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Acadian Expulsion


Starting in 1755, about 6,000 Acadians were forcibly removed from their colonies. The British military ordered the Acadians' communities to be destroyed and homes and barns were burned down. The people were dispersed among the 13 American colonies, but many refused them and sent them on to Europe. Families were torn apart and many lost everything they owned.

As a result of the deportation and the subsequent migrations, the Acadians ended up in the New England States and all along the eastern seaboard, as far south as Georgia. Many were put in jail, and many died at sea. Others ran away to Quebec, hid with the Mi'kmaqs in Nova Scotia, or went to present-day New Brunswick, or Prince Edward Island.

Source:www.cbc.ca/ acadian/ timeline.html

Approximately 6,000 Acadians were deported from mainland Nova Scotia in 1755 and several hundred more after the fall of Louisbourg in 1758. If they were not demolished or burned by British troops, churches and chapels gradually disappeared from the landscape,. In some cases, accidental discoveries or archaeological digs have revealed the location of former parish cemeteries. Saint-Charles-des-Mines cemetery, for example, is located in Grand-Pré National Historic Site, although the exact dimensions are still not known. In the year 2000, when excavation work was being done for a housing development in Falmouth (formerly Pisiquid), several graves belonging to the old Sainte-Famille parish cemetery were unearthed by chance.

Of that 6,000+, approximately 1,500 were deported to Virginia, 450 were deported to Pennsylvania, 2,000 were sent to Massachusetts, 1,027 bound for South Carolina (some stayed in Boston), 900 were sent to Connecticut, 250 to Maryland and 450 to Georgia.
There is no proof that the Acadians who lived in Port-Royal, Grand-Pré or elsewhere, used stone monuments to mark their graves. The same is true with regard to the thousands of French men and women who inhabited the fortress town of Louisbourg on Isle Royale (known today as Cape Breton Island) in the 18th century. A 1686 map of Port-Royal provides the only known visual representation of a 17th century Acadian church and cemetery. The cemetery is surrounded by a fence which served to keep animals out and to delineate the sacred ground. Inside the fence, one can see seven small wooden crosses and a central cross mounted on a base of stones. Very few 18th century documents refer to the appearance of Acadian cemeteries, but those that do indicate that Acadians before the Deportation marked their graves with wooden crosses.

Source: http://www.ameriquefrancaise.org/en/article-333/Acadian_Cemeteries_in_Nova_Scotia.html#1

These ancestors were likely a part of the Grand Derangement which took place in 1755. NOTE: This is not a complete list. As we find more, we will continue to add them.

Acadian Surnames at the Time of Deportation, 1755:


Allain, Allard, Amirau, Arostegny, Arsenault, Aubin, Aucoin, Babin, Babineau, Baguette, Baptiste, Barrios, Barnabe, Bastarache, Beaudoin, Beaulieu, Beaumont, Beauregard, Bellefontaine, Bellineau, Belliveau, Benoit, Bergeron, Bernard, Berthelot, Bertrand, Bideau, Bisson, Blanchard, Blondin, Blou, Bodart, Boisseau, Bodin, Bonneville, Bonvillain, Bourque, Bouche, Boudrot, Bourg, Bourgeois, Boutin, Boye, Brasseaux, Breau, Broussard, Brun, Bugeau, Cadet, Cahouet, Cailler, Carre, Cathary, Celestin, Chamagne, Chauvert, Chiasson, Clmenceau, Cochu, Colars, Comeau, Cormier, Caperon, Cotard, Coussan, Crosse, Daigle, Darbone, Darois, David, De Bellisle, De Foret, De La Tou, Denis, D’Entremont, Deraye, De Saulniers, Deslauriers, Deveau, Donat, Douaron, Doucet, Druce, Dubois, Dubreuil, Dugas, Duon, Dumont, Dupont, Dupuis, Durocher, Emmanuel, Estevin, Fardel, Forest, Foret, Galant, Garreau, Garso, Gaudet, Gauthereau, Gentil, Giasson, Gicheau, Gilbert, Girouard, Godin, Goudeau, Gousille, Granger, Gravois, Gros, Guerin, Guidry, Guilbeau, Guillot, Hache, Hamon, Hebert, Henry, Heon, Herpin, Houel, Hugon, Jasmin, Jeansonne, Kuessy, Labarre, Labasque, Labauve, Lacroix. Lafont, Lagosse, Lalonde, Laliberte, Lamarquis, Lambert, Lamontagne, Landry, Langlois, Lanoue, Languepee, Laperriere, Lapierre, Lariche, Laurier, Laurent, Lavallee, Lavergne, Lavoye, LeBlanc, Lebreton, Lefranc, Leger, Lejeune, Lemaistre, Leonard, Leprince, Lesperance, Lessoile, Levron, Lort, Lounais, Maillard, Maillet, Maisonnat, Marceau, Martel, Martin, Mathieu, Maurice, Mayer, Melanson, Mercier, Michel, Mignault, Mirande, Mire, Monnier, Morvant, Morin, Mouton, Moyse, Nuirat, Ondy, Olivier, Parisien, Pellerin, Perinne, Petitpas, Pinet, Pitre, Poirier, Poitier, Pothier. Prejean, Primeau, Prince, Provencal, Raymond, Rembaud, Richard, Rivet, Robichaud, Rosette, Roy, Saint-Scene, Saint-Martin, Samson, Saulnier, Sauvage, Savary, Savoye, Sendou, Simon, Sire, Surette, Surot, Theriot, Thibeau, Thibodeau, Tournageau, Toussain, Trahan, Usez, Veco, Vigneau, Villatte, Vincent, Voyer, Yvon
Source: umaine.edu
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Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Modeste BOURGEOIS (27 November 1741, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 24 August 1820, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Guillaume BOURGEOIS & Anne HEBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Theotiste BOURGEOIS (27 November 1741, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(Guillaume BOURGEOIS & Anne HEBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie-Anne BOURGEOIS (1736, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 23 January 1808, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception))
(Charles BOURGEOIS & Madeleine CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie-Seraphine-Anne BOURGEOIS (19 March 1744, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 13 September 1824, Terrebonne, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne))
(Joseph BOURGEOIS & Anne LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Michel BOURGEOIS (1704, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 11 February 1782, )
(Claude BOURGEOIS & Anne BLANCHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Michel BOURGEOIS (1749, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 13 June 1799, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Claude BOURGEOIS & Marie Anne CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pepin BOURGEOIS (21 February 1734, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 6 July 1809, Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*)
(Joseph BOURGEOIS & Anne LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre BOURGEOIS (1723, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 27 June 1793, Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada)
(Charles BOURGEOIS & Madeleine CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre BOURGEOIS (23 January 1745, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - January 1815, St James, Louisiana, USA)
(Paul BOURGEOIS & Marie Josephte BRUN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Timothee BOURGEOIS (13 May 1739, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 9 March 1777, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Joseph BOURGEOIS & Anne LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Claude BOURGEOIS (GLAUDE) (26 April 1734, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 6 October 1801, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste) )
(Charles BOURGEOIS & Madeleine CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph BOURGEOIS dit CALOTTE (10 March 1741, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 20 November 1833, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Pierre BOURGEOIS & Marie Françoise CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste BOURGEOIS dit GREGOIRE (1755, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 6 April 1803, Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada)
(Joseph Gregoire BOURGEOIS & Marie Catherine COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Alexandre BOURQUE (15 January 1709, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1759, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Jean Baptiste BOURG & Marie BARIAU (BERIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Isabelle BOURQUE (1721, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1759, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Abraham BOURG & Marie THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste BOURQUE (1740, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1820, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec))
(Jean Baptiste BOURG & Marie Anne THÉRIAULT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Pierre BOURQUE (1717, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 23 January 1759, )
(Abraham BOURG & Marie THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph BOURQUE (1711, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 8 December 1758, Cherbourg, France)
(Jean Baptiste BOURG & Marie BARIAU (BERIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine BOURQUE (1716, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1759, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Abraham BOURG & Marie THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite Josephe BOURQUE (1727, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 14 December 1776, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France)
(Abraham BOURG & Marie THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Michel BOURQUE (1750, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Michel BOURG dit MICHAUD & Marguerite Josephte BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre BOURQUE (1738, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 27 March 1779, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France)
(Pierre BOURG & Cecile CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Raphael BOURQUE (1750, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 28 March 1829, Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*)
(François BOURG & Marie BELIVEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Simon BOURQUE (1731, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 10 June 1799, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste) )
(François BOURG & Marie BELIVEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite BOURQUE (BOURG) (6 January 1739, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 25 May 1813, Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Sales-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud))
(Alexandre BOURG & Marie HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Cécile BRASSEAU (1695, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 25 February 1771, , France)
(Pierre BRASSEAU & Gabrielle Isabelle FOREST dite MICHEL)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Come (Cosme) BRASSEUR (BRASSEUX) (16 December 1712, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 28 December 1763, , Maryland, USA)
(Mathieu BRAZEAU (BRASSEUR) & Jeanne CÉLESTIN dite BELLEMÈRE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne BRAULT (1695, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 30 June 1759, St-Suliac, France (Ille-et-Vilaine))
(Pierre BREAU (BRAULT) & Marie Josephe BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne BRAULT (31 January 1710, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - , )
(Pierre BREAU (BRAULT) & Anne LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne Therese BRAULT (4 July 1751, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 14 January 1796, Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada)
(Antoine BREAU (BRAULT) & Marguerite DOUCET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Brigitte BRAULT (17 March 1718, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 5 August 1765, St-Martinville, Louisiana, USA)
(Pierre BREAU (BRAULT) & Anne LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles BRAULT (1757, Hingham, Massachusetts, USA - 14 May 1839, Napierville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Cyprien) (Saint-Édouard))
(Alexis BRO (BRAULT) & Marguerite BARIAULT (BARIAUT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Elisabeth Isabelle BRAULT (1714, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1 April 1777, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre))
(Antoine BRAULT & Marguerite DUGAS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean BRAULT (1745, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 6 June 1832, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Paul BRAULT & Marie-Josephte LANDRY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph BRAULT (1712, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 20 May 1782, Nantes, France)
(Antoine BRAULT & Marguerite DUGAS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph BRAULT (1750, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1 July 1820, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception))
(Armand BREAU (BRAULT) & Marie Madeleine LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite Josephe BRAULT (1736, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 22 September 1811, St-James, Louisiana, USA)
(Joseph BRAULT & Ursule BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie BRAULT (1746, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 7 May 1808, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception))
(Armand BREAU (BRAULT) & Marie Madeleine LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Paul BRAULT (3 July 1717, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 15 June 1783, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Pierre BREAU (BRAULT) & Anne LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Alexis BRAULT (BREAU) (1723, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada (Cobequid, Acadia) - 18 October 1808, Thibodaux, Lafourche, Louisiana, USA)
(Pierre BRAULT & Anne-Francoise DUPUIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Antoine BRAULT (BREAU) (1730, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - , )
(Charles BRAULT & Claire (Clara) TRAHAN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Claude Paul BRAZEAU (1722, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 27 August 1799, Sainte-Thérèse, Québec, Canada (Blainville))
(Mathieu BRAZEAU (BRASSEUR) & Jeanne CÉLESTIN dite BELLEMÈRE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite BRAZEAU (BRASSEUR) (18 June 1710, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 23 October 1789, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul))
(Mathieu BRAZEAU (BRASSEUR) & Jeanne CÉLESTIN dite BELLEMÈRE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Ambroise BREAU (BRAULT) (11 October 1705, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 20 October 1756, Rochefort, France)
(Jean BREAU (BRAULT) & Anne CHIASSON dite LAVALLEE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Antoine BREAU (BRAULT) (16 October 1717, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 15 December 1772, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception))
(Jean BREAU (BRAULT) & Anne CHIASSON dite LAVALLEE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Armand BREAU (BRAULT) (1721, Canard, Nova Scotia, Canada (Riviere Aux Canards, Acadia) - 23 July 1773, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception))
(Pierre BREAU (BRAULT) & Anne LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Armand BREAU (BRAULT) (1740, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 17 May 1810, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Joseph BREAU (BRAULT) & Isabelle Élisabeth THIBODEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles BREAU (BRAULT) (29 February 1728, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 17 May 1810, La Présentation, Québec, Canada (La Presentation-de-la-Sainte-Vierge) )
(René BREAU (BRAULT) & Marie HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Cherubin BREAU (BRAULT) (4 October 1711, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1758, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(François BREAU (BRAULT) & Marie COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean BREAU (BRAULT) (1706, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1756, )
(François BREAU (BRAULT) & Marie COMEAU)

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