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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  Jean Baptiste BASTARACHE (17 April 1726, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(Pierre BASTARACHE dit LEBASQUE & Marguerite FOREST)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Jeanne BASTARACHE (22 October 1714, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 8 September 1782, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité))
(François Marie BASTARACHE & Agnès LABAUVE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine BASTARACHE (17 June 1737, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 11 November 1760, Charlesbourg, Québec, Québec, Canada (Bourg Royal))
(Jean BASTARACHE dit BASQUE & Angélique RICHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite BASTARACHE (19 November 1731, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(Pierre BASTARACHE dit LEBASQUE & Marguerite FOREST)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Modeste BASTARACHE (28 April 1733, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 13 August 1818, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA)
(Jean BASTARACHE dit BASQUE & Angélique RICHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie-Elisabeth Isabelle BASTARACHE (14 February 1735, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - April 1798, , Louisiana, USA)
(Jean BASTARACHE dit BASQUE & Angélique RICHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie-Joseph BASTARACHE (1 April 1739, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(Jean BASTARACHE dit BASQUE & Angélique RICHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Nathalie BASTARACHE (22 June 1738, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(Pierre BASTARACHE dit LEBASQUE & Marguerite FOREST)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre BASTARACHE (21 November 1724, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 21 March 1796, Bouctouche, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Pierre BASTARACHE dit LEBASQUE & Marguerite FOREST)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean BASTARACHE dit BASQUE (1696, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 22 December 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Jean-Joannis BASTARACHE dit LEBASQUE & Huguette Agathe VINCENT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Michel BASTARACHE dit BASQUE (7 February 1730, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 15 January 1820, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila))
(Pierre BASTARACHE dit LEBASQUE & Marguerite FOREST)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Alexandre BELISLE dit LEBORGNE (29 August 1736, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 20 October 1777, La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere))
(Emmanuel Alexandre LEBORGNE dit BELISLE & Marie LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Agnes BÉLIVEAU (17 October 1739, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(Charles BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Agnès GAUDET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne BELIVEAU (1740, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia) - 15 January 1820, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Louis BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Louise HACHE dite GALLANT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles BÉLIVEAU (22 February 1729, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(Charles BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Agnès GAUDET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles BELIVEAU (12 October 1731, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 10 August 1796, )
(Charles BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Marguerite GRANGER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Isidore BÉLIVEAU (12 February 1737, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 30 December 1800, Pubnico, Nova Scotia, Canada)
(Charles BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Agnès GAUDET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Madeleine BÉLIVEAU (17 November 1726, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 29 January 1770, Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montréal, Québec, Canada* (L'Enfant-Jésus-de-la-Pointe-aux-Trembles))
(Charles BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Agnès GAUDET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Nathalie BÉLIVEAU (11 January 1742, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(Charles BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Agnès GAUDET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Osithe BELLEMERE (5 January 1732, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1 May 1770, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception))
(Jacques CELESTIN dit BELLEMÈRE & Marie LANDRY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Frederic Soudic BELLIVEAU (29 June 1742, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 17 March 1835, Belliveaus Cove, Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada)
(Jean BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Marie Madeleine GAUDET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph BELLIVEAU (24 June 1738, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - February 1814, Church Point, Nova Scotia, Canada)
(Jean BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Marie Madeleine GAUDET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite BELLIVEAU (30 December 1704, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 17 February 1795, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Charles BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Marie MELANSON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Theotiste BELLIVEAU (25 October 1736, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 15 January 1830, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Pierre BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Jeanne GAUDET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Cecile BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) (29 August 1723, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 27 May 1791, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Charles BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Marie MELANSON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) (1697, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 5 January 1758, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Jean BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Madeleine MELANSON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) (17 July 1702, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 6 September 1769 , Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Charles BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Marie MELANSON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) (3 November 1713, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 5 July 1786, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste) )
(Antoine BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Marie THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) (9 December 1741, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 27 September 1795, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste) )
(Jean Baptiste BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Marguerite MELANSON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Louis BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) (5 May 1708, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 23 December 1775, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, France)
(Jean Antoine BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Cecile MELANSON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) (22 April 1750, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 10 April 1822, Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*)
(Jean Baptiste BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Marguerite MELANSON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephte BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) (26 January 1721, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1762, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Charles BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) & Marguerite GRANGER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne BELOU (1695, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 3 December 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Jacques BELOU & Marie GIROUARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne BENOIT (28 April 1721, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 2 May 1805, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada)
(Claude BENOIT & Jeanne HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne BENOIT (1730, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(Pierre BENOIT dit LABRIERE & Elisabeth LEJUGE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Antoine BENOIT (23 March 1719, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1766, )
(Claude BENOIT & Jeanne HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles BENOIT (1713, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1760, )
(Pierre BENOIT dit LABRIERE & Elisabeth LEJUGE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Claire Cecile BENOIT (1728, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 17 March 1758, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Claude BENOIT & Jeanne HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Claude BENOIT (1713, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 11 August 1784, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception))
(Claude BENOIT & Jeanne HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Elisabeth Isabelle BENOIT (1730, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1758, )
(Claude BENOIT & Jeanne HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François BENOIT (13 May 1723, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1770, )
(Claude BENOIT & Jeanne HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Françoise BENOIT (1734, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 28 August 1806, Louiseville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup))
(Claude BENOIT & Jeanne HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Francoise BENOIT (1741, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , , Louisiana, USA)
(Charles BENOIT & Marie Madeleine THÉRIAULT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Geoffroi BENOIT (1720, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 2 July 1769, Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada)
(Claude BENOIT & Jeanne HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste BENOIT (27 November 1711, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 10 January 1771, Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly))
(Claude BENOIT & Jeanne HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste BENOIT (1748, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 2 October 1830, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (St-Johns) (Dorchester))
(Geoffroi BENOIT & Madeleine BABIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste BENOIT (1750, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Claude BENOIT & Anne Helene GIROUARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Jeanne BENOIT (20 April 1725, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 17 March 1801, Louiseville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup))
(Claude BENOIT & Jeanne HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph BENOIT (1732, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 24 October 1812, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska))
(Claude BENOIT & Jeanne HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph BENOIT (1747, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Geoffroi BENOIT & Madeleine BABIN)

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