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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 Yvette GODIN (1718, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 2 April 1795, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte))
(Gabriel GODIN dit CHATILLON & Andree Angelique JEANNE dite ROBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Charlotte GODIN (GAUDIN) (1713, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 17 July 1765, Attakapas, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, USA)
(Gabriel GODIN dit CHATILLON & Andree Angelique JEANNE dite ROBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jacques GODIN dit BELLEFONTAINE (1698, , Canada - 4 February 1763, Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly))
(Gabriel GODIN dit CHATILLON & Andree Angelique JEANNE dite ROBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph GODIN dit BELLEFONTAINE (1695, , Canada - 22 December 1776, Cherbourg, France)
(Gabriel GODIN dit CHATILLON & Andree Angelique JEANNE dite ROBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Isaac GOURDEAU (1741, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(Pierre GOURDEAU & Marguerite ROBICHAUD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Stanislas GOURDEAU (1726, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 22 January 1775, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Pierre GOURDEAU & Marguerite ROBICHAUD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine GRANDMAISON (1751, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 12 March 1841, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte))
(Jean Baptiste THERIAULT dit GRANDMAISON & Marguerite THIBODEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephte GRANDMAISON (1753, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 25 January 1772, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre))
(Jean Baptiste THERIAULT dit GRANDMAISON & Marguerite THIBODEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Cecile GRANGER (1707, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 16 December 1776, , France)
(Pierre GRANGER & Elisabeth Isabelle GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Cecile GRANGER (29 September 1729, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 17 November 1805, Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton) (St-Omer))
(Laurent GRANGER & Marie BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles GRANGER (26 July 1713, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 29 September 1756, , England (United Kingdom))
(René GRANGER & Marguerite THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles GRANGER (1725, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 29 August 1782, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité))
(Claude GRANGER & Jeanne GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles GRANGER (21 April 1749, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 18 April 1824, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Charles GRANGER & Marguerite BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Claude GRANGER (13 April 1708, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 20 November 1756, , England (United Kingdom))
(René GRANGER & Marguerite THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Elisabeth GRANGER (1701, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 3 October 1767, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers))
(Pierre GRANGER & Elisabeth Isabelle GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Françoise GRANGER (1700, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 17 May 1780, , France)
(René GRANGER & Marguerite THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Francoise GRANGER (2 May 1728, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 14 September 1778, La Grande Tourniole, Côtes-d'Armor, France)
(Joseph GRANGER & Anne RICHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean GRANGER (2 October 1716, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 28 May 1785, Chantenay, Loire, France)
(Laurent GRANGER & Marie BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste GRANGER (1713, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 9 November 1756, )
(René GRANGER & Marguerite THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph GRANGER (1699, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Pierre GRANGER & Elisabeth Isabelle GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph GRANGER (24 July 1705, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1 January 1757, , England (United Kingdom))
(René GRANGER & Marguerite THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph GRANGER (1 February 1712 , Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 6 July 1792, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Claude GRANGER & Jeanne GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph GRANGER (6 March 1731, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - , )
(Claude GRANGER & Brigitte LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie GRANGER (1697, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(René GRANGER & Marguerite THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephe GRANGER (1 November 1714, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 24 December 1774, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage))
(Claude GRANGER & Jeanne GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Rosalie GRANGER (1750, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 7 November 1809, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada)
(Bénoni GRANGER & Anne RICHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Marin GRANGER (16 December 1746, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(Joseph GRANGER & Marie Josephe ROBICHAUD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre GRANGER (04 September 1744, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 20 February 1809, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Joseph GRANGER & Marie Josephe ROBICHAUD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  René GRANGER (15 April 1703, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 16 September 1756, , England (United Kingdom))
(René GRANGER & Marguerite THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph GRAVOIS (1739, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Joseph GRAVOIS & Marie CYR)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre GRAVOIS (1730, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Joseph GRAVOIS & Marie CYR)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Michel GROSSIN (30 July 1701, Carolles, Manche, France - 1758, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite GROSVALET dite VALLOIS (16 January 1731, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1775, , Louisiana, USA)
(François GROSVALET & Angélique MIUS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Augustin GUEDRY (1690, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Claude GUIDRY (GUEDRY) dit LA VERDURE & Marguerite PETITPAS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Claude GUEDRY (1682, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Claude GUIDRY (GUEDRY) dit LA VERDURE & Marguerite PETITPAS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste GUEDRY (1728, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 1768, , Maryland, USA)
(Augustin GUEDRY & Jeanne HEBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jacques GUEDRY (GUILDRY) (1720, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 13 December 1758, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Paul GUEDRY (GUILDRY) & Anne Marie MIUS D'ENTREMONT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Paul GUEDRY (GUILDRY) (January 1701, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Claude GUIDRY (GUEDRY) dit LA VERDURE & Marguerite PETITPAS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles GUERIN (1725, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 11 March 1759, St-Servan, France (Ille-et-Vilaine))
(Jerome Dit Giraud GUÉRIN & Isabelle Élisabeth AUCOIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Francoise GUERIN (1710, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1758, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Jerome Dit Giraud GUÉRIN & Isabelle Élisabeth AUCOIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean-Baptiste GUERIN (1719, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 18 December 1771, St-Suliac, France (Ille-et-Vilaine))
(Jerome Dit Giraud GUÉRIN & Isabelle Élisabeth AUCOIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite GUERIN (1707, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada (Cobequid, Acadia) - 15 November 1758, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Jerome Dit Giraud GUÉRIN & Isabelle Élisabeth AUCOIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie GUERIN (1701, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 28 October 1758, Rochefort, France)
(Jerome Dit Giraud GUÉRIN & Isabelle Élisabeth AUCOIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie GUILBAULT (, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 2 February 1789, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada)
(Pierre GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU) & Madeleine FOREST)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Anne GUILBAULT (25 March 1751, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 19 February 1832, )
(Pierre GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU) & Madeleine FOREST)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Alexandre GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU) (11 January 1708, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 8 May 1776, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre))
(Charles GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU) & Anne BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Gregoire GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU) (1750, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 17 February 1816, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska))
(Alexandre GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU) & Marguerite GIROUARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU) (27 April 1704, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 3 April 1758, Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Québec, Canada )
(Charles GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU) & Anne BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph Dit L'officier GUILBEAU (7 February 1710, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 31 August 1765, St Martinville, Louisiana, USA)
(Charles GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU) & Anne BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite GUILBEAU (8 August 1743, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 13 March 1814, St Martinville, Louisiana, USA)
(Joseph Dit L'officier GUILBEAU & Madeleine MICHEL)

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