BOOK THREE-2: Families, Migration, and the Acadian "Begats" - continued
The Families of Greater Acadia: The Aboiteaux Builders of the Fundy Shore, Outliers, Migrants, and Islanders - continued
Amireau
François Amireau dit Tourangeau, perhaps a 1671 arrival, and his wife Marie Pitre created a large family in the colony. Marie gave François 11 children, five sons and six daughters, all of whom married. Their daughters married into the Mius d'Azy and d'Entremont, Benoit, Léger, Girouard, Comeau, and Aucoin families. Two of Franços, fils's sons married sisters. His and Marie's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also at Point-Raz near Cap-Sable and in the French Maritimes. If any of François's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.
Oldest son François dit Tourangeau, fils married Madeleine, daughter of Julien Lord and Anne-Charlotte Girouard, at Annapolis Royal in January 1714. Madeleine gave François, fils five children, three sons and two daughters. Their daughters married into the Hébert and Bourg families. Two of François, fils's three sons created their own families.
Oldest son François III married Madeleine, daughter of René Richard and Marguerite Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in February 1741, and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Prudent Robichaud, fils and Françoise Bourgeois, at Annapolis Royal in May 1750.
François, fils's
second son Pierre married Marie-Eustache, daughter of Alexandre Hébert
and Marie Dupuis, at Annapolis Royal in January 1746.
François's second
son Joseph married Marguerite, another daughter of
François's third son Pierre married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of Abraham Brun and Anne Pellerin, at Annapolis Royal in July 1726 and died there by 1752, in his late 40s or early 50s.
François's fourth son Charles married Claire, daughter of Claude Dugas and Marguerite Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in August 1726.
François's fifth and youngest son Jacques married Jeanne, daughter of Alexandre Lord and Marie-Françoise Barrieau, at Annapolis Royal in August 1726, four days before his older brother Charles married.387
Coastal pilot Pierre Arseneau, as his name came to be spelled, perhaps a 1671 arrival, and his wives Marguerite Dugas and Marie Guérin created a large family in the colony. In 1676 and 1678, Marguerite gave Pierre two children, both sons, both of whom created families of their own. Between 1690 and 1702, Marie gave him seven more children, six sons and a daughter--nine children, eight sons and a daughter, by both wives. Pierre died probably at Chignecto before 1714, in his early 60s. His daughter evidently died young, but seven of his sons by both wives created their own families. Pierre, Marguerite, and Marie's descendants settled not only at Chignecto, but also in the French Maritimes, where they were especially numerous at Malpèque, on the northwest coast of Île St.-Jean. As a result, not all of Pierre's descendants were "typical" Fundy Acadians. At least 21 of the pilot's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, most, if not all, of them from Halifax in 1765, but the great majority of his descendants remained in greater Acadia or Canada after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Pierre, fils, by first wife Marguerite Dugas, born at Port-Royal in c1676, married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of Jean Boudrot and Marguerite Bourgeois, in c1697 probably at Chignecto and moved on to Malpèque, Île St.-Jean, in the late 1720s. Between 1698 and 1724, Anne gave Pierre, fils 10 children, seven sons and three daughters, at Chignecto. Their daughters married into the Daigre, Desroches, and Delaunay families, two of them on Île St.-Jean. Six of Pierre, fils's sons created families of their own.
Oldest son Pierre III, born at Chignecto in c1698, married Marguerite, daughter of Alexis Cormier and Marie LeBlanc, at Beaubassin in August 1722, and moved on to Malpèque in 1731. According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1744, Marguerite gave Pierre III 10 children, five sons and five daughters, including a set of twins, at Chignecto and Malpèque. Marguerite died at Malpèque in c1745. Pierre III did not remarry. He and his children escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. Four of his daughters married into the Vécot, Pitre, Arsenault, and Langlois families on Île St.-Jean and at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs. Three of Pierre III's five sons also created their own families.
Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Malpèque in c1728, married Jeanne-Marie Héon on Île St.-Jean in c1755. According to Bona Arsenault, Jeanne gave Pierre, fils a daughter on the island in c1756. What happened to them in 1758?
Pierre III's third son Claude, born at Malpèque in c1731, married Marie Comeau probably on the island in c1758. They escaped the British that year and took refuge in Canada, where they remained. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1759 and 1772, Marie gave Claude six children, three sons and three daughters, probably in Canada. They were living on Île d'Orléans, below Québec, in 1766 and moved on to St.-Pierre-de-Sorel, on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Montréal. Claude remarried to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of René Doucet and Marie Brossard and widow of Daniel Gareau, at nearby St.-Ours, on the lower Richelieu, in February 1774. According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Jeanne gave Claude no more children. Claude died at Sorel in February 1801, age 70. His second daughter Pélagie married into the Garceau family at St.-Ours. Two of his sons created their own families.
Oldest son Pierre, born in exile in c1761, married Charlotte, daughter of Gabriel Lefebvre and Marie-Charlotte Vel, at St.-Ours in February 1786, and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Jacob and Marie-Josèphe Gervais, at St.-Ours in January 1800.
Claude's second son Louis, born probably on Île d'Orléans, in c1766, married Monique, daughter of Louis Thibault and Marie-Catherine Desautels, at St.-Ours in August 1788.
Pierre III's fifth and youngest son Louis, born at Malpèque in c1739, married Marie-Madeleine Boudrot in c1759 probably at Restigouche. According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Madeleine gave Louis a son there in c1760. One wonders what happened to them after that date.
Pierre, fils's second son Charles le jeune, born at Chignecto in c1702, married Cécile, daughter of Antoine Breau and Marguerite Babin, in c1722 probably at Chignecto, and moved on to Malpèque in 1728. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1742, Cécile gave Charles le jeune eight children, six sons and two daughters, including a set of twins, at Chignecto and Malpèque. His older daughter married into the Boudrot family at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, Île St.-Jean, in the early 1740s. Three of Charles le jeune's six sons created their own families. Two of them, twins Jean and Pierre, married sisters on the same day probably at Malpèque. The twins, along with their parents and siblings, escaped the British in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. Members of Charles le jeune's family evidently were captured at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in 1760, ended up in prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war, and settled on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland in c1765.
Son Jean, a twin, born at Malpèque in c1729, married Madeleine, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Judith Belliveau of Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in November 1750. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1751 and 1764, Madeleine gave Jean five children, four sons and a daughter. Madeleine died in the prison compound at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, in 1764 on the eve of the family's moving to Île Miquelon. At the urging of French authorities, they likely went to France in 1767 to relieve crowding on the island. Did they return to the island in 1768 or remain in France? If so, none of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Pierre, Jean's twin, born at Malpèque in c1729, married Marie-Judith, another daughter of Claude Boudrot and Judith Belliveau, in November 1750, no place given. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1755 and 1764, Marie-Judith gave Pierre four children, three sons and a daughter. Pierre and his family may have gone to France in November 1765 to escape crowded conditions on Île Miquelon, and he and Marie-Judith may have died at Nantes in 1766. None of Pierre's children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Charles le
jeune's third son Charles, fils, born at Malpèque in c1731, also
escaped the British in 1758 but moved on to Canada. Charles, fils
married first cousin Anne-Marie, daughter of Pierre Arsenault
III and Marguerite Cormier, his uncle and aunt, in c1763.
According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1767, Anne-Marie gave Charles,
fils two children, a daughter and a son. They settled at St.-Jean on
Île d'Orléans, below Québec. Charles, fils remarried to Nathalie,
daughter of Paul LeBlanc and Marie Richard, at
Bécancour, on the upper St. Lawrence, across from Trois-Rivières, in February
1775. Soon after their marriage, they moved upriver to Sorel, at the mouth
of Rivière Richelieu, and then to St.-Ours, farther up the Richelieu.
According to Bona Arsenault, between 1776 and 1787, Nathalie gave Charles,
fils four more children, a son and three daughters, at Sorel and St.-Ours.
Pierre, père's second son Abraham, by first wife Marguerite Dugas, born at Port-Royal in c1678, married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Gaudet l'aîné and Anne Blanchard, probably at Chignecto in c1701. Between the early 1700s and 1729, she gave him 18 children, seven sons and 11 daughters. Abraham remarried to Marie-Thérèse, daughter of Emmanuel Mirande and Marguerite Bourgeois and widow of Pierre Caissie, by 1752, in his late 60s or early 70s. She gave him no more children. Abraham died between 1754 and 1755 at either Chignecto or in the French Maritimes. Ten of his daughters married into the Chiasson, Poirier, Vigneau dit Maurice, Hébert dit Boudiche, Bourel, Dugas, Hébert dit Canadien, and Boudrot dit Miquetau families. Two of them settled on Île Miquelon, and another at Bonaventure in Gaspésie, present-day Québec Province. Five of Abraham's seven sons also created their own families.
Abraham's oldest son, name unrecorded, born at Chignecto before 1707, died young.
Abraham's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Chignecto before 1707, married in c1730, probably at Chignecto, a woman whose name has been lost to history; Bona Arsenault calls her Anne Cyr. According to Arsenault, in 1735 and 1748, Anne gave Jean-Baptiste two children, a son and a daughter, at Chignecto. Their son created his own family and emigrated to Louisiana.
Only son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1735, escaped the British roundup there in 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Godin dit Lincour and Anastasie Bourg of Rivière St.-Jean, in c1760 perhaps at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs. They either surrendered to, or were captured by, the British soon after their marriage and held in the prison compound at Halifax for the rest of the war. According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre a son, Eusèbe, at Halifax in c1762. In 1764, they chose to follow their cousins to Louisiana. Another son, Pierre, fils, was born in 1765 aboard ship or at New Orleans. Pierre settled with his family at Cabahannocer, present-day St. James Parish, on the river above New Orleans and died there by September 1769, in his 30s, when his wife was listed in a census with her second husband, Basile Préjean. In the 1790s, Pierre's older son Eusèbe married into the Bergeron family and joined the exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche in the 1790s. Pierre's younger son Pierre, fils married twice on the river, into the Bebe and Bourgeois families, and joined his cousins on the western prairies about the time brother Eusèbe moved to Lafourche.
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son Pierre, born at Chignecto before 1707, married Marguerite, daughter of
Joseph Hébert and Anne-Marie Boudrot, in c1728 probably at
Chignecto and settled at Pointe-à-Beauséjour. According to Bona Arsenault,
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Pierre, père's fourth son Jacques, by second wife Marie Guérin, born at Chignecto in 1692, married Marie, daughter of Michel Poirier and Madeleine Bourgeois, at Beaubassin in February 1720. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1722 and 1741, Marie gave Jacques eight children, seven sons and a daughter, at Chignecto and on Île St.-Jean. They settled at Malpèque beginning in the late 1730s. Jacques died at Malpèque by 1752, in his late 50s. His daughter Marie married into the Desroches family at Malpèque. Five of his seven sons also created families of their own there.
Oldest son Jacques, fils, born at Chignecto in c1722, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Doucet and Marie Carret, at Malpèque in c1747. Between 1748 and 1750, Marie-Josèphe gave Jacques, fils three daughters at Malpèque. What happened to them in 1758?
Jacques, père's second son Joseph, born at Chignecto in c1724, married, according to Bona Arsenault, Anne, another daughter of François Doucet and Marie Carret, at Malpèque in c1749. Anne gave Joseph a daughter at Malpèque in 1750. According to Stephen A. White, the Joseph Arseneau married to Anne Doucet at Malpèque in August 1752 was a Comeau, not an Arceneau. What happened to Joseph and his family in 1758?
Jacques, père's third son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1725, married Madeleine Landry at Malpèque in c1750. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1751 and 1758, Madeleine gave Pierre two daughters at Malpèque. They escaped the British in 1758 and sought refuge in Canada, where they remained. Younger daughter Suzanne married into the Brunet-La Sablonnière family at Québec in August 1779.
Jacques, père's fourth son Jean, born at Chignecto in c1729, married Madeleine, daughter of François Boudrot and Jeanne Landry, at Port-La-Joye on the south end of the island in November 1750 and settled at Malpèque, where a French official counted them with a year-old son in August 1752. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1751 and 1764, Madeleine gave Jean four children, three sons and a daughter. Like most of the Acadians at Malpèque, Jean and his family escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and made their way to 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. In 1764, they were still being held at Pointe-à-Beauséjour, Chignecto, but moved on to Île Miquelon the following year. They were among the Acadians sent to France in 1767 to relieve crowding on the island. In the mother country, Jean, Madeleine, sons Jean, fils and Basile, and daughter Marie settled at Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany with other Acadian exiles. Jean, père drowned in France in September 1768. His family remained there, where at least one of his sons created a family.
Younger son Basile, born on Île St.-Jean in c1758, followed his family into exile and to Île Miquelon and France, where he worked as a sailor. He married Anne, daughter of Joseph Bourgeois and Marguerite Hébert of Notre-Dame, Île Miquelon, at St.-Jean church, La Rochelle, France, in April 1780. The priest who recorded the marriage noted that the groom's mother, as well as his father, were no longer living. Basile did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Jacques, père's fifth son Alexandre, born at Chignecto in c1733, married Renée dite Renotte Boudrot, widow of Paul Richard, probably at Malpèque in c1755. What happened to them in 1758?
Jacques, père's sixth son Paul, born at Malpèque in c1737, was counted with his widowed mother at Malpèque in August 1752, age 15, but Bona Arsenault says nothing more about him.
Jacques, père's seventh and youngest son Guillaume, who would have been age 11 in August 1752, does not appear in the census with his mother and older brother, so he may have died young.
Pierre, père's fifth son François, by second wife Marie Guérin, born at Chignecto in c1694, married Marguerite, daughter of René Bernard and Madeleine Doucet, at Beaubassin in January 1719. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1744, Marguerite gave François six children, a son and five daughters, at Chignecto. Three of their daughters married into the Gaudet, Doucet, and LeBlanc families. One wonders what happened to François's son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1740.
Pierre, père's sixth son Claude dit Ambroise, by second wife Marie Guérin, born at Chignecto in c1699, married Marguerite dite Magitte, daughter of Martin Richard and Marguerite Bourg, in c1725 probably at Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1745, Magitte gave Claude nine children, four sons and five daughters, at Chignecto and on Île St.-Jean. They settled at Malpèque in c1737. Claude died there by 1752, in his early 50s. His family escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. One of his daughters married into the Savoie family at Restigouche during the exile. At least two of his four sons created their own families.
Oldest son Claude, fils, born at Malpèque in c1728, was counted with his widowed mother at Malpèque in August 1752, age 24, so he lived to adulthood, but Bona Arsenault says nothing more of him.
Claude's second son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1735, married Théodose Girouard on Île St.-Jean in c1755. According to Bona Arsenault, Théodose gave Pierre a son in c1756. They escaped the British roundup in 1758 and sought refuge in Canada, where they remained. Their son created his own family.
Only son Jean-Pierre, born on Île St.-Jean in c1756, followed his family to Canada and married Rosalie, daughter of Joseph Mignot-Labrie and Rosalie Lizotte of Rimouski, at Québec in November 1786. They settled at Rimouski on the lower St.-Lawrence. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1788 and 1810, Rosalie gave Jean-Pierre 13 children, seven sons and six daughters, at Rimouski. Jean-Pierre died at Rimouski in August 1810, age 54. Three of his daughters married into the Pinault and Létourneau families there. At least three of his seven sons also created their own families.
Oldest son Jean-Pierre, fils, born at Rimouski in c1790, married Marguerite Côte at Rimouski in June 1810.
Jean-Pierre's fifth son Jacob, born at Rimouski in 1801, married Gudule Caneul at Rimouski in January 1823, and, at age 59, remarried to Rosalie Saint-Pierre at nearby Bic in November 1860.
Jean-Pierre's seventh and youngest son Eugène-Dénéris, born at Rimouski in c1810, married Marie Lucas at Rimouski in February 1832.
Claude's third son Ambroise, born at Malpèque in c1739, was counted with his widowed mother at Malpèque in August 1752, age 14, but Bona Arsenault says nothing more of him.
Claude's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born at Malpèque in c1741, escaped the British roundup in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. The British captured him, perhaps at Restigouche in 1760, and held him as a prisoner at Halifax. He married Marie, daughter of Jacques Haché dit Gallant and Josèphe Boudrot, probably during his imprisonment. They were still at Halifax in the summer of 1763. They remained in the region. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1772, Marie gave Joseph three children, two sons and a daughter. Their two sons created families of their own.
Older son Simon, born in c1767, place not given, married cousin Gertrude, daughter of Pierre Melanson and Rose-Anne Haché, at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia, in February 1788.
Joseph's younger son Joseph le jeune, born in c1771, place not given, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Godin and Marie-Angélique Bergeron, at Caraquet, persent-day northeastern New Brunswick, in June 1792.
Pierre, père's seventh son Augustin, by second wife Marie Guérin, born at Chignecto in c1700 or 1701, survived childhood but did not marry.
Pierre, père's eighth and youngest son Abraham dit Petit Abram, by second wife Marie Guérin, born at Chignecto in c1702, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Savoie and Marie Richard of Annapolis Royal, in c1731 probably at Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1750, Marie-Josèphe gave Petit Abram 10 children, five sons and five daughters, at Chignecto and on Île St.-Jean. They settled at Malpèque in c1741, were counted there in August 1752, escaped the British roundup in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. After the war, they remained in the region. Three of Petit Abram's daughters married into the Bernard, Poirier, and LeBlanc families and settled at Egmont Bay on the southwest coast of St. John's Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, and at Grande-Digue in present-day eastern New Brunswick. At least two of Petit Abram's sons created families of their own.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit Chocolat, born at Chignecto in c1736, followed his family to Malpèque and exile and married Madeleine, daughter of Jacques Haché dit Gallant and Josèphe Boudreau, at Île Miscou at the entrance to the Baie des Chaleurs, in September 1773.
Petit Abram's second son Jacques le jeune, born probably at Chignecto in c1740, followed his family to Malpèque and exile and married in c1765 to a Poirier from Rustico, formerly Racico, on the north shore of St. John's Island east of his childhood home at Malpèque.
Petit Abram's third son Joseph, born at Malpèque in c1744, was counted with the family at Malpèque in August 1752, age 8, but then disappears from Bona Arsenault's genealogy.
Petit Abram's fourth and fifth sons Hilarion, born at Malpèque in c1748, and a second Baptiste, born there in c1750, also appear with the family at Malpèque in August 1752, ages 4 and 2, but also disappear from Bona Arsenault's genealogy.388
Nicolas Barrieau, perhaps a 1671 arrival, and his wife Martine Hébert created a good-sized family in the colony. Between 1684 and 1707, at Port-Royal and Rivière-Kenescout, Minas, Martine gave Nicolas nine children, four sons and five daughters. Nicolas died at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, date unrecorded. Four of his daughters married into the Lord dit Lamontagne, Girouard, Bourg, and Doiron families at Minas. All four of his sons created their own families. Nicolas and Martine's descendants settled at Minas and in the French Maritimes, where they became especially plentiful by 1752. Nine of Nicolas's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785, but only one line of the family was established there. The majority of his descendants remained in greater Acadia or Canada after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Antoine, born probably at Minas in c1697, married Angélique, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau l'aîné and Anne-Marie Bourg, in c1722 probably at Minas. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1722 and 1742, Angélique gave Antoine a dozen children, six sons and six daughters. In 1750, the family moved on to Île St.-Jean and settled at Anse-à-Dubuisson in the island's interior. They either returned to Nova Scotia and escaped the British roundup there in 1755, or they left Île St.-Jean before 1758 and sought refuge in Canada. Antoine died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse, on the St. Lawrence below Québec, in January 1758, age 60, while in exile, the victim, perhaps, of a smallpox epidemic that struck hundreds of Acadian refugees in the area. Two of Antoine's daughters married into the Vincent dit Clément and Savary families. Three of his sons created their own families.
Second son Antoine, fils, born at Minas in c1726, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and married Marie-Blanche, daughter of Jean Doucet and Marie Doiron, at Port-La-Joye there in February 1752. A French official counted the newlyweds at Anse-à-Dubuisson the following August. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1753 and 1756, Marie-Blanche gave Antoine, fils two daughters. They followed his father off the island before the fall of Louisbourg and found refuge in Canada. Antoine, fils died at St.-Charles de Bellechasse, below Québec, in January 1758, age 32, perhaps of smallpox, only two days before his father died.
Antoine, père's third son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born at Minas in c1730, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and married Marguerite Doiron (Bona Arsenault says Marguerite Doucet) on the island in 1751. They, too, were counted at Anse-à-Dubuisson in August 1752. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1751 and 1757, Marguerite gave Jean four children, a son and three daughters. They followed his father off the island before the fall of Louisbourg and took refuge in Canada. Jean remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Landry and Anne Melanson of Annapolis Royal, at Québec in April 1758 while in exile. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1759 and 1782, Marie-Madeleine gave Jean 10 more children, eight sons and two daughters. The family settled at St.-Joachim on the St. Lawrence below Québec, and at St.-François-de-Beauce, today's Beauceville, on upper Rivière Chaudière in the Canadian interior south of Québec. Four of Jean's daughters from his two wives married into the Paré, Paquet, Quirion, Bolduc, and Lessard families at St.-Joachim, nearby Château-Richer, and St.-François-de-Beuce. Four of Jean's sons, all by his second wife, also created their own families in Canada.
Fourth son Joseph-Marie, born in Canada in c1763, married Marie-Josèphe Grondin at St.-Joseph-de-Beauce, below St.-François-de-Beauce, in November 1785.
Jean-Baptiste's seventh son Joachim, born in Canada in c1778, married Monique Marcoux at St.-Joseph-de-Beauce in January 1801, remarried to Marie-Josèphe Rodrigue at St.-Françoise-de-Beauce in February 1821, and remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Thérèse Perrault at St.-Joseph-de-Beauce in October 1749.
Jean-Baptiste's ninth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born in Canada in c1780, married Marguerite Jacques at St.-Joseph-de-Beauce in October 1801.
Antoine, père's fourth son Simon, born at Minas in c1731, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and then to Canada and married Rosalie Simard at Baie-St.-Paul, on the north shore of the lower St. Lawrence in March 1764. He remarried to Ursule Forest, widow of Charles Hébert, at La Prairie, across from Montréal, in February 1772.
Nicolas's second son Nicolas, fils, born probably at Minas in c1703, married in c1724 probably at Minas a woman whose name has been lost to history, and remarried to Ursule, daughter of François Gautrot and Marie Vincent, in c1735 perhaps at Minas. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1748, Ursule gave Nicolas, fils six children, four sons and two daughters. They also moved on to the French Maritimes, where Nicolas, fils worked as a mariner at Port-Toulouse on Île Royale. He died there in c1754, in his early 50s. Widow Ursule and their children evidently escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758 and sought refuge in Canada. Ursule died at Québec in late December 1757, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees there that fall and winter. One of her and Nicolas, fils's daughters married into the Renaud family on Île St.-Jean. Three of Nicolas, fils's sons also created their own families.
Oldest son Joseph, born at Minas in c1738, followed his family to Île Royale and Canada. He married Françoise, daughter of Étienne Trahan and Françoise Roy, at St.-Charles de Bellechasse, below Québec, in January 1759 while in exile. Did they remain there after the war?
Nicolas, fils's second son Olivier, born at Minas in c1740, followed his family to Île Royale and Canada and married Marie-Reine Boucher at St.-Thomas de Montmagny, below Québec, in February 1760 while in exile. They settled across and farther down the St. Lawrence at Baie-St.-Paul.
Nicolas, fils's third son Pierre, born at Minas in c1742, followed his family to Île Royale and Canada and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Canadians Charles Chainé and Marie-Josèphe Richer of Gentilly, at Champlain, on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec and Troise-Rivières, in April 1762. Where did they go after the war?
Nicolas's third son Jacques, born probably at Minas in c1705, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Jean Turpin and Catherine Bourg, at Grand-Pré in July 1726. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1751, Anne-Marie gave Jacques 10 children, four sons and six daughters. The family also moved on to the French Maritimes, settling on Île Madame off the southern coast of Île Royale in July 1751. They evidently escaped the British roundup on the islands in 1758 and took refuge in Canada. Two of Jacques's daughters married into the LeBlanc and Orly families. At least one of his sons created his own family.
Second son Pierre le jeune, born at Minas in c1734, followed his family to Île Madame and Canada. He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Lagrave and Marie-Josèphe Richer, probably in Canada in c1761. They settled at Québec. According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre a daughter in c1762. Did they remain there after the war?
Nicolas's fourth and youngest son Pierre, born probably at Minas in c1707, married Véronique, daughter of Pierre Girouard and Marie Doiron, in c1730 probably at Minas. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1752, Véronique gave Pierre 11 children, three sons and eight daughters. They moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and settled at Rivière-des-Blancs in the island's interior. This family did not escape the British. Pierre died aboard the vessel Picotte in 1758 during the deportation of the island Acadians to France. Four of his daughters married into the Daigre, Landry, Dugas , Boudrot, Broussard, and Aucoin families on Île St.-Jean and in France and emigrated to Louisiana. Two of his sons also created their own families, and one of them followed his sisters to Louisiana.
Second son Jean-Bapitiste, born at Minas in c1733, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750, was counted with them at Rivière-des-Blancs in the island's interior in August 1752, and followed them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Daigre and Anne-Marie Breau, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of the Breton port in June 1764. Between 1765 and 1773, at Pleudihen and near Mordreuc, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste seven children, four sons and three daughters. He took his family to the interior of Poitou in 1774. Marie gave him another son there in January 1775. The family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes in December 1775. Marie gave him two more sons there in 1778 and 1779--10 children, seven sons and three daughters, between 1765 and 1779, most of whom died young. In 1785, Jean-Baptiste, wife Marie, and their four remaining children, three sons and a daughter, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. They had no more children in Louisiana. Jean-Baptiste died by January 1788, in his early or mid-50s, when his wife Marie was counted in a Valenzuela District census without a husband. Marie never remarried. Jean-Baptiste's daughter married into the Boudreaux family. Two of his sons also married, into the Mazerolle and Gautreaux families on Bayou Lafourche. Theirs was the only line of the Barrieau family established in Louisiana, where the family's name morphed into Barrilleaux.
Pierre's third and youngest son Olivier, born at Minas in c1737, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and France. He served as a privateer soon after reaching the mother country, was captured by the British, and held as a prisoner of war in England until 1763. After his release, he joined in his family in France and married Anastasie, daughter of Jean Boudrot and Agathe Thibodeau, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance in February 1764. She gave him a daughter in April 1765. Olivier remarried to Élisabeth, daughter of Pierre Landry and Anne Térriot, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, near St.-Malo, in May 1768. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1769 and 1792, Élisabeth gave Olivier 10 more children, six sons and four daughters, in France and greater Acadia. They lived at St.-Servan until 1774, when they returned to North America with other Acadian exiles and settled in the British fishery at Bonaventure and Carleton, on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs in Gaspésie, present-day Québec Province. Olivier's daughters by both wives married into the Sainton, LeBlanc, and Comeau families. Four of his sons, all from his second wife, created their own families.
Oldest son Charles-Olivier, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in c1769, followed his family back to greater Acadia and married Magloria, daughter of Simon Henry and Marguerite-Josèphe Brault, at Bonaventure in February 1793. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1794 and 1799, Magloria gave Charles-Olivier five children, three sons and two daughters. After 1800, Charles-Olivier took his family down the coast to St.-Louis-de-Kent, present-day eastern New Brunswick.
Olivier's second son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in c1771, followed his family back to greater Acadia and married Madeleine-Suzanne, another daughter of Simon Henry and Marguerite-Josèphe Brault, at Carleton in November 1793. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1794 and 1813, Madeleine-Suzanne gave Jean-Baptiste le jeune 15 children, seven sons and eight daughters. He remarried to Collette, daughter of Benjamin LeBlanc and Marie Dugas, at Carleton in April 1823. According to Bona Arsenault, she evidently gave him no more children. Five of Jean-Baptiste le jeune's daughters married into the LeBlanc and LaVache families, four of them to sons of Benjamin LeBlanc, at Carleton. At least four of his sons created their own families at Gaspésie.
Third son Pierre-Dosithée, born at Carleton in c1796, married Angélique, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Charlotte Bujold, at Carleton in January 1833. They remained there. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1833 and 1850, Angélique gave Pierre seven children, five sons and two daughters.
Jean-Baptiste le jeune's fourth son Charles-Nicolas, born at Carleton in c1805, married Antoinette, daughter of Désiré LeBlanc and Victoire Comeau, at Carleton in September 1840. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1841 and 1846, Antoinette gave Charles five children, three sons and two daughters.
Jean-Baptiste le jeune's fifth son Moïse, born at Carleton in c1806, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Boudreau and Élisabeth LeBlanc, at Carleton in November 1833. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1834 and 1841, Marguerite gave Moïse three sons.
Jean-Baptiste le jeune's seventh and youngest son Pierre, born at Carleton in c1813, married Marguerite, daughter of Sévère Landry and Marie-Gilette Bujold, at Carleton in January 1840. According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Pierre no children. Pierre remarried to Sophie, daughter of Louis-Régis Estiambre and Sophie Mercier, at Carleton in January 1843. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1843 and 1849, Sophie gave Pierre four children, two sons and two daughters, at Carleton.
Olivier's third son Joseph-Moïse, called Moïse, born probably in Gaspésie in c1775, married Marguerite-Josette, yet another daughter of Simon Henry and Marguerite-Josèphe Brault, at Carleton in January 1799. According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite-Josette gave Moïse a son in c1799. They followed his older brother Charles-Olivier to St.-Louis-de-Kent, eastern New Brunswick, after 1800.
Olivier's sixth and youngest son Pierre, born in Gaspésie in c1788, married Angélique, daughter of Joseph Audet and Scholastique LeBlanc, at Carleton in January 1814. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1814 and 1829, Angélique gave Pierre 10 children, four sons and six daughters. They remained at Carleton. Two of their daughters married into the Allard and LeBlanc families at Carleton. At least one of Pierre's sons created his own family.
Oldest son Pierre-François, born at Carleton in c1817, married Caroline, daughter of Eusèbe Arsenault and Anastasie Deslauriers, at Carleton in January 1745. They remained there. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1846 and 1850, Caroline gave Pierre-François four children, two sons and two daughters.389
Martin Benoit dit Labrière, perhaps a 1671 arrival, and his wife Marie Chaussegros created a large family in the colony. Between 1673 and 1694, Marie gave Martin 10 children, five sons and five daughters. Four of their daughters married into the Forest, Trahan, Leprince, Lejeune, and Thibodeau families. All five of Labrière's sons created their own families. He 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, where, by 1752, they could be found at Anse-au-Matelot and Grande-Ascension on Île St.-Jean, and at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Rivière-des-Habitants, and Baie-des-Espagnols on Île Royale. At least 36 of Martin's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in the 1760s, French St.-Domingue in the late 1760s or 1770s, and especially from France in 1785, but Acadian Benoits also could be found in substantial numbers in greater Acadia, Canada, and France after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Pierre l'aîné, born at Port-Royal in c1675, married Marie, daughter of Michel Forest and Marie Hébert, in c1695 probably at Port-Royal and moved on to Rivière-de-l'Ascension, Minas. Between 1696 and the early 1700s, Marie gave Pierre l'aîné five children, three sons and two daughters. One of their daughters married into the Hamet family of Île St.-Jean. Two of Pierre l'aîné's three sons created their own families.
Oldest son Martin le jeune married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Claude Lejeune and Anne-Marie Gaudet, at Grand-Pré in November 1725. According to Bona Arsenault, in c1735, Marie-Josèphe gave Martin le jeune a daughter, Marie-Josèphe, who married into the Renaud family at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in February 1757.
Pierre l'aîné's second son Pierre, fils married Anne-Marie, daughter of Jean Gaudet and Jeanne Henry and widow of Claude Lejeune dit Briard, in c1726, place not given. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1738, Anne-Marie gave Pierre, fils three children, three sons and a daughter. The family moved to Île St.-Jean in 1749 and two years later to Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, where a French official counted Pierre, fils, Anne-Marie, and daughter Catherine, age 20, in April 1752. Pierre, fils's three sons created their own families.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born in c1731, perhaps at Pigiguit, married Anne, daughter of Étienne Trahan and Françoise LeRoy of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, on Île Royale in May 1751. They were counted next to his family at Baie-des-Espagnols in April 1752. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1752 and 1754, Anne gave Jean two daughters, but none were counted with them at Baie des Espagnols. They evidently were among the Île Royale Acadians who returned to Pigiguit after 1752. They were deported to Maryland in 1755 and held at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac. Anne gave Jean two more daughters in Maryland, in c1756 and c1760. He died probably at Port Tobacco in c1760, and Anne remarried to Louis Latier of Île Royale probably at Port Tobacco in c1761. She, her new husband, three of their young children, and her three Benoit daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Port Tobacco in 1769. After their adventure in Texas and on the trail to Natchitoches, Anne's Benoit daughters married into the Janis, De La Fosse, Campos, and Broussard families at Natchitoches and Opelousas, so the blood of this family line endured in Bayou State.
Pierre, fils's second son Pierre-Olivier, called Olivier, born in c1735, perhaps at Pigiguit, evidently remained there when his family moved to Île St.-Jean. He was deported with them to Maryland in 1755. He married Susanne Boudrot in c1756 probably at Port Tobacco, Maryland. According Bona Arsenault, between 1756 and 1760, Susanne gave Olivier three children, a son and two daughters. Olivier remarried to Marie-Geneviève, daughter of Mathieu Brasseau and Anne Célestin dit Bellemère, probably at Port Tobacco in c1765. She evidently gave him no more children. Olivier, second wife Marie-Geneviève, and his three children by first wife Susanne emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Port Tobacco in 1769. After their ordeal in Texas and on the trail to Natchitoches, they lived at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans until the 1780s, when they moved to the Opelousas District. Olivier died at Opelousas in December 1787, age 58. His two daughters married into the Préjean, Boone, Martin, Favron, and Boudreaux families at Attakapas and Opelousas. His only son married into the Savoy family and settled on the western prairies.
Pierre, fils's third and youngest son Pierre III, born in c1738, perhaps at Pigiguit, may have escaped the British roundup there in 1755 and married Victoire Dugas in c1760 while in exile. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and and 1770, Victoire gave Pierre III five children, three sons and two daughters, including a set of twins. After exile, they settled at Arichat on the south shore of Île Madame, off the southern coast of Cape Breton Island.
Martin's second son Clément, born at Port-Royal in c1677, married Anne, daughter of Antoine Babin and Marie Mercier and widow of Abraham Doiron, in c1705 probably at Minas. Between 1706 and and 1722, Anne gave Clément seven children, three sons and four daughters. Clément died by June 1748 probably at Minas. Two of his daughters married into the Labauve and Rivet families. Two of his three sons also created their own families.
Oldest son Claude le jeune, born in c1706, married Marie, daughter of Étienne Comeau and Marguerite Forest, in c1735 perhaps at Pigiguit. According to Bona Arsenault, who says Claude was a son of Pierre l'aîné, Marie gave Claude six children, three sons and three daughters, at Pigiguit between 1737 and 1751. The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755 and held them at Cambridge and Dedham. Claude remarried to Anne _____ in c1760 probably in Massachusetts. He died before November 1766 probably in the Bay Colony. His family moved on to Canada and settled at Yamachiche on the north shore of Lac-St.-Pierre above Trois-Rivières. One of Claude's daughters married into the Robichaud family in Massachusetts in 1759 and sanctified the marriage at Trois-Rivières in July 1767, soon after their arrival. One of Claude's three sons also created his own family.
Joseph, born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1739, who Bona Arsenault insists was one of Claude le jeune's sons, followed his family to Massachusetts, where he married fellow Acadian Jeanne Thibodeau at Boston in January 1761. They sanctified the marriage at Trois-Rivières in September 1766, soon after they reached Canada. According to Arsenault, between 1761 and 1776, Jeanne gave Joseph eight children, five sons and three daughters. They settled Yamachiche, where their daughters married into the Raymond, LeBlanc, and Héroux families. Four of Joseph's five sons created their own families.
Oldest son Firmin, born probably in Massachusetts in c1764, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Roy-Desjardins and Marie-Josèphe Paradis, at Yamachiche in June 1787.
Joseph's second son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Yamachiche, Canada, in c1770, married Madeleine, daughter of Louis Potvin and Marguerite Vien, at St.-Michel-d'Yamaska, across Lac-St.-Pierre from Yamachiche, in January 1792.
Joseph's fourth son Joseph, born probably at Yamachiche in c1774, married Charlotte, daughter of Jean Landry and Rose Martel, at Yamaska in June 1794.
Joseph's fifth and youngest son Alexis, born probably at Yamachiche in c1776, married Catherine, daughter of Étienne Tourel dit Jolicoeur and Thérèse Hébert, at Yamaska in c1796.
Clément's second son Charles probably died young.
Clément's third and youngest son
Alexis
married Hélène, another daughter of
Martin's third son Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1681, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Antoine Breau and Marguerite Babin, in c1704 probably at Port-Royal. Between the early 1700 and the 1720s, Marie-Anne gave Jean 14 children, five sons and nine daughters. Jean remarried to Marie, daughter of François Amireau and Marie Pitre and widow of Joseph Mius d'Azy, at Annapolis Royal in May 1731, settled at Cobeguit at the eastern end of the Minas Basin, and moved on to the French Maritimes. She gave him no more children. Eight of his daughters married into the Dugas, Marcadet, LeBlanc, Thériot, Hébert, Bourg, and Henry families. Four of his five sons created their own families, but, thanks to the terrors of Le Grand Dérangement, only one of their lines seems to have survived.
Oldest son Jean, fils, by first wife Marie-Anne Breau, born probably at Port-Royal in c1706, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Germain Thériot and Anne Pellerin, in c1728 perhaps at Cobeguit. Between 1729 and 1748, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean, fils eight children, five sons and three daughters, there. Jean, fils died there probably in the late 1740s. In c1750, his widow took their children to Île Royale, where a French official counted her and seven of them at Baie-de-Mordienne in April 1752; evidently youngest son Charles, born in c1748, died before the census. Daughter Osite-Blanche, at age 20, married into the Petitpas family on Île Royale in March 1756. In 1758, the British deported Marie-Josèphe and her four surviving sons to St.-Malo, France, aboard the British transport Duc Guillaume. Marie-Josèphe died in the crossing, and her youngest son died at St.-Malo in November 1758, four days after their arrival, probably from the rigors of the crossing. After burying their brother, the three older Benoit sons, a carpenter and two sailors, moved on to Lorient, on the south coast of Brittany, and there, says genealogist Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., "we lose all trace of them." Records show, however, that Jean-Louis, evidently while pursuing his trade as a sailor, died on the island of Guadaloupe in March 1764; he would have been age 23 at the time. Oldest sister Anne also ended up on the French island. She married first to Gabriel Derein perhaps on Guadaloupe. In April 1768, while she was living at Mont-Carmel on the island, she remarried to Jean Maillard, a merchant from Lorraine, at Basse-Terre. One wonders when Anne came to the island, and from where. Younger sister Osite and her husband Nicolas Petitpas may have escaped the British on the Maritime islands in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. One wonders what happened to Anne and Osite's sister Isabelle, age 19 in 1752. Did she die on Île Royale, escape the British, cross to France on another vessel, or marry on Île Royale and cross the North Atlantic with her husband and children?
Jean, père's second son Claude le jeune, by first wife Marie-Anne Breau, born probably at Port-Royal, date not given, married Anne, daughter of Étienne Comeau and Marguerite Forest, in c1737 perhaps at Pigiguit. They had at least two sons there in c1741 and c1751. Claude le jeune and Anne seem to have died before Le Grand Dérangement.
Older son Augustin, born in c1741, perhaps at Pigiguit, evidently moved on to the French Maritimes. He was deported to St.-Malo, France, in 1758 with his paternal uncles Charles and Pierre aboard the British transport Duc Guillaume. Augustin survived the crossing and married Françoise, daughter of Pierre Thériot and Marguerite Guérin, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in February 1760. Françoise gave him a son there in 1760. In 1763, Augustin, Françoise, and their son, with other Acadian exiles, sailed aboard the ship L'Aigle to the Falkland Island in the South Atlantic off the coast of South America. From 1764 to 1767, on the remote islands, Françoise gave Augustin three more children there, a son and two daughters. The French abandoned the settlement to the Spanish, and Augustin and his family returned to St.-Malo in April 1768. They settled again at St.-Servan, where Françoise gave Augustin two more daughters, in 1769 and 1773. Sometime later in the 1770s, Augustin took his family back to North America and settled on St.-Pierre or Miquelon, French-controlled fishery islands off the southern coast of Newfoundland. In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British likely deported them with the other island Acadians to La Rochelle, France. One wonders if Augustin remained in France or returned to greater Acadia. He did not go to Spanish Louisiana from France, though one of his sons did, in the 1780s.
Oldest son Nicolas-Jean-Sébastien, called Sébastien, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in November 1760, followed his family to the Falkland Islands, which the French called Îles Malouines, back to St.-Servan, to one of the Newfoundland islands, and back to France--four long sea voyages--before he came of age. He emigrated to Spanish Louisiana--his fifth long sea voyage--probably in 1785 and married Jeanne, daughter of Jean De La Forestrie and Marie-Madeleine Bonnière and widow of Joseph Hébert, at Ascension on the river above New Orleans in August 1789. She likely gave him no children. They joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, where he became a widower by 1795. After his wife's death, Sébastien crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled on the Calcasieu River at the western edge of the Opelouas District. He remarried to Hippolythe dite Pauline, daughter of Barthélémy Lebleu and Marie-Josèphe Lamirande, at Calcasieu in August 1800. She gave him all of his children. His daughters married into the Courvelle, Lacase, Servant, and Soileau families in the Opelousas District. His only son Augustin le jeune married into the Préjean family in Lafayette Parish in December 1828 and fathered eight sons of his own.
Claude le jeune's younger son Étienne, born in c1751, perhaps at Pigiguit, followed relatives to Maryland in the fall of 1755. He emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1768, followed his fellow passengers to San Luìs de Natchez, on the river far above Baton Rouge, and resettled at San Gabriel on the river below Baton Rouge when the Spanish allowed the Acadians to abandon Fort San Luìs in 1769. Étienne married Madeleine, daughter of Charles Breau and Claire Trahan of Pigiguit, at Cabahannocer, later St.-Jacques, on the river below San Gabriel, in January 1771. They moved to the Attakapas District east of the Atchafalaya Basin in the early 1780s and settled at Carencro, at the northern edge of the district. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1786, Madeleine gave Étienne eight children, six sons and two daughters. Étienne died at Carencro in December 1787, age 36. His widow remarried to twice-widowed Michel Cormier of Chignecto and Opelousas in February 1789 but gave him no more children. Étienne's daughters married into the Huval and Cormier families. Louisiana records indicate that he fathered seven sons, four of whom married into the Aucoin, Trahan, Louvière, and Babineaux families in Attakapas, so the family line thrived.
Martin's fourth son Pierre le jeune, born at Port-Royal in c1683, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Guillaume LeJuge and Marie Mercier, in c1703 probably at Port-Royal, settled at Minas, and moved on to the French Maritimes. Between 1704 and 1730, Élisabeth gave Pierre le jeune a dozen children, six sons and six daughters, all of whom married. He died by November 1751, when wife Élisabeth remarried at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean; she died at Châteauneuf near St.-Malo, France, in July 1759, age 70. Pierre le jeune and Élisabeth's daughters married into the Lejeune dit Briard, Doiron, LeBlanc, Guédry dit Labrador dit Labine, and Hébert families. One of them, Anne, widow of Pierre and Jean-Baptiste Hébert, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.
Oldest son Paul, born probably at Port-Royal in c1704, married Anne, daughter of Alexandre Trahan and Marie Pellerin, in c1725, place not given. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1727 and 1747, Anne gave Paul 10 children, three sons and seven daughters, at Pigiguit. One of his sons, Paul, fils, created a family of his own at Minas. Paul took his family, including his married son, to Île St.-Jean in 1750. Paul, père remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Viger and Marie Mius and widow of Martin Corporon, at Port-La-Joye in July 1750. In August 1752, a French official counted Paul and his large blended family at Grande-Ascension on the island's south shore. In December 1758, during the deportation to France, the entire family was lost aboard the British transport Duke William, which sank in a North Atlantic storm on it way to St.-Malo.
Oldest son Paul, fils, born probably at Minas in c1727, married Madeleine, daughter of René LeBlanc and Jeanne Landry, at Grand-Pré in October 1748. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1749 and 1751, Madeleine gave Paul, fils two children, a son and a daughter. They followed his father to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and also were counted at Grande-Ascension in August 1752. They, too, were deported to France in 1758 and were lost aboard the transport Duke William on its voyage to St.-Malo.
Pierre le jeune's second son Guillaume dit Perrochon, born probably at Port-Royal in c1707, married Marie-Josèphe dite Josette, daughter of Claude Gautrot and Marie Thériot, in c1729 perhaps at Minas. According to Bona Arsenault, who says Guillaume was a son of Clément, between 1730 and 1743, Josette gave Guillaume six children, four sons and two daughters, at Pigiguit. In 1749, they moved on to the French Maritimes. Arsenault says they settled at Petit-Bras-d'Or on the Atlantic coast of Île Royale, but a French official counted Guillaume and his family at Rivière-aux-Habitants, on the southern coast of the big island, at the end of February 1752. Guillaume operated a sawmill there and was the community's original settler. The family evidently escaped the British in 1758 and resettled on Cape Breton Island, formerly Île Royale, after Le Grand Dérangement. One wonders where they went during exile. At least two of Guillaume's sons created their own families.
Third son Boniface, born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1737, was counted with his family on Île Royale in 1752. He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Honoré Boucher and Marie-Anne Lalonde, in c1766 and sanctified the marriage at Petit-Bras-d'Or on the Atlantic coast of Cape Breton Island in August 1771.
Perrochon's fourth son Simon, born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1739, also was counted with his family on Île Royale in 1752. He married Marie-Gervais, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Fougère, in c1762 and sanctified the marriage at D'Escousse, Île Madame, off the southern coast of Cape Breton Island, in October 1771.
Martin's fifth and youngest son Claude, born at Port-Royal in c1686, married Jeanne, daughter of Étienne Hébert and Jeanne Comeau, at Grand-Pré in January 1711 and settled on nearby Rivière-des-Habitants and Rivière-aux-Canards. Between 1711 and 1734, Jeanne gave Claude a dozen children, six sons and six daughters, at Minas, all of whom married. Claude died at Minas by November 1743, in his 50s. His daughters married into the Melanson, Landry, Vincent, LeBlanc, and Hébert dit Manuel families.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit Bercasse, born at Minas, date not given, married Isabelle LeBlanc in c1745 probably at Minas. What happened to them in 1755?
Claude's second son Claude, fils, born probably at Minas in c1713, married Anne-Hélène, daughter of François Girouard and Anne Bourgeois, at Annapolis Royal in February 1746. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1768, Anne gave Claude, fils eight children, seven sons and a daughter. The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755. In the 1760s, they chose to go to Canada, where they settled at St.-Ours on lower Rivière Richelieu northeast of Montréal. Claude, fils died at St.-Ours in August 1784, age 74. His daughter married into the Daigle family at St.-Ours. Six of his seven sons also created their own families.
Oldest son Joseph le jeune, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1749, followed his family to Massachusetts and to Canada. He married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Daigle and Marie-Josèphe Vincent, at St.-Ours in September 1771. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1775, Marguerite gave Joseph le jeune three children, a son and two daughters.
Claude, fils's second son Jean-Baptiste, born probably in Massachusetts in c1756, followed his family to Canada. He married Anne-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Roy and Marie-Josèphe Daigle, at St.-Ours in February 1777, and remarried to Marie-Anne Desmarets, widow of Jean-Baptiste Froment, at nearby Sorel in February 1805.
Claude, fils's third son Pierre, born probably in Massachusetts in c1759, followed his family to Canada. He married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Mathieu and Madeleine Perrault, at St.-Ours in February 1781.
Claude, fils's fourth son Antoine-Marie, born probably in Massachusetts in c1761, followed his family to Canada. He married Véronique, daughter of René Hénault dit Nault and Véronique Mathieu, at St.-Ours in September 1783, and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of André Chapdelaine and Louise Payau, at St.-Ours in May 1796.
Claude, fils's fifth son Michel-Archange, born probably in Massachusetts in c1763, followed his family to Canada. He married Françoise, another daughter of René Henault and Véronique Mathieu, at St.-Ours in October 1784.
Claude, fils's seventh and youngest son François, born probably in Canada in c1768, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Joseph Duguay-Didier and Isabelle Benoit-Laforest, at St.-Ours in February 1794.
Claude, père's third son Antoine, born probably at Minas in c1719, married Pétronille, daughter of Joseph Bourgeois and Anne LeBlanc, at Annapolis Royal in June 1754, and remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Savoie and Marguerite Blanchard, in c1766. One wonders what happened to them in 1755.
Oldest son Joseph le jeune, born probably at Minas in c1748, followed his family to Massachusetts and to Canada. He married Josèphe Gauthier dit Saint-Germain, perhaps a fellow Acadian at Chambly on upper Rivière Richelieu in May 1772.
François Broussard, perhaps a 1671 arrival, and his wife Catherine Richard created a fairly large and, thanks to two of its members, a significant family in the colony. Between 1681 and 1705, Catherine gave François 11 children, six sons and five daughters, all born at Beausoleil on the haute rivière above Port-Royal. Four of their daughters married into the Landry, Doucet, Préjean, and Bourg families. Five of François's sons created families of their own. His and Catherine's descendants settled not only on the haute rivière at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also at Chepoudy and Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, at Minas and Pigiguit in the Minas Basin, and in the French Maritimes. At least 49 of François's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via French St.-Domingue in 1765, Maryland in the late 1760s, and France in 1785. After Le Grand Dérangement, a much smaller number of François's descendants also could be found in Canada and France.
Oldest son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1683, married Marguerite, daughter of Abraham Bourg and Marie Brun, at Port-Royal in January 1709, and settled there. According to Bona Arsenault, they lived at Pigiguit before moving on to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in the early 1720s. Between 1709 and 1726, Marguerite gave Pierre nine children, four sons and five daughters. Two of their daughters married into the Boudrot and Préjean families at Port-Toulouse. Two of Pierre's four sons married at Minas.
Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1711, died young.
Pierre's second son Joseph le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1713, may have followed his family to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, before returning to British Nova Scotia. He married Ursule, daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Françoise Landry, at Grand-Pré in February 1740 and settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, before returning to the French Maritimes--Île St.-Jean--after 1752. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1746, Ursule gave Joseph le jeune six children, three sons and three daughters. The British deported Joseph le jeune and two of his teenage sons to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758. Joseph le jeune died there in January 1759, age 45 (the recording priest, who called him Joseph de l'Isle St-Jean, said he died at age 50), soon after reaching the Norman port. Both of Joseph le jeune's sons married in France. They and one of their sisters emigrated to Louisiana aboard three of the Seven Ships in 1785. Joseph le jeune's daughter married into the Potier and Vincent families in France and Louisiana. Both of his sons created vigorous lines in the Spanish colony.
Older son Charles, born at Minas in April 1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean after 1752 and his widowed father to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758. Charles married Bonne-Jacqueline-Françoise Castel, perhaps a fellow Acadian, probably at Cherbourg in c1764. Between 1764 and 1774, she gave Charles seven children, six sons and a daughter, at Cherbourg and in the interior of Poitou, where they went in the early 1770s. In December 1775, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians from Châtellerault down the Vienne and the Loire to the port of Nantes. Bonne gave Charles two more sons there in 1776 and 1778, but both of them died young. Charles, age 41, remarried to Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Barrieau and Véronique Giroir and widow of François Boudrot, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes in June 1784. Charles, Euphrosine, five of his sons and one of her sons by her previous marriage emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and settled at Manchac on the river south of Baton Rouge. Charles died by December 1795, when wife Euphrosine was counted in an upper Bayou Lafourche census without a husband; he would have been in his late 40s or early 50s that year. His five sons married into the Templet, Stebens, Miller, Henry, Molaison, Pitre, and Martin dit Barnabé families and settled at Baton Rouge, on the upper Lafourche, and on the Opelousas prairies.
Younger son Jean, born perhaps at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1745, followed his family to Île St.-Jean after 1752 and his widowered father and an older brother to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758. Jean married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Honoré Comeau and Marguerite Poirier, at Très-Ste.-Trinité, Cherbourg, in July 1773. They also went to Poitou, where two sons were born at Monthoiron south of Châtellerault in 1774 and 1775. They later retreated to Nantes, where French officials counted them in October 1777. A daughter and another son, twins, were born to them at nearby Chantenay in 1777. The twin son died young, as did an older son born in Poitou. Jean, Marguerite, and their remaining son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and settled in the Attakapas District near his many kinsmen. Their son married into the Hébert family and settled in what became Lafayette Parish.
Pierre's third son François le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1716, died young.
Pierre's fourth and youngest son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1721, may have followed his family to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, before returning to British Nova Scotia. He married cousin Madeleine, daughter René LeBlanc the notary and his second wife Marguerite Thébeau, at Grand-Pré in June 1746; they had to secure a dispensation for third and fourth degrees of consanguinity in order to marry. They settled near his older brother Joseph le jeune at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit. The British evidently deported the family to Maryland in 1755. One of Charles's sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from the Chesapeake colony in 1766.
Auguste or Augustin, born probably at Minas in c1748, followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and came of age there. An orphan in his late teens, he followed his kinsmen to Louisiana in 1766 and settled with them at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans. He married Anne, daughter perhaps of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc and widow of Joseph Melanson, at either Cabahannocer or neary Ascension in c1769 or 1770. Later in the decade, Augustin joined his kinsmen on upper Bayou Vermilion in the Attakapas District. Augustin, called by the Opelousas priest who recorded his burial an "inhabitant at Attakapas," died probably on the upper Vermilion in September 1810, "at age about 63 yrs." He was a widower. His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, the following July. His daughters married into the Dugas, Duhon, Hébert, Meaux, Mire, and Montet families. His four sons married into the Savoie, LeBlanc, Hébert, and Broussard families and settled on the prairies.
François's second son François, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1695, died probably on the haute rivière in November 1717, age 22, before he could marry.
François's third son Claude, born probably at Port-Royal in c1697, married Anne, daughter of Vincent Babin and Anne Thériot, at Grand-Pré in 1718 and settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1719 and 1732, Anne gave Claude five children, four sons and a daughter. Other records give him two more sons and another daughter, six sons and two daughters, eight children in all. In his late 50s, Claude remarried to Marie, daughter of Claude Dugas and Françoise Bourgeois and widow of Abraham Bourg le jeune, at Annapolis Royal in November 1754 and evidently returned to Ste.-Famille. Marie gave Claude no more children. The British deported Claude and members of his family to Maryland in 1755. He died there, date unrecorded. His daughters Marguerite and Madeleine, by first wife Anne, married into the Melanson and Thibodeau families of Minas and the trois-rivières. Madeleine emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 with the party led by her uncles Joseph and Alexandre dit Beausoleil, and Marguerite went to Louisiana from Maryland in 1766, the only member of her immediate family to do so. Four of Claude's sons also created their own families, in Acadia and France. None of the three who had been deported to France joined their sisters in Louisiana. The son who had been deported to Maryland died before he could reach the Spanish colony, but three of his sons, one of them in utero, emigrated to Louisiana with their widowed mother in 1766.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Anne Babin, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1722, followed his parents to Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, and married Osite, daughter of Jean Landry and Madeleine Melanson of Grand-Pré, at Grand-Pré in July 1747. Jean-Baptiste took his family to the French Maritimes after 1752. Between 1748 and 1756, Osite gave Jean-Baptiste five children, two sons and three daughters, at Minas and in the French Maritimes. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. Another son was born at sea. Three of Jean-Baptiste's children, a son and two daughters, died during the crossing. Jean-Baptiste died in a St.-Malo hospital in February 1759, age 32, a month after reaching the Breton port. His oldest son also died there a month later. Jean-Baptiste's widow Osite remarried to a Boudrot at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St. Malo in August 1760 and gave him at least nine children. Her surviving Broussard daughter married into the Thériot family in France. Neither this daughter nor Osite's remaining Broussard son chose to join their kinsmen in Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Oldest son Joseph le jeune, born probably at Ste-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1751, followed his family to the French Maritimes and to France. He died in a hospital at St.-Malo, France, in March 1759, age 8, from the rigors of the crossing.
Jean-Baptiste's second son Grégoire, born at either St.-Famille, Pigiguit, or in the French Maritimes in c1756, died at sea in late 1758 on the crossing to France.
Jean-Baptiste's third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste-Paul, born aboard ship in December 1758, was baptized at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, France, in January 1759. He settled with his widowed mother at St.-Servan, where he came of age. He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Melanson and François Granger, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the river south of St.-Malo in June 1784. He and his wife chose to remain in France.
Son Pierre-Jean, born at La Coquenais near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in March 1785, remained with his parents in France. One wonders if he survived childhood and created a family of his own there.
Claude's second son Jean, by first wife Anne Babin, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1727, followed his father to Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit. According to Bona Arsenault, Jean married Osite Landry, but other sources say he married Anne, daughter of Abraham dit Chaques Landry and Marie-Isabelle Blanchard of Minas, probably at Ste.-Famille. According to Arsenault, in c1752 and c1754, Anne gave Jean two children, a son and a daughter. The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755. Arsenault says Anne gave Jean two more children, a son and a daughter, there in c1760 and c1763. Jean died in Maryland in 1766 on the eve of the family's movement to Louisiana. Anne was pregnant on the voyage and gave birth to a son at New Orleans in November 1766--five children, three sons and two daughters, between 1752 and 1766, in greater Acadia, Maryland, and Louisiana. Anne and her three Broussard sons settled at Cabahannocer on the river above the city, where she remarried to a Landry cousin, a widower, in the late 1760s. Only one of her Broussard sons seems to have created his own family on the river.
Oldest son Firmin dit Simon, born probably at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1752, followed his parents to Maryland, his widowed mother to Louisiana, and settled with her at Cabahannocer. He married cousin Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham dit Petit Abraham Landry and his second wife Marguerite Flan, at nearby Ascension in May 1775. Firmin, père died at New Orleans in April 1785, age 34. His daughters married into the Babin and Dugas families. Three of his four sons married into the Richard, Landry, and Breaux families and settled in Iberville and Ascension parishes, but only two of their lines endured. A grandson settled near his cousins in West Baton Rouge Parish.
Jean's second son Jean, fils, born in Maryland in c1760, followed his widowed mother to Cabahannocer. One wonders if he created a family of his own in Spanish Louisiana.
Jean, père's third and youngest son Paul le jeune, born posthumously at New Orleans in November 1766, followed his widowed mother to Cabahannocer. He appears in none of the Cabahannocer censuses of the late 1760s and 1770s with his mother, brothers, and stepfather, so he probably died young.
Claude's third son Pierre-Paul, called Paul, dit Courtiche, from first wife Anne Babin, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1728, followed his father to Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, and married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Landry and Madeleine Melanson of Grand-Pré, probably at Minas in c1749. According to Bona Arsenault, in c1750 Madeleine gave Courtiche a son. That year, they moved on to Île St.-Jean, where, in August 1752, a French official counted them on the north side of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior. They still had only the one son. Between 1753 and 1757, Anne gave Courtiche three more children, another son and two daughters, on the island. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. Their older son and a daughter died from the rigors of the crossing. Paul dit Courtiche, wife Anne, and their remaining children settled at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo. Between 1760 and 1768, Anne gave Courtiche four more children there, three sons and a daughter--eight children, five sons and three daughters, between 1750 and 1768 in greater Acadia and France. Neither Courtiche nor any member of his family chose to join their kinsmen in Spanish Louisiana in 1785. His oldest daughter married into the Melanson and Boudrot families in France.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born perhaps at Minas in c1750, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was deported with them to France in late 1758. He died at sea, age 8.
Paul dit Courtiche's second son Pierre, born probably on Rivière-du-Nord-Est, Île St.-Jean, in c1757, followed his family to St.-Malo, France. He died at La Coquenais near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in September 1762, age 5.
Paul dit Courtiche's third son Joseph Osithe, born at Buet near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in March 1760, died at Pleudihen, age 18 months, in August 1761.
Paul dit Courtiche's fourth son Charles-Jean was born at Bas Champs near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in June 1763. If he survived childhood, one wonders if he created his own family in France.
Paul dit Courtiche's fifth and youngest son Jean-Joseph was born at La Coquenais near Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France, in March 1766. If he survived childhood, one wonders if he created his own family in France.
Claude's fourth son Firmin, by first wife Anne Babin, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1730, followed his father to Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, and his brothers to Île St.-Jean after 1752. The British deported him to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. He died at Buet near St.-Malo in late April 1759, age 29, probably from the rigors of the crossing and was buried at nearby Pleudihen-sur-Rance. He did not marry.
Claude's fifth son Charles, by first wife Anne Babin, born at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1732, followed his father to the French Maritimes after 1752 and to St.-Malo, France, in 1758-59. He married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Aucoin and Anne Trahan of Rivière-aux-Canards, at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo in October 1764. They settled across the river at Pleudihen-sur-Rance. Between 1766 and 1769, Anne gave Charles three children, two daughters and a son, there. Neither Charles nor any member of his family chose to join their kinsmen in Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Son Joseph-Charles, born at La Coquenais near Pleudihen-sur-Mer, France, in November 1767, remained with his parents in France. One wonders if he survived childhood and created a family of his own there.
Claudes's sixth and youngest son François le jeune, by first wife Anne Babin, born probably at Ste-Famille, Pigiguit, in c1736, followed his father and siblings to the French Maritimes after 1752 and to St.-Malo, France, in 1758-59. He died in a St.-Malo hospital in February 1759, age 23, probably from the rigors of the crossing. He did not marry.
François's fourth
son Alexandre dit Beausoleil, was born probably at Port-Royal in c1699.
Bona Arsenault insists that Alexandre was born in c1703, making him younger than
brother Joseph, but Stephen A. White's birth year for Alexandre is followed
here. He married Marguerite, daughter of Michel
Thibodeau and Agnès Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in February 1724.
Probably later in the decade they moved
to Chepoudy and then to upper Rivière Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières
area west of Chignecto, where they settled by the 1740s. According to
Arsenault, between 1725 and 1748, Marguerite gave Alexandre seven children, six
sons and a daughter. Other sources give the couple another son and another
daughter--nine or 10 children, seven
sons and two or three daughters. Alexandre served in the Acadian resistance
during King George's War, was a delegate from Chepoudy to
the Nova Scotia colonial Council at Halifax in July 1749, and, with brother Joseph, was part of the
resistance against the British
François's fifth
son Joseph dit Beausoleil, born probably at Port-Royal in c1702, married Agnès, another daughter of
François's sixth
and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in March 1705, married Cécile, another daughter of
Jean Doiron, perhaps a 1671 arrival, and his wives Marie-Anne Canol and Marie Trahan created a large family in the colony. First wife Marie-Anne gave Jean 11 children, eight sons and three daughters, including a set of twins. Second wife Marie gave him eight more children, four sons and four daughters--19 children, a dozen sons and seven daughters, by two wives. His daughters by both wives married into the Hébert, Testard dit Paris, Boisseau, Vincent, Girouard, Guillot dit L'Angevin, Nogues, and Turcot families. Eleven of Jean's 12 sons married, but "only" 10 created family lines that endured. His, Marie-Anne, and Marie's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also in the Minas Basin at Pigiguit and Cobeguit, at Chignecto, and in the French Maritimes, where they were especially numerous on Île St.-Jean. At least 37 of Jean's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax and French St.-Domingue in 1765, Maryland in the late 1760s, and especially from France in 1785. Even more of Jean's descendants could be found in greater Acadia, Maryland, France, the French Antilles, and Canada after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Abraham, by first wife Marie-Anne Canol, born probably at Port-Royal in c1672, married Anne, daughter of Antoine Babin and Marie Mercier, in c1697 probably at Minas and settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit. In 1698, Anne give Abraham a daughter, who married into the Boudrot family. Abraham died by 1705, in his late 20s or early 30s. He evidently fathered no sons. Widow Anne remarried to a Benoit.
Jean's second son Charles, by first wife Marie-Anne Canol, born probably at Port-Royal in c1674, married Françoise, daughter of Jean Gaudet and Françoise Comeau, in c1693 probably at Minas, where they settled on Rivière-Kenescout, moved on to Pigiguit and then to Île St.-Jean. Between 1694 and 1716, Françoise gave Charles seven children, two sons and five daughters. Bona Arsenault says the couple had three sons. In August 1752, a French official counted Charles, recorded as age 90 (he was actually 78) and "infirm," and wife Françoise, age 85 (actually 79), on Rivière-des-Blancs in the island's interior. Charles, in his early 80s, along with wife Françoise and other members of his family, died in late 1758 when the British transport on which they were being deported to St.-Malo, France, sank in a North Atlantic storm. Four of Charles's daughters married into the Thériot, Doucet, Hébert, and Boudrot families. Both of his sons created their own families.
Oldest son Charles, fils, born probably at Minas in c1694, married Anne, daughter of Germain Thériot and Anne Pellerin and sister of one of his brothers-in-law, in c1712 at either Minas or Pigiguit, and moved on Île St.-Jean. Between 1714 and 1730, Anne gave Charles, fils eight children, six sons and two daughters. Charles died on Île St.-Jean in March 1751, in his late 50s, a month after wife Anne died. Their daughters married into the Maréchal and Haché dit Gallant families in the French Maritimes. Four of Charles, fils's sons created families of their own.
Oldest son Honoré, born probably at Minas in c1714, married Françoise, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Catherine Meunier, at Grand-Pré in November 1735. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1751, Françoise gave Honoré seven children, four daughters and three sons. Honoré remarried to Marie-Bonne, daughter of André Savary and Marie-Marthe Doucet, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in January 1752. One wonders why they were not counted on the island the following August. According to Arsenault, between 1753 and 1760, Marie-Bonne gave Honoré five more children, all sons--a dozen children by two wives If Honoré and his family were still on the island in 1758, they escaped the British round up there that led to the deportation of so many of their relatives and sought refuge in Canada. After the fall of Québec in September 1759, their respite from British control ended. British officials counted them at St.-Charles de Bellchasse across from Québec City in 1760. Honoré died at nearby St.-François-du-Sud in January 1793, in his late 80s. Two of his daughters by first wife Françoise married into the Morier and Dion-Dumontier families at Québec. Five of his eight sons by both wives also married in lower Canada, the older ones to fellow Acadians, the younger ones to Canadians.
Oldest son Joseph, by first wife Françoise Boudrot, born probably at Minas in c1737, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and Canada, where he married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Hébert and Marguerite Mius d'Azy, at Québec in October 1764.
Honoré's second son Alexis, by first wife Françoise Boudrot, born probably at Minas in c1738, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and Canada, where he married fellow Acadian Nathalie Michel in c1761. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1780, Nathalie gave Alexis five children, three daughters and two sons. One wonders where they settled.
Honoré's fourth son Amand, by second wife Marie-Bonne Savary, born probably on Île St.-Jean in c1753, followed his family to Canada, where he married Angélique Gagnon at St.-François de Montmagny below Québec City in c1775.
Honore's fifth son Firmin, by second wife Marie-Bonne Savary, born probably on Île St.-Jean in c1754, followed his family to Canada, where, in his early 30s, he married Marie-Josèphe Allaire at St.-François de Montmagny in c1787.
Honore's seventh son Jean-Baptiste, by second wife Marie-Bonne Savary, born either on Île St.-Jean or in Canada in c1757, married Marie-Geneviève Gagné in c1780, place not given. One wonders where they settled.
Charles,
fils's second son Charles III, born probably at Minas in c1716, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Antoine
Thibodeau and Marie Préjean, at Annapolis Royal in October 1738
and moved on to the French Maritimes in c1749.
Charles, fils's
Jean's third son Jean, fils, by first wife Marie-Anne Canol, born probably at Port-Royal in c1678, married Anne, daughter of André LeBlanc and Marie Dugas, in c1710, place not given, settled at Minas, moved on to Chignecto, returned to Minas, and died by 1750, when his wife remarried. Between 1711 and 1729, Anne gave Jean, fils nine children, six sons and three daughters. His daughters married into the Mazerolle, Poirier, Thibodeau, Boucher, and Lambert families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana. Four of Jean, fils's six sons also created their own families.
Oldest son Joseph, born at Grand-Pré in March 1711, died eight days after his birth.
Jean, fils's second son Joseph, the second with the name, born in the 1710s, married Anne, daughter of Philippe Lambert and Marie-Madeleine Boudrot, at Beaubassin in October 1742. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1750, Anne gave Joseph five children, all daughters. In the fall of 1755, the British deported Joseph, Anne, and one of their daughters to South Carolina aboard the sloop Dolphin. Anne died in the colony, and Joseph remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Alexandre Lord dit Lamontagne and Marie-Françoise Barrieau and widow of Claude Bourg, in c1760. The couple with two of their own children, a daughter and a son, and two sons from Marie-Josèphe's previous marriage, appeared on a repatriation list in South Carolina in August 1763. Soon afterwards, they followed other Acadians from the seaboard colonies to French St.-Domingue. Joseph died by c1775, when Marie-Josèphe remarried probably at Môle St.-Nicolas on the north shore of the island. He would have been in his late 50s or early 60s.
Jean, fils's third son Jean III, born in the late 1710s, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Poirier and Marie Cormier, at Beaubassin in June 1745. In the fall of 1755, the British deported Jean III, Madeleine, and six of their children to South Carolina aboard the sloop Dolphin. Jean III died at St. Helen Parish, South Carolina, in 1756, in his early 30s, soon after he arrived in the southern colony. One wonders what happened to his family after his death.
Jean, fils's
Jean, père's fourth son Pierre l'aîné, by first wife Marie-Anne Canol, born probably at Port-Royal in c1680, married in c1703 at either Minas or Chignecto a woman whose name had been lost to history. In 1707, she gave Pierre a son, name unrecorded, who died young. Pierre l'aîné remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Doucet and Henriette Pelletret and widow of René Bernard, at either Minas or Chignecto in c1709 (Bona Arsenault says c1704, conflating Pierre's first marriage with his second one). In 1710 and 1712, Madeleine gave Pierre two more sons. Pierre l'aîné remarried again--his third marriage--to Véronique, daughter of Mathieu Brasseur and Jeanne Célestin dit Bellemère, at Beaubassin in February 1740. Between 1741 and the early 1750s, Véronique gave Pierre four more children, two more sons and two daughters--seven children, five sons and two daughters, by three wives. Neither of Pierre's daughters seems to have married. His two sons by second wife Madeleine created families of their own.
Second son Paul dit Grand Paul, by second wife Madeleine Doucet, born at Chignecto in c1710 , married Marguerite, daughter of François Michel and Marguerite Meunier, in c1734 probably at Chignecto. Bona Arsenault would have us believe that Paul à Pierre married Marguerite, daughter of Louis Doucet and Marguerite Girouard, in c1726, and that Grand Paul was a son of Jean, fils and his imaginary wife Marie Trahan. Stephen A. White is followed here. According to Arsenault, between 1735 and 1752, Marguerite gave Grand Paul nine children, six daughters and three sons. Grand Paul and Marguerite moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750. In August 1752, a French official counted Grand Paul, wife Marguerite Michel, and their nine children on the north bank of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior. The British evidently deported the family to Le Havre, France, in late 1758. Grand Paul died in exile perhaps at Le Havre before February 1760, in his 40s. Two of his daughters married into the Thibodeau, Aucoin, and Bourg families on Île St.-Jean and in France. At least one of his sons created his own family in France and Louisiana.
Second son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Cobeguit on the eastern end of the Minas Basin in c1744 or 1745, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750, was counted with them at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in August 1752, and followed them to Le Havre, France, in late 1758. Jean-Baptiste, worked as a sailor, and married Marie-Blanche, called Blanche, daughter of fellow Acadians René Bernard and Marguerite Hébert of Chignecto, at Le Havre in January 1766. Between 1766 and the early 1770s, Marie-Blanche gave Jean-Baptiste three daughters, one of whom died young. In 1773, they followed hundreds of other Acadians languishing in the coastal cities to the interior of Poitou, where Jean-Baptiste worked as a carpenter and where, in May 1775, Marie-Blanche gave him a son. In October 1775, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes. Marie-Blanche gave Jean-Baptiste four more children, three sons and a daughter, at Nantes. One of them died in infancy. In 1785, Jean-Baptiste, Marie-Blanche, and five of their children, three daughters and two sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. They did not follow most of their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge but settled on the western prairies, where they had more children. Jean-Baptiste died at his home on Bayou Teche in March 1809, in his early 60s. His daughters married into the Begnaud, Melançon, Landry, Durio, and Bonin families in St. Martin Parish. Two of his sons, including the youngest one born in Louisiana, married into the Broussard dit Beausoleil and Landry families on the prairies.
Jean, père's fifth son Philippe, by first wife Marie-Anne Canol, born probably at Port-Royal in c1682, moved from Pigiguit to the French Maritimes, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Claude Guédry and Marguerite Petitpas, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1715. They settled at Côte des îles à Marlignes by 1732. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1722 and 1732, Marie-Josèphe gave Philippe five children, three sons and two daughters. Their daughters married into the Vincent dit Clément and Landry families. His three sons also created their own families at Chignecto and on Île St.-Jean.
Oldest son Philippe, fils, born probably at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1722, married Marie-Ursule, called Ursule, Lejeune in c1741, place unrecorded, but it may have been at Chignecto. They moved to Île St.-Jean in c1750. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1755, Ursule gave Philippe, fils eight children, six daughters and two sons. In August 1752, a French official counted Philippe, fils, Ursule, and five of their children, a son and five daughters, ages 10 years to 15 months, at Anse-au-Matelot on the southeastern coast of Île St.-Jean. They left before the island's dérangement in 1758 and sought refuge in Canada. French officials counted them at St.-Charles de Bellechasse below Québec City in 1758, and British authorities counted them at Québec in 1763. Three of Philippe, fils's daughters married into the Roy, Houde dit Gervais, and Houle families at St.-Charles de Bellechasse and nearby Beaumont and at Bécancour near Trois-Rivières on the upper St. Lawrence. One of his sons also created his own family in upper Canada.
Younger son Pierre dit Dudevoir, born on Île St.-Jean in c1753, followed his family to Canada. He married Geneviève, daughter of Claude Phaneuf and Marguerite Tellier, at St.-Antoine-sur-Richelieu northeast of Montréal in February 1778.
Philippe, père's second son Paul, born probably at Port-Toulouse in c1724, married Rose Bourgeois in c1747, place unrecorded, but it probably was Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1763, Rose gave Paul three children, a son and two daughters. In the fall of 1755, the British deported them to South Carolina aboard the sloop Dolphin. Colonial officials counted Paul, Rose, and their three children still in the colony in August 1763. One wonders what happened to them after 1763. Did they go to French St.-Domingue? They did not go to Louisiana.
Philippe's third and youngest son Jean, born probably at Port-Toulouse in c1729, followed one of his older brothers to Île St.-Jean in c1751. Jean married Anne-Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Cellier and Marie-Josèphe Lejeune, on the island in February 1752. The following August, a French official counted the newlyweds at Anse-au-Matelot near his brother Philippe, fils. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1753 and 1755, Anne-Marguerite gave Jean two sons, Josaphat and Paul-Olivier. One wonders what happened to them in 1758. Were they deported to France? Did they escape the British roundup on the island, cross Mere Rouge, and seek refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore? They did not go to Louisiana.
Jean, père's sixth son Noël, by first wife Marie-Anne Canol, born at Minas in c1684, married Marie, daughter of Robert Henry and Marie-Madeleine Godin, at Boston, Massachusetts, in c1705, during Queen Anne's War. Evidently he and his bride were among the dozens of prisoners Colonel Benjamin Church of Massachusetts captured in Acadia in July 1704 and held as hostages in the New-English city. Noël and Marie, with their infant son, returned to Port-Royal by September 1706, when their marriage was blessed by the priest there. They resettled at Minas and at Cobeguit deep inside the Minas Basin, far away from the Bay of Fundy shore. Between 1706 and 1720, Marie gave Noël eight children, five sons and three daughters. In c1750, they moved on to Île St.-Jean. In February 1752, a French official counted Noël, Marie, and a grandson at Pointe-Prime on the island's southeastern shore. In late 1758, the British deported Noël, Marie, and dozens of their children and grandchildren on the transport Duke William, which was lost in a mid-Atlantic storm on its way to St.-Malo, France, in December. The ship's captain averred that an Acadian patriarch aboard the vessel was "a hundred and ten years old," but Noël, who was that patriarch, was "only" 74. After all efforts had failed to save the vessel, and no other ship had come to its rescue, Noël embraced the captain and insisted that he and his crew take to the boats and save themselves, knowing full well that the ship, with all its passengers, soon would plummet to the bottom of the sea. Noël's daughters married into the Pitre and Blanchard families; the oldest one perished with her family aboard the Duke William. The youngest daughter and her husband were deported from Île Royale to Rochefort, France, in late 1758, and she died there within a year of her arrival, so only one of Noël's daughters may have survived deportation. All five of his sons created their own families. One son died at Cobeguit before the extended family moved on to Pointe-Prime, and the four other sons and their families also perished aboard the ill-fated transport--a dark testament to the determination of Acadians to remain close to their loved ones.
Oldest son Louis-Mathieu, born at Boston in February 1706, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Pitre and Françoise Babin and sister of two of his brothers-in-law, in c1726 probably at Cobegut. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1736, Madeleine gave Louis-Mathieu six children, four sons and two daughters. They followed his family to Pointe-Prime in c1750, and the French official counted Louis-Mathieu (he did not give his surname), Madeleine, an 18-year-old son, and a 12-year-old Doiron niece, there in August 1752. Louis-Mathieu's daughters married into the Leprince and Daigle families and died aboard the Duke William. His two older sons and his youngest son also married before the island's dérangement. Louis-Mathieu, Madeleine, their third son, and their married daughters perished with his parents and siblings aboard the Duke William. Louis-Mathieu would have been in his early 50s in December 1758.
Oldest son Charles, born probably at Cobeguit in c1728, followed his family to Pointe-Prime, and married Anne-Gertrude, daughter of Paul Benoit and Anne Trahan of Pigiguit, at Pointe-Prime in January 1752. The following August, a French official counted them at Pointe-Prime near his parents. They also perished aboard the Duke William. Charles would have been age 30 in December 1758.
Louis-Mathieu's second son Jean, born probably at Cobeguit in c1730, followed his family to Pointe-Prime and married Victoire, daughter of François Leprince and Catherine Benoit of Pigiguit, perhaps at Cobeguit in c1750. Victoire gave Jean a daughter that year. They may not have followed his family to Pointe-Prime; they were not counted on Île St.-Jean in August 1752, so they may have remained at Cobeguit. If so, they escaped the British in 1755-56 and sought refuge in Canada. Daughter Marie-Madeleine married into the Délage family at Québec in September 1783.
Louis-Mathieu's third son Baptiste-Olivier, born probably at Cobeguit in c1734, followed his parents to Pointe-Prime, was counted with them there in August 1752, and, at age 24, still unmarried, died with them aboard the Duke William in December 1758.
Louis-Mathieu's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Cobeguit in c1735, followed his parents to Pointe-Prime and was counted with his paternal grandfather Noèl and grandmother Marie at Pointe-Prime in August 1752. He likely was the Jean-Baptise Doiron who married Théodose Boudrot on the island in c1757. When the British deported the island Acadians to St.-Malo in late 1758, Jean-Baptiste and Théodose were placed aboard the transport Supply, which left the Maritimes in late November, on the same day his parents and grandparents departed Pointe-Prime aboard the Duke William. The Supply survived the North Atlantic storm that sunk the Duke William and its companion the Violet, and arrived at Bideford, England, on December 20. Some Acadians disembarked and went on to Bristol, but Jean-Baptiste and Théodose, with most of their fellow passengers, continued on to St.-Malo, which they finally reached in early March 1759. They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer and were still there in 1772, after which they disappear from the historical record. They did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Noël's second son Paul, born at Grand-Pré in April 1710, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Benoit le jeune and Élisabeth LeJuge, in c1732 probably at Minas. Bona Arsenault insists that Paul's first wife was Émilienne, daughter of Philippe Thibodeau and Élisabeth Vincent of Pigiguit, who he married at Grand-Pré in September 1732. Stephen A. White is followed here. Paul and Marguerite followed his family to Pointe-Prime in c1750. In August 1752, a French official counted Paul, Marguerite, their son and daughter, ages not given, and two orphans, ages 15 and 12, at Pointe-Prime near his parents. Paul remarried to Françoise, daughter of Jean Bourg and Françoise Aucoin, on the island in November 1753. They, too, perished aboard the Duke William with his parents and siblings. Paul would have been in his late 40s in December 1758.
Jean, père's seventh son Jacques, a twin, by first wife Marie-Anne Canol, born probably at Minas in c1689, evidently died young.
Jean, père's eighth son Louis, Jacques's twin, by first wife Marie-Anne Canol, born probably at Minas in c1689, married Marguerite, daughter of Nicolas Barrieau and Martine Hébert and widow of Denis Girouard, at Grand-Pré in November 1712. Between 1714 and the mid-1720s, Marguerite gave Louis five children, two sons and three daughters. Louis died at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in November 1727, in his late 30s. Widow Marguerite followed her sons to Île St.-Jean in c1750. Two of her and Louis's daughters married into the Boudrot and Daigre families. Both of her and Louis's sons created their own families on Île St.-Jean and in France.
Older son Alexis, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in June 1723, married Marguerite, daughter of Alexandre Thibodeau and François Benoit, at l'Assomption in September 1743. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1749, Marguerite gave Alexis four sons, but other records say three. They moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1750, and Marguerite died on the island soon after they got there. In August 1752, a French official counted Alexis, now a widower, three sons, ages 8, 6, and 3, and his 58-year-old mother at the farthest end of Grande-Anse on the island's southeastern coast. According to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., Alexis remarried to Hélène Blanchard probably at Grande-Anse in c1753. According to Robichaux, in 1754 and 1756 she gave Alexis two more children, a daughter and another son. Hélène also died on the island. Alexis remarried again--his third marriage--to Madeleine-Josèphe, daughter of François Bourg and Marguerite Hébert, probably at Grande-Anse in July 1758, on the eve of the island's dérangement. Alexis, Madeleine-Josèphe, and two of his sons by first wife Marguerite and a son by Madeleine-Josèphe, survived the crossing to St.-Malo, France, but the youngest son, age 4 months, died soon after they reached the Breton port. Alexis's third son Théodore, age 9, as well as his daughter and son by second wife Hélène, ages 4 and 2, died at sea. Alexis took his family to nearby St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, where, between 1760 and 1764, Madeleine-Josèphe gave him three more children, a son and two daughters. In November 1765, they were among the few island Acadians who chose to go to recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany with other Acadian exiles (older sons Grégoire and Josaphat remained at St.-Énogat, where they created their own families). They settled near his younger brother Jean at Bortereau, today's Borduro, near Locmaria on the eastern shore of the island. According to Arsenault, from 1766 to 1773, Madeleine-Josèphe gave Alexis seven more children, five sons and two daughters, on Belle-Île-en-Mer--15 children by three wives. The family did not remain on the island. In the early 1770s, Alexis and Madeleine-Josèphe abandoned their concession at Bortereau and returned to St.-Énogat. According to Arsenault, Alexis, Madeleine-Josèphe, and their youngest children, five sons and two daughters, returned to greater Acadia. Records show that Alexis's second son Josaphat by first wife Marguerite took his family to England, probably via the Channel Islands, in March 1773. Alexis, Marguerite-Josèphe, and their younger children may have accompanied them. Alexis's younger children settled on St. John's Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, where his daughters married into the Chiasson and Lebrun families. His younger sons also created their own families at Rustico on the north shore of the island. Two of his granddaughters by his oldest son settled in Spanish Louisiana.
Oldest son Alexis-Grégoire, called Grégoire, by first wife Marguerite Thibodeau, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in April 1744, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where he was counted with his widowed father and two younger brothers at Grande-Anse in August 1752. He followed his father and stepmother to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758, went with them to nearby St.-Énogat, but remained there with his younger brother when his father and his new family moved on to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765. Grégoire married Hélène, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Aucoin and Élisabeth Amireau, at St.-Énogat in May 1767. Between 1768 and 1772, Hélène gave Grégoire three children, two daughters and a son, there. In 1773, they followed other Acadians from the port cities to the interior of Poitou, where Hélène gave him another son in 1775. In November of that year, Grégoire, Hélène, and their four children followed other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where Hélène gave him two more sons, both of whom died young. Their oldest son also died there at age 9. Grégoire worked as a seaman at Nantes and may have died there or at sea before November 1784, when Hélène remarried at Nantes to an Acadian Dantin. The following year, she, her husband, four of his children from his first marriage, along with her two Doiron daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. (The second Doiron son would have been age 10 in 1785, so he likely had died young like his brothers.) Hélène and her family followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where her Doiron daughters married into the Baudoin and Hébert families. The older daughter followed her husband to the western prairies in the 1790s.
Alexis's second son Joseph dit Josaphat, by first wife Marguerite Thibodeau, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in September 1746, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where he was counted with his widowed father and two brothers at Grande-Anse in August 1752. He followed his father and stepmother to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758, went with them to nearby St.-Énogat, but remained there with his older brother when his father and and his new family moved on to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765. Josaphat married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Duon and Angélique Aucoin of Minas, at Plouër-sur-Rance, on the west side of the river south of St.-Énogat, in August 1766. Between 1768 and 1770, Marguerite gave Josaphat three sons at St.-Énogat and nearby Pleurtuit. In March 1773, instead of following his older brother Grégoire to Poitou, Josaphat, perhaps following his father, stepmother, and younger half-siblings, took his wife and children to England probably via the Channel Islands, from which they returned to greater Acadia. One wonders if they, too, settled on St. John's Island, today's Prince Edward Island.
Alexis's sixth son Jean-Charles, by third wife Madeleine-Josèphe Bourg, born at St.-Énogat, France, in August 1760, followed his family to Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1765 and back to St.-Énogat in the early 1770s. In March 1773, he and his younger siblings evidently followed his parents and an older half-brother to the Channel Islands and England, from which they returned to greater Acadia. Jean-Charles married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Poirier and Marguerite Lavigne of Rustico, probably on St. John's Island in c1786.
Alexis's seventh son Joseph, by third wife Madeleine-Josèphe Bourg, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1766, followed his family to St.-Énogat in the early 1770s and to greater Acadia via England in 1773. Joseph married fellow Acadian Angélique Gallant of Rustico probably on St. John's Island in c1790.
Alexis's eighth son Pierre, by third wife Madeleine-Josèphe Bourg, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1770, followed his family to St.-Énogat in the early 1770s and to greater Acadia via England in 1773. Pierre married Juliette, daughter of François Buote and Marie Babineau of Rustico, probably on St. John's Island in c1792.
Alexis's ninth son François-Xavier dit Mico, by third wife Madeleine-Josèphe Bourg, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1772, followed his family to St.-Énogat in the early 1770s and to greater Acadia via England in 1773. Mico married another Angélique Gallant of Rustico probably on St. John's Island, date unrecorded.
Alexis's tenth and youngest son Élie, by third wife Madeleine-Josèphe Bourg, was born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in c1773. Soon after his birth, he followed his family to St.-Énogat and to greater Acadia via England. Élie married Suzanne, daughter of Pierre dit Grand-Pierre Gallant of Rustico, probably on St. John's Island, date not given.
Louis's younger son
Jean, born at l'Assomption Pigiguit, in March 1730, followed his family to Grande-Anse,
Île St.-Jean, and married Anne, another daughter of
Jean, père's ninth son Thomas, by second wife Marie Trahan, born probably at Minas in c1699, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Girouard and Marie Comeau, in c1724 probably at Minas and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1725 and 1747, Anne gave Thomas 11 children, five sons and six daughters. Other records give them two more daughters, the older one born on the eve of the family's move to Île St.-Jean in c1750, and the other born on the island in the early 1750s. In August 1752, a French offical counted Thomas, Anne, and 10 of their children, four sons and six daughters, ages 22 to 3, at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in the island's interior, next to married son Bénoni and his family. Thomas's second daughter Marie-Françoise had married into the Bourg family on the island in January 1751 and was counted with her husband and infant son at Rivière-aux-Crapauds on the island's south shore by the same official. In late summer of 1758, the British deported Thomas and his family to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Duc Guillaume (not to be confused with the later vessel of the same name on which brother Noël's family perished). Thomas, age 59, and four of his children died at sea. Soon after their arrival, two of his older daughters and his married son died in a local hospital from the rigors of the crossing. Widow Anne and their remaining five children settled at nearby St.-Suliac. Anne died there in December 1761, in her early 50s. Their younger surviving daughters married into the Naquin family in France. Their older surviving daughter may not have married. Their two youngest sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.
Oldest son Bénoni, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1725, married Marguerite, daughter of François Boisseau and Marie-Anne Saunier, probably at l'Assomption in c1746. They followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750 and were counted with them at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in August 1752. The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in the late summer of 1758. His oldest son Simon-Grégoire and youngest daughter Élisabeth died in the crossing. Bénoni died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in November 1758, age 33, from the rigors of the crossing. His younger son Olivier died five days later. Widow Marguerite died at the St.-Malo hospital the following January. Only second son Pierre, age 8 in 1758, survived the ordeal and likely was raised by relatives. Pierre did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana with his uncles in 1785, when he would have been in his early 30s. One wonders if he married and continued his father's line.
Thomas's third son Charles, born probably at l'Assomption in c1738, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, survived the deportation to St.-Malo, and settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer. He moved to nearby St.-Suliac in 1759 and died there in June 1764, age 26. He did not marry.
Thomas's fourth son Alexandre le jeune, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit in c1739, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, survived the deportation to St.-Malo aboard Duc Guillaume, settled at St.-Suliac, and moved on to Pleslin across the Rance in 1763, where he worked as a laborer and a carpenter. He married Ursule, daughter of fellow Acadians François Hébert and Isabelle Bourg of Cobeguit and Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale, in January 1763. From 1763 to 1772, at Pleslin, Ursule gave Alexandre le jeune five children, two daughters and three sons, but one of the sons died in infancy. In 1773 or 1774, they followed other exiles from the port cities, including younger brother Jacques, to the interior of Poitou. In 1775, Ursule gave Alexandre le jeune another son there, but they did not remain. In March 1776, they followed other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where brother Jacques had gone the previous December. Ursule gave Alexandre le jeune two more sons at Chantenay near Nantes, and their son born in Poitou died. Alexandre le jeune, Ursule, and six of their children, two daughters and four sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. They followed their fellow passengers to Manchac below Baton Rouge and had another son there. An Alexandre Doiron died at Manchac in October 1793. The San Gabriel priest who recorded the burial did not give any parents' names, mention a wife, or give the age of the deceased, so one wonders if this was him. If it was, Alexandre le jeune of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, would have died in his mid-50s. Wife Ursule died at Manchac in October 1798, age 56. Their daughters married into the Templet and Benoit families on the river. Five of Alexandre's sons married into the Hébert, Labauve, and Richard families in the Baton Rouge area, and one of them joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche. Most of the Doirons of South Louisiana are descended from Alexandre and his five sons.
Thomas's fifth and youngest son Jacques dit Jacob, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit in c1742, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, survived the deportation to St.-Malo Duc Guillaume, and settled at St.-Suliac, where he married Anne-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Breau and Ursule Bourg, in July 1765. From 1768 to 1771, Anne-Josèphe gave Jacques three children, two sons and a daughter. They also lived at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer. In 1773, they followed other Acadians from the port cities, including older brother Alexandre, to Poitou, where, in 1774, Anne-Josèphe gave Jacques another son, but the boy died less than a year later. In December of 1775, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port of Nantes, where Anne-Josèphe gave Jacques four more children, three sons and a daughter, but they all died young. In 1785, Jacques, Anne-Josèphe, and their three surviving children, two sons and a daughter, followed brother Alexandre on a different ship to Spanish Louisiana. Anne-Josèphe was pregnant when they left Paimboeu, the lower port of Nantes, and another daughter was born to them aboard ship. Though older brother Alexandre had settled at Manchac on the river, Jacques and Anne-Josèphe chose to follow most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. They had another son in the colony. Jacques died in Assumption Parish in October 1810, in his late 60s. His daughters married into the Bergeron and Boudreaux families. Two of his three sons married into the Dugas and Daigle families on the upper Lafourche, but the younger one moved on to lower Bayou Teche during the antebellum period.
Jean, père's tenth son
Paul, by second wife Marie Trahan, born probably at Minas in
the early 1700s, married Marguerite, daughter of Toussaint Doucet and Marie
Caissie, in c1725 probably at Minas. One wonders what happened to them
in 1755. I
Jean, père's eleventh son Alexandre, by second wife Marie Trahan, born probably at Minas in the early 1700s, married Anne, daughter of Clément Vincent and Madeleine Levron, at Grand-Pré in October 1727 and remained there. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1738, Anne gave Alexandre seven children, five daughters and two sons. The British deported most of them to Maryland in the fall of 1755. In July 1763, Alexandre, Anne, and six of their children, five daughters and a son, as well as an unnamed child, appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore. As the counting reveals, one of their children did not go with the family to Maryland. Alexandre died in the colony, and Anne and three of her Doiron daughters emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1768. They married into the Amache, St. Pierre, Rodriguez, and LeBlanc families in the Spanish colony. One wonders what happened to Alexandre and Anne's other three children who had been counted in Maryland.
Older son André, born probably at Minas in c1730, followed his family to Maryland in 1755 and was counted with them at Oxford in July 1763, when he would have been in his early 30s. He did not accompany his widowed mother and three sisters to Spanish Louisiana in 1768. Did he join his younger brother in Canada or remain in the Chesapeake colony?
Alexandre, père's younger son Alexandre, fils, born probably at Minas in c1738, was age 17 when the British deported his family to Maryland. He evidently escapted the roundup and sought refuge in Canada, perhaps with relatives. He married Geneviève dite Ducharme, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Charron and Jeanne Houde of Berthier and widow of Pierre Héneau dit Delorme, at St.-Pierre-de-Sorel, today's Sorel, on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Montréal.
Jean, père's twelfth and youngest son Pierre le jeune, by second wife Marie Trahan, born probably at Minas in c1706, married Marguerite Breau in c1746, moved on to the French Maritimes, and died on Île-au-Foin, off Île St.-Jean, in March 1751, in his mid-40s.392
François Levron dit Nantois, perhaps a 1671 arrival, and his wife Catherine Savoie created a good-sized family in the colony. Between 1677 and 1722, Catherine gave Nantois 10 children, four sons and six daughters. Nantois died at Annapolis Royal, formerly Port-Royal, in June 1714, age 70. His daughters married into the Vincent, Benoit, Garceau dit Tranchemontagne, Richard dit Boutin, Picot dit La Rigueur, Maucaïre, Comeau, and Labauve families. Three of his four sons created their own families. His and Catherine's descendants settled at Pigiguit, Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, on Île St.-Jean, and in Canada (before Le Grand Dérangement). At least six of their descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and especially from France in 1785. Even more could be found in Canada and some in France after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Jacques, born at Port-Royal in c1677, married Marie, daughter of Laurent Doucet and Jeanne Babin, at Port-Royal in January 1710 and settled on the haute rivière. In August 1714, he and other Acadians took La Marie Joseph to the new French colony of Île Royale to look at land there, did not see anything he liked, and returned to the Annapolis valley. Between 1711 and 1736, Marie gave Jacques 13 children, seven sons and six daughters. Jacques died probably at Annapolis Royal by February 1746, in his late 60s. One wonders if his death was war-related. Three of his daughters married into the Hébert, Lejeune, Comeau, and Dubois families. Only three of his seven sons created families of their own.
Oldest son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1712, married Anne Comeau in c1739 (Bona Arsenault says c1734), place unrecorded. According to Arsenault, Joseph and Anne settled at Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, and Anne gave him a daughter there in 1741. Joseph died by 1752, place unrecorded, probably at Chepoudy, in his 30s. According to Arsenault, Anne remarried into the Creysac dit Toulouse family at nearby Petitcoudiac in April 1755, on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement. She and her new husband evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and found refuge in Canada. Anne died at Québec in December 1757, a victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of exiles in the area between the fall of 1757 and the spring of 1758. Her Levron daughter Marie followed her mother and stepfather to Québec and married into the Corran dit Dauphiné family there in December 1758. Her husband died at Maskinongé on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Sorel, and she remarried into the Allard family at nearby St.-Cuthbert in August 1807, so the blood of this family line endured.
Jacques's second son Jacques, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1717, married Marie Doiron in c1754, place unrecorded. He died by January 1758, place unrecorded, perhaps in exile in Canada, where his son Guillaume-Gaspard le jeune was buried in Notre-Dame Parish, Québec, in January 1758, a victime, perhaps, of smallpox.
Jacques, père's third son Simon dit Nantois, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1722, married Marguerite, daughter of Louis Renaud dit Provençal and Marie-Madeleine Lapierre, at Grand-Pré in February 1746. They may have moved on to Chepoudy. Simon and his wife evidently escaped the roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and took refuge in Canada. Simon died at Québec in December 1757, age 37, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of exiles in the area between the fall of 1757 and the spring of 1758.
Jacques, père's
François's second son Joseph dit Métayer, born at Port-Royal in c1691, did not remain there. He moved to Canada, where he married Rose dit Denis, daughter of Canadians Denis Veronneau and Catherine Guertin, at Boucherville near Montréal in September 1722, and remarried to Catherine, daughter of Canadians Michel-Mathieu Brunet and Marie Blanchard and widow of Honoré Danis, at Fort-Frontenac, today's Kingston, Ontario, in January 1750. One wonders if he was a soldier or a merchant in the pays d'en haut.
François's third son Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in c1692, married to Françoise, daughter of Louis-Noël Labauve and Marie Rimbault, at Annapolis Royal in January 1716 and, according to Bona Arsenault, resettled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1736. According to Arsenault, between 1717 and 1741, Françoise gave Jean-Baptiste nine children, three daughters and six sons. Jean-Baptiste died probably in exile before March 1756, in his early 60s. One of his daughters married into the Lejeune dit Briard family at Pigiguit and emigrated to ?Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. Another married into the Trahan family probably at Minas and followed her husband to Virginia, England, France, and French Guiane. Three of his six sons created their own families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from France.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1719, moved to Chignecto and married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Comeau and Marie Roy, at Beaubassin in November 1743. They settled at nearby Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1757, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste, fils five children, three daughters and two sons. The family evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada. Their daughters married into the Bossu dit Lyonnais, Breau, and Viau families. Both of Jean-Baptiste, fils's sons also created their own families, in Canada.
Older son Sylvain, born probably at Chepoudy in c1746, followed his family to Canada, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jacques Landré and Angélique-Amable Viens, at Lachine above Montréal in October 1769.
Jean-Baptiste, fils's younger Simon dit Cadien, born probably at Chepoudy in c1755, followed his family to Canada, where, at age 31, he married Françoise, daughter of Françoise LeBlanc and Françoise Valiquet, at Pointe-Claire above Montréal in October 1786.
Jean-Baptiste, père's fifth son Michel, born probably at Annapolis in c1732, followed his family to Pigiguit and moved on to Île St.-Jean after August 1752. He married Marguerite, daughter of René Trahan and Marguerite Melanson, at Port-La-Joye on the island in March 1756. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1757 and 1758, Marguerite gave Michel two children, a daughter and a son, on the island. The British deported the family to France in 1758-59. A storm drove their vessel off course, and they landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer instead of St.-Malo. According to Arsenault, between 1759 and 1764, Marguerite gave Michel four more children, two sons and two daughters, at Boulogne-sur-Mer. Their older son died there in June 1760. The family moved to Morlaix in northern Brittany in 1764, soon after the birth of their youngest daughter. In 1767 and 1771, Marguerite gave Michel two more sons in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Morlaix--eight children in all, five sons and three daughters. Michel did not take his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773, nor did they join other Acadian exiles at lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade. They remained at Morlaix. Michel's second son married a Trahan cousin in St.-Martin Parish there in February 1785. Later in the year, Michel, Marguerite, their married son and his wife, and two of their unmarried children, a daughter and a son, moved from Morlaix to Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. They followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where their daughter married into the Daigre family. Michel's younger son married into the Dantin family on the bayou. The older son and his Trahan wife created a vigorous line there, but the younger son's line did not endure.
Jean-Baptiste, père's sixth and youngest son Pierre, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1741, followed his family to Île St.-Jean after August 1752. The British deported him to France in 1758-59. He landed at Morlaix in northern Brittany, where he married Blanche Cécile, called Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph LeBlanc and Madeleine Lalande, in St.-Mélaine Parish in September 1765. Between 1766 and 1770, Cécile gave Pierre four children, two daughters and two sons, in St.-Martin des Champs Parish. Pierre remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Richard and Cécile Gautrot and widow of François Lejeune, in St.-Martin Parish in January 1776. Between 1780 and 1791, Anne gave Pierre four more children, two daughters and two sons, in St.-Martin Parish--eight children by two wives. As the birth date of their younger son reveals, Pierre did not follow his older brother Michel to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. Members of the family were still at Morlaix in July 1792, when Pierre was working as a carpenter and his wife as a shopkeeper. His son Pierre-Mathurin, age 21 in 1792, also worked as a carpenter in Morlaix.
François's fourth and youngest son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1696, died on the haute rivière in January 1725, age 29, before he could marry.393
Martin Aucoin, an early 1670s arrival, and his wife Marie Gaudet created a large family in the colony. Between 1674 and 1707, Marie gave Martin 19 children, 10 sons and nine daughters, including a set of twins. Five of their daughters married into the Guérin, Gautrot, Thériot, Thibodeau, and Bourg families. Nine of Martin's sons married, three of them to sisters, but "only" eight of them created lasting family lines. His third son's line of the family was especially vigorous. Martin and Marie's descendants settled at Minas, Pigiguit, and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; Chignecto; Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; and in the French Maritimes, where they were especially numerous on Île St.-Jean by 1752. One of Martin's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in the late 1760s, and at least 93 of them chose to go to Louisiana from France in 1785. However, a substantial number of Aucoins remained in greater Acadia or Canada after Le Grand Dérangement, and some even chose to remain in France when their cousins moved on to Spanish Louisiana.
Oldest son Martin, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1674, married Catherine, daughter of Germain Thériot and Andrée Brun, in c1698 probably at Minas and settled at Rivière-aux-Canards. Between the late 1690s and the early 1710s, Catherine gave Martin, fils eight children, three sons and five daughters, at Minas. Their daughters married into the Boudrot, Comeau, Henry, Duon, and Melanson families. Martin, fils's three sons also created their own families.
Oldest son Martin III, born probably at Port-Royal in the early 1700s, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Anne-Marie Thibodeau, in c1723, settled at Minas, and moved on to Petitcoudiac in the early 1750s. Martin III died there between 1752 and 1755, in early 50s. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1725 and 1742, Élisabeth gave Martin III eight children, two sons and six daughters. Two of their daughters married into the LeBlanc and Thibodeau families. Michel III's two sons created their own families.
Older son Alexis, born in c1725, perhaps at Minas, was, according to Bona Arsenault, deported with members of his family to South Carolina in 1755. He married Marie-Josèphe Babin in c1760 while in exile. At war's end, they chose to resettle in Canada (an unusual choice for exiles held in South Carolina, so one wonders where they actually had gone in 1755). Alexis remarried to Thécle, daughter of Simon Leureau and Marguerite Loignon, at Ste.-Famille, Île d'Orléans, below Québec, in February 1763. They settled at St.-Joseph-de-Beauce on Rivière Chaudière south of Québec, soon after their marriage, and moved on to Yamachiche on the north shore of Lac St.-Pierre near Trois-Rivières, in 1767. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1772, Thécle gave Alexis five children, four sons and a daughter. Alexis died at Yamachiche in December 1792, age 67. All four of his sons created their own families.
Oldest son Alexis, fils, born in Canada in c1763, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Pierre Auger and Madeleine Sylvain, at Rivière-du-Loup, today's Louiseville, on the north shore of Lac St.-Pierre, in January 1786, and remarried to Rosalie Ferron, widow of Joseph Colin, at Yamachiche in April 1814.
Alexis, père's second son Jean, born in Canada in c1764, married Josèphe, daughter of Étienne Grenier and Marguerite Lavigne, at Yamachiche in October 1799.
Alexis, père's third son Pierre, born in Canada in c1767, married Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Hébert and Marguerite Thibodeau, at Yamachiche in October 1789, and remarried to Marie-Louise, daughter of Alexis Girard and Françoise Lacoste, at Louiseville in November 1803. Pierre died at Yamachiche in March 1804, in his late 30s.
Alexis, père's fourth and youngest son Claude, born in Canada in 1769, married Amable, daughter of Joseph Germain and Françoise Guilbault, at Yamachiche in February 1794 and died at Yamachiche in November 1796, in his late 20s, "sans laisser de postérité"--without having fathered any children.
Martin III's younger son Jean-Baptiste, born in c1726, perhaps at Minas, married Marie-Anne Saulnier probably at Petitcoudiac in c1752. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1760, Marie-Anne gave Jean-Baptiste three children, two sons and a daughter. They escaped the British in 1755 and made their way to Canada. Jean-Baptiste died in exile in c1760, and his widow remarried at St.-Thomas de Montmagny, below Québec, in October 1762.
Martin, fils's second son
Paul,
born at Grand-Pré in April 1712,
married Marie-Josèphe-Blanche, daughter of Jacques LeBlanc and Élisabeth
Boudrot and older brother Martin III's stepdaughter, at Grand-Pré in
November 1737. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1738 and 1748, Marie-Josèphe gave Paul six
children, five sons and a daughter.
Martin's second son Michel, born probably at Port-Royal in c1677, married Jeanne, daughter of Martin Bourg and Marie Potet, in c1699 probably at Minas, settled at Cobeguit on the eastern end of the Minas Basin by 1703, and in 1750 led his family to Île St.-Jean, where they settled on Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the interior of the island. Between 1700 and 1717, Jeanne gave Michel seven children, four sons and three daughters. Two of their daughters married into the Dugas and Dupuis families. All four of Michel's sons created their own families.
Oldest son Antoine le jeune, born probably at Port-Royal in c1700, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of François Amireau and Marie Pitre, in c1730 perhaps at Cobeguit, moved on to Île St.-Jean probably in 1755 or 1756, and died at Rivière-des-Blonds on the south shore of the island in December 1756, age 56. In 1758-59, the British deported Antoine le jeune's widow and younger children--a son and three daughters--as well as a married son and his bride to France. They settled in the St.-Malo area. Daughter Hélène married into the Doiron and Dantin families in France and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. The son who married on Île St.-Jean also emigrated to the Spanish colony.
Older son Michel le jeune, born probably at Cobeguit in c1732, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1755 or 1756. He married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, Hébert on the island in c1758. The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, later that year. According to Albert J. Rochichaux's study of the Acadians in France, between 1760 and 1782, Élisabeth gave Michel 14 children, eight sons and six daughters, at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo. As the birth years of his children reveal, Michel did not take his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773, nor did he join hundreds of his fellow exiles at Nantes later in the decade. Michel, Élisabeth, and 10 of their children, six sons and four daughters, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana directly St.-Malo in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian settlement of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District above Baton Rouge before joining the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche probably in the early 1790s. Michel le jeune died probably on the Lafourche by December 1795, when wife Élisabeth was listed in a census there without a husband. He would have been in his early 50s. Two of his daughters married into the Potier, Pedeau, and Barrilleaux families on the Lafourche. Five of his six sons also married, into the Thibodeaux, Aucoin, Bourg, Gautreaux, and Comeaux families and created vigorous lines on the bayou.
Antoine le jeune's younger son Chrysostôme, born probably at Cobeguit in c1741, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1755 or 1756 and was deported to France with his widowed mother and siblings in 1758. Did Chrysostôme marry in the mother country? If so, when and where? One thing is certain--he did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 with brother Michel and sister Hélène.
Michel's second son Michel, fils, born probably at Cobeguit in c1704, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Martin Henry and Marie Hébert, in c1729 probably at Cobeguit. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1747, Marie-Josèphe gave Michel, fils six children, all daughters. They moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1751 and settled at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in the island's interior. One wonders what happened to them in 1758.
Michel, père's third son
René dit Renauchon, born probably at Cobeguit in
c1711, married Madeleine, daughter of
François Michel and Marie-Anne Léger, in c1737 perhaps at
Cobeguit. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1738 and 1752, Madeleine gave Renauchon six children, a
son and five daughters. Renauchon was active in the Acadian resistance
during the late 1740s, moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1750, and settled at
Anse-à-Pinnet, on the island's south shore.
Martin's third son Alexis dit Lexy, a twin, born at Chignecto in March 1684, married Anne-Marie, called Marie, another daughter of Martin Bourg and Marie Potet, in c1707, settled at Cobeguit, and moved on to Île St.-Jean. Between 1708 and 1737, Anne-Marie gave Alexis 13 children, 12 sons and a daughter. Their daughter married into the Breau family at Cobeguit. Ten of Alexis's 12 sons created their own families. Understandably, Alexis's line of the family was especially vigorous.
Oldest son Pierre le jeune, born at Cobeguit in c1708, married Élisabeth, daughter of Antoine Breau and Marguerite Dugas, at Grand-Pré in November 1732. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1756, Élisabeth gave Pierre le jeune nine children, five sons and four daughters. In 1750, they moved on to Île St.-Jean, where they settled at Anse-au-Matelot on the island's south shore. Daughter Marie-Blanche married into the LaVache family at nearby Port-La-Joye in February 1754. Pierre le jeune died probably on the island in c1757, in his late 40s. The following year, his widow and children escaped the British roundup and sought refuge in Canada, where widow Élisabeth remarried in November 1759. At least one of Pierre le jeune's sons created his own family.
Son Pierre, fils, born at Minas in c1736, evidently followed his family to Île St.-Jean, escaped the British roundup there, sought refuge in Canada, and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Brisson and Geneviève Pépin, at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec and Trois-Rivières in April 1762. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1783, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre, fils six children, three sons and three daughters.
Alexis dit Lexy's second son, name unrecorded, born probably at Cobeguit in the early 1710s, died young.
Alexis dit Lexy's third son Sylvain, born probably at Cobeguit in c1711, married Catherine, daughter of Joseph Amireau and Marguerite Lord, in c1736 probably at Cobeguit and moved on to Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in c1756. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1755 and 1756, Catherine gave Sylvain two sons. What happened to them in 1758?
Martin's fifth son Pierre, born in c1689, place not given, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Breau and Marie-Josèphe Bourgeois, in c1716 probably at Minas and settled on Rivière-aux-Canards. According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Pierre a son in 1717. Pierre remarried to Catherine, daughter of Jean Comeau le jeune and Catherine Babin, at Grand-Pré in August 1718. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1719 and 1730, Catherine gave Pierre five more children, another son and four daughters. One of Pierre's daughters married into the Landry family. Two of his sons created families of their own. What happened to the family in 1755?
Older son Pierre, fils, by first wife Marie Breau, born at Minas in c1717, married Anne, daughter of Jean Thibodeau and Marguerite Hébert, at Grand-Pré in October 1745. One wonders what happened to them in 1755.
Pierre, père's
younger son Charles, by second wife Catherine Comeau, born at Minas in
c1723, married Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Trahan and Jeanne
Daigre of Pigiguit, at Rivière-aux-Canards in November 1753.
According to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine gave Charles at least one son, Pierre
le jeune, born probably at
Rivière-aux-Canards in c1755. The family was deported to Virginia later
that year, sent on to England in early 1756, and repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in the spring
of 1763. They settled at Plouër-sur-Rance on the west side of the river
south of St.-Malo. Evidently Pierre le
jeune remained
their only child, and they did not follow other exiles to Poitou or Nantes. Charles, Madeleine, Pierre le jeune, and two kinswomen emigrated
to Spanish Louisiana in 1785
Martin's sixth
son René, born in c1690, place not given, married Madeleine, yet another daughter of
Martin's seventh
son Antoine, born at Minas in c1694, married Anne, another daughter of
Antoine's s
Martin's eighth
son
Older son
Joseph, père's
Martin's ninth son Jean, born probably at Minas in c1698, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Pitre and Marie Comeau, in c1722, place not given, and settled at Minas and Cobeguit. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1730, Marguerite gave Jean five children, two sons and three daughters. Jean died in c1730 probably at Cobeguit. His two sons created families of their own.
Older son Pierre, born in c1728 (Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. says c1737), place not named, was deported to Virginia in 1755, sent on to England in 1756, married Félicité LeBlanc in England c1762, and was repatriated to France the following year. Between 1763 and 1780, Félicité gave Pierre 10 children, five sons and five daughters, in England and France. In 1773, the family joined other Acadians on the Isle of Jersey, a British-owned Channel islands off the western coast of Normandy, perhaps at the behest of Jersey native Charles Robin, who managed fisheries for the British in Gaspésie on the Baie des Chaleurs. After working for Robin there, Pierre and his family settled at Chéticamp, a remote fishing port on the western shore of Cape Breton Island. Pierre remarried to Marie Doucet in c1782 probably at Chéticamp. Four of his daughters by first wife Félicité married into the Doucet, Deveau, Gaudet, and LeBlanc families at Chéticamp. Three of Pierre's sons, all by his first wife, created their own families. One of them settled in the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Oldest son Anselme, by first wife Félicité LeBlanc, born in England in c1763, followed his family to greater Acadia, married Rose Chiasson at Chéticamp in c1785, and remained there.
Pierre's second son Joseph, by first wife Félicité LeBlanc, born in c1774, perhaps in Gaspésie, married Isabelle LeBlanc in c1794, probably at Chéticamp, and remained.
Pierre's third and youngest son Pierre, fils, by first wife Félicité LeBlanc, born in c1775, perhaps in Gaspésie, married Luce Babin in c1795, probably at Chéticamp, and resettled in the îles-de-la-Madeleine, northwest of Chéticamp. According to Bona Arsenault, Luce gave Pierre, fils a son in c1795.
Only son Pierre III married Esther, daughter of Joseph Chiasson and Henriette Boudrot, at Havre-Aubert in the Madeleines in September 1819, and remarried to Françoise Haché, widow of Jean Blanchard, place and date not given. (Strangely, Bona Arsenault has Pierre III's father remarrying to this woman as well).
Jean's younger son Joseph, born in c1730 (Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. says c1742), also was deported to Virginia and England, where he married Marie Hébert in c1762. They, too, were repatriated to France in 1763, followed Joseph's brother Pierre to the Isle of Jersey in 1773 and to Chéticamp. According to Bona Arsenault, Joseph and Marie were that rare Acadian couple who had no children of their own, but they adopted a young Irishman, Cyriac Roach, also called Roche, who established a family at Chéticamp.
Martin's tenth and youngest son Charles, born probably at Minas in c1700, married Anne-Marie, called Marie, daughter of Martin Dupuis and Marie Landry, at Grand-Pré in January 1726. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1749, Anne-Marie gave Charles at least five children, three sons and two daughters. The family was deported to Virginia in 1755, sent on to England in 1756, and repatriated to France in May 1763. Charles died probably in England before the family's repatriation. Two of his daughters married into the LeBlanc and Aucoin families in England and Louisiana, and both of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. His three sons also created their own families and emigrated to Louisiana.
Oldest son Olivier, born at Minas in c1727, married Marguerite Vincent probably at Minas in c1750. According to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.'s study of the Acadians in France, Marguerite gave Olivier two children, a daughter and a son, at Rivière-aux-Canards, in 1751 and 1753. The British deported them to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England the following spring. Wife Marguerite died in England. After being repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763, Olivier and his children settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer. He remarried to Cécile, daughter of Pierre Richard and Cécile Granger, at St.-Servan in November 1765. According to Robichaux, between 1766 and 1777, Cécile gave Olivier two more sons and four more daughters at St.-Servan, in Poitou, and at Nantes--eight children, three sons and five daughters, by two wives. Both of the younger sons died young. Meanwhile, Olivier's daughter by first wife Marguerite married Acadian shaker and mover Olivier Térriot at Nantes in 1777, and his son by Marguerite married there in May 1778. Olivier, Cécile, and three of their unmarried daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. Olivier's married daughter also emigrated to the Spanish colony with her family aboard the same vessel and settled at Ascension at the head of the bayou. Olivier and Cécile had no more children in Louisiana. Their daughters married into the Hébert, Blanchard, and Templet families. Olivier died in Assumption Parish in August 1813, age 86. Though his son by his first wife died in France--he was the last of Olivier's three sons to die there--his only grandson emigrated to Louisiana and created his own famliy there.
Oldest son Firmin, by first wife Marguerite Vincent, born at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, followed his family to Virginia, England, St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he worked as a sailor, and to Poitou and Nantes. In his early 20s, he married Marguerite, daughter of Alexandre Bourg and Marguerite-Josèphe Hébert, at St.-Jacques Parish, Nantes, in May 1778. Their son Firmin-Louis was born in St.-Jacques Parish in February 1779. Firmin died before 1785, and his widow Marguerite, along with her widowed mother and Aucoin son, emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 on the same vessel which took his father, his stepmother, and his sisters to the Spanish colony. Firmin's son Firmin-Louis married into the Arceneaux family in Louisiana and settled on Bayou Lafourche, so both his and his father's line of the family endured in the Bayou State.
Charles's second son
Alexandre,
Charles's third and youngest
son Charles, fils, born at Grand-Pré in c1747, followed his family to
Virginia, England, France, and Louisiana. At age 39, he married Marie-Marguerite,
called Marguerite, 22-year-old daughter of Pierre Noël and
Marie-Madeleine Barbe of Minas and England and widow of Frenchman Guillaume-Jean
Roquemont, at Ascension on the river above New Orleans in
January 1786 soon after they reached the colony on the same vessel. Charles, fils
died at Ascension, present-day Donaldsonville, in January 1805, in his late 50s.
Lord
Julien Lord dit LaMontagne, an early 1670s arrival, and his wife Anne-Charlotte Girouard created a fairly large family in the colony. Anne-Charlotte gave Julien nine children, five sons and four daughters. Three of their daughters married into the Doucet and Amireau dit Tourangeau families. Four of Julien's five sons created their own families. His and Anne-Charlotte's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Pigiguit, and Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, and were among the rare Acadian families who did not retreat to the French Maritimes. If any of Julien's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.
Oldest son Alexandre dit LaMontagne married Marie-Françoise, daughter of Nicolas Barrieau and Martine Hébert, in c1701 probably at Port-Royal and died there in October 1740, in his mid-60s. Marie-Françoise gave Alexandre a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters, all of whom married. Their daughters married into the Comeau, Amireau dit Tourangeau, Bonnevie dit Beaumont, Derayer, Martin, Bourg, Doiron, and Vincent families.
Oldest son Jean married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Comeau and Susanne Bezier, at Annapolis Royal in February 1737 and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit. What happened to them in 1755.
Alexandre's
second son Joseph
l'aîné married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Antoine
Brun and Marie-Françoise Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in January 1742
and died there between January and December 1742, in his late 20s.
Julien's second son Jacques married Angélique, daughter of Pierre Comeau l'aîné and Jeanne Bourg, at Port-Royal in November 1708, and remarried to Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Jacques Bonnevie dit Beaumont and François Mius d'Entremont, at Annapolis Royal in August 1721. First wife Angélique gave Jacques two children, a son and a daughter, neither of whom married. Second wife Marie-Charlotte gave him eight more children, all sons. Six of Jacques's nine sons by his second wife married, three of them to sisters.
Oldest son Jacques, fils, by first wife Angélique Comeau, died at Nicolet, across from Trois-Rivière, Canada, in October 1786, age 77, but never married.
Jacques, père's second son Charles dit Charlot, by second wife Marie-Charlotte Bonnevie, married Marguerite, daughter of Daniel Garceau and Anne Doucet, at Annapolis Royal in January 1755, on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement. What happened to them then?
Jacques, père's
third son Joseph, by second wife Marie-Charlotte Bonnevie, married
Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre-Jean Garceau and Agnès Doucet,
at Annapolis Royal in February 1750.
Jacques, père's ninth
Julien's third son Pierre married Jeanne, daughter of Laurent Doucet and Jeanne Babin, at Annapolis Royal in June 1715 and died there in January 1738, a widower in his mid-50s.
Julien's fourth son Louis evidently died young.
Julien's fifth and youngest son Charles married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jacques Doucet and Marie Pellerin, at Annapolis Royal in February 1726 and settled there.396
Étienne Pellerin, an early 1670s arrival, was not kin to François Pellerin who came to the colony a few years earlier. Étienne and his wife Jeanne Savoie created a large family that remained in the colony. From the late 1680s, Étienne owned Hog Island on Rivière-au-Dauphin, now the Annapolis River, near Port-Royal, which he had purchased from Jacques Bourgeois and François Broussard. In August 1714, soon after the British took over the colony, Étienne was among the Acadians who traveled to Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, aboard the King's vessel La Marie Joseph to look at land with the possibility of removing to the French territory. Evidently he did not like what he saw on the island and returned to Annapolis Royal, enduring British rule there. Between 1676 and 1699, Jeanne gave Étienne 10 children, five sons and five daughters. Their daughters married into the Calvé dit Laforge, Doucet, Brun, Surette, and Gaudet families. Four of Étienne's five sons created their own families. Most of his and Jeanne's descendants remained at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, among the relatively few Acadian families that did not spread out to other communities or retreat to the French Maritimes, though a grandson moved to Québec before 1755. At least three of Étienne's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. Many more of them could be found in Canada and greater Acadia, and perhaps in France, after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1682, reached adulthood but did not marry.
Étienne's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in c1685, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Martin, fils and Anne Ouestnorouest dit Petitous, at Port-Royal in February 1710 and remained there. Between 1711 and 1723, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste six children, three sons and three daughters. Two of their daughters married into the Doucet and Raymond families. One of them was deported with her family to New York in 1755 and died on the island of Martinique in December 1764. Two of Jean-Baptiste's sons created their own families.
Oldest son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1713, died there in November 1713, age 1.
Jean-Baptiste's second son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1717, married Anne, daughter of Charles Girouard and Anne Bastarache, at Annapolis Royal in February 1745. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1765, Anne gave Pierre nine children, six sons and three daughters. The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755. They were still in the colony in 1763. After the war, they resettled at Yamachiche, Canada. Pierre died in May 1781, no place given. One of his daughters married into the Landry family at Yamachiche. Four of his sons also married there.
Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1747, followed his family to Massachusetts in 1755 and to Canada after 1763. He married, at age 44, Marie, daughter of Pierre Saint-Cerny-Montour and Marie-Anne Camirand, at Yamachiche in February 1791. One wonders if this was his first marriage.
Pierre, père's second son Anselme, born at Annapolis Royal, in c1750, followed his family to Massachusetts in 1755 and to Canada after 1763. He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Trahan and Anne Landry, at Louiseville near Yamachiche in April 1777; remarried, at age 36, to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Arivisais and Geneviève Gauthier, at Louiseville in August 1786; and remarried again--his third marriage--at age 65, to Angèle Bournival, widow of Louis Lessard, at Louisville in April 1815.
Pierre, père's four son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born probably at Annapolis Royal, in c1755, followed his family to Massachusetts and to Canada after 1763. He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Landry and Rosalie Benoit, at Yamachiche in January 1783.
Pierre, père's sixth and youngest son Joseph, born probably in Massachusetts in c1762, followed his family to Canada after 1763. He married Marie-Catherine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Roy dit Desjardins and Josephte Paradis, at Yamachiche in February 1791; and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Jean Matheau and Cécile Grossin, probably at Yamachiche in February 1795.
Jean-Baptiste's third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1719, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Abraham Bourg and Marie Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in January 1744. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1768, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste, fils eight children, six sons and two daughters. The British deported the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755. They were still in the colony in 1763. After the war, they resettled at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, north of Montréal. Jean-Baptiste, fils died there in July 1805, age 87. One of his daughters married into the Lépine family at St.-Jacques. Four of his sons also married in the area.
Third son Jean-Baptiste III, born at Annapolis Royal in c1752, followed his family to Massachusetts in 1755 and to Canada after 1763. He married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Jacques Pigeon and Marie-Josèphe Galipeau, at L'Assomption near St.-Jacques in January 1778; and remarried, at age 49, to Marie Guilbord at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in January 1801.
Jean-Baptiste, fils's four son Isidore, born at Annapolis Royal in c1753, followed his family to Massachusetts in 1755 and to Canada after 1763. He married Marie-Osite, daughter of fellow Acadians Thomas Jeanson and Josephte Girouard of Annapolis Royal, at St.-Jacques in January 1781.
Jean-Baptiste, fils's fifth son Joseph, born probably in Massachusetts in c1757 and followed his family to Canada after 1763. He married, at age 31, Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Marie-Madeleine Dugas, at St.-Jacques in Januaryh 1788. Joseph died at St.-Jacques in April 1801, in his early 40s.
Jean-Baptiste, fils's sixth and youngest son David, born probably in Massachusetts in c1762 and followed his family to Canada after 1763. He married fellow Acadian Marguerite Landry at St.-Jacques in 1787.
Étienne's third son Charles dit Toc, born at Port-Royal in c1690, married, in his mid-30s, Madeleine, daughter of syndic Prudent Robichaud and Henriette Petitpas, at Annapolis Royal in January 1725 and settled there. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1746, Madeleine gave Toc nine children, five daughters and four sons. Toc died before 1760, place unrecorded. Members of his family were counted on rue Sault-au-Matelot, Québec City, in 1771. Three of his daughters married into the Doucet, Chennequi, and Renvoyzé families at Québec. One of his sons also married.
Oldest son Charles, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1731, married Monique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Marguerite Robichaud, in c1770, place unrecorded. One wonders what happened to him in 1755. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1772 and 1774, Monique gave Charles, fils two daughters. Members of the family were living at Québec in 1777.
Étienne's fourth son Bernard, born at Port-Royal in c1691, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Gaudet le jeune and Marie Blanchard, at Annapolis Royal in November 1713 and settled there. Between 1714 and the 1730s or 1740s, Marguerite gave Bernard 10 children, six sons and four daughters. Three of their daughters married into the Brun and Thibodeau families. Four of Bernard's sons created their own families.
Oldest son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1716 married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Belliveau and Marguerite Granger, at Annapolis Royal in March 1745. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1752, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre five daughters. The British attempted to deport the family to North Carolina aboard the Pembroke in the fall of 1755, they escaped, and took refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean, where they remained until the summer of 1756. While two of his younger brothers moved on to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, Pierre took his family to Canada, probably via the St.-Jean portage. The family settled at Nicolet and St.-Grégoire on the upper St. Lawrence. Pierre remarried to Cécile, daughter of Michel Boudrot and Cécile LeBlanc and widow of Jean-Baptiste Pitre, at Ste.-Croix de Lotbinière on the upper St. Lawrence in November 1762 while in exile. Two daughters, from his first wife, married into the Desfossés, Laspron-La-Charité, and Richard families at Nicolet and St.-Grégoire.
Bernard's second son Paul, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1720, married Anne, daughter of Germain Savoie and Geneviève Babineau, at Annapolis Royal in February 1748. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1752, Anne gave Paul three children, two daughters and a son. Paul remarried to Marie Girouard after 1752 probably at Annapolis Royal. One wonders what happened to them in the fall of 1755. Paul died before August 1763, date and place unrecorded.
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and youngest son Alexandre, born at Port-Royal in c1694, married
Alexandre's third son François, born at Annapolis Royal in c1722, married Ursule, daughter of Jean Dupuis and Anne Richard, at Annapolis Royal in February 1745. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1763, Ursule gave François six children, four sons and two daughters. The British deported the family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755. François died probably in the southern colony in c1762. What happened to the rest of his family after the war?
Alexandre's fourth son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in c1726, married Marie Thibodeau in c1755, place unrecorded. They evidently escaped the roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755 and moved to Île St.-Jean by August 1757, when he remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Jacques Daigre and Marie-Madeleine Landry of Grand-Pré, at Port-La-Joye on the island. According to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine had given Charles a son in c1756. One wonders what happened to them in 1758.
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Alexandre's
seventh and youngest son Michel-Gaspard,
Robert Henry, a mid-1670s arrival, and his wife Marie-Madeleine Godin created a large family in the colony. Marie-Madeleine gave Robert 13 children, six sons and seven daughters. From Port-Royal they moved to Minas in the late 1680s or early 1690s, to Cobeguit in the 1710s, and to the French Maritimes in the late 1740s and early 1750s. Five of Robert's daughters married into the Doiron, Pitre, Druce, Radoux, Pinet, and Guérard families. All six of his sons created their own families. Robert's descendants were especially numerous on the southeastern shore of Île St.-Jean by the early 1750s. One of his sons died in Canada during Le Grand Dérangement, and the son's daughter settled on the lower St. Lawrence. The great majority of Robert's descendants ended up in France. In 1774, one of his grandsons made his way back to North America and created a vigorous line at Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs--perhaps the only Acadian Henry to return to greater Acadia. In 1785, many of Robert's descendants remained in France, but 48 of them chose to emigrate to Louisiana on five of the Seven Ships.
Oldest son Martin dit Robert, born at Chignecto or Port-Royal in c1679, married Marie, daughter of Étienne Hébert and Jeanne Comeau, in c1699 probably at Minas, settled at Cobeguit, and moved on to the French Maritimes. Between 1700 and 1724, Marie gave Martin nine children, six sons and three daughters. Martin died in the crossing to St.-Malo, France, in 1758-59; the passenger list of one of the so-called Five Ships says Martin was age 86 when he died at sea, but he was closer to 80. His daughters married into the Carret, Breau, and Aucoin families. Five of his six sons created their own families.
Oldest son Jean dit Le Neveu, born probably at Minas in c1704, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Germain Thériot and Anne Pellerin, in c1727 perhaps at Cobeguit. Bona Arsenault says Jean dit Le Neveu was sans doute son of Jean dit le Vieux, but Stephen A. White, followed here, says he was the oldest son of Martin dit Robert (hence his dit, "the Nephew"). According to Arsenault, between 1730 and 1746, Marie-Madeleine gave Jean dit Le Neveu six children, a daughter and five sons. In c1750, Jean dit Le Neveu took his family to Île St.-Jean. In August 1752, a French official counted Jean dit Le Neveu, Marie-Madeleine, and five children, four sons and a daughter, at Rivière-de-l'Ouest on the south end of the island. One of the sons married on the island in 1756. Wife Marie-Madeleine died there in January 1757, in her early 50s. The British deported Jean dit Le Neveu and three of his unmarried children to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. Jean died at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in March 1759, age 56, probably from the rigors of the crossing. Three of his sons who had married on Île St.-Jean followed their widowered father to France. One of Neveu's younger sons died in France. His three older sons and their sister, who did not marry, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. His youngest son, wife, and family did not follow his older brothers and sister to Louisiana.
Oldest son Jean, fils, born probably at Cobeguit in c1731, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Marie, daughter of Joseph Pitre and Isabelle Boudrot, at Port-La-Joye on the island in January 1752. The following August, a French official counted them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest near his parents. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1757, Marie gave Jean, fils three children, two sons and a daughter. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. A son and their daughter died at sea. Jean, fils and his family settled on the west side of the river south of the Breton port at Pleurtuit, where, between 1760 and 1768, he and Marie had five more children, a son and four daughters. A daughter died at nearby Créhen in August 1764, age 4 1/2 months, and their oldest son died there, age 12, in March 1765. Jean, fils worked as a wheelwright, and in the late 1760s and early 1770s he plied his trade "in the Indies" while Marie minded the children at Pleurtuit. If Jean, fils was back from the Indies in 1773, he did not follow other exiles in the St.-Malo area to the interior of Poitou, nor did he join them in the lower Loire port of Nantes later in the decade. He, Marie, and three of their remaining children--a son and two daughters--emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 directly from St.-Malo. Daughter Marie-Jeanne-Madeleine, who would have been age 13 in 1785, did not accompany them, so she probably had died by then. From New Orleans, the family followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge, but they did not remain there. They moved south to Baton Rouge, where Marie died in August 1786, age 53. Jean, fils did not remarry. His daughters married into the Thériot, Longuépée, and Arbour families at Bayou des Écores and Baton Rouge. His son married into the Bruno family on the river and settled at Baton Rouge.
Jean dit Le Neveu's second son Pierre, born probably at Cobeguit in c1734, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest in August 1752. He married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Bourg and Cécile Melanson, at Port-La-Joye in May 1756. Marguerite gave Pierre a son in 1757. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. Pierre and Marguerite survived the crossing, but their infant son died at sea. They settled near his brothers at Pleurtuit, where, between 1760 and 1778, Marguerite gave Pierre eight more children, all of them sons--nine sons in all. Sadly, all but two of the sons died young. As their birth years reveal, Pierre did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did he join his fellow exiles at Nantes later in the decade. In 1785, Pierre, Marguerite-Josèphe, and their 21-year-old son Jean-Vincent emigrated to Spanish Louisiana directly from St.-Malo. Younger surviving son Pierre-Isaac, who would have been age 7 in 1785, probably had died by then. Pierre and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores north of Baton Rouge. Son Jean-Vincent may have married into the Rigart family on the river.
Jean dit Le Neveu's third son Charles, born probably at Cobeguit in c1736, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest in August 1752. He married Françoise, daughter of Joseph Hébert and Isabelle Benoit of Pigiguit, at Port-La-Joye in October 1756. Françoise gave Charles a daughter on the island in c1758. Later that year, the British deported the family to St.-Malo, France. They survived the crossing and also settled at Pleurtuit. Between 1760 and 1779, at Pleurtuit and nearby St.Énogat, today's Dinard, Françoise gave Charles 10 more children, six sons and four daughters there--11 children in all. Their oldest daughter died at Pleurtuit in 1763, age 5, and six of the younger children also did not survive childhood. As the birth dates of their children reveal, they did not follow their fellow exiles in the St.-Malo area to Poitou in 1773 nor join them at Nantes later in the decade. Charles, Françoise, and three of their children, two daughters and a son, Charles, fils, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 directly from St.-Malo. Oldest son Joseph-Jean, who, if he was still alive, would have been age 25 in 1785, did not go with them to the Spanish colony. From New Orleans, Charles, père and his family followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores north of Baton Rouge. They resettled at Baton Rouge. Charles, père died by July 1788, when wife Françoise was listed in a Baton Rouge census as a widow. His daughters married into the Usé and Broussard families. Son Charles, fils also remained on the river and may have died young.
Jean dit Le Neveu's fourth son Laurent, born probably at Cobeguit in c1741, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest in August 1752. He was deported to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 with his widowed father and two unmarried siblings. He died at St.-Malo in May 1763, age 22, still unmarried.
Jean dit Le Neveu's fifth and youngest son François-Xavier, born at Cobeguit in c1746, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest in August 1752. He was deported to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 with his widowed father and two unmarried siblings. After his father's death, he settled at Pleurtuit before moving to nearby St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, where he married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bourg and Marie-Josèphe Hébert, in February 1767. Between 1768 and 1778, at St.-Énogat, Françoise gave François-Xavier seven children, four sons and three daughters. The youngest son died young. As the birth dates of his children reveal, François-Xavier did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join other Acadian exiles at Nantes later in the decade. Moreover, no member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Martin's second son Pierre, born probably at Minas in c1706, married, according to Stephen A. White, Anne, daughter of Martin Aucoin and Catherine Thériot, in c1730, place not given. Bona Arsenault says sans doute Pierre was son of Jean dit le Vieux and married Anne in c1726. White, followed here, says Pierre was a son of Martin dit Robert and married Anne in c1730. According to Arsenault, between 1726 and 1751, Anne gave Pierre nine children, five sons and four daughters. Pierre took his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750. In August 1752, a French official counted him, wife Anne, and their nine children at Anse-de-la-Boullotière on the southeast coast of the island. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. Wife Anne and their youngest daughter died at sea. Pierre died in a hospital at St.-Malo, France, in February 1759, age 54, from the rigors of the crossing. Two more daughters and his youngest son also died in a St.-Malo hospital that Feburary and March. One of Pierre's sons emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Oldest son Pierre, fils, born probably at Cobeguit in c1733, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Anse-de-la-Boullotière in August 1752. He did not cross with his family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758-59, when he would have been in his mid-20s. One wonders what became of him after 1752.
Pierre, père's second son Paul, born probably at Cobeguit in c1735, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Anse-de-la-Boullotière in August 1752. He was deported with his family to St.-Malo in late 1758 and settled with his siblings at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of the Breton port. He married fellow Acadian Marie Bourg at nearby Pleudihen-sur-Rance in February 1760. Between 1764 and 1783, at Pleudihen, Marie gave Paul six children, two sons and four daughters. One of the daughters died young. As the birth dates of his children show, Paul did not take his family to Poitou in 1773 nor join his fellow exiles at Nantes later in the decade. No one in this family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Pierre, père's third son Antoine, born probably at Cobeguit in c1737, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Anse-de-la-Boullotière in August 1752. He married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Dugas and Marie Hébert, on the island in c1758. The British deported them, along with one of Françoise's young Dugas kinsmen, age 9, to St.-Malo, France, later that year. Antoine and Françoise did not survive the ordeal. Françoise died in a St.-Malo hospital in January 1759, age 20, and Antoine died in the same place the following month, age 22. Only Françoise's young kinsman survived the ordeal.
Pierre, père's fourth son Barthélémy, born probably at Cobeguit in c1745, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Anse-de-la-Boullotière in August 1752. He was deported with his family to St.-Malo in late 1758 and settled with his siblings at nearby St.-Suliac. He moved to Pleurtuit in 1761, to Pleudihen-sur-Rance in 1763, and back to St.-Suliac later that year. He married Anne-Radegonde, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Bourg and Ursule Hébert of Minas, at nearby St.-Énogat in February 1770. They settled there and at Pleudihen, where, between 1770 and 1782, Anne gave Barthélémy six children, three sons and three daughters, but two of the daughters died young. As the birth years of their children reveal, they did not follow their fellow exiles in the St.-Malo area to Poitou in 1773 nor join them at Nantes later in the decade but remained in the St.-Malo area. Barthélémy, Anne, and four of their children, three sons and a daughter, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 directly from St.-Malo. From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge. Barthélémy and Anne had more children in Louisiana, including a daughter and another son. They did not remain at Bayou des Écores. In the early 1790s, they the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche. Their remaining daughter and oldest sons did not marry, but their younger sons married into the Bourg and Percle families on the Lafourche.
Pierre, père's fifth and youngest son Timothée, born probably at Cobeguit in c1747, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Anse-de-la-Boullotière in August 1752. He was deported with his family to St.-Malo in late 1758 and died at sea, age 12.
Martin's
Robert's second son Jean dit le Vieux, born at Port-Royal in c1686, married, according to Stephen A. White, Marie, daughter of Jean Hébert and Jeanne Doiron, in c1717, place unrecorded. Bona Arsenault says they married in c1704. According to Arsenault, between 1704 and 1740, Marie gave Jean dit le Vieux 14 children, nine sons and four daughters. According to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., between 1719 and 1740, Marie gave Le Vieux nine children, five sons and four daughters. Other records give them another son--10 children in all. In c1750, probably from Cobeguit, Jean dit le Vieux took his family to Île St.-Jean. In August 1752, a French official counted Jean, Marie, and five of their children, three sons and two daughters, at Rivière-de-l'Ouest on the south end of the island. The British deported Le Vieux, Marie, and their youngest son to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. Jean dit le Vieux died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in March 1759, in his early 70s, probably from the rigors of the crossing. Widow Marie died at La Moysias near Pleurtuit on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo, in February 1764, in her late 60s. According to Arsenault, Marie and Jean dit le Vieux's four daughters married into the Bourg, Guérin, Thibodeau, and Pitre families. Two daughters and a son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.
Oldest son Pierre, born at Cobeguit in c1718, married, according to Albert J. Robichaux, Marie-Madeleine, daughter of perhaps Jean Pitre III and Marguerite Thériot of Chignecto, in c1747. Between 1748 and 1756, Marie-Madeleine gave Pierre four children, two daughters and two sons. They followed his family to Île St.-Jean perhaps after 1752. The British deported the family to France in late 1758. Their older son Charles, age 4, died in the crossing. Marie-Madeleine died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in March 1759, age 33, probably from the rigors of the crossing. Pierre took his three surviving children to Pleurtuit on the west side of the river south of the Breton port, where he remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Philippe Thibodeau and Élisabeth Vincent and widow of Charles Pitre, in August 1759. Between 1760 and 1763, Anne gave Pierre three more daughters--seven daughters in all. One of the daughters died young. Pierre's two daughters from first wife Marie-Madeleine married into the Thériot and Bourg families at Pleurtuit. Evidently no member of the family went to Poitou in 1773, nor did any of them join their fellow exiles at Nantes later in the decade. Pierre and Anne, who would have been in their late or mid-60s in 1785, if they were still alive, chose to remain in the mother country. Three of Pierre's children by first wife Marie-Madeleine--two married daughters and a 29-year-old unmarried son--and his two youngest daughters from second wife Anne, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 directly from St.-Malo and followed their fellow passengers to Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District above Baton Rouge. Pierre's oldest daughter remarried to a Boudrot there and settled with her full sister on Bayou Lafourche. Pierre's two younger daughters married into the Aucoin and Hébert families at New Orleans soon after reaching the colony and settled with their older half-sisters on the upper Lafourche. Pierre's surviving son also married at New Orleans soon after reaching the colony and settled with his sisters on the upper Lafourche.
Second son Pierre, fils, by first wife Marie-Madeleine Pitre, born on Île St.-Jean in c1756, was deported with his family to St.-Malo in late 1758 and settled with his widowed father at Pleurtuit. One wonders what he did for a living in the mother country when he came of age. He was still a bachelor in his late 20s when he followed his sisters to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. He married Marie-Françoise-Jeanne, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Longuépée and Marie-Françoise Bourg, at New Orleans in January 1786, soon after reaching the colony; they had crossed on the same vessel. If they went to Bayou des Écores, they, too, joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche. Their daughter married into the Bouquet family there. Pierre, fils's older son evidently died young, but his younger son married into the Ourbane family on Bayou Lafourche.
Jean dit le Vieux's second son Jean dit Le Fils, born probably at Cobeguit in c1719, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Carret and Angélique Chiasson, at Beaubassin in April 1742. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1743 and 1752, Marie gave Jean dit Le Fils six children, all daughters. In c1749 or 1750, Jean took his family to Île St.-Jean. In August 1752, a French official counted him, Marie, and their six daughters at Rivière-de-l'Ouest near his family. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. Their youngest daughter, age 6, died at sea. Le Fils took his family to nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer. They had no more children there. Two daughters died at St.-Servan, one in October 1762, age 18, the other in August 1765, also at age 18. Two of their daughters married into the Daigre and Blanchard families at St.-Servan. Neither they, nor a sister, nor their parents emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Jean dit le Vieux's third son Louis, born probably at Cobeguit in c1722, married Madeleine Pitre in c1749, place not given. They followed his family to Île St.-Jean soon after their marriage. According to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine gave Louis two daughters in 1750 and 1752. In August 1752, a French official counted them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest near his family. One wonders what happened to them in 1758.
Jean dit le Vieux's fourth son Simon, born probably at Cobeguit in c1729, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest in August 1752. He married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Breau and Ursule Bourg of Pigiguit, at Port-La-Joye on the island in January 1755. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1756 and 1777, Marguerite-Josèphe gave Simon 10 children, five daughters and five sons, on the island, in France, and in greater Acadia. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer. In 1773, they did not follow their fellow exiles to Poitou but, instead, returned to North America probably via the British-controlled Channel island of Jersey in 1774. They settled in the British-controlled fishery at Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs--among the few descendants of Robert Henry of Rouen who returned to greater Acadia during exile. Four of Simon's daughters married into the Daigle and Barriault families at Bonaventure in Gaspésie, three of them to Barriault brothers. Three of his sons created families at Bonaventure and on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in what became eastern New Brunswick.
Oldest son Simon-Jean, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in May 1759, followed his family to Gaspésie. He married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Bujold and Marguerite Cormier, at Bonaventure in November 1784. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1787 and 1801, Félicité gave Simon-Jean seven children at Bonaventure, four sons and three daughters. One of their daughters married into the Savoie family at Bonaventure. All four of their sons created families there.
Oldest son Joseph, born at Bonaventure in c1787, married Sarah, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Poirier and Claire Bujold, at Bonaventure in January 1812. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1812 and 1822, Sarah gave Joseph seven children, six sons and a daughter. Joseph remarried to Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Benjamin LeBlanc and Judith Comeau, at Bonaventure in November 1825. According to Arsenault, Théostiste gave Joseph eight more children, six sons and two daughters, including a set of twins--15 children by two wives. One of his daughters married into the Couture family at Bonaventure. At least seven of his 12 sons also created families there.
Second son Charles, by first wife Sarah Poirier, born at Bonaventure in c1814, married Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Babin and Julie Cormier, at Bonaventure in May 1842.
Joseph's third son Jean-Janvier, by first wife Sarah Poirier, born at Bonaventure in c1818, married cousin Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Fabien Poirier and Angélique Gauthier, at Bonaventure in November 1845.
Joseph's fourth son Dominique, by first wife Sarah Poirier, born at Bonaventure in c1819, married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Romauld Boudreau and Geneviève Mercier, at Bonaventure in November 1844.
Joseph's sixth son Pierre, by first wife Sarah Poirier, born at Bonventure in c1822, married Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Bourdages and Julie Arbour, at Bonaventure in c1851. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1852 and 1859, Angélique gave Pierre five children, four sons and a daughter.
Joseph's eighth son Fidèle, the second with the name, by second wife Théotiste LeBlanc, born at Bonaventure in c1828, married Monique, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis Poirier and Séraphine Poirier, at Bonavenure in c1855.
Joseph's tenth son Simon le jeune, a twin, by second wife Théotiste LeBlanc, born at Bonaventure in c1832, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Sébastien Arsenault and his Celtic wife Geneviève Cavanaugh, at Bonaventure in c1860.
Joseph's eleventh son Lévis, Simon le jeune's twin, by second wife Théotiste LeBlanc, born at Bonventure in c1832, married Dorcase, another daughter of Sébastien Arsenault and Geneviève Cavanaugh, at Bonaventure in c1857.
Simon-Jean's second son Amateur, born at Bonaventure in c1791, married Marine, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Bujold and Esther Bourdages, at Bonaventure in January 1816. According to Bona Arsenault, Marine gave Amateur a son in 1817.
Simon-Jean's third son Charles-Bonaventure, born at Bonaventure in c1798, married Angélique-Nabée, daughter of fellow Acadians Amant Babin and Ursule Poirier, at Bonaventure in November 1821. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1828 and 1830, Angélique gave Charles a son and a daughter.
Simon-Jean's fourth and youngest son Édouard, born at Bonaventure in c1801, married Julie-Reine, daughte of fellow Acadians Louis-Jean-Marie Bernard and Lutine Babin, at Bonaventure in November 1824, and remarried to Rose, daughter of Henri-Joseph Cayouette, perhaps a Canadian, and his Celtic wife Nathalie Cavanaugh, at Bonaventure in June 1836.
Simon's second Charles, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1761, may have followed his family to Gaspésie in the 1770s. If so, he did not create a family of his own there.
Simon's third son Pierre, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in June 1762, followed his family to Gaspésie. He married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Arsenault and Marie Cyr, at Bonaventure in c1785, but they settled at St.-Louis-de-Kent, New Brunswick, near Richibucto on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.
Simon's fourth son Grégoire-François, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in November 1764, followed his family to Gaspésie. He married Marie, another daughter of Charles Bujold and Marguerite Cormier, at Bonaventure in November 1790, but they followed his older brother Pierre to St.-Louis-de-Kent.
Simon's fifth and youngest son Joseph-Amateur, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in July 1770, died eight days after his birth.
Jean dit le Vieux's fifth son Charles, born probably at Cobeguit in c1736, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest in August 1752. In late 1758, the British deported him to St.-Malo, France, with the family of older brother Pierre. Charles joined his family at Pleurtuit on the west side of the river south of the Breton port but moved across the river to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians François Thériot and Françoise Guérin, in January 1761. Between 1762 and 1770, at St.-Servan, Marguerite gave Charles five children, three daughters and two sons, but the oldest son and a daughter died young. In 1773, when hundreds of their fellow exiles in the St.-Malo suburbs went to the interior of Poitou, Charles and his family remained at St.-Servan. In 1785, Charles, Marguerite-Josèphe, and their surviving children--two daughers and a son--along with Marguerite-Josèphe's mother and older sister Marie, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana directly from St.-Malo. From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge and resettled at Baton Rouge. Charles and Marguerite-Josèphe had no more children in Louisiana. Their daughters married into the Daigle and Robichaux families, and one of them resettled on upper Bayou Lafourche. Charles's son Jean-Baptiste-Théodore married into the Boudreaux and Naquin families and also resettled on the upper Lafourche.
Jean dit le Vieux's sixth and youngest son François, born probably at Cobeguit in c1740, followed his family to Île St.-Jean was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest in August 1752. He was deported to St.-Malo, France, with his aging parents in late 1758 and settled with them at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, but he did not remain there. Evidently soon after his arrival, he volunteered for privateer service and was captured by the British. They held him in England as a prisoner of war until May 1763, when they repatriated him and other "French" prisoners to St.-Malo. François returned to St.-Servan and was still there in 1765. Later that year, ever the restless one, he volunteered to join other Acadians in a settlement venture to the îles Malouines, today's Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic. He embarked for the distant islands aboard the frigate Aigle in late November 1765. One wonders what happened to him after that date. If he returned to France after the Malouines venture was abandoned, he did not follow his older brother Charles to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Robert's third son Germain, born at Port-Royal in c1687, married, Cécile, daughter of Michel Deveau and Marie-Madeleine Martin, in c1720, place unrecorded, according to Stephen A. White. Bona Arsenault says they married in c1715. Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., says they married in c1716. According to Arsenault, between 1717 and 1745, Cécile gave Germain a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters. Arsenault says the family lived at Chignecto from 1734 to 1745. In c1750, from Chignecto or Cobeguit, Germain took his family to Île St.-Jean. In August 1752, a French official counted him, Cécile, six of their children, four sons and two daughters, and a Caissie nephew at Port-La-Joye on the south side of the island. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. Germain, in his early 70s, and younger son Joseph died during the crossing. Wife Cécile died in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1759, age 58, probaly from the rigors of the crossing. Daughter Rose also died that month at St.-Servan, age 21, probably for the same reason. According to Arsenault, two of Germain's daughters married into the Comeau and Caissie families at Chignecto. Most of Germain's sons married, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.
Second son Alexis, born probably at Cobeguit in c1722, sans doute son of Germain, Bona Arsenault insists, married Marguerite Hébert in c1749, place unrecorded. According to Arsenault, between 1750 and 1757, Marguerite gave Alexis four children, a daughter and three sons. In late 1751, Alexis took his family to St.-Jean. In August 1752, a French official counted him, Marguerite, and their daughter at Rivière-de-l'Ouest on the south end of the island. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. One wonders what happened to them in France. No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.
Germain's third son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Cobeguit in c1727, followed his family to Île St.-Jean. He was counted with his parents and siblings at Port-La-Joye in August 1752. He married Isabelle, or Élisabeth, dit Titante, daughter of Jean Pitre III and Marguerite Thériot, at Port-La-Joye in February 1753. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1754 and 1757, Isabelle gave Jean-Baptiste three children, two sons and a daughter. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. The three children perished in the crossing. Jean-Baptiste died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in March 1759, age 33, probably from the rigors of the crossing. Élisabeth settled on the west side of the river south of the Breton port at Pleurtuit, where she remarried to a twice-widowered Landry in 1761 and gave him more children. She and her second husband emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Germain's fourth son Jean-Baptiste-Olivier, called Baptiste-Olivier, born probably at Cobebuit in c1730, married Suzanne Pitre in c1750, place unrecorded. The following year, they followed his family to Île St.-Jean. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1752 and 1756, Suzanne gave Baptiste-Olivier three daughters. Other sources give them five daughters between 1750 and 1756. In August 1752, a French official, who called him Baptiste Olivier without his surname, counted him, Suzanne, and three of their daughters at Rivière-de-l'Ouest on the south end of the island. She gave him two more daughters on the island in 1754 and 1756. The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. Three of the daughters, ages 9, 4, and 3, died at sea. Baptiste-Olivier, age 32, and another daughter, age 6, died at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in March 1759, probably from the rigors of the crossing. Suzanne moved to Pleurtuit, where she remarried to an Hébert widower in 1760. She, her second husband, and her remaining Henry daughter, Marguerite-Josèphe, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana directly from St.-Malo in 1785. Her Henry daughter settled with them at Bayou des Écores on the river above Baton Rouge but did not marry, so not even the blood of Baptiste-Olivier's line of the family endured in the Bayou State.
Germain's fifth son Pierre, born probably at Cobeguit in c1734, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Port-La-Joye in August 1752. He married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Trahan and Marie Tillard at Port-La-Joye in February 1753. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1754 and 1757, Marguerite gave Pierre three sons. Other sources give them only two sons on the island. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. Their two young sons, Pierre, fils and François-Guillaume, either died at sea or from the rigors of the crossing. Marguerite, in fact, had been pregnant with François-Guillaume during the crossing, and the newborn died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1759 three days after his birth. Pierre worked as a laborer and a seaman in the mother country. Between 1760 and 1770, at St.-Servan, Marguerite gave Pierre eight more children, six sons and two daughters--10 children in all. In February 1772, Pierre received permission to take his family to Morlaix in northwest Brittany. Another son--their eleventh child, and ninth son--was born in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Morlaix, in May 1773. Soon afterwards, Pierre took his family to the interior of Poitou with hundreds of other Acadian exiles languishing in the port cities. Their youngest daughter and youngest son may have died in Poitou. In October 1775, Pierre, Marguerite, and seven children, six sons and a daughter, retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes. Their older daughter, age 13, died at Chantenay near Nantes in January 1778. Their oldest son married a Thibodeau widow at St.-Martin de Chantenay in April 1785. Pierre, Marguerite, and two of their sons, one married, the other still single, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. Strangely, four of their other sons, who would have been ages 25, 24, 21, and 16 in 1785, if they were still living, chose to remain in the mother country. From New Orleans, Pierre, Marguerite, and their younger son followed their fellow passengers to Manchac below Baton Rouge. The younger son did not marry. Their married son Joseph-Philippe and his wife chose to settle on upper Bayou Lafourche, where a daughter married into the Boudreaux family. Joseph-Philippe had no sons and died in a yellow fever epidemic on Bayou Lafourche in October 1853, in his early 90s.
Germain's seventh and youngest son Amand, born in c1745, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Port-La-Joye in August 1752. He was deported with his family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758, survived the crossing that killed his father and a younger brother, and settled with his widowed mother at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Convenance, Convenans, or Couvenance and Euphrosine Labauve, in May 1770. Between 1774 and 1777, Marie-Jeanne gave Amand two daughters and a son. They did not follow other exiles from the St.-Malo area to Poitou or Nantes, nor did they emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. At least one of their sons created a family of their own in France during the Napoléonic era.
Michel-Amand-Alexandre, born at Le Havre in July 1777, became a sailor and a ship captain in France. He married Marie-Madeleine-Élisabeth, 21-year-old daughter of Augustin-Félix LeMasson and Madeleine LePrevost of Le Havre, in that port in January 1800. Marie-Madeleine-Élisabeth gave him a daughter at Le Havre in 1801, but the girl died young.
Robert's fourth daughter Madeleine, born at Port-Royal or Minas in c1690, gave birth to a "natural" son two years before she married her first husband, Benjamin Druce.
Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in November 1709, survived childhood and called himself an Henry. He married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Mius d'Azy and Marie Amireau, in c1733, place unrecorded. In c1750, they moved to Île St.-Jean. A French official counted Jean-Baptiste, Marie-Madeleine, and their eight sons at Pointe-Prime on the south shore of the island in August 1752. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. Jean-Baptiste, along with his wife and children, perished in the sinking of the British transport Duke William on the crossing to St.-Malo, France, in mid-December 1758. He would have been age 49.
Robert's fourth son Pierre dit Robert, born probably at Minas in c1700, married Marguerite, daughter of Mathieu Brasseur and Jeanne Célestin dit Bellemère, at Grand-Pré in May 1736 and evidently remained there. According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Pierre a daughter in c1743. The family seems to have escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in 1755 and took refuge in Canada. Pierre died at Chambly on lower Rivière Richelieu east of Montréal in February 1770, age 70. Meanwhile, daughter Marguerite married into the Girouard family at L'Islet on the lower St. Lawrence in July 1763. They were perhaps the only descendants of Robert of Rouen to settle in the St. Lawrence valley.
Robert's fifth son Antoine, born probably at Minas in c1704, married Claire Hébert in c1725, place unrecorded. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1744, Claire gave Antoine seven children, three daughters and four sons. Antoine took his family to Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale, in c1749. A French official counted him, Claire, and their seven children there in March 1752. The British deported the family to France in late 1758. Antoine died perhaps at Cherbourg by May 1759, in his mid-50s. One of his daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. At least one of his sons remained in the mother country.
Fourth and youngest son Paul, born in c1744, place not given, followed his family to Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse and was counted there in March 1752. He followed them to France and married Cécile-Clotilde, called Clotilde, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Langlois and Marie-Josèphe Darembourg, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in August 1763. Clotilde gave Paul a daughter in that parish in 1766. If they were still living, none of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Robert's sixth and youngest son Joseph dit le Petit Homme, born probably at Minas in c1707, married Christine dite Catherine, daughter of Jean Pitre and Françoise Babin, in c1729, place unrecorded. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1754, Catherine gave Joseph 10 children, four sons and six daughters. In c1749 or 1750, Joseph took his family to Île St.-Jean. In August 1752, a French official counted him, Catherine, and eight of their children, three sons and five daughters, at Rivière-de-l'Ouest on the south end of the island. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. Joseph died probably in France before January 1761. One of his daughters married into the Arbour family at Le Havre and emigrated to Louisiana in 1785. His oldest son also emigrated to the Spanish colony, though his other married son did not.
Oldest son Charles, born probably at Cobeguit in c1732, sans doute son of Joseph, Bona Arsenault insists, followed his family to Île St.-Jean. Arsenault says he married Françoise-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Thériot and Françoise Melanson, in c1753, but they married probably before August 1752, when a French official counted them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest near his family; they had no children at the time. According to Arsenault, Françoise-Josèphe gave Charles two children, a son and a daughter, on the island in 1754 and 1757. The British deported the family to France in late 1758. They landed at Cherbourg, where Charles worked as a mariner. His two children evidently did not survive the crossing. Françoise-Josèphe gave him another son at Cherbourg in late 1759, but the boy died the following January. Charles remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians René Bernard and Marguerite Hébert, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in January 1761. Between 1762 and 1769, at Cherbourg and across the bay at Le Havre, Marie-Madeleine gave Charles six more children, four daughters and two sons. Two of the daughters and the younger son died young. In 1773, Charles took his family to Poitou, where Marie-Madeleine gave him another daughter in 1774. In October 1775, Charles, Marie-Madeleine, and their four surviving children, a son and three daughters, retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes. Another daughter was born to them at Nantes soon after they got there. Their daughter born in Poitou evidently died there in the late 1770s or early 1780s. Charles remarried again--his third marriage--to fellow Acadian Marie LeBlanc, widow of Charles Robichaud, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes in October 1784. Charles, Marie, and four of their children--three of his daughters from his second wife and one of her sons from her first husband--emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. His son Pierre-Charles, who would have been age 20 in 1785, if he was still alive, did not follow his family to the Spanish colony. From New Orleans, Charles and Marie followed their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge, where a son was born to them in October 1785--a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters, by three wives in greater Acadia, France, and Louisiana. Charles and Marie had no more children in Louisiana. He died at Baton Rouge in April 1794, in his early 60s. His three daughters by his second wife married into the Fournier, Bourgeois, Boudreaux, and Dubois families on the river. His son by his third wife married into the Daigle family at Baton Rouge and created a vigorous line there.
Joseph dit le Petit Homme's second son Joseph, born probably at Cobeguit in c1735, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest in August 1752. The British deported him to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. He crossed with the family of his older cousin, Jean dit Le Neveu Henry. In February 1759, soon after reaching the Breton port, Joseph received permission to move on to the naval port of Rochefort, "where," he told French authorities, "he will find his family," but they likely were at Cherbourg in Normandy. Like his older brother, he was a seaman. He likely was the Joseph Henry "de l'Acadie" who died in Très-Ste.-Trinité, Cherbourg, in November 1759, age 24. He probably did not marry.
Joseph dit le Petit Homme's third son Basile, born probably at Cobeguit in c1739, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest in August 1752. The British probably deported him to France in 1758. Like brothers Charles and Jean-Baptiste, he evidently ended up at Cherbourg in upper Normandy. He may have been the Basil Henry "d'Acadie," no parents given, who died at Cherbourg in December 1758, soon after reaching the Norman port. The Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish priest who recorded the burial said that Basil died "at age 25 yrs.," but Petit Homme's Basile would have been closer to age 19. He evidently died a bachelor.
Joseph dit le Petit Homme's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Cobeguit in c1746, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Rivière-de-l'Ouest in August 1752. The British deported him to France in 1758. Like oldest brother Charles, he seems to have ended up at Cherbourg. He may have followed brother Charles across the bay to Le Havre, where he worked as a compagnon charpentier, or journeyman carpenter. He likely was the Jean-Baptiste Henry who married Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Moulaison and Cécile Melanson, in Notre-Dame Parish, Le Havre, in July 1764. Félicité gave Jean-Baptiste two sons in Notre-Dame Parish in May 1765 and April 1767 before returning to Cherbourg, where, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Félicité gave Jean-Bapiste another son in 1769 and a daughter in 1772. Jean-Baptiste evidently did not follow brother Charles and his family to Poitou in 1773, nor to Nantes later in the decade, nor to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.409
Gareau
Dominique Gareau, sergeant in the service of King Louis XIV, a mid-1670s arrival, and his wife Marie Gaudet created a small family in the colony whose blood, at least, survived there. Dominique's family was counted at La Hève on the Atlantic shore of the peninsula in 1693. His only child, daughter Marie, settled at Minas and married twice, first to ____ LaChapelle in c1693 and then to Jérôme Darois in c1698. Marie died either in Virginia or England, in her late 70s, while in exile. If any of Dominique's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.399
Étienne Rivet, a mid-1670s arrival, and his wife Marie-Jeanne or Marie-Anne Comeau created a good-sized family in the colony. By the late 1680s, they had moved from Port-Royal to the lower reaches of Rivière Pigiguit, southeast of Grand-Pré, probably the first family to farm the marshes there. Between 1677 and 1689, at Port-Royal and Pigiguit, Marie gave Étienne five children, three sons and two daughters. One of their daughters married into the Boudrot family. Only one of their sons created his own family. In c1691, while in his late 30s, Étienne remarried to Catherine ____, widow of Jean Labarre, probably at Minas. She gave him no more children. In c1694, at age 42, Étienne remarried again--his third marriage--to Cécile, daughter of François Joseph dit Lejeune and Jeanne Lejeune, probably at Pigiguit. She gave Étienne three more children, two daughters and a son--eight children, four sons and four daughters, by two of his three wives. His two daughters by third wife Cécile married into the Toussaint dit Lajeunesse and Poupart families at Minas, and one of them, with her brother, moved on to Canada before Le Grand Dérangement. Étienne died at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, by 1707, in his 50s. His descendants in Nova Scotia remained at Pigiguit or moved on to the French Maritimes. Étienne must have done well in his agricultural enterprises. In October 1721, 14 or so years after his death, the record of a legal transaction revealed that his estate consisted of two parcels of land, one at Rivière-aux-Canards at Minas, the other at Pigiguit. At least 11 of his descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in the late 1760s. A few others could be found in France and Canada after Le Grand Dérangement, but the great majority of them settled in South Louisiana.
Oldest son René, by first wife Marie Comeau, born probably at Port-Royal in c1678, died young.
Étienne's second son Étienne, fils, by fist wife Marie Comeau, born at Port-Royal or Minas in c1683, married Anne, daughter of Jacques Leprince and Marguerite Hébert, in c1708 at either Minas or Pigiguit. Between 1709 and 1727, Anne gave Étienne, fils eight children, five sons and three daughters. Their daughters married into the Landry and Forest families. One of them settled on Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, and the other emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland. Four of Étienne, fils's five sons also married.
Étienne, fils's oldest son, name unrecorded, born probably at Pigiguit before 1714, died young.
Étienne, fils's
third son Étienne III, born at Pigiguit in 1717, married Claire, daughter
of Pierre Forest and Madeleine Babin, at Pigiguit in 1743.
According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1754, Claire gave Étienne III five
sons. The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755. Étienne III, now a widower, and his five sons
appeared on a repatriation list at Upper
Marlborough in July 1763. He took four of his sons to Louisiana in 1769
aboard the ill-starred British schooner Britannia. After their
adventure in coastal Texas and their trek to Natchitoches on the Red River,
which they reached in October, they
settled on the river below Bayou Plaquemine in the San Gabriel District in April
1770. They did not follow other Acadians from the Britannia to
the Opelousas District. Between June and July 1774, at age 57, Étienne III remarried to Isabelle, or Élisabeth, daughter of Pierre Landry and
Claire Babin, at Ascension on the river below San Gabriel.
She gave him no more children. Étienne III died at Ascension in April 1779,
age 62.
Étienne, père's third son Antoine, by first wife Marie Comeau, born probably at Pigiguit in c1689, died young.
Étienne's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, by third wife Cécile Joseph, born probably at Pigiguit in c1704, married Madeleine, daughter of Canadians Mathurin Palin dit Dabonville and Louise Renaud, at Québec in July 1732 and died there in April 1733, age 29. One wonders if he fathered any children.400
Triel dit Laperrière
Jacques Triel dit Laperrière, a mid-1670s arrival, and his wife Marie Savoie created a small family in the colony. Marie gave him five children, three sons and two daughters, who married into the LaChaume dit Loumeray and LeBlanc dit Jasmin families. Only one of their sons married, but he had no sons of his own. Jacques and Marie's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal and in the French Maritimes. If any of Jacque's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.
Oldest son Pierre dit Triquel dit Patron, born probably at Port-Royal in c1677, married Catherine, daughter of Jean Bourg and Marguerite Martin and widow of Jean Turpin dit La Giroflée, in c1720 probably at Annapolis Royal, moved on to Île Royale after their marriage, and settled on Île Madame. Their daughter Agnès and husband Pierre Guédry came to the island colony in August 1751 and were living with her parents on Île Descoust when a French official counted them there in February 1752.
Jacques's second son Nicolas, born probably at Port-Royal in c1682, became a fisherman at Annapolis Royal but probably did not marry.
Jacques's third and youngest son Alexis, born probably at Port-Royal in c1684, died at Port-Royal in February 1708, in his mid-20s, before he could marry.401
Noël Labauve, a late 1670s arrival, and his wife Marie Rimbault created a fairly large family in the colony. Marie gave Noël a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters. Four of their daughters married into the Bastarache, Levron, Hébert, and LeBlanc families. Daughter Anne-Marie gave birth to a "natural" daughter at Annapolis Royal in June 1713, nine years before she married Louis Hébert dit Baguette at Annapolis Royal. Five of Noël's seven sons created their own families. His and Marie's descendants settled at Annapolis Royal, Minas, La Hève, Chignecto, Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, as well as in the French Maritimes. Some of them also could be found in Canada before Le Grand Dérangement. At least eight of Noël's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax and France in 1765 and 1785 and created a substanital presence there. Some could be found in Canada and greater Acadia and perhaps in the French Antilles after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son René dit Renochon, born probably at Port-Royal in c1679, married Anne, daughter of Martin Lejeune dit Briard and Jeanne Kagigconiac, in c1702 perhaps at Minas. They moved to La Hève on the Atlantic coast, where they were counted in 1708, returned to Minas, and moved on to Île St.-Jean in the late 1720s. Between 1703 and 1735, Anne gave Renochon six children, a son and five daughters. Four of their daughters married into the LeBlanc, Bourey, Tudal, LeMarchand, and Orillon dit Champagne families, two of the younger ones on Île St.-Jean in 1728 and 1733. Renochon's son--he had only one according to Stephen A. White--evidently died young. Bona Arsenault gives him another son, Charles, but White, followed here, says this Charles was a son of Renochon's brother Louis.
Only son Pierre le jeune, born perhaps at La Hève in c1703, did not marry.
Noël's second son Pierre, born probably at Port-Royal in c1681, followed his family to Minas, but he did not remain there. He died at Hôtel-Dieu de Québec in May 1714, in his early 30s, and did not marry.
Noël's third son François, born at Port-Royal or Minas in c1683, married Madeleine, daughter of Jacques Blou and Marie Girouard, in c1712 probably at Chignecto and moved on to Île St.-Jean in c1730. Between 1714 and 1752, Madeleine gave François six children, three sons and three daughters. François died by 1752, perhaps in his 60s, perhaps on Île St.-Jean. Two of his daughters married into the Poirier and Héon families. Only one of his three sons created a family of his own.
Oldest son François, fils, born at Chignecto in c1714, may have been the François Labauve held at Fort Edward, Nova Scotia, in October 1762. He had no one else in his family. If this was him, he would have been still alive in the summer and fall of 1755, escaped the British roundup at Chignecto then, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and, in the late 1750 or early 1760s, was captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area and was held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. Did he marry?
François,
père's second son Louis
le jeune, born probably at Chignecto in
c1716, married Marie, daughter of
Jean Landry and Claire LeBlanc, at Beaubassin in October 1740.
According to Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1753, Marie gave Louise le
jeune six children, four sons and two daughters. They moved on to Île
St.-Jean in c1749, where Louis le jeune worked as a fisherman/habitant.
In August 1752, a French officilal counted him, Marie, and five of their
children at
François, père's third and youngest son Claude, born at Chignecto in March 1720, may have been the Claude Labauve held with older brother François, fils at Fort Edward, Nova Scotia, in October 1762. He had no one else in his family. If this was Claude, he would have been still alive in the summer and fall of 1755, escaped the British roundup at Chignecto then, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and, in the late 1750 or early 1760s, was 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. Did he marry? What happened to him after 1763.
Noël's fourth son Louis, born at Chignecto in August 1684, married Anne LaVache in c1712, 15 years after she gave birth to "natural" son François LaVache, probably at Port-Royal. Louis and Anne settled at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, and moved on to Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto by 1752. Between 1713 and 1741, Anne gave Louis nine children, seven sons and two daughters. Louis and members of his family evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières area in the summer and fall of 1755 and sought refuge on either the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore or in Canada. Louis died during exile before July 1765, place and date unrecorded. His daughters married into the Gautrot and Dubois families. Only three of his seven sons created their own families.
Oldest son Charles, who, according to Bona Arsenault, was a son of Louis's older brother René, according to Stephen A. White was born at Minas in January 1713 and was a son Louis. According to White, Charles married Marie, daughter of Clément Benoit and Anne Babin, in c1737, place unrecorded. According to Arsenault, Marie gave Charles (he calls him Thomas) a son, Ignace-Marie, in c1742 probably at Minas. According to White, Charles remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Dubois and Anne Vincent, in c1755, place unrecorded. Arsenault places the couple at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area in c1755 and at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in c1756, so they evidently escaped the roundup in the trois-rivières in the summer and fall of 1755 and took refuge on the island with other Chignecto refugees. According to Arsenault, between 1749 and 1768, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles (he calls him Thomas again) four more children, three sons and a daughter. If they were still on Île St.-Jean in 1758, they likely escaped the roundup there and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. Arsenault says "Thomas's" family was at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in June 1760, when son Gabriel was baptized by the priest there. They may have surrendered to, or been captured by, British forces in the area and spent the rest of the war in a prison compound in Nova Scotia. Arsenault places "Thomas" and his family on Rivière St.-Jean, present-day New Brunswick, in 1765 and 1769, after Le Grand Dérangement.
Louis's second son Jean, born on Île St.-Jean in July 1716 and baptized at Beaubassin in June 1717, married Agnès, daughter of Marcel Saulnier and Élisabeth Breau, in c1746. They settled at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, where Agnès gave Jean at least two children, a son and a daughter, in 1747 and the early 1750s. 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 a Liverpool. In the spring of 1763, they, along with hundreds of other exiles in England, were repatriated to France. They landed at Morlaix in northern Brittany and remained. Jean died at the hospital in Morlaix in Sepember 1771, age 55. His married son and unmarried daughter emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Only son Pierre, born at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, in c1747, followed his family to Virginia, England, and Morlaix, France. He married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Brun and Anne Caissie of Chignecto and Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in St.-Martin des Champs Parish, Morlaix, in September 1770. Madeleine gave him a daughter at Morlaix in 1773. That year, Pierre 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. Their daughter died at nearby Chantenay in 1778, age 8. Meanwhile, Madeleine gave Pierre three more children, a son and two more daughters, at Chantenay, but they, too, died young. Madeleine died at Chantenay in December 1783, age 38. Pierre remarried to Anne, also called Jeanne, daughter of François Bonfils and Marie Sevin of St.-Martin-de-Cheix, France, and widow of Acadian Jean Dugas, at St.-Martin de Chantenay in October 1784. Pierre, Anne, and her Dugas son from her first marriage emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Laforuche. Anne gave Pierre no more children in France and the Spanish colony, so this line of the family did not take root in the Bayou State.
Louis's fifth son, name unrecorded, born perhaps at Minas in the late 1720s or early 1730s, died young.
Louis's
Louis's
Noël's fifth son Antoine, born probably at Minas in c1690, served as a flibustier, or privateer, in 1712, during the final days of Queen Anne's War. Antoine married Catherine, daughter of Pierre Lejeune and Marie Thibodeau, at Grand-Pré in October 1718. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1721 and 1732, Catherine gave Antoine six children, four daughters and two sons. They moved on to the French Maritimes by July 1729, when a daughter was baptized at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, Île St.-Jean. Antoine died on the island in April 1733, in his early 40s. His widow Catherine remarried to a Duplessis there in 1736. According to Arsenault, three of Antoine's daughters married into the Beaulieu, Varenne, and Legendre families on one of the islands. A son emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. A daughter, along with her husband and most of her children, died on the crossing to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758, and another daughter emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.
Older son Charles, born, according to Bona Arsenault, in c1725, probably at Minas, likely followed his family to the French Maritimes, but he may not have remained there. He married Marie Hébert in c1748 perhaps on one of the islands or perhaps in peninsula Nova Scotia. According to Arsenault, Marie gave Charles a son in c1750. If they were back in Nova Scotia in 1755, they escaped the British roundups there, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. If they were still on one of the islands in 1758, they almost miraculously escaped the roundup there that year. During the late 1750s or early 1760s, they were either captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in Gulf shore region and were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. Charles and Marie may have died during exile, but their son survived and was taken in by relatives.
Only son Jean-Baptiste was born, according to Bona Arsenault, in c1750, but other records give him a birth date of c1743, place not given. He followed his family into exile and may have been one of the five childern of his uncle Antoine, fils counted at Halifax in August 1763. He followed his uncle, aunt, and two first cousins to Louisiana in 1764-65 and settled with them at Cabahannocer on the river, but he did not remain there. In the late 1760s, he moved to the Attakapas District, where he married Françoise, daughter of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and Agnès Thibodeaux, in c1769. Françoise, a native of Peticoudiac in the trois-rivières area, had come to Louisiana with her widowed father and large extended family in February 1765. With her, Jean-Baptiste created a western branch of the Labauve family. He died at Attakapas in February 1803. The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean-Baptiste died "at age 65 yrs.," but he probably was closer to 60. His daughter married into the Benoit and Landry families. One of his two sons married into the Hébert and Fostin families on the prairies.
Antoine's younger son Antoine, fils, perhaps also called Antoine-Zénon, was born, according to Bona Arsenault, in c1732, but he probably was born in the mid- or late 1720s, at Minas. Antoine followed his family to Île St.-Jean but may not have remained there. He married Anne Vincent in c1756, place not given. If they were still on Île St.-Jean in 1758, they escaped the British roundup there, crossed Mer Rouge 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 held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. Entoine, as he was called, his wife, and five children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763; one of the "children" may have been a son of older brother Charles. In 1764-65, Antoine, Anne, their two sons, and their nephew emigrated to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans. Anne gave Antoine more children in the colony. Antoine died at Cabahannocer in March 1779, in his early 50s. His daughters married into the Doiron, Legendre, and Vincent families, one of them to a first cousin. Three of his five sons also married, into the Richard, Benoit, and Granger families on the river.
Noël's sixth son Jérôme, born probably at Minas in c1692, evidently died young.
Noël's seventh and youngest son Jean, born probably at Minas in the late 1690 or early 1700s, married Madeleine, daughter of François Levron and Catherine Savoie, at Annapolis Royal in August 1722. According to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine gave Jean a son, Jean-Baptiste, in 1723. Perhaps after their son's birth, they moved on to Minas. One wonders what happened to them in 1755.402
René Lambert, a late 1670s arrival, and his wife, whose name has been lost to history, created a small family in the colony. She gave him two children, both sons, both of whom married. René and his descendants settled not only on Rivière St.-Jean, but also in the French Maritimes. If any of René's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.
Older son René, fils, born in Acadia in c1687, married Marie, daughter of Vincent Longuépée and Madeleine Rimbault, in c1723, place unrecorded, and moved to the French Maritimes. A French official counted them at the Île Madame fishery south of Île Royale in February 1752. What happened to them after that date?
René's younger son Jean, born in Acadia in the late 1680s or early 1690s, married in c1720 to a woman whose name also has been lost to history, place unrecorded.418
Lapierre
François Lapierre dit Laroche, a late 1670s arrival, and his wife Jeanne Rimbault created a good-sized family in the colony. Jeanne gave François 10 children, six sons and four daughters. Three of their daughters married into the David, LeMarquis dit Clérmont, and Renaud dit Provençal families. Only three of François's six sons created families of their own. His and Jeanne's descendants settled not only at Minas, but also at Chignecto and in the French Maritimes. If any of François's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.
Oldest son François, fils, who became a fisherman, married Marie, daughter of Jacques Blou and Marie Girouard and widow of Sébastien Chiasson, in c1708 perhaps at Minas but resettled at Chignecto. Marie gave François, fils three children, two sons and a daughter, all of whom married into a single family. Their daughter married into the Caissie family.
Older son Michel married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Caissie and Madeleine Gaudet, probably at Chignecto in c1732.
François, fils's younger son
François III married Marie-Josèphe, another daughter of
François's second son Jacques married Marie, daughter of Louis Saulnier and Louise Bastineau dit Peltier, at Grand-Pré in October 1717 and died there in October 1725, age 40. Marie gave Jacques seven children, three sons and four daughters. Three of their daughters married into the Lalande and Lebert families. All of Jacques's three sons created their own families
Oldest son Joseph married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Brun and Cécile Dugas, at Beaubassin in October 1743. What happened to them in 1755?
Jacques's second son
Pierre
married Angélique, daughter of Philippe Thibodeau and Isabelle Vincent,
in c1746, place unrecorded.
François's third and fourth sons Claude and Étienne evidently died young.
François's fifth son Charles married Marie, daughter of Marc Pitre and Jeanne Brun, in c1723, place unrecorded, and died by 1733, age and place unrecorded.
François's sixth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste evidently died young.406
Claude Guédry dit Grivois, a late 1670s arrival, and his second wife Marguerite Petitpas created a large family in the colony. Claude's first wife Kesk8a, a Mi'kmaq, gave him one child, a daughter, who evidently died young. Second wife Marguerite gave him 11 more children, nine sons and two daughters. Claude dit Grivois died in British Nova Scotia after January 1723, probably in his 70s. His daughters married into the Doiron and Lejeune families. Only four of his nine sons created families of their own, but their lines were vigorous. His and Marguerite's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also at Mirliguèche and La Hève on the Atlantic coast; l'Assomption, Pigiguit, and Cobeguit in the Minas Basin; and on Île St.-Jean and Île Royale in the French Maritimes. At least 44 of Claude's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, from Maryland in the late 1760s, Canada in the 1780s or 1790s, and especially from France in 1785. Other descendants, in much smaller numbers, could be found in greater Acadia, Canada, and perhaps in Maryland and France after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Claude, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1682, evidently died young.
Claude, père's second son Jean-Baptiste dit Grivois, born probably at Port-Royal in c1684, married Madeleine, daughter of Philippe Mius d'Azy and Marie ____, a Mi'kmaq, by 1708 probably on the Atlantic coast. Between 1709 and 1716, Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste four children, three sons and a daughter, the youngest born at Minas. Along with his oldest son and three Mi'kmaq, perhaps his kinsmen, Jean-Baptiste was hanged for piracy at Boston, Massachusetts, in November 1726, in his early 40s. His daughter married into the Lejeune family. Two of his three sons created families of their own, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born soon after his parents' marriage, was hanged with his father at Boston in November 1726, age unrecorded, but he likely was in his late teens.
Jean-Baptiste, père's second son Claude le jeune, was born perhaps at Pobomcoup on the Atlantic shore in c1714. Bona Arsenault says Claude le jeune's father was Charles, Jean-Baptiste, père's younger brother, but Stephen A. White, followed here, says Claude le jeune was Jean-Baptiste's son. Claude le jeune married Anne, daughter of Germain Lejeune dit Briard and Marie-Anne Trahan, probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1746. According to Arsenault, between 1747 and 1752, Anne gave Claude le jeune three sons. In c1750, they moved on to Île St.-Jean, where, in August 1752, a French official counted Claude, Anne, and their three sons at Anse-au-Matelot on the island's southeast shore. Arsenault says Anne gave Claude le jeune two more sons on the island in 1754 and 1758. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. After reaching the Breton port in late January 1759, Claude le jeune took his family to the west side of the river south of St.-Malo to Châteauneuf, where Anne, age 36, and the two younger sons, ages 3 years and 10 months, died in February and April from the rigors of the crossing. Claude le jeune remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François Moyse and Marie Brun and widow of Joseph LeBlanc, at nearby St.-Suliac in February 1762. Between 1763 and 1777, this Anne gave Claude le jeune eight more children, two daughters and six sons--13 children by both wives. In 1772, 1773, and 1774, Claude le jeune's three oldest son, by first wife Anne, married at St.-Sulaic and across the river at Plouër-sur-Rance into the Lebert and Comeau families. Claude, Anne, and six of their unmarried children, five sons and a daughter, emigrated to Louisiana from France directly from St.-Malo in 1785 and followed most of their fellow passengers to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores in the New Feliciana District north of Baton Rouge. His three married sons also crossed to Louisiana on another vessel. One of them settled at Baton Rouge, where his father and his family joined them by 1788. By the early 1790s, the three married sons had joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, and one of them resettled in the Attakapas District. Claude le jeune's daughter married into the Aucoin, Robichaux, and Benz families at Baton Rouge. His younger sons married into the LeBlanc, Aucoin, Dupuis, Landry, and Bergeron families at Baton Rouge, Manchac, and on the upper Lafourche.
Claude, père's third son Charles, born probably at Port-Royal in c1786, was counted at La Hève on the Atlantic shore in 1708, age 21. According to Bona Arsenault, the name of Charles's wife has been lost to history. Arsenault says that in 1714 and 1724, she gave him two sons, Claude and Jacques, but Stephen A. White, followed here, records no marriage for him and says Claude Guèdry, born in 1714, was a son of Charles's older brother Jean-Baptiste.
Claude, père's fourth son Alexis, born probably at Port-Royal in c1788, was counted at Port-Royal in 1698, age 10, but probably did not survive childhood.
Claude, père's fifth son Augustin, born probably at Port-Royal in c1690, married Jeanne, daughter of Jean Hébert and Jeanne Doiron, probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1722. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1741, Jeanne gave Augustin seven children, four daughters and three sons, including a set of twins. Three of their daughters married into the Breau, Mius d'Azy, Bourneuf, Boutin, and LeBlanc families. His sons created their own families in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Louisiana.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1728, married Anne-Madeleine Dupuis in c1750, place not given. According to Arsenault, Anne gave Jean a son in 1753. The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755. Arsenault says Anne gave Jean another son in the Chesapeake colony in 1762. She also gave him three daughters at Pigiguit and in Maryland between 1754 and 1765. Jean Gaidris, wife Anne, sons Firmin and Jean and daughters Magdelaine and Monique appeared on a repatriation list at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac in August 1763. Jean died in Maryland before December 1767, when Anne and five of their children, two sons and three daughters, followed other Acadian exiles from Port Tobacco to Louisiana. After they landed at New Orleans the following February, Spanish authorities forced them to settle at distant Fort San Luìs de Natchez. After the restoration of Spanish control in the colony, authorities allowed the Natchez Acadians to settle where they wanted. Anne took her children to Ascension on the Acadian Coast. She did not remarry. One of her Guédry daughters married into the Breau family at Ascension. Her Guédry sons also married and settled on the river and out on the western prairies.
Older son Firmin, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1753, followed his family to Maryland and his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana. He married Marguerite-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Landry and Marguerite Boudreaux, at San Gabriel above Ascension in February 1786. They remained on the river. Firmin died at Ascension in February 1799, age 46. His daughter married into the Allain family. Three of his four sons married into the Dugas, Braud, and Gautreaux families on the river.
Jean's younger son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born in Maryland in c1762, followed his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana and, after he came of age, joined his cousins on the western prairies. He married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Breaux and Marguerite Breaux, at Attakapas in June 1785. Their daughters married into the Ford, Melançon, Semere, and Villier dit Ricard families. Jean Baptiste, fils, at age 56, remarried to Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians François-Joseph Savoie and his third wife Anne Thibodeaux and widow of Jean Charles Benoit, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in November 1818. She gave him no more children. Five of Jean-Baptiste, fils's sons married into the Semere, Melançon, Blanchard, and Beard families on the prairies.
Augustin's second son Joseph, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit in c1732, followed his older sisters to Île Royale in 1749, where, in early April 1752, a French official counted Joseph with his sister Jeanne, her husband Julien Bourneuf, and their four daughters at Rivière-de-Miré on the island's Atlantic coast. Joseph and his family returned with kinsmen by boat to British Nova Scotia. In the fall of 1754, they resettled with them at Mirliguèche on the Atlantic coast south of Halifax. In September 1755, the British rounded up Joseph and his kinsmen, held them on Georges Island, Halifax, and, in December, deported them to North Carolina aboard the sloop Providence. From Edenton, North Carolina, Joseph and his family followed his kinsmen to Pennsylvania in c1760. He remarried to fellow Acadian Madeleine ____ at Philadelphia in 1761. In June 1763, Pennsylvania officials counted them with three children still in the Quaker colony. They probably moved to Maryland soon after the counting, followed his family to Louisiana in the late 1760s, and settled at Ascension on the river above New Orleans. A colonial official counted him on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension in August 1770 without a wife and children, so he probably was a widower. At age 41, he remarried again--his third marriage--to Monique, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Dupuis and Anne Breau of Minas, at Ascension in May 1773. She may not have given him anymore children. They were still on the east bank of the river at Ascension in April 1777; they now owned a slave. Joseph died in St. James Parish in November 1815, in his early 80s. His line of the family died with him.
Augustin's third and youngest son Pierre, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1742, followed his older sisters to Île Royale in 1749, where, in early April 1752, a French official counted Pierre at Baie des Espagnols with sister Ursule and her husband Paul Boutin. Pierre returned with his kinsmen to British Nova Scotia by boat soon after the counting. In the fall of 1754, they resettled with them at Mirliguèche on the Atlantic coast south of Halifax. In September 1755, the British rounded up young Pierre and his kinsmen, held them on Georges Island, Halifax, and in December deported them to North Carolina aboard the sloop Providence. From Edenton, North Carolina, Pierre followed his kinsmen to Pennsylvania in c1760. In June 1763, called a "boy" (he was age 21), he appeared on a repatriation list with his kinsmen still in the Quaker colony. He followed his sister and brother-in-law to Maryland soon after the counting and joined other Acadian refugees at Port Tobacco, Maryland. Pierre, at age 22, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Dupuis and Anne Breau of Minas and sister of his older brother Joseph's wife, in Maryland in c1764. She gave him a daughter in c1765. His sister Ursule and her family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1767 and settled at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans. Pierre and Marguerite followed in February 1768 but were compelled by the Spanish governor to settle with the other Port Tobacco arrivals at distant Fort San Luìs de Natchez. Marguerite did not survive the ordeal. Pierre, at age 27, remarried to Claire, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Babin and Catherine Landry of Pigiguit, at San Luìs de Natchez in January 1769. After the restoration of Spanish control in the colony, authorities allowed the Natchez Acadians to settle where they wanted. Pierre and his family joined his older brother Joseph at Ascension. Pierre, Claire, and their 5-month-old son Louis-David also were counted on the left, or east, bank of the river there in August 1770. Daughter Marie was not counted with them, so she probably had died by then. Between 1771 and 1780, Claire gave Pierre five more sons. They did not remain on the river. In the early 1770s, despite Spanish restrictions, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled on Bayou Carencro near Grand Coteau at the southeastern edge of the Opelousas District. In 1774, Pierre owned 20 head of cattle, five horses and mules, three swine, and no slaves in the district. Wife Claire died near Grand Coteau in June 1780, age 28, probably from the rigors of childbirth (son Augustin's baptismal record at the Opelousas church, dated 23 July 1780, when he was five weeks old, lists his mother as deceased.) Pierre, now age 39, remarried again--his third marriage--to Marguerite, called Peggy, daughter of Scotsman William Miller and Irishwoman Anne Kiven, probably at Grand Coteau in c1781. Between 1784 and 1809, Peggy gave Pierre 13 more children, six daughters and seven more sons--20 children, seven daughters and 13 sons, by three wives, between 1765 and 1809. Pierre's rise to economic and social prominence was slow but sure. In 1785, he held three slaves in the Opelousas District. In 1788, near Grand Coteau, he owned 60 head of cattle, 40 horses, and five slaves on 18 arpents frontage of land. A few years later, he acquired land at Grande Pointe on upper Bayou Teche in the Attakapas District. Family tradition says that he was one of the first settlers in the area, but his children's baptismal records and a 1788 census reveal that he may not have moved there from Grand Coteau until the early 1790s, decades after the area was first settled. (His second wife's succession, dated 7 January 1781, calls her Mrs. Pierre Guidry "of Baillou Carencro.") By 1812, he held 40 slaves at Grand Pointe--an amazing number at that time and place (Jean dit Chapeau Mouton, an important land owner in the Attakapas District, for instance, held "only" 28 slaves that year). By 1812, in fact, Pierre's social prominence was so secure that his daughter Célestine was able to marry St. Martin Parish judge Ranson Eastin, a native of Virginia. According to one authority, "Before his death ... [Pierre] had amassed a fortune in land, livestock, and slaves, including some 2,000 acres in the Prairie Gros[sic] Chevreuil east of the Teche and several tracts in the Carencro and Grand Coteau areas within the Opelousas District." He died at his home at Grand Pointe in November 1825, a widower once again. The St. Martinville priest who recorded the burial said that Pierre was age 93 when he died; he was 83. His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later that month. Pierre's estate was valued at $200,000 at the time of his death. He lived long enough to see 12 of his 13 sons, four of his daughters, at least nine grandsons, and over a dozen granddaughters establish families of their own. He was, in fact, a great-grandfather many times over when he breathed his last at Grande Pointe. He also witnessed the burial of six of his sons, four of them married, several of his daughters, one of them married, and many grandchildren who died before their time. His daughters, all by third wife Peggy, married into the Broussard, Devalcourt, Eastin, Picou, Rees, and Thomas families. Most of the Guidrys of southwest Louisiana are descended from "the patriarch of Grande Pointe" and his many sons, twelve of whom by two of his wives married into the Borda, Semere, Hébert, Duhon, Robichaux, Savoie, Sloan, Bernard, Calais, Potier, Thibodeaux, and Patin families. They settled not only at Grande Pointe, but also on Bayou Vermilion, at Carencro, and at Grand Coteau. Some of Pierre's grandsons were among the first Acadians to settle in southeast Texas.
Claude, père's sixth son Claude, fils, the second with the name, born probably at Port-Royal in c1694, was counted at Port-Royal in 1698 and at La Hève in 1708, age 16, but he did not marry.
Claude, père's seventh son Joseph, born probably at Port-Royal in c1695, also was counted at La Hève in 1708, age 13. If he survived childhood, he did not marry.
Claude, père's eighth son Pierre dit Grivois dit Labine, born at Port-Royal in c1698, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Brassaud and Gabrielle Forest, in c1722, place not given. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1722 and 1742, Marguerite gave Pierre 10 children, four daughters and six sons. Pierre died by 1752, place unrecorded, in his 40s or early 50s. One of his daughters married into the Mius d'Azy and LeBlanc families, and another may have married into the Breau and Chaperon families, the latter at Rochefort, France. Five of Pierre's sons also created their own families, in Nova Scotia, the French Maritimes, and Louisiana.
Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1723, married Agnès, daughter of Pierre Triel dit Laperrière and Catherine Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in c1744 and settled at Cobeguit on the eastern end of the Minas Basin. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1751, Agnès gave Pierre, fils four children, two daughters and two sons. They may have been among the Cobeguit Acadians who escaped the British roundup in the Minas Basin by crossing Mer Rouge to Île St.-Jean in 1755 or 1756. The British deported their daughters to France in 1758-59, and they ended up at Rochefort. (What happened to Pierre, fils's sons?) When older daughter Marie married a Camus widower at Rochefort in November 1763, the recording priest noted that both of her parents were deceased. Marie and younger sister Marguerite did not remain at Rochefort. By March 1765, they were at Sinnamary, Cayenne, French Guiane, in South America. Marie remarried to a Cadet from Canada there the following July. Daughter Marguerite married a Vécot from Île St.-Jean at Sinnamary in July 1767. No member of this family emigated to Spanish Louisiana.
Pierre, père's second son Charles le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1726, married Adélaide-Madeleine, called Madeleine, Hébert, widow of Jean Breau, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1745. In c1751, they moved to Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, in the interor of Île Royale, where, in March 1752, a French official counted Charles, Madeleine, and their two daughters, the older one from Madeleine's first marriage and the younger one only eight days old. Between 1752 and 1759, Madeleine gave Charles le jeune three children, two daughters and a son. The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758, and they settled at Bonaban in the countryside southeast of the Breton port. Madeleine died there in April 1760, in her early 30s. Charles le jeune resettled at nearby LaGouesnière and remarried to Agnès, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and Françoise Dugas, at nearby St.-Suliac in January 1761. The settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer next to St.-Malo. Between 1762 and 1773, Agnès gave Charles le jeune five more children, all sons--eight children by two wives. In 1773, Charles le jeune took his family to the interior of Poitou with other Acadian exiles languishing in the port cities. In November 1775, after two years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes. Their youngest son died there in January 1776, age 2. In the late 1770s, Charles le jeune's oldest son Antoine, by first wife Madeleine, went to North America, perhaps as a privateer, and married an Hébert widow at New Orleans in December 1780. Claude le jeune's older daughter by first wife Madeleine married into the Boudrot family at St.-Similien, Nantes, in August 1780, and his second son married a Blandin at Nantes before September 1784. Meanwhile, wife Agnès died at Les Haut-Pavee in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in October 1782, age 46. In 1785, Charles le jeune, his unmarried daughter and his three unmarried sons, along with his married daughter and his married son, emigrated to Louisiana aboard two of the Seven Ships. Charles le jeune and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge. He did not remarry in the Spanish colony. He died at New Orleans, perhaps at son Antoine's home there, in September 1787, age 41. Charles le jeune's older daughter remarried into the Chico family at Ascension on the river below Manchac, and his younger daughter married into the Doiron family at Manchac. His younger son married into the Breaux, Vachard, Rodriguez, and Babin families families at Manchac, Baton Rouge, and Ascension.
Pierre, père's third son Anselme, born at Annapolis Royal in c1730, followed his older brothers to the French Maritimes in the 1750s, but he did not go to Île Royale. According to Bona Arsenault, he married Marie, daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Marie-Madeleine Lalande, on Île St.-Jean in c1756. They evidently escaped the British roundup there in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. By 1760, they had made their way up to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs. In the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the region were likely held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. After the war, they chose to go to the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where French officials counted them in 1767. Overcrowding on the island compelled them to go to France later that year, and they may gave returned to the island with most of their fellow Miquelonais in 1768. If they were still on the island in 1778, during the American Revolution, when the British, after capturing Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre, would have deported them with other islanders to France. If they went there, did they remain in France? If so, they did not go to Spanish Louisiana. (One suspects that Arsenault, in his Généalogie, confuses Anselme with his cousin, Jean, son of Paul dit Grivois of Annapolis Royal, who also was born in c1729/30, followed his family to the French Maritimes, married a Marie LeBlanc in the mid-1750s, and ended up at Restigouche and on Île Miquelon.)
Pierre, père's fifth son Jean dit Labrador, born at Annapolis Royal in c1735, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Pecot or Picot and Anne Blin, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1755. The British deported them to Massachusetts soon after their marriage. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1754 and 1775, Marguerite gave Jean 10 children, four daughters and six sons. In 1761, they and six of their children, two daughters and four sons, along with Élisabeth Pecot, probably Marguerite's sister, were counted at Woburn and Wilmington, north of Boston; the Massachusetts officials who counted them referred to the family head as John Lapadores, age 34 (he would have been younger, in his late 20s). After the war, they chose to resettle in Canada. British authorities counted them at Québec in 1766 and at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan north of Montréal in 1767. Two of their daughters married into the Bélec and Martin families at nearby L'Assomption and St.-Jacques. One of their sons emigrated to Louisiana from Canada in the 1780s or early 1790s, one of the few Louisiana Acadians to take that route.
Oldest son Maturin, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1754, was taken by his family to Massachusetts in 1755. He was counted with his family at Woburn in 1761, age 7. One wonders what happened to him after that date. Did he live long enough to follow his family to British Canada. Arsenault says nothing of him.
Jean's second son Joseph, born probably in Massachusetts in c1757, followed his family to Canada. He married Marie-Geneviève Martineau at Montréal in January 1783, and, at age 60, remarried to Marguerite Poirier, perhaps a fellow Acadian, widow of Charles Racette, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in January 1817.
Jean's third son, also named Joseph, born in Massachusetts in April 1759, followed his family to Canada. He married Marie, daughter of François Méthot dit Martineau and Marie Tellier, at Repentigny northeast of Montréal in October 1778.
Jean's fourth son Jean-Charles dit Labine, called Charles, born pobably in Massachusetts in c1760, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Doucet and Marie Arsenault, at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan in March 1782.
Jean's fifth son Olivier, born near Boston (some sources say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but it likely was Boston) in c1764, followed his family to Canada, but he did not remain there. After he came of age, he joined his uncle and cousins in Spanish Louisiana probably via the Great Lakes-Upper Mississippi route through the pays d'en haut. He first appears in Louisiana records in January 1793, when, at age 29, he married Marie-Félicité, called Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexandre Aucoin and his second wife Élisabeth Duhon and widow of Joseph Faulk, at Attakapas on the western prairies. Félicité had come to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785 with her widowed mother and six sisters. The couple settled at Grande Prairie on the upper Vermilion, near today's downtown Lafayette, where Olivier's neighbors called him "Canada" to distinguish him from a cousin with the same given name. His daughter married into the Trahan family. His five sons married into the Broussard, Sonnier, Breaux, Meaux, Calais, Patin, and Landry families on the prairies.
Pierre, père's sixth and youngest son Augustin le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in c1740, evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. In the late 1750s or early 1760s, he may have surrendered to, or been captured by, British forces in the region and held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. After the war, he remained in Nova Scotia and was at Pigiguit in 1767, when he married Marie-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Guillaume Jeanson and Marie Aucoin, in a civil ceremony. The marriage was "rehabilitated" at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, in May 1769. In 1772, they moved to Météghan on Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, on the western Atlantic shore of Nova Scotia. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1773, Marie-Françoise gave Augustin le jeune four children, three sons and a daughter. Augustin le jeune died at Météghan in 1826, in his late 80s.
Claude, père's ninth
and youngest son Paul
dit Grivois,
also called Jovial and "Labrador," born at Port-Royal in January 1701, married Anne-Marie dite
Nannette, another daughter of
Oldest son Jacques dit Grivois, born at Annapolis Royal in c1724, married Brigitte, daughter of Pierre Lejeune and Jeanne Benoit, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1745. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1750, Brigitte gave Jacques three daughters. In 1751, soon after his parents and siblings moved to Île Royale, Jacques took his family to Île St.-Jean instead. A French official counted Jacques, Brigitte, and their daughters at Bédec on the southwest coast of the island in August 1752. One wonders what happened to them in 1758.
Paul's younger
son Jean dit Grivois,
Michel Haché dit Gallant, a late 1670s arrival, and his wife Anne Cormier created a large family in the colony. Between 1691 and 1716, Anne gave him a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters. In c1720, Michel moved his family to Port-La-Joye, today's Rocky Point, across from present-day Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. They evidently were the first Acadians to settle on the island, which the French called Île St.-Jean. Their daughters married into the Poirier, Rassicot, Prétieux, Jacquemin dit Lorraine, Hango dit Choisy, Duval, and Belliveau families, many on Île St.-Jean. All of Michel's seven sons created families of their own, and each resulted in vigorous lines of the Haché dit Gallant family. At least 17 of Michel's descendants emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785, but the vast majority of the Hachés, who also called themselves Gallant, remained in greater Acadia after Le Grand Dérangement. In Louisiana, their named evolved from Haché to Achée, and none used the surname Gallant.
Oldest son Michel dit Gallant, fils, born at Chignecto in c1691, married Madeleine, daughter of Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Hébert, at Grand-Pré in October 1711. They settled at Chignecto. In the late 1720s, however, they joined his family at Port-La-Joye, returned to Chignecto in c1734, and settled at Veskak, west of the Missaguash. Between 1712 and 1738, Madeleine gave Michel, fils 13 children, four sons and nine daughters, most of them born at Chignecto. Six of their daughters married into the Savoie, Saulnier, Doucet, Girouard, and Cormier families, all in Canada. All of Michel, fils and Madeleine's sons created families of their own. Strangely, Michel dit Gallant, fils died in Ste.-Croix Parish, Bordeaux, France in September 1765, age 74, four years after his wife Madeleine LeBlanc had died at Trois-Rivières, Canada, in October 1761. One wonders how he and Madeleine had become separated and how he ended up in France.
Oldest son Michel dit Michaud dit Gallant, born at Chignecto in c1714, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Joseph Gravois and Marie Cyr, in c1737, place not given. According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1738 and 1748, Marie-Anne Michaud seven children, two sons and five daughters. Michaud remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of René Blanchard and Marie Savoie, at Annapolis Royal in June 1749. They settled at Chignecto. One wonders if she gave him any children. In the fall of 1755, the British deported Michaud, Marie-Madeleine, and their children to South Carolina, but they did not remain there. Allowed to return to greater Acadia via sea the following spring, they reached Rivière St.-Jean, from which they took refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs with many of their Haché kinsmen. Michaud and his family evidently were among the Acadians who either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held the prison compound at Fort Cumerberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, near their old home at Chignecto, for the rest of the war. After the war, they settled at Grande-Digue, in today's eastern New Brunswick, where Michaud died in c1768, age 54. Three of his daughters married into the Bonnevie, Downing, Léger, and Caissie families. Both of his sons created their own families
Older son Michel III, born in c1738, place not given, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and married Anne, daughter of Charles Melanson and Anne Breau of Annapolis Royal, at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia, in August 1768. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1787, Anne gave Michel III nine children, three sons and six daughters. They, too, settled at Grande-Digue, where Michel III died in October 1809, age 71. Five of Michel III's daughters married into the Haché/Gallant, Boudreau, Poirier, Goguen, and Arsenault families at Grande-Digue. All three of his sons created their own families there.
Oldest son Isaac, born in c1772, place not given, married Scholastique Arsenault at Grande-Digue in c1798. According to Bona Arsenault, Scholastique gave Isaac eight children, a son and seven daughters, at Grande-Digue between 1799 and 1816.
Michel III's second Laurent, born in c1773, place not given, married Nathalie, daughter of François Bourque and Élisabeth Broussard, at Grande-Digue in c1803. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1804 and 1829, Nathalie gave Laurent 10 children, three sons and seven daughters. Laurent died at Grande-Digue in July 1847, age 74.
Michel III's third and youngest son Maurice, born probably at Grande-Digue in 1787, married Gertrude, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Després and Madeleine Bourg, at Grande-Digue in July 1809. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1810 and 1832, Gertrude gave Maurice 10 children, four sons and six daughters. Maurice died at Grande-Digue in June 1861, age 74.
Michel dit Michaud's younger son Basile, born in c1742, place not given, married in c1765, place not given, a woman whose name has been lost to history. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1770, she gave Basile three sons. He and his family settled at Mont-Carmel and at Rustico on St. John's Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, where his great-grandfather had settled half a century earlier. Two of Basile's three sons created their own families on the island.
Oldest son Joseph, born in c1766, place not given, married Théotiste, daughter of Pierre Arsenault and ____ Chiasson, in c1790, place not given. After living for a time on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, they resettled at Mont-Carmel, on the southwest shore of St. John's Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, which the British renamed Prince Edward Island in 1798. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1792 and 1825, Théotiste gave Joseph eight children, four sons and four daughters.
Basile's third and youngest son François, born in c1770, place not given, married Marie Arsenault, place and date not given. They settled at Rustico, on the north side of Prince Edward Island, where, according to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave him a son in 1800.
Michel dit Gallant, fils's second son
Jean
dit Gallant, born in the
late 1710s, place not given, married Marguerite, another daughter of
Michel dit Gallant, père's second son Joseph dit Gallant, born at Chignecto in c1693, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Gaudet and Cécile Mignot, at Beaubassin in July 1721, and moved on to Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1722 and 1740, Marie gave Joseph 10 children on the island, eight sons and two daughters. Joseph died on the island between October 1743 and November 1747, in his late 40s or early 50s. One of his daughters married into the Deveau family on the island. Four of Joseph dit Gallant's sons also created families of their own.
Oldest son Joseph, fils, born probably at Port-La-Joye in c1722, died at St.-Pierre-du-Nord on the north shore of island in October 1743, age 21, still a bachelor.
Joseph dit Gallant, père's second son Jean-Charles, called Charles, born probably at Port-La-Joye in c1725, married Anne, daughter of Jacques Deveau and Marie Pothier of Chignecto, at Port-La-Joye in November 1751. According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him a son, Charles, fils, also called Louis, born on the island in October1754. After surviving the crossing to France in 1758, Charles, père remarried to Marie, daughter of Charles Hébert and Marie-Claire Daigre, at Cherbourg in January 1761. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1776, Marie gave Charles, père a dozen more children, five sons and seven daughters. The family went to the interior of Poitou in 1773 and retreated to the lower Loire port of Nantes two years later. Charles, père, who worked in the port city as a ship's carpenter and fish monger, died probably at Nantes before 1784, in his 50s or early 60s. Two of his sons and a daughter emigrated to Louisiana in 1785. Daughter Bonne by second wife Marie married into the St. Germain family in the Spanish colony. Only one of his two sons married there, but no lasting line came of it.
Older son Jean-Baptiste-Charles, called Jean-Charles, born at Cherbourg, France, in December 1762, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes. He married Marie-Modeste, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Pinet dit Pinel and Anne-Marie Durel, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes in November 1784. They followed his brother and sister to Spanish Louisiana and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. They had a daughter, Martine, born soon after they reached the colony. Jean-Charles died probably at Lafourche in c1786, age 24, soon after reaching the colony. He fathered no sons. Daughter Martine married into the Thibodeaux family and lived to a ripe old age. She was, in fact, one of the last of the Acadian immigrants in Louisiana to join her ancestors.
Charles's younger son Frédéric, born at Nantes in c1770, followed his brother and sister to Louisiana and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, but he did not remain there. Frédéric died at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, on the river above New Orleans, in March 1839, age 69. He did not marry, so his father's line of the family, except perhaps for its blood, died with him.
Joseph dit Gallant, père's third son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born probably at Port-La-Joye in c1728, married Anne Pitre on the island in c1750. According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him two sons. He, too, survived the crossing to France in 1758, remarried to Anne Comeau in c1766, place not given, and settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, near St.-Malo. According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Jean-Baptiste le jeune three more children, two sons and a daughter, between 1767 and 1772. Meanwhile, his two sons from his first marriage died at St.-Servan in the late 1760s. In 1772, Jean-Baptiste le jeune took his family to La Rochelle on the Bay of Biscay. None of them emigrated to Louisiana.
Joseph dit Gallant, père's fourth son Pierre le jeune, born probably at Port-La-Joye in c1729, married Marguerite Montaury on the island in c1749. According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him at least one son. What happened to them in 1758?
Joseph dit Gallant, père's fifth son François le jeune, born probably at Port-La-Joye in c1730, survived the crossing to France in 1758 and was living at Cherbourg in 1767, still a bachelor. He may not have married .
Joseph dit Gallant, père's sixth son René-François, born probably at Port-La-Joye in c1732, evidently died young.
Joseph dit Gallant, père's seventh son Jacques le jeune, born probably at Port-La-Joye in c1736, also survived the crossing to France in 1758. He married Anne, daughter Paul Boudrot and Marie Doiron, at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across the harbor from St.-Malo, in November 1763. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1782, Anne gave Jacques le jeune 11 children, seven sons and four daughters. Jacques le jeune died in France in c1782. Two of his daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. One of them married into the Sevin and Babin families there What happened to his sons? None of them followed their sisters in Louisiana.
Joseph dit Gallant, père's eighth and youngest son Louis, born probably at Port-La-Joye in c1740, evidently did not create a family of his own. What happened to him in 1758?
Michel dit Gallant, père's third son Jean-Baptiste dit Gallant, born at Chignecto in c1696, married Anne-Marie or Marie-Anne, daughter of Élie Gentil and Cécile Martin, at Beaubassin in February 1719 and followed his family to Port-La-Joye. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1720 and 1743, Marie-Anne gave Jean-Baptiste a dozen children, nine sons and three daughters, on Île St.-Jean. Jean-Baptiste died on the island by 1752, in his 40s or 50s. Two of his daughters married into the Olivier, Deveau, and Gautrot families on Île St.-Jean and in France. Seven of Jean-Baptiste's nine sons, who were deported to three separate French ports in 1758, also created their own families, on the island and in France, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born probably at Chignecto in c1720, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Olivier and Françoise Bonnevie of Annapolis Royal, at Port-La-Joye in February 1750. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1766, Anne gave Jean-Baptiste, fils eight children, six sons and two daughters, on Île St.-Jean and at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, to where the family was deported in 1758. They evidently moved on to St.-Malo in Brittany. Jean-Baptiste, fils died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in February 1767, age 47. Daughter Anne-Marie married into the Benoit family in France and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana. In 1785, Jean-Baptiste's widow also emigrated to Louisiana from France with one of his nieces.
Jean-Baptiste dit Gallant, père's second son Pierre le jeune, born probably at Port-La-Joye, Île-St.-Jean in c1725, married Marie, daughter of Charles Doiron and Anne Thériot of Pigiguit, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre on the island, in February 1752. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1752 and 1758, Marie gave Pierre le jeune four children on the island, three sons and a daughter. After losing his wife and all four of his children on the crossing to St.-Malo, Pierre le jeune remarried to Anne, daughter of Joseph Dumont and Marie-Madeleine Vécot, at St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across from St.-Malo, in July 1759. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1765, Anne gave Pierre le jeune four more children at St.-Énogat and nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer. Pierre le jeune remarried again--his third marriage--to Madeleine, daughter of surgeon Jacques Dingle and Marguerite Landry of Grand-Pré and widow Charles Pellerin, at St.-Servan in September 1766. According to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine gave Pierre le jeune three more children there between 1768 and 1772--11 children, eight sons and three daughters, by three wives. The family evidently went to Poitou in 1773 or 1774 and retreated to the port of Nanes a few years later. Pierre le jeune died at Nantes in June 1777, age 52. Two of his sons and a daughter emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785. Daughter, Marie-Anne, by second wife Anne Dumont, married into the Charrié, de St. Angel, and Barre families in the Spanish colony. Pierre le jeune's older son created a vigorous line there.
Older son Pierre-Alexis, by third wife Madeleine Dingle, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in March 1768, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his siblings to Louisiana. He settled on upper Bayou Lafourche and married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Dantin and his French wife Jeanne Gemier, at Assumption there in June 1795. Their daughters married into the Ledet, Marlbrough, Pitre, Roger, and Usé families. Three of Pierre-Alexis's five sons, all born on the Lafourche, married into the Ayraud or Aymond, Boutary, and Simoneaux familes.
Pierre le jeune's younger son Joseph-François, also called Joseph dit Canawche, from third wife Madeleine Dingle, born at St.-Servan-sur-Mer, France, in June 1772, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his siblings to Louisiana. He married Anne-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc and his second wife Marguerite Célestin dit Bellemère of Grand-Pré and Belle-Île-en-Mer, at Ascension on the river above New Orleans in January 1803. He moved to the Attakapas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin in the early 1800s and remarried to Anastasie, daughter of François Guilbeau and Madeleine Broussard and widow of Donat Breaux, at St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, in October 1819. Joseph died in nearby Lafayette Parish in December 1831, age 59. His daughters, all by first wife Marguerite, married into the Daigle, Hébert, and L'ascange or Lascourieges familes. His only son Jean-Pierre, also from first wife Marguerite, may not have married.
Jean-Baptiste dit Gallant, père's third son François le jeune, born probably at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in c1726, married Françoise, daughter of Pierre Olivier and Françoise Bonnevie of Annapolis Royal, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in February 1750. According to Bona Arsenault, Françoise gave François le jeune a daughter the following year. After a French official counted them on upper Rivière-du-Nord-Est in August 1752, they disappear from the historical record. One wonders what happened to them in 1758.
Jean-Baptiste dit Gallant, père's fourth son Michel le jeune, born probably at Port-La-Joye in c1731, evidently did not create a family of his own. Was he still alive in 1758? If so, what happened to him?
Jean-Baptiste dit Gallant, père's fifth son Antoine, born probably at Port-La-Joye in c1734, married Marie Clémençeau on the eve of island's dérangement. Antoine and Marie, with his youngest brother and their widowed mother, survived deportation to St.-Malo in 1758. Between 1760 and 1769, at St.-Énogat and St.-Servan-sur-Mer, Marie gave Antoine six children, two sons and four daughters; all but two of them died in childhood. They evidently went to Poitou in 1773 or 1774 and retreated to the port of Nanes a few years later. She gave Antoine another son at Chantenay near Nantes in 1777, but he, too, did not survive childhood. Antoine died near Nantes in c1782, in his late 40s. One of his daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France and married into the Heusé family there.
Jean-Baptiste dit Gallant, père's sixth son, another Michel le jeune, born on Île St.-Jean in c1736, evidently did not create a family of his own. Was he still alive in 1758? If so, what happened to him?
Jean-Baptiste dit Gallant, père's seventh son Joseph le jeune, born on Île St.-Jean in c1738, survived deportation to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in 1758, moved on to St.-Malo to join his family, and married Marie, another daughter of Joseph Dumont and Marie-Madeleine Vécot, at nearby St.-Énogat in June 1760. Between 1761 and 1771, at St.-Servan, she gave him seven children, four sons and three daughters. She gave him another son at Châtellerault in Poitou in 1774, and another daughter at Chantenay, near Nantes, in 1776--nine children, five sons and four daughters, in all. Their youngest son died at Chantenay in 1777, age 2. Joseph le jeune worked as a master ship's carpenter at Nantes and drowned at nearby Paimboeuf, the city's lower port, in January 1778, age 40. Wife Marie died at Chantenay in July 1784, age 43. This left their many children without any parents. Joseph's brothers, however, lived nearby and took them in. Four of Joseph le jeune's daughters emigrated to Louisiana from France, one of them with brother Jean-Baptiste's widow Anne Olivier. What happened to his sons? Three of his daughters married into the David, Ramirez, and Calandrot families in the Spanish colony.
Jean-Baptiste dit Gallant, père's eighth son Louis, born at Havre-St.-Pierre, Île St.-Jean, in June 1741, survived deportation to Cherbourg, France, in 1758 and also moved on to St.-Malo to be near his family. After being held as a prisoner of war in England in 1760-63 following his capture on a French privateer, Louis married Anne, daughter of Claude Benoit and Élisabeth Thériot, at St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1765. She gave him two children, a son and a daughter, in 1766 and 1767. Louis remarried to Françoise, daughter of François Doucet and Marie Carret and widow of Alexis Renaud, at St.-Servan in February 1770. She gave him two more children, a son and a daughter, at St.-Servan in 1771 and 1772. Françoise gave him another son at Châtellerault in Poitou in 1774, and four more children, three sons and a daughter, at Chantenay near Nantes between 1776 and 1781. Louis was the only member of his father's family to emigrate to Louisiana. With him went his second wife, one of his sons, two nephews and a niece. He settled in the Bayou Lafourche valley and died there after 1798. His son Pierre-Charles, by second wife Françoise, married into the Bourgeois family and settled on the bayou.
Jean-Baptiste dit Gallant, père's ninth and youngest son Georges, born at Havre-St.-Pierre, Île St.-Jean, in December 1743, survived deportation to St.-Malo with his older brother Antoine and their widowed mother. Georges married Perrine, daughter of Pierre Basset and Louise Mace, at St.-Servan in January 1768. Between 1768 and 1771, she gave him three children, a son and two daughters, at St.-Servan, a daughter at Châtellerault in 1774, and a son and a daughter at Chantenay in 1776 and 1781. Georges worked as a seaman at Chantenay and died there, or at sea, in c1782, in his early 40s. None of his children emigrated to Louisiana.
Michel dit Gallant, père's fourth son Charles dit Gallant, born at Chignecto in c1698, married Geneviève, daughter of Pierre Lavergne and Anne Bernon, at Annapolis Royal in February 1727, joined his family at Port-La-Joye, and then settled on Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the center of the island. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1727 and 1750, Geneviève gave Charles seven children, four sons and three daughters, most of them born on Île St.-Jean. When the British rounded up the Acadians on the island in 1758, Charles and most of his family were among the habitants there who crossed Mer Rouge and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence coast. They also were among the Acadians who returned to St. John's Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, after exile. Their daughters married into the Richard, Chiasson, and Melanson families. Three of Charles's sons also created families of their own.
Oldest son Jacques-René, born in c1727, place not given, married Anne, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Judith Belliveau of Chignecto, in October 1747 probably on Île St.-Jean. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1759, Anne gave Jacques seven children, including one son and five daughters. While the rest of his family escaped the British in 1758, Jacques-René and his family were deported to St.-Malo, France. Three of his children, including an unnamed newborn, died at sea or later from the rigors of the crossing. Jacques-René survived the crossing but died at Châteauneuf, on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo, in May 1759, not long after reaching the mother country. Anne remarried at nearby St.-Énogat, today's Dinard, across from St.-Malo, four years later. Two of her Haché daughters emigrated to Louisiana, and one of them married into the Sevin and Babin families in the Spanish colony.
Charles dit Gallant's second son Charles-Hyacinthe, born on Île St.-Jean in 1733, evidently did not create a family of his own. Was he still alive in 1758? If so, what happened to him?
Charles dit Gallant's third son Joseph, born on Île St.-Jean in c1744, escaped the British roundup with his parents and younger siblings in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and took refuge with them at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs. Did they escape capture during the following years? Joseph married Marie-Madeleine, daughter Charles Doucet and Anne Arseneau, in c1765 probably at Nepisiguit, today's Bathurst, New Brunswick, where the marriage was blessed in June 1772. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1792, Marie-Madeleine gave Joseph 14 children, six sons and eight daughters, most of them born at Nepisiguit/Bathurst, where Joseph died in November 1822, age 78. Six of his daughters married into the DeGrâce, Boudreau, Morrison, Pitre, Lavigne, Landry, and Godin families at Bathurst. Five of his six sons also created their own families.
Oldest son Michel, born probably at Nepisiguit in c1766, married Marie, daughter of Ambroise Godin and Madeleine Bergeron, at Bathurst in October 1791. According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Michel 10 children between 1792 and 1811. Michel remarried to Madeleine Cormier, widow of Béloni Thériot, at Bathurst in April 1812. According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him another daughter in 1814.
Joseph's second son Gabriel, born probably at Nepisiguit in c1770, evidently did not create a family of his own.
Joseph's third son Sylvain, born probably at Nepisiguit in c1772, married Anastasie, daughter of Canadians Jean Lavigne and Isabelle Baudry, at Bathurst in September 1796. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1797 and 1818, Anastasie gave Sylvain a dozen children, all born at Bathurst.
Joseph's fourth son Joseph, fils, born at Bathurst in c1780, married Hélène Landry probaby at Bathurst in c1802.
Joseph's fifth son Simon, born at Nepisiguit in c1782, married Vénérande, daughter of Simon Arseneau and Marie Melanson, at Bathurst in September 1706. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1808 and 1825, Vénérande gave Simon eight children, five sons and three daughters, all born at Bathurst.
Joseph's sixth and youngest son Antoine, born at Nepisigiut in c1784, married Céleste, daughter of Rémi Landry and Charlotte Doiron of Grande-Anse, at Bathurst in April 1812. According to Bona Arsenault, Céleste gave Antoine seven children between 1813 and 1823. They settled at Caraquet, near her home at Grande-Anse, New Brunswick.
Charles dit Gallant's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born on Île St.-Jean in c1750, escaped with his family across Mer Rouge to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. Did he escape capture the following years? He married Hélène, daughter of Paul Richard and Renée Boudrot, in c1774 and settled at Île Miscou on the Baie des Chaleurs in c1775. Jean-Baptiste remarried to Marie, daughter of Joseph Goguen and Anne Arseneau, date not given, probably on Île Miscou. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1775 and 1784, Jean-Baptiste's two wives gave him six children, one son and six daughters. In 1798, Jean-Baptiste took his family to Rivière-Platte on Prince Edward Island, formerly Île St.-Jean and moved on to Grand-Ruisseau, today's Egmont Bay, on the island's southwestern coast, in 1812. Four of Jean-Baptiste's daughters married into the Gallant, Arseneau, Pineau, and Poirier families at Mont-Carmel and Rustico on the island. His only son also created a family of his own.
Only son Charles le jeune, born probably at Miscou in c1776, married cousin Juliette, daughter of Pierre Gallant and Modeste Arseneau, at Rustico in c1800. They remained at Rustico, where, according to Bona Arsenault, Juliette gave him eight children, four sons and four daughters, between 1802 and 1823.
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Michel dit Gallant, père's sixth son François dit Gallant, born at Chignecto in c1707, married Anne, daughter of François Boudrot and Jeanne Landry of Tracadie, at Port-La-Joye on Île St.-Jean in June 1735 and settled near her family at Tracadie, on the north shore of the island. By August 1752, however, they had moved to upper Rivière-du-Nord-Est, in the island's interior. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1763, Anne gave François dit Gallant 14 children, 10 sons and four daughters. One wonders what happened to them in 1758. One of their daughters, Marie-Rose, married into the Blanchard family. All 10 of François's sons escaped the British in 1758 and created their own families in exile.
Oldest son Sylvestre, born on Île St.-Jean in c1736, married Marie, daughter of Ambroise Poirier and Marie Gaudet of Chignecto, in c1759, probably in exile, place not given. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1798, Marie gave Sylvestre eight children, four sons and four daughters. After the war, they settled at Grande-Digue, eastern New Brunswick, where Sylvestre died in November 1820, age 84. Two of Sylvestre's daughters married Léger brothers whose mother was a Haché, and a third daughter married into the Arseneau family. Three of Sylvestre's sons also created families of their own.
Oldest son Marin, born in exile in c1760, place not given, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of Michel Haché and Anne Melanson of Shédiac, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, in c1782, place not given. They settled at nearby Grande-Digue. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1784 and 1808, Marguerite gave Marin eight children, five sons and three daughters. Marin remarried to Rosalie Babin, widow of Dominique Melanson, at Memramcook, New Brunswick, in July 1826, when he was age 66, and remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Caissie and Anastasie Léger, at Shédiac in August 1732, when he was 72. According to Bona Arsenault, Marin fathered no children by his second and third wives. He died at Grande-Digue in February 1743, age 83.
Sylvestre's second son Thomas, born in exile in c1762, place not given, married Hélène, another daughter of Michel Haché and Anne Melanson, in c1795, place not given. They were among the pioneer settlers of Barachois, on the southern Gaspé peninsula near Percé. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1796 and 1814, Hélène gave Thomas six children, four sons and two daughters.
Syvestre's fourth and youngest son Isidore, born in c1782, perhaps at Grande-Digue, married Radegonde, daughter of Pierre Caissie and Rosalie Léger, at Richiboutou, eastern New Brunswick, in November 1803 but settled at nearby Grande-Dugue. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1804 and 1826, Radegone gave Isidore eight children, four sons and four daughters.
François dit Gallant's second son Louis, born on Île St.-Jean in c1738, married Ursule Doucet in c1760, in exile, place not given, and, after the war, settled at Rustico on the north shore of St. John's Island.
François dit Gallant's third son Jacques-Ange, called Ange, born on Île St.-Jean in c1740, followed his family into exile and married Marguerite Picard in c1766, place not given.
François dit Gallant's fourth son Jean-François, born on Île St.-Jean in c1742, followed his family into exile, married Agnès, daughter of François Doucet and Marie Carré in c1765, place not given, and also settled at Rustico.
François dit Gallant's fifth son René, born on Île St.-Jean in c1744, followed his family into exile and married Marguerite, daughter of Olivier Blanchard and Catherine Amireau of Petitcoudiac, in c1768, place not given. They settled at Le Bocage, Petit-Rivière, near Caraquet, New Brunswick. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1770 and 1790, Marguerite gave René 11 children, six sons and five daughters, all of whom created families of their own. Their daughters married into the Godin, Thériault, and Thibodeau families at Caraquet. All six of René's sons created their own families.
Oldest son François, born in c1770, place not given, married Nathalie Thibodeau in c1792 probably at Caraquet, and remained there. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1795 and 1824, Nathalie gave François 10 children, six sons and four daughters. One of their sons became a noted leader at Caraquet and in New Brunswick.
Fifth son Juste, born at Caraquet in August 1823, was, according to a biographer, "the 13th child of a master carpenter who had no land to give but was able to send him to school." Juste began his teaching career in Gloucester County, where Caraquet is located, in 1841. His biographer says he spent "Most of his life ... teaching reading, writing, spelling, and arithmetic in French to the children of Caraquet." Juste married fellow Acadian Vénérande Pinet probably at Caraquet in 1848. She gave him two sons. He remarried to Suzanne Cormier at Caraquet in November 1763. She gave him 10 more children, "at least two of whom died in infancy." Juste died at Caraquet in July 1895, in his early 70s.
René's second son Isaac, born in c1772, perhaps at Caraquet, married Madeleine Thibodeau in c1800, probably at Caraquet. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1805 and 1823 at Caraquet, Madeleine gave Isaac nine children, three sons and six daughters.
René's third son Eusèbe, born in c1784, probably at Caraquet, married Marie-Blanche, daughter of Joseph Poirier and Charlotte Léger, at Caraquet in November 1809. They also remained there. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1810 and 1835, Marie-Blanche gave Eusèbe 11 children, six sons and five daughters.
René's fourth son Jean, born in c1787, probably at Caraquet, married Clothilde, daughter of Pierre Pinet and Barbe Dugas, at Caraquet in June 1813. According to Bona Arsenault, Clothilde gave Jean a son in 1814. Jean remarried to Sophie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Léger and Claire-Félicité Robichaud, at Caraquet in September 1815. According to Bona Arsenault, Sophie gave Jean five more children, two sons and three daughters, between 1817 and 1831.
René's fifth son Isaïe, born in c1788, probably at Caraquet, married Matie, daughter of Cyrille Léger and Vénérande Savoie, at Caraquet in November 1818. According to Bona Arsenault, Matie gave Isaïe a son in 1819 and a daughter in 1821. Isaïe remarried to Adèle, daughter of Jean Malais and Anne-Marie Gionnais, at Caraquet in November 1835, when he was 47. According to Bona Arsenault, Adèle gave Isaïe four more children, a son and three daughters, between 1838 and 1854.
René's sixth and youngest son Romain, born in c1789, probably at Caraquet, married Félicité Léger at Caraquet in September 1819. They, too, remained at Caraquet, where, according to Bona Arsenault, Félicité gave Romain 10 children, six sons and four daughters, between 1822 and 1839.
François dit Gallant's sixth son Joseph, born on Île St.-Jean in c1748, followed his family into exile and married Euphrosine, daughter of Jacques Arsenault and Marie-Josèphe Doucet, in c1775, place not given. They settled with his older brothers at Rustico, on the north shore of St. John's Island, formerly Île St.-Jean.
François dit Gallant's seventh son Charles, born on Île St.-Jean in 1752, followed his family into exile and married Anne, daughter of Paul Boudrot and Marie-Josèphe Doiron, place and date not given. They also settled at Rustico.
François dit Gallant's eighth son Pierre, born on Île St.-Jean in c1754, followed his family into exile and married Modeste, another daughter of Jacques Arsenault and Marie-Josèphe Doucet, in c1778, place not given. They also settled at Rustico.
François dit Gallant's ninth son Simon, born in exile in c1759, place not given, married Marie Gaudet in c1780, place not given, and settled at Rustico.
François dit Gallant's tenth and youngest son Basile, born in c1763, place not given, married Marguerite Boudrot in c1785, place not given, and also settled at Rustico.
Michel dit Gallant, père's seventh and youngest son Jacques dit Gallant, born at Chignecto in c1712, married Marie-Josèphe, called Josèphe, another daughter of François Boudrot and Jeanne Landry, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in June 1735, on the same day his brother Francois dit Gallant married Josèphe's sister Anne. Jacques and Josèphe also settled at Tracadie on the north shore of the island. They were still there in August 1752. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1754, Josèphe gave Jacques dit Gallant 11 children, six sons and five daughters, at Tracadie. Jacques and his family also escaped the British in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and found refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where they may have escaped another British roundup in 1760. If so, one wonders where they took refuge during the following years. In 1773, Jacques took his family to Île Miscou on the southern shore of the Baie des Chaleurs. Four of his daughters married into the Boudrot, Arsenault, Doucet, and Cormier families at Restigouche and Miscou and settled at Miscou and Bathurst in New Brunswick and on the îles de la Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Three of Jacques's six sons also created families of their own in the region.
Second son Joseph le jeune, born at Tracadie in c1740, followed his family into exile, married an Arseneau in c1765, place not given, and settled at Egmont Bay on the southwest shore of St. John's Island. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1766 and 1780, she gave Joseph le jeune five children, two sons and three daughters.
Jacques dit Gallant's fifth son Cyprien, born at Tracadie in c1748, followed his family into exile, married Marie, daughter of Joseph Bernard and Nathalie Arseneau, in c1770, place not given, and settled at today's Bloomfield in the far northwest corner of St. John's Island west of Cascumpec. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1772 and 1790, Marie gave Cyprien a dozen children, 10 sons and two daughters.
Jacques dit Gallant's sixth and youngest son Charles le jeune, born at Tracadie in c1749, followed his family into exile and married Félicité Gautrot in c1775, place unrecorded. They were at Miscou, near his father, between 1776 and 1779; moved down to Nepisiguit, today's Bathurst, New Brunwick, in 1784; and moved on to Margaree, on the west coast of Cape Breton Island, in 1788. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1776 and 1800, Félicité gave Charles le jeune 11 children, sox sons and five daughters. Charles le jeune died at Margaree in June 1842, age 93.403
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Emmanuel dit Tavare Mirande, a late 1670s arrival, and his wife Marguerite Bourgeois created a small family in the colony. Marguerite gave him nine children, six sons and three daughters, most of them probably at Chignecto. Emmanuel died by January 1707, when Marguerite remarried--her third marriage--at Port-Royal. Emmanuel and Marguerite's daughters married into the Caissie, Arseneau, Mignot, and Cordeau dit Des Lauriers families. Only one of Emmanuel's sons married. Beginning in the 1710s, Emmanuel's surviving children left Chignecto for Île Royale, where they remained. If any of Emmanuel's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.
Oldest son Joseph, born at Chignecto in October 1680, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Gaudet l'aîné and Anne Blanchard, in c1704 probably at Chignecto, and died between 1726 and July 1732, perhaps on Île Royale, in his late 40s or early 50s. Marie gave him seven children, five sons and two daughters. In 1713-14, Joseph, described as a fisherman/habitat, spent the winter at Baie-de-Miré on Île Royale with his brother-in-law, Michel Caissie. In August 1714, Joseph received permission from officials at Louisbourg to settle on the island. Evidently he liked what he saw there. His family was counted at Baie-de-l'Indienne, up the coast from Louisbourg, in 1724 and 1725, and down the coast at Petit-Lorembec in 1734. Joseph's daughter Marie married into the Chauvin family and settled at Lorembec. Only two of Joseph's sons married.
Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Chignecto, date not given, married Gillette, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Grandin and Anne-Hyacinthe Dupuis, at Port-d'Orléans, Île Royale, in c1737, and died by 1749, probably on the island.
Joseph's second, third, and fourth sons Jean-Baptiste, Paul, and Charles, born probably at Chignecto, evidently died young.
Joseph's fifth and youngest son Joseph, fils, born at Baie-de-l'Indienne, Île Royale, in c1720, married Marie-Barbe-Élie, daughter of Pierre-César-Alexandre Le Grand and Madeleine Dihars of Newfoudland, at Port-d'Orléans, up the coast, in c1748. They settled at Lorembec, near Louisbourg, where, in April 1752, a French official counted them on a fishing concession granted to Joseph, père. With Joseph, fils and Barbe-Élie were 3-year-old son Jean-Baptiste and 8-month-old daughter Josette. Next to them lived Joseph, fils's sister Marie, her husband, Georges Chauvin, and two of their sons.
Emmanuel's second son François, born at Chignecto in October 1682, survived childhood but probably did not marry.
Emmanuel's third son Jean, born probably at Chignecto in c1689, survived childhood but probably did not marry.
Emmanuel's fourth son Louis-Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in c1692, survived childhood but probably did not marry.
Emmanuel's fifth son Michel, born probably at Chignecto in c1695, died at Port-Royal in July 1707.
Emmanuel's sixth and youngest son Alexis, born probably at Chgnecto in c1698, probably died young.404
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Jean-Aubin Mignot dit Châtillon, a late 1670s arrival, and his wife Anne Dugas created another small family in the colony. Anne gave him six children, five sons and a daughter, who married into the Gaudet and Poirier families. Three of Jean-Aubin's five sons married, but only a few of them remained at Chignecto. Decades before Le Grand Dérangement, most of them moved on to Jean-Aubin's native Canada and settled on the lower St. Lawrence. If any of Jean-Aubin's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.
Oldest son Jean, born probably at Chignecto in c1680, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Emmanuel Mirande dit Tavare and Marguerite Bourgeois, in c1703 probably at Chignecto, moved on to Canada, and died by June 1724 in his early 40s, no place given, but it may have been at Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence. Marie-Madeleine gave Jean seven children, four sons and three daughters. Two of their daughters married into the Allaire, Paquet dit Lavallée, and Roy families at Kamouraska and Beaumont in Canada. Three of their sons also married.
Oldest son Pierre, born probably in Canada in c1706, married Agathe, daughter of Canadians Jean-Pierre Roy dit Desjardins and Angélique Autin, at Kamouraska in February 1739.
Jean's second son Jean-François, born at Rivière-Ouelle on the lower St. Lawrence in October 1708, evidently died young.
Jean's third son Guillaume, born in Canada in the early 1700s, married Hélène, daughter of Canadians Pierre Michaud and Marie-Madeleine Thibodeau, at Kamouraska in January 1735.
Jean's fourth and youngest son Antoine, born in Canada in the early 1700s, married Marie-Louise, daughter of Canadians Jean Ouellet and Marie-Geneviève Tardif, at Kamouraska in January 1753.
Jean-Aubin's second son Alexis, born at Chignecto in September 1685, evidently died young.
Jean-Aubin's third son Jacques, born probably at Chignecto in c1689, died at Kamouraska in December 1755, in his his mid-60s, but never married.
Jean-Aubin's fourth son Louis-Joseph dit Aubin, born probably at Chignecto in c1692, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Pierre Michaud and Marie-Madeleine Thibodeau, at Kamouraska in October 1714, and remained in Canada. Marie-Anne gave Louis-Joseph nine children, three sons and six daughters, including a set of twins. Five of their daughters married into the Talbot, Marot dit Labonté, Baguenard, Pilote, and Rolandeau dit Laurendeau families in Canada. Two of their sons also married.
Oldest son Jean-François dit Aubin, his sister Marie-Claire's twin, born at St.-Thomas de Montmagny below Québec in October 1732, married Marie-Marthe, daughter of Louis Gagné and Marie-Marthe Rouau, at St.-Thomas de Montmagny in February 1765.
Louis-Joseph's second son Louis-Joseph, fils, born at St.-Thomas de Montmagny in July 1735, may not have married.
Louis-Joseph, père's third and youngest son Jacques dit Aubin, born at St.-Pierre-du-Sud below Québec in April 1740, married Marie-Marthe, daughter of Charles Rousseau and Marie-Catherine Talbot, at St.-Pierre-du-Sud in October 1763, and remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of François Gagné and Marie Métivier, at St.-Pierre-du-Sud in November 1782.
Jean-Aubin's fifth and youngest son Pierre dit Châtillon, born probably at Chignecto in c1695, married Jeanne, daughter of François Autin and Marie Boucher, at Kamouraska in November 1714, remarried to Marie-Catherine-Anne, daughter of Joseph Ouellet and Françoise Lizotte, at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière above Québec in November 1718, may have returned to Chignecto before moving back to Canada, and, at age 50, remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Françoise, daughter of Pierre Roy dit Desjardins and Marie-Anne Martin and widow of François Sirois dit Duplessis, at Kamouraska in May 1745. First wife Jeanne gave Pierre dit Châtillon one child, a daughter, who married into the Chassé family in Canada. Second wife Marie-Catherine-Anne gave him 10 more children, nine sons and a daughter, who married into the Milville dit Deschênes family in Canada. Third wife Marie-Françoise gave him no more children. Seven of his nine sons, all by his second wife, married and created families of their own in Nova Scotia and especially Canada.
Oldest son Jean, by second wife Marie-Catherine-Anne Ouellet, born probably at Chignecto in the early 1710s, married Marie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Bernard and Cécile Gautrot, at Beaubassin, Chignecto, in February 1744. One wonders if they remained there.
Pierre dit Châtillon's second son
Pierre,
by second wife Marie-Catherine-Anne Ouellet, born probably at
Chignecto in the late 1710s or early 1720s, married Madeleine, daughter of René
Bernard and Anne Blou, at Beaubassin in August 1746 and died by
1749, no place given.
Pierre dit Châtillon's
Pierre dit Châtillon's
Labarre
Jean Labarre, an early 1680s arrival, and his wife Catherine ____ created a small family in the colony. Catherine gave him only one child, daughter Marie-Élisabeth, who married Jean-Baptiste, son of Michel Forest and Marie Hébert, probably at Port-Royal in c1698, so the blood of this family survived in the colony. If any of Jean's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.484
Jean Préjean dit Le Breton, an early 1680s arrival, and his wife Andrée Savoie created a large family in the colony. In July 1700, Jean and Andrée purchased land at Port-Royal from Jacques Levron. Between 1684 and 1711, Andrée gave Jean a dozen children there, eight sons and four daughters. Jean died at Annapolis Royal in June 1733, in his early 80s. His daughters married into the Thibodeau, Pitre dit Nordest, Boudrot, Doucet, and Mius d'Azy families. All of his sons married. His and Andrée's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also at Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, and in and around Port-Toulouse on Île Royale. At least 16 of Jean dit Le Breton's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and from Haiti via Cuba in the early 1800s. Others could be found in Canada, the French Antilles, and perhaps in France after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Pierre l'aîné, born at Port-Royal in c1690, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude dit Maître Jean Doucet and Marie Comeau and the sister of one of his sister's husbands, at Beaubassin in February 1722. They settled at Annapolis Royal. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1722 and 1745, Marguerite gave Pierre l'aîné nine children, seven daughters and two sons. Marguerite died at Annapolis Royal in October 1749, age 49. Pierre l'aîné did not remarry. The British deported him and members of his family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755. Colonial officials counted them at Bradford and Marblehead in July 1760. One wonders if members of the family resettled in British Canada after 1766. An older daughter, Marie-Louise, called Louise, married into the Minaud family on Île Royale in August 1756, so she must have gone to the French Maritimes before 1755 or escaped the roundup in Nova Scotia and sought refuge there.
Jean's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in c1692, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Gaudet le jeune and Marie Blanchard, at Annapolis Royal in February 1716. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1717 and 1737, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste nine children, eight daughters and a son. The British may have deported members of the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755. Jean-Baptiste died by June 1760, place unrecorded, perhaps in the Bay Colony. One of his younger daughters married into the Dupuis family at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in the late 1750s or early 1760s, so at least one member of the family escaped the British roundups in 1755. One wonders what happened to his other children.
Jean's third son François, born at Port-Royal in c1695, moved to the French Maritimes in the late 1710s or early 1720s and married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of François Vrignaud and Jeanne Aubert, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1722. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1742, Marie-Madeleine gave François four children, three sons and a daughter. They did not remain in greater Acadia. They were living at L'Islet on the lower St. Lawrence in c1742 and evidently remained in Canada.
Jean's fourth son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in c1700, married Marie-Louise, daughter of Abraham Comeau and Marguerite Pitre, at Annapolis Royal in September 1723 and evidently settled at Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1725 and 1741, Marie-Louise gave Joseph seven children, two daughters and five sons. Other records give them another son in 1744--eight children, two daughters and six sons, in all. Joseph and Marie-Louise may have returned to Annapolis Royal before 1755. Most of his sons evidently remained at Chepoudy. The British deported at least two members of the family to Massachusetts, probably from Annapolis Royal, in the fall of 1755. Most of the others escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. Joseph died after August 1756, place unrecorded. His older daughter married into the Doucet family. Four of his sons emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. Another settled in Canada.
Oldest son Amand, born probably at Chepoudy in c1726, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of René Martin dit Barnabé and Marguerite Michel, at Annapolis Royal in July 1749. They may have remained there. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1752, Madeleine gave Amand three children, a son and two daughters. They escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. They were at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in December 1759, when a daughter was born there, and in May 1760, when the daughter was baptized. Amand served as a lieutenant in the Acadian militia there. He and his family of six appear on a list of 1,003 surrendered Acadians at Restigouche, dated 24 October 1760. The British sent them to a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. British authorities counted him and his family of six at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in October 1762. According to Arsenault, Madeleine gave Amand another son in 1765. He, Madeleine, and five of their children, three sons and two daughters, along with three of his younger brothers, followed fellow exiles from Nova Scotia to Louisiana in 1764-65. They settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahaonncer, where Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river in 1766 and 1769. They were living on the west bank of the river at nearby Ascension in 1770. According to Arsenault, between 1768 and 1772, Madeleine gave Amand three more children, two daughters and a son--eight children, four sons and four daughters. Amand remarried to fellow Acadian Marie Thériot, widow of Paul Melançon, probably at Ascension in c1773. According to Arsenault, between 1774 and 1778, Marie gave Amand three more children, two sons and a daughter--11 children, six sons and five daughters, by two wives. In c1776, Amand "solicited" for a grant of land from the Spanish at the northern edge of the Attakapas District. "In 1778 Amand received from the Spanish ... some 425 acres fronting on Bayou Vermilion" at a place the Acadians called Beaubassin east of Carencro. Amand died at Beaubassin "in the presence of Joseph Landry and Jean Jeansonne, sons in law," in December 1787. The priest who recorded the burial said that Amand was age 66 when he died. His daughters by both wives married into the Brasseaux, Jeansonne, Melançon, Neraut, and Hébert families on the prairies. Four of his six sons by both wives also married, into the Benoit, Dugas, Bernard, and Savoie families. Many of his descendants remained in the Carencro-Grand Coteau area for generations. Others settled at Plaisance north of Opelousas, on upper Bayou Teche in St. Martin Parish, and near Abbeville in Vermilion Parish. Most, if not all, of the Prejeans of southwest Louisiana are descendants of Amand and three of his sons.
Joseph's second son Joseph, fils, born probably at Chepoudy in c1731 or 1732, followed his family to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where he married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Lacroix dit Durel and Judith Chiasson of Île St.-Jean, in c1758. (Bona Arsenault says Joseph, fils married 16-year-old Marguerite Borel in c1758, place unrecorded; he probably meant Durel.) According to Arsenault, Marguerite gave Joseph, fils a daughter in 1760. They also ended up in a prison compound in Nova Scotia during the early 1760s. British authorities counted Joseph and his family of three at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in October 1762, and they appeared on a French repatriation list at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, Chignecto, in August 1763. They followed his three brothers to Louisiana in 1765 and settled with them at Cabahannocer. According to Arsenault, between 1765 and 1771, Marguerite gave Joseph, fils three more children, two son and a daughter--four children, two daughters and two sons, in all. Joseph, fils died at Cabahannocer or nearby Ascension by June 1772, when his wife remarried at Cabahannocer. His daughters married into the Robichaux and Roger families. His two sons married into the Gravois and Lachaussée families and joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche, creating a third center of family settlement. The younger sons lines was especially robust.
Joseph, père's third son Charles le jeune, born probably at Chepoudy in c1735, followed his family to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and also ended up in a prison compound in Nova Scotia during the early 1760s. British authorities counted him at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in October 1762. Charles married Marguerite Richard perhaps at Fort Edward soon after the counting. In 1765, they followed his three brothers to Louisiana, where their marriage was "rehabilitated" and blessed by a New Orleans priest in February 1766. They also settled at Cabahannocer, where Spanish authorities counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river in 1766 and 1769. In 1770 and 1777, they were living on the west bank at nearby Ascension. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1768 and 1784, Marguerite gave Charles seven children, four sons and three daughters. Other records give them another son in c1787--eight children, five sons and three daughters, in all. In the late 1770s, Charles and Marguerite followed his oldest brother Amand to the Attakapas District, where Spanish authorities counted them in 1781. They settled at Côte Gelée near present-day Lafayette. Charles died at Côte Gelée in November 1805. The Attakapas priest who recorded the burial said that Charles was age 72 when he died. His daughters married into the Comeaux, Eaten, Sauluise or Solle, and Taylor families on the prairies. Only one of his five sons married, into the Landry family, but his line did not endure. Except for its blood, then, this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State. The Prejeans west of the Atchafalaya Basin descend from Charles's older brother Amand.
Joseph, père's fourth son Amable, born probably at Chepoudy in c1738, evidently was deported to Massachusetts with a sister, perhaps Anne, in the fall of 1755. Colonial officials counted them at Lyn in July 1760. They appear on a list of "the French Who Wish to Go to Canada" compiled in June 1766. They evidently followed fellow exiles to the British-controlled province later in the year. Amable married fellow Acadian Jeanne-Basilice Landry in c1766, perhaps in Canada. They settled in the Acadian community of St.-Jacques de l'Achigan northeast of Montréal. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1767 and 1784, Jeanne gave Amable six children, four daughters and two sons. Amable died at St.-Jacques in January 1818, age 80. One of his daughters married into the Beaudoin family at St.-Jacques in 1789. One wonders if any of his sons created their own families.
Joseph, père's fifth son Abraham, born probably at Chepoudy in c1741, may have died young.
Joseph, père's sixth and youngest son Basile, also called Pierre, born probably at Chepoudy in c1744, followed his family the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and also ended up in a prison compound in Nova Scotia during the early 1760s, probably at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, with an older brother. He followed his three brothers to Louisiana in 1765 and settled with them at Cabahannocer, where he married fellow Acadian Marie-Josèphe Godin dit Lincour, widow of Pierre Arseneau, in c1768. They settled at nearby Ascension, where Basile was jailed for three days as punishment for assault against a French Creole neighbor in February 1774, and where Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river in 1777, next to his older brother Charles. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1770 and 1777, Marie-Josèphe gave Basile/Pierre four children, two daughters and two sons. Basile died in Ascension Parish in January 1823. The priest who recorded the burial said that Basile was age 90 when he died, but he probably was closer to 80. His daughters married into the Himel and Thibodeaux families, and one of them moved to the western prairies. Only one of his two sons married, into the LeBlanc family, but his line did not endure. This line of the family, then, except for its blood, did not survive in the Bayou State.
Jean's fifth son Nicolas, born at Port-Royal in July 1704, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Broussard and Marguerite Bourg and widow of Michel dit Miquetau Boudrot, in c1733, place unrecorded. Between 1734 and 1751, Marguerite gave Nicolas six children, two sons and four daughters. They joined his older brother François on Île Royale, where, in February 1752, a French official counted Nicolas without a wife but with his six children at Port-Toulouse. The official said Nicolas was working as a "coaster" but did not say how long he had been in the colony. Nicolas also worked as a carpenter. He remarried to Anne, also called Jeanne, daughter of Michel Samson and Anne Testard dit Paris, at Port-Toulouse soon after the counting. Between 1754 and 1756, Anne gave Nicolas two more sons. Arsenault says she gave him four more children between those dates, three sons and a daughter--10 children, five sons and five daughters, by two wives. The British deported Nicolas and his blended family, including his oldest daughter Marie and her Samson husband and two of Anne's younger siblings, to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758 aboard the transport Queen of Spain. Anne, two of Nicolas's children, a son and a daughter, from his first wife, and a son from his second wife, died at sea, and his married daughter and a son from his first wife died in a local hospital soon after they reached the Breton port. Nicolas settled with his remaining children in the suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where he remarried again--his third marriage--to Euphrasie or Euphrosine, 39-year-old daughter of Antoine Labauve and Catherine Lejeune and widow of Jacques Beaulieu dit Convenance, in January 1760. She gave him no more children. Nicolas worked as a carpenter and pilot in the mother country and died at Laudivisiau in western Brittany in March 1765, age 60. No member of his large family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Jean's sixth son Charles, born at Port-Royal in July 1706, married Catherine-Josèphe, daughter of François Broussard and Catherine Richard and widow of Charles Landry, at Annapolis Royal in February 1729. According to Bona Arsenault, Catherine-Josèphe gave Charles a daughter in 1730. Charles remarried to Françoise, daughter of Michel Boudrot and Cécile LeBlanc, at Grand-Pré in August 1732 but they probably settled at Annapolis Royal. According to Arsenault, between 1733 and 1737, Françoise gave Charles four more daughters. Charles remarried again--his third marriage--to Marguerite, daughter of André Simon dit Boucher and Marie Martin, at Annapolis Royal in January 1739. According to Arsenault, between 1740 and 1749, Marguerite gave Charles seven more children, three daughters and four sons--a dozen children, eight daughters and four sons, by three wives. Members of the family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755, and others evidently were deported to one of the seaboard colonies. Members of the family moved on to French St.-Domingue in 1763 or 1764. Charles may have been the "Mr. Préjean" who died at Mirebalais in the interior of the island in February 1787, age unrecorded. If so, he would have died in his early 80s. Two daughters by his first and second wives, Cécile and Marie-Josèphe, married into the Pellerin and Duhon families and emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, which implies that they escaped the roundups of 1755. Daughter Rosalie by his third wife married into the Dupuy and Pecot families, the second marriage in French St.-Domingue, and emigrated to Louisiana from Haiti via Cuba in the early 1800s, so she likely had not escaped the British in 1755. According to Arsenault, daughter Marguerite by his second wife married into the Dupuis family, place and date unrecorded, but one suspects he was referring to Rosalie who went to St.-Domingue. At least two of Charles's sons by his third wife died young in French St.-Domingue. One wonders what happened to his other, even younger sons, François and Bonaventure.
Oldest son Anselme, by third wife Marguerite Simon dit Boucher, born at Annapolis Royal in c1741, followed his family into exile and to French St.-Domingue. He died at Mirebalais in April 1765, age 25, before he could marry.
Charles's second son Charles, fils, by third wife Marguerite Simon dit Boucher, born at Annapolis Royal in c1743, followed his family into exile and to French St.-Domingue. He died at Mirebalais in January 1765, age 23, before he could marry.
Jean's seventh son Pierre le cadet, born at Port-Royal in December 1708, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Brun and Anne Gautrot, at Annapolis Royal in November 1743. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1751, Marguerite gave La Cadet four sons. They may have escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada. Le Cadet died at Québec in May 1768, age 59, perhaps a late victim of the smallpox epidemic that struck the exiles in and around the Canadian capital in 1757-58. At least two of his sons married.
Second son Joseph-Amable, born at Annapolis Royal in c1747, followed his family to Canada and married fellow Acadian Jeanne Landry in c1766, place unrecorded.
Pierre le cadet's third son Basile, born at Annapolis Royal in c1749, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Louis Parent and Louise Marchand, at Québec City in September 1776.
Jean's eighth and
youngest son Honoré, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1711, followed two of
his brothers to Île Royale and married 18-year-old Marie, another
daughter of
Jean Bastarache dit Le Basque, an early 1680s arrival, and his wife Huguette Vincent created a small family in the colony. Between 1685 and 1702, Huguette gave the Basque five children, three sons and two daughters, all of whom married. Their daughters married into the Orillon dit Champagne and Girouard families. Jean and Huguette's descendants remained at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, among the few Acadian families who did not branch out to other communities or retreat to the French Maritimes. Three of Jean dit Le Basque's daughters emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, establising no line of the family there, so all of his descendants who carried the family's name remained in greater Acadia or in Canada after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son François-Marie, born at Port-Royal in c1687, married Agnès, daughter of Louis-Noël Labauve and Marie Rimbault, at Annapolis Royal in January 1714 and died there in October 1751, in his mid-60s. Between 1714 and 1725, Agnès gave François-Marie five children, two sons and three daughters. Two of their daughters married into the Hébert and Richard families. Neither of François-Marie's sons married, so only the blood of this family line survived in the colony.
Older son François, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1720, died at St.-Charles-sur-Richelieu, near Montréal, in December 1790, age 70, still a bachelor. What happened to him in 1755?
François-Marie's younger son Jean-Baptiste, born at Grand-Pré in December 1721, also became an adult but did not marry. What happened to him in 1755?
Jean's second son Jean, fils married Angélique, daughter of Alexandre Richard and Isabelle Petitpas, at Annapolis Royal in November 1721. According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1722 and 1742, Angélique gave Jean, fils nine children, two sons and seven daughters. Their daughters married into the Gaudet, Guillemette, Mouton, Daigre, and Roy families. Three of the daughters who married Moutons from Chignecto emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. The other daughters settled in Canada. One of Jean, fils's sons created his own family.
Older son Anselme, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1730, married Marguerite Melanson in c1755 on the eve of Le Grand Dérangment. They escaped the British in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1766, Marguerite gave Anselme four children, three sons and a daughter. They settled at Yamachiche on the north shore of Lac St.-Pierre above Trois-Rivières. Two of Anselme's three sons established their own families there.
Oldest son Joseph-Firmin, born in Canada in c1764, married Marie-Louise, daughter of Robert Rivard-Bellefeuille and Marie-Josèphe Deslauniers, at Yamachiche in November 1789. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1791 and 1804, Marie-Louise gave Joseph-Firmin seven children, three sons and four daughters.
Anselme's third and youngest son Joseph, born in Canada in c1770, married Françoise, daughter of Charles Lesieur and Ursule Bouvier-Dupont, at Yamachiche in May 1789. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1789 and 1805, Françoise gave Joseph seven children, two sons and five daughters.
Jean's third and youngest son Pierre married Marguerite, daughter of René Forest and Françoise Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in January 1724. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1725 and 1744, Marguerite gave Pierre nine children, three sons and six daughters. Pierre died at Annapolis Royal in May 1751, age 48. What happened to his family in 1755? After Le Grand Dérangement, with permission of the British overlords, Marguerite took her family to Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, on the southwest coast of Nova Scotia and settled there with other Acadian refugees. Three of her and Pierre's daughters married into the Gaudet dit Veronel, Belliveau, and Comeau families before and during exile. All three of her and Pierre's sons created their own families.
Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1725, married Anne, daughter of Jean Gaudet and Madeleine Brun, at Annapolis Royal in January 1750. Settled Pointe-à-Beauséjour, Chignecto, with his younger brothers. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1754, Anne gave Pierre, fils three children, two sons and a daughter. For Pierre, fils's adventures during Le Grand Dérangement, see brother Michel's line below. Both of Pierre, fils's sons created their own families perhaps on Baie Ste.-Marie.
Older son Isidore, born at Annapolis Royal in c1752, married Rosalie, daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Anne Belliveau, in c1775, place not given, but it likely was on St. Mary's Bay.
Pierre, fils's younger son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1754, married Marie, daughter of Joseph Girouard dit Bistet and Anne Belliveau, in c1777, probably on St. Mary's Bay.
Pierre, père's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in c1726, settled at Pointe-à-Beauséjour, Chignecto, with his brothers. He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Comeau and Marie-Madeleine Lord, in c1760 while in exile, place unrecorded. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1774, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean-Baptiste seven children, two sons and five daughters. They settled on Baie Ste.-Marie.
Pierre, père's third and youngest son Michel, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1730, married Marie, another daughter of Jean Gaudet and Madeleine Brun, at Annapolis Royal in June 1753. They settled at Pointe-à-Beauséjour, Chignecto, with his brothers. In 1755, after escaping from Fort Lawrence with 85 other Acadians, he was recaptured and held at nearby Fort Cumberland, formerly French Beauséjour, where his brother Pierre, fils was being held. Michel and Pierre, fils were deported to South Carolina later that fall, without their wives and children. The following spring, 1756, he, Pierre, fils, and a dozen or so companions escaped their work place and took to the woods. According to one account, "Together they made their way on foot across the colonies of North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. When they reached the shores of Lake Ontario, they fell into the hands of the Iroquois" and were rescued by an influential fur trader, who paid their ransom. The fur trader "took them to Québec, where," the brothers now accompanied by only two companions, " they arrived in September 1756. The brothers moved on to present-day Moncton, NB, in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, where they expected to reunite with their wives and children. Learning that his wife had gone to Île St.-Jean, Michel crossed Mer Rouge to the island, still under French control, found his wife, recrossed Mer Rouge, and moved on with her to the Acadian refuge at Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. They were still there in 1761 but soon fell into the hands of the British. In August 1763, they appeared on a French repatriation list at Fort Cumberland with four children. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1769, Marie gave Michel four children, two sons and two daughters. Another source says they had seven children. By 1769, they were at Cape Maringouin in the trois-rivières area before moving to nearby Cormier Cove on the Memramcook River. According to Bona Arsenault, Michel and his family settled on Baie Ste.-Marie, NS, but another, more dependable source, says they settled finally at Tracadie on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, north of Miramichi. Michel died at Tracadie in January 1820, age 89. His and his brother's great adventure appeared in a history authored by Dr. Andrew Brown in the 1810s, while Michel was still alive.414
Bézier
Pierre Bézier dit Joan dit Larivière, an early 1680s arrival, and his wife Madeleine Brun created a small family in the colony. Madeleine gave Pierre only one child, daughter Susanne, who married Pierre, son of Jean Comeau l'aîné and his first wife Françoise Hébert, at Port-Royal in January 1704, so the blood of this family endured in the colony. If any of Pierre's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.426
Jean
Roy dit La Liberté Le Neigre, an early 1680s arrival, and his wife Marie-Christine
Aubois created a good-sized family in the colony.
Oldest son Jean, fils, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1691, married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Lejeune and Marie Thibodeau, at Grand-Pré in October 1712. From the 1710s to the 1720s, Jeanne gave Jean, fils five children, three daughters and two sons. Jean, fils remarried to Françoise, daughter of Martin Corporon and Marie-Josèphe Viger, in c1743, place unrecorded. Between 1747 and 1766, Françoise gave Jean, fils nine more children, four sons and five daughters--14 children, eight daughters and six sons, by two wives. Jean, fils and Françoise evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada. Sometime in the late 1750s, perhaps after the fall of Québec in September 1759, the British deported the family to Massachusetts (for what reason one can only guess). In 1760, colonial officials counted eight of their children, ages 13 to 6 months, at Dunstable in the northeastern part of the colony just below the boundary with New Hampshire. One wonders where the other members of the family were being held. Jean, fils, Françoise, and nine of their children, five sons and four daughters, were still in the colony in August 1763. They were still there in June 1766, when colonial officials noted that the family numbered an astonishing 17. Along with dozens of the other exiles still in New England, they returned to Canada that year. Jean, fils died at Champlain on the upper St. Lawrence between Québec City and Trois-Rivières in April 1770, in his late 70s. Four of his daughters by both wives married into the Michel, Deneau dit Dennero, Bergeron, and Keny families, two of them at Louiseville and Repentigny between Trois-Rivières and Montréal. Only two of Jean, fils's sons seem to have created families of their own. One wonders if either of the lines endured.
Oldest son Prospère, by first wife Jeanne Lejeune, born in c1716, died at Minas in July 1730, age 14.
Jean, fils's second son Charles l'aîné, by first wife Jeanne Lejeune, was born at Annapolis Royal in c1718. One wonders if he was the Charles LeRoy who appears on a 1747 proclamation issued by Massachusetts Govenor William Shirley naming a dozen Acadian partisans whose activities during the on-going King George's War had earned them a 50L reward for their capture. Also on the proclamation was Philip LeRoy, who would have been this Charles's uncle. Perhaps motivated by Governor Shirley's action, Charles moved on to French-controlled Île Royale in c1751 and, in his early 30s, married cousin Marguerite, daughter of Claude Lejeune and Anne-Marie Gaudet, at Port-Orléans, Île Royale, in c1752. Soon afterward, in April 1752, a French official counted the childless couple at Baie-des-Espagnols, also on the island's Atlantic coast. One wonders what happened to them in 1758.
Jean, fils's second son Joseph, by second wife Françoise Corporon, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1747, followed his family to Canada and Massachusetts and was counted with his siblings at Dunstable in 1760. One wonders if he accompanied his family back to Canada in 1766.
Jean, fils's third son Alexandre, by second wife Françoise Corporon, born at Annapolis Royal in c1751, followed his family to Canada and Massachusetts and was counted with his siblings at Dunstable in 1760. One wonders if he accompanied his family back to Canada in 1766.
Jean, fils's fourth son Charles le jeune, by second wife Françoise Corporon, born at Annapolis Royal in c1754, followed his family to Canada and Massachusetts, was counted with his siblings at Dunstable in 1760, and followed his family back to Canada in 1766. In his late 40s, he married Marie-Louise Minet, an Indian from Rivière Rouge, at Repentigny below Montréal in February 1802.
Jean, fils's fifth and youngest son Pierre-Paul, by second wife Françoise Corporon, born at Trois-Rivières, Canada, in c1756, followed his family to Massachusetts, was counted with his siblings at Dunstable in 1760, and returned with his family to Canada in 1766. He was baptized at Trois-Rivières, age 11, in October 1767. Did he marry?
Jean's second son
François, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1692, married Marie, daughter of Barthélémy Bergeron dit
d'Amboise and Geneviève Serreau de Saint-Aubin, at Annapolis Royal in
January 1717.
Jean's third son Philippe, born at Cap-Sable or Port-Royal in c1696, married Cécile, daughter of Louis Mazerolle and Geneviève Forest, at Grand-Pré in August 1718. According to Bona Arsenault, beween 1719 and 1732, Cécile gave Philippe six children, three daughters and three sons. The name Philip LeRoy appears on a 1747 proclamation issued by Massachusetts Govenor William Shirley naming a dozen Acadian partisans whose activities during the on-going King George's War had earned them a 50L reward for their capture. Also on the governor's proclamation was Charles LeRoy, Philippe's younger brother or a nephew. The threat of capture did not compel Philippe to leave British-controlled Nova Scotia. As a result, the British deported them from Minas to Maryland in the fall of 1755. Philippe died at Lower Marlborough, in his 60s, before July 1763, when his widow Cécile, with two of their grown children, Bonaventure and Élisabeth, appeared on a repatriation list in the Chesapeake colony. They did not follow other exiles in Maryland to Spanish Louisiana later in the decade, so one wonders what became of them after the war.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born, according to Bona Arsenault, at Pigiguit in c1720, married Marie Benoit in c1742, place not given, but Arsenault hints it may have been at Pigiguit. Arsenault says she gave him a son that year, no place given. The family evidently escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada, where their son settled.
Only son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1742, followed his family to Canada. He married Marie, daugther fellow Acadians Jean Bastarache and Angélique Richard, at Yamachiche on the upper St. Lawrence above Trois-Rivières in February 1764. According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste, fils a son, Jean-Baptiste III, in 1766.
Jean's fourth son Charles, born probably at Port-Royal in c1698, did not marry, according to Stephen A. White. Bona Arsenault, however, says the Charles LeRoy who married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Charles Chauvet and Agnès-Edmée Lejeune, in c1723, place not given (Arsenalt places them at Pigiguit), was a son of Jean dit La Liberté. A Charles LeRoy did take his family to Île Royale in July 1750. Two years later, in April 1752, a French official counted him, his wife, and seven unmarried children, four daughters and three sons, as well as two married daughters and their husbands, at Baie-des-Espagnols on the island's Atlantic coast. The French official called Charles a "native of Paris," which explains why White is reluctant to call Charles LeRoy a son of La Liberté. Oddly, in his section on Île Royale outside of Louisbourg, Arsenault calls Charles LeRoy "originaire de Paris," contradicting his Pigiguit listing. White, needless to say, is followed here.
Jean's fifth and youngest son René dit Renaud dit Potvin, born at Port-Royal in August 1708, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Daigre and Madeleine Gautrot, in c1743, place not given. Bona Arsenault places them at Pigiguit with his older brothers Philippe and Charles. According to Arsenault, between 1735 and 1752, Marie-Josèphe gave René six children, two sons and four daughters. René took his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750. In August 1752, a French official counted René, Marie-Josèphe, and four children, three daughters and an infant son, at Anse-au-Matelot on the south shore of the island. According to Arsenault, between 1754 and 1757, Marie-Josèphe gave René two more children, a daughter and a son, perhaps on the island--eight children, three sons and five daughters, in all. They left the island before its dérangement and followed members of their family to Canada. French officials counted them at Québec in 1757. René died at St.-François-de-Sud, also called St.-François de Montmagny, below Québec, in January 1758, age 49, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadians in the area from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758. René's family remained in Canada. Three of his daughters married into the Thibault, Benoit, and Lacoste-Languedoc families at L'Islet on the lower St. Lawrence and at St.-Ours on lower Rivière Richelieu northeast of Montréal. Two of his sons also married in Canada.
Oldest son Étienne, born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1735, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and Canada. He married fellow Acadian Marie-Anne Doiron in c1765, place not given, and settled at Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières. According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Anne gave Étienne two children, a son and a daugther, in 1766 and 1771. His son, at least, did not remain at Bécancour.
Only son Paul, born probably at Bécancour in c1766, married Charlotte, daughter of Guillaume Leroux-Cardinal and Angélique Allard, at St.-Ours in October 1788.
René's second son Jean-Baptiste, born on Île St.-Jean in c1752, followed his family to Canada. He married Charlotte Des Sauteaux at St.-Ours in October 1781.417
François
Moyse dit Latreille, an early 1680s arrival, and his wife Madeleine Vincent
created a good-sized family in the colony. Madeleine gave him six
children, four sons and two daughters. François dit Latreille
died on the haute-rivière, Port-Royal, in January 1711, in his early
60s. One of his daughters married into
the Pouget dit Lapierre family. Three of Latreille's four sons married.
He, Madeleine, and their descendants settled at Passamaquoddy,
Oldest son François dit Latreille, fils, born in c1689, place not given, lived on Rivière St.-Jean but married Marie, daughter of Sébastien Brun and Huguette Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in September 1713. Between 1714 and 1733, at Annapolis Royal and Cobeguit on the eastern end of the Minas Basin, Marie gave François, fils 10 children, three sons and seven daughters. He and members of the family evidently moved on to one of the French Maritime islands because the British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in 1758-59. François, fils, a widower, died in a St.-Malo hospital in February 1759, age 70. Six of his daughters married into the Ozelet, Pitre, Dugas, Bourg, Blanchard, LeBlanc, and Guédry families, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. All of his sons married and remained in France, but two of the youngest son's children went to Louisiana.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1715, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Blanchard and Anne Dupuis and sister of one of his sister's husbands, in c1744 perhaps at Annapolis Royal, and moved on to Île St.-Jean after August 1752. Between 1745 and 1754, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean five children, three daughters and two sons. The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in 1758-59. Their two younger daughters and the younger son died at sea. Jean and his family settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, where, in 1760 and 1762, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean two more children, a son and a daughter--seven children, four daughters and three sons, in all. His oldest daughter married into the Boudrot family at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo in January 1765. His surviving son also married. Jean took his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773. In March 1776, they followed other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes. Jean died at St.-Pierre de Rezé across the Loire from Nantes in September 1781, age 65. Widpw Marie died there in May 1782, age 70. No member of the family emigrated to Spanish Louisiana.
Oldest son Bénoni, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1747, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo. He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Basile Boudrot and Marguerite Girior and sister of his older Marie-Josèphe's husband, at Pleudihen-sur-Rance on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo in November 1770. Marie-Josèphe gave him a daughter at St.-Suliac, north of Pleudihen, in 1772. In 1773, Bénoni and his family followed his parents to Poitou. Marie-Josèphe gave Béoni a son at Bonnes, Poitou, in 1774. In March 1776, they followed his parents and other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where Bénoni worked as a gardener. Between 1776 and 1784, Marie-Josèphe gave him four more sons--seven children, a daughter and six sons, in all. They did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
François, fils's second son
François III,
born in c1731, place not given, settled on Île St.-Jean and married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Ambroise Hébert and Marie-Madeleine
Bourg, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in September 1758, on the eve
of the island's dérangement. The British deported them to St.-Malo,
France,
in 1758-59. They settled Pleslin on the west side of the river south of
St.-Malo before moving across the river to
St.-Suliac, where Marie-Madeleine gave François III a daughter in January 1760,
but she died three days after her birth. Marie-Madeleine died a week and a
half later, age 22. François III remarried to Ursule, 21-year-old daughter of
Joseph Bourg and Françoise Dugas, at St.-Suliac in
November 1761
François, fils's third son Joseph, born in c1732, place not given, and married Marie Hébert in c1758 probably on Île St.-Jean on the eve of the island's dérangement. The British deported them to St.-Malo in 1758-59. They settled at St.-Suliac. Between 1768 and 1773, at St.-Suliac, Marie gave Joseph three children, two daughters and a son. The daughters died young. In 1773, Joseph took his family to Poitou. In March 1776, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes. Marie gave Joseph two more children there, a son and a daughter--five children, three daughters and two sons, in all. The younger son died young. Joseph died in St.-Similien Parish, Nantes, in January 1779. His two surviving children, a son and a daughter, followed their widowed mother to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. The daughter may not have survived the crossing or died soon after her arrival. Joseph's son married in the colony. All Acadian Moyse/Moïses in fact, come from Joseph's surviving son.
Older son Joseph-Pierre, born at St.-Suliac, France, in June 1773, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes and his widowed mother and a younger sister to Louisiana. They followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. At age 30, Joseph-Pierre married Anne-Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Bénoni Blanchard and his second wife Madeleine Forest, at Assumption on the upper bayou in June 1803. Anne-Marguerie also was a native of St.-Suliac and had crossed to Louisiana on a later vessel in 1785. They remained on the upper bayou. Joseph-Pierre died in Assumption Parish in February 1822, age 48. His daughters married into the Dauge, Giroir, and Parenton or Parenthon families. Only half of his four sons married, into the Comeaux, Melançon, and Dupuis families on the upper Lafourche, but only one of the lines endured. The Acadian Moïses of South Louisiana descend from Joseph-Pierre and his oldest son.
François, père's second son Louis dit Latreille, born in c1694, place not given, left Rivière St.-Jean or Annapolis Royal and moved to the French Maritimes, where he married Marie-Louise, daughter of Claude Petitpas and his Mi'kmaq wife Marie-Thérèse, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1718. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1729 and 1745, Marie-Louise gave Louis two children, a son and a daughter. Other records give them another son. Louis and his family either left the Maritimes before 1758 or escaped the British roundup there that year. Daughter Marie married into the Pitre family at Louisbourg, Île Royale, in August 1763, so Louis and members of his family may have been held by the British in greater Acadia until the war ended in February 1763. In early 1766, Marie and her husband, with two young children now, chose to follow other Acadian exiles to Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland. According to Arsenault, her father Louis went with them. In 1767, French officials, obeying a royal decree to relieve overcrowding on Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre, coaxed the fishermen/habitants there to resettle in France. Louis and his family evidently sailed to St.-Malo aboard La Créole and reached the Breton port during the second week of November. Louis dit Latreille may have died in the mother country. Daughter Marie and her husband did not return to Miquelon. They went to Poitou in 1773, to Nantes in November 1775, and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. Meanwhile, one of Louis's sons married in the French Antilles.
Older or younger son Charles, born at Port-Toulouse, date unrecorded, evidently became separated from this family during exile and made his way to the French Antilles. While the war was still on, he married Anne-Françoise Beduneau at Capesterre-de-Marie-Galante southeast of Guadaloupe in January 1762. The marriage record gives Charles's birthplace and his parents' names, but not his birth date. The recording priest noted that both of the groom's parents were deceased at the time of the marriage, which hints that father Louis had died during exile in greater Acadia, not in France.
François, père's third son Pierre, born in the late 1690s, place not given, married Marie-Rose, daughter of Paul Daniel and ____ and widow of ____ Mercier, at Grand-Bourg, Guadeloupe, in the French West Indies, in January 1753, so he likely was a sailor or merchant.
François, père's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born in c1699, place not given, drowned at Annapolis Royal in September 1714, age 15.419
Sailor Louis Saulnier, an early 1680s arrival, and his wife Louise Bastineau dit Peltier created a good-sized family in the colony. Louise gave Louis 14 children, six sons and eight daughters. Louis died probably at Minas after April 1730, in his late 60s or early 70s. Five of his daughters married into the Boudrot, Boisseau dit Blondin, Lapierre, Oudy, and Hébert families, and one of them perished with her entire family in the deportation to St.-Malo, France, in 1758. Five of Louis's six sons created their own families. His and Louise's descendants settled at Minas, especially on Rivière-de-la-Vielle-Habitation and Village-des-LeBlanc; at Cap-Sable; Chignecto; Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto; and in the French Maritimes. At least 16 of the sailor's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and from France in 1785, but a substantial number of them could be found in Canada, Nova Scotia, the French Antilles, and France after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Jacques, born in c1685 probably at Minas, married Anne, daughter of Jean Hébert and Marie-Anne Doucet, in c1724 probably at Minas. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1724 and 1732, Anne gave Jacques three children, three sons and a daughter. Other sources give them two more daughters born probaby at Petitcoudiac. What happened to them in 1755? Their daughters married into the Babin and Cormier families, and two of them emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, which means they likely escaped the British in 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and ended up in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war.
Louis's second son Marcel, born probably at Minas in c1691, married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Vincent Breau and Marie Bourg, at Grand-Pré in November 1710 and lived for a time at Cap-Sable. Between 1712 and the late 1720s, Élisabeth gave Marcel six children, two sons and four daughters. Three of their daughters married into the Hébert, Labauve, and Semer families, and one of them died in French Guiane in 1765. Both of Marcel's sons created their own families.
Older son Pierre le jeune, born at Minas in March 1721, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Vincent and Anne-Marie Doiron, at Grand-Pré in October 1740. They settled at Rivières-aux-Canards. According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Pierre a daughter, Françoise, in 1741. Other records show that, between 1742 and 1754, she gave him six more children, four sons and another daughter. The British deported the family to Virginia in 1755 and sent them on to England in 1756. They were held at Liverpool, where wife Marguerite died. Daughter Françoise married into the Hébert family there. Pierre remarried to Dorothée, daughter of François Trahan and Angélique Melanson, in September 1762 probably at Liverpool. In the spring of 1763, Pierre and his family were repatriated to France with other Acadians held in England. He took his family to French Guiane in South America in 1765, where they were counted at Sinnamary in the Cayenne district in March. With them was his older sister Anne, widow of Joseph Hébert. With him also was oldest daughter Françoise, now a widow, who the census taker noted was suffering from fever (she died 11 days after the census); oldest son Pierre, fils, his wife, and their 2-year-old daughter; and four of Pierre, père's younger children by first wife Marguerite Vincent, one of whom--Marie, age 11--also was suffering from fever. Pierre, père, perhaps a widower again, returned to France later in the decade, but at least three of his four sons remained in the South American colony. Pierre, père remarried again--his third marriage--to Canadian Marie-Marguerite, daughter of Dominique Coulogne or Collongues and Madeleine Ferret and widow of André Pibaud, in Notre-Dame Parish, Rochefort, France, in August 1769. Pierre, père died probably at Rochefort between January 1773 and April 1776, in his early or mid-50s. Three of his sons, all by his first wife, created their own families during exile.
Oldest son Pierre, fils, by first wife Marguerite Vincent, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1742, followed his family to Virginia and England, where he married Élisabeth Trahan in the early 1760s. Their daughter Marguerite was born in England in c1763 on the eve of their repatriation to France that spring. They followed his family to French Guiane in 1765 and were counted with them at Sinnamary that March. Despite the death of his older sister Françoise later that month, of their daughter Marguerite in April, and of his aunt Marie Saulnier in May, when Pierre, fils's father returned to France later in the decade, Pierre, fils and Élisabeth remained in French Guiane. From 1767 to 1782, in the tropical colony, she gave him several sons, Jean-Baptiste, Jérôme, and Jean-Pierre. Jérôme died at Sinnamary in May 1781, age 6. Jean-Pierre died at Sinnamary in October 1785, age 3. Pierre died at the King's hospital, Sinnamary, in July 1787, age 45. Wife Élisabeth died in August of that year.
Pierre, père's second son Charles, by first wife Marguerite Vincent, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1746, followed his family to Virginia, England, France, and French Guiane, where he was counted with them at Sinnamary in March 1765. One wonders what happened to him after the census.
Pierre, père's third son Joseph, by first wife Marguerite Vincent, born at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1748, followed his family to Virginia, England, France, and French Guiane, where he was counted with them in March 1765. When his father returned to France later in the decade, Joseph remained in French Guiane with two of his brothers. At age 25, he married 23-year-old Madeleine (the recording priest called her Marguerite), daughter of Joseph Trahan and Anne Boudrot of Rivière-aux-Canards and widow of André-Joseph Jacquet, at Sinnamary in January 1773. Joseph and Madeleine may have known one another since chldhood. She gave him a daughter soon after their marriage. Madeleine died at Sinnamary in July 1775, age 25. Joseph, who did not remarry, died at Iracoubo near Sinnamary in May 1784, age 36. His family line died with him.
Pierre, père's fourth and youngest son Étienne, by first wife Marguerite Vincent, born at Minas in c1749, followed his family to Virginia, England, France, and French Guiane, where he was counted with them at Sinnamary in March 1765. When his father returned to France later in the decade, Étienne remained in French Guiane with his older brothers. He married Marie-Jeanne, 20-year-old daughter of Yves Quimine and Marie Grossin and widow of Jean-Louis Busson, at Sinnamary in April 1776. Their daughter Perrine was born at Sinnamary in October 1777 but died on Anse Mapbo near Sinnamary in July 1780, age 3; their son Joseph le jeune was born at Anse Mapbo the following October; and Antoine in February 1782.
Marcel's younger son Charles, born at Minas in the 1720s, married Euphrosine, daughter of Pierre Lalande and Anne Prétieux, in c1746 probably at Minas. They, too, may have been exiled to Virginia in 1755 and deported to England in 1756. A daughter, Marguerite, was born to them in c1758, perhaps in England. They, too, may have been repatriated to France in 1763 and remained there. Charles died before September 1772, place unrecorded. Daughter Marguerite married into the Hamon family in France and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Louis's third son René, born probably at Minas in c1695, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean-Charles Trahan and Marie Boudrot, at Grand-Pré in October 1714. Between 1716 and the late 1720s, Marie-Josèphe gave René six children, four sons and two daughters. One of their daughters married into the Maillet family. All four of René's sons created their own families.
Oldest son Pierre le jeune, born probably at Minas in c1716, married Marie, daughter of Joseph Boudrot and Françoise Comeau, at Grand-Pré in May 1739. They evidently escaped the British roundup at Minas in 1755 and took refuge in Canada. According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Pierre a son in c1756 in exile. Pierre remarried to Marie-Josèphe dite Josette, daughter of Canadians François-Xavier de Lavoie and Marguerite Savard, at St.-Joachim below Québec City in May 1762 while in exile. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1762 and 1764, Josette gave Pierre two more sons. They remained at St.-Joachim, where two of their sons created their own families.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marie Boudrot, born in exile in c1756, followed his family to the lower St. Lawrence valley, where he married Geneviève, daughter of Joseph Poulin and Thérèse Poulin, at St.-Joachim in 1779.
Pierre le jeune's third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste-Joachim, by second wife Josette de Lavoie, born probably at St.-Joachim, Canada, in c1764, married Thérèse, daughter of Noël Guay and Marie-Josèphe Tremblay, at Baie St.-Paul, on the north bank of the St. Lawrence below St.-Joachim, in 1788, and remarried to Marie, daughter of Denis Laforêt and Madeleine Tremblay, at Baie St.-Paul in 1801. According to Bona Arsenault, Jean-Baptiste-Joachim and his family lived near a hill at Baie St.-Paul the locals called "couline," so the family became known as the Saulniers de la couline. As a result, some of their descendants began to call themselves Lacouline.
René's second son
Joseph,
born at Minas in June 1720, married
Isabelle, another daughter of
René, fils's s
René, fils's third and youngest son Pierre le jeune, born probably at Baie Ste.-Marie in c1771, married Madeleine, another daughter of Claude Boudreau and Judith Landry, probably at Baie Ste.-Marie in c1795.
Louis's fourth son Pierre, born at Minas in c1696, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean Comeau le jeune and Catherine Babin, in c1716 probably at Minas. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1717 and 1734, Madeleine gave Pierre five children, three sons and two daughters. They evidently settled at Petitcoudiac. Their two daughters married into the Léger and Aucoin families and emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax and France. Two of Pierre's sons also created their own families.
Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Minas in c1717, married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Haché dit Gallant, fils and Madeleine LeBlanc of Chignecto in c1738. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1745, Madeleine gave Pierre, fils eight children, two sons and six daughters. Pierre, fils remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Hébert and Jeanne Corporon at Annapolis Royal in June 1753. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1754 Marguerite gave Pierre, fils another son. The family escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada. Pierre, fils's three oldest daughters by first wife Madeleine Haché--Anne & Marie-Madeleine, perhaps twins, age 18; and Marie, age 15--died at Québec in 1757, victims, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees there in 1757-58. Two of his younger daughters by first wife Madeleine married into the Drapeau, Lecossier, and Layur families in Canada and Louisiana. His two older sons emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and created their own families in the Spanish colony.
Oldest son Joseph, by first wife Madeleine Haché, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1739, evidently escaped the roundup there in 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, was captured by, or surrendered to, British forces in the area in the early 1760s, held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. In August 1763, Joseph, "his wife," and two "children," probably his younger siblings Jean-Baptiste and Marguerite, appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax. Perhaps now a widower, he emigrated from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Dominique, in 1764-65 with two younger siblings and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans. Joseph married--or remarried to--Marie Landry, widow of Alexis Granger, at Cabahannocer in November 1767. Their daughter married into the Bourgeois family. Joseph remarried--again?--to Marie Breau, widow of Amand Richard, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in August 1777. Their daughter married into the Lanoux family. Joseph died in St. James Parish in December 1812, age 73. His two sons by two of his wives married, the older one to a woman whose name has been lost to history, the younger one into the Arceneaux family. The younger son joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche during the antebellum period.
Pierre, fils's second son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Madeleine Haché, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1746, followed his older brother into exile and imprisonment and to Louisiana and Cabahannocer. He married Marie, daughter of Abraham Roy and his first wife Anne Aubois, at St.-Jacques de Cabahannocer in May 1773. During the 1780s, they joined other river Acadians on upper Bayou Lafourche. Their daughters married into the Cuvillier, Duval, Henrique, Martin, and Nopper families. Jean-Baptiste's two sons married into the LeBlanc and Saucier families and joined their cousins in the Bayou Teche valley during the antebellum period.
Pierre, père's second son Charles, born at Minas in c1721, married Marie Savoie perhaps at Petitcoudiac in c1742. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1766, Marie gave Charles three children, two sons and a daughter. What happened to them in 1755? After Le Grand Dérangement, Claude and his family settled at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, Nova Scotia, in 1768 and moved on to Rivière St.-Jean in present-day New Brunswick.
Louis's fifth son Étienne, born in c1702 probably at Minas, married Jeanne, daughter of Abraham Comeau and Marguerite Pitre, in c1729 probably at Minas. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1730 and 1732, Jeanne gave Étienne two children, both daughters. Louisiana records hint that she may have given him a son as well in 1736. Two of their daughters married into the Thibodeau and Lalande families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax. Étienne remarried to Anne, daughter of Jérôme Darois and Marie Gareau, at Beaubassin in June 1740. According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Étienne a son in 1755. Louisiana records indicate that she may have given him another son and a daughter in 1747 and 1752. The family evidently settled at Petitcoudiac, escaped the British roundup there in 1755, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. 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. Étienne, who would have been age 61, second wife Anne, and nine "children" appeared on a French repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763. Étienne may have died at Halifax soon after the counting. At least four of his children, a daughter and three sons, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. His daughter by second wife Anne married into the Chrétien family there. Two of his three sons by both wives created their own families in the Spanish colony.
Oldest son Sylvain, by first wife Jeanne Comeau, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1736, followed his family into exile and imprisonment. With four of his younger siblings, he emigrated from Halifax to Louisiana in 1765 and settled at Opelousas west of the Atachafalaya Basin, where he married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Charles Bourg and Anne Boudrot of Île St.-Jean, in the late 1760s. He died at Opelousas in January 1801, age 65. His daughters married into the Comeaux, Dugas, Martin, Missonnier, and Thibodeaux families. Four of his seven sons married into, or cohabitated with women in, the Comeaux, Bello, and Guidry families and created vigorous lines on the prairies.
Étienne's second son Olivier, by second wife Anne Darois, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1752, followed his family into exile, imprisonment, and to Louisiana. He, too, settled at Opelousas, but he did not marry.
Étienne's third and youngest son Joseph, born during exile in c1756, followed his family into imprisonment, to Louisiana, and also settled at Opelousas. He married Marie, daughter of Olivier Thibodeau and Madeleine Broussard, at nearby Attakapas in January 1779. They settled at Carencro, at the northern edge of the Attakapas District. Joseph died near Carencro, then in St. Martin Parish, in October 1820, age 64. His daughters married into the Chiasson, Constantin, Dugas, and Guilbert families. Five of his six sons married into the Arceneaux, Breaux, Dugas, and Parr families and created vigorous lines in the prairie parishes.
Louis's sixth and youngest son Jean, born at Minas in December 1707, likely died young.420
Claude Bertrand, an early 1680s arrival, and his wife Catherine Pitre created a fairly large branch of the family in the colony. Catherine gave him 10 children, at least seven sons and two daughters. Both of their daughters married into the Comeau, LeBreton, Martin, and Blanchard families. Four of their seven sons married, two of them to sisters. Claude, Catherine, and their descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Port-Razoir near Cap-Sable on the Atlantic coast, and in the French Maritimes. At least 13 of Claude's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785, but only one family line endured there. Most of Claude's descendants could be found in Canada after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Claude, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1686, survived childhood but did not marry.
Claude, père's second son René, born at Port-Royal in c1688, also survived childhood but did not marry.
Claude père's third son Jean l'aîné, born at Port-Royal in c1692, married Marie-Françoise, daughter of Jacques Léger dit La Rosette and Madeleine Trahan, in c1722. They settled at Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto. According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1739, Marie-Françoise gave Jean l'aîné three sons at Chepoudy. Records show that a fourth son was born there in c1743. Jean l'aîné and members of his family escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada, while others evidently found refuge on Île St.-Jean. Jean l'aîné died at Québec in late December 1757, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees there in 1757-58. An older son created his own family in Canada. One of Jean l'aîné's younger sons was deported to France in late 1758 probably from one of the French Maritime islands, created his own family there, and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Third son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Chepoudy in c1739, escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and followed his parents to Canada, where he remained after his father's death. He married Marie-Geneviève, daughter Daniel Chevigny and Marie-Rose Guertin, at Lavaltrie on the upper St. Lawrence below Montréal in July 1768.
Jean-Baptiste, fils married Josephte, daughter of François Filion and Marguerite Sarazin, at Ste.-Thérèse near Montréal in February 1803.
Olivier married Julienne Welch of Ireland.
Olivier, fils married Basilice, daughter of Olivier Nepveau and Angèle Richer, at Ste.-Scholastique near Montréal in November 1864. One of their daughters, Bernadette, married Lorenzo-Calixte, son of Honoré Bertrand and Élise Mathieu, at Notre-Dame d'Ottawa in July 1908; Lorenzo-Calixte was from a French-Canadian branch of the Bertrand family. Their son Jean-Jacques Bertrand served as the twenty-first premier of Québec Province from October 1968 to May 1970.
Jean l'aîné's fourth and youngest son Eustache, born probably at Chepoudy in c1743, did not follow his family to Canada in 1755 but evidently made his way to Île St.-Jean, from whence the British deported him to France in late 1758. He worked as a ship's carpenter there and married Marguerite, daughter of Benjamin Landry and Marguerite Babin, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, Normandy, in March 1764. She gave him five children, a son and four daughters, at Cherbourg between 1766 and 1772, but the son died in infancy. Eustache took his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773. Marguerite gave him another daughter there in October 1774. In December 1775, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes. Between 1776 and 1784, Marguerite gave him four more children there, three sons and two daughters--10 children, four sons and six daughters in all, more than half of whom did not survive childhood. In the summer of 1780, Eustache was in Brest in western Brittany working in the King service as a ship's carpenter while his family remained at Chantenay near Nantes. He, Marguerite, and four of their children, three daughters and a son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 and followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. One of the daughters may not have survived the crossing or may have died on the bayou soon after their arrival. Marguerite gave Eustache no more children in the colony. Their oldest daughter married into the LeBlanc and Dubois families on Bayou Lafourche. The middle daughter did not marry. Eustache's only remaining son survived childhood but did not marry, so, except for its blood, this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State.
Claude, père's fourth son Jean le jeune, also called Jean-Baptiste, born at Port-Royal in c1696, married Anne, daughter of Toussaint Doucet and Marie Caissie and widow of Denis Gaudet, in c1731, place not given. According to Bona Arsenault, they settled at Chepoudy, where, in 1732 and 1740, Anne gave Jean le jeune 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 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 for the rest of the war. Jean le jeune died probably at Chédaboutou on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia before September 1763, and widow Anne died perhaps in France before February 1771. Their son created his own family there.
Only son Jean, fils, born probably at Chepoudy in c1732, followed his family into exile and imprisonment. At age 30, he married first cousin Marguerite, 34-year-old daughter of Toussaint Blanchard and Angélique Bertrand, his uncle and aunt, in c1762, place not given, but it probably was at Chédabouctou. According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Jean, fils a son in 1764, perhaps at Chédabouctou. A year or so later, They followed her family to the French-controlled fishery on Île Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where Marguerite gave Jean, fils a daughter in 1767. That year, French officials, following a royal decree to relieve overcrowding on the Newfoundland islands, deported the fisher/habitants on Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre to France, including Jean, fils and his family. Records show that Marguerite gave him another daughter at Cherbourg in upper Normandy in 1769--three children, a son and two daughers, in greater Acadia and France. Jean, 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 in December 1775. Their older daughter, Rose-Marthe, who would have been age 8 in 1775, was not with them on the convoy to Nantes, so she evidently had died by then. Jean died at Chantenay near Nantes in November 1781, age 49. His widow and a son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785, so the younger daughter, Marie-Modeste, who would have been age 16 in 1785, probably had died by then, unless she decided to remain in the mother country.
Older son Jean-Nicolas, called Nicolas or Colas, born perhaps at Chédabouctou, Nova Scotia, in c1764, followed his family to Île Miquelon, Cherbourg, Poitou, Nantes, and Louisiana. He married Marguerite-Tarsille, daughter of Amand Pitre and Geneviève Arcement, at New Orleans on Chrismas Day, 1785, soon after they reached Louisiana from France on separate ships. She gave him a son at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans in January 1789, and they joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche. Jean-Nicolas died at Opelousas, west of the Atchafalaya Basin, in February 1804, age 42, but his succession inventory was filed at the Interior Parish courthouse on Bayou Lafourche in December 1805, so he evidently was still a resident of that parish at the time of his death. His only son Jean-Baptiste married into the Rassicot family on upper Bayou Lafourche and had a son of his own. Nicolas's, in fact, was the only line of Acadian Bertrands to endure in the Bayou State.
Claude, père's fifth son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1698, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Gabriel Moulaison and Marie Aubois, in c1731, place not given. They settled at Chignecto before moving to Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable in 1734. According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre two children, a daughter and a son, in 1732 and 1734. Pierre died probably at Pobomcoup between 1734 and 1739, in his late 30s or early 40s. The British captured members of his family at Pobomcoup in 1758 and, via the prison compound at Halifax, deported them to Cherbourg, France, later that year. Daughter Marie married into the Lamoureux dit Rochefort family of Île St.-Jean at Cherbourg in October 1763 and chose to remain in France in 1785. Pierre's son also created his own family there but chose to go to Spanish Louisiana.
Only son Pierre-Jacques, born at Pobomcoup in c1734, evidently escaped the British roundup there in the spring of 1756 but not the subsequent roundup in the Cap-Sable-Pobomcoup area in the fall of 1758. The British held him and other Cap-Sable area Acadians on Georges Island, Halifax, and deported them to Cherbourg, France, the following December. He worked as a sailor there and married Catherine, daughter of Charles Bourg and Marguerite Landry, inTrès-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in February 1764. They lived for a time at Le Havre across the bay before returning to Cherbourg. Between 1764 and 1772, Catherine gave Pierre-Jacques at least four children, three sons and a daughter, at Le Havre and Cherbourg. They were part of the settlement scheme in the interior of Poitou in the early 1770s. Catherine gave Pierre-Jacques another daughter in Poitou in March 1774. In December 1775, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port of Nantes. They buried a son there in November 1777, and Catherine gave Pierre-Jacques four more children, two sons and two daughters, there between 1777 and 1785--nine children, five sons and four daughters, in all, most of whom survived childhood. Pierre-Jacques, Catherine, and seven of their children emigrated to Louisiana in 1785. They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. Catherine gave him no more children in the Spanish colony. Three of their daughters married into the Caillier, Boudreaux, and Bourg families on Bayou Lafourche. Only one of Pierre-Jacques's sons survived childhood, but he did not marry, so, except for its blood, this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State.
Claude, père's sixth
son Jacques, born in c1704, place not
mentioned, married Madeleine, another
Claude, père's seventh and youngest son Charles, born perhaps at Point-Razoir near Cap-Sable in c1706, evidently died young.415
Maissonat
Privateer Pierre dit Baptiste Maissonat, a 1680s arrival, and his three wives, Judith Soubiran, Madeleine Bourg, and Marguerite Bourgeois, created a small but influential family in the colony. First wife Judith gave him five children, three sons and two daughters. Second "wife" Madeleine gave him only one child, a daughter. Third wife Marguerite gave him only one more child, a daughter. His daughters married into the Cahouet, LeGrange, Tréguy or Treilli, Winniett, and Vincent dit Desmarets families. None of Pierre dit Baptiste's sons married, so only the blood of this family survived in the colony. If any of the privateer's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.
But the privateer left more than his "blood" in the colony. Baptiste's and Madeleine Bourg's "marriage" was annulled, date unrecorded, when it was discovered that his first wife was still alive. First wife Judith, in fact, gave him his three sons during the late 1690s! (Madeleine legitimately married Pierre, son of Daniel LeBlanc and Françoise Gaudet and widower of Marie Thériot, probably at Port-Royal in c1697. She gave him eight more children.) At age 16, in c1711, Baptiste and Madeleine's daughter Marie-Madeleine dit Baptiste married William, also called Guillaume, Winniet, a lieutenant in the British garrison at Annapolis Royal. William, who may have been born to Huguenot parents in France, was a decade older than his bride at the time of their wedding. He resigned his commission soon after his marriage and settled in the community, where he became an important merchant and ship owner. He fathered 13 children by Marie-Madeleine dit Baptiste, including three daughters who married prominent Britons in the colony. Winniet served on the Nova Scotia colonial Council during the 1730s and drowned probably on a business venture at Boston, Massachusetts, in April 1741. Marie-Madeleine dit Baptiste remained at Annapolis Royal, where, as a widow, she wielded as much political influence as her husband and sons-in-law.
In 1714, after Queen Anne's War had ended, the old privateer was living at Chignecto with his third wife Marguerite Bourgeois, likely having put some distance between himself and the British authorities in Annapolis Royal.421
Mason and stone cutter François Savary, a 1680s arrival, and his wife Geneviève Forest created a small family in the colony. Geneviève gave him only one child, a son, who married. Their descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Minas, and on Île St.-Jean in the French Maritimes. At least one of François's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785. Most could be found in Canada after Le Grand Dérangement.
Only son André, born probably at Port-Royal in c1690, married Marie-Marthe, daughter of Bernard Doucet and Madeleine Corporon, at Annapolis Royal in February 1712. They moved on to Minas and then to the French Maritimes. Between 1714 and 1739, Marie-Marthe gave André 11 children, five sons and six daughters. Three of their daughters married into the Doiron and Horne families, one on Île St.-Jean, the other two in Canada. Three of André's fives sons created families of their own. A French official counted André, now a widower, with some of his children at Petite-Ascension on the south coast of Île St.-Jean in August 1752. Others were counted on the island at Anse-à-Dubuisson and Anse-aux-Morts. He and some of his children evidently left Île St.-Jean before the island's dérangement in late 1758 and sought refuge in Canada. André died in St.-Jean Parish on Île d'Orléans downriver from Québec City in November 1757, in his late 60s. Was he a victim of the smallpox epidemic that struck the exiles in and around the Canadian capital in 1757-58?
Oldest son Bernard, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1714, married Marie, also called Madeleine, daughter of François Michel dit La Ruine and Marguerite Meunier, in c1734 perhaps at Minas, and moved on to Île St.-Jean, where they were counted with his widowered father at Petite-Ascension in August 1752. The British deported them to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758. One of Bernard's daughters, Anne-Marie-Madeleine, born probably at Minas in c1742, followed her family to Île St.-Jean, was deported with them to Cherbourg, moved on to St.-Malo, and settled on the east side of the river south of the Breton port at Pleudihen-sur-Rance, where she married into the Poitier family. She emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785 as a young widow, settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, and remarried into the Granger family there.
André's second
Joseph,
born at Minas in February 1721,
married Françoise, daughter of Antoine Barrieau and Angélique
Thibodeau, in c1747, place unrecorded.
Nicolas
Babineau dit Deslauriers, a 1680s arrival, and his wife
Marie-Marguerite Granger created a fairly large family in the colony.
They were counted at Pentagöuet,
present-day Maine,
in 1693 during King William's War, but returned to Port-Royal by July 1701,
when they purchased from Martin Bourg, who had moved on to the new
Acadian settlement at Cobeguit, a homestead along Rivière-au-Dauphin "on the
estate of the late M. d'Entremont," below and across from the port.
Oldest son René dit Renaud dit Deslauriers, born in greater Acadia in the late 1680s, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Germain Savoie and Marie Breau, at Annapolis Royal in April 1711. Between 1713 and 1740, Marie-Madeleine gave René 11 children, four sons and seven daughters. They evidently escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada. Marie-Madeleine, a widow now, died at the Hôtel-Dieu, Québec, in March 1770, age 76. Three of her daughters married into the Egan, Doucet, Comeau, Lanphere, and Chane dit Ladéroute families, some of them in Canada. Three of her and René dit Renaud's four sons created their own families.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit Deslauriers, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1719, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Darois and Marguerite Breau, in c1746, place unrecorded. They evidently escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in 1755 and found refuge in Canada. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1760 and 1773, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste two daughters. He died at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet, on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières, in November 1807, age 88. His daughters married into the Morin and Laure families at Nicolet.
René, père's second son
Charles dit
Deslauriers, born Annapolis Royal in October 1722, married Cécile, daughter of François Comeau and
Marie-Madeleine Lord, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1752. They
moved to Petitcoudiac on the eve of Le Grand
Dérangement, evidently escaped the British roundup there in the fall of
1755, and took refuge in Canada. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1752
and 1771, in Nova Scotia and Canada, Cécile gave Charles seven childen, four sons and
three daughters, all of whom married. They were counted at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across
from Trois-Rivières in 1771 and at nearby Pointe-du-Lac in 1773. Charles died
probably in Canada before February 1777. His daughters married
into the
Nicolas's second son Clément married Renée dite Renoche, daughter of Bernard Bourg and François Brun, at Annapolis Royal in January 1717. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1718 and 1728, Renée gave Clément seven children, five sons and two daughters, including a set of twins. One of their daughters married into the Bernard family. Members of the family escaped the British roundups in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. At least two of Clément's sons created their own families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana--the only male member of the family, in fact, to go there.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in c1720, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Bourg and Judith Guérin, at Annapolis Royal in January 1748. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1752, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste three children, two sons and a daughter. What happened to them in 1755?
Clément's third son Paul, born at Annapolis Royal in c1726, evidently escaped the British roundup in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and may have married Madeleine Michel in c1758 during exile, place not given. According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him a son.
Only son Paul, fils, born in exile in c1760, place not given, married Jeanne, daughter of Claude Arsenault and Marguerite Thériault, at Carleton, on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs in present-day Québec Province, in January 1786. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1786 and 1808, Jeanne gave Paul, fils 10 children, two sons and eight daughters.
Clément's fifth and youngest son Louis-Charles, called Charles and "Grand Louis," born at Annapolis Royal in March 1728, married Marguerite, daughter of René Doucet and Marie Broussard, at Annapolis Royal in January 1745. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1753, Marguerite gave Charles four children, two sons and two daughters. They escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. Wife Marguerite and all but one of their daughters evidently died during exile. Charles remarried to Anne, daughter of Joseph dit L'Officier Guilbeau and Madeleine Michel of Annapolis Royal, at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in February 1760. The following October, Charles Babinau and his family of three (the child most likely a daughter from his first marriage) appear on a list, dated 24 October 1760, of 1,003 Acadians at Restigouche who surrendered to a British naval force from Québec. The British sent them to a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war, where Anne gave Charles another son perhaps in the prison camp at Fort Edward, formerly Pigiguit, in c1761. If so, they did not remain there. Cherle Babinos, his wife, and their child appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763. Anne gave Charles another son there in c1764. Charles, Anne, and their two sons came to Louisiana in February 1765 with the the Broussards and followed them that spring to lower Bayou Teche. Despite the epidemic which struck down so many of the Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall, Charles and his family remained at Attakapas, where, between 1766 and 1774, Anne gave him more children, two daughters and two sons--10 children, four daughters and six sons, by two wives. "Grand Louis," as his neighbors called him, died at his farm near La Pointe on the middle Teche in the mid-1770s, in his early 50s. One of his daughters by first wife Marguerite did not accompany her father, stepmother, and stepbrothers to Louisiana but went, instead, to French St.-Domingue. There, she married three times, into the Bruyard, Pincer, and Martin families, all of whom seem to have been Frenchmen. She evidently remained in the tropical colony. Her father's daughter by his second wife married into the Poirier family on the Louisiana prairies. His sons, all by his second wife, also married there, into the Thibodeaux, Cormier, Dugas, and Melançon families. His older sons settled along Bayou Carencro at the northern edge of the Attakapas District. His younger sons remained near their father's farm at La Pointe. Amazingly, not until the 1810s did a descendant of Grand Louis Babineaux in Louisiana, a granddaughter, marry a non-Acadian.
Nicolas's third son Joseph dit Deslauriers, born probably at Port-Royal in c1700, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Dugas and Jeanne Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in November 1723. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1725 and 1741, Marguerite gave Joseph eight children, four sons and four daughters. Members of the family were deported to Connecticut in 1755 and moved on to French St.-Domingue in 1763. Joseph died at Mirebalais, in the center of the sugar colony, in January 1765, age 65. Two of his older daughters, who used the surname Deslauriers, married into the Hébert and Comeau families at Mirebalais. A married daughter and her unmarried younger sister emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from St.-Domingue in 1766 or 1767.
Nicolas's fourth and youngest son Jean-Pierre, called Jean, dit Deslauriers, born at Port-Royal in February 1709, married Isabelle, daughter of Pierre Breau and his second wife Anne LeBlanc, in c1730, place not given. They settled at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, the first of the family to leave the Annapolis valley before Le Grand Dérangement. In the early 1750s, they moved on to Terre-Rouge on upper Rivière Petitcoudiac, now Moncton, New Brunswick, in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1753, Isabelle gave Jean seven children, four sons and three daughters. The family escaped the British roundup at Petitcoudiac in the fall of 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 were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. Jean's daughters married into the Maillet, Thibodeau, Richard, and Surette families. All four of his sons created their own families.
Oldest son Paul, born at Annapolis Royal in c1740, followed his family into exile and imprisonment. He married Marguerite Richard at Halifax in July 1768. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1770 and 1775, Marguerite gave Paul four children, two sons and two daughters. Paul remarried to Ludivine Belliveau in c1780, place not given. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1782 and 1786, Ludivine gave Paul three more children, all daughters. The family settled at Richibouctou in present-day eastern New Brunswick. Paul's five daughters married into the Allain, Henry, and Caissie families in the Richibouctou area. At least one of his sons created his own family.
Older son Hilarion, born in c1773, place not given, married Marie, daughter of Charles Maillet, probably at Richibouctou, date not given.
Jean's second son Jean, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1747, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and married Anne Bastarache in c1770, place and date unrecorded. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1771 and 1780, Anne gave Jean, fils eight children, two sons and six daughters. The family settled at Bouctouche in present-day eastern New Brunswick. Jean, fils's daughters married into the Richard, Maillet, and Robichaud families at Bouctouche. His two sons also created their own families.
Older son Joseph, born in c1771, place not given, married Marie Melanson, place and date not given, and was one of the first settlers at St.-Louis-de-Kent up the coast from Bouctouche.
Jean, fils's younger son Thaddée, born in c1773, place not given, married Blanche Johnson, place and date not given. Where did they settle?
Jean, père's third son Sylvain, born at Annapolis Royal in c1750, followed his family into exile and imprisonment, married Marguerite Léger, place and date not given, remarried to Geneviève, daughter of Gervais Girouard, place and date not given, and likely settled in eastern New Brunswick.
Jean, père's fourth and youngest son Dominique, born at Annapolis Royal in c1753, followed his family into exile and imprisonment, married Rosalie Gaudreau, perhaps Gautrot, place and date not given, and settled at Richbouctou on the eastern New Brunswick shore, where Dominique died in March 1813, age 60.
Jean Babineau, perhaps also a 1680s arrival, evidently was Nicolas dit Deslaurier's younger brother. Jean and his wife Marguerite Boudrot created a small family in the colony. Marguerite gave him two children, daughters Marie and Marguerite, who married, respectively, Claude, fils, son of Claude Landry and Marguerite Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in April 1711, and Claude, son of Charles Melanson and Marie Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in January 1714, so the blood of this line of the Babineau family survived in Acadia. Jean and Marguerite's daughters and their families remained at Annapolis Royal. Jean's wife Marguerite, who was a dozen years older than Jean, her second husband, died at Annapolis Royal in November 1718, age 70. Jean died at Annapolis Royal in September 1741, age 81. If any of his descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none carried the family's name there.
Jean and Marguerite's daughters and their families escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and took refuge in Canada. First Marie and then Marguerite died at Québec in November and December 1757, victims, most likely, of the smallpox epidemic that struck hundreds of Acadian refugees in and around the Canadians capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758. Marie was age 65 and Marguerite age 63 when they died.423
Petitot dit Saint-Seine
Master surgeon Denis Petitot dit Saint-Seine, a 1680s arrival, and his wife Marie Robichaud created a small family in the colony. Marie gave the surgeon four children, a son and three daughters. Two of their daughters married into the Melanson and Landry families. Denis and Marie's son created his own family. The surgeon and his descendants remained at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, among the Acadian families who did not branch out to other communities or retreat to the French Maritimes. If any of the surgeon's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none carried the family's name there.
Only son Denis dit Saint-Seine, fils married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Landry and Marguerite Thériot, at Annapolis Royal in April 1711. Marguerite gave Denis, fils eight children, two sons and six daughters. Five of their daughters married into the Doucet, Boudrot, Raymond, Gourdeau, and Bouillé families. Both of Denis, fils's sons created their own families.
Older son Denis III dit Jean-Baptiste dit Saint-Seine married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Claude Granger and Jeanne Guilbeau, at Annapolis Royal in November 1737. What happened to them in 1755?
Denis, fils's younger son Joseph dit Saint-Seine married Françoise, daughter of Pierre Surette and Jeanne Pellerin, at Annapolis Royal in October 1753. What happened to them in 1755?425
Louis
Allain,
the blacksmith, sawmill owner, and merchant, a 1680s arrival, and his wife
Marguerite Bourg created a small but influential family in the colony.
Only son Pierre married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine LeBlanc and Marie Bourgeois, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1717 and settled at Minas, where, according to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Pierre 13 children, five sons and eight daughters, between 1718 and 1742. The family escaped the British roundups in Nova Scotia in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. Four of their daughters married into the Hébert, Beaugrand, Samson, and Hamel families. Four of Pierre and Marguerite's five sons created their own families.
Oldest son Louis le jeune, born at Minas in c1722, settled at Petitcoudiac, where he married Anne, daughter of Jacques Léger and Anne Amireau, in June 1748; the marriage was recorded by the priest at nearby Beaubassin. The family escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they may have eluded the British again. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1766, Anne gave Louis le jeune nine children, four sons and five daughters, either at Petitcoudiac or on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. Four of Louis le jeune's daughters married into the Richard, Landry, and Savoie families in present-day eastern New Brunswick. All five of his sons created families of their own in eastern New Brunswick.
Oldest son Michel, born at Petitcoudiac in c1754, followed his family into exile and married Marie-Josette, daughter of Jean Savoie and Marie Bastarache, at Miramichi, New Brunswick, in May 1786. One wonders how many children they had. Michel died at nearby Négouac in January 1823, age 69.
Louis le jeune's second son Jean-Baptiste, born in exile in c1756, married Marie, daughter of Paul Babineau and Marguerite Richard of Annapolis Royal, in c1777, place not given. They settled at Bouctouche, eastern New Brunswick. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1778 and 1790, Marie gave Jean-Baptiste, seven children, three sons and four daughters. Their daughters married into the Bastarache, Henry, Girouard, and LeBlanc families. All three of his sons married.
Oldest son Amable, born at Bouctouche in c1780, married Rosalie, daughter of Joseph-Jani Richard, at Bouctouche in November 1818.
Jean-Baptiste's second son Michel le jeune, born at Bouctouche in c1786, married Marie Bastarache probably at Bouctouche, date not given.
Jean-Baptiste's third and youngest son Léon, born at Bouctouche in c1790, married Élisabeth, daughter of François LeBlanc, probably at Bouctouche in c1820.
Louis le jeune's third son Benjamin le jeune, born in exile in c1762, married Élisabeth LeBlanc in c1783, place not given. They also settled at Bouctouche. According to Bona Arsenault, Élisabeth gave him four children, two sons and two daughters, between 1785 and 1788. One of Benjamin le jeune's daughters married into the Bastarche family. Both of his sons created families of their own.
Older son Joseph, born at Bouctouche in c1785, married Marie, daughter of Jean Desroches, probably at Bouctouche, date not given.
Benjamin le jeune's younger son Bénoni, born at Bouctouche in c1786, married Modeste, daughter of Joseph Bastarache, date not given.
Louis le jeune's fourth son Louis, fils, born in c1764, place not given, married Marie Richard in c1785, place not given. They also settled at Bouctouche. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1786 and 1800, Marie gave him nine children, five sons and four daughters. Their daughters married into the Cormier, Bastarache, and LeBlanc families. Four of Louis, fils's five sons created families of their own.
Oldest son Joseph, born at Bouctouche in c1786, married a Babineau probably at Bouctouche, date not given.
Louis, fils's second son Louis III, born at Bouctouche in c1793, married Henriette, daughter of Pierre Girouard, probably at Bouctouche, date not given.
Louis, fils's third son Élie, born at Bouctouche in c1794, married Clothilde, daughter of Charles LeBlanc, probably at Bouctouche, date not given.
Louis, fils's fifth and youngest son Germain, born at Bouctouche in c1800, the second of the name, married Geneviève, another daughter of Pierre Girouard, probably at Bouctouche, date not given.
Louis le jeune's fifth and youngest son Pierre le jeune, born in c1766, place not given, married Marie-Henriette, another daughter of Paul Babineau and Marguerite Richard, at Richibouctou, eastern New Brunswick, in July 1798, when he was in his early 30s. They joined his family at Bouctouche. According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Henriette gave Pierre le jeune six children, two sons and four daughters, between 1799 and 1808. Their daughters married into the LeBlanc, Breau, and Belliveau families. Both of Pierre le jeune's sons created their own families.
Older son Urbain, born at Bouctouche in c1799, married Blanche, daugher of François LeBlanc, probably at Bouctouche, date not given.
Pierre le jeune's younger son Sylvain, born at Bouctouche in c1806, married Marcelline, daughter of Grégoire Cormier, probably at Bouctouche, date not given.
Pierre's second son Pierre, fils, born at Minas in c1723, married Catherine, daughter of Jacques Hébert and Marguerite Landry, probably at Grand-Pré in c1750. Catherine gave Pierre, fils two children, a son and a daughter, at Grand-Pré in 1751 and 1752. The British deported them to Maryland in 1755. Between 1760 and 1766, Catherine gave Pierre, fils three more children, two sons and a daughter, in the Chesapeake colony. In 1767, Pierre, fils took his family to Louisiana, where Catherine gave him two more children, both daughters, in 1771 and 1774. They were the only Acadian Allains to go to the Spanish colony. They settled at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans, where Pierre, fils died in December 1807, age 85. His two daughters married into the Landry and Foret families in the Spanish colony. All three of his sons married, into the Blanchard, Babin, and Gautreaux families, and settled at San Gabriel.
Pierre, père's third son Joseph-Antoine, born at Minas in c1729, evidently did not create a family of his own. Was he still around in 1755? If so, what happened to him?
Pierre, père's fourth son Benjamin, born at Minas in c1732, remained at Minas and married Marie-Rose, daughter of Joseph Bugeaud and Marie-Josèphe Landry, in c1752, no place given. Like older brother Louis and his family, Benjamin and Marie-Rose escaped the British in 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St.-Lawrence shore. According to Bona Arsenault, after escaping the British again, this time at Restigouche in 1760, Marie-Rose gave Benjamin six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1762 and 1778. They settled at Carleton, a British-controlled fishery on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, present-day Québec Province. Their daughter married into the Laviolette family at Carleton. Four of Benjamin's five sons created families of their own.
Oldest son Pierre-Bénoni, born at Carleton in c1770, married Marthe, daughter of Hilaire Poirier and Angélique Dugas, at Carleton in January 1794. According to Bona Arsenault, Marthe gave Pierre-Bénoni three children, a son and two daughters, at Carleton between 1795 and 1799.
Benjamin's second son Louis le jeune, born at Carleton in c1772, married Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste LeBlanc and Marguerite Boudreau, at Carleton in in January 1794. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1795 and 1820, Madeleine gave Louis le jeune 13 children, nine sons and four daughters, at Carleton. Their daughters married into the Thibodeau, Bourdages, Bujold, and Boudreau families at Carleton. Seven of Louis le jeune's nine sons created families of their own.
Oldest son Félix, born at Carleton in c1795, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Saint-Coeur and Euphrosine LeBlanc, at Carleton in January 1823. According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Félix two daughters at Carleton in 1823 and 1825. One of them married into the Bernard family there.
Louis le jeune's second son Jean-Louis, born at Carleton in c1797, married Victoire, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Charlotte Bujold, at Carleton in November 1827. According to Bona Arsenault, Victoire gave Jean-Louis six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1828 and 1840 at Carleton.
Louis le jeune's fourth son Charles, born at Carleton in c1802, married Anastasie, daughter of Joseph Arsenault and Marguerite Bujold, at Carleton in August 1824. According to Bona Arsenault, Anastasie gave Charles six children, five sons and a daughter, between 1825 and 1845 at Carleton.
Louis le jeune's fifth son Constant-Aimé, born at Carleton in c1804, married Angélique, daughter of François Laviolette and Marie Gauthier, at Carleton in February 1828. According to Bona Arsenault, Angélique gave Constant-Aimé seven children, five sons and two daughters, at Carleton between 1829 and 1846.
Louis le jeune's seventh son Joseph-Bénoni, born at Carleton in c1808, married Esther, daughter of Charles Boudreau and Élisabeth LeBlanc, at Carleton in February 1836. According to Bona Arsenault, Esther gave Joseph-Bénoni five children, a son and four daughters, at Carleton between 1838 and 1847.
Louis le jeune's eighth son André, born at Carleton in c1813, married Julie, daughter of Éphrem Cormier and Geneviève LeBlanc, at Cascapédia, today's New Richmond, near Carleton, in January 1841. According to Bona Arsenault, Julie gave André five children, four sons and a daughter, probably at Cascapédia between 1842 and 1850.
Louis le jeune's ninth and youngest son Fréderic, born at Carleton in c1820, married Constance, daughter of Édouard Bourg and Félicité Audet, at Carleton in February 1843. According to Bona Arsenault, Constance gave Fréderic four children, two sons and two daughters, at Carleton between 1843 and 1849.
Benjamin's third son Lazare, born at Carleton in c1773, married Luce, daughter of Jean Landry and Marthe Dugas, at Carleton in January 1800. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1801 and 1820, Luce gave Lazare a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, at Carleton. Their daughters married into the Bujold, Arsenault, Landry, and Allard families at Carleton. Four of Lazare's sons created families of their own, and another son became a priest.
Oldest son Gilbert, born at Carleton in c1804, married Salomée, daughter of Augustin Allard and Rose Landry, at Carleton in April 1831. According to Bona Arsenault, Salomée gave Gilbert seven children, six sons and a daughter, at Carleton between 1832 and 1843.
Lazare's second son Joseph, born at Carleton in c1810, married Henriette, another daughter of Augustin Allard and Rose Landry, at Carleton in April 1836. According to Bona Arsenault, Henriette gave Joseph six children, a son and five daughters, at Carleton between 1838 and 1847.
Lazare's fifth son Jean-Louis, born at Carleton in c1813, became a priest.
Lazare's seventh son Jean-Lazare, born at Carleton in c1816, married Louise Porlier at Carleton in October 1841.
Lazare's eighth and youngest Théophile, born at Carleton in c1820, married Joséphine, daughter of Charles-Marie Labillois and Émilie Meagher, at Carleton in September 1846. According to Bona Arsenault, Joséphine gave Théophile two sons at Carleton in 1847 and 1850.
Benjamin's fifth and youngest son Fabien, born at Carleton in c1778, married Céleste, another daughter of Jean Landry and Marthe Dugas, at Carleton in January 1814, when he was in his mid-30s. One wonders if he and Céleste had any children. At age 54, Fabien remarried to Agathe, daughter of Gabriel Audet and Charlotte LeBlanc, at Carleton in July 1832. She evidently gave him no children.
Pierre, père's fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in c1741, escaped the British roundup there in 1755, when he was only a teenager, took refuge in Canada, and married Marguerite dite La Blanche, daughter of Pierre Cormier and Marie Cyr of Chignecto, at Bécancour, across from Trois-Rivières, in January 1762. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1773, La Blanche gave Jean-Baptiste six children, four sons and two daughters. They settled at St.-Ours, on the lower Richelieu, farther up the St. Lawrence valley, in 1782. One of their daughters married into the Vincennes-Porlier family at St.-Ours. At least one of Jean-Baptiste's sons created his own family.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at Bécancour in c1764, married Marguerite Thibault at St.-Ours in October 1792.427
François Michel dit La Ruine, an early or mid-1680s arrival, and his second wife Marguerite, daughter of Jean Meunier and Marguerite Housseau, whom he married in c1695, nearly a decade after he came to the colony, created a small family in the colony. Between 1696 and 1717, Marguerite gave La Ruine a dozen children, at least four sons and seven daughters. Six of their daughters married into the Cyr, Bourg, Poirier, Vincent dit Clément, Doiron, and Savary families. Only two of La Ruine's sons created their own families. His and Marguerite's descendants settled at Annapolis Royal, Minas and Pigiguit in the Minas Basin, Cap-Sable, and in the French Maritimes. At least one of François dit La Ruine's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785, but most of his descendants could be found in Canada after Le Grand Dérangement.
Their oldest son, name unrecorded, died young.
François's second son Louis, born at Port-Royal in the late 1690s or early 1700s, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Forest and Marie Petitpas, in c1722, place unrecorded. They settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, where at least one daughter was born in c1734. Their daughter Anne married into the Dubois family probably at Cap-Sable in c1756 and was deported to Cherbourg, France, in 1759-60. She and her husband resettled at St.-Malo in Brittany, where he died, she remarried into the LeBlanc, Landry, and Daigre families in France, and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana with her fourth husband in 1785.
François's third son Paul dit La Ruine, born at Port-Royal in c1703, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Clément Vincent and Madeleine Levron, at Annapolis Royal in June 1726. According to Bona Arsenault, they settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit. Arsenault says that between 1727 and 1742, Marie-Josèphe gave Paul seven children, four sons and three daughters. Paul died by May 1751, in his late 40s, at Pigiguit or on Île St.-Jean, where his family resettled the year of his death. Widow Marie-Josèphe promptly remarried to Jean-Baptiste LeMarquis dit Clermont of St.-Malo on Île St.-Jean in May 1752 and, the following August, was counted with him at Anse-aux-Pirogues on lower Rivière-de-Nord-Est in the interior of the island. Meanwhile, Paul dit La Ruine's oldest daughter Marguerite married into the Prieur family on Île St.-Jean in November 1751 and, along with her husband and children, died on the crossing to St.-Malo, France, in December 1758. Paul dit La Ruine's two older sons also married on the island, and one of them died there before the island's dérangement.
Oldest son Paul, fils, born probably at Pigiguit in c1727, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and married Rose, daughter of Charles Hébert and Catherine Saulnier, at Port-La-Joye on the island in April 1752. A French official counted the childless couple with two of his siblings--brother Jean-Michel, age 19; and sister Rose, age 10--next to his mother and stepfather at Anse-aux-Pirogues in the island's interior. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1759, Rose gave Paul, fils five children, two daughters and three sons. Paul, fils and Rose left the island by 1757, when they were counted on Île d'Orléans below Québec City in 1757. One wonders if they followed his mother and stepfather there. Paul, fils and Rose resettled at nearby St.-Charles de Bellechasse on the south bank of the St. Lawrence by 1760.
Paul dit La Ruine's second son Joseph, born probably at Pigiguit in c1728, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and married Geneviève, daughter of Pierre Darembourg and Marie Mazerolle of Île St.-Jean, at Port-La-Joye in March 1751. Geneviève gave Joseph a daughter, Marie-Josèphe, in 1752. In August of that year, a French official counted the couple and their 3-month-old daughter on the north side of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior. Joseph died there in October 1756, in his late 20s. His line of the family died with him. What happened to his family in 1758?
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André Simon dit Jacques Le Boucher, the butcher, a late 1680s arrival, and his wife Marie Martin dit Barnabé created a fairly large family in the colony. Marie gave him nine children, four sons and five daughters. Four of their daughters married into the Dubois dit Dumont, Viarrieu dit Duclos, Petitpas, Des Roches, and Préjean families, some of them in the French Maritimes. Three of their sons created families of their own. André and Marie's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also in the French Maritimes and on Newfoundland. They were especially numerous at Port-Toulouse on Île Royale. If any of André's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there, Bona Arsenault's assertions notwithstanding.
Oldest son Pierre dit Pierrot dit Boucher, born probably at Port-Royal in c1689, became a carpenter and a fisherman. He married Marie, daughter of Philippe Pinet and Catherine Hébert, in c1714 probably at Annapolis Royal, and moved on to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale. He died probably on the island after October 1742. Marie gave Pierrot eight children, three sons and five daughters. Their daughters married into the Gaffé, Bernard, Hervé, Dubordieu, Des Roches, and LeBreton families, all in the French Maritimes or in Newfoundland. Only one of Pierrot's sons married.
Oldest son Michel, born at Port-Toulouse in c1715, likely died young.
Pierre dit Pierrot dit Boucher's second son François, born probably on Île Royale between 1724 and 1726, married cousin Anne, daughter of Charles Doucet and Madeleine Préjean, at Annapolis Royal in January 1752. What happened to them in 1755?
Pierre dit Pierrot dit Boucher's third and youngest son Nicolas, born "dans le bois" on Île Royale in May 1733, probably died young.
André's second son Charles dit Boucher, born probably at Port-Royal in c1696, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Pitre and Anne Préjean, at Annapolis Royal in February 1730, moved on to the French Maritimes, and died on Île Royale in September 1743, in his late 40s.
André's third son Paul, born probably at Port-Royal in c1699, evidently died young.
André's fourth and youngest son André dit Boucher, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1713, married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Doucet dit Maillard and Marie Pellerin, at Annapolis Royal in February 1742, and likely remained there. He and his family evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada. André, fils died at St.-Michel de Bellechasse across from Québec City in January 1758, age 46, victim, perhaps, of a smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadians in the Québec area in 1757-58.430
René Bernard, a late 1680s arrival, and his wife Madeleine Doucet created a fairly large branch of the family in the colony. Between 1690 and the early 1700s, Madeleine gave René eight children, five sons and three daughters. René died probably at Chignecto after 1707, in his late 40s, and Madeleine, who did not remarry, died there in February 1740, age 68. Their daughters married into the Girouard, Poirier, and Arseneau families. Four of René's five sons created their own families. His and Madeleine's descendants settled at Chignecto, where they were especially numerous; and at Minas. One family moved on to Île St.-Jean in the 1750s. At least 10 of René's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and France in 1785, but more of them could be found in greater Acadia and Canada after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son René dit Renochet, born probably at Chignecto in c1690, married Anne, daughter of Jacques Blou and Marie Girouard, at Beaubassin in July 1713 and settled there. Between 1717 and the early 1740s, Anne gave Renochet 10 children, six sons and four daughters. The family escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and sought refuge in Canada. Renochet and Anne died at Québec in late November and early December 1757, victims, perhaps, of a smallpox epidemic that struck the Acadian refugees in and around the Canadian capital from the summer of 1757 to the spring of 1758. Their daughters married into the Bourgeois, Hébert, Mignot, and Richard families, and two of them--Anne, wife of Jean-Baptiste Bourgeois; and Madeleine, wife of Jean-Baptiste Richard--died at Québec in June and November 1757. Four of Renochet's six sons also created their own families.
Oldest son René III, born probably at Chignecto in 1718, married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Hébert and Jeanne Gautrot, at Beaubassin in November 1740. According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1741 and 1755, Marguerite gave René III three daughters. Records hint that she may have given him four daughters. The family evidently moved to Île St.-Jean after 1752 and were deported to Cherbourg, Normandy, France, in 1758. Two of their daughters married into the Henry and Doiron families in France. René III died between 1764 and 1766, a widower, probably in France. One of his daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Renochet's second son François, born probably at Chignecto in the 1720s, married Madeleine Richard in c1748 probably at Chignecto. One wonders what became of them in 1755.
Renochet's third son Jean, born probably at Chignecto in c1727, married Françoise, daughter of Martin Richard and Marie Cormier, in c1754 probably at Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1768, Françoise gave Jean three children, a son and two daughters. The family escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada. Jean died at Lotbinière on the upper St. Lawrence between Trois-Rivières and Québec in September 1829, age 102.
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René's second son Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in c1692, died young.
René's third son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Chignecto in c1696, married Cécile, daughter of Claude Gaudet and Marguerite Blou, at Beaubassin in November 1719 and settled there. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1722 and 1747, Cécile gave Jean-Baptiste a dozen children, seven sons and five daughters. They escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. Some of them moved up to the Acadian refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, while others, including Jean-Baptiste, wife Cécile, and their two younger sons, moved on to Canada. Jean-Baptiste died at Québec in December 1757, victim, perhaps, like older brother Renochet, of a smallpox epidemic that struck Acadian refugees in Canada in 1757-58. Four of Jean-Baptiste's daughters married into the Mignault, Bourgeois, Cormier, Burel, and Langlois families, most of them at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly on the lower Richelieu east of Montréal. Five of his seven sons created their own families, three in Canada and greater Acadia, and two in Louisiana.
Oldest son Paul, born at Chignecto in c1728, married Marguerite Gaudet probably at Chignecto in c1754. They escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawerence shore before moving up to Restigouche, where they were counted among the Acadians surrendered there in October 1760. According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Paul a son, Jean, in c1761 either at Restigouche or in a prison compound in Nova Scotia. Paul, his wife, and their four children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763. One wonders what happened to them after the counting. They did not follow his younger brothers to Louisiana.
Jean-Baptiste's second son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1731, married Marguerite Arseneau probably at Chignecto in c1752. According to Bona Arsenault, in c1753 Marguerite gave Pierre a son. They family escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before moving up to Restigouche. According to Arsenault, Marguerite gave Pierre two more children in exile, another son in c1758 and a daughter in c1760. In October 1760, Pre. Bernard and his family of seven, which likely included his younger brother Michel, were counted among the Acadians who surrendered at Restigouche in October 1760. The British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. In August 1763, Pierre, Marguerite, and four children appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax. Pierre, Marguerite, and their three children followed other Acadians from Halilfax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in 1764-65 and settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans. One wonders why they did not follow younger brother Michel and his family, along with the Broussards, to lower Bayou Teche that spring. Wife Marguerite died at Cabahannocer by September 1769, when Pierre was counted there without a wife. Daughter Marie, who would have been age 9 that year, also does not appear in the 1769 census with her father and brothers. Pierre remarried to Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise, fils and Marguerite Dugas and widow of Joseph Dugas and Nicolas Lahure, at Cabahannocer in June 1770. Cécile, a native of Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas, Rivière St.-Jean, had come to Louisiana in February 1765 with the Broussards but had fled to Cabahannocer in the fall of that year to escape the epidemic that killed her husband and other relatives. In 1773 and 1774, she gave Pierre two more children at Cabahannocer, a daughter and a son--five children, three sons and two daughters, by two wives in greater Acadia and Louisiana. Daughter Adélaïde married into the Poirier family. His three sons married into the Dugas, Breau, Blanchard, and Poirier and families. By the 1810s, his sons and grandsons had left St. James on the river. His oldest son joined the Acadian exodus from the river to Bayou Lafourche, creating a third center of family settlement there. His middle son crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and joined his cousins in the old Attakapas District. His youngest son remained on the river but, in spite of two marriages, seems to have produced no sons of his own. This evidently ended the presence of Acadian Bernards on Louisiana's Acadian Coast.
Jean-Baptiste's third son Michel, born at Chignecto in c1734, followed his family to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and to Restigouche, where he likely was on the list of 1,003 Acadians surrendered there in October 1760. He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph dit L'Officier Guilbeau and Madeleine Michel of Annapolis Royal, in January 1761, after which they were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of war. According to Bona Arsenault, in c1762 Marie gave Michel two sons. Michel, Marie, and a son also appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763. Arsenault says Marie gave Michel another son probably at Halifax in c1764, but he likely was born aboard ship or at Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in January 1765 on their way to Louisiana with her family and the Broussards. That spring, after a short respite in New Orleans, they followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, where they lost their youngest son in a mysterious epidemic that October. They resettled up the Teche at La Pointe near present-day Breaux Bridge, where, between 1766 and 1774, Marie gave Michel five more children, two sons and three daughters--eight children, five sons and three daughers, in all in greater Acadia and Louisiana. Michel died at La Pointe, St. Martin Parish, in August 1809, age 74, a widower. His succession was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, in March 1810. His daughters married into the Broussard, Préjean, and Thibodeaux families. Three of his sons married into the Broussard and LeBlanc families on the prairies. During the 1780s and 1790s, Michel's oldest son moved from La Pointe to Carencro at the northern edge of the Attakapas District, and a younger son moved to Côte Gelée near present-day Broussard. Michel's youngest son moved down bayou from La Pointe to Fausse Pointe in the 1810s. Michel's first son's line was especially prolific, but a younger's son line did not endure. During the late antebellum period, Michel's descendants spread out along the Teche from Fausse Pointe near New Iberia all the way up to Port Barre east of Opelousas; some remained at Carencro and Côte Gelée in Lafayette Parish; and others moved out into the prairies of Vermilion and St. Landry prairies. Most of the Acadian Bernards of South Louisiana are descended from Michel and three of his sons.
Jean-Baptiste's sixth son François, born at Chignecto in c1740, followed his family to the Gulf shore, Restigouche, and Canada. He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Denis Petitot dit Saint-Seine III dit Jean-Baptiste and Marie-Josèphe Granger of Annapolis Royal, at L'Assomption on the upper St. Lawrence in February 1763. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1777, Marguerite gave François eight children, six sons and two daughters. François remarried to Marguerite Métivier, widow of Antoine Caron, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly on Rivière Richelieu east of Montréal in January 1780, and remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Josèphe Archambault, widow of Henri Archambault, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in August 1796. According to Bona Arsenault, he had children only by his first wife.
Jean-Baptiste's seventh and youngest son Joseph le jeune, born at Chignecto in c1742, followed his family to the Gulf shore, Restigouche, and Canada. He married Marguerite, daughter of Louis Deguire and Thérèse Arpin, at St.-Antoine-de-Chambly in April 1766. According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Joseph 16 children at St.-Antoine, St.-Denis, and St.-Ours on the lower Richelieu.
René's fourth son Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in the early 1700s, married Marie-Josèphe, another daughter of Claude Gaudet and Marguerite Blou, in c1729 probably at Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1747, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph five children, three sons and two daughters, including a set of twins. Joseph remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Charles Arseneau and Françoise Mirande and widow of Pierre Poirier, in c1752 probably at Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, from the early 1750s to 1765, Marguerite gave Joseph four more children, three sons and a daughter--nine children, six sons and three daughters, by two wives. The family escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore before moving up to Restigouche. Joseph Bernard, père and his family of nine appear on the 24 October 1760 list of captured Acadians at Restigouche. After spending the rest of the war in a prison compound in Nova Scotia, they returned to Restigouche, where British officials counted them in 1765. They settled at nearby Bonaventure, a British-controlled fishery in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs. Two of Joseph's daughters by both wives married into the Bujold family at Bonaventure and nearby Carleton. Four of his six sons by both wives also created their own famliies.
Second son Charles, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Gaudet, born at Chignecto in c1741, followed his family into exile, imprisonment, and to Gaspésie. He married Élizabeth, daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Madeleine Girouard of Minas, in c1767, perhaps at Restigouche and settled at Carleton. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1768 and 1793, Élizabeth gave Charles a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters. Five of their daughters married into the Boudreau, Jeanson, LeBlanc, and Audet families at Carleton. Four of Charles's five sons created their own families.
Oldest son Isaïe, born probably at Carleton c1770, married Rachel, daughter of Charles Bourg and Théotiste Savoie, at Carleton in January 1798. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1798 and 1822, Rachel gave Isaïe a dozen children, a son and 11 daughters. Six of their daughters married into the Audet, Allard, Babin, Bourdages, and Cormier families, including two brothers, at Carleton. Isaïe's only son created his own family.
Only son Édouard, born at Carleton in c1800, married Henriette, daughter of Fréderic Loubert and Adélaïde Landry, at Carleton in November 1830. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1831 and 1848, Henriette gave Édouard eight children, fives sons and three daughters.
Charles's second son Simon, born probably at Carleton in c1777, married Séraphine, daughter of Claude Landry and Hélène Dugas, at Carlton in May 1804, and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre-Amable Jacques and Françoise Petit, at Carlton in August 1838.
Charles's third son Magloire, born probably at Carleton in c1783, married Anne, another daughter of Claude Landry and Hélène Dugas, at Carleton in January 1810.
Charles's fifth and youngest son Isaac le jeune, born probably at Carleton in c1789, married Geneviève, yet another daughter of Claude Landry and Hélène Dugas, at Carleton in January 1812. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1813 and 1831, Geneviève gave Isaac le jeune 10 children, seven sons and three daughters. Two of their daughters married into the Boudreau and Arsenault families at Carleton. Three of Isaac le jeune's seven sons created their own families.
Second son Joseph, born at Carleton in c1815, married Marguerite, daughter of Wencelas LeBlanc and Félicité LeBlanc, at Carleton in January 1845.
Isaac le jeune's fourth son Otho-Némésie, born at Carleton in c1820, married Aglaée, daughter of Hyppolite LeBlanc and Marguerite Bujold, at Carleton in January 1850.
Isaac le jeune's fifth son André-Vital, born at Carleton in c1825, married Angélique, daughter of Félix Allain and Reine Saint-Coeur, at Carleton in April 1850.
Joseph's son Louis, by second wife Marguerite Arseneau, born at Chignecto in the early 1750s, followed his family into exile, imprisonment, and to Gaspésie, where he married Louise, daughter of Aubin LeGouffe and Louise Baudot, at Bonaventure in May 1774. They lived there from 1774 to 1790 and then moved to nearby Carleton. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1775 and 1790, Louise gave Louis seven families, four sons and three daughters. Their daughters married into the Savoie, Létourneau, and Goulet families. Three of Louis's four sons created their own families.
Oldest son Louis-Bénoni, born probably at Bonaventure in c1775, married Geneviève, daughter of Gabriel Audet and Félicité Hautbois, at Carleton in November 1799, and remarried to Rose, daughter of Jacques Labrecque and Marie Thériault, at Carleton in April 1822.
Louis's third son Fréderic, born probably at Bonaventure in c1782, married Suzanne, another daughter of Jacques Labrecque and Marie Thériault, at Carleton in October 1805. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1806 and 1827, Suzanne gave Fréderic 10 children, five sons and five daughters. Their daughters married into the Roy, Allard, Parent, Berthelot, Duret, and Létourneau families. Four of Fréderic's five sons created their own families.
Second son Aimé, born at Carleton in c1818, married Adélaïde, daughter of Isaac LeBlanc and Marie Quirion, at Carleton in January 1843.
Fréderic's third son Nicolas, born at Carleton in c1820, married Louise-Élizabeth, daughter of Paul Philippe and Marie-Louise Savoie, at Carleton in April 1843.
Fréderic's fourth son Joseph-Alfred, born at Carleton in c1824, married Virginie, daughter of Joseph Savoie and Marguerite Lebrecque, at Carleton in January 1847.
Fréderic's fifth and youngest son Édouard le jeune, born at Carleton in c1827, married Esther, daughter of Louis Dagneau and Ludivine Arsenault, at Carleton in February 1848.
Louis's fourth and youngest son Édouard, born at either Bonaventure or Carleton in c1790, married Geneviève, daughter of Étienne Bergeron dit d'Amboise and Claire Couroit, at Carleton in May 1813. According to Bona Arsenault, Geneviève gave Édouard a son in 1814. Édouard remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Porlier and Lucie Arsenault, probably at Carleton in February 1817. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1818 and 1825, Marie gave Édouard four children, two sons and two daughters. Édouard remarried again--his third marriage--to Lucille, daughter of Patrice Burn and Anne Elslegar, probably at Carleton in February 1827. According to Bona Arsenault, Lucille gave Édouard another daughter in 1827. One of Édouard's sons by his second wife created his own family.
Son Édouard, fils, the second with the name, by second wife Marie Porlier, born at Carleton in c1821, married Émilie, daughter of Prosper Savoie and Esther Leclerc, at Carleton in January 1850.
Joseph's son Jean-Marie, by second wife Marguerite Arseneau, born in exile c1760, followed his family into imprisonment and to Gaspésie, where married Marie-Lutine, daughter of Ambroise Babin and Anne Cyr of Minas, at Bonaventure in November 1780. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1781 and 1782, Marie-Lutine gave Jean-Marie two sons. He remarried to Marie-Osite, another daughter of Ambroise Babin and Anne Cyr, in c1788 probably at Bonaventurre. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1789 and 1802, Marie-Osite gave Jean-Marie nine more children, two sons and seven daughters. Their daughters married into the Comeau, Bourdages, Gauthier, Cavanaugh, Cayouette, Bourque, Arsenault, and Henry families. Three of Jean-Marie's four sons created their own families.
Oldest son Alexandre, by first wife Marie-Lutine Babin, born at Bonaventure in c1781, married Élizabeth, daughter of Jean Arsenault and Anne-Blanche Robichaud, at Bonaventure in May 1809. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1810 and 1813, Anne-Blanche gave Alexandre two children, a son and a daughter. Alexandre remarried to Julie, daughter of Grégoire Arsenault and Théotiste Bourg, at Bonaventure in November 1814. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1815 and 1831, Julie gave Alexandre nine more children, six sons and three daughters. Three of Alexandre's daughters by both wives married into the Bujold, Bourg, Poirier, and Babin families probably at Bonaventure. Three of his seven sons by both of his wives created their own families.
Oldest son Janvier, born at Bonaventure in c1813, married Marie, daughter of Nicolas Arsenault and Léa-Marguerite Arbour, at Bonaventure in October 1841.
Alexandre's second son Alexandre le jeune, by second wife Julie Arsenault, born at Bonaventure in c1815, married cousin Olivette, daughter of François Paquet and Olive-Sophie Bernard, at Bonaventure in February 1848.
Alexandre's son Camille, by second wife Julie Arsenault, born at Bonaventure in c1824, married Rose, daughter of Louis Lepage and Vénérade Landry, at Bonaventure in c1852. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1853 and 1859, Rose gave Camille four children, three sons and a daughter.
Jean-Marie's second son Hubert, by first wife Marie-Lutine Babin, born at Bonaventure in c1782, married Reine, daughter of Charles Cavanaugh and Marguerite Arsenault, at Bonaventure in January 1814. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1814 and 1831, Reine gave Hubert eight children, a son and seven daughters. Three of his daughters married into the Hébert, Bujold, and Lepage families at Bonaventure.
Jean-Marie's third son Félix, by second wife Marie-Osite Babin, born at Bonaventure in c1797, married Angèle, daughter of François-Placide Bujold and Apolline Poirier, at Bonaventure in June 1825. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1826 and 1829, Angèle gave Félix four children, two sons and two daughters, including a set of twins. Félix remarried to Anne-Nathalie, daughter of Joseph Cayouette and Élisabeth Robichaud, probably at Bonaventure in January 1833. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1835 and 1850, Anne gave Félix seven more children, a son and six daughters.
Joseph's third son Isaac, by second wife Marguerite Arseneau, born in exile c1765, followed his family to Gaspésie, where he married Victoire, daughter of Pierre Robichaud and Anne Michel of Cobeguit, at Bonaventure in April 1788. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1789 and 1811, Victoire gave Isaac a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters. Their daughters married into the Poirier, Lepage, Paquet, and Bujold families. Only one of Isaac's five sons created his own family.
Fourth son Jean-Alexandre, born at Bonaventure in c1801, married Geneviève, daughter of Joseph Lepage and Geneviève Bujeau, at Bonaventure in May 1833. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1834 and 1847, Geneviève gave Jean-Alexandre eight children, seven sons and a daughter. Jean-Alexandre remarried to Symphorose, daughter of Charles Bujold and Marguerite Bernier, probably at Bonaventure in May 1848. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1851 and 1853, Symphorose gave Jean-Alexandre two more children, a son and a daughter.
René's fifth and youngest son Michel, born probably at Chignecto in c1705, married Marie, daughter of Mathieu Brasseur dit La Citardy and Jeanne Célestin dit Bellemère, at Grand-Pré in June 1729. They evidently resettled at Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1748, Marie gave Michel seven children, four sons and three daughters. Some of the family may have escaped the British roundup at Chigencto in the fall of 1755. Michel, Marie, and three of their children did not. The British deported them to South Carolina. Michel remarried to Anne, daughter of Clément Babineau and Renée Bourg of Annapolis Royal, in the southern colony. In August 1763, Michel, second wife Anne, and his daughter Madeleine by first wife Marie appeared on a French repatriation list in South Carolina. One wonders what happened to them after the counting. Did they follow other Acadians to the French Antilles or join their family in Canada? They did not go to Spanish Louisiana. According to Bona Arsenault, two of Michel's sons, who evidently escaped the British in 1755, took refuge in Canada and created their own families on the upper St. Lawrence.
Older son Augustin, by first wife Marie Brasseur, born at Chignecto in c1744, evidently escaped the British roundup at Chigencto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada. He married Élizabeth Dufaux in c1766, place not given. They were counted at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières in 1770 and 1776 before settling at nearby Gentilly. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1768 and 1776, Élizabeth gave Augustin five children, a son and four daughters. One of their daughters married into the Michel dit Saint-Michel family at Gentilly.
Michel's younger son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Marie Brasseur, born at Chignecto in c1748, evidently escaped the British roundup at Chigencto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada. He married Geneviève Poisson in c1772, place not given. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1775 and 1784, Geneviève gave Jean-Baptiste two sons. They also settled at Gentilly. Jean-Baptiste remarried to Marie-Anne Demers, date and place unrecorded.431
Sr. Jacques Michel dit Saint-Michel, a late 1680s arrival, probably was not kin to François Michel dit La Ruine, who had come to the colony a short time before. Jacques and his wife wife Catherine Comeau created a larger branch of the family in the colony. Between 1690 and 1719, Catherine gave Jacques 13 children, eight sons and five daughters. Jacques died at Annapolis Royal in February 1748, in his late 80s. His daughters married into the Savoie, Martin, Breau, Guilbeau dit L'Officier, and Egan families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. Only four of his eight sons created their own families. His and Catherine's descendants settled at Annapolis Royal and in the French Maritimes. At least 10 of Jacques dit Saint-Michel's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax and French St.-Domingue in 1765 and from France in 1785. Even more of them could be found in France, French St.-Domingue, and especially in Canada after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son François, born at Port-Royal in c1689 or 1690, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Jacques Léger and Madeleine Trahan, at Annapolis Royal in February 1715. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1717 and 1743, Marie-Anne gave François 11 children, five daughters and six sons. The family moved to Île St.-Jean in 1751. François, in his early 60s, remarried to Élisabeth, also Isabelle, daughter of Guillaume LeJuge and Marie Mercier and widow of Pierre Benoit le jeune, at Port-La-Joye on the island in November of that year. She gave him no more children. In August 1752, a French official counted François, Élisabeth, six of his unmarried children, two sons and four daughters, and one of her unmarried daughters by her previous marriage, living near two of his married sons at Anse-à-Pinnet on the island's southeast coast. François died by July 1759, in his 50s. What happened to them in 1758? His oldest daughter married into the Aucoin family. At least three of his sons married. One of them emigrated to Louisiana from France.
Oldest son François, fils, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1720, married Marie-Josèphe Bourg probably at Annapolis Royal in c1748 and followed his father to Île St.-Jean in 1751. A French official counted the still childless couple at Anse-à-Pinnet near his father in August 1752. What happened to them in 1758?
François, père's fourth son Jean, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1725, married Martine Bourg probably at Annapolis Royal in c1747. According to Bona Arsenault, Martine gave Jean two daughters in 1748 and 1750. They followed his father to Île St.-Jean in 1751. In August 1752, a French officials counted them living between his older brother and his father at Anse-à-Pinnet. What happened to them in 1758?
François, père's fifth son Pierre, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1737, followed his father to Île St.-Jean in 1751 and was counted with him, his stepmother, siblings and a half-sibling at Anse-à-Pinnet in August 1752. Pierre married Marguerite, daughter of Germain dit Germain-Jean Pitre and Marguerite Girouard, on the island in c1757. Marguerite gave him a son in 1758 on the eve of the island's dérangement. Later that year, the British deported them to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Tamerlane. They reached the Breton port in mid-January 1759 and settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river below St.-Malo, where their son died the following November. Pierre worked as a day laborer and carpenter. Between 1760 and 1771, at St.-Suliac, Marguerite gave him six more children, three sons and three daughters. Pierre took his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773. Marguerite gave him another son there, at Bonneuil-Montours, in September 1774. In March 1776, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where Marguerite gave Pierre another daughter in St.-Nicolas Parish in March 1781--nine children, five sons and four daughters, in all. Meanwhile, two of their sons, ages 3 and 9, died in St.-Nicolas Parish in 1777 and 1780. Wife Marguerite died probably in St.-Nicolas Parish by September 1784, when a Spanish report of Acadians in France called Pierre a widower. Meanwhile, his second daughter Marie-Madeleine married into the Gautrot family at Nantes in the early 1780s. The following year, Pierre and three of his unmarried children, two daughters and a son, along with his married daughter and her husband, emigrated to Louisiana. Two of his other children, a daughter who would have been age 23 and a son who would have been age 17, if they were still living, did not follow them to the Spanish colony. Pierre and his family followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where his daughter Gertrude married into the Cheramie family soon after their arrival. His son also married, into the LeBlanc family, but his line did not endure.
Jacques's second Jean, born at Port-Royal in c1692, died young.
Jacques's third son Charles, born at Port-Royal in c1694, also died young.
Jacques's fourth son Joseph, born at Port-Royal in c1697, moved to the French Maritimes and married Marie-Anne, daughter of François Boudrot and Madeleine Belliveau, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1724 or 1725. They evidently returned to British Nova Scotia and settled at Annapolis Royal. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1750, Marie-Anne gave Joseph 10 children, five sons and five daughters. In the fall of 1755, the British deported members of the family to Massachusetts. A son was deported to Virginia that fall, so at least one member of the family had gone to Minas. Joseph died probably in Massachusetts before August 1763, when his widow Marie-Anne and her large family of 11 were counted there. His oldest daughter married into the Breau family. At least two of his sons created families of their own in Canada and France.
Oldest son Joseph, fils, born in c1731, married Anne, daughter of Charles Lord and Marie Doucet, at Annapolis Royal in January 1753. According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave him a daughter in 1754. In the fall of 1755, the British deported the family to Massachusetts, where, between 1757 and 1764, Arsenault says, Anne gave Joseph, fils four more children, a son and three daughters. In June 1766, Joseph, fils and his family of five appeared on a list of Acadians in the Bay Colony who wished to go to Canada. Later that year, they went there. By 1767, they were at Pointe-aux-Trembles below Montréal, where three of their children were baptized. According to Arsenault, Anne gave Joseph, fils another son at Pointe-aux-Trembles in 1758--six children, four daughters and two sons, in all. Their youngest daughter married into the Charbonneau family at nearby Verchères in January 1783.
Joseph, père's second son Joseph-François, called François, born in c1733, evidently was living at Minas in the fall of 1755 when the British deported him to Virginia. The following spring, Virginia authorities sent him and hundreds of other Acadian exiles to England, where he married Anne, 19-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Daigre and Madeleine Gautrot of Minas, in c1762. They were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Ambition in May 1763 and settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where, from 1763 to 1773, Anne gave François eight children, three sons and five daughters, six of whom, their three sons and three of their daughters, died young. François took his family to Poitou in 1773, where a daughter died, and, in December 1775, the family retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where hey lost four more children. François died at Nantes after September 1784, in his early 50s. In 1785, widow Anne, who never remarried, and her two surviving daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana, where the daughters married into the Dubois, Lancon, and Maronge families on upper Bayou Lafourche.
Jacques's fifth son Jacques, fils, born at Port-Royal in June 1704, married Jeanne, daughter of Jean Breau and Anne Chiasson, at Annapolis Royal in February 1730. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1752, Jeanne gave Jacques, fils nine children, four daughters and five sons. Second daughter Anne married into the Brun family on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement, escaped the roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and ended up in the prison compound at Halifax, where she remarried to a Comeau. The British deported the rest of the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755. Jacques, fils and his family of six were still in the colony in 1763. In 1764, Jacques, fils took his family to French St.-Domingue, and French officials sent them from Port-au-Prince to Mirebalais in the interior to work on indigo and tobacco plantations. Jacques, fils died at Mirebalais in October 1764, age 60. Oddly, the priest who recorded the burial called him Gabriel. Meanwhile, daughter Anne and her second husband, who had been held in the prison compound at Halifax in the early 1760s, emigrated to Louisiana with the Broussards in 1765, and one of her brothers went there directly from St.-Domingue later that year. At least three of Jacques, fils's sons created their own families, in Canada, Louisiana, and France.
Oldest son Joseph le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in c1735, followed his family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755. In a civil ceremony, he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Doucet and Anne Breau, at Newburyport, Massachusetts, in November 1761; the marriage was "rehabilitated" at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets on the St. Lawrence below Trois-Rivières in July 1767. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1774, in New England and British Canada, Marie gave Joseph le jeune seven children, five daughters and two sons. Joseph le jeune died at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets in May 1798, in his early 60s. Four of his daughters married into the Demers, Roy, and Baril families at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets. One of his sons also married in the area.
Older son Joseph, fils, born probably in New England in c1764, followed his family to St.-Pierre-les-Becquets. At age 30, he married Marie-Félicité, daughter of Antoine Boucher dit Desrosiers and Marie-Françoise Paquet, at nearby Deschaillons in February 1794, and remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Hébert and Marie-Louise Giasson, at Deschaillons in January 1798.
Jacques, fils's second son Pierre le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in c1737 or 1738, followed his family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Poirier and Madeleine Granger, in c1762. A Pierre Miche and his wife Jean Miniot appeared on a repatriation list in the colony in 1763; one wonders if this was Pierre and Marguerite. In 1764, they followed his family to Mirebalais, French St.-Domingue, where their marriage was "attested to" that September. After the death of his brother, father, sister, and wife from September 1764 to February 1765, Pierre left Mirebalais and hooked up with Acadian exiles from Halifax coming though Cap-Français on their way to New Orleans--one of the relatively few Acadians to go to Louisiana directly from the French Antilles. Pierre remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Léger and Madeleine Comeau of Annapolis Royal, at New Orleans in March 1766. They settled with fellow exiles at Cabahannocer, soon to be called the Lower Acadian Coast, on the river above New Orleans. Pierre owned two slaves at Cabahannocer in March 1779. He planted cotton and corn. Pierre died near Convent, St. James Parish, in March 1813, in his mid-70s. His daughters married into the Berteau, Harty or Hartley, Hébert, Landry, LeBlanc, Richard, and Theriot families on the river. His three sons married into the LeBlanc, Bourgeois, and Blanchard families on the river. Most, if not all, of the Acadian Michels of Louisiana are descended from Pierre, his sons, and grandsons, some of whom resettled in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley and on the western prairies.
Jacques, fils's third son Basile, born at Annapolis Royal in c1745, followed his family to Connecticut and French St.-Domingue, but he did not remain there. He married Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Doucet and Marie Robichaud, probably at Le Havre, France, date not given. Cécile and her family had been deported from Île Royale to France in 1758-59 and landed in that port, where they remained. One wonders what brought Basile to Le Havre. In 1785, despite having a brother in the Spanish colony, Basile and his wife did not follow the majority of their fellow Acadian exiles in France to Louisiana. Basile died "at his home on Petit Quai Notre Dame, Le Havre," in September 1807, in his early 60s. His wife died at her brother Jean's house at Petit Quai Notre Dame in December 1811, age 63. One wonders if they had any children.
Jacques, fils's fifth and youngest son Isidore, born at Annapolis Royal in c1752, followed his family to Connecticut and to French St.-Domingue. Soon after the family arrived, he died at Mirebalais in September 1764, age 12.
Jacques, père's sixth son Michel, born at Port-Royal in December 1708, died a month after his birth.
Jacques, père's seventh son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in February 1710, married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of Charles Guilbeau and Anne Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in November 1731. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1746, Anne gave Pierre 11 children, six daughter and five sons, including a set of twins and a set of triplets. The birth of the triplets in December 1746 killed Anne, who died 11 days after their birth. Pierre evidently did not remarry. The British deported members of the family to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755. In 1766, they followed other Acadian exiles in New England to British Canada and settled at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets, where two of his older sons had settled years earlier.
Oldest son Joseph le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in c1734, married Madeleine, daughter of François Comeau and Anne Lord, in c1755 probably at Annapolis Royal. They evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada, where British authorities counted them at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets in 1760. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1776, Madeleine gave Joseph le jeune nine children, five sons and four daughters, including a set of twins. Wife Madeleine died at nearby Gentilly in September 1816. Her and Joseph le jeune's daughters married into the Rivard-Lavigne, Chaudonnet, Pépin, and Part families at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets and Gentilly. Four of Joseph le jeune's sons also married in the area.
Oldest son François, born probably at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets in c1760, married Marguerite Pépin at Gentilly in November 1789, and remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Comtois and Marie-Josèphe Poiroux, at Deschaillons in February 1794.
Joseph's third son Pierre, born probably at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets in c1768, married Brigitte Mailhot, widow of Joseph Labissonnière, at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets in January 1792.
Joseph's fourth son Jacques, born probably at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets in c1770, married Marie-Perpétué, daughter of fellow Acadians Simon Bergeron and Marie Saindon, at Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières in October 1794.
Joseph's fifth and youngest son Charles-Auguste, born probably at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets in c1772, married Marie Champoux, widow of Joseph Poisson, at Gentilly in July 1798.
Pierre's second son Jean-Baptiste, born at Annapolis Royal in c1736, evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755. He followed his older brother to Canada, where Jean-Baptiste married Élisabeth, another daughter of François Comeau and Anne Lord, at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets in February 1760. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1760 and 1773, Élisabeth gave Jean-Baptiste six children, two daughters and four sons. Wife Élisabeth died at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets in April 1799. Her and Jean-Baptiste's daughters married into the LeMay dit Poudrier and Beaudet families in the area. Two of Jean-Baptiste's sons also married.
Oldest son Pierre le jeune, born at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets in c1770, married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadian Augustin Bernard and his Canadian wife Élisabeth Dufaure or Dufaux, at Gentilly in February 1782.
Jean-Baptiste's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at St.-Pierre-les-Becquets in c1773, married Marie-Anne Chainé at Gentilly in January 17[9]4.
Jacques, père's eighth and youngest son Paul, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1714, died there in January 1735, age 20, before he could marry.432
Cellier
Pierre Cellier dit Normand, a late 1680s arrival, and his wife Marie-Josèphe-Aimée Lejeune created a small family in the colony. Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre 10 children, six sons and four daughters. Two of his daughters married into the Guénard or Gainer dit Gaudereau and Deguilla dit Villeneuve families, one of them on Île Royale. Only two of their sons married, to sisters. Pierre and Marie-Josèphe's descendants settled at Chignecto, Minas, and on Île St.-Jean and Île Royale in the French Maritimes. If any of Pierre's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.
The oldest and second sons, names unrecorded, born probably at Minas in the 1690s, died young.
Pierre's third son Jacques dit Normand, born probably at Minas in c1701, married Marie-Blanche, called Blanche, daughter of Louis Hébert and Anne-Marie Labauve, at Grand-Pré in August 1744, and moved on to Île St.-Jean, where they were counted in August 1752 on the south side of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior. What happened to them in 1758? Jacques dit Normand died before July 1761, place unrecorded, during Le Grand Dérangement.
Pierre's fourth son, name not given, born probably at Minas in the early 1700s, died young.
Pierre's fifth
son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1706, married Anne, another daughter of
Pierre's sixth and youngest son Antoine, born posthumously at Minas in February 1710, evidently died young.433
André Célestin dit Bellemère, the blacksmith, and his wife Perrine Basile, late 1680s arrivals, created a small family in the colony. Between 1686 and the late 1690s, Perrine gave André seven children, two sons and five daughters. André died by 1707 probably at Minas, in his late 50s. Four of his daughters married into the Forest, Brasseur dit La Citardy, Landry, and Pinet families; one of them followed her husband to Île Royale in the 1720s and died there later in the decade. Both of André's sons created their own families at Minas. At least two of André's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785, but no family line was established there. Following Le Grand Dérangement, most of André's descendants could be found where the British had deported them, in Maryland and France, not in Canada or greater Acadia--unusual for a family so long established in Acadia.
Older son Jacques dit Jacob dit Bellemère, born at Port-Royal or Minas in c1686, married Marie, daughter of Claude Landry and Catherine Thibodeau, at Grand-Pré in February 1719 and remained there. According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1720 and 1740, Marie gave Jacques dit Jacob a dozen children, three sons and nine daugthers, at Minas. Other sources hint that four sons were born to them at Minas. Jacob's descendants used the family dit Bellemère as their surname. His family was deported to Virginia in 1755 and sent on to England in 1756, where they were held at Southampton. Two of Jacques dit Jacob's daughters married into the LeBlanc and Boudrot families in England, and two of his sons also married there. In May 1763, the family was repatriated to France aboard L'Ambition and settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo. Daughter Félicité gave birth to a "natural" son, Jean-Jacques Bellemère, at St.-Servan in June 1768. Jacques dit Jacob's daughter Anastasie remarried to a Comeau widower at Nantes in August 1784. She, her family, and a Bellemère niece--brother Bruno's only surviving daughter--emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France the following year and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. Jacques dit Jacob's other children and grandchildren chose to remain in the mother country.
Second son Bruno, born probably at Grand-Pré in c1722, followed his family to Virginia and England, where he married Anne Breau, widow of ____ Gautrot in c1759. In c1760 and c1763, Anne gave Bruno two children in England, a son and a daughter. Their son died a month after their repatriation to St.-Malo, France, aboard L'Ambition. They settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo, where, between 1765 and 1773, Anne gave Bruno five more children, a son and four daughters--seven children in all. All but one of these children died young. Bruno, Anne, and their two surviving children, both daughters, went to the interior of Poitou in 1773. They buried their oldest daughter there in August 1774. Bruno died there the following December, in his early 50s. Anne likely died there as well. In November 1775, daughter Josèphe Marie, described as an orphan, followed other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes. In 1785, now age 19 and still unmarried, she chose to emigrate to Louisiana. She married twice in the Spanish colony, into the Lambert and Pallaquin families, settling first on the river above New Orleans and then on upper Bayou Lafourche, where she died in October 1846, age 79, a widow again.
Joseph, perhaps Jacques dit Jacob's third son, who would have been born at Grand-Pré in c1728, followed his family to Virginia and England, where he married Marguerite Boudrot in c1759. She gave him two children, a son and a daughter, there in c1760 and c1762. In France, they settled near Joseph's relatives at St.-Servan-sur-Mer. Between 1763 and 1767, Marguerite gave him three more children, a son and two daughters. The second daughter and their younger son died as infants. In 1765, they took in 10-year-old Joseph, only child of widower Jean-Zacharie Boudrot, one of Marguerite's kinsmen, who had died at St.-Servan in April of that year. Joseph Bellemère died at Hôtel-Dieu, St.-Malo, in August 1767, age 39. Widow Marguerite died at St.-Servan the following month, age 30. They left three children, a son and two daughters, along with 12-year-old Joseph Boudrot, to be raised by relatives. One wonders what happened to Joseph and Marguerite's children after their parents' death.
André's younger son
Antoine, born probably at Minas in c1695, married Marie, daughter of Charles Gautrot and François
Rimbault, at Grand-Pré in November 1718 and remained there. According
to Bona Arsenault, between 1721 and 1745, Marie gave Antoine 13 children, nine
sons and four daughters. Antoine's
Oldest son
Charles, born at Grand-Pré in
Sr. Alain Bugeaud, surgeon, notary, churchwarden, a late 1680s arrival, and his wife Élisabeth Melanson created a small but influential family in the colony. Between 1695 and the early 1700s, Élisabeth gave the surgeon six children, fives sons and a daughter. Their daughter married into the Gautrot family. Four of their sons created families of their own. His oldest son's line was especially vigorous. Sadly, the Great Upheaval destroyed two of his younger sons' family lines. Sr. Alain died in c1708 probably at Minas, in his late 30s or early 40s. His and Élisabeth's descendants settled not only at Grand-Pré, but also at Pigiguit and on Île St.-Jean after 1748. Called sieur, dame, or madamoiselle when addressed by French officials, there was nothing "typically" Acadian about the members of this family. At least 11 of Alain's descendants, all from his oldest son, emigrated to Louisiana from Pigiguit via Maryland in 1766, but the great majority of Sr. Alain's descendants, again from the oldest son, could be found at the northwestern edge of greater Acadia, especially in Gaspésie, after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Minas in c1699, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Abraham Landry and Marie Guilbeau, in c1720 probably at Minas and settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit. According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1721 and 1746, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph 15 children, eight sons and seven daughters. When Joseph took his family to Île St.-Jean in 1749, his four oldest sons, three of them married, remained in Nova Scotia. In August 1752, a French official counted Le sieur Joseph, his wife, and nine of their children on the north bank of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the interior of the island. Joseph died on Île St.-Jean in c1758 in his late 50s on the eve of the island's dérangement. The British deported members of the family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758. Five of Joseph's daugthers married into the Gauthier, Arsenault, Allain, Gravois, and Dugas families on Île St.-Jean and in greater Acadia. All eight of Joseph's sons created their own families in greater Acadia, Louisiana, and France, but not all of the lines survived.
Oldest son Alain le jeune, born probably at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1721, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Chiasson and Marie Boudrot, at Beaubassin in October 1741. One wonders what happened to them in 1755.
Joseph's second son Joseph, fils, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1723, married Anne, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Jeanne Bourgeois, probably at l'Assomption in c1750. They did not follow his parents to Île St.-Jean. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1751 and 1755, Anne gave Joseph, fils three children, two daughters and a son, at Pigiguit. The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755. In 1759 and 1761, in the Chesapeake colony, Anne gave Joseph, fils two more daughters. In July 1763, Joseph, fils, Anne, and four of their children, three daughters and a son, appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Anne gave Joseph, fils another daughter in the colony in c1765. Joseph, fils, Anne, and their five children, four daughters and a son, went to Louisiana in 1766 and settled at Cabahannocer, where Joseph, fils and Anne had another son in c1769--seven children, two sons and five daughters, in all in Nova Scotia, Maryland, and Louisiana. They settled on the right, or west bank, of the river at Cabahannocer, probably near the boundary with Ascension, where Spanish officials counted them on the west bank in August 1770 and April 1777. Joseph, fils died at Ascension in February 1806, in his early 80s. His daughters married into the Constant, Vives, Prevost, Buquoy, Landry, and Verret families on the river. Reflecting the family's status in old Acadia, Joseph, fils's youngest daughter married a son of Ascension district commandant Don Nicolas Verret. His oldest daughter's two husbands also were colonial shakers and movers. His older son settled on the western prairies. His younger son remained at Ascension.
Joseph, père's third son Étienne, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1724, may have remained at Pigiguit when his parents and younger siblings left for Île St.-Jean in 1749. He married Brigitte, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Chênet and Anne Pothier of Île St.-Jean, in c1750 or 1751 probably at l'Assomption. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1752 and 1755, Brigitte gave Étienne two sons at Pigiguit. The British deported the family to Maryland in the fall of 1755. Brigitte gave Étienne twin daughters there in c1761. In July 1763, Étienne, Brigitte, and their four children appeared on a repatriation list at Oxford on Maryland's Eastern Shore near his older brother Joseph. Étienne's wife Brigitte died in Maryland after the counting. He and his four children followed his older brother Joseph and his family to Louisiana in 1766 and settled near them on the right, or west, bank of the river at Cabahannocer. Étienne remarried to fellow Acadian Anne Forest, widow of Pierre Babin, at New Orleans in c1768. She gave him another son on the river in October 1768--five children, three sons and two daughters, by two wives in Nova Scotia, Maryland, and Louisiana. By 1770, Étienne and his family were living next to brother Joseph on the west bank at Ascension and were still there seven years later. Étienne died at Ascension in October 1786, in his early 60s. His twin daughters, by first wife Brigitte, married into the Blanchard and Bourg families on the river. Only one of his three sons, his youngest, created a family of his own and remained on the river. Two of his sons married, but only the youngest one created an enduring line. They settled in Ascension, Iberville, and West Baton Rouge parishes. One of Étienne's great-grandsons in Ascension Parish became a major planter by 1860.
Joseph, père's fourth son Paul le jeune, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1726, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Poirier and Agnès Cormier of Chignecto, at Beaubassin in June 1747. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1770, Marie gave Paul le jeune six children, three sons and three daughters. They remained at Chignecto, escaped the British roundup there in rhe fall of 1755, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In the late 1750s, they moved up to Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs and were still there in May 1760, when daughter Marguerite, born the previous October, was baptized at the French outpost. A British naval force from Louisbourg attacked the French stronghold that summer and defeated the French and their Mi'kmaq and Acadian allies, but they could not capture the place. The following October, another British naval force, this one from Québec, accepted the posts's surrender. On 24 October 1760, French officers issued a list of the 1,003 Acadians who also had surrendered at Restigouche. Paul Bujo and his family of eight were among them. The British held them in a prison compound probably in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. At war's end, they chose to remain in greater Acadia, settling with other members of the family in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, where they worked in a British-controlled fishery at Bonaventure. Paul le jeune's daughters married into the Poirier, Savoie, and Bourdages families at Bonaventure. Two of his three sons created their own families there.
Second son Firmin, born in greater Acadia in c1766, married Marie-Esther, daughter of Raymond Bourdages and Esther LeBlanc, probably at Bonaventure in c1789. Firmin worked as a navigator at Bonaventure. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1791 and 1811, Marie-Esther gave Firmin 15 children, eight sons and seven daughters. Firmin died at Bonaventure in 1839, age 73. Four of his daughters married into the Gauthier, Henry, Poirier, and Belliveau families at Bonventure. Five of his eight sons also created their own families.
Third son Théophile, born at Bonaventure in c1799, married Reine, daughter of Isaac Bernard and Olive-Victoire Robichaud, at Bonaventure in January 1824. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1824 and 1840, Reine gave Théophile 11 children, seven sons and four daughters, at Bonaventure.
Firmin's fourth son Jacques-Triphon, born at Bonaventure in c1800, married Élizabeth, daughter of Fabien Poirier and Angélique Gauthier, at Bonaventure in January 1826. According to Bona Arsenault, between in 1828 and 1829, Élizabeth gave Jacques two children, a son and a daughter. Jacques remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Jean Goulet and Apolline Comeau, at Bonaventure in September 1830. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1833 and 1846, Marguerite gave Jacques seven more children, three sons and four daughters, at Bonaventure.
Firmind's fifth son Joseph-Léonard, called Léonard, born at Bonaventure in c1802, married Marguerite Poirier, place and date not given. According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave him a son in 1833. Léonard remarried to Émilie, another daughter of Jean Goulet and Apolline Comeau, at Bonaventure in May 1834. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1835 and 1840, Émilie gave Léonard five more children, three sons and two daughters. Léonard remarried again--his third marriage--to Séraphie, daughter of Jean-Urbain Bourg and Julienne Poirier, at Bonaventure in January 1841. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1842 and 1852, Séraphie gave Léonard seven more children, three sons and four daughters, at Bonaventure--13 children in all.
Firmin's seventh son François-Xavier, born at Bonaventure in c1808, married Angèle, another daughter of Isaac Bernard and Olive-Victoire Robichaud, at Bonaventure in January 1833. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1834 and 1845, Angèle gave François-Xavier five children, four sons and a daughter. François-Xavier remarried to Rose, daughter of Romuald Boudreau and Geneviève Mercier, at Bonaventure in April 1849. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1850 Rose gave François-Xavier another son.
Firmin's eighth and youngest son Lazare, born at Bonaventure in c1811, married Charlotte, daughter of Joseph Couture and Anne Ferguson, at Grande-Rivière, near Percé in Gaspésie, in January 1839. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1839 and 1850, Charlotte gave Lazare seven children, six sons and a daughter, at Grande-Rivière.
Paul le jeune's third and youngest son Charles le jeune, born in greater Acadia in c1767, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Bernier and Euphrosine LeBlanc, at Bonaventure in April 1790. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1792 and 1815, Marguerite gave Charles le jeune 14 children, eight sons and six daughters, including a set of twins. Five of their daughters married into the Fournier, Vallée, Boutin, Pagé, and Bernard families at Bonaventure. Four of Charles le jeune's eight sons also created their own families.
Second son Pierre-Hubert, born at Bonaventure in c1795, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Saint-Coeur and Euphrosine LeBlanc, at Bonaventure in January 1825. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1825 and 1829, Marie gave Pierre three children, two sons and a daughter. Pierre-Hubert remarried to Élizabeth, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Labrecque and Marguerite-Suzanne Deslauriers dite Babineau, at Bonaventure in January 1842. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1843 and 1849, Élizabeth gave Pierre three more children, a son and two daughters.
Charles le jeune's fourth son Charles, fils, born at Bonaventure in c1799, married cousin Scholastique, daughter of Joseph-Alexis Porlier and Marthe Bujold of nearby Carleton, at Bonaventure in August 1825. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1826 and 1839, Scholastique gave Charles, fils seven children, three sons and four daughters, at Bonaventure.
Charles le jeune's sixth son Jacques, born at Bonaventure in c1803, married Sara, daughter of Hugh Colter and Brigit Kelly of Armagh, Ireland, at Bonaventure in September 1841. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1842 and 1856, Sara gave Jacques seven children, fives sons and two daughters, at Bonaventure.
Charles le jeune's seventh son Jules, born at Bonaventure in c1805, married Basilice, daughter of Louis-Régis Essiambre dit Sans-Façon and Sophie Mercier of Carleton, at Bonaventure in September 1838. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1842 and 1858, Basilice gave Jules eight children, fives sons and three daughters, including a set of twins, at Bonaventure.
Joseph, père's fifth son Jean, born at l'Assomption, Piguiguit, in c1729, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1749 and married Anne, daughter of island pioneer François Douville and Marie-Élisabeth Roger, at Port-La-Joye in January 1751. A French official counted them on Rivière-du-Nord-Est near his parents in the island's interior in August 1752; they had no children at the time. Between 1753 and 1756, Anne gave Jean three children, two sons and a daughter. She, along with their daughter, evidently died before the island's dérangement. The British deported Jean and his two sons, along with a Landry kinsman, to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. His sons died at sea. Jean died at St.-Servan-sur-Mer near St.-Malo in March 1759, age 30, probably from the rigors of the crossing. His line of the family died with him.
Joseph père's sixth son Charles, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1731, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1749, was counted with them on Rivière-du-Nord-Est in August 1752. He married Marguerite, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Cormier and Marie Thériot of Chignecto in c1758 either in exile or on Île St.-Jean on the eve of the island's dérangement. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1759 and 1776, Marguerite gave Charles eight children, all daughters. If Charles and Marguerite were on Île St.-Jean in 1758, they escaped the British roundup there, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs. Daughter Marguerite-Pélagie was born at Restigouche in late December 1759 and baptized there the following May. The British attacked the outpost the following summer and defeated the French and their Mi'kmaq and Acadian allies, but they could not capture the place. The following October, another British naval force, this one from Québec, accepted the posts's surrender. On 24 October 1760, French officers issued a list of the 1,003 Acadians who also had surrendered at Restigouche. Charles Bujeau and his family of four were among them. The British held them in a prison compound probably in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. At war's end, they chose to remain in greater Acadia, settling with other members of the family in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, where they worked in the British-controlled fishery at Bonaventure. Charles died there in December 1798, age 65. Seven of his daughters married into the Dugas, Doucet, Henry, LeBlanc, Boudreau, and Porlier families at Bonaventure, so the blood of this family line survived.
Joseph, père's seventh son François-Placide, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1736, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1749 and was counted with them at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in August 1752. He evidently escaped the British in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, and married Marie-Josèphe Bernard in c1763, place unrecorded. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1795, Marie-Josèphe gave François 10 children, four sons and six daughters. François and his family also settled at Bonaventure in Gaspésie, where he died in 1807, age 71. His daughters married into the Bourdages, Arsenault, Poirier, and Hébert families at Bonaventure. All four of his sons created their own families there.
Oldest son Louis, born in c1766 in greater Acadia, married Modeste, daughter of François Arsenault and Anne Poirier, at Bonaventure in November 1791. According to Bona Arsenault, Modeste gave Louis two children, a daughter and a son, in 1793 and 1795.
François-Placide's second son François-Placide, fils, born probably at Bonaventure in c1773, married Apolline, daughter of Pierre dit Cliche Poirier and Marguerite LeBlanc, at Bonaventure in January 1799. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1799 and 1812, Apolline gave François-Placide, fils seven children, three sons and four daughters. François-Placide, fils remarried to Agathe, daughter of Jean-Baptiste-Michel Lepage and Rose Arsenault, probably at Bonaventure in November 1815. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1816 and 1829, Agathe gave François-Placide, fils seven more children, six sons and a daughter--14 children in all at Bonaventure. Four of his daughters, all from his first wife Apolline, married into the Bernard and Lepage families at Bonaventure. Six of his nine sons by both wives also created their own families there.
Oldest son Sébastien, by first wife Apolline Poirier, born at Bonaventure in c1801, married Rose, daughter of Isaac Bernard and Olive-Victoire Robichaud, probably at Bonaventure in January 1827. According to Bona Arsenault, Rose gave Sébastien a daughter in 1828. Sébastien remarried to Angélique, daughter of Amant Babin and Ursule Poirier, at Bonaventure in January 1833. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1834 and 1835, Angélique gave Sébastien two sons. He remarried again--his third marriage--to Mélanie, daughter of Vital Poirier and Louise Gauthier, at Bonaventure in May 1840. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1841 and 1854, Mélanie gave Sébastien seven more children, four sons and three daughters--10 children in all.
François-Placide, fils's second son Paul, by first wife Apolline Poirier, born at Bonaventure in c1805, married Rose, daughter of Alexandre Bernard and Élizabeth Amirault, at Bonavenure in May 1831, but he died at Bonaventure in the following October before he could father any children.
François-Placide, fils's third son François, by first wife Apolline Poirier, born at Bonaventure in c1812, married Marie, daughter of Pierre Poirier and Marguerite Bernard, at Bonaventure in May 1839. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1840 and 1853, Marie gave François seven children, five sons and two daughters.
François-Placide, fils's fourth son Marcel, by second wife Agathe Lepage, born at Bonaventure in c1816, married Geneviève, daughter of Hubert Bernard and Marie-Reine Cavanaugh and widow of Jean Hébert, at Bonaventure in January 1845. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1845 and 1856, Geneviève gave Marcel five children, a son and four daughters.
François-Placide, fils's fifth son Fabien, by second wife Agathe Lepage, born at Bonaventure in c1821, married Véronique, daughter of Ange Poirier and Louise Arbour, at Bonaventure in January 1847. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1848 and 1849, Véronique gave Fabien two children, a son and a daughter. Fabien remarried to Élizabeth, another daughter of Pierre Poirier and Marguerite Bernard, probably at Bonaventure in 1853. According to Bona Arsenault, Élizabeth gave Fabien two more children, a son and a daughter, in 1855 and 1856.
Oldest son François, by first wife Véronique Poirier, born at Bonaventure in c1848, married Marie Anglehart in 1872. Their son Fabien le jeune represented Bonaventure in the Québec legislature from 1921 to 1924, after which he served as provincial court judge for many years.
François-Placide, fils's sixth and youngest son Olivier, by second wife Agathe Lepage, born at Bonaventure in c1825, married Agnès, daughter of Joseph Cayouette and Lucie Bernard, probably at Bonaventure in 1856.
François-Placide, père's third son Étienne, born probably at Bonaventure in c1775, married Marie, daughter of Jean Hébert and Rose Cyr, at Bonaventure in July 1799. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1800 and 1823, Marie gave Étienne 11 children, six sons and five daughters, at Bonventure. Two of their daughters married into the Poirier family at Bonaventure. Five of Étienne's six sons created their own families there.
Oldest son Étienne, fils, born at Bonaventure in c1800, married cousin Marie, daughter of Maxime Poirier and Scholastique Bujold, at Bonaventure in January 1826. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1829 and 1840, Scholastique gave Étienne, fils six children, four sons and two daughters.
Étienne, père's second son Jules, born at Bonaventure in c1802, married Marie, daughter of François Laviolette and Marie Gauthier of Carleton, at Bonaventure in January 1827. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1827 and 1844, Marie gave Jules six children, three sons and three daughter, at Bonaventure.
Étienne, père's third son Joseph, born at Bonaventure in c1808, married cousin Charlotte, daughter of Joseph Lepage and Geneviève Bujold, at Bonaventure in January 1835. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1835 and 1849, Charlotte gave Joseph seven children, three sons and four daughters.
Étienne, père's fourth son Nicolas, born at Bonaventure in c1812, married cousin Marie, another daughter of Joseph Lepage and Geneviève Bujold, in January 1835, three days after his brother Joseph's marriage. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1839 and 1858, Marie gave Nicolas eight children, four sons and four daughters.
Étienne, père's sixth and youngest son Alexandre, born at Bonaventure in c1823, married Rose, daughter of Augustin Pitre and Marguerite Boudreau of Bathurst, formerly Nepisiguit, New Brunswick, in 1856, place not given. According to Bona Arsenault, Rose gave Alexandre three children, two sons and a daughter, before 1860.
François-Placide, père's fourth and youngest son Joseph-Alain, called Alain, born probably at Bonventure in c1792, married Geneviève, daughter of Joseph Cayouette and Élisabeth Robichaud, at Bonaventure in January 1814. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1814 and 1834, Geneviève gave Alain 11 children, six sons and five daughters, at Bonaventure. Two of their daughters married into the Garant and Bourque families at Bonaventure. Three of Alain's six sons also created their own families there.
Oldest son Pierre-Alain, born at Bonaventure in c1814, married Marie, daughter of Cyrille-Joël Lepage and Modeste Bernard, at Bonaventure in January 1842.
Joseph-Alain's second son Moïse, born at Bonaventure in c1816, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Fortin and Appoline Glazer, at Bonaventure in November 1850.
Joseph-Alain's third son François-Placide, born at Bonaventure in c1821 or 1825, married Sophie, daughter of Pierre Poirier and Marguerite Bernard, at Bonaventure in August 1846.
Joseph, père's eighth and youngest son Mathurin, born at l'Assomption, Pigiguit, in c1742, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1749 and was counted with them at Rivière-du-Nord-Est in August 1752. He evidently escaped the British in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and in Gaspésie. He married Marie, daughter of Joseph Bernard and Marguerite Arsenault of Chignecto, at Carleton, near Bonaventure in November 1773. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1778 and 1799, Marie gave Mathurin 10 children, four sons and six daughters, at Carleton. Five of his daughters married into the Landry and Forest families, including five brothers, at Carleton. Three of Mathurin's four sons also created their own families there.
Oldest son Romain-Sébastien, born probably at Carleton in c1778, married Vénérande, daughter of Claude Landry and Hélène Dugas and sister of five of his brothers-in-law, at Carleton in January 1801. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1801 and 1819, Vénérande gave Romain 11 children, six sons and five daughters, at Carleton. Four of their daughters married into the Nadeau and Arsenault families, including two brothers, at Carleton. All six of Romain's sons created their own families.
Oldest son Fidèle-Joseph, born at Carleton in c1801, married Marguerite-Nabée, daughter of Florent Arsenault and Nathalie-Rosalie Landry, at Carleton in January 1828. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1828 and 1846, Marguerite gave Fidèle 11 children, four sons and seven daughters, at Carleton. Fidèle remarried to Félicité, daughter of Gabriel Audet and Charlotte LeBlanc, at Carleton in April 1847. According to Bona Arsenault, she evidently gave him no more children.
Romain-Sébastien's second son Fabien, born at Carleton in c1804, married Mélanie, daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Marguerite Landry, at Carleton in January 1836. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1837 and 1846, Mélanie gave Fabien five children, two sons and three daughters, at Carleton.
Romain-Sébastien's third son Frédéric, born at Carleton in c1806, married Rosalie, daughter of Louis Allain and Madeleine LeBlanc, at Carleton in January 1836. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1837 and 1849, Rosalie gave Frédéric seven children, four sons and three daughters, at Carleton.
Romain-Sébastien's fourth son Joseph, born at Carleton in c1807, married Olympiade, daughter of Louis Vienneau and Marguerite Rochichaud, at Caraquet, New Brunswick, in May 1832 and remained there.
Romain-Sébastien's fifth son Charles, born at Carleton in c1808, married Julie, daughter of Sévérin LeBlanc and Angélique Nadeau, at Carleton in August 1840. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1840 and 1849, Julie gave Charles five children, three sons and two daughters, at Carleton.
Romain-Sébastien's sixth and youngest son Louis-Lazare, born at Carleton in c1814, married Rose, daughter of Florent Arsenault and Nathalie-Rosalie Landry, at Carleton in February 1839. According to Bona Arsenault, Rose gave Louis-Lazare seven children, six sons and a daughter by 1850.
Mathurin's second son Frédéric, born probably at Carleton in c1787, married Hélène, another daughter of Claude Landry and Hélène Dugas, at Carleton in January 1815. According to Bona Arsenault, Hélène gave Frédéric a son at Carleton in 1815 who created his own family.
Only son André, born at Carleton in c1815, married Joséphine, daughter of Sébastien Landry and Émérance Painchaud, at Carleton in February 1844. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1844 and 1849, Joséphine gave André five children, two sons and three daughters.
Mathurin's fourth and youngest son Pierre, born probably at Carleton in c1799, married Rose, daughter of Lazare Allain and Luce Landry, at Carleton in January 1824. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1826 and 1843, Rose gave Pierre seven children, four sons and three daughters, at Carleton.
Sr. Alain's second son Louis-Amand, called Amand, born probably at Minas in c1701, married Catherine, daughter of Pierre Granger and Isabelle Guilbeau, at Grand-Pré in February 1728. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1728 and 1730, Catherine gave Amand two children, a daughter and a son. Amand remarried to Claire, daughter of Jean Doucet and Françoise Blanchard, at Grand-Pré in December 1730. According to Bona Arsenault, Claire gave Amand another son in 1732, but he died an infant. Amand moved his family to Île St.-Jean in 1748, the first of his siblings to go there. A French official counted Le sieur Amand, second wife Claire, and his son Amand-Louis from his first marriage on the north bank of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in August 1752. In 1758, Amand and his family were among the island Acadians who escaped the British. They crossed Mer Rouge and found refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where Amand served as a captain of Acadian militia during the British attack on the French stronghold in the summer of 1760. After the French surrendered to a British naval force from Québec the following October, French officers counted militia Captain Amand and his family of three among the 1,003 Acadians who had surrendered with the French. The British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. In August 1763, Amand Bujeau, wife Marie, and children Adélaïde and Jean appeared on a French repatriation list at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, at Chignecto. One wonders if this was him or his son Amand-Louis. At war's end, Amand and his family chose to remain in greater Acadia, settling among many of kinsmen in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, where they worked in a British-controlled fishery. They were counted there at Bonaventure in 1765. Amand's line of the family may not have endured.
Son Amand-Louis, born at Minas in c1730, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and Restigouche, where he served as a lieutenant of Acadian militia in the battle there and, with a family of six, also was counted with the other Acadians who had surrended to the British that October. Considering the size of his family, one wonders if they included a wife and children. He, too, chose to go to Gaspésie, where, as the only remaining son, he was counted with his parents at Bonaventure in 1765 and 1774. After 1777, he disappears from the historical record.
Sr. Alain's third son
Paul, born probably at Minas in c1701, married Marguerite, another daughter of
Sr. Alain's fourth son Alain, fils, born probably at Minas in c1704, married Madeleine, daughter of Charles Boudrot and Marie Corporon, at Grand-Pré in July 1727 and settled at nearby Pigiguit before moving on to Île St.-Jean in 1751. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1752, Madeleine gave Alain, fils 10 children, four sons and six daughters. In August 1752, a French official counted Alain, fils, his wife, nine of their children, oldest son Alain III, his wife, and their infant son, at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie, a tributary of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior. Two of their daughters married into the Thériot family of Cobeguit on the island. Alain, fils and his family did not escape the British roundup on the island in late 1758. In December of that year, Alain, fils, wife Madeleine, and most of their children perished aboard the British transport Duke William, which sank in a North Atlantic storm off the southwest coast of England on its way to St.-Malo.
Oldest son Alain III, born in c1728, place not given, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Granger and Angélique Richard, probably at Pigiguit in c1750 or 1751 and followed his family to Île St.-Jean. In c1751 and c1756, Marie-Madeleine gave Alain III two children on the island, a son and a daughter. They, too, were deported to St.-Malo in late 1758, but not aboard the Duke William. Their crossing aboard one of the so-called Five Ships nevertheless devastated the family. Daughter Marie-Louise, age 2, died at sea, and Alain III and 8-year-old son Simon le jeune died at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February and March 1759 soon after reaching the Breton port. With the death of young Simon, this line of the family ceased to exist. A year later, in June 1760, Alain III's widow Marie-Madeleine remarried to widower Joseph Bourg and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana with her new family in 1785.
Sr. Alain's fifth and youngest son, name unrecorded, born probably at Minas before1707, died young.435
Brassaud
Pierre
Brassaud, an early 1690s arrival, and his wife Gabrielle Forest
created a small family in the colony. Gabrielle gave Pierre nine children,
two sons and seven daughters. Five of their daughters married into the
Boudrot, Guédry dit Grivois, Longuépée, and
Robichaud dit Cadet families. Only one of Pierre's sons created
his own family.
Pierre died by October 1729, in his 60s,
Pierre's older son, name unrecorded, born probably at Port-Royal by 1701, died young, place and dater unrecorded.
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Joseph Gravois, an early 1690s arrival, and his wife Marie Mingier dit La Gassé created a small family in the colony. Marie gave Joseph one child, a son, who, after he came of age, left Annapolis Royal and settled at Chignecto. The place and date of Joseph's death has been lost to history, but it must have been soon after the birth of his son; Marie remarried to René Martin dit Barnabé before the census at Port-Royal was taken in 1693, so Joseph, fils would not have remembered his father. At least 12 of Joseph and Marie's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and from Île St.-Pierre off the southern coast of Newfoundland in 1788. Some of Joseph's descendants also could be found in greater Acadia after Le Grand Dérangement. None seem to have resettled in British Canada.
Only son Joseph, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1692, did not remain there. He married Marie, daughter of Pierre Cyr and Claire Cormier, at Beaubassin in October 1718 and remained at Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1720 and 1748, Marie gave Joseph, fils nine children, five daughters and four sons. In the fall of 1755, Joseph, fils and his family escaped the British rounup at Chignecto and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. By 1760, they were at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs. No Joseph Gravois appears on at list of 1,003 Acadian refugees at Restigouche dated 24 October 1760, so he and other members of his family may have took refuge elsewhere in the region. Sometime in the early 1760s, Joseph, fils and members of his family either surrrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the region and were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. Joseph, fils died in exile, perhaps at Halifax, before the August 1763 counting there, in his late 60s or early 70s. Three of his daughters married into the Haché dit Gallant and Hébert families.
Oldest son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1730, married Marie-Rose, called Rose, daughter of Claude Bourgeois and Anne Blanchard, probably at Chignecto in c1750. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1751 and 1755, Rose gave Pierre three sons. Other records give them two more children. In the fall of 1755, the family escaped the British roundup at Chignecto and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. By 1760, Pierre and his family were at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs. Pre. Gravois and six members of his family appear twice on a list of 1,003 Acadians at Restigouche dated 24 October 1760, evidence that they were among the many Acadians who surrendered there that autumn. The British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. In August 1763, Pierre, wife Marie-Rose, and five of their children appeared on a repatriation list in the prison barracks at Halifax. Pierre died soon after the counting. His widow and three of his sons emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765-65, and Marie-Rose remarried in the Spanish colony.
Oldest son Paul, born at Chignecto in c1751, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and his widowed mother to Louisiana in 1765. He settled with her and her second husband at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans. Paul was still at Cabahannocer in March 1779, in his late 20s. He evidently did not marry.
Pierre's second son Joseph le jeune, born at Chignecto in c1753, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and his widowed mother to Louisiana in 1765. He settled with her and her second husband at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans. Joseph le jeune married Louise-Françoise, called Françoise, daughter of his stepfather Philippe Saint-Julien de Lachaussée and his first wife Rosalie Godin, at Cabahannocer in June 1777. Louise was a native of lower Rivière St.-Jean, where her father, a French-born surgeon, had lived with his first family before Le Grand Dérangement. Joseph le jeune died probably at Cabahannocer by January 1781, when his wife remarried there. His daughters married into the Prejean and De Roussel families. One of them settled on Bayou Lafourche, and another died in St. Martin Parish on the western prairies in the late 1860s. Only one of his two sons married, to a Bourgeois cousin at Cabahannocer, but he may not have fathered any sons.
Pierre's third son Jean le jeune, born at Chignecto or in exile in c1755, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and his widowed mother to Louisiana in 1765. He settled with her and her second husband at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans. Jean le jeune married Bibianne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and his second wife Marie LeBlanc, at Cabahannocer in June 1790. Jean le jeune died in nearby Ascension Parish in November 1844, in his late 80s. His daughters married into the Gautreaux, LeBlanc, and Mollère families. Four of his seven sons married into the LeBlanc, Richard, and Landry families on what came to be called the Acadian Coast. All of the Acadian Gravoiss of South Louisiana descend from Jean le jeune and three of his sons.
Joseph, fils's second son Jean, born at Chignecto in c1735, followed his family into exile and married fellow Acadian Marie-Anne Bujold in c1757, place not given. Marie-Anne gave Jean a son, Jean, fils, born at Restigouche in November 1759. They, too, ended up in a prison compound in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s. In August 1763, Jean, wife Marie-Anne, and two of their children, along with his older brother Pierre and his family, appeared on a French repatration list in the prison barracks at Halifax. One wonders what happened to them after the counting. None of them followed their kinsmen to Louisiana.
Joseph, fils's third son Joseph III, born at Chignecto in c1739, must have left Chignecto for Minas while he was still in his teens. In the fall of 1755, the British deported him to Virginia with other Minas Acadians, and Virginia authorities sent him and hundreds of other exiles on to England the following spring. In May 1763, he was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, with other Acadians in England aboard La Dorothée and settled on the east side of the river south of the Breton port at St.-Suliac, where he married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Bourg and Anne Hébert of Minas, in August 1763. They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where French authorities counted them in 1767. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1784, Marie-Madeleine gave Joseph III eight children, six daughter and two sons. In February 1767, Joseph III took his family to England. British authorities counted them at Windsor on the upper Thames in 1770. One wonders what he was doing there. By 1771, he had taken his family from England to Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, on the western coast of Nova Scotia, where his younger brother had settled. Joseph III and his family were still on St. Mary's Bay in 1774, but, again, they moved on. From 1775 to 1784, Joseph III and his family resided at Carleton in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, not far from where his brothers had found refuge during Le Grand Dérangement. Joseph III and his growing family were living on Île St.-Pierre, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, in the mid-1780s. It was from there, in 1788, that they sailed to Louisiana on Joseph's schooner, the Brigitte--perhaps the only Acadian exiles who emigrated to Louisiana directly from greater Acadia. Joseph III's daughters married into the Bertrand, Breau, Frederick, and Mulford families in Louisiana. One daughter settled at New Orleans, and three followed their husbands to the Attakapas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin. Neither of Joseph's sons married, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not endure in the Bayou State.
Joseph, fils's fourth and youngest son Augustin, born at Chignecto in c1748, followed his family into exile (one wonders where) and married fellow Acadian Françoise Jeanson in c1770, no place given. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1775 Françoise gave Augustin a son, Jean-Dominique. They were living on Baie St.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, in Nova Scotia that year.437
Vincent Longuépée, a sailor and early 1690s arrival, and his wife Madeleine Rimbault created a small family in the colony. Madeleine gave him six children, a son and five daughters, all of whom created families of their own. Their daughters married into the Coëndo dit La Rose, Dahy, Lambert, Papon dit Sans Regret, Closquinet dit Desmoulins, and Bénard families, many of them on Île Royale. Vincent died by October 1714 probably at Cobeguit in the Minas Basin, in his late 30s or early 40s. His and Madeleine's descendants settled at Cobeguit and in the French Maritimes. They were especially numerous at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale. At least 12 of Vincent's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785. Others could be found in France after 1785.
Only son Louis, born probably at Minas in c1695, followed his family to Cobeguit and married Anne, daughter of Pierre Brassaud and Gabrielle Forest, in c1720 probably at Cobeguit. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1725 and 1731, Anne gave Louis two daughters. Other records give them five sons at Cobeguit between 1729 and 1743--seven children in all. One of their daughters married into the LeBlanc family at Cobeguit in October 1748. The family moved to Île St.-Jean likely in 1755 or 1756 to escape the British roundup in the Minas Basin. After the fall of Louisbourg in late 1758, the British deported Louis, Anne, and their extended family--three unmarried sons, two married sons and their families, and a married daughter and her family--to St.-Malo, France. Louis, Anne, and their unmarried sons settled at LaGouesnière in the countryside east of St.-Malo before moving to nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer in 1763. Louis died probably at St.-Servan, in June 1763, in his late 60s. His widow Anne, who did not remarry, died at St.-Servan in May 1782, age 82. Two of her and Louis's younger sons married at LaGouesnière and nearby St.-Suliac. Their youngest son died at St.-Malo within a year of their arrival, and their daughter died at La Pahorie near St.-Méloir-des-Ondes, not far from LaGouesnière, in September 1762. Louis's other sons created families of their own, and two of the younger ones emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785.
Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Cobeguit in c1729, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Bertaud dit Montaury and Marie Martin of Havre-St.-Pierre, on the eve of the island's dérangement. The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. They settled at nearby Bonnaban before joining Pierre's family at LaGouesnière and St.-Servan-sur-Mer. Between 1759 and 1772, in the various villages where they lived, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre seven children, three daughters and four sons, most of whom survived childhood. Pierre evidently did not take his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773, nor did he join other Acadian exiles at Nantes later in decade. He and his family remained in the St.-Malo area, even after 1785.
Louis's second son Joseph, born probably at Cobeguit in the early 1730s, married Cécile Bourg probably at Cobeguit in c1754. She gave him a daughter there in 1755, perhaps before they followed his family to Île St.-Jean to escape the British. Joseph died on island before 1758, when Cécile remarried to a Heuzé on the eve of the island's dérangement. Joseph's daughter Anne, age 3 during the crossing, followed her mother and stepfather to LaGouesnière and St.-Servan-sur-Mer, where she died in December 1767, age 12, so not even the blood of this line of the family endured.
Louis's third son Ambroise, born probably at Cobeguit in c1734, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo and settled with them at LaGouesnière and St.-Servan-sur-Mer. He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians François Henry and Marie Dugas, at nearby St.-Suliac in February 1763. Between 1765 and 1768, at St.-Servan, Marguerite gave Ambroise three children, two sons and a daughter, all but one of whom died in childhood. Ambroise did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join other Acadians at Nantes later in the decade. Ambroise, Marguerite, and their remaining son were among the Acadian exiles in France who emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 directly from St.-Malo. From New Orleans, 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, but they did not remain there. In the late 1780s or early 1790s, they moved from Bayou des Écores to Baton Rouge, where Ambroise died in July 1804, in his early 70s. His surviving son married a Henry cousin at Baton Rouge, but his line did not endure.
Louis's fourth son Jean, born probably at Cobeguit in c1739, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo and settled with them at LaGouesnière and St.-Servan-sur-Mer. He married Marie-Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Bourg and Françoise Dugas, at LaGouesnière in May 1762. They followed his family to St.-Servan. Between 1764 and 1785, at St.-Servan, Marie-Françoise gave Jean 10 children, six daughers and four sons, all but one of whom survived childhood. Jean also did not take his family to Poitou in 1773, nor did they join their fellow exiles at Nantes later in decade. They, too, were among the Acadian exiles in France who emigrated to Spanish Louisiana directly from St.-Malo. From New Orleans, Jean, Marie-Françoise, and their nine children, five daughters and four sons, followed their fellow passengers, including his older brother Ambroise, to Bayou des Écores, and they, too, likely moved on to Baton Rouge. Three of their daughters married into the Henry, Hébert, and LeBlanc families, and one of them settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. Three of their sons also married, into the LeBlanc and Lejeune families, and settled on the river. All of the Acadian Longuépées of South Louisiana descend from Jean's sons, especially the youngest one, who settled in West Baton Rouge Parish.
Louis's fifth and youngest son Louis, fils, born probably at Cobeguit in c1743, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and St.-Malo. He died at Hotel-Dieu in the Breton port in August 1760, age 17.438
Louis Mazerolle dit Saint-Louis, an early 1690s arrival, and his wife Geneviève Forest created a small family in the colony. Between the 1690s and 1711, Geneviève gave Louis four children, three daughters and a son. Bona Arsenault gives them a second son in c1720. Louis died by January 1748, place unrecorded, in his mid- or late 80s. Two of his daughters married into the Roy, Darembourg, and Philippe dit La Roche families at Minas and in the French Maritimes. His son also created his own family. His and Geneviève's descendants settled at Minas and in the French Maritimes. At least five of Louis's descendants--a grandson and four great-grandchildren--emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. Just as many, perhaps more, could be found on upper Rivière St.-Jean and in eastern New Brunwick after Le Grand Dérangement.
Older son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in c1711, followed his family to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, and to Île St.-Jean, but he did not remain in the French Maritimes. He returned to British Nova Scotia and married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Doiron and Anne LeBlanc, in c1735 probably at Minas. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1743, Marie-Josèphe gave Joseph four children, a daughter and three sons. Joseph, at age 37, remarried to Anne, 21-year-old daughter of Joseph Daigre and Madeleine Gautrot, at Grand-Pré in January 1748. According to Arsenault, Anne gave Joseph another son in c1750--five children by two wives. The British deported Joseph, Anne, and most of their children to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755. A son by first wife Marie-Josèphe, however, was deported to Virginia and moved on to England and France. In 1766 or 1767, Joseph and his family, including a married son, were repatriated from New England to Canada. The family moved on to Madawaska on upper Rivière St.-Jean, persent-day Maine/New Brunswick, where Joseph died before 1783, in his late 60s or early 70s. Three of his four sons created families of their own, at Madawaska and in France and Spanish Louisiana.
Oldest son Joseph dit Saint-Louis, fils, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Doiron, born at Minas in c1739, followed his family to Massachusetts. He married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians René Thibodeau and Anne Boudrot of Pigiguit, at Boston in January 1764, and the marriage was rehabilitated at Québec in February 1767. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1780, Rosalie gave Joseph, fils six children, three sons and three daughters. They setted near his father at Madawaska, where Joseph, fils died June 1818, in his late 70s. Two of his daughters married into the Robichaud and Fournier families at Madawaska. Two of his sons also created their own families there.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably in Massachusetts in c1765, followed his family to Madawaska. He married fellow Acadian Marie Lejeune in c1787 probably at Madawaska and settled there.
Joseph, fils's second son Louis-Joseph, born in c1767, place not given, married Françoise, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Tardif and Marie-Anne Dubé, at St.-Basile, Madawaska, in September 1794 and probably settled there.
Joseph, père's second son Jean, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Doiron, born at Minas in c1741, if he survived childhood, followed his family to Massachusetts. One wonders if he was still living when his family repatrieated to greater Acadia in c1766.
Joseph, père's third son Simon, by first wife Marie-Josèphe Doiron, was born at Minas in c1743. Though he was only age 12, he became separated from the family in the fall of 1755, and the British deported him to Virginia, not Massachusetts. In the spring of 1756, Virginia authorities sent him and hundreds of other exiles on to England, where Simon came of age. He was repatriated to France with other Acadians in England in May 1763 and landed at St.-Malo with the family of Pierre Aucoin, who the passenger rolls says was his "brother." They were not kin. Simon settled on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo at Plouër-sur-Rance, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Trahan and Hélène Aucoin, in November 1763. They moved on to nearby Pleslin and then crossed the Rance to St.-Servan-sur-Mer, near St.-Malo. Between 1765 to 1777, at Pleslin and St.-Servan, Marguerite gave Simon five children, two sons and three daughters. Only the older son did not survive childhood. Simon and his family do not seem to have participated in either of the settlement schemes at Belle-Île-en-Mer or in the interior of Poitou. By September 1784, they were living on the other side of Brittany, at the lower Loire port of Nantes. Simon, Marguerite, and four of their children, three daughters and a son, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Simon, at age 43, remarried to Luce-Perpétué, also called Laure, 43-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Bourg and Françoise Benoit and widow of Jean-Baptiste Hébert, in January 1788. Laure and her first husband had crossed from France to Louisiana on the same ship as Simon did. The newlyweds remained on the upper Lafourche. She gave him no more children. Simon's daughters married into the Barrilleaux, Hébert, and Daigle families on the upper Lafourche. His surviving son also married, into the Landry family, and settled on the upper bayou. The Acadian Mazerolles of South Lousiana are descended from Simon's son Étienne.
Joseph, père's fourth and youngest son Pierre, by second wife Anne Daigre, born at Minas in c1750, followed his family to Massachusetts. He married Brigitte, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Trahan and Marie Boudrot of Pigiguit, at Québec in November 1776. They settled near his family at Madawaska.
Louis dit Saint-Louis's putative younger son Mathurin was, according to Bona Arenault, born in c1720, place unrecorded. Stephen A. White does not recognize this second son, who Arsenault says married Marie-Josèphe, called Josèphe, Mercure on Rivière St.-Jean, present-day New Brunswick, in June 1786, when he would have been in his late 60s. Arsenault saqys they settled at Baie-des-Ouines, today's Bay du Vin, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore in eastern New Brunswick. Their daughter married into the Robichaud family there. Three of their sons also married into the same family in the area.
Pierre married Marguerite, daughter of Acadians Pierre-Ignace Robichaud and Marguerite Richard, at St.-Charles-de-Kent, New Brunswick, in September 1809.
Louis married Natalie, another daughter of Acadians Pierre-Ignace Robichaud and Marguerite Richard, in October 1823, no place given.
Simon le jeune married Henriette, yet another daughter Acadians Pierre-Ignace Robichaud and Marguerite Richard, at St.-Louis-de-Kent, New Brunswick, in February 1824.439
Joseph Prétieux, later called Précieux, and his French wife Anne Gautrot, perhaps early 1690s arrivals, created a small family in the colony. Anne gave Joseph two children, a son and a daughter, both of whom married. Their daughter Anne married into the Lalande alias Des Brousses dit Bonappétit family. However, three years before her marriage, she had given birth to a "natural" son, Jacques, who, if he survived childhood, may have taken his mother's family's name. Joseph, père and wife Anne were counted at Minas in 1693, and Joseph died perhaps soon after the census was taken, age unrecorded. Joseph, père and Anne's only son also created a family of his own. They and their descendants settled not only at Minas, but also at Annapolis Royal, Chignecto, and in the French Maritimes. At least one of Joseph's descendants emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.
Only son Joseph, fils married Anne, daughter of Michel Haché dit Gallant and Anne Cormier, at Beaubassin in January 1719. In c1724, they followed Anne's family to Île St.-Jean; the Hachés, in fact, were perhaps the first Acadians to settle on the island. A French official counted Joseph, fils and Anne on upper Rivière-du-Nord-Est, in the center of the island, in August 1752. With them were four of their children: Louise-Marguerite, age 18; Pierre, age 15; Joseph, age 13; and Louis, age 11. Next to them lived their oldest daughter, Marie-Anne, age 20, and her husband Augustin dit Justice Doucet, age 29. It was Marie-Anne, a widow, who emigrated to Louisiana with two of her Doucet sons in 1785.440
Michel Poirier dit de France, Jean Poirier's nephew, evidently was an early 1690s arrival. Michel dit de France and wife Marie Chiasson created another large branch of the family in the colony. Between 1693 and 1723, Marie gave Michel a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters. Michel dit de France died probably at Chignecto by November 1740, in his late 60s or early 70s. His daughters married into the Doucet, Caissie, Buote or Buhot, and Comeau families. Five of his eight sons also married. His and Marie's descendants settled not only at Chignecto, but also in the French Maritimes. None of Michel dit de France's descendants seems to have emigrated to Louisiana. They could be found, instead, in Canada, greater Acadia, and France after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Michel, fils, born at Port-Royal or Chignecto in c1693, married Jeanne, daughter of Charles Bourgeois and Marie Blanchard, at Beaubassin in February 1718 and remained there. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1718 and 1732, Jeanne gave Michel, fils five daughters. The family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada. Michel, fils died at Pointe-aux-Trembles near Montréal in January 1758, in his mid-60s. His daughters married into the Girouard, Forest, Ouvré, and Livois families in greater Acadia and Canada, and one of them was deported with her family to Cherbourg, France.
Michel dit de France's second son François, born at Chignecto in c1698, married Marguerite, daughter of Louis Doucet and Marguerite Girouard, in c1726 probably at Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1726 and 1740, Marguerite gave François two children, a daughter and a son. François died at Chignecto by January 1752, in his late 40s or early 50s. His daughter married into the Deveau family. His son also married.
Only son Jean, born at Chignecto in c1740, evidently escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada. At age 30, he married Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadians René Martin and Marguerite Michel, at L'Assomption northeast of Montréal in August 1770.
Miche
Michel dit de France's sixth son Pierre, born at Chignecto in c1710, married Louise, daughter of Michel Caissie and Madeleine Gaudet, at Beaubassin in October 1733 and moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1741. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1734 and 1750, Louise gave Pierre eight children, three sons and five daughters. A French official counted Pierre, Louise, and their eight children at Malpèque on the island's northwest coast in August 1752. One of their daughters, Marie, evidently left the island after the counting, or she may have escaped the British roundup there in late 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. Other members of the family did not escape. The British deported them to Cherbourg, France, in late 1758. Pierre died in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in October 1760, age 50. Meanwhile, daughter Marie married into the Hébert family at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in November 1759. At least one of Pierre's sons also married, in France.
Third and youngest son Joseph-Isidore, born probably at Malpèque in c1746, was with his family there in August 1752 and followed them to Cherbourg, France. According to Bona Arsenault, Joseph-Isidore married Jeanne-Françoise Daudet, perhaps a local girl, at Nantes, France, in 1772. They did not emigrate to Spanish Louisiana in 1785 but apparently remained in the mother country.
Michel dit de France's seventh son René, born at Chignecto in October 1718, married Anne, daughter of Denis Gaudet and Anne Doucet, at Beaubassin in November 1740. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1753, Anne gave René seven children, four sons and three daughters. They escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. Arsenault says Anne gave René two more children, a daughter and a son, in 1758 and 1762--nine children, five sons and four daughters, in all. Sometime 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 Fort Cumerland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, near their home at Chignecto. After the war, to avoid British rule, they resettled on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland, but they did not remain. Perhaps sensitive to the overcrowded conditions there, they moved on to France by 1765 and were among the first Acadian exiles to settle in the lower Loire port of Nantes in southeast Brittany. René died in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in March 1766, age 47. Anne took her children back to Île Miquelon soon after René's passing. In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured Miquelon and nearby Île St.-Pierre and deported Anne and her children, along with the rest of the fisher/habitants on the islands, to La Rochelle, France. Anne died in St.-Jean Parish, La Rochelle, in May 1779, age 60. Three of her Poirier daughters married into the Cyr and Richard families. At least two of her Poirier sons also married.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born at Chignecto in c1742, followed his family into exile and imprisonment, to Île Miquelon and France, and his widowed mother back to Île Miquelon, where he married Agathe, daughter of fellow Acadians François Blanchard dit Gentilhomme and Marguerite Carret, in August 1767. They likely were sent to France later that year but returned in 1768. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1769 and 1781, Agathe gave Jean-Baptiste eight children, three sons and five daughters, including two sets of twins. In 1778, they followed his widowed mother and siblings to La Rochelle, France, where one of their sons died and two of their daughters were born in St.-Jean Parish. They returned to Miquelon in 1784 after the war. At least one of their sons married.
Oldest son Jean, fils, born on Île Miquelon in c1769, followed his family to La Rochelle, France, in 1778 and returned to Miquelon with them in 1784. He married fellow Acadian Anne Boudreau in c1791, perhaps in the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Jean, fils two sons in 1791 and 1792. Both of the sons married in the Madeleines.
Older son Jean III, born in c1791, place not given, married Suzanne, daughter of fellow Acadians Antoine Etcheverry and Marie-Catherine Audy, in the Madeleines in August 1811. According to Bona Arsenault, Suzanne gave Jean III a son in 1813. Jean III remarried Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Terriau and Anne Richard, in the Madeleines in August 1817. According to Arsenault, Euphrosine gave Jean III two daughters in 1820 and 1822--three children, a son and two daughters, by two wives.
Jean, fils's younger son Benjamin, born in c1792, place not given, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Richard and Rosalie Briand, in the Madeleines in July 1811. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1813 and 1820, Rosalie gave Benjamin four children, two sons and two daughters.
René's fourth and youngest son Alexis, born at Chignecto in c1753, followed his family into exile and imprisonment to Île Miquelon and France, and his widowed mother back to Île Miquelon. He followed his family to France in 1767, returned to Miquelon in 1768, and married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Vigneau dit Meniac and Rose Cyr, on the island in 1777. They, too, were deported to La Rochelle, France, in 1778 and returned to Miquelon in 1784. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1778 and 1784, Marguerite gave Alexis three children, a daughter and two sons. Other records give them another son, four children in all.
Pierre Lavergne, an early 1690s arrival, and his wife Anne Bernon created a small family in the colony. Anne gave Pierre five children, a son and four daughters. Three of their daughters married into the Petitpas, Lavandier, Clergé, and Haché dit Gallant families. Pierre's only son also created his own family. The date and place of Pierre's death has been lost to history. His and Anne's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal and in the French Maritimes. At least five of Pierre's descendants emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785, but no family line endured there.
Only son Jacques, born at Port-Royal in April 1706, married Françoise, daughter of Claude Pitre and Marie Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in November 1727. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1755, Françoise gave Jacques 11 children, four sons and seven daughters. They moved on to the French Maritimes after 1752. The British deported the family to La Havre, France, in late 1758. Jacques died in Notre-Dame Parish, Le Havre, in December 1759, age 53. Four of his daughters married into the Doucet, Hébert, Leborde, and Jacquet families in greater Acadia and France. Only one of his sons seems to have created a family of his own.
Second son Pierre le jeune, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1730, married Anne, 23-year-old daughter of Pierre Lord and Jeanne Doucet, in St.-Jean-Baptiste Parish, Annapolis Royal, in October 1753. They settled at Ste.-Anne, Tintamere, Chignecto, soon after their marriage; moved on to the French Maritimes perhaps after 1755; and joined his family there. In late 1758, the British deported the family to Le Havre, France. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1761, in greater Acadia and at Le Havre, Anne gave Pierre le jeune three children, two daughters and a son. They settled in Notre-Dame Parish, Le Havre, where Pierre le jeune worked as a carpenter. At age 33, he remarried to Marguerite, 31-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Abraham Daigre and Anne-Marie Boudrot and widow of Eustache Bourg, in Notre-Dame Parish in November 1763. Between 1764 and 1769, Marguerite gave Pierre le jeune three more children, two sons and a daughter, at Le Havre--six children, three daughters and three sons, by two wives, in greater Acadia and France. The older son by Marguerite died at age 1 1/2 in Notre-Dame Parish. In 1773, Pierre took his family to the interior of Poitou. In November 1775, after two years of effort, Pierre le jeune, Marguerite, and five of their children, two sons and three daughters, retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the lower Loire port of Nantes. Oldest daughter Marguerite married into the Trahan family in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in October 1778. Second wife Marguerite Daigre died at Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in September 1782, age 50. Pierre le jeune and four of his unmarried children, two sons and two daughters, were still at Paimboeuf in September 1784. He remarried again--his third marriage--to Gillette, 36-year-old daughter of Marc Caudan and Perrine LeBiedee of Lanvaudan, southwest Brittany, and widow of Claude LeBigot, at Paimboeuf in January 1785, but Gillette died the following March. Later that year, Pierre le jeune, his married daughter and her family, and three of his unmarried children, two daughters and a son, emigrated to Louisiana. Oldest son Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre, who would have been age 25 in 1785, if he was still living (he had accompanied his family to Nantes in November 1775), did not follow his father and siblings to the Spanish colony. From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passengers to the Baton Rouge area. Pierre le jeune did not remarry. His three daughters married or remarried into the Betancourt, Raffray, and Prosper families in the colony. His son Pierre-Benjamin, the second with the name, at age 34, married into the Hébert family at Ascension on the river below Baton Rouge in October 1802, returned to the Baton Rouge area, and died there in February 1819, age 50. His wife gave him at least three sons and three daughters. None of the sons married. However, three of the daughters created families of their own, so the blood of the family line endured in the Bayou State.442
Deveau
Michel
Deveau dit Dauphiné, an early 1690s arrival, and his Canadian wife
Marie-Madeleine Martin created a good-sized family in the colony.
Marie-Madeleine gave Dauphiné six children, four sons and two daughters, including a
set of twins. One of their daughters married into the Henry family.
All four of Michel's sons created their own families.
Oldest son Pierre married Marie, daughter of Roger Caissie and Marie-Françoise Poirier, at Beaubassin in February 1715 and died probably at Chignecto by 1751, in his mid-or late 50s. In August 1752, a French official counted Marie, a widow, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, with two of her younger Deveau children--Pierre, age 18, and Anne, age 13--living with older daughter Marie Deveau, age 22, her husband André Templet of Normandy, and their 3-month-old daughter Marie-Marguerite. The official noted that widow Marie had been "in the country since the month of August last," probably soon after Pierre's death. She and her children were deported to France in 1758.
Michel's second son Jacques dit Dauphiné, a twin, married Marie, daughter of Jean Pothier and Anne Poirier, at Beaubassin in October 1719 and moved on to the French Maritimes in c1724. A French official counted them at Havre-aux-Sauvages, on the north coast of Île St.-Jean, in August 1752. With them were three of their younger children, Jean, Joseph, and Marie. Nearby lived son Jacques, fils and wife Madeleine Robichaud, who had no children. A week or so earlier, the same French official had counted three of Jacques and Marie's married children--son Michel, his wife Marie Poirier, and their three children; son Pierre, his wife Marie Haché, and their three children; and daughter Anne and her husband Charles dit Charlit Haché--on upper Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the middle of the island. What happened to them in 1758?
Michel's third son Jean, Jacques's twin, married Cécile, daughter of Pierre Caissie and Marie-Thérèse Mirande, in c1723 probably at Chignecto.
Michel's fourth
and youngest son Augustin married Marie, another daughter of
Drummer Jacques Léger dit La Rosette, an early 1690s arrival, and his wife Madeleine Trahan created a good-sized family in the colony. Between 1695 and 1719, Madeleine gave Jacques 11 children, four sons and seven daughters. Madeleine died at Annapolis Royal in December 1742, age 65. Jacques dit La Rosette, who did not remarry, died at Annapolis Royal in March 1751, in his late 80s. Four of his daughters married into the Michel dit Saint-Michel, Robichaud dit Cadet, Bertrand, and Doucet families. Three of his sons created their own families. His and Madeleine's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also at Chepoudy and Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivères area west of Chignecto, and on Île St.-Jean. By 1755, in fact, most of them were living in the trois-rivières. At least 10 of Jean dit La Rosette's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax and French St.-Domingue in 1765 and from France in 1785. Smaller numbers of them could be found in greater Acadia after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Jacques, fils, born at Port-Royal in c1695, married Anne, daughter of François Amireau and Marie Pitre, at Annapolis Royal in January 1717. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1717 and 1730, Anne gave Jacques, fils seven children, two daughters and five children. They were at Chepoudy in the trois-rivères in the early 1720s and at nearby Petitcoudiac in c1748. Jacques, fils died before January 1752, place unrecorded. One of his daughters married into the Allain family. Members of his family escaped the roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. One of his sons emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, born in c1719, place not given, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Pierre Saulnier and Madeleine Comeau of Petitcoudiac, in c1739, at Chepoudy or Petitcoudiac. They settled at Petitcoudiac. According to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine gave Jean two daughters in 1739 and 1741. They evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and took 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 the prisoner compound at Fort Edward, formerly Pigiguit, in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. Jean and Madeleine emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, in 1765. They brought no children. They settled at the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans. Jean, in his mid-50s, remarried to Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Poirier and Marie Cormier of Chignecto and widow of Olivier Landry, in April 1774. They had no children, so this line of the family did not endure in the Bayou State.
Jacques, fils's second son Joseph, born at Chepoudy in c1720, married Claire, daughter of René LeBlanc and Anne Thériot of Minas, at Beaubassin in June 1744 and settled at Petitcoudiac. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1767, Claire gave Joseph three children, two daughters and a son. They family evidently escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivères in the fall of 1755 and took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. During the late 1750s or early 1760s, they, too, either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in the prisoner compound at Fort Edward for the rest of the war. After the war, Joseph and his family remained at Windsor, formerly Pigiguit, where they were counted in 1767. By 1768, they had resettled on Rivière St.-Jean in what became the province of New Brunswick.
Jacques, fils's third son Olivier, born perhaps at Chepoudy in c1724, married Marie-Josèphe Hébert in c1745, no place given. One wonders what happened to them in the fall of 1755. Marie-Josèphe gave Olivier a daughter in c1763. In 1765, they settled at the British fishery at Bonaventure in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs before crossing the bay to Caraquet in today's northeastern New Brunswick. Their daughter married into the Landry family at Caraquet.
Jacques, fils's fourth son Paul, born perhaps at Chepoudy in c1728, married Marie-Josèphe Savoie in c1752, place unrecorded. They settled at Petitcoudiac. According to Bona Arsenault, Marie-Josèphe gave Paul two sons in 1753 and 1755. Other records give them a daughter in 1757 and another son, birth date unrecorded. The family evidently escaped the roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and took 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 the prisoner compound at Fort Edward, Nova Scotia, for the rest of the war. Paul died before 1765, when Marie-Josèphe, now a widow, took a son and a daughter to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue. They followed Marie-Josèphe's brother to the Opelousas District, where she remarried to a Parisian. Her Léger daughter married into the Jeansonne family there. Only the blood of this family line endured in the Bayou State.
Youngest son Joseph, if he was born in the trois-rivières, followed his family into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, into the prison compound at Fort Edward in the early 1760s, followed his widowered mother and a sister to Louisiana in 1765, and settled with them on the Opelousas prairies. He may have appeared on an Opelousas militia list as a fusilier in 1789. After that, he disappears from the records. He did not create a family of his own.
Jacques, fils's fifth and youngest son Jacques III, born perhaps at Chepoudy in c1730, married Agathe, daughter of Pierre Breau and Anne LeBlanc of Minas, in c1753, place unrecorded, but it likely was in the trois-rivières area. According to Bona Arsenault, Agathe gave Jacques III two sons in 1753 and 1754. 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. During the late 1750s or early 1760s, they either surrendered to, or were captured by, British forces in the area and held in a prisoner compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. They may have been held at Fort Cumberland, formerly French Fort Beauséjour, at Chignecto, where they may have appeared on a repatriation list in August 1763. After the war, Jacques III did not follow relatives to Louisiana but remained in greater Acadia. In c1765, he remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Haché and Anne-Marie Gravois of Chignecto, place unrecorded. According to Arsenault, Marie-Madeleine gave Jacques III another son in 1768. That year, British officials counted Jacques III and his family at Memramcook in the trois-rivières area, not far from where they had been forced into exile in 1755.
Jacques dit La Rosette's second son, name unrecorded, died at Port-Royal before 1703.
Jacques dit La Rosette's third son Jean, born at Port-Royal in January 1709, married Marie-Marguerite, daughter of Abraham Comeau and Marguerite Pitre, at Annapolis Royal in May 1730. Accordng to Bona Arsenault, between 1731 and 1741, Marie-Marguerite gave Jean five children, four daughters and a son. Arsenault says Jean took his family to Chepoudy in the trois-rivères in 1735 and moved on to Île St.-Jean after August 1752. The British deported the family to France in 1758-59. They were living at La Rochelle in c1760. A daughter married to a fellow Acadian in Notre-Dame Parish, Rochefort, in August 1762, so the family may have moved there from La Rochelle after 1760. The priest who recorded the daughter's marriage noted that the bride's father was deceased at the time of the wedding. Three of Jean's daughters married into the Savary, Girardin, and Doiron families, at least one of them in France, where she remained. Jean's son also created a family of his own.
Only son Michel dit Richelieu, born perhaps at Chepoudy in c1738, evidently did not follow his parents to Île St.-Jean in the 1750s. If he remained in the trois-rivières, he evidently escaped the British roundup there in the fall of 1755 and took refuge in greater Acadia. He married Angélique, daughter of Charles Pinet and Marie Marchand of Minas, in c1760, during exile, no place given. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1770, Angélique gave Michel four children, three sons and a daughter. The couple evidently fell into British hands soon after their marriage, were taken to Louisbourg, where a son was born, and deported to La Rochelle, France, aboard the British transport Windsor in November 1762. By 1765, they had joined other Acadian exiles on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland. A daughter was born there in c1767. Later that year, to alleviate overcrowding on the island, French officials, obeying a royal decree, ordered the fisher/habitants there to emigrate to France. Michel and his family went, instead, to French St.-Domingue, where some of their relatives already had gone. They arrived in the sugar colony in c1768, but they did not remain. By May 1769, they had returned to La Rochelle and likely moved on to Cherbourg in Normandy, where two more sons were born and where Michel died in c1770, in his early 30s. His widow Angélique and their three sons moved on to the lower Loire port of Nantes by September 1784. The following year, she took two of her sons to Spanish Louisiana aboard the first of the Seven Ships from France. A third son followed on a later vessel and joined his family in the Opelousas District, where Léger relatives had settled 20 years earlier. Angélique remarried to a French Canadian at Opelousas. Her three Léger sons married on the western prairies and created vigorous lines there.
Oldest son Michel, fils, born at Louisbourg on Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island, in c1762, followed his family to La Rochelle, France, soon after his birth, then to Île Miquelon, French St.-Domingue, back to La Rochelle and to Cherbourg, where his father died. Spanish officials counted him with his widowed mother and two younger brothers at Nantes in September 1784. The following year, his mother and younger brothers sailed to Louisiana aboard the first of the Seven Ships, but Michel, fils was not aboard. He crossed on a later vessel, probably as a stowaway, and joined his family in New Orleans in November. He followed them to the Opelousas District, where he married Marguerite-Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre-Paul Boutin and Usule Guédry, in June 1787. They settled on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé west of Grand Coteau, near his family. In the late 1790s or early 1800s, Michel, fils moved his family south to Anse La Butte on upper Bayou Vermilion before moving to Grand Prairie near what is now downtown Lafayette. Michel, fils's estate record was filed at the Opelousas courthouse, St. Landry Parish, in August 1817. He would have been age 55 that year. His daughters married into the Breaux, Eades, LeBlanc, and Miller families. Five of his seven sons married into the Dugas, Duhon, Meche, and Matte families and settled in what became St. Landry, St. Martin, Lafayette, and Calcasieu parishes.
Michel dit Richelieu's second son Louis, born probably at Cherbourg, France, in c1769, was counted with his widowed mother and two brothers at Nantes in September 1784. The following year, he followed his widowed mother and a younger brother to Spanish Louisiana aboard the first of the Seven Ships. After older brother Michel, fils joined them in New Orleans, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District, where Louis married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Doucet and Anne Landry of Attakapas, in January 1792. They settled near his older brother Michel on upper Bayou Plaquemine Brûlé. Louis died in St. Landry Parish in September 1843. The priest who recorded the burial said that Louis died "at age 74 yrs." His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in November. His daughters married into the Daigle, Grabeau or Grabot, Jeany or Janise, LeBoeuf, Matte, and Richard families. Four of his seven sons also married, into the Prejean, Matte, Pariseau, Doucet, and Richard families and settled in what became St. Landry Parish.
Michel dit Richelieu's third and youngest son Jean le jeune, born at Cherbourg, France, in c1770, followed his widowed mother and brother to Nantes by September 1784, and his widowerd mother and a younger brother to Spanish Louisiana aboard the first of the Seven Ships in 1785. From New Orleans, they crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District, where Jean le jeune married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Savoie and Marguerite Boutin, in August 1796. Jean le jeune died near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in July 1848, age 78. His succession was filed at the Opelousas courthouse in September 1849. His daughters married into the Bourque, Fontenot, Morin, Teller, and Wood families. Three of his four sons married into the Billardin, Semere, and Andrus families, but only one of their lines seems to have endured.
Jacques dit
La Rosette's fourth
and youngest son François, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1714, married Madeleine, another daughter of
Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise, a 1690s arrival, and his wife Geneviève Serreau de Saint-Aubin created a good-sized family in the colony. Between 1696 and 1710, on Île d'Orléans near Québec, at Port-Royal, and Boston, Massachusetts, Geneviève gave the sailor-turned-merchant six children, three sons and three daughters, all of whom married. Their daughters married into the Roy and Godin dit Bellefontaine dit Beauséjeur and dit Bellefeuille families. The date and place of Barthélémy dit d'Amboise's death has been lost. His and Geneviève's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal and on Rivière St.-Jean and were among the few Acadian families who did not retreat to the French Maritimes. At least 30 of Barthélémy's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, but a substantial number of them also could be found in greater Acadia and Canada after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Barthélémy dit d'Amboise, fils, born at St.-Françoise, Île d'Orléans, Canada, in January 1696, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Dugas and Marguerite Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in April 1721. According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1722 and 1743, Marguerite gave Barthélémy, fils four children, three sons and a daughter. Other records say she gave him twice that many children, four sons and four daughters. The family evidently was captured by the British on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758 and held as prisoners in Nova Scotia. Barthélémy dit d'Ambroise, fils died probably in Nova Scotia while in exile. After the war, Barthélémy, fils's widow and all of his children emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1764-65. His daughters married into the Godin dit Bellefontaine, Dugas, Lahure, Bernard, and Arseneau families in greater Acadia and Louisiana. All four of his sons created their own families, but one of the lines did not endure.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit d'Amboise, born at Annapolis Royal in c1722, married Marguerite Bernard.probably on Rivière St.-Jean in the late 1740s. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1750 and 1772, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste six children, three sons and three daughters, in greater Acadia and Louisiana. The family evidently was captured by the British on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758 and held as prisoners in Nova Scotia. After the war, Jean-Baptiste, Marguerite, their three sons and a daughter, with other Acadians under Jean-Baptiste's leadership, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingne, in 1764-65. They settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans. Their oldest daughter married into the De St.-German de Gournondage family at Cabahannocer and settled at New Orleans. Two of Jean-Baptiste's three sons also married, into the Forest and Gaudin dit Bellefontaine families, one of them to a first cousin, and settled in what became St. James Parish.
Barthélémy dit d'Amboise, fils's second son Charles, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1728, married Isabelle, daughter of Jean Arceneau and Ann-Marie Hébert of Chignecto, probably on Rivière St.-Jean in the late 1740s or early 1750s. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1753 and 1763, Isabelle gave Charles three children, two sons and a daughter, on Rivière St.-Jean and at Halifax. The family evidently was captured by the British on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758 and held as prisoners in Nova Scotia. They followed brother Jean-Baptiste dit d'Amboise to Louisiana from Halifax in 1764-65 and settled at Cabahannocer. Charles died there in c1766, age 38, soon after the family's arrival. Isabelle also died that year. Daughter Marguerite married into the Melançon family in the Attakapas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin but returned to the river. Only one of Charles's two sons married, into the Forest family, and settled on Bayou Lafourche.
Barthélémy dit d'Amboise, fils's third son Barthélémy III, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas on Rivière St.-Jean in c1740, followed his family into exile and imprisonment and married Anne, another daughter of Jean Arseneau and Anne-Marie Hébert, probably at Halifax in c1762. In 1764-65, they followed the Broussards from Halifax to Louisiana via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue, reaching New Orleans in late February. Anne was pregnant on the voyage to Louisiana. A son was born either aboard ship or at La Balize or New Orleans in January or February 1765. After a brief respite in New Orleans, Barthélémy III, Anne, and their son followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche, with tragic result. Both Barthélémy III, in his mid-20s, and his infant son died on the Teche in late October, victims of an epidemic that struck the settlement that summer and fall. After the death of her loved ones, widow Anne, along with dozens of other Teche valley Acadians, fled to Cabahannocer on the river, where many of her husband's kinsmen had settled. She remarried to a LeBlanc at Cabahannocer in November 1767 and gave him many children. Barthélémy III's line of the family, however, died with him and his only son.
Barthélémy dit Amboise, fils's fourth and youngest son Germain, born probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas in c1743, followed his family into exile and imprisonment, his widowed mother to Louisiana in 1764-65, and settled at Cabahannocer, where he married Marie-Marguerite, called Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Bénoni LeBlanc and Marguerite Hébert, in May 1768. They joined the Acadian exodus from the river to upper Bayou Lafourche in the 1780s. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1770 and 1774, Marguerite gave Germain three children, a son and two daughters. Louisiana records show that she gave him at least seven children, four sons and three daughters. Germain died on the upper Lafourche by November 1796, when his wife remarried there. His daughters married into the Gautreaux and Metra families. Two of his sons married into the Doiron and Thériot families on upper Bayou Lafourche and created vigorous lines. One of Germain's grandsons may have been the only Acadian Bergeron who settled west of the Atchafalaya Basin during the antebellum period.
Barthélémy, père's second son Michel dit de Nantes married in c1721 a woman whose name has been lost to history. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1722 and 1723, his wife gave Michel two children, a son and a daughter. Michel remarried to Marie, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marie-Madeleine Landry, in c1727, place not given. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1741, Marie gave Michel seven more children, five sons and two daughters. Michel remarried again--his third marriage--in c1743 to another woman whose name had been lost to history, again at a place unrecorded. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1743 and 1747, his new wife gave Michel two more daughters. Michel remarried yet again--his fourth marriage!--to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Jacques Hébert and Jeanne Gautrot and widow of Jean Arseneau, in c1747, place not given. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1759, Marie-Jeanne gave Michel four more children, two sons and two daughters--15 children, eight sons and seven daughters, by four wives. According to Bona Arsenault, Michel dit de Nantes and his two youngest sons, Jean-Baptiste and Charles, went to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, but church and civil records there say otherwise. Michel and his family evidently were captured by the British on Rivière St.-Jean in 1758 and held as prisoners in Nova Scotia. After the war, he and his family went not to Louisiana but to Canada. Four of his daughters married into the Landry, Godin dit Lincour, Louvière, Hébert, Part, and Bourgeois families in greater Acadia, Canada, and Louisiana. Three of his daughters by his second and fourth wives emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1764-65. Six of his eight sons also created their own families in Canada.
Oldest son Pierre dit Nantes, by his father's first wife, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1722, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Bourg and Marie Cormier of Chignecto, probably on Rivière St.-Jean in c1748. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1772, Marguerite gave Pierre 10 children, four sons and six daughters. The British evidently captured the family in 1758 and held them as prisoners in Nova Scotia. After the war, they chose to go not to Louisiana but to Canada. They settled at Bécancour, on the upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières, in 1764 and moved to nearby St.-Grégoire-dit-Nicolet in 1767. At age 60, Pierre remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Lesieur-Duchesne and Françoise Moreau and widow of Jean-Baptiste Rivard-Bellefeuille, at Yamachiche on the north shore of Lac-St.-Pierre, across from Nicolet, in October 1782. She gave him no more children. Five of his daughters married into the Prince, Massé, and Trudel families at Bécancour. All four of his sons marrried.
Oldest son David, by first wife Marguerite Bourg, born probably on Rivière St.-Jean in c1749, followed his family into imprisonment and to Canada. He married Angélique, daughter of Jean Morisette and Marie-Josèphe Houde, at Bécancour in November 1777. They remained at Bécancour. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1778 and 1788, Angélique gave David five sons. David remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Poirier and Marie Gaudet, at nearby Nicolet in February 1792. According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave David another son. All six of these sons created their own families.
Oldest son David-Joseph, by first wife Angélique Morisette, born probably at Bécancour, Canada, in c1778, married cousin Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles-André Bergeron and Madeleine Poirier, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in January 1807.
David's second son Pierre, by first wife Angélique Morisette, born probably at Bécancour in c1781, married cousin Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Poirier and Madeleine Bergeron, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in May 1809.
David's third son François-Sylvestre, by first wife Angélique Morisette, born probably at Bécancour in c1783, married Esther, daughter of fellow Acadians Timothée Prince and Anne Richard, at Nicolet in April 1812.
David's fourth son Charles le jeune, by first wife Angélique Morisette, born probably at Bécancour in c1786, married Agathe, daughter of Ignace Pinard and Claire Richer, at Nicolet in August 1808, and remarried to Marie-Louise, daughter of Joseph Bourg, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in November 1824.
David's fifth son Jean-Baptiste, by first wife Angélique Morisette, born probably at Bécancour in c1788, married Geneviève, daughter of Gabriel Martel and Marie-Anne Lyonnais, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in April 1812, and remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Belliveau and Marie Prince, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in February 1819.
David's sixth and youngest son Joseph, by second wife Marie Poirier, born probably at Nicolet in the early 1790s, married cousin Marie-Victoire, another daughter of Charles-André Bergeron and Madeleine Poirier, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in January 1807.
Pierre dit Nantes's second son Charles, by first wife Marguerite Bourg, born probably on Rivière St.-Jean in c1751, followed his family into imprisonment and to Canada. He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Alexis LeBlanc and Marie-Josèphe Provencher, at Bécancour in April 1777. They remained at Bécancour. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1779 and 1802, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles 15 children, seven sons and eight daughters. At age 68, Charles remarried to Marie-Louise Baril, widow of Antoine Houde, at nearby Gentilly in January 1820, but they settled at Bécancour. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1821 and 1826, into Charles's mid-70s, Marie-Louise gave him four more daughters. Between 1779 and 1826, then, Charles's two wives gave him 19 children, seven sons and 12 daughters. Seven of his daughters married into the Tourigny, Doucet, Bourgeois, Pellerin, Belliveau, and Prince families at St.-Grégoire and Nicolet. Six of his seven sons created their own families.
Oldest son Jean-Charles, by first wife Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, born probably at Bécancour in c1780, married cousin Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles-André Bergeron and Madeleine Poirier, at nearby St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in May 1807.
Charles's second son Joseph-Isaac, by first wife Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, born probably at Bécancour in c1788, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians François Pellerin and Marie-Josèphe Poirier, at St.-Grégoire in October 1809.
Charles's third son Grégoire-Fabien, by first wife Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, born probably at Bécancour in c1791, married Josephte, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Poirier and Rosalie Bourg, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in November 1818.
Charlers's fourth son Michel-Élisée, by first wife Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, born probably Bécancour in c1795, married Thérèse, daughter of Jérôme Baril and Madeleine Kerbec, at Gentilly in July 1819.
Charles's fifth son Jean-Hubert, by first wife Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, born probably at Bécancour in c1797, married Marguerite, daughter of Augustin Hamel and his Acadian wife Madeleine Prince, at St.-Grégoire in November 1818.
Charles's sixth son Jean-Élisée-Isaïe, by first wife Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc, born probably at Bécancour in c1801, married Euphrosine, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Prince and Élizabeth Hébert, at St.-Grégoire in November 1824.
Pierre dit Nantes's third son Raphaël, by first wife Marguerite Bourg, born in c1758, either on Rivière St. Jean or in exile, followed his family into imprisonment and to Canada. He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Amant Thibeau and Rosalie Cormier, at Bécancour in January 1780. They remained at Bécancour. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1781 and 1794, Marie-Josèphe gave Raphaël four children, a son and three daughters. At age 69, Raphaël remarried Madeleine, daughter of Jacques Desruisseaux and Marie-Madeleine Boucher, at Bécancour in October 1827. According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him no more children. One of his daughters married into the Beaudon family at nearby St.-Grégoire. His son also created a family of his own.
Only son Pierre, born probably at Bécancour in c1791, married Marie-Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Belliveau and Geneviève Morin, at Nicolet in November 1801, and remarried to fellow Acadian Esther Belliveau, widow of Joseph Hébert, probably at Nicolet in November 1840.
Pierre dit Nantes's fourth and youngest son Pierre, fils, by first wife Marguerite Bourg, born in Canada in c1772, married Charlotte, daughter of fellow Acadians Claude Bourgeois and Marie Vignault, at Bécancour in February 1794.
Michel dit de Nantes's second son François, by second wife Marie Dugas, born perhaps on Rivière St.-Jean in c1733, followed his family into imprisonment and to Canada, where he married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians François Bourg and Marie Belliveau, at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, on the lower St. Lawrence, in August 1764. They moved to Bécancour across from Trois-Rivières in 1766. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1776, Rosalie gave François seven children, six sons and a daughter. François remarried to Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Joseph Richer and Jeanne Veillet, at Bécancour in August 1783. The moved to nearby Nicolet in 1790. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1784 and 1794, Marie-Jeanne gave François four more children, two sons and two daughters. Three of François's daugthers by both wives married into the Belliveau and LeBlanc families at Nicolet and nearby St.-Grégoire. Three of his eight sons by both wives also created their own families.
Oldest son François, fils, by first wife Rosalie Bourg, born in c1766, married Agathe, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Pellerin and Françoise Morin, at Nicolet in January 1792.
François's fourth son David le jeune, by first wife Rosalie Bourg, born probably at Bécancour in c1772, married Marie-Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Belliveau and Félicité Richard, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in November 1812.
François's son Joseph-Marie, by second wife Marie-Jeanne Richer, born probably at Bécancour in ,1786, married Pélagie, daughter of Joseph Lesieur-Desaulniers and Marguerite Tessier, at St.-Grégoire-de-Nicolet in October 1814.
Michel dit de Nantes's third son Michel, fils, by second wife Marie Dugas, born perhaps on Rivière St.-Jean in c1736, followed his family into imprisonment and married Madeleine, another daughter of François Bourg and Marie Belliveau, probably in Nova Scotia in c1760. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1774, Madeleine gave Michel, fils seven children, two sons and five daughters. After the war, they followed his family to Canada and settled at Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence in 1764. They resettled at Bécancour on the upper St. Lawrence in 1768 and at nearby Nicolet in 1787. Their daughters married into the Poirier, MacDonnell, and Desilets families, including three Poirier brothers, at Nicolet. Both of Michel, fils's sons created their own familiies.
Older son François le jeune, born probably at Kamouraska in c1766, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Blanchard and Catherine Forest, at Nicolet in October 1789.
Michel, fils's younger son Michel III, born probably at Bécancour in c1769, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Étienne Hébert and Marie-Josèphe Babin, at Nicolet in January 1797.
Michel dit de Nante's fourth son Simon, by second wife Marie Dugas, born probably on Rivière St.-Jean in c1738, followed his family into imprisonment and married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Saindon and Marie Godin dit Bellefontaine, probably in Nova Scotia in c1760. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1761 and 1784, Marie gave Simon a dozen children, eight sons and four daughters. They, too, followed his family to Canada and settled at Kamouraska on the lower St. Lawrence in 1764 before moving to Bécancour in 1767 and Nicolet in 1793. One of Simon's daughters married into the Michel dit Saint-Michel family at Bécancour. Four of his eight sons created their own families.
Oldest son Charles le jeune, born probably in Nova Scotia in c1761, followed his family to Canada and married Angélique, daughter of fellow Acadians Régis Part and Marie Belliveau, at Bécancour in November 1788.
Simon's second son André, born probably in Nova Scotia in c1763, followed his family to Canada and married Josèphe, daughter of François Élie and Josette Desrosiers, at Trois-Rivières in December 1787.
Simon's third son Simon, fils, born probably in Nova Scotia in c1764, followed his family to Canada and married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Marie-Rose LeBlanc, at Nicolet in June 1793.
Simon, père's fourth son Joseph le jeune, born probably at Bécancour, Canada, in c1768, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Marie Arsenault, at Nicolet in November 1799.
Michel dit de Nante's fifth son Joseph dit d'Amboise, by second wife Marie Dugas, born probably on Rivière St.-Jean in c1739, followed his family into imprisonment and married Angélique, another daughter of Michel Saindon and Marie Godin dit Bellefontaine, probably in Nova Scotia in c1762. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1768, Angélique gave Joseph five children, three sons and two daughters. They followed his family to Canada and settled at Kamouska on the lower St. Lawrence before moving farther down to L'Isle-Verte in 1770. His daughters married into the Hudon, Simon, and Dubé families at L'Isle-Verte. Two of his three sons created their own families.
Oldest son Joseph, fils, born probably in Nova Scotia in c1762, married Marie-Judith, daughter of Pierre Hudon and Marie-Madeleine Dubé, at L'Isle-Verte in February 1786, and remarried to Geneviève Marquis at nearby Cacouna in January 1822. They remained at Cacouna.
Joseph dit d'Amboise's third son Michel le jeune, born probably at Kamouraska, Canada, in c1768, married Anastaise Côté at L'Isle-Verte in June 1798.
Michel dit de Nante's sixth son Étienne dit d'Amboise, by second wife Marie Dugas, born probably on Rivière St.-Jean in c1741, may have followed his family into imprisonment in the late 1750s but did not follow them to the St. Lawrence valley after the war. He married Claire, daughter of Pierre Couroit and Angélique Vautour, at the British fishery at Carleton in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs in February 1777. They remained there. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1778 and 1793, Claire gave Étienne six children, a son and five daughters. Their daughters married into the McIntyre, O'Connors, Cormier, Bernard, and Ahier families at Carleton. Étienne's son also created his own family.
Only son Nicolas dit d'Amboise, born probably at Carleton in c1793, married Marguerite-Olivette, daughter of fellow Acadians François-Alexis Porlier and Euphrosine Landry, at Carleton in February 1821. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1821 and 1841, Marguerite-Olive gave Nicolas eight children, two sons and six daughters.
Michel dit de Nantes's seventh son Charles, by fourth wife Marie-Jeanne Hébert, born probably on Rivière St.-Jean in c1754, may have followed his family into imprisonment in Nova Scotia. According to Bona Arsenault, he and younger brother Jean-Baptiste accompanied their father to Louisiana in 1764-65, but Louisiana records say otherwise. One wonders what really became of Charles.
Michel dit de Nante's eighth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, by fourth wife Marie-Jeanne Hébert, born probably on Rivière St.-Jean, in c1756, may have followed his family into imprisonment in Nova Scotia. According to Bona Arsenault, he and older brother Charles accompanied their father to Louisiana in 1764-65, but Louisiana records say otherwise. One wonders what really became of Jean-Baptiste.
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Coste
François Coste, carpenter, navigator, coastal pilot, a 1690s arrival, and his wife Madeleine Martin dit Barnabé created a small family in the colony. Madeleine gave him eight children, five sons and three daughters. Their daughters married into the LeRoy dit L'Espérance, Bois, Petitpas, and Dugas families. Only two of François's sons created families of their own. François died at either Port-Toulouse or L'Ardoise, Île Royale, by 1753, in his late 80s or early 90s. His and Madeleine's descendants settled at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, and in the French Maritimes, where they were especially numerous at Port-Toulouse and L'Ardois. If any of François's descendants emigrated to Louisina, none took the family's name there.
Oldest son François, fils, born probably at Port-Royal in c1700, died young.
François, père's second son Jean, born at Port-Royal in June 1703, died there in June 1705, age 2.
François, père's third son Jacques dit Jacob, born at Port-Royal in November 1705, married Françoise, daughter of Claude Petitpas, fils and his Mi'kmaq wife Marie-Thérèse, at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1727. A French official counted Jacob and his family at Port-Toulouse in February 1752. One wonders what happened to them in 1758.
François, père's fourth son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in September 1707, evidently died young.
François, père's fifth and youngest son Jean, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1713, married Madeleine, daughter of Joannis Lefargue and Marie-Anne Ozelet, at Port-Toulouse in c1740. A French official counted them at L'Ardois, near Port-Toulouse, in February 1752. Jean died there by October 1758, in his mid-40s, on the eve of the islands' dérangement.447
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Charles's third son Jean dit Petit Jean married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Hébert and Marguerite Dugas, at Grand-Pré in August 1710, settled at Pigiguit, and moved on to the French Maritimes.
Charles's fourth and youngest son Alexandre dit Misgucess dit LaGerne married Catherine-Josèphe, daughter of François Leprince, in c1746 probably at Pigiguit and moved on to the French Maritimes.448
Poitevin
Étienne Poitevin dit Parisien, a 1690s arrival, and his wife Anne Daigre created a small family in the colony. Anne gave him a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters. Five of their daughters married into the LePrieur dit Dubois, Fouquet, Petit, Despoués, and Royer dit Leroy families, the younger ones on Île St.-Jean, where the family went in the 1720s, among the first Acadians to go to there. Only one of Étienne's sons married, in Canada, where he remained. Étienne died at Havre-St.-Pierre, Île St.-Jean, in June 1742, in his late 60s, and Anne promptly remarried to a Norman fisherman/habitant. As a result of the family's early departure from British Nova Scotia, they were not "typical" Fundy Acadians. In fact, only this family's blood survived in greater Acadia. If any of Étienne's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.
Oldest son Jacques-Christophe dit Cadien, born probably at Port-Royal in the late 1690s or early 1700s, moved to Canada, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Michel Viau dit Lespérance and Hélène Charles, at Longueil across the river from Montréal in January 1731. He died at Montréal in July 1747, in his late 40s.
Étienne's second son Louis, born at Port-Royal in October 1703, died there on the haute rivière in April 1713, age 9.
Étienne's third son, name unrecorded, born at Port-Royal in April 1706, died on the day of his birth.
Étienne's fourth son Louis, the second with the name, born at Port-Royal in September 1707, moved to Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of Île St.-Jean by 1734. He died at Hôtel-Dieu de Nantes, France, in June 1753, age 46, and did not marry. Was he a sailor? Why else would he have been at Nantes years before his family was deported to France from Île St.-Jean?
Étienne's fifth and youngest son Étienne, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1712, became lost in the woods probably near his home at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, when he was eight years old. He was never found. His death was recorded in the local parish register three weeks after his disappearance.449
Louis Chênet dit La Garenne, a 1690s arrival, and his wife Jeanne Martin dit Barnabé created a small family in the colony. Jeanne gave Louis two children, a son and a daughter, both of whom married. Their daughter married into the Charpentier and Morel families and settled at Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of Île St.-Jean. Louis died probably at Port-Royal by April 1704, when his wife remarried there; he would have been in his late 20s that year. Louis and Jeanne's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also on Île Royale and at Havre-St.-Pierre and Havre-aux-Sauvages on Île St.-Jean, to which they emigrated early. As a result, they were not "typical" Fundy Acadians. One of Louis and Jeanne's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in August 1785.
Only son Jean dit La Garenne, born probably at Port-Royal in c1700, married Anne, daughter of Jean Pothier and his second wife Marie-Madeleine Chiasson, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, Île St.-Jean, in October 1728. A French official counted them at nearby Havre-aux-Sauvages in August 1752. The British deported them to France in late 1758.
Jean's son Jean-Baptiste, born at Havre-St.-Pierre in October 1732, married Anne-Hippolythe, daughter of Paul Doiron and Marguerite Michel, either on Île St.-Jean or in France, and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. He and his wife brought not children to the colony, and they were too old to have anymore children, so his family line did not endure there.450
Garceau
Jean Garceau dit Tranchmontagne, former soldier, a 1690s arrival, and his wife Marie Levron created what could have been a good-sized family in the colony. Marie gave Jean three children, all sons, all of whom married. The time and place of Jean's death has been lost to history, but his youngest son was born in March 1710, and his wife remarried at Annapolis Royal in December 1711, so Jean likely died there, age unrecorded, not long after the town fell to the British in October 1710. His and Marie's descendants remained at Annapolis Royal or moved on to Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area and to nearby Chignecto. They were among the few Acadian families who did not retreat to the French Maritimes. If any of Jean's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.
Oldest son Pierre-Jean dit Boutin married Agnès, daughter of Laurent Doucet and Jeanne Babin, at Annapolis Royal in January 1728. Did they have any children? If they were still in Nova Scotia, what happened to them in 1755?
Jean's second son Daniel married Anne, or Jeanne, daughter of René Doucet and Marie Broussard, in c1730 probably at Annapolis Royal. Did they have any children? If they were still in Nova Scotia, what happened to them in 1755?
Jean's third and youngest son Joseph dit Richard married Marie, daughter of Philippe Lambert and Marie-Madeleine Boudrot, in c1730 probably at Annapolis Royal and moved on to Chepoudy and Chignecto. Did they have any children? If they were still in Nova Scotia, what happened to them in 1755?468
LaVache
François LaVache, a late 1690s "arrival" (he was born probably at Port-Royal in c1697, "natural" son of Anne LaVache, later the wife of Louis Labauve, and an unknown father) and François's wife Anne-Marie Vincent created a small family in the colony. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1726 and 1750, Marie gave François at least eight children, half of them sons, two of whom created families of their own, but other sources say she gave him six sons and three daughters between 1726 and 1753. François took his family, including a married son, to Île St.-Jean in c1750 and settled at Anse-au-Matelot on the island's southeast coast. The British deported the family to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in late 1758. François, two sons and two daughters, a grandson and a granddaughter, died in St.-Nicolas Parish, Boulogne-sur-Mer, from November 1759 to January 1760, victims, perhaps, of an epidemic that struck the northern fishing port; François died in early December, in his 60s. Oldest daughter Élisabeth-Blanche, born in c1733, married into the Segoillot family on Île St.-Jean in September 1752 and died there in August 1753. Second daughter Marguerite-Blanche, born in c1741, married into the Trahan family either on Île St.-Jean or in Boulogne-sur-Mer by 1759 and, along with a newborn daughter, died in the epidemic that killed her father and siblings. If any of François's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.
Oldest son Honoré, born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1726, married Madeleine Daigre in c1746 perhaps at Pigiguit. They followed his family to Île St.-Jean in c1750 and were counted at Anse-au-Matelot near his parents in August 1752. According to Bona Arsenault, Madeleine gave Honoré at least four sons between 1747 and 1757, but other sources say only two sons were born to them in 1755 and 1767. Other sources say she gave him a daughter as well in c1750. The British deported the famliy to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in late 1758. Honoré died there in late December 1759, in his early 30s, only a few weeks after his father and two of his younger brothers died and only a few weeks before one of his sons died. Members of the family made their way back to North America probably to work in a British-controlled fishery there, date not given. According to Arsenault, they settled at Caraquet in present-day northeastern New Brunswick and at Bonaventure in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born perhaps at Pigiguit in c1747, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Anse-au-Matelot in August 1752. He was deported with his family to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in late 1758. After the death of his grandfather and other relatives, he sailed aboard the brigantine Le Hazard with his paternal grandmother and a younger uncle to St.-Malo, where they arrived in May 1766. They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer. He did not remain. Jean-Baptiste, at least, made his way back to North America, probably to work in the British-controlled fishery in Gaspésie, and, according to Bona Arsenault, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadians Zacharie Doiron and Anne Vicaire, at Bonaventure in Gaspésie in January 1793. Arsenault says that between 1794 and 1806, Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste seven children there, three sons and four daughters.
Youngest son Charles-Joseph, born probably on Île St.-Jean in c1757, followed his family to Boulogne-sur-Mer in late 1758. He died in St.-Nicolas Parish there in January 1760, age 2.
François's second son Alexis, born in Nova Scotia in c1730, was counted with his family at Anse-au-Matelot on Île St.-Jean in August 1752. He married Marie-Blanche, daughter of Pierre Aucoin and Isabelle Breau of Cobeguit, at Port-La-Joye on the island in February 1754. According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him at least two daughters, in 1754 and 1756. They, too, were deported to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in late 1758, where Alexis remarried to fellow Acadian Nicole Dubois, date not given. One wonders if first wife Marie-Blanche also had died in the epidemic of 1759-60 that killed members of his family. Nicole gave Alexis two daughters in St.-Nicolas Parish, Boulogne-sur-Mer, in December 1764 and May 1767. One wonders if Alexis took his family back to North America after the birth of their younger daughter or if they remained in France.
François's third son Jean-Charles, born in Nova Scotia in c1732, was counted with his family at Anse-au-Matelot in August 1752. He followed them to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in late 1758 and died there, age 27, in November 1759, before he could marry.
François's fourth son Joseph, born in Nova Scotia in c1742, was counted with his family at Anse-au-Matelot in August 1752. He followed them to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in late 1758 and died there, age 17, in December 1759.
François's fifth and youngest son Firmin-Grégoire, born probably at Anse-au-Matelot in c1753, was deported with his family to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in late 1758. After the death of his father and three of his older siblings, he sailed aboard the brigantine Le Hazard with his mother and a nephew to St.-Malo, where they arrived in May 1766. They settled at nearby St.-Servan-sur-Mer. One wonders if Firmin-Grégoire accompanied his nephew back to North America and, if so, when.12
Jérôme
Darois,
a late 1690s arrival, and his wife Marie Gareau created a good-sized family in
the colony. In 1706, during Queen
Anne's War, the British captured Jérôme at Minas and held him and his family as prisoners of
war in Boston, Massachusetts. After the war, Jérôme returned to his home
at Rivière-des-Habitant and then moved on to Petitcoudiac in the
trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, which at the time was still under French control.
Oldest son Jean, born in c1700 perhaps at Minas, married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Breau and Marguerite Babin of Pigiguit, in c1722 probably at Minas. They moved on to Petitcoudiac by 1740. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1723 and 1746, Marguerite gave Jean six children, four daughters and two sons. Other records give them a third son. The family escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada. Jean died at Québec in December 1757, age 57, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic. One wonders if any of his daughters married. His three sons married and settled in Canada and Louisiana.
Oldest son Simon, born at Petitcoudiac in c1725, married Anne
Thibodeau probably at Petitcoudiac in c1747. According to Arsenault, between 1747
and 1757, Anne gave Simon five children, two sons and three daughters.
They escaped the British roundup in the trois-rivières in the fall of
1755 and followed his famliy to Canada, where their youngest child was born.
They were still at Québec City in 1758. One wonders if wife Anne was a
victim of the smallpox epidemic that killed Simon's father and uncle. In
c1760, at age 35, Simon remarried to Jeanne, daughter of Jean-Baptiste
Leduc and Marguerite Deshaies, place unrecorded.
The following year, they settled in the Acadian enclave at Bécancour on the
upper St. Lawrence across from Trois-Rivières. Between 1761 and 1779, at
Bécancour, Jeanne gave Simon seven more children, six sons and a daughter--a
dozen children, eight sons and four daughters, by two wives. His daughters by both wives married into the Richard,
Legros, Richer, and Rocheleau
families at Trois-Rivières and Bécancour. Three of his sons by both wives
also married
Oldest son Jean, by first wife Anne Thibodeau, born at Petitcoudiac in c1747, followed his family to Canada and Bécancour, where he married Ursule Champoux in January 1775, and, in his late 30s, remarried to Marie-Josèphe Duharnais dit Laneauville in March 1785.
Simon's second son Joseph-David, by first wife Anne Thibodeau, born in Canada in c1757, followed his family to Bécancour where, in his early 30s, he married Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Houde and his Acadian wife Marie Doiron, in January 1788.
Simon's fifth son Joseph, by second wife Jeanne Leduc, born at Bécancour in c1768, never married. He died at Bécancour in May 1807, in his late 30s.
Simon's sixth son Jean-Baptiste, the second with the name, by second wife Jeanne Leduc, born at Bécancour in c1771, married, in his early 30s, Marguerite, daughter of François Pépin and Marie-Anne Part, perhaps a fellow Acadian, at Bécancour in September 1704.
Jean's youngest son Basile, born at Petitcoudiac in c1746, followed his family to Canada. He married Marie-Anne, daughter of Basile Moreau and Élisabeth Lemieux, at L'Islet on the lower St. Lawrence in January 1770. He and his descendants spelled their surname Deroy.
Jérôme's fifth and youngest son
Jean Naquin dit L'Étoille, master tailor, a late 1690s arrival, and his wife Marguerite Bourg created a small family in the colony. Between 1698 and 1706, Marguerite gave Jean five children, at least three sons and a daughter. Two of their sons created families of their own. Jean died at Béllair on the river above Port-Royal in February 1706, in his mid-40s. His and Marguerite's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, but also at Cobeguit at the eastern end of the Minas Basin and on Île St.-Jean. At least 12 of Jean dit L'Étoille's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.
Oldest son Louis, born at Port-Royal in c1698, probably died young.
Jean's second son Jacques, born at Port-Royal in c1700, married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Melanson and Marie Blanchard, in c1725 perhaps at Cobeguit. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1727 and 1738, Jeanne gave Jacques five children, three daughters and two sons. Other sources give them two more sons in 1725 and 1735--seven children, three daughters and four sons, in all. Jacques and his family followed his younger brother to Île St.-Jean in 1751. In August 1752, a French official counted Jacques, now a widower, his six children, and his father-in-law, at Anse-à-Pinnet on the south shore of the island. His oldest daughter married a Ségoillot widower, and a younger daughter married into the Bourg family, on the island. The British deported Jacques and his children, married and unmarried, to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. Jacques died at St.-Malo in January 1759, age 59, "during the disembarkation" at the Breton port. His youngest daughter married into the Bourg family at nearby St.-Suliac. She and her oldest brother emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.
Oldest son Ambroise, born probably at Cobeguit in c1725, married Élisabeth/Isabelle, daughter of Claude Bourg and Judith Guérin, in c1749 probably at Cobeguit. According to Bona Arsenault, who insists Ambroise was a son of François not Jacques, Élisabeth gave him a daughter in 1751. They followed his family to Île St.-Jean that year. In August 1752, a French official counted Ambroise and Élisabeth with their 2-year-old daughter near widowered father and younger siblings at Anse-à-Pinnet. Between 1753 and 1756, Élisabeth gave Ambroise three more children, two sons and a daughter, on the island. The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. Their two younger children, a son and a daughter, died at sea. Élisabeth was pregnant on the voyage and gave birth to another daughter, their third, in April 1759, but the baby died a month later. They settled on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo at St.-Suliac, where, between 1760 and 1768, Élisabeth gave Ambroise five more children, two daughters and three sons, including a set of twins--10 children in all, five daughters and five sons, most of whom died young. Their oldest daughter Éisabeth died at St.-Suliac in August 1771, age 21, before she could marry. In 1774, after the death of one of his sons, Ambroise took his family to the interior of Poitou. In March 1776, after two and a half years of effort, they retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes, where their youngest daughter died. Ambroise, Élisabeth, and their surviving children, twin sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. If Ambroise and Élisabeth survived the crossing, they followed most of their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche. If not, their twin sons, age 19, would have followed relatives to the upper bayou, where they married into the Arcement and Robichaux families only three months apart and created vigorous lines in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley.
Jacques's second son Jacques, fils, born probably at Cobeguit in c1728, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Anse-à-Pinnet in August 1752, still a bachelor. One wonders what became of him in late 1758 when the British deported his family to St.-Malo, France; he would have been age 30 or 31. Did he leave the island before the deportation and seek refuge in greater Acadia? Did the British deport him to France but he landed in another port? Did he ever marry and have children?
Jacques, père's third son Joseph, born probably at Cobeguit in c1732, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Anse-à-Pinnet. He married Francoise Bourg in c1758 on the eve of the island's dérangement. The British deported the childless couple, along with Françoise's older brother Pierre, to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. They settled at St.-Suliac, where Joseph died in May 1759, age 27, probably from the rigors of the crossing. Françoise remarried to a Guillot widower the following year and gave him many more children.
Jacques, père's fourth and youngest son Pierre, born probably at Cobeguit in c1735, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Anse-à-Pinnet. The British deported him with his widowed father and a younger sister to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. Pierre died in a St.-Malo hospital in March 1759, in his early 20s, before he could marry.
Jean's third and youngest son François, born at Port-Royal in June 1704, married Angélique, daughter of René Blanchard and Anne Landry, in c1728 perhaps at Cobeguit. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1725 and 1745, Angélique gave François nine children, five sons and four daughters, but other records give them only eight children from 1729 to 1745, four sons and four daughters. Other records give them three more daughters between 1748 and 1753, 11 children, four sons and seven daughters, in all. François and his family moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1750. In August 1752, a French official counted them with 10 children and a 3-year-old Hébert grandson at Anse-à-Pinnet near his widowered father and older brother Jacques. An older daughter married into the Gautrot family on the island. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. François died in a hospital at St.-Malo in late January 1759, age 55, two days before his second son died, three days after wife Angélique died, and five days after his older brother died probably in the same hospital. An older daughter remarried into the Dugas family at St.-Suliac, and a younger daughter married into the Clément family in Poitou. A younger son and an older daughter emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Cobeguit in c1729, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Anse-à-Pinnet in August 1752. He married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Michel Pitre and Marie-Madeleine Doiron, on the island in c1757. She gave him a son, Charles le jeune, in 1758 on the eve of the island's dérangement. The British deported them to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. The son died at sea. Jean-Baptiste died at St.-Malo in late February 1759, age 29, soon after reaching the Breton port. Marie-Madeleine remarried to a Maillet at nearby Plouër-sur-Rance in August 1760.
François's second son François, fils, born probably at Cobeguit in c1733, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, was counted with them at Anse-à-Pinnet, and followed them to St.-Malo, France. He died in a St.-Malo hospital in January 1759, age 26, before he could marry.
François, père's third son Charles, born probably at Cobeguit in c1738, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Anse-à-Pinnet in August 1752. The British deported him with his family to St.-Malo, France, in late 1758. He followed members of his family to St.-Suliac, where he married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Thomas Doiron and Anne Girouard, in November 1765. Between 1765 and 1773, Anne gave Charles five children, three daughters and two sons, two of whom died young. In 1773, Charles took his family to Poitou, where, between 1775 and 1780, at Leigné-les-Bois near Châtellerault, Anne gave him four more children, three daughters and a son--nine children, six daughters and three sons, in all. Another child died an infant. As the birth of their youngest children reveal, when most of the Poitou Acadians retreated to the port city of Nantes from late 1775 to early 1776, Charles and Anne remained in Poitou. By September 1784, however, Charles, now a widower, had moved on to Nantes. Charles and his six surviving children, four daughters and two sons, emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. They followed their fellow passengers to upper Bayou Lafourche, where three of his daughters married into the Dupré, Dugas, and Henry families. One of Charles's sons also married on the bayou, into the LeBoeuf family, and created a vigorous line in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley.
François, père's fourth and youngest son Joseph le jeune, born probably at Cobeguit in c1740, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and was counted with them at Anse-à-Pinnet in August 1752. One wonders what became of him in late 1758 when the British deported his family to St.-Malo, France; he would have been in his late teens. Did he leave the island before the deportation and seek refuge in greater Acadia? Did the British deport him to France but he landed in another port? Did he marry and have children? 453
Jean Pothier, also called Poitiers, a late 1690s arrival, and his wives Anne Poirier and Marie-Madeleine Chiasson created a good-sized family in the colony. First wife Anne gave him three children, two sons and a daughter. Second wife Marie-Madeleine gave him seven more children, three sons and four daughters--10 children in all. Five of his daughters by both wives married into the Deveau dit Dauphiné, Chênet dit La Garenne, Renaud dit Arnaud, Oudy, and Lamoureaux dit Rochefort families, many of them in the French Maritimes. All five of Jean's sons by both wives created families of their own. Jean died in 1724 or 1725, in his early 50s, place unrecorded, perhaps on Île St.-Jean, where a son was baptized in July 1725, 5 1/2 months after his posthumous birth. Marie-Madeleine promptly remarried to a LaForest on the island and was counted at Havre-à-l'Anguille on the island's east coast in 1734, a widow again. Jean's children and grandchildren from both wives settled at Chignecto, in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, on Île St.-Jean, and perhaps at Minas. At least 10 of Jean's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785. They also could be found in smaller numbers in Canada, greater Acadia, and France after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Pierre, by first wife Anne Poirier, born probably at Chignecto in c1704, married Marie Doucet in c1730 probably at Tintamarre, Chignecto, and moved on to Île St.-Jean in the 1740s. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1748, Marie gave Pierre four children, two sons and two daughters. Other records give them another son--five children, three sons and two daughters, in all. One wonders why the family does not appear in the counting of August 1752 on Île St.-Jean. What happened to them in 1758? One of Pierre's daughters married into the Deveau family in France. Two of his sons married, and one of them emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.
Oldest son Dominigue, born probably at Chignecto in c1732, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Surette and Catherine Breau, at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto in c1753. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1754 and 1767, Anne gave Dominique three sons. 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 were held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. British officials counted Domingue, Anne, and their three sons at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in July and October 1762. After the war, they chose to remain in greater Acadia. They were living on Rivière St.-Jean, present-day New Brunswick, in 1768, perhaps near his first cousin Paul Pothier at Madawaska on the upper St.-Jean.
Pierre's second son Pierre, fils, born at Tintamarre, Chignecto, in c1740, followed his family to Île St.-Jean. The British deported him, if not his family, to France in late 1758. He evidently landed at Le Havre in Normandy, where he worked as a sailor and married Anne-Marie, 20-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Bernard and Marguerite Hébert, in April 1764. Between 1764 and 1773, at Le Havre, Anne-Marie gave Pierre, fils at least three children, a son and two daughters. Pierre, fils took his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773. Anne-Marie gave him another son there in 1774. In November 1775, after two years of effort, Pierre, fils, Anne-Marie, and their four children retreated with other Poitou Acadians to the port city of Nantes. They settled at nearby Chantenay, where Ann-Marie died in the late 1770s or early 1780s. At age 43, Pierre, fils remarried to Agnès, 30-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Broussard and Ursule LeBlanc and widow of Dominique Giroir, at St.-Martin de Chantenay in November 1783. Agnès gave Pierre, fils another son at Chantenay in August 1784. Pierre, fils took his family to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. From New Orleans, they did not follow the majority of their fellow passengers to Manchac south of Baton Rouge but crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District, where many of Agnès's kinsmen had settled. She gave Pierre, fils another son there--at least six children, four sons and two daughters, by his two wives. Pierre, fils died at Attakapas in October 1786, in his early 40s, not long after they settled there. His succession was filed there the day after his death. His daughters by first wife Anne-Marie married into the Savoie and Léger families on the prairies. His three sons by Anne-Marie also married, into the Ducrest, Mouton, and Castille families on the prairies. Most of the Acadian Potiers of South Louisiana are descended from these two sons.
Jean's putative son René, by first wife Anne Poirier, born, according to Bona Arsenault, in c1705, place not given, married, according to Arsenault, Marie Haché dit Gallant in c1732, place unrecorded. Arsenault says Marie gave René a son in c1733 and that the son created a family his own.
Only son Jean-Baptiste, born in c1733, place unrecorded, married, according to Bona Arsenault, cousin Henriette, daughter of Louis Poitier and Cécile Nuirat, on Île St.-Jean in January 1754. More reliable records, however, show that Marie-Henriette, called Henriette, daughter Louis Pothier and Cécile Nuirat, married not her cousin Jean-Baptiste à René Poitier but Jean-Baptiste dit Ratier, son of René Rassicot and Marie Haché dit Gallant, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord on the north shore of Île St.-Jean in January 1754, so there likely was no René, son of Jean Pothier/Poitier.
Jean's second son Jean-Baptiste, called Jean, fils, from first wife Anne Poirier, born probably at Chignecto in c1707, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Hébert and Anne-Marie Boudrot, in c1729 probably at Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1745 and 1748, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean, fils six children, four daughters and two sons. Jean, fils died by 1752, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was at Chignecto. His family evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada. They settled at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière on the lower St. Lawrence by 1765. One of his daughters married into the Thibodeau family there. One of his sons also married there but did not remain.
Younger son Paul, born probably at Chignecto in c1742, followed his family to Canada and married Judith, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Thibodeau and Marie LeBlanc and sister of his sister's husband Olivier, at Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière in 1765. They settled at Madawaska on upper Rivière St.-Jean perhaps near his first cousin Dominique Pothier.
Jean's third son Louis, by second wife Marie-Madeleine Chiasson, born probably at Chignecto in c1710, married Cécile, daughter of Jean-Jacques Nuirat and Marie-Jeanne Bourgeois and widow of Pierre Poirier, at Beaubassin in February 1733. They settled near his mother at Havre-à-l'Anguille on the east coast of Île St.-Jean soon after their marriage. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1747, Cécile gave Louis seven children, three sons and four daughters. Louis died by January 1751, when Cécile remarried to Norman fisherman/habitant Julien Compagnon on the island. In August 1752, a French official counted Cécile, her second husband, and five of her and Louis's children, two sons and three daughters, ages 22 to 5, at Havre-aux-Sauvages on the north shore of the island west of Havre-St.-Pierre. Daughter Marie-Henriette married into the Rassicot family on the island in 1754, was deported to France in late 1758, remarried into the Gaudet family in France in 1775, and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. One wonders what happened to her older siblings in late 1758.
Jean's fourth son Jacques-Christophe, called Christophe, from second wife Marie-Madeleine Chiasson, born probably at Chignecto in c1713, married Anne, daughter of Michel Boudrot and Anne Landry, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, on the north side of Île St.-Jean, in February 1740. Between 1741 and 1751, Anne gave Christophe five daughters, including a set of twins. In August 1752, a French official counted Christophe, Anne, and their five of daughters at Havre-au-Sauvages. According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Christophe two more children, a son and a daughter, in 1754 and 1756--seven children, six daughters and a son, in all. Christophe, Anne, and most of their children died on the British transport Violet, which sank in a storm off the southwest coast of England in mid-December 1758. Christophe was in his mid-40s when he drowned. His middle daughter Charlotte crossed to France on another vessel, escaping the fate of her family, and emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785. She married into the Patry and Hébert families in France and Louisiana, so the blood of this family line endured.
Jean's fifth and youngest son Charles, by second wife Marie-Madeleine Chiasson, born posthumously in January 1725 and baptized on Île St.-Jean the following July, did not remain on the islands. He married Marie-Blanche, daughter of Jean Caissie and his second wife Cécile Hébert, at Beaubassin in February 1746. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1748 and 1752, Marie-Blanche gave Charles three children, two sons and a daughter. Charles returned to Île St.-Jean in c1749. In August 1752, a French official counted Charles, Marie-Blanche, their 3-year-old daughter Modeste, and her 19-year-old sister on the north side of Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior. Charles and his family also died on the transport Violet. He was in his early 30s when he drowned.455
Tillard
François Tillard, a late 1690s arrival, and his wife Marguerite Leprince created a small family in the colony. Marguerite gave him four children, a son and three daughters, all of whom married. Their daughters married into the Trahan and Doiron families, two of them to brothers, and they all moved on to the French Maritimes. François and Marguerite's only son also created his own family. François died probably at Minas by June 1732, age unrecorded. His and Marguerite's descendants settled not only at Minas, but also in the French Maritimes. If any of François's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.
Only son François, fils married Marie, daughter of Jean Denis and Cécile Berteau, at Grand-Pré in June 1732 and remained there. Marie gave him only daughters. What happened to them in 1755?456
Joseph, also called Jean, Boutin, the fisherman, an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Marie-Marguerite Lejeune dit Briard created what could have been a large family in the colony. Between 1710 and 1732, Marie-Marguerite gave Joseph eight children, six sons and two daughters. Neither of their daughters married, but five of their sons did. The place and date of Joseph's death has been lost to history, but he was still alive in 1752, at age 76. He, Marie-Marguerite, and their descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, where they were counted in 1703 and 1707; but also at La Hève on the Atlantic coast, where they were counted in 1708; at Pigiguit, where they were counted in 1714; and on Baie-des-Espagnols on Île Royale, where they settled in 1749-50. At least eight of the fisherman's descendants emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1767.
Oldest son Joseph, fils, born probably at Pigiguit in April 1710, married Françoise, daughter of Jean Pitre and Françoise Babin, in c1731 probably at Pigiguit. They lived at Pigiguit and then followed his father and brothers to Baie-des-Espagnols. According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1751, Françoise gave Joseph, fils eight children, five sons and three daughters. In April 1752, a French official counted Joseph, fils and his family at Baie-des-Espagnols. The official noted that Joseph, a ploughman, was age 42, that his wife also was age 42, and that they lived with eight children: Joseph III, age 20; Euphrosine, age 18; Ambroise, age 15; Bernard, age 13; Paul le jeune, age 9; Marie, age 6; Anne, age 5; and Michel, age 1. The offical also noted that their "land was given to them verbally by Messrs. Desherbiers and Prevost [Des Herbiers was the King's commissioner, or commandant, for Île Royale, and Prevost was the colony's financial commissary]." Joseph, fils died on Île Royale in June 1755 of an abcès qui a crévez dans le corps (an abscess that burst in his body). One wonders what happened to the family in 1758. Did they escape the islands' dérangement, or were they deported to France?
Joseph's second son Eustache, born probably at Pigiguit in January 1712, married Agathe, daughter of François Viger and Marie Mius d'Azy, in c1734 probably at Pigiguit and followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1750, Agathe gave Eustache (Arsenault calls him Antoine) six children, four sons and two daughters, but other records give them another daughter. In April 1752, a French official counted Antoine Boulin, as he called him, and his family at Baie-des-Espagnols on Île Royale. The official noted that Antoine was a ploughman, age 40, wife Agathe, who he called a Bige, also was age 40, and that they were living with seven children: Jean-Baptiste, age 17; Ruffine, age 15; Qualier, age 12; Angélique, age 9; Joseph, age 7; François, age 5; and Agathe, age 18 months. The official also noted that the family had been "Three years in the Colony come September," that "They have rations for 33 mos., and that their "land was given verbally by Messrs. Desherbiers and Prevost." One of the sons evidently married on the island before its dérangement. One wonders what became of the rest of the family in 1758.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Pigiguit in c1735, followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols and married Marie-Josèphe Savoie probably on Île Royale before 1758. The British deported the young couple to France in late 1758. They ended up at Rochefort on the Bay of Biscay, where Jean-Baptiste died in November 1759, age 23. His wife remarried to a Frenchman at Rochefort in January 1761.
Joseph's third son, unnamed, died young.
Joseph's fourth son Pierre, born in the late 1710s or early 1720s probably at Pigiguit, married Marie-Marcelle, daughter of Claude Trahan l'aîné and Marie-Louise Tillard, in c1745 probably at Pigiguit. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1749, Marie gave Pierre three children, a son and two daughters. Pierre died before April 1752 probably at Baie-des-Espagnols. That month, a French official counted Marie-Marcelle there with three of their children--Marie-Josèphe, age 6; Anne, also called Gillette-Théotiste, age 5; and Alexis, age 3. Marie-Marcelle remarried to Jean Pineau probably on the island in the 1750s. The British transported her, her second husband, and her Boutin daughters aboard the transport Duc Guillaume to St.-Malo, France, in 1758. Marie-Marcelle and daughter Marie-Josèphe Boutin died at sea. Daughter Anne Boutin, age 12, made it to the Breton port, but she died in a St.-Malo hospital in November 1758 probably from the rigors of the crossing. Pierre's only son Alexis, who would have been age 9 in 1758, was not with his mother and sisters when they crossed on the Duc Guillaume, so he may have died on the island before deportation. If so, his father's line of the family died with him.
Joseph's fifth son Charles, born in c1723 probably at Pigiguit, married Marie-Josèphe, called Josèphe, daughter of Paul Guédry and Anne Mius d'Azy, in c1746 probably at Pigiguit and followed his family to Baie-des-Espagnols. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1747 and 1752, Marie-Josèphe gave Charles three children, a son and two daughters. In April 1752, a French official counted Charles and his family at Baie-des-Espagnols. Charles, called a ploughman, was age 29, his wife, called Josèphe, age 28, and they lived with three children--Jean-Charles, age 5; Olivé or Olivier, age 3; and Marie-Françoise, age 3 months--and Josèphe's sister Eleine, age 28. The official also noted that their "land was given verbally by Messrs. Desherbiers and Prevost." In c1754, Charles, his family, and younger brother Paul and his family returned to British Nova Scotia by boat. After taking an unqualified oath of allegiance at Halifax, British officials sent them to Lunenburg down the coast, where they were living on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement. In December 1755, the British deported Charles, Paul, and their families to North Carolina. Charles died during exile. His son and a daughter emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from Maryland in 1767. The daughter, Marie-Françoise, married into the Segovia family at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans. Charles's son survived childhood, but he did not create a family of his own.
Only son Pierre-Olivier, called Olivier, born at Pigiguit or Baie-des-Espagnols, Île Royale, in c1749, followed his family to British Nova Scotia, Lunenburg, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Maryland and his sister and uncle to Louisiana in 1767. He settled at Ascension on the river above New Orleans, where he was counted on the left, or east, bank in August 1770. He was still single. He evidently was the Boutin who died at New Orleans in February 1773, in his early 20s. His father's line of the family died with him.
Joseph's sixth and youngest son Pierre-Paul, called Paul, born probably at Pigiguit in c1727, married Ursule, daughter of Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hébert of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, probably at Baie-des-Espagnols in November 1750. They settled near his father and older brothers Charles and Joseph, fils. In April 1752, a French official counted Paul and his family at Baie-des-Espagnols. Paul, described as a ploughman, was age 25, his wife, called Eustache, age 21. They had no children but were living with Pierre Guédry, "their brother," age 11, Ursule's younger brother. The official also noted that the couple's "land was given verbally by Messrs. Desherbiers and Prevost." They followed brother Charles to Halifax by boat, Lunenberg, and Georges Island, Halifax, British Nova Scotia; North Carolina; Pennsylvania; and Maryland. In 1767, Paul and his family, which now included four children--Marguerite, age 15; Joseph, age 14; Susanne-Catherine, age 5; and Paul, age 3--emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland and settled at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans. Ursule was pregnant on the voyage from Maryland, which lasted from April to mid-July; daughter Marie-Julienne was born at San Gabriel in February 1768, seven months after the family reached the Spanish colony. Another daughter, Margeruite-Louise, was born in the colony--six children, four daughters and two sons, in greater Acadia, Maryland, and Louisiana. In the late 1760s or early 1770s, Paul took his family to the Opelousas District west of the Atchafalaya Basin, where, in his late 40s or early 50s, he remarried to Madeleine Ducrest, place and date unrecorded. She gave him no more children. Paul died at Opelousas in February 1801, age 74. Oldest daughter Marguerite and youngest daughter Marguerite-Louise married into the Savoie and Léger families in Louisiana. Paul's two sons married into the Trahan and Teller families and settled at Opelousas. One of their lines endured on the prairies, and all Acadian Boutins in the Bayou State descend from that line.457
Jacques Bonnevie dit Beaumont, retired corporal in the troupes de la marine, an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Françoise Mius d'Azy created a small family in the colony. According to Stephen A. White, between 1702 and 1715, at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal, Françoise gave Jacques five children, three daughters and two sons. Bona Arsenault gives them another son. In December 1732, on Île Royale, when he was reported as "not in condition to serve, nor to earn his living, because of a wound to his thigh he received in the King's service," French authorities placed Jacques on half-pay at age 72. He died at Hôpital de Louisbourg the following April. His and Françoise daughters married into the Hélie dit Nouvelle, Lord, and Duguay families, one of them on Île St.-Jean. Only one of the corporal's sons created his own family. Jacques and Françoise's descendants settled not only at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal and in the French Maritimes, but also at Chignecto. At least one of Jacques dit Beaumont's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785, but no family line was established in the Spanish colony. His other descendants could be found in greater Acadia and France after Le Grand Dérangement.
Older putative son Jean, born, according to Bona Arsenault, in c1702, married Anne Gautrot in c1721, no place given. According to Arsenault, she gave Jean a son, Joseph, in c1722, no place given. Arsenault says nothing of the boy's, or the family's, fate.
Jacques dit Beaumont's second, perhaps his older, son Jacques dit Jacquot dit Beaumont, born at Port-Royal in May 1704, worked as a blacksmith there. He married Marguerite, daughter of Alexandre Lord and Marie-Françoise Barrieau, in c1729, no place given. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1730 and 1745, Marguerite gave him a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters. Jacquot remarried to Françoise, daughter of Jean Comeau and Madeleine Amireau, in c1745, no place given, perhaps at Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, Françoise gave him another daughter in c1746. According to White, Jacquot remarried again--his third marriage--to Anne dite Nannette, daughter of Paul Melanson and Marie Thériot and widow of Jacques-François Thébeau, in c1755, no place given but it probably was at Chignecto, on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement. The British deported Jacquot, Nannette, and four of his children to South Carolina in the fall of 1755. With the governor's permission, they made their way back to greater Acadia by boat the following spring, found refuge on lower Rivière St.-Jean, and then made their way to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. By 1760, they were among the hundreds of Acadian refugees at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs. After the surrender of the French outpost in October 1760, the British held the family in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. White says Jacquot died in c1760 or 1761, in his mid-50s, during exile. Arsenault implies that his death was probably at Restigouche. Three of Jacquot's daughters, by his first wife, married into the Breau, Richard, and Gousman families. Daughter Rose, by first wife Marguerite, who married Spaniard Jean Gousman at Restigouche, emigrated with him to Louisiana from France via Halifax, Île Miquelon, Le Havre, Poitou, and Nantes in 1785.
Oldest son Joseph, born probably at Chignecto in c1730, followed his family to South Carolina, back to greater Acadia, and to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, or he may have escaped the British at Chignecto and moved directly to the Gulf shore before moving on to Restigouche. He married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Haché-Gallant and Marie Gravois of Chignecto, at Restigouche in May 1760. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1773, Marguerite gave Joseph six children, four daughters and two sons. After the surrender at Restigouche in October 1760 and imprisonment in the compound probably at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in the early 1760s, the family chose to remain in greater Acadia at war's end. British officials counted them at Chezzetcook on the Atlantic shore of Nova Scotia near Halifax in 1768. They moved on, or perhaps moved back, to Chignecto and settled at Menoudie, where Joseph died in c1773, in his early 40s. His widow remarried to a Downing whose mother was a Boudrot and settled at Cap-Péle in southeastern New Brunswick. Three of Joseph's daughters married into the Forest, Duguay dit le Vieux, and Bourque families in greater Acadia. What happened to his sons?
Jacquot's second son Jacques, fils, born probably at Chignecto in c1733, married Anne Melanson in c1755 either just before or soon after the British roundups in Nova Scotia. If they did not follow his family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755 and back to greater Acadia the following spring, they escaped to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore soon after their marriage and moved on to Restigouche. According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Jacques, fils a daughter at Restigouche in October 1759; Jacques, fils baptized his daughter there in May 1760, after her mother died, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth. He remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Jacques Thibaud and Anne Melanson of Grand-Pré, probably at Restigouche in late 1759 or early 1760. According to Arsenault, Madeleine gave Jacques, fils five more children, a son and four daughters, between 1760 and 1769. The family was at Restigouche in 1760, when they baptized their oldest son there in May of that year, at the same time they baptized Jacques, fils's daughter by his first wife, but they did not remain. They appeared on a repatriation list at Halifax in 1763. After the war, they chose to escape British rule by resettling on the French-controlled fishery island of Miquelon off the southern coast of Newfoundland, where French officials counted them in 1766. In 1767, when French officials, obeying a royal decree to relieve overcrowding on the island, deported most of the fisher/habitants to France, Jacques, fils and his family may have gone there but returned with most of their fellow islanders in 1768, or they may have refused to go to France and doubled back, instead, to Chezzetcook near Halifax, where British officials counted them in 1769. One wonders what happened to them after that date.
Jacquot's third son Amand dit Beaumont, born probably at Chignecto in c1735, may have followed his family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755, back to greater Acadia the following spring, and to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, or he may have eluded the British in the fall of 1755 and moved directly to the Gulf shore camps before moving on to Restigouche. He married Catherine, daughter of Pierre Gaudet and Anne Girouard, at Restigouche in July 1760, a month after a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked the place. After the garrison's surrender the following October, they were imprisoned at Halifax in 1761 and, after the war, evidently followed older brother Jacques, fils to Île Miquelon. According to Bona Arsenault, Catherine gave Amand six children, three sons and three daughters, between 1763 and 1776. The French deported them with other fisher/habitants to France in 1767. French officials counted them at Port-Louis near Lorient in southern Brittany, France, in 1768. They returned to Miquelon that year with most of their fellow islanders. In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured the Newfoundland islands and deported the fisher/habitants to France, the Bonnevie's among them. Most of the islanders were sent to La Rochelle on the Bay of Biscay. However, Amand, Catherine, and five of their children, two sons and three daughters, crossed to France aboard La Jeannette, which reached St.-Malo in northwest Brittany on 6 November 1778. They took only five children with them because the youngest son Jean had died on Miquelon the previous December, age 8 months. Amand died in the St.-Malo suburb of St.-Servan-sur-Mer in February 1779, age 44. His widow Catherine and their children returned to Miquelon in 1784, after the British returned the Newfoundland islands to the French. They did not remain. By 1793, they had resettled in the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Two of Amand and Catherine's daughters married into the Doucet and LeBorgne families and settled on Miquelon and at Arichat on Île Madame, Nova Scotia. Two of Amand's sons created families of their own, one in greater Acadia, the other in France.
Oldest son Pierre, born in c1763, perhaps at Halifax, or perhaps a year or so later on Île Miquelon, followed his family to France in 1767, back to Miquelon in 1768, back to France in 1778, and his widowed mother back to Miquelon in 1784. He married Françoise, daughter of François Briand and Marguerite Sceau, on Miquelon in November 1788. They moved on to the îles-de-la-Madeleine by 1793. According to Bona Arsenault, Françoise gave Pierre two daughters on the island in 1793 and 1795. They were living at Halifax later in the decade, where another daughter was born to them in c1796. They moved on to Le Havre in Normandy, France, where another daughter was born in August 1799 and their third daughter died in September of that year, age 2 1/2. They evidently returned to the Newfoundland islands in the early 1800s. Pierre died on Miquelon in August 1826, in his early 60s.
Amand dit Beaumont's second son Baptiste-Amand, also called Amand, fils, born in c1771 probably on Île Miquelon, followed his family to France in 1778, probably back to Miquelon in 1784, to the îles-de-la-Madeleine in the early 1790s, and married Marie LeBorgne, probably a fellow Acadian, place unrecorded, perhaps on the remote islands. He became a carpenter and also took his family to Le Havre in the 1790s, but they did not return to greater Acadia. Between 1797 and 1805 at Le Havre, Marie gave Amand, fils at least six children, five sons and a daughter. Two of them died in infancy.
Jacquot's fifth and youngest son Sylvain, born probably at Chignecto in c1745, followed his family to South Carolina, back to greater Acadia, to the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, to Restigouche, and into a prison compound in Nova Scotia. At war's end, he evidently remained with his oldest brothers in Nova Scotia. He married fellow Acadian Marie Petitpas in c1769, place unrecorded, and "rehabilitated" the marriage at Chezzetcook near Halifax in March 1772. According to Bona Arsenault, Marie gave Sylvain a daughter in c1771, wherever they may have been. One wonders if they remained in coastal Nova Scotia.
Jacques's second or third son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1715, evidently died young.458
Vigneau dit Maurice
Maurice Vigneau, the carpenter and fishing master, an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Marguerite Comeau created what could have been a large family in the colony. Marguerite gave Maurice 11 children, seven sons and four daughters. One of their daughters married into the Poirier family. Six of Maurice's sons married, three of them to sisters. Along with other Annapolis Royal fishermen, Maurice was compelled by colonial authorities in late 1717 to take an unqualified oath of allegiance to the British king in order to fish in Acadian waters. A few years later, between 1719 and 1722, he took his family to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, where he was addressed by French authorities as Sr. Maurice Vigneau. Outspoken about religious matters, he ran afoul of an officious priest there but was exonerated by the Bishop of Québec. The old fishing master died between February 1746 and November 1747, in his early 70s, probably at Port-Toulouse. His and Marguerite's descendants settled at Annapolis Royal, on Île Royale, and at Chignecto. Some of his sons took their father's given name Maurice as their surname. If any of Maurice's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none carried the family's name there.
Oldest son Jacques dit Jacob Maurice returned to Nova Scotia and married Marguerite, daughter of Abraham Arseneau and his first wife Jeanne Gaudet, after 1726 probably at Chignecto, and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Michel Bourg and Élisabeth Melanson and widow of Guillaume Cyr, in c1740 likely at Chignecto, where they remained. At Beaubassin, Jacques worked as a merchant with his own vessel. During King George's War, he cooperated with both the French and the British, maintaining his own version of Acadian neutrality. Unlike most of his fellow Acadians, Jacques dit Jacob was literate. He also was fluent in English as well as French and Mi'kmaq, which stood him in good stead during Le Grand Dérangement. Despite his relationship with the British, they deported him and his family, along with other Chignecto Acadians, to Georgia in 1755. In the spring and summer of 1756, Jacques dit Jacob Maurice, who had become friendly with Georgia's governor John Reynolds, led a large contingent of exiles from that colony in an effort to return to their homes by sea. They made it to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where British authorities stopped them and held them in that colony for the rest of the war.
Maurice's second
son Jean dit
Maurice married Louise-Isabelle, another daughter of
Maurice's third son François died young.
Maurice's fourth
son Joseph dit
Maurice married Catherine, yet another
Maurice's fifth
son Jean-Baptiste
dit Maurice married Agnès dite Anne, daughter of
Michel Poirier and Madeleine Bourgeois, in c1739, perhaps at
Chignecto, and moved on to the French Maritimes, where they were counted at
Port-Toulouse in February 1752. The French official who conducted the
survey there that year noted that Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste,
Vigneau was a native of Annapolis Royal and age 25. Wife Anne was
age 28. Their household consisted of two sons and four daughters, ages 12
to 1 and they had been in the colony only a half year. What happened to them in
1758?
Maurice's sixth son Simon married Marie-Anne, daughter of Charles Arseneau and Françoise Mirande, at Beaubassin in January 1745. They may have been exiled to Georgia in 1755 and followed his father to Massachusetts in 1756.
Maurice's seventh and youngest son Charles left his native Port-Toulouse, married Félicité-Cécile, daughter of Pierre Mignot and Marie-Catherine Ouellet, at Beaubassin in February 1746 and died by January 1753, in his late 20s or early 30s, place unrecorded.459
Mathieu Brasseur dit La Citardy, an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Jeanne Célestin dit Bellemère created what could have been a large family in the colony. Between the early 1700s and the late 1720s, Jeanne gave Mathieu 11 children, five sons and six daughters, all of whom created their own families. Their daughters married into the Doucet, Bernard, Henry dit Robert, Poyer dit Lapintade, Doiron, Benoit, Aucoin, and Poirier families, and one of them emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland. Mathieu, who was fathering children by his young wife while in his late 70s, died at Minas in May 1733, in his early 80s. His and Jeanne's descendants settled at Minas, Chignecto, Chepoudy in the trois-rivières area west of Chignecto, and on Île St.-Jean. Three of their sons favored different surnames. Eleven of Mathieu dit La Citardy's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in the late 1760s and from France in 1785. After Le Grand Dérangement, members of the family, some of whom called themselves LeBrasseur, also could be found in Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, once a part of greater Acadia.
Oldest son Mathieu dit LeBrasseur, born probably at Minas in c1705, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Jean Pitre and Françoise Babin, in c1727, probably at Minas. According to genealogist Bona Arsenault, between 1728 and 1752, Anne-Marie gave Mathieu 11 children, five sons and six daughters. They family moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1750. In August 1752, a French official counted Mathieu, Anne-Marie, and their 11 children at Anse-du-Nord-Ouest on the south shore of the island. They escaped the British roundup on the island in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and then at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs. They were among the famille ordinaires counted at Restigouche in October 1760. After the war, members of the family settled in nearby Gaspésie on the north shore of the Baie des Chaleurs in present-day Québec Province. Five of Mathieu's daughters married into the Lejeune, Laroque, Tessier, Cyr, Dickson, and Chapados families on Île St.-Jean, at Restigouche, and in Gaspésie. Four of Mathieu's five sons also created their own families.
Oldest son Pierre, born at Minas in c1731, followed his family to Île St.-Jean and married Marguerite-Josèphe, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Gaudet and Marie-Josèphe Darois, at Port-La-Joye on the island in late August 1752, soon after being counted with his family at Anse-du-Nord-Ouest. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1754 and 1778, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre six children, two sons and four daughters. After escaping the British in 1758, they crossed Mer Rouge and followed his family to Restigouche. After the war, they settled at Paspébiac in Gaspésie. Pierre's daughters married into the Duguay, Langlois, Lenteige, and Laviolette families in Gapésie. One of his sons created his own families.
Older son Joseph, born probably at Restigouche in c1759, married Marie Huard probably in Gaspésie in the 1780s. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1786 and 1792, Marie gave Joseph four children, a son and three daughters. Their son survived childhood but did not marry.
Only son Joseph, fils, born in Gaspésie in 1788, died in 1833, age 45, still a bachelor. His father's and grandfather's family lines may have died with him.
Mathieu's second son François, born at Minas in c1737, followed his family to Île St.-Jean. He died on the island in February 1757, age 20, before he could marry.
Mathieu's third son Mathurin, born at Minas in c1739, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, Restigouche, and Gaspésie. He married Catherine-Thérèse, daughter of René Duguay and Marguerite LeBreton, at Paspébiac in c1764. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1780, Catherine gave Mathurin five children, two sons and three daughters. Two of their daughters married into the Denis, Roussy, and Loiselle families at Paspébiac. Mathurin's two sons created their own families there.
Older son Joseph-Mathurin, born probably at Paspébiac in c1777, married Tharsile-Euphrosine, daughter of Jacques Duguay and Véronique Chapados, in a civil ceremony at Paspébiac in September 1801. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1802 and 1813, Tharsile gave Joseph six children, two sons and four daughters.
Mathurin's younger son Emmaneul, born probably ast Paspébiac in c1780, married Angélique, daughter of Léon Roussy and Anne Chapados, at Paspébiac in November 1802. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1804 and 1823, Angélique gave Emmanuel nine children, two sons and seven daughters.
Mathieu's fourth son François-Xavier, born at Minas in c1741, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, Restigouche, and Gaspésie. He married Louise, daughter of Joseph Gauthier and Marguerite Bujold, at Bonaventure near Paspébiac in March 1780. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1782 and 1796, Louise gave François-Xavier four children, two sons and two daughters. One of their daughters married into the Ferrand family at Paspébiac. Both of François's sons created their own families there.
Older son François, fils, born in Gaspésie in c1782, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Castilloux and Jeanne Chapados, at Paspébiac in January 1809. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1808 and 1809, Marguerite gave François, fils two sons.
François-Xavier's younger son Nicolas, born in Gaspésie in c1790, married Élizabeth, daughter of Robert Loiselle and Anne-Élizabeth Roussy, at Paspébiac in February 1817. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1819 and 1837, Anne-Élizabeth gave Nicolas nine children, two sons and seven daughters.
Mathieu's fifth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Minas in c1746, followed his family to Île St.-Jean, Restigouche, and Gaspésie. According to Arsenault, Jean-Baptiste married Charlotte Aubry probably at Paspébiac, date unrecorded, and died there in February 1818, age 72.
Mathieu's second son Cosme or Côme dit Brasseux, born at Minas in December 1712, married Élisabeth, daughter of Pierre Thibodeau le jeune and Anne-Marie Aucoin, at Grand-Pré in January 1738. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1738 and 1746, Élisabeth gave Cosme four children, two sons and two daughters, but other records give them two more sons and three more daughters, nine children in all. The British deported the family to Maryland in 1755. Their older surviving son married there. Cosme's widow and seven of her children, including her married son, emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767. Both of Cosme's surviving sons created vigorous family lines in the Spanish colony.
Older son Pierre, born at Minas in c1742, followed his family to Maryland, where he married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, Richard, place not given. They and their infant daughter Marguerite followed his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana in 1767. They settled with them at San Gabriel on the river above New Orleans, where Élisabeth gave Pierre more children. Their daughters married into the Babin, Capdeville, and LeBlanc families. Two of Pierre's three sons, all born in Louisiana, married into the Gautreaux and Landry families on the river, where their name evolved into Brasset. Two of Pierre's grandsons joined their cousins on to the western prairies during the early antebellum period.
Cosme's younger son Blaise, born at Minas in c1752, followed his family to Maryland and his widowed mother and siblings to Louisiana in 1767. He settled with them at San Gabriel on the river, but he did not remain there. Later in the decade or in the early 1770s, he crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Opelousas District and married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Préjean and his first wife Madeleine Martin, probably at Opelousas in the mid-1770s. Their daughters married into the Landry, Prather, Richard, Smith, and Wood family. Two of Blaise's four sons married into the Carmouche and Porché families and settled in what became St. Landry Parish.
Mathieu's third son Jean, born at Minas in December 1719, married Madeleine, daughter of Philippe Roy and Cécile Mazerolle, in c1750 probably at Minas. One wonders what happened to them in 1755.
Mathieu's fourth son Claude dit Paul dit Mathieu, born probably at Minas in c1722, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Bertrand l'aîné and Marie-Françoise Léger, at Beaubassin in August 1746. They evidently escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in 1755 and found refuge in Canada. Claude died at Ste.-Thérèse de Blainville, northwest of Montréal, in August 1799, in his late 70s.
Mathieu's fifth and youngest son Joseph, born at Minas in March 1726, married Marie-Rose, daughter of Jean Daigre and Marie-Madeleine Landry, at Grand-Pré in October 1748. Between 1750 and 1763, Marie-Rose gave Joseph three children, all daughters. The British deported the family to Virginia in 1755, and Virginia authorities sent them on to England in 1756, where they languished at Southampton for seven years. In May 1763, Joseph, Marie-Rose, and their three daughters, along with dozens of other Acadians in England, were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport L'Ambition. The family settled at St.-Suliac on the east side of the river south of St.-Malo. They were part of the settlement scheme in the interior of Poitou during the early 1770s and retreated to with other Poitou Acadians to the port of Nantes in March 1776. Marie-Rose died at Nantes in June 1781, age 50. Two of her and Joseph's daughters, Marie and Osite, emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785. Marie married into the Trahan family in the Spanish colony, so the blood, at least, of this line of the family endured in the Bayou State.460
Carret
Pierre Carret, the former soldier, an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Angélique Chiasson created what could have been another large family in the colony. Angélique gave her soldier 13 children, six sons and seven daughters. Their daughters married into the Blanchard dit Gentilhomme, Doucet, Hugon, Martin, Landry, and Henry families. Four of Pierre's six sons created their own families. Pierre died by October 1754, place and age unrecorded. His and Angélique's descendants settled not only at Chignecto, but also in the French Maritimes, and their fate during and after Le Grand Dérangement is difficult to determine. Though Carrets emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785, none seem to have been the soldier's descendants.
Oldest son Pierre, fils married Anne, daughter of Pierre Caissie dit Roger and Marie-Thérèse Mirande, in c1733 probably at Chignecto.
Pierre's second son Jacques evidently died young.
Pierre's third son Jean married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Michel Poirier and Françoise Arseneau, at Beaubassin in November 1740.
Pierre's fourth son Joseph married in c1748 a woman whose name has been lost to history, place not given, and remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of François Lapierre and Marie-Josèphe Caissie, in August 1763, place unrecorded.
Pierre's fifth son Germain married Catherine, daughter of Charles Bourgeois and Madeleine Cormier, at Chignecto in October 1754.
Pierre's sixth and youngest son Charles-Ignace, soon after he was pronounced a lunatic in South Carolina, died in January 1756 while in exile evidently before he could marry.461
Gabriel Moulaison dit Recontre, an early 1700s arrival, and his legitimate wife Marie Aubois created what could have become a good-sized family in the colony. Marie gave him nine children, four sons and five daughters, all of whom created families of their own. Gabriel's "natural" daughter Marie, by Marie Daigre, married into the Henshaw or Hansole family. Gabriel's daughters by Marie Aubois married into the Bertrand, Mius d'Entremont, Doucet, and Viger families. Gabriel died by July 1753, place unrecorded, perhaps at Pobomcoup near Cap-Sable, in his mid- or late 60s. Marie Aubois died in Trés-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, France, in February 1760, in her early 70s. Their descendants settled in Acadia at Pobomcoup, Cap-Sable, and Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal. They were among the few Acadian families who did not retreat to the French Maritimes. A least six of Gabriel's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785. More of them could be found in France after that date.
Oldest son Pierre, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1709, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Doucet and Marie-Madeleine Robichaud, in c1750, place unrecorded, perhaps at nearby Pobomcoup. Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre a son at Pobomcoup in c1755. They, too, were rounded up at Cap-Sable in late 1758, held at Halifax, and deported to England and France in December 1758 and January 1759. The family landed at Le Havre in Normandy, where another son was born in 1761 or 1762. Pierre died in Notre-Dame Parish, Le Havre, in February 1769, age 60. His widow and an older son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.
Older son Joseph, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1755, followed his family to Halifax, England, and France. He followed his widowed mother to Nantes by September 1784 and to Spanish Louisiana the following year. They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. At age 30, he married Marie-Marguerite-Pélagie of Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, daughter of fellow Acadians Alexis Gautrot and Marguerite-Louis Haché, at Ascension on the river in June 1786. Marie-Marguerite also had emigrated to Louisiana in 1785 aboard the same ship. They remained on the upper Lafourche. Three of their daughters and one of their sons were baptized at New Orleans in the 1790s, so the family resided in the city (one wonders why) before returning to the upper bayou. Joseph's belongings were inventoried and recorded at the Thibodauxville courthouse, Lafourche Interior Parish, in March 1815. He would have been age 60 that year. His daughters married into the Clouâtre, Dechamps, D'Hué, Ledet, and Pitre families. Three of his four sons also married, into the Hébert, Lejeune, LeBlanc, and Breaux families on the Lafourche.
Pierre's younger son Caesar-Auguste, born in Notre-Dame Parish, Le Havre, in May 1761 or 1762, if he was still alive in 1785, did not follow his widowed mother and older brother to Louisiana that year. If he was still living in 1785, one wonders what became of him in France.
Gabriel's second son Jacques, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1712, married Marie-Cécile, called Cécile, daughter of Ambroise Melanson and Marguerite Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in November 1743. Between 1745 and 1770, at Cap-Sable and in France, Cécile gave Jacques a dozen children, six daughters and six sons. The family also was rounded up at Cap-Sable in late 1758, held at Halifax, and deported to England and France. They landed at Cherbourg, Normandy, across the bay from Le Havre. An older daughter either landed at, or moved on to, Le Havre. Some of the family went to the interior of Poitou in 1773 and retreated to the port of Nantes in 1775. Jacques died at L'Hermitage, Chantenay, near Nantes, in August 1780, age 78. Wife Cécile died at Nantes in January 1796, age 72. Three of their daughters married into the Bourg, Granger, Henry, Vallet, and Morel families in France and Louisiana. At least three of Jacques's sons married in France. One of them and one of his daughters emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. The rest remained in France.
Oldest son Jacques, fils, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1747, followed his family to Halifax, England, France, and Poitou, where, at age 27, he married Marie-Blanche, daughter of fellow Acadians Paul Doiron and Marguerite Michel of Pigiguit and widow of Bonaventure Thériot and Sylvain Aucoin, at St.-Jean-de-l'Evangeliste, Châtellerault, in May 1774. A daughter was born at nearby Cenan in 1775. Later in the year, Jacques, fils and his family followed other Poitou Acadians to Nantes. They settled in St.-Nicolas Parish there, where Marie-Blanche gave him two more children, another daughter and a son, in 1776 and 1779--three children in all. Jacques, fils, Marie-Blanche, and their children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. They followed most of their fellow passengers to Baton Rouge; the couple had no more children. Jacques, fils died at Baton Rouge in July 1812. The priest who recorded the burial said that Jacques, "married," died at age 77. He was in his mid-60s. His daughters married into the Daigre and Broussard families at Baton Rouge. His son also married there, into the Bernard du Montier family, created a family line in what became West Baton Rouge Parish, and owned 50 slaves in 1850.
Jacques, père's second son François, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1748, followed his family to Halifax, England, and France, where, at age 23, he married Thérèse, daughter of French locals Bon Antoine Quoniam and Jeanne La Cam of Cherbourg, in that city in October 1771. A daughter was born in Très-Ste-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in October 1772. François took his family to Poitou in 1773, where another daughter was born at Archigny near Châtellerault in October 1774. The following year, they followed his family to Nantes, where François worked as a seaman and navigator. Two sons were born at nearby Chantenay and in St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, in 1777 and 1778--four children in all, two daughters and two sons. The older son and the younger daughter did not survive childhood. François and Thérèse chose to remain in France in 1785.
Jacques, père's third son Joseph le jeune, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1754, followed his family to Halifax, England, and France. He burned to death aboard a ship at Cherbourg in December 1770, age 16.
Jacques, père's fourth son Pierre le jeune, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1755, followed his family to Halifax, England, and France, where he worked as a seaman. He may have been at sea when his family went to Poitou in 1773. If so, he joined them at Nantes. At age 29, Pierre le jeune married Marguerite, 31-year-old daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Granger and Madeleine Melanson, at St.-Martin de Chantenay near Nantes in July 1784. A son was born at Chantenay in June 1785. They, too, chose to remain in France in 1785.
Jacques, père's fifth son Étienne, born in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in February 1763, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes, where he, too, worked as a seaman. He died at Paimboeuf, the lower port of Nantes, in October 1780, age 17.
Jacques, père's sixth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, born in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in January 1770, followed his family to Poitou and Nantes. If he was still alive in 1785, he also chose to remain in France. If so, one wonders what became of him there.
Gabriel's third son Joseph, born probably at Cap-Sable in the late 1710s or early 1720s, married Jeanne, daughter of Augustin Comeau and Jeanne Levron, at Cap-Sable in July 1753. One wonders what became of them in late 1758. If they followed his family to Halifax, England, and France later that year, the historical record says nothing of it.
Gabriel's fourth and youngest son Gabriel, fils, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1724, married Anne-Marie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Porlier and Anne-Marie de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, at Cap-Sable in July 1753, on the same day and at the same place his older brother married. Gabriel, fils and Anne-Marie also were rounded up at Cap-Sable in late 1758, held at Halifax, and deported to England and France. Gabriel, fils died in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in March 1760, age 36, soon after his arrival in the Norman port. His line of the family died with him.462
Gentil
Élie Gentil, mason, an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Cécile Martin dit Barnabé, created a small family in the colony. Cécile gave him only two children, a daughter and a son. Daughter Anne-Marie, or Marie-Anne, born at Port-Royal in February 1704, married Jean-Baptiste, daughter of Michel Haché dit Gallant and Anne Cormier of Chignecto, at Beaubassin in February 1719. Anne followed her husband to Île St.-Jean in the early 1720s, among the first Acadians to go there. A French official counted her, now a widow, on upper Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior in August 1752, age 48. With her were seven of her younger Haché children, including a son, Louis, then age 11, who emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.
Élie's son,
name
unrecorded, born probably at Port-Royal before 1717, died young,
Jean
Clémenceau, the retired sergeant of troupes de la marine, an early
1700s arrival, created with his wives Anne
Roy and Marguerite Corporon a small family in the colony.
Between 1706 and 1717, wife Anne gave him six children, four daughters and two
sons. Second
"wife" Marguerite gave him another son in 1712--seven children, four daughters
and three sons, by two women between 1706 and 1717. Wife Anne died at
Annapolis Royal in October 1717, in her early 30s.
Oldest son Louis, by wife Anne Roy, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1712, married Anne, daughter of Jean Caissie and Cécile Hébert, in c1739, place unrecorded, and settled at Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1740 and 1747, Anne gave Louis three children, two daughters and a son. One wonders what happened to them in 1755.
Jean's second son Jean, fils, by wife Anne Roy, born at Annapolis Royal in September 1714, evidently died young.
Jean's third and youngest son Jean-Pierre, by Marguerite Corporon, was born at Annapolis Royal in March 1712, when his father was still married to another woman, which made him a "natural son." Jean-Pierre married Marie, daughter of René Martin and Marie Mignier and widow of François Richard, at Annapolis Royal in January 1735. She may have given him no children. He remarried to Françoise, daughter of Claude Gautrot and Marguerite Landry, at Grand-Pré in October 1747. In 1751 and 1752, Françoise gave Jean-Pierre two daughters at Minas. The British deported the family to Virginina in the fall of 1755, and Virginia authorites sent them on to England the following spring. Evidently Jean-Piere and Françoise died in England. Their daughters--Marie; and Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine--were repatraited with relatives aboard the transport Ambition to St.-Malo, France, in May 1763. From that year to the early 1780s, they settled at St.-Servan-sur-Mer and Plouër-sur-Rance in the St.-Malo area, and in the port of Nantes on the lower Loire. First the younger sister and then the older one married into the Carret and Trahan families. In 1785, the sisters and their families followed one another to Spanish Louisiana aboard the fourth of the Seven Ships. From New Orleans, they followed their fellow passeners to upper Bayou Lafourche, where the sisters remarried into the L'Autel and Delanoir families, so at least the blood of this branch of the Clémenceau family endured in the Bayou State.464
Maucaïre
Yves
Maucaïre,
an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Élisabeth Levron created a small
family in the colony. Élisabeth gave Yves three children, a son and two
daughters,
Only
Charles Orillon dit Champagne, mason, soldier, and caretaker, an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Marie-Anne Bastarache created what could have been a good-sized family in the colony. Marie-Anne gave Charles nine children, seven sons and two daughters, including a pair of twins. Their younger daughter married into the Hébert family. Five of their seven sons created their own families. Charles dit Champagne died at Annapolis Royal in December 1742, age 90, a widower. His and Marie-Anne's descendants settled at Annapolis Royal and Chignecto and were among the few Acadian families who did not retreat to the French Maritimes. Some of Charles dit Champagne's sons used their father's dit as their surname. At least two of Charles's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from French St.-Domingue in 1765. Even more of them could be found in French St.-Domingue and especially in Canada after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit Champagne l'aîné, born at Port-Royal in November 1704, married Cécile, daughter of René Labauve and Anne Lejeune, in c1735 probably at Annapolis Royal. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1745, Cécile gave Jean-Baptiste l'aîné five children, three sons and two daughters. Other records give them more children. The British deported members of the family to South Carolina in the late fall of 1755. Their older sons evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal and remained in greater Acadia. The members of the family sent to South Carolina--Jean-Baptiste l'aîné, Cécile, and their younger children--evidently were among the Acadians in the southern colonies allowed to return to greater Acadia by boat in the spring of 1756, but they were detained at Long Island, New York, on their way up the coast. Colonial officials sent the family of four to Eastchester in Westchester County, where John Bastel Urian, as he was called, his wife, and their children were counted in August along with his youngest brother's family. Both families were still in New York in 1763, one family with five children, the other with two. One wonders if Jean-Baptiste l'aîné and his family followed his youngest brother Jean-Baptite le jeune to French St.-Domingue in 1763 or joined two of his younger brothers in Canada later in the decade. One also wonders if Jean-Baptiste l'aîné and Cécile ever saw their older sons again.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1735, either moved to the French Maritimes when he came of age or escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge on Île St.-Jean. He married Louise-Charlotte, daughter of Guillaume Poitiers Dubuisson de Pommeroy and Jeanne-Philippe de Catalogne of Montréal, at Port-La-Joye on the island in August 1756. Louise-Charlotte's uncle was Robert Poitiers Dubuisson, a French official on Île St.-Jean in its early years who died at Port-La-Joye in 1744. One wonders what happened to the young couple during the island's dérangement in 1758. Louis-Charlotte's mother died at Trois-Rivières on the upper St. Lawrence in March 1769, so Jean-Baptiste, fils and Louise-Charlotte may have joined her family in Canada. Many of Jean-Baptiste, fils's Orillon relatives, perhaps including his younger brother, also settled in the Trois-Rivières area after Le Grand Dérangement.
Jean-Baptiste l'aîné's second son Charles le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in c1740, may have escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and followed relatives to Canada. He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Paul Lauzet and Marie-Anne Renault, at Québec in February 1762. They likely remained in British Canada and may have joined Charles le jeune's many Orillon relatives in the Trois-Rivières/Nicolet area.
Charles's second and third son Jean, a twin, born at Port-Royal in November 1708, died 10 days after his birth.
Charles's third son Joseph, Jean's twin, died the day before his twin brother.
Charles's fourth son Charles dit Champagne, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1713, married Anne, daughter of François Richard and Anne Comeau, at Annapolis Royal in September 1734. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1761, Anne gave Charles, fils 11 children, seven daughters and four sons. The family, along with Abbé Leguerne and others, escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge in Canada via the Rivière St.-Jean portage. They were living at Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières as early as 1761, a year after the British subdued the northern province. Charles, fils, at age 50, remarried to Marie, daughter of Louis Doucet and Marguerite Girouard and widow of Jean-Baptiste Gaudet, at Nicolet in June 1763. She evidently gave him no more children. Charles, fils died at Nicolet in March 1790, age 76. His daughters married into the Pitre, Boudrot, Laforce, Robert, Lemire, and Gaudet families at Nicolet, and one of them resettled at Nepisiguit, today's Bathurst in northeastern New Brunswick. Three of his sons also settled in the Nicolet area.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in c1738, followed his family to Canada and married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Gaudet and Marie Doucet, at Nicolet in September 1762. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1779 at Nicolet, Françoise gave Jean-Baptiste le jeune seven children, four sons and three daughters. One of their daughters married into the Bellerose family at Nicolet. All four of their sons also settled there.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at Nicolet in c1763, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Descôteaux and Natalie Richard, at Nicolet in August 1785.
Jean-Baptiste le jeune's second son Louis, born at Nicolet in c1771, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Deshaies and Marie-Josèphe Généreaux, at Nicolet in August 1794.
Jean-Baptiste le jeune's third son Joseph, born at Nicolet in c1775, married Marie-Josèphe Martel there in February 1805.
Jean-Baptiste le jeune's fourth and youngest son Charles, born at Nicolet in c1779, married Marie Salmon there in October 1802.
Charles, fils's second son Jean-Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in c1753, followed his family to Canada and married Angélique, daughter of Louis Gauthier and Clémence Gadu, at Rivière-du-Loup, today's Louiseville, across from Nicolet, in January 1777.
Charles, fils's third son Firmin, born in exile in c1756, followed his family to Canada and married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Gaudet and Marie-Josèphe Comeau, at Nicolet in August 1785.
Charles, père's fifth son Pierre dit Champagne, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1715, married Brigitte, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Brun dit Le Brun and Anne Gautrot, at Annapolis Royal in January 1742. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1742 and 1767, Brigitte gave Pierre seven children, six sons and a daughter. The British deported the family to Connecticut in the fall of 1755. Pierre and a family of nine were still in the colony in 1763. Later in the decade, they followed other exiles to British Canada and joined older brother Charles at Nicolet across from Trois-Rivières. Pierre died there in June 1804, age 88. His daughter married into the Dumas family at Nicolet. His five sons also married Canadians, two of them to sisters, most of them twice, and settled in the Trois-Rivière/Nicolet area.
Oldest son Joseph le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in c1742, followed his family to Connecticut and Canada. He married Marie-Louis, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Angélique Malboeuf and sister of his sister Marie-Josephe's husband, at Nicolet in January 1773.
Pierre's second son Jean-Baptiste le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in c1744, followed his family to Connecticut and Canada. He married Josette, daughter of Thomas Terrien and Charlotte Descôteaux, at Trois-Rivières in November 1776 and worked at the ironworks in St.-Maurice north of Trois-Rivières.
Pierre's third son Pierre, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1750, followed his family to Connecticut and Canada. He married an Indian in c1775, place unrecorded. According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him three sons. In his late 40s, he remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Paul Miraben dit Vadeboncoeur and Marie-Louise Delaire, at Nicolet in March 1796. According to Arsenault, Pierre, fils "voyagea dan l'ouest du pays"--he traveled to the western country. One wonders if he settled there.
Pierre, père's fourth son Charles le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in c1750, followed his family to Connecticut and Canada. He married Marie-Françoise, another daughter of Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Angélique Malboeuf, at Nicolet in February 1777, and, in his late 40s, remarried to Marie-Louise, another daughter of Paul Miraben dit Vadeboncoeur and Marie-Louise Delaire, at Nicolet in June 1798.
Pierre, père's fifth and youngest son David, born probably in Canada in c1767, married, in his early 30s, Françoise, daughter of Joseph Deshaies and Marie-Josèphe Généreaux, at Nicolet in February 1797. At age 40, he remarried to Rosalie, daughter of Pierre Lupien, at Nicolet in November 1806.
Charles, père's sixth son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1718, married Marguerite, daughter of François Dugas and Claire Bourg, at Annapolis Royal in February 1746. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1751, Marguerite gave Josesph four children, two daughters and two sons, including a set of twins. Other records give them another son, five children in all. The British deported the family to South Carolina in late fall of 1755. Joseph and Marguerite died there before August 1763. At least two of their children, now teenage orphans, followed a maternal aunt and her family to French St.-Domingue soon after the August 1763 counting and moved on to Louisiana in 1765. A daughter married into the Forest family in Louisiana.
Oldest son Joseph, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in c1748, followed his family to South Carolina and relatives and a sister to French St.-Domingue and Louisiana. He married Marie-Rose, called Rose, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Breau and Marguerite Gautrot, at Ascension on the river above New Orleans in c1770. They settled at San Gabriel farther upriver. Joseph, fils died at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in January 1810, in his early 60s. His daughters married into the Babin, Melançon, and Roth families. His two sons also married, into the Marrionneaux and Foret families at St.-Gabriel. All of the Acadian Orillions of South Louisiana are descended from Joseph, fils's older son.
Charles, père's seventh and youngest son Jean-Baptiste dit Champagne le jeune, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1722, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Deveau and Cécile Caissie, at Beaubassin in October 1746. According to Bona Arsenault, Marguerite gave Jean-Baptiste le jeune a daughter in 1748. Other records give them another daughter, two children in all. The British deported the family to South Carolina in the late fall of 1755. They likely were among the Acadians in the southern colonies allowed to return to greater Acadia by boat in the spring of 1756 but were detained at Long Island, New York, on their way up the coast. Colonial officials sent them to Eastchester in Westchester County, where John Baptist Urian, as he was called, his wife, and two children were counted in August along with his oldest brother's family. Both families were still in New York in 1763, one family with five children, the other with two. That year or the following, Jean-Baptiste le jeune and his family followed other exiles in the seaboard colonies to French St.-Domingue, where Jean-Baptiste le jeune became a charron du roi, or wheelright in the King's service. Jean-Baptiste le jeune died at Bombarde, today's Bombardopolis, near Môle St.-Nicolas on the island's northwest shore in January 1785, age 63. One of his daughters married into the Clenet family at Bombarde, so the blood of the family line may have endured.466
Sr. Jean
Mouton, surgeon, an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Marie Girouard
created what could have been a good-sized family in the colony.
Marie gave the surgeon 10 children, seven sons and three daughters. Two of their
daughters married into the Hébert and Richard families. Five
of Sr. Jean's seven sons also married, two of them to sisters.
Oldest son Jean, fils, born at Minas in November 1712, an armurier or gunsmith, married Marguerite, daughter of Louis Poirier and Cécile Mignot, at Beaubassin in January 1734. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1735 and 1743, Marguerite gave Jean, fils three children, two daughters and a son. The British deported the family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755 aboard the transport Edward Cornwallis. One of their daughters married into the Girouard family. Their son also married and chose to resettle in the French Antilles.
Only son François, born at Chignecto in c1743, followed his family to South Carolina. In 1763 or 1764, he followed other Acadian exiles in the southern colonies to French St.-Domingue. He married fellow Acadian Marguerite Poirier, who had the same name as his mother, probably in the sugar colony. When fellow Acadians, including two paternal uncles, came through Cap-Français in late 1764 and 1765 on their way to New Orleans, François chose to remain at Môle St.-Nicolas on the northwest side of the island. There, from 1776 to 1785, Marguerite gave him four sons. One wonders what happened to them during the Haitian slave revolt of the 1790s.
Jean's second son Jacques, born probably at Minas in the 1710s, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Caissie and Marie-Thérèse Mirande, at Beaubassin in November 1734. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1739 and 1745, Marguerite gave Jacques four children, three daughters and a son. The British deported the family to South Carolina in the fall of 1755 aboard the transport Endeavor. Their son, still in his teens, may have been among the Acadians in the southern colony allowed to return to greater Acadia via sea in 1756. A sister also may have returned with him. Jacques died before July 1763, place unrecorded, probably in South Carolina. His oldest daughter Marguerite married into the Loiseau and Robichaud families, the second marriage at Québec in July 1763. Jacques's son emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax with two of his paternal uncles in 1765.
Only son Jean dit Neveu, the Nephew, born at Chignecto in c1740, followed his family to South Carolina in 1755 but evidently returned to greater Acadia via boat the following spring. He joined his paternal uncles Pierre, Salvator, and Louis on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and probably was with them at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs in 1760. He either surrendered to, or was captured by, British forces in the area soon after the fight there and joined his uncles in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, for the rest of the war. Jean married Élisabeth, or Isabelle, daughter of Jean Bastarache and Angélique Richard and younger sister of his uncle Salvator and Louis's wives, in the early 1760s, probably at Fort Edward. Neveu was counted at Fort Edward in the summer of 1762 with a family of three. After the war, he and Élisabeth, now childless, followed his uncles Salvator and Louis to Louisiana in 1765. Élisabeth was pregnant on the voyage. She gave birth to a daughter at New Orleans in November 1765. They settled near his uncles at Cabahannocer on the river, where Spanish officials counted them in April 1766. In c1777, four years after his uncle Salvator died, Jean dit Neveu and Salvator's sons Marin and Jean le jeune crossed the Atchafalaya Basin and settled in the Attakapas District, where Spanish authorities counted them that May. Wife Élisabeth died at Attakapas in April 1798. Jean dit Neveu did not remarry. Like his cousins, he also claimed land as far west as the Mermentau River valley, but he and most of his descendants, like those of his cousins, remained in the old Attakapas District. Jean dit Neveu died at Attakapas in August 1802. The priest who recorded the burial said that Jean was age 58 when he died, but he probably was closer to 62. His daughter evidently did not survive childhood. His three sons, born in the colony, married into the Cormier, Doucet, and Comeau families and settled in what became Lafayette Parish, but only two of the lines endured.
Jean's third son Charles, born probably at Minas in c1721, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Comeau and Susanne Bézier and widow of Sylvain Bourgeois, in c1755 probably at Chignecto. The British deported the family to South Carolina or Georgia in the fall of 1755. According to Bona Arsenault, Anne gave Charles a son in c1756. They evidently were among the Acadians in the southern colonies allowed to return to greater Acadia by boat in the spring of 1756. If so, they got no farther than Long Island, New York, where colonial officials refused to allow them to go any farther and held them in the colony till the end of the war. A Charles Lamottin with wife and a child were sent to La Rochelle in May 1756; this may have been Charles, Anne, and infant son Georges. Charles took his family to the French Antilles after 1763 and was counted at Champflores, Martinique, in January 1766 with his wife, a Bourgeois stepson and stepdaughter, and two sons of his own. Charles, Anne, and their remaining son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in the late 1760s and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans, where Charles died in November 1798, in his late 70s. His surviving son married into the Gaudet family on the river, but the line did not endure.
Jean's fourth son Justinien, born at Minas in May 1721, probably died young.
Jean's fifth son Pierre, born at Beaubassin in December 1732, escaped the British roundup at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and took refuge with his younger brothers Salvator and Louis on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. He and his brothers were at Restigouche by June 1760, when he and brother Salvator witnessed a marriage there. Bona Arsenault says Pierre died in the fighting at Restigouche that summer. He would have been age 28 and did not marry.
Jean's sixth son Salvator, born at Chignecto in c1733, married Anne, daughter of Jean Bastarache and Angélique Richard, at Annapolis Royal in January 1752 and settled at Chignecto. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1754 and 1761, Anne gave Salvatore four children, two daughters and two sons. They 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, they moved on to Restigouche and were there during the British attack on the French stronghold in the summer of 1760. 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 Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in Nova Scotia until the end of the war. They evidently lost their two daughters during exile. Salvator, Anne, and their two sons emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. Anne was pregnant on the voyage and gave birth to another daughter at New Orleans in September 1765--five children, three daughters and two sons, in all. They settled at Cabahannocer, later called the Acadian Coast, above New Orleans near his brother Louis and nephew Jean dit Neveu. Wife Anne died soon after their arrival, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth. Salvator remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Forest and ____, at New Orleans in 1768. He died in the hospital at New Orleans in April 1773, age 40. Later in the decade, his children, with nephew Jean, crossed the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District. Salvator's surviving daughter married into the Guilbeau family at Attakapas. His two sons also married, into the Lambert, Bernard, and Borda families, none of them fellow Acadians, and created vigorous lines on the prairies. Younger son Jean dit Chapeau's family was especially large and influential. His eighth son Alexandre, in fact, became the first popularly-elected governor of the State of Louisiana.
Jean's seventh
and youngest son Louis, born at Chignecto in c1737, escaped the British roundup
at Chignecto in the fall of 1755 and followed older brother Salvator to the Gulf
of St. Lawrence shore and to Restigouche. He married Marie-Modeste, another
Thébeau
Pierre
Thébeau,
an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Marie-Jeanne Comeau created a small
family in the colony. Marie-Jeanne gave Pierre two children, a son and a
daughter, both of whom married. Their daughter
Only son Jacques-François married Anne dite Nannette, daughter of Paul Melanson and Marie Thériot, at Grand-Pré in August 1733, remained there, and died probably at Minas before 1755, in his 40s. Nannette gave him at least eight children, four sons and four daughters. What happened to them in 1755?469
Samson
Gabriel
Samson,
fils, navigator and carpenter, an early 1700s arrival, and his wife
Jeanne Martin dit Barnabé created a small family
Oldest son Michel, born at Port-Royal in July 1706, followed his family to Port-Toulouse in the early 1720s. He married Anne dite Jeanne, daughter of François Testard dit Paris and Marie Doiron, at Port-Toulouse in c1729. A French official counted them there in February 1752. Oldest daughter Anne married a Prejean widower probably at Port-Toulouse after February 1752. The British deported Michel and his family to France in 1758; they were living at La Rochelle on the Bay of Biscay in 1761. Daughter Anne, along with her younger son, died at sea aboard the British transport Queen of Spain on the way to St.-Malo. After the war, Michel and what remained of his family returned to North America and settled on Île St.-Pierre off the southern coast of Newfoundland. Michel drowned in the sinking of the Neptune, perhaps a fishing boat, in April 1764, age 57.
Oldest son Jean, born probably at Port-Toulouse in c1734, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Gervais Bricette and Marie L'Esperance, probably at Port-Toulouse in c1755. According to Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., Marie-Josèphe gave Jean two sons--Jean, fils and Michel--on the island in 1756 and 1758. The British deported the family to St.-Malo, France, aboard the Queen of Spain in 1758. Both of the sons died at sea, Marie-Josèphe died in the hospital at St.-Malo within a week of her arrival, and Jean, père died at St.-Malo the following March, age 25, probably from the rigors of the crossing.
Michel's second son Jean-Fabien, called Fabien, born probably at Port-Toulouse in c1741, was likely the Jean, age 17, who was counted with his family at Port-Toulouse in February 1752. Fabien also was deported to France in 1758 aboard the Queen of Spain, but, unlike his older brother and sister, he survived the crossing. He settled at St.-Malo probably with relatives. In 1760, he volunteered for privateer duty. The British took him prisoner that June aboard Le Hardy, after which he disappears from history.
Gabriel's second son Mathieu, born at Port-Royal in August 1709, followed his family to Port-Toulouse. He married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Pouget dit Lapierre and Françoise Moyse, in c1730 probably at Port-Toulouse. A French official counted them there in February 1752. One wonders what happened to them in 1758.
Gabriel's third and youngest son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in October 1717, followed his family to Port-Toulouse, where he married Marie, daughter of Nicolas Préjean and his first wife Marguerite Broussard, after August 1752; Marie's father remarried to Charles's niece Anne Samson probably at Port-Toulouse after August 1752. The British deported Charles and Marie to St.-Malo, France, aboard the transport Queen of Spain in late 1758. Charles died at sea, and Marie died at her father's home in St.-Malo three and a half months after her arrival.473
Pouget
Pierre
Pouget dit Lapierre, coppersmith and retired soldier, an early 1700s arrival,
and his wife Françoise Moyse created a small family
Oldest son Pierre-Jacques, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1714, followed his family to Île Royale and married Madeleine, daughter of François Langlois and Madeleine Comeau and sister of one of his sister's husbands, at Port-Toulouse on the island in c1737. A French official counted them on the north side of Île Madame off the southern coast of Île Royale in Feburary 1752. One wonders what happened to them in 1758.
Pierre's second Charles-François, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1715, evidently died young.
Pierre's third son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1720, also died young.
Pierre's fourth
and youngest son Jean, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1722, followed his family
to Port-Toulouse and married Marguerite, another daughter of
Marchand
Louis
Marchand
or Marcheguy dit Poitiers, former corporal, an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Marie
Godin dit Châtillon created a small family
Older son François-Louis, called Louis, born at Port-Royal in July 1706, probably followed his family to Port-Toulouse, but he did not remain there. He married Marguerite, daughter of Antoine Vigneau and Madeleine Pichet, at Québec in June 1728. They were still living there in 1744.
Son Joseph, born probably at Québec in the late 1720s or early 1730s, left Canada and "returned" to Île Royale. Described as a "second capitaine de navire," he married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Arrichoury LeBlanc and Anne Raux, at Louisbourg in October 1751. One wonders what happened to them in 1758.
Louis's younger son Jean dit Poitiers, born at Annapolis Royal in December 1711, followed his family to Port-Toulouse and married Marie-Geneviève, called Geneviève, daughter of Pierre Pouget and Françoise Moyse, at the port in c1740. A French official found them still there, with two young sons, in February 1752. One wonders what happened to them in 1758.474
Picot
Michel Picot dit La Rigeur, an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Élisabeth Levron created a small family in the colony. Élisabeth gave him two children, a son and a daughter, both of whom married. Their daughter married into the Thibeau family. Michel dit La Rigeur died in c1711 probably at Annapolis Royal, age unrecorded. His and Élisabeth's descendants remained at Annapolis Royal and were among the few Acadian families who did not retreat to the French Maritimes. If any of Michel's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.
Only son Michel, fils, born posthumously, married Anne, "natural" daughter of Louis Blin and Marie Daigre, at Annapolis Royal in February 1731 and settled there. Their daughter Marguerite married Jean, son of Pierre Guédry dit Grivois and Marguerite Brassaud, pobably at Annapolis Royal in c1755. The young couple were deported to Massachusetts soon after their marriage and resettled at St.-Jacques de l'Achigan, Canada, in 1767.475
Jean-François Flan, former military clerk for the Port-Royal garrison, an early 1700s arrival, created with his wife Marie Dupuis a small family in the colony. Between 1707 and 1718, at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal and Minas, Marie gave Jean-François five children, four daughters and a son. Three of their daughters married into the LeBlanc and Landry families. Jean-François's son did not marry. The date and place of the former clerk's death has been lost to history, but it probably was at Minas, where he moved his family in the late 1710s. They were among the few Acadian families who did not retreat to the French Maritimes before Le Grand Dérangement. At least one of Jean-François's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Maryland in 1767, but no Flan family line was established in the Spanish colony.
Only son François-Marie, born at Port-Royal in May 1709, evidently died young.472
Testard
François
Testard dit Paris, carpenter and navigator, an early 1700s arrival,
and his wife Marie Doiron created a small family
Oldest son François, fils, born at Port-Royal in November 1708, died at Louisbourg, Île Royale, in January 1733, age 24, before he could marry.
François's second son Pierre-Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1710, died by October 1734, in his early 20s, probably on Île Royale before he could marry.
François's third and youngest son Jean-Baptiste dit Paris was born at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1725. In 1758, the British deported him to Cherbourg, France, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Charles Granger and Marie LeBlanc and widow of Augustin Landry, at Cherbourg, Normandy, France, in May 1759, but they did not remain in France. Jean-Baptiste died at Fort-Royal on the French-controlled island of Martinique in September 1763, in his late 30s. One wonders if he fathered any children.476
Pierre Part dit La Forest, the soldier turned blacksmith, an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Jeanne Dugas created a small family in the colony. Jeanne gave him six children, four sons and two daughters. Their daughters married into the Jobelet dit Bistoury and Benoit families, one of them at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale. Three of Pierre's sons created families of their own. Pierre and Jeanne left Port-Royal soon after it fell to the British in 1710 and were among the earliest Acadians to move to the French Maritimes. They and their descendants settled at Annapolis Royal; at Louisbourg, Niganiche, and Port-d'Orléans on Île Royale; and on Rivière St.-Jean in present-day New Brunswick. At least six of Pierre's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and from France in 1785. Others could be found in Canada and perhaps in France after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Pierre, fils, born at Port-Royal in December 1709, followed his family to Île Royale but did not remain there. He married Angélique, daughter of Gabriel Godin and Andrée-Angélique Jeanne, in c1737 probably on Rivière St.-Jean. After the fall of Louisbourg in July 1758, a British force attacked the Acadians settlements on lower Rivière St.-Jean in late September and again in early November. Pierre, fils and his family eluded capture and evidently took refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence Shore. Sometime in the late 1750s or early 1760s, Pierre, fils 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. In August 1763, Pierre Paré, his wife, and five of their children appeared on repatriation list at Halifax. Both Pierre, fils and Angélique evidently died at Halifax before late 1764 or early 1765, when their five children, four sons and a daughter, ages 27 to 12, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax via Cap-Français, French St.-Domingue. All of them settled in the established Acadian community of Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans. Pierre, fils's daughter and one of his sons did not marry. His other three sons did marry on the river, into the Melanson, Bergeron, and Dupuis famililes. All of the Acadian Parts of South Louisiana are descended from these sons.
Pierre's second son Jean, born probably at Annapolis Royal in 1712, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Roy and Marie Bergeron, in c1735, place unrecorded. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1736 and 1750, Marie-Josèphe gave Jean four children, two daughters and two sons. They evidently were still at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755, eluded the British roundup there, and took refuge in Canada. Jean died by late May 1758, place unrecorded, but it probably was in Canada. His family settled at Bécancour across from Trois-Rivieres by October 1764, when his sons obtained a concession there from the local seigneur. Jean's daughters married into the Beaufont-Brunelle and Pépin families there. His younger son also married at Bécancour.
Older son Jean-Baptiste, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1738, followed his family to Canada and settled at Bécancour, where, with his brother, he obtained a concession in October 1764. One wonders if he married.
Jean's younger son François-Régis, born probably at Annapolis Royal in c1740, followed his family to Canada and settled at Bécancour, where, with his brother, he obtained a concession in October 1764. That year, he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Belliveau and Marguerite Melanson. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1764 and 1777, Marie gave François-Régis eight children, four daughters and four sons. One of their daughters married into the Bergeron family at Bécancour. Three of his sons also married there.
Oldest son Joseph dit Régis, born at Bécancour in c1767, married Marguerite, daughter of Nicolas Gauthier dit Caron and Marie-Madeleine Champoux, at Bécancour in May 1795.
François-Régis's third son David, born at Bécancour in c1774, married Marie-Louise, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Gagnon and Marie Felteau, at Bécancour in November 1802.
François-Régis's fourth and youngest son François-Régis, fils, born at Bécancour in c1777, married Marie, daughter of Antoine Désilets and Madeleine Bigot, at Bécancour in July 1802.
Pierre's third son Eustache, born at Port-d'Orléans, Île Royale, date not given, married Anastasie, daughter of Joseph Godin dit Bellefontaine dit Beauséjour and Marie-Anne Bergeron, in c1750 probably on Rivière St.-Jean. Like brother Pierre, fils and his family, they escaped capture on the river at the hand of British forces in the fall of 1758, but in late January or early February 1759, in another offensive against the river Acadians, Moses Hazen's New-English rangers murdered Eustache's wife Anastasie and three of their children in a raid on St.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas (some sources say the rangers scalped Anastasie and another Acadian woman). Eustache likely was a witness to the killing of his loved ones. The rangers spared him and at least one of his children, daughter Marie-Anne, and transported them, along with other captives, to the prison compound at Halifax. The following November, Governor Charles Lawrence ordered their deportaton, along with Acadians captured at Cap-Sable, to England, but English authorities sent them on to Cherbourg, France, where they arrived in mid-January 1760. After Church authorities certified his status as a widower, Eustache remarried to cousin Anne, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean Melanson and Marie-Madeleine Petitot dit Saint-Seine, in Très-Ste.-Trinité Parish, Cherbourg, in February 1761. She evidently gave him a son, Laurent, probably at Cherbourg. Eustache took his family to the interior of Poitou in 1773. Wife Anne died at Archigny in November 1774, age 58. In October 1775, Eustache and son Laurent retreated with other Poitou Acadians down the Vienne and the Loire from Châtellerault to the port of Nantes. Daughter Marie-Anne, by his first wife, married into the Delaune family at Cherbourg and emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785. Eustache and son Laurent, if they were still living in 1785, remained in the mother country.477
Langlois
François Langlois, goldsmith and navigator, an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Madeleine Comeau created a large family in greater Acadia. Madeleine gave him a dozen children, five sons and seven daughters. François moved his family from Annapolis Royal to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, by 1722, and they remained in the French Maritimes. Six of their daughters married into the Josse dit Saint-Brieuc, Lécuyer dit Langlois, Detcheverry dit Miquemak, Maillet, Pouget, Bénard, and Barrieau families, most of them at Port-Toulouse. Four of François's sons created families of their own. In February 1752, François and Madeleine were living on the north coast of Île Madame south of Île Royale, but their descendants settled also on Île St.-Jean. If any of François's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.
Oldest son Pierre-François, also called François-Marie, born at Annapolis Royal in January 1712, married Henriette, daughter of Pierre Bénard and Cécile Longuépée and sister of one of his sister's husbands, on Île Royale in July 1740. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1741 and 1751, Henriette gave François two children, a son and a daughter. A French official counted them on Île Madame in February 1752. Pierre-François died there between 1753 and 1758, on the eve of the islands' dérangement. In late 1758, the British deported his widow and two young children, a daughter and a son, on the British transport Duc Guillaume, which suffered a shipboard mishap on its way to St.-Malo. The daughter died at sea, and Henriette and her son André died at the St.-Malo hospital in December soon after they reached the port, so this line of the family did not endure.
François's second son Jacques dit Jacqui, born at Annapolis Royal in August 1818, married Madeleine, daughter of Joseph Prétieux and Anne Haché, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in November 1742, and remarried to Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Darembourg and Marie Mazerolle, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of Île St.-Jean, in April 1744. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1746 and 1751, Marie-Josèphe gave Jacqui three children, a daughter and two sons, on the island. A French official counted Jacqui and his family on the north bank of Rivière-de-Nord-Est in the island's interior in August 1752. The British deported the family to Cherbourg, France, in 1758. Older son Amable evidently died from the rigors of the crossing soon after they reached the French port. Daughter Cécile, called Clothilde by the recording priest, married into the Henry family at Très-Ste.-Trinité, Cherbourg, in August 1763 and died there in August 1770, age 24. Jacqui, age 54, remarried again--his third marriage--to Marie-Susanne Pouquet in c1772, place unrecorded, but it may have been at Cherbourg. One wonders what happened to him and his family after 1772. They did not go to Spanish Louisiana.
François's third son Nicolas, born at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1723, married Isabelle, daughter of Pierre Pouget and Françoise Moyse and sister of one of his sister's husbands, at Beaubassin in March 1747. According to Bona Arsenault, Isabelle gave Nicolas a son at Chignecto in c1750. They did not remain there but returned to Île Royale, where they joined his family on Île Madame. A French official counted them there on land owned by his father in February 1752. One wonders what happened to them in 1758.
François's fourth and youngest son Joseph, born at Port-Toulouse in c1734, was counted with his aging parents at Île Madame in February 1752. Joseph evidently escaped the British roundup on the islands in 1758. He crossed Mer Rouge and took refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs. Joseph married Henriette, daughter of Pierre Arseneau and Marguerite Cormier of Malpèque, Île St.-Jean, at Restigouche in January 1761. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1762 and 1770, Henriette gave Joseph three children, a daughter and two sons. By 1772, they had settled at Port-Toulouse, renamed St.-Pierre, Joseph's birthplace on Île Royale, which the British had renamed Cape Breton Island. Joseph died after 1811, place unrecorded.478
Raymond
François Raymond, former soldier turned master carpenter, an early 1700s arrival, created with his wife Anne Comeau a large family in the colony. Anne gave François 10 children, eight sons and two daughters. Their younger daughter married into the Landry dit Fraule family. Five of the master carpenter's eight sons created families of their own. François died at Annapolis Royal in May 1751, in his mid-70s. Most of his and Anne's descendants remained at Annapolis Royal, but some moved on to Minas and the French Maritimes. If any of François's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.
Oldest son Pierre died at Annapolis Royal in his late teens, before he could marry.
François's second son Charles died an infant.
François's third son Jean-Baptiste married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Joseph Mius d'Azy and Marie Amireau, at Annapolis Royal in October 1730 and likely remained there. What happened to them in 1755?
François's fourth son François, fils married Cécile, daughter of René Landry and Marie-Madeleine Melanson, at Grand-Pré in April 1748 and moved on to Île St.-Jean in the French Maritimes. What happened to them in 1758?
François's fifth son Joseph married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Landry dit Toc and Marguerite Melanson, at Annapolis Royal in January 1747 and likely remained there. What happened to them in 1755?
François's sixth son Charles, the second with the name, married Madeleine, daughter of Denis Petitot dit Saint-Seine and Marguerite Landry, at Annapolis Royal in November 1749 and likely remained there. What happened to them in 1755?
François's seventh son Jacques married Marie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Pellerin and Marie Martin, at Annapolis Royal in February 1749 and likely remained there. What happened to them in 1755?
François's eighth and youngest son Pierre, the second with the name, died an infant.479
Turpin
Jean
Turpin
Older son Jean, fils survived childhood but evidently did not marry.
Jean's younger son, whose name has been lost to history, married in c1741, place unrecorded, a woman whose name also has been lost. One of their daughters may have been the Philippe Turpin, age 10, living with relatives on Île Madame in February 1752.480
Pierre Surette the sailor, an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Jeanne Pellerin created a small family in the colony. Between 1709 and 1728, on the haute rivière above Port-Royal, Jeanne gave Pierre nine children, three sons and six daughters, including a set of twins. Four of their daughters married into the Doucet, Mius d'Azy, Long, Petitot dit Saint-Seine, and Gignac families. All of the sailor's three sons created their own families. Pierre died at Annapolis Royal in October 1749, age 70. Jeanne died in exile at Québec in late January 1758, age 70, victim, perhaps, of the smallpox epidemic that killed hundreds of her fellow Acadians there. Her and Pierre's descendants settled not only in the Annapolis River valley, but also at Minas and at Petitcoudiac in the trois-rivières area west of Chigencto. At least three of the sailor's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765, but no family line endured there. The great majority of the sailor's descendants could be found in Canada and especially greater Acadia after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Pierre II, as he was called, born at Port-Royal in December 1709, married Catherine, daughter of Pierre Breau and Anne LeBlanc, at Grand-Pré in September 1732. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1733 and 1745, at nearby Rivière-aux-Canards, Catherine gave Pierre, fils eight children, three daughters and five sons. They moved on to Beaubassin by 1753, escaped the British roundup there in 1755, and took refuge in the nearby countryside, where Pierre II became a leader in a resistance movement that both attacked the British in their Missaguash forts and protected Acadians' homes at Chignecto and in the trois-rivières. The British managed to capture some of the resistance fighters, including Pierre II, after the roundup and confined them in Fort Cumberland, formerly French Beauséjour. But he did not remain in British custody for long. In late February 1756, Pierre II, who had ingratiated himself with his British captors, led a daring escape from Fort Cumberland. Eighty Acadians squeezed through a tunnel they had dug with discarded horse bones. They escaped to the woods and managed to elude the British, but they paid a terrible price in doing so. At Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence they suffered almost as much as they had done in the woods west of Chignecto. In November 1759, near Memramcook, Pierre II and two other Acadian resistance leaders, Jean and Michel Bourg, "surrendered" to the British, but, the following spring, Pierre II rejoined the resistance movement at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, which a British naval force from Louisbourg attacked in late June 1760. After a second naval force, this one from Québec, accepted the surrender of the French garrison and 1,003 Acadians at Restigouche the following October, the British sent Pierre II and his family, along with hundreds of other captured exiles, to prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. British officials counted him with a family of five in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in October 1762. After the war, he and his family remained in greater Acadia. At least three of his sons settled on Rivière St.-Jean in present-day New Brunswick. British officials counted Pierre II at Halifax in 1769. He died at Ste.-Anne-du-Ruisseau de l'Anguille near Tusket, northeast of Cap-Sable, date unrecorded. His daughters married into the Pothier, Bourque, and Babin families before deportation and after exile. All four of his sons created their own families.
Oldest son Olivier, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1736, followed his family to Chignecto and into exile. He married Marie-Madeleine Godin dit Bellefontaine in c1760, place unrecorded, during exile. According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him a daughter in c1762, probably in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit. British officials counted Olivier and his small family there in October 1762. One wonders where they settled after the war. Their daughter married into the Robichaud family at Météghan on lower Baie Ste.-Marie, Nova Scotia, in c1781.
Pierre II's second son Charles-Amand, called Amand, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1738, followed his family to Chignecto and into exile and imprisonment. He married Osite, daughter of Alexandre Pellerin and Jean Gaudet of Annapolis Royal, in c1762, place unrecorded, perhaps in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit. British officials counted Amand and his small family there in October 1762. According to Bona Arsenault, Osite gave Amand two children, a son and a daughter, in c1762 and c1770. Amand remarried to fellow Acadian Claire Lapierre, place and date unrecorded. She evidently gave him no more children. After the war, Amand and his family remained in greater Acadia. British officials counted them on Rivière St.-Jean in today's New Brunswick in 1768. Amand's daughter Anne, by his first wife, married into the Brault family.
Pierre II's third son Joseph le jeune, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1740, followed his family to Chignecto and into exile and imprisonment. He married Marguerite, another daughter of Alexandre Pellerin and Jean Gaudet, in February 1762, perhaps in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit; the marriage was "rehabilitated" at Halifax in June 1769. British officials counted them at Fort Edward in October 1762. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1770, Marguerite gave Joseph le jeune five children, four sons and a daughter. They also resettled on Rivière St.-Jean after the war. Joseph le jeune's daughter married into the Amirault family. Three of his sons also created their own families.
Oldest son Charles-Henri-Barromée, born perhaps at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in c1763, married fellow Acadian Marie Babin of Pigiguit in c1785, place not given.
Joseph le jeune's third son Joseph-Fréderic, born in c1766, place unrecorded, married Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadians Victor Babin and Cécile Bellefontaine, in c1788, place not given.
Joseph le jeune's fourth and youngest son Jean-Michel dit Jean Louis, born in c1769, place unrecorded, married Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Amirault and Marie Belliveau, at Baie Ste.-Marie, today's St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia, in January 1790.
Pierre II's fourth son Paul le jeune, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1742, followed his family to Chignecto and into exile and imprisonment. He married Josette Landry in c1761, perhaps in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit. According to Bona Arsenault, Josette gave Paul le jeune a son soon after their marriage. British officials counted them at Fort Edward in October 1762. They also resettled on Rivière St.-Jean after the war. Paul le jeune's son created his own family.
Only son Jean-Baptiste, born perhaps at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in c1761, married fellow Acadian Judith Hébert in c1785, place not given.
Pierre II's fifth and youngest son Pierre III, born probably at Rivière-aux-Canards in c1744, followed his family to Chignecto and into exile and imprisonment. According to Bona Arsenault, he married Hélène Godin dit Bellefontaine, perhaps a sister of oldest brother Olivier's wife, in c1764 after the war, but British officials counted "Pierre Suret Jun" and his family of three in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, in October 1762. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1765 and 1780, Hélène gave Pierre III four children, three sons and a daughter. One wonders where they resettled after the war, perhaps on Baie Ste.-Marie, Nova Scotia. Pierre III remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Abel Duon, in c1785, place unrecorded. According to Arsenault, between 1786 and 1801, she gave Pierre III six more sons--10 children, nine sons and a daughter, by two wives. His daughter, by his first wife, married into the LeBlanc family. Eight of his sons, by both wives, also created their own families. Most of them settled on today's St. Mary's Bay in western Nova Scotia.
Oldest son Pierre dit Pierriche, by first wife Hélène Godin dit Bellefontaine, born in c1765, place unrecorded, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Jacques Amirault and Marie Belliveau, at Baie Ste.-Marie in November 1796, and remarried to Colombe, daughter of Alexandre Fontaine, place and date not given.
Pierre III's second son Athanase, by first wife Hélène Godin dit Bellefontaine, born perhaps on Baie Ste.-Marie in c1776, married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph d'Entremont and Agnès Belliveau, there in October 1800.
Pierre III's third son Fréderic, by first wife Hélène Godin dit Bellefontaine, born perhaps on Baie Ste.-Marie in c1779, married Anne, daughter of Pierre Mius and Cécile Amirault, there in September 1803.
Pierre III's fourth son Joseph, by second wife Marie Duon, born perhaps on Baie Ste.-Marie in c1786, married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Amirault and Madeleine Lanoue, in c1808, place not given.
Pierre III's fifth son Paul, by second wife Marie Duon, born perhaps on Baie Ste.-Marie in c1789, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Pothier and Anne-Esther d'Entremont, in April 1817, place not given.
Pierre III's sixth son Augustin, by second wife Marie Duon, born perhaps on Baie Ste.-Marie in c1792, married Françoise, daughter of fellow Acadians Amand Pothier and Marguerite d'Entremont, in October 1815, place not given.
Pierre III's eighth son Raphaël, by second wife Marie Duon, born perhaps at Baie Ste.-Marie in c1798, married Anne-Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Babin and Élisabeth LeBlanc, in November 1824, no place given.
Pierre III's ninth and youngest son Gabriel, by second wife Marie Duon, born perhaps at Baie Ste.-Marie in c1801, married Marguerite, another daughter of Joseph Babin and Élisabeth LeBlanc, in November 1824, on the same day his older brother Raphaël married, place not given.
Pierre, père's second son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1712, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Thériot and Marguerite Cormier, at Grand-Pré in October 1730 and moved on to Petitcoudiac. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1732 and 1746, probably at Petitcoudiac, Marguerite gave Joseph six children, four sons and two daughters. According to Stephen A. White, Joseph drowned in the river at Petitcoudiac in c1750, in his late 30s (Arsenault says c1757, which would have been in exile). His family likely escaped the British roundup at Petitcoudiac in 1755. His daughters married into the Doucet, Pitre, and Tessier families in Canada. His sons also married, but they settled in greater Acadia.
Oldest son Joseph, fils, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1732, followed his family into exile. He married Isabelle Babineau in c1760, place unrecorded, during exile; the marriage was "rehabilitated" at Halifax in July 1768. According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him a son in c1765. They resettled on Rivière St.-Jean, New Brunswick, after the war.
Joseph, père's second son Olivier, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1735, followed his family into exile. He married fellow Acadian Perpétué Brault in c1765, place unrecorded. According to Bona Arsenault, she gave him a daughter that year. They also resettled on Rivière St.-Jean.
Joseph, père's third son Pierre le jeune, born probably at Petitcoudiac in c1736, followed his family into exile. He married fellow Acadian Marie-Josèphe Pellerin in c1769, place unrecorded. They were living at Pointe-du-Diable near Halifax that year.
Pierre, père's third and youngest son Paul, a twin of his sister Madeleine, born at Annapolis Royal in November 1721, was still a bachelor when he fought against the British in King George's War during the late 1740s. He evidently escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in 1755 and sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where he may have joined his older brother Pierre in the Acadian resistance. He married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of ____ Landry and Élisabeth Thériot and widow of Jean Landry, in c1758 while in exile. 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 "Paul Suret Sen" and his family of four in the prison compound at Fort Edward, Pigigut, in October 1762. One wonders where they resettled after the war.482
Bodart
François Bodart, navigator, an early 1700s arrival, and his wife Marie Babin created a small family in the colony. Marie gave him five children, all of them daughters. Two of them married, so the blood of the family survived in the colony. Oldest daughter Marie-Josèphe, born at Grand-Pré in September 1710, married into the Tessé family at Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in c1728 and remained on the island, where a French official counted them at Miré in April 1752. Younger sister Marguerite married into the Vincent family at Minas in c1745, remained there with her parents and other sisters, was deported with her husband and children to Virginia and England in 1755-56, and repatriated to France in May 1763. Now a widow, Marguerite followed other Acadian exiles to Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany in November 1765. She and her children settled at Kervarigeon near Bangor on the island.
No member of this family took the name to Louisiana. However, Marguerite Bodart's son Pierre Vincent, as well as her deceased daughter Marguerite Vincent's children--four sons and two daughters from her union with Frenchman Guillaume Monté or Montet of Périgaux, France, whom she had married at Liverpool, England, in c1763--did to go Louisiana in 1785 aboard two of the Seven Ships from France.20
Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais Duon, an early 1700s arrival, and wife Agnès Hébert le jeune created a fairly large family in the colony. Between 1714 and 1739, Agnès gave Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais 13 children, 10 sons and three daughters, all born at Annapolis Royal. Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais died at Annapolis Royal in May 1746, age 65. His daughters married into the Mius, Vincent, Landieu, and Loustaneau families. Eight of his 10 sons also created families of their own in the colony. At least 16 of Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and France in 1785. Smaller numbers of them also could be found in greater Acadia, France, the French Antilles, and perhaps in Canada after Le Grand Dérangement.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, born at Annapolis Royal in June 1714, married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Vincent and Anne-Marie Doiron, at Rivière-aux-Canards, Minas, in January 1736. They remained at Minas. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1737 and 1743, Madeleine gave Jean-Baptiste, fils four children, a son and three 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. They were held at Liverpool for seven years. Jean-Baptiste, fils died probably at Liverpool before March 1760. His three daughters married into the Trahan and Aucoin families at Liverpool. His son also married there. Members of the family were repatriated to Morlaix, France, in May 1763, went to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765 and settled at Martha near Bangor, moved on to Nantes by September 1784, and to Louisiana in 1785.
Only son Honoré le jeune, born at Minas in c1737, followed his family to Virginia and England, where he married Anne-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians François Trahan and Angélique Melanson of Pigiguit, at Liverpool in October 1758. A daughter was born there in c1761. In the spring of 1763, the family was repatriated to Morlaix, France, where, in 1764, Anne gave Honoré le jeune another daughter and a son, but the boy died at age 20 months in October 1765. They following month, they joined other Acadian exiles from England on recently-liberated Belle-Île-en-Mer off the southern coast of Brittany. They settled near Bangor, where, between 1766 and 1777, Anne gave Honoré le jeune three more sons and another daughter. Their oldest daughter married into the Maitrejean family at Bangor in June 1777. They moved on to Nantes by September 1784, when they were counted there with four sons, so their younger daughters evidently had died by then. Honoré le jeune, Anne, and their three surviving son emigrated to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. They were among the hand full of Acadians who chose to settle on the river below New Orleans. They had no more children in the colony. Honoré le jeune died at San Bernardo, today's St. Bernard Parish, in October 1796, in his late 50s. Two of his sons married into the LeBlanc and Autran families at New Orleans and evidently remained at San Bernardo. A grandson married on upper Bayou Lafourche.
Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais's second son Honoré, born at Annapolis Royal in July 1716, married Anne-Marie, another daughter of Michel Vincent and Anne-Marie Doiron, c1742, probably at Minas and settled at Annapolis Royal. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1744 and 1750, Anne-Marie gave Honoré six children, three daughters and three sons. They escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal in the fall of 1755 and sought refuge at Miramichi 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 British prisoner compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit, for the rest of the war. Honoré and Anne-Marie took three of their unmarried children, a daughter and two sons, to Louisiana in 1765 and settled at Cabahannocer on the river above New Orleans. Their daughter married into the Blanchard family there. Their sons also married, into the LeBlanc, Landry, and Darois families, and settled on the river, but some of Honoré's descendants moved on to the western prairies.
Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais's third son Pierre, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1720, married Angélique, daughter of Martin Aucoin and Catherine Thériot, at Grand-Pré in November 1745. According to Bona Arsenault, in 1747 and 1749, Angélique gave Pierre two 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. Pierre remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Aucoin and Anne Trahan, in c1757 at Bristol, England. According to Arsenault, Marguerite gave Pierre two more children, another daughter and a son, in 1757 and 1761. They were at Southampton in the spring of 1763 when they, along with hundreds of other Acadians, were repatriated to St.-Malo, France, that May aboard La Dorothée. They settled on the west side of the river south of St.-Malo at Plouër-sur-Rance, where Marguerite gave Pierre two more sons in 1765 and 1770. The younger son died 10 months after his birth. They did not join their kinsmen on Belle-Île-en-Mer. Pierre's second daughter Marguerite, by first wife Angélique, married into the Doiron family at Plouër in August 1766. Perhaps as a reaction to the ill-treatment of Acadians in the mother country, Pierre, wife Marguerite, daughters Marguerite and Françoise, and son Cyprien-Pierre, returned to North America via the Channel Islands and England in 1773. One wonders if they re-settled in greater Acadia or Canada and if Cyprien-Pierre created a family of his own.
Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais's fourth son Abel dit Tibel, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1722, was still unmarried when he was deported to Massachusetts in the fall of 1755. He married Anne, daughter of Jacques Mius d'Entremont and Marguerite Amireau of Pobomcoup, at Boston in c1756. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1757 and 1772, Anne gave Abel seven children, four daughters and three sons. They were counted at Medfield in 1757 and were still in the Bay Colony in August 1763. In 1766, most of the Acadians in Massachusetts chose to move on to Canada, but Abel and Anne returned to her native Cap-Sable by 1767. Abel died at Ste.-Anne-du-Ruisseau near Pubnico, formerly Pobomcoup, in January 1807, age 84. Two of his daughters married into the Surette and Boudreau families at Cap-Sable. Two of his sons also married there.
Oldest son Paul, born in Massachusetts in c1763, followed his family to Cap-Sable and married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadians Michel Boudreau and Marguerite Pothier, there in October 1800.
Abel's third and youngest son Augustin, born probably at Cap-Sable in c1768, married Nathalie, daughter of fellow Acadians Ange Amireau and Nathalie Belliveau, in c1794 and "rehabilitated" the marriage at Cap-Sable in November 1799.
Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais's fifth son Jean-Jacques, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1724, died there at age 3 in April 1727.
Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais's sixth son Louis-Basile, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1727, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Augustin Comeau and Jeanne Levron, at Annapolis Royal in the summer of 1754. The British deported them to New York in the fall of 1755. They were still there, with four children, in 1763. By 1766, they had moved on to Champflore, Martinique, in the French Antilles. Louis-Basille remarried to Anne, daughter of Charles Savoie and Françoise Martin, probably on the island in c1766. One wonders if she gave him anymore children.
Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais's seventh son François, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1729, if he survived childhood did not marry.
Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais's eighth son Cyprien, born at Annapolis Royal in April 1730, followed several of his older brothers to Minas and was still unmarried when the British deported him to Virginia in the fall of 1755, and Virginia officials sent them on to England in the spring of 1756. Cyprien married Marguerite, daughter of René Landry and Marie-Rose Rivet, at Liverpool in January 1758. In 1759 and 1761, Marguerite gave Cyprien a son and a daughter at Liverpool. The family was repatriated to Morlaix, France, in May 1763 and went to Belle-Île-en-Mer in November 1765, where they settled at Calestrene near Bangor. Between 1766 and 1771, Marguerite gave Cyprien two more sons and another daughter there. Their older daughter Marie died on the island in October 1781, age 20. In 1785, Cyprien, Marguerite, their youngest son Jean-Pierre and younger daughter Marie-Élisabeth, chose to remain on Belle-Île-en-Mer. Their two older sons, however, ages 25 and 19 and still unmarried, followed Duon kin to Louisiana. Cyprien and his family were still on the island in 1792, during the French Revolution. He died at Calestrene in c1798, in his late 60s.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, born at Liverpool, England, in October 1759, followed his family to Morlaix, France, and Belle-Île-en-Mer, and accompanied Duon relatives to Louisiana in 1785. He followed most of his fellow passengers to Baton Rouge but did not marry.
Cyprien's second son Joseph, born on Belle-Île-en-Mer in April 1766, followed his older brother to Louisiana in 1785, but he did not join him at Baton Rouge. He settled, instead, at Attakapas on the western prairies, where he married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadians Jean-Baptiste Hébert and Théotiste Hébert, in February 1791. Joseph's neighbors called him Joseph dit Gros, or Big Joseph, to distinguish him from a younger cousin also named Joseph, whom they called Joseph dit Petit, or Little Joseph. Big Joseph's daughters married into the Broussard, Duhon, and Lapointe families. Six of his nine sons married into the Trahan, Granger, Cormier, Duhon, and Hébert families on the prairies, and most of the lines endured.
Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais's ninth son Charles, born at Annapolis Royal in May 1734, remained there and was still unmarried when he eluded the British roundup in the fall of 1755. He followed his older brother Honoré to Miramichi on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Charles Préjean and Françoise Boudrot, in c1759. By the early 1760s, they, too, were being held in the British prisoner compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit. Charles, Marie-Josèphe, and their two young children, a son and a daughter, followed two of his brothers to Louisiana in 1765. They settled at Cabahannocer on the river but moved on to Attakapas west of the Atchafalaya Basin in the 1770s. Their daughters married into the Dugas, Guidry, LeBlanc, and Montet families. Charles's two sons married into the Gautreaux and Broussard families and created vigorous lines on the prairies.
Jean-Baptiste dit Lyonnais's tenth and youngest son Claude-Amable, born at Annapolis Royal in February 1736, also remained there. After escaping the British roundup in 1755, he followed older brothers Honoré and Charles, to Miramichi, where he married Marie-Josèphe dite Josette, yet another daughter of Michel Vincent and Anne-Marie Doiron, in c1757. By the early 1760s, they, too, were being held in the British prisoner compound at Fort Edward, Pigiguit. Claude-Amable, Josette, and a Pitre orphan followed his older brothers to Louisiana in 1765. They also settled at Cabahannocer before moving on to Attakapas. Their only son married into the Trahan and Bourg families and created a vigorous line on the prairies.202
Gauthier
Joseph-Nicolas, called Nicolas, Gauthier or Gautier, an early 1700s arrival, and wife Marie Allain created a large family in the colony. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1716 and 1741, Marie gave Nicolas seven children, four sons and three daughters. Nicolas dit Bellaire, as he was called, became a successful farmer, merchant, and navigator. By the 1730s, through inheritance from his father-in-law and by his own efforts, Nicolas had become one of the richest men in the colony--by Acadian standards, at least, one historian quips, he was "a veritable tycoon." His home, Bellaire, named for the site on the Annapolis River where it was located, was the source of his dit and one of the finest estates in all of Acadia. Risking all in the struggle against the British in Nova Scotia, Nicolas dit Bellaire became a partisan leader during King George's War of the 1740s. He was so active in the fight against Britain, in fact, that in 1744 he was forced to abandon his estate on the haute rivère, which the British burned the following year, and sought refuge at Chignecto. By the end of the war, he was financially ruined and a wanted man. Marie also paid a price for her husband's activities. In 1745, she and son Nicolas, fils, only in his teens, spent 10 months in the Fort Anne dungeon, much of the time with "'their feet in irons.'" At war's end, Massachusetts Governor Shirley ordered the arrest of Nicolas dit Bellaire and other leaders of the wartime Acadian resistance. In 1749, the family resettled on Île St.-Jean, where the French granted Nicolas another "estate" and promised to pay him an indemnity for his losses. His new home was at Source à Bellaire on the north side of upper Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the island's interior. Nicolas, père died there in April 1752, age 63. In August of that year, a French official counted widow Marie Allain, two sons, and two daughters still living on the new "estate." Her and Nicolas's daughters married into the Dupont de Gourville et Duvivier, Bergeron, and Bourdon de Dombourg families. All four of Nicolas's sons created families of their own. If any of his descendants emigrated to Louisiana, they did not take the family's name with them.
Oldest son Joseph dit Aîné, born at Bellaire in c1717, became a navigator like his father. He married Dlle. Marguerite, daughter of Sr. Joseph Bugeaud and Marie-Josèphe Landry, in c1747 during King George's War, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1749, and settled near his widowed mother. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1749 and 1760, Marguerite gave Joseph three children, a son and two daughters. The family evidently escaped the British roundup on Île St.-Jean in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, where French officials counted them in 1758. Joseph's brother-in-law, naval lieutenant Jean-François Bourdon de Dombourg, fils, the one-handed husband of his younger sister Marguerite, assumed command of the outpost in 1759. The British attacked Restigouche in the summer of 1760 but failed to capture the place. Joseph and his family likely were among the nine members of the family who appear on a list of 1,003 Acadians at Restigouche dated 24 Oct 1760 and compiled for the British commander who accepted the post's surrender. Pierre and his family may have been held in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. After the war, Joseph took his family to Québec, where he continued his work as a navigator. According to Arsenault, in 1772, aboard his schooner, he transported Jesuit missionary Father Jean-Baptiste de la Brosse from Québec to Bonaventure in Gaspésie to minister to the Acadian habitants there and apparently remained. Joseph's two daughters married into the Cormier and LeBrasseur families, one of them at Bonaventure in Gaspésie. His son also created his own family.
Only son Joseph, fils, born probably on Île St.-Jean in c1749, followed his family to Restigouche, imprisonment, Canada, and Gaspésie. He married Théotiste, daughter of fellow Acadians Joseph Landry and Jeanne Robichaud of Annapolis Royal, at Bonaventure in c1772. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1773 and 1794, Théotiste gave Joseph, fils a dozen children, nine daughters and three sons. Seven of their daughters married into the Dugas, Laviolette, Robichaud, Poirier dit Cliche, and Babin families. Joseph, fils's sons also created their own families.
Oldest son Joseph III, born probably at Bonaventure in c1780, married Élisabeth, daughter of fellow Acadians Pierre Poirier and Anne Gaudet, at Bonaventure in January 1810. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1811 and 1827, nine children, two sons and seven daughters.
Joseph, fils's second son Charles, born probably at Bonaventure in c1783, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadians Louis-Jean Bernard and Lutine Babin, at Bonaventure in February 1812. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1812 and 1827, Marie gave Charles eight children, five sons and three daughters.
Joseph, fils's third and youngest son Julien, born probably at Bonventure in c1790, married Louise-Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadians Firmin Bujold and Esther Bourdages, in January 1818. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1819 and 1833, Louise-Geneviève gave Julien three children, two sons and a daughter.
Nicolas's second son Pierre, born at Bellaire in c1728, also a navigator, followed his family to the French Maritimes and married Jeanne, daughter of Marc-Antoine de La Forest and his second wife Marie-Anne Courthau of Île Royale, at Louisbourg in June 1752. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1754 and 1765, at Louisbourg and in exile, Jeanne gave Pierre five chldren, four daughters and a son. A navigator like his father and older brother, Pierre also escaped the roundup in the Maritimes in 1758, crossed Mer Rouge, and sought refuge at Restigouche. He and his family of six also appear on the list of surrendered Acadians at Restigouche dated 24 Oct 1760. After the war, they chose to settle on Miquelon, a French-controlled fishery island off the southern coast of Newfoundland that controlled a thriving cod fishery.
Nicolas's third son Joseph-Nicolas, fils, called Nicolas, fils, born at Bellaire in c1730, spent time with his mother in the Fort Anne dungeon in 1745 and escaped with her. He followed his parents to Île St.-Jean and was counted with his widowed mother at Source à Bellaire in August 1752. Nicolas, fils escaped the roundup in the Maritimes in 1758, probably leaving the island before the fall of Louisbourg in July 1758. He joined the Acadian resistance and, with the permission of the governor-general in Québec, engaged in privateerinf along with other Acadian partisans. At Restigouche, under the command of his brother-in-law Bourdon de Dombourg since 1759, he served as aide-major of the Acadian militia during the fight there in the summer of 1760. He appears with members of his family on the list of surrendered Acadians at Restigouche dated 24 Oct 1760. His brother-in-law was sent to France, but Nicolas, fils, along with other Acadian exiles, was sent to prison compounds in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. He married Anne, daughter of Joseph LeBlanc dit Le Maigre, who had served with Nicolas, fils's father in the Acadian resistance during King George's War, and Skinny's wife Anne Bourg, in the prison compound at Halifax in the early 1760s. Nicoulas Gautier, his wife, and their child appear on a repatriation list at Halifax in August 1763. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1763 and 1778, Anne gave Nicolas, fils seven children, two daughters and five sons. After the war, they followed his father-in-law to Île Miquelon, probably were sent to France in 1767 to relieve overcrowding on the island, returned in 1768, and were still there in 1776. Nicolas, fils was made commandant of the port of St.-Pierre-de-Miquelon in 1784.
Nicolas, père's fourth and youngest son Jean-Baptiste, called Baptiste, born at Bellair in c1741, followed his parents to Île St.-Jean and was counted with his widowed mother at Source à Bellaire in August 1752. He followed his family to Restigouche, to the prison compound at Halifax, and, after the war, to Île Miquelon, where he married Barbe, daughter of Nicolas Lavigne and his second wife Anne Clémenceau, in January 1770 probably after returning from France in 1768. According to Bona Arsenault, between 1771 and 1775, Barbe gave Baptiste three children, a son and two daughters. In 1778, during the American Revolution, the British captured the Newfoundland islands and sent the habitants there to France. Baptiste and his family were among them, and they also were among the islanders who returned to Miquelon in 1784. They were still there in 1792, when they moved to Rustico on the north shore of Prince Edward Island, formerly French Île St.-Jean.318
Jean-Baptiste Dubois dit Dumont, an early 1700s arrival, and wife Marie Simon dit Boucher created a small family in the colony. Jean-Baptiste died at Grand-Pré in November 1713, but not before fathering a son and, according to Bona Arsenault, a daughter, Geneviève, in c1713. His daughter, according to Arsenault, married into the Martin and Gauterot families in Canada, the first marriage at St.-Thomas de Montmagny below Québec City in October 1765. Jean-Baptiste dit Dumont's son created a family of his own in greater Acadia.
Only son Joseph, born at Annapolis Royal in March 1712, chose as his surname not Dubois but his father's dit and his paternal grandmother's surname, Dumont. He followed his mother and stepfather, Dominque Viarrieu dit Duclos, to the French Maritimes, where he married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Vécot and Marie Chiasson, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Jean on the north shore of Île St.-Jean, in February 1739. According to Arsenault, between 1740 and 1751, Marie-Madeleine gave Joseph six daughters on the island: Anne in c1740; Marie-Madeleine in c1741; Marie in c1742; Marie-Josèphe in c1745; Hélène in c1747; and Suzanne in c1751. Wife Marie-Madeleine died probably on Île St.-Jean before August 1752, when a French official counted Joseph with four of his daughters--Anne, Marie, Hélène, and Suzanne--but no wife at St.-Pierre-du-Nord. Oddly, the French official noted that Joseph was a "native" of Petit-Degrat on Île Madame, but Stephen A. White, followed here, says Jean-Baptiste dit Dumont was born at Annapolis Royal. He did not remarry. One of his daughters, Hélène, emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.316
The Families of Greater Acadia: After the Fall
More francophone families appeared in the Nova Scotia after the fall of Port-Royal in October 1710, something evidently tolerated by the colony's new administrators. Most of the new arrivals came from France, but a few slipped in from Canada. Most of them married into established families, and many of them settled in the Minas Basin, which was clearly British territory. Others settled at Chignecto in territory claimed by both powers. Many moved on to the French Maritimes, and a few moved in from the Maritime islands:117
François Richard, born in 1686, son of merchant Jean Richard and Anne Christin of d'Auray, bishopric of Vannes, Brittany, probably not kin to Michel Richard dit Sansoucy, married Anne, daughter of Jean Comeau l'aîné and Françoise Hébert and widow of Louis D'Amours de Chauffours et de Jemseg of Rivière St.-Jean, at Annapolis Royal in October 1710, only a few weeks after the fort at Port-Royal fell to a British force from Boston. François and Anne remained at Annapolis Royal. Between 1712 and 1720, Anne gave François five children, three sons and two daughters. Their daughters married into the Orillon dit Champagne and Richard families. Two of their sons married into the Bastarache dit Basque and David families. The youngest son died of drowning while still a child. Wife Anne died at Annapolis Royal in April 1722, and François remarried to Marie, daughter of René Martin dit Barnabé and Marie Mignier dit Lagassé, at Annapolis Royal the following October. Between 1723 and 1728, at Annapolis Royal, Marie gave him three more children, two daughters and a son--eight children, four sons and four daughters, by two wives, between 1712 and 1728. Marie remarried at Annapolis Royal in January 1735, so François had died by then. Their son, like two of his older half-brothers, married, but the name of his wife has been lost to history. François and Marie's daughters married into the Comeau and LeBlanc families. Younger daughter Dorothée married in England and France and was the only member of this branch of the Richard family to emigrate to Spanish Louisiana, from France in 1785.196
Pierre Lalande, alias Blaise des Brousses dit Bonappétit, a soldier in the King's service, married Anne, daughter of Joseph Prétieux and Anne Gautrot, at Annapolis Royal in November 1710, only a month after the Acadian capital fell. Anne gave Bonappétit eight children, including four sons who created families of their own. At least three of Pierre's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and France in 1785.197
Jacques Oudy, a farmer born probably in France in c1680, married Cécile, 28-year-old daughter of Jacques Blou and Marie Girouard of Chignecto, in c1710. They settled at Chignecto, where Cécile gave him two children, son Claude, born in c1711, and daughter Cécile, born in c1713. Cécile died by August 1717, when Jacques remarried to Marguerite, 20-year-old daughter of Louis Saulnier and Louise Bastineau dit Peltier, at Grand-Pré. Marguerite gave Jacques a dozen more children: Marguerite, born at Chignecto in March 1719; Marie-Josèphe in March 1720; Jacques, fils in August 1721; Jean-Baptiste in May 1723; Pierre in c1726; Anne born at Havre-St.-Pierre, Île St.-Jean, in August 1728; Joseph in August 1731; Louis in May 1733; Marie-Madeleine in June 1735; Charles in January 1738; Étienne in November 1739; and Cécile in July 1741. As the birthplace of his children indicate, Jacques took his family to Île St.-Jean in the 1720s, among the earliest peninsula Acadians to settle on the island. Oldest son Claude married Marie-Angélique, daughter of Jean Pothier and Marie-Madeleine Chiasson, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, in October 1739. Second son Jacques, fils married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean Doucet and Marie Doiron, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in January 1751; they settled at Havre-St.-Pierre. Third son Jean-Baptiste married Marie, daughter of François Blanchard and Marguerite Carret, at Port-La-Joye in November 1750. Fourth son Pierre did not marry. Fifth son Joseph married Marguerite, another daughter of François Blanchard and Marguerite Carret, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in November 1754. Jacques's four oldest daughters married into the Lacroix dit Caniche, Beaulieu, D'Etcheverry dit Savate, and Le Breton families, all at Havre-St.-Pierre, where the family was counted in August 1752. Sadly, Marguerite, now a widow, and her entire family, including Jacques's children by his first and second marriages and all of their grandchildren, perished aboard the British transport Violet, which sank in a North Atlantic storm off the southwest coast of England on its way to St.-Malo in mid-December 1758. Needless to say, none of Jacques's descendants emigrated to Louisiana.488
François dit Blondin, son of Nicolas Boisseau and Anne Bouchotait of Montargis, Orléanais, France, born at Paris in c1686, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Louis Saulnier and Louise Bastineau dit Peltier, at Grand-Pré in October 1711. Marie-Anne gave the Parisian eight children, five daughters and three sons, all born at Minas: Marie, born in August 1712; Claire in c1713; Anne in June 1717; François in July 1720; Pierre in c1722; Marguerite in c1726; Augustin; and Jeanne, born in March 1731. Four of their daughters married into the Girouard, Hébert, Doiron, and Boudrot families and settled at Minas and on Île St.-Jean. Blondin's and Marie-Anne's three sons married, two of them into the Boudrot and LeBlanc families, the other into a family whose name has been lost to history. They also settled on Île St.-Jean. In August 1752, a French official counted François dit Blondin, now a widow, son Pierre and daughters Claire, Marguerite, and Jeanne, with Claire, Pierre, and Marguerite's families, at Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie in the interior of the island. If any of Blondin's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.198
Guillaume, son of Henri Le Prieur dit Dubois of Falaise, diocese of Séez, and Marguerite Basile of Meudon, Rouen, was born at Caen, France, in c1689. He married Madeleine, daughter of Étienne Poitevin and Anne Daigre, at Annapolis Royal in February 1712. In the 1710s, Guillaume took his family to Île Royale and then to Île St.-Jean by 1720. He was one of the first peninsula Acadians to settle on Île St.-Jean, where he worked as a fisherman/habitant. Madeleine gave him 11 children, seven sons and four daughters: Joseph was born at Annapolis Royal in January 1713; Jacques at Îles Michaud off Île Royale in c1718; Marie at Havre-St.-Pierre, Île St.-Jean in c1720; Pierre l'aîné at Port-Lajoie,Île St.-Jean in March 1725; Élisabeth, also Isabelle, at Havre-St.-Pierre March 1727; Pierre le jeune in c1728; Jean-Baptiste in February 1729; Marguerite in August 1731; Guillaume, fils in June 1734; Marie in May 1739; and Pierre-Louis in April 1741. His married sons carried their father's dit, Dubois. Guillaume, père died probably at Havre-St.-Pierre in the 1740s. Madeleine did not remarry. In August 1752, a French official counted her at Havre-St.-Pierre with her three youngest sons. She died with seven of her children aboard the British transport Violet during the deportation to France in late 1758. Son Joseph married four times, first to Marie, daughter of Jacques Quimine and Marie-Josèphe Chiasson, in c1736, the place unrecorded. He remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Olivier and Françoise Bonnevie, at Beaubassin in January 1743 but settled on Île St.-Jean. The same French official counted them at Havre-de-la-Fortune on the southeast coast of the island in August 1752; he called Joseph a navigator. Joseph remarried again--his third marriage--to Madeleine-Anastasie, daughter of Claude Gautrot and Geneviève-Salomé Hébert, on the island in c1757, and remarried yet again--his fourth and final marriage--to Marguerite, daughter of Jean Caissie and Cécile Hébert and widow of Christophe Delaune, at Très-Ste.-Trinité, Cherbourg, France, in October 1759, during Le Grand Dérangement. Joseph was, in fact, the only member of his immediate family who survived the deportation to France, but he did not survive Le Grand Dérangement. He died at Cherbourg in January 1772, age 58. Brother Jacques married only once, to Marguerite, daughter of Paul Michel dit La Ruine and Marie-Josèphe Vincent, at Port-La-Joye on Île St.-Jean in November 1751. The following August, the same French official counted them on a parcel of land near the source of Rivière-du-Nord-Est that belonged to his mother. Jacques and his family also died aboard the Violet. Pierre l'aîné married Judith, daughter of Gabriel Chiasson and Marie Savoie and widow of Charles Lacroix dit Durel, at Beaubassin in September 1748 but also settled at Havre-de-la-Fortune, where he was counted with his older brother Joseph in August 1752. Guillaume and Madeleine's three youngest sons--Pierre le jeune, Guillaume, fils, and Pierre-Louis--survived childhood but, thanks to the fate of the Violet, did not live long enough to create families of their own. Two of Guillaume and Madeleine's four daughters, Marie and Marguerite, married into the Laborde and Fricour dit Picard families. Marie was counted with her family at Havre-de-la-Fortune in August 1752, and Marguerite with her family at Havre-St.-Pierre. The two sisters, along with their families, also perished with their mother and five brothers on the deportation to France. Guillaume and Madeleine's other two daughters, Élisabeth and another Marie, evidently did not survive childhood. If any of Guillaume's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.25
Louis, son of Jean Cyr and Marguerite Rimbault of St.-Éloi, Dunkerque, France, no kin to gunsmith Pierre Cyr who had come to the colony decades earlier, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of François Michel and Marguerite Meunier, at Grand-Pré in May 1712. Marie-Josèphe gave Louis eight children, including four sons who created families of their own at Chignecto, where the other Cyrs had settled. Louis took his family to the French Maritimes in c1749. If any of Louis's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.198a
François Blanchard dit Gentilhomme from St.-Marc-le-Blanc, Brittany, France, not kin to Jean or Toussaint Blanchard, reached Acadia in c1712. He married Anne, daughter of Jacques Corne and Marie Renaud, at Grand-Pré in c1719. She gave him no children, at least none who appear in Bona Arsenault's genealogie. François remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Carret and Angélique Chiasson of Chignecto, in c1725. According to Bona Arsneault, Marguerite gave François at least eight children, two sons and six daughters: Marie, born in c1730; Marguerite in c1733; Catherine in c1734; François, fils in c1738; Cécile in c1740; Jean in c1742; Rosalie in c1744; and Agathe in c1746. François took his family to Île St.-Jean in c1737 and settled at Malpèque on the island's northwest coast. A French official counted them there in August 1752. Four of François's daughters married into the Audy, Lapierre, and Poirier families on Île St.-Jean and Île Miquelon. Both of his sons married, into the Deveau and Haché dit Gallant families, one of them on Île Miquelon. In 1798, older son François, fils settled at Rustico on the north shore of St. John Island, formerly Île St.-Jean, now Prince Edward Island, not far from his boyhood home at Malpèque. One wonders if any of the 59 Acadian Blanchards who emigrated to Louisiana was a descendant of François dit Gentilhomme.199
Philippe Lambert, probably not kin to Radegonde and René Lambert but likely a native of France, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Michel Boudrot and Marie-Madeleine Cormier, in c1712 and settled at Chignecto. Marie-Madeleine gave Philippe five children, all born at Chignecto, including two sons who created families of their own. One of Philippe's sons emigrated to Louisiana from French St.-Domingue in 1765.200
Jean-Jacques, twin son of Alexandre Nuirat, Nuyratte, or Nuiratte and Anne Audier, Augier, or Hodiers, born at Martigues, bishopric of Arles, France, in July 1682, married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Charles Bourgeois and Marie Blanchard, at Beaubassin in c1712, and remained at Chignecto. Marie-Jeanne gave Jean-Jacques 10 children, three sons and seven daughters, all born at Chignecto: Cécile in c1713; Anne-Marie; Anne, born in June 1719; Marguerite in August 1721; Michel; Ignace; Geneviève; Catherine; Jean-Jacques in January 1734; and Marie in November 1740. Six of their daughters married into the Poirier, Pothier, Compagnon, Girouard, Levasseur dit Chaverlange; Arseneau, Bertrand, and Painchaud family, some at Chignecto, others on Île St.-Jean, in France, and in Canada before and after Le Grand Dérangement. Oldest son Michel married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Denis Gaudet and Anne Doucet, at Beaubassin in October 1746, and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Aucoin and Marguerite Dupuis, at Restigouche in November 1759 while in exile. Second son Ignace married in c1749 to a woman whose name has been lost to history. Youngest son Jean-Jacques married Françoise, daughter of Jean Bertrand le jeune and Anne Doucet, in c1758 probably in the French Maritimes on the eve of the islands' dérangement. If any of Jean-Jacques's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.201
Bernard Marres or Mars
dit La Sonde, native of Bordeaux and
Louis-François, called François, son of Sr. Louis Mangeant, Meaugent, Mongeon, or Mongeau dit Saint-Germain and Anne Deschamps of St.-Paul Parish, Paris, married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Caissie dit Roger and Anne Bourgeois, at Beaubassin in April 1713, and moved to Québec probably as a merchant. He also worked as a scribe. Marguerite gave him seven children, most of them born at Québec. Only one of their sons married and created a family his own. In September 1726, François appeared before the colonial Council at Annapolis Royal "in order to solicit permission to settle at Beaubassin, having left Québec after having fatally wounded a man named Lesage, who had insulted and provoked him." Not only did Mangeant receive permission to remain in the colony after taking the unqualified oath of allegiance to King George II, but the Parisian became a favorite of Lieutenant-governor Armstrong, who appointed him collector of quit-rents at Minas, supplanting Alexandre Bourg dit Bellehumeur, in 1737. Despite Mangeant's connection with the Caissies, a prominent Chignecto family, most of his fellow Acadians thought little of him. After Armstrong's suicide in December 1739, Mangeant wisely gave up his position at Minas and moved to the fishing port of Canso, where he was captured by a French force from Louisbourg at the beginning of King George's War in 1744. If any of François's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none of them took the family's name there.202a
Jean, fils, son of Jean Fougère and Marie Barré of Poupry, Beauce, Diocese of d'Orléans, France, married Marie, daughter of Abraham Bourg and Marie Brun, at Annapolis Royal in November 1713 and moved on to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, in the early 1720s, where he worked as a navigator and a fisherman as well as a farmer. Between 1715 and 1726, Marie gave him eight children, five daughters and three sons. Three of their daughters married into the Dugas and Boudrot families. Two of his and Marie's sons married into the Coste and Dugas families. Jean, fils remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of Jean Belliveau and Cécile Melanson, at Port-Toulouse in c1728. Between 1728 and 1744, Marie-Madeleine gave Jean, fils 10 more children, three sons and seven daughters. Four of his daughters married into the Bonin, Boudrot, and Petitpas families. Two of his three sons married into the Landry and Martel families. If any of Jean's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.203
Pierre dit
Des Roches, son of Pierre Boucher and Hélène Gaudry dit
Bourbonnière of St.-Nicolas Parish, Québec, born at Québec in c1688, emigrated to French Acadia and married
Anne, daughter of Étienne Hébert, fils and Jeanne Comeau of Minas, at
Grand-Pré in February 1714. Soon after their marriage,
Sébastien dit L'Espérance, son of Jacques Le Roy and Barbe Raymond of Montmidi, Parish of St.-Joseph, Lorraine, not kin to Jean dit La Liberté Roy, married Marie-Catherine, daughter of François Coste and Madeleine Martin dit Barnabé, at Annapolis Royal in February 1714. They promptly moved to Île Royale, where their only child, daughter Marie-Josèphe, was born at Port-Toulouse in c1716. Sébastien died the following year, and Marie-Catherine remarried to Pierre Bois of Coutances, France. Marie-Josèphe survived childhood, married into the Brisset family, and settled with the Costes at L'Ardois, on the Atlantic side of island. No member of this family emigrated to Louisiana.14
Jean-Baptiste, son of merchant Claude Porlier and Marie Bissot, born at Québec in October 1685, moved to Port-Royal probably during the final days of French control of the colony and served as a pilot in the King's service. Jean-Baptiste married Anne-Marie, daughter of Jacques de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, former governor Charles Latour's older surviving son, and Anne Melanson, at Annapolis Royal in February 1714, and remained there. Anne-Marie gave Jean-Baptiste seven children, including four sons who married Granger sisters and cousins and created families of their own. If any of Jean-Baptiste's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.203a
Jean dit Jolycoeur, son of Jean Lebert and Marie DuFay of St.-Laurent, Paris, reached Annapolis Royal by May 1714, when he married Jeanne, 30-year-old daughter of Vincent Breau dit Vincelotte and Marie Bourg. Jean dit Jolycoeur took his family to the Minas Basin in c1720. They had eight children, four daughters and four sons: Marie-Josèphe at Annapolis Royal in March 1715; Jean-Baptiste in May 1716; Paul in August 1718; Charles in September 1720; Jeanne at Minas in June 1723; Osite in July 1725; Marie in c1726; and Honoré. Daughters Jeanne and Marie married into the Gautrot and Hébert families. Their four sons married into the Lapierre and Robichaud families and into two families whose names have been lost to history. At least eight of Jolycoeur's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.204
Jean-Baptiste, son of François Vécot, also Veco, Vescot, Bécot, and Bécault, and Françoise Poirier of Boucherville, Canada, born at Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupré in December 1690, married Marie, daughter of Sébastien Chiasson and Marie Blou, at Beaubassin in June 1714. Jean-Baptiste took his family to Île St.-Jean in the late 1720s and settled at Havre-St.-Pierre, on the island's north shore. Marie gave Jean-Baptiste a dozen children at Chignecto and on Île St.-Jean: François was born in c1715; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in December 1716; an unnamed son in c1718; Jacques in c1722; Marie in c1724; Cécile in c1726; Angélique in August 1728; Jean-Baptiste in c1730; Anne in November 1732; Rosalie in May 1734; Pierre in June 1736; and Joseph in January 1739. Five of their daughters married into the Dubois dit Dumont, Viarrieu dit Duclos, Boudrot, Bourg, and Poirier families. Only two of Jean-Baptiste's six sons created families of their own. François married Anne-Marie, daughter of Pierre Arseneau and Marguerite Cormier, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, in May 1743. They settled on Rivière-du-Nord-Est on the island, where a French official counted them in August 1752. Jacques married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Bourg and Marie-Josèphe Landry, at Port-Lajoie on the island in February 1750. In August 1752, a French official counted Jean-Baptiste, Marie, and their six younger children at Havre-St.-Pierre. Sadly, they, along with daughter Marie and her family, perished aboard the British transport Violet on its way to St.-Malo in December 1758. If any of Jean-Baptiste's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.205
Pierre Bertaud dit Montaury, who, according to Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault, was born in France, came to Nova Scotia in the early 1700s, where he worked as a fisherman and a maître de grave. Pierre married Marie, daughter of Pierre Martin and Anne Godin of Port-Royal, probably at Annapolis Royal in c1714. They moved on to Île Royale by 1717 and settled at Port-Toulouse. In the early 1720s, they moved to Île St.-Jean, where they settled at Havre-St.-Pierre on the north shore of the island. Marie gave Pierre seven children, two sons and five daughters; only the oldest was born in British Nova Scota: Marie-Josèphe perhaps at Annapolis Royal, date unrecorded; Jacques at Port-Toulouse in c1718; Marguerite in c1720; Anne-Agathe at Havre-St.-Pierre in September 1724; Françoise in c1727; Jean-François, called François, in July 1729; and a second Marie-Josèphe in November 1732. Pierre's daughters married into the Gallon, Martin, Petitpas, and Longuépée families. Older son Jacques dit Montaury, also called Jacques dit Breto, married Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, daughter of Jacques Quimine and Marie Chiasson, at Beaubassin in April 1741, but they settled at Havre-St.-Pierre, where a French official counted them with four children in August 1752. Pierre and Marie's younger son François survived childhood but evidently did not marry. Pierre dit Montaury died by February 1734, when Marie remarried to Mathieu de Glain dit Cadet of Bayonne, France, at Havre-St.-Pierre. They settled on Rivière-de-Peugiguit, in the center of the island, where the same French official counted them in August 1752. No member of this family emigrated to Louisiana.206
Jacques, son of Daniel Kimin, Kimine, or Quimine and Marie Torel of Pennemart, Nantes, France, born there in c1692, came to British Nova Scotia by February 1715, when he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Gabriel Chiasson and Marie Savoie, at Chignecto. Marie-Josèphe gave Jacques eight children, all born at Chignecto: Marie in c1718; Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, in c1721; Anne in c1722; Pierre in c1726; Jean-Jacques in c1729; Judith in c1732; and Françoise in c1733; Marguerite in c1738. Jacques took his family to Île St.-Jean in c1742. Four of their daughters married into the Prieur dit Dubois, Bertaud dit Montaury, Aubin dit Le Buffe, and Douville families on the island. Son Jean-Jacques married Madeleine, daughter of Charles Thériot and Angélique Doiron of Cobeguit, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, the church for Havre-St.-Pierre, on the north shore of the island, in November 1751. In August 1752, a French official counted Jacques, Marie-Josèphe, four of their unmarried children, including oldest son Pierre, and younger son Jean-Jacques and his family, at Étang-St.-Pierre on the north end of the island west of Havre-St.-Pierre. The same official counted daughter Madeleine, her husband Jacques Bertaud dit Montaury, and their four children at the harbor. Jacque and Marie-Josèphe's daughter Anne, her husband Sr. Louis Aubin dit Le Buffe, and their two daughters were counted at nearby Nigeagant. Jacques and Marie-Josèphe's older son Pierre married Marie-Louise, daughter of Michel Grossin and Marie Caissie, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in February 1755. At least five of Jacques's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.207
Jean-Baptiste,
son of Jean David and Jeanne Bell, probably not kin to the other
Davids in Acadia, was born at Château-Richer, Québec, in c1693.
Jean-Baptiste married Marguerite, daughter of François Lapierre
Nicolas, son of Claude Lavigne and Françoise Le Dorez, born at St.-Denis, near Paris, in c1684, came to Nova Scotia by March 1715, when he married Madeleine, daughter of Charles Doucet and Huguette Guérin, at Annapolis Royal. Madeleine gave him at least two sons: Joseph, born in 1717; and Charles in 1718. He took his family to Île Royale in the 1710s or 1720s. Madeleine died at Port-Toulouse in c1727, and Nicolas remarried to Marie-Anne, daughter of Jean Clémençeau and Anne Roy, at Port-Toulouse in c1732. They settled at Port-Toulouse, where he worked as a coaster. Marie-Anne gave him six more children: Anne, born in c1733; Marguerite in c1737; Nicolas, fils, in c1738; Madeleine in c1741; Barbe in c1745; and Geneviève in c1750. Son Charles by his first wife married into the Petitpas and Lafargue families and settled at L'Ardoise, east of Port-Toulouse. Three of Nicolas's daughters by his second wife married into the Blaquière, Poirier, and Gauthier families. If any of Nicolas's descendants emigated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.280
Joseph dit Lanoy, son of Geoffroi Le Mordant and Guillemette Lorange of St.-Malo, France, was born there in c1691. He married Marie, 20-year-old daughter of Michel Hébert and Isabelle Pellerin, at Grand-Pré in January 1715. They moved on to the French Maritimes soon after their marriage and settled at Petit-Bras-d'Or, on the coast above Louisbourg. Marie gave Joseph at least four daughters at Minas and on Île Royale: Isabelle in c1720, Marie in c1721, Anne-Marie in c1723, and Perrine in c1729. Joseph died by c1750, when Marie remarried on the island. Two of Joseph and Marie's daughters married into the Le Breton and Dauphin families. In April 1752, a French official counted daughters Marie and Perrine and their families, as well as their mother and stepfather, at Baie-de-l'Indienne near Peitit-Bras-d'Or. No member of this family emigrated to Louisiana.21
Jacques, son of Étienne Dingle or Dengle and Anne Laseux, a surgeon from Ville de Grauelline, Flanders, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Jean Landry and Cécile Melanson, at Grand-Pré in July 1716. They resettled on Île Royale during the early 1730s, at Niganiche, Havre Fourché, and Louisbourg. In August 1752, their 18-year-old daughter Madeleine, "native of Niganiche," was living with her uncle Benjamin Landry at Rivière-du-Nord, Île St.-Jean. If any of Jacques's descendants emigrated to Lousiana, none took the family's name there.209
Thomas, son of Jacques LeSauvage and Élisabeth Recie of St.-Goudard, Rouen, France, was born there in c1683 and became a blacksmith. Thomas came to Nova Scotia by September 1717, when he married Anne, daughter of François Lapierre dit Laroche and Jeanne Rimbault, at Grand-Pré. Anne gave him at least five children, a daughter and four sons: Françoise, born in c1718; Pierre in c1719; Michel in c1721; a second Pierre in c1725; and Jacques-Christophe in c1728. The family moved on to Chignecto, where Thomas died in c1730. His widow remarried on Île St.-Jean. Daughter Françoise married into the Massé, Doucet, and Comeau families and was deported to New York in 1755. Son Michel married into the Léger dit La Rosette family and evidently remained at Chignecto. Son Pierre le jeune married into the Pinet family and moved to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, where he worked as a coaster. Youngest son Jacques-Christophe married into the Couture family at Québec during exile. No member of this family emigrated to Louisiana.03
Jean, fils, son of Jean Semer, also called Lemaire and Lemer, and Marguerite Héron, of the isle of Guernsey, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Vincent and Marie-Josèphe Richard of Pigiguit, at Grand-Pré in November 1717. The priest who recorded the marriage called Jean, fils a Lemer. Between 1720 and 1740, Marguerite gave Jean at least five children, four sons and a daughter, all born at Minas. A least seven of Jean's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765 and from France in 1785.210
Louis dit Provençal, son of Antoine Arnaud dit Renaud and Marie Samson of St.-Martin, Marseille, came to British Nova Scotia by c1718, the year he married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of François Lapierre dit Laroche and Jeanne Rimbault, at Grand-Pré. They raised a large family of 16 children, 11 sons and five daughters, all born at Grand-Pré: Charles in c1720; Ursule in c1721; Louis in c1722; François in c1723; Marie-Josèphe-Marguerite in c1725; Jean-Baptiste in c1726; Laurent-Sylvain in c1731; Alexis in c1732; Jean-Joseph in c1733; Pierre in c1734; Grégoire in c1735; Judith in c1736; Angélique in c1737; Anne in c1739; Louis-Étienne in c1741; and Anselme in c1743. Louis took his family to Île St.-Jean probably to escape British authority on the peninsula. The move proved fatal for him; he drowned off Cap-St.-Louis on the north shore of the island, date unrecorded. In August 1752, his widow Marie was living on Rivière-de-Peugiguit in the interior of the island with her oldest daughter, a son-in-law, and four of her unmarried children--Ursule, age 30, married to Joseph Poirier; Pierre, age 18; Judith, age 16; Anne, age 13; and Anselme, age 8. Charles married Catherine Humer probably on Île St.-Jean in c1750. François married Françoise Comeau, widow of ____ Tompique, probably in the early 1750s and settled at Rivière-des-Blonds on the south coast of the island, where a French official counted them in August 1752; two of the three children counted with them were daughters Théotiste, age 20 months, and Rose, age 5 months. Marguerite married into the Levron family at Grand-Pré, date unrecorded. Jean-Joseph married Marie-Josèphe, daugher of Nicolas Barrieau and Ursule Gautrot, at Port-La-Joye on Île St.-Jean in January 1755. Alexis married Françoise, daughter of François Doucet and Marie Carret, probably on Île St.-Jean in c1760. Angélique married into the Boissy family, place and date unrecorded. If any of Louis's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.211
Ignace dit Saint-Jacques Carret, born in France, probably was not kin to soldier Pierre Carret who had come to French Acadia in c1702. Ignace dit Saint-Jacques arrived in Nova Scotia by c1718, the year he married Cécile, daughter of Robert Henry and Madeleine Godin of Cobeguit. They settled at Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, before moving on to the French Maritimes. Between 1724 and 1744, at Ste.-Famille, Cécile gave Ignace at least 10 children, eight sons and two daughters: Charles in c1724; Jean in c1725, Pierre in c1726; Joseph in c1727; Honoré in c1729; Marie in c1732; François in c1734; Zenon in c1736; Anne-Marie in c1740; and Ignace, fils in c1744. In the late 1740s, son Joseph married into the Lapierre family, and son Pierre married into the Gautrot family and settled on Île St.-Jean. In c1751, Ignace, père took his family to Île Royale, where a French official counted him, Cécile, and eight of their unmarried children at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse in the center of the island in March 1752. In the early and late 1750s, their daughters married into the Lejeune family on the island. At least eight of Ignace's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.212
Pierre Olivier, a tailor from the Parish of St.-Mederic, Paris, came to Nova Scotia by c1718, the year he married Françoise, daughter of Jacques Bonnevie and Françoise Mius, at Annapolis Royal. They had eight children, five daughters and three sons, all born at Annapolis Royal: Marie-Josèphe, born in c1719; Marguerite in c1720; Anne in c1721; Madeleine in c1722; Paul in c1727; Jean-Baptiste in c1729; Joseph in c1730; and Françoise in c1732. Daughters Mariee-Josèphe, Marguerite, Anne, and Françoise married into the Caissie, Le Prieur dit Dubois, and Haché dit Gallant families. Pierre and Françoise's three sons settled at Chignecto. Oldest son Paul moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1749 and Marguerite, daughter of François Poirier and Marie Haché dit Gallant, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord in September 1749. They settled on upper Rivière-du-Nord-Est, where a French official counted them in August 1752. With them were two children, a son and a daughter. Middle son Jean-Baptiste also moved to Île St.-Jean and married Susanne Pitre there in c1749. He remarried to Marie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Haché dit Gallant and Marie Gentil of Île St.-Jean, at St.-Servan, near St.-Malo, France, in January 1767, during Le Grand Dérangement. Youngest son Joseph married Marguerite, daughter of Paul Martin dit Barnabé and Marguerite Cyr of Chignecto, probably at Chignecto in c1752. Pierre's second daughter Marguerite also settled on Île St.-Jean, where the same French official counted her with husband Joseph Le Prieur at Havre-de-la-Fortune, on the island's southeast coast, in August 1752. At least three of the tailor's descendants--daughter Anne, son Joseph, and Joseph's son Jean-Baptiste le jeune--emigrated to Louisiana from French St.-Domingue in the late 1760s and France in 1785.213
Henri and René Guillot dit L'Angevin, brothers born at Doix in the diocese of Angers in c1693 and c1695, respectively, came to Nova Scotia by 1719, when René married Marguerite Doiron probably at Minas. Henri also married probably at Minas, but the name of his wife has been lost to history. Henri's wife gave him at least two children: René le jeune in c1722; and Marie-Josèphe in c1723. Henri moved his family to Cobeguit. Bona Arsenault insists that René le jeune married an Arsement and fathered a daughter in c1751.
Henri Guillot's brother René l'aîné, who also moved on to Cobeguit, fathered at least four children, three sons and a daughter, who created families of their own: Jean-Baptiste at Minas in December 1720; Marie-Josèphe in c1723; Ambroise at Cobeguit in c1728; and René, fils in c1731. René, père and Marguerite's daughter married into the Breau family. Their sons married into the Arsement, Bourg, and Daigre families, and the oldest one settled at l'Assomption, Pigiguit. René, père evidently died before 1750. In that year, his sons followed their widowered uncle Henri and cousin Marie-Josèphe to French-controlled Île St.-Jean. Two of the sons settled at Pointe-Prime near their uncle and the other at Pointe-au-Boulleau on the island's southeastern coast. At least eight of René, père's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.483
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A circumstance probably discouraged by British authorities in the early years of their control of the colony was the settlement of their own soldiers in francophone Nova Scotia, with predictable results. It was rare for young officers to take Acadian brides while pursing their careers. Nevertheless, a granddaughter of former governor Charles La Tour married two of them! At least two British officers chose to settle in the colonial capital after they retired from active service and created lasting families. Another was a young British officer who married an Acadian girl and remained in Nova Scotia for his entire career:
Sr.
William Winniett, called Guillaume Ouinet by his Acadian neighbors, was born
perhaps in France of Huguenot parents in the late 1680s. He came to Boston with Colonel Francis
Nicholson in the spring 1709 "as a volunteer in the expedition against
Port-Royal," which resulted in the Acadian capital's fall the following year.
William served as an ensign and later as a sub-lieutenant in Walton's New Hampshire
regiment. Volunteering to remain in the garrison at Annapolis Royal, he
was promoted to lieutenant. In c1711, William, now 26, remarried
to Marie-Madeleine, the 16-year-old daughter of Pierre Maisonnat dit
Baptiste and his second wife Madeleine Bourg, in a Protestant ceremony at
Annapolis Royal. Marie-Madeleine's father, a native of Bergerac, Guyenne,
and a renown French privateer, remained in Acadia after the British takeover and
served as port captain at Annapolis Royal. Marie-Madeleine's mother was a daughter of François Bourg and
Marguerite Boudrot of Port-Royal. The year of his remarriage,
Winniett retired from active service and became a successful merchant and
ship owner at Annapolis Royal. In November 1729, he was appointed to the
colonial Council in spite of the wishes of the irascible
lieutenant-governor, Lawrence Armstrong, who was a political enemy not only of
Winniett, but also of the merchant's influential son-in-law, Alexander
Cosby. Winniett served the colony for
five years, until Armstrong removed him from the Council in
November 1734 "on information laid against him, 'and his other disrespectful &
Contemptuous behaviour not only in Council but likewise aboard.'" William
nonetheless was a successful businessman and enjoyed a fulfilling family life.
Other British soldiers
William, called
"Billy," Johnson, a native of Scotland, came to Port-Royal in the autumn
of 1710 as a British soldier. He got into trouble with his superiors, was
branded on the forehead with the crow's foot, the sign of a thief, and expelled
from the garrison. Undaunted, Billy sought refuge in the nearby Acadian
community, denounced Protestantism, and became a Catholic. In c1714, he
"married" Isabelle, daughter of Jean Corporon and Françoise Savoie,
at Annapolis Royal and "became" an Acadian. Seven years earlier, in
September 1707, Isabelle had given birth to a natural son, Louis
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The frontier war of the 1720s may have slowed, but it did not halt, French immigration into British Nova Scotia. New families emerged in a number of settlements when recent arrivals married into established families. Some of these new families moved on to the French Maritimes:
Louis Hugon, native of Villefagnan, Angouleme, France, married Marie, daughter of Claude Bourgeois and Anne Blanchard, at Chignecto in April 1720. They had six children, two daughters and four sons, at Chignecto: Marie-Josèphe in c1721; Louis in c1723; Jacques in c1730; Joseph in c1732; Anne-Marie in c1733; and Michel in c1740. The two sons created families of their own. At least two of Louis's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from French St.-Domingue in 1765.214
Jean-Michel, called Michel, Part, actually Apart, a native of France and probably not kin to Pierre Part dit La Forest of Port-Royal and Louisbourg, married Élisabeth, daughter of Michel Hébert and Isabelle Pellerin, probably at Minas in c1720. They had at least four children there--Jean-Antoine, born in c1721; Joseph in c1723; Alexis in c1725; Brigitte in c1727--before moving on to Cobeguit in the 1730s. Michel became a widower in the early 1730s and did not remarry. He died during exile on Île d'Orléans, below Québec, in September 1758, in his mid-60s. His daughter Brigitte married into the Boudrot family at Grand-Pré and moved on to Île St.-Jean in 1751. A French official counted her and her family, along with inform older brother Alexis, at La Traverse on the southwest shore of the island in August 1752. Jean-Antoine married Marguerite-Josèphe Breau in c1745 and moved to Île St.-Jean in 1750. In August 1752, a French official counted them at Anse-à-Pinnet on the island's southeast shore with two children. At least one of Michel's descendants, daughter Brigitte, emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.215
Pierre-Claude Arcement, born probably in France in c1694, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Pierre Thériot and Marie Bourg, in c1722 and settled at L'Assomption, Pigiguit. Between 1724 and 1734, at L'Assomption, Marie-Josèphe gave Pierre-Claude eight children, four sons and four daughters, including a set of fraternal twins. Oldest daughter Geneviève, born in c1724, married into the Pitre family at Pigiguit in c1744. Oldest son Jean, born in c1725, married Marie-Josèphe Doiron at Pigiguit in c1745 and fathered at least three children, a son and two daughters, between 1746 and 1750. Second son Claude, born in c1726, married Angélique, daughter of Louis Doiron and Marguerite Barrieau, at Pigiguit in c1746. She gave him three children, a son and two daughters, between 1747 and 1750. Pierre-Claude and his family joined the exodus from Pigiguit to Île St.-Jean in 1750. One wonders if Generviève, Jean, and their families remained at L'Assomption when their parents and siblings moved to the island. Pierre-Claude's second daughter Cécile, born in c1727, married Antoine Leprince, widower of Judith Boudrot, at Port-La-Joye on Île St.-Jean in November 1751. Third daughter Marie-Madeleine, born in c1732, married Jean-Baptiste Guillot at L'Assomption by 1746, followed her family to Île St.-Jean, and died there. In August 1752, a French official counted Pierre-Claude, who he called a Herrement and a "native of l'Acadie," which he was not, Marie-Josèphe, and three of their younger children at Grande-Anse on the south coast of the island. The same official counted son Claude, who he called an Arcement, wife Angélique, and three of their children, as well as daughter Marie-Madeleine's husband Jean-Baptiste Guillot, now a widower, and three of his children, at nearby Pointe-Prime. Pierre-Claude's third son Pierre, fils, born in c1731, married Marie, daughter of Jean Hébert and Madeleine Doiron, on the island in c1757. One wonders if Pierre-Claude's youngest son François and his twin sister Marie-Josèphe, born in c1734, created families of their own. At least eight of Pierre-Claude's descendants--son Pierre, fils and seven of his children--emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.217
Pierre Cloistre dit Clouâtre, a French gunsmith, reached Nova Scotia by 1722, the year he married Marguerite, daughter of André LeBlanc and Marie-Jeanne Dugas of Minas. Pierre and Marguerite settled at Grand-Pré and had at least a dozen children at Minas, including Marie-Josèphe in April 1723; Louis in August 1724; Georges in November 1727; Dominique in May 1729; Pierre-Sylvain in c1740; Anne in March 1744; Marthe-Marie July 1746; and Joseph in c1750. Daughter Anne's marriage record calls her a native of "St. Jean, Acadia," so the gunsmith and his wife may have lived on French-controlled Île St.-Jean during the 1740s. Only one of Pierre and Marguerite's sons seems to have married before Le Grand Dérangement: Third son Dominique married Françoise, daughter of Claude Boudrot, fils and Catherine Hébert, probably at Minas in c1750. Oldest daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Hébert family at Grand-Pré in October 1747. In 1755, the British deported Pierre and his family to Maryland. Pierre died there. At least eight of his descendants emigrated to Louisiana from the Chesapeake colony in 1768. Daughter Anne married into the Capdeville family there.264
Charles Le Roy, born at Paris in c1700, not kin to Jean dit La Liberté Roy or to Sébastien Le Roy dit L'Espérance of Lorraine, married Marie-Charlotte, daughter of Charles Chauvet dit La Gerne and Edmée Joseph dit Lejeune of Pigiguit, in c1723, probably at Pigiguit. Marie-Charlotte gave him at least 10 children: Pierre, born in c1724; Geneviève in c1726; Marguerite in c1728; Alexandre in c1730; Marie in c1732; Charles, fils in c1734; Anne-Madeleine in c1736; Martine in c1738; Alexis in c1742; and Osite in c1745. Charles's daughters married into the Fournier, Pitsch, Lejeune, Cabas, Thibault, Benoit, and Lacoste-Languedoc families. His sons married into the Lejeune, Lanadé, Doiron, and Des Sauteux families. In the summer of 1750, Charles and his family followed other peninsula Acadians to Île Royale. In April 1752, a French official counted him and his extended family--including son Pierre and his wife, and daughters Geneviève and Marie and their husbands--at Baie-des-Espagnols with dozens of other refugees from Nova Scotia. No member of this family emigrated to Louisiana.18
Étienne Hamet, born at St.-Jean Parish, bishopric of Coutances, in c1686, married Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Benoit l'aîné and Marie Forest, in c1725, place unrecorded but it probably was at Minas. In c1750, perhaps after their children had grown (unless they were that rare Acadian couple who had no children), Étienne and Marguerite moved on to the French Maritimes and settled on Île Madame, where a French official counted them in February 1752, sans children. No member of this family emigrated to Louisiana.16
Charles, son of Robert Héon and Jeanne-Marie Picat at Dragey, bishopric of Avranches, France, born in c1701, became a blacksmith. He came to British Nova Scotia by c1726, when he married Anne, daughter of Acadians Jean Clémenceau and Anne Roy of Annapolis Royal, place unrecorded. They settled at Chignecto. Between 1727 and 1740, Anne gave Charles seven children, four sons and three daughters. In his late 40s, Charles remarried to Marie, daughter of Acadians Charles Bourgeois and Marie Blanchard and widow of Jean-Jacques Nuirat, at Beaubassin in May 1748. She gave him no more children. His daughters married into the Arsenault, LeBlanc (probably Canadian, not Acadian), and Lucas-Dontigny families at Chignecto and in Canada. His sons married into the Labauve, Bergeron, Delisle, and Raux families at Chignecto and in Canada and created vigorous lines in the Trois-Rivières area. No member of this family emigrated to Louisiana.02
Toussaint, son of Jean Blanchard and Pétronille Ferrier of Évran, near St.-Malo, France, not kin to Jean and François dit Gentilhomme, married Angélique, daughter of Claude Bertrand and Catherine Pitre and widow of François Martin, at Annapolis Royal in c1727. Like some of Jean Blanchard's descendants, Toussaint settled at Petitcoudiac. According to Bona Arsenault, Angélique gave Toussaint at least three sons: Ambroise, born in c1734; Michel in c1741; and Joseph in c1746. Other records show that Angélique gave Toussaint two daughters as well at Petitcoudianc: Anne, born in June 1740; and Madeleine in c1744. His daughters married into the Bertrand, Comeau, and Mondon families at Halifax and in Louisiana. His youngest son Joseph was deported to France and married Marie, daughter of Jean Granger and Madeleine Melanson, at Très-St.-Trinité, Cherbourg, in August 1769. Between 1770 and 1775, at Cherbourg and Châtellerault, Marie gave Joseph two sons. They participated in the settlement scheme in Poitou in the early 1770s, where their second son was born. They retreated with other Poitou Acadians to Nantes in December 1775. Of the 56 Acadian Blanchards who emigrated to Louisiana, three of them who came from France were Toussaint's daughters.265
Jean dit Nouvelle, son of Étienne Hélie and Marguerite Laporte, France, born at Poitiers, France, in c1706, was a master tailor when he married Anne-Marie, daughter of Acadians Pierre Lalande alias Blaise des Brousse dit Bonappétit and Anne Prétieux, at Grand-Pré in October 1729. Jean remarried to Françoise, daughter of Jacques Bonnevie dit Beaumont and Françoise Mius d'Azy and widow of Pierre Olivier, at Beaubassin in January 1741. They moved to Île St.-Jean in c1749 and settled on Rivière-du-Nord-Est, where a French officials counted them on the north side of the river in August 1752. If any member of Jean dit Nouvelle's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.01
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During the 1730s and early 1740s, the Acadian "golden age," more Frenchmen found their way into British Nova Scotia and married into established families. Many of them moved on to the French Maritimes, and a few of them came from the Maritime islands:
Michel Join, born at St.-Malo, France, in c1706, perhaps after his service in the troupes de la marine, married Marie Impérisse, widow of ____ André, in c1730. A native of Port-Royal, Marie was age 24 at the time of their marriage, still a woman of child-bearing age. Though she had given her first husband at least one daughter, she bore no children for Michel. In 1750, the family moved to Île St.-Jean and settled at Anse-au-Sanglier on the south shore of the island, where a French official counted them in August 1752. With them was Marie-Marthe André, age 20, Marie's daughter from her first marriage, also a widow, and Marie-Marthe's 5-month-old son François-Marie Lecchis. The official noted that Michel, now a farmer, was "extremely poor." He and Marie had no livestock, but they had "made a large garden." No member of this family emigrated to Louisiana.30
Jean-Baptiste dit Clermont, son of Thomas Le Marquis and Anne Dalvan, born at St.-Malo, France, in c1702, married Anne, daughter of Acadians François Lapierre dit Laroche and Jeanne Rimbault and widow of Thomas Le Sauvage, perhaps at Minas in c1730. She gave him at least three children: Jean-Baptiste, fils, born in c1732; Marie-Josèphe in c1734; and Pierre-Paul, called Paul in c1736. Anne died on Île St.-Jean in May 1751, in her late 50s, and Jean-Baptiste remarried to Marie, daughter of Clément Vincent and Madeleine Levron and widow of Paul Michel dit La Ruine, at Port-La-Joye, Île St.-Jean, in May 1752. A few months later, in August 1752, a French official counted Jean-Baptiste, his second wife, and their family at Anse-aux-Pirogues on lower Rivière-du-Nord-Est in the interior of the island. Among the eight children counted with Jean-Baptiste and Marie were the three children from his first marriage. Jean-Baptiste, fils, who went by the name Marquis, married Marie-Thérèse, daughter of Paul Trahan and Marie Boudrot, at Port-La-Joye in February 1754. If any of Jean-Baptiste's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.10
Pierre Bonnier or Bonnière, a tailor, born at Raqueil, bishopric of Rennes, Brittany, in c1709, married Madeleine-Josèphe, daughter of Michel Forest, fils and his second wife Marie Célestin dit Bellemère of Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, probably at that settlement in c1730. Madeleine-Josèphe gave the tailor-turned-farmer at least seven children: Pierre, fils, born in c1731; Marie-Madeleine in c1733; Michel-Joseph in c1735; Jean-Jacques in c1736; Rose in c1738; Rosalie in c1739; Anne in c1741; and Charles in c1744. Pierre, père took his family to Île St.-Jean in 1750 and settled at Havre-St.-Pierre, on the north shore of the island, where a French official counted them in August 1752. Pierre, fils married Anne Granger on Île St.-Jean probably on the eve of the census. Pierre, père died at Plymouth, England, in c1759, age 50, during the deportation of the Maritime islanders to France. If any of Pierre's descendants emigrated to Louisiana, none took the family's name there.267
Pierre, son of François Arostey or Arosteguy and Marie Lassalde of Bayonne, Gascogne, came to the colony by May 1737, when he married Marie, daughter of Charles Robichaud dit Cadet and his second wife Marie Bourg, at Grand-Pré. Pierre and Marie settled on the Beauséjour ridge at Chignecto, where, from the late 1730s into the early 1750s, she gave him least six children, three sons and three daughters: Pierre, fils; François; Anne; Marie-Théotiste; Jean; and Marguerite. Pierre, Marie, and five their children, one of them married, emigrated to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765.269
Jean, son of Guy Cousin of Dol, Brittany, born at St.-Malo in c1716, reached Nova Scotia by November 1737, when he married Judith, 16-year-old daughter of Paul Guédry and Anne Mius d'Azy, at Grand-Pré. Jean and Judith settled near her family at Ministigueshe near Cap-Sable, where four of their children were born: Bénony in c1742, Marie-Blanche in c1744, Jean-Baptiste in c1746, and Marie-Madeleine in c1747. In c1750, Jean took his family to Île Royale, where they settled at Baie-des-Espagnols. At least one of Jean's descendants emigrated to Louisiana from France in 1785.270
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Amazingly, new arrivals from France, and even from Spain, appeared in British Nova Scotia during the troubled years of the late 1740s and early 1750s. Each of them married daughters of long-established Acadian families and created families of their own. Some moved on to the French Maritimes:
Jean-Baptiste, son of François Butteau and Marie Jinchereau, married Jeanne, daughter of Jean Caissie dit Roger and his second wife Cécile Hébert, at Beaubassin in February 1748. In c1750, they moved to Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, where a French official counted them with 8-month-old daughter Marguerite in February 1752. No member of this family emigrated to Louisiana.04
Pierre Boucher married Marie, daughter of Jean Doiron and Anne LeBlanc, probably at Chignecto in the early 1750s. They had at least one child, daughter Marie-Anne, born at Beaubassin in c1754, on the eve of Le Grand Dérangement. Marie-Anne was the only Acadian Bourchers to emigrate to Louisiana. She went there from French St.-Domingue with her mother and stepfather, Pierre Lambert, in 1765.272
Jean, fils, son of Jean Gousman and Marie Granielle, born probably at St.-Nicolas, Andalusia, Spain, came to British Nova Scotia by c1755, when he married Acadian Marie Barrieau probably at Annapolis Royal. She died without giving him any children. In January 1760, while in exile, the Spaniard remarried to Rose, daughter of Acadians Jacques dit Jacquot Bonnevie dit Beaumont, fils and his first wife Marguerite Lord of Annapolis Royal and Île St.-Jean, at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs. Between 1762 and 1783, Rose gave him at least nine children, six sons and three daughters, in exile, on Île Miquelon, and in France. Jean, Rose, and two of their children emigrated to Spanish Louisiana from France in 1785.273
Joseph Marant, born in c1729, married Acadian Angélique Dugas probably at Chignecto in c1755. They emigrated to Louisiana from French St.-Domingue in 1765 and remained childless.274
Joseph Dubois, a seaman, probably not kin to the other Duboiss of greater Acadia, married Anne, daughter of Acadians Louis Michel and Marguerite Forest, in c1756 and settled most likely at Cap-Sable. They had at least one child, daughter Marguerite-Ange, born in c1757 probably at Cap-Sable. She was the only member of her father's family to emigrate to Louisiana, from France in 1785.275
.
Several of these late arrivals chose to move on to the French Maritimes and join the hundreds of Acadians who had gone there over the previous four decades. Then came 1755, the great turning point in Acadian history. Six years of petite guerre gave way to organized warfare. By the end of the year, without the Acadians' consent, the government in Halifax had cleared the province of most of its French inhabitants. While thousands of their kinsmen were shipped south to the seaboard colonies, hundreds escaped to Île St.-Jean, where they strained that island's already limited resources. Living in territory controlled by France, they were safe ... for now ... from deportation. Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however. The fourth and final French and Indian War spread like wildfire to the rest of the northern region, and soon even the Acadians' island refuge fell to the determined redcoats.
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:
SOURCE NOTES - BOOK THREE-2
11. See
12. See
30.
117. Marriages from 1710-14 may be found in White, DGFA-1. Marriages after 1714 may be found in Arsenault, Généalogie, which is organized by settlement & then alphabetically by family name.
See Clark,
See also Book Four.
196. See Arsenault,
Généalogie, 767-69;
White, DGFA-1, 1383-84;
197. See Arsenault, Généalogie, 611-12; White, DGFA-1, 907-08; White, DGFA-1 English, 192-93; Books Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Lalande family page.
198.
198a.
See
199.
200. See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1008, 2520-21; White, DGFA-1, 910-11; Books Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Lambert family page.
201.
201a.
Bernard Marres dit La Sonde's granson, Louis Dantin, fils, by Bernard's daughter Marguerite, did go to LA, from France in 1785. See Books Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Dantin family page.
202a.
203.
203a.
See
203b.
See
204. See Arsenault, Généalogie, 646-47; White, DGFA-1, 981-82; Books Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Lebert family page.
205.
206.
208. See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1151-52; Books Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; David family page.
209. See
210.
211.
212.
214.
215.
216.
217.
265.
266.
267.
268.
269.
270.
271.
272.
273.
274. See Books Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Marant family page.
275. See Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations"; Books Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Dubois family page.
276. See Books Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Noël family page.
277. See
278. See White, DGFA-1, 775; Books Five, Six, Eight, & Ten; Guénard family page.
279. Quotation from
White, DGFA-1 English, 130. See
280. See
305a. See
317a. Quotation from
Son John's military career eclipsed that of his father's. See DCB; online Wikipedia.
387.
See
388.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 393, 827-41, 1653,
2055-63, 2203-06; 2263-64; 2314-15; 2402-05; De La Roque,
"Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:152-59;
"Fort Cumberland, 24 Aug
1763";
Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 13-14;
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.
389.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1322-29, 2415; De La
Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905, 2A:27,
102-04;
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.
390.
Quotation from Robichaux,
Acadians in St.-Malo, 54. See also Arsenault, Généalogie, 427, 1101-04, 1330-35,
1470, 1948, 2185, 2415-18; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905,
2A:35, 48-50, 56, 112-13, 118, 121;
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.
391.
See also Arceneaux, D. J., "The Initial Acadian Settlement (2019),"
47n11; Arsenault, Généalogie, 471-74, 1349-50, 1545-46,
2444-56; Bernard, Teche; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905, 2A:88;
Keep in mind that, beginning with the second 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.
392.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 505, 952-53, 1374-82,
1482-84, 2333-34, 2471-73; De La Roque, "Tour of
Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:9,
27, 86, 101-02, 109, 115, 120-21;
Keep in mind that, beginning with the second 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.
393.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 665-68, 1565-66;
Keep in mind that, beginning with the second 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.
395.
See Arsenault, Généalogie,
1086-92, 1465-70, 2264, 2315, 2405-08; BRDR, vol. 3; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905,
2A:86; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile,
15-16, 271, 554;
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.
396.
See
397.
See Arsenault, Généalogie,
710-17, 1662, 2565-66;
Jehn, Acadian Exiles
in the Colonies, 66, 176, 251; White, DGFA-1, 1277-80; White, DGFA-1 English,
271-72; Books Five, Six, Eight, & Ten;
399.
See
400.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1430-32, 2380, 2581;
Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 385, 558-59, 573;
Jehn, Acadian Exiles
in the Colonies, 155; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>,
Family No. 160; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo,
263, 704-05; White, DGFA-1, 1399-1402; White, DGFA-1 English,
182, 293; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 180-81; Books
One, Two, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten;
Keep in mind that, beginning with the second 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.
401. See
402.
See Arsenault,
Généalogie, 610, 1007-08, 1195-98, 1660, 2519-20; De La Roque, "Tour of
Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:105-06; "Fort Edward, 1761-62";
Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 61, 262;
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.
403.
See Sheila Andrew, "Haché, Juste," in
The Haché family in Canada--they are still very numerous on PEI--also call themselves Gallant. In LA, they use the family name Achee. Same folks, different names.
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.
404.
See
405. See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1014-18; White, DGFA-1, 1188-94; White, DGFA-1 English, 254; Book One.
406.
See
407.
Quotation from West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 81. See
also Arsenault, Généalogie, 588-92,
1490-92, 2236, 2499-2502; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905,
2A:40, 46-47, 61, 111, 160;
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.
409.
Quotations from Mouhot, "Emigration of the Acadians from
France to LA," 145; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 94. See also Arsenault, Généalogie, 606, 1496-1504, 2116,
2191, 2302; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905,
2A:39, 41, 72, 77-78, 80-83, 117, 119, 121, 124-25;
Keep in mind that, beginning with the second 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.
412.
See Arsenault,
Généalogie, 733-36, 1568-69, 1663, 2570-73;
De La Roque, "Tour of
Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905,
2A:19, 22;
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.
414.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 401-05; White, DGFA-1, 80-82; White,
DGFA-1 English, 17;
Corinne LaPlante, "Michel Bastarache
dit Le
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.
415.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 429-30, 1105, 1539-40,
1685, 2185, 2207; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905,
2A;
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.
416.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1421-22; De La Roque,
"Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:89,
106-07, 163-64;
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.
417.
See Arsenault,
Généalogie, 785-89, 1432-34, 2033, 2253, 2584-85;
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.
418.
See White, DGFA-1,
910; White, DGFA-1
English, 193; Books Five, Six, Eight, & Ten;
419.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 701-02, 2131-32, 2193,
2247; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 329; Robichaux, Acadians in Châtellerault, 80;
Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 135-37; Robichaux, Acadians in
St.-Malo, 628-33; White, DGFA-1, 1241-44; White,
DGFA-1
English, 263-64
Keep in mind that, beginning with the second 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.
420.
See Arsenault, Généalogie,
1285-88, 1569-72, 2585-88; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905,
2A:107, 132;
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.
421.
See
422.
See Arsenault, Généalogie,
793-94, 2139-40;
423.
Quotation from White, DGFA-1 English, 50. See
also Arsenault, Généalogie, 395-401, 1654, 2413-14;
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.
425.
See
426. See Arsenault, Généalogie, 430; White, DGFA-1, 140-41; Book One.
427.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 391, 1081-86, 1535-38,
2054, 2401; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian
Archives 1905, 2A:88;
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.
429.
See De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905,
2A;
430.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 441, 1107-08, 1806; De La
Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905, 2A;
431.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 428-29, 846-58, 1654, 2421-23;
Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 27-28; Jehn,
Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 232, 236, 251-52; Milling,
Exile Without End, 40;
"Ristigouche, 24 Oct 1760"; Robichaux, Acadians in
Châtellerault, 35, 58-59; Robichaux, Acadians in
Nantes, 57, 95; White, DGFA-1, 126-29, 821; White, DGFA-1
English, 29; Books One, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten;
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.
432.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 695-700,
2557-58; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905,
2A:123;
433.
See
434.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1133-34; Jehn, Acadian
Exiles in the Colonies, 154; Robichaux, Acadians in
Châtellerault, 7, 15, 17; Robichaux, Acadians in
Nantes, 42, 115; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo,
45-47, 104-05, 107, 341, 350; White,
DGFA-1, 325-26; Wood, Acadians in Maryland, 105-06; Books Two,
Five, Six, Eight, & Ten;
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.
435.
See Arsenault, Généalogie,
1132-33, 1350-64, 1656, 2456-57; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian
Archives 1905, 2A:87-88, 100;
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.
436.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1347; Jehn, Acadian
Exiles in the Colonies, 217; White, DGFA-1, 267-68; White, DGFA-1 English,
59; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten;
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.
437.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 587, 982-83, 1659;
2498-99; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 251,
257;
"Ristigouche, 24 Oct
1760";
White, DGFA-1, 770-71; White, DGFA-1 English,
157; Books Five, Six, Eight, & Ten;
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.
438.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1505-06; De La Roque,
"Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:10;
Keep in mind that, beginning with the second 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.
439.
See Arsenault, Généalogie,
686, 1261-62, 1524-25; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905,
2A:89;
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.
440.
See Arsenault,
Généalogie, 1278-79; De La Roque, "Tour
of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:90;
441.
See
442.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 643-45, 2535-36; De La
Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905, 2A:18, 92;
443.
Quotation from De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905, 2A:21. See
also Arsenault, Généalogie, 947-52, 2229, 2277-78,
2298-99, 2332; De La Roque, 2A:91, 141-42;
445.
See Arsenault,
Généalogie, 660-62, 1564-65, 2244-45, 2546-47; De La Roque, "Tour of
Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:159;
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.
446.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 427-28, 1104, 1614-26,
2418-21; White, DGFA-1, 122-24; White, DGFA-1
English, 26-27; Books One, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten;
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.
447. See Arsenault, Généalogie, 495-99, 2222-23, 2297; White, DGFA-1, 418-20; White, DGFA-1 English, 94; Books One, Four, & Five.
448.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1364-65, 1401, 2080; De La
Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905, 2A;
449.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 729-30; De La Roque, "Tour
of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:133;
450.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 482, 2081; De La Roque,
"Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:137;
452.
See Arsenault, Généalogie,
1150-51, 1558-59; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905,
2A;
453.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 702-03,
1506-07, 2564; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905,
2A:123-24;
Keep in mind that, beginning with the second 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.
455.
See Arsenault,
Généalogie, 1054-57, 2082, 2569-70; De La Roque,
"Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:91-92, 142-43;
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.
456.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 815, 1308; De La Roque,
"Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A;
457.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 1346-47, 2004, 2437;
De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905,
2A:47;
Hébert, D., Acadians
in Exile, 51, 404; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Duc_Guillaume.htm>,
Family No. 35; White, DGFA-1, 264-65; White, DGFA-1 English,
58; Books One, Four, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten;
Keep in mind that, beginning with the second 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.
458.
Quotation from
Keep in mind that, beginning with the second 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.
459. See Arsenault, Généalogie, 818, 1071-77, 1664, 2201, 2255-60, 2287-90, 2309; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:18, 20-21; Faragher, A Great & Noble Scheme, 186-87, 270-71, 293, 385-87; Griffiths, From Migrant to Acadian, 279; Hodson, Acadian Diaspora, 59-60, 63, 77-78; Plank, Unsettled Conquest, 9, 23, 64, 90, 98-99, 103, 113-14, 123-24, 130-31, 135-35, 141-44, 152-57; White, DGFA-1, 1567-71; White, DGFA-1 English, 332; Books One, Four, Five, & Six.
460.
See
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.
461.
See Arsenault, Généalogie,
895-96, 1481-82; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives
1905,
2A;
462.
See Arsenault,
Généalogie, 1607-08; Delaney, "Chronology of the Deportations"; Hébert,
D., Acadians in Exile, 37, 334-35, 374;
Keep in mind that, beginning with the second 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.
463.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 567; De La Roque, "Tour of
Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:91;
464.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 483, 908; De La Roque,
"Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:112;
465.
See Arsenault, Généalogie,
466.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 703-07, 1030-31,
2457, 2564; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 340;
Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 26, 193, 204,
233;
Mary McD. Maude, "Potier Dubuisson, Robert," in DCB,
3:532, &
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.
467.
See Arsenault, Généalogie,
702, 1026-27, 2247-48, 2306, 2560-64; Hébert, Acadians in Exile,
335-36, 600; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 25,
29; White, DGFA-1, 811, 1238-40; White, DGFA-1
English, 263; Books One, Five, Six, Eight, & Ten;
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.
468. See Arsenault, Généalogie, 551-54, 1561; White, DGFA-1, 664-65; Book One.
469. See Arsenault, Généalogie, 813-15, 1308; White, DGFA-1, 1483; Book One.
471. See Arsenault, Généalogie, 732-33; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A: 24; White, DGFA-1, 1348-50; White, DGFA-1 English, 286; Books One & Four.
472.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 542-43; White, DGFA-1, 619-20; White, DGFA-1
English, 130; Books Five, Six, Eight, & Ten;
473. See Arsenault, Généalogie, 792-93; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:15-16, 19; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 682-84, 724-25; White, DGFA-1, 1351, 1443-45; White, DGFA-1 English, 304; Books One & Four.
474. See Arsenault, Généalogie, 672-73, 1927; De La Roque, "Tour of Inspection," Canadian Archives 1905, 2A:16, 20; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 14, 313; White, DGFA-1, 1118-19; White, DGFA-1 English, 241; Books One & Four.
475. See Arsenault, Généalogie, 590, 725-26; White, DGFA-1, 157, 447, 759, 1236, 1306, 1466; White, DGFA-1 English, 34, 262; Book One.
Evidently Marie-Jeanne Picot's
husband Louis, fils, son of Louis Thibeau and
Françoise Maucaïre, whom she married at Annapolis
Royal in Apr 1723, was the same Louis Thibeau assaulted
by future Acadian resistance leader Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil in late
1725. A year later, Beausoleil was
hauled before the colonial Council again, this time for
refusing to support an illegitimate daughter he supposedly
fathered by one of Marie Daigre's natural daughters
476. See Arsenault, Généalogie, 803-04; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 165, 413; White, DGFA-1, 1480-82; White, DGFA-1 English, 312; Books One & Four.
477.
See
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.
478.
See
Evidently the many Langloiss of South LA are not descendants of this Acadian family.
479.
See
480.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 817, 1531-32, 2192, 2201;
482.
See Arsenault, Généalogie, 802-03, 1289-93, 2594;
Keep in mind that, beginning with the second 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.
483.
See
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