British officials counted them at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, north of Montréal, in 1767.  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" at nearby L'Assomption in February 1771.  Charles was a mason at St.-Jacques and helped build the first Catholic church there. 

François's third son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1736, was deported to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Madeleine Dupuis of Grand-Pré, in Connecticut in c1762.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1787, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste seven children, six sons and a daughter. They moved on to Canada in the 1760s.  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" at L'Assomption in October 1767, and they settled there.  Jean-Baptiste's daughter married a Forest cousin.  At least two of his sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Joseph, born probably in Connecticut in c1765, followed his family to Canada and married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadian Honoré Thériot, probably at L'Assomption. 

Jean-Bapitiste's sixth and youngest son François-Xavier, born probably at L'Assomption in c1787, married Elizabeth Mercier dit Lajoie, perhaps a fellow Acadian, place and date not given. 

François's fourth son Simon, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1738, was deported to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  He married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Richard and Marie-Josèphe Hébert, at Boston in c1762.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1782, Rosalie gave Simon seven children, two daughters and five sons.  They moved on to Canada in the 1760s.  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" at L'Assomption in October 1767, and they settled there.  One of Simon's daughters married into the Perrault family.  At least one of his sons also created his own family.

Third son Jean-Charles, born probably at L'Assomption in c1780, married Josette, daughter of Pierre Mercure and Marie-Josèphe Rivest, at L'Assomption in August 1804. 

François's fifth and youngest son François, fils, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1750, was deported to one of the New-English colonies in the fall of 1755 and moved on to Canada in the 1760s.  He married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Dugas and Marie-Josèphe Melanson, at L'Assomption in October 1771. 

René's third son, name unrecorded, born probably at Port-Royal before 1703, died young.   

René's fourth son Mathieu-René, born at Port-Royal in January 1704, married Marie-Madeleine, another daughter of Charles Guilbeau and Anne Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in January 1728.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1729 and 1748, Marie-Madeleine gave Mathieu-René seven children, three daughters and four sons.  The British deported them to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  One of Mathieu-René's daughters married into the Blanchard family.  One wonders what happened to the rest of the family. 

René's fifth son Jacques, born at Port-Royal in June 1707, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Leprince and Jeanne Blanchard, at Annapolis Royal in January 1734.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1753, Marie-Josèphe gave Jacques nine children, five sons and four daughters.  What happened to them in 1755?    

René's sixth son Pierre le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1717, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Richard and Marie-Madeleine Girouard, at Annapolis Royal in June 1744.  They moved on to Memramcook in the trois-rivières area, where Pierre died in 1750, age 33.  His widow married into the Savoie family.  What happened to them in 1755?

René's seventh son Jean-Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1719,  married Anne, another daughter of Pierre Richard and Marie-Madeleine Girouard, at Annapolis Royal in November 1743.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1753, Anne gave Jean-Pierre six childrens, four sons and two daughters. The British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  What happened to them there? 

René's eighth and youngest son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1723, married Marie, daughter of Abraham Chiasson and Marie Poirier and widow of François Hébert, at Beaubassin in May 1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1754, Marie gave Charles three sons.  Other records give them six children, two sons and four daughters.  Arsenault insists that Charles remarried to Marguerite Saulnier in c1755, but, as demonstrated by Stephen A. White, Arsenault is confusing this Charles with his first cousin, Charles à Jean-Baptiste.  Charles and his family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the summer of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  They may have ended up at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs and may have been among the 1,003 surrendered exiles counted there by French officers on 24 October 1760.  If not, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area soon afterwards.  They appeared on repatriation list at Fort Cumberland, formerly Beauséjour, near their old home at Chignecto, in August 1763.  After the war, they remained in the area.  Charles remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Louis Girouard and Marie Thibodeau and widow of Michel Duguay, in c1792, place unrecorded, and died at Menoudy, Nova Scotia, south of Chignecto, in 1805, in his early 80s.

Michel's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in c1677, served as a domestique for Daniel LeBlanc there during his teen years.  Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Élisabeth, daughter of Jean Labarre and Catherine ____ of Chignecto, in c1698 and settled in the Chignecto area, perhaps at Menoudy.  Between 1700 and the early 1720s, Marie-Élisabeth gave Jean-Baptiste a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, all of whom married.  Their daughters married into the Landry, Doiron dit Gould, Poirier, and Blanchard families.  Five of Jean-Baptiste's sons married two sets of sisters, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana.  Stephen A. White relates:  "According to a tradition, preserved by the elders of Memramcook, Jean-Baptise Forest, husband of Élisabeth LaBarre, was the seigneur of Menoudie before the Expulsion...."  This would have been quite a promotion in life for a man who once had been a domestique.  

Oldest son Jacques, born probably at Chignecto in c1700, married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Girouard and Anne Petitpas, at Annapolis Royal in February 1726.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1743, Marguerite gave Jacques five children, three sons and two daughters.  Jacques died before November 1744, in his late 30s or early 40s, place unrecorded.  His widow married into the Doiron family.  The British deported members of Jacques's family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755, and they resettled in Canada after the war.  Two of his sons created families of their own. 

Second son Jean, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1742, followed his family to Connecticut and then to Canada.  He married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of François Forcier and Geneviève Giguère, at St.-Michel-d'Yamaska in January 1765. 

Jacques's third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1743, followed his family to Connecticut, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Hébert and Marie Amireau, probably in the early 1760s.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence in October 1767. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son Alexandre, born probably at Chignecto in c1702, married Marie, daughter of Nicolas Babineau and Marguerite Granger, at Annapolis Royal in June 1724.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1738 and 1740, Marie gave Alexandre two daughters.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Alexandre died at St.-Michel de Bellechasse below Québec in October 1757, age 56, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees in the area that fall and winter.   

Jean-Baptiste's third son Jean-Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in c1704, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Claude Pitre and Anne Henry, at Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto in May 1734.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1741 and 1745, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Joseph two daughters.  They evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Jean-Joseph died at Québec in December 1757, age 54, another victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees in the area that fall and winter.   

Jean-Baptiste's fourth son Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in c1710, married Anne, another daughter of Jacques Girouard and Anne Petitpas of Annapolis Royal, perhaps at Chignecto in c1730 and settled at Menoudy across from Beaubassin.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1747, Anne gave Joseph five children, three daughters and two sons.  They escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the summer of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area.  By July 1762, they were being held at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in Nova Scotia.  Joseph died there before November, in his late 50s or early 60s.  After the war, members of his family resettled in Canada.  One of Joseph's daughters married into the Marets dit Desmarets family at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence.  One of his sons also created his own family in the area.

Younger son Joseph, fils, born probably at Chignecto in c1742, followed his family into exile.  He married Agathe, daughter of Gilles Badaillac and Madeleine Tessier, at St.-Michel-d'Yamaska on the upper St. Lawrence in September 1765. 

Jean-Baptiste's fifth son François, born probably at Chignecto in c1711, married Marie-Josèphe, yet another daughter of Jacques Girouard and Anne Petitpas, perhaps at Chignecto in c1737.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1748, Marie-Josèphe gave François five children, three daughters and two sons.  They likely escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  François died at St.-Pierre-du-Sud on the St. Lawrence below Québec in March 1761, age 50.  Members of the family were counted at nearby Montmagny in 1761 and at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in 1767.  François's daugthers married into the Poirier and Morin families.  His sons also created families of their own in Canada. 

Older son Joseph-Amand, born probably at Chignecto in c1742, followed his family into exile and to Canada and married Thérèse, daughter of Augustin Morin and Marie-Judity Talbot, at St.-Pierre-du-Sud, Montmagny.  They settled at Bécancour and nearby St.-Grégoire.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1795, Thérèse gave Joseph-Amand 14 children, six daughters and eight sons.  One of their daughters married into the Lord family at St.-Grégoire.  At least one of Joseph-Amand's sons also created his own family there.

Second son Pierre-Jean, born on the upper St. Lawrence in c1779, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Gabrielle Marcel and Madeleine Lieuvin, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in June 1809. 

François's younger son Basile, born probably at Chignecto in c1748, followed his family into exile and to Canada and married Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Poirier and Marie Gaudet, at Bécancour in February 1779.  They remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1780 and 1804, Modeste gave Basile nine children, four daughters and five sons.  One of their daughters married into the Thibodeau family at nearby St.-Grégoire. 

Jean-Baptiste's sixth son Charles, born probably at Chignecto in c1722, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Poirier and Jeanne Bourgeois, at Beaubassin in June 1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1748, Marguerite gave Charles three children, two daughters and a son.  Charles remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Saulnier and Madeleine Comeau, probably at Chignecto in c1750.  They evidently escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  She gave him more children in exile.  They may have ended up at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs and may have been among the 1,003 surrendered exiles counted there by French officers on 24 October 1760.  If not, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area soon afterwards.  In July 1762, British officials counted them at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in Nova Scotia.   In 1765, Charles and Marguerite, with six children and a niece, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Charles died at nearby Ascension in May 1783, in his early 60s.  His daughters married into the Bergeron and LeBlanc families on the river.  His three sons by both wives married into the Orillion, LeBlanc, and Blanchard families, and two of them created vigorous family lines on the river and on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Most of the Acadian Forets of South Louisiana, in fact, descend from Charles, his sons, and grandsons. 

Jean-Baptiste's seventh son René le jeune, born probably at Chignecto in c1722, married Anne, another daughter of Michel Poirier and Jeanne Bourgeois, at Beaubassin in February 1746.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Jean-Baptiste's eighth and youngest son Pierre le jeune, born probably at Chignecto in c1724, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Hébert and Marie-Anne Boudrot, at Beaubassin in April 1746.  The British deported them to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  They evidently were not transported aboard the ships Boscawen or Union, which sailed from Chignecto bound for Philadelphia in October but evidently were lost at sea, so Pierre le jeune and his family may have left Chignecto, perhaps for Minas, before 1755.  Colonial officials counted the couple and two children still in the Quaker Colony in June 1763.  What happened to them after that date?371

Landry

A Landry cousin with the same given name as René l'aîné came to the colony in the late 1650s, nearly two decades after his older cousin reached Acadia.  René le jeune and his wife Marie Bernard created a much larger branch of the family there.  They also settled at Port-Royal, where, between 1660 and 1688, Marie gave le jeune 15 children, eight sons and seven daughters.  René le jeune died at Port-Royal in c1692, in his late 50s.  Marie did not remarry and died at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal, in January 1719, in her early 70s.  Six of their daughters married into the Thériot, Racois dit de Rosier, Dupuis, Richard, LeBlanc, and Blanchard families.  All eight of René le jeune's sons created families of their own.  Typical of most early Acadian families, many of René le jeune's descendants left Port-Royal and settled in other communities, including Chignecto; Minas, Pigiguit, and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; and, beginning in the late 1740s, the French Maritimes.  They were especially numerous at Minas.  The Landrys, the great majority of them from René le jeune's branch of the family, constituted the largest Acadian family group to emigrate to Louisiana--204 of them bearing the name, from Georgia in 1764, Halifax in 1765, Maryland in the late 1760s, and France in 1785.  After Le Grand Dérangement, descendants of René le jeune also could be found in substantial numbers in British Canada, greater Acadia, Île Miquelon, France, and the French Antilles. 

Oldest son Antoine, born at Port-Royal in c1660, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau and Jeanne Thériot, in c1681 and settled at Chignecto and on Rivière-St.-Antoine at Minas.  Between 1682 and 1723, Marie gave Antoine a dozen children, six sons and six daughters.  Antoine died at Minas before February 1711, in his late 40s or early 50s.  His daughters married into the Hébert, LeBlanc, and Babin families, and one of them settled at Cobeguit.  All of his sons created their own families.   

Oldest son Antoine, fils, born at Chignecto in December 1683, married Marie-Blanche, daughter of Antoine LeBlanc and Marie Bourgeois, in c1705 probably at Minas and settled at Rivière-des-Habitants there.  According to Stephen A. White, between 1707 and 1734, Marie-Blanche gave Antoine, fils 10 children, eight sons and two daughters.  Bona Arsenault gives them another son.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Antoine, fils died at Boston after 1755, in his 70s.  Marie-Blanche also died at Boston after 1755, in her late 60s.  Their daughters married into the Thériot and LeBlanc families.  All of Antoine, fils's eight sons created families of their own, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785. 

Oldest son Paul, born probably at Minas in c1707, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Guillaume Hébert and Marie-Josèphe Dupuis, at Grand-Pré in October 1732.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1744, Marie-Josèphe gave Paul a son and two daughters and says they settled at Memramcook in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  According to Stephen A. White, Paul remarried to Marie Bourg in c1750.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the summer and fall of 1755.  One wonders where they sought refuge.  White says Paul died before January 1774, probably in his 60s, place unrecorded.  According to Arsenault, Paul's son married before Le Grand Dérangement. 

Putative son Jean, born, according to Bona Arsenault, in c1734, married cousin Marie-Josèphe Landry and settled at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area.  Arsenault says Marie-Josèphe gave Jean two daughters in 1753 and 1755.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755. 

Antoine, fils's second son Pierre, born at Minas in December 1711, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Bernard LeBlanc and Marie Bourg, probably at Minas in c1736.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1746, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre seven children, four daughters and three sons.  The British deported Pierre and his family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Two of their daughters married into the Daigre and LeBlanc families, the younger one in Pennsylvania.  Pierre remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Antoine LePrince and Anne Trahan and widow of Pierre Aucoin, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in May 1762.  They were still in the colony in June 1763.  Arsenault insists that some members of the family also were deported to Virginia in the fall of 1755, sent on to England in the spring of 1756, and held at Falmouth.  Did any of Pierre's sons marry?

Antoine, fils's third son Alexis, born probably at Minas in c1717, married Marguerite, daughter of René Aucoin and Madeleine Bourg, at Grand-Pré in November 1739 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1746, Marguerite gave Alexis three children, two sons and a daughter.  Alexis remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Michel Bergeron and Marie Dugas of Annapolis Royal and Rivière St.-Jean, at Beaubassin in January 1748.  According to Arsenault, between 1749 and 1757, Madeleine gave Alexis three more children, two sons and a daughter.  The family evidently escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  They settled at Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence.  Two of Alexis's daughters by both wives married into the Cormier, Lavasseur, and Doucet families at Kamouraska.  All four of his sons by both wives also created their own families in Canada.

Oldest son Charles, by first wife Marguerite Aucoin, born at Minas in c1740, followed his family to Canada.  In his early 30s, he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph-Clément Lavasseur and Marie-Madeleine Albert, at Kamouraska in October 1772, and remarried to Marie-Geneviève, daughter of François Ouelette and Marie-Anne Dumont, there in January 1791. 

Alexis's second son Joseph, by first wife Marguerite Aucoin, born at Minas in c1746, followed his family to Canada. In his early 30s, he married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arsenault and Françoise Poirier, at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in January 1773. 

Alexis's third son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Madeleine Bergeron, born at Minas in c1749, followed his family to Canada and married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Lavasseur and Geneviève Phocas, at Kamouraska in October 1773. 

Alexis's fourth and youngest son Pierre, by second wife Madeleine Bergeron, born in exile, probably in Canada, in c1757, married Théotiste, daughter of Michel Laisné and Angélique Ouelette, place unrecorded, in June 1778. 

Antoine, fils's fourth son Joseph, born at Minas in May 1720, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Anne dite Annette Forest in c1743 and settled at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area.  According to Arsenault, Annette gave Joseph a daughter in 1744.  Joseph remarried to Françoise, daughter of Jean Thériot and Marie Daigre, in c1747, place unrecorded.  According to Stephen A. White, this was Joseph's only marriage.  Arsenault says Françoise gave Joseph two more children, including a son, in 1753 and 1757.  White says Joseph died on Île St.-Jean but gives no date.  Perhaps he and Françoise escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières area in the autumn of 1755 and took refuge on the island, where he may have died before the dérangement there in 1758.  One wonders what happened to his family after that date. 

Antoine, fils's fifth son Charles, born at Minas in May 1722, married Anne, another daughter of Bernard LeBlanc and Marie Bourg, at Grand-Pré in October 1743 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Charles a daughter in 1748.  Other records give them two sons in c1744.  According to Stephen A. White, the British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  White says they were still in the colony in 1763.  If so, they did not remain there.  Later that year or in early 1764, Charles and Anne followed other exiles in the British seaboard colonies to French St.-Domingue.  French authorities sent them to Mirebalais in the interior, where Charles died in November 1764, age 42.  Three of his sons and a daughter also died there within weeks of one another.

Oldest Charles Mathurin, born at Minas in c1744, followed his family to Connecticut and to Mirebalais, where he died in October 1764, age 20, a month before his father.  The recording priest noted that his mother was dead at the time of his burial.  He probably did not marry. 

Charles's second son François, born at Minas in c1744, followed his family to Connecticut and to Mirebalais, where he died in October 1764, age 20, a week and a half before his brother Charles-Mathurin.  François probably did not marry. 

Charles third son Joseph, born at Minas in c1749, followed his family to Connecticut and to Mirebalais, where he died in November 1764, age 15. 

Antoine, fils's sixth son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in March 1724, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of René Aucoin and Madeleine Bourg, at Grand-Pré in July 1748.  They settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, Élisabeth gave Jean-Baptiste a child of unrecorded name and gender in 1748.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean after August 1752.  Arsenault says Jean-Baptiste had a daughter Anne in c1753 and a son Jean-Baptiste, fils in c1755 and attributes the children to Jean-Baptiste's second wife, who he says Jean-Baptiste married in c1752.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France, followed here, says daughter Marie was born in c1751 and son Joseph, not Jean-Baptiste, fils, in c1754, and attributes them to first wife Élisabeth, who must have died on Île St.-Jean soon after Joseph's birth.  According to Stephen A. White, Jean-Baptiste remarried to Isabelle, also called Élisabeth, daughter of Claude Dugas and Anne Hébert, in c1759, which would have been in France.  However, Robichaux and transport passenger records show that when Jean-Baptiste reached St.-Malo in January 1759 he was accompanied by second wife Isabelle and two children, Joseph and Marie, so he and his second wife likely had married on the eve of Île St.-Jean's dérangement.  They settled on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo at Plouër-sur-Rance, where, between 1760 and 1771, Isabelle gave Jean-Baptiste five more children, three daughers and two sons--seven children in all.  Oldest daughter Marie by the first Élisabeth married a Dupuis widower at Plouër in 1771.  Jean-Baptiste took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Daughter Marie and her family also went to Poitou.  Isabelle gave Jean-Baptiste another daughter in Poitou in November 1775--their eighth child.  In March 1776, Jean-Baptiste, Isabelle, and their children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Their ninth child, a daughter, was born in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in October 1780, but she died at age 3 in October 1783.  Meanwhile, two of their older children died in St.-Similien Parish in 1777 and 1778.  In 1785, Jean-Baptiste, Isabelle, three daughters, and a son, emigrated to Louisiana from France.  His oldest son Joseph, who would have been age 31 in 1785, if he was still living, did not accompany his father and stepmother to the Spanish colony.  Nor did oldest daughter Marie, who had died in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in January 1781, age 30.  Her widower Joseph Dupuis and their daughter did go to Louisiana.  From New Orleans, Jean-Baptiste took his family not to upper Bayou Lafourche with most of their fellow passengers, but to Attakapas on the western prairies.  Second wife Isabelle gave him no more children there.  Jean-Baptiste died at Attakapas in October 1787, age 63.  His three daughers married into the Dugas, Landry, Broussard, Granger, and Girouard families on the prairies.  His son Jean-Baptiste, fils married into the Breaux family at Attakapas and died two months after his father.  Jean-Baptiste, fils and his wife had one son who likely died young, so the family line, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Antoine, fils's seventh son Michel, born at Minas in April 1726, married Marie-Madeleine, yet another daughter of Bernard LeBlanc and Marie Bourg, in c1746 probably at Minas and settled there.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  They were still in the colony in 1763 but did not remain there.  Later that year or in 1764, Michel took his family to French-St.-Domingue, and French officials sent them to Mirebalais in the island's interior, where they baptized 2-year-old son Joseph in September 1764; the boy had been born in Connecticut.  Michel died at Mirebalais in July 1765, age 39.  Did his son create a family of his own in the sugar colony?

Antoine, fils's eighth and youngest son Amand, born at Minas in June 1728, married, according to Stephen A. White, cousin Marie-Madeleine, daughter of René Landry and Marie-Madeleine Melanson, in c1751 probably at Minas.  Bona Arsenault insists that the Amand Landry who married Madeleine Landry was born in c1730 and a son of Claude, fils and that Madeleine's parents were Joseph Landry and Claire LeBlanc; White is followed here.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  According to Arsenault, between 1755 and 1770, Madeleine gave Amand five children, four daughters and a son.  They were being held at Marblehead in 1760 and were still in the colony in August 1763.  They resettled in Canada probably after 1766.  Amand died at L'Acadie, east of Montréal, in February 1809, age 80. 

Antoine, père's second son Pierre, born probably at Minas in c1690, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Forest and Cécile Richard, in c1713 and settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  Between 1714 and 1730, at Ste.-Famille, Marguerite gave Pierre seven children, four daughters and three sons, including a set of twins.  Their daughters married into the Thériot, Babin, and Trahan families.  All three of Pierre's sons created their own families, and all of them emigrated to Louisiana. 

Oldest son Augustin, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in May 1719, married Anne, daughter of Étienne Rivet and Anne Leprince, at Ste.-Famille in 1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Augustin a son in 1743, but other records say otherwise.  According to Stephen A. White, Augustin remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean Babin and Marguerite Bourg, at Pigiguit in c1752; Arsenault says c1747.  According to Arsenault, between 1748 and 1756, Marie-Madeleine gave Augustin four more children, two more sons and two daughters, but other records say that, between 1748 and 1756, she gave him three sons and two daughters.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Augustin, Marie, and five children, three sons and two daughterw appeard on a repatriation list at Upper Marlborough in July 1763.  Augustin, Marie, and their six children, three sons and three daughters, the youngest daughter born after the 1763 counting, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1767 and settled at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans.  Augustin and Marie had no more children there.  Augustin died at San Gabriel in May 1781, age 62.  Two of his daughters married into the LeBlanc family on the river.  His three sons married into the Pivauteau, Breaux, and Hébert families on the river, and two of them created vigorous lines there. 

Pierre's second son Basile, a twin, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in May 1727, married Brigitte, daughter of Pierre Boudrot and Madeleine Hébert, in c1753 probably at Pigiguit.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Basile, Brigitte, and a young daughter, and a Babin orphan, appeared on a repatriation list at Upper Marlborough in July 1763.  Basile, Brigitte, and two daughters, the younger one born after the counting of 1763, emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1768.  Spanish Governor Ulloa forced them to settle near a remote Spanish fort across from Natchez, and they moved downriver to the Acadian Coast when the Spanish released them from the remote settlement in 1769.  They did not remain there.  In the 1770s, they moved from the river to the Attakapas District on the western prairies, where, in his late 50s, Basile remarried to Anne-Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Vincent and Anne-Marie Doiron and widow of Michel Trahan, in May 1786.  She gave him no more children.  Basile died at Attakapas in March 1788, age 60.  His older daughter married into the Roger family on the river and also settled on the western prairies, so the blood of this family line endured. 

Pierre's third and youngest son Joseph, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in April 1730, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, another daughter of Pierre Boudrot and Madeleine Hébert, in c1751 probably at Pigiguit.  The British deported the couple to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Joseph, Madeleine, two young sons, and a Babin orphan, appeared on a repatriation list at Upper Marlborough in July 1763.  Joseph, Madeleine, and their three children, two sons and a daughter born after the 1763 counting, emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1768.  Like brother Basile and his family, they were forced to settle near a remote Spanish fort across from Natchez.  After their release in 1769, they moved downriver to the Acadian Coast.  Joseph died probably on the river before 1771, in his late 30s or early 40s, when his wife remarried to a Clouâtre.  Joseph's daughter evidently married into the Hébert family on the river.  His two sons also married, into the Bourg and Trahan families.  The older one resettled on the western prairies, and the younger one remained on the river. 

Antoine, père's third son François, born at Minas in c1692, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Doucet and Françoise Blanchard, at Grand-Pré in 1711 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  They looked at land on Île Royale in August 1714 but returned to Minas.  Between 1715 and 1736, Marie-Josèphe gave François eight children, five sons and three daughters.  François likely was the Acadian elder who cooperated with Lieutenant-Colonel John Winslow at Minas during the summer and autumn of 1755.  The British likely deported him and his wife to Massachusetts that autumn.  If so, they do not appear in that colony's lists of exiles, though several of their children do.  The elderly couple evidently followed their children to Canada in 1766.  François died at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence northeast of Montréal in April 1767, in his mid-70s.  Marie-Josèphe died there the following December, in her early 70s.  Two of their daughters married into the Granger and Breau families.  Three of François's five sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son François, fils, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1715, married, according to Stephen A. White, Catherine, daughter of Pierre Cormier and Catherine LeBlanc of Chignecto, probably at Chignecto in c1736 and settled there.  Bona Arsenault insists that the François who married Catherine Cormier was born in c1710 and was a son of Antoine, fils, not François à Antoine, père; White is followed here.  According to Arsenault, François and Catherine settled at Rivière-aux-Canards, and she gave him two children, a son and a daughter, in 1737 and 1740.  François, fils died at Chignecto in February 1740, age 25.  Arsenault says he died in c1741 and implies it was at Rivière-aux-Canards; again, White is followed here.  According to Arsenault, Catherine remarried to a Richard, but White, followed here, says she remarried to a Dupuis in c1750, probably at Chignecto.  Catherine, her second husband, and her Landry children evidently escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  They settled at Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence.  Her Landry daughter married into the Michaud family there.  Her Landry son also settled on the lower St. Lawrence.

Only son François III, born probably at Chignecto in c1737, followed his widowed mother and stepfather to Canada in the 1750s.  He married cousin Agnès, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Thibodeau and Madeleine Cormier of Chepoudy, in c1758 probably in Canada.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1759 and 1780, Agnès gave François III eight children, four daughters and four sons, including a set of twins.  They settled near his family at Kamouraska.  Their daughters married into the Sirois, Émond, Lévesque, Ouellet, and Landry families at Kamouraska.  François III's sons also married there.

Oldest son François IV, born in Canada in c1761, married Marie-Geneviève, daughter of Joseph Sirois dit Duplessis and Louise Lavasseur, at Kamouraska in November 1779. 

François III's second son Jean-Baptiste, a twin, born in Canada in c1764, married Euphrosine, daughter of Joseph Paradis and Théotiste Lévesque, at Kamouraska in February 1791. 

François III's third son Alexandre, Jean-Baptiste's twin, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Augusitin Sirois and Marie-Anne Boucher, at Kamouraska in October 1793. 

François III's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born in Canada in c1769, married Euphrosine, daughter of Antoine Paradis and Marthe Lavoie, at Kamouraska in October 1793, two and a half weeks after his twin brother Alexandre married there. 

François, père's second son Jean, born, according to Stephen A. White, in c1721 (Bona Arsenault says c1716), probably at Rivière-aux-Canards, married Marguerite, daughter of Olivier Daigre and Françoise Granger, at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1744 and remained there.  According to Arsenault, between 1745 and 1757, Marguerite gave Jean seven children, five daughters and two sons.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  They were being held at Ipswich in 1757 and were still there in 1760.  According to Arsenault, Jean remarried to fellow Acadian Anne-Marie Hébert in Massachusetts, date not given.  In August 1763, a Jean Landry with wife Mariee and two daughters were still in the colony.  Arsenault says Jean and second wife Anne-Marie rehabilitated their marriage at L'Assomption northeast of Montréal in September 1766, so they evidently followed other Acadian exiles in New England to Canada in 1766.  Jean died at L'Assomption in February 1770, in his late 40s.  Two of his daughters married into the Panneton, Robichaud, and Pelletier families in Massachusetts and Canada.  One wonders what happened to his sons. 

François, père's third son Charles, born at Minas in October 1724, was a bachelor in his early 30s when the British deported him to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  He was being held at Ipswich with members of his family in 1757 and 1760 and accompanied them to Canada in 1766.  He died at L'Assomption in April 1782, age 57, still unmarried. 

François, père's fourth son Joseph, born at Minas in November 1731, evidently died young. 

François, père's fifth and youngest son Germain le jeune, born at Minas in September 1734, was still a bachelor when he followed his family to Massachusetts in the autumn of 1755.  He was being held with members of his family at Ipswich in 1757.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Benoit and Marie Comeau, in Massachusetts in c1760.  They were still in the colony in August 1763.  They followed his family to Canada in 1766 and rehabilitated their marriage at L'Assomption in November of that year.  Germain le jeune remarried to Marie-Marthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Amireau and Anne Robichaud, at L'Assomption in October 1774.  At age 60, Germain le jeune remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Théotiste, daughter of Canadians Jean Policain and Angélique Filteau and widow of Pierre-Louis Ratel and Jean-Baptiste Venne, at L'Assomption in September 1794.  Germain le jeune died at nearby St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in November 1816, age 82. 

Antoine, père's fourth son Germain, born, according to Stephen A. White, probably at Minas in c1695, married Cécile, daughter of Pierre Forest and Cécile Richard, probably at Minas in c1722 and likely settled there.  Bona Arsenault insists that the Germain who married Marie-Cécile Forest was born in c1700 and a son of Antoine's younger brother Jean; as usual, White is followed here.  According to Arsenault, between 1723 and 1743, Marie-Cécile, as he calls her, gave Germain seven children, two sons and five daughters.  Both genealogists agree that the British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Germain, Cécile, two sons, and a daughter were still in the colony in August 1763.  They chose to resettle in Canada probably in 1766.  Germain died at L'Assomption northeast of Montréal in April 1770, in his mid-70s.  One of their daughters married into the Hébert family at La Prairie across from Montréal.  One of their sons also created his own family in the area.

Younger son François, born probably at Minas in c1732, was a young bachelor when he followed his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  He married fellow Acadian Marie Hébert in the Bay Colony in c1757 and rehabilitated the marriage at L'Assomption, Canada, in July 1767.  They settled at nearby St.-Jacques de l'Achigan.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1770 and 1772, Marie gave François two sons, one of whom created his own family.

Older son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in c1770, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Thibodeau and Marie Thériault, at St.-Jacques in June 1794. 

Antoine, père's fifth son Jean dit Jane, born probably at Minas in c1696, married Madeleine, daughter of Philippe Melanson and Marie Dugas, in c1717 probably at Minas, where they remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1720 and 1741, Madeleine gave Jane 14 children, eight sons and six daughters.  Two of their sons settled at Chignecto.  The British deported members of the family still at Minas to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  They were being held at Chelmsford in 1757, 1758, and 1760, and were still in the colony in August 1763.  They likely resettled in Canada after 1766.  Four of their daughters married into the Granger, LeBlanc, Raymond, and Broussard families.  All of Jean dit Jane's sons created their own families.  Most of them resettled in Canada, but one of them, who had become separated fromt the family in 1755, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France. 

Oldest son Antoine le jeune, born at Minas in c1720, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Cormier and Catherine LeBlanc, at Chignecto in November 1740.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1750, Anne gave Antoine le jeune seven children, four daughters and three sons.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or went straight to Canada.  Two of Antoine le jeune's daughters married into the Gaudreau, Bernier, and Théroux dit Laferté families on the lower St. Lawrence.  Two of his sons settled on the upper St. Lawrence and on lower Rivière St.-François. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Chignecto in c1743, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Rose Martel at L'Assomption northeast of Montréal in May 1772, and remarried to Marie-Louise, daughter of Michel Dupil, there in February 1784. 

Antoine le jeune's second son Jacques, born probably at Chignecto in c1746, followed his family to Canada and married Marie, daughter of Antoine Bibeau and Marguerite Ritchor, at St.-François-du-Lac on the lower St.-François in June 1770. 

Jean dit Jane's putative second son Honoré, born at Minas in c1721, married a woman whose name has been lost to history, place unrecorded, probably in the early 1740s.  According to Bona Arsenault, Honoré's first wife gave him a son in c1743.  Honoré remarried to Marie-Josèphe Cormier, widow of Louis-Joseph Cyr, probably at Chignecto in c1754.  According to Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Honoré four more children, another son and three daughters.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or went straight to Canada.  Both of Honoré's sons created their own families on the upper St. Lawrence

Older son Joseph, by his father's first wife, born probably at Chignecto in c1743, followed his family to Canada and married his stepsister Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis-Joseph Cyr and Marie-Josèphe Cormier, at St.-Philippe-de-La-Prairie across from Montréal in June 1764. 

Honoré's younger son Alexandre, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Cormier, born perhaps in Canada in c1760, married Ludivine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Granger and Marguerite Lanoue, at Philippe-de-La-Prairie in October 1782. 

Jean dit Jane's third son Jean-Baptiste, also called Jean, fils, born at Minas in October 1727, evidently, while still a young bachelor, moved to the French Maritimes after August 1752.  According to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France, Jean-Baptiste married Rosalie Boudrot in c1756, probably on one of the Maritime islands.  She gave him a son, Firmin, in c1757.  The British deported Jean-Baptiste, Rosalie, and their infant son to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  The son died at sea.  Rosalie died at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in March 1759, age 26, soon after their arrival, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  Jean-Baptiste, now alone, settled on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo at Pleurtuit.  He remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Olivier Daigre and Angélique Doiron of Pigiguit, at nearby Plouër-sur-Rance in November 1760.  According to Bona Arsenault, Jean, fils died in a St.-Malo hospital, "sans enfants," in 1762, in his early 40s.  Robichaux says he died at Hotel-Dieu, St.-Malo, in February 1763, age 36.  His widow remarried to a Richard and remained at Plouër, where she gave him four children.  After she was widowed again, she remarried to an Hébert and followed him to Louisiana in 1785. 

Jean dit Jane's putative fourth son René, born probably at Minas in c1732, was perhaps still a bachelor when the British deported him to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, René married Anne, sans doute daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Benoit and Marie Comeau of Pigiguit, in c1756, perhaps in the Bay Colony.  She gave him at least two sons and two daughters before they appeared on a French repatriation list in the colony in August 1763.  Arsenault says Anne gave René another daughter in 1766.  By the following year, they had settled at Yamachiche on the upper St. Lawrence near Trois-Rivières. 

Jean dit Jane's fifth son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1733, married Madeleine, daughter of Philippe Doiron and Marie Guédry of Pigiguit, in c1755 perhaps at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1756 and 1775, Madeleine gave Joseph 11 children, six sons and five daughters.  The British deported the couple to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  They and their children followed other Acadian exiles in New England to Canada perhaps in 1766.  They settled at Yamachiche on the upper St. Lawrence, where Joseph died in March 1787, in his early 50s.  Two of his daughters married into the Paquin and Laviolette families at Yamachiche and nearby Pointe-du-Loc.  Two of his sons also married there.

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born probably in Massachusetts in c1756, followed his family to Canada and married Marie, daughter of Amable Plouffe and his Acadian wife Élisabeth Comeau, at Pointe-du-Lac near Trois-Rivières in January 1788. 

Joseph, père's second son Jean-Baptiste, born probably in Masschusetts in c1757, followed his family to Canada and married Louise, daughter of Louis Rousse dit Languedoc and his Acadian wife Marie Comeau, at Yamachiche in February 1778. 

Jean dit Jane's sixth son Paul, born probably at Minas in c1735, was a young bachelor when the British deported him with his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  He was counted with his family at Chelmsford in 1756 and October 1757, when colonial officials certified him as able to work.  In the presence of fellow exile Louis Robichaud, Paul married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Benoit and Marie Comeau of Pigiguit, in Massachusetts in June 1759.  According to Bona Arsenault, beween 1760 and 1764, Rosalie gave Paul three children, a daughter and two sons.  They followed other exiles to Yamachiche, Canada, in 1766 and rehabilitated their marriage at nearby Trois-Rivières in July 1767.  Their daughter married into the Pellerin family at Yamachiche.  One of their sons also married there.

Older son Paul, fils, born probably in Massachusetts in c1762, followed his family to Canada and married Judith, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Pellerin and Marie-Anne Girouard and sister of his sister Marie's husband Jean-Baptiste, at Yamachiche in August 1794. 

Jean dit Jane's seventh son Charles, born probably at Minas in c1738, followed his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  He was counted with his family at Chelmsford in 1756 and October 1757, when colonial officials certified him as too sickly to work.  He soon recovered and married fellow Acadian Marie Hébert probably in the Bay Colony in c1760.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1764, Marie gave Charles 10 children, four sons and six daughters.  They followed other exiles to Yamachiche, Canada, probably in 1766 and settled there near other members of his family.  Three of their daughters married into the Tessier, Thibodeau, and Lemaître families at Yamachiche.  Three of Charles's sons also married in the area.

Oldest son Charles, fils, born probably at Massachusetts in c1761, followed his family to Canada and, in his early 30s, married Marie-Vincent Maheu, widow of Étienne Lessard, at Rivière-du-Loup, today's Louiseville, above Yamachiche, in February 1795.  In his early 50s, Charles, fils remarried to Pélagie Corbin, widow of François Lefebvre-Villemure, at Yamachiche in November 1813. 

Charles, père's second son Pierre, born probably at Yamachiche in c1772, married Marie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Blais and Marie-Anne Godard, there in July 1779.  In his early 50s, Pierre remarried to Marie-Louise, daughter of Louis Corriveau and Marguerite Dupont, at Yamachiche in April 1823. 

Charles, père's fourth and youngest son Paul le jeune, born probably at Yamachiche in c1782, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Marie Richard, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières in January 1804. 

Jean dit Jane's eighth and youngest son Anselme, born at Minas in October 1741, became separated from his family in the fall of 1755, and the British deported him to Virginia.  In the spring of 1756, Virginia authorities sent him and the hundreds of other exiles in the colony to England, and he was repatriated with other exiles to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in the spring of 1763.  Later in the year, he received permission to move to St.-Malo and settled on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo at Pleudihen-sur-Rance, where he married Agathe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Barrieau and Véronique Girouard of Pigiguit and widow of Isidore Daigre, in February 1765.  Between 1766 and 1771, Agathe gave Anselme three children, two daughters and a son.  The son died at La Villeger near Pleudihen in August 1773, age 4 1/2.  Anselme took his family to the interior of Poitou later that year.  They, along with most of the Acadians who went there, did not remain.  In December 1775, Anselme, Agathe, and their two daughers retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes and settled at nearby Chantenay, where Anselme worked as a seaman.  Their younger daughter died at Chantenay in July 1780, age 9.  Older daughter Marie-Olive married a Boudrot at Chantenay in May 1783.  Two years later, Anselme, Agathe, and their married daughter and her family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge, but they did not remain.  In the late 1780s or early 1790s, they joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Anselme died in Interior, now Lafourche, Parish in October 1810, age 69.  His family line died with him. 

Antoine, père's sixth and youngest son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1701, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Forest and Marie-Élisabeth Labarre, in c1727 probably at Minas.  Marguerite gave Joseph at least two sons there in c1727 and c1728.  Joseph remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Alexandre Bourg and Marguerite Melanson and widow of Pierre-Joseph Godin dit Châtillon dit Préville, at Grand-Pré in January 1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1754, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph five more children, four daughters and another son--seven children by two wives.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported members of the family to Georgia and Maryland.  Joseph's second son, who had married at Chignecto, was deported with his family to Georgia, and Joseph was deported to Maryland with the rest of his family.  Joseph and his family appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  Joseph died after the counting, in his early or mid-60s.  His widow and four of their unmarried children, three daughters and a son, emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766.  Joseph's second son by first wife Marguerite was among the first Acadian exiles to settle in Louisiana, and his youngest son by second wife Marie-Josèphe became a shaker and a mover there under the Spanish and the Americans. 

Oldest son Vincent, by first wife Marguerite Forest, born probably at Minas in c1727, was still a bachelor in his late 20s when the British deported him with his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  In his late 30s, he married Susanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre-Joseph Godin dit Châtillon dit Préville and his first wife Marie-Josèphe Bourg of Minas, in Maryland in October 1765; Vincent's father's second wife was Susanne's mother, so Vincent married his step-sister.  They went to Louisiana with an infant son evidently with the first contingent of exiles from Maryland in 1766.  They had more children in Louisiana.  Spanish officials counted them at New Orleans in July 1767, so they may have taken their time following their fellow exiles to Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river in 1769 and on the same side of the river at nearby Ascension in 1770 and 1777.  Vincent was "singer of the church" at Ascension.  Two of his daughters, born in December 1768 and July 1770, were baptized at New Orleans in May 1769 and February 1771, so the family spent some time in the city.  They had joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche by the mid-1790s.  Vincent died a widower at Assumption on the upper bayoui in March 1798.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Vincent was age 74 when he died, but he probably was a few years younger.  His daughters married into the Aucoin, Bourque, Mazerolle, Melançon, and Ozelet families.  Two of his three sons married into the Hébert and Bourg families and settled on the Lafourche. 

Joseph's second son Olivier, by first wife Marguerite Forest, born probably at Minas in c1728, married Cécile, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Poirier and Marie Cormier, at Chignecto in September 1748.  The British deported them to Georgia in the fall  of 1755, but they did not remain.  They evidently were among the exiles in the southern colonies who, with permission of the colonial governors, made their way north along the Atlantic coast in the spring of 1756 but got no farther than Long Island, New York, where they were held for the rest of the war.  In 1763, they evidently moved back to the southern colonies perhaps to settle in the French Antilles.  They appeared on repatriation list at Port Royal, South Carolina, in August 1763.  Olivier, Cécile, and three of their children, two sons and a daughter, along with three other related families from Chignecto--Cormiers, Poiriers, and Richards--who likely had been with them in New York and South Carolina, were the first documented Acadian exiles to emigrate to Louisiana.  The party left Savannah, Georgia, for Mobile, Alabama, in December 1763, reached Mobile soon afterwards, and moved on to New Orleans, which they reached in February 1764.  That April, they settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, making it the first Acadian settlement in Louisiana.  Olivier died probably at Cabahannocer by April 1774, in his 40s, when his wife remarried there.  His daughter married into the Thibodeaux famliy on the river.  His older son married into the Cormier family there. 

Joseph's third and youngest son Joseph dit Belhomme, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Bourg, born at Minas in c1752, followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and his widowed mother and three sisters to Louisiana in 1766.  He settled with them at Cabahannocer near his older half-brothers.  Belhomme married cousin Élisabeth, also called Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Désiré LeBlanc and Marie-Madeleine Landry, at Ascension on the river in April 1775.  Élisabeth gave Belhomme a son at Ascension in 1776.  Belhomme remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bujole and Anne LeBlanc and sister of his older sister Anne-Gertrude's husband, at Ascension in November 1779.  She gave him many more children.  Belhomme became a successful planter at Ascension; his plantation, where he grew sugar and corn, was called New Hope.  He also owned a retail sugar business at Ascension.  He served as a lieutenant of militia, was ad interim commandant of the Acadians at Ascension between 1799 and 1803, was promoted to major and commander of the Ascension militia in 1804, served as justice of the peace in Ascension, was elected to the territorial legislative council in September 1805, and to the first Louisiana State Senate in July 1812.  Belhomme died at Ascension in October 1814, age 62.  According to one source, he was paid high tribute by the church; a mausoleum was dedicated to him and his family at the Church of the Ascension in Donaldson, today's Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish.  His daughters, all by second wife Anne, married into the Constant, Duffel, Hopkins, LeBlanc, Pedesclaux, Poursine, and Vives families.  All six of his sons, by both wives, married into the Vives, Lessard, Breaux, LeBlanc, Blanchard, Comes, and Renaud or Reynaud families.  They all became major sugar planters in Ascension and St. James parishes, and, during the 1840s, his youngest son served as the State of Louisiana's first lieutenant governor. 

René le jeune's second son Claude (not to be confused with René l'aîné's younger son of the same name, born at the same place and in the same year) born at Port-Royal in c1663, married Marie-Catherine, called Catherine, another daughter of Pierre Thibodeau and Jeanne Thériot, probably at Port-Royal in c1684 and settled at Minas.  Between 1685 and 1708, Catherine gave Claude 13 children, seven daughters and six sons.  In his early 60s, Claude remarried to Marie, daughter of Antoine Babin and Marie Mercier and widow of François Rimbault, in c1725.  She gave him no more children.  He remarried again--his third marriage--to Jeanne, daughter of André Célestin dit Bellemère and Perrine Basile, at Grand-Pré in May 1741, in his late 70s.  She also gave him no more children.  Claude died at Grand-Pré in September 1747, in his mid-80s.  Five of his daughters married into the LeBlanc, Gautrot, Célestin dit Bellemère, Daigre, and Comeau families.  Most of his sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit Baptiste, by first wife Catherine Thibodeau, born at Minas in c1685, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Comeau le jeune and Catherine Babin, at Grand-Pré in October 1718 and settled there.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., in his study of the Acadians in France, notes in one of his earlier volumes that Jean-Baptiste à Claude married first to Marie Gautrot in c1707 and gives them no children.  Bona Arsenault and Stephen A. White, followed here, give only one wife for this Jean-Baptiste:  Marguerite Comeau.  According to Arsenault, between 1719 and 1738, Marguerite gave Baptiste 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  One of their daughters married into the Boudrot family at Minas.  The British deported Baptiste and members of his family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  Baptiste died early in the ordeal, in either Virginia or England.  In May 1763, widow Marguerite and two of her unmarried sons, both now in their middle-age, were repatriated with married son Hilaire to St.-Malo, France.  The sons settled with their widowed mother in the surburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Marguerite did not remarry.  She and her unmarried children may have gone to the interior of Poitou in 1773 with two of her married sons and their families.  If not, they certainly joined them at Nantes by May 1779, when Marguerite died in St.-Jacques Parish there, age 90.  At least three of her and Baptiste's sons created their own families in the French Maritimes, England, and France, and two of them emigrated to Louisiana.

Oldest son Eustache, born at Minas in September 1719, was a middle-age bachelor when the British deported him along with his parents and younger siblings to Virginia in the fall of 1755.  He followed them to England the following spring, to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763, and, now in his early 40s, settled with them at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  If his widowed mother and younger siblings went to Poitou in 1773, he would have followed them there.  He likely had moved to Nantes by May 1779, when his widowed mother died there.  He died in St.-Pierre-de-Rezé Parish, across the river from Nantes, in August 1780, in his early 60s.  He evidently did not marry.  However, there may be evidence to support the notion that Eustache may have fathered a "natural" son by a Landry cousin.  A birth record for Jean-Charles Landry, born and baptized at Plouër-sur-Rance near St.-Malo in May 1767, gives only the boy's mother's name--Marie Landry.  The boy's godparents were fellow Acadians Jean-Charles Boudrot, hence the boy's name, and Marguerite Thériot, fellow exiles from England.  Jean-Charles Landry survived childhood and, in his late teens, accompanied an elderly kinsman, François Landry, to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  The ship's passenger list describes Jean-Charles as François's nephew; if so, François would have been a maternal uncle.  Jean-Charles married a fellow Landry in Louisiana and created a large family there.  His marriage, recorded by a Spanish priest, gives his parents' names ... Estaquio Landry and Maria Landry.  One wonders if the father was Eustache à Jean-Baptiste, who would have been age 47 at the time of the boy's birth.  One also wonders which Marie Landry his mother may have been.  François à Charlot, the boy's uncle, had two sisters named Marie:  older sister Marie-Josèphe, who married a Lanoue at Minas; and his youngest sister Marie-Madeleine, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1726, who did not marry and who, if she were still living, would have been age 41 at the time of Jean-Charles's birth. 

Putative "natural" son Jean-Charles, born at Plouër-sur-Rance, France, in May 1767, when he was old enough worked as a sailor in France.  In 1785, at age 18, he accompanied a maternal uncle and two cousins to Spanish Louisiana and followed them to upper Bayou Lafourche.  He was counted with them at Valenzuela on the upper bayou in January 1788.  In January 1793, at age 26, he married cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians François Landry, fils and Marie-Rose Dugas and widow of Joseph Savoie, at nearby Ascension.  Marguerite was a native of Louisiana whose parents had come to the colony from Halifax in February 1765 and from Maryland in 1766.  She and Jean-Charles settled on the upper Lafourche.  He died in Assumption Parish in Sepember 1844, age 77.  Marguerite did not remarry and died in Assumption Parish in January 1858, age 87.  Her and Jean-Charles's daughters married into the Comeaux, Hébert, and Landry families.  Jean-Charles's two sons married, into the Duhon, Landry, and Dupuis families on the upper bayou and created vigorous lines there. 

Baptiste's second son Prosper, born at Minas in c1726, was still a bachelor when he moved to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  He married Anne-Josette, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Boudrot and Louise Saulnier of Pigiguit, at Port-La-Joye on the island in September 1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted them with their 9-week-old daughter, his brother Joseph, and her brother Mathurin at Grande-Anse on the southeast coast of the island.  According to Bona Arsenault, this daughter was Prosper and Anne-Josette's only child.  Wife Anne-Josette died on the island, and Prosper remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean Bourg and Françoise Aucoin of Cobeguit, at Port-La-Joye in July 1754.  According to Arsenault, Marie-Madeleine gave Prosper a son in 1757.  The British deported them to Rochefort, France, in late 1758.  Marie-Madeleine died either on the crossing or in Rochefort before October 1759, when Prosper, now a widower, arrived at St.-Malo from Rochefort and settled on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo at St.-Suliac.  His children by both wives also evidently had died by then.  At age 35, Prosper remarried again--his third marriage--to Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pitre and Marguerite Thériot and widow of Jean-Baptiste Henry, at Pleurtuit, across the river from St.-Suliac, in October 1761.  Between 1762 and 1769 at Pleurtuit, Élisabeth gave Prosper five more children, two sons and three daughters--seven children by three wives.  One of Prosper's daughters by third wife Élisabeth died in infancy.  Prosper took his family to Poitou in 1773, and they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in March 1776.  Their youngest daughter died there in July 1777, age 8.  In 1785, Prosper, Élisabeth, and their two sons emigrated to Louisiana.  Oldest daughters Marguerite by first wife Anne-Josette and Marie-Madeleine by third wife Élisabeth, who would have been ages 33 and 21 in 1785, if they were still alive, did not follow their family to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, Prosper and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Prosper died in October 1797, in his early 70s, two days before wife Élisabeth died.  Their two sons married into the Guérin, Daigre, and Bourg families on the upper Lafourche. 

Baptiste's third son Hilaire, born at Minas in c1728, was still a bachelor in the fall of 1755 when the British deported him with his parents to Virginia, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Hilaire married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and Cécile Granger of Minas, in England in c1763.  He and his wife were repatriated with his widowed mother to St.-Malo, France, in May of that year and settled near her at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Between 1764 and 1771, at St.-Servan, Marie-Josèphe gave Hilaire four children, two sons and two daughters, but the sons did not survive childhood.  Hilaire took his family to Poitou in 1773, and Marie-Josèphe gave him another daughter there in June 1774.  Hilaire died at Châtellerault, Poitou, in August 1775, in his late 40s.  Soon after, Marie-Josèphe and her Landry children followed other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  They were living in St.-Pierre-de-Rezé Parish, across the river from Nantes, in December 1782 when a daughter died at age 13.  In 1785, Marie-Josèphe took her two surviving daughters, Marie-Madeleine and Marie-Rose, to Spanish Louisiana.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marie-Josèphe did not remarry there.  Her succession inventory was filed at the Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse in April 1820.  Her daughters married into the Thériot and Savoie families on the bayou. 

Baptiste's sixth son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born at Minas in March 1733, may have been the Jean Landry who married fellow Acadian Marie Forest, place and date unrecorded.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported them to Virginia, and Virginia authorites sent them on to England the following spring, either separately or together.  They were married when they were repatriated from England to St.-Malo, France, with other Acadian exiles in May 1763.  They settled near his family at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  In 1769, they moved to nearby St.-Suliac.  One wonders if they had children of their own in France.  In the early 1770s, as other Acadian exiles in the coastal cities, including at least two of his brothers, moved on to Poitou, Jean, now in his early 40s, perhaps with wife Marie, perhaps as a widower, joined an expedition composed of Acadian exiles returning from France to North America via the British-controlled Isle of Jersey.  One wonders if he made it back to greater Acadia and, if so, where did he settle. 

Baptiste's seventh and youngest son Simon, born at Minas in May 1735, was still a young bachelor when he accompanied his parents to Virginia in the fall of 1755 and to England in the spring of 1756.  He married fellow Acadian Marguerite Gautrot, widow of ____ Leroy and Joseph Granger, in England in c1761; she was nine years his senior.  She gave Simon a son in April 1762.  Simon and his family, including three stepsons, followed his widowed mother to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled near her at St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Simon and his family did not follow his older brothers and other Acadian exiles to Poitou in 1773 but remained at St.-Malo.  By September 1784, however, they had joined his family at Nantes.  The following year, Simon and Marguerite emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Their only child, son Jean, who would have been age 23 in 1785, if he was still alive, chose to remain in the mother country.  Simon and Marguerite, ages 59 and 50, respectively, may not have survived the crossing to New Orleans aboard the transport St.-Rémi. 

Claude's second son René, by first wife Catherine Thibodeau, born at Minas in c1688, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Melanson and Marie Blanchard, at Grand-Pré in November 1712 and settled at nearby Rivière-des-Habitants.  Between 1714 and 1738, Marie-Madeleine gave René 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  The British deported René, Marie-Madeleine, and some of their children to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Wife Marie-Madeleine died at Boxford, Massachusetts, in March 1758, and Massachusetts authorities insisted that René reimburse the local government for her doctor's visits and funeral expense.  He did not remarry.  He and three of his sons appeared on an August 1763 "list of the French who desire to go to old France."  In December 1764, René appeared on a list of Acadians in the colony who desired passage to French St.-Domingue.  He and his children went to neither place.  Probably in 1766, René followed his children to Canada and died at Montréal in February 1769, age 81.  His daughters married into the Raymond, Landry, and LeBlanc families.  Six of his seven sons created their own families, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Honoré, born at Minas in c1714, married Hélène, daughter of Jacques LeBlanc and Cécile Dupuis, at Grand-Pré in November 1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1743 and 1744, Hélène gave Honoré two sons.  Honoré remarried to Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Charles Gautrot and Madeleine Blanchard, at Grand-Pré in May 1747.  According to Arsenault, between 1747 and 1752, Madeleine gave Honoré three more children, two more sons and a daughter.  In c1750, they moved on to Île St.-Jean.  In August 1752, a French official counted Honoré, Madeleine, and three of their children, two sons and two daughters, at Grande-Anse on the southeast coast of the island.  Evidently second son Jean-Baptiste from first wife Hélène had died by then, and youngest son Joseph was only eight days old.  The British deported the family to France in late 1758.  They landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer.  Honoré's two youngest children, a son and a daughter, may have died in the crossing.  At least two of Honoré's children, a son and a daughter from second wife Madeleine, died at Boulogne-sur-Mer.  His oldest son by first wife Hélène married there before moving on to St.-Malo.  Honoré evidently did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join their fellow exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  Neither he nor Madeleine nor his eldest son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Oldest son Anselme le jeune, by first wife Hélène LeBlanc, born at Minas in c1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to Boulogne-sur-Mer.  He married cousin Marie-Josèphe, 21-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Aucoin and Marie LeBlanc, in St.-Nicolas Parish, Boulogne-sur-Mer, in October 1764.  Marie-Josèphe gave Anselme le jeune a son at Boulogne-sur-Mer in April 1766.  In July of that year, the family moved on to St.-Malo and settled on the east side of the river south of Breton port at Pleudihen-sur-Rance.  Between 1767 and 1781, Marie-Josèphe gave Anselme le jeune six more children, two daughters and four sons--seven children in all, three of whom died young.  As the birth dates of his younger children reveal, Anselme le jeune did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join their fellow exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Honoré's third son Honoré, fils, by second wife Madeleine Gautrot, born at Minas in 1748, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to Boulogne-sur-Mer, where he died in St.-Nicolas Parish, age 12, in August 1760. 

René's second son Anselme, born at Minas in December 1717, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jacques LeBlanc and Cécile Dupuis, probably at Minas in c1748.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  A French official counted Enselme, as he called him, Marie-Madeleine, and their 9-month-old son at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in the interior of the island in August 1752.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  They did not make it.  Anselme and his family were lost in the sinking of the British transport Duke William off the southwest coast of England in a mid-December storm that sank two other vessels. 

René's third son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in May 1720, married, according to Stephen A. White, Marie-Blanche, daughter of Charles LeBlanc and Marie Gautrot, probably at Minas in c1751.  Bona Arsenault says the Jean Landry who remarried to Blanche LeBlanc, place and date not given, was a son of René à René le jeune, not Renè à Claude, and also says the Jean Landry who married Blanche LeBlanc in c1752 was a son of Abraham à Germain; White is followed here.  Jean-Baptiste and Blanche moved on to Île St.-Jean, where, in August 1752, a French official, who called him Jean, counted the couple with a 19-year-old nephew and a 15-year-old niece at Grande-Anse on the island's southeast coast.  According to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France, Marie-Blanche gave Jean, as he calls him, a daughter and a son on the island in 1753 and 1755.  Arsenault says she gave Jean three sons between 1755 and 1759 and mentions no daughter.  The British deported the family to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in late 1758.  Their daughter, age 5 1/2, died in January 1759 from the rigors of the crossing.  In May 1766, Jean-Baptiste, Blanche, and their young son moved on to St.-Malo and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.   Between 1760 and 1771, at Boulogne-sur-Mer and St.-Servan, Marie-Blanche gave Jean-Baptiste seven more children, two sons and five daughters--nine children in all.  Four of the younger children, two sons and two daughters, died young.  In 1773, Jean-Baptiste, Blanche, and their remaining four chldren, a son and three daughters, folowed other Acadian exiles in the coastal cities to the interior of Poitou.  Son Étienne died at St.-Just-Chauvigny, Poitou, in September 1774, age 19.  In November 1775, Jean, Blanche, and their three daughters retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Wife Blanche died in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in June 1777, age 48.  Jean-Baptiste, in his late 50s, remarried to Anne, daughter of Louis Michel and Marguerite Forest and widow of Joseph Dubois and Félix LeBlanc, in St.-Jacques Parish in October 1777.  She gave him no more children.  Jean-Baptiste died in St.-Jacques Parish in August 1783, age 63.  Widow Anne remarried--her fourth marriage--to a Daigre at nearby St.-Martin de Chantenay in February 1785 and followed him and his many children from his first marriage to Spanish Louisiana later in the year.  One of Jean-Baptiste's daughters, Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite, from first wife Marie-Blanche, married into the Comeau family at Nantes.  As a young widow with an infant son, she also emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.  She remarried twice in the Spanish colony into the Mondart and Moreno families.  Two of her sisters--Marie-Louise and Marie-Luce, who would have been ages 24 and 21 in 1785--if they were still alive, chose to remain in the mother country. 

René's fourth son Paul, born probably at Minas in c1725, married Anastasie, daughter of Paul LeBlanc and Madeleine Forest, in c1751 probably at Minas.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  They were being held at Boxford in 1760, and were still in the colony in August 1763.  They evidently followed other exiles in New England to Canada in 1766 and settled on the upper St. Lawrence northeast of Montréal.  Paul died at L'Assomption in January 1785, age 60. 

René's fifth son Pierre, born probably at Minas in the late 1720s or early 1730s, was still a bachelor when the British deported him to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  He married cousin Anne, daughter of Pierre Landry and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, in c1758 probably in the Quaker Colony.  They were still in Pennsylvania in June 1763.  They may have followed other exiles in the colony to Canada in the 1760s.  Pierre died before April 1780, place unrecorded, perhaps in his 50s. 

René's sixth son Joseph, born at Minas in July 1735, was still a bachelor when the British deported him to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  He was being held at Danvers in 1760.  Later in the decade, probably in 1766, he followed other exiles in New England, including members of his family, to Canada.  He died at L'Acadie east of Montréal in May 1795, age 49, still unmarried. 

René's seventh and youngest son Michel, born at Minas in November 1738, evidently followed his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Michel married Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Simon LeBlanc and Jeanne Dupuis, in New England in November 1765.  They followed other exiles in New England to Canada after 1766 and rehabiliated their marriage at La-Prairie-de-la-Magdeleine across from Montréal in February 1775.  Michel died at Montréal in June 1776, age 37, and was buried in a cemetery for the poor. 

Claude's third son Claude, fils, by first wife Catherine Thibodeau, born at Minas in c1689, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Doucet and Françoise Blanchard, at Grand-Pré in February 1712 and settled there.  Between 1712 and 1732, Madeleine gave Claude, fils nine children, seven daughters and two sons.  Three of their daughters married into the Comeau, Hébert, and Boudrot families; at least two of them were deported to Massachusetts, and one of them settled in British Nova Scotia after exile.  Only one of Claude, fils's sons created his own family.  A grandson emigrated to Louisiana. 

Older son Vincent, born at Minas in November 1719, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Catherine Hébert and widow of Germain Thériot, probably at Minas in c1740 and likely remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1750, Marguerite gave Vincent six children, three daughters and three sons.  The British evidently deported them to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Vincent died there between 1756 and July 1763, in his late 30s or early 40s.  Marguerite may have died there as well.  His youngest son moved on to Maryland after July 1763 and emigrated to Louisiana in 1766. 

Third and youngest son Basile, born at Minas in c1750, followed his family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Probably after his parents died, Basile moved on to Maryland after July 1763 and lived with a half-sister and her family at Snow Hill on the Chesapeake colony's Eastern Shore.  Basile followed half-sister Marie Thériot and her husband Paul Melanson and their family to Louisiana in 1766 and settled with them on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer above New Orleans.  By 1770, he was living with his widowed half-sister upriver at Ascension.  He married Marie-Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Richard and Catherine Blanchard, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in November 1776.  They settled upriver at Ascension.  In the late 1770s or early 1780s, they moved to Attakapas and settled at Côte Gelée and on the upper Vermilion.  Their daughter Madeleine was a deaf-mute who died at age 38 in September 1822; she never married.  One of their three sons married into the Dugas family at Attakapas.  At age 36, Basile remarried to Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Mire and Madeleine Cormier of Côte Gelée, at Attakapas in October 1786.  She gave him many more children. Their daughters married into the Breaux, Matherne, Broussard, Frederick, Hébert, Taylor, Trahan, and Vincent families on the prairies.  Three of Basile and Marie-Anne's five sons married into the Baudin or Bodin, Girouard, Melançon, and Calais families on the prairies.  

Claude, fils's younger son Amand, born at Minas in September 1730, according to Stephen A. White, died there the following month.  Bona Arsenault insists that this Amand married cousin Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Landry and Claire LeBlanc, in c1753.  According to Arsenault, between 1755 and 1770, Madeleine gave Amand five children, four daughters and a son; that the British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755; and they resettled at La Prairie across from Montréal.  White, however, says that the Amand Landry who married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of René Landry and Marie-Madeleine Melanson, was the youngest son Antoine, fils, not a son of Claude, fils.   White is followed here.  Three of their daughters married into the Lapierre and Hébert families at La Prairie. 

Claude, père's fourth son Eustache, by first wife Catherine Thibodeau, born at Minas in c1690, died young.   

Claude, père's fifth son Jean, by first wife Catherine Thibodeau, born at Minas in c1693, was, according to Bona Arsenault, a son of Claude, père's younger brother René, fils, but Stephen A. White, followed here, says this Jean was son of Claude, père.  Jean married Claire, daughter of René LeBlanc and Anne Bourgeois, at Grand-Pré in February 1717 and settled there.  According to Arsenault, between 1717 and 1744, Claire gave Jean 14 children, nine daughters and five sons.  Arsenault insists that Jean à René, fils remarried to Blanche LeBlanc, place and date unrecorded, but, according to White, the Jean who married Blanche LeBlanc was Jean-Baptiste, son of René à Claude, père, that is, a grandson of Claude, père, not his son.  The British evidently deported members of the family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Jean died there between 1756 and June 1763, in his 60s.  According to Arsenault, two of his daughter married into the Labauve and David families.  At least one of his sons created a family of his own and remained in greater Acadia.  Another may have emigrated to Louisiana in 1765. 

Oldest son Alexis, born at Minas in c1721, married Marie-Anne, sans doute, according to Bona Arsenault, daughter of Claude Thériot and Marguerite Cormier of Chignecto and widow of Jean-Baptiste Cormier, at Beauséjour, Chignecto, in c1745.  According to Arsenault, between 1746 and 1762, Marie-Anne gave Alexis nine children, six sons and three daughters.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they may have taken refuge at Bonaventure in Gaspésie, where British officials counted them in 1765.  They did not remain.  Alexis helped establish the Acadian settlement at Caraquet, across the Baie des Chaleurs from Gaspésie, in present-day northeastern New Brunswick.  In 1791, he bequeathed land west of Caraquet for the construction of Ste.-Anne-du-Bocage, one of the oldest Acadian places of worship.  He died at Caraquet in March 1798, in his late 70s.  Two of his daughters married into the Thibodeau and Dugas families at Caraquet.  All of his sons also married.

Oldest son Anselme, born at Chignecto in c1746, followed his family into exile.  In his late 30s, Anselme married Marie, daughter of Louis Brideau and Thérèse Pépin of Tracadie down the shore, in c1785 probably at Caraquet. 

Alexis's second son René, born at Chignecto in c1748, followed his family into exile.  He married fellow Acadian Charlotte Doiron in c1770 and settled at Grande-Anse west of Caraquet. 

Alexis's third son Thadée, born at Chignecto in c1749, followed his family into exile.  He married fellow Acadian Madeleine Léger in c1772, place unrecorded.  In his late 50s, Thadée remarried to cousin Marie Cormier at Caraquet in November 1808.  They settled at nearby Pokemouche south of Caraquet (perhaps at the present-day community of Landry). 

Alexis's fourth son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1750, followed his family in exile.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Allain and Anne Léger, probably at Caraquet, date not given. 

Alexis's fifth son François, born either at Chignecto or in exile in c1755, married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and Catherine Comeau, at Carleton in Gaspésie in May 1784. 

Alexis's sixth and youngest son Joseph, born in exile in c1760, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Léger and Marie-Josèphe Hébert, at Caraquet in July 1789. 

Jean's second or third son Mathurin, born at Minas in the 1730s, may have been the Mathurin Landry who married Marie Dugas, place and date unrecorded.  They escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia of 1755 and took refuge probably on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area, who held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia until the end of the war.  In 1764-65, they followed the Broussard dit Beausoleil party from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, and reached New Orleans in February 1765.  In April, they followed the Broussards to Bayou Teche.  Wife Marie died in the epidemic that swept through the Teche valley that summer and fall, or she may have died from the rigors of childbirth.  Their son was born in late July but died the following September, and Marie died three days after her son's birth.  Mathurin did not remain on the Teche but retreated with dozens of other Tech valley Acadians to Cabahannocer on the river and did not return to the western prairies.  Spanish officials counted him on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in April 1766; he was living with a widow and her sons, so he probably was an engagé.  He remarried to a woman whose name has been lost to history probably at Cabahannocer in the early 1770s and moved upriver to San Gabriel, where Spanish officials counted him and his wife on the "right bank ascending" in 1777.  By then, he was the father of two daughters, ages 10 and 6, and owned three slaves, 12 head of cattle, 14 hogs, and 20 chickens on his six arpents of frontage along the river.  One of his daughters married into the Forest famiy.  Mathurin may have died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in August 1823, age 86.  His second wife does not seem to have given him any more sons.  If so, his family line, except for its blood, died with him. 

Only son Isidore, by first wife Marie Dugas, born at Attakapas in July 1765, died along the Teche the following September, a victim, perhaps, of the epidemic that killed dozens of his fellow Acadians that summer and fall. 

Claude, père's sixth and youngest son Joseph, by first wife Catherine Thibodeau, born at Minas in June 1708, married Marie-Josèphe, another daughter of Jean Comeau le jeune and Catherine Babin, at Grand-Pré in November 1727 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1750, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph seven children, four daughters and seven sons.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. gives them only three children, two daughters and a son, between 1733 and 1744.  Arsenault insists that the British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755, but other records say the British sent them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, Virginia authorities sent them on to England in the spring of 1763, and they were held at Southampton.  They were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Joseph died there in June 1764, age 56.  Widow Marie-Josèphe may have followed the family to Poitou, and she certainly went to Nantes.   She died at the "Bastille" in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in December 1779, age 78.  Arsenault says daughter Marie-Blanche married into the Dupuis family but gives no place and date of marriage.  Robichaux says this daughter--he calls her Marie--was born in c1733, died at St.-Servan in March 1766, age 33, and mentions no husband.  Robichaux says second daughter Marguerite, not recognized by Arsenault, married a Boudrot in 1765 and did not emigrate to Louisiana.  Arsenault gives the couple three sons, Augustin, Alexandre, and Pierre, but Robichaux does not mention the older sons, only the youngest one, who married and died in France.

Third son Pierre, born at Minas in c1744, followed his family to Virginia, Southampton, and St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Thériot and Françoise Guérin, in June 1767.  In 1768 and 1769, Anne gave Pierre two daughters, one of whom died in infancy.  Pierre died at St.-Servan in November 1770, age 26.  Widow Anne remarried to a Granger widower at St.-Servan in February 1776.  A widow again, she emigrated to Spanish Louisiana with her Landry daughter Marie-Anne and her Granger children and stepchildren in 1785.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, where she remarried again--her third marriage--to Italian immigrant Antonio Barbero.  Her Landry daughter married a Martinez from the Canary Islands and settled in what became West Baton Rouge Parish. 

René le jeune's third son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1666, married Cécile, daughter of Pierre Melanson and Marguerite Mius d'Entremont, in c1687 and moved on to l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the Minas Basin, where Jean worked as a carpenter as well as a farmer.  According to Stephen A. White, between 1688 and 1716, Cécile gave Jean nine children, five sons and four daughters.  Jean died before August 1752, when a French official counted Cécile at Rivière-du-Nord, Île St.-Jean, with the family of youngest son Benjamin and without Jean.  She died there in June 1753, in her mid-80s.  Three of her and Jean's daughters married into the Dingle, Lejeune, and Daigre families, and one of them settled on Île Royale before the early 1730s.  Four of Jean's sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son René, born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1688, married Marie, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Jeanne Guilbeau, at Grand-Pré in November 1711, settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, and died there before 1716, in his mid- or late 20s.  During the short time of their marriage, Marie gave René a son, who created a family of his own.  

Only son Joseph, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1713, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of René Richard and Marie-Josèphe Babin, at Grand-Pré in November 1733 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1735 and 1755, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph two children, a daughter and a son.  Other records give them at least seven, perhaps eight, childern, four daughters and three or four sons.  Arsenault says the British deported the family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755, but other records reveal that the British deported them to Maryland.  They appeared on a repatriation list at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac River in July 1763.  Joseph died in the Chesapeake colony between the counting and 1768, in his 50s.  Marie-Josèphe also seems to have died in Maryland before 1768.  Seven of their children, four daughters and three sons, all unmarried and described as orphans, emigrated to Louisiana in 1768 and were compelled by the Spanish to settle in an isolated settlement far above Baton Rouge and across from Natchez.  After their release in 1769, they moved downriver.  Their daughters married into the Hébert, Beloti, Rivet, and LeBlanc families on the river.  Joseph's sons also created their own families there, but only one of the lines endured.

Putative oldest son René, born, according to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1739, may not have been living with his family at l'Assomption in the fall of 1755, when the British deported them to Maryland, or, as a clever 16-year-old, he may have escaped the British roundup at Pigiguit and sought refuge in the French Maritimes.  He evidently was still on one of the islands in 1758 when the British deported the island Acadians to St.-Malo and other ports in France.  He landed at Rochefort and received permission from French authorities to move on to St.-Malo, which he reached in September 1759.  He settled on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo at Plouër-sur-Rance.  In February 1765, he married Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Barrieau and Véronique Girouard of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, across the river at Pleudihen-sur-Rance.  René died at Mordreuc near Pleudihen in March 1766, in his late 20s.  He evidently fathered no children. 

Joseph's second son Augustin, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1743, followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and his siblings to Louisiana in 1768.  The Spanish sent him and his siblings to the distant settlement at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, but they did not remain there.  Allowed to move wherever they chose, they moved downriver to San Gabriel, where Augustin married fellow Acadian Anne-Marie, called Marie, Forest probably in the early 1770s.  At age 43, Augustin remarried to cousin Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Claire Babin and widow of Étienne Rivet, at San Gabriel in August 1786.  Augustin died at San Gabriel in March 1791, age 48.  His daughters married into the Hébert and Melançon families.  His only son died young, so the family line, except for its blood, did not endure. 

Joseph's third son Alexandre, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1750, followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and his siblings to Louisiana in 1768.  The Spanish sent him and his siblings to the distant settlement at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, but they did not remain there.  Allowed to resettle wherever they chose, they moved downriver to San Gabriel, where, at age 31, Alexandre married cousin Marie-Modeste, called Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Amable Hébert and Marie Richard, in February 1786.  Alexandre died at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in November 1822, in his early 70s.  His daughters married into the Hébert, Lanclos, and Rivet families.  His three sons married into the Melançon, Breaux, and Hernandez families on the river. 

Joseph's fourth son Pierre, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1752, followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and his siblings to Louisiana in 1768.  The Spanish sent him and his siblings to the distant settlement of San Luìs de Natchez, but they did not remain there.  Allowed to resettle wherever they chose, they moved downriver to San Gabriel.  Pierre married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Bonaventure Forest and Claire Rivet of San Gabriel, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer downriver from San Gabriel in February 1777.  They settled at San Gabriel, where Pierre died by November 1781, probably in his late 20s, when his wife remarried to an Hébert at San Gabriel.  She and Pierre evidently had no children. 

Jean's second son Jean-Baptiste, born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1690, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Gautrot and Marie Thériot of Pigiguit, at Grand-Pré in November 1711 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  Between 1712 and the 1720s, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste five children, four sons and a daughter.  Bona Arsenault gives them another son.  Jean-Baptiste's daughter married into the Richard family.  His four sons also created families of their own.  Jean-Baptiste and Marguerite moved to Île Royale in c1750.  A French official counted them with a 20-year-old nephew and an 18-year-old niece at Rivière-aux-Habitants on the south shore of the island in late February 1752.  The family either returned to peninsula Acadia after the counting or escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they fell into British hands.  Jean-Baptiste and members of his family were counted at Chédabouctou on the Atlantic shore of British Nova Scotia in 1764 and on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, with son Joseph in May 1767--among the few Landrys who chose to resettle there.  If they were still on the island in 1767, they likely were sent to France.  One wonders if they returned to Miquelon in 1768. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit Labbé, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in August 1712, married Marie-Josèphe dite Josette, daughter of François LeBlanc and Jeanne Hébert, at Grand-Pré in October 1737 and likely settled at l'Assomption.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1750, Josette gave Labbé six children, four sons and two daughters.  They moved on to Île Royale in c1751.  A French official counted Jean-Baptiste, Marie-Josèphe, and six of their children at Rivière-aux-Habitants near his parents and two younger brothers in late February 1752.  Josette gave Labbé two more children, a daughter and a son, in 1759 and 1763.  According to Arsenault, the British deported the family to Boston, Massachusetts, date not given, which implies that they escaped the roundup on Île Royale in 1758 or returned to Minas before that time.  Family historam Tyler LeBlanc hints that the family escaped the roundup on Île Royale and hid in the woods and hills on the big island with other Acadians until the coast was clear.  Arsenault says the family settled on Île Madame, Cape Breton Island, after the war but does not say from whence they had gone there.  Two of Labbé's daughters married into the Dugas and Fougère families during exile and had their marriage rehabilitated at D'Escousse on the north shore of Île Madame in October 1771.  After the war, one of Labbé's sons chose to settle on Île Miquelon near his grandfather Jean-Baptiste and his uncle Joseph.  Two of Labbé's younger sons settled on Île Madame. 

Oldest son Jean dit L'Abbé, born perhaps at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1739, followed his family to Île Royale and into exile.  He married Marie, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite LeBlanc, place and unrecorded, but it likely was during exile or on Île Miquelon in the early or mid-1760s.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Jean at least two children, a daughter and a son.  French officials counted them on Miquelon in May 1767.  They likely were among the islanders sent to France in late 1767 but returned a year later, most likely on the ship Créole owned by Marie's father, Abraham Dugas, in May 1768.  They were counted again on the island in November 1776, this time without any children.  In September 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre and deported the islanders, including Jean and his family, to La Rochelle, France.  They were not among the islanders who returned to Île Miquelon in 1784. 

Jean-Baptiste dit Labbé's third son Charles, born perhaps at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1743, followed his family to Île Royale, into exile, and to Île Madame, where he married Anne, daughter of Honoré Villedren and Marie-Anne Lalonde, at D'Escousse on the island in October 1771. 

Jean-Baptiste dit Labbé's fourth son Pierre, born perhaps at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1748, followed his family to Île Royale, into exile, and to Île Madame, where he married Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Fougère, at D'Escousse in September 1771.  According to Bona Arsenault, Sophie gave Pierre a son in 1782.  The son created a family of his own.

Only son Hyppolite-Paul, called Paul, born probably at D'Escousse in c1782, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Boudreau and Louise Dugas, in September 1805 and settled in the Îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Paul two sons in the Madeleines in 1818 and 1820. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's second son Joseph, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in July 1717, married Marie-Marguerite, daughter of Alexandre Breau and Marie Dugas, probably at Pigiguit in c1737.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1738 and 1754, Marie-Marguerite gave Joseph four children, two daughters and two sons.  They, too, moved on to Île Royale in the summer of 1751.  A French official counted Joseph, Marie-Marguerite, and their three daughters at Rivière-aux-Habitants near his parents and brothers in late February 1752.  Arsenault says the family was at Chédabouctou, British Nova Scotia, in c1763, which implies that they had avoided deportation to France in 1758, fell into British hands in their place of refuge, and were held at Chédabouctou until the end of the war.  Typical of Acadians held at the Altantic fishery, the family chose to resettle on Île Miquelon, where they were counted in May 1767 with their older daughter and a son.  They likely were among the islanders sent to France in late 1767 to relief overcrowding on Miquelon.  If so, they likely left France soon after their arrival there, perhaps on the ship Créole owned by Marie's kinsman, Abraham Dugas, which returned to Miquelon in May 1768.  One wonders what happened to them in September 1778, when, during the American Revolution, the British seized Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre and deported the habitants there to La Rochelle and other French ports.  Their oldest daughter married into Martel family on Île Royale before 1758 and rehabilitated her marriage at L'Ardoise on Cape Breton Island, formerly Île Royale, in October 1771, so she may not have gone to Miquelon with parents and siblings.  Joseph's older son also created a family of his own in the region.

Putative older son Pierre, born probably at Pigiguit in c1740, may have followed his family to Île Royale in 1751 but was not counted with them at Rivière-aux-Habitants in February 1752, when he would have been only age 11 (hence his putative status here).  If he was their son, he would have followed them to Chédabouctou and Île Miquelon, where, according to Bona Arsenault, he married Anne, daugher of fellow Acadians Claude Clergé or Clerget and Françoise Lavergne, in c1764.  According to Arsenault, Anne gave Pierre a son, Béloni, in c1766.  If they were still on Miquelon in late 1767, they would have followed his family to France and likely returned with them the following year.  If so, they did not remain on the island.  In 1768, British officials counted them at Chezzetcook on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia east of Halifax.  One wonders if they remained. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's third son Jean-Ami dit L'Ami, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in March 1723, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Forest and Madeleine Babin, perhaps at Pigiguit in c1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1748, Marie-Josèphe gave L'Ami three daughters.  Did they follow his family to Île Royale in c1750, or did they remain in British Nova Scotia.  If so, what happened to them in 1755? 

Jean-Baptiste, père's fourth and youngest son Alexis, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1723, married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Aucoin and Anne Breau, probably at Pigiguit in c1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1749 and 1750, Marguerite gave Alexis two sons.  In c1750, they followed his family to Île Royale.  In late February 1752, a French official counted Alexis, Marguerite, and their two young sons at Rivière-aux-Habitants near his parents and brothers.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where French officials counted the family in 1762.  According to Arsenault, Marguerite gave Alexis two more children, a son and a daughter, in 1766 and 1768.  The family evidently returned to North America in the late 1760s or early 1770s.  Alexis died after February 1788, in his late 60s or early 70s, place unrecorded, perhaps in Canada.  One of their sons settled on the upper St. Lawrence near Trois-Rivières. 

Second son Joseph, born probably at Pigiguit in c1750, followed his family to Île Royale, was counted with them at Rivière-aux-Habitants in February 1752, and followed them to France and back to North America.  Joseph married Marie-Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arsenault and Françoise Poirier, at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in January 1773. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's putative fifth son Pierre, born, according to Bona Arsenault, in c1725, perhaps at Pigiguit, married Anne Breau in c1748, place not given.  According to Arsenault, in 1749 Anne gave Pierre a daughter.  They evidently did not follow his family to Île Royale in c1750 but remained at Pigiguit.  Arsenault says the British deported them to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755 and that Anne gave Pierre a son in 1765.  According to Arsenault, the family chose to resettle at Nicolet on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières, but gives no date of their arrival.  Their daughter married into the LeBlanc family at Nicolet in January 1787.  Their son also created a family of his own in the area. 

Only son Joseph, born perhaps in Pennsylvania in c1765, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Thériault and his Canadian wife Rosalie Prunier, at Bécancour near Nicolet in January 1787.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1787 and 1808, Marie-Rose gave Joseph 11 children, seven sons and four daughters. 

Jean's third son Joseph, born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1692, married Élisabeth, daughter of Michel Vincent and Anne-Marie Doiron, in c1733, place not given.  According to Bona Arsenault, Élisabeth gave Joseph a daughter in 1734.  According to Stephen A. White, Joseph died by 1735, soon after his marriage, place not given.  Arsenault insists that Joseph was counted on Île St.-Jean in 1752.  White is followed here.  Daughter Rosalie married into the Pitre family at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in November 1752.  The British deported her and her husband to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  She died by September 1764, when her husband remarried at Pleudihen-sur-Rance near St.-Malo.  Her line of the family died with her. 

Jean's fourth son Benjamin, born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1698, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Babin and Marguerite Boudrot, in c1725 probably at Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1727 and 1752, Marguerite gave Benjamin eight children, five sons and three daughters.  Benjamin took his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In February 1752, a French official counted him, Marguerite, three of their sons and three daughters, his 86-year-old widowed mother, and three young relatives at Rivière-du-Nord in the island's interior.  The British deported Benjamin, Marguerite, and some of their children to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758.  They were still in the Norman port in 1761.  When one of their daughters married into the Bertrand family at Cherbourg in March 1764, the Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish priest noted that both of her parents were deceased.  The daughter, Marguerite, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.  Three of Benjamin's sons also created their own families, but none of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.

Oldest son Augustin, born probably at Pigiguit in c1737, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Granger and Marie LeBlanc, at Grand-Pré in June 1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1752, Marguerite gave Augustin a son and two daughters.  They followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Augustin, Marguerite, their son, and their youger daughter, only three months old, at Rivière-du-Nord near his parents.  Arsenault says that in 1754 and 1756, perhaps on the island, Marguerite gave Augustin two more sons--five children in all.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1758. 

Benjamin's second son Charles, born probably at Pigiguit in c1731, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750 and married Marie-Josèphe, another daughter of Charles Granger and Marie LeBlanc, at Port-La-Joye in August 1751.  In August of that year, a French official counted the couple and their six-day-old son at Rivière-du-Nord near his parents and older brother.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1755 and 1757, perhaps on the island, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles a daughter and another son--three children in all.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1758. 

Benjamin's third son Jean, born probably at Pigiguit in c1733, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750 and was counted with his parents and unmarried siblings at Rivière-du-Nord in August 1752.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Daigre and Madeleine Gautrot, at Port-La-Joye in November 1756.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean a daughter, perhaps on the island, in c1757.  One wonders what happened to the family in 1758. 

Jean's fifth and youngest son, name unrecorded, born in the early 1700s, died young. 

René le jeune's fourth son René, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1668, married Anne, daughter of Bonaventure Thériot and Jeanne Boudrot, at Port-Royal in c1691 and moved on to Rivière-aux-Canards in the Minas Basin.  Between 1692 and 1719, Anne gave René, fils 10 children, three daughters and seven sons.  Their daughters married into the LeBlanc and Vincent families.  Four of René, fils's seven sons also created their own families.  One of them died in England, another in France, one returned to North America at Gaspésie, another settled on Belle-Île-en-Mer and remained there, and three of René, fils's granddaughers emigrated to Louisiana from France. 

Oldest son Antoine, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in 1696, married Marie, daughter of Philippe Melanson and Marie Dugas, at Grand-Pré in November 1717 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1718 and 1732, Marie gave Antoine seven children, four sons and three daughters.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, Virginia authorities sent them on to England in the spring of 1756, and they were held at Southampton, where Antoine died, age 60, soon after arrival.  One of his daughters married into the Thériot and Daigre families.  Two of his sons also married, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana.

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1718, married Françoise, daughter of Jean Thériot and Marie Daigre, probably at Minas in c1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, Joseph's wife and all of their children died in the sinking of one of the British transports deporting Acadians to France, but Arsenault does not give us the fate of Joseph or tell us on which ship his family perished, when, or where. 

Antoine's third son René, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in August 1730, was still a bachelor when he followed his parents to Virgina in 1755 and to Southampton, England, in 1756.  He married Marguerite, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Babin of Minas, probably at Southampton in c1761.  She gave him a daughter the following year.  In May 1763, he, his family, and younger brother Antoine, fils were repatriated to St.-Malo, France.  They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Rance where, between 1764 and 1781, Madeleine gave René eight more children, four daughters and four sons, all but one of whom survived childhood--nine children in all for the couple.  As the birth dates of their younger children reveal, René did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did he join his fellow exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  Wife Marguerite died probably at St.-Servan in the early 1780s.  In 1785, René and his eight children, five daughters and three sons, and a Babin brother-in-law, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana  directly from St.-Malo.  They followed most of their fellow passengers to the new Acadian settlement of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  René did not remarry, nor did he and his family remain at Bayou des Écores.  Four of his daughters married into the Raffray, Daigre, Doucet, and Guidry families at New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and on the western prarieis.  Two of his sons also married, into the Daigre and Lenormand families at Baton Rouge and on the prairies. 

Antoine's fourth and youngest son Antoine, fils, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in May 1732, was still a bachelor when he followed his parents to Virgina in 1755 and to Southampton, England, in 1756.  He and older brother René and his family were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763.  They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Still a bachelor, Antoine, fils died there in July 1782, age 50. 

René, fils's second son Pierre, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1701, married Anne, daughter of Claude Thériot and Agnès Aucoin, at Grand-Pré in November 1725.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1749, Anne gave Pierre five children, two sons and three daughters.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., in his study of the Acadians in France, gives the couple another, older son, born in c1736.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring, and they were held at Falmouth.  Pierre died in England, perhaps at Falmouth, between 1756 and May 1763.  In May 1763, Widow Anne and her Landry children were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  She did not remarry.  Two of her older daughters married into the Robichaud and Barrieau families at St.-Servan.  According to Arsenault, by 1774 Anne and her younger children, with other Acadian exiles in France, returned to North America via the British-controlled Isle of Jersey, perhaps with the expedition led by sea captain Charles Robin.  They resettled in the British-controlled fishery at Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Anne and Pierre's youngest daughter married into the LeBlanc family at Carleton in Gaspésie.  Pierre's younger sons, having followed their widowed mother back to North America, also married in greater Acadia.  Pierre's oldest son emigrated to Louisiana from France. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Minas in c1736, followed his family to Virginia, Falmouth, and St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he worked as a carpenter.  He married fellow Acadian Marthe LeBlanc probably at St.-Servan in the early 1760s.  Between 1762 and 1773, Marthe gave Pierre, fils five children, four sons and a daughter.  In 1773, Pierre, fils took his family to Poitou.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes and settled in St.-Jacques Parish, where Marthe gave Pierre, fils another daughter in July 1776--their sixth child.  Their youngest son died there the following September.  In 1785, Pierre, fils, Marthe, and four of their children, two sons and two daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  Their oldest son Joseph, who would have been age 23 in 1785, if he was still alive, chose not to accompany his family to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, they followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Pierre, fils died there in September 1798, age 63.  His daughters married into the Hébert and Penro families on the upper bayou.  His sons married into the Giroir, Capdeville, Richard, and Thibodeaux families there. 

Pierre's second son Jean-Charles, called Charles, born at Minas in c1740, followed his family to Virginia, England, and St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he married Madeleine, 25-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Claude LeBlanc and his second wife Jeanne Dugas and of Minas and widow of Charles Granger, fils, in June 1765.  Madeleine also had accompanied her parents to Virginia and England, where she had married her first husband.  They followed his widowerd mother to Gaspésie in the early 1770s and were counted at Carleton in 1777. 

Pierre's younger son Joseph, born at Minas in c1744, followed his family to Virginia and England and his widowed mother to St.-Servan-sur-Mer and Gaspésie, but he did not remain there.  In his mid- or late 30s, he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Gaudet and Anne Bastarache, at Memramcook, present-day southeastern New Brunswick, in c1780.  He died there in July 1829, in his mid-80s. 

René, fils's third son René III, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1703, married Marie-Rose, daughter of Étienne Rivet, fils and Anne Leprince, at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in May 1727 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1749, Marie-Rose gave René III eight children, six daughters and two sons.  René III died at Rivière-aux-Canards (Arsenault says Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit) in September 1749, age 46.  The British evidently deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, Virginia authorities sent them on to England in the spring of 1756, and they were held at Liverpool, where some of the children died.  Widow Marie-Rose, who never remarried, a son, and three daughters were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763.  In November 1765, they followed other Acadian exiles from England to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Bordreahouant near Bangor on the island, where, according to Arsenault, they owned land in common with brother-in-law (actually son-in-law) Christophe Puget.  They were still there in 1767.  In 1777, they purchased a concession from fellow Acadian Alexandre Aucoin near Calastren on the south side of the island near Bangor.  In 1785, the year widow Marie-Rose died on the island in her late 70s, no member of the family joined hundreds of fellow exiles in France on the odyssey to Spanish Louisiana.  They remained, instead, on the island as part of the enduring Acadian community there.  According to Arsenault, René III and Marie-Rose's younger daughters married into the Duon, LeBlanc, Puget dit Vadan, and Trahan families on the island.  The oldest surviving daughter, Françoise, had married a Babin at Minas and had been deported with her husband to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Like her relatives in France, she did not move on to Louisiana.   René III and Marie-Rose's surviving son, like three of his sisters, created his own family on Belle-Île-en-Mer. 

Second son Jean, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1747, followed his widowed mother to Virginia, England, St.-Malo, and Belle-Île-en-Mer, France.  He married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph-Simon Thériot and Françoise Daigre of Minas, on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1774.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1775 and 1793, Élisabeth gave Jean 13 children, six daughters and seven sons, on the island.  The were living at Chantenay near Nantes in January 1783, when an infant daughter born on the island died there.  They returned to Belle-Île.  In 1793, during the time of the Reign of Terror in France, they were still at Calastren.  Jean died on the island in 1830, in his early 80s.  According to Arsenault, at least two of his daughers married on the island into the Puget dit Vadon and Thomas families.  According to Arsenault, at least one of Jean's many sons also created a family.

Sixth son Joseph-Marie, born probably at Calastren, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in c1790, married 20-year-old fellow Acadian Marie-Françoise Richard of Bédex, west of Bangor, at Bangor in c1816. 

René, fils's fourth son Alexandre, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in May 1709, evidently died young. 

René, fils's fifth son Sylvain, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in February 1712, also died young. 

René, fils's sixth son, name unrecorded, born probably probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1713, died young.

René, fils's seventh and youngest son Charles, born probably at Minas in c1719, married Cécile, daughter of François LeBlanc and Jeanne Hébert, at Grand-Pré in November 1740.  Between 1741 and 1750, Cécile gave Charles four daughters.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, Virginia authorities sent them on to England in the spring of 1756, they were held at Southampton and repatriated aboard L'Ambition to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763.  They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  They did not follow other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer in late 1765.  Their oldest daughter married into the Ozelet family at St.-Servan in February 1766.  The family was still at St.-Malo in 1772 and followed other Acadian exiles to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  Wife Cécile died at Châtellerault, Poitou, in May 1774, age 60.  Charles died there the following June in his mid-50s.  Second daughter Marie-Madeleine, still unmarried, evidently died there the following November, age 26.  Their remaining daughters--Marguerite, Geneviève, and Marie-Josèphe, one married, the others not--emigrated to Spanisn Louisiana in 1785.  Marguerite and her Ozelet husband settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Geneviève married into the Romagosa family on the upper bayou and died at Charity Hospital, New Orleans, in September 1796, a widow in her mid-40s.  Marie-Josèphe evidently did not marry. 

René le jeune's fifth son Germain, born at Port-Royal in c1674, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Melanson and Marguerite Mius d'Entremont, at Port-Royal in c1694 and settled at Minas.  In 1714, Germain, having received permission from the French king, was one of the Acadians who went with Father Gaulin to look at land on Île Royale.  He remained at Minas and moved on to l'Assomption, Pigiguit, at the south end of the Basin, where he founded Village Pierre-Germain Landry.  Between 1695 and the 1710s, Marie gave Germain 11 children, six sons and five daughters.  Three of their daughters married into the Babin and Comeau families.  All of Germain's sons created their own families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland.

Oldest son Alexandre, born at Port-Royal in c1695, married Marie-Marguerite, daughter of Martin Blanchard and Marguerite Guilbeau, in c1723.  They settled at Pigiguit, where, between 1724 and 1744, Marie-Marguerite gave Alexandre at least three children, two daughters and a son.  The older daughter married into the Babin family probably at Pigiguit.  The son also married there.  The British deported all three children to Maryland in the fall of 1755 (the parents perhaps having died before then), and they emigrated to Louisiana from the Chesapeake colony in 1766.  The daughters remained on the river above New Orleans on what came to be known as the Acadian coast.  The younger daughter married into the Godin family there.  The son remarried on the river before moving on to the Attakapas District, where he created a western branch of the Landry family.

Only son Firmin, born at Pigiguit in c1728, married Élisabeth-Françoise Thibodeau at Pigiguit in c1752.  Three years later, the British deported them to Maryland.  The couple, two daughters, and two sons appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  Firmin came to Louisiana probably in 1766, a widower with four children and, with most of his fellow passengers, settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, but he did not remain.  He remarried to Théotiste dite Sally, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Thibodeaux and Brigitte Breau and widow of Bonaventure Godin, at either Cabahannocer or Attakapas in c1769.  Théotiste, a widow with a small daughter, had come to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and had remained with her in-laws on the Acadian Coast.  Firmin's was the first Landry family to remain west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  He and Théotiste settled on upper Bayou Vermilion and also owned land at Fausse Pointe on lower Bayou Teche.  Théotiste gave Firmin many more children on the prairies, including sons.  Firmin "died suddenly" at Attakapas in February 1801.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Firmin was "60 and 16 years," that is, age 76, when he died.  His daughters by both wives married into the Boudreaux, Broussard, Lapointe, Louvière, Perault, Quebedeaux, and Ransonet families.  Four of his five sons also married, into the Melançon, Legros, Hébert, Prevost, and Hargrave families.  Firmin's was not only the first, but also one of the largest Landry family lines established on the prairies. 

Germain's second son Abraham dit Chaques, born at Port-Royal in c1697, married Marie-Isabelle, called Isabelle, another daughter of Martin Blanchard and Marguerite Guilbeau, in c1720 and settled at Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1734, Isabelle gave Chaques three sons.  Other records give them another son in c1721 and a daughter in c1732--five children, four sons and a daughter.  Chaques moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1748.  In August 1752, a French official counted Chauques, now a widower, with two of his younger sons on the west side of Rivière-de-Peugiguit in the island's interior.  Chaques may have died on the island.  The British deported his sons Charles and Joseph to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Chaques's two older sons and his daughter, who had remained in, or returned to, peninsula Acadia, were deported to Maryland.  His daughter Anne married into the Broussard and Landry families in Acadia and Louisiana.  Two of his sons also emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland, but his other two sons remained in France. 

Oldest son Pierre dit Pierrot à Chaques, born probably at Pigiguit in c1721, married Geneviève Broussard in c1745, place unrecorded.  She gave him two children, a son and a daughter, in c1752 and c1753.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Between 1756 and 1762, Geneviève gave Pierrot four more children in Maryland, a daughter and three sons, including a set of twins--six children in all.   Pierrot, Geneviève, three sons and a daughter appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  Wife Geneviève died in Maryland after the counting.  Pierrot and his six children emigrated to Louisiana in 1766 and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  In his late 40s, Pierrot remarried to Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Gautrot and Anne LeBlanc of Minas and widow of Pierre Granger, at Cabahannocer in the late 1760s.  She gave him no more children.  They moved upriver to Ascension, where, at age 57, Pierrot remarried again--his third marriage--to cousin Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham Landry and Marie Guilbeau and widow of Désiré LeBlanc, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in February 1778.  She gave him no more children.  Pierrot died at Ascension in July 1791, age 70.  His older daughter married into the Bujole and Landry families on the river before resettling on upper Bayou Lafourche.  All four of his sons, all by first wife Geneviève, married into the Blanchard, LeBlanc, Scantein, and Hébert families on the river. 

Chaques's second son Charles, born probably at Pigiguit in c1730, followed his parents to Île St.-Jean in c1748 and was counted with his widowed father at Rivière-de-Peugiguit on the island in August 1752.  He was still a bachelor when the British deported him to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 with younger brother Joseph.  They settled on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo at Pleudihen-sur-Rance, where, at age 33, Charles married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Girouard and Marie Doiron and widow of Charles Benoit, in January 1763.  Between 1763 and 1774 at Pleudihen, Marie gave Charles six children, a daughter and five sons.  They evidently did not go to Poitou in 1773, did not join fellow exiles in Nantes later in the decade, nor did any member of this family emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Chaques's third son Jean, born probably at Pigiguit in c1732 (Bona Arsenault says c1723), married Ursule, daughter of Pierre Landry and Marie Babin, at Pigiguit or in Maryland in 1755.  They, with a daughter, a brother-in-law, and two orphans appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on the Eastern Shore in July 1763.  They emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 and settled at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans.  Their daughter married into the Melançon family.  Jean may have fathered no sons, so only the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Chaques's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born probably at Pigiguit in c1734,  followed his parents to Île St.-Jean in c1748 and was counted with his widowed father at Rivière-de-Peugiguit on the island in August 1752.  He was still a bachelor when the British deported him to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 with older brother Charles.  They settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance, where, at age 35, Joseph married Charlotte-Laurence, daughter of locals Julien Flaud and Laurence Duhal of La Coquenais near Pleudihen in January 1768.  Between 1768 and 1785, at La Coquenais, Charlotte-Laurence gave Joseph 10 children, five sons and five daughters, most of whom survived childhood.  As the birth years of their children attest, Joseph did not take his family to Poitou in 1773 or join his fellow exiles at Nantes later in the decade.  Nor did he or any member of his large family emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Germain's third son Pierre, born perhaps at Port-Royal in the late 1690s or early 1700s, married Claire, daughter of Charles Babin and Madeleine Richard, in c1729 and settled at Pigiguit.  Between 1729 and 1742, Claire gave Pierre at least six children, three daughters and three sons.  The British deported members of the family to Maryland and Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Pierre died in exile before July 1763.  Wife Claire also may have died before July 1763, when she and her six children appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore.  Two of the daughters married into the Granger and Hébert families at Pigiguit and in Maryland.  One of the sons also married in Maryland.  Five of the six children--three daughters and two sons-- emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.  Another daughter married into the Rivet and Landry families there.  The older son did not marry, so only the younger one had the opportunity to perpetuate this line of the family.

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born probably at Pigiguit in c1737, followed his family to Maryland or Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  If he went to Pennsylvania, he did not remain there.  In July 1763, still a bachelor, he was counted at Oxford in Maryland with his five siblings.  He followed them to San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans in 1767 and died at San Gabriel in April 1780, age 43, still unmarried. 

Pierre, père's second son Germain le jeune, born probably at Pigiguit, followed his family to Maryland or Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  If he went to Pennsylvania, he did not remain there.  In July 1763, still a bachelor, he was counted at Oxford in Maryland with his five siblings.  Germain le jeune did not follow them to Louisiana in 1767.  He was the only one of his parents' six children who did not go there, so one wonders if he died in the Chesapeake colony before 1767 or if he simply chose to remain there. 

Pierre, père's third and youngest son Athanase, born probably at Pigiguit in c1742, followed his family to Maryland or Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  If he went to Pennsylvania, he did not remain there.  In July 1763, still a bachelor, he was counted at Oxford in Maryland with his five siblings.  Athanase married fellow Acadian Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, Hébert in Maryland in the mid-1760s.  In 1767, they followed his three sisters and an older brother to Louisiana and settled with them at San Gabriel, where all of their children were born.  Spanish officials counted them on the "left bank ascending" at San Gabriel in 1777.  Their daughters married into the Melançon and Robichaux families.  Two of Athanase's four sons also married, into the Melanson, Landry, and LeBlanc families, and remained on the river, but only the blood of the family may have endured in the Bayou State. 

Germain's fourth son Germain, fils, born at Port-Royal or Minas in c1706, married Anne, daughter of François LeBlanc and Jeanne Hébert, at Grand-Pré in July 1729.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1744, at Pigiguit, Anne gave Germain, fils six children, five daughters and a son.  Another source says the couple had 10 children.  One of their daughters married into the Trahan family perhaps at Pigiguit on the eve of deportation.  The British deported Germain, fils and members of his family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Germain, fils died there in 1755 or 1756, perhaps in the Philadelphia pesthouse, soon after reaching the Quaker Colony.  Wife Anne may have died at Philadelphia later.  One wonders what happened to their children after 1763.  According to family historian Tyler LeBlanc, the couple's children emigrated from Pennsylvania to Louisiana.  No Acadians emigrated from Pennsylvania directly to the Spanish colony, so, if they did go to Louisiana, they would have done so from Maryland in the late 1760s.  Louisiana records and Arsenault, however, do not reveal their presence in the colony. 

Germain, père's fifth son Paul, born at Minas in November 1708, married, according to Stephen A. White, Marguerite-Josèphe Bourg in c1740 probably at Minas.  Bona Arsenault says the Paul who married Marguerite Bourg was sans doute a son of Jean-Baptiste dit Labbé à Jean-Baptiste à Jean, that he was born in c1728, and that he married in c1750; White is followed here.  According to Arsenault, in 1744 and 1748, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Paul two children, a daugher and a son.  He also gives the couple a daughter in c1754 and says they resettled near Nicolet on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières, but gives no date.  Perhaps Paul and his family also had been deported to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755 and followed their fellow exiles to Canada in the 1760s.  According to Arsenault, their younger daughter married into the Hébert family at Bécancour near Nicolet in January 1774.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., in his study of the Acadians in France, gives the couple a son in c1746 who ended up in France. 

Second son Paul, fils, born probably at Minas in c1746, evidently became separated from his family on the eve of deportation when he was only age 9.  The British deported him to Virginia in the fall of 1755, Virginia authoriites sent him on to England the following spring, and he, along with hundreds of other exiles in England, was repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  He received permission from French authorities to move to St.-Malo, where he arrived later in the years.  He settled on the east side of the river below St.-Malo at St.-Suliac, where he married Isabelle-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Breau and Ursule Bourg, in January 1766.  Between 1767 and 1770, Isabelle-Françoise gave Paul three children, two sons and a daughter, the third child born posthumously.  The older son and the daughter died in children, the daughter from smallpox in May 1773.  Meanwhile, Paul died at St.-Suliac in October 1770, age 24.  Neither his widow nor his surviving son, if they were still alive, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  The son would have been age 16 at the time. 

Germain, père's sixth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Minas in c1710, married Anne, daughter of Jean Babin and Marguerite Boudrot, perhaps at Minas in c1731.  They settled at Pigiguit.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  In July 1763, Jean-Baptiste, now a widower, and five of his children, two sons and three daughters, appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore.  He emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 with five unmarried children, a son and four daughters, and a married son and his wife, and settled with them at San Gabriel on the river.  He died there by February 1777, when he was listed as deceased in a daughter's marriage record.  His daughters married into the Clouâtre, Landry, Richard, and Breaux families on the river.  An older son married into the Landry family in Maryland and settled at San Gabriel, and a younger son married into the LeBlanc and Moreau families there and then joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche. 

René le jeune's sixth son Abraham, born at Port-Royal in c1678, became a fisherman there.  He married Marie, daughter of Pierre Guilbeau and Catherine Thériot, at Port-Royal in October 1701 and moved on to l'Assomption, Pigiguit, where he established Village Abraham Landry.  Between 1704 and 1723, Marie gave Abraham 10 children, three daughters and seven sons.  Their daughters married into the Bugeaud, Rivet, LeBlanc, and Landry families; one of them moved on to Île St.-Jean, and another one emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland.  Five of Abraham's seven sons also created their own families, and three of them joined their sister in Louisiana.

Oldest son Pierre, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1705, married Anne-Marie, daughter of René Doucet and Marie Broussard, at Annapolis Royal in June 1726.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne-Marie gave Pierre a son in c1732.  Other records give them at least one more son.  The family evidently moved on to Minas, from which the British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Pierre died there before July 1763.  His two sons emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland and established vigorous lines there. 

Older son Pierre dit La Vielliarde, born probably at Pigiguit in c1732, married Anne-Élisabeth or -Isabelle Dupuis probably at Pigiguit.  The British deported them to Maryland in 1755.  The family appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Short in July 1763.  When Pierre dit La Vielliarde brought four of his children to Louisiana with the first contingent of exiles from Maryland in 1766 and settled at Cabahannocer, he was a widower.  His daughter by his first wife married into the Comeaux family.  He remarried to cousin Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Landry and Marguerite Bourg, at Cabahannocer in November 1767.  She gave him more children, including sons.  Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in 1769 and on the same side of the river at nearby Ascension in 1770 and 1777, when his unusual dit, La Vielliarde, that is, "Old Woman," first appears in Louisiana records.  Daughter Marie-Françoise, born in October 1768, was baptized at New Orleans in April 1769, so they spent some time in the city.  Pierre dit La Vielliarde owned three slaves at Ascension in 1777 and 11 in 1778, an impressive number for an Acadian at that time and place.  He, Marie-Josèphe, and some of their children had joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche by the late 1780s.  Pierre dit La Vielliarde held 15 slaves on the upper bayou in 1791, and owned 16 slaves there seven years later.  Pierre dit La Vielliarde died in Assumption Parish in June 1815.  The Plattenville priest who recorded his burial said that "Pedro of Acadia," as he called him, died at "age 86 yrs."  His daughters by his second wife married into the Breaux, Dupré, LeBlanc, and Zeringue families.  Five of his eight sons married into the Landry, Hébert, Blanchard, Le Borgne de Bélilse, Trahan, and Bergeron families, but not all of the lines endured.  His older sons remained on the river, but his younger sons and a grandson by his second wife settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  (This grandson, Baptiste dit Petit-René, is the great-great grandfather of Troy Landry of Pierre Part, Assumption Parish, an alligator hunter who stars in History Channel's popular series, "Swamp People.")  Pierre dit La Vielliarde's second wife and widow, Marie-Josèphe, died in Assumption Parish in February 1836.  The Plattenville priest who recorded her burial said that she was age 83 when she died, but she was closer to 92. 

Pierre's younger son Étienne, born probably at Pigiguit in c1734, married fellow Acadian Dorothée Babin in Nova Scotia or Maryland in the 1750s, and remarried to cousin Marie-Josèphe Landry probably in Maryland in the late 1750s or early 1760s.  They appeared on a repatriation list with a daughter at Baltimore in July 1763 and followed his older brother to Louisiana.  Spanish officials counted Étienne and Marie-Josèphe on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer in 1769 and on the same side of the river at nearby Ascension in 1770 and 1777.  Étienne died at Ascension in October 1789.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Étienne was age 57 when he died.  Widow Marie-Josèphe did not remarry.  She died in Assumption Parish in November 1810, age 77.  Étienne's daughter by first wife Dorothée married into the Hébert family.  Two of his three sons married into the Hébert family and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Abraham's second son Charles, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1707, married Marie, daughter of Charles LeBlanc and Marie Gautrot, at Grand-Pré in June 1726.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Charles died there before July 1763.  A son and two daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in the late 1760s, and another son ended up in France and joined his siblings in Louisiana in 1785.  Neither of the daughters who went to Louisiana married, but both of the sons; the older one in France, the younger one twice in Louisiana. 

Older son Charles, fils, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1733, followed an uncle to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  A French official counted him with his uncle Jean Landry and his uncle's family at Grande-Anse on the south coast of the island in August 1752.  The British deported Charles, fils to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He crossed with the family of Jean Burgeaud, a kinsman, and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Boudrot and Marie-Josèphe Doiron and widow of Joseph Hébert, in November 1759.  Between 1760 and 1771, Marguerite gave Charles, fils seven children, six sons and a daughter, three of whom, all sons, died young.  Charles, fils took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Marguerite gave him another son--their eighth child--at Châtellerault, Poitou, in January 1775.  The following November, after two years of effort, Charles, fils and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes and settled at nearby Chantenay.  Marguerite gave Charles, fils two more sons--their ninth and tenth children--at Chantenay in 1777 and 1779.  In 1785, Charles, fils, Marguerite, and their seven surviving children, six sons and a daughter, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  They followed their fellow passengers to Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge.  Charles, fils and Marguerite had no more children in Louisiana.  He died in Iberville Parish in March 1814, in his mid-80s.  Widow Marguerite, who did not remarry, died there in December 1826, in her early 90s.  Their daughter married into the Guidry and Breaux families on the river.  Five of Charles, fils's sons married into the Babin, Landry, Dugas, and Thériot families on the river and upper Bayou Lafourche.

Charles, père's younger son Amand-Pierre, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1746, followed his family to Maryland and two of his sisters to Louisiana in 1766.  They settled on the river above New Orleans at Cabahannocer, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Melanson and Rosalie Blanchard, in c1768.  In the 1770s, Amand-Pierre took his family to the Attakapas District, where, in his early 40s, he remarried to cousin Élisabeth, also called Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Landry and his second wife Isabelle Dugas and widow of Joseph Dugas, in August 1789.  Amand-Pierre died at Attakapas in November 1793, in his late 40s.  His daughters by both wives married into the Broussard, Granger, and Melançon families.  Three of his four sons, all from first wife Marguerite, married into the Mire, Doiron, and Landry families on the prairies. 

Abraham's third son, name unrecorded, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, before 1714, died young. 

Abraham's fourth son Alexandre, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in December 1708, married Anne, daughter of Jean-François Flan and Marie Dupuis, at Grand-Pré in February 1732 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Alexandre a son in 1733.  Arsenault also says Alexandre, sans doute, remarried to Rose LeBlanc in c1736.  According to Arsenault, Rose gave Alexandre another son in 1738.  Stephen A. White, followed here, does not list a second marriage for this Alexandre and says he died in exile before July 1763 but gives no exact place and date.  Other records give Alexandre and Anne Flan many more children--four more sons and two daughters between the late 1730s and 1755--all of whom emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland.  The British probably deported Alexandre and most of his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755, and he died there before July 1763, when his widow Anne (called a Blanc) and six children, four sons and two daughters, appeared on a repatriation list at Baltimore.  Anne and her six unmarried children, along with a married one, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 and settled at San Gabriel on what became the Acadian Coast.  Her daughters married into the LeBlanc and Richard families on the river.  Four of her sons created families of their own in greater Acadia and Louisiana. 

Oldest son René, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1733, escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  He made his way to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where he married Madeleine daughter of Jean Boudrot and Catherine Brasseau, in November 1759.  Renné Landry and his family of five appear on a list of 1,003 Acadians still at Restigouche on 24 October 1760 on the eve of the French stronghold's surrender; this likely was him, but one wonders why his household was so large.  According to Bona Arsenault, René and Madeleine's first child, daughter Élisabeth, was baptized by the priest at Restigouche in January 1761.  In the early 1760s, René and his family were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of war.  He likely was the René Landry counted at Fort Edward, near his old home at Pigiguit, in August and October 1762.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1773, Madeleine gave René eight more children, six sons and two more daughters.  At war's end, they did not follow other exiles being held in the Nova Scotia to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  They chose, instead, to remain in greater Acadia.  British authorities counted them at Windsor, Nova Scotia, where Fort Edward still stood, in 1770, and at Memramcook in present-day southeastern New Brunswick in 1773. 

Alexandre's second son Anselme, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1738, followed his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755 and was counted with his widowed mother and siblings at Baltimore in July 1763.  He evidently followed them to Louisiana in 1767 and settled with them at San Gabriel.  At age 31, he married cousin Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Landry and Anne Babin of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, at San Gabriel in April 1769.  He remarried to cousin Osite Landry probably at San Gabriel in the early 1770s.  He died at nearby Ascension in February 1804, in his mid- or late 60s.  His daughters evidently married into the Babin, Binfrede, Breaux, and Landry families.  Two of his three sons, both by second wife Osite, married into the Babin and Gaudin families, but neither of the lines, except for its blood, seems to have endured in the Bayou State. 

Alexandre's third son François-Sébastien, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1741, followed his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph LeBlanc, in the Cheaspeake colony in the early 1760s.  He, wife Marguerite, and a Marie LeBlanc, perhaps her sister, appeared on a repatriation list at Baltimore in July 1763.  François, Marguerite, and two daughters, ages 3 and newborn, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 and settled at San Gabriel near his widowed mother and siblings.  Bona Arsenault gives François-Sébastien a son in c1772.  Other  records give them two more sons in February 1773 and May 1775.  Their daughters married into the Aucoin and Giroir families, and perhaps into the Landry famlily as well.  In the late 1780s, François and his family joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  At age 52, he remarried to Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Girouard and Marie-Anne Thériot of St.-Malo, France, at nearby Ascension in August 1793.  François died at Ascension in December 1808, in his late 60s.  Only his oldest of three sons married, into the Le Borgne de Bélisle family at Ascension, and remained on the upper Lafourche. 

Alexandre's fourth son Paul-Marie, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1744, followed his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755 and was counted with his widowed mother and siblings at Baltimore in July 1763.  He followed them to Louisiana in 1767 and settled with them at San Gabriel.  He married to Brigitte, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Babin and Marie LeBlanc of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, at nearby Ascension in February 1772.  Paul-Marie died at San Gabriel in November 1794, age 50.  His daughters married into the Babin, Breaux, and Gallagher families.  Only two of his eight sons married, into the Hébert and Hamilton families. 

Alexandre's fifth son Firmin, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1748, followed his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755 and was counted with his widowed mother and siblings at Baltimore in July 1763.  He followed them to Louisiana in 1767 and settled with them at San Gabriel.  He married fellow Acadian Marie LeBlanc probably at San Gabriel in the late 1760s or early 1770s, and remarried to Louise-Ludivine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Babin and Madeleine Richard, at nearby Ascension in February 1774.  Their daughter married into the LeBlanc families.  At age 44, Firmin remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Hélène, daughter of Joseph Hamilton and Anastasie Comes and widow of ____, at San Gabriel in February 1792.  Their daughters married into the Allain, Brasseaux, Hébert, and Vives families.  Firmin died at San Gabriel the following September.  Five of his six sons from his second and third wives, the youngest born posthumously, married into the Richard, Landry, LeBlanc, Hébert, Comeaux, Breaux, and Troxler families and settled on the river.

Alexandre's sixth and youngest son Jean, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1753, followed his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755 and was counted with his widowed mother and siblings at Baltimore in July 1763.  Still in his early teens, he followed them to Louisiana in 1767 and settled with them at San Gabriel.  He evidently did not marry. 

Abraham's fifth son Joseph, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1710, was a middle-aged bachelor when the British deported him to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  He appeared on a French repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763; he was still unmarried.  He emigrated to Louisiana in 1766 and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  He died at nearby Ascension in September 1783, in his early 70s, still unmarried. 

Abraham's sixth son Abraham dit Petit Abram, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1712, married Élisabeth, another daughter of Charles LeBlanc and Marie Gautrot, at Grand-Pré in June 1732.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1751, Élisabeth gave Petit Abram nine children, five sons and four daughters.  According to Stephen A. White, Petit Abram, who would have been in his early or mid-30s, remarried to Marguerite, another daughter of Jean-François Flan and Marie Dupuis, probably at Pigiguit in c1746; Marguerite was a sister of Petit Abram's brother Alexandre's wife Anne.  Arsenault says that between 1753 and 1756, Marguerite gave Petit Abram three more children, two daughters and a son--a dozen children, six sons and six daughters, in all.  The British deported Petit Abram and most of his family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Second son Joseph eluded the British roundup at Pigiguit, took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and married to a woman whose name has been lost to history.  Meanwhile, Petit Abram, Marguerite, and 10 of their unmarried children, four sons and six daughters, appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on the Eastern Shore in July 1763.  At the time, Petit Abram's son Joseph, who had been captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the Gulf of St. Lawrence area, was being held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1765, now a widower, Joseph took his two young sons from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  Petit Abram, a widower again, and nine of his unmarried children, four sons and five daughters (not Nathalie, who would have been age 20 at the time), emigrated to Louisiana in 1766 and settled at Cabahannocer near son Joseph.  Petit Abram's oldest son Mathurin and his family came to the colony from Port Tobacco, Maryland, in 1768.  After the Spanish released him, his family, and other exiles from the remote Acadian settlement across from Natchez, Mathurin resettled near his father and siblings at Cabahannocer.  In his 60s, Petit Abram remarried again--his third marriage--to Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Rivet and Anne Leprince of Pigiguit and widow of Bonaventure Forest, at nearby Ascension in the 1770s.  She gave him no more children.  Petit Abram died at Ascension in August 1786, in his early or mid-70s.  Four of his daughters married into the Bourgeois, Babin, Savoie, Duhon, and Broussard families on the river and upper Bayou Lafourche.  His six sons married into the Babin, Landry, Granger, Breaux, Trahan, Allain, and LeBlanc families on the river and created vigorous lines there, on the upper Lafourche, and out on the western prairies--not bad for a man with "Petit" in his name. 

Abraham's seventh and youngest son René, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1716, married Marie, daughter of Jacques Thériot and his first wife Marie-Marguerite LeBlanc, at Grand-Pré in February 1737 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  Between 1740 and 1753, Marie gave René at least four children, three sons and a daugher.  The British deported most of the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Their oldest son Pierre, who would have been age 15 in 1755, ended up Virginia, in England in 1756, and in France in 1763.  Meanwhile, in Maryland, Marie gave René two more sons in 1757 and 1760--six children in all.  René, now a widower, and four children, three sons and a daughter, appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on the Eastern Shore in July 1763; his second son, who would have been age 15, may have been indentured to another household.  René and his five children, including his second son, emigrated to Louisiana in 1766 and settled at Cabahannocer on the river.  René remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham Landry and Marie-Isabelle Blanchard and widow of Jean-Baptiste Broussard, probably at Cabahannocer in c1769.  She gave him three more sons there--nine children, eight sons and a daughter, by both wives.  René died at nearby Ascension in June 1781, age 64.  His daughter married into the Melançon and Babin families on the river.  All eight of his sons by both wives survived childhood, and six of them married in Louisiana, into the Landry, Hébert, Melançon, Babin, and LeBlanc families on the river.  Two remained on the river, but one of the lines there did not endure.  Another, after joining the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, created a vigorous line there.  Three other sons resettled on the western prairies in the late colonial and early antebellum periods, and two of them created vigorous lines there. 

Oldest son Pierre, by first wife Marie Thériot, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1740, evidently became separated from his family in the fall of 1755, and the British deported him to Virginia instead.  Virginia authorities sent him and other exiles on to England the following spring.  He may have been held with relatives at Southampton.  With the family of Jean-Jacques Thériot, his maternal uncle, and hundreds of other exiles in England, Pierre was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763.  Pierre settled with his relatives at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Hébert and Élisabeth LeBlanc, in January 1769.  Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre a son at St.-Servan in 1770.  Pierre died at St.-Servan in December 1772, age 32.  One wonders if his widow remarried.  She did not emigrate to Louisiana in 1785, but her Landry son, who would have been in his mid-teens at the time, did choose to go to the Spanish colony and live among his father's family there, none of whom had ever met him. 

Only son Pierre-Joseph, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in January 1770, was raised by his widowed mother and her family.  At age 15, perhaps with the family of his maternal great-uncle Jean-Jacques Thériot, Pierre-Joseph emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 directly from St.-Malo and followed his relatives and most of their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge.  Like his relatives, he did not remain there.  In the late 1780s or early 1790s, he followed them to San Gabriel on the river south of Baton Rouge, where he came of age.  He married cousin Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph-Charles Breaux and Marie-Josèphe Landry, at San Gabriel in June 1790.  Scholastique was a native of Louisiana.  Pierre-Joseph remarried to Marguerite Rosalie, daughter of Swiss surgeon Bernard Capedeville and his second Acadian wife Anne Clouâtre, at St. Gabriel in January 1804.  During the War of 1812, Pierre-Joseph served as captain of the 8th Company, Meriam's Regiment of Louisiana Militia.  After the war, his contemporaries referred to him as Captain.  He also was an artistic woodworker.  He died at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in March 1843, age 73.  His daughters married into the Boush or Bush, Breaux, Capdeville, and Rivière families.  Nine of his 11 sons by both wives married into the Couillard, Lambremont, Hébert, LeBlanc, Landry, and Hotard families on the river. 

René le jeune's seventh son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1680, married Madeleine, daughter François Broussard and Catherine Richard, at Port-Royal in January 1704 and moved on to Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, where he worked as a fisherman.  Between the early 1700s and the 1710s, Madeleine gave Pierre five children, three sons and two daughters.  One of their daughters married into the LeBlanc family.  His sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born probably Pigiguit in c1704, married Marie-Claire, daughter of Vincent Babin and Anne Thériot, probably at Pigiguit in c1726.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1727 and 1752, Marie gave Pierre, fils five children, three daughters and two sons.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755, and Pierre, fils died there the following year.  A married daughter and a bachelor son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1767 and settled at San Gabriel on the river.  Pierre, fils's daughters married into the LeBlanc, Granger, Landry, and Léger families at Minas and in exile.  His older son ceated a family in Louisiana.  His younger son remained in greater Acadia. 

Older son Joseph, born probably at Pigiguit in c1743, followed his family to Maryland and his married sister Ursule, her Landry husband, and their family to Spanish Louisiana in 1767.  He married fellow Acadian Marguerite LeBlanc probably at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans in the late 1760s or early 1770s.  She gave him a son.  Joseph remarried to fellow Acadian Madeleine Babin, place and date unrecorded.  His daughter by second wife Madeleine married into the Breaux family on the river.  His son by first wife Marguerite married an Estivan and created a vigorous family line on upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Pierre, fils's younger son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Pigiguit in c1747, evidently escaped the British roundup at Pigiguit in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence Shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either surrrendered to, or was captured by British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  At war's end, he did not follow other exiles being held in the Nova Scotia to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue.  He chose, instead, to remain in greater Acadia.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Dupuis and Marie-Josèphe Savioe, at Windsor, Nova Scotia, formerly his home at Pigiguit, in September 1768.  They settled with other exiles at Memramcook in present-day southeastern New Brunswick.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1774 Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste a daughter.  

Pierre, père's second son, name unrecorded, born probably at Pigiguit after 1707, married Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of Pierre Thériot and Marie Bourg, probably at Minas in c1729 and died between 1731 and 1734. 

Pierre, père's third and youngest son François, born probably at Pigiguit in c1711, married Dorothée, daughter of Alexandre Bourg and Marguerite Melanson, at Grand-Pré in November 1731.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1750, Dorothée gave François three children, a daughter and two sons.  Other records give them another daughter.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  François, now a widower, may have appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore in July 1763.  He emigrated to Louisiana in 1766 with three unmarried children, two sons and a daughter, and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  François did not remarry.  He died at nearby Ascension in February 1797, age 83.  His older daughter married into the Trahan family at Minas and did not go to Louisiana; his younger daughter married a Landry cousin probably at Cabahannocer.  His two sons married into the Dugas and Landry families at Cabahannocer, and the younger one joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Both created vigorous family lines. 

René le jeune's eighth and youngest son Charles dit Charlot, born at Port-Royal in c1688, married Catherine-Josèphe, another daughter of François Broussard and Catherine Richard, at Port-Royal in October 1708 and was the only one of his father's sons to remain at what became Annapolis Royal.  Between 1710 and 1726, Catherine gave Charlot nine children, two sons and seven daughters.  Charlot died in the Fort Anne dungeon at Annapolis Royal in November 1727, in his late 30s, a victim of incarceration following a dispute with colonial officials over the unqualified oath of allegiance.  His widow remarried to a Préjean two years later.  Three of Charlot's daugthters married into the Lanoue and Savoie families, and perhaps into the Daigre family as well.  Both of his sons also created families of their own, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.

Older son Charles, fils, born at Port-Royal in January 1710, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Claude Girouard and Élisabeth Blanchard, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1728.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1729 and 1753, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles, fils six children, five daughters and a son.  Charles, fils died at Annapolis Royal in May 1751, age 41.  His widow remarried to Zacharie Thibodeau at Annapolis Royal in February 1754.  Charles, fils's oldest daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the LeBlanc family at Annapolis Royal.  The British deported Marie-Josèphe Girouard, her second husband, and her unmarried Landry children to South Carolina in late autumn of 1755.  In August 1763, Marie-Josèphe, Zacharie Thibodeau, and only two of her Landry children--daughters Nathalie, age 20, and Anne-Modeste, age 15--were still in the southern colony.  Arsenault says Marie-Josèphe and Charles, fils's son also survived childhood and created a family of his own. 

Only son Alexis, born perhaps posthumously at Annapolis Royal in c1752, followed his family to South Carolina, but he was not counted with his mother and stepfather in the colony in August 1763, when Alexis would have been age 11 or 12.  Arsenault does not say where Alexis resettled after the war with Britain ended in 1763.  Arsenault says Alexis, who would have been in his early 40s, married Marie-Sara, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Françoise Dugas, in February 1796, place unrecorded. 

Charlot's younger son François, born, according to Stephen A. White, at Annapolis Royal in May 1716, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Babin and Marguerite Boudrot, in c1735 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  Bona Arsenault insists that the François Landry who married Marie Babin was a son of Charlot's older brother Jean; White is followed here.  According to Arsenault, between 1736 and 1757, Marie gave François eight children, five sons and three daughters.  François took his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted François, Marie, and six of their children, five sons and a daughter, at Rivière-du-Nord in the island's interior.  The British deported them to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758.  François worked as a carpenter there.  At age 47, he remarried to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Carret and Angélique Chiasson and widow of Barthélémy Martin, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in June 1763.  A French record of 1772 noted that François was asthmatique.  In 1773, he took his family to Poitou.  After two years of effort, in December 1775, he and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  At age 60, he remarried again--his third marriage--to Marguerite-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Pitre and Marguerite Thériot and widow of Joseph Blanchard, at Chantenay near Nantes in February 1777.  In 1785, a widower again, François emigrated to Spanish Louisiana with a Landry granddaughter, a Landry grandson, and another young Landry who was called his nephew.  The widow of one of François's sons, having just remarried to a Frenchman, did not, with her new husband and her five Landry children, accompany him to the Spanish colony.  From New Orleans, François and his young kinsmen followed their fellow passenters to upper Bayou Lafourche.  François did not remarry again.  He died at nearby Ascension on the river in February 1797, age 80.  His granddaughter married into the Lejeune family on the upper Lafourche.  His grandson did not marry.  His nephew, however, married a Landry cousin on the upper bayou and created a vigorous family line. 

Third son Germain, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Babin, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1740, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and Cherbourg, where he worked as a navigator.  He married Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Chesnay dit LaGarenne and Anne Pothier, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish in July 1767.  Between 1769 and 1773, Cécile gave Germain at least three children at Cherbourg, two daughters and a son.  Germain took his family to Poitou in 1773.  Cécile gave him another daughter at Archigny, near Châtellerault, in October 1774.  In December 1775, after two years of effort, Germain, Cécile, and their four children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  In July 1776, Cécile gave Germain another daughter in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes--their fifth child.  A month later, their third daughter died at Nantes, age 2.  In 1778 and 1780, Cécile gave Germain two more children at nearby Chantenay, a son and a daughter--seven children in all.  Their second daughter died at Chantenay in October 1780, age 9.  Germain died at Chantenay by January 1785, when widow Cécile remarried to Frenchman Augustin Guénard of Vannes, a joiner, at nearby St.-Martin de Chantenay.  Cécile and most of her surviving Landry children did not follow their fellow Acadians to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, perhaps because Cécile's new husband was a Frenchman.  Her older son, however, followed his grandfather there, but the son did not marry.

Older son Jean-Jacques-Fréderic, born at Cherbourg, France, in July 1770, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, and Chantenay, and his paternal grandfather to Spanish Louisiana.  He settled with them on upper Bayou Lafourche and was still a bachelor there in 1798.  He evidently did not marry.347

Babin

Antoine Babin, an early 1660s arrival, and his wife Marie Mercier created a large family in the colony.  Between 1663 and 1684, Marie gave Antoine 11 children, seven daughters and four sons.  Their daughters married into the Rimbault, Landry, Richard dit Sansoucy, Doucet, Breau, Comeau, Benoit, Martin, Sauneuf, and Pitre families.  Three of Antoine's sons created their own families.  His and Marie's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also at Grand-Pré and Pigiguit in the Minas Basin, and on Île St.-Jean.  At least 81 of Antoine's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, from Maryland in the late 1760s, from France in 1785, and from Île St.-Pierre in 1788.  Substantial numbers of Antoine's descendants also could be found in greater Acadia and Canada after Le Grand Dérangement.

Oldest son Charles married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Richard dit Sansoucy and Madeleine Blanchard, at Port-Royal in c1664.  Between 1688 and 1711, Madeleine gave Charles a dozen children, six daughters and six sons, including a set of twins.  Four of his daughters married into the Bodart, Dupuis, Landry, and LeBlanc families.  All six of his sons created their own families.

Oldest son René, born at Grand-Pré in 1692, married Isabelle, daughter of Claude Gautrot and Marie Thériot, at Grand-Pré in November 1714.  Between 1719 and the 1740s, Isabelle gave René 11 children, three daughters and eight sons.  Two of their daughters married into the Daigre and Hébert families.  Three of René's sons also created their own families, one of them in greater Acadia. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Grand-Pré in March 1719, married Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Hébert and Anne-Marie Boudrot, at Chignecto in July 1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine gave Jean a son in 1748.  The British deported them to Georgia in the fall of 1755.  One wonders what happened to them there. 

René's second son Joseph dit René, born at Grand-Pré in September 1720, married Marguerite, daughter of René LeBlanc and Marguerite Thébeau, at Grand-Pré in November 1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Joseph two sons in 1746 and 1748, but other records give them many moe.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  In 1761, René, called Rain Bobbin, age 37, was counted with wife Marguerite, age 39, and seven children, five sons and two daughters, ages 13 years to 5 weeks, at Groton, Pepperll, and Townsend in Middlesex County, northwest of Boston.  One wonders what happened to them after 1763.  Joseph dit René died at Baltimore, Maryland, in January 1806, in his late 80s. 

René's third son Étienne, born probably at Grand-Pré in the mid- or late 1720s, evidently survived childhood but did not marry.

René's fifth son Eustache, born at Grand-Pré in May 1727, died at Grand-Pré, age 20, in July 1747, before he could marry. 

René's sixth son Félix, born at Grand-Pré in December 1732, may not have survived childhood. 

René's seventh son Pierre, born at Grand-Pré in May 1735, evidently escaped the British roundup at Minas in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During the late 1750s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Pierre married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Bourg and Marie Thériot, probably at Fort Cumberland, Chignecto, in February 1759; the marriage was recorded at present-day Franklin Manor, a Mi'kmaq reservation south of Chignecto.  After the war, they remained in the Chignecto area.  Pierre died at Minudy, south of Chignecto before July 1790, in his 50s.  At least one of his sons married there but settled in southeastern New Brunswick.

Pierre, fils, born at Franklin Manor in February 1775, married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean dit Janne Melanson and Modeste Forest, in c1795 probably at Minudy.  Pierre, fils received land grants at Scodouc, southeastern New Brunswick, in May 1815 and Ocotober 1825.  He died by 1837, place unrecorded, when Henriette remarried to a LeBlanc. 

René's eighth and ninth sons, names unrecorded, did not survive childhood.  

Charles's second son Pierre, born at Grand-Pré in 1694, married Madeleine, daughter of Alexandre Bourg and Marguerite Melanson, at Grand-Pré in c1716.  They remained at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1717 and 1746, Madeleine gave Pierre nine children, five sons and four daughters.  Two of their daughters married into the Benoit and LeBlanc families.  Two of their sons also created their own families. 

Second son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Minas in c1719, married Catherine, daughter of Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Landry, at Grand-Pré in September 1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, Catherine gave Jean-Baptiste two daughters in 1745 and 1748.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  What happened to them after 1763?  One of their daughters married into the Hébert family in Canada. 

Pierre's fourth son Ambroise, born probably at Minas in c1731, escaped the British roundups in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He was at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in 1759.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Cyr and Anne Bourgeois of Chignecto, probably at Restigouche in c1760.  After the war, they settled in the British fishery at Bonaventure in Gaspésie along the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1776, Anne gave Ambroise nine children, five daughters and four sons.  Four of their daughters married into the Bernard, Doiron, Arbour, and Poirier families in Gaspésie.  Ambroise's sons also created their own famiilies there.

Oldest son Thomas, born probably at Bonaventure in c1763, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Richard and Rosalie Gaudet, at Bonaventure in November 1788. 

Ambroise's second son Joseph, born probably at Bonaventure in c1764, married Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Poirier and Claire Bujold, at Bonaventure in November 1788.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1790 and 1811, Angélique gave Joseph 11 children, six sons and five daughters.  Two of their daughters married into the Bourdages family at Bonaventure.  All of their sons also created their own families, in Gaspésie or on the lower St. Lawrence.

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born probably at Bonaventure in c1790, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Gauthier and Théotiste Landry, at Bonaventure in January 1815.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1815 and 1827, Marie gave Joseph, fils seven children, four sons and three daughters.  At age 40, Joseph, fils remarried to Marthe-Gabrielle, daughter of Jean-Baptise-Gabriel Albert and Thérèse Lanteige, at Bonaventure in February 1830.  According to Arsenault, Marthe gave Joseph, fils another daughter in 1831.  At age 52, Joseph, fils remarried again--his third marriage--to Catherine, daughter of Bertrand Delarosbil and Marie Denis and widow of Jean Aspirot, at Bonaventure in January 1842. 

Joseph, père's second son Charles dit Charlemagne, born probably at Bonaventure in c1792, married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Bourdages and Esther Bujold, at Bonaventure in January 1818.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1819 and 1824, Anastasie gave Charlemagne four children, two sons and two daughters. 

Joseph, père's third son Pierre, born probably at Bonaventure in c1796, married Apolline, daughter of fellow Acadians Fabien Poirier and Angélique Gauthier, at Bonaventure in September 1824.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1825 and 1847, Apolline gave Pierre 10 children, eight sons and two daughters. 

Joseph, père's fourth son Ambroise le jeune, born probably at Bonaventure in c1798, left Gaspésie and married Solange, daughter of Charles Chouinard and Josèphe Mignault, at St.-Jean-Port-Joli on the south shore of the lower St. Lawrence in January 1825.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1825 and 1829, Solange gave Ambroise three children, two daughter and a son. 

Joseph, père's fifth son Jean-Timoléon, born probably at Bonaventure in c1800, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Isaïe Bernard and Rachel Bourg, at Bonaventure in January 1830.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1831 and 1847, Marie gave Jean nine children, three daughters and six sons. 

Joseph, père's sixth and youngest son Alexandre, born probably at Bonaventure in c1805, married Virginie, daughter of  fellow Acadians Joseph Gauthier and Élisabeth Poirier, at Bonaventure in February 1733.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1834 and 1854, Virginie gave Alexandre a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters. 

Ambroise's third son Amand, born probably at Bonaventure in c1766, married Ursule, another daughter of Charles Poirier and Claire Bujold, at Bonaventure in November 1792.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1792 and 1814, Ursule gave Amand 13 children, three sons and 10 daughters.  Two of their daughters married into the Henry and Bourdages family at Bonventure.  Amand's three sons also created their own families there.

Oldest son Amand, fils, born probably at Bonaventure in c1792, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Bourdages and Esther Bujold, at Bonaventure in January 1820.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1821 and 1839, Julie gave Amand, fils nine children, three daughters and six sons. 

Amand, père's second son Paul-Hippolyte, born probably at Bonaventure in c1804, married Marthe, daughter of Joseph Couture and Anne Ferguson, at Percé up the Gaspésie coast from Bonaventure in November 1832.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1834 and 1859, Marthe gave Paul 13 chidren, nine sons and four daughters. 

Amand, père's third son Charles, born probably at Bonaventure in c1808, married Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Fabien Poirier and Angélique Gauthier, at Bonaventure in January 1833.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1835 and 1856, Angélique gave Charles nine children, five daughters and four sons. 

Ambroise's fourth and youngest son Pierre, born probably at Bonaventure in c1768, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Cormier and Marie LeBlanc, at Bonaventure in November 1801.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1803 and 1824, Julie gave Pierre nine children, five daughters and four sons.  Four of their daughters married into the Bourdages, Vallé, and Henry families at Bonaventure.  Two of Pierre's sons also created their own familites there.

Second son Bruno, born probably at Bonaventure in c1812, married Nicolette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Gauthier and Élisabeth Poirier, at Bonaventure in January 1846 and settled at nearby New Carlisle.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1848 and 1858, Nicolette gave Bruno six children, three sons and three daughters.  Bruno died at New Carlisle in c1758, in his mid-40s. 

Pierre's third son Lazare, born probably at Bonaventure in c1820, married first cousin Marie-Onésime, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Babin and Julie Boudages, his uncle and aunt, at Bonaventure in November 1846.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1847 and 1858, Marie gave Lazare seven children, three daughters and four sons. 

Charles's third son Claude, born at Grand-Pré in 1698, married Marguerite, daughter of Martin Dupuis and Marie Landry, at Grand-Pré in November 1718.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1720 and 1742, Marguerite gave Claude a dozen children, nine sons and three daughters.  Claude died at Grand-Pré in May 1748, age 50.  Two of his daughters married into the LeBlanc family.  Five of his sons also created their own families, two of them at Chignecto. 

Oldest son Claude, fils, born probably at Minas in c1720, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Cormier and Catherine LeBlanc, at Chignecto in May 1743 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1768, Marie gave Claude, fils six children, two daughters and four sons.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge either on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or in Canda.  They were at Cap-St.-Ignace on the lower St. Lawrence in 1760.  Their daughters married into the Dastous and Caron families at St.-Jean-Port-Joli on the lower St. Lawrence below Cap-St.-Ignace.  Three of Claude, fils's sons also created their own families in the area.

Oldest son Claude-Marie, born in exile in c1758, married Marie-Perpétué, daughter of Jean Boucher and Renée Fortin, at St.-Jean-Port-Joli in September 1783. 

Claude, fils's third son Augustin-Amable, born in Canada in c1762, married Marie-Céleste, daughter of Jean-Bernard Saucier and Félicité Ruellans, at nearby St.-Roch-des-Aulnaies in November 1792. 

Claude, fils's fourth and youngest son Jean-Marie, born in Canada in c1768, married Josèphte, daughter of Joseph Miville and Françoise Pain, at St.-Jean-Port-Joli in February 1791. 

Claude, père's second son Jacques, born probably at Minas in c1721, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Bourgeois and Marie-Madeleine Cormier, at Chignecto in May 1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1753, Marie gave Jacques four children, two daughters and two sons.  The British deported them to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  Jacques died in the southern colony.  Marie and three of their children, a daughter and two sons, were still n the colony in August 1763.  What happened to them after that date?

Claude, père's sixth son Basile, born probably at Minas in c1730, evidently escaped the British roundup there in 1755 but fell into their hands a few years later.  Basile married Anne dite Nanette, daughter of Jacques Saulnier and Anne Hébert of Petitcoudiac, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in c1760 while being held as a prisoner there.  Nanette gave Basile two daughters at Halifax in 1763 and 1764.  In 1765, Nanette, now a 24-year-old widow, took her Babin daughters to Louisiana from Halifax and, after living for a time at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, moved to the Opelousas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin, where she remarried to Michel Cormier of Chignecto in c1769.  Her Babin daughters married into the Arceneaux, Bergeron, and Billou families in Louisiana, so the blood of this line endured. 

Claude, père's seventh son Joseph, born at Grand-Pré in c1735, was deported with his widowed mother and younger siblings to Virginia in 1755, sent on to England in 1756, and was held at Southampton, where he married Marine, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Anne Landry of Grand-Pré, in November 1756.  Between 1757 and 1773, Marine gave Joseph eight children, five sons and three daughters.  They followed his family to France in May 1763 and settled with them at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, near St.-Malo.  After a time on Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany with his widowed mother and siblings, Joseph took his family back to St.-Servan in 1773.  Later in the decade or in the early 1780s, they returned to North America and settled on Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Joseph died on the island before 1788.  One of his sons evidently remained in France and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Joseph's sister Anne and husband Alain LeBlanc, a childless couple, also left Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1773, but instead of returning to St.-Malo, they followed other Acadian exiles to the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel before returning to North America.  In 1788, Joseph's widow Marine LeBlanc and five of her Babin children--Marie-Victoire, age 25; François-Laurent, age 22; Pierre-Moïse, age 20; Anne-Marguerite, age 18; and Mathurin-Louis, age 15--emigrated to Louisiana from Île St.-Pierre aboard Joseph Gravois's schooner La Brigite, among the few Acadian exiles who went to the Spanish colony directly from greater Acadia.  With Marine and her children was Charles Babin, no age given, described as her "uncle."  One wonders which Charles Babin this may have been.  One of Joseph and Marine's daughters, Anne-Marguerite, married into the Richard family in Louisiana.  Only one of Joseph's seven sons created his own family, but the line did not endure. 

Oldest son Joseph-Nicaise, born at Southampton, England, in October 1757, evidently died young. 

Joseph's second son Bonaventure, born at Southampton in November 1759, followed his family to France, living at St.-Servan-sur-Mer and on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  When his family departed for North America, Bonaventure, who would have been in his late teens or early 20s, evidently remained in France, but he did not finish his days there.  Though he appears on none of the passenger rolls of the Seven Ships' expedtions, he likely followed his fellow Acadians to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  What is certain is that in November 1788, a month before Joseph Gravois's La Brigite reached Louisiana, a Bonaventure Babin married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians René Landry and his first wife Marie Thériot and widow of Charles Melançon, at Ascension on the river above New Orleans.  Unfortunately, the priest who recorded the marriage did not give the groom's parents' names, but it likely was Bonaventure of England and France.  He fathered at least two sons by Félicité, but the boys' baptismal records, as transcribed by the Diocese of Baton Rouge, do not give the father's parents' names.  The baptismal record of older son Casimir, however, says the boy's godfather was Moyses, probably Pierre-Moïse, a son of Joseph Babin and Marine LeBlanc and a younger brother of the Bonnaventure Babin born in England.  Louisiana church records reveal that a Bonaventure Babin died at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in May 1815, age 65.  Bonaventure, son of Joseph and Marine, would have been 55 years old at the time, so one wonders if the St. Gabriel priest recorded the wrong age.  Neither of Bonaventure's sons survived childhood, so his line of the family died with him. 

Joseph's third son François-Laurent, born at Le Palais, Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, in January 1766, accompanied his family to Île St.-Pierre in the 1770s and followed his widowed mother to Spanish Louisiana in 1788.  He evidently did not marry.

Joseph's fourth son Pierre-Moïse, born at Sauzon, Belle-Île-en-Mer, in May 1768, accompanied his family to Île St.-Pierre in the 1770s and followed his widowed mother to Spanish Louisiana in 1788.  He, too, did not marry.

Joseph's fifth son Mathurin-Louis, born at Sauzon, Belle-Île-en-Mer, in August 1773, accompanied his family to Île St.-Pierre in the 1770s and followed his widowed mother to Spanish Louisiana in 1788.  He, too, did not marry.

Joseph's sixth son Jean-Charles, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in February 1776, evidently died young.

Joseph's seventh and youngest son Victor-Angélique, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in July 1779, evidently died young. 

Claude, père's eighth son Laurent, born probably at Minas in c1739, was deported to Virginiaq in the fall of 1755 and sent on to England in the spring of 1756.  After he was repatriated to France with hundreds of other Acadians in England in the spring of 1763, he followed his fellow exiles to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in late 1765.  He married local girl Marie-Françoise, daughter of Martin Carrière and Jeanne-Martialle LeGoff of Le Palais, at St.-Gérard, Le Palais, on the island in February 1766.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1773, Marie-Françoise gave Laurent six children, two sons and four daughters, at Le Palais.  One wonders if any of Laurent's sons created their own families in the mother country.  Laurent and his family were still living on Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1792, during the French Revolution.   Two of his daughters married into the Sauvario and Arnichaud families in France.

Charles's fourth son Jean le jeune, born at Grand-Pré in 1700, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Thériot and Jeanne Landry, at Grand-Pré in October 1721 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1745, Marguerit gave Jean le jeune nine children, three sons and six daughters.  The family was deported to Virginia in 1755, sent on to England in 1756, and held at Southampton, where Marguerite died in August 1756, soon after the family's arrival.  Jean le jeune, two of his unmarried children--son Paul, age 31, and daughter Anne, age 18--and married son Simon and his family were repatriated to France in May 1763.  They settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo.  Jean le jeune, who did not remarry, died at St.-Servan in September 1774, age 74.  Two of his daughters married into the LeBlanc and Hébert families.  Only the youngest of his three sons created his own family. 

Third and youngest son Simon, born at Grand-Pré in c1735, married Anastasie Thériot at Southampton, England, in 1757.  They were repatriated to France in May 1763 and settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Between 1758 and 1769, Anastasie gave Simon six children, three sons and three daughters, in England and France.  From 1765 to 1769, Simon and Anastasie buried three of their children at St.-Servan.  Simon took his family to the interior of Poitou in 1774, the year of his father's death.  Wife Anastasie died at Châtellerault, Poitou, in April 1775, and Simon remarried to Anne Poirier, widow of Joseph Granger, at Châtellerault the following September.  She evidently gave him no more children.  They evidently retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in the mid-1770s.  Simon died aboard the ship Le Prince Inzare in October 1780 and was buried at Chantenay, near Nantes.  Only one of his three daughters, Marie, created her own family.  She married Louis-William, son of Stanislas Stebens and Anne Colcien of Boston, Massachusetts, and widower of Marie Weibert and Marie Landry, at Chantenay in January 1783.  Marie and her family, including three Stebens children and brother François-Marie, now age 20, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Two of Simon's three sons, both from his first wife, created their own families in Louisiana. 

Older son Magloire-Simon, by first wife Anastasie Thériot, born in England in January 1762, followed his family to France, Poitou, Nantes, and Louisiana.  He married Marie-Jeanne-Perrine, daughter of Eustache Lejeune and his first wife Marie Carret, probably at Baton Rouge in June 1787, remarried to Anne-Louise, daughter of Pierre Quimine and his first wife Marie-Louise Grossin, at Baton Rouge or Manchac in December 1789, and, at age 60, remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Jacques Achée and Anne Boudreaux and widow of François Sevin, at Thibodauxville, Lafourche Interior Parish, in April 1822.  His daughter from his second wife married into the Daigre family.  His four sons, all from second wife Anne-Louise, married into the Templet, Lejeune, and Doiron families and settled on the river.  Most of the lines endured. 

Simon's younger son François-Marie, by first wife Anastasie Thériot, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in November 1766, followed his family to Poitou, Nantes, and Louisiana.  He married Marie-Anne, daughter of Ignace Heusé and his second wife Cécile Bourg, at Manchac on the river above New Orleans in December 1786.  He was the first of the Acadian Babins to settle on Bayou Lafourche.  His daughters married into the Comte or Lecompte,  Robichaux, and Toups families.  Three of his four sons married into the Toups, Gisclard, and Martin families and settled on the bayou. 

Charles's fifth son Joseph, born at Grand-Pré in 1702, married Angélique, daughter of Antoine Landry and Marie Thibodeau, in c1723 probably at Minas and died there in 1752, age 50.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1725 and 1747, Angélique gave Joseph 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  At least one member of the family, a son, was deported to Massachusetts in 1755 and created his own family.  One wonders what happened to the rest of the family in 1755. 

Fifth son Charles le jeune, born at Minas in c1740, married Marguerite-Rachel Robichaud in the Bay Colony in c1760 while in exile.  After Massachusetts officials allowed them to leave, they chose to go Canada.  Their marriage was sanctified at Deschambault on the St. Lawrence between Québec and Trois-Rivières in November 1766.   

Charles's sixth and youngest son Charles, fils, a twin of sister Marie, born at Grand-Pré in February 1708, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Philippe Melanson and Marie Dugas, at Grand-Pré in July 1729 and died there in January 1733, age 24.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne-Marie gave Charles a son, Joseph-Bruno, in c1730, who created his own family. 

Only son Joseph-Bruno married Françoise, daughter of Pierre Landry and Rose Rivet, at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1754.  They were deported to Maryland in 1755 and may have remained there. 

Antoine's second son Vincent, born at Port-Royal in c1665, married Anne, daughter of Claude Thériot and Marie Gautrot, in c1688 and settled on Rivière-de-l'Ascension, Minas, before moving to Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit.  Between 1689 and the late 1710s, Anne gave Vincent a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters.  Five of their daughters married into the Richard, Forest, Broussard, and Landry families, including two brothers.  All of Vincent's five sons created their own families.  

Oldest son Jean le jeune, born at Minas in 1689, married Marguerite, daughter of Minas judge and notary Alexandre Bourg dit Bellehumeur and Marguerite Melanson, in c1723, place not given, and settled at Ste.-Famillie, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1725 and 1743, Marguerite gave Jean le jeune three children, two sons and a daughter.  Members of the family was deported to Virginia in 1755, sent on to England in 1756, and repatriated to France in 1763.  Jean le jeune's daughter Marie married into the Landry family.  His two sons created their own families in greater Acadia. 

Older son Pierre, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1730, escaped the British roundup there in 1755 and married Cécile, daughter of Pierre Bois and Marie Coste of Île Royale, at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in c1760 during exile.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1768, Cécile gave Pierre two children, a son and a daughter.  After the war, they joined other Acadians on British-controlled St. Johns Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, in 1768. 

Jean le jeune's younger son Joseph, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1743, also escaped the British roundup there in 1755, fell into British hands a few years later, and was held as a prisoner at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the early 1760s.  After the war, Joseph married Françoise, daughter of Joseph Dugas and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Chédabouctou, Nova Scotia, today's Guysborough, on the coast above Halifax, in December 1765.  They moved on to Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where their marriage was "rehabilitiated" in May 1766.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1770 and 1776, Françoise gave Joseph four children, two sons and two daughters, on the island.  Did they go to France with other islanders in 1767, return to the island in 1768, go back to France in 1778 during the American Revolution, and return to the island in 1784, after the war? 

Vincent's second son Pierre, born probably at Minas in the 1690s, married Marie, daughter of Germain Landry and Marie Melanson, in c1723.  One wonders what was their fate in 1755.  Pierre died probably in greater Acadia by July 1763.  One of his sons may have gone to the French Maritimes in the 1750s and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. 

Vincent's third son, name unrecorded, born probably at Minas in c1707, married in c1740 a woman whose name has been lost to history.  One wonders what became of them. 

Vincent's fourth son Joseph, born at Minas or Pigiguit in c1713, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Pierre Landry and Marguerite Forest, at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, probably in the early 1730s.  According to Bona Arsenault, between the early 1730s and 1750, Anne-Marie gave Joseph perhaps as many as six children, five sons and a daughter.  In 1755, Joseph, wife Anne-Marie, daughter Anne-Élisabeth, unmarried sons Étienne and Cyprien, and married sons Dominque and Pierre and their families, were deported to Maryland with dozens of their Babin cousins.  Most of Joseph and Anne-Marie's sons created their own families, though Bona Arsenault cannot definitively link two of them--Dominique and Jean-Baptiste--to the couple.  In 1767, Joseph, now a 54-year-old widower, three of his younger children, and putative son Jean-Baptiste and his family emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland.  Joseph, père did not remarry.  His only daughter Anne-Élisabeth married twice into the Hébert family in the Spanish colony. 

Dominique, perhaps the oldest son, married Marguerite Boudrot at Minas, place and date not given.  She gave him at least four sons and three daughters at Minas and in Maryland, where the British deported the family in the fall of 1755.  Evidently Dominique and his wife Marguerite Boudrot died in Maryland before 1763, and relatives raised their children.  In 1767, six of Dominique's children, three of them already married, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland.  His two daughters married into the Martin, Richard, and Clouâtre families in Louisiana.  All four of his sons created their own families, but not all of the lines endured.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Minas in c1739, followed his family to Maryland, where he married Isabelle-Marguerite LeBlanc in the late 1750s or early 1760s.  Between 1764 and 1767, in Maryland and Louisiana, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste three children, a son and two daughters.  They reached the Spanish colony in 1767, settled at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans, and had more children there, including seven more sons born between 1768 and 1783.  Jean-Baptiste's daughters married into the Allain, Braud, and LeBlanc families.  Five of his eight sons married into the LeBlanc, Hébert, Landry, and Culere families, so the family line thrived. 

Dominique's son Ignace, born probably at Minas in the 1740s, followed his family to Maryland, where he married Marguerite Breau in the mid-1760s.  She gave him a son there in c1766.  They went to Louisiana in 1767 and settled at San Gabriel, where Marguerite gave him a daughter.  Ignace remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Landry and Marie-Josèphe Comeaux and widow of Joseph Blanchard, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer on the river below San Gabriel in February 1778.  She gave him another son there.  Ignace died at San Gabriel in November 1791, age 50.  His daughter by his first wife married into the Moreau family and settled on the western prairies.  Neither of his two sons by both of his wives married. 

Dominique's third son Paul, born probably at Minas in c1751, followed his family to Maryland and relatives to Louisiana in 1767.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Brasseaux and Élisabeth Richard, at San Gabriel upriver from Cabahanncoer in February 1784.  Between 1785 and 1802, at San Gabriel, Marguerite gave Paul eight children, four sons and four daughters.  Paul died at San Gabriel in January 1802, age 50.  His daughters married into the Gomes, Hébert, Landry, LeBlanc, Seguinot, and Thibodeaux families.  Two of his sons married into the Landry and Chiasson families and settled in what became Iberville Parish. 

Dominique's fourth and youngest son Joseph le jeune, born at Minas or in Maryland in c1755, followed relatives to Louisiana probably in 1767 and an older married sister to the western prairies.  He married Anastasie, daughter of Honoré Melançon and Marie-Josèphe Breaux, at Attakapas west of the Atchafalaya Basin in February 1778 and created a western branch of the family.  All of their children were born on the Teche.  Joseph le jeune died in St. Martin Parish in October 1820, in his mid-60s.  His daughters married into the LeBlanc, Savoie, and Sonnier families.  Two of his son married into the Guilbeau and Thibodeaux families and created families of their own along the middle Teche.

Joseph's second son Pierre, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in the early 1730s, married Anne Forest probably at Ste.-Famille in c1753.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Pierre two sons in c1754 and c1760, at Ste.-Famille and Maryland, where the British deported the family in the fall of 1755.  Anne, now a widow, and their two sons emigrated to Louisiana in 1766.  She remarried to Étienne Bujole at New Orleans two years later.  One of her two Babin sons created his own family. 

Older son Joseph dit Dios, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1754, followed his family to Maryland and Louisiana and married Marine, daughter of Désiré LeBlanc and Marie-Madeleine Landry, at Ascension on the river above New Orleans in February 1775.  Between 1775 and 1777, Marine gave Dios three sons.  Joseph dit Dios died at Ascension in February 1782, age 28.  Two of his four sons married, into the LeBlanc and Richard families.  Only Benjamin, the younger son, produced a line of the family that endured; in spite of the son's early death, it became a substantial one in what became St. James and Ascension parishes. 

Pierre's younger son Charles, born in Maryland in c1760, survived childhood but did not marry.  He followed his family to Louisiana and died at Ascension in January 1783, age 22.

Joseph's third son Joseph, fils, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in the late 1730s, evidently escaped the British roundup at Pigiguit in 1755.  He married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Surette and Catherine Breau, in c1763, place unrecorded.  The marriage was sanctified at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in June 1769, so they likely settled in that colony.  One wonders if they had a son named Charles-Amand who married into the Godin dit Bellefontaine and Belliveau families in the Pubnico area north of Cap-Sable. 

Joseph, père's fourth son Étienne, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1749, followed his family to Maryland in c1755 and to Louisiana in 1767.  Étienne married a woman whose name has been lost to history at San Gabriel on the river and remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Bonaventure LeBlanc and Marie Thériot, at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans in January 1778 and settled at nearby San Gabriel.  Étienne died at San Gabriel in December 1788, age 39.  His daughters married into the Lacave, Lopez, and Seguinaud families.  None of his fives sons seems to have married. 

Joseph, père's fifth and youngest son Cyprien, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1750, followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and to Louisiana in 1767.  He died at Baton Rouge in January 1815, age 64, still a bachelor.  

Vincent's fifth and youngest son Antoine le jeune, born probably at Pigiguit in c1718, married Catherine Landry in c1741, place not given.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1764, Catherine gave Antoine le jeune at least eight children, three sons and five daughters.  The family was deported to Maryland in 1755.  Catherine, now a 47-year-old widow, and her Babin children emigrated to Louisiana in 1768.  Four of her and Antoine's daughters married into the Guidry, Dugas, Breaux, and Dies families in Louisiana.  Two of Antoine le jeune's three sons also created their own families in the Spanish colony. 

Oldest son François-Marie, born probably at Pigiguit in c1742, followed his family to Maryland and married Marguerite-Hélène, daughter of Amand Breau and Marie Landry, there in c1763.  In c1765 and December 1766, Marguerite gave François two sons in Maryland.  They moved on to Louisiana in 1768 and were forced to settle at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, far upriver above Baton Rouge.  After the Spanish allowed them to leave Natchez in 1769, François-Marie resettled his family at Ascension and San Gabriel on the river between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.  Marguerite-Hélène gave him another son at Ascension.  Their daughter married into the LeBlanc (French Canadian, not Acadian) and Rivet families.  All three of François-Marie's sons married, into the Foret, Dugas, Broussard, and Clouâtre families, but only two of the lines endured.

Antoine le jeune's second son Firmin, born probably at Pigiguit in c1747, followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and to Louisiana in 1768 and settled with them at Fort San Luìs de Natchez.  Firmin married Bibianne, another daughter of Amand Breau and Marie Landry, at San Luis de Natchez in January 1769.  Soon after their marriage, they moved downriver to Ascension, where Firmin remarried to Isabelle, daughter of Arche Brousse or Brusse and Isabel ____ of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in November 1781.  She gave him more children there.  His daughters by both wives married into the Hébert, Landry, and Lavergne families.  Four of his six sons married into the Pichoff, Dugas, Landry, Babin, and Breaux families and settled on the river and in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley.

Antoine le jeune's youngest son Charles, born probably at Pigiguit in c1750, followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana in 1768.  He, too, endured the settlement at Fort San Luìs de Natchez and followed his family to Ascension, where he died in the 1770s.  He did not marry. 

Antoine's third son Antoine, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1676, died young.

Antoine's fourth and youngest son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1684, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Boudrot and Renée Bourg, in c1705 and settled at Minas, where he died by June 1751, in his late 60s.  Between the early 1700s and 1720, Marguerite gave Jean seven children, four sons and three daughters, all of whom married, six of them to Landrys!  Their daughters married into the Landry family, and two of them moved on to the French Maritimes.  All four of Jean's sons created their own families, and all of their famiies emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland. 

Oldest son Paul, born probably at Minas in the early 1700s, married Marie Landry in c1730 probably at Minas and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1750, Marie gave Paul at least eight children, three sons and five daugthers.  The family was deported to Maryland in 1755, and Paul died there before 1763, when the family appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore.  One of Paul's daughters married into the Le Borgne de Bélisle family in Maryland.  Six of Paul's children--one married, the others still single--emigrated to Louisiana in 1766.  Their widowed mother Marie Landry, age 66 when she came to the Spanish colony in 1767, settled with a daughter at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans.  Two more of her Babin daughters married Landry cousins in Louisiana.  All three of her Babin sons created their own families.

Oldest son Charles, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1742, followed his family to Maryland and to Louisiana, where he married cousin Élisabeth, also called Madeleine, daughter of perhaps Germain Babin and Marguerite Landry, at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans in March 1767, soon after his arrival.  Between 1769 and 1779, Madeleine gave Charles at least four children, two sons and two daughters.  Charles died by November 1781, when Madeleine remarried at Ascension; he would have been in his late 30s at the time of his passing.  Charles's daughters married into the Breaux and Landry families.  His older son married into the Godin dit Lincour family and settled on Bayou Lafourche.  Charles's younger son married into the Landry family, but his line did not endure. 

Paul's second son Amand, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1743, followed his family to Maryland and married cousin Marie-Anastasie, called Anastasie, called Anastasie, daughter of probably Abraham dit Petit Abram Landry and his second wife Marguerite Flan, in c1766 in the Chesapeake colony.  Between 1768 and 1788, Anastasie gave Amand 13 children, 10 sons and three daughters.  Amand took his family to Louisiana in 1766, settled at Cabahannocer on the river, and died in nearby Ascension Parish in April 1808, age 65, a widower.  His daughters married into the Dugas and LeBlanc families.  Five of his 10 sons married into the Duhon, Landry, and Dugas families and settled on the river and on Bayou Lafourche.  A remarkable number of Amand's descendants married cousins. 

Paul's third and youngest son Vincent-Ephrèm, called Ephrèm, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1745, followed his family to Maryland and Louisiana and married Marguerite LeBlanc at Cabahannocer in April 1768.  Between 1768 and 1781, Marguerite gave Ephrèm five children, four sons and a daughter.  In October 1787, in his early 40s, Ephrèm contracted smallpox at Ascension but survived.  He died in Ascension Parish in September 1810, age 67.  His daughter married a Landry cousin.  One of his sons married a Landry cousin and remained on the river, but his line may not have endured.   

Jean's second son Germain, born at Grand-Pré in April 1711, married Marguerite, daughter of Germain Landry and Marie Melanson, in c1738 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1753, Marguerite gave Germain at least three daughters and perhaps a son.  The family was deported to Maryland in 1755.  Marguerite died there by 1763, when the family was counted at Oxford.  When three of his daughters emigrated to Louisiana in 1766, Germain had either died or chose to remain in the British colony.  His daughters married Babin and Landry cousins in Louisiana. 

Jean's third son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Minas in the 1710s, married Ursule, daughter of Alexandre Landry and Marie-Marguerite Blanchard, in c1739 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1756, Ursule gave Jean-Baptiste four children, a son and three daughters.  The British deported the family to Maryland in 1755.  Ursule, now a widow, and her Babin children emigrated to Louisiana in 1766.  Two of her daughters married into the LeBlanc, Panvil, and Melançon families in Louisiana.  Her only Babin son created his own family.

Only son Joseph, born at Minas in c1748, followed his family to Maryland and Louisiana and married Osite, daughter Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine-Marie-Josèphe Forest, at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans in January 1771.  He died in nearby Ascension Parish March 1809, in his early 60s, the father of many children.  His daughters married into the Babin, Boudreaux, Landry, and LeBlanc families.  Five of his seven sons married into the Hébert, Landry, and LeBlanc families and settled in what became Ascension Parish, but some of his grandsons moved upriver into Iberville and West Baton Rouge parishes.  

Jean's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born probably at Minas in the late 1710s, married Anne, daughter of Jacques Thériot and Marie-Marguerite LeBlanc, in c1742.  They settled at Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1749, Anne gave Joseph three children, two sons and a daughter.  The British deported the family to Maryland in 1755.  Anne, now a 45-year-old widow, with her Babin children, emigrated to Louisiana in 1766.  Her daughter married into the Dugas family in Louisiana.  Both of her Babin sons created their own families in Louisiana.

Older son Joseph, fils, born probably at Pigiguit in c1745, followed his family to Maryland and Louisiana and married Marie Landry at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans in February 1768.  Between 1771 and 1784, Marie gave Joseph, fils nine children, three sons and six daughters.  At age 52, Joseph, fils remarried to Anne-Appoline, daughter of Paul Doiron and Marguerite Michel and widow of Jean-Baptiste La Garenne, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer, in February 1797.  Joseph, fils's only married son Auguste settled on Bayou Lafourche and married into the Bergeron family. 

Joseph, père's younger son Jean-Jacques, called Jacques, born probably at Pigiguit in c1748, followed his family to Maryland and Louisiana, married Marguerite, daughter of perhaps Abraham dit Petit Abram Landry and his second wife Marguerite Flan of Pigiguit, in c1771, place not given, and settled at Cabahannocer.  Between 1772 and the late 1780s, Marie gave Jean-Jacques seven children, five sons and two daughters.  Their daughters married into the Boudreaux and Richard families.  Two of Jacques's sons married into the Landry and Melançon families and settled on the river and on Bayou Lafourche.  The bayou line of the family was especially prolific.372

Vincent

Pierre Vincent, an early 1660s arrival, and his wife Anne Gaudet created a large family in the colony.  Between 1664 and 1674, Anne gave Pierre six children, two daughters and four sons.  Pierre died at Port-Royal before 1686, in his early or mid-50s.  His daughters married into the Bastarache dit Le Basque and Moyse dit Latreille families.  Three of his four sons also created their own families.  His and Anne's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Minas and Pigiguit in the Minas Basin, Chignecto, Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, and on Île St.-Jean.  At least 13 of Pierre's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, Maryland in the late 1760s, and France in 1785.  Even more of Pierre descendants could be found in Canada, greater Acadia, France, and in the French Antilles after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Thomas, born at Port-Royal in c1665, was counted with his family as late as 1686, when he was age 20, but he did not marry.

Pierre's second son Michel, born at Port-Royal in c1668, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Michel dit Sansoucy Richard and Madeleine Blanchard, at Port-Royal in c1689 and settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, and Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas.  Between 1690 and 1709, Marie-Josèphe gave Michel eight children, six daughters and two sons.  Wife Marie-Josèphe died at Ste.-Famille in October 1709, probably from the rigors of childbirth.  Michel remarried to Anne-Marie, daughter of Jean Doiron and Marie-Anne Canol, probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1710.  Between 1711 and 1735, at Ste.-Famille, Anne-Marie gave Michel 11 more children, four sons and seven daughters--19 children, 13 daughters and six sons, by two wives.  His daughters from both wives married into the Gautrot, Boudrot, Dubois, Semer, Thibodeau, Forest, Duon, Trahan, Landry, Daigre, Saulnier, Caylan, and Bouriou families.  Two of them perished with their families on the crossing from the Maritime islands to France in late 1758, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Five of Michel's six sons by both wives also created families of their own. 

Older son Pierre dit Pierre à Michel, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Richard, born at Pigiguit in c1708, married Anne, daughter of Abraham Comeau and Marguerite Pitre, at Beaubassin in June or October 1733 and settled at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1740 and 1754, Anne gave Pierre à Michel two children, a daughter and a son.  Members of the family escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in 1755 and took refuge in Canada.  Pierre à Michel may have been the Pierre Vincent who was deported to South Carolina in the fall of 1755, escaped from the workhouse at Charles Town in late January 1756 with several other Acadians, and attempted to return to greater Acadia via the Carolina back country.  Accordring to Arsenault, Pierre à Michel died in Canada before 1757, in his late 40s; other authorities say only two of the South Carolina escapees made it back to greater Acadia; Pierre à Michel was not one of them.  Arsenault says his widow Anne and their children were at Halifax in 1767.  One wonders what happened to them from 1755 to that date. 

Michel's second son Antoine, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Richard, born at Pigiguit in c1709, married Madeleine, daughter of René Landry and Anne Thériot, at Grand-Pré in October 1729 and settled at nearby Rivière-aux-Canards.  Madeleine gave Antoine a son there in 1742.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  The English held them at Southampton, where wife Madeleine died.  Antoine and his son were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Ambition in the spring of 1763 and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Antoine took his son to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  In March 1776, four months after his son left, Antoine retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes and died in St.-Nicolas Parish there in September, in his late 60s.

Only son Jean, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1742, followed his parents to Virginia and England and his widowed father to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he married Jeanne, daughter of locals Jean-Baptiste Baste and Jeanne Offroy, in June 1765.  Between 1766 and 1772, Jeanne gave Jean four children, two sons and two daughters, one of whom died an infant.  Jean took his family to Poitou in 1773.  In November 1775, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Jeanne gave Jean another son at Chantenay near Nantes in September 1784--five children, three sons and two daughters, in all.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Michel's third son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, from second wife Anne-Marie Doiron, born at Pigiguit in c1711, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, another daughter of Abraham Comeau and Marguerite Pitre, at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières west of Chignecto in May 1734.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1754, Élisabeth gave Jean four children, two sons and two daughters.  The family escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Jean-Baptiste died near Miramichi on the Gulf shore before January 1766.  Arsenault says he died there in c1758, in his late 40s, and that his wife and children were at Halifax in 1761.  One of their daughters married into the Dufaye family at Verchères northeast of Montréal in 1772.  What happened to Jean's family between his death and their incarceration at Halifax?  Did they move on to Canada after the war ended? 

Michel's fourth son Joseph, by second wife Anne-Marie Doiron, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in July 1722, married Marguerite, daughter of François Bodart and Marie Babin, in c1745 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1746 and 1748, Marguerite gave Joseph two children, a son and a daughter. The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  The English held them at Liverpool, where Joseph died in September 1756, age 34, soon after their arrival.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe married Frenchman Guillaume Montet of Périgord at Liverpool in April 1763.  The following month, Joseph's widow Marguerite, her married daughter and son-in-law, and Marguerite's only son were repatriated to Morlaix, France.  In November 1765, they followed other exiles from England to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany and settled at Kervarigeon near Bangor.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe died there in 1779, followed by her husband Guillaume in November 1781.  Marguerite's son, as well as his sister's six orphaned children, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.  One wonders if Marguerite died before 1785 or if she chose to remain on the island after her loved ones left.  Stephen A. White says only that she died before 3 January 1788, hinting that she remained on the island.  She would have turned 70 in 1788. 

Only son Pierre, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in  October 1748, followed his family to Virginia and England and his widowed mother and married sister to Belle-Île-en-Mer, where he lived with them at Kervarigeon near Bangor.  Still a bachelor in his late 30s, he emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 but did not follow his fellow passengers to Baton Rouge.  He settled, instead, in the Attakapas District, where he took up ranching in the Vermilion valley.  (His Montet nieces and nephews crossed from France in 1785 on a later vessel and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.)  At age 40, Pierre married Agnès, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Broussard and Ursule LeBlanc and widow of Pierre Potier, at Attakapas in January 1788.  Agnès died soon after the marriage, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  Pierre remarried to Catherine, daughter of Michel Galemand and Françoise ____ of St.-Jean-Baptiste des Allemands on the river and widow of Benjamin, also called Benedict and Benoit, Hargrave, at Attakapas in October 1790.  Catherine, like her first husband, was a native of Brunswick County, Virginia.  She gave Pierre all of his many children.  Pierre died in Lafayette Parish in December 1826.  The priest who recorded the burial said Pierre was "age over 80 years" when he died.  He was in his late 70s.  His succession was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in January.  His daughters married into the Broussard and Trahan families.  All seven of his sons married, into the Landry, Ryan, Hébert, Trahan, Domingue, Bertrand, and Manceau families, and settled at Attakapas.  He and his sons created the largest line of Acadian Vincents not only on the southwest prairies, but in all of South Louisiana. 

Michel's fifth son Charles, by second wife Anne-Marie Doiron, born at Rivière-aux-Canards, in March 1725, married Euphrosine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Duon and Agnès Hébert and sister of two of his brothers-in-law, at Annapolis Royal in 1746.  They settled at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1754, Euphrosine gave Charles four children, a son and three daughters.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  The English held them at Penryn near Plymouth, where Charles died in October 1756, age 31, soon after their arrival.  Widow Euphrosine died in November, also age 31.  Their children were repatriated to France in the spring of 1763.  In November 1765, they followed other exiles from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  Two of their daughters, Rose-Pélagie and Marie-Élisabeth, married into the Lhermite and De La Mestre families at Bangor on the island in 1769 and 1770 and likely remained there.  In 1771, the Abbé Le Loutre, now a patron of the Acadians in France, petitoned the govenor of Belle-Île-en-Mer to send the youngest daughter, Élisabeth, then age 17, to the convent at Vannes in southern Brittany.  If she went, she did not remain.  She followed other Acadians to the interior of Poitou in 1773 or 1774, married a sailor named Le Coq from St.-Malo at Leigné-les-Bois, Poitou, in 1774, followed him to Nantes in 1775, and, with her husband, a son, and three daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  One wonders what happened to her brother Jean. 

Michel's sixth and youngest son Michel, fils, by second wife Anne-Marie Doiron, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in July 1729, evidently died young.  

Pierre's third son Pierre, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1669, married Jeanne, daughter of Guillaume Trahan and Madeleine Brun of Grand-Pré, in c1692 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  Between 1692 and 1716, Jeanne gave Pierre, fils 10 children, three sons and seven daughters, including a set of twins.  Pierre, fils died probably at Minas by September 1732, in his late 50s or early 60s.  Four of his daughters married into the LaVache, LeBlanc, Trahan, Blanchard, and Benoit families.  Two of his sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Pierre III, born probably at Minas in c1693, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Granger and Isabelle Guilbeau, at Grand-Pré in November 1714.  According to Bona Arsenault, they settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, but they likely remained at Minas Proper.  Between 1718 and the late 1750s, Marie gave Pierre III eight children, at least four sons and two daughters.  Their daughters married into the Boudrot, Breau, Dugas, and Daigre families.  Three of Pierre III's sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Pierre IV, born at Minas in May 1718, married Geneviève, daughter of François Boudrot and Angélique Doiron, at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1741.  The British deported them to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Pierre, Geneviève, and four of their children were still in the colony in June 1763.  According to Bona Arsenault, Pierre IV remarried to fellow Acadian Madeleine Babin in c1765.  Stephen A. White says nothing of the marriage.  Arsenault says that between 1766 and 1774, Madeleine gave Pierre IV four more children, three daughters and a son--perhaps eight children by two wives.  Arsenault adds that Pierre IV settled at Québec City, where he worked as a potter, so after the war they evidently chose to follow other exiles in Pennsylvania to Canada.  He was living at 35 rue de la Saint-Vallier in the city in 1792.  Three of his daughters by putative second wife married into the Robitaille, Parent, and Gauvreau families at Québec.  One of his sons also married there.

Pierre, by second wife Madeleine Babin, born at Québec in c1772, married Marie-Louise, daughter of Germain Bergeron, perhaps a fellow Acadian, at Québec in February 1795. 

Pierre III's second son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1724, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Daigre and Françoise Doucet, in c1750 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph two children, a daughter and a son, in 1754 and 1758.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Joseph remarried to Marie-Jeanne, called Jeanne, daughter of Claude Benoit and Jeanne Hébert, at Boston, Massachusetts, in April 1759.  According to Arsenault, between 1761 and 1764, Jeanne gave Joseph three more children, a daughter and two sons--five children, two daughters and three sons, by both wives.  In August 1763, Joseph, Jeanne, and four of their children appeared on a French repatriation list in the Bay Colony.  In 1766, they followed other exiles in New England to Canada.  British officials counted them at Yamachiche on the upper St. Lawrence that year.  Joseph died at nearby Louiseville on the north shore of Lac St.-Pierre in December 1800, in his mid- or late 70s.  His daughters married into the Comeau and Bastien-Vanasse families in the area.  His sons also married there.

Oldest son Joseph, fils, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Daigre, born probably in Massachusetts in c1758, followed his family to Canada and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Trahan and Marie-Anne Landry, at Yamachiche in November 1781. 

Joseph, père's second son Pierre, by second wife Jeanne Benoit, born probably in Massachusetts in c1762, followed his family to Canada and married at Louiseville in April 1787 a woman whose name has been lost to history. 

Joseph, père's third and youngest son Simon, by second wife Jeanne Benoit, born probably in Masschusetts in c1764, followed his family to Canada.  Simon married cousin Françoise Benoit at Louisville in April 1787, on the same day his older brother Pierre married there. 

Pierre III's third son Germain, born probably at Minas in c1730, moved on to the French Maritimes after August 1752.  The British deported him and a younger brother to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  In 1773, still a bachelor, he accompanied younger brother Simon and his new wife to the interior of Poitou and retreated with them to the port city of Nantes in December 1775.  Germain, still a bachelor, died at Chantenay near Nantes in April 1784, in his mid-50s.  One wonders why he never married.   

Pierre III's fourth and youngest son Simon, born probably at Minas in c1741, moved on to the French Maritimes with older brother Germain after August 1752.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  They settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where Simon married Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Jacques Cyr and Marie-Josèphe Hébert, in February 1772.  Théotiste gave Simon a daughter there the following year.  In 1773, Simon and his family accompanied older brother Germain to Poitou and retreated with him and other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in December 1775.  They did not follow other Acadian exiles in France to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Pierre, fils's second son Jean-Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1708, married Anne Babin dit Barbe in c1728, no place given.  What happened to them in 1755?   

Pierre, fils's third and youngest son Charles, born at Minas in February 1709, probably died young.

Pierre's fourth and youngest son Clément, born at Port-Royal in c1674, married Madeleine, daughter of François Levron and Catherine Savoie, probably at Port-Royal in c1698 and, according to Bona Arsenault, also settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  Between 1698 and 1726, Madeleine gave Clément a dozen children, five daughters and seven sons.  Three of their daughters married into the Michel dit La Ruine, LeMarquis dit Clermont, Girouard, and Doiron families, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1768.  Four of Clément's seven sons, all of whom used their father's first name as a dit, created their own families.   

Oldest son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1701, died there in October 1703, age 2. 

Clément's second son Jean dit Clément, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1713, married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of François Michel and Jeanne Levron, in c1731 probably at Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1746, Isabelle gave Jean eight children, two sons and six daughters.  Their oldest daughter married into the Hébert family at Cobeguit on the eastern end of the Minas Basin.  Jean remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Charles Hébert and Catherine Saulnier, in c1747 probably at Annapolis Royal and moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  According to Arsenault, between 1750 and 1757, Marguerite gave Jean five more children, three sons and two daughters--13 children, five sons and eight daughters, by two wives.  In August 1752, a French official counted Jean, Marguerite, and eight of their children at Anse-aux-Pirogues in the island's interior.  The British deported members of the family to France in late 1758.  Jean dit Clément died in the sinking of the transport on which he was sailing, perhaps the Ruby, which was driven by a mid-December storm to the Azores, where it crashed on the rocks of Pico Island, taking 190 Acadians with it.  He would have been in his mid-40s at the time of his death.  Second wife Marguerite and at least three of his daughters survived the wreck and were taken to Le Havre, France, via Plymouth, England.  His oldest son and his family, perhaps also survivors of the Ruby mishap, landed at Cherbourg, France, in 1759 but moved on to Le Havre by 1764.  Two of Jean dit Clément's daughters married into the Gueret and Bouton families at Le Havre in 1764 and 1765.  Another daughter, Marie, married into the Boileau family in France, followed her husband to French Guiane in the early 1760s, remarried there into the Devievre, Gauriol, and Camus families, and died at Sinnamary, French Guiane, in August 1777.  At least one of Jean dit Clement's sons married, and his widow and daughters went to Spanish Louisiana. 

Oldest son Jean dit Clément, fils, by first wife Isabelle Michel, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1735, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where he married Ursule, daughter of Charles Hébert and Catherine Saulnier and sister of his stepmother, at Port-La-Joye in March 1756.  According to Bona Arsenault, Ursule gave Jean, fils a daughter in 1757.  The British deported them to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758, and they joined his family at Le Havre by 1764.  Jean, fils worked as a sailor and an "artisan" in the two ports.  Between 1759 and 1773, at Cherbourg and Le Havre, Ursule gave Jean, fils eight more children, four sons and four daughters.  All of the sons and one of the daughters died young.  In 1773, Jean, Ursule, and four of their daughters followed other exiles languishing in the coastal cities to the interior of Poitou.  Ursule gave Jean another son at Cenan there in November 1774--10 children, five daughters and five sons, in all.  In November 1775, Jean and his family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where Jean died in his late 30s or 40s before September 1784, when Ursule appeared on a list of Acadians in France who agreed to go to Spanish Louisiana and was called a widow.  Their youngest son also died at Nantes.  Widow Ursule and four of their daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Ursule did not remarry.  Her four Vincent dit Clément daughters all married, into the Pinet dit Pinel, Ferre, Baye, and Thibodeaux families, at New Orleans and on the Lafourche, and called themselves Vincents. 

Clément's third son Joseph dit Clément, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1715, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Hébert and Jeanne Doiron, in c1740 probably at Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1756, Marguerite gave Joseph nine children, six sons and three daughters.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Joseph, Marguerite, and six of their children at Anse-au-Matelot on the island's southeast shore.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Marguerite and three of their children died on the crossing.  Arsenault says Marguerite died on the Isle of Jersey in c1760, which is odd considering that their ship reached St.-Malo in late January 1759.  Joseph and his children settled on the west bank of the river south of St.-Malo at Pleurtuit, where, at age 46, Joseph remarried to Marie, 43-year-old daughter of locals Yves Gratien and Marie Dequel and widow of François Marquis dit Savoie, in August 1761.  Between 1762 and 1765, at Pleurtuit and nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Marie gave Joseph three more children, two sons and a daughter--a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, by two wives.  Joseph's oldest daughter Marguerite by first wife Marguerite married into the Trahan family at Pleurtuit in 1768.  One of her sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  In 1793, Republican officials at St.-Malo counted Marie Gratien, "wid. of Joseph Vincent, an Acadian," with youngest son Yves-Charles.  The official noted that Marie had been born "at St-Pierre in 1718," perhaps a local parish. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, by first wife Marguerite Hébert, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1741, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, St.-Malo, and Pleurtuit, where he married Perrine, daughter of locals Julien Bodeneuf and Louise Bourges and widow of Mathurin Hoguigue, in January 1766.  If they were still living, they evidently remained in France in 1785. 

Joseph, père's second son Alexis, by first wife Marguerite Hébert, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1744, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, St.-Malo, and Pleurtuit, where he married Renée, daughter of locals Michel Hoguigue and Marie Erault and widow of Jean Beaumanoir, in July 1766.  Between 1767 and 1772, Renée gave Alexis three children, two sons and a daughter.  The younger son and the daughter died as infants.  In 1793, Republican officials at St.-Malo counted Renée-Perrine, "dgtr. of Alexis Vincent, an Acadian," with her step-grandmother and an uncle, so Alexis and Renée evidently had another daughter after 1772.  The official called the daughter a "day-laboureur." 

Joseph, père's third son François, by first wife Marguerite Hébert, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1746, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, St.-Malo, and Pleurtuit.  One wonders what happened to him there. 

Joseph, père's fourth son Firmin, by first wife Marguerite Hébert, born at probably Annapolis Royal in c1749, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, St.-Malo, and Pleurtuit.  He married Eugénie-Marie, daughter of locals Charles Tardivet and Marie Printel of St.-Jouan-des-Guerets, at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in November 1769.  Between 1771 and 1774, at St.-Servan, Eugénie-Marie gave Firmin three children, two sons and a daughter, one of whom died in infancy.  In 1773, Firmin took his family to the interior of Poitou.  In November 1775, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Between 1776 and 1784, in St.-Similien Parish and nearby Chantenay, Eugénie-Marie gave Firmin three more children, a son and two daughters--six children, three sons and three daughters, in all.  Their oldest daughter died at Chantenay in July 1783.  No member of the family followed other Acadians exiles to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.

Joseph, père's fifth son Baptiste, by first wife Marguerite Hébert, born on Île St.-Jean in c1755, died on the crossing to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. 

Joseph, père's sixth son Janvier, by first wife Marguerite Hébert, born on Île St.-Jean in c1756, died on the crossing to St.-Malo in late 1758. 

Joseph, père's seventh son Joseph-Arnault, by second wife Marie Gratien, was born at Pleurtuit, France, in June 1762.  He settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, married, and fathered several children.  In 1793, Republican officials at St.-Malo counted Joseph Vincent, a carpenter and father, with several children recently born.  One wonders who his wife may have been. 

Joseph, père's eighth and youngest son Yves-Charles, by second wife Marie Gratien, was born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in April 1765.  In 1793, Republican officials at St.-Malo counted Yves-Charles, now in his late 20s, with his mother and made no mention of a wife. 

Clément's fourth son Paul, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1717, died the following October.  

Clément's fifth son Claude, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1721, died there at September 1722, age 1.   

Clément's sixth son Pierre dit Clément, born Annapolis Royal in October 1723, married Blanche, daughter of Louis Michel and Marguerite Forest, in c1743, probably at Annapolis Royal.  Blanche gave Pierre two children, a daughter and a son, in 1744 and 1748.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  Pierre remarried to Rosalie dite Rose, daughter of Antoine Barrieau and Angélique Thibodeau, at Port-La-Joye on the island in May 1752.  She evidently gave him no more children.  That August, a French official counted Pierre, Rose, and his two children from his first marriage at Anse-à-Dubuisson in the island's southern interior.  Pierre and his family left the island before its dérangement in 1758 and sought refuge in Canada.  Pierre, at age 33, remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Françoise, daughter of Canadians Philippe Paquet and Dorothée Plante, at St.-Jean, Île d'Orléans, below Québec, in February 1757.  They remained in the northern province.  According to Arsenault, Marie-Françoise gave Pierre two more children, a son and a daughter, in 1758 and 1760--four children, two daughters and two sons, by two of his wives.  Pierre died at St.-Gervais de Bellechasse across from Québec City in June 1787, age 63.  One of his daughters by his third wife married into the Côté family there.  His sons also married in the area. 

Older son Isidore, by first wife Blanche Michel, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1748, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and Canada, where he married Marie-Anne, daughter of Antoine Palain and Barbe Brulotte, at Québec City in February 1770. 

Pierre's younger son Pierre-Michel, by third wife Marie-Françoise Paquet, born in Canada in c1758, married Marie, daughter of Louis Côté and Marie-Angélique Valllière and sister of his sister Marie's husband, at St.-Charles de Bellechasse across from Québec City, in 1782. 

Clément's seventh and youngest son François dit Clément, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1725, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Philippe Doiron and Marie-Josèphe Guédry, in c1747 probably at Annapolis Royal, and moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1760, Marie-Josèphe gave François seven children, two sons and five daughters, including a set of twins.  In August 1752, a French official counted François, Marie, and two of their children, at Anse-au-Matelot near his older brother Joseph.  They evidently left the island before its dérangement and followed his older brother Pierre to Canada.  François died at Beaumont below Québec City in May 1760, age 35.  His widow Marie-Josèphe married a Nolet at Beaumont the following September.  Two of François's daughters married into the Lévesque, Gentil, and Landais families at Kamouraska and Trois-Pistoles on the lower St. Lawrence.373

Robichaud

Étienne Robichaud, an early 1660s arrival, and his wife Françoise Boudrot created a large, influential family in the colony.  Between 1664 and 1677, Françoise gave Étienne six children, four sons and two daughters, all of whom married.  Their daughters married into the Landry and Petitot dit Saint-Seine families.  Étienne and Françoise's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also at Minas and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin, and in the French Maritimes.  Most of them, however, remained at Annapolis Royal.  At least 24 of Étienne's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and from France in 1785.  Many more of Étienne's descendants could be found in Canada, greater Acadia, and France after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Charles dit Cadet, born at Port-Royal in c1667, marrried Marie, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau and Jeanne Thériot, at Port-Royal in c1686.  Between 1687 and 1700, Marie gave Cadet 10 children, a daughter and nine sons, including a set of twins.  Cadet remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean Bourg and Marguerite Martin and widow of Jean Dubois, at Port-Royal in June 1703.  Between 1704 and 1718, this Marie gave Cadet eight more children, three sons and five daughters--18 children, six daughters and a dozen sons, by two wives.  Cadet died at Annapolis Royal in May 1737, age 70.  Four of his daughters by his second wife married into the Arosteguy, Hébert dit Manuel, and Boudrot families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana in 1765.  Six of Cadet's many sons, by both wives, also married. 

Oldest son Charles, fils, a twin, by first wife Marie Thibodeau, born at Port-Royal in c1690, died there in October 1702, age 12. 

Cadet's second son René, Charles, fils's twin, by first wife Marie Thibodeau, also died young.   

Cadet's third son Antoine, by first wife Marie Thibodeau, born at Port-Royal in c1692, also died young.   

Cadet's fourth son Augustin, by first wife Marie Thibodeau, born at Port-Royal in c1693, while still a bachelor, moved on to the French Maritimes after August 1752.  The British deported him to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He died there in March 1759, in his late 60s, soon after his arrival.  He never married.   

Cadet's fifth son Jean dit Cadet, by first wife Marie Thibodeau, born at Port-Royal in c1694, married Marie, daughter of Jacques Léger and Madeleine Trahan, at Annapolis Royal in November 1717.  They settled at Cobeguit on the east end of the Minas Basin before moving on to Île St.-Jean in c1751.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1718 and 1739, Marie gave Jean dit Cadet eight children, five sons and three daughters.  They may have had another son--nine children in all.  A French official counted Jean, Marie, seven of their children, five sons and two daughters, and a Blanchard orphan at Bédec on the island's south shore in August 1752.  Most of them either left the island before 1758 or escaped the roundup there that year, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Some of them moved on to Canada.  Jean died after November 1758, in his early 60s, perhaps in Canada.  One son emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Two others ended up in France.  One of them died there, but his two sons followed their widowed mother to Louisiana in 1785.  Another son settled in Canada. 

Third son René, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1726, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Bédec in August 1752.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Ambroise Martin dit Barnabé and his first wife Anne Cyr of Chignecto, probably on Île St.-Jean in c1755.  She had been counted with her family at Malpeque across the island in August 1752.  Marguerite gave René two daughters in 1756 and 1758.  The family either left the island before 1758 or, more likely, escaped the British roundup there later that year, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By 1760, they had made their way to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs and joined hundreds of other Acadian refugees there.  British forces attacked the French stronghold in the summer of 1760, and the French surrendered Restigouche the following October.  The British held René, his family, and hundreds of other exiles in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  René and his family were held for a time at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, before the British moved them to the prison barracks at Halifax by August 1763.  In 1764-65, René, Marguerite, and their two daughters, along with orphan Marin Robichaux, followed the Broussards to New Orleans via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and to lower Bayou Teche--the first of Robichauxs to reach the Spanish colony.  In August 1765, René, in his late 30s, died in the epidemic that struck the Teche valley Acadians that spring, summer, and fall.  Young Marin also died later in August.  René's widow Marguerite and their daughters remained on the Teche.  Marguerite remarried to Antoine Borda, a French surgeon, at Attakapas in October 1767.  Daughters Madeleine and Geneviève married into the Hébert and Dugas families at Attakapas, so the blood of the family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Jean dit Cadet's putative fourth son Alexandre, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1727, followed his family to Île St.-Jean.  He married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter perhaps of fellow Acadians François Bourg and Marguerite Hébert, in c1752 probably on the island.  The couple was not counted on the island in August 1752.  Between 1753 and 1758, on Île St.-Jean, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Alexandre three children, two sons and a daughter.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  All three of their children died at sea.  The couple settled in the suburb of St.-Énogat, now Dinard, where, between 1760 and 1773, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Alexandre seven more children, another son and six more daughters.  Three of the children, the son and two daughters, died before 1773, when Alexandre took his family to the interior of Poitou.  Marguerite-Josèphe gave him another daughter at Leigné-des-Bois, Poitou, in 1774, but one of their older daughters also died in there.  In November 1775, Alexandre, Marguerite-Josèphe, and their three remaining daughters retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.   In 1776, in St.-Donatien Parish, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Alexandre another daughter there--a dozen children, three sons and nine daughters, in all, but two of their older daughters also died in the parish that year.  Sadly, in 1785, only two, perhaps three, of their children, all daughters, were still living!  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Jean dit Cadet's fifth son Pierre, born in c1730, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Bédec in August 1752.  He married Anne-Marie Blanchard in c1758 probably on Île St.-Jean, on the eve of the island's dérangement.  Unlike other members of his family, he did not escape the British roundup on the island.  Not long after their marriage, the British deported the couple to St.-Malo, France.  They survived the crossing and settled on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo at St.-Suliac.   Anne-Marie gave him a daughter there in May 1759, but the baby died three days after her birth.  Anne-Marie died at week later, age 23.  Pierre remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Hébert and Madeleine Doiron, at St.-Suliac in November 1761.  Between 1763 and 1772, at St.-Suliac, Anne gave Pierre six more children, four sons and two daughters.  The two older sons died young, one of them from smallpox in April 1773.  Later that year, Pierre took his family to Poitou.  Anne gave him two more children there, a daughter and a son.  The daughter, along with an older brother, died at Leigné-les-Bois east of Châtellerault.  In March 1776, Pierre, Anne, and their three remaining children retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes.  In 1779 and 1783, Anne gave Pierre two more children in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes--11 children, five daughters and six sons, by two wives, in greater Acadia and France.  Pierre died in St.-Nicolas Parish in August 1783, age 53.  In 1785, widow Anne and their four remaining children--two daughers and two sons--followed other exiles in France to Spanish Louisiana and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  She remarried to a LeBlanc widower on the upper bayou.  Her Robichaud daughters married into the Rassicot, De La Mazière, and Naquin families there.  Her Robichaud sons also married, into the Prejean and Malbrough families on the upper bayou, where their family lines endured. 

Jean dit Cadet's sixth and youngest son François, born in c1734, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Bédec in August 1752.  In the 1750s, perhaps before the island's dérangement in 1758, he followed members of his family to Canada and married Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Thibodeau and Bernard Préjean of Annapolis Royal, at Québec in November 1758.  They settled at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in 1760, moved to L'Islet on the lower St. Lawrence in 1762, and to Québec City in 1764.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1764, Cécile gave François three children, a daughter and two sons.  Their daughter married into the Richer family at Bécancour, but their sons married on the lower St. Lawrence. 

Older son Louis, born in Canada in c1762, married Élisabeth, daughter of Pierre Provost and Élisabeth Bélanger, at St.-Jean-Port-Joli on the lower St. Lawrence below L'Islet n May 1792. 

François's younger son François, fils, born in Canada in c1764, married Suzanne, another daughter of Pierre Provost and Élisabeth Bélanger, at St.-Jean-Port-Joli in November 1791, and, at age 41, remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charlies Orillon dit Champagne and Angélique Gauthier, at Nicolet on upper Bayou Lafourche across from Trois-Rivières, in May 1805. 

Cadet's sixth son Alexandre, by first wife Marie Thibodeau, born at Port-Royal in c1695, married ____, daughter of Abraham Bourg and Anne Dugas, in c1726 probably at Annapolis Royal.  Did they have any children?  Were they still alive in 1755? 

Cadet's seventh son Joseph dit Cadet, by first wife Marie Thibodeau, born at Port-Royal in c1697, married Madeleine, daughter of Martin Dupuis and Marie Landry, at Grand-Pré in May 1725.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1729 and 1743, Madeleine gave Joseph dit Cadet six children, three daughters and three sons.  If any of the family was still at Minas in the fall of 1755, they evidently escaped the British roundup there and sought refuge in Canada.  Joseph died after July 1760, no place recorded, probably in his early 60s.  One of his daughters had married into the Lebert family in the mid-1740s, moved on to the French Maritimes, was deported to France in the late 1750s, and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 as a widow.  One of his sons was deported to France, and two others created their own families in British Canada.  One of Joseph dit Cadet's grandsons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Oldest son Charles, born at Minas in June 1734, moved on to the French Maritimes after 1752.  The British deported him with the family of cousin Jean-Baptiste Landry to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  He settled on the west side of the river south of St. Malo at Plouër-sur-Rance, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor LeBlanc and Marie Aucoin of Chignecto and widow of Jean-Jacques Bonnière, in July 1760.  Marie gave Charles a son at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in October 1768.  Charles took his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  After two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Charles died at nearby Chantenay in July 1783, age 49.  Widow Marie remarried to an Henry widower at Chantenay in October 1784.  She, her new husband, his children from a previous marriage, and her Robichaud son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  They followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, where her Robichaud son married twice. 

Only son Charles, fils, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in October 1768, followed his family to Poitou and Chantenay and his mother and stepfather to Baton Rouge.  He married Jeanne-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Henry and Marguerite-Josèphe Thériot, probably at Baton Rouge in February 1792.  She gave him a son, Isidore, at Baton Rouge in March 1797.  Charles, fils remarried to Marie-Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Guidry and his second wife Anne Moïse and widow of Pierre Aucoin, at Baton Rouge in May 1801.  Charles, fils died by August 1806, in his late 30s, when his wife remarried at Baton Rouge.  His only son evidently died young, so this family line did not endure in the Bayou State. 

Joseph dit Cadet's second son Joseph, born at Minas in c1740, followed his family to Canada and married Élisabeth, daughter of François Lebeau and Françoise Demers, at Boucherville across from Montréal in January 1766. 

Joseph dit Cadet's third and youngest son Dominique, born at Minas in c1743, followed his family to Canada and, at age 31, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Louis Vachon and Anne-Élisabeth Campagnard, at Québec City in January 1774. 

Cadet's eighth son François, by first wife Marie Thibodeau, born at Port-Royal in c1697 or 1698, married Agathe, daughter of Jean Turpin and Catherine Bourg, in c1728 (Arsenault) or c1731 (Robichaux), place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1735, Agathe gave François three daughters.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., in his study of the Acadians in France, gives them eight children, three daughters and five sons, between 1732 and 1753.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean after 1752 and were there in May 1756, when their oldest daughter Judith married into the Forest famliy at Port-La-Joye.  Their second daughter Anne-Blanche also married a Forest there in January 1757.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  François's two youngest children, a daughter and a son, ages 8 and 5, died at sea.  François, at age 62, and another son, age 13, died of smallpox at nearby Ploubalay in May 1759.  His widow and five remaining children settled at nearby Plouër-sur-Rance before moving on to St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Agathe took her family to the interior of Poitou in 1773.  She died at Châtellerault there in September 1774, age 70.  Only two of her sons married.  No member of this family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Oldest son François, fils, born in Nova Scotia in c1734, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo and his widowed mother to Ploubalay and St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where, at age 31, he married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Élisabeth Benoit, in April 1765.  Élisabeth gave François, fils a son and a daughter at St.-Servan in 1766 and 1767, the second child born posthumously.  François, fils died there in January 1767, age 33.  His family was still at St.-Servan in 1772.  One wonders if his widow remarried.  Neither she nor any of her Robichaud children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Her daughter married into the Pochet family in France and was living with him at St.-Malo in 1793.  Élisabeth's son also came of age in France. 

Only son François-Joseph, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in March 1766, remained there with his widowed mother and sister and became a carpenter.  French officials counted him with his sister and her husband at St.-Malo in 1793, when he would have been age 27; the official called him a Robichot.  The official said nothing of a wife and children for the young carpenter, so one wonders if François-Joseph married. 

François, père's second son Mathurin, born in Nova Scotia in c1740, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo and his widowed mother to Ploubalay and St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  He died at St.-Servan in May 1766, age 26.  He did not marry. 

François, père's third son Jean-Pierre, born in Nova Scotia in c1744, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo and his widowed mother to Ploubalay and St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Though he worked as a sailor in the mother country, he followed his widowed mother to Poitou in 1773 and married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude LeBlanc and Madeleine Boudrot and widow of Séverin Doiron, in St.-Jean L'Evangeliste Parish, Châtellerault, Poitou, in September 1774, a week after his mother's death there.  In December 1775, after two and a half years of effort, the couple retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Between 1776 and 1781, Geneviève gave Jean-Pierre three sons in Ste.-Croix Parish, Nantes.  The oldest and youngest sons died young.  Geneviève died in Ste.-Croix Parish in October 1782, age 44.  Jean-Pierre and his remaining son, who would have been age 7, did not follow other Acadian exiles to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

François, père's fourth son Joseph, born in Nova Scotia in c1746, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo.  He died of smallpox at nearby Ploubalay, age 13, three days after his father died there of the same disease. 

François, père's fifth and youngest son Alexandre, born in Nova Scotia in c1753, followed his family to Île St.-Jean.  He died on the crossing to St.-Malo in late 1758, age 8. 

Cadet's ninth son Jacques, by first wife Marie Thibodeau, born at Port-Royal in c1700, probably died young.   

Cadet's tenth son Joseph, by second wife Marie Bourg, the second with the name, born at Port-Royal in c1704, married Claire, daughter of André LeBlanc and Marie Dugas, at Grand-Pré in April 1726.  They settled at Cobeguit.  Between 1727  and 1754, Claire gave Joseph a dozen children, five daughters and seven sons.  Their oldest son married at Cobeguit in c1750.  The family moved on to the French Maritimes after 1752 and were deported to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Their youngest son died at sea.  Joseph died at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in March 1759, age 55, soon after he reached the Breton port.  Widow Claire and her family remained at St.-Servan, where they were still living in 1772.  She did not remarry.  Two of her older daughters married there, as did four of her younger sons.  One of the daughters moved on to Belle-Île-en-Mer in late 1765 but rejoined her family ast St.-Servan after her husband died.  In 1774, probably via the Channel island of Jersey, Claire led her children, both married and unmarried, back to greater Acadia.  One of her daughter's husbands fell into the sea from the ship Gracieuse the last day of December 1773 perhaps on the eve of the voyage to North America.  In 1774, British officials counted Claire and her family at Bonaventure, a fishery settlement in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Four of her daughters married into the Gendre, Dugas, Richard, and Daigle families in France and greater Acadia.  Six of her sons also married, in France and Gaspésie, and resettled in eastern New Brunswick in the 1790s. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born probably at Cobeguit in c1728, married Marie Michel, in c1750 says Bona Arsenault, but Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., followed here, says they married in c1758 on the eve of the island's dérangement.  They had no children.  They followed his family to St.-Servan-sur-Mer and to Bonaventure, where they were counted with them in 1774.  Marie died there in May 1799, in her early 40s.  Joseph, fils, who evidently did not remarry, moved on to Aldouane near St.-Charles-de-Kent, southeastern New Brunswick, and died there in November 1812, in his mid-80s. 

Joseph, père's second son Pierre, born probably at Cobeguit in c1735, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where he married Anne Daigle in c1758 on the eve of deportation.  Anne was pregnant on the crossing.  They followed his family to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where Anne died in May 1759, age 21, the day she gave birth to twin daughters there.  The twins died later that month, five days apart.  Pierre remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Michel and Marie-Josèphe Vincent of Pigiguit and widow of François LeBlanc of Minas, at St.-Servan in August 1761.  Between May 1762 and January 1774, at St.-Servan, this Anne gave Pierre eight more children, four daughters and four sons.  All but one of them survived childhood.  Pierre and his family followed his widowed mother and siblings to Gaspésie and were counted with them at Bonaventure in 1774.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Pierre another son in 1776--11 children, six daughter and five sons, by two wives.  They, too, moved on to southeastern New Brunswick.  Pierre died at Aldouane in February 1807, in his early 70s.  His daughters by his second wife married into the Arsenault, Daigle, Bernard, and Caillouet families at Bonaventure.  Four of his sons also married.

Oldest son Joseph-Servan, by second wife Anne Michel, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in May 1765, followed his family to Gaspésie and married Marguerite-Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and Catherine Comeau, at Bonaventure in February 1791.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1792 and 1815, Marguerite-Pélagie gave Joseph-Servan a dozen children, four sons and eight daughters.  They, too, resettled at St.-Charles-de-Kent in eastern New Brunswick.  Seven of Joseph-Servan's daughters married into the Richard, Babin, Chevary, Grey, and Robichaud families at nearby Richibouctou, now Richibucto.  His sons also married there.

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Bonaventure in c1794, married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Petitpas and Anne Downing, at Richibouctou in November 1818.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1819 and 1842, Anne gave Joseph 14 children, six daughters and eight sons.

Joseph-Servan's second son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Bonaventure in c1795, married, at age 34, cousin Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Robichaud and Agnès Cormier, at Richbouctou in February 1829. They settled at St.-Charles-de-Kent.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1830 and 1851, Henriette gave Jean-Baptiste eight children, four daughers and four sons. 

Joseph-Servan's third son Nicolas, born probably at Bonvaventure in c1803, married Marguerite, daughter fellow Acadians David Blanchard and Marie Richard, in August 1830, place not given.  They settled at St.-Charles-de-Kent.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1831 and 1852, Marguerite gave Nicolas six children, three sons and three daughters. 

Joseph-Servan's fourth and youngest son Grégoire, born probably at Bonaventure in c1811, married fellow Acadian Agnès Blanchard in October 1835, place not given.  They settled at St.-Charles-de-Kent.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1836 and 1857, Agnès gave Grégoire eight children, four daughters and four sons. 

Pierre's second son Pierre-Ignace, also called Pierre, fils, from second wife Anne Michel, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in October 1768, followed his family to Gaspésie and married Marguerite, daughter of François Richard and Marie Daigle, at Bonaventure in February 1791.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave him 10 children, three daughters and seven sons.  They resettled at Pointe-Sapin up the coast from St.-Charles-de-Kent in eastern New Brunswick.  Their daughters married Mazerolle brothers in the area.  All seven of their sons also created families of their own there.

Oldest son Luc, born in c1794, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Petitpas and Madeleine Downing, at Richibouctou in November 1814 and settled at Pointe-Sapin.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1816 and 1836, Marguerite gave Luc 11 children, six daughters and five sons. 

Pierre, fils's second son Pierre III, born in c1796, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadian Mathuring Mazerolle and Marie-Josèphe Mercure, at Richibouctou in October 1819; Marie-Josèphe's brothers married three of Pierre III's sisters.  They also settled at Pointe-Sapin.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1821 and 1843, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre III nine children, six sons and three daughters. 

Pierre, fils's third son Joseph, born in c1804, married Charlotte, another daughter of Joseph Petitpas and Madeleine Downing, probably at Richibouctou in October 1823, on the same day his older brother Pierre III married.  Joseph and his wife also settled at Pointe-Sapin.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1825 and 1844, Charlotte gave Joseph five children, four daughters and a son. 

Pierre, fils's fourth son Maxime, born in c1807, married Marie-Luce, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Doucet and Suzanne Godin, in July 1825 probably at Richibouctou.  They settled at Pointe-Sapin.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1826 and 1849, Marie-Luce gave Maxime 11 children, eight daughters and three sons. 

Pierre, fils's fifth son Michel, born in c1809, married Thérèse, yet another daughter of Joseph Petitpas and Madeleine Downing, at Richibouctou in November 1829 and settled at Pointe-Sapin.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1830 and 1850, Thérèse gave Michel nine children, six sons and three daughters. 

Pierre, fils's sixth son Norbert, born in c1811, married fellow Acadian Anne-Marie Doucet at Baie-des-Vins, also called Baie-des-Ouines, between Pointe-Sapin and Miramichi, in January 1831.  They settled at Pointe-Sapin.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1832 and 1842, Anne-Marie gave Norbert seven children, four sons and three daughters. 

Pierre, fils's seventh and youngest son Casimir, born in c1814, married fellow Acadian Scholastique Doucet at Richibouctou in April 1834.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1835 and 1858, Scholastique gave Casimir nine children, four daughters and five sons. 

Pierre, père's fourth son Jean-Louis, by second wife Anne Michel, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in January 1774, followed his family to Gaspésie and married Natalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Gauthier and Théotiste Landry, at Bonaventure in May 1795.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1796 and 1820, Natalie gave Jean-Louis a dozen children, nine daughters and three sons.  They resettled at St.-Charles-de-Kent in eastern New Brunswick in c1798.  Four of their daughters married into the Daigle and Richard families.  Jean-Louis's sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest son Hubert, born in c1798, married Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Thibodeau and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Richibouctou in September 1823.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1824 and 1842, Hélène gave Hubert nine children, six daughters and three sons. 

Jean-Louis's second son Frédéric, born in c1800, married Anne-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Casimir Daigle and Angélique-Françoise Henry, at St.-Charles-de-Kent in January 1831.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne-Marie gave Frédéric a son in 1835 who died young. 

Jean-Louis's third and youngest son Lazare, born in c1811, married Luce, another daughter of Casimir Daigle and Angélique-Françoise Henry, in c1840, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, betwen 1841 and 1849, Luce gave Lazare three children, two daughters and a son.  Lazare, at age 39, remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Augustin LeBlanc and Gertrude Bourg, at St.-Louis-de-Kent in November 1850.  According to Arsenault, in 1855 and 1856, Marie gave Lazare two sons--five children, two daughters and three sons, in all by two wives. 

Pierre, père's fifth and youngest son Jacques-Cyrille, by second wife Anne Michel, born at Bonaventure, Gaspésie, in c1776, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arsenault and Marie Cyr, at St.-Charles-de-Kent in May 1801.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1802 and 1825, Marguerite gave Jacques eight children, five sons and three daughters.  They remained at St.-Charles-de-Kent.  Two of their daughters married into the Daigle and Gallant families.  Jacques's sons also married.

Oldest son Pierre, born in c1802, married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Richard and Marie-Rose Babineau, at St.-Charles-de-Kent in January 1823 and remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1823 and 1835, Anne gave Pierre seven children, six sons and a daughter. 

Jacques's second son Maxime, born in c1804, married Judith, daughter of fellow Acadians Urbain Gallant and Nabbée Gallant, at St.-Charles-de-Kent in May 1826 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1830 and 1836, Judith gave Maxime three children, two sons and a daughter. 

Jacques's third son Alexandre, born in c1806, married Appoline, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Daigle and Marie-Blanche Léger, at Richibouctou in August 1830 and settled at St.-Charles-de-Kent.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1830 and 1856, Appoline gave Alexandre 14 children, 11 daughters and three sons. 

Jacques's fourth son Sylvestre, born in c1820, married fellow Acadian Henriette Desroches at Bouctouche down the coast from Richibouctou in August 1849.  They settled at St.-Charles-de-Kent.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1851 and 1862, Henriette gave Sylvestre seven children, four daughters and three sons. 

Jacques's fifth and youngest son Laurent, born in c1825, married Blanche Donnell in c1855, no place recorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1855 and 1869, Blanche gave Laurent four children, two sons and two daughters. 

Joseph, père's third son Michel, born probably at Cobeguit in c1746, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and his widowed mother to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, where he married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Anne Thériot, in February 1767.  Between 1767 and 1772, Françoise gave Michel four children, two sons and two daughters.  The two sons died in childhood.  Michel and his family followed his widowed mother and siblings to Gaspésie and were counted with them at Bonaventure in 1774.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1776 and 1784, Françoise gave Michel six more children, two sons and four daughters--10 children, four sons and six daughters, in all.  They, too, moved on to Aldouane in southeastern New Brunswick, where they were counted in 1790.  Michel died there in June 1825, in his late 70s.  Four of his daughters married into the Vautour, Richard, and Daigle families in eastern New Brunswick.  One of his sons also married there.

Fourth and youngest son François, born at Bonaventure in c1778, followed his family to southeastern New Brunswick and married, at age 30, Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Babineau and Anne Bastarache, at St.-Louis-de-Kent in August 1808.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1811 and 1822, Adélaïde gave François seven children, three sons and four daughters.  They settled at nearby St.-Charles-de-Kent. 

Joseph, père's fourth son Isidore, born probably at Cobeguit in c1749, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and his widowed mother to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudrot and Hélène Landry, in April 1769.  Between 1770 and 1773, at St.-Servan, Marguerite gave Isidore three children, a son and two daughters.  Isidore and his family followed his widowed mother and siblings to Gaspésie and were counted with them at Bonaventure in 1774.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1774 and 1795, Marguerite gave Isidore 10 more children, seven sons and three daughters--13 children, eight sons and five daughters, in all.  Isidore helped found the community of Pokemouche/Inkerman in northeastern New Brunswick southwest of Shippagan.  He died there in September 1823, in his mid-70s.  His daughters married into the Boudreau, Harquail dit Jersiais, Vienneau, and Arseneau families in eastern New Brunswick.  Seven of his eight sons also married in the region.

Oldest son Jean-Isidore, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in July 1770, followed his family to Gaspésie but did not remain there.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin Bourgeois and Anne Thébeau, at Memramcook, southeastern New Brunswic, in 1797 and remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1798 and 1821, Marie gave Jean-Isidore a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters. 

Isidore's second son Joseph, born probably at Bonaventure in c1774, followed his family to northeastern New Brunswick and married Vénérande, daughter of Jean Vienneau and his Acadian wife Rosalie Comeau, at Inkerman near Shippagan in February 1805 and remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1806 and 1822, Vénérande gave Joseph nine children, six daughters and three sons. 

Isidore's third son Pierre-Servé, born probably at Bonaventure in c1776, followed his family to northeastern New Brunswick and married Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Arseneau and Marguerite-Perpétué Savoie, probably at Inkerman in August 1806 and remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1808 and 1828, Isabelle gave Pierre-Servé 13 children, seven daughters and six sons, including a set of twins.  

Isidore's fourth son Charles, born probably at Bonaventure in c1779, followed his family to northeastern New Brunswick and married Adélaïde, daughter of fellow Acadians François Savoie and Madeleine Poirier, probably at Inkerman in c1805 and remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1806 and 1822, Adélaïde gave Charles 11 children, seven daughters and four sons. 

Isidore's fifth son André, born in c1786, married Véronique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Poirier and Charlotte Léger, probably at Inkerman in January 1812 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1813 and 1833, Véronique gave André 10 children, eight daughters and two sons. 

Isidore's seventh son Nicolas, born in c1790, married, at age 38, Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Caissie and Josette Vinenneau, probably at Inkernam in August 1828 and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1829 and 1847, Hélène gave Nicolas seven children, five sons and two daughters. 

Isidore's eighth and youngest son Maxime, born in c1795, married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Étienne Arseneau, in August 1819, no place recorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1820 and 1825, Anne gave Maxime three children, two sons and a daughter.  Maxime died by 1827, when his widow remarried to Grégoire Mazerolle, no place unrecorded. 

Joseph, père's fifth son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Cobeguit in c1751, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and his widowed mother to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, where he married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Cyr and Marie-Josèphe Hébert, in February 1773.  Félicité gave Jean-Baptiste a son at St.-Servan the following November.  They followed his widowed mother and siblings to Gaspésie and were counted with them at Bonaventure in 1774.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1775 and 1796, Félicité gave Jean-Baptiste 15 children, seven sons and eight daughters--16 children, eight sons and eight daughters, in all.  In 1790, Jean-Baptiste was, according to Arsenault, "l'un des principaux pionniers"--a principal settler--of Shippagan in northeastern New Brunswick.  He died there in March 1808, in his late 50s.  Six of his daughters married into the Léger, Landry, Blanchard, Savoie, Godin, and DeGrâce families in northeast New Brunswick.  Four of his sons also married in the region.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in November 1773, followed his family to Gaspésie but did not remain.  He married Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians François Savoie and Anne Poirier of Shippagan, at Shippagan in February 1797.  According to Bona Arsenault, beween 1800 and 1825, Théotiste gave Jean-Baptiste, fils 14 children, 11 daughters and three sons.  Jean-Baptiste, fils remarried to Barbe, daughter of Louis Poulin and Hélène Haché, in c1830 probably at Shippagan, where, Arsenault says, Jean-Baptiste, fils held land at Pointe-Brûlée and on Île de Shippagan. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's third son David, born in c1782, followed his family to northeastern New Brunswick and married Marie-Rébecca, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Savoie and Marie Bijeau of Neguac down the shore, in January 1807 probably at Shippagan, where they settled.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1807 and 1819, Marie-Rébecca gave David eight children, five daughters and three daughters.  David, at age 72, remarried to Vénérande Losier, widow of Clément Arsenault, in November 1854 probably at Shippagain. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's sixth son Léon, born in c1787, married Blanche, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Agathe Landry of Caraquet probably at Shippagan, where they remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1814 and 1831, Blanche gave Léon nine children, seven daughters and two sons. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's eighth and youngest son Augustin, born in c1795, married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadian Nicolas Chiasson and Geneviève Gionnais, in November 1827 probably at Shippagan, where they remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1828 and 1852, Marie-Rose gave Augustin 15 children, nine daughters and six sons, including a set of twins.  Augustin, in his early 60s, along with his older sons Honoré and Alexis, ages 21 and 17, drowned near Shippagan in July 1857. 

Joseph, père's sixth son Charles, born at Cobeguit or on Île St.-Jean in c1753, followed his family to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, and his widowed mother and siblings to Gaspésie.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Babineau, in c1785 probably in Gaspésie.  In c1790, he followed older brothers Joseph, Pierre, and Michel to St.-Charles-de-Kent, eastern New Brunswick.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1786 and 1818, Anne gave Charles 10 children, six daughters and four sons.  Four of their daughters married into the Barriault, David, and Desroches families.  His sons also married in the region.

Oldest son Paul-André, born in c1793, married Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadian Thomas Babin and Marie Richard of Richibouctou, probably at St.-Charles-de-Kent, where they remained.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1817 and 1833, Euphrosine gave Paul-André eight children, five daughters and three sons. 

Charles's second son Charles, fils, born in c1805, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Blanchard and Geneviève Daigle, in January 1831, no place given.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1832 and 1838, Marie gave Charles, fils three children, two daughters and a son. 

Charles, père's third son Jean-Baptiste, born in c1809, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles-Olivier Barriault and Marie-Anne Henri, sister of his sister Marguerite's husband, in August 1832, no place given.  According to Bona Arsenault, beween 1835 and 1847, Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste seven children, six sons and a daughter. 

Charles, père's fourth and youngest son Cyprien, born in c1811, married fellow Acadian Perpétué Desroches in September 18[41], place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1843 and 1855, Perpétué gave Cyprien seven children, four daughters and three sons, including a set of twins. 

Joseph, père's seventh and youngest son André, born at Cobeguit or on Île St.-Jean in c1755, died on the crossing to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758, age 3. 

Cadet's eleventh son Pierre dit Cadet, by second wife Marie Bourg, born at Port Royal in April 1707, married Susanne, daughter of Pierre Brassaud and Gabrielle Forest, in c1730, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, they settled at Cobeguit.  Arsenault says that between 1731 and 1749, Susanne gave Pierre dit Cadet 10 children, six daughters and four sons.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1751.  A French official counted Pierre, Susanne, and their nine children at Rivière-des-Blonds on the south shore of the island in August 1752.  In 1751 and 1753, their two oldest daughters Marie-Madeleine and Susanne married into the Deveau and LaForestrie families on Île St.-Jean.  Susanne died on the island by November 1756, when her husband remarried there.  Members of the family either left the island before 1758 or escaped the British roundup there later that year, crossed Mer Rouge, and took refuge on the mainland.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia.  After the war, they were among the relatively few exiles who chose to remain in British Nova Scotia.  Their third daughter Marie-Rose married into the Comeau family probably in Nova Scotia.  Two, perhaps three, of their sons settled in the British colony, in and around Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1737, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and into exile.  He married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Eustache Corporon and Angélique Viger, in c1763 probably in Nova Scotia.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1776, Marie-Rose gave Pierre, fils four children, two sons and two daughters.  British authorities counted the family at Halifax in 1768.  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" by Father Bailly, missionary, at La Pointe de l'Est near Halifax in October 1770.  British officials counted them at Dartsmouth near Halifax in 1771, after which they resettled on St. Mary's Bay in eastern Nova Scotia and were, according to Arsenault, "des pionniers" of Bas Tousquet, or Bas-de-Tusket, perhaps today's New Tusket, near the bay.  Their sons married in the area.

Older son Lazare, born in Nova Scotia in c1767, followed his family to St. Mary's Bay and married fellow Acadian Osite Doucet there in c1790.  They settled at Chéticamp, today's Bear River, northeast of St. Mary's Bay.  According to Bona Arsenault, Osite gave Lazare a daughter in 1797.

Pierre, fils's younger son Honoré, born in Nova Scotia in c1776, married fellow Acadian Marguerite Doucet in November 1812, place unrecorded.  They settled at Tusket Wedge, now Wedgeport, Nova Scotia, between Cape Forchu and Cape Sable. 

Pierre dit Cadet's second son Joseph dit Cadet, born perhaps at Cobeguit n c1740, sans doutte son of this couple, Bona Arsenault insists, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, though he was not counted with them at Rivières-des-Blond in August 1752, when he would have been age 12.  He also followed them into exile.  Aresenalt says he married fellow Acadian Madeleine Renaud at Halifax in July 1763, and she gave him a son, Casimir, in 1770, the year British officials counted them at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia.  Did they join his brothers on St. Mary's Bay? 

Pierre dit Cadet's third son Olivier, born perhaps at Cobeguit in c1742, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and into exile.  He married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Bénoni Hébert and Jeanne Savoie of Memramcook, in c1763, place not given.  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" by Missionary Father Bailly at Halifax in July 1769.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1784, Marie-Madeleine gave Olivier nine children, three sons and six daughters.  They were at Dartmouth near Halifax in 1771 and moved on to Bear River, St. Mary's Bay.  Four of their daughters married into the Trahan, Thibault, Saulnier, and McSweeney families.  Their sons also married and settled on St. Mary's Bay.

Oldest son Olivier, fils, born in c1764, married Ludivine, daughter of Paul Clermont, no place or date given.  According to Bona Arsenault, Ludivine gave Olivier, fils a daughter in c1790.  One wonders where they settled. 

Olivier, père's second son Joseph-Richard, born probably in Nova Scotia in c1766, married Brigitte, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Mazerolle and Rosalie Thibodeau, at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on the St. John River, in February 1798.  They settled at St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1799 and 1806, Brigitte gave Joseph-Richard three children, two sons and a daughter. 

Olivier, père's third and youngest son Bernardin, born probably in Nova Scotia in c1768, married Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Trahan and Agnès LeBlanc, in 1793, place not given.  They also settled on St. Mary's Bay.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1795 and 1806, Isabelle gave Bernardin seven children, four daughters and three sons. 

Cadet's twelfth and youngest son Charles, fils, the second with the name, by second wife Marie Bourg, born at Port-Royal in March 1709, evidently died young.

Étienne's second son Prudent, born at Port-Royal in c1669, married Henriette, daughter of Claude Petitpas and Catherine Bugaret, at Port-Royal in c1691, where he served as judge, syndic, and representative for Annapolis Royal to the Nova Scotia Council at Annapolis Royal.  Between 1692 and 1716, Henriette gave him a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons.  Prudent was in his mid-80s when Le Grand Dérangement came to the Annapolis valley in the fall of 1755.  The British attempted to deport him and members of his family to North Carolina aboard the transport Pembroke, but the exiles took over the vessel and made their escape up Rivière St.-Jean.  Prudent died on the river in 1756, age 87.  Six of his daughters married into the Doucet, Thériot, Gourdeau, Pellerin, Landry, and Dugas families.  All five of his sons married, three of them to sisters. 

Oldest son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in c1694, married Marie, daughter of René Forest and Françoise Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in February 1718.   According to Bona Arsenault, between 1718 and 1737, Marie gave Joseph nine children, seven sons and two daughters.  The British deported members of the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755, while others escaped the roundup at Annapolis Royal and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Joseph died at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence northeast of Montréal in May 1768, age 74.  Two of his sons emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Most of the others, like their father, settled in Canada.

Oldest son Prudent le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in c1718, married Marie, daughter of Michel dit Beaupré Richard and Marie-Josèphe Bourgeois, at Annapolis Royal in July 1744.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Prudent two daughters in 1745 and 1750.  One wonders what happened to the family in the fall of 1755.  Prudent le jeune's daughters married into the Dugas and Vincent families, one of them in Canada

Joseph's second son Joseph-Prudent, born at Annapolis Royal in c1722, married Marie Comeau probably at Annapolis Royal in c1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Joseph-Prudent a daughter in 1750.  Joseph-Prudent remarried to Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Claude Bourgeois and Marie LeBlanc, at Annapolis Royal in November 1752.  The family evidently moved on to the French Maritimes after 1752, and the British deported them to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758.  Joseph-Prudent died at Cherbourg in January 1759, age 36, soon after reaching the Norman port.  His widow remarried to a Boudrot widower there in 1762.  Somehow Joseph-Prudent's daughter Marguerite by his first wife made her way back to greater Acadia, if she ever left, and married into the Belliveau family on Baie Ste.-Marie, Nova Scotia, in October 1774. 

Joseph's third son Bruno, born at Annapolis Royal in c1724, married Anne-Félicité Broussard in c1745 probably at Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, she gave Bruno a son in 1751.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime during the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  British officials counted them at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in 1761 and 1762.  Anne-Félicité gave Bruno another son in 1764.  The following year, Bruno took his family to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  The couple had no more children in the colony.  He died on the river in the late 1760s, in his 40s.  His older son Firmin dit Ephrem dit Frème married into the Surrette family on the river but resettled on the western prairies, establishing a western branch of the family there. 

Joseph's fourth son Étienne, born at Annapolis Royal in c1726, married Marie-Modeste, daughter of Charles Belliveau and Agnès Gaudet, at Annapolis Royal in February 1752.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1754 and 1769, Marie-Modeste gave Étienne seven children, four daughters and three sons.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  They followed other exiles from New England to British Canada in the late 1760s.  Étienne died at Pointe-aux-Trembles northeast of Montréal in January 1770, in his early 40s.  One of his daughters also married there, into the Christin family. 

Joseph's fifth son Amable, born at Annapolis Royal in c1732, escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and joined his older brother Bruno on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Amable married cousin Anastasie Dugas in c1759, place unrecorded.  Between 1760 and 1764, Anastasie gave Amable at least three children, two sons and a daughter.  Sometime during the late 1750s or early 1760s, the couple either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Amable, his wife, and three children appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  Amable and his family followed his brother Bruno to Louisiana in 1765 and settled near them at Cabahannocer.  Anastasie gave Amable another son in the colony before Amable died at Cabahannocer in c1766, in his early 30s.  All three of his sons married on the river, into the LeBlanc and Babin families, but they did not remain.  By the mid-1790s, they had joined the Acadian exodus from the river to Bayou Lafourche, where they created robust family lines.  Most of the Robichauxs of southeastern Louisiana are descended from Amable's three sons. 

Joseph's sixth son Polycarpe, born at Annapolis Royal in c1735, followed members of his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  He married Élisabeth, another daughter of Claude Bourgeois and Marie LeBlanc, in New England in c1760.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence in September 1767 soon after they followed other exiles in New England to British Canada.  According to Bona Arsenault, Élisabeth gave Polycarpe a daughter in 1762.  She married into the Fontaine family at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in the interior northwest of L'Assomption, date not given. 

Joseph's seventh and youngest son Michel, born at Annapolis Royal in c1737, followed members of his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Landry and Marguerite Daigre, in New England in c1761.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Deschambault on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec and Trois-Rivières in October 1766 soon after they followed other exiles in New England to Canada.  Michel died at Deschambault in February 1767, age 30.  His line of the family may have died with him. 

Prudent's second son Prudent, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1696, married Françoise, daughter of Germain Bourgeois and Madeleine Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in January 1719.  Prudent, fils was a merchant and, like his father, a representative for Annapolis Royal to the colonial Council.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1719 and 1737, Françoise gave Prudent, fils nine children, six daughters and three sons.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Three of their daughters married into the Amireau, Gaudet, and Fontaine families.  Only one of Prudent, fils's sons seems to have married.   

Second son Dominique, born at Annapolis Royal in c1723, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Forest and Marie Guilbeau, at Annapolis Royal in August 1744.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1760, Marguerite gave Dominique 10 children, three daughters and seven sons, including two sets of twins.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  In the late 1760s, they followed other Acadian exiles in New England to Canada.  Dominique died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan northeast of Montréal in February 1791, in his late 60s.  One of his daughters married into the Belliveau family at St.-Jacques.  Three of his sons also married there and at nearby L'Assomption. 

Fourth son Édouard, born probably in Connecticut in c1757, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Amable, daughter of Antoine Troye-Lafranchise at Varannes across from Montréal in September 1779.  They settled at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in 1781 and then at Repentigny above Montréal in 1789.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1780 and 1789, Marie-Amable gave Édouard four children, two sons and two daughters. 

Dominique's sixth son Isaac, a twin, born probably in Connecticut in c1760, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Marie-Josèphe Lanoue and Marie-Josèphe Dugas, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in November 1784. 

Dominique's seventh son Joseph, Isaac's twin, followed his family to Canada and married, at age 34, Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Galarneau and Thérèse Leriche, at L'Assomption in November 1794. 

Prudent, père's third son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1698, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, another daughter of Germain Bourgeois and Madeleine Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in February 1724.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1725 and 1743, Marie-Madeleine gave Pierre eight children, four sons and four daughters.  Pierre died at Annapolis Royal in November 1749, in his early 50s.  The British deported members of his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  In the late 1760s, they followed other exiles in New England to Canada and settled at Deschambault and Yamachiche on the upper St. Lawrence.  Pierre's daughters married into the Amireau, Forest, Babin, and Gignac families.  His four sons also married.

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1725, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of François Robichaud l'aîné and Angélique Pitre, at Annapolis Royal in February 1752.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1758, Marguerite gave Pierre, fils three children, a son and two daughters.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  In the late 1760s, they followed other exiles in New England to Canada and settled at St.-Denis-de-Richelieu on the the lower Richelieu northeast of Montréal. 

Pierre, père's second son Armand, born at Annapolis Royal in c1727, evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  In his mid-30s, he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Mouton and Marguerite Caissie and widow of Jean Loiseau, at Québec in July 1763. 

Pierre, père's third son Tite, born at Annapolis Royal in c1735, followed his family to Massachusetts in 1755.  He married fellow Acadian Marie Landry in New England in c1763.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Dechambault in November 1766 on the upper St. Lawrence after they followed other exiles in New England to British Canada.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1768, Marie gave Tite three children, two daughters and a son. 

Pierre, père's fourth and youngest son Ephrem, born at Annapolis Royal in c1738, probably followed his family to Massachusetts in 1755 and to British Canada in the late 1760s.  In his mid-40s, he married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Lesieur-Duchesne and Françoise Moreau, at Yamachiche on the upper St. Lawrence in February 1784. 

Prudent, père's fourth son Louis dit Prudent, born at Port-Royal in August 1704, married Jeanne, yet another daughter of Germain Bourgeois and Madeleine Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in February 1730.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1753, Jeanne gave Louis 10 children, four daughters and six sons.  In September 1744, during King George's War, Louis assisted the British against the French at Annapolis Royal.  Nevertheless, in the fall of 1755, the British deported him and members of his family to Massachusetts.  Colonial officials counted them Cambridge in 1757 and 1760.  They were still in the colony in August 1763.  While in exile, Louis was authorized by the Bishop of Québec to officiate at the civil marriages of Acadian exiles held in New England, the marriages to be "rehabilitated" when the couples moved on to communities where Roman Catholic priests were allowed.  In the late 1760s, Louis and his family followed other exiles in New England to BritishbCanada.  He died at Québec in December 1780, age 76, perhaps from the pox.  Two of his daughters married into the LeBlanc/White family.  At least one of his sons also married.

Fourth son Othon, born at Annapolis Royal in c1742, followed his family to Massachusetts and perhaps to Canada.  If so, he did not remain in the St. Lawrence valley.  In his late 40s, he married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Thibodeau and Marguerite Dupuis, probably on the south shore of the Baie des Chaleurs in August 1789 and settled at Ste.-Anne-de-Burnt Church, eastern New Brunswick, northwest of Miramichi.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1790 and 1812, Louise gave Othon a dozen children, eight daughters and four sons, including a set of twins.  Othon's eight daughters married into the Poirier, Allain, and Dugas families at Caraquet up the shore, four of them to Poiriers.  Three of Othon's sons also married in the area, one of them to a Poirier.

Oldest son Louis le jeune, born in northeastern New Brunswick in c1791, married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Poirier and Charlotte Poirier, at Caraquet in January 1815.  Louis le jeune died at Caraquet in January 1869, in his late 70s. 

Othon's second son Fréderic, born in northeastern New Brunswick in c1793, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Savoie and Marie-Rose Bastarache, probably at Caraquet in July 1819. 

Othon's third son Othon, fils, born in northeastern New Brunswick in c1797, did not marry. 

Othon, père's fourth and youngest son Olivier, born in northeastern New Brunswick in c1801, married fellow Acadian Judith Thibodeau in c1823, place unrecorded. 

Prudent, père's fifth and youngest son François, born at Annapolis Royal in c1714,  married Osite, daughter of Claude LeBlanc and Jeanne Dugas, at Grand-Pré in June 1746.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1752, Osite gave François three children, two daughters and a son.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  François died of the pox, place unrecorded, in c1761, in his late 40s. 

Étienne's third son Alexandre, born at Port-Royal in c1675, married Anne, daughter of Charles Melanson and Marie Dugas and widow of Jacques de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, at Port-Royal in c1700.  Between the early 1700s and 1712, Anne gave Alexandre five daughters, who married into the Blanchard, Bourg, Landry, Dugas, and Granger families.  One of them died at Antigua in 1756 while being deported with her family to Connecticut aboard the transport Edward.  Alexandre died at Annapolis Royal in March 1742, age 67.  His line of the family, except for its blood, died with him. 

Étienne's fourth and youngest son François dit Niganne, born at Port-Royal in c1677, married Madeleine, daughter of Claude Thériot and Marie Gautrot, at Port-Royal in c1702.  Between 1703 and 1724, Madeleine gave Niganne nine children, four sons and five daughters.  He died at Annapolis Royal in December 1747, age 60.  Four of his daughters married into the Doucet, Richard, Dugas, and Winniett families, one of them to a British army officer turned merchant.  Three of his sons married, two of them to sisters whose parents were of the Acadian "aristocracy."   

Oldest son François l'aîné, born at Port-Royal in c1703, married Angélique, daughter of Claude Pitre and Marie Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in February 1727.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1728 and 1730, Angélique gave François l'aîné two daughters.  He died at Annapolis Royal by January 1730, in his late 20s.  His widow remarried to a Doucet.  Their older daughter Marguerite married a Robichaud cousin in Canada. 

Niganne's second son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1713, married Françoise, daughter of Alexandre Le Borgne de Bélisle, fils and Anastasie d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, at Annapolis Royal in January 1737.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1756, Françoise gave Pierre seven children, three sons and four daughters.  The family may have escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Pierre died at L'Islet on the lower St. Lawrence in November 1784 and was buried in the church cemetery there.  His daughters married into the D'Amours, Denault, Bernier, Lefebvre, and Pepin dit Lachance families.  One of his sons also married.

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1738, followed his family to Canada.  In his early 30s, he married Geneviève, daughter of Canadians Louis Guimond and Ursule Bernier, at L'Islet in November 1770.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1771 and 1782, Geneviève gave Pierre, fils nine children, four sons and five daughters.  Pierre, fils died at L'Islet in January 1785, in his late 40s.  His widow remarried to a Thibodeau at L'Islet.  Three of Pierre, fils's daughters married into the Couillard-Després, Bernier, Richard families at L'Islet and nearby Cap-St.-Ignace.  His four sons also married, three of them on the lower St. Lawrence.

Oldest son Pierre-Alexandre, born probably L'Islet in c1771, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Laurendeau and Marie Chrétien of St.-Jean-Port-Joli, at L'Islet in September 1798.  They settled at L'Isle-Verte farther down the St. Lawrence. 

Pierre, fils's second son Louis, born probably at L'Islet in c1777, married Marguerite Rabouin at St.-Hyacinthe in the interior east of Montréal, date not given. 

Pierre, fils's third son Joseph, born probably at L'Islet in c1780, married Marie-Angélique Languirand at St.-Hyacinthe in January 1803, and, at age 60, remarried to Marie, daughter of Michel Viens, at St.-Hyacinthe in October 1840. 

Pierre, fils's fourth and youngest son François-Régis le jeune, born probably at L'Islet in c1782, married Marguerite Beaudoin, widow of Jean-Baptiste Côté, place unrecorded, in May 1811, and remarried to Louise Petit, place and date unrecorded. 

Third and youngest son François-Régis, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1755, followed his family to Canada.  He died at L'Islet in July 1809, age 54.  He never married. 

Niganne's third son François le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1716, married Marie, another daughter of Alexandre Le Borgne de Bélisle, fils and Anastasie d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, at Annapolis Royal in January 1739.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1758, Marie gave François le jeune seven children, two daughters and five sons.  The family may have escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755.  François le jeune died after May 1764, in his late 40s or early 50s, place unrecorded.  His daughter married into the Durand and Jean families at L'Islet on the lower St.-Lawrence.  His five sons also married and settled in greater Acadia and Canada.

Oldest son François, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1741, may have escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge not in Canada but on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  He married fellow Acadian Françoise-Cécile Thibodeau in c1760 while the war was still on.   Bona Arsenault says they married at Coverdale (upper or lower he does not say) at present-day Moncton, New Brunswick.  One wonders what happened to the young couple after their marriage.  Were they captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war? 

François le jeune's second son Jean, born at Annapolis Royal in c1746, also may have escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge not in Canada but on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Jean married fellow Acadian Marie Levron in c1768, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Jean a daughter in 1773.  They settled at Kennebecasis in today's southern New Brunswick before moving to Tracadie in northeastern New Brunswick. 

François le jeune's third son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1751, followed members of his family to Canada and married Louise, daughter of Charles Chouinard and Dorothée Fortin, at St.-Jean-Port-Joli below L'Islet in October 1773 and settled there. 

François le jeune's fourth son Anselme, born at Annapolis Royal in c1753, followed members of his family to Canada and married Geneviève, daughter of Joseph Marquis and Françoise Coste, at Kamouraska below L'Islet and St.-Jean-Port-Joli, date not given. 

François le jeune's fifth and youngest son Michel, born in c1758 during exile, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Pinette, capitaine de milice, and Marguerite Michaud, at Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence in January 1784.  They settled at Rivière des Capes, Kamourska. 

Niganne's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1721, died at Annapolis Royal in January 1747, age 25, before he could marry.  Judging by the date of his death, one wonders if Joseph was a casualty of King George's War.375

Dupuis

Michel Dupuis, an early 1660s arrival, and his wife Marie Gautrot created another large family in the colony.  Between 1665 and 1679, Marie gave Michel five children, three sons and two daughters.  One of their daughters married into the Flan family.  All three of Michel's sons created families of their own.  His and Marie's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Minas, and on Île St.-Jean.  At least 31 of Michel's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, from French St.-Domingue and Maryland in the late 1760s, and from France in 1785.  Others, perhaps the majority of Michel's descendants, could be found in greater Acadia, France, French St.-Domingue, and especially in Canada after Le Grand Dérangement.  

Oldest son Martin, born at Port-Royal in c1665, married Marie, daughter of René Landry le jeune and Marie Bernard, in c1686 and settled at Rivière Gaspereau, Minas.  Between 1687 and 1712, Marie gave Martin 13 children, five sons and eight daughters, all of whom created their own families.  Martin died at Minas in August 1713, in his late 40s.  His daughters married into the Hébert, Blanchard, LeBlanc, Babin, Aucoin, and Robichaud dit Cadet families. 

Oldest son Jean, born probably at Minas in c1687, married Marguerite, daughter of Alexandre Richard and Isabelle Petitpas, at Annapolis Royal in August 1713 and settled at Rivière-des-Habitants, Minas.  Between 1715 and 1737, Marguerite gave Jean 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  Their daughters married Héberts.  All seven of Jean's sons created families of their own. 

Oldest son Germain le jeune, born probably at Minas in c1715, married Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Granger and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Minas in August 1753.  The British deported Germain and members of his family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  They were held at Penryn near Falmouth and were repatriated to France in the spring of 1763.  They landed probably at Morlaix in Brittany.  According to local church records, between 1763 and 1778, Marie-Marguerite gave Germain le jeune eight children, three sons and five daughters.  In June 1791, early in the French Revolution, French authorities counted Germain le jeune, wife Marie-Marguerite, their 18-year-old son Jean-Marie-Germain, and four of their daughters--Marie-Josèphe, age 26; Marie-Théotiste, age 22; Marie-Marguerite, age 20; and Marie-Josèphe-Esther, age 13--still at Morlaix.  One wonders what happened to their sons Amand-Charles and Jacques-Guillaume and their daughter Élisabeth-Marie-Thérèse.  One thing is certain:  none of them, like their parents and siblings, had emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Jean's second son Fabien, born probably at Minas in c1717, married Judith, daughter of René dit Groc Hébert and Marie Boudrot of Rivière-des-Habitants, at Grand-Pré in July 1739.  Judith gave Fabien at least seven children.  The British deported them to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Fabien died in the colony before 1763, in his 40s.  Judith, a widow, and seven of their children were still in the colony in 1763.  In 1764, she followed other Acadian exiles in New England to French St.-Domingue.  Two of her Dupuis children--8-year-old Joseph and 6-year-old Marguerite, both born in Connecticut, were baptized at Mirebalais in the interior of the island in late August 1764.  Son Joseph died at Mirebalais the following October.  Judith died there in November, age 39.  Daughter Marguerite died at Mirebalais in May 1775, age 15, so members of the family had remained in the sugar colony. 

Jean's third son Louis-Sylvain, called Sylvain, born at Minas in October 1721, married Françoise, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Françoise Landry, probably at Minas in c1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1771, Françoise gave Sylvain a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted Sylvain, Françoise, and seven of their children in Worcester County, on the eve of their relocation to Hampshire County.  They were still in the colony in August 1763.  They chose to resettle in Canada.  Sylvain died at L'Acadie, today's St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu on the upper Richelieu, in May 1799, age 78.  One of his daughters married into the Lesage family at Châteauguay above Montréal.  Two of his sons also married in the area.

Second son Eustache-Augustin, born probably at Minas in c1751, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada.  He married Marguerite, daughter of Louis Dubeau and Charlotte Mallet, at Montréal in September 1774.  They settled at St.-Anicet above Montréal.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1775 and 1785, Marguerite gave Eustache seven children, six sons and a daughter, including a set of twins. 

Sylvain's fourth son Joseph, born probably in Massachusetts in c1756, followed his family to Canada.  He married Anne Parent at Les Cèdres above Montréal in c1778. 

Jean's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in July 1723, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Claude Granger and Brigitte Landry, at Rivière-aux-Canards in November 1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste no children.  According to Stephen A. White, the British deported them to Connecticut in the fall of 1755, but Arsenault says they went to Massachusetts.  Birth records give the couple two sons, Jean-Baptiste, fils and Étienne, born probably in Connecticut in c1758 and c1759.  According to Arsenault, Jean-Baptiste remarried to fellow Acadian Marie-Josèphe Thibodeau in Massachusetts in c1761, and the marriage was "rehabilitated" at L'Assomption between Trois-Rivières and Montréal, Canada, in July 1777.  Arsenault insists that Jean-Baptiste, "sans doute" son of Jean, died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan near L'Assomption, Canada, and that his daughter Isabelle, born in c1770, married into the Richard family, place unrecorded.  Other records support White's assertion that the couple were sent to Connecticut, not to Massachusetts, and that they did not go to Canada.  In August 1763, colonial officials in Connecticut counted a Jean Baptiste Dupuis and his unnamed wife living next to his brother Alexandre; oddly, the official listed no children living with Jean-Baptiste and his wife.  According to White, in late 1763 or early 1764 Jean-Baptiste à Jean took his family not to Canada but to French St.-Domingue.  Their five-year-old son Étienne died at Mirebalais in October 1764.  Jean-Baptiste, père died there in January 1765, age 41.  His older son may have survived the family's early months in the sugar colony and created a family of his own there.

Older son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born in Connecticut in c1758, may have married Rose Rifaud while still in his late teens.  Their son François Soline was born at Môle St.-Nicolas, French St.-Domingue, in October 1777. 

Jean's fifth son Amand, born at Minas in June 1729, married Marie-Blanche, daughter of Germain Landry and Cécile Forest, in c1754 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1755 and 1771, Marie-Blanche gave Amand seven children, two daughters and five sons.  The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Colonial officials counted them at Andover in July 1760, and they were still in the colony in August 1763.  They chose to resettle in Canada.  Amand remarried to Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul LeBlanc and Madeleine Forest and widow of Paul Landry, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan near Montréal in June 1793, in his early 60s.  They also lived at nearby Repentigny.  One of Amand's daughters by his first wife married into the Gagnon and Beaupré families.  Three of his sons also created their own families in Canada.

Oldest son Firmin, born probably in Massachusetts in c1759, followed his family to Canada and married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Bourgeois and Marguerite Dugas, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in October 1793.  Firmin remarried to Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Martin and Marie Girouard, at St.-Jacques in September 1797. 

Amand's second son Isaac, born probably in Massachusetts in c1762, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Migneron and Marie-Catherine Lévesque dit Sanssoucy, at Repentigny in October 1788. 

Amand's fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born in Canada in c1771, married fellow Acadian Anastasie LeBlanc, widow of Paul Landry, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in June 1793. 

Jean's sixth son Joseph, born at Minas in December 1730, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Bourgeois and Anne LeBlanc, in c1758 "aux États-Unis," probably one of the British seaboard colonies.  According to Arsenault, in 1765 and 1770, Marguerite gave Joseph two sons.  Arsenault says Joseph died at Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières, Canada, in c1770, so they probably had been exiled to one of the New England colonies and chose to resettle in Canada after 1766.  Arsenault adds that Marguerite remarried to a Bourg at Bécancour in February 1775.  Her and Joseph's two sons created their own families in the Trois-Rivières area.

Older son Charles, born in exile in c1765, followed his family to Canada and, in his early 30s, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Belliveau and his Canadian wife Marguerite Bibeau, at Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières in February 1797. 

Joseph's younger son Joseph, fils, born in Canada in c1771, married Marie-Josèphe Dupont nearby St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in February 1803. 

Jean's seventh and youngest son Alexandre, was born probably at Minas in c1737.  The British deported him to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  He married in c1760 probably in that colony a woman whose name has been lost to history.  They and two children were still in the colony in August 1763.  They chose to resettle in Canada.  Alexandre died at Laprairie across from Montréal in January 1770, in his early 30s. 

Martin's second son Antoine, born probably at Minas in c1688, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Babin and Madeleine Richard, at Grand-Pré in July 1712 and settled near brother Jean at Rivière-des-Habitants.  Marguerite gave him a daughter soon after their marriage, but the girl died young.  Antoine remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Dugas and Claire Bourg, at Cobeguit on the eastern end of the Minas Basin in 1719.  They settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  Between 1719 and 1746, Marie-Josèphe gave Antoine a dozen more children, five sons and seven daughters, including two sets of twins.  Antoine died at Minas in March 1747, in his late 50s.  According to Bona Arsenault, the British deported members of his family to New York in the fall of 1755, but they likely were sent to Connecticut.  Six of his daughters married into the Thériot, Hébert, Boudrot, Daigre, and Vincent families, one of them in French St.-Domingue.  Four of his five sons also created their own families at Minas. 

Oldest son Antoine, fils, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Dugas, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1719, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Boudrot and Cécile LeBlanc, in c1746 probably at Minas.  According to Stephen A. White, the British deported them to Connecticut in the fall of 1755; Bona Arsenault says they went to New York.  In August 1763, Antoine Dupuis, his unnamed wife, and nine unnamed children appeared on a French repatriation list in Connecticut.  According to White, later that year or the following year Antoine, fils joined other Acadian exiles in French St.-Domingue.  The family's stay in the sugar colony proved to be a tragic one.   Son Pierre, age 7, died at Mirabalais in September 1764, and two more sons--Antoine III, age 5; and Félix, age 10--died there the following month.  Felix's burial record, dated October 23, notes that his mother "Anne Boudrot" was deceased.  Antoine III's burial record, dated October 2, says nothing of his mother's death.  Antoine, fils died at Mirebalais in August 1765, in his mid-40s.  Three of his sons and a daughter followed their uncle Joseph Dupuis to Spanish Louisiana in the late 1760s.  Antoine, fils's daughter married into the Hébert family in Louisiana.  Two of his sons also created their own families in what became Iberville and St. Martin parishes. 

Oldest surviving son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1752, followed his family to Connecticut in 1755 and to French St.-Domingue in the early 1760s.  After his parents' death, he followed his uncle and siblings to Spanish Louisiana and settled at San Gabriel on the river.  He married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Benoit and Marie Comeau, at nearby Ascension in February 1775.  They settled at San Gabriel, but Baptiste did not remain there.  He remarried to Marie Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Anne Theriot and widow of André Martin, at Baton Rouge in December 1816; she gave him no more children.  They settled in West Baton Rouge Parish before joining some of his children in St. Martin Parish west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  Baptiste died in St. Martin Parish in May 1831, in his late 70s.  His daughters, all by first wife Élisabeth, married into the Blanchard, Guidry, Hébert, Henry, and Tullier families.  Four of his seven sons, all by first wife Élisabeth, married into the Doucet, Hébert, LeBlanc, and Martin families and settled on the river or on the western prairies. 

Antoine, fils's second son Simon-Joseph, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1754, followed his family to Connecticut in 1755 and to French St.-Domingue in the early 1760s.  After his parents' death, he followed his uncle and siblings to Spanish Louisiana and settled at San Gabriel on the river.  He was still there in January 1777, living with them on the west bank of the river.  He married Marie-Ludivine, called Ludivine, daughter of fellow Acadians Mathurin Landry and his first wife Marie Babin, at nearby Ascension in October 1778.  They returned to San Gabriel, where Simon-Joseph died in October 1814, age 60.  His daughters married into the Blanchard, Breaux, Chiasson, Delaune, Labauve, LeBlanc, and Richard families.  His eight sons married into the LeBlanc, Breaux, Landry, Babin, Daigre, LeBlanc, and Blanchard families, and all but one of the lines endured on the river. 

Antoine's fils's third son Pierre, born probably at Mirebalais, French St.-Domingue in c1765, followed his uncle and siblings to Louisiana in the late 1760s and settled with them at San Gabriel on the river.  He died there in January 1781, in his mid- or late teens. 

Antoine, père's second son Simon-Pierre, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Dugas, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in April 1727, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Madeleine Thériot, probably at Minas in c1750.  The British deported them to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  In August 1763, Simon-Pierre, his unnamed wife, and six unnamed children were still in the colony.  .According to Stephen A. White, later that year or during the following year they followed other Acadian exiles, including older brother Antoine, fils and his family and younger brother Joseph, to French St.-Domingue.  Sons François, age 6, Firmes, age 3, and Pierre, age 2 1/2, were baptized at Mirebalais at the end of August and the first of September 1764, so the family reached the sugar colony by then.  Son François died later that month.  Simon Dupuis, parents' and wife's names unrecorded, died at Mirebalais in November 1764, age 35; according to White, this was Simon-Pierre à Antoine.  Bona Arsenault insists that Simon-Pierre à Antoine remarried to fellow Acadian Élisabeth Thibodeau of Chepoudy, widow of Pierre Savoie, at Louiseville near Trois-Rivières, Canada, in October 1761, and that she gave him a son named Simon in c1765.  White, as usual, is followed here.

Simon, by second wife Élisabeth Thibodeau, married, according to Bona Arseanult, Marguerite, daughter of François Picard and Ursule Ledroit, at Louiseville in February 1791.

Antoine, père's third son Jean-Baptiste, a twin, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Dugas, was born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1736.  The British deported him and hundreds of other Minas Acadians to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent him on to England in the spring of 1756.  Jean-Baptiste was held at Penryn near Falmouth.  He, with his widowered brother-in-law Honoré Daigre, were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763.  Jean-Baptiste never married.  He died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, near St.-Malo, France, in March 1783, in his late 40s. 

Antoine, père's fourth son Joseph, Jean-Baptiste's twin, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Dugas, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1736, was deported to one of the British seaboard colonies, either Connecticut or New York, in the fall of 1755.  In late 1763 or 1764, he joined hundreds of other Acadian exiles, including older brothers Antoine, fils and Simon-Pierre, in French St.-Domingue.  Later in the decade, Joseph, three nephews, and a niece, children of his older brother Antoine, fils, emigrated directly from St.-Domingue to Spanish Louisiana, among the few Acadians to do so.  Spanish officials counted them at New Orleans in July 1767.  They followed fellow exiles to the new river community of San Gabriel south of Bayou Manchac.  Joseph, in his early 30s, married Anne-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Hébert and Marguerite-Josèphe Melanson, at San Gabriel in March 1769; the marriage was recorded at nearby Pointe Coupée because San Gabriel did not yet have a church of its own.  Anne-Marie also was a native of Minas and had come to Louisiana with her family from Maryland in July 1767.  Joseph died at San Gabriel in December 1781, in his mid-40s.  Anne-Marie remarried to a Brunneteau of Champagne, France, at San Gabriel in May 1785.  Her Dupuis daughters married into the Hamilton, Hébert, and Rinbaud families on the river.  Her four Dupuis sons married into the DeVillier, Leonard, Clouâtre, Serrette, and Schlatre families and settled in what became Iberville Parish. 

Antoine, père's fifth and youngest son Charles, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Dugas, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in 1746, was deported to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  In August 1763, he appeared on a French repatriation list in Connecticut with the family of his older brother Simon-Pierre.  When his older brother emigrated to French St.-Domingue in late 1763 or 1764, Charles remained in Connecticut, where he married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Doucet and Anne Bourg, in August 1768.  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" at Laprairie across from Montréal in April 1769, so they had resettled in Canada by then.  Charles died at L'Acadie on upper Rivière Richelieu in April 1798, age 51. 

Martin's third son Germain l'aîné, born probably at Minas in c1689, married Marie, daughter of René Granger and Marguerite Thériot, at Grand-Pré in November 1717.  They settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1718 and 1741, Marie gave Germain 11 children, seven sons and four daughters.  The British deported Germain & members of his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  When he appeared on a repatriation list there in August 1763, Germain was a widower.  He chose to resettle in Canada and died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Montréal in May 1776, in his late 80s.  His daughters married into the Breau and Thibodeau families.  Five of his sons also created their own families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland. 

Oldest son Ambroise, born at Minas in c1718, married Anne Aucoin probably at Minas in c1742 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault and other records, between 1743 and 1757, Anne gave Ambroise eight children, four sons and four daughters, including a set of twins.  Ambroise and his family evidently moved on to Île St.-Jean after August 1752.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in the fall of 1758 aboard the transport Tamerlane, the only Acadian Dupuiss to go the mother country from the French Maritime islands (the others reached France from England via Minas and Virginia in the spring of 1763).  Ambroise and his family settled at on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo at Plouër-sur-Rance, where Anne gave Ambroise another daughter in December 1761.  Ambroise died at La Ville de la Moynnerie near Plouër in March 1763, in his mid-40s.  His second daughter Marie married into the Bourg family at Plouër in February 1768 and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  His oldest son also married in France, and his second and perhaps third son returned to North America in 1769.  The fate of his youngest son and his oldest and youngest daughters is anyone's guess.

Oldest son Ambroise, fils, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to France.  He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Theriot and Françoise Landry, at Plouër-sur-Rance in July 1764.  They lived also at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer before returning to Plouër.  Between 1765 and 1780, Anne gave Ambroise, fils nine children, seven sons and two daughters, seven of whom did not survive childhood.  Ambroise, fils and his family did not follow other Acadian exiles in the St.-Malo area to the interior of Poitou in 1773, nor did they join them at the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  Ambroise, fils, Anne, and two of their children, Jean-Charles and Marguerite-Marie, along with Antoine, fils's married sister Marie and her family, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 directly from St.-Malo.  Ambroise, fils's youngest sons Laurent-Charles and Amand-Pierre, who would have been ages 7 and 5 in 1785, did not go with them, so they probably had died young.  Ambroise, fils and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District, a new Acadian settlement on the river above Baton Rouge.  In the late 1780s or early 1790s, they followed other Acadians to Manchac south of Baton Rouge, where some of their Dupuis cousins had settled.  Ambroise, fils died at Manchac in April 1822, age 80.  His daughter married into the Guidry family and his son into the Bourg family there. 

Ambroise, père's second son Augustin, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1745, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to France.  He lived with his parents and then his widowed mother at Plouër-sur-Rance until February 1769, when he sailed with other Acadian exiles aboard Le Créole to Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfound.  His stay there was a short one.  He died on nearby Île St.-Pierre the following November, in his mid-20s.  He did not marry. 

Ambroise, père's third son François, a twin, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1747, most likely followed his family to Île St.-Jean and to Plouër-sur-Rance, France, may have followed his brother Augustin back to North America in 1769, lived for a short time in the Newfoundland islands, and made his way to New England.  According to Bona Arsenault, with Louis Robichaud as his witness, François married Monique, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Richard and Marguerite Robichaud, at Boston, Massachusetts, in October 1769.  The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Québec in August 1774.  According to Arsenault, Françoise remarried to Marie-Josèphe Moreau-Desjordy, widow of Antoine Laberge, at Contrecoeur on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Montréal. 

Germain's second son Germain, fils, born at Minas in c1722, married Angélique, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc dit Pinault and François Landry, probably at Minas in c1746.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1764, Angélique gave Germain, fils 11 children, five daughters and six sons.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  After 1766, they chose to resettle in Canada.  Germain, fils died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan near Montréal in October 1782, age 60.  Four of his daughters married into the Breau, Langlais, Richard, and Marion families at St.-Jacques and nearby L'Assomption.  Five of his sons also married in the area.

Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Minas in c1748, followed his family to Massachusetts but evidently moved on to Pennsylvania before joining his family on the upper St. Lawrence.  He married Agathe, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Thibodeau and Anne Leprince, at Philadelphia in September 1766.  They settled at L'Assomption, where Pierre died in November 1810, in his early 60s. 

Germain, fils's second son Jean-Marie, born probably at Minas in c1749, followed his family to Massachusetts.  When members of his family moved on to Canada in the late 1760s, he remained in New England, where he married fellow Acadian Marie Hébert, widow of Joseph Hébert, in October 1773.  Their marriage was "rehabilitated" at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in November 1775, so they had joined his family there by then. 

Germain, fils's third son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1752, followed his family to Massachusetts and to Canada.  He married Mari-Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Hébert and Marie-Josèphe Mirault, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in January 1777, and remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arsenault and Anne Robichaud, at St.-Jacques in February 1780. 

Germain, fils's fourth son Charles, born probably at Minas in c1755, followed his family to Massachusetts and Canada.  In his mid-30s, he married Catherine, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Girouard and Marie-Josèphe Arsenault, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan February 1791. 

Germain, fils's sixth and youngest son Germain III, born probably in Massachusetts in c1764, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Thériot and Marie-Josèphe Arsenault, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in February 1789. 

Germain, père's fourth son Olivier, born at Minas in c1729, married Anne Boudrot probably at Minas in c1752.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1769, Anne gave Olivier seven children, five daughters and two sons, including a set of twins.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  After 1766, they chose to resettle in Canada near St.-Philippe-de-La-Prairie across from Montréal.  Four of their daughters married into the Boudreau, Brun, Bourgeois, and Côté families at St.-Philippe-de-La-Prairie. 

Germain, père's fifth son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in August 1730, married Anne, daughter of Jacques Richard and Anne Granger, probably at Minas in the late 1740s or early 1750s.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  They appeared with a son and a daughter on a French repatriation list at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in July 1763.  They emigrated to Louisiana in 1767-68 with a son and two daughters, their younger daughter having been born after the 1763 count.  Spanish officials forced them to settle far upriver at Fort San Luìs de Natchez.  In September 1768, six months after their arrival in the remote settlement, Jean-Baptiste, age 38, died of litroprisis (a form of dropsy).  In 1769, after the Spanish allowed them to settle where they chose, Anne Richard followed other exiles downriver to Ascension.  She did not remarry.  Her Dupuis daughters married into the Hébert, Part, Breaux, Richard, and Mecoler families on the river.  Her Dupuis son Firmin married into the Theriot family and created a vigorous line at Ascension. 

Germain, père's sixth son François, born at Minas in c1732, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Préjean and Françoise Boudrot of Annapolis Royal, in c1753.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1771, Marguerite gave François eight children, four sons and four daughters.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  After 1766, they chose to resettle at Contrecoeur on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Montréal.  Four of their daughters married into the Dumesnil, Boisseau, Gareau dit Saint-Onge, and Girard families at Contrecoeuu.  Two of François's sons also married there.

Third son Paul, born probably in Massachusetts in c1759, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Renée, daughter of Joseph Duval and Marguerite Charbonnier, at Contrecoeur in November 1784. 

Fourth and youngest son Joseph, born in either Massachusetts or Canada in c1767, married Françoise, daughter of Jérôme Richard and Françoise Tupin-Dussault, at Contrecoeur in September 1793. 

Martin's fourth son Joseph, born at Minas in July 1708, married Élisabeth, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Élisabeth Boudrot, at Grand-Pré in November 1734.  The settled at Grand-Pré.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1747, Élisabeth gave Joseph five children, two sons and three daughters.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Three of their daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in the late 1760s.  They married into the LeBorgne de Bélisle, and Melançon, and Dugas families on the river above New Orleans.  One of them moved on to upper Bayou Lafourche, and another to the western prairies. 

Martin's fifth and youngest son Charles, born at Minas in September 1712, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Charles Trahan and Marie Boudrot, in c1735 probably at Minas.  They settled at Rivière-aux-Canards.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Madeleine gave Charles a daughter in c1739.  Other records give them two sons and another daughter between 1746 and 1750.  The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England the following spring.  They were held at Southampton.  Charles died probably at Southampton between 1759 and May 1763, in his late 40s or early 50s.  Marie-Madeleine also died there before May 1763.  Older daughter Madeleine married into the Daigre family at Southampton.  Charles and Marie-Madeleine's younger children, two sons and a daugher, were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard L'Ambition with their married sister and her husband in May 1763.  Charles's sons did not go to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765 with other Acadian exiles from England, but the older one, after twice marrying at Plouër-sur-Rance near St.-Malo, did go to Poitou in 1773 and retreated to Nantes with other Poitou Acadians in early 1776.  The younger son, a sailor, may not have followed his brother to Poitou, but he did join him at Nantes, where he, too, married.  Their younger sister Marguerite married into the Aucoin family there.  Both sons, the older one a widower again, and their families, along with their two sisters, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785.  Only the younger son's line endured in the Spanish colony. 

Older son Joseph, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1746, followed his family to Virginia and Southampton, England, in 1755-56 and to Plouër-sur-Rance, France, in May 1763.  He married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Daigre and Angélique Doiron, at Plouër in February 1768.  Marie-Rose died at Lizenais near Plouër the following December.  One wonders if he was the Joseph Dupuis who embarked from St.-Servan-sur-Mer on the ship Antoine-Joseph for Île Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, in February 1769.  If so, he returned to Plouër and remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Landry and Élisabeth Aucoin, in November 1771.  Marie gave Joseph a son at Plouër in October 1772, but the boy died at Lizenais in August 1773, age 10 monhs.  Later that year, Joseph, Marie, and his younger brother Étenne, still a bachelor, followed hundreds of other Acadian exiles to Poitou.  Marie gave Joseph a daughter, Élisabeth, at Châtellerault there in May 1774.  In March 1776, Joseph, Marie, Élisabeth, and Étienne retreated with dozens of other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  Marie gave Joseph two more daughters at Nantes in 1776 and 1779, but they died young.  Marie died in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in January 1781, age 30.  Joseph did not remarry.  He and his daughter emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers, including younger brother Étienne and his bride, to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph died at Assumption on the upper bayou in November 1807, age 60.  Daughter Élisabeth married into the Bourg family there. 

Charles's younger son Étienne, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1749, followed his family to Virginia and Southampton, England, in 1755 and 1756, and to Plouër-sur-Rance, France, in May 1763.  He followed older brother Joseph to Poitou in 1773 and retreated with Joseph and his family to Nantes in March 1776.  Étienne settled at nearby Chantenay and worked as a seaman in the lower Loire port.  At age 35, he married Marie-Osite, 24-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Dugas and his second wife Hélène Blanchard, at St.-Martin de Chantenay in November 1784; Marie-Osite was a native of St.-Coulomb near St.-Malo.  She and Étienne emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 and followed his older brother Joseph and niece Élisabeth to upper Bayou Lafourche.  All of the couple's children were born on the upper Lafourche, creating a second center of Dupuis family settlement in the Spanish colony.  Their daughters married into the Aucoin, Bourg, Daigle, Preaux, and Suarez families.  Étienne's seven sons married into the Landry, Hébert, Montet, Daigle, and Aucoin families on the upper Lafourche.  During the War of 1861-65 or soon afterwards, a few of his grandsons and great-grandsons moved to the Brashear, now Morgan, City, area on the lower Atchafalaya and to St. Mary and Iberia parishes on lower Bayou Teche, but most of Étienne's descendants remained in Assumption Parish. 

Michel's second son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in August 1671, married Madeleine, daughter of René Landry and Perrine Bourg and widow of René Richard dit Beaupré, in c1692 probably at Port-Royal.  Between 1693 and 1698, Madeleine gave Pierre four children, two sons and two daughters.  Pierre died at Port-Royal in September 1709, age 38.  His daughters married into the Hébert and Blanchard families at Annapolis Royal.  Both of his sons also created families of their own at Minas and Annapolis Royal. 

Older son Charles, born at Port-Royal in c1697, married Élisabeth, daughter of Antoine LeBlanc and Marie Bourgeois, in c1723 at Minas and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1724 and 1748, Élisabeth gave Charles 10 children, five sons and five daughters.  The British deported members of the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Charles, Élisabeth, and their youngest sons, Joseph and Baptiste, were still in the colony in July 1763.  They did not follow their fellow exiles to Louisiana later in the decade.  Charles died at Baltimore in December 1790, in his early 90s.  Dupuiss who remained in Maryland, most likely Charles's descendants, also used the surname Wells.  Charles's oldest son evidently escaped the British roundup at Minas in 1755 and settled in Canada. 

Oldest son Jean-Charles, born probably at Minas in c1724, married Marie, daughter of Charles Gautrot and Madeleine Blanchard, at Grand-Pré in February 1747.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Jean-Charles a daughter in 1747.  Jean-Charles remarried to Catherine, daughter of Pierre Cormier and Catherine LeBlanc of Chignecto and widow of François Landry, probably at Chignecto in c1750.  They evidently escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada, where they settled at Kamouraska and L'Islet on the lower St. Lawrence.  Jean-Charles's daughter married into the LeBel family at Kamouraska. 

Pierre's younger son Pierre, fils, also called Jean-Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1698, married Jeanne, daughter of Alexandre Richard and Isabelle Petitpas, at Annapolis Royal in January 1720.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1721 and 1740, Jeanne gave Pierre, fils 10 children, five daughters and five sons.  Members of the family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Jean-Pierre died at Québec in October 1757, age 60, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees in the area that fall and winter and into the following spring.  One of his daughters married into the Girouard family.  At least three of his sons created families of their own, and children from two of them emigrated to Louisiana.

Oldest son Michel, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1723, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Gaudet and Marie Belliveau, at Annapolis Royal in c1747.  Anne gave Michel at least two daughters in 1751 and 1754.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean before moving on to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  They may have sought refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in the late 1750s.  They either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area, perhaps at Restigouche, in the early 1760s.  The British held them in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  A Michel Duppuy and a family of four were counted at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in October 1762.  One wonders if this was them.  Michel died during exile, perhaps at Fort Edward.  After the war, his widow Anne, still unmarried, chose to leave greater Acadia.  She took their daughters, along with a Dupuis nephew, to Louisiana in 1765 and remarried to a Boudrot at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans in October 1767.  Her Dupuis daugthers married into the Blanchard, Arceneaux, and Boudreaux families in the Spanish colony. 

Pierre, fils's second son Justinien, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1725, married Anne, daughter of Guillaume Girouard and Marie Bernard, at Annapolis Royal in February 1751.  According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Justinien a son in c1752.  They, too, evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean before moving on to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Both Justinien and Anne died during exile, perhaps in one of the prisoner compounds in Nova Scotia.  Their son followed relatives to Louisiana in 1765. 

Only son Joseph, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1751/52, followed his parents into the exile and into a prisone compound in Nova Scotia--either Fort Edward with his uncle Michel Dupuis and his family, or Fort Cumberland with uncle Cyprien Dupuis and his family.  In 1764-65, when he was in his early teens, Joseph followed his paternal aunt Anne Gaudet, widow of his uncle Michel, and two female first cousins to Louisiana.  He settled with them at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham Poirier and Marie-Josèphe Bourg, in February 1774.  They were still at Cabahannocer, living on the left, or east, bank of the river, in 1779.  Probably in the 1780s, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas prairies, creating a third center of Dupuis family settlement in the colony.  Joseph died at Attakapas in December 1803, in her early 50s.  His daughters married into the Guilbeau, Landry, and Theriot families.  Two of his three sons married into the Theriot and Poirier families and created their own families on the prairies.

Pierre, fils's fourth son Cyprien, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1733, escaped the British with his family in the fall of 1755 and followed them to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Cyprien married Françoise-Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Préjean and Marie Gaudet of Annapolis Royal, at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in June 1760.  Soon after their wedding, the British attacked the French stronghold, now a major Acadian refuge, but failed to capture the place.  Nevertheless, in October 1760, the French garrison at Restigouche, along with a thousand Acadian refugees, surrendered to a British naval force from Québec.  Cyprien and his bride were not among them.  In the following months, however, they either were captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area, who held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1766, Françoise-Rosalie gave Cyrien four children, two daughters and two sons.  Other records give them two more children, a daughter and a son, born perhaps in the prisoner compound at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, at Chignecto, where the family was held.  After the war, they did not follow hundreds of their fellow exiles in Nova Scotia to Louisiana but chose to remain in greater Acadia.  Members of the family were counted on lower Rivière St.-Jean in 1768 and at Memramcook near the Gulf shore west of Chignecto in c1780.  One of Cyprien's daughters married into the Belliveau family at Memramcook.  One of his sons also settled there.

Second son Pierre, born in greater Acadia in c1766, followed his family to lower Rivière St.-Jean and to Memramcook.  He married Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bourque and Isabelle Broussard of Cobeguit, probably at Memramcook, date unrecorded.  Pierre died at Memramcook in June 1853, in his late 80s. 

Michel's third and youngest son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1675, married Anne-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of René Richard and Madeleine Landry, at Port-Royal in November 1799 and remained there.  Between 1700 and 1724, Madeleine gave Jean a dozen children, six sons and six daughters.  Their daughters married into the Savoie, LeBlanc, Breau, Brun dit Lebrun, Blanchard, and Pellerin families.  Five of Jean's sons also created their own families.

Oldest son Louis, born probably at Port-Royal in c1700, evidently died young.   

Jean's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in March 1706, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Breau and Anne LeBlanc, in c1729 probably at Annapolis Royal.  They evidently moved on to Minas, where, between 1741 and 1750, Anne gave Jean-Baptiste at least four children, three daughters and a son.  The British deported them to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Jean-Baptiste died there before July 1763, in his 50s.  Anne, a son and three daughters appeared on a repatriation list at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac within him in July 1763.  Her oldest daughter Marguerite married Pierre Guidry in the Chesapeake colony the following year.  Anne, her son, and her two younger daughters emigrated to Louisiana with the Breau party from Port Tobacco in 1767-68.  Her older daughter and her Guidry husband also followed them to the Spanish colony.  Spanish officials forced them to settle far upriver at Fort San Luìs de Natchez.  Second daughter Marie died on the upriver voyage.  Oldest daughter Marguerite died at Fort San Luìs in June or July 1768, a few months after they reached the distant settlement.  Youngest daughter Monique married into the Guidry family in Louisiana.  Anne's Dupuis son did not marry.

Only surviving son Pierre, born probably at Minas in c1750, followed his family to Maryland.  He was counted him with his widowed mother and three sisters at Port Tobacco in July 1763.  He followed them to Louisiana in 1767-68 with Breau kinsmen and settled with them at Fort San Luìs de Natchez then at Ascension on the river.  He died at Ascension in January 1792, age 42, still a bachelor. 

Jean's third son Charles-Olivier, born at Port-Royal in April 1708, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Comeau and Susanne Bézier, in c1732 probably at Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1751, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles-Olivier 10 children, three daughters and seven sons.  The British deported them to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Members of the family were still in the colony in 1763.  One of Charles-Olivier's sons may have married in the New England colony and, with several of his brothers, emigrated to French St.-Domingue in the early 1760s.  If so, the decision to go there would prove to be a tragic one. 

Second son Pierre-Poncy, was born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1735, according to Bona Arsenault.  Pierre may have followed his family to Connecticut in 1755 and may have accompanied his younger brothers to French St.-Domingue in late 1763 or 1764.  He also may have been the Pierre Dupuy, "an Acadian," who died at Mirebalais in the sugar colony in November 1764 "at age 23 yrs."  If this was Pierre-Poncy à Charles-Olivier, and Arsenault's birth year for him is correct, Pierre-Poncy would have been age 29 at the time of his death.  He evidently did not marry. 

Charles-Olivier's third son Charles, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1739, evidently followed his family to Connecticut, where he may have married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Préjean and Marguerite Simon, date not given.  Their son Jean-Baptiste was born there in c1762.  In late 1763 or 1764, Charles may have taken his family to French St.-Domingue and may have been the Charles Dupuy, "an Acadian," who died at Mirebalais there in October 1764, age 26.  If so, son Jean-Baptiste was baptized at Mirebalais, age 23 months, a week after his father's death.  Rosalie remarried to a Peco from Nantes, France, at Mirebalais in January 1768. 

Charles-Olivier's fifth son Simon, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1746, evidently followed his family to Connecticut in 1755 and may have accompanied his brothers to French St.-Domingue in late 1763 or 1764.  He may have been the Simon Dupuy who died at Mirabalais, age 18, in November 1764. 

Charles-Olivier's seventh and youngest son Paul, was born probaby at Annapolis Royal in c1751, according to Bona Arsenault.  Paul evidently followed his family to Connecticut in 1755 and may have accompanied older brother Charles to French St.-Domingue in late 1763 or 1764.  He may have been the Paul Dupuy, "an Acadian," who died at Mirebalais in November 1764 "at age 20 yrs."  If this was Paul à Charles-Olivier, and Arsenault's birth year for him is correct, he would have been only age 13 at the time of his death. 

Jean's fourth son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1712, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Antoine Brun and Marie-Françoise Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1740.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1748, Marie-Anne gave Joseph four children, three sons and a daughter.  Joseph died at Annapolis Royal in May 1750, age 37.  The British deported widow Marie-Anne and her family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  Anne and her 20-year-old son Joseph Dupuy, fils were till in the colony in August 1763.  One wonders if they remained in South Carolinia or if they resettled elsewhere.  They did not go to Louisiana.  Did they move on to the French Antilles? 

Jean's fifth son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1714, married, in his early 40s, Anastasie, daughter of Claude Bourgeois and Marie LeBlanc, at Annapolis Royal in January 1755.  The British deported them to Connecticut in the fall of that year.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1756 and 1762, Anastasie gave Pierre two daughters.  The family was still in the colony in August 1763.  They chose to resettle in Canada.  Pierre died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan near Montréal in January 1790, in his late 70s.  His daughters married into the Richard and Amireau families at St.-Jacques, so the blood of this line endured. 

Jean's sixth and youngest son Michel, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1720, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Germain Savoie and Geneviève Babineau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1744.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1752, Marie-Josèphe gave Michel three children, a son and two daughters.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.  Was this the Michel Duppuy counted with a family of four at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in July 1762?  In 1768, British officials counted the family at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia.  Michel's daughters married into the Landry and LeBlanc families, one of them at Windsor.  His son also married.

Only son Joseph, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1746, followed his family into exile and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Olivier Boudrot and Ludivine Landry, at Windsor in January 1770.  One wonders if British authorities allowed them to remain there.374

Viger

François Viger, fils, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1662, and his wife Marie Mius d'Azy created a small family in the colony.  François and Marie were living at Ouimakagan, near Pobomcoup, in 1705 and were counted at Cap-Sable, probably Pobomcoup, in 1708, near her family.  Marie gave him seven children, four sons and three daughters, including a set of twins.  Two of their daughters married into the Corporon, Benoit, and Boutin families, and one of them perished with her entire family during the deportation to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Only one of François's sons married.  The date and place of François's death has been lost to history.  His and Marie's descendants settled not only at Pobomcoup and Cap-Sable, but also on Île St.-Jean.  As a result, the members of this family were not "typical" Fundy Acadians.  If any of François's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there. 

Oldest son Charles, born at Port-Royal in January 1698, evidently died young.

François, fils's second son François III, born at Port-Royal in August 1699, married Claire, daughter of Martin Lejeune and Marie Gaudet, in c1722, place unrecorded, and setteld at Cap-Sable.  According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1724 and 1738, Claire gave François three children, a son and two daughters.  Other records give them two more sons.  One his daughters married into the Hébert family probably at Cap-Sable.  The British captured François III and his family at Cap-Sable in the fall of 1758, held them at Halifax, and deported them to Cherbourg, France, in late 1759.  François III died there in March 1760, age 60.  His daughter Anne-Théotiste remarried into the Landry family at Cherbourg.  At least one of his sons created his own family.

Oldest son Jean-Charles-Guillaume, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1729, followed his family to Halifax and Cherbourg, where he became a "huissier de la Miraute de cette ville."  He died at Cherbourg in September 1773, age 44.  One wonders if he married. 

François III's second son François IV, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1730, married Anne, daughter of Gabriel Moulaison and Marie Aubois, probably at Pobomcoup in c1750.  They followed his father's family to Cherbourg in 1759.  Son Isidore was born at sea in December 1759, baptized at Très-Ste.-Trinité, Cherbourg, in January, and died at Cherbourg, age 9 months, the following September.  His line of the family may have died with him. 

François III's third and youngest son Stanislas, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1745, followed his family to Halifax and Cherbourg, where he died in February 1760, age 17. 

François, fils's third son Joseph l'aîné, born at either Port-Royal or Cap-Sable in c1701, probably died young.

François, fils's fourth and youngest son Joseph le jeune, twin of his sister Marie, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1707, evidently died young, as she did.451

Morin

Pierre Morin dit Boucher, an early 1660s arrival, and his wife Marie-Madeleine Martin created a large family, but, because of a peculiar circumstance, they did not remain in the colony.  Marie-Madeleine gave Pierre a dozen children, nine sons and three daughters, most of whom married.  Sometime during the 1670s or early 1680s, the family left Port-Royal and settled at Chignecto.  In the late 1680s, one of their sons scandalized the community by engaging in an indiscretion with the seigneur's daughter.  The son was exiled to France.  Even worse, the entire Morin family, including in-laws, was compelled to leave the colony.  They settled first in Gaspésie on the Baie des Chaleurs, at the edge of greater Acadia, and then moved on to Mont-Louis on the north shore of the Gaspé peninsula.  Pierre dit Boucher died in c1690, age about 56, probably at Gaspésie.  His widow Marie-Madeleine died at Québec in Sep 1714, in her early 70s.  Their younger children married in Canada, where they settled at various places above and below Québec.  None seems to have returned to Acadia.  Pierre dit Boucher and Marie-Madeleine's daughters married into the Cochu, Louet, and Boissel families in Canada.  One wonders if any of Pierre and Marie-Madeleine's descendants emigrated to Louisiana. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1662, married Françoise, daughter of Guyon Chiasson dit La Vallée and Jeanne Bernard, at Beaubassin in November 1682, was exiled from Acadia with the rest of his family, and died at St.-François-du-Sud below Québec in April 1741, in his late 70s. 

Pierre dit Boucher's second son Louis, born probably at Port-Royal in c1664, ended the family's welcome at Chignecto after impregnating Marie-Josèphe, daughter of seigneur and former royal governor Michel Le Neuf de La Vallière and Marie Denys, in c1688.  Louis likely spent the rest of his days in France. 

Pierre dit Boucher's third son Antoine, born probably at Port-Royal in c1666, was exiled from Acadia with the rest of his family.  He died probably in Canada in February 1724, in his late 50s, and did not marry.

Pierre dit Boucher's fourth son Jacques l'aîné dit Boucher, born probably at Port-Royal in c1672, was exiled from Acadia with the rest of his family, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Canadians Louis Lavergne and Marie-Anne Simon, at Québec in February 1699, and died at the city's Hôtel Dieu in December 1704, in his early 30s.

Pierre dit Boucher's fifth son Charles de Cloridan, born probably at Port-Royal in c1674, was exiled from Acadia with the rest of his family, married Anne-Thérèse, daughter of Canadians Jean Minet and Anne Bonhomme, at Québec in May 1719, and died in Canada by September 1724, probably in his late 40s. 

Pierre dit Boucher's sixth son Jean dit Ducharme, born at Chignecto in August 1680, was exiled from Acadia with the rest of his family, married Marie-Élisabeth, daughter of Canadians François Hubert and Geneviève Fuquel, at Québec in November 1715, and died there in January 1717, age 36.

Pierre dit Boucher's seventh son Jacques-François dit Bonsecours, born at Chignecto in September 1682, was exiled from Acadia with the rest of his family and counted at Mont-Louis, Canada, in 1699, age 17, working as a fisherman.  He evidently did not marry.  Towards the end of Queen Anne's War, Bonsecours, at age 30, served as a corsair captain on his ship Le Trompeur.

Pierre dit Boucher's eighth son Simon-Joseph, born at Chignecto in January 1685, evidently died young.  Ironically, Simon-Joseph's godmother was the Marie-Josèphe Le Neuf de La Vallière with whom his older brother Louis got in so much trouble.

Pierre dit Boucher's ninth and youngest son Jacques le jeune was born at Chignecto in March 1686.  His godmother also was Marie-Josèphe Le Neuf de La Vallière.  He was exiled from Acadia with the rest of his family, married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Canadians Robert Jeanne and Françoise-Madeleine Savard and widow of Étienne Rocheron dit Rochon, at Lauzon near Québec in August 1704, and died there in April 1737, age 51.377

Pellerin

François Pellerin, a mid-1660s arrival, and his wife Andrée Martin, who settled at Port-Royal and then Chignecto, created no male line that remained in French Acadia.  However, five of their daughters married in Acadia and added their blood to five of the colony's established families--Trahan, Thériot, Hébert, Godin, and Caissie.  If any of François's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, they did not carry the family's name there. 

Only son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1680, did not remain in French Acadia or British Nova Scotia.  He married Marie-Anne, daughter of Canadians Jacques Bélanger and Élisabeth Thibault, at St.-Pierre-du-Sud below Québec in June 1722, and died by December 1731, probably in Canada, in his late 40s or early 50s.376

Chiasson

Guyon dit La Vallée Chiasson or Giasson of La Rochelle, France, and Canada, a mid-1660s arrival, and his wives Jeanne Bernard and Marie-Madeleine Martin, the latter a Canadian, created a good-sized family in greater Acadia.  Jeanne gave Guyon eight children, at least four sons and three daughters.  Marie-Madeleine gave him four more children, all daughters.  Six of Guyon's daughters by both wives married into the Morin, Poirier dit de France, Breau, Carret, Pothier, De La Forestrie, and Pineau families.  Four of his sons created families of their own.  The older sons' lines were especially prolific.  Guyon's two younger sons left Acadia for Canada beginning in the 1690s and did not return.  In greater Acadia, Guyon's descendants settled not only at Chignecto, but also at Annapolis Royal and in the French Maritimes.  At least 11 of Guyon's descendants, all from the family line of oldest son Gabriel dit Pierre, emigrated to Louisiana in 1765 from Halifax and French St.-Domingue, and in 1785 from France.  However, most of Guyon's descendants could be found in Canada, perhaps in France, and especially in greater Acadia after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Gabriel dit Pierre, born probably at Port-Royal in c1667, married Marie, daughter of François Savoie and Catherine Lejeune, in c1688 probably at Chignecto.  Marie gave him 11 children, six sons and five daughters.  Gabriel dit Pierre died at Chignecto in April 1741, age 75.  His daughters married into the Quimine, Gallet, Patry, Dufaut, Daguet dit Renaud, La Croix dit Durel, and Le Prieur dit Dubois, two of them at St.-Pierre-du-Nord on Île St.-Jean.  One of his daughters and her entire family were lost in the deportation from the island to France in 1758.  Only three of Gabriel dit Pierre's six sons created their own families.  

Oldest son Michel, born perhaps at Minas in c1689, was counted at Chignecto, age 14, in 1700.  He did not marry.

Gabriel dit Pierre's second son Pierre, born probably at Minas in c1691, died young.   

Gabriel dit Pierre's third son Jean-Baptiste, also called Jean, born perhaps at Chignecto in c1693, married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Boudrot and Marie-Madeleine Cormier, at Beaubassin in February 1714.  According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1720 and 1722, Madeleine gave Jean three children, all daughters, who married into the Bugeaud, Caissie, and Poirier families.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Marie, daughter of Claude Pitre and Marie Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in May 1722.  According to Stephen A. White, between 1723 and the early 1750s, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste seven more children, four sons and three daughters--10 children, six daughters and four sons, by two wives.  After 1755, the family left Aulac, Chignecto, and settled near one of his younger brothers on the north shore of Île St.-Jean.  Jean-Baptiste died there in February 1758, age 66, on the eve of the island's dérangement.  Two of his daughters by second wife Marie married into the Simard and Monier families.  Only two of his four sons created their own families. 

Oldest son Pierre, by second wife Marie Pitre, born at Chignecto in March 1723, married Catherine Bourgeois at Chignecto in c1749.  They settled at Pointe-à-Beauséjour.  Soon after their marriage, Catherine gave Pierre at least one son at Chignecto.  They followed his family to Île St.-Jean after 1752.  The British deported Pierre and his famliy to Cherbourg, France, in 1758.  He may have been the Pierre Chiasson, butcher, who died at Rochefort, France, in August 1763, though the St.-Louis Parish priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre was age 61 at the time of his death.  This Pierre would have been age 40, so it probably was not him.  On thing is certain--Pierre did not live long enough to emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  His son created a family of his own in France and Louisiana.

Only son Basile, born at Pointe-à-Beauséjour, Chignecto, in c1750, followed his parents to Île St.-Jean and to Cherbourg, France.  He married fellow Acadian Monique Comeau probably at Cherbourg in c1772.  Between 1773 and 1775, Monique gave him three daughters, one of whom died an infant.  They followed other Acadian exiles to the interior of Poitou during the early 1770s and retreated to Nantes with other Poitou Acadians in November 1775.  From 1780 to 1784, Monique gave him three sons at Nantes, but two of them died young.  In 1785, Basile took Monique and their surviving children, a daughter and a son, to Spanish Louisiana aboard the last of the Seven Ships.  They chose to settle on the Opelousas prairies, where wife Monique died a few years later.  Basile remarried to Anne-Marie, called Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Thibodeaux and Françoise Sonnier, widow of L'ange Bourg, and sister of one of his daughter's husband, at Opelousas in July 1789.  She gave him more children, including three more sons.  His daughters by both wives married into the Thibodeaux, Cormier, Doucet, Petit dit Parrain, and Richard families.  Three of his sons by both wives married into the Bourassa, Moreau, and Sonnier families, but only one of the lines endured in what became Lafayette Parish.

Jean-Baptiste's second son Jean, by second wife Marie Pitre, born probably at Chignecto, date unrecorded, married in c1754 a woman whose name has been lost in history.  Bona Arsenault insists that her name was Marie-Josèphe Dugas.  According to Arsenault, in 1765 and 1767, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean two children, a daughter and a son, and that the son, Joseph, was counted in Louisiana in 1789.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France, however, says the Jean Chiasson who married Marie-Josèphe Dugas was a son of François, not Jean-Baptiste.  One wonders what became of Jean, son of Jean-Baptiste, and his unnamed wife during Le Grand Dérangement.

Jean-Baptiste's third and fourth sons, names unrecorded, from second wife Marie Pitre, may have been twins who died in infancy.   

Gabriel dit Pierre's fourth son François, born probably at Chignecto in c1697, married Anne, daughter of Claude Doucet and Marie Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in November 1722 and moved to Havre-à-l'Anguille on the east coast of Île St.-Jean by 1727.  Between 1729 and 1749, on Île St.-Jean, Anne gave François eight children, five sons and three daughters.  Bona Arsenault gives them another daughter in c1725--nine children in all.  In August 1752, a French official counted François, Anne, and seven of their children at Havre-aux-Sauvages on the north side of the island.  Two of the older sons and the two older daughters married there soon after the counting.  The daughters married into the Haché and Grossin families.  Arsenault insists that their oldest daughter married a Bouchard at St.-Thomas de Montmagny, Canada, in October 1746, while the rest of the family lived on Île St.-Jean.  The British deported François and his family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Wife Anne and one of their married sons died at sea.  François, père died at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1759, in his early 60s, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  One of his younger sons also died soon after the family reached the Breton port.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, called Jean, born probably at Chignecto in c1729, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where he married Louise, daughter of Joseph Precieux and Anne Haché, probably at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre and Havre-aux-Sauvages, in c1752.  Between 1753 and 1757, Louise gave him three children, a son and two daughters.  One of the daughters evidently died in infancy.  The British deported Jean-Baptiste le jeune, Louise, and their two surviving children to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  The two children died at sea.  Louise died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo soon after they reached the Breton port.  According to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France, Jean-Baptiste le jeune remarried to Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Dugas and Marguerite Benoit, at St.-Méloir-des-Ondes near St.-Malo in June 1761.  She gave him two sons there and at nearby La Blanche in 1763 and 1765.  Marguerite-Josèphe died at St.-Servan in June 1766, and Jean-Baptiste le jeune remarried again--his third marriage--to Anne-Perrine, daughter of locals Jacques Joanne and Perrine Charpentier, at St.-Servan in January 1769.  She gave him another son at St.-Servan in 1769.  In 1773, they followed other Acadians exiles to the interior of Poitou, where Anne-Perrine gave Jean-Baptiste le jeune another daughter in May 1775.  The following December, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where their daughter died by 1785.  That year, Jean-Baptiste le jeune took Anne-Perrine and two of their sons to Louisiana on one of the Seven Ships.  Son Jean-Baptiste, fils, by second wife Marguerite-Josèphe Dugas, if he was still living, would have been age 22 when his father, stepmother, and two younger brothers left for the Spanish colony.  He did not follow them there.  From New Orleans, Jean-Baptiste le jeune and his family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the two sons married into the Simoneaux, Lejeune, and LeBoeuf families and created vigorous lines on the bayou. 

François's second son François, fils, born probably at Chignecto in c1729, perhaps Jean-Baptiste le jeune's twin, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where he married Marie-Anne, daughter of Pierre Haché and Cécile Lavergne, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in January 1753.  Between 1754 and 1757, Marie-Anne gave François, fils three children, two daughters and a son.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  François, fils and his three children died at sea.  Widow Marie-Anne remarried to fellow Acadian Paul Caissie at Paramé near St.-Malo in June 1760. 

François, père's third son Joseph, born at Havre-St.-Pierre, Île St.-Jean, in May 1733, was counted with his family at nearby Havre-au-Sauvages in August 1752.  He married Anne, daughter of Charles Haché and Geneviève Lavergne, on the island in c1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1756 and 1776, Anne gave Joseph 10 children, four daughters and six sons.  Evidently Joseph, Anne, and their older chidren escaped the British roundup on Île St.-Jean in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  From there they moved on to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where, along with the French garrison, they and a thousand other exiles surrendered to the British in October 1760.  In February 1761, one of their sons was baptized at Restigouche, so they may have been held there or sent on to a prison compound in Nova Scotia a year or so later.  After the war, the family chose to remain in greater Acadia.  British officials counted them at Nipisiguit, today's Bathhurst, eastern New Brunswick, in 1772 and on Île Miscou at the entrance to the Baie des Chaleurs in 1773 and 1776.  One of Joseph's daughters married a Haché double cousin at Caraquet in northeastern New Brunswick.  At least four of his sons created their own families on both the north and the south shores of the Baie des Chaleurs. 

Oldest son Nicolas-Joseph, born at Havre-au-Sauvages, Île St.-Jean, in March 1758, followed his family into exile, to Restigouche, and to the shores of the Baie des Chaleurs.  He married Geneviève, daughter of François Gionais and Madeleine Chapados, at Carleton in Gaspésie on the north shore of the bay in May 1784. 

Joseph's fourth son Jean-Chrysostôme, born perhaps at Nipisiguit in c1767, married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Daigle, there in June 1790. 

Joseph's fifth son Paul, born either at Nipisiguit or on Île Miscou in c1773, married Élisabeth, daughter of Léon Roussy and Anne Chapados, at Paspébiac in Gaspésie in October 1797. 

Joseph's sixth and youngest son Bénoni, born perhaps on Île Miscou in c1776, married Félicité Albert at Carleton, Gaspésie, in January 1807. 

François, père's fourth son Louis, born at Havre-St.-Pierre, Île St.-Jean, in April 1741, followed his family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  He survived the voyage but died in January 1759, age 19, soon after reaching the Breton port. 

François, père's fifth and youngest son Chrysostôme, born probably at Havre-aux-Sauvages, Île St.-Jean, in c1749, followed his family to St.-Malo in 1758.  He survived the voyage as well as its rigors and joined his oldest brother Jean at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo after the death of their father at Paramé.  Chrysostôme may have gone to Poitou and Nantes with his brother.  When Jean and his family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, Chrysostôme, who would have been in his mid-30s at the time, did not go with them.  One wonders if he was dead by then, or if he had married in France and chose to remain. 

Gabriel dit Pierre's fifth son Pierre, the second with the name, born probably at Chignecto in c1701, died at Minas in July 1712, age 11.   

Gabriel dit Pierre's sixth and youngest son Abraham, born probably at Chignecto in the early 1700s, married Marie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Poirier and Marie Cormier, in c1724 probably at Chignecto and remained there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1725 and 1746, Marie gave Abraham five children, three daughters and two sons.  Other records give them another son.  Arsenault says their oldest daughter married into the Forest family, probably at Chignecto.  In 1755, the British deported Abraham and members of his family to faraway South Carolina.  Other family members escaped the British roundup and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Abraham died probably in South Carolina before August 1763.  Two of his sons emigrated to Louisiana via Halifax and French St.-Domingue.

Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Chignecto in c1729, married Osite, daughter of Paul Landry and Marie Hébert, probably at Chignecto in c1755.  They escaped the British in 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By the early 1760s, they had either surrendered to, or been captured by, British forces in the area, who sent them to a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  They appeared on a repatriation at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Beauséjour, near their former home at Chignecto, in August 1763.  With a young son and a young nephew in tow, they emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French-St.-Domingue, in 1764-65.  They evidently retrieved Pierre's younger brother Paul in St.-Domingue on their way to New Orleans.  Osite had been pregnant when they left Nova Scotia.  She gave birth to a daughter either on the voyage to Louisiana or at New Orleans in October 1765.  After baptizing the baby in early December, they settled at Cabahannocer, an established Acadian community on the river above New Orleans, where Osite gave Pierre more children.  Pierre died by November 1794, in his late 50s or early 60s, when his wife remarried at Cabahannocer.  His daughter evidently died young.  One of his three sons married into the Dugas family and settled on the river in Ascension Parish.

Abraham's second son Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in the 1730s, married Anne dite Annette Saulnier, place not given.  They evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  During the early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  A son was born in one of the compounds in c1762.  Joseph and Annette evidently did not survive imprisonment. 

Only son Jean-Baptiste, born Halifax, Nova Scotia, in c1762, was a young orphan when he emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via French St.-Domingue with the famliy of his paternal uncle Pierre.  Jean-Baptiste followed them to Cabahannocer on the river, but he did not remain there.  After he came of age, he crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean LeBlanc and his Anglo wife Marie Hayes, in c1786.  They settled on Bellevue prairie and then moved farther out on the Opelousas prairies to upper Bayou Plaquemine Brulé.  By 1850, he had moved on to Jefferson County, Texas.  Jean-Baptiste died at the home of his youngest son Maglore at Beaumont, Jefferson County, in July 1854.  His family insisted that Jean-Baptiste died at age 109, but he was closer to 92--one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join his ancestors.  His daughters married into the Cart and Dugas families.  Four of his five sons married into the Dugas, Vizina, and Guidry familes and settled on the prairies and bayous of southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas. 

Abraham's third and youngest son Paul, born probably at Chignecto in c1746, followed his parents to South Carolina, where he was counted as an 18-year-old orphan in August 1763.  Later that year, he followed other Acadian exiles in the colony to French St.-Domingue to work on a new French naval base on the north side of the island at Môle St.-Nicolas.  He did not remain there.  His older brother Pierre evidently retrieved him at Cap-Français on the voyage down from Halifax.  Paul accompanied his brother and sister-in-law to New Orleans and settled with them at Cabahanocer, where he appeared in a Spanish census in April 1766 on the east bank of the river.  The Spanish counted him there in September 1769, this time on the west bank of the river; he was still a bachelor.  He married fellow Acadian Marie-Madeleince Blanchard probably at Cabahannocer in c1770.  They settled upriver at San Gabriel in what became Iberville Parish.  Paul died in Iberville Parish in March 1820, age 74.  His daughters married into the Babin, Charpentier, Hébert, Hernandez, Jaeleus, and LeBlanc families.  Two of his four sons married into the Sharp and Dupuis families and settled in Iberville Parish.

Guyon's second son Sébastien, born probably at Port-Royal in c1670, married Marie, daughter of Jacques Blou and Marie Girouard, probably at Chignecto in c1693.  Between 1694 and 1701, Marie gave Sébastien four children, two sons and two daughters.  Sébastien died in c1700, age about 30, probably at Chignecto.  His daughters married into the Vécot and Gaudet families at Chignecto.  One of them followed her parents to Île St.-Jean and perished with her entire family during the deportation from the island to St.-Malo, France, in 1758.  Only one of Sébastien's sons created a family of his own.  His descendants remained in greater Acadia; none of them emigrated to Louisiana. 

Older son Jacques, born probably at Chignecto in c1694, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Abraham Arseneau and Jeanne Gaudet, at Beaubassin in January 1719.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1720 and 1745, Marie-Josèphe gave Jacques 13 children, six daughters and seven sons, including two sets of twins.  The family moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Jacques, Marie-Josèphe, and 11 of their children at Étang-des-Berges near Tracadie on the north side of the island.  Evidently they were among the Acadians who escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758.  Jacques and members of his family were counted at Chédabouctou near present-day Guysborough, Nova Scotia, in 1760, so the British probably captured them not long after they left Île St.-Jean.  One son ended up in the prison compound at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, at Chignecto, but he did not survive imprisonment.  After the war, Jacques led his family to the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  French officials counted them there in 1765 and 1767.  Five of Jacques's daughters married into the Hébert, Cormier, and Boudrot families.  Five, perhaps six, of his seven sons created their own families in greater Acadia.  They were especailly numerous at Chéticamp on the northwest coast of Cape Breton Island and on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

Oldest son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1725, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and was counted with them at Tracadie in August 1752.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Judith Belliveau, probably on the island in c1753.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1754 and 1764, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre five children, three sons and two daughters.  They evidently escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By the early 1760s they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area, who held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, they appeared on a repatriation list at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Beauséjour, near their old home at Chignecto.  Pierre died there in 1764, and Marie-Josèphe followed his family to Île Miquelon, where French officials counted them in 1765 and 1767.  Not long after returning from a short exile in France in 1767-68, Marie-Josèphe remarried to a Poirier on the island in 1772. 

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Tracadie, Île St.-Jean, in c1754, followed his family into exile, into the prison compound at Fort Cumerbland, to Île Miquelon, to France, and back to Miquelon.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured the island and deported the Acadians there and on nearby Île St.-Pierre to La Rochelle, France.  Joseph married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Vigneau and Marie Bourgeois, at La Rochelle soon after he reached the French port.  Between 1781 and 1784, Anne gave Joseph two sons--Jean and Étienne Pierre or Isidore--at La Rochelle.  The younger son died in the city, age 8 days, in April 1783.  Joseph and Anne returned to Île Miquelon in 1784, a year before some of his Chiasson cousins emigrated to Louisiana from France. 

Jacques's second son Paul, a twin, born at Chignecto in c1727, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and was counted with them at Tracadie in August 1752.  He married Louise Boudrot probably on the island in c1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1756 and 1769, Louise gave Paul seven children, five sons and two daughters.  They, too, escaped the British roundup on the islasnd in 1758 and either fled to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or remained on the island, where the British counted them in 1761.  After the war, they joined members of their family on Île Miquelon, where French officials counted them in 1764 and 1767.  They moved on to Chéticamp on the northwestern shore of Cape Breton Island before returning to Prince Edward Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, where Paul died at Rollo Bay on the northeast shore of the island, date unrecorded.  His daughters married into the Aucoin and Boudrot famililes at Chéticamp.  At least three of his sons created their own families at Chéticamp and on Prince Edward Island. 

Oldest son Basile, born in exile in c1756, followed his family to Île Miquelon and Chéticamp.  He married fellow Acadian Anne-Adélaïde Arsenault probably at Chéticamp in c1778.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1779 and 1790, Anne-Adélaïde gave Basile seven children, two daughers and five sons, at the remote fishing village.  One of his daughters married into the LeBlanc family.  At least four of his seven sons also created their own families at Chéticamp.

Oldest son Firmin, born probably at Chéticamp, Cape Breton Island, in c1780, married fellow Acadian Hélène Poirier probably at Chéticamp in c1802.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1803 and 1823, Hélène gave Firmin a dozen children, eight daughters and four sons, at Chéticamp. 

Basile's second son Joseph, born probably at Chéticamp in c1782, married fellow Acadian Dorothée Poirier probably at Chéticamp in c1804.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1804 and 1812, Dorothée gave Joseph five children, two sons and three daughters. 

Basile's third son Thomas, born probably at Chéticamp in c1783, married cousin Froisine, daughter of fellow Acadians Lazare LeBlanc and Modeste Chiasson, probably at Chéticamp in c1805.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1806 and 1814, Froisine gave Thomas six children, three sons and three daughters, at Chéticamp. 

Basile's fifth and youngest son Basile dit Petit Basile, born probably at Chéticamp in c1790, married fellow Acadian Marie Bourgeois probably at Chéticamp in c1818.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1820 and 1833, Marie gave Petit Basile eight children, five sons and three daughters.  The settled at Grand-Étang south of Chéticamp. 

Paul's second son Germain, born in exile in c1758, followed his family to Île Miquelon and Chéticamp.  He married fellow Acadian Marie Pitre probably at Chéticamp in c1780.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1781 and 1800, Marie gave Germain nine children, seven sons and two daughters, at Chéticamp.  At least two of Germain's sons created their own families there.

Oldest son David, born probably at Chéticamp in c1781, married fellow Acadian Céleste Cormier probably at Chéticamp in c1803.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1804 and 1819, Céleste gave David 10 children, eight daughters and two sons.  They settled at Grand-Étang. 

Germain's second son Jean le jeune, born probably at Chéticamp in c1782, married fellow Acadian Anastasie Cormier probably at Chéticamp in c1804.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1805 and 1810, Anastasie gave Jean le jeune four children, three sons and a daughter.  They also settled at Grand-Étang. 

Paul's fourth son Augustin, born probably on Île Miquelon in c1766, followed his family to Chéticamp and Prince Edward Island.  He married Marie des Anges, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Doiron and Madeleine Bourg, probably on the island in c1788.  They settled at Rustico on the island's north shore, where Augustin died in May 1813, in his late 40s. 

Jacques's third son Jacques, fils, born at Chignecto in c1729, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and was counted with them at Tracadie in August 1752.  He married Marie-Judith Boudrot probably on the island in c1757.  According to Bona Arsenault, betwee 1758 and 1766, Marie gave Jacques, fils three children, a son and two daughters.  They, too, escaped the British in 1758 and, after the war, followed his family to Île Miquelon, where they were counted in 1767.  They then moved on to Prince Edward Island and were among the first inhabitants of Tignish on the extreme northwest tip of the island. 

Jacques, père's fourth son Michel, born at Chignecto in c1732, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and was counted with them at Tracadie in August 1752.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Boudrot and Judith Beliveau, sister of his oldest brother's wife, on Île St.-Jean in 1758 on the eve of the island's dérangement.  They escaped the British roundup on the island later that year and followed his family into exile.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1770, Marguerite gave Michel five children, three sons and two daughters.  They joined his family on Île Miquelon in 1764, were counted on the island in 1767, but moved on to the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1769.  One of their daughters married into the Cyr family and spent some time at La Rochelle, France.  At least one of Michel's sons created his own family in the islands.

Third and youngest son Joseph, born in the Madeleine islands in c1770, married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudreau and Louise Arsenault, in the islands in January 1794.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1796 and 1815, Henriette gave Joseph seven children, five daughters and two sons.  Joseph drowned in the islands in April 1831, in his early 60s. 

Jacques, père's fifth son Joseph, born at Chignecto in c1737, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and was counted with them at Tracadie in August 1752.  One wonders what became of him in 1758. 

Jacques, père's sixth son Jean, born at Chignecto in c1740, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750, was counted with them at Tracadie in August 1752, and escaped the British in 1758.  He married Isabelle Boudrot in c1762, place unrecorded.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1770, Isabelle gave Jean five children, three sons and two daughters.  If they followed his family to Île Miquelon, they did not remain there.  They settled at Chéticamp on the northwest shore of Cape Breton Island.  Jean's daughters married into the Maillet and LeBlanc families.  All three of Jean's sons created families in the remote fishing village. 

Oldest son Joseph, born in exile in c1763, followed his family to Chéticamp.  He married fellow Acadian Marie Maillet probably at Chéticamp in c1785.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1788 and 1792, Marie gave Joseph three children, two sons and a daughter.  They settled at Petit-Étang north of Chéticamp. 

Jean's second son Jean, fils, born perhaps at Chéticamp in c1768, married fellow Acadian Marguerite LeBlanc in c1790, place not given.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1792 and 1816, Marguerite gave Jean, fils 10 children, four daughters and six sons.  They settled at Margaree on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore south of Chéticamp.

Jean, père's third and youngest son Isidore, born perhaps at Chéticamp in c1770, married fellow Acadian Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc in c1792, place not given.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1793 and 1805, Marie-Madeleine gave Isidore nine children, four daughters and five sons.  They also settled at Margaree. 

Jacques, père's seventh and youngest son Amand, born at Chignecto in c1745, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750, was counted with them at Tracadie in August 1752, escaped the British in 1758, followed his family to Île Miquelon in the mid-1760s, and married Marguerite Doucet probably on the island in the late 1760s.  French officials counted them there in 1767, but they did not remain.  Amand joined his older brother Michel on the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1769 and 1787, Marguerite gave Amand 11 children, five daughters and six sons, in the remote archipelago.  Four of Amand's daughters married into the Bourgeois, Hébert, and Boudreau families.  Five of his six sons also created their own families in the islands. 

Oldest son Louis, born probably in the Madeleine islands in c1772, married Nathalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Lapierre and Cécile Blanchard, probably in the islands in July 1800.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1806 and 1820, Nathalie gave Louis seven children, four daughters and three sons, in the islands.  Louis died in the islands in November 1838, in his mid-60s.

Amand's second son Thomas, born probably in the islands in c1776, married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Boudreau and Isabelle Boudreau, probably in the islands in August 1804; the marriage was "rehabilitated" in December 1809.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1805 and 1822, Scholastique gave Thomas nine children, seven daughters and two sons.  Thomas died in the islands in May 1849, in his early 70s. 

Amand's third son Firmin, born probably in the islands in c1782, married Lucie, daughter of Charles Hébert and Rosalie Vigneau, probably on the islands in October 1808.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1820 and 1825, Lucie gave Firmin three children, all sons. 

Amand's fourth son Amand, fils, born probably in the islands in c1785, married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Cormier and Anne Haché, probably in the islands in c1805; the marriage was "rehabilitated" in October 1809.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1806 and 1819, Françoise gave Amand, fils six children, five daughters and a son.  Amand, fils remarried to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Etcheverry and Marie Audy and widow of Jacques Vigneau, probably in the islands in October 1827.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1830 and 1832, Madeleine gave Amand, fils two children, a daughter and a son. 

Amand, père's fifth son Basile le jeune, born probably in the islands in c1786, married Anastasie, another daughter of Charles Hébert and Rosalie Vigneau, probably in the islands in October 1808.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1810 and 1832, Anastasie gave Basile le jeune seven children, three daughters and four sons. 

Sébastien's younger son, name unrecorded, born probably at Chignecto before 1701, likely died young.

Guyon's third son Jean, who called himself a Giasson, born probably at Port-Royal in c1674, moved to Canada when he came of age, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Canadians Jean Le Moyne, sieur de Ste.-Marie near Ste.-Anne de la Pérade, and Marie-Madeleine de Chavigny, at Batiscan above Québec in November 1697, and settled there.  Between 1698 and 1719, Marie-Anne gave Jean 13 children, at least five sons and seven daughters.  Jean died at Montréal in January 1719, age 45.  Three of his daughters married into the Gamelin dit Maugras, Douaire, and Hubert dit Lacroix families in Canada.  Only two of his five sons created families of their own.   

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Batiscan in August 1698, died there as an infant.   

Jean's second son Jean, fils, born at Boucherville in August 1706, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Julien Trottier dit Desrivières and Louise-Catherine Raimbault, at Montréal in November 1747.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1748 and 1750, Marie-Anne gave Jean, fils two children, both daughters.  He died at Montréal in March 1776, age 70.  

Jean's third son Jacques-Ignace, born at Boucherville in March 1708, married Marie-Angélique, daughter of Pierre Hubert and Catherine Demers, at Montréal in April 1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1750, Marie-Angélique gave Jacques-Ignace three children, a daughter and two sons.  Jacques-Ignace died at Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes in August 1762, age 53.   

Jean's fourth and fifth sons, both named Joseph, born at Montréal in July 1717 and February 1719, died at Montréal and La Chine as infants. 

Guyon's fourth and youngest son Michel, born probably at Port-Royal in c1676, also moved to Canada, where he married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Mourier and Marie Mineau, on Île d'Orléans, below Québec, in June 1706.  He, too, remained in the St. Lawrence valley.  Between 1707 and 1730, Marguerite gave him Michel 10 children, five sons and five daughters.  Michel died at St.-François-du-Sud in March 1759, in his early 80s.  Four of his daughters married into the Boulet or Boulé, Gaudreau, Louineau, and Moyen families in Canada.  Only two of his sons created their own families.   

Oldest son Michel, fils, born at St.-Pierre-du-Sud near St.-Thomas de Montmagny below Québec, probably died young.  

Michel, père's second son Louis, born probably near Montmagny in c1716, died at St.-Berthier-sur-Mer near Montmagny in October 1731, age 15.    

Michel, père's third son Louis, the second with the name, born probably near Montmagny in c1723, married Marie-Geneviève, daughter of François Quemeneur dit Laflamme and Marie-Madeleine Chamberland, at St.-François-du-Sud near Montmagny in October 1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1757, Marie-Geneviève gave Louis four children, three daughters and a son.  Louis died at St.-François-du-Sud in October 1797, age 74.   

Michel, père's fourth son Joseph, born probably near Montmagny in c1724, married Geneviève, daughter of Jacques Gendron or Gendreau and Élisabeth Dandurand, at St.-Thomas de Montmagny in January 1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1758, Geneviève gave Joseph four children, three daughters and a son.  Joseph died at nearby L'Islet in December 1801, age 77.  

Michel, père''s fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born at St.-François-du-Sud in October 1730, evidently died young.378

Daigre/Daigle

Olivier Daigre or Daigle, a mid-1660s arrival, and his wife Marie Gaudet created a large family in the colony.  Between 1667 and 1681, Marie gave Olivier 10 children, seven sons and three daughters.  Olivier died at Port-Royal in c1686, in his early 40s, and Marie remarried to a Fardel or Fredelle.  Two of Olivier's daughters married into the Sibilau, Gouzil, Poitevin dit Parisien, and Tennier or Thenière families.  Second daughter Marie bore two "natural" children, both daughters, by Gabriel Moulaison dit Recontre and Louis Blin evidently between her marriages to Pierre Sibilau and Jacques Gouzil.  She had legitimate children--a son and three daughters--only by her second husband, Jacques Gouzil.  Olivier's youngest daughter Anne and her family perished aboard the British transport Violet in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England during the deportation of the Maritime island Acadians to France in late 1758.  Only two of Olivier's seven sons, the third and fifth, created their own families.  The third son's line was especially vigorous.  Olivier's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also at Minas and Pigiguit in the Minas Basin, at Chignecto, and in the French Maritimes.  At least 59 of his descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and especially from France in 1785.  A substantial number of Olivier's descendants also could be found in Canada, greater Acadia, and France, especially on Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany, after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1667, was counted with his family in 1678, age 12.  If he survived childhood, he did not marry.

Olivier's second son Jacques, born at Port-Royal in c1669, was counted with his family in 1671, age 2.  He evidently died young.

Olivier's third son Bernard, born at Port-Royal in c1670, married Marie-Claire, daughter of Bernard Bourg and Françoise Brun, probably at Port-Royal in c1691.  They settled at Rivière-Kenescout, Minas, before moving on to the new settlement deeper into the Basin on Rivière Pigiguit.  Between 1692 and 1712, Marie-Claire gave Bernard 13 children, 11 sons and two daughters.  Marie-Claire died at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1727.  Bernard did not remarry.  He led, or followed, his children to Île St.-Jean, where he died in January 1751, in his early 80s.  Only one of his daughters, Marie-Claire, married, into the Hébert dit Manuel family, and settled on Île St.-Jean.  Like her paternal aunt Anne, Marie-Claire perished with her entire family on one of the two British transports that sunk in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England in 1758.  Nine of Bernard's 11 sons also created families of their own, at Minas and in the French Maritimes.   

Oldest son Bernard, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1692, married Angélique, daughter of Pierre Richard and Marguerite Landry, at Grand-Pré in October 1714 and settled there and at Pigiguit.  Between the 1710s and 1737, Angélique gave Bernard, fils nine children, five sons and four daughters.  Bona Arsenault gives them a sixth son, born in c1743.  Their daughters married into the Granger, LeBlanc, and Tompique families, and one of them settled on Île Royale.  All of Bernard, fils's sons also created their own families at Minas.  Most of his children and their families (and, says Arsenault, Bernard, fils himself) were among the hundreds of Minas Acadians the British deported to Virginia in the fall of 1755.  Two of his sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. 

Oldest son Pierre le jeune, born at Minas in c1715, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Gautrot and Marie-Josèphe Bugeaud, at Grand-Pré in January 1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1752, Madeleine gave Pierre le jeune seven children, two daughters and five sons.  Albert J. Rochichaux, Jr. says she gave him only five children, four sons and a daughter, between 1744 and 1752.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the family, now three sons and a daughter, to Virginia, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Pierre le jeune died at Southampton, perhaps of smallpox, soon after his arrival in the English port.  Widow Madeleine remarried to a LeBlanc widower at Southampton in c1758.  In May 1763, Madeleine, her new family, and three of her Daigre children, sons Jean and Paul and daughter Marie-Rose, were repatriated to France aboard L'Ambition.  They settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo.  Pierre le jeune's daughter Marie-Rose married into the Fourgeraud family at Chantenay near Nantes in June 1782 and died there two years later.  At least one of Pierre le jeune's sons created his own family in France, and his widow and children emigrated to Louisiana. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste-Amand, called Jean, born at Grand-Pré in March 1744, followed his family to Virginia and England and his mother and stepfather to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, where he married Marguerite-Ange, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph-Ange Dubois and Anne Michel of Cap-Sable, in January 1770.  Between 1771 and 1778, Marguerite-Ange gave Jean three sons at St.-Servan, in Poitou, and at Chantenay near Nantes, but only one of them survived childhood.  Jean worked as a seaman in France.  In the early 1770s, perhaps while she was pregnant and Jean was away at sea, wife Marguerite-Ange followed her mother-in-law Madeleine Gautrot, her mother-in-law's second husband Charles LeBlanc, her sister-in-law Marie-Rose Daigre, and hundreds of other Acadians to the interior of Poitou, where Marguerite-Ange's second son was baptized at Pouthume near Châtellerault in October 1774.  With her infant son in tow, Marguerite-Ange retreated to the lower Loire port of Nantes with her mother-in-law, her mother-in-law's family, and other Poitou Acadians in December 1775.  Jean returned to his family at Nantes, and their third and youngest son was baptized at nearby Chantenay in August 1778.  Jean died either at sea or at Nantes between September 1784 and June 1785, in his early or mid-40s.  Widow Marguerite-Ange and their surviving son, now age 10, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers, including her former mother-in-law Madeleine Gautrot, to Manchac below Baton Rouge.  Marguerite-Ange remarried to a Granger widower at Baton Rouge in 1787.  Probably after her second husband's death, she moved to upper Bayou Lafourche, where she remarried again--her third marriage--to a Gautreaux widower in 1792.  Marguerite-Ange died on upper Bayou Lafourche in June 1817, age 60, a widow again.  Her son followed her to the upper Lafourche, married twice there, and died five and a half years before his mother's passing. 

Second son Jean-Louis, born at Pouthume, Poitou, France, in October 1774, followed his mother to Nantes and Manchac, Louisiana.  His mother remarried twice on the river.  Jean-Marie followed her and a stepfather to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Richard and his French wife Marie-Jeanne Daniel, at Assumption in August 1799.  Marie, a native of Roscoff near Morlaix in northwest Brittany, had come to Louisiana from France on a later ship.  The couple may have lived at New Orleans in the early 1800s.  Marie gave Jean-Louis a son who died young.  Jean-Louis remarried to Marie Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph François Michel and Geneviève LeBlanc, at Assumption in January 1804.  Marie Josèphe was a native of Louisiana.  Jean Louis died in Assumption Parish in November 1811, age 37.  Their daughters, all by his second wife, married into the Boudreaux, Faits, and Gros families.  His son from his second wife married into the Boudreaux family on the upper Lafourche and created a small line there. 

Bernard, fils's second son Joseph, born at Minas in c1717, married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Granger and Marie Girouard, at Grand-Pré in January 1742 and settled there.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1747, Marguerite gave Joseph three children, two daughters and a son.  Other sources give them another son in c1750.  The family suffered the same fate as his older brother Pierre's family:  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the family to Virginia, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Joseph died at Southampton, perhaps of smallpox, soon after his arrival in the English port.  His widow Marguerite did not remarry and may also have died in England.  In May 1763, at least three of her children were repatriated to France aboard L'Ambition and settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo before moving to the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1766.  Daughter Angélique-Marguerite, called Marguerite, and son Simon, ages 16 and 13 in 1763, settled in France but had not married by 1772, when they would have been ages 26 and 22, respectively.  However, their oldest brother Joseph, fils did marry not long after his arrival in France. 

Older son Joseph, fils, born probably at Grand-Pré in April 1745, followed his family to Virginia and England and led his younger siblings to St.-Malo, France, in 1763.  He married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Comeau and Marguerite Aucoin, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in January 1766.  Élisabeth gave him a son at St.-Servan in 1767, but the boy died the following year.  One wonders what happened to the couple after 1772.  Neither they, nor Joseph, fils's younger siblings, emigated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Bernard, fils's third son Charles, born at Grand-Pré in March 1727, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of René Babin and Isabelle Gautrot, probably at Minas in c1754.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1761, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles five children, four sons and a daughter.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported them to Maryland.  In July 1763, Charles, Marie-Josèphe, three of their children, two sons and a daugher, and a Granger orphan, appeared on a repatriation list at Newtown on the colony's Eastern Shore.  When hundreds of Maryland Acadians moved on to Spanish Louisiana in 1766-69, Charles and his family were among the minority who chose to remain in the Cheaspeake colony.  According to Arsenault, Charles settled at St.-Ours in the lower Richelieu valley, between Trois-Rivières and Montréal, so one wonders when the family headed up to Canada.  At least one of their sons did not join them there. 

Third son Simon, born in Maryland in c1757, remained in the colony and served as "captain of the Baltimore-Norfolk packet line" and figured "prominently in [Baltimore] city records."

Bernard, fils's fourth son Eustache, born at Grand-Pré in May 1728, followed his family to Virginia in 1755 and to England in the spring of 1756.  At age 31, he married Madeleine, daughter of Charles Dupuis and Marie-Madeleine Trahan of Rivière-aux-Canards, at Southampton, England, in c1759.  Between 1760 and 1784, Madeleine gave Eustache 10 children, seven sons and three daughters, in England and France.  The family repatriated to France in May 1763 aboard L'Ambition and settled on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo at Plouër-sur-Rance, where Eustache worked as a day laborer and carpenter.  Two of his daughters born at Plouër died young.  The family did not follow other Acadians from England to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765.  In 1773, they went, instead, to the interior of Poitou with hundreds of other Acadians in the St.-Malo area and retreated with other Poitou Acadian to the port city of Nantes in March 1776.   Three of their sons, born at Nantes, died there in infancy.  Oldest daughter Marie-Marguerite married into the Hébert family at Nantes.  Eustache, Madeleine, and three of their younger sons, one of them an infant, along with their married daughter and her family, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Oldest son Pierre, born in England in c1760, did not go with them.  From New Orleans, Eustache and his family followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Eustache died there in the early 1790s, in his early 60s.  Madeleine did not remarry.  She died in Assumption Parish in September 1816, in her mid-70s.  Two of their three sons married into the Mazerolle and Landry families on the upper bayou, but only one of the lines endured. 

Bernard, fils's fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Grand-Pré in January 1733, followed his family to Virginia in 1755 and to England in the spring of 1756.  He married Marie-Flavie, daughter of Jean dit Lami Boudrot and Agathe Thibodeau, at Southampton in c1758.  Between 1763 and 1781, Marie-Flavie gave Jean-Baptiste eight children, at least two daughters and five sons, in England and France.  The family was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763 aboard L'Ambition and settled at Plouër-sur-Rance south of  St.-Malo.  Four of their children, a daughter, two sons, and an unidentified child, died young.  Jean-Baptiste, Marie-Flavie, and their two surviving children went to Poitou in 1773 and retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in March 1776.  Two more of their young sons died at Nantes.  When the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, Jean-Baptiste and Marie-Flavie took with them only two of their children, a daughter and a son, ages 15 and 11.  They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where their daughter married into the LeBlanc and Landry families.  Their son married into the Bourg family and created a vigorous line on the upper bayou.  

Bernard, père's second son Pierre, born at Pigiguit in c1696, married Madeleine, daughter of Claude Gautrot and Marie Thériot, in c1715 probably at Pigiguit and settled at what became l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1714 and 1736, Madeleine gave Pierre seven chldren, six sons and a daughter.  Perhaps after his wife died, Pierre either led or followed his children to the French Maritimes.  He remarried to Marie-Louise, daughter of François Testard dit Paris and Marie Doiron and widow of Charles dit Petit-Charles Pinet le jeune, in c1750, place not given.  She gave him no more children.  In February 1752, a French official counted Pierre, Marie-Louise, and five children from her first marriage not on Île St.-Jean, where his many children had settled, but at Port-Toulouse on Île Royale, where he worked as a carpenter.  In late 1758, the British deported Pierre and Marie-Louise to St.-Malo, France.  The passenger roll of one of the five British transports on which he crossed says he was age 66, an exaggeration; he was closer to age 62 when he crossed.  Marie-Louise died in a St.-Malo hospital in February, soon after their arrival.  Pierre died in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer the following month, in his mid-60s, probably from the rigors of the crossing.  The French official who recorded his death says Pierre died at age 68, even more of an exaggeration.  Pierre's daughter from first wife Madeleine married into the Landry family on Île St.-Jean.  Five of his six sons also created their own families at Pigiguit, on the Île St.-Jean, and in France. 

Oldest son Charles, by first wife Madeleine Gautrot, born, according to Bona Arsenault, probably at Pigiguit, in c1714 (Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. says c1724), married Cécile Landry probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1738 (Robichaux says c1749).  According to Robichaux, between 1750 and 1766, Cécile gave Charles three daughters.  According to Arsenault, between 1750 and 1757, Cécile gave Charles five children, two daughters and three sons.  In c1750, the family moved on to Île St.-Jean, where a French official counted Charles, Cécile, and two daughters at Rivière-du-Nord near the island's southern shore.  In late 1758, the British deported Charles, Cécile, and their surviving children to Rochefort, France.  Cécile and their children died during the crossing.  The following year, Charles sailed from Rochefort to St.-Malo and settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo.  At age 49, he remarried to Marie-Blanche, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Aucoin and Catherine Comeau, at Plouër in October 1763.  She gave him another daughter in 1766.  Charles died at Plumazon near Plouër in March 1767, in his early 50s.  His widow remained at Plouër until her death in 1772.  One wonders if her Daigre daughter survived childhood, and, if so, who raised her. 

Pierre's third son Olivier le jeune, by first wife Madeleine Gautrot, born probably at Pigiguit in c1718, married Angélique, daughter of Louis Doiron and Marguerite Barrieau, probably at Pigiguit in c1738 or 1739 and lived for a time at Cobeguit at the eastern edge of the Minas Basin.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1752, Angélique gave Olivier le jeune eight children, three daughters and five sons.  Other sources give them another daughter and two more sons, 11 children in all.  They followed his older brother Charles to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Olivier, Angélique, and their eight children at Grande-Anse on the island's southern coast.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  The crossing devastated the family:  seven of their children, six sons and a daughter, died at sea, and, in February and March, Olivier and Angélique died in the hospital in St.-Malo from the rigors of the crossing.  Their three surviving daughters married into the Landry, Richard, Bourg, and Dupuis families in France, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Olivier le jeune's only surviving son married in France and remained there. 

Oldest son Miniac dit Olivier, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1742, 1743 or 1744, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, was counted with them at Grande-Anse, and survived the crossing to St.-Malo, but he did not remain there.  In November 1765, he followed other Acadian exiles in the St.-Malo area to recently liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Melanson and Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc, at Le Palais on the east side of the island in November 1766.  Marie was a native of Rivière-aux-Canards.  Typical of the Acadian exiles on Belle-Île-en-Mer, she and her family had been deported to Virginia in 1755, to England in 1756, and repatriated to France in 1763.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1770, Marie gave Miniac three children, two sons and a daughter, at Cosquet near Locmaria.  Marie died at Locmaria in May 1771, age 26.  Her and Minac's younger son Luc-Julien-Pascal died at Locmaria, age 3 1/2, in May 1774.  Miniac remarried to Marie, daughter of Nicolas LeCouriacault or Couriault and Jeanne Henri of Quiberon, Brittany, at Locmaria the following October and settled at Cosquet.  According to Arsenault, between 1775 and 1783, Marie gave Miniac four more children, two daughters and two sons.  The family did not remain on the island.  Soon after the marriage, Miniac secured work as a laborer on a royal estate at Kerouriec near Erdeven west of Auray on the southern coast of Brittany.  They also lived at Arradon and on Île-aux-Moines near Vannes.  When hundreds of Acadians in France emigrated to Louisiana in 1785, Miniac, his second wife and most of their children remained in coastal Brittany.  His oldest son, however, still a teenager in 1785, chose to leave his family and follow his fellow Acadians to the Spanish colony.  Miniac died probably at Vannes in c1790, in his late 40s.  His widow Marie was still living at Vannes wth four of their children in 1792.  Daughter Marie-Josèphe-Marguerite, at age 27, married at Concarneau along the Breton coast west of Vannes in January 1796 probably to a local Frenchman.  According to Arsenault, Miniac's descendants can be found not only in Louisiana, but also on Belle-Île-en-Mer and in other regions of France. 

Oldest son Paul-Olivier, by first wife Marie Melanson, born at Locmaria, Belle-Île-en-Mer, in May 1767, followed his father and stepmother to coastal Brittany, but he did not remain there.  By 1785, he was working as a laborer probably at the lower Loire port of Nantes in southeast Brittany.  Called a "minor" and an orphan on the ship's passenger list, Paul-Olivier emigrated to Spanish Louisiana with widower Jean Doiron and his kinsman's unmarried daughter and followed them and their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge.  Paul-Olivier married cousin Marie-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and his second wife Françoise Daigre, probably at Manchac in September 1788.  Paul-Olivier died at Baton Rouge in November 1833, age 66.  His daughters married into the Babin, Brown, Daigre, Kleinpeter, and Templet families.  Three of his five sons married, into the Bird, Thompson, and Jewell families, and settled at Manchac, Baton Rouge, and across the river in Pointe Coupee Parish. 

Pierre's fourth son Isidore, by first wife Madeleine Gautrot, born probably at Pigiguit in c1724, married Agathe, daughter of Pierre Barrieau and Véronique Girouard, probably at Pigiguit in c1749.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1751 and 1756, Agathe gave Isidore four children, two sons and two daughters.  They followed his older brothers to Île St.-Jean soon after their marriage.  In August 1752, a French official counted Isidore, Agathe, and a son on the north bank of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior.  One wonders what happened to them in 1758.

Pierre's fifth son Rémy, by first wife Madeleine Gautrot, born probably at Pigiguit in c1727, followed his older brothers to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  One wonders what happened to him in 1758, unless he was the Charles Daigre, born in c1732, who married Marie-Blanche, another daughter of Pierre Barrieau and Véronique Girouard, in c1755 probably on the island, and, with his wife, two children--a son born in c1756 and a daughter in January 1759--and a sister-in-law, were deported to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Charles died at St.-Malo in March 1759, age 27, from the rigors of the crossing.  His son died at sea, and his daughter, born aboard ship, also died at sea.  Only wife Marie-Blanche and her teenage sister survived the crossing. 

Pierre's sixth and youngest son Alexandre, by first wife Madeleine Gautrot, born probably at Pigiguit in c1729 or 1730, married Élisabeth Granger in c1750 or 1751, and they followed his older brothers to Île St.-Jean.  Between 1752 and 1773, Élisabeth gave Alexandre nine children, six sons and three daughters.  In August 1752, a French official counted Alexandre, Élisabeth, and their infant son on Rivière-du-Nord near the island's southern shore.  In late 1758, the British deported the family to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.  Their three children had either died on the island before its dérangement, perished on the crossing, or died in the northern French fishing port.  They had more children in Boulogne-sur-Mer.  In May 1766, Alexandre took his wife and three surviving children, two sons and a daughter, to St.-Malo aboard Le Hazard.  They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where Élisabeth gave him more children, including a set of twins.  One of the twins, a daughter, died at St.-Servan, age 13 months.  In 1773, Alexandre took his family to Poitou.  In March 1776, after two years of effort, Alexandre, Élisabeth, and their six remaining children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  One of their sons died there in September 1779.  Evidently Alexandre and Élisabeth died there as well.  In 1785, five of their children, two daughters and three sons, ages 24 to 15, emigrated to Louisiana with relatives aboard two of the Seven Ships.  Alexandre's older daughter married into the Simoneau family in the Spanish colony and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  His younger daughter did not marry.  Alexandre's three sons also settled on the upper Lafourche, where they created vigorous lines.

Third son Alexis-Jean-Mathurin, born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in January 1763, followed his family to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Poitou, and Nantes.  He became an engraver in France.  He emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 as a young bachelor and followed his fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie-Josèphe-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Levron and Marguerite Trahan, in January 1788.  Marie, also a native of Boulogne-sur-Mer, had come to Louisiana aboard a later ship.  In the baptismal record of daughter Marie-Claire, born in January 1797 and baptized at New Orleans the following March, Alexis and his wife are described as "residents of this parish," so they must have lived in the city before returning to the upper Lafourche, where they were counted again in April 1797.  Mathurin died in Assumption Parish in October 1815.  The Plattenville priest who recorded the burial said that Mathurin was age 50 when he died.  He was 52.  His daughters married into the Malbrough family.  Four of his six sons married into the Richard, Lejeune, Gautreaux, and Lirette families and created vigorous lines.  Unlike their cousins, the great majority of whom remained in Assumption Parish, Mathurin's many sons and grandsons moved down bayou into Lafourche Interior and Terrebonne parishes.  

Alexandre's fourth son Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre, born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in May 1765, followed his family to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Poitou, and Nantes.  He followed his older brother to Spanish Louisiana on a later vessel and followed his fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and his first wife Anastasie Henry, in June 1786.  Marie, a native of St.-Suliac near St.-Malo, had come to Louisiana aboard the same vessel.  Jean Baptiste died at Assumption in October 1805, age 40.  His daughters married into the Aucoin, Breaux, Doiron, and Theriot families, and one of them settled on lower Bayou Teche.  All four of his sons married, into the Blanchard, Arceneaux, Giroir, and Hébert families in Assumption Parish and created vigorous lines.  A grandson settled down bayou in Terrebonne Parish before returning to Assumption Parish, and two other grandsons moved to the Brashear City, now Morgan City, area on the lower Atchafalaya on the eve of the War of 1861-65.  

Alexandre's fifth son Joseph dit Joson, a twin, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, in March 1770, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his older brothers to Spanish Louisiana on a different vessel with his maternal uncle Charles Granger.  He followed his uncle to the Baton Rouge area but did not remain there.  In the late 1780s and early 1790s, he was living with his married sister Isabelle-Luce and her husband René Simoneaux on the upper Lafourche, where his two older brothers had settled.  In 1795, Joseph was living on the upper bayou with the family of Lucas Landry probably as an engagé.  He married cousin Marie-Marthe, daughter of fellow Acadians Chrysostôme Trahan and Anne-Françoise Granger, at Assumption in October 1800.  A native of Belle-Île-en-Mer, when they married she literally was the girl next door.  Joseph died in Assumption Parish in July 1836, age 66, a widower.  His daughter married into the Breaux family.  Three of his five sons married into the Duhon, Simoneaux, and Boudreaux families in Assumption Parish. 

Bernard, père's third son Joseph, born probably at Pigiguit in c1696, married Madeleine, daughter of Charles Gautrot and Françoise Rimbault, in c1715 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1717 and 1741, Madeleine gave Joseph a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons.  The family moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Joseph, Madeleine, and five of their unmarried children, three sons and two daughters, ages 28 to 13, at Anse-au-Matelot on the south shore of the island.  They evidently left the island before the dérangement there in 1758 and sought refuge in Canada.  Joseph died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse across from Québec City in December 1757, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck Acadian refugees in the area from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Widow Madeleine died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse the following February, perhaps also a victim of the pox.  Four of their daughters married into the Roy, Cyr, Mazerolle, and Nault-Labrie families in greater Acadia and Canada.  Four of Joseph's five sons also married in greater Acadia and Canada. 

Oldest son Charles le jeune, born probably at Minas in c1721, married Marie, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Anne Landry, probably at Minas in c1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1752 Marie gave Charles le jeune a son.  The British deported the family to Virginia in 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England in the spring of 1756.  Charles le jeune died at Southampton, England, in June 1756, victim, perhaps, of smallpox.  His widow Marie died that August.  Their son likely was raised by a maternal uncle.

Only son Joseph le jeune, born probably at Minas in c1752, followed his parents to Virginia and England and lost both of his parents at Southampton when he was age 4.  In May 1763, Joseph le jeune accompanied his maternal uncle Alain LeBlanc, his uncle's family, and dozens of other Acadians in England to St.-Malo, France, aboard La Dorothée.  He lived with his uncle at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer and accompanied him to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in November 1765.  Joseph le jeune was still there in 1767, under the charge of his maternal uncle Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc.  Uncle Alain and his family returned to North America via the Isle of Jersey in the early 1770s and were counted by British authorities in Canada in 1774.  One wonders if Joseph le jeune followed them there or if he remained in France. 

Joseph's second son Alain, born probably at Minas in c1727, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  A French official counted him with his parents and four of his younger siblings at Anse-au-Matelot in August 1752.  He married Euphrosine, daughter of Nicolas Deschamps and Judith Doiron, at nearby Port-La-Joye in February 1753.  According to Bona Arsenault, Euphrosine gave Alain a son in 1754.  They must have returned to Minas after the 1752 counting.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the family to Pennsylvania, where they had at least two more children.  Alain, Euphrosine, and three of their children were still in the Quaker colony in June 1763.  One wonders what happened to them after that date.

Joseph's third son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Minas in c1733, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  A French official counted him with his parents and four of his siblings at Anse-au-Matelot in August 1752.  He married Blanche, daughter of Claude Trahan and Marie Tillard of Pigiguit, at Port-La-Joye in February 1753, a week and a half before his older brother Alain married there.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1755 Blanche gave Jean-Baptiste a daughter.  The couple either remained on the island and escaped the British roundup there in late 1758, or they left the island before its dérangement and sought refuge in Canada.  Blanche did not survive the ordeal.  One wonders if she was a victim of the smallpox epidemic that struck the exiles in and around Québec from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Blanche's cousin Marie-Thérèse, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Trahan and Marie Boudrot, at St.-Charles de Bellechasse across from Québec City in February 1759.  According to Arsenault, between 1759 and 1772, Marie-Thérèse gave Jean-Baptiste six children, two sons and four daughters.  British officials counted the family at Québec in 1767 and 1793, but they did not remain there.  They returned to greater Acadia and settled at Bathurst, formerly Nepisiguit, northeastern New Brunswick, where Jean-Baptiste died in August 1814, in his early 70s. 

Joseph's fourth son Simon-Joseph, called Joseph, fils, born probably at Minas in c1738, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  A French official counted him with his parents and four of his siblings at Anse-au-Matelot in August 1752.  He followed his family into exile in Canada, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Guilbeau and Madeleine Forest of Annapolis Royal, at St.-François de Montmagny below Québec City in November 1762.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1769, Marguerite gave Joseph, fils six children, four daughters and two sons, perhaps including two sets of twins.  Joseph, fils remarried to Charlotte, daughter of Claude Lefebvre and Suzanne Bissonnette, at St.-Thomas de Montmagny in October 1775 and settled in the Acadian community of St.-Basile-de-Madawaska on upper Rivière St.-Jean, on the northwest boundary of New Brunswick province.  Joseph, fils died there in January 1814, in his mid-70s. 

Bernard, père's fourth son Jean, born probably at Pigiguit in c1698 or 1699, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Claude Landry and Catherine Thibodeau, at Grand-Pré in November 1721.  Between 1722 and 1725, Marie-Madeleine gave Jean three daughters.  He remarried to Marie-Anne, daughter of François Breau and Marie Comeau, at Grand-Pré in February 1727.  Between 1727 and 1749, Marie-Anne gave Jean 12 more children, nine daughters and three sons, at Minas--15 children, a dozen daughters and three sons, by two wives.  In c1751, Jean joined his older brother Joseph on Île St.-Jean in c1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Jean, Marie-Anne, and 12 of their children, three sons and nine daughters, ages 22 to 3, at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in the island's interior.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  His youngest daughter, age 9, died at sea.  Jean died in the hospital at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1759, in his early 60s, soon after he reached the Breton port.  Eight of his daughters by both wives married into the Brasseur, Pellerin, Thibodeau, Gautrot, Barrieau, Boudrot, Giroir, Clossinet, and Bourg families at Minas, on Île St.-Jean, and in France, and four of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  All three of his sons created their own families on Île St.-Jean and in France.  None of them followed their sisters to Louisiana.

Oldest son Jean, fils, by second wife Marie-Anne Breau, born at Minas in c1730, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750, was counted with them at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in August 1752, and married fellow Acadian Marie-Josèphe Thériot on the island in c1754.  Between 1755 and 1771, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean, fils eight children, seven daughters and a son.  The British deported Jean, fils, his wife, and two daughters to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Their two daughters died at sea.  Jean and Marie-Josèphe settled on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo at Pleudihen-sur-Rance, where they had more children.  Jean, fils died at the Village de La Gravelle near Pleudihen in August 1773, in his early 40s.  A daughter also died there earlier in the month, so one wonders if the family was caught up in an epidemic.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  By then, at least four of Jean, fils's children, three daughters and a son, had returned to North America, perhaps with the Acadians who went to the Isle of Jersey in 1774 and moved on to the British-controlled fishery in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.  If so, they did not remain in greater Acadia.  The three daughters moved on to Canada and married into the Laporte, Brault, and Périard families at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Montréal in the late 1780s and early 1790s.  Their brother also settled in Canada.

Oldest son Jean-Pierre, born at Les Villes Morvues near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in September 1760, returned to North America perhaps in the mid-1770s with three of his sisters.  He settled with them at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, where he married Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Thibodeau and Isabelle Landry, in January 1782. 

Jean, père's second son Olivier, by second wife Marie-Anne Breau, born at Minas in the early 1730s, married Ursule, daughter of Charles Landry and Catherine Broussard of Annapolis Royal, at Minas or on Île St.-Jean in c1751.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1752 and 1756, Ursule gave Olivier three children, two sons and a daughter.  In August 1752, a French official counted Olivier, Ursule, and their infant son at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie on Île St.-Jean near his parents and siblings.  The British evidently deported the family to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758.  The crossing may have wiped out his family.  An Olivier Daigre, born in c1731, sailed from Cherbourg to St.-Malo, France, in late February 1759 but returned to the upper Norman port in early March.  He may have been the Olivier Daigle who died at Cherbourg that November.  The priest in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish said Olivier died at age 26.  

Jean, père's third and youngest son Paul, by second wife Marie-Anne Breau, born at Minas in c1741 or 1742, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750, was counted with them at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in August 1752, and followed his family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  His mother died at sea, and his father died in the St.-Malo hospital in late February 1759 soon after they reached the Breton port, so the teenaged Paul either lived alone or with relatives at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo.  Paul married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Aucoin and Marie-Josèphe Henry, at Pleudihen in April 1761.  Between 1762 and 1774, Geneviève gave Paul nine children, four sons and five daughters, at Pleudihen.  Three of their daughters and a son died young.  One wonders if any of their surviving daughters married.  Only one of their three surviving sons seems to have created a family of his own.  No member of this family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Oldest son Jean le jeune, born at Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in July 1762, married Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bourg and Anne Aucoin, at Pleudihen in February 1789.

Bernard, père's fifth son, whose name has been lost, born probably at Pigiguit in c1700, died young.   

Bernard, père's sixth son Charles, born probably at Pigiguit in c1702, married Françoise, daughter of Jean Doucet and Françoise Blanchard, probably at Minas in c1723 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1724 and 1751, Françoise gave Charles seven children, three sons and four daughters.  Other records give them another son.  The British deported Charles and members of his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  One of his sons, having moved to Île St.-Jean in the 1750s, ended up in France.  Charles died by August 1760, when a Massachusetts official counted wife Françoise, daughter Françoise, youngest son Odon, and oldest son Jean-Baptiste, his wife, and their children, among the Acadians at Milton, Massachusetts, being transferred to Boston.  Daughter Françoise married into the Benoit family at Boston in February 1761 and rehabilitiated the marriage at Trois-Rivières, Canada, in September 1766.  His oldest and youngest sons also moved on to Canada by 1766.  Meanwhile, one of his sons may have emigrated from Minas to the French Maritimes before 1755.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit Baptiste, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1724, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Vincent and Marie Granger, probably at Pigiguit in c1752.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1766, Marie-Josèphe gave Baptiste four children, a daughter and three sons.  Baptiste, Marie-Josèphe,  and their unnamed children were counted at Milton in August 1760.  The family moved on to Canada in 1766 and settled at St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu northeast of Montréal.  Baptiste died probably at St.-Ours in March 1770, in his mid-40s.  One of his daughters married into the Benoit family there.  His three sons also married on the lower Richelieu.  Only one of them married a fellow Acadian. 

Oldest son Jacques, born probably at Pigiguit in c1754, followed his family to Massachusetts in 1755 and to Canada in 1766.  He married Élisabeth-Marie-Angélique, daughter of André Chapdelaine and Marie-Agnès Montgrain-Lafound, at St.-Ours in January 1778. 

Baptiste's second son Firmain, born at either Pigiguit or in Massachusetts in c1755, followed his family to Canada in 1766 and married Marie-Madeleine Bergevin at St.-Ours in February 1773.  He remarried to Marie-Marguerite, daughter of Louis Duval and Marguerite Bouvier, at St.-Ours in August 1781. 

Baptiste's third and youngest son François-Marie, born either in Massachusetts or Canada in c1766, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Benoit and Anne Girouard and sister of his sister Madeleine's husband, at St.-Ours in January 1786. 

Charles's second son Charles, fils, born at Pigiguit in August 1731, evidently moved to Île St.-Jean after August 1752.  He married Anne-Marie, daughter of Joseph Vincent and ____, on the island in c1758.  The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  They settled on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo at Trigavou, where Charles worked as a ploughman and a pulley maker.  They were that rare Acadian couple who had no children.  They likely followed hundreds of other exiles to the interior of Poitou in 1773 and retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in 1775 and 1776.  A Spanish official counted them at Nantes in September 1784.  They emigrated to Spanish Louisiana the following year and followed their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge.  At age 54, Charles remarried to Marie-Françoise or Françoise-Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Boudrot and Madeleine- or Marie-Josèphe Doiron and widow of Joseph Clossinet and Marin Dugas, at Manchac in February 1786.  She also gave him no children.  During the late 1780s, they joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, where they appeared in Spanish census records as late as January 1798.  Charles died probably on the upper bayou.  His line of the family died with him. 

Charles, père's third son Grégoire, born probaby at Minas in c1743, may have followed older brother Charles, fils to the French Maritimes after August 1752.  In late 1758, the British deported Grégoire to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Duc Guillaume, which, despite a mid-ocean mishap, reached the Breton port the first of November.  Grégoire, still a teenager, settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Henry and Marie Carret, in September 1762.  Between 1763 and 1772 at St.-Servan, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Grégoire seven children, six daughters and a son.  One of their daughters died young.  One wonders if any of their surviving daughters and their only son created families of their own.  No member of this family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Charles, père's fourth and youngest son Odon, born probably at Minas in c1751, followed his family to Massachusetts in 1755 and to St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu in 1766.  He married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Brault and Madeleine LeBlanc, probably at St.-Ours, date unrecorded.  He died at St.-Ours in February 1821, age about 70. 

Bernard, père's seventh son François, born probably at Pigiguit in c1704, married Marie, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Catherine Meunier, at Grand-Pré in November 1725 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  Between 1728 and 1743, Marie gave François 10 children, three sons and seven daughters.  They, too, moved to Île St.-Jean, in c1750.  In August 1752, a French officials counted François, Marie, and six of their children, a son and five daughters, ages 18 to 9, at Pointe-au-Bouleau on the islands southeast coast.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Like his older brother Jean, François died at the hospital in nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1759, in his mid-50s, soon after reaching the Breton port.  Wife Marie had died a few days earlier.  One of his married daughters also died soon from the rigors of the crossing.  Four of their daughters married into the Guillot, Gautrot, and Boudrot families on Île St.-Jean and in France.  None of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  Two of François's sons created their own families on Île St.-Jean and in France, and neither emigrated to Louisiana.

Oldest son Alexis, born at Minas or Pigiguit in c1728, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Marguerite, daughter of Louis-Mathieu Doiron and Madeleine Pitre, on the island in January 1752.  That August, a French official counted the young couple, still childless, near his parents at Pointe-au-Bouleau.  They may have perished with her family aboard the British transport Duke William, which sank in a storm off the southwest coast of England on its way to St.-Malo, France, in mid-December 1758.  Neither of them emigrated to Louisiana. 

François's second son François-Marie or -Marin, called Marin, born at Minas or Pigiguit in c1736, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750, and, called François-Marie, was counted with them at Pointe-au-Bouleau in August 1752.  He married Françoise Hébert on Île St.-Jean in c1758 on the eve of the island's dérangement.  Wife Françoise died in the hospital at St.-Malo in February 1759, age 19, soon after she and Marin reached the Breton port.  Marin settled at Trigavou on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo and remarried to Thécle, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Thériot and Marie Guérin, at nearby Pleslin in June 1764.  Between 1765 and 1769, Thécle gave Marin four children, two sons and two daughters.  His younger son and younger daughter died young.  Evidently Marin took his family to Poitou in 1773 and, unlike most of the Acadians who went there, remained after 1776.  Neither he nor any member of his family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  French officials counted them still in Poitou in December 1797.  According to the report, Marin was age 64, and son Romain, "residing at La Grand Ligne," was age 32, but the report said nothing about Romain being married.  Nor did the report mention Marin's daughter Brigide, who would have been age 30 that year. 

Bernard, père's eighth son Abraham, born probably at Pigiguit in c1705 or 1706, married Marie, also called Anne-Marie, daughter of Michel Boudrot and Cécile LeBlanc, at Grand-Pré in November 1727 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1729 and 1752, Marie gave Abraham nine children, two daughters and seven sons.  Abraham followed his older brothers to Île St.-Jean in c1750.   In August 1752, a French official counted Abraham, Anne-Marie, and nine of their children, seven sons and two daughters, ages 23 to 2, at Havre-de-la-Fortune on the island's east coast.  Abraham died on the island, perhaps at Havre-de-la-Fortune, between November 1752 and March 1757, in his late 40s or early 50s.  Older daughter Marguerite married into the Bourg family at Port-La-Joye on the island in October 1752.  The British deported Marguerite and her family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758, and at least one, perhaps two, of Abraham's sons ended up in Cherbourg, France.

Second son Jean, born probably a l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1732, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Havre-de-la-Fortune in August 1752.  The British may have deported him to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758.  He may have been the Jean Daigle who married Marie-Judith, daughter of Charles Lacroix dit Durel and Judith Chiasson of Île St.-Jean, in c1759, probably at Cherbourg, or she may have married him on Île St.-Jean on the eve of the island's dérangement.  Marie-Judith, called Judict, a native of Havre-St.-Pierre, Île St.-Jean, had been counted with her mother and stepfather, Pierre LePrieur, at Havre-de-la-Fortune in August 1752, so Jean and Judith may have known one another since his arrival on the island.  Between 1759 and 1763, Judith gave Jean at least three sons at Cherbourg.  The family went to Poitou in 1773.  Jean died before October 1775, when French officials noted that Marie-Judith was a widow when she and her three sons retreated from Châtellerault to Nantes in the first convoy out of Poitou.  One wonders if Judith remarried or died at Nantes.  Her oldest son married there, but Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France says nothing more of her or her younger sons Charles-Lazare, who would have been age 14 in 1775, and Firmin, who would have been age 12.  They did not follow their son/older brother to Spanish Louisiana. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Cherbourg in December 1759, followed his family to Poitou and his widowed mother to Nantes.  He married Marie, 25-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre LeBlanc and Marie-Blanche Landry, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes in March 1783.  Marie was a native of Bristol, England, and had come to France with her family in the spring of 1763.  In 1784 and 1785, she gave Jean-Baptiste two daughters at Chantenay.  Jean-Baptiste took his family to Louisiana in 1785 and followed his fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Marie may not have survived the crossing, or she died soon after reaching the Spanish colony.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Marguerite, daughter of François Simoneau of Lorraine and his Acadian wife Marie-Osite-Anne Corporon of Annapolis Royal, at Ascension on the river in April 1786.  Marguerite was a native of Maryland and had come to Louisiana with her family from the Chesapeake colony in 1766.  She and Jean-Baptiste settled on the upper Lafourche, where she gave him many more children.  His older daughters by first wife Marie died young, but his daughters by second wife Marguerite married into the Bourque, Cedotal, Daigle, Dupuis, and Trahan families.  Three of his five sons, all by second wife Marguerite, married into the Breaux, Dupuis, and Templet families and settled on the upper bayou and on lower Bayou Teche. 

Abraham's fourth son François-Marie, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1740, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Havre-de-la-Fortune in August 1752.  The British deported him to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758.  In January 1761, he married Jeanne, daughter of locals Thomas Holley and Scholastique LeGentilhomme, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish in the Norman port.  Between 1763 and 1775, at Cherbourg and across the bay at Le Havre, Jeanne gave François-Marie at least five children, two sons and three daughters.  His oldest son married in c1782.  By September 1784, François-Marie and his family had moved to the lower Loire port of Nantes in southeastern Britanny.  François-Marie, Jeanne, and their four unmarried children, along with their married son and his family, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana the following year and followed their fellow passengers to Manchac below Baton Rouge.  François-Marie died probably at Manchac by September 1790, in his mid- or late 40s, when he was listed as deceased in a daughter's marriage record.  His daughters married into the Arbour and LeTullier families at Baton Rouge.  His two sons married into the Bourg and Moulaison families in France and Louisiana and created vigorous lines in the Baton Rouge area. 

Bernard, père's ninth son, name unrecorded, born probably at Pigiguit in c1706, died young.   

Bernard, père's tenth son Louis-René, called René, born at Minas in January 1709, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Emmanuel Hébert and Madeleine Dugas, in c1730 probably at Minas and settled at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1753, Madeleine gave René seven children, six sons and a daughter.  The family escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  René died at St.-Michel de Bellechasse below Québec City in late November 1757, perhaps, like his older brother Joseph, a victim of the smallpox epidemic that struck Acadian refugees in the area from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Three of his sons created families of their own at Québec or in nearby settlements.

Oldest son Charles, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1735, followed his family into exile in 1755 and married Marguerite Comeau in c1756.  She did not survive the exodus to Canada.  Charles remarried to Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bastarache dit Basque, fils and Angélique Richard of Annapolis Royal, at Québec in November 1758.  According to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine gave Charles a daughter in 1759.  He remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Élisabeth, daughter of Pierre Allard and Marie-Madeleine Pasquet, at Charlesbourg near Québec City in November 1761.  According to Arsenault, between 1762 and 1785, Marie-Élisabeth gave Charles six more children, four daughters and two sons.  Charles, in his early 50s, remarried again--his fourth marriage--to Madeleine, daughter of François Lirette and his Acadian wife Marie-Madeleine Gaudet, at Charlesbourg in November 1787.  She gave him another son.  The family also settled at nearby St.-Ambroise.  Three of Charles's daughters by third wife Marie-Élisabeth marrid into the Renaud, Verret, Bernier, and Lousseraud families at St.-Ambroise and Québec.  His two sons by Marie-Élisabeth also created their own families in the area.

Oldest son Charles, fils, by third wife Marie-Élisabeth Allard, born probably at Québec in c1764, married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Comeau and his second wife Canadian Marie Coulombe, at St.-Roch-des-Aulnaies on the lower St. Lawrence.  Charles, fils died at St.-Ambroise near Québec in April 1829, in his mid-60s.

Charles, père's second son Jacques, by third wife Marie-Élisabeth Allard, born probably at Québec in c1770, married Marie-Marguerite, daughter of Thomas Bédard and Marie-Hélène Bédard, at Charlesbourg in February 1793.  He died at nearby St.-Ambroise in April 1848, in his late 70s. 

René's third son Joseph-Athanase, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1745, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Jeannine, daughter of François Bedard and Marie-Jeanne Savard, at Québec in February 1767, and remarried to Marie-Charlotte, daughter of François Darveau and Marguerite-Marie Lereau, in the city in February 1775. 

René's sixth and youngest son Joseph, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1752, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie Coulombe, widow of ____ Destroismaisons, at St.-Pierre de Montmagny below and across from Québec City in October 1774. 

Bernard, père's eleventh and youngest son Amand, born at Minas in January 1712, married Élisabeth, daughter of Michel Vincent and Anne-Marie Doiron and widow of Joseph Landry, probably at Minas in c1735 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1737 and 1756, Élisabeth gave Amand eight children, two sons and six daughters.  Amand followed his older brothers to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Amand, Élisabeth, and six of their children, two sons and four daughters, ages 15 years to 10 months, at Rivière-du-Nord at the southern end of the island.  The British deported the family to France in late 1758.  Amand died during the crossing, age 46.  One wonders what happened to his family in France. 

Olivier's fourth son Louis, born at Port-Royal in c1673, was counted with the family there in 1700, age 27, but he probably did not marry.

Olivier's fifth son Olivier, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1674, married Jeanne, daughter of Guillaume Blanchard and Huguette Gougeon, in c1699 probably at Port-Royal.  Between 1700 and 1710, Jeanne gave Olivier, fils six children, three sons and three daughters, all of whom married.  Olivier, fils died at Port-Royal in September 1709, in his mid-30s.  His widow Jeanne remarried to a Prince.  Olivier, fils's daughters married into the Thériot, Trahan, and Richard families; two of them died in English ports during exile.  All three of his sons also married, at Chignecto and Minas, and two of them also died in England during exile. 

Oldest son Paul, according to Stephen A. White born probably at Port-Royal in c1700, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Arseneau and Marie-Anne Boudrot, at Beaubassin in November 1720, and remarried to Anne, daughter of François Cormier and Marguerite LeBlanc and widow of Jacques Poirier, probably at Chignecto in c1727.  According to Bona Arsenault, however, a Paul Daigre, born probably at Minas in c1723, son of Pierre Daigre and Anne Arseneau and grandson of Olivier Daigre, fils, married Marie dite Josette, daughter of Joseph Hébert and Anne Boudrot, at Beaubassin in June 1748.  Arsenault says that between 1749 and 1756, Marie gave Paul three children, two daughters and a son.  In August 1752, a French official, noting that the couple had been in the country for only two years, counted Paul, Marie, and their two young daughters at Malpèque on the northwest shore of the island--a community in which many Arseneaus could be found.  The family, like many other Acadians at Malpèque, evidently escaped the island's dérangement in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In late October 1760, a Paul Daigue and his family of 10 were counted at Restigouche at the head of the Baie de Chaleurs with a thousand other refugees who, along with the French garrison there, had just surrendered to a British naval force from Québec.  The British held the surrendered exiles in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Paul's younger daughter Agnès-Marie, born probably at Malpèque in c1751, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, still in her early teens.  She was, in fact, the first Acadian Daigre to go to that colony and married into the Thériot family there.  Her younger brother remained in greater Acadia.   

Only son Fabien, born probably at Malpèque, Île St.-Jean, in c1756, followed his family into exile and into imprisonment in Nova Scotia.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1767 Fabien, who would have have age 11, was living as an orphan with fellow Acadians Abraham Dugas and his wife Marguerite LeBlanc of Minas on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Arsenault hints that the boy's parents had died in Nova Scotia during imprisonment and that Fabien, instead of following his older sister to Louisiana in 1765, chose to go, or was taken, to the fishery at war's end.  If so, he did not remain there.  In 1767, French authorities, obeying a royal decree to relieve overcrowding on the Newfoundland islands, "deported" the fisher/habitants to France.  Most of them returned to the islands the following year, Fabien, perhaps, among them.  If he did return to Miquelon, he did not remain.  According to Arsenault, he settled in the British-controlled fishery at Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, where he married Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Robichaud and Anne Michel, at Bonaventure in November 1780.  According to Arsenault, between 1783 and 1789, Rose gave Fabien three sons at Bonaventure. 

Olivier, fils's second son Olivier III, born at Port-Royal in August 1703, married Françoise, daughter of  René Granger and Marguerite Thériot, at Minas in c1723 and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1742, Françoise gave Olivier III eight children, three daughters and five sons.  The British deported the family to Virginia in 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Olivier III died at Falmouth, England, in December 1756, in his early 50s, a victim, perhaps, of smallpox, and was buried at nearby St. Gluvius, Penryn, in Cornwall, where his older sister Marie had been buried three days earlier.  (This also was the burial site of English naval officer Sir Samuel Argall of Jamestown fame, who died at sea in January 1626, the same Argall who had laid waste to French lodgments at St.-Sauveur, Île Ste.-Croix, and Port-Royal in French La Cadie, 130 years earlier.)  In the spring of 1763, Olivier III"s widow Françoise and her Daigre children were repatriated to Morlaix, Brittany, France.  They followed other exiles from England to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in November 1765 and settled near Le Palais on the east end of the island.  Françoise died at Le Palais in May 1779.  Her and Olivier III's three daughters married into the Landry, LeBlanc, Thériot, and Richard families in greater Acadia and France.  Olivier III's five sons also created families of their own in greater Acadia and France, and two of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Oldest son Honoré, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in January 1726, married Françoise-Osite, daughter of Antoine Dupuis and Marie-Josèphe Dugas, at Rivière-aux-Canards in March 1748.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1749 and 1755, Françoise-Osite gave Honoré two sons.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the family to Virginia, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring.  Wife Françoise-Osite died at Falmouth, England, in 1756, soon after their arrival, a victim, perhaps, of smallpox.  Honoré remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Landry and Marie Melanson and widow of Cyprien Thériot, at Falmouth in September 1757.  According to Arsenault, in 1759 Marguerite gave Honoré another son.  Marguerite died at Falmouth in 1761, and Honoré remarried again--his third marriage--to Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Trahan and Marie Hébert and widow of Charles Thériot, at Falmouth in September 1762.  According to Arsenault, between 1763 and 1769, Élisabeth gave Honoré three more children, two sons and a daughter.  In the spring of 1763, Honoré and his family were repatriated to Morlaix, France.  In November 1765, they followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer, where they settled at Chubiguer near Le Palais.  In the early 1780s, Honoré purchased the land concessions of his younger brothers Jean-Charles, Olivier IV, and Paul.  When brothers Olivier IV and Simon-Pierre emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, Honoré and wife Élisabeth, now in their late 50s, remained on their four concessions on Belle-Île-en-Mer.  French officials counted them there in 1792 during the early stages of the French Revolution.  Honoré was elected by his fellow citizens to the local municipal council.  He died at Le Palais in c1803, in his late 70s.  Third wife Élisabeth died the following year. Three of Honoré's sons by two of his wives created their own families on the island. 

Oldest son Pierre-Joseph, by first wife Françoise-Osite Dupuis, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1749, followed his family to Virginia, Falmouth, Morlaix, and Belle-Île-en-Mer.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thériot and Élisabeth Trahan of Minas, at Le Palais in c1773.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Pierre-Joseph a daughter in 1774.  He died aboard the ship Vermudien off the coast of Guinea, West Africa, the year his daughter was born.  He had worked on the ship as a cooper.  His widow Marie remarried to widower Jean-François Ferry of Trève, Lorraine.  His daughter Marie-Reine lived to become an heir of her paternal grandfather, Honoré.

Honoré's third son Joseph-Firmin-Clément, by second wife Marguerite Landry, born probably at Falmouth, England, in c1759, followed his father to Morlaix and Belle-Île-en-Mer.  He died at Le Palais on the island in c1779, age 20, evidently before he could marry.

Honoré's fourth son Jean-François, by third wife Élisabeth Trahan, born at Morlaix, France, in c1763, followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer.  He married local woman Adrée Féchant probably on the island in c1786.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1786 and 1803, Andrée gave Jean-François six children, two sons and four daughters.  Younger son Martin, born in c1803, died young.  Their surviving son created his own family on the island.

Older son Joseph-Honoré, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1786, married Frenchwoman Isabelle Gallen at Sauzon on the north end of the island in c1812.  According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him a daughter in 1815. 

Honore's fifth and youngest son Joseph-Michel, called Michel, from third wife Élisabeth Trahan, born probably at Le Palais, Belle-Île-en-Mer, in c1766, married Marie-Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Cyprien Duon and Marguerite Landry, probably at Chubiguer near Le Palais in c1790.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1791 and 1792, Marie-Élisabeth gave Michel two sons, the younger of whom died young.  Michel remarried to Frenchwoman Jeanne-Françoise Thomas probably at Le Palais in c1804.  According to Arsenault, between 1803 and 1816, Jeanne-Françoise gave Michel five more children, four sons and a daughter, two of whom died young--seven children, six sons and a daughter, by two wives.  Two of Michel's sons by both of his wives created their own families on the island. 

Third son Jacques-Étienne, by first wife Marie-Élisabeth Duon, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1796, became a "débitant de boissons," perhaps a bartender, at Sauzon.  He married Anne-Virginie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Trahan and Marie Arseneau, at Le Palais in 1827. 

Michel's sixth son Étienne-François, by second wife Jeanne-Françoise Thomas, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1805, married 34-year-old Frenchwoman Suzette-Émilie Perron at Le Palais in c1833. 

Olivier III's second son Olivier IV, born at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, in September 1732, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Landry and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, at Rivière-aux-Canards in August 1755, on the eve of their deportation to Virginia.  Virginia officials sent them on to Falmouth, England, in the spring of 1756.  Marie died soon after their arrival, a victim, perhaps, of smallpox.  Olivier IV remarried to Marie-Blanche, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles LeBlanc and Élisabeth Thibodeau of Rivière-aux-Canards, at Falmouth in November 1758.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1782, Marie-Blanche gave Olivier IV nine children, six sons and three daughters.  Other, more reliable records give them 11 children, seven sons and four daughters, between 1761 and 1783, in England and France.  Olivier IV, his wife, and a son were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  In November 1765, they followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer, where they settled at Chubiguer near Le Palais.  Their second son, born at Morlaix in October 1764, died near Le Palais, age 30 months, in May 1766.  Marie-Blanche gave Olivier IV many more children on the island.  In 1776, he bought his younger brother Jean-Charles's land concession at Le Palais.  In the early 1780s, Olivier IV sold his concessions to older brother Honoré and took his family to Paimboeuf, the lower port for Nantes, where his youngest son was baptized in November 1783.  Wife Marie-Blanche died soon after, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.  A Spanish official counted Olivier and 10 children, six sons and four daughters, at Paimboeuf in September 1784.  Olivier IV was a widower by then.  He did not remarry.  In November 1784, his youngest daughter died at Paimboeuf, age 3 1/2.  In 1785, he and eight of his children, five sons and three daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.  His youngest son, who had been baptized at Paimboeuf two years earlier, did not sail with them, so he likely had died soon after his birth.  From New Orleans, Olivier and his children followed their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge.  Olivier died at Manchac in August 1787, age 55.  His daughters, all by his second wife, married into the Breaux, Aucoin, Landry, and Aid families at Baton Rouge and nearby San Gabriel on the river.  His five sons, all by his second wife, also married, into the Doiron, Landry, Trahan, and Hébert families, including two Landry sisters, at Manchac, Baton Rouge, and San Gabriel.  Youngest surviving son Honoré le jeune died in Iberville Parish in December 1752, among the last of the Acadian exiles in Louisiana to join his ancestors.

Olivier III's third son Simon-Pierre, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in August 1735, followed his family to Virginia in the fall of 1755 and to Falmouth, England, the following spring.  He married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Thériot and Marie Landry, at Falmouth in c1758.  Between 1759 and 1779, Marie-Madeleine gave Simon-Pierre nine children, five daughters and four sons.  The family was repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763, followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765, and settled at Kervellant near Sauzon.  French officials counted them at Bortemont near Bangor in the south-central interior of the island in 1776.  Two years later, Simon-Pierre sold his land to a local sieur named Perron and moved to Paimboeuf, where Simon-Pierre worked as an inkeeper and a ship's carpenter and where two of his sons died in 1779 and 1783, one an infant, the other age 13 1/2.  Wife Marie-Madeleine died at Paimboeuf in January 1784, age 45.  A Spanish official counted Simon-Pierre and his remaining children, three sons and four daughters, at the port in September 1784.  At age 49, Simon-Pierre remarried to Anne, 50-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Michel and Marguerite Forest of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, and widow of Joseph-Ange Dubois, Félix Landry, and Jean Landry, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes in February 1785.  She gave Simon-Pierre no more children.  Later that year, Simon-Pierre, Anne, and his seven children followed his older brother Olivier IV to Louisiana and to Manchac south of Baton Rouge.  At age 52, Simon-Pierre remarried again--his third marriage--to Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Thériot and Françoise Landry and widow of Alexandre Aucoin, at Manchac in January 1788.  She gave him no more children.  He died at Manchac in October 1792, age 57.  Three of his four daughters, all by first wife Marie-Madeleine, married into the Lemire dit Mire, Provenché, and Trahan families, including two Trahan brothers, at Manchac and Baton Rouge.  His three sons, all by first wife Marie-Madeleine, married into the Henry, Trahan, and LeBlanc families at Baton Rouge and Cabahannocer/St.-Jacques farther down the river. 

Olivier III's fourth son Jean-Charles, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in August 1740, followed his family to Virginia in the fall of 1755 and to Falmouth, England, the following spring.  He married Marie-Josèphe, another daughter of Jean Thériot and Marie Landry, at Falmouth in February 1760.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1775, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Charles five children, three sons and two daughters.  Jean-Charles and his family were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763, followed his older brothers to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765, and settled at Kerzo near Sauzon.  In 1776, Jean-Charles sold his land concession at Le Palais to older brother Olivier IV.  Despite having sold his land, Jean-Charles did not follow brothers Olivier IV and Simon-Pierre to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Olivier III's fifth and youngest son Paul, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in October 1742, followed his family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, to Falmouth, England, the following spring, and to Morlaix, France, in May 1763.  He married Agathe, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré LeBlanc and Marie Trahan of Pigiguit, at Morlaix in September 1764.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1787, Agathe gave Paul eight children, five daughters and three sons.  Paul and Agathe followed their families to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765 and settled at Chubigeur near Le Palais.  In 1770, they left the island and moved to Erdeven near Étel in southern Britanny, where Paul worked as a laborer on a royal estate.  They then moved on to nearby Port-Louis in 1772 and then back to Le Palais.  They were back at Port-Louis in 1776.  Like older brothers Honoré and Jean-Charles, Paul did not follow his brothers Olivier IV and Simon-Pierre to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, but he did sell his land at Le Palais to Honoré in the early 1780s.  He and his family were living at Riantec near Port-Louis in 1783, at Port-Louis from 1785 to 1787, where he again was employed as a laborer on a royal estate, and at Ploemeur and Île St.-Michel at nearby Lorient in 1792 with six of his children.  According to Arsenault, Paul's descendants are quite numerous in France, especially in the region around Bordeaux. 

Olivier, fils's third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born posthumously at Port-Royal in February 1710, married Madeleine, daughter of Claude Thériot and Agnès Aucoin, in c1734 probably at Minas.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1753, Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste eight children, four daughters and four sons.  They, too, settled at Rivière-aux-Canards, were deported to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and sent on to England the following spring.  Jean-Baptiste died at Falmouth, England, in November 1757 and, like his sister Marie and brother Olivier III, was buried at St. Gluvius of Penryn.  In 1763, members of Jean-Baptiste's family were repatriated to Morlaix, France, where they were counted in 1767, two years after their cousins had moved on to Belle-Île-en-Mer.  According to Arsenault, some of them were still living there in 1787, two years after some of their cousins had moved on to Spanish Louisiana.  Jean-Baptiste's oldest daughter Madeleine had married into the Granger family at Falmouth and evidently remained in France.  One wonders what happened to her younger sisters, who also evidently remained in France.  Two, perhaps three, of Jean-Baptiste's four sons created families of their own in England and France.  One of them returned to greater Acadia, where he settled in several places in present-day New Brunswick.  Another may have emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.   

Oldest son Olivier le jeune, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1734 or 1735 (Bona Arsenault says c1738), evidently moved to the French Maritimes between 1752 and 1758.  He married Marie-Blanche, called Blanche, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Robichaud and Claire LeBlanc of Cobeguit, probably on Île St.-Jean in c1758, though Arsenault insists they were married in England that year.  Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France, however, based on French maritime records, insists the British deported Olivier Daigue, age 24, and Marie-Blanche Robicheau, age 28, his wife, to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the five British transports that left Chédabouctou Bay in late November 1758 and reached the Breton port together in late January.  They settled first at Trigavou on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo and then in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer.  Between 1759 and 1773, Marie-Blanche gave Olivier 10 children, six sons and four daughters, including a set of twins, probably at St.-Servan.  According to Arsenault, Olivier and his family, instead of going to Poitou with dozens of their fellow Acadians in 1773, joined, instead, an expedition of other Acadian exiles led by ship captain Charles Robin to the British-controlled Channel island of Jersey in 1774.  From Jersey, they recrossed the North Atlantic and settled in the Robin-controlled fishery in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, where, Arsenault insists, members of the family were counted in 1791 and 1792.  Arsenault also insists they settled also at St.-Basile-de-Madawaska on upper Rivière St.-Jean at the northwestern edge of New Brunswick, and at Richibouctou on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore of eastern New Brunswick.  However, Robichaux's study says that in July 1774, Olivier, husband of Marie-Blanche Robichaud, died at St.-Servan, age 40.  Robichaux's study also shows that this Olivier's oldest son, at least, remained in France, though Arsenault insists that two of his younger sons were among the Daigres who returned to North America via the Isle of Jersey in the 1770s.  This implies that Olivier's widow may very well have taken her younger children back to greater Acadia.  However, the death of her 8 1/2-year-old daughter Marie-Blanche at St.-Servan in August 1779 is a strong hint that Olivier's widow, and her younger children, also remained in France.  If any of Olivier's children "returned" to North America, they likely did not do it in the 1770s. 

Oldest son Olivier-Raphaël, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in August 1759, did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana with hundreds of his fellow Acadians in 1785.  He remained, instead, in the St.-Malo area and married Marie-Jacqueline, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bourg and Anne Aucoin and a native of Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, at Pleudihen in January 1786.

Olivier le jeune's third son Jean-Charles, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, in December 1761 (Bona Arsenault says c1769), married, according to Arsenault, cousin Marie-Claire Richard, daughter of fellow Acadian Marguerite-Pélagie Robichaud, at Bonaventure in Gaspésie on the northern shore of the Baie des Chaleurs in January 1792, and remarried to Marie-Blanche, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Léger and Anastasie Brault, at St.-Basile-de-Madawaska on upper Rivière St.-Jean in July 1795. 

Olivier le jeune's fifth son François-Joseph, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in July 1767, married, according to Bona Arseault, cousin Christine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Richard and Marie Daigle, at Carleton in Gaspésie in February 1790.

Jean-Baptiste's second son Charles, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1737, followed his family to Virginia in the fall of 1755 and to England the following spring.  He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Granger and Françoise LeBlanc, at Falmouth, England, in February 1761.  They were repatrated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763, and were still there in 1767, two years after other Acadian exiles from England, including Daigres, had moved on to Belle-Île-en-Mer.  They did not follow their cousins to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  French authorities counted them still at Morlaix in the early 1790s. 

Jean-Baptiste's third son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1740, evidently followed his family to Virginia in the fall of 1755, to England the following spring, and to Morlaix, France, in 1763.  He may have been the Jean-Baptiste Daigle, ploughman, who, at age 43, married Marie-Claudine, daughter of Frenchmen Guillaume Valet and his wife Ursule-Perrine Catot of Kemperlain, Val, France, probably at Nantes in southeast Brittany in c1783.  Marie-Claudine gave Jean-Baptiste a son in St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in April 1784.  Jean-Baptiste and Marie-Claudine emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  However, their year-old son Jean-René died at sea.  The now childless couple followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, where they had no more children.  Jean-Baptiste died at Baton Rouge by March 1795, in his mid-50s, when his wife remarried there.  His line of the family died with him. 

Olivier's sixth son Jean, the second with the name, born at Port-Royal in c1676, was counted with his family in 1700, age 24.  He evidently did not marry.

Olivier's seventh and youngest son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1681, was counted with his family at Port-Royal in 1686, age 5.  If he survived childhood, he did not marry.379

Martin dit Barnabé

Barnabé Martin, a mid-1660s arrival, probably not kin to the much older Pierre Martin, and Barnabé's wife Jeanne Pelletret created another branch of the Martin family in the colony.  Between 1667 and 1686, at Port-Royal, Jeanne gave Barnabé eight children, including five daughters and two sons.  Barnabé died at Port-Royal, probably in his late 40s, soon after the birth of his youngest child, whose gender is unknown.  Four of his daughters married into the Simon dit Jacques LeBoucher, Coste, Chênet or Chesnay dit LaGarenne, Samson, and Gentil families, and at least two of them followed their husbands to Île Royale.  Barnabé and Jeanne's sons also created their own families.  Their descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also at Chignecto, Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable, and on Île St.-Jean.  The majority of them, however, remained in the Annapolis valley.  Probably all of the 20 Acadian Martins who emigrated to Louisiana between 1765 and 1785 belonged to this branch of the family.  Barnabé's descendants also could be found perhaps in greater numbers in Canada and on Martinique and Ste.-Lucie in the French Antilles after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Older son René, born at Port-Royal in March 1671, married Marie, daughter of André Mignier dit Lagassé and Jacquette Michel and widow of Joseph Gravois, in c1693 at Port-Royal and settled there.  Between 1694 and 1714, at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Marie gave René 11 children, eight sons and three daughters.  After August 1752, members of the family moved on to Île St.-Jean, where René died in September 1756, age 85.  His daughters married into the Clémenceau dit Corporon, Tourneur, Breau, and Bourg families.  Six of his eight sons also created their own families.  

Oldest son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1694, drowned in July 1705, age 15. 

René's second son Charles, born at Port-Royal in c1696, married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Comeau le jeune dit Des Loups-Marins and Jeanne Bourgeois and younger sister of his uncle Étienne Martin's wife, at Annapolis Royal in November 1715.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1716 and 1742, Jeanne gave Charles a dozen children, four daughters and eight sons, including a set of twins.  Other records give them two more children, a son and a daughter, perhaps twins, in c1753--14 children in all.  One wonders what happened to Charles and Jeanne in the fall of 1755.  Five of Charles's daughters married into the Savoie, Girouard, Doucet, and Boudrot families, and two of them emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax with the Broussards in February 1765.  Two of his sons also emigrated to Louisiana with the Broussards in 1765. 

Oldest son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in c1718, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Michel Thibodeau and Agnès Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in Auguste 1744.  They moved on to Chepoudy in the trois rivières area west of Chignecto, where a French official counted them with two sons and two daughers in 1752.  They likely escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Pierre à Charles may have been the Pierre Martin being held at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in July 1762.  If so, where was his wife, and where did they settle after the war?  He did not follow his younger brothers to Louisiana, but one of his sons may have gone there. 

Putative son Anselme, born in c1750, first appears in Louisiana records in February 1774, when he married Marie-Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Hébert dit Manuel and Claire Robichaux of Cobeguit, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  The priest who recorded the marriage noted that Anselme's parents were Paul Martin and Marie Thibodeau "of Acadia."  Did the priest mean to say Pierre Martin and Marie Thibodeau?  If so, he would have been a nephew of two of the Barnabé Martins who followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche in the spring of 1765 and a cousin of the rest of the family members in the colony.  Anselme and Marie-Théotiste left Cabahannocer soon after their marriage and crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District.  Spanish officials counted them there with a daughter in May 1777.  By 1781, they held 10 arpents of frontage on one of the bayous and 20 animals, and the number of their children had increated.  Anselme died by December 1783, in his early 30s, when his wife remarried at Attakapas.  His only son, baptized at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in July 1775, probably died young, so this line of the family did not endure. 

Charles's second son Claude, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1730, evidently escaped the roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1764-65, he and two siblings, a younger brother and sister, followed a married sister to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, with the Broussards and settled with them on lower Bayou Teche in the Attakapas District.  Unlike a cousin who retreated to the river to escape the epidemic that struck the Tech valley settlement during the summer and fall of 1765, Claude and his siblings remained in Attakapas.  He married Marie, daughter, perhaps, of fellow Acadians Dominique Babin and Marguerite Boudrot of Minas, there in c1769.  When taking an oath of allegiance to the Spanish monarch in December 1769, he made his mark as syndic of the Attakapas settlements.  By 1774, he held two slaves in Attakapas.  He held four slaves in 1781, and owned substantial numbers of livestock and a large vacharie.  He was a trustee of the Attakapas church in 1796 and died there in July 1798, age 67.  His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in June 1822, a year and a half before his widow's death.  Their daughters married into the Cormier and Mouton families.  Four of Claude's five sons also married, into the Sonnier, Dugas, and Huval families, two of them to Creole sisters, and remained on the Teche or moved out to the prairies.  Most, if not all, of the Acadian Martins on the western prairies descend from Claude and three of his sons.

Charles's ninth and youngest son Bonaventure, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1753, evidently followed his older brother Claude to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in the fall of 1755.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1764-65, he and two siblings followed a married sister to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, with the Broussards and settled with them on lower Bayou Teche.  Bonaventure remained in Attakapas until the late 1770s or early 1780s, when he married Louise, daughter of Antoine Duverne and Louise La Prade of New Orleans, probably at New Orleans.  In the early 1800s, they, or at least he, left New Orleans and settled on Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé in the Opelousas District, where he took up with fellow Acadian Anne Eléonore, called Eléonore, Comeaux.  Bonaventure died in December 1817, in his early 60s.  His succession was recorded in April 1818 at the St. Landry Parish courthouse, Opelousas.  His daughter by Eléonore married into the Richard family.  Only the youngest of his three sons, the one by Eléonore, seems to have married, into the Richard family.  He, too, remained on the Opelousas prairies. 

René's third son René, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1698, married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Michel and Catherine Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in October 1726.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1727 and 1746, Marguerite gave René, fils 11 children, five sons and six daughters.  The family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755, and most of them sought refuge in Canada.  René, fils died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Montréal in January 1777, in his late 70s.  Four of his daughters married into the Préjean, Amireau, Bélec, and Poirier families, most of them in Canada.  His oldest daughter married at Annapolis Royal before the dispersal and emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Two of his sons also created their own families, in Canada. 

Third son Charles-Benjamin, born at Annapolis Royal in c1734, followed his family to Canada.  In his late 30s, he married Marie-Thérèse, daughter of fellow Acadians Prudent Robichaud, fils and Françoise Bourgeois and widow of Louis-Thadée Fontaine, at L'Assomption on the St. Lawrence below Montréal in July 1772. 

René, fils's fifth and youngest son Joseph-Aimable, called Amable, born at Annapolis Royal in c1745, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Girouard and Marie-Josèphe Forest, at L'Assomption in January 1772. 

René, père's fourth son Paul dit Barnabé, born probably at Port-Royal in c1700 (Bona Arsenault says 1708), married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Cyr and Claire Cormier, in c1730, place unrecorded, but it probably was at Chignecto, where they settled.  According to Arsenault, between 1731 and 1745, Marguerite gave Paul five children, three sons and two daughters.  One of the sons resettled in Canada before Le Grand Dérangement.  The younger sons, and perhaps Paul and Marguerite, evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Paul's daughters, both married, were deported to South Carolina.  Paul died by January 1779, in his 70s, place unrecorded.  In 1763 or 1764, after the war, his daughters and their husbands went from South Carolina to French St.-Domingue.  The older daughter and her Olivier husband moved on to Louisiana by July 1767, but Paul's younger daughter and her LeBlanc husband remained in St.-Domingue, where she married into the Pointier and Faligaud families at Môle St.-Nicolas on the north shore of the island in 1779 and 1782.  Two of Paul dit Barnabé's three sons, including the one in Canada, created families of their own.  The two younger ones who had escaped the roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755 sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Still bachelors, they emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in 1764-65, evidently picking up their sister and her husband on the way to New Orleans.  The brothers settled on lower Bayou Teche, but the sister remained at New Orleans. 

Oldest son Jean, born probably at Chignecto in c1731, married, according to Bona Arsenault, cousin Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Cormier and Marguerite Cyr of Chignecto, at Québec in October 1754.  One wonders what prompted these young Acadians to resettle in Canada on the eve of Le Grand Dérangment.  One also wonders what happened to them after 1755. 

Pauls dit Barnabé's second son Joseph, who Bona Arsenault calls Théodore, born probably at Chignecto in c1741 or 1742, evidently escaped with members of his family to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the late 1750s or early 1760s, he either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison camp in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  He and a younger brother followed the Broussards from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1764-65 and settled with them at Attakapas in the spring of 1765.  Joseph married fellow Acadian Isabelle Thibodeaux, widow of Charles Pellerin, probably at Attakapas in c1769.  They remained on Bayou Teche.  They owned two slaves there by 1777, and held five slaves, two males and three females, in 1785.  Joseph died at his home in St. Martin Parish in May 1807, in his mid- or late 60s.  His daughters married into the Breaux, Doucet, Dugas, Melançon, Moreau, and Savoie families.  If he and Isabelle had any sons, none of them married. 

Paul dit Barnabé's youngest son Pierre, perhaps the one Bona Arsenault calls Michel, born probably at Chignecto in c1745, evidently escaped with some of his family to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area, and was held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1764-65, he and older brother Joseph followed the Broussards from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français and followed them to lower Bayou Teche.  Pierre/Michel may not have married. 

René, père's fifth son Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in March 1704, married Marie, daughter of Claude Brun and Cécile Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in November 1732.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1754, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste 13 children, five daughters and eight sons.  The family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755, and most of them took refuge in Canada.  Jean-Baptiste died between September 1765 and September 1774, place unrecorded, but it likely was somewhere in Canada.  Two of his daughters married into the Godin family, one of them at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière on the lower St. Lawrence.  Six of his sons also created their own families on the lower St. Lawrence and on Rivière St.-Jean.  An older daughter emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. 

Oldest son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in c1735, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Reine, daughter of Pierre-Corintin Denis and Marie-Madeleine Lizotte, at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière in August 1763. 

Jean-Baptiste's second son Jean-Balthazar, born at Annapolis Royal in c1736, followed his family to Canada.  He married Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Godin and Anne Bergeron, at Ste.-Famille on Île d'Orléans, below Québec in July 1767.  According to Bona Arsenault, Hélène gave Jean-Balthazar a daughter in 1768.  He remarried to Marie-Anne, daughter of Pierre Levasseur and Geneviève Phocas, at Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence in August 1773.  His daughter by his first wife married into the Roy family. 

Jean-Baptiste's third son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1740, followed his family into exile, but not to Canada.  He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Eustache Lejeune dit Briard and Marie-Anne Barillot, on Rivière St.-Jean in June 1768.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph a daughter and a son in 1772 and 1789.  Joseph died on Baie-des-Ouines, today's Bay du Vin, near Miramichi, eastern New Brunswick, no date given.  His daughter married into the Godin family at St.-Basile on the upper St. John River. 

Jean-Baptiste's fourth son Amand, born at Annapolis Royal in c1742, followed his family into exile.  He married Agathe, another daughter of Eustache Lejeune dit Briard and Marie-Anne Barillot, on Rivière St.-Jean in June 1768, five days after his brother Joseph married Agathe's sister at the same place.  According to Bona Arsenault, Agathe gave him a son and a daughter in 1770 and 1772.  The settled at St.-Basile near today's Edmundston, New Brunswick, on upper Rivière St.-Jean.  Their son created a family of his own.

Anselme, born probably at St.-Basile in c1770, married Marie, daughter of Jean-Marie Fournier and Angélique Dionne, at St.-Basile in July 1797. 

Jean-Baptiste's fifth son François, born at Annapolis Royal in c1744, followed his family to Canada.  He married Euphrosine, daughter of Michel Guérette and Rose Lavasseur, at Kamouraska in September 1774. 

Jean-Baptiste's eighth and youngest son Simon, born at Annapolis Royal in c1751, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Geneviève, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Bourgeois and Geneviève Lavasseur, at Kamouaska in August 1777. 

René, père's sixth son Ambroise dit Barnabé, born at Port-Royal in September 1706, married Anne, another daughter of Pierre Cyr and Claire Cormier, in c1732, place unrecorded, but it probably was at Chignecto.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1738, Anne gave Ambroise four children, a daughter and three sons.  Ambroise remarried to Madeleine dite Émilienne Comeau in c1741 (Arsenault says c1739) probably at Chignecto, and moved on to Île St.-Jean the following year.  According to Arsenault, between 1740 and 1748, Émilienne gave Ambroise five more children, four sons and a daughter--nine children in all, two daughters and seven sons.  Émilienne died probably on the island after 1748.  In August 1752, a French official counted Ambroise, who he called a Barnabé, a widower, with his nine children at Malpèque on the northwest shore of the island.  After the counting, Ambroise and his children may have returned to Chignecto and escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755, or they may have remained on the island and escaped the roundup there in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, Ambroise and his children either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In August 1763, Aulenoize Martin with no wife and three children appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax.  Ambroise, père died probably at Halifax soon after the counting, in his late 50s.  Two of his daughters by both wives married into the Robichaud, Borda, and Savoie families and followed their brothers to Louisiana.  At least four of his seven sons by both wives also created their own families in Louisiana, but not all of the lines endured. 

Oldest son Ambroise dit Barnabé, fils, by first wife Anne Cyr, born probably at Chignecto in c1734, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1742 and was counted with his widowered father and siblings at Malpèque in August 1752.  He followed them into exile and married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Godin dit Bellefontaine dit Lincour and Françoise Dugas of Rivière St.-Jean, in c1759, place unrecorded.  They, too, either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in the prison barracks at Halifax for the rest of the war.  EnbeRoize Martin, as he was called, his unnamed wife, and six children appeared on a repatriation list there in August 1763.  The couple, with only two young daughters, followed the Broussards from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in 1764-65 and settled on lower Bayou Teche, but they did not remain there.  Probably to escape the mysterious epidemic that struck the Teche valley community in the summer and fall of 1765, Ambroise, fils and his family retreated to Cabahannocer on the river, where three of his younger brothers had settled.  They were still there in January 1777, on the left, or east, side of the river.  By 1779, Ambroise, fils owned a single slave at Cabahannocer.  He died there in January 1796, in his early 60s.  His daughters married into the Boucad, Fontenot, and Grabert families on the river.  One of his two sons joined his cousins on the western prairies, but neither he nor his younger brother married.  Except for its blood, then, this line of the family died with Ambroise, fils. 

Ambroise, père's second son Joseph dit Barnabé, by first wife Anne Cyr, born born probably at Chignecto in c1736, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1742 and was counted with his widowered father and siblings at Malpèque in August 1752.  He followed them into exile and married fellow Acadian Marguerite Pitre in c1760, place unrecorded.  They, too, either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in the prison compound at Halifax, where they were counted with no children in August 1763.  They emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 but did not follow his siblings to lower Bayou Teche.  He and Marguerite settled, instead, in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where their children were born.  They were still there in January 1777 on the left, or east, bank of the river.  Two years later at Cabahannocer they held two slaves.  Joseph died by December 1795, when his wife was counted in an upper Bayou Lafourche census without a husband.  She did not remarry.  Her and Joseph's daughter married into the Broussard family.  Two of their three sons also married, into the Charpentier and Grabert families at Cabahannocer but joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche. 

Ambroise, père's third son Michel, by first wife Anne Cyr, born probably at Chignecto in c1738, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1742 and was counted with his widowered father and siblings at Malpèque in August 1752.  He may have followed them into exile later in the decade.  He did not emigrate to Louisiana in 1765 or thereafter. 

Ambroise, père's fourth son Pierre, by fist wife Anne Cyr, born probably at Chignecto in c1740, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1742 and was counted with his widowered father and siblings at Malpèque in August 1752.  He may have followed them into exile later in the decade.  He did not emigrate to Louisiana in 1765 or thereafter. 

Ambroise, père's fifth son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, by second wife Émilienne Comeau, born probably at Chignecto in c1742, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, if he was not born there, and was counted with his widowered father and siblings at Malpèque in August 1752.  He may have followed them into exile later in the decade.  According to Bona Arsenault, he followed his siblings from Halifax to Louisiana in 1765 and married fellow Acadian Marie Bourg at Cabahannocer soon after his arrival, but Louisiana records says otherwise.  One wonders what actually happened to him in exile. 

Ambroise, père's sixth son François, by second wife Émilienne Comeau, born on Île St.-Jean in c1746, was counted with his widowered father and siblings at Malpèque in August 1752.  He followed them into exile later in the decade, to the prison compound at Halifax, and to Louisiana in 1765.  Like older half-brother Joseph, he did not follow the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche but settled at Cabahannocer on the river.  He married Cécile, daughter of Julien DeGirre and Hélène Dubois of Ginet, France, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in February 1781.  His only son joined his cousins on the western prairies, but he established no family there.

Ambroise, père's seventh and youngest son Paul dit Barnabé, by second wife Émilienne Comeau, born on Île St.-Jean in c1748, was counted with his widowered father and siblings at Malpèque in August 1752.  He followed them into exile later in the decade, to the prison compound at Halifax, and to Louisiana in 1765.  Like older brothers Joseph and François, Paul did not follow the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche but settled at Cabahannocer.  He married Françoise, daughter of André Oubre and Marie-Élisabeth Bonvillain of St.-Charles des Allemands, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in January 1779.  He died near Convent, St. James Parish, in August 1815.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Paul was "age 64" when he died.  His daughters married into the Backley, Fontenot, Oubre, Rogers, and St. Pierre families on the river.  Only one of his five sons married, into the Hoemen family at St. James.

René, père's seventh son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in April 1709, married Anne, daughter of Laurent Granger and Marie Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in February 1738.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1750, Anne gave Pierre four children, three sons and a daughter.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Pierre died at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Montréal in June 1784, age 75.  His daughter married into the Rivet family at L'Assomption on the St. Lawrence below Montréal in 1763.  His three sons also married in Canada. 

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1739,  followed his family to Canada.  He married fellow Acadian Marie Forest in c1764, no place given.  They settled at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1779, Marie gave Pierre, fils eight children, six sons and two daughers.  At least one of their sons created his own family. 

Second son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in c1766, married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Guidry dit Labine and Marguerite Picot, at St.-Jacques in January 1793. 

Pierre, père's second son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1746, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Girouard and Marie-Josèphe Forest, at L'Assomption in June 1767.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1768 and 1790, Marie gave Joseph 10 children, four sons and six daughters.  One of their daughters married into the Dupuis family at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan.  One of their sons also created a family of his own. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born at L'Assomption in c1768, married Thérèse, daughter of François Migneron and Marie-Catherine Lévesque, at nearby Repentigny in February 1793. 

Pierre, père's third and youngest son François, born at Annapolis Royal in c1750, followed his family to Canada.  He married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians François Poirier and Marie-Madeleine Arsenault, at L'Assomption in January 1774. 

René, père's eighth and youngest son Michel, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1712, evidently died young.

Barnabé's second and perhaps youngest son Étienne, born at Port-Royal in c1678, married, according to Stephen A. White, Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Comeau le jeune dit Des Loups-Marins and Jeanne Bourgeois, at Port-Royal in October 1705 (Bona Arsenault says Marie's parents were Pierre Comeau l'aîné and Jeanne Bourg; White is followed here).  Between 1706 and 1733, at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Marie-Jeanne gave Étienne a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters.  Étienne died at Annapolis Royal in May 1751, in his early 70s.  Six of his daughters married into the Savoie, Blanchard, Forest, Richard, Doucet, Gervais, and Lord families.  One of them emigrated to Louisiana, another to Martinique in the French Antilles.  Three of Étienne's sons created their own families, but not all of the lines endured.  One of them settled near his sister on Martinique.   

Oldest son Jacques-Alexis, born at Port-Royal in August 1706, died a week after his birth.    

Étienne's second son Jean Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in October 1707, died at Annapolis Royal in August 1727, age 20, before he could marry.  

Étienne's third son Michel, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1712, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Guillaume Girouard and Marie Bernard, at Annapolis Royal in November 1739.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1748, Marie-Madeleine gave Michel six daughters, including a set of twins.  Michel died at Annapolis Royal in September 1747, age 34.  Judging by the date of his death, one wonders if he was a casualty of King George's War.  Marie-Madeleine remarried to Michel Aubois of Pobomcoup at Annapolis Royal in September 1754 and may have returned to the Cap-Sable area.  In the fall of 1755, Arsenault says, Michel's daughter Marguerite, who would have been age 12, escaped to Canada with one of her uncles.  (One wonders which one it could have been, since Michel's only surviving brothers were deported to New York in 1755.)  According to Arsenault, the British deported daughters Marie-Josèphe and Françoise, ages 15 and 13, to England, no date given, which implies that they were sent to Virginia first.  No British deportation vessel went from Annapolis Royal to Virginia in the fall of 1755, so the girls were either at Minas in the fall of 1755, perhaps with their mother and stepfather, or, more likely, they reached England via another route, perhaps directly from Nova Scotia.  A possible scenario is that, while living with their stepfather and mother at his native Pobomcoup, British forces arrived in September 1758 after the fall of Louisbourg, captured many of the inhabitants in the Cap-Sable area, transported them to Georges Island, Halifax, and sent them on to France.  These Cap-Sable exiles reached Le Havre in early 1759 with some of the Acadians deported to France from the Maritime islands.  Michel Aubois and his charges, however, may have been among the hand full of Cap-Sable habitants who escaped into the woods when the redcoats struck that autumn.  If so, they did not remain free for long.  The following summer, in late June 1759, they surrendered to the British, who held them on Georges Island until early November, when they shipped them off to England, which they reached in late December.  Most of these Cap-Sable exiles were trans-shipped from England to Cherbourg and other French ports, where they arrived in mid-January 1760.  The Martin girls, their mother, and stepfather evidently were sent elsewhere.  Oldest sister Marie-Josèphe married French surgeon Louis Courtin of Blois, probably a fellow prisoner of war, at Cork, Ireland, in September 1761.  One suspects that the rest of her sisters, other than Marguerite, who had gone to Canada, were with her in Ireland as well.  In the spring of 1763, after the war with Britain ended, the sisters likely were repatriated to Morlaix, France, and were still there the following year.  Their mother, and perhaps their stepfather as well, remained in Ireland.  Marie-Madeleine Girouard died at Kinsale on the Emerald Isle in September 1765, age 51.  That November, in France, the Martin sisters followed other Acadian exiles repatriated from the British Isles to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany.  Louis Courtin and Marie-Josèphe Martin were counted with two daughters, ages 6 and 1, on the island that November.  Also counted there in 1765 were Martin sisters Françoise, age 23, and Anastasie, one of the twins, age 15.  Françoise married a Trahan widower near Sauzon on the island in June 1777 and died there in January 1781, age 39.  In May 1778, Anastasie married a Cordouan of Velay, France, near Sauzon and died there in April 1779, age 33, perhaps from complications of childbirth.  One wonders what happened to their two younger sisters Anne and Nathalie, who would have been ages 20 and 17, respectively, in 1765.  They likely had followed their mother, stepfather, and older sisters into exile, but they may not have made it to France.  Neither of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  One record insists that Marie-Josèphe Martin, wife of Louis Courtin, died on Belle-Île-en-Mer in May 1804.  Other records, followed here, insist that, as a widow with four Courtin children, three daughters and a son, ages 22 to 11, she emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785 and settled near Baton Rouge--the only member of her immediate family to go to the Spanish colony. 

Étienne's fourth son François, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1715, married Françoise, daughter of Alexandre Lord and Marie-Françoise Barrieau, at Annapolis Royal in February 1740.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1754, Françoise gave François five children, three sons and two daughters.  The British deported the family to New York in December 1755.  The following May, colonial officials counted Francis Martain, his wife, and five children at Easthampton, Long Island, in Suffolk County.  Between 1758 and 1764, Françoise gave Francois three more children, a daughter and two sons.  François, his wife, and eight children appeared on a French repatriation list in the colony in 1763.  The following year or the year after, they resettled at La Mouillage, today's La Marin, on the southern coast of the French island of Martinique.  Françoise gave François another son probably on the island in 1764--eight children, five sons and three daughters, in all.  François died between February and December 1767, place unrecorded, probably on the island, in his early 50s.  His daughters married into the Merloteau or Merlateau, Beranger, Renaud, and Bouteiller families at Au Carbet and La Mouillage on Martinique, and one of them died at Le Carnéage, Ste.-Lucie, in Deceber 1767.  At least two of his sons created families on Martinique. 

Second son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1746, followed his family to New York and the French Antilles.  While working as a "raffineur et économe"--refiner and money handler?--at Le Lamentin, Martinique, in the center of the island, he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Zacharie Richard and Élisabeth Blanchard, at La Mouillage in June 1771.  Joseph, a widower, died at La Mouillage in April 1783, age 36. 

François's fourth son Jean-Baptiste, born in August 1760 probably in New York, followed his family to the French Antilles and was baptized "dans la paroisse du Fort" on Martinique, in September 1764.  He married Madeleine-Eulalie, daughter of Gilles-Yves Renaud and Anne-Marguerite Maubillon, at La Mouillage in October 1780. 

François's fifth and youngest son Pierre-Marthe, born probably on Martinique in c1764, died at Au Carbet, today's Le Carbet, on the northwest shore of the island, in May 1765, age 1. 

Étienne's fifth and youngest son Jean-Charles, called Jean, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1730, married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Richard and Marie-Madeleine Blanchard, at Annapolis Royal in February 1754.  The British deported the couple to New York in December 1755.  The following May, colonial officials counted John Martin, his wife, and two children at Oyster Bay, Long Island, in Suffolk County, not far from his brother François.  Jean remarried to Marie-Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Maillet and Madeleine Hébert, in c1759 probably in New York.  She gave him three more children, a son and two daughters, in the colony--at least five children by two wives.  Jean, his wife, and three children were still in the colony in 1763.  They followed older brother François and his family to Martinique, where Jean worked as a master carpenter and then as a merchant.  Two of his daughters by his second wife married into the Gautier and Gallais families at La Mouillage on the island.  None of his sons seems to have survived childhood. 

Joseph, born in New York in c1761, followed his family to Martinique.  He died at Au Carbet on the island in October 1765, age 4.380

Lanoue

Pierre Lanoue the cooper, a mid-1660s arrival, and his wife Jeanne Gautrot created a fairly large family in the colony.  Jeanne gave Pierre only one child, a son, but the son married a healthy woman three years his senior and had many sons of his own.  Pierre and Jeanne's descendants remained at Annapolis Royal, though some may have settled at Minas.  At least two of the cooper's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  A few of them also could be found in South Carolina, and the great majority of them in Canada, after Le Grand Dérangement.  They were especially numerous in the Montréal area. 

Only son Pierre, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1683, married Marie, daughter of Laurent Granger and Marie Landry, at Port-Royal in November 1702 and settled there.  Marie gave Pierre, fils nine children, six sons and three daughters.  According to Bona Arsenault, Pierre died at Lorembec, Île Royale, in January 1754, when he would have been in his early 70s, but this likely was another Pierre in a different family with a similar surname.  Pierre, fils's oldest daughter married into the Melanson family.  All six of his sons created their own families, four of them marrying daughters of Acadian hero Charles Belliveau of Annapolis Royal.   

Oldest son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in October 1703, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Belliveau and Marie Melanson, at Annapolis Royal in October 1725.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1743, Marguerite gave Joseph seven children, six sons and a daughter.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the family to Connecticut, where they appeared on a repatriation list in 1763.  Later in the decade, they chose to go to Canada and settled at St.-Philippe-de-Laprairie across from Montréal.  Joseph died there in April 1782, age 81.  His daughter married into the Granger family at Laprairie.  Five of his sons also created families of their own. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1726, married Jeanne Robichaud there in c1749.  The British deported them to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755.  Joseph, fils, wife Nanette, two sons and a daughter appeared on a repatriation list in the colony in August 1763.  They evidently followed their fellow exiles to Canada later in the decade.  British authorities counted them at Laprairie, near Joseph, fils's family, in 1772. 

Joseph, père's second son Charles le jeune, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1728, was still a bachelor in his late 20s when he followed his family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  At age 34, he married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Breau and Marie Melanson, civilly in Connecticut in c1762.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1779, Marie gave Charles le jeune five children, three sons and two daughters.  He may have been the Charles Lanau with a family of three who appeared on a repatriation list in Connecticut in 1763.  They also moved on to Canada.  His and Marie's marriage was revalidated at Laprairie, Canada, in September 1772.  Their daughters married into the Boudrot and Bouley families at Laprairie and nearby L'Acadie.  Did any of their sons also create their own families? 

Joseph, père's third son Pierre le jeune, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1733, married Ursule, daughter of Antoine Brun and Françoise Comeau, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1753.  They, too, were deported to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1754 and 1764, Ursule gave Pierre le jeune six children, five daughters and a son.  He likely was the Pierre Lanau "the young" counted with a family of six in Connecticut in 1763.  They, too, followed his family to Laprairie across from Montréal.  At age 55, Pierre le jeune remarried to fellow Acadian Marie Hébert, widow of François Landry, at nearby St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in July 1788.  Three of Pierre le jeune's daughters by first wife Ursule married into the Granger, Hébert, and Bourgeois families at nearby Laprairie.  Did their son also create a family of his own?

Joseph, père's fourth son Michel-Poncy, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1736, was still a bachelor in his late teens when he followed his family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  He married Madeleine, another daughter of Antoine Brun and Françoise Comeau, in a civil ceremony in Connecticut in c1761.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1765, Madeleine gave Michel-Poncy three children, two daughters and a son.  He likely was the Michel Lanau counted with a family of four in Connecitcut in 1763.  They, too, followed his family to Laprairie, Canada.  Their daughters married into the Boudrot and Clouâtre families Laprairie.  Did their son also create a family of his own?

Joseph, père's fifth son François, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1739, followed his family to Connecticut and Laprairie, where, at age 44, he married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Dominque Clouâtre and Françoise Broussard of Grand-Pré, in July 1783. 

Pierre, fils's second son Pierre III, born at Port-Royal in January 1706, married Françoise, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau l'aîné and Anne-Marie Bourg, in c1727 probably at Annapolis Royal.  According to Bona Arsenault, between in 1731 and 1733, Françoise gave Pierre III two daughters.  Pierre III remarried to Anne, another daughter of Charles Belliveau and Marie Melanson, at Annapolis Royal in November 1737.  According to Arseanault, between 1738 and 1750, Anne gave Pierre III six more children, three sons and three daughters.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Pierre Lanou and his family of eight were still in the colony in 1763.  They, too, chose to follow their fellow exiles to Canada later in the decade and settled at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan above Montréa.  Pierre III died at nearby L'Assomption in December 1772, age 66.  Five of his daughters by both wives married into the Brun,  Trahan, Granger, and Petitot dit Sincennes families in Connecticut and Canada.  Two of his sons also created their own families. 

Oldest son Pierre IV, by second wife Anne Belliveau, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1738, followed his family to Connecticut, where they were counted in 1763.  The following year, Pierre IV married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Dugas and Marie-Josèphe Girouard, in a civil ceremony in Connecticut.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1780, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre IV seven children, five daughters and two sons.  Their marriage was revalidated at L'Assomption north of Montréal, Canada, in September 1767.  They settled at nearby St.-Jacques de l'Achigan.  Four of their daughters married into the Robichaud, Melanson, Langlois dit Lachapelle, and Mirault, probably Amireau, families at St.-Jacques.  One of Pierre IV's sons also created his own family.

Older son Joseph, born probably at St.-Jacques de l'Achigaqn in c1768, married Anne-Esther, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Mirault and Isabelle Robichaud, at St.-Jaques de l'Achigan in October 1789. 

Pierre III's second son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Anne Belliveau, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1740, followed his family to Connecticut, where they appeared on a repatriation list in 1763.  The following year, Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Guillaume Bourgeois and Anne Hébert, in a civil ceremony in the Connecticut.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1781, Marie-Théotiste gave Jean-Baptiste 10 children, four sons and six daughters.  Their marriage was revalidated at L'Assomption, Canada, in November 1767.  They also settled at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan.  One of their daughters married into the Terriot family at St.-Jacques.  Two of Jean-Baptiste's sons also created their own families there.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born probably in Connecticut in c1765, followed his family to Canada and married Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Marie-Madeleine Dugas, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in February 1794. 

Jean-Baptiste, père's second son Pierre, born in Connecticut or Canada in c1767, married Suzanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Breau and Suzanne Dupuis, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in March 1794. 

Pierre, fils's third son Charles, born at Port-Royal in February 1709, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Landry and Catherine-Josèphe Broussard, at Grand-Pré in June 1729.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1754, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons.  The British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755.  Two of his daughters married into the Thibodeau family.  One wonders if any of sons created their own families.  Where did they go after the war? 

Pierre, fils's fourth son René, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1710, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel dit Lafond Richard and Agnès Bourgeois, at Annapolis Royal in January 1732.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1750, Marguerite gave René seven children, all sons.  René died at Annapolis Royal in May 1751, age 40.  The British deported his widow and four of their sons to South Carolina in the fall of 1755.  According to Arsenault, Marguerite and youngest son François died "of stranger's fever," probably smallpox, "at the plantation of a Mr. Vanderhorst" soon after they reached the southern colony, but the other boys survived.  Three of René's sons created their own families, two of the older ones in Nova Scotia and the younger one in South Carolina. 

Second son Amand, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1736, evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and, with a younger brother, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Later in the decade or in the early 1760s, he and his brother either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Amand was held at Fort Cumberland, former Beauséjour, at Chignecto, where he married Marie, daughter of Ambroise Melanson and Marguerite Comeau, in c1762.  The couple appeared on a repatriation list at Fort Cumberland in August 1763.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1776, Marie gave Amand six children, five daughters and a son.  After the war, they settled with other Acadian exiles at Grosses-Coques on the Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay.  In 1793, Amand's younger brother Basil Lanneau of Charleston, South Carolina, reunited with Amand probably at his home on St. Mary's Bay.  Amand died there in 1815, in his late 70s.  His daughters married into the Amirault, Comeau, and Belliveau families on St. Mary's Bay.  One wonders if his son also created a family of his own. 

René's third son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1738, followed his widowed mother and three brothers to South Carolina in the fall and winter of 1755-56.  After his mother and one of his younger brothers died, Jean-Baptiste remained in the colony, and his younger brother Basile taught him the tanner trade.  Like Basile, Jean-Baptiste converted to Protestantism, becoming an Anglican/Episcopalian.  And like Basile he remained in the British colony and adopted the spelling Lanneau for his surname.  His anglophone neighbors called him John.  He died at Charleston in 1781, in his early 40s.  He did not marry. 

René's fourth son Grégoire, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1741, followed his widowed mother and three brothers to South Carolina in the fall and winter of 1755-56.  After his mother and one of his younger brothers died, Grégoire, now in his late teens, evidently struck out on his own and disappears from the historical record, unless he also died with his mother and brother. 

René's fifth son Pierre le jeune, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1744, evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and, with an older brother, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Later in the decade or in the early 1760s, he and his brother either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  One wonders if he was held at Fort Cumberland with older brother Amand and his brother's wife Marie.  After the war, Pierre le jeune also remained in Nova Scotia.  He married Mary Doane at Liverpool on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia in c1766 and also settled at Grosses-Coques on the Baie Ste.-Marie.  Pierre le jeune died in Nova Scotia before 1793, when his younger brother Basil Lanneau coaxed his widow Mary into allowing him to take her and Pierre le jeune's son Pierre, fils and daughter Sarah back to Charleston with him, where he raised his nephew and niece. 

Pierre, fils, born in Nova Scotia, date not given, along with his sister Sarah, accompanied paternal uncle Basil Lanneau to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1793.  Pierre, fils's anglophone neighbors called him Peter Lanneau.  According to a descendant, Peter created "the second branch of the family in South Carolina." 

René's sixth son Basile, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1746, followed his widowed mother and three brothers to South Carolina in the fall and winter of 1755-56.  After his mother and one of his brothers died, Henry Laurens, the future hero of the American Revolution, became young Basile's patron and helped him become a tanner at Charleston.  Basile taught the trade to his older brother Jean-Baptiste.  Under the influence of the Laurens and other wealthy Charlestonians, and perhaps remembering the faith of their Huguenot ancestors, the Lanoue orphans converted to Protestantism; Basile became a Huguenot, Jean-Baptiste an Anglican/Episcopalian.  Basile, in fact, became an elder in his Huguenot congregation and later became a member of the Circular Congregational Church, also called the Old White Meeting House.  In South Carolina, their name evolved from Lanoue to Lanneau--Basile became Bazile Lanneau, and Jean Baptiste became John Lanneau.  They were among the relatively few Acadians who remained in the British seaboard colonies after the 1760s.  A descendant notes that Basil "became a wealthy and prominent citizen of Charleston.  He served three terms in the Legislature of South Carolina, 1796, 1798, and 1802."  Basil's first wife and their five children perished in a yellow fever epidemic and were all buried in the Huguenot churchyard.  From his second marriage, Basil created "an extensive progeny, the most distinguished of whom was his grandson, Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, doubtless the greatest classical scholar America has produced."  The descendant continues:  "In 1793, after the loss of his first family, Basil Lanneau made the tedious journey to his childhood home [Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia] in the hope of finding one of his elder brothers.  He had nearly given up when he accidentally discovered his long-lost brother Amand, who had returned from exile.  Through Amand he located the widow of his brother, Pierre IV, and after much persuasion she allowed her son, Pierre V, and her daughter, Sarah, to return with him to Charleston.  From this Pierre, the fifth of the name, is descended the second branch of the family in South Carolina.  Known in Charleston as Peter Lanneau, he was the father of Fleetwood Lanneau, the latter a prominent merchant, banker, member of the legislature, officer of Governor Gist's staff and Captain of the Palmetto Guard."  Basil died at Charleston in 1833, age 87, and is buried at the Old White Meeting House. 

René's seventh and youngest son François, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1750, followed his widowed mother and three brothers to South Carolina in the fall and winter of 1755-56.  Along with his mother, he died probably of smallpox "at the plantation of a Mr. Vanderhorst" soon after the family reached the southern colony.  He would have been age 6 or 7. 

Pierre, fils's fifth son Honoré, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1713, married Agnès, yet another daughter of Charles Belliveau and Marie Melanson, at Annapolis Royal in February 1745.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1746 and 1748, Agnès gave Honoré two sons.  The family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and then in the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Honoré died either on the shore or at Restigouche before 24 October 1760, when his widow and her family of four were counted at the French stronghold soon after its surrender.  The British likely held them in one of the prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.    

Pierre, fils's sixth and youngest son Michel, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1717, married Marie-Judith, another daughter of Charles Belliveau and Marie Melanson, at Annapolis Royal in January 1742.  According to Bona Arsenault, they resettled at Chignecto.  Arsenault says that Marie-Judith gave Michel a son in 1743, and other records give them another son in 1746.  Michel and his family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the summer and fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and then in the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  Michel died either on the shore or at Restigouche before 24, October 1760, when his widow and her family of six were counted at the French stronghold soon after its surrender.  The British held Marie-Judith and her famliy in the prison compound at Halifax in the early 1760s.  She and five of her children appeared on a repatriation list there in August 1763.  Two of her and Michel's sons emigrated to Louisiana in 1765 and settled on the river above New Orleans--the only members of the Acadian branch of the Lanoue family to go there.  The older brother did not marry, but the younger one created a vigorous line on what became known as the Acadian Coast.

Older son Joseph le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal or Chignecto in c1743, followed his family into exile in the fall of 1755.  He likely was counted with his widowed mother and siblings at Restigouche in October 1760 and was held in the prison compound at Halifax in the final years of the war.  He came to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 with his younger brother Pierre and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  In 1769, at Cabahannocer, Joseph, who the Spanish census taker described as a 23-year-old bachelor, was living on lot number 133 on the left, or east, bank of the river near his brother.  There was no one else in his household.  He probably did not marry. 

Michel's younger son Pierre le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal or Chignecto in c1746, followed his family into exile in the fall of 1755.  He likely was counted with his widowed mother and siblings at Restigouche in October 1760 and was held in the prison compound at Halifax in the final years of the war.  Pierre came to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 with his older brother Joseph and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  In 1769, a Spanish official counted Pierre on lot number 130 on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer near his brother with no one else in his household.  Pierre married Catherine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine-Marie-Josèphe Forest of Minas, probably at Cabahannocer in c1770.  Catherine had come to the colony from Maryland in 1766.  They owned a slave in 1779.  Pierre died in St. James Parish in July 1817.  The priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre was age 72 when he died.  His daughters married into the Landry, Laudenbach, LeBlanc, Melançon, Mire, and Triat families.  Two of his three sons also married, into the Mire and Sonnier families, and settled on the river in St. James and Ascension parishes.  His descendants, with the exception of a great-granddaughter, remained on the river.  One of his grandsons settling in Iberville Parish.  Several of his granddaughters and great-granddaughters married Foreign Frenchmen.  In Louisiana, the family's name evolved from Lanoue to Lanoux.381

Corporon

Jean Corporon, a late 1660s arrival, and his wife Françoise Savoie created a substantial family in the colony.  Between 1671 and 1696, Françoise gave Jean 15 children, eight daughters and seven sons.  Seven of their daughters married into the Boudrot, Doucet dit Laverdure, LeClerc dit Laverdure, Hébert, Johnson dit Jeanson, Samuel, and Seigneur dit La Rivière families.  Two of them, Marie and Marguerite, gave birth to "natural" daughters before they married.  Only three of Jean's sons created families of their own.  His and Françoise's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Grand-Pré and Pigiguit in the Minas Basin, Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable, and on Île Royale and Île St.-Jean in the French Maritimes.  At least two of Jean's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in the late 1760s, but no family lines developed there.  Most of his descendants could be found in Canada, France, the French Antilles, and especially in Nova Scotia after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son Jacques, born at Port-Royal in c1675, survived childhood but did not marry. 

Jean's second son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean l'aîné, a navigator, born at Port-Royal in c1677, married Marie, daughter of Philippe Pinet and Catherine Hébert, in c1702 probably at Port-Royal.  In late June 1714, they went with other peninsula Acadians to Cape Breton Island, still controlled by the French, to look at land there.  They evidently liked what they saw; they were among the first Acadians to settle in the new French colony of Île Royale.  Between the early 1700s and 1728, at Port-Royal and on Île Royale, Marie gave Jean l'aîné 10 children, four daughters and six sons.  Jean Bapiste died on Île Royale in March 1741, in his mid-60s.  Three of his daughters married into the Lartigue, Latapy dit La Fleur, Bourhis, and LeChaux families, all on Île Royale.  Only two of his sons created their own families.  

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1712, followed his family to Île Royale and married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Jean Bourhis and Marie-Josèphe Martin, there in April 1733.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1755, Marie-Charles gave Jean-Baptiste, fils six children, five daughters and a son.  Jean-Baptiste, fils died on the island by 1749, in his 30s.  Second daughter Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, married into the Pitard and Borde families at Louisbourg in October 1752 and Rochefort, France, in July 1760, where she, her first husband, and perhaps her siblings were deported in late 1758.  Madeleine ended up on Martinique in the French Antilles by November 1764, when she died at Fort Royal on the island, in her early 30s. Did Jean-Baptiste, fils's only son, François-Antoine, born in c1741, or any of his other daughters marry? 

Jean l'aîné's second son, name unrecorded, born before 1717, place not given, died young.   

Jean l'aîné's third son Jean-Charles, born at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1722, was counted at Lorembec on the Atlantic shore of the island, near his sister Marie-Madeleine, wife of Jean LeChaux, in April 1752, age 30.  Jean-Charles had no family at the time, so he probably did not marry. 

Jean l'aîné's fourth son Joseph, born at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1723, likely died young.   

Jean l'aîné's fifth son Eustache, born probably at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, date unrecorded, married Angélique, daughter of François Viger dit Brigeau and Claire Lejeune, in c1749 probably on Île Royale.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1758, Angélique gave Eustache five children, three daughters and two sons.  They likely escaped the British roundup on the island in late 1758 and may have sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the region and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Eustache Corp, likely Corporon, his unnamed wife, and five unnamed children appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  They remained in British Nova Scotia.  Two of their daughters married into the Froutain and Robichaud families in the Halifax area in the 1770s.  Two of Eustache's sons also married in British Nova Scotia.

Older son Joseph, born probably on Île Royale in c1754, followed his family into exile and imprisonment.  At age 25, he married Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Boudreau and Judith Landry, perhaps in the Halifax area in October 1779.

Eustache's younger son Abraham-Gilbert, born probably on Île Royale in c1756, followed his family into exile and imprisonment.  At age 33, he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Doucet and Félicité Mius, perhaps in the Halifax area in November 1789.  Abraham-Gilbert died at Bas-de-Tousket, today's New Tusket, Nova Scotia, in August 1834, in his late 70s. 

Jean l'aîné's sixth and youngest son François, born on Île Royale in August 1728, probably died young.

Jean's third son Martin, born at Port-Royal in c1687, married Cécile, daughter of François Joseph dit Lejeune and Jeanne Lejeune, in 1708 probably at Port-Royal, but they did not remain there.  They settled at Grand-Pré and l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the Minas Basin, where, between 1709 and the late 1710s, Cécile gave Martin three children, two daughters and a son.  Martin remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Viger and Marie Mius d'Azy, in c1718 perhaps at Pobomcoup, lived at Minas, and moved on to the French Maritimes.  Between 1719 and 1735, Marie-Josèphe gave Martin six more children, four daughters and two sons--nine children, six daughters and three sons, by two wives, between 1709 and 1735.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean by the late 1740s.   Martin died perhaps on the island by July 1750, in his early 60s, when Marie-Josèphe remarried to a Benoit widower at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean.  Martin's daughters, by his second wife, married into the Trahan, Roy, Dupuis dit Raymond, Lejeune, and Simoneau families, and two of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in the late 1760s.  Only one of Martin's sons created a family of his own, in greater Acadia and France.   

Oldest son Pierre, by first wife Cécile Joseph, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the late 1710s, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Viger dit Brigeau and Claire Lejeune, in c1737, place unrecorded, but it likely was at Pobomcoup (oddly, his wife's name was the same as his stepmother's).  After the fall of Louisbourg in July 1758, the British likely rounded up Pierre and his family with other Cap-Sable Acadians and held them briefly on Georges Island, Halifax, before deporting them to England.  The English sent them on to Cherbourg, France, which they reached in January 1760.  Pierre remarried to Marie Simon, perhaps a fellow Acadian, in Trés-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, France, in November 1761.  He died perhaps at Cherbourg before September 1772, in his mid- or late 50s. 

Martin's second son Jean, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Viger, born probably at Minas in in c1727, died there in July 1731, age 4. 

Martin's third and youngest son Jean-Charles, by second wife Marie-Josèphe Viger, born probably at Minas in c1733, followed his family to Île St.-Jean.  He died with his mother and stepfather on the crossing to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Duke William in December 1758, age 25, before he could marry. 

Jean's fourth son François, born at Port-Royal in c1688, died young. 

Jean's fifth son Charles, born at Port-Royal in c1691, also died young.

Jean's sixth son Jean le jeune, born at Port-Royal in c1692, married Jeanne Pichot in c1730, place unrecorded, but it probably was in the French Maritimes, where he served as an officier sur les navies.  They were living on Île Royale in c1749 but moved on to Île St.-Jean.  Jean le jeune died at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in September 1756, in his mid-60s.  One of their daughters ended up in La Rochelle, France, where she married into the Dixmier family in June 1784.  They did not go to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Jean's seventh and youngest son Ambroise, born at Port-Royal in c1696, died young.382

Guilbeau

Pierre Guilbeau, a late 1660s arrval, and his wife Catherine Thériot created a small but significant family in the colony.  Between 1669 and 1685, Catherine gave Pierre seven children, two sons and five daughters.  Pierre died at Port-Royal in November 1703, in his early 60s.  His daughters married into the Blanchard, Dugas, Granger, and Landry families.  Only one of his sons created a family of his own, but the line became a vigorous one.  Most of Pierre and Catherine's descendants remained at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal.  At least 11 of their descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  Substantial numbers of their descendants also could be found in Canada, France, and on Île Miquelon after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Older son Hugues, born at Port-Royal in c1673, was counted there in 1693, age 19, but he evidently did not marry.

Pierre's younger son Charles, born at Port-Royal in c1678, married Anne, daughter of Bernard Bourg and Françoise Brun, at Port-Royal by 1701.  Between 1702 and the 1710s, Anne gave Charles nine children, five sons and four daughters, including a set of twins.  Charles died at Annapolis Royal in March 1751, in his early 70s.  Three of his daughters married into the Girouard, Forest, and Michel families, and one of them may have died in France.  Four of Charles's five sons also created families of their own.   

Oldest son Charles, fils, born at Port-Royal in February 1703, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Alexandre Comeau and Marguerite Doucet, at Annapolis Royal in November 1727.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1737, Marie-Anne gave Charles, fils three children, two sons and a daughter.  Charles, fils remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean Breau and Anne Chiasson, at Annapolis Royal in January 1740.  According to Arsenault, Marie gave Charles, fils another daughter in 1743.  Charles, fils died at Annapolis Royal in November 1750, age 47.  Most of the family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Wife Marie died at Québec in November 1768.  Her Guilbeau daughter married into the Spénard family at St.-Pierre-les-Besquets on the upper St. Lawrence.  Charles, fils's oldest son by his first wife followed an uncle to Louisiana.  

Older son Joseph le jeune, by first wife Marie-Anne Comeau, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1730, evidently did not escape the British roundup at Annapolis the fall of 1755 and was deported to South Carolina.  He may have been among the Acadians who, in the spring of 1756, the governors of South Carolina and Georgia encouraged to return to Nova Scotia by sea and go no farther than New York, where colonial officials, calling him Joseph Gilboa, counted him in Westchester County in August 1756.  He evidently left New York for Halifax after February 1763 and emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.  He settled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river, where Spanish officials counted him on the left, or east, bank of the river in April 1766.  He married cousin Catherine Comeau, widow of ____ Lafaye, at Cabahannocer in October 1767.  They evidently had no children.  Joseph died by March 1779, when his wife was listed in a an Acadian Coast census as a widow

Charles, père's second son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in April 1704, married Madeleine, daughter of René Forest and Françoise Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in January 1731.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1758, Madeleine gave Pierre eight children, six daughters and two sons.  The family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755 and sought refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean before moving on to Canada.  According to Arsenault, their fourth daughter was not the Marguerite Guilbeau who chose to remain at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas on the lower St.-Jean, where she married into the Godin family, but other records say otherwise.  In early 1759, when the British attacked the Acadian settlements on the lower St.-Jean, New-English rangers killed Marguerite Guilbeau, wife of Michel Godin dit Beauséjour, and their infant son.  Meanwhile, Pierre died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse on the St. Lawrence below Québec in April 1758, age 54, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck Acadian refugees in the Québec area the previous fall and winter.  Four of his daughters married into the Bourg, Richard, Daigle, and Cyr families, one of them at Ékoupag on the lower St.-Jean.  One wonders what happened to his two sons. 

Charles, père's third son Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in July 1706, died an infant.   

Charles, père's fourth son Alexandre, born at Port-Royal in January 1708, married Marguerite, daughter of Alexandre Girouard and Marie Le Borgne de Bélisle, at Annapolis Royal in February 1734.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1752, Marguerite gave Alexandre eight children, five sons and three daughters.  In the autumn of 1755, the British placed Alexandre and his family aboard the transport Pembroke, bound for North Carolina.  Soon after leaving the Annapolis Basin, the Acadians aboard the vessel overwhelmed the crew, hid the vessel in Baie Ste.-Marie for a while, sailed the Pembroke to the mouth of Rivière St.-Jean, and escaped to the settlements on the lower river, where they spent the rest of the winter.  The following spring, Alexandre and his family moved up the St.-Jean portage to Canada.  Alexandre remarried to Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Breau and Marguerite Dugas and widow of Pierre Aucoin, at St.-Pierre-les Becquets on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Québec, in November 1759.  Alexandre died at Sorel on the St. Lawrence above Montréal in May 1776, age 68.  Three of his sons also settled int he area. 

Oldest son Amand, born at Annapolis Royal in c1734, followed his family into exile and married fellow Acadian Françoise Poirier in c1756.  He remarried to Marie-Charlotte Carpentier dit Bailly, widow of Gabriel Tellier, at St.-Pierre-les Becquets in March 1761.

Alexandre's second son Joseph le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in c1736, followed his family into exile and to Canada.  He married fellow Acadian Madeleine Bertrand, widow of Jean Hébert, at Québec in September 1763. 

Alexandre's fifth and youngest son Grégoire, born at Annapolis Royal in c1750, followed his family into exile and to Canada.  He married Agathe, daughter of Claude Hus dit Mallet and Françoise Mandeville, at Sorel in April 1771.

Charles, père's fifth and youngest son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in February 1710, married Madeleine, daughter of Jacques Michel and Catherine Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1733.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1752, Madeleine gave Joseph nine children, five daughters and four sons.  In the autumn of 1755, the British placed Joseph and his family, also, aboard the transport Pembroke, bound for North Carolina, and they also sought refuge at the settlements on lower Rivière St.-Jean.  The following spring, Joseph took his family not to Canada via the St.-Jean portage but to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and then to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where he was appointed a lieutenant in the Acadian militia (perhaps the origin of his unusual dit, L'Officier).  Three of his daughters married into the Boudrot, Babineau, and Bernard families at Restigouche.  Son Charles married to a fellow Acadian probably at Restigoche in c1760.  A British naval force from Louisbourg attacked the French stronghold in late June 1760.  After a spirited fight in which Acadian militia and Mi'kmaq warriors played an important role, the French commander blew up his larger vessels and retreated up Rivière Restigouche, leaving the militia and the Indians to prevent a British landing.  Unable to capture the garrison or lay waste to the area, the British commander ordered his ships to return to Louisbourg.  In October, after the fall of Montréal, another British naval force, this one from Québec, appeared at Restigouche to accept the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender.  On 24 October 1760, on the eve of formal surrender, French officers counted 1,003 exiles still at Restigouche, among them Joseph dit L'Officier Guilbeau and his family; and another large Guilbeau family.  After the counting, Joseph dit L'Officer and his family either fled or were led down the coast to Nipisiguit, where they were counted in 1761.  Unable to feed themselves in the crowded refugee camp, the British sent them, along with hundreds of other refugees, to prison compounds in Nova Scotia, where they were held for the rest of the war.  Joseph dit L'Officier and his family of six appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763.  One of his daughters married into the Thibodeau family there.  Joseph and most of his family followed the Broussards to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1764-65.  Joseph died at Attakapas in September 1765, age 55, victim of an epidemic that killed dozens of his fellow Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall.  Two of his daughters married or remarried into the Broussard and LeBlanc families at Attakapas.  Three of Joseph dit L'Officier's five sons also married, into the Trahan, Bourg, Broussard, Mouton, and Arceneaux families at Restigouche and on the Attakapas prairies.  Two of his sons did not go to Louisiana, but one of his grandsons did. 

Oldest son Joseph, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1735, followed his family into exile and into the prison compound at Halifax, where he married Charlotte, daughter of Charles Saint-Étienne de La Tour le jeune and his second wife Marguerite Richard, in February 1763.  They did not follow his parents to Louisiana but resettled, instead, on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where Joseph, fils worked as a navigator.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1782, Charlotte gave Joseph, fils nine children, six sons and three daughters, including a set of twins.  Other records give them another daughter.  French officials counted them on the island in 1766 and 1776 and may have spent time in France in 1767-68.  In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British deported them along with their fellow island Acadians to La Rochelle, France, where a daughter died a day after her birth, another daughter died at age 2,  and their youngest son was born.  Members of the family returned to Île Miquelon in 1783 and moved on to nearby Île St.-Pierre.  Other members of the family remained in France.  A daughter married into the Pradère family at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo. 

Oldest son Joseph III, born at Halifax or on Île Miquelon in c1765, followed his family to France in 1778 but probably did not return with them to Île Miquelon in 1783.  He emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France perhaps in 1785, joined his uncles on the prairies, and married into the Richard and Vallot families. 

Joseph, fils's fifth son Jean-Baptiste, born probably on Île Miquelon in c1773, also remained in France.  He married Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Cyr and Marguerite Dugas, at St.-Servan-sur-Rance, France, In June 1804. 

Joseph, père's fifth and youngest son Basile-David, called David, born at Annapolis Royal in c1752, followed his family into exile and into the prison compound at Halifax.  He did not follow them to Louisiana but chose to follow his oldest brother to Île Miquelon, where French officials counted him in 1767 and 1776 and described him as an orphan.  He married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph-Nicolas Gauthier and Anne LeBlanc, on the island in October 1783.  According to Bona Arsenault, Victoire gave David a son, Joseph le jeune, in 1784.  He worked either as a fisherman or a navigator and died in the sinking of the ship Batterie Verte off the village of Riantec, Morbihan, Brittany, France, in January 1804, in his early 50s.383

Caissie dit Roger

Roger dit Jean Caissie, the Irishman, a late 1660s arrival, and his wife Marie-Françoise Poirier created a large family in the colony.  Between 1669 and 1697, Marie-Françoise gave Roger seven children, three daughters and four sons.  Two of their daughters married into the Doucet and Deveau families.  All four of Roger's sons created families of their own.  His and Marie-Françoise's descendants settled not only at Butte-à-Roger near Pointe-à-Beauséjour, Chignecto, but also in the French Maritimes and Canada (before Le Grand Dérangement).  Four of the Irishman's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and tended to use the surname Roger.  Even more could be found in Canada, greater Acadia, and France after Le Grand Dérangement.  They tended to call themselves Caissy or Caissie or one of the name's many variations.

Oldest son Jean, born probbly at Port-Royal in c1676, followed his family to Chignecto, became a carpenter, and married Anne, daughter of Charles Bourgeois and Anne Dugas, in c1695 probably at Chignecto.  Between 1696 and 1703, Anne gave Jean three children, two daughters and a son.  Jean remarried to Cécile, daughter of Étienne Hébert and Jeanne Comeau, in c1706 probably at Chignecto.  Between 1707 and 1733, Cécile gave Jean 13 more children, three sons and 10 daughters--16 children, 12 daughters and four sons, by two wives.  Jean died probably at Chignecto by February 1748, in his late 60s or early 70s.   All of his many children created their own families.  His daughters by both wives married into the Mangeant dit Saint-Germain, Boudrot, Hébert, Grossin, L'Enfant, Bouchard, Hilairet, Delaune, LePrieur dit Dubois, Habel dit Duvivier, LeMonnier, Clémenceau, Tandau, Pothier, Butteau, and Léger dit Sansrémission ôu dit Raymond families.  Two of them, with their entire families, along with a brother and his family, perished aboard one of the two transports that sank in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England during the 1758 crossing from the Maritimes to St.-Malo.  One of them died in French Guiane in 1765. 

Oldest son Jean, fils, by first wife Anne Bourgeois, born at Chignecto in c1703, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of Guillaume Bourgeois and Catherine-Josèphe Thibodeau, at Annapolis Royal in October 1728.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1746, Marguerite gave Jean, fils seven children, three daughter and four sons.  Jean, fils remarried to Marie-Anne, daughter of Martin Richard and Marguerite Bourg and widow of Pierre Doucet, at Beaubassin in February 1748.  She evidently gave him no more children.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Jean, fils died at Batiscan on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec City and Trois-Rivières in July 1789, in his late 80s.  One of his daughters by first wife Marguerite married into the Massaugier family.  His sons also settled in Canada.

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste-Claude, by first wife Marguerite Bourgeois, born at Chignecto in c1741, followed his family to Canada, where he became a navigator.  He married Louise, daughter of Jean Forton and Louise Chamard, at Québec City in April 1768.  He died there in December 1786, in his mid-40s.  One of their daughters married a Caissy cousin at Batiscan. 

Jean, fils's second son Joseph, by first wife Marguerite Bourgeois, born at Chignecto in c1742, followed his family to Canada.  He married Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and Madeleine Blanchard, in c1766, place unrecorded.  They settled at Batiscan.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1769 and 1787, Théotiste gave Joseph 14 children, nine sons and four daughters.  Joseph died at Batiscan in January 1822, age 80.  Three of his daughters married into the Gouin, Tousignant, Veillet, and Lefebvre families at Batiscan.  Five of his sons also married in the area. 

Second son Joachim, born probably at Bastiscan in c1770, married Thérèse, daughter of fellow Acadians Félix Godin and Marie-Rose Roy, there in November 1793. 

Joseph's third son Joseph, fils, born probably at Bastican in c1774, married Josephte, daughter of Antoine Lafond and Angélique Papiau-Périgny, there in January 1796. 

Joseph, père's fourth son Louis, born probably at Bastiscan in c1775, married Élisabeth Généraux, place unrecorded, in c1800. 

Joseph, père's seventh son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born probably at Basitcan in c1784, married Marie, daughter of François Bigot dit Dorval and Marguerite Doucet, at nearby Champlain in January 1809.  One of their daughters married a Caissy cousin at Batiscan.  Jean, at age 40, remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Perron and Marie-Josèphe Arcand, at Batiscan in April 1824. 

Joseph, père's ninth and youngest son François, born probably at Batiscan in c1787, married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Houle and Véronique Cloutier, there in September 1808. 

Jean, fils's third son Nicolas, by first wife Marguerite Bourgeois, born at Chignecto in c1744, followed his family to Canada.  In his early 30s, he married Élisabeth, another daughter of Joseph Bourg and Madeleine Blanchard, at Bastiscan in February 1775.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1775 and 1795, Élisabeth gave Nicolas 11 children, six sons and five daughters.  Nicolas died at Batiscan in October 1813, in his late 60s.  Four of his daughters married into the Rouillard-Saint-Cyr, Brunet, Beaufort-Brunel, and Déry families at Batiscan.  Four of his sons also married, two of them at Gaspésie on the northern shore of the Baie des Chaleurs in greater Acadia.

Second son Michel, born probably at Batiscan in c1780, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Marchildon and Marie-Josèphe Langevin, there in October 1803. 

Nicolas's third son Joseph, born probably at Batiscan in c1780, moved on to Gaspésie and, at age 30 married Reine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bourg and Théotiste Savoie, at Carleton there in September 1810.  They settled at nearby Miguasha at the entrance to the estuary of Rivière Restigouche.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1810 and 1831, Reine gave Joseph 11 children, seven sons and five daughters. 

Nicolas's fifth son Abraham, born probably at Batiscan in c1789, married, at age 39 cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste-Claude Caissy, a master pilot, and his Canadian wife Louise Forton, at Batiscan in September 1828.  Abraham, at age 48, remarried to cousin Euphémie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Caissy and his Canadian wife Marie Bigot dit Dorval, at Batiscan in September 1837. 

Nicolas's sixth and youngest son Urbain, born probably at Batiscan in c1790, followed his older brother Joseph to Gaspésie and settled near him at Miguasha.  Urbain married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Babineau dit Deslauriers and Jeanne Arsenault, at Carleton in July 1815.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Urbain a daughter in 1818.  At age 34, Urbain remarried to Sophie, daughter of Alexis Marchard, navigator, and his wife Josephte Biron, at Batiscan in February 1824.  He evidently had gone back home only to find another wife.  According Arsenault, between 1825 and 1833, Sophie gave Urbain six more children, five sons and a daughter.  At age 44, Urbain remarried again--his third marriage--to Élisabeth, daughter of Charles Létourneau and Marthe Bernard, at Carleton in February 1834.  According to Arsenault, 1834 and 1848, Élisabeth gave Urbain nine more children, five daughters and four sons--16 children, seven daughters and nine sons, by three wives. 

Jean, fils's fourth and youngest son Amand, by first wife Marguerite Bourgeois, born at Chignecto in c1746, followed his family to Canada.  He married fellow Acadian Marguerite Mouton, widow of Amand Robichaud, of Champlain, at Québec City in February 1767. 

Jean, père's second son Jacques, by second wife Cécile Hébert, born at Chignecto in c1710, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Olivier and François Bonnevie, at Beaubassin in February 1735.  According to Bona Arsenault, in 1742 and 1745, Marie-Josèphe gave Jacques two children, a daughter and a son.  They moved on to the French Maritimes after 1752.  The British deported the family to France in late 1758.  Jacques, in his late 40s, and his family died on one of the two British transports that sank in a mid-December storm off the southwest coast of England on the crossing to St.-Malo. 

Jean, père's third son Michel, by second wife Cécile Hébert, born at Chignecto in c1721, married Marguerite, daughter of Germain Henry and Cécile Deveau, in c1748 probably at Chignecto.  In 1750 and 1751, Marguerite gave Michel two daughters.  They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750.  In August 1752, a French official counted Michel, Marguerite, and their two young daughters at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in the interior of the island.  Between 1754 and 1758 on the island, Marguerite gave Michel three sons.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Their younger daughter and all three sons died at sea.  Michel took his wife and daughter to nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where, between 1760 and 1774, Marguerite gave him eight more children, four sons and four daughters, all but one of whom survived childhood--13 children, six daughters and seven sons, in all.  Michel did not take his family to the interior of Poitou in the early 1770s, nor did he join his fellow exiles at the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade.  He died between 1787 and 1791, in his late 60s, place unrecorded, so he and his family did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.  One of his sons made his way "back" to greater Acadia about the time of his father's death.  In 1793, French Revolutionary officials counted a number of Caissies, called Quessy, "in the area around St.-Malo," most of them children of the now-deceased Michel:  Marie-Osite, age 46, probably Michel's oldest daughter, no husband mentioned; Jean-Baptiste, age 31, Michel's fifth son, a sailor, no wife mentioned; Pierre, probably Pierre-Paul, age 29, Michel's sixth son, also a sailor, no wife mentioned; Françoise, probably Françoise-Théodose, age 25, Michel's fourth daughter, wife of ____ Jouanne, described as poor; Geneviève, age 18, probably Geneviève-Sophie-Ulalie, Michel's sixth daughter, wife of _____ Tardier; Bonaventure, also a native of St.-Servan, age 6; Marguerite, age 5; and Marie, age 3.  Pierre-Michel Quessy, born at St.-Servan in October 1787, also may have been a son of Michel. 

Second son Michel-Claude, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in July 1760, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Anselme Boudreau and Ursule Daigre, at St.-Servan in July 1785.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Michel-Claude a dozen children, five daughters and seven sons.  In c1790, Michel-Claude took his family to greater Acadia and settled in the fishery in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, where some of his cousins had settled.  Michel-Claude died at Bonaventure there in March 1837, age 76.  Four of his daughters married into the LeBlanc and Aubut families in area.  Three of his sons also married in Gaspésie.

Third son Jean-Pierre, born probably in Gaspésie in c1792, married Scholastique, daughter of François Lévesque and his Acadian wife Marie Granger, at Bonaventure in January 1821. 

Michel-Claude's fifth son Charles, born probably in Gaspésie in c1803, married Augusta, daughter of Joseph Larocque and his Acadian wife Marguerite Cyr, at Paspébiac in October 1832. 

Michel-Claude's seventh and youngest son Félix, born probably in Gaspésie in c1811, married cousin Eugénie Boudreau, place and date not given.

Jean, père's fourth and youngest son Paul, by second wife Cécile Hébert, born at Pointe-à-Beauséjour, Chignecto, in c1731, moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1749.  In August 1752, a French official counted Paul, still a bachelor, at Étange-St.-Pierre on the north shore of the island.  Paul married Marguerite, daughter of Jean-Jacques Cyr and Marie-Josèphe Hébert, on the island in c1756.  The following hear, Marguerite gave him a son there.  The British deported the family to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758.  Marguerite died either on the crossing or in the Norman port soon after their arrival.  In late August 1759, Paul and his son moved on to St.-Malo and settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near his older brother Michel.  He then moved to nearby Paramé, where he remarried to Marie-Anne-Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Haché and Cécile Lavergne and widow of François Chiasson, in June 1760.  In 1761 and 1762, Marie-Anne-Julie gave Paul two daughters, both of whom died young, one of them at St.-Méloir-des-Ondes in the countryside east of St.-Malo.  Paul remarried again--his third marriage--to Françoise, daughter of locals François Cadieux and Marie Blanchard, at St.-Servan in July 1763.  She gave him no more children.  Paul died in the hospital at St.-Malo in October 1763, in his early 30s.  His only surviving child, Paul, fils, age 6 when his father died, remained at St.-Servan, raised probably by his stepmother. 

Only son Paul, fils, born on Île St.-Jean in c1757, followed his family to Cherbourg, France, and his widowed father to St.-Malo.  After his father's death there, when Paul, fils was only age 6, his stepmother Françoise Cadieux probably raised him.  In 1785, when Paul, fils would have been in his late 20s, he did not follow other Acadian exiles to Spanish Louisiana but remained at St.-Malo.  In 1793, during the French Revolution, a republican official counted him still in the St.-Malo area, age 36, working as a seaman, but said nothing of a wife or children. 

Roger's second son Pierre, born at Port-Royal or Chignecto in c1678, married Marie-Thérèse, daughter of Emmanuel Mirande and Marguerite Bourgeois, in c1704 probably at Chignecto.  Between 1704 and 1721, Marie-Thérèse gave Pierre eight children, five daughters and three sons, all of whom married.  Pierre died at Chignecto in February 1741, in his early 60s.  His daughters married into the Deveau, Carret, Mouton, and Cosset families.  His three sons also created their own families.   

Oldest son Michel dit Roger le jeune, born at Chignecto in c1706, married Catherine, daughter of Louis Poirier and Cécile Mignot, probably at Chignecto in c1732.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1740, Catherine gave Michel le jeune four daughters.  Michel dit Roger remarried to Rosalie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Comeau and Anne-Marie Thibodeau, at Beaubassin in January 1743.  According to Arsenault, Rosalie gave him a son in c1744.  Michel dit Roger died probably at Chignecto by February 1751, in his late 30s or early 40s.  His widow remarried to Jean-Baptiste Perial, "corporal ... native of Franch Comté."  Two of Michel's daughters by first wife Catherine married into the Bergeron and Coignac families at Chignecto and, along with a younger sister, escaped the round up there in the fall of 1755.  The sister married an Hébert widow in Canada in May 1761.  Two of Michel le jeune's children, a daughter and a son from both wives, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. 

Only son Joseph le jeune, by second wife Rosalie Comeau, born at Chignecto in c1745, followed his widowed mother to Île St.-Jean, where she remarried to a French corporal.  In August 1752, a French official counted the corporal, who had been stationed on the island for three years, Rosalie, her son Joseph Caissy, age 8, and a 15-year-old Marie Caissy, described as an orphan, at Port-La-Joye, the island's headquarters near its south shore.  The family either left the island soon after the counting or escaped the British roundup there in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  By 1760, they had made their way to the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs.  The British attacked Restigouche in July 1760, returned to accept its surrender in October, and ordered the French commander to count the 1,003 Acadians still there.  Jean-Baptiste Perial and his family of seven, Joseph Caissie probably among them, were included in the count.  The British sent them to a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  In 1764-65, Joseph, age 19 and still a bachelor, followed other Nova Scotia exiles from Halifax to New Orleans via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled with them in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  In April 1766, a Spanish official counted him, his widowed half-sister Catherine, who had come to the colony with the Broussards the year before, Catherine's four children, and a Landry on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer.  Joseph was still a bachelor in September 1769, when the Spanish counted him still on the west bank at Cabahannocer.  In his early or mid-20s, he married fellow Acadian Anastasie Dugas, widow of Amable Robichaux, at Cabahannocer or nearby Ascension in c1770.  In 1779, during the American Revolution, Joseph, now in his early 30s and calling himself a Roger, served as a fusileer in Verret's Company of the Acadian Coast militia, which fought against the British at Fort Bute and Baton Rouge in the late summer and fall of that year.  In the late 1780s or early 1790s, he and Anastasie joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  Joseph's successions were filed at the Lafourche Interior courthouse in Thibodauxville in June and July 1818.  He would have been in his early 70s that year.  He freed a slave named Pierre, age 70, in one of his successions.  Joseph's daughters married into the Forgeron and Gaudet families.  Two of his three sons also married, into the Babin and LeBlanc families on Bayou Lafourche.  His descendants called themselves Roger, not Caissie or Caissy. 

Pierre's second son Joseph, born at Chignecto in c1711, married Cécile, daughter of Michel Poirier and Marie Chiasson and widow of Charles Doucet, at Beaubassin in July 1733.  According to Bona Arsenault, Cécile gave Joseph a daughter in c1734.  Joseph remarried to Marie, daughter of Pierre Gaudet and Cécile Mignot, at Beaubassin in November 1747.  The British deported the family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Joseph, Marie, and their unnamed child, perhaps daughter Marie-Josèphe, were listed on a French repatriation list in the Quaker Colony in June 1763.  According to Stephen A. White, Joseph died after August 1763, perhaps in Pennsylvania.  Did his line of the family die with him? 

Pierre's third and youngest son Alexis dit Roger, born at Chignecto in August 1721, married Marie, daughter of Charles Doucet and Cécile Poirier, at Beaubassin in January 1741.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Alexis two children, a daughter and a son, in 1741 and 1744.  Alexis remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Claude LeBlanc and Madeleine Boudrot, at Beaubassin in April 1748.  Arsenault says Marie-Josèphe gave Alexis another son in c1755--three children, a daughter and two sons, by two wives.  Michel and his family evidently escaped the British rounup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  One of Alexis's sons emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. 

Younger son Jean, by second wife Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, born probably at Chignecto in c1755, followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.  Still a child and likely an orphan, Jean followed other Nova Scotia exiles from Halifax to New Orleans via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled with them at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans.  One wonders if he accompanied his older first cousin Joseph to Louisiana.  In January 1777, a Spanish official counted Jean, age 22, on the left, or east, bank of the river at Cabahannocer with the family of Pierre Breaux.  Jean married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Richard and Marie-Anne Cormier, at Cabahannocer in November 1780.  Rosalie had come to the colony in February 1764 with her family--among the first of the Acadian exiles to settle in Louisiana.  Their daughter Rosalie married into the Boudreaux family on upper Bayou Lafourche.  He evidently was the Jean Roger who married--in this case, remarried to--Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Prejean and Marguerite Durel, at Cabahannocer in the early 1780s (the couple's daughter Marie-Céleste was baptized at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in December 1782, age unrecorded).  By the mid- or late 1790s, they had joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche.  By the early antebellum period, they had moved farther down bayou into Interior Parish.  A succession for Jean Baptiste Roger was filed at what would become the Houma courthouse, Terrebonne Parish, in September 1807, and a succession inventory for Jean Roger was filed at what would become the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in November, when this Jean would have been in his early 50s.  His daughters by second wife Victoire married into the Adam and Bernard families.  His three sons by Victoire also married, into the Boudreaux, Hébert, Daunis, and Morvant families on the upper Lafourche.  For reasons unexplained, Jean's descendants, like those of his first cousin Joseph, called themselves Roger, not Caissie or Caissy. 

Roger's third son Guillaume, born probably at Chignecto in c1680, married Jeanne, daughter of François Pellerin and Andrée Martin, in c1703 probably at Chignecto.  Jeanne gave Guillaume three daughters.  The family moved on to Canada long before Le Grand Dérangement and settled below Québec.  Guillaume died there by c1711, when Jeanne remarried to a Canadian named Moyen.  Two of Guillaume's daughters married into the Malboeuf and Thibault families.  One of them married at St.-Pierre-du-Sud below Québec City, where Jeanne Pellerin died in April 1744.

Roger's fourth and youngest son Michel dit Roger l'aîné, born at Chignecto in July 1684, married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Gaudet l'aîné and Anne Blanchard, in c1706 probably at Chignecto.  Between 1706 and 1719, Madeleine gave Michel seven children, five daughters and two sons.  Michel died at Chignecto in December 1733, age 49.  The priest who recorded the burial described Michel as a "bon chrétien."  Four of his daughters married into the Brun, Lapierre, and Poirier families, two of them to brothers whose sister married one of their brothers.  Both of Michel dit Roger's sons also created families of their own.   

Older son Joseph dit Grand Jos, born at Chignecto in c1709, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Lapierre and Marie Blou, probably at Chignecto in c1731.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1750, Marie-Josèphe gave Grand Jos seven children, three daughters and four sons.  The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  They may have been among the hundreds of exiles who escaped capture in the late 1750s and early 1760s.  After the war, members of the family settled at Baie-des-Vins, Cocagne, and Grande-Digue in what became southeastern New Brunswick.  Grand Jos's daughters married into the Lambouest, Goguen, Gautrault, and Boudreau families in the area.  His sons also married. 

Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Chignecto in c1733, followed his family into exile.  He married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Haché-Gallant and Anne-Marie Gravois, in c1762, place unrecorded. 

Grand Jos's second son Pierre, born at Chgnecto in c1741, followed his family into exile.  He married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques Léger, place and date not given.  Pierre died at Richibouctou, eastern New Brunswick, in January 1813, in his early 70s. 

Grand Jos's third son Joseph dit Maître, born at Chignecto in c1748, followed his family into exile.  He married Anastasie, another daughter of Jacques Léger, place and date not given.  Maître died at Grande-Digue, New Brunswick, in July 1832, in his early 80s. 

Grand Jos's fourth and youngest son Étienne, born at Chignecto in c1750, followed his family into exile.  He married fellow Acadian François Mazerolle, place and date not given. 

Michel dit Roger's younger son Claude, born at Chignecto in February 1719, married Anne, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Chiasson and Madeleine Boudrot, in c1742 probably at Chignecto.  Claude died after September 1772, no place recorded.  One wonders what happened to them in 1755.384

Blou

Cooper Jacques Blou, a late 1660s arrival, and his wife Marie Girouard created a small family at Chignecto, the community they helped pioneer in c1672.  Marie gave Jacques seven children, a son and six daughters.  Their daughters married into the Chiasson, Lapierre, Gaudet, Oudy, Labauve, Hébert dit Laprade, and Bernard families and remained at Chignecto.  If any of Jacques's descendans emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.

Only son Joseph evidently died young, so only the blood of this family endured in the colony.385

Cyr

Gunsmith Pierre Cyr, a late 1660s arrival, and his wife Marie Bourgeois created a large family in the colony.  Marie gave him three children, all sons, all of whom married.  Pierre and Marie's descendants settled at Chignecto and nearby Memramcook in the trois-rivières area.  Few, if any, of them moved on to the French Maritimes before the 1750s.  If any of Pierre's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there. 

Oldest son Jean married Françoise, daughter of Charles Melanson and Marie Dugas, in c1698, place unrecorded,  and settled at Chignecto.  Françoise gave Jean eight children, four sons and four daughters.  Their daughters married into the Cormier and Arseneau families, three of them to brothers whose sister married their youngest brother.  Three of Pierre's four sons also created families of their own.   

Oldest son Pierre-Paul, called Paul, married Agnès, daughter of Alexis Cormier and Marie LeBlanc, in c1725 probably at Chignecto.   

Jean's second son Michel died young.   

Jean's third son Jean dit Croc married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Cormier and Catherine LeBlanc, at Beaubassin in January 1734.   

Jean's fourth and youngest son Louis-Joseph married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Cormier and Marguerite LeBlanc and sister of three of his brothers-in-law, in c1739 probably at Chignecto.

Pierre's second son Pierre, fils married Claire, daughter of Thomas Cormier and Marie-Madeleine Girouard, in c1701 at Chignecto.  Claire gave Pierre, fils 11 children, five sons and six daughters.  Their daughters married into the Gravois, Martin dit Barnabé, O'Neale dit Onel, Fournier, Arseneau, Bacquet dit LaMontagne, and Bourgeois families.  Four of Pierre, fils's five sons also created their own families.   

Oldest son, whose name has been lost, died young.   

Pierre, fils's second son Pierre III married Anne, daughter of Michel Poirier and Madeleine Bourgeois, at Beaubassin in January 1735.   

Pierre, fils's third son Jean-Jacques married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean-Emmanuel Hébert and Madeleine Dugas, in c1736, probably at Chignecto.  

Pierre, fils's fourth son Joseph married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jacques Saulnier and Anne Hébert, in c1745, place not given.   

Pierre, fils's fifth and youngest son Honoré married Marguerite Saulnier in c1745, perhaps in the trois-rivères. 

Pierre's third and youngest son Guillaume married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Bourg and Élisabeth Melanson, in c1707 probably at Chignecto and died by 1740, in his late 50s or early 60s.  Marguerite gave Guillaume nine children, four sons and five daughters, all of whom married.  Their daughters married into the Bourgeois, Poirier, Hébert, and Vigneau families.   

Oldest son Michel married Madeleine, daughter of Charles Bourgeois and Marie Blanchard, in c1729 probably at Chignecto.   

Guillaume's second son Jean dit Genga married Anne, another daughter of Charles Bourgeois and Marie Blanchard, at Beaubassin in February 1733.   

Guillaume's third son Pierre married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Poirier and Madeleine Bourgeois, in c1739 probably at Chignecto.   

Guillaume's fourth and youngest son Paul married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Richard and Marie-Josèphe Boudrot, at Beaubassin in February 1743.386

LePrince

Jacques LePrince, a late 1660s arrival, and his wife Marguerite Hébert created a large family in the colony.  Between 1678 and 1692, Marguerite gave Jacques six children, two daughters and four sons, including a set of twins.  Jacques took his family to Minas and then to nearby Pigiguit, where he died in 1692 or 1692, in his late 40s.  His daughters married into the Rivet, Tillard, and Hébert families.  Three of his four sons married, the twins on the same day and at the same place.  His and Marguerite's descendants settled not only at Pigiguit, but also at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal and in the French Maritimes.  At least seven of Jacques's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in the late 1760s and especially from France in 1785.  They also could be found in greater numbers in France, the French Antilles, and especially in Canada after Le Grand Dérangement. 

Oldest son François, a twin, born probably at Port-Royal in c1680, married Catherine, daughter of Martin Benoit and Marie Chaussegros, at Grand-Pré in May 1712 and settled at Pigiguit.  Between 1714 and 1728, Catherine gave François seven children, four sons and three daughters.  François was active in the Acadian resistance after King George's War.  He died probably at Pigiguit between February and November 1751, in his early 70s.  Two of his daughters married into the Chauvet dit LaGerne and Doiron families.  Three of his four sons also created their own families, but only one of the lines may have endured.  The family's participation in the Acadian resistance compelled them to resettle on Île St.-Jean in the early 1750s. 

Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Pigiguit in c1714, married Marie-Osite Melanson dit Pitre in c1749 probably at Cobeguit on the east end of the Minas Basin.  She gave him a son soon after their marriage.  Joseph also incurred the wrath of Nova Scotia Governor Edward Cornwallis for his participation in the Acadian resistance in the late 1740s and moved to Île St.-Jean in c1751.  In August 1752, a French official counted Joseph, Marie-Osite, and their 20-month-old son at Grande-Anse on the island's southeast shore not far from younger brother Antoine.  Marie-Osite gave Joseph another son at Grande-Anse in c1753.  The British deported the family to France in late 1758.  They landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer in Picardie but moved on to Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay by 1767.  Joseph died before August 1770, place unrecorded, probably at Rochefort.  Only one of his sons married.  He remained in France. 

Older son Joseph-Olivier, called Olivier, born at Cobeguit in c1750, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, Boulogne-sur-Mer, and Rochefort, where he became a sailor.  He married Agnès, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Breau and Marguerite Guédry of Cobeguit, in Notre-Dame Parish, Rochefort, in August 1770.  Agnès's father had been killed in the siege of Louisbourg in the summer of 1758, and she, her widowed mother, and siblings had lived at Rochefort since 1759, when they arrived from the French Maritimes.  In 1773, Olivier and Agnès, still childless, went to the interior of Poitou with other Acadian exiles from the coastal cities.  According to Bona Arsenault, Agnès gave Olivier a son in 1774.  In November 1775, after two years of effort, they followed other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes and settled at nearby Chantenay.  Another son was baptized at St.-Martin de Chantenay in January 1777 but died there at age 1 1/2 in October 1778.  If any of the family were still living in 1785, none emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. 

Joseph's younger son Simon, born on Île St.-Jean in c1753, died at Boulogne-sur-Mer in January 1759, age 5 1/2, probably from the rigors of the crossing from Île St.-Jean. 

François's second son Jean le jeune, born probably at Pigiguit in c1715, died at Grande-Anse, Île St.-Jean, in February 1751, in his mid-30s.  He was buried in St.-Paul Cemetery there.  He did not marry.   

François's third son Antoine le jeune, born probably at Pigiguit in c1720, married Judith Boudrot in c1744, place unrecorded.  Between 1745 and 1749, Judith gave Antoine four children, three daughters and a son.  They resettled on Île St.-Jean in c1750, perhaps soon after Judith's death.  Antoine remarried to Cécile, daughter of Pierre-Claude Arsement and Marie-Josèphe Thériot, at Port-La-Joye on the south end of the island in November 1751.  They settled at Grande-Anse on the island's southeast shore, where, in August 1752, a French official counted Antoine, Cécile, and his four children by his first wife.  Cécile gave Antoine another son on the island in c1754.  The British deported the family to France in late 1758.  They landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer, where, in 1759, Cécile gave Antoine two more children, a daughter and a son, perhaps twins--seven children, four daughters and three sons, by two wives.  The youngest son died four days after his birth, a week before his older brother died.  The family moved on to Rochefort in the 1760s.  Antoine le jeune died at Rochefort before 1770, in his late 40s.  Two of his older daughters by his first wife married into the Trahan and Gautrot families at Boulogne-sur-Mer and L'Île-de-Aix, La Rochelle, in the 1760s; ventured with their husbands to Cayenne in French Guiane in 1764; but soon returned to Rochefort.  The older daughter Marie-Sophie, a widow, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 with a Trahan son and her half-sister Julie and settled in the Attakapas District.  Julie resettled on the river above New Orleans and married into the Breaux family there.  None of Antoine le jeune's other children, including his sons, seems to have married, so, except for its blood, his line of the family may have died with him. 

Oldest son Firmin, by first wife Judith Boudrot, born probably at Pigiguit in c1746, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where he was counted at Grande-Anse in August 1752, age 6.  One wonders if he was still living in late 1758 and, if so, did he survive the crossing to France.  Bona Arsenault calls him Firmin dit Marinier and insists he died at St. Martinville, Louisiana, no date given.  A Marigny Prince (c1781-c1751) did live in St. Martin Parish during the antebellum period, but he likely was a much younger Foreign Frenchman and not Firmin, son of Antoine Leprince of Pigiguit. 

Antoine le jeune's second son François le jeune, by second wife Cécile Arsement, born probably at Grande-Anse, Île St.-Jean in c1754, followed his family to Boulogne-sur-Mer, where he died in mid-December 1759, age 5, perhaps from the rigors of the crossing. 

Antoine le jeune's third and youngest son Jean-Marie-Joseph, by second wife Cécile Arsement, born in St.-Nicolas Parish. Boulogne-sur-Mer, in early December 1759, died four days after his birth. 

François's fourth and youngest son Claude, born probably at Pigiguit, in c1728, also was active in the Acadian resistance after King George's War.  He followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Madeleine, daughter of Louis-Mathieu Doiron and Madeleine Pitre, at Port-La-Joye in February 1751.  They settled at Pointe-Prime on the island's southeastern shore south of Grande-Anse.  In August 1752, a French official counted Claude and Madeleine at Pointe-Prime near her Doiron kin.  Between 1754 and 1758, Madeleine gave Claude four daughters.  The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758.  Claude, Madeleine, and their daughters, along with many of Madeleine's Doiron kin, were lost aboard the British transport Duke William, which sank in a North Atlantic storm off the southwest coast of England in mid-December on its way to St.-Malo. 

Jacques's second son Antoine, François's twin, married Anne, daughter of Guillaume Trahan, fils and Jacqueline Benoit, at Grand-Pré in May 1712 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit.  Between 1712 and the late 1720s or early 1730s, Anne gave Antoine 10 children, five sons and five daughters.  Four of their daughters married into the Aucoin, Landry, Thibodeau, LeBlanc, and Trahan families.  All five of Antoine's sons created families of their own.   

Oldest son Charles, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the 1710s, married Anne Thibodeau in c1738 perhaps at Pigiguit.  The British deported the family to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1755.  Charles died before May 1767, place unrecorded, probably in Pennsylvania.  One of his daughters resettled in French St.-Domingue after the war and married into the Favreau family there. 

Antoine's second son Tranquille, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1722, married Susanne-Marie-Josèphe Bourg in c1749 probably at l'Assomption.  Susanne-Marie gave Tranquille two daughters in c1752 and c1755.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755 and sent them on to England the following year.  They were held at Liverpool.  They were repatriated to France in the spring of 1756 and landed at Morlaix in northern Brittany, where their older daughter Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, married into the Calegan family in September 1775.  The family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.  Tranquille died there by August 1798, in his 60s or 70s, when his wife was called a widow in her burial record.  Younger daughter Isabelle lived into her late 70s but never married.  Tranquille and Susanne-Marie evidently had no sons, at least none who survived childhood, so only the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State. 

Antoine's third son Jean le jeune, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1725, married, according to Stephen A. White, Marie-Osite, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Jeanne Thériot, in c1753 probably at l'Assomption.  Bona Arsenault insists that Jean married Rose-Osite, daughter of Claude LeBlanc and Jeanne Dugas of Grand-Pré in c1750.  White is followed here.  In the fall of 1755, the British deported the still-childless couple to Pennsylvania.  According to Arsenault, his wife gave Jean a son in 1762.  Jean remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean Darois and Marguerite Breau, in c1765.  Arsenault insists Jean remarried to Marie, daughter of Jérôme Darois and Marie Gareau of Grand-Pré, in Connecticut in c1764.  White, as usual, is followed here.  According to Arsenault, Marie gave Jean another son in 1764.  That same year, the family moved north to Boston, Massachusetts, where they lived until 1767.  According to Arsenault, that winter, by snowshoe through the forests, they followed other exiles in New England to the established Acadian community of Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières, where some of their cousins from Annapolis Royal had settled.  (One wonders why they didn't take a ship from Boston to the St. Lawrence valley like most of the exiles in New England did.)  Their marriage was "rehabilitiated" at Bécancour in March 1767.  Arsenault says Marie gave Jean two more children, a daughter and a son, in 1769 and 1772, probably at Bécancour--four children, three sons and a daughters, by two wives.  Jean died at Bécancour in July 1781, age 56, a widower.  His daughter married into the Bourg family.  Two of his three sons by boths wives also married.

Oldest son Jean, fils, by first wife Marie-Osite LeBlanc, born probably in Pennsylvania in c1762, followed his family to New England and Canada and married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine-Bénoni Bourg and Félicité Bourgeois, at Bécancour in January 1785.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1785 and 1804, Rosalie gave Jean, fils seven children, five sons and two daughters.  Their daughters married into the Lamothe and Thibodeau families at nearby St.-Grégoire.  Most of Jean, fils's sons also married there, and the one who did not marry became a priest. 

Oldest son Jean III, born in c1785 in Canada, married Marie-Exupère, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bergeron and Marie-Judith LeBlanc, at St.-Grégoire in November 1808. 

Jean, fils's second son Joseph, born in Canada in c1788, married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Doucet and Marie-Anne Mirault, at Trois-Rivières in October 1815.  One of their sons, Chanoine-Joël, became a professor at the seminaire de St.-Hyacinthe. 

Jean, fils's third son François, born in Canada in c1795, married Monique-Henriette, another daughter of Jean Doucet and Marie-Anne Mirault, at Trois-Rivières in June 1821. 

Jean, fils's fourth son Pierre, born in Canada in c1797, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Pratte and Euphrosine Hébert, at St.-Grégoire in February 1822. 

Jean, fils's fifth and youngest son Jean-Charles, born in Canada in c1804, became a priest and served as the first bishop of the Diocese of St.-Hyacinthe, Québec Province, from June 1852 until his death in May 1860, in his late 50s. 

Jean, père's second son Joseph, by second wife Marie Darois, born perhaps in New England in c1764, followed his family to Canada.  He died at Nicolet near Bécancour in December 1784, age 20, and did not marry. 

Jean, père's third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Marie Darois, born probably at Bécancour in c1772, married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Madeleine Richard, at nearby Nicolet in November 1792. 

Antoine's fourth son Olivier, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the late 1720s, married Marguerite Boudrot in c1752 perhaps at l'Assomption.  The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755.  Olivier died there before July 1763.  Two of his children, a daughter and a son, emigrated from Maryland to Spanish Louisiana in 1767.  The daughter, Marguerite, married into the Bonin family on lower Bayou Teche.  All of the Acadian Princes in the Bayou State are descended from her younger brother. 

Only son Joseph, born in Maryland in c1756, followed his older sister to Spanish Louisiana in 1767.  Spanish officials sent them with other Maryland exiles to San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans, but they did not remain.  Joseph married Madeleine, daughter of Allibamonts Antoine Bonin dit Dauphine of Grenoble, France, and Marie Tellier of Mobile and sister of his sister's husband, at Attakapas in c1779.  They settled near her family at Fausse Pointe on lower Bayou Teche.  Madeleine gave Joseph four sons, all born at Fausse Pointe.  They had no daughters.  Joseph died at Fausse Pointe in April 1793, age 37.  Madeleine remarried to Frenchman Marie-François-Robson Goivreaut dit Manceaux of St.-Lucie, Maine, at Attakapas in May 1796.  The Acadian Princes of South Louisiana descend from three of Joseph's sons, who married into the Louvière, Savoie, and LeBlanc families on the western prairies. 

Antoine's fifth and youngest son Cyprien, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in the late 1720s or early 1730s, married Marie, daughter of Grand-Pré notary René LeBlanc and his second wife Marguerite Thébeau, in c1754 at either Minas or Pigiguit.  The British deported the family to Virginia in the fall of 1755 and sent them on to England the following spring.  Cyprien died probably at Liverpool before May 1763.  His widow and children were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in the spring of 1763.  Marie remarried to a Trahan there.  One of her and Cyprien's daughters married into the Romain family at Morlaix in 1777.  No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. 

Jacques's third son Étienne, born probably at Minas in c1688, evidently died young there.

Jacques's fourth and youngest son Jean, born at Minas in c1692, married Jeanne, daughter of Guillaume Blanchard and Huguette Gougeon and widow of Olivier Daigre, fils, at Annapolis Royal in January 1715.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1715 and 1723, Jeanne gave Jean five children, a daughter and four sons.  Jean died probably at Annapolis Royal after July 1752, in his 60s.  His daughter married into the Forest family.  His sons also married, two of them to sisters, and all of them sought refuge in Canada during Le Grand Dérangement.

Oldest son Honoré, born at Annapolis Royal in c1717, married Isabelle, daughter of René Forest and Françoise Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in November 1738.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1753, Isabelle gave Honoré seven children, three daughters and four sons.  The family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in late fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  Honoré died there in c1756.  Isabelle took her children to the Acadian community of Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières by September 1767, when she died there.  Her and Honoré's daughters married into the Bourgeois, Bourg, and Cormier families at Bécancour.  Three of Honoré's sons also married in the area. 

Second son Michel, born at Annapolis Royal in c1745, followed his family to Canada, where he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Bergeron and Marguerite Bourg, at Bécancour in February 1774.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1775 and 1793, Madeleine gave Michel 10 children, four daughters and six sons.  Michel died at Bécancour in November 1831, in his mid- or late 80s.  Two of his daughters married into the Hébert and Vallière families at nearby St.-Grégoire.  Four of his sons also married in the area, and one of them remarried on distant Rivière Saguenay north of Québec City. 

Second son Joseph, born probably at Bécancour in c1782, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Belliveau and Rosalie Richard, at St.-Grégoire in February 1808.  Joseph died there in April 1837, in his mid-50s. 

Michel's third son Pierre, born probably at Bécancour in c1784, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph-Hippolyte Forest and Thérèse Morin, at St.-Grégoire in March 1810, and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Godefroy Comtois and Élisabeth Manseau, at La Baie on Rivière Saguenay in September 1812.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1813 and 1832, Marguerite gave Pierre four daughters. 

Michel's fourth son Michel, fils, the second with the name, born probably at Bécancour in c1786, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Étienne Thibodeau and Marie Chartier, at St.-Grégoire in October 1809.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1810 and 1830, Marie gave Michel, fils 11 children, five sons and six daughters.  Michel, fils died at St.-Grégoire in April 1837, in his early 50s. 

Fourth son Joseph, born probably at St.-Grégoire in 1825, married Délima, daughter of fellow Acadian David Cyr and his Canadian wife Marie-Noël Camirand, at nearby St.-Monique de Nicolet, in October 1849. 

Son Evariste, born at Nicolet in May 1851, became a lawyer, writer, and professor of political economics at the Université Laval.  He married Marie-Alexandrine-Lydia, daughter of Louis-Ludger Rivard and Marie-Suzanne-Parmela Harper, at Québec in June 1884 and died at Québec in June 1923, age 72.  One of Professor Prince's books, published in 1899, was entitled Édouard Richard et son oeuvre: Acadia, a biography of the influential Acadian businessman, politician, author, and archivist, Édouard-Émery Richard, then still living. 

Michel, père's fifth son David, born probably at Bécancour in c1789, married Charlotte, daughter of Étienne Sévigny and Marie-Anne Dubois, at Bécancour in February 1816.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1816 and 1836, Charlotte gave David a dozen children, seven daughters and five sons.  David died at St.-Calixte-de-Somerset, today's Plessisville, in the interior east of Bécancour, in March 1872, in his early 80s. 

Honoré's third son Charles-Amand, born at Annapolis Royal in c1750, followed his family to Canada, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Babineau and Cécile Comeau, at Bécancour in February 1777.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1778 and 1792, Marie gave Charles-Amand seven daughters, five of whom married into the Caron dit Gauthier, Doucet, Hamel, Fontaine-Bienvenu, Richard, and Leprince families at nearby Nicolet and St.-Grégoire. 

Honoré's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1753, followed his family to Canada.  He died at Nicolet downriver from Bécancour in December 1784, in his early 30s.  He evidently did not marry.   

Jean's second son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1719, married Anne, another daughter of René Forest and Françoise Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in January 1740.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1753, Anne gave Joseph seven children, five sons and two daughters.  The family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in late fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  They were at Québec in 1758, when their younger daughter died there.  Anne also died in exile.  Joseph, in his early 40s, remarried to fellow Acadian Madeleine LeBlanc, widow of Joseph Richard, at Ste.-Croix-de-Lotbinière on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec and Trois-Rivières in October 1761.  According to Arsenault, Madeleine gave Joseph another daughter in c1763--eight children, five sons and three daughters, by two wives.  Joseph moved his family downriver to Bécancour, where he died in May 1781, in his early 60s.  Three of his sons married at Bécancour.

Second son Joseph-Timothée, born at Annapolis Royal in c1745, followed his family to Canada, where he married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Richard and Marie Richard, at Bécancour in October 1767.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1768 and 1787, Anne gave Joseph-Timothée 11 children, seven daughters and four sons.  Six of their daughters married into the Beaudet, Hébert, Belliveau, Desrosiers-Dargis, Breau, and Bergeron families at Bécancour and Nicolet.  Two of Joseph-Timothée's sons also married, one of them in an Acadian community north of Montréal, but they settled in the Bécancour area.

Oldest son Victor, born probably at Bécancour in c1772, married Esther, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Bourgeois and Marguerite Dugas, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Montréal in August 1795.  According to Bona Arsenault, beween 1796 and 1820, Esther gave Victor 10 children, four sons and six daughters.  Victor died at St.-Grégoire near Bécancour in August 1745, in his early 70s, so they likely settled there. 

Joseph-Timothée's third son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born probably at Bécancour in c1777, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Perpétué Landry, at Nicolet near Bécancour in July 1802.  According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste a daughter in 1803.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Breau and Marie-Anne Daigle, at St.-Grégoire in January 1811.  According to Arsenault, between 1811 and 1831, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste nine more children, five sons and four daughters--10 children, five daughters and five sons, by two wives.  Jean-Baptiste le jeune died at St.-Félix-de-Kingsey on Rivière St.-François in the interior south of Trois-Rivières in September 1839, in his early 60s. 

Joseph's third son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in c1747, followed his family to Canada, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Levasseur and Marie-Françoise Deshaies, at Bécancour in February 1779.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1779 and 1796, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste nine children, three daughters and six sons.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Marie-Anne Morisette, widow of Clause Trigamme-Laflèche, at nearby St.-Grégoire in February 1806.  Jean-Baptiste le jeune died at St.-Grégoire in January 1811, in his early or mid-60s.  Two of his daughters married into the Hébert and Doucet families at Nicolet and St.-Grégoire.  Three of his sons also married on the upper St. Lawrence.

Second son Joseph, born probably at Bécancour in c1784, married Catherine Roy, widow of Joseph Ménard, at L'Acadie on lower Rivière Richelieu southeast of Montréal in June 1810. 

Jean-Baptiste le jeune's fourth son Étienne, born probably at Bécancour in c1788, married, in his late 30s, Marguerite Boisvert, widow of Pierre Grenier, at Yamachiche across from Nicolet in August 1825. 

Jean-Baptiste le jeune's fifth son Louis, born probablay at Bécancour in c1789, married cousin Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles-Amand Prince and Marie Babineau, at St.-Grégoire in November 1809.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1810 and 1833, Marie-Josèphe gave Louis 15 children, six sons and nine daughters. 

Joseph's fourth and youngest son Pierre le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in c1749, followed his family to Canada, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Bergeron and Marguerite Bourg, at Bécancour in January 1775.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1776 and 1795, Marie gave Pierre nine children, seven sons and two daughters.  Pierre le jeune died at St.-Grégoire in January 1826, in his late 70s.  His daughters married into the Lacourse and Delancour families at Bécanour and St.-Grégoire.  All seven of his sons also married in the area, two of them to sisters.

Oldest son Pierre, fils, born probably at Bécancour in c1776, married Marie, daughter of François-Xavier Lacourse and Marie-Thérèse Jutras, at nearby Nicolet in January 1803.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1804 and 1815, Marie-Thérèse gave Pierre, fils four children, two sons and two daughters.

Older son David, born probably at Nicolet in c1804, married Josephte, daughter of Pierre Coulombe and Josephte Lyonnais, at nearby St.-Grégoire in February 1828.  The couple had eight children. 

A younger son Elzéar, born at St.-Grégoire in June 1844, married Laura, daughter of Éloïse Brunelle and Marie-Anne Moras, at Batiscan above Trois-Rivières in August 1871.  They had only one child.  Elzéar died at Batiscan in 1872. 

 Son Lorenzo, born at Batiscan in April 1872, married Maggie, daughter of A. Cockburn, a ship captain, and Mary Ewart, at Montréal in May 1897.  They had no children.  Lorenzo became an influential Canadian journalist and served as coroner of Montréal from 1916 to 1938.  He died at Montréal in 1940, in his late 60s. 

Pierre, père's second son Joseph, born probably at Bécancour in c1779, married Marguerite dite Thémecque, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Gaudet and his Canadian wife Françoise LeMay, at Bécancour in October 1804.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1805 and 1808, Thémecque gave Joseph three daughters. 

Pierre, père's third son Charles, born in Canada in c1784, married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Thibodeau and Élisabeth LeBlanc, at St.-Grégoire in February 1810.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1810 and 1827, Geneviève gave Charles 10 children, three daughters and seven sons. 

Pierre, père's fourth son Isidore, born in Canada in c1785, married Judith, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Gagnon and Marie-Josèphe Guillemette, at St.-Grégoire in February 1811.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1812 and 1829, Judith gave Isidore nine children, six sons and three daughters. 

Pierre, père's fifth son Édouard, born in Canada c1791, married, at age 30, Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Héon and Françoise Labauve of Chignecto, at St.-Grégoire in January 1821.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1821 and 1829, Marie gave Édouard four children, three sons and a daughter. 

Pierre, père's sixth son Louis, born in Canada in c1793, married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Prince and Élisabeth Hébert, at St.-Grégoire in March 1818.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1819 and 1826, Marie gave Louis five children, four daughters and a son. 

Pierre, père's seventh and youngest son Jean-Hubert, born in Canada in c1795, married Marie, another daughter of Michel Gaudet and Françoise LeMay, at Bécancour in October 1816.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1817 and 1837, Marie gave Jean-Hubert nine children, five sons and four daughters, including a set of twins. 

Jean's third son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in c1721, married Judith, daughter of fellow Acadians René Richard and Marguerite Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in February 1747.  According to Bona Arsenault, Judith gave Jean-Baptiste five children, two sons and three daughters.  Most of the family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in late fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  According to Arsenault, older daughter Madeleine, only age 6 in 1755, became separated from the family and ended up on a transport bound for Massachusetts.  Jean-Baptiste and the rest of the family were at Québec in 1756, when their youngest daughter died there.  Jean-Baptiste took his family to Bécancour, where his older brothers had settled.  Wife Judith died during exile, and Jean-Baptiste, in his early 40s, remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourg and Marie Cormier of Chignecto and widow of Pierre Richard, at Bécancour in February 1762.  According to Arsenault, between 1762 and 1771, Marie-Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste four more children, two daughters and two sons--nine children, four sons and five daughters, by two wives.  Jean-Baptiste died at Bécancour in March 1787, in his mid-60s.  His older daughter, by first wife Judith, married into the Hébert family in Massachusetts, and his youngest daughter Marie-Esther, by second wife Marie-Madeleine, married into the Doucet family at Bécancour.  Two of his sons by both wives also married on the upper St. Lawrence.

Second son Jean, by first wife Judith Richard, born at Annapolis Royal in c1753, followed his family to Canada, where he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Héon and Madeleine Labauve, at Bécancour in February 1784.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1785 and 1801, Madeleine gave Jean nine children, six daughters and three sons.  Three of their daughters married into the Richard, Belliveau, and Hébert families at St.-Grégoire.  Two of Jean's sons also married in the area.

Second son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born probably at Bécancour in c1796, married Marie-Anne, daughter of François Dureau and Marie Portelance, at Bécancour in February 1819.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1823 and 1839, Marie-Anne gave Jean-Baptiste eight children, four sons and four daughters. 

Jean's third and youngest son Joseph- or Jean-Charles, born in Canada in c1801, married Françoise Christin in c1830, no place given.  According to Bona Arsenault, Françoise gave Joseph-Charles a daughter in c1835. 

Jean-Baptiste's fourth and youngest son François, by second wife Marie-Madeleine Bourg, born probably at Bécancour in c1771, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Doucet and Marguerite Belliveau, at Nicolet in February 1796.  They settled at nearby Bécancour before moving to St.-Grégoire.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1797 and 1817, Marguerite gave François nine children, seven sons and two daughters.  François died at St.-Grégoire in December 1843, in his early 70s.  His daughters married into the Provencher dit Ducharmes and Belliveau families at St.-Grégoire.  Five of his sons also married in the area.

Oldest son Joseph-François, born in Canada in c1797, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Joseph Bourque, perhaps a fellow Acadian, and Marie-Anne Désilets, at St.-Grégoire in February 1821.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1822 and 1845, Marie-Anne gave Joseph-François seven children, five sons and two daughters. 

François's second son Joseph-Louis, born in Canada in c1799, married Marie, daughter of Grégoire Laneuville and Théotiste Doucet, at Bécancour in July 1822.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1823 and 1844, Marie gave Joseph-Louis a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters. 

François's third son Moïse, born in Canada in c1805, married Angélique, daughter of Pierre Hamel and Madeleine Champoux, at St.-Grégoire in February 1829.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1831 and 1845, Angélique gave Moïse eight sons, including a set of twins. 

François's fourth son Jean-Marie, born in Canada in c1808, married Lucie, daughter of François Champoux and Marie Lamothe, at St.-Grégoire in January 1831.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1831 and 1836, Lucie gave Jean-Marie three children, two sons and a daughter. 

François's fifth son Jean-Baptiste, born in Canada in c1813, married Marie-Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Cormier and Marguerite Raymond, at St.-Grégoire in November 1841.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1845 and 1854, Marie-Ursule gave Jean-Baptiste five children, two sons and three daughters. 

Jean's fourth and youngest son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in c1723, married Félicité, daughter of Joseph Bourgeois and Anne LeBlanc, at Annapolis Royal in February 1750.  According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1756, Félicité gave Pierre three daughters.  The family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in late fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada.  They were at Québec in 1756, when their younger daughters died there.  They were still there in January 1758, when Pierre died in his mid-30s, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of Acadians there from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758.  Widow Félicité and her older daughter Anne moved on to Bécancour, where she remarried to a Bourg widower in November 1760.  Surviving daughter Anne married into the Tourigny family there, so the blood of the family line endured.394

[to Book Three-2]

 

INTRODUCTION

BOOK ONE:        French Acadia

BOOK TWO:        British Nova Scotia

BOOK FOUR:      The French Maritimes

BOOK FIVE:         The Great Upheaval

BOOK SIX:          The Acadian Immigrants of Louisiana

BOOK SEVEN:     French Louisiana

BOOK EIGHT:      A New Acadia

BOOK NINE:        The Bayou State

BOOK TEN:          The Louisiana Acadian "Begats"

BOOK ELEVEN:  The Non-Acadian "Cajun" Families of South Louisiana

BOOK TWELVE:   Acadians in Gray

 

SOURCE NOTES - BOOK THREE

02.  See Arsenault, Généalogie; "Census for Ile Royale by Sr de la Rocque," <acadian-home.org>; De La Roque "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:3-172; Griffiths, From Migrant to Acadian, xviii; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Thomas, L. I., "Fractured Foundation"; White, DGFA-1; Books Two & Four. 

For the fracturing of Acadian culture, see L. I. Thomas, who focuses not only on Acadians of LA, but also on the pre- as well as post-dispersal Acadians & the fractures within their cultural identity.  Despite the compelling picture of a static Acadian culture painted in "Part the First" of Longfellow's Evangeline, cultural change was inevitable even for a naturally conservative people like the Acadians of NS.  And then came their Grand Dérangement, which even the poet could not exaggerate.  See Books Five & Six. 

"Census for Ile Royale by Sr de la Rocque," offers details on the Acadians of Île Royale in 1752, & <islandregister.com/1752.html>, on the Acadians of Île St.-Jean that year.  The translation of De La Roque's "Tour of Inspection" covers the census on both islands & offers an every-name index with each settler's location.  For a detailed treatment of the De La Roque census, including genealogical data, see Book Four. 

02a.  The order of the families here, within each of the 3 categories (first "elite families", then "atypical families," &, finally,"typical families"), is based on the arrival of the family's progenitor in French Acadia, which can be found in the review of families ennumerated in the Acadian censuses of 1671 & 1686 in Book One & in subsequent Acadian censuses thru 1714, also found in Book One. White, DGFA-1, is the principal genealogical source here, but Arsenault, Généalogie, is used, reluctantly, when White falls silent. 

05.  See T. A. Crowley & Bernard Pothier, "Du Pont Duchambon, Louis," in DCB, online; T. C. Crowley & Bernard Pothier, "Du Pont Duvivier, Joseph," in DCB, online; Bernard Pothier, "Du Pont Duvivier," Joseph [actually François]," in DCB, 3:205-06, & online; White, DGFA-1, 588-94; White, DGFA-1 English, 125-26; Books One & Two. 

22.  See J.-Roger Comeau, "LeNeuf de la Vallière de Beaubassin, Michel (the elder)," in DCB, 2:409, & online; J.-Roger Comeau, "LeNeuf de La Vallière de Beaubassin, Michel (the younger), in DCB, 2:411-12, & online; Griffiths, From Migrant to Acadian, 116-117, 119; Milner, "Chignecto"; White, DGFA-1, 136, 483-89; 1067-71; White, DGFA-1 English, 230; Books One, Two, Four, & Five. 

The following is from note 90, Book One, viz. La Vallière's acquisition of the Chignecto concession:  According to Milner:  "La Vallière was a member of the Poterie family, that came with the Repentigny family from Caen to Quebec in 1638," & that the Poteries, along with the Repentignys, were among the 4 noble families in Canada who lived by the sword, not by the plow, and who were helpless without "their official pay."  Milner goes on:  "Outside of his poverty, La Valliere was a man of consequence.  While he held the Commission of Captain of the Court's guards, he was a voyageur, a wood ranger, a mariner, a trader and a diplomat, and in one capacity or another was constantly on the move on the frontiers of French domain in Canada--at one time in the wilds of Hudson's Bay and at another a beau gallant at Boston."  According to Comeau, La Vallière, while a part of his father-in-law's operations, "In 1672 ... is supposed to have set up a fur-trading post on the isthmus of Chignecto, while devoting part of his time to the fishing industry, farming, settlement, and soldiering."  This still would have been about the same time, if not slightly after, Bourgeois began the Chignecto settlement.  One wonders what role the supposed fur-trading post played in La Vallière's securing the seigneurial rights to the area from Frontenac in 1676.  White, DGFA-1 English, 230, says that in Jun 1689 (during the governorship of Meneval), La Vallière served as "Lieutenant in Acadia"; in Oct of that year, now back in Canada, he was "Captain of Frontenac's guards"; in May 1699 he was "Town major of Montréal"; & became Chevalier de St.-Louis "probably" in 1705, the year of his death--he died in Jul, age about 64.  Both of his wives were Denyss, the first a daughter of Nicolas, the second of Simon, which made his wives first cousins.  See White, DGFA-1, 1067-68.  Griffiths, 117, adds that La Vallière served as commander & then governor of the colony from 1678-84, but his governorship was not confirmed by the king until 1683. 

For Marie-Josèphe Le Neuf de Vallière's youthful indiscretion at Beaubassin in the late 1680s, see Book Two. 

23.  See Alfred G. Bailey, "Denys de Fronsac, Richard," in DCB, 1:259-61, & online; A. J. E. Lunn, "Denys de Bonaventure, Simon-Pierre," in DCB, 2:176-78, & online; Jean Lunn, "Denys (Denis) de La Trinité, Simon," in DCB, 1:261-62, & online; George MacBeath, "Denys, Nicolas," in DCB, 1:256-59, & online; Bernard Pothier & Donald J. Horton, "Denys de La Ronde, Louis," in DCB, 3:176-80, & online; White, DGFA-1, 482-98; White, DGFA-1 English, 105-07; Books One, Two, Four, & Five. 

26.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1865-67; Bernard Pothier, "Gannes de Falaise (Falaize), Louis de," in DCB, 2:236, & online; H. Paul Thibault, "Gannes de Falaise, Michel de," in DCB, 3:236, & online; White, DGFA-1, 650-64; Books One, Two, & Five.

27.  See Étienne Taillemite, "Villieu, Claude-Sébastien de," in DCB, 2:653-54, & online; Étienne Taillemite, "Villieu, Sébastien, de," in DCB, 2:654-55, & online; White, DGFA-1, 980-81; Books One & Two. 

31.  See Clément Cormier, "Mius (Muis) D'Entremont, Philippe," DCB, 1:510, & online; Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Serreau (Sarreau), De Saint-Aubin, Jean," in DCB, 2:604-05, & online; Georges Cerbelaud Salagnac, "Abbadie de Saint-Castin, Jean-Vincent, d'," in DCB, 2:4-7, & online; White, DGFA-1; Books One, Two, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten. 

The death dates, exact or approximate, for these men are best found in White, which is alphabetical based on family name.  

For the Martin Aucoin quote, see White, 41.  32.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1104; Bergeron family page. 

123.  Quotation from Griffiths, From Migrant to Acadian, 101.  See also Clark, A. H., Acadia, 200-01, 207; Books One & Two. 

265a.  See Clark, A. H., Acadia, 200-01, 207. 

1737 figures are from Clark, A. H., 207, Table 6.2, entitled "Population of the four Bay settlements in 1737." 

Clark, A. H., 200-01, reminds us:  "With the end of official French government we also come to the end of those frequent, detailed annual censuses which have provided so much information about Acadia's human geography.  In their place we have estimates, often simply of numbers and families, and such counts as of those rounded up and deported in 1755 and succeeding years."  As a result, counts of Acadian populations after 1710 are purely speculative.  The only useful & reliable count, Clark says, was that of Fr. Félix Pain, who conducted a census of the Nova Scotia population in 1714 at the request of the government of French Île Royale.  "More than 2,300 were named and a population of at least 2,500 is assumed, including the extension of the Chignecto area to the estuaries of Shepody Bay."  See Clark, A. H., 201.  From less accurate estimates, Clark postulates an Acadian population of about 5,000 in the early 1730s & more than 10,000 by the 1750s--"a doubling of the population in, roughly, each twenty years.  This is a remarkable rate of growth for its time in that it seems to have involved little or no immigration."  Italics added.  See Clark, A. H., 201.  For evidence of immigration into British NS during British rule, see Book Three.  Clark, A. H., 201, adds:  "That rate of growth, as far as we can tell, was remarkably constant from 1671 to 1748 if our estimates are reliable.  From 1671 to 1714 numbers roughly quadrupled, from 500 to 2,300 and by mid-century, in approximately the same period of time, it may have again increased fives times to between ten and fifteen thousand." 

334.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 505-24, 953-59, 1153-55, 1560-61, 2230, 2278, 2334, 2473-75; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:90, 94, 96, 158; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 61, 115-19, 126, 286, 345, 559-60; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 35-37, 42, 60, 91-92, 121-22, 127, 158; Robichaux, Acadians at Nantes, 58, 81-82; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 198, 276-79, 437-38; White, DGFA-1, 526-51, 795; White, DGFA-1 English, 112-16; Books One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Doucet family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

For the caveat on the origin of Germain Doucet, fils, see descendant Keith Doucet at <familyheritageresearchcommunity.org/doucet_dna.html>.

The qualifier "at least" in the reference to Doucet descendants who emigrated to LA means only that 23 of Germain's descendants carrying the name Doucet can be found among the Acadians who went to LA.  The same qualifier holds true for the other 157 Acadian families who emigrated to that colony.  

335.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 484-93, 1137-38, 1365-66, 1546-57, 2220-21, 2296-97, 2460-63; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:26, 155-56, 159; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, Acadians in Exile, 82-83, 598; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 25, 66, 204-05, 175-78, 193, 218, 232-36, 251-52, 267-68; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 48; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 42-43; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 206-13, 560, 749; White, DGFA-1, 369-93; White, DGFA-1 English, 83-88; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 109-10; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Comeaux family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

336.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 673-78, 1420-21, 1506, 1566; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:93-94; Griffiths, From Migrant to Acadian, 118-19; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 19; White, DGFA-1, 112528, 1130-32, 1134-37; White, DGFA-1 English, 219, 243-45; Books One, Two, Four, Five, & Six; Martin family page. See also note 380, below. 

White, DGFA-1 English, 219, under the date 9 Aug 1679, mentions a "Grant by Alexandre Le Borgne de Bélisle, seigneur of Port-Royal, of a lot of land and a meadow near Port-Royal, to Pierre Martin, tenant-farmer at Port-Royal."  Was this Pierre, père or fils?  Both were alive in 1679.  White, DGFA-1 English, 243, offers more details that answer the question:  "9 Aug 1679:  Grant of a parcel of land and a meadow, near Port-Royal, bounded to the east by the great meadow, to the west by the Domanchin Brook, to the south by the Dauphine River, and to the north by the mountain, by Alexandre Le Borgne de Bélisle, in the name of Emmanuel Le Borgne Du Coudray, seigneur, 'for part of Acadia,' to Pierre Martin and Mathieu Martin, his son."  See also Griffiths. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

337.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 816-17, 1308-13, 1395, 1441-54, 1581, 2389-95, 2602-11; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:48-51, 110-12; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 269, 299, 305, 405, 420-28, 571-72, 575-79, 581-82, 590; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 15-16, 118-19, 151a-52, 175, 177, 218, 249, 251, 267, 276, 282, 307-10, 313-16, 318-20, 322; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 35; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 13; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, "Family" No. 13; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 19, 129; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 96-98; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 2, 36-37, 39, 152, 161-70; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 760-70; White, DGFA-1, 1081, 1535-48; White, DGFA-1 English, 323-27; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 185-86; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Trahan family page.

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

338.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 554-61, 964-76, 1386-87, 1658, 2232-34, 2278-79, 2339, 2490; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:56, 85, 102, 164-65; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 98-99, 106-07; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 147-49; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 193, 205, 236; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family 2, 14, 45; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 58; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 41; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 178-79, 334-37; White, DGFA-1, 271, 312-13, 666-86; White, DGFA-1 English, 139-44; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Gaudet family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

339.  Quotations from White, DGFA-1, 235; Maud Hody, "Bourg, Abraham," in DCB, 2:93, & online; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 135.  See also Arsenault, Généalogie, 448-56, 863-75, 1116-21, 1427, 1474-80, 1656, 2004, 2078, 2212-14, 2269-70, 2431-34; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:22, 38-39, 79, 85, 147, 163-64; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 38-39; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 47-49, 95, 616; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 217, 249; Melanson, Melanson-Melançon, 40; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 19-22; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 28-33, 64, 152; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 123-34, 136-59, 163-64, 306-07, 347, 349, 616-17, 639; White, DGFA-1, 221-34, 236-51, 1242; White, DGFA-1 English, 48-56; Books One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Bourg/Bourque family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

340.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 566-67, 1170-74, 1388-89, 1488-90, 1658, 2235, 2339-40, 2490-92; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:99, 107-08, 112, 125; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 150-52, 561, 570; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 1, 150-51, 153, 205; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 41-44; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 69-70; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 47-48, 338-53, 762-63, 1010; White, DGFA-1, 691-705; White, DGFA-1 English, 145-48; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 50, 122-23; Books One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Gautreaux family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

341.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 804-06, 1067-70, 1293-1302, 1528-31, 2254, 2285-86, 2384-86, 2594-96; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:55-57, 81-82, 98, 105, 160, 165; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 413-16, 555-58, 564, 573-74, 609, 612, 615, 628, 636; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 55-56, 67, 151, 156, 158, 175, 233, 236, 249, 267; Milling, Exile Without End, 21-22, 46-47;  <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 1, 2, 3, 26, 31; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Reine_d_Espagne.htm>; "Family" No. 17; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, Family No. 9; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 63, 96, 170, 172, 190; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 94-95; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 155-59; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 49-50, 61-62, 73, 331-32, 486-87, 540, 734-52, 774; Surette, Tintamarre & Le Lac, 178; White, DGFA-1, 1483-1506; White, DGFA-1 English, 312-18; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Theriot family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

342.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 647-58, 1003, 1216-60, 1411-14, 1564, 1661, 1904, 2243-44, 2282, 2304, 2357-62, 2536-46; BRDR, vol. 1a; Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations"; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:22, 38, 97-98, 112, 127, 159; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 79, 96, 102, 118, 137-39, 160, 196, 279-89, 301, 305-06, 319, 322, 382, 415, 420, 422, 554-55, 557-58, 565-70, 572-73, 576, 587, 590, 608-11, 613-14; Hodson, Acadian Diaspora, 35, 40, 66, 146-48, 169, 174-76, 182-85, 190, 193-95, 199, 201, 205-12, 225n89; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 15-17, 47, 56-57, 66-67, 69, 78-80, 93, 108-09, 119, 151, 154, 156-58, 175-78, 205-06, 217-18, 232-34, 236, 251-52, 263, 267-68, 275, 290, 307, 310, 312; LeBlanc, T., Acadian Driftwood; David Lee, "Robin, Charles," in DCB, online; Milling, Exile Without End, 15, 21, 29, 40-44, 46; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 12, 17, 22, 23; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, Family Nos. 4, 7, 10; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 14, 47, 89, 98, 107, 110, 136, 166; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Donat Robichaud, "Robichaux (Robichaud, Robicheau), Jean-Baptiste," in DCB, online; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 66-69; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 39, 111-22; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 553-79, 605, 607; White, DGFA-1, 983-1022; White, DGFA-1 English, 209-17; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 154-64; Books One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; LeBlanc family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

For René LeBlanc, fils, the notary's, activities on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement & Joseph dit Le Maigre LeBlanc's resistance activities, see Hodson; Book Two.  For Le Maigre's appearance on the list of wanted partisans, see Books Two & Four. 

Quotations about Jean-Jacques LeBlanc from Mouhot, "Emigration of the Acadians from France to LA," 141, 143, 167. 

343.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 794-99, 1572-74, 1664, 2588-92; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:156; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 404; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 25-26, 193, 217-18, 235, 249, 252; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; White, DGFA-1, 1456-63; White, DGFA-1 English, 306-07; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Savoie/Savoy family page.

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

344.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 474-81, 884-85; White, DGFA-1, 270, 289-98; White, DGFA-1 English, 64-66; Books One, Six, Eight, & Ten; Brun family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the fourth generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

A plaque mentioning Vincent, Renée, and their older daughters, born in France, can be seen on the wall of the church at La Chaussée.  It reads:  "En cette église de La Chaussée furent baptisées Madeleine 25 janvier 1645 et Andrée 21 août 1646 qui firent le 'grand voyage' vers l'Acadie et Port Royal en compagnie de leurs parents Vincent BRUN et Renée BRAUD ... Offert par la Maison de l'Acadie et les Cousins Acadiens du Poitou."  That is, "In this church of La Chaussée were baptized Madeleine January 25, 1645 and Andrée August 21, 1656 who made the 'grand voyage' to Acadia and Port Royal with their parents Vincent BRUN and Renée BRAUD ... Offered by the Maison [Museum] de l'Acadie and the Cousins Acadiens du Poitou." 

345.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 567-79, 976-82, 1389-92, 1659, 2236, 2492-94; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:25-26, 31, 158-59; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 66, 156-57, 196, 383; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 25, 178, 193, 205-06, 217, 231, 233-36, 251, 263, 308; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 8, 15, 32, 37; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 5; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 96; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 44-45; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 70-71; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 65, 359-62; White, DGFA-1, 718-39; White, DGFA-1 English, 150-53; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Girouard/Giroir family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

346.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 612-26, 1009-10, 1198-1215, 1401-11, 1562, 1606-07, 1660, 2241, 2280-81, 2355-56, 2521-35; BRDR, 2:432, 436; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:35, 83-84, 97-98, 113-14; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 30, 270-74, 372, 427, 431, 433, 573, 603-05, 619; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 15-17, 39, 55-57, 65-66, 68, 77-81, 94, 97, 118-20, 152-53, 155-58, 175, 177-78, 205-06, 217-18, 231-33, 236, 249, 252, 263, 267-68, 284; Melanson, Melanson-Melançon, 45, 47; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 8, 51, 52, 140, 141, 144, 162, 172, 183; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 39-40, 62-66; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 66-67, 76, 102-09; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 364, 366-68, 522-44, 557-59, 663, 736-37; White, DGFA-1, 914-52; White, DGFA-1 English, 194-204; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 134-54; Books One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Landry family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

347.  See LeBlanc, T., Acadian Driftwood, 27, 131; note 346, above, for sources on René Landry le jeune & his descendants. 

For Charles dit Charlot Landry's incarceration over the issue of an unqualified oath of allegiance & his death resulting from that incarceration, see Book Two.  For interactions between François, son of Antoine, Landry & Lt.-Col. Winslow at Minas on the eve of deportation, see Book Five.

348.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 408-27, 842-45, 2206-07; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:148; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 24; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Gérard LeBlanc, "Memramcook, Cradle of Acadie in New Brunswick," in Perrin et al., eds., Acadie Then & Now, 387-88; White, DGFA-1, 96-104; White, DGFA-1 English, 19-20; Books One, Two, Five, & Six; Belliveau family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

For Antoine's great-grandson Charles Belliveau's exploits in the fall of 1755, see Book Five. 

349.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 466-71, 1125-32, 1347-49, 1480-81, 1543-45, 1656; 2216-17, 2271, 2295, 2438-44; "Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations"; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:18, 39-40, 79, 115; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hodson, Acadian Diaspora, 141; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Robichaux, Acadian in Châtellerault, 23-25, 59; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 34-37, 63-64, 167; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 129, 154-55, 161-71, 270-71, 295-96, 303, 487-89, 506-07, 376-78, 537-38, 664-65; White, DGFA-1, 270-82; White, DGFA-1 English, 59-63; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 93-103; Books One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, & Ten; Breaux family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

350.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 524-34, 959-60, 1155-58, 1484-88, 1648, 2230-32, 2299, 2475-81; Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations," in <acadian-home.org>; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:16-17, 19, 22, 86, 116-17, 124, 153; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; <genforum.genealogy.com/dugas/messages/549.html>; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 123-25; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 39, 78, 107-08, 178, 209, 249, 252, 267; Melanson, Melanson-Melançon, 50-51; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 15; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, Family No. 6; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 55, 66, 67, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 111, 113, 119, 144, 190, 192; Bernard Pothier, "Dugas (Dugast), Joseph," DCB, online; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 37-39; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 58-65; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 285-307; Thurston, Tidal Life, 97, source for Joseph Dugas's arrival on Baie Ste.-Marie; White, DGFA-1, 562-80; White, DGFA-1 English, 119-24; White, DGFA-2 (up); Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Dugas family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

351.  Quotations from MacBeath, "La Tour, Charles [fils]," in DCB, 2:591; Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Saint-Étienne de La Tour, Agathe (Marie-Agathe) de (also known under the name of Mrs Agathe Campbell or Campbel), in DCB, 2:590-91, & online; Clark, A. H., Acadia, 197; White, DGFA-1 English, 302.  See also Arsenault, Généalogie, 1643-46; Griffiths, From Migrant to Acadian, 126; W. G. Godfrey, "Bradstreet, John," in DCB, online; MacBeath, 2:592; White, DGFA-1, 21-22, 1433-39; White, DGFA-1 English, 5-6, 301, 332; notes 119a & 263, above; Books One, Two, & Five. 

White, DGFA-1 English, 301, details the empowerment of attorney to Charles, fils by his relatives--Anne Melanson, widow of Jacques de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, his paternal aunt by marriage; sister Marie de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, widow of Alexandre Le Borgne de Bélisle; brother-in-law Jacques Mius d'Entremont de Pobomcoup for sister Anne; & brother-in-law Abraham Mius de Pleinmarais for sister Marguerite--"authorizing their brother Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, [fils], to represent them at Paris, in all matters pertaining to the settlement of the estate of Marie de Menou d'Aulnay, Canoness of Poussay, in Lorraine," a daughter of Charles d'Aulnay & their half-sister.

Fr. d'Entremont, 2:591, says Agathe "is believed to have died sometime after 1739, a victim in the end of her frail health," but White, DGFA-1, 1437, says that, according to research conducted by Paul Delaney, she died après 1765. 

353.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 599-606, 989-1002, 1183-95, 1392-1401, 1494-96, 1561-62, 1586, 1659, 2237-39, 2279-80, 2352-53, 2507-17; Adrien Bergeron, "Hébert, Étienne," in DCB, & online; Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations," <acadian-home.org>; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:38-41, 78, 100, 102, 106-07, 116-17, 134, 147; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 139, 171, 181-91, 272, 280-81, 404, 424, 433, 564-65, 575, 577, 587, 612; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 15, 25, 77, 93-94, 96, 119, 151, 154, 175-78, 204-06, 217, 231, 249, 267, 276, 278, 307-08, 313; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13, 36; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family Nos. 12, 14, 18, 23, 26, 30; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 1, 16, 20, 35, 39, 41, 43, 44, 45, 49, 66, 80, 99, 102, 106, 107, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 118, 119, 124, 125, 127, 133, 145, 146, 162, 169, 171, 177; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 54-58, 74-75; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 84-94; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 22-24, 68-69, 74-75, 117-20, 347-50, 445-79, 539, 629; White, DGFA-1, 798-840; White, DGFA-1 English, 163-76; Books One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Hébert family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Arsenault's accounts of this family's experiences during exile are especially confusing.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

354.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 456-66, 709, 875-84, 1655-56, 2214-16, 2270-71, 2434-37; Clément Cormier, "Bourgeois, Jacques (Jacob)," in DCB, 2:94, & online; Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations"; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:94; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 13, 49-50, 53, 206, 330, 360; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 15, 18, 26, 59, 77, 82-84, 93, 99, 175, 178, 180, 193, 203, 206, 231-37, 249, 251, 258, 267-78; Milling, Exile Without End, 14, 30, 42-43, 46; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 22; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 156; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 95-96, 300, 734, 1064; W. Austin Squires, "Maissonat, dit Baptiste, Pierre," in DCB, 2:449-50, & online; White, DGFA-1, 251-63, 1588-90; White, DGFA-1 English, 56-57, 113; Books One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Bourgeois family page; Marc Bourgeois, family historian. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of most Acadian families, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Luckily for anyone who studies this family, genealogist/historian Marc Bourgeois has produced a family website, <www.histoire-de-Bourgeois.ca>, that serves as a fine supplement to the work of Stephen A. White. 

355.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 729, 1031-51, 1663, 2250-51, 2284, 2376, 2568-69; Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations"; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:21-22, 96, 105, 157; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exiles, 99, 121, 258, 359-66, 572; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colony, 157, 205, 217, 231, 233-36, 249, 252; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 142; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 29; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 675-77; White, DGFA-1, 1327-38; White, DGFA-1 English, 282-84; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 174-75; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Poirier family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

356.  See also Arsenault, Généalogie, 441-48, 859-63, 1108-16, 1336-46, 1655, 2209-12, 2265-69, 2294, 2321-23, 2425-31; Brasseaux, "Scattered to the Wind," 38; BRDR; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:17, 20, 22, 84-85, 102-03, 105, 115-16, 118, 122, 136, 146-48, 157, 161-62; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 41-44, 413, 555; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:86; Hodson, Acadian Diaspora, 104, 192-93; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 15-16, 26, 30, 150, 152, 155, 176-77, 193-94, 205, 233, 251-52, 267-68, 282, 315-16; Melanson, Melanson-Melançon, 25-27; <pagesperso-orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/AutresPorts.htm>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, 38; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family Nos. 5, 7, 16, 20, 24, 26, 27; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, 71, 79, 140, 141, 189; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 14-19, 33, 83-84; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 17-27, 142-43; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 85-107-10, 111-121, 170, 303, 628, 659-61, 734-35; White, DGFA-1, 184-217; White, DGFA-1 English, 38-47; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 128-30; Books One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Boudreaux family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

357.  Quotation from Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 65.  See also Arsenault, Généalogie, 431-37, 1105-06, 1471-73, 1540-43, 1654, 2067-68, 2207-08, 2423-25; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:11, 85, 161; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 32-33; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 25, 56, 158, 193, 217, 235-36, 251, 308-09; <pagesperso-orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/AutresPorts.htm>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, "Family" No. 11; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 4, 5, 10, 15, 27, 29, 38, 39, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46, 118, 147, 149, 185; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 11-13; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 13-17; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 46-47, 62-64, 66-75; White, DGFA-1, 143-56, 1581; White, DGFA-1 English, 32-34; notes 199 & 265, above; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Blanchard family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

357a.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 769-70; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; White, DGFA-1, 917, 925, 1397-98; Book One. 

358.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 769-70, 1273-76, 2249; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:15-16, 128-29; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 355-56; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Reine_d_Espagne.htm>, Family No. 11; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 153; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 82, 85; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 654-55, 679; White, DGFA-1, 1310-17, 1443-44; White, DGFA-1 English, 279-80; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Pinet/Pinel family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

359.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 494, 909-28, 2221-22, 2275-76, 2297, 2463-66; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 84-86; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 231-36, 249; Melanson, Cormier Genealogy; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 213-14, 277; Surette, Mésagouche & LaButte; Surette, Tintamarre & Le Lac; White, DGFA-1, 400-10; White, DGFA-1 English, 89-92; Books One, Two, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Cormier family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the fourth generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

360.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 721-25, 2249, 2283, 2306; Clarence J. D'Entremont, "Petitpas, Claude," in DCB, 2:524, & online; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A; Hodson, Acadian Diaspora, 30-31; Bernard Pothier, "Petitpas, Barthélemy," in DCB, 3:512-13, & online; White, DGFA-1, 1294-1302; White, DGFA-1 English, 275-77; Books One, Two, Four, & Five. 

For Claude Petitpas, fils's adventures, see D'Entremont; Hodson. 

361.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 502, 1593-1605, 2471; Cormier, "Mius (Muis) D'Entremont" DCB, 1:510; Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations"; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:45, 78; Hébert, D., Acadian Exiles, 106-07; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 184; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 560-61, 625; White, DGFA-1, 1201-11; White, DGFA-1 English, 190, 256-57; Books One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Mius d'Entremont family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

362.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 807-13, 1302-08, 1434-41, 1574-80, 2309, 2386-87, 2596-1601; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:81, 98-99; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 167, 308, 417-18, 564, 574-75, 585, 591; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 15-16, 66, 79, 118-19, 151-151a, 175-78, 217-18, 235-36, 249, 252, 267, 313; LeBlanc, T., Acadian Driftwood, 123-30; Marchand, Old Settlers of Ascension, 92-93;  <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 42, 69, 132, 169, 173, 174, 175, 188; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 49, 147, 159-60; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 179, 752-60; White, DGFA-1, 1508-23; White, DGFA-1 English, 319-22; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 184-85; Books One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, & Ten; Thibodeaux family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

363.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 752-69, 1057-67, 1280-84, 1427-30, 1663-64, 2252-53, 2284-85, 2377-80, 2574-81; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:85, 154-56, 158; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, Acadians in Exile, 286, 379-84, 428, 572-73, 609, 612, 615, 633, 636; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 17, 25-26, 77, 79, 81-82, 93, 96, 150, 152-53, 155, 158, 176, 178, 193, 204-05, 231-32, 249, 263, 268; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 37, 38; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 87; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 147-48; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 108, 585-86, 692-704, 744; White, DGFA-1, 1373-95; White, DGFA-1 English, 290-92; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 176-80; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Richard family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

364.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 662-64, 1415-19, 1504-05, 2245, 2547-50; Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 104; Brasseaux, "'Grand Texas,'" 274; Bunnell, French & Native North American Marriages, 70-71; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:27, 46, 46, 50-52, 112, 117-18, 160-61; Guidry, "Guédrys Exiled to North Carolina"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 297-98, 588; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 6-7; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 152-53, 279, 296; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family Nos. 13, 14, 15, 22; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 72, 103, 106, 135, 136, 139, 159; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 70-71; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 40, 124-28; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 545-46, 582-90, 593-94; White, DGFA-1, 1048-58; White, DGFA-1 English, 223-28; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 98-99, 186; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Lejeune family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

365.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 686-95, 1041, 1262-72, 1662, 2246, 2371-72, 2553-57; Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations"; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:83, 114, 123-26; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 37, 149-51, 173, 275, 323-25, 433, 557, 570-71; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 16, 107, 151, 153-54, 157-58, 175, 177, 204, 217, 249, 267-68; Melanson, Melanson-Melançon; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 143; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 75-77; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 106-07, 125-26, 613-19, 638-39; Voohies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 426-27; White, DGFA-1, 1145-67; White, DGFA-1 English, 247-50; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 166-73; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Melançon family page.

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of most Acadian families, the author must rely largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Luckily for anyone who studies this family, Michael B. Melanson has produced a 1,040-page family history/genealogy that serves as a fine supplement to the work of Stephen A. White.  For details on members of the family beyond the fifth generation who settled in Canada & greater Acadia after Le Grand Dérangement, see Melanson, 113ff. 

366.  See note 365. 

367.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 405-08, 1100-01, 2415; BRDR, vols. 9a(rev.), 2, 3, 6, 7, 8; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; White, DGFA-1, 6, 136, 1024-31, 1100-01; White, DGFA-1 English, 218-19; Books One, Two, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Bélisle family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the fourth generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

368.  Quotation from Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 124.  See also Arsenault, Généalogie, 583-87, 1174-82, 2302, 2341-49, 2496-98; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A: 100, 114; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 33, 40, 84, 104, 161-67, 293, 322, 381, 413, 561-64, 580-81, 603-04, 608, 610, 613; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 4; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 150-51, 157, 204-05, 234; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, "Family" No. 58; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 25; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 71-73; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 36, 146-67, 179-80, 364-69, 544, 613-15; White, DGFA-1, 761-70, 1344; White, DGFA-1 English, 157; Wood, 123, 126-27; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Granger family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the fourth generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

369.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 726-29, 1276-78, 1507-10, 1566-68, 1663, 2250, 2566-68; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:80-82, 85, 114, 121-22, 124; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 32, 143, 157, 357-58, 571-72; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 205, 232, 251-52; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 25, 26, 27; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Reine_d_Espagne.htm>; Family No. 1; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 10; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 9, 30, 38, 40, 122, 126, 128, 151, 154, 155, 170, 188; Pitre, Windows into Yesteryears; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 37, 54-55, 78, 82-84; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 58-59, 87, 132, 140-46; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 114, 117-20, 126-27, 152-53, 288, 322, 453, 567-69, 655-74, 701-02; White, DGFA-1, 699, 1288-89, 1318-26; White, DGFA-1 English, 280-82; Books, One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Pitre family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence.  Descendant Lee Roy J. Pitre, Jr.'s family history/genealogy offers some help. 

370.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 594-95, 1492-93; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:39-40, 56, 80-81, 118; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; <perso.orange.fr./froux/St_malo_arrivees/Antelope.htm>, Family No. 10; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 1, 3, 4; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 22, 94, 98, 104; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 47; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 77-78; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 326, 381-85; White, DGFA-1, 775-79; White, DGFA-1 English, 158-59; Books One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Guérin family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

371.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 544-49, 960-64, 1383-86, 2488-90; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A: 26-27; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 140; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 218, 234; Milling, Exile Without End, 45; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 13, 18, 88, 89; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 68; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 63-64, 324-31, 576-77; White, DGFA-1, 621-40; White, DGFA-1 English, 131-35; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 117-20; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Foret family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

372.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 394, 422, 1092-1100, 1320-22, 1654, 2206, 2316-17, 2408-13; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 5a(rev.); De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 554, 560, 565; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 97; Melanson, Melanson-Melançon, 96; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 5; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 8-9; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 32-34, 36-37; White, DGFA-1, 57-58; White, DGFA-1 English, 13-14; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 73-82; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Babin family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

373.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 819, 1454-61, 1991, 2396, 2611; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:104, 107, 109; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 103, 306, 330-31, 439-40, 571, 582, 620, 629; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 15, 119, 156, 175, 217-18, 278, 285, 288, 313, 316, 322; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family No. 24; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 85, 177, 178; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 69, 98; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 171-73; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 233, 777-83; White, DGFA-1, 161,1575-85; White, DGFA-1 English, 332-34; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 113; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Vincent & Clément family pages. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

374.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 538-42, 1160-70, 1658, 2486-87; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 128-30, 186, 370, 560-61, 608; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 15-16, 77-78, 109, 152-54, 158, 177-78, 204-06, 217, 233-34, 267; Milling, Exile Without End, 41-42; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, Family No. 1; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 27, 39; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 39-40; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 66-67; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 144-47, 313-17; White, DGFA-1, 596-607, 1542; White, DGFA-1 English, 126-27; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 37, 50, 114-16; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Dupuis/Dupuy family page.

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

375.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 770-84, 1284-85, 1511-28, 1664, 2581-83; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:159-60, 162-63; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 386, 627; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 57, 68, 79, 81, 93, 96, 109, 175, 177, 204, 206, 235, 249, 251, 267; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 36, 84, 88, 125, 144, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 185, 186; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 87-90; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 149-51; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 353, 703-18; White, DGFA-1, 1402-12; White, DGFA-1 English 293-95; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Robichaux family page. 

For more on Prudent Robichaud, see Books Two & Five.  For son Louis dit Prudent's relationship with the British at Fort Anne during King George's War, see Book Two. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

376.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 710-11; White, DGFA-1, 1277-78; White, DGFA-1 English, 271-72; Books One, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Pellerin family page. 

Arsenault, 710, insists François was an older brother of Étienne Pellerin, but White, DGFA-1, followed here, shows otherwise. 

377.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 702, 1020-26; White, DGFA-1, 1219-30; White, DGFA-1 English, 259-61; Books One & Two. 

Canadian Morins settled in LA.  One wonders if any of them were members of this particular family. 

378.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 897-908, 1657, 2219-20, 2272-74, 2458-59; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:143-44, 148; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 78-79; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 234, 236; Milling, Exile Without End, 41-42; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 53, 57, 58, 62, 152, 156, 182; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 26; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 40-41; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 198-202; White, DGFA-1, 347-58; White, DGFA-1 English, 78-80; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Chiasson family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

379.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 500-01, 946-47, 1143-50, 1368-74, 1557-58, 2228, 2328-32, 2467-69; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:15, 84-85, 103, 106, 112, 116, 119, 128, 115; Hébert, Acadians in Exile, 89, 93-97, 196, 324, 556-58, 562, 565; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 15-16, 65-66, 69, 150, 175, 217; Milling, Exile Without End, 21, 41, 44; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>, Family Nos. 23, 24, 25; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 17, 63, 64, 65, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 84, 85, 91, 93, 165, 169, 180; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 28-29; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 43-49, 68, 89, 111-12; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 38-39, 114-15, 141-44, 153-54, 203, 231-53, 316, 344, 359-60, 387-89, 391-93, 533, 554-55, 753-55; White, DGFA-1, 157, 759, 446-52, 697, 1236; White, DGFA-1 English, 100; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 110-11; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Daigre/Daigle family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

380.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 678-85, 1013, 2370, 2550-53; Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations"; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:155; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 21, 316-20, 556, 581; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 25, 193, 217, 249, 251-52; White, DGFA-1, 737, 1125-40; White, DGFA-1 English, 219, 243-46; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Martin family page.  See also note 336, above. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

381.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 628-34, 2535; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 176, 204, 234-35, 249; Milling, Exile Without End, 10-12, 30-32; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; White, DGFA-1, 958-60; White, DGFA-1 English, 204; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Lanoux family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

382.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 494-95, 1366-68; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:49, 75; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 86; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 252; White, DGFA-1, 411-17; White, DGFA-1 English, 92-93; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Corporon family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions, burdening us with more than the usual confusion in his treatment of this family.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

383.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 595-99, 2237, 2502-04; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 173; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 26, 231, 252; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; White, "Acadians on the St. John River 1755-1760," in <acadian-home.org>; White, DGFA-1, 780-82; White, DGFA-1 English, 159; Books One, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Guilbeau family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

384.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 481, 886-95, 2583-84; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:79, 101, 144-45; "Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug 1763"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 63, 389, 584, 587-88, 620, 627; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 26, 154, 217, 233, 273, 276, 281, 308, 319; Milling, Exile Without End, 21, 41, 45; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 90, 95, 158, 176; "Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 83-84, 182-85,199-200, 374-76, 449-50, 591-92; White, DGFA-1, 305-12, 1115-16, 1418-19; White, DGFA-1 English, 68-69, 297; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 25, 166; Books One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Roger/Caissie family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

385.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 845-46; White, DGFA-1, 160-61; White, DGFA-1 English, 35; Book One. 

386.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 500, 929-46, 2220, 2223-28, 2276-77, 2297, 2467; White, DGFA-1, 433-38; White, DGFA-1 English, 96-97; Books One & Five. 

394.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 738-49, 1423-27, 2573-74; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:114-16, 120; <islandregister.com/1752.html>; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 155, 218; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 128; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 592; White, DGFA-1, 1077-82; White, DGFA-1 English, 232-33; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 118-19; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Prince/LePrince family page. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

398.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 791; d'Entremont, "Serreau (Sarreau), de Saint-Aubin, Jean," in DCB, 2:604-05; White, DGFA-1, 1463-66; White, DGFA-1 English, 307-08; Books One & Five.

408.  Quotation about Joseph dit Bellefontaine from Braud, From Nantes to LA, 25.  See also Arsenault, Généalogie, 579, 1632-43, 2494-96; Brasseaux, ed., Quest for the Promised Land, 129n172; Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations"; "Fort Edward, 1761-62"; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 149; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 149, 151; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 363, 623-24, 1011; White, "Acadians on the St. John River 1755-1760," in <acadian-home.org>; White, DGFA-1, 740-50; White, DGFA-1 English, 153-54; Books One, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Godin/Gaudin & Part/Apart family pages. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

For the most solid treatment of the Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas massacre of Feb-Mar 1759, see White's essay on the Acadians of Rivière St.-Jean; Book Five.  Interestingly, Hodson, Acadian Diaspora, a recent treatment of the Acadian Grand Dérangement, does not even mention the incident. 

410.  Quotations from George MacBeath, "Damours (d'Amours) de Freneuse, Mathieu," in DCB, 1:245-46, & online; De Ville, Mississippi Valley Mélange, 2:19.  See also Arsenault, Généalogie, 1626-32, 2469-70; F. Grenier, "Damours (d'Amours) de Chauffours, Mathieu," in DCB, 1:245, & online; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 251; A. J. E. Lunn, "Denys de Bonaventure, Simon-Pierre," DCB, 2:177, & online; White, DFGA-1, 453-66 (D'Amours de Chaufours); White, DGFA-1 English, 100-01 (D'Amours de Chaufours); Books One, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Louvière/Damour family page. 

MacBeath, 1:246, adds these interesting details to the family's history:  Mathieu, fils's widow, Louise Guyon, "moved to Port-Royal ... when the governor, Monbeton[sic] de Brouillan, established his headquarters there.  There seems little doubt that during the years she was at Port-Royal she was on intimate terms both with the governor and with Sieur [Simon-Pierre] Denys de Bonaventure, a prominent naval captain [and Brouillan's second in command].  This caused her to be one of the most talked about persons in New France."  Evidently her notoriety did not hurt her standing among the New French elite.  "In 1708 she was sent to Quebec and there received in high social circles.  Three years later, she reappeared at Port-Royal, now in English control, having crossed the Bay of Fundy in a birch-bark canoe in mid-winter with only an Indian and her youngest son to help.  She was given permission to settle there.  Soon afterwards a force of English soldiers was ambushed and that same evening Mme Damours was taken to safety by a French force, adding weight to the suspicion that she had only returned to Port-Royal to serve the French cause."  See also Lunn. 

Keep in mind that, beginning with the third generation of this family, the author relies largely on Bona Arsenault's research with all of its omissions and mis-attributions.  Not until Stephen White publishes his DGFA-2 can the "complete" genealogy of this Acadian family be recounted with any confidence. 

411.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1646-47; Salagnac, "Abbadie de Saint-Castin, Jean-Vincent, d'," in DCB, 2:4-7; Salagnac, "Abbadie de Saint-Castin, Bernard-Anselme," in DCB, 2:3-4; Salagnac, "Abbadie de Saint-Castin, Joseph," in DCB, 3:3; White, DGFA-1, 1-9, 456; White, DGFA-1 English, 1-2; Books One, Two, & Five. 

White, DGFA-1 English, 2, says Bernard-Anselme was "Lieutenant of the Marine assigned to Canada" on 11 Jan 1716.  According to biographer Salagnac, 2:4, Bernard-Anselme was in France at the time & did not return to North America. 

413.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 482-83; White, DGFA-1, 339-41; White, DGFA-1 English, 76-77; Book One. 

428.  See Conrad, Attakapas Domesday Book, 35, 47-48; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:6; De Ville, French Troops in LA, 1745, 15-35; De Ville, LA Troops 1720-1770, 124; De Ville, Mississippi Valley Mélange, 2:14; Krause,"Goutin, François-Marie de," in DCB, 3:264-65; Pothier, "Goutin, Mathieu de," in DCB, 2:257-58; White, DGFA-1, 756-59, 1508-09; White, DGFA-1 English, 155-56; notes 21 & 246a, above; Books, Two, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, & Ten; De Goutin family page. 

451.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1608-09; Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations"; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:47, 118; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 433; <islandregister.com/1752.html.>; White, DGFA-1, 1565-67; White, DGFA-1 English, 331; Books One & Five. 

454.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 668, 2305-06; Hébert, D., Acadian in Exile, 307-08; White, DGFA-1, 1099-1100; White, DGFA-1 English, 237; Book One. 

For Loppinots in colonial LA with no demonstrable kinship ties to Jean-Chrysostôme of French Acadia, see NOAR, vols 2.

470.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 606-07; Griffiths, From Migrant to Acadian, 447; Hodson, Acadian Diaspora, 104; Étienne Taillemite, "Jacau (Jacault, Jacob) de Fiedmont," Louis-Thomas," in DCB, online; White, DGFA-1, 867-68; White, DGFA-1 English, 183; Books One & Two. 

See White, DGFA-1, 867, for a more accurate birth year for Louis-Thomas than can be found in his biography by Taillemite. 

Griffiths, 447, says that Louis-Thomas "left an account, from a military perspective, of the fall of Beauséjour and Gaspereau, which, as [John Clarence] Webster [in The Forts of Chignecto: A Study of the Eighteenth Century Conflict Between France and Great Britain in Acadia,, 58-60, published in 1930] points out, sought to place the blame everywhere except upon his own shortcomings as the man in charge of the defences of the fort for the two previous years."  (One should not wonder, then, why he eventually became a governor & major-general.)  Taillemite, whose biography of Louis-Thomas borders on hagiography, offers no criticism of his performance at Chignecto. 

489.  See Arsenault, Généalogie, 543-44; White, DGFA-1, 411, 620-21; White, DGFA-1 English, 93, 130; Books One & Five. 

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