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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  male ancestor  Augustin COMEAU (6 December 1749, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 17 December 1806, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Jean Baptiste COMEAU & Anne BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Catherine COMEAU (1741, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada (Petitcodiac, Acadia) - 8 May 1817, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bonaventure))
(Ambroise COMEAU & Marguerite CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Cécile COMEAU (1726, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(François COMEAU & Marie Madeleine LORD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Claire COMEAU (23 September 1710, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - , , Canada)
(Jean Augustin COMEAU & Catherine BABIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Edmond Armand COMEAU (1730, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 10 April 1811, Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Québec, Canada )
(François COMEAU & Marie Madeleine LORD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Elisabeth COMEAU (10 March 1716, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 18 May 1785, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Abraham COMEAU & Marguerite PITRE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Elisabeth "Isabelle" COMEAU (1745, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 14 July 1821, St Martinville, St Martin, Louisiana, USA)
(Francois COMEAU & Marie-Anne LORD (LAURE))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Elisabeth Isabelle COMEAU (6 August 1728 , Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 25 December 1806, Chambly, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Chambly))
(Augustin COMEAU & Marie Jeanne LEVRON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Étienne COMEAU (1680, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - June 1758, Medfield, Massachusetts, USA (Harding))
(Jean COMEAU & Françoise HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Étienne COMEAU (1706, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1756, Bristol, England)
(Jean Augustin COMEAU & Catherine BABIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Félicité COMEAU (22 December 1749, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 21 February 1831, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre))
(Guillaume COMEAU & Isabelle Élisabeth BLANCHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Francois COMEAU (1699, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 28 April 1758, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Pierre COMEAU dit L'ESTURGEON & Jeanne BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François COMEAU (1701, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 28 April 1758, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Pierre COMEAU dit DES LOUPS-MARINS & Jeanne Marie BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François COMEAU (1742, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 28 December 1826, Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly))
(François COMEAU & Marie Madeleine LORD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François COMEAU (1746, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Ambroise COMEAU & Marguerite CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Francois Dit Maza COMEAU (1731, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 28 December 1820, Comeauville, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada)
(Pierre COMEAU & Suzanne BÉZIER dite JOAN LARIVIÈRE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Françoise COMEAU (21 November 1720, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1760, )
(Jean COMEAU & Catherine JOSEPH)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Guillaume COMEAU (27 May 1723, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 17 December 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Pierre COMEAU & Suzanne BÉZIER dite JOAN LARIVIÈRE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean COMEAU (1696, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 2 December 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Pierre COMEAU dit L'ESTURGEON & Jeanne BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste COMEAU (14 November 1712, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 29 October 1764, Somerset, England)
(Jean Augustin COMEAU & Catherine BABIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste COMEAU (21 February 1724 , Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 27 February 1797, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Augustin COMEAU & Marie Jeanne LEVRON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Jeanne Françoise COMEAU (1695, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 6 July 1763, St Malo, Nievre, Bourgogne, France)
(Jean Augustin COMEAU & Catherine BABIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph COMEAU (1725, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 3 April 1785, )
(Jean Baptiste COMEAU & Anne Marie THIBODEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph COMEAU (1747, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 7 June 1801, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Francois COMEAU & Marie-Anne LORD (LAURE))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine COMEAU (1697, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 26 April 1783, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité))
(Jean Augustin COMEAU & Catherine BABIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine COMEAU (1747, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1772, , France)
(Jean Baptiste COMEAU & Marie AUCOIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine COMEAU (1748, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Étienne COMEAU & Marie Josephe LANDRY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite COMEAU (1700, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 29 August 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Jean COMEAU & Françoise HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite Genevieve COMEAU (1734, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1785, , Louisiana, USA)
(Pierre COMEAU & Marguerite AUCOIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie COMEAU (12 April 1733, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 10 February 1772, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre))
(Ambroise COMEAU & Marguerite CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Anne COMEAU (8 May 1719, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1 December 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Joseph COMEAU & Marie ROY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Catherine COMEAU (2 May 1727, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 19 June 1770, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada)
(Abraham COMEAU & Marguerite PITRE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Elisabeth Felicite COMEAU (1734, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 22 August 1799, Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, Québec, Canada)
(Francois COMEAU & Marie-Anne LORD (LAURE))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephe COMEAU (1708, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 28 December 1779, Nantes, France)
(Jean Augustin COMEAU & Catherine BABIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephe COMEAU (1727, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 21 June 1807, Church Point, Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada)
(Francois COMEAU & Marie-Anne LORD (LAURE))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephe COMEAU (12 September 1730, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - , )
(Étienne COMEAU & Marie Josephe LANDRY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephe COMEAU (1736, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 20 December 1796, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste) )
(Jean Baptiste COMEAU & Marguerite Brigitte SAVOIE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Marguerite COMEAU (1698, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 27 May 1779, Nantes, France)
(Jean Augustin COMEAU & Catherine BABIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie-Madeleine COMEAU (20 October 1714, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 11 September 1803, Yamachiche, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche))
(Pierre COMEAU & Suzanne BÉZIER dite JOAN LARIVIÈRE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Maurice COMEAU (1732, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 18 June 1786, Pointe-du-Lac, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada* (Tonnancour) (La Visitation-de-la-Pointe-du-Lac))
(Francois COMEAU & Marie-Anne LORD (LAURE))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Nathalie COMEAU (5 July 1751, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 24 January 1838, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Jean Baptiste COMEAU & Anne BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre COMEAU (1707, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1756, )
(Jean Augustin COMEAU & Catherine BABIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Alexis COMEAU dit COURTOT (1 January 1727 , Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1 April 1802, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila))
(Étienne COMEAU & Marie Josephe LANDRY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph COMEAUX (1744, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 2 June 1784, , France)
(Jean Baptiste COMEAU & Marie AUCOIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Simon COMEAUX (1741, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 20 June 1818, Assumption, Louisiana, USA)
(Jean Baptiste COMEAU & Marie AUCOIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles COMMAUX (1750, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Jean Baptiste COMEAU & Marie AUCOIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Agnes CORMIER (27 September 1722, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 15 November 1798, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Canada)
(Pierre CORMIER & Catherine Marie LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne CORMIER (1715, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 8 January 1770, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska))
(Pierre CORMIER & Catherine Marie LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Catherine CORMIER (1721, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 19 December 1808, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre))
(Pierre CORMIER & Catherine Marie LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles CORMIER (1726, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 9 May 1796, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception))
(Germain CORMIER & Marie Josephe LEBLANC)

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