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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 ROBICHAUD (15 March 1713, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 5 November 1784, L'Islet, Québec, Canada (L'Islet-sur-Mer) (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours))
(François ROBICHAUD dit NIGANNE & Marie Madeleine THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre ROBICHAUD (1730, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada (Cobequid, Acadia) - 23 August 1783, Loire-Atlantique, France)
(Jean ROBICHAUD & Marie LEGER dite LAROSETTE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Prudent ROBICHAUD (1669, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1756, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Étienne ROBICHAUD & Françoise BOUDROT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Tite ROBICHAUD (1735, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 20 February 1770, Deschambault, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Deschambault))
(Pierre ROBICHAUD & Marie Madeleine BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph ROBICHAUD (ROBICHEAU) (8 November 1722, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 2 January 1759, Cherbourg, Normandie, France)
(Joseph ROBICHAUD & Marie FOREST)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite ROBICHAUD GAUTROT (1727, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1/26/1759, )
(Joseph ROBICHAUD & Claire LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne Madeleine ROY (1752, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 2 February 1800, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre))
(René Renaud ROY & Marie Josephe DAIGLE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste ROY (1691, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 6 April 1770, Champlain, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation))
(Jean ROY & Marie Christine HAUTBOIS dite DUBOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph ROY (1728, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1800, Petit-Rocher, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada)
(François ROY dit LALIBERTÉ-MAZERET & Marie Josephe BERGERON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie ROY (1691, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 8 March 1765, , Haiti)
(Jean ROY & Marie Christine HAUTBOIS dite DUBOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Elisabeth ROY (1740, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 29 September 1823, Joliette, Québec, Canada (Industry Village) (Saint-Charles-Borromée) (Saint-Paul-de-Lavaltrie))
(François ROY dit LALIBERTÉ-MAZERET & Marie Josephe BERGERON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Françoise ROY (22 October 1703, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 12 January 1758, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada)
(Jean ROY & Marie Christine HAUTBOIS dite DUBOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephte ROY (20 April 1750, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 7 September 1823, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Joseph ROY & Marie Agnes D'AMOURS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Philippe ROY (1696, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - August 1763, , Maryland, USA)
(Jean ROY & Marie Christine HAUTBOIS dite DUBOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  René Renaud ROY (29 August 1708, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 18 January 1758, Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Sales-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud))
(Jean ROY & Marie Christine HAUTBOIS dite DUBOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephte ROY dite LALIBERTÉ (1717, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 18 November 1803, Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly))
(François ROY dit LALIBERTÉ-MAZERET & Marie Josephe BERGERON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François ROY dit MAZERET (1744, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 8 August 1824, Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly))
(François ROY dit LALIBERTÉ-MAZERET & Marguerite BUGEAUD)

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Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Angelique SAINDON (1742, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1769, )
(Michel SAINDON & Marie Yvette GODIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean SAINDON (1744, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Michel SAINDON & Marie Yvette GODIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Louis SAINDON (1741, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 2 January 1819, Cacouna, Québec, Canada (Saint-Georges-de-Cacouna))
(Michel SAINDON & Marie Yvette GODIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre SAINDON (1748, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 5 June 1799, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte))
(Michel SAINDON & Marie Yvette GODIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Ursule SAINDON (1754, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 11 November 1798, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte))
(Michel SAINDON & Marie Yvette GODIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Michel SAMSON (12 July 1706, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 22 April 1764, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Gabriel SAMSON & Jeanne MARTIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne SAULNIER (1712, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 20 May 1765, Sinnamary, French Guiana)
(Marcel SAULNIER & Elizabeth BREAU (BRAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Catherine SAULNIER (1708, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 21 May 1765, )
(Louis SAULNIER & Louise BASTINAUX dite PELLETIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles SAULNIER (16 November 1721, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1802, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Pierre SAULNIER & Madeleine COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Etienne SAULNIER (1702, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1765, Opelousas County, Louisiana, USA)
(Louis SAULNIER & Louise BASTINAUX dite PELLETIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Françoise SAULNIER (23 August 1730, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - June 1811, Opelousas County, Louisiana, USA)
(Etienne SAULNIER & Jeanne COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean-Baptiste SAULNIER (1741, Chipoudy, Acadia - 1812, , Louisiana, USA)
(Pierre SAULNIER & Madeleine HACHE dite GALLANT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph SAULNIER (1739, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - December 1812, , Louisiana, USA)
(Jacques SAULNIER & Anne HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph SAULNIER (28 February 1746, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 28 February 1802, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila))
(Charles SAULNIER & Marie Josephe SAVOIE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite SAULNIER (1726, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1 October 1790, Donaldsonville, Louisiana, USA)
(Pierre SAULNIER & Madeleine COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite SAULNIER (1740, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1771, , Louisiana, USA)
(Jacques SAULNIER & Anne HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite SAULNIER (1744, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1830, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Charles SAULNIER & Marie Josephe SAVOIE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephe SAULNIER (1734, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Pierre SAULNIER & Madeleine COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Louise SAULNIER (1694, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1759, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Louis SAULNIER & Louise BASTINAUX dite PELLETIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Madeleine SAULNIER (14 September 1718, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - , )
(Pierre SAULNIER & Madeleine COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Olivier SAULNIER (23 May 1724, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - August 1775, Opelousas, Louisiana, USA)
(Pierre SAULNIER & Madeleine COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre SAULNIER (11 March 1721, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1776, )
(Marcel SAULNIER & Elizabeth BREAU (BRAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Rene Poncy SAULNIER (1723, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1775, )
(Rene SAULNIER & Marie Josephe TRAHAN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Sylvain SAULNIER (SONNIER) (1736, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 25 January 1801, Opelousas, Louisiana, USA)
(Etienne SAULNIER & Jeanne COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  André SAVARY (SAVARIA) (1690, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 8 November 1757, Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean))
(François SAVARY & Geneviève LAFOREST)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne SAVOIE (25 April 1734, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(Charles SAVOIE & Françoise MARTIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles SAVOIE (23 May 1703, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Germain SAVOIE & Marie BREAU dite VINCELOTTE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Firmin SAVOIE (1753, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 11 July 1797, Neguac, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Jean Baptiste SAVOIE & Marguerite BLANCHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François SAVOIE (20 May 1741, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 14 September 1830, Saint-Barthélemy, Québec, Canada)
(Honore SAVOIE & Marie Anne COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François Xavier SAVOIE (1684, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 28 December 1787, Berthier-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Berthier-en-Bas) (Berthier))
(Germain SAVOIE & Marie BREAU dite VINCELOTTE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste SAVOIE (17 May 1712, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1761, Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada (Newcastle))
(Germain SAVOIE & Geneviève BABINEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Charles SAVOIE (30 May 1721, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1780, , Louisiana, USA)
(François Xavier SAVOIE & Marie Josephe RICHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph SAVOIE (1750, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 15 January 1810, Neguac, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Jean SAVOIE & Anne LANDRY)

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