I have decided to share with you some articles from the French Newspaper L'Etoile of July 1994. There are some genealogies of some of the Acadian Ancestors also. But these are all in FRENCH so I shall translate bits of the info and I do hope some of you will still benefit from some of the information.
ALLAIN
A bit of translation ; From Acadie, To Quebec, elsewhere in Canada, and the United States, the Allain, Alain,Alin of America have the same ancestor. The all trace back to Louis Allain who arrived in Port Royal in 1687.
Louis Allain arrived in Acadie with the companie of Sieur de Menneval, who at that time was the governor of the colony. Soon Louis Allain associated himself with another french settler Jean Nacquin to do some trading with the english colonies.He married Marguerite Bourg in 1690. They had two children; Marie and Pierre. It is believed that Louis came from around Brest in France where as his son returned later around 1755. Pierre did not leave Acadie before raising his family. Louis Allain grandson of Pierre played a predominant role during the deportation. Prisoner in Fort Lawrence (near Sackville NB) with other Acadians and waiting to be exiled, Louis escaped with them by digging a tunnel, since they did not have proper tools to dig the tunnel, the prisoners used ribs or bones from dead horses. They hid in the forests where they received help from the Indians. This little group avoided being scattered all over America.Like his father ,Pierre was exiled and never returned.There is more to read but in french. Also to note that the Alin in Ottawa are also descendants of Louis Allain.
ARSENAULT
The Arsenault is one of the most numerous families in Acadie. In Prince Edward Island alone,the Arsenaults represents nearly half of the population on the Island. The first Arsenault that arrived in Acadie settled in Nova Scotia. It is in 1671 that Pierre Arsenault born around 1650 in Rochefort in western center of France arrived in Port Royal. Jacques Bourgeois who was in charge of the trading on the Fundy Bay and the Commerce with the Indians hired Pierre Arsenault as a pilot. Five years later Pierre Arsenault married Marguerite Dugas who before she died bore him two sons; Pierre born 1677 who married Anne Boudrot around 1696 daughter of Charles and Renee Bourque, and Abraham born around 1679 who married around 1699 to Jeanne Gaudet daughter of Pierre and Anne Blanchard. Pierre Arsenault the first married a second time to Marie Guerin daughter of Francois & Anne Blanchard in or around 1687. Pierre ,Marie and their seven children settled in Beaubassin. There is more genealogy in the french article that follows.Today the surname Arsenault is spelled various ways, the most known one is Arsenault or Arseneault.Because of the flight of the Arsenaults to Quebec, northern New Brunswick and Louisiana we find Arcenaux, Arceneaux, Arsonaud.
BABINEAU
This name comes from the Name Babin, also the name Babinet was given to a Babin who was small.As time went by the name Babinet became Babinot to arrive at our Babineau surname. We still find a few french who carry the name Babinot. Getting back to the first ancestor, Leo Paul Babineau president of the Babineau families indicates the Nicolas Babineau dit Deslauriers would have been born around 1653 in Soudan ,a little village in Poitou situated 40 kilometers west of Poitiers. Son of the carpenter and laborer Joseph, his mother was called Louise Bordage and the house still existed in Soudan. Nicolas would have arrived in Quebec with the Carignan-Salieres Regiment which had hired 1200 soldiers in 1665. Five years later Nicolas settle in Pentagouet (Castine) only acadian with Jean Castin, Jacques de Chambly and Hector d'Andigny de Grandfontaine. Since these three men formed part of the regiment, it is possible that Nicolas was also a part. The surname Deslauriers would come from a dit name given to the soldiers. In 1663 we find Nicolas with the surname Deslauriers. He married around 1687 to Marguerite (Jeanne) Granger daughter of Laurent & Marie Landry. Seven children were born from this marriage.(see next article). It seems Nicolas may have had a brother in Acadie named Jean who married Marguerite Boudrot and have two daughters. Around 1701 Nicolas and his family moved to Port Royal. His house was situated two kilometers from the fort Port Royal.Babineau is spelled Babineaux in Louisiana. This line comes from Rene and Clement.
BABIN/COLLETTE
The name Babin has been traced as far back as the twelve century. In the region of basse-Loire we find a certain Guillaume Babin in Poitou in 1118.In 1625 Antoine Babin was born in France more precise La Chaussee a location near Loudun Poitou. He married Marie Mercier a young lady barely 15 in 1662 eight years after his arrival. This couple had 11 children all born in Port Royal. Charles settled in Grand Pre, Vincent and Jean settled in Windsor NS, Antoine died young. Like many other Acadians the Babins were also victims of the deportation in 1755. The members of this family were scattered everywhere. Examples of the different spelling we find Babin, Babang and Babine. The family Comeau got together with the Babin families for this reunion so on the following article the Comeau information has been added.
The Comeau family is considered as the tenth important family in Acadie. According to the information from Rheal Comeau responsible for the Comeau reunion, the first ancestor was Pierre Comeau. He arrived in Port Royal with the expedition of DeRazilly in 1632 at the age of 26. His origin is unknown. Around 1649 he married Rose Bayois and they had six boys and three girls. Two sons were named Pierre (Pierre l'ainee) and Pierre L'esturgeon. And two sons were named Jean. We notice the presence of two Comeau branches in Trois Riviere Quebec, Jean Baptiste husband of Brigitte Savoie and Francois Comeau husband of Marie Anne Lord of Port Royal. (see next article for more). The Comeaus from North America especially the ones who settled in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Louisiana are all descendants of Pierre Comeau.
BASTARACHE
We are led to believe that everyone who came from France were french, but this country had many different etnic groups. One of these people came from Spain in the Pyrenees where the Basques originated. The ancestor of all the Bastarache and Basques of Acadie came from this part of France.
Joannis Basterretche born not far from Bayonne in the southwest part of France in 1658. He was a fisherman and given the name Basques because he was Spanish. Joannis Basterretche settled in Acadie around 1682 where he took the name Jean Batarache. Around 1684-1685 he married Huguette Vincent daughter of Pierre and Anne Gaudet. They settled south of the Port Royal river east of the fort Port Royal. Of this union six children were born.Some of his family went to Beaubassin, some to parts of Restigouche , some to Quebec and others to Louisiana. During the grand derangement Pierre the grandson of Jean and his wife and kids were help prisoners. They were deported to South Carolina, another grandson Michel escaped from the Fort but was later captured and also deported. Arriving in Carolina Pierre headed for Louisiana while Michel returned to Acadie with 12 other deportees on foot. After a long treck which they were captured by the Indians the group arrived in Acadie in the fall of 1756 after a brief stay in Quebec. They found their wives and children and hid in the Moncton area ,a place we called Nacadie. This group and other Acadian along with Joseph Beausoleil-Broussard brought garilla warfare to the English. See more next article.
BORDAGE
According to the book Racines Vivantes ,Pierre Bordage says that the first Bordage Ancestor was Raymond Bourdage born 1728 on Prince Edward Island, his father Pierre was originally from Saint Jean d'Angouleme in France, his mother Marie Anne Chevalier was born in La Rochelle France. Raymond married Esther LeBlanc daughter of Rene LeBlanc and Marguerite Thebeau Jan 1756. After travelling all over the place because of his work as a surgeon with the Boishebert Regiment, Raymond decided to finally settle down in Bonaventure in Gaspesie around 1770. This couple had ten children. see next article. The spelling Bourdage is common in Gaspesie, Bordage is more common in the maritime provinces. We find some Bordages in Montreal, United States, and a few places in France like Jarnac, Cognac, Airvault, Parthensy, Poitiers and Saint Savin.
BOUCHER
Two sources gave birth to the Bouchers in Acadie. St Pierre Boucher around 1650 married Helene Gaudry Bourtbonniere in the Grand Pre Region to populate the Boucher's in Nova Scotia. Joseph is the ancestor of the majority of the Boucher's who settled in Shediac and Bathurst.Joseph Boucher was born around 1727 and died in 1799. He married Elizabeth (Isabelle) Martin before settling in St John River area at Sainte Anne north of Fredericton. Around 1760 with the arrival of the Loyalists Joseph and his family were forced to move in the Baie du Vin area.That is why we find Bushey names in the Miramichi area. From Baie du Vin Joseph moved once more, this time to Cocagne in New Brunswick. They had six children; Firmin and Joseph settled in Bas Caraquet, Michel headed for Bathurst, Antoine settled in Richiboucto Village,Francois decided to remain near Bouctouche. see next article.According to Laurie Boucher he estimated around 1000 carrying the name in Acadie. We find some of these descendants in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec. Some Bouchers also live in the USA,Massachussetts and Connecticut ,this explains why different soundex are found such as Bushey, Boucher, Bouchey, and Bouche.
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BOURGEOIS
It is believed that the ancestor Jacques Bourgeois would have been the first surgeon to settle in Port Royal.It is for certain he practiced his profession since he got his degree from a Military College on the suburbs of Paris.
From the origins of Ferte-Gaucher situated 60 kilometers west of Paris,Jacques Bourgeois arrived in Port Royal in 1641. He joined the colony with the title of surgeon. He married Jeanne Trahan who arrived in Port Royal in 1643 from Bourgueil in the Loire region in France. The date of their marriage is unknown but we do know they had twelve children.After living about 30 years in Port Royal, Jacques left the fort with his family for the new village of Beaubassin becoming one of its founders if not the pioneer of the new village.With his sons Charles and Germain and their wives, Jacques Bourgeois formed what was at that time called Bourgeois Clan around the end of the 1670s in Beaubassin.Jacques Bourgeois also called Jacob contributed to the development of Beaubassin with his medical services ,and also agriculture, his mills one a lumber mill and one grain mill and his commercial activities. We suppose Jacques knew the english language because of his negotiating with them. His grandson Pierre Benjamin escaped the deportation by hiding in the forest like many other Acadians did during this sad era. He settled in Memramcook to become one of the first wave of Bourgeois of Southeast New Brunswick. Today it is in Grand Digue where we find more than 100 families , Cocagne, Dieppe,Barachois and Moncton are other places the Bourgeois are known. We also believe that all the Bourgeois in Quebec would also have Jacques Bourgeois as their ancestor since they would be descendants of the deportation . They would have went north up the river to settle in Quebec, some of them would have returned to the Maritimes to settle in Iles de la Madeleine, others went west and settled there. see more next article.
BOURQUE
It is safe to say that the family Bourque is one of the oldest Acadian families proven by the marriage of Antoine Bourg with Antoinette Landry in 1643 in Port Royal. The transformation from Bourg to Bourque will come from a factor very typical in the Poitou region, the feminism of the family surnames.
Antoine Bourg was born around 1609 in the Poitou region situated in the western central of France. He arrive in Port Royal in 1642. He did not wait to find a bride because one year later he married Antoinette Landry also age of 25 who also was originally from Poitou. This union gave them nine children. see next article. According to the amateur historian Honore Bourque, his ancestors avoided the deportation bye hiding in the woods between Cap Pele and Bae des Chaleurs. Before 1755 the Bourg were living in the Minoudie,Jolicoeur and Tintamarre (Sackville) areas.Even tho the majority of Bourg/Bourques are in the southern part of New Brunswick, we find many of them in Quebec and in Louisiana.
CAISSIE
In 1636 many families left France to settle in Acadie. Jean Poirier was part of this group. Five years later a revolt brought on by the Irish Catholics took hold.Ten years later Roger Kuessy was born, the son of catholic parents in Ireland. According to information gathered by Ronald Caissie, young Roger Kuessy found himself on an english ship preparing to cross over to the new land. We do not know exactly why Roger was on this ship but do know the ship was headed for England but the boat ended in Port Royal somehow. It is at this moment that Jean Poirier entered the picture, because it is at his home that Roger Kuessy took refuge. Young Roger worked at Jean Poirier's farm for a few years before being captured in 1667 by an english garisoon who then occupied Port Royal. He was later released after the treaty was signed between England and France. In 1668 Roger married Marie Francoise Poirier the daughter of Jean. From there they built a house with the aid of her family. In 1678 they left for Beaubassin more precise one kilometer of Point Beausejour, where the fort now stands. Sice that time we have called that location Butte a Roger (Roger's Hill) and the english called Blueberry Hill. The arrival of Father Recollet Claudius Moreau marked the the time around which the named Kuessy was changed to Caissy.We find Caissie,Kuessy, in New Brunswick, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Ontario and Louisiana, Maine and Massachussetts.
COLLETTE
The ancestors of all the Collettes of New Brunswick is a soldier who served under the orders of Lafayette,while they were fighting with the Americans in the War of Independence in 1776.
Julien Collette was captured by the English,and held prisoner near Halifax NS. It is around that time we first find mention of him written in some English documents. Freed from prison, Julien met and married Rosalie Theriault and headed to Petitcodiac with a group of other families. Julien began farming. In 1789 he is convinced to go settle in Bouctouche from a group of people who wanted to form an Acadian Village. Julien and two of his brother in laws took up the offer and settle on the land now owned by the Bouctouche Museum. To also have a reminder of the Collettes being in Bouctouche a placque was erected near the Museum in 1989 200 years after his arrival. Julien and Rosalie had six children. see next article.
DAIGLE
According to the information from Alvin Daigle ,the origin of this name comes from the Poitou region of France. The first Daigle to arrive in Acadie was Olivier. Born around 1643 he came to Port Royal in 1663 where he met and married Marie Gaudet daughter of Denis and Martine Gauthier around 1666. They had nine children. (see next article).The census of Port Royal says that Olivier was a laborer. He had two acres of land, six pair of sheep,and horned cattle. Their son Olivier settled in Port Royal and had seven children; see next article. Bernard settled in Windsor and had 11 children. Bernard's son Joseph married Madeleine Gautreau before fleeing to St Charles de BelleChasse in Quebec during the deportation of 1755. In 1769 after having their family, Jean Baptiste and Simon Joseph sons of Joseph and grandson of Bernard decided to return to Acadie and settle in the Fredericton area. The arrival of the Loyalists forced them to cede their land, so Jean Baptiste left for Bathurst while Simon Joseph went towards Madawaska. The Kent County Daigle descend from Charles son of Bernard and brother to Joseph and his wife Francoise Doucet married around 1723.According to Alvin Daigle ,Olivier Daigle son of Charles and Francoise Doucet and his wife Marie Blanche Robichaud found themeselves on one of the five English vessels during the deportation. Olivier died in 1774 in Saint Servan Brittany in France. In may of the same year, his widow and their eight children formed part of a convoy that transported 81 persons toward Bonaventure in Gaspe. In 1790 marks the arrival of this familly in Richibouto ,later they settled in St Charles. Variations of the name ; Daigle,D'Aigle, Deagle,some of the Daigles can be found in Kent County New Brunswick, Madawaska, Louisiana, Maine, Connecticut and Vermount
DEVARENNES
The name Pierre de la Verandrye and Marguerite D'Youville are well known in Canada. Important to this country, they have as ancestors Rene Gaultier de Varennes who was governor of Trois Riviere in 1669.
Rene Gaultier de Varennes was born in Bacon situated near Angers France.Seigneur of Varennes which explains why many of his descendants still carry the name. Rene Gaultier was the son of Adam Pierre Gaultier de la Verandrye and Bertrande Goudeau. He came to New France as an officer with the Carignan-Salieres Regiment. He followed his father in law as governor of Trois Riviere in 1669. His son Pierre de la Verandrye and hs grandson Jean Baptiste de la Verandrye left their mark in history as explorers and discoverers of the West. Two grandsons of Rene Gaultier De Varennes, Jean-Hypolite and Rene were the first to settle in Acadie. Rene served in the military in Louisbourg during the Seven Year war, while Jean-Hypolite perished in the storm of l'August in Cape Breton in 1761. The pioneer of the Devarennes in New Brunswick was the grandson of Jean-Hypolite, Jacques-Michel Devarennes who arrived in Shediac with Rev.Antoine Gagnon in 1828.Jacques -Michel De Varennes married Marie Cormier daughter of Francois Cormier and Marguerite Landry Nov 4 1839. After their marriage they lived in Barachois, then Cap Pele. He taught school in the village. He retired in Saint Paul Kent County with his son Louis and he died there.
GIROUARD
Francois Girouard arrived in Port Royal around 1646, where he met and married Jeanne Aucoin around 1647. They had five children. We find many of the descendants in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and descendents of the grandsons of Francois. It is noted that the Girouards in Louisiana is also from the grandsons of Francois. Later Firmin Girouard went and found his uncle when he was deported. Elsewhere many Girouard families of New Brunswick descendant of Joseph son of Charles another grandson of Francois ou was one of the first settlers of Bouctouche. Variations of the surname are; Girouard, Giroire, Giroir,and in America the English writes the name as Gerrior, Gerroir,Girroir. According to Bill Gerrior school director in Halifax who for twelve years have been doing research on the Girouard family in North America and in France.His research led him to the conclusion that all the Girouard,Giroir etc in North America have the same ancestor,Francois Girouard dit La Varenne.
MAILLET
The place of birth in France of the first Maillet to cross the Atlantic,Jacques Maillet is known. Furthermore we know that this ancestor of all the Maillets of Acadie was born in Paris. His parents were Antoine Maillet and Francoise Choppart. Jacques Maillet arrived in Port Royal before the capture of the Fort by the English in 1710. His marriage has been found in the Port Royal parish records. He married Madeleine Hebert in 1720, at the time of their marriage her parents were both deceased. Settling in Port Royal, Jacques and Madeleine were the parents of twelve children who during the deportation were scattered everywhere. That is why we find his descendants in the Maritimes, Quebec and the United States. His son Jean-Jacques Maillet was deported to Massachussetts but returned to Canada with his family to settle at Louiseville in Quebec ,so Jean-Jacques would be the ancestor of the Maillets in the region of Trois Riviere. Another son Solomon settled in Minas Basin NS ,after the events of 1755 Solomon returned and settled in Baie Ste Marie area in the Clare area. Charles son of Jacques settled in Memramcook and after the Fort Beausejour conflict,Charles participated in the resistance.He was killed at the end of the summer of 1756 by some English soldiers.Charles and his wife Marie Babineau had three children.Another son of Jacques ,Gregoire found himself in France during the deportation where he married an Acadian Madeleine Pitre. He returned to Acadie around 1772 and settled in Cape Breton, he is the ancestor of all the Maillets of the Cheticamp area.
MARTIN
To begin there is an error in the following article,Barnabe Martin was NOT the son of Robert according to Stephen White's DGFA.Here is what Mister White notes; In Port Royal August 16 1654 is found the signature of Robert Martin. Nothing indicates he was a brother to Pierre married to Catherine Vigneault, nor the father of Barnabe married to Jeanne Pelletret as many have believed.Getting back to Barnabe, he was born around 1636 he married Jeanne Pelletret daughter of Simon and Perrine Bourg around 1666 and settled in Port Royal.They had eight children, two unaccounted for. Their son Rene born around 1671 married Marie Mignier dit Lagasse before the 1693 census and went to Prince Edward Island during the deportation. They had twelve children. Of these children there wsa Jean Baptiste married to Marie Brun daughter of Claude and Cecile Dugas No 24 1732 in Port Royal. Quebec was their destination when they fled the deportation. In 1768 most of the family of Jean Baptiste and Marie Brun returned to settle near Fredericton.According to Stella Martin Hache, four sons of the fifteen children of this couple are the ancestors of the New Brunswick Martins.Francois son of Jean Baptiste married Marie Fresine Guerret in 1774 in Kamouraska. With his brother Simon who married Genevieve Bourgoin in 1777 they went and settled in Madaswaska region after the arrival of the Loyalists. The Martins from this region descend from Francois and his brother Simon Martin.Joseph and Amand sons of Jean Baptiste and Marie Brun settled in Baie Sainte Anne. They both married two LeJeune sisters Marie Josephe and Agathe.According to the research of Stella Martin Hache, many members of the Martin family still live in Rogersville, Baie Sainte Anne. We also find some in the Madawaska region, others in Quebec, PEI, Maine, Western Canada and Nova Scotia.To add this note, another Martin named Pierre Martin son of Rene and Etiennette Poirier born around 1601 married Catherine Vigneau June 30 1630 in St Germain de Bourgeil. They had seven children.Two of their sons were born in St Germain de Bourgueil; Etienne born 1631 and Pierre born 1632. Pierre married Anne Ouestnorouest dit Petitous around 1660 and to Jeanne Rousseliere between 1686 and 1693 Piere had nine children with Anne and none with his second wife..Another son Mathieu was born around 1639 and was the first Martin to be born in Acadie.
RICHARD
Michel Richard dit Sansoucy was born around 1630 origin unknown according to DGFA but this article says possibly in the Sainonge region of France. He would be in Port Royal around 1652 and he married around 1656 to Madeleine Blanchard daughter of Jean and Radegonde Lambert. Of this union they had Rene born around 1657 married Madeleine Landry, Pierre born around 1661 married Marguerite Landry, Catherine born around 1663 married Francois Broussard,Martin born around 1665 married Marguerite Bourg, Alexandre born around 1668 married Isabelle Petitpas, Anne born 1671 twin married Germain Theriot,Madeleine twin born 1671 married Charles Babin, Marie Josephe born around 1674 married Michel Vincent, Cecile born around 1675 married Pierre de Forest, Marguerite born around 1677 married Jean Leblanc.
Martin dit Platte son of Michel and Madeleine married Madeleine Bourg ,living in Beaubassin this family were victims of the deportation finally settling in Louisiana.After the death of his first wife Madeleine Blanchard, Michel married Jeanne Babin daughter of Antoine and Marie Mercier around 1683, two sons were born to them. Michel dit LaFond and Alexandre dit Boutin.
The ancestors of the Memramcook Richard Rene Richard married to Madeleine Landry was part of the Acadian prisoners who escaped from Fort Cumberland in the night of Oct 1 or 2 1755 two weeks before their bording their ship for exile. Little Rene had managed to get out of the cage he was imprisoned in with 85 other Acadians along with his wife. Since she was in charge of feeding the prisoners she manages to smuggle a knife in a loaf of bread brought into Fort Cumberland. The prisoners hurried and began digging a tunnel under the Fort wall that was going to set them free. When they got out in 1765 other members of the Richard family living in Acadie decided to set sail for Saint Pierre de Miquelon.For the Richards in Kent County it was the arrival of the sons of Madeleine Richard widow of Michel Richard from 1786 to 1790 that settled this Richard family in Richibouto Village. The nickname Platte was to differenciate the numerous Richard families in Acadie . We find Richard families in many parts of New Brunswick; Moncton,Richiboucto,Saint Louis, Bouctouche, Acadieville, Rogersville, Memramcook, Cap Pele, Nova Scotia mainly Baie Sainte Marie and Cape Breton, Mont Carmel PEI is another area we find Richard.
ROBICHAUD
Another correction, many believed the first Robichaud was Louis born around 1609, and that his wife was unknown and that he had two sons Etienne and Charles, but there is no proof of it according to Stephen White's DGAF page 1402.Placide Gaudet thought this was correct ,in saying Louis was the father of Etienne and Charles.
According to Placide Gaudet ,Etienne was born around 1640 he married Francoise Boudrot daughter of Michel and Michelle Aucoin around 1663. They had six children;Charles, Prudent, Madeleine, Marie,Alexandre and Francois.The archives states that the Robichaud family members were proporous cultivators seeing that Charles son of Etienne had 16 arpents of land and one of the cheptels the most importatnt one in the region of Port Royal. During the deportation the Robichaud family very numerous and well settled were deported to Britain.They returned in 1774 in the Bonaventure area in Quebec where in 1790 the descendants of Etienne;Michel ,Pierre and Charles left and founded the villages of Aldouane, Saint Charles in Kent County. The arrival in Alduane and Saint Charles is the first trace of Robichauds in southern New Brunswick. Later we find Robichaud families in Quebec and the United States.Elsewhere Robichaud has been seen spelled Robicho,Robichaux, Robichau, and Robichaud.
THIBODEAU
The following is an obit article; Passed away suddenly December 25 1704 age 73 Pierre THIBODEAU of PORT ROYAL in ACADIE.Native of Marans in France, he immigrated to Port Royal in Acadie, in 1654. Miller at Pre Ronde (Round Hill) on the Dauphin River. He obtained the title Seigneur of Chipaudy in 1699 after having developed the region by building houses, mills , a chapel and other things. He also acted as an agent for shipyards for governor Villebon. He leaves to mourn, Jeanne (Terriot), of Port Royal, seven sons Pierre (l'ainee), of Pisiquit, Pierre (le jeune) ,Michel, and Claude all of Port Royal, Jean of Grand Pre, Charles of Chipody, nine daughters Mrs Pierre Lejeune (Marie) of Petite Riviere La Have, Mrs Charles Robichaud (Marie Jeanne) ,Mrs Mathieu Desgottins (Jeanne), Mrs Emmanuel LeBorgne (Cecile) and Mrs Guillaume Bourgeois (Catherine Josephe) all of Port Royal, Mrs Claude Boudrot (Anne Marie) and Mrs Claude Landry (Catherine) of Grand Pre, Mrs Charles D'Amour (Marie Anne Louise) of Riviere St Jean, and Mrs Antoine Landry (Marie) of Riviere aux Canards. Note that there were many Marie's in the family, this was normal in this time frame). The interment was held in the parish cemetery in the St Jean Baptiste Church in Port Royal.
To note; The various spelling of the name Thibodeau; Thibedeau, Thibideau,Thibodeaux,Thibaudeau,Thiboudeau, Thibodo,Thibeault, they have Thebeau,Thibaud, Tibbald, Tibaut, Thebeau,etc also as variations, but I do know there are Thebeau surnames also according to DGFA.
VAUTOUR
De VAUTOUR, VAUTOUR or VICTOR; If the Vautour are well represented many places in Acadie it is thanks to the arrival of Andre De Vautour on Canadian soil.
Andre de Vautour was son of Leonard who worked in the mill in the village of Limousine in France. Research brought by Arthur Vautour indicates that Andre De Vautour married Catherine dit Des Moulins at the Montreal Cathedral Jan 7 1688.Stephen White says he married Catherine Cherlot daughter of Jean and Jeanne Mansion. Their children were; Antoine married to Genvieve Menard, Marie Catherine married to Alphonse LeCompte, Francois died 1705, Joachim married to Marie Madeleine Maranda Sept 20 1752 at L'Ile d'Orleans near Quebec, Joachin diemd in 1772 but not before giving birth to Joseph who married Marie Josette Vivier in St.Pierre Ile d'Orleans Feb 3 1712(DGFA) Two sons of Joachim and Marie Madeleine came to Acadie. Joseph (Joachim-Pierre)came down Gulf St Lawrence to settled in Nappan Nova Scotia with his ten children where he died a few years later. From that moment on, this family became known as Vautour. Another movement has this family moving towards Coverdale (Fourche au Crapaud) near Riverview. When the pressure from the English became unbearable this family moved to Richibouto ,cleared land and returned to get their mother Marie Josette, an aunt Thibodeau and the rest of their families. We are at the years 1778-1780. The sons and daughters of Joseph and Marie Josette begins to settle in the region. Alexandre settles in Tracadie after marrying Perpetue Douaron. Louis and Elizabeth Melanson raised a family in Saint Louis de Kent, as did Pierre and Marie Rose Thibodeau. The sister of Marie Rose Thibodeau married Pierre-Charles Vautour and settled in Richiboucto Village. Genevieve married Francis Doiron while Jean Baptiste married Marie Douaron and settled in Shediac. It is for this reason that there is a Butte a Vautour in that municipality renamed Riverside Drive after the english came. Could not trace the sons Joseph Lebeau Hubert and Joseph. There is no evidence of any of them being deported but two of the sons are unaccounted for.The Vautour are listed as french canadians because their ancestor were settled in Montreal Quebec before coming to Acadie. Variation of the name; Vautour, Votour, Voture, Voutour, Voter.
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