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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  Pierre LANDRY (27 January 1748, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 27 August 1829, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Pierre LANDRY & Cécile ROBICHAUD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre LANDRY (1748, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 21 November 1834, Saint-Pascal, Kamouraksa, Québec, Canada)
(Alexis LANDRY & Madeleine BERGERON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre LANDRY (1751, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 10 January 1833, Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Alexis LANDRY & Marie Anne THÉRIAULT dite BERNARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre Paul LANDRY (1744, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 5 November 1770, St. Servan, Isle-et Vilaine, France)
(Joseph LANDRY & Marie Josephe COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Prospere LANDRY (1727, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 3 October 1797, Plattenville, Assumption, Louisiana, USA)
(Jean Baptiste LANDRY & Marie Marguerite COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Rene LANDRY (1688, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 19 February 1769, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul))
(Claude LANDRY & Catherine THIBODEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  René LANDRY (1732, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 30 January 1786, )
(Jean LANDRY & Madeleine MELANÇON (MELANSON))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Rene LANDRY (1733, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 28 January 1823, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Alexandre Charles LANDRY & Anne FLAN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Simon LANDRY (14 May 1735, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1760, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA)
(Jean Baptiste LANDRY & Marie Marguerite COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Theotiste LANDRY (5 January 1750, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 30 April 1838, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bonaventure))
(Joseph François LANDRY & Jeanne ROBICHAUD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Françoise LANGLOIS (15 July 1707, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - April 1771, )
(François LANGLOIS & Madeleine COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Amand LANOUE (5 October 1736, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 22 July 1815, Grosses Coques, Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada)
(René LANOUE & Marguerite RICHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne LANOUE (18 December 1722, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 5 November 1799, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Pierre LANOUE & Marie GRANGER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne-Euphrosine LANOUE (1736, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 7 January 1804, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Pierre LANOUE & Françoise THIBODEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Basile LANOUE (13 November 1746, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(René LANOUE & Marguerite RICHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles LANOUE (18 October 1728, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 19 June 1803, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Joseph LANOUE & Marguerite BELLIVEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François LANOUE (26 March 1739, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1 February 1812, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Joseph LANOUE & Marguerite BELLIVEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste LANOUE (23 October 1738, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 24 August 1781, Charleston, South Carolina, USA)
(René LANOUE & Marguerite RICHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste LANOUE (18 May 1740, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 9 May 1801, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Pierre LANOUE & Anne BELLIVEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph LANOUE (4 October 1703, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 27 April 1782, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité))
(Pierre LANOUE & Marie GRANGER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph LANOUE (19 August 1726, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 2 June 1791, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Joseph LANOUE & Marguerite BELLIVEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite LANOUE (15 April 1731, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 25 March 1782, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité))
(Joseph LANOUE & Marguerite BELLIVEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite LANOUE (6 May 1750, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 6 January 1788, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Pierre LANOUE & Anne BELLIVEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Felicite LANOUE (20 October 1754, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 19 May 1793, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Pierre LANOUE & Marie Ursule BRUN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Geneviève LANOUE (1749, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Pierre LANOUE & Anne BELLIVEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephe LANOUE (27 January 1720, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1 January 1758, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Pierre LANOUE & Marie GRANGER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephe LANOUE (9 March 1730, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , , Louisiana, USA)
(Charles LANOUE & Marie Josephte LANDRY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephte LANOUE (23 September 1747, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 19 June 1791, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Pierre LANOUE & Anne BELLIVEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Ursule LANOUE (20 October 1754, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 9 May 1825, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec))
(Pierre LANOUE & Marie Ursule BRUN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Michel Poncy LANOUE (2 April 1736, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 2 May 1809, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Joseph LANOUE & Marguerite BELLIVEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Nathalie LANOUE (1731, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Pierre LANOUE & Françoise THIBODEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre LANOUE (4 January 1706, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 24 December 1772, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage))
(Pierre LANOUE & Marie GRANGER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre LANOUE (30 August 1733, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 19 April 1817, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Joseph LANOUE & Marguerite BELLIVEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre LANOUE (21 August 1738, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(Pierre LANOUE & Anne BELLIVEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre LANOUE (3 April 1744, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1793, )
(René LANOUE & Marguerite RICHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie LAPIERRE (1733, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 3 March 1809, Maskinongé, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph))
(Thomas-Michel LAPIERRE & Madeleine QUESSY (CAISSIE))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Honore LAURE (LORD) (17 June 1742, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 20 May 1818, Saint-Luc, Québec, Canada)
(Jacques LORD dit LAMONTAGNE (LAURE) & Marie Charlotte BONNEVIE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean LAURE (LORD) (8 April 1709, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 15 August 1757, Portsmouth, England)
(Alexandre LORD dit LAMONTAGNE & Marie Françoise BARIAU (BÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine LAURE (LORD) (1745, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 22 May 1791, Yamachiche, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche))
(Jean LAURE (LORD) & Marie-Madeleine COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite LAURE (LORD) (1746, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 26 September 1825, Yamachiche, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche))
(Jean LAURE (LORD) & Marie-Madeleine COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephte LAURE (LORD) (1733, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 18 November 1820, Maskinongé, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph))
(Charles LORD (LAURE) & Marie Josephe DOUCET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François LAVACHE (1696, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 12 December 1759, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France)
Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jacques LAVERGNE (20 April 1706, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 29 December 1759, Notre Dame, Le Havre, Normandie, France)
(Pierre LAVERGNE (DE LA VERGNE) & Anne BERNON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Blaise LE JEUNE (4/22/1750, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 1812, Opelousus, Louisiana, USA)
(Jean Baptiste LEJEUNE & Marguerite TRAHAN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles LEBERT (1720, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Jean LEGER (LEBERT) & Jeanne BREAU (BRAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Jeanne LEBERT (1723, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Jean LEGER (LEBERT) & Jeanne BREAU (BRAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephe LEBERT (1726, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1 December 1769, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Jean LEGER (LEBERT) & Jeanne BREAU (BRAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Paul LEBERT (1718, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Jean LEGER (LEBERT) & Jeanne BREAU (BRAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Agnes LEBLANC (20 August 1732, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - , )
(Pierre LEBLANC & Anne THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Alain LEBLANC (20 February 1731, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 28 February 1780, Belle-Isle-en-Mer, France)
(Claude LEBLANC & Jeanne DUGAS)

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