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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 Josephte RICHARD (9 June 1713, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1 June 1795, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste) )
(René RICHARD dit BEAUPRÉ & Marie Marguerite THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Madeleine RICHARD (1714, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1777, , Louisiana, USA)
(Martin RICHARD & Marguerite BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie-Anne RICHARD (1730, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1756, Rowley, Massachusetts, USA)
(René RICHARD dit BEAUPRÉ & Marie Marguerite THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie-Louise RICHARD (1740, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 15 December 1796, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage))
(Jean Baptiste RICHARD & Josephte HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie-Marguerite RICHARD (1749, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1 April 1790, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Jean Baptiste RICHARD & Marguerite ROBICHAUD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Michel RICHARD (1697, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1757, , South Carolina, USA)
(Martin RICHARD & Marguerite BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Michel RICHARD (18 September 1713, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1756, , Virginia, USA)
(Michel RICHARD dit BEAUPRÉ & Marie Josephe BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Michel RICHARD (1744, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1829, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec))
(Joseph RICHARD & Madeleine LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Michel RICHARD (25 June 1746, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 28 June 1807, Richibouctou, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Michel RICHARD & Madeleine DOUCET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Monique RICHARD (18 February 1747, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 12 December 1810, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Jean Baptiste RICHARD & Marguerite ROBICHAUD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pépin Menouche RICHARD (23 February 1747, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 1782, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France)
(Pierre Toussaint RICHARD & Marie Josephe BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre RICHARD (1703, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - , )
(Pierre RICHARD & Marguerite LANDRY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre RICHARD (1750, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 21 July 1789 , Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada)
(Pierre Joseph RICHARD & Marie Madeleine BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre Joseph RICHARD (1727, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 29 January 1758, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Pierre Toussaint RICHARD & Marie Josephe BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre Toussaint RICHARD (1696, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 26 January 1778, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, France)
(Alexandre RICHARD & Elizabeth Isabelle PETITPAS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Rene RICHARD (25 May 1726, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 23 February 1811, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada)
(René RICHARD dit BEAUPRÉ & Marie Marguerite THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Rosalie RICHARD (24 March 1741, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 7 November 1793, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage))
(Jean Baptiste RICHARD & Josephte HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Rosalie RICHARD (1751, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 12 September 1840, Berthierville, Québec, Canada (Berthier-en-Haut) (Ste-Genevieve-de-Berthier))
(Joseph GARCEAU dit RICHARD & Marie Philippe LAMBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Rosalie RICHARD (1751, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Joseph RICHARD & Françoise CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  boy ancestor  Thomas RICHARD (1746, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 28 November 1758, Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France)
(Pierre Toussaint RICHARD & Marie Josephe BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Victor RICHARD (1721, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 29 April 1795, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Michel RICHARD & Agnes BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Victor RICHARD (12 April 1736, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1 November 1824, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Jean Baptiste RICHARD & Marguerite ROBICHAUD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean-Baptiste RICHARD dit BEAUPRÉ (10 April 1718, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 19 March 1796, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Michel RICHARD dit BEAUPRÉ & Marie Josephe BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  René RICHARD dit BEAUPRÉ (1688, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 20 December 1776, Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly))
(René RICHARD dit BEAUPRÉ & Madeleine LANDRY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François RICHARD dit PLATE (1744, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - October 1813, St-Charles, New Brunwsick, Canada)
(Michel RICHARD & Madeleine DOUCET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Augustin RIVET (1723, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 17 May 1759, Ille-et-Vilaine, France)
(Étienne RIVET & Anne LEPRINCE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Claire RIVET (1723, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - March 1780, , Louisiana, USA)
(Étienne RIVET & Anne LEPRINCE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Etienne RIVET (1717, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - April 1779, , Louisiana, USA)
(Étienne RIVET & Anne LEPRINCE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean RIVET (1727, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 20 September 1760, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Étienne RIVET & Anne LEPRINCE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Rose RIVET (18 July 1709, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 6 December 1784, Bangor, Bretagne, France)
(Étienne RIVET & Anne LEPRINCE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Michel RIVET (8 July 1711, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 1763, , Maryland, USA)
(Étienne RIVET & Anne LEPRINCE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anathalie ROBICHAUD (1730, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 6 December 1809, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Prudent ROBICHAUD & Françoise BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Angelique ROBICHAUD (23 October 1738, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 6 January 1784, Montmagny, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas) (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire))
(Pierre ROBICHAUD & Françoise LEBORGNE dite BELISLE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne ROBICHAUD (May 1729, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 18 January 1783, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Francois ROBICHAUD L'AINÉ & Angelique PITRE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne-Desanges ROBICHAUD (1729, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 13 March 1813, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Pierre ROBICHAUD & Marie Madeleine BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Anselme ROBICHAUD (1753, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 25 January 1819, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice))
(Francois ROBICHAUD LE JEUNE & Marie LEBORGNE dite BELISLE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Armand ROBICHAUD (1732, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 26 May 1765, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Pierre ROBICHAUD & Marie Madeleine BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Cécile ROBICHAUD (22 October 1705, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 8 September 1782, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage))
(Alexandre ROBICHAUD & Anne MELANÇON (MELANSON))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles ROBICHAUD (20 June 1734, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 10 July 1783, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France)
(Joseph ROBICHAUD dit CADET & Madeleine DUPUIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Claire ROBICHAUD (4 March 1713, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 22 October 1786, St-Martinville, Louisiana, USA)
(Charles ROBICHAUD dit CADET & Marie BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Elisabeth Isabelle ROBICHAUD (20 June 1745, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 24 August 1794, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Jean Dominique ROBICHAUD & Marguerite FOREST)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Etienne ROBICHAUD (10 November 1726, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(Joseph ROBICHAUD & Marie FOREST)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Felicite ROBICHAUD (1749, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Prudent ROBICHAUD & Marie-Josephe RICHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Francois ROBICHAUD (1739, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 25 December 1843, Bouctouche, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Francois ROBICHAUD LE JEUNE & Marie LEBORGNE dite BELISLE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Isidore ROBICHAUD (1749, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada (Cobequid, Acadia) - 11 September 1823, Pokemouche, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Joseph ROBICHAUD & Claire LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean ROBICHAUD (1742, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 24 March 1818, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila))
(Francois ROBICHAUD LE JEUNE & Marie LEBORGNE dite BELISLE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Dominique ROBICHAUD (24 October 1723, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1791, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Prudent ROBICHAUD & Françoise BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Jeanne ROBICHAUD (13 October 1713, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(Prudent ROBICHAUD & Henriette PETITPAS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Jeanne ROBICHAUD (1729, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph ROBICHAUD (1694, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 3 May 1768, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage))
(Prudent ROBICHAUD & Henriette PETITPAS)

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