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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  Emmanuel HEBERT (1719, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 19 September 1764, , Haiti)
(Étienne HÉBERT & Anne DUGAS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Etienne HÉBERT (1736, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 11 January 1823, Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*)
(Jean Baptiste HÉBERT & Elisabeth GRANGER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Fabien HEBERT (1741, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 10 April 1796, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité))
(Pierre Simon HÉBERT & Elisabeth DUPUIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François HÉBERT (1692, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1762, , Louisiana, USA)
(Jean Baptiste HÉBERT & Marie Anne DOUCET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Francois HEBERT (27 April 1710, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 28 March 1789, St-Gabriel-d'Iberville, Louisiana, USA)
(Jacques HÉBERT & Marguerite LANDRY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Francois HEBERT (1714, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada (Cobequid, Acadia) - 17 May 1787, St-Gabriel-d'Iberville, Louisiana, USA)
(Jean HÉBERT & Marie Marguerite LANDRY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François HÉBERT (1749, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 7 December 1820, Barachois, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Charles HÉBERT & Catherine SAULNIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Francoise HEBERT (1733, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 3 March 1769, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia))
(Jean Baptiste HÉBERT & Elisabeth GRANGER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Hélène HÉBERT (1728, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1 December 1808, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste) )
(Jean-Emmanuel HÉBERT & Madeleine DUGAS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Honore HEBERT (1733, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 15 January 1813, Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*)
(Jean Baptiste HÉBERT & Elisabeth GRANGER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Ignace HEBERT (29 November 1724, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 19 November 1783, St-Gabriel-d'Iberville, Louisiana, USA)
(Guillaume HÉBERT & Marie Josephe DUPUIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Ignace HEBERT (6 September 1747, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1790, Iberville, Louisiana, USA)
(Paul Gaston HEBERT & Marguerite Josephe MELANÇON (MELANSON))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  boy ancestor  Ignace HEBERT (4 October 1749, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1763, )
(Olivier HÉBERT & Cecile Josephe DUPUIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Isabelle Modeste HÉBERT (1752, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 28 March 1813, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité))
(Olivier HÉBERT & Cecile Josephe DUPUIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jacques HÉBERT (1677, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 27 November 1756 , Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Jean Baptiste HÉBERT & Marie Anne DOUCET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jacques HÉBERT (6 March 1725, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 24 January 1770, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité))
(Rene HÉBERT & Marie BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jacques HEBERT (1748, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 10 April 1813, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Pierre HÉBERT dit PERROCHE & Madeleine GAUDET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean HEBERT (1699, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 7 August 1773, Belle-Île-en-Mer (Locmaria), France)
(Jean HÉBERT & Jeanne DOIRON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean HÉBERT (1703, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1765, )
(Pierre HÉBERT dit LAPRADE & Jeanne Isabelle Elizabeth LANDRY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean HÉBERT (29 April 1708, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 2 April 1774, , France)
(Rene HÉBERT & Marie BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean HEBERT (24 March 1714, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 24 March 1760, Cherbourg, France)
(Antoine HÉBERT & Jeanne CORPORON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean HÉBERT (1739, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 14 November 1818, Richibouctou, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Charles HÉBERT & Catherine SAULNIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste HÉBERT (24 June 1692 , Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 10 July 1787, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste) )
(Étienne HÉBERT & Jeanne COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste HÉBERT (3 October 1728, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 17 February 1765, Le Mirebalais, Haïti)
(Rene HÉBERT & Marie BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste HEBERT (1729, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 6 June 1778, Cenan, France)
(Jean HEBERT & Marguerite TRAHAN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean-Baptiste HEBERT (1722, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 27 May 1796, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste) )
(Antoine HÉBERT & Jeanne CORPORON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean-Baptiste HEBERT (24 January 1723, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 9 September 1779, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France)
(Jacques HÉBERT & Jeanne GAUTROT (GAUTREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean-Baptiste HEBERT (1741, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 26 October 1811, Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*)
(Jean Baptiste HÉBERT & Elisabeth GRANGER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Jeanne HÉBERT (1683, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 5 January 1767, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception))
(Jean Baptiste HÉBERT & Marie Anne DOUCET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph HEBERT (1710, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - August 1763, )
(Jean HÉBERT & Marie Marguerite LANDRY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph HÉBERT (8 November 1711, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 26 March 1780, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité))
(Rene HÉBERT & Marie BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph HEBERT (1715, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Jean HÉBERT & Jeanne DOIRON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph HÉBERT (26 January 1715, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 7 June 1763, , France)
(Jean-Emmanuel HÉBERT & Madeleine DUGAS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph HEBERT (1719, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 17 February 1803, Deschaillons, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Deschaillons))
(Jacques HÉBERT & Jeanne GAUTROT (GAUTREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph HÉBERT (1 January 1730, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - , )
(Charles HÉBERT & Catherine SAULNIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph HÉBERT (1737, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 26 March 1820, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Jean Baptiste HÉBERT & Elisabeth GRANGER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph HÉBERT (1750, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Michel HÉBERT & Elisabeth Isabelle BENOIT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph "La Prade" HEBERT (10 September 1733, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - July 1813, , Louisiana, USA)
(Jean HÉBERT & Isabelle BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph Hilarion HEBERT (27 October 1739, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 5 June 1795, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité))
(Charles HEBERT & Marguerite-Monique LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph-Marie HEBERT (21 April 1734, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - , )
(Jacques HÉBERT & Marguerite LANDRY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Josephte HÉBERT (21 August 1717, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 20 May 1801, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Alexandre HÉBERT & Marie DUPUIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Josephte HÉBERT (1734, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 24 September 1756, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Jacques HÉBERT & Jeanne GAUTROT (GAUTREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Judith HÉBERT (5 March 1721, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 18 November 1764, , Haiti)
(Rene HÉBERT & Marie BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine HEBERT (1696, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1758, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Michel HÉBERT & Elisabeth Isabelle PELLERIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine HEBERT (20 May 1709, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 5 November 1784, Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada (Bourg Royal))
(Jean-Emmanuel HÉBERT & Madeleine DUGAS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine HÉBERT (1714, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 7 September 1799, Sainte-Thérèse, Québec, Canada (Blainville))
(Jacques HÉBERT & Jeanne GAUTROT (GAUTREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine HEBERT (1727, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1758, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Jean HÉBERT & Marie Marguerite LANDRY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  girl ancestor  Madeleine HEBERT (16 November 1744, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1757, )
(Pierre HÉBERT dit PERROCHE & Madeleine GAUDET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Magloire HEBERT (1715, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 4 December 1780, St-Jean de la Rochelle, France)
(Jacques HÉBERT & Jeanne GAUTROT (GAUTREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite HEBERT (1716, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 1758, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Jean HÉBERT & Jeanne DOIRON)

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