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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 LANDRY (1743, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - March 1791, Iberville, Louisiana, USA)
(Joseph LANDRY & Marie Josephe RICHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Basile LANDRY (14 May 1727, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 12 March 1788, St-Martinville, Louisiana, USA)
(Pierre LANDRY & Marguerite FOREST)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Brigitte LANDRY (20 September 1721, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 23 December 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Claude LANDRY & Marie BABINEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Cecile LANDRY (15 August 1732, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 22 March 1815, Louiseville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup))
(Pierre LANDRY & Cécile ROBICHAUD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles LANDRY (1719, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 24 June 1774, Châtellerault, France)
(René LANDRY & Anne THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles LANDRY (10 May 1722, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 3 November 1764, Mirebalias, Santo Domingo, Haiti)
(Antoine LANDRY & Marie Blanche LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles LANDRY (4 November 1737, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 5 March 1795, Yamachiche, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche))
(Jean LANDRY & Madeleine MELANÇON (MELANSON))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Claude LANDRY (1690, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 11 January 1758, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Claude LANDRY & Marguerite Marie THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Claude LANDRY (3 April 1714, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 31 December 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Claude LANDRY & Marie BABINEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Claude LANDRY (1746, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 23 September 1803, Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton) (St-Omer))
(Joseph François LANDRY & Jeanne ROBICHAUD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Elisabeth LANDRY (1738, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 26 February 1828, Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton) (St-Omer))
(Pierre LANDRY & Anne THERIAULT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Euphronsine LANDRY (1739, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 21 February 1809, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Joseph François LANDRY & Jeanne ROBICHAUD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Euphrosine LANDRY (26 October 1723, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1779, )
(Jean Baptiste LANDRY & Marie Marguerite COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Eustache LANDRY (17 September 1719, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 18 August 1780, Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France)
(Jean Baptiste LANDRY & Marie Marguerite COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Florent LANDRY (1749, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 24 February 1778, Deschambault, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Deschambault))
(Joseph François LANDRY & Jeanne ROBICHAUD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François LANDRY (1692, Canard, Nova Scotia, Canada (Riviere Aux Canards, Acadia) - 21 April 1767, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage))
(Antoine LANDRY & Marie THIBODEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François LANDRY (1711, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 17 February 1797, St Gabriel, Iberville, Louisiana, USA)
(Pierre LANDRY & Madeleine BROUSSARD (BROSARD))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Francois LANDRY (4 August 1724, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 2 August 1773, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Claude LANDRY & Marie BABINEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Francois LANDRY (1732, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Germain LANDRY & Cecile FOREST)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Francois LANDRY (7 March 1737, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 10 June 1828, Saint-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (St-Andre))
(Francois LANDRY & Catherine CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Françoise LANDRY (1693, Rivières-des-Habitants, Acadia, Canada - 3 October 1767, Lavaltrie, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine))
(Antoine LANDRY & Marie THIBODEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Françoise LANDRY (10 November 1709, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Antoine LANDRY & Marie Blanche LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Germain LANDRY (1695, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 18 April 1770 , L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage))
(Antoine LANDRY & Marie THIBODEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Germain LANDRY (17 September 1734, Canard, Nova Scotia, Canada (Riviere Aux Canards, Acadia) - 14 November 1816, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(François LANDRY & Josephte DOUCET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Helene LANDRY (19 May 1721, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1769, )
(Jean Baptiste LANDRY & Marie Marguerite COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Hilaire LANDRY (1728, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 31 August 1775, Châtellerault, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France)
(Jean Baptiste LANDRY & Marie Marguerite COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Honore LANDRY (1714, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - October 1764, )
(Rene LANDRY & Madeleine MELANÇON (MELANSON))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Isabelle LANDRY (1740, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 23 April 1771, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage))
(Germain LANDRY & Cecile FOREST)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Isabelle Elisabeth LANDRY (14 June 1745, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 6 August 1824, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Pierre LANDRY & Cécile ROBICHAUD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jacques LANDRY (1743, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 29 December 1783, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA)
(François LANDRY & Dorothee BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jacques LANDRY (22 August 1746, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 13 March 1823 , Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada)
(Antoine LANDRY & Anne CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean LANDRY (2 November 1735, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 29 December 1782, Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada (Bourg Royal))
(Claude LANDRY & Marie BABINEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste LANDRY (1686, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 16 May 1763, La Tranchée, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France)
(Claude LANDRY & Catherine THIBODEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste LANDRY (1690, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 23 December 1757, Centre d'hébergement Sacré-Coeur, Québec, Canada)
(Pierre LANDRY & Madeleine ROBICHAUD dite CADET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste LANDRY (1693, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 23 December 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Claude LANDRY & Marguerite Marie THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste LANDRY (1721, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 21 February 1759, Lanoraie, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Lanoraie))
(Jean Baptiste LANDRY & Anne PETITOT dite SINCENNES)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste LANDRY (9 August 1721, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 2 June 1798, Saint-Joachim, Montmorency, Québec, Canada)
(Jean Baptiste LANDRY & Marguerite MELANSON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste LANDRY (1721, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 19 February 1770, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage))
(François LANDRY & Josephte DOUCET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste LANDRY (23 March 1743, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 23 January 1785, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage))
(Antoine LANDRY & Anne CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste LANDRY (1748, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 14 December 1841, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada)
(Alexis LANDRY & Madeleine BERGERON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean-Baptiste LANDRY (8 March 1724, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 14 October 1787, Martinville, Louisiana, USA)
(Antoine LANDRY & Marie Blanche LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean-Baptiste LANDRY (1732, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 4 October 1816, Sainte-Rose, Laval, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Rose-de-Lima))
(Germain LANDRY & Cecile FOREST)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Jeanne Basilisse LANDRY (22 September 1742, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 14 November 1814, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Pierre LANDRY & Cécile ROBICHAUD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph LANDRY (1701, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 4 September 1783, Donaldsonville, Louisiana, USA)
(Antoine LANDRY & Marie THIBODEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph LANDRY (15 June 1708 , Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 5 June 1764, St-Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, France)
(Claude LANDRY & Catherine THIBODEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph LANDRY (16 April 1729, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - , )
(Jean Baptiste LANDRY & Marie Marguerite COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph LANDRY (20 March 1733, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 21 March 1787, Yamachiche, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche))
(Jean LANDRY & Madeleine MELANÇON (MELANSON))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph LANDRY (1750, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 6 January 1797, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska))
(Antoine LANDRY & Anne CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph LANDRY (1754, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 21 November 1841, Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*)
(Pierre LANDRY & Marie Anne BRAULT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph François LANDRY (19 June 1713, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 14 February 1768, Deschambault, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Deschambault))
(Claude LANDRY & Marguerite Marie THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

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