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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  Elisabeth GAUTHIER (1746, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Joseph GAUTHIER & Marguerite BUJOLD (BUGEAUD))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Honore GAUTROT (1716, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1/1/1784, )
(François GAUTROT (GAUTREAU) & Louise AUCOIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph GAUTROT (1723, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 00/00/1786, Lafourche, Louisiana, USA)
(François GAUTROT (GAUTREAU) & Louise AUCOIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François GAUTROT (GAUDREAU) (1 June 1685, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 3 February 1759, Saint-Malo Departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine Bretagne, France)
(Charles GAUTROT (GAUTREAU) & Françoise RAIMBAULT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Ursule GAUTROT (GAUDREAU) (12 October 1717, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 20 December 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(François GAUTROT (GAUDREAU) & Marie Anne VINCENT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles GAUTROT (GAUTREAU) (1691, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 7 November 1759, St-Nicholas-de-Boulogne, Picardie, France)
(Claude GAUTROT (GAUTREAU) & Marie THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François GAUTROT (GAUTREAU) (1678, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 3 February 1759, St. Malo, Bretagne, France)
(François GAUTROT (GAUTREAU) & Marie Sebastienne BRUN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François GAUTROT (GAUTREAU) (10 August 1724, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 23 April 1763, )
(François GAUTROT (GAUDREAU) & Marie Anne VINCENT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine GAUTROT (GAUTREAU) (1699, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 10 February 1758, Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Québec, Canada )
(Charles GAUTROT (GAUTREAU) & Françoise RAIMBAULT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite GAUTROT (GAUTREAU) (14 May 1728, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 15 November 1806, Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*)
(François GAUTROT (GAUDREAU) & Marie Anne VINCENT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne GIROUARD (1704, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 10 December 1761, St-Suliac, Bretagne, France)
(Pierre GIROUARD & Marie COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne GIROUARD (16 May 1716, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1758, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Guillaume GIROUARD & Marie BERNARD dite RENOCHET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne GIROUARD (1721, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - April 1770, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France)
(Germain GIROUARD & Marie DOUCET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne GIROUARD (14 May 1722, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 19 February 1800, Yamachiche, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche))
(Charles GIROUARD & Anne BASTARACHE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne Helene GIROUARD (14 April 1728, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1 September 1807, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception))
(François GIROUARD & Anne BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne Theodose GIROUARD (1739, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 1765, Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Louis Paul GIROUARD & Marie THIBODEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Claude GIROUARD (1699, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 18 March 1768, Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Québec, Canada )
(Pierre GIROUARD & Marie COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Claude GIROUARD (1728, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 12 July 1816, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception))
(Germain GIROUARD & Marie DOUCET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François GIROUARD (1710, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 30 May 1790, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Germain GIROUARD & Jeanne BARIAU (BÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Francoise GIROUARD (10 March 1724, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 5 March 1803, )
(Guillaume GIROUARD & Marie BERNARD dite RENOCHET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Françoise GIROUARD (4 October 1745, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 7 January 1823, L'Islet, Québec, Canada (L'Islet-sur-Mer) (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours))
(Germain Jacques GIROUARD & Marie ARSENAULT (ARCENAULT) (ARSENEAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Germain GIROUARD (1691, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 18 July 1760, Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Jacques Jacob GIROUARD & Marguerite GAUTROT (GAUTREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Germain Jacques GIROUARD (1711, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 31 May 1779, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur))
(Germain GIROUARD & Marie DOUCET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Guillaume GIROUARD (October 1685, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 23 November 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Jacques Jacob GIROUARD & Marguerite GAUTROT (GAUTREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Helene Judith GIROUARD (1742, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 27 February 1834, Assumption Parish, Louisiana, USA)
(Honore GIROUARD & Marie Josephe THERIOT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Honore GIROUARD (1714, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1784, , France)
(Pierre GIROUARD & Marie DOIRON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jacques GIROUARD (1707, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 5 December 1764, , Haiti)
(Pierre GIROUARD & Marie COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jacques GIROUARD (25 November 1733, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 19 April 1813, Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada)
(Germain GIROUARD & Marie DOUCET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste GIROUARD (9 June 1725, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1808, , Nova Scotia, Canada)
(François GIROUARD & Anne BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph GIROUARD (20 July 1717, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 25 August 1776, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception))
(Claude GIROUARD & Elisabeth BLANCHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph GIROUARD (19 January 1731 , Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 22 October 1792, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(François GIROUARD & Anne BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph GIROUARD (1755, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 12 October 1814, Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly))
(Michel GIROUARD & Marguerite HACHE dite GALLANT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Josephte GIROUARD (16 December 1734, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 5 October 1823, Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Germain Jacques GIROUARD & Marie ARSENAULT (ARCENAULT) (ARSENEAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine GIROUARD (15 April 1711, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 6 June 1805, District of Clare, Little Brook, Nova Scotia, Canada (Church Point))
(François GIROUARD & Anne BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite GIROUARD (15 February 1713, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 25 December 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Alexandre GIROUARD & Marie Madeleine LEBORGNE DE BELISLE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie GIROUARD (1698, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 13 March 1758, Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Québec, Canada )
(Pierre GIROUARD & Marie COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Anne GIROUARD (1737, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 11 July 1801, L'Islet, Québec, Canada (L'Islet-sur-Mer) (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours))
(Germain Jacques GIROUARD & Marie ARSENAULT (ARCENAULT) (ARSENEAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Blanche GIROUARD (9 September 1741, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - , )
(François GIROUARD & Marie POIRIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephe GIROUARD (10 January 1710, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 22 March 1761, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada)
(Jacques GIROUARD & Anne PETITPAS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephte GIROUARD (16 December 1734, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 5 May 1814, Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada)
(Germain GIROUARD & Marie DOUCET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Louise GIROUARD (1739, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 28 November 1813, Cap-St-Ignace, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola))
(Germain Jacques GIROUARD & Marie ARSENAULT (ARCENAULT) (ARSENEAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Madeleine GIROUARD (1712, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 24 November 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Germain GIROUARD & Marie DOUCET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Michel GIROUARD (1723, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 22 March 1797, Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly))
(Germain GIROUARD & Marie DOUCET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre GIROUARD (10 October 1721 , Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 25 October 1763, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage))
(François GIROUARD & Anne BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre GIROUARD (12 October 1726, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 26 June 1814 , Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception))
(Guillaume GIROUARD & Marie BERNARD dite RENOCHET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre GIROUARD (1752, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 6 November 1809, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception))
(Pierre GIROUARD & Theotiste DUPUIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Veronique GIROUARD (1 March 1712, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - , )
(Pierre GIROUARD & Marie DOIRON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Victor GIROUARD (1748, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 3 May 1828, Saint-Luc, Québec, Canada)
(Germain Jacques GIROUARD & Marie ARSENAULT (ARCENAULT) (ARSENEAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Bonaventure GODIN (1715, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1786, , Louisiana, USA)
(Gabriel GODIN dit CHATILLON & Andree Angelique JEANNE dite ROBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean René GODIN (1712, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 26 May 1767, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Gabriel GODIN dit CHATILLON & Andree Angelique JEANNE dite ROBERT)

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