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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  Marguerite THIBODEAU (1727, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 14 November 1781, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre))
(Jean Baptiste THIBODEAU & Marie LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite THIBODEAU (1736, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 16 July 1813, Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Le Haut-Richelieu, Québec, Canada (Saint-Gregoire-le-Grand))
(Charles Alexis THIBODEAU & Anne Marie MELANÇON (MELANSON))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite Josephe THIBODEAU (1744, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1774, Yamachiche, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche))
(René THIBODEAU & Anne Marie BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie THIBODEAU (1736, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 7 January 1808, La Pocatière, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere))
(Pierre THIBODEAU & Madeleine CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie THIBODEAU (1751, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 3 May 1823, Sainte-Foy, Québec, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-Foy))
(Joseph THIBODEAU & Anne Marie SAVOIE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie THIBODEAU (1754, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1 March 1816, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul))
(Alexis THIBODEAU & Marie-Anne BLANCHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Anne THIBODEAU (1744, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 26 March 1825, Louiseville, Québec, Canada)
(Olivier THIBODEAU & Madeleine MELANÇON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephte THIBODEAU (1735, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 13 April 1820, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan))
(Jean Baptiste THIBODEAU & Marguerite BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Luce THIBODEAU (1748, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Jean Baptiste THIBODEAU & Marie LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Madeleine THIBODEAU (22 January 1717, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 27 February 1758, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Antoine THIBODEAU & Marie PREJEAN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Madeleine THIBODEAU (1748, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 15 August 1823, St-Basile, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Jean Baptiste THIBODEAU & Marie LEBLANC)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Marguerite THIBODEAU (March 1739, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - March 1774, Yamachiche, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche))
(René THIBODEAU & Anne Marie BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Osithe THIBODEAU (1750, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 12 August 1830, La-Pérade, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Perade))
(Prosper THIBODEAU & Helene BARIAU (BERIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Rose THIBODEAU (8 April 1710, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 21 November 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Pierre THIBODEAU & Anne Marie AUCOIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Michel THIBODEAU (2 May 1708, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 10 June 1770, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce))
(Michel THIBODEAU & Agnès DUGAS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Olivier THIBODEAU (1712, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 21 December 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Pierre THIBODEAU & Anne Marie AUCOIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Olivier THIBODEAU (1754, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 21 March 1812, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Olivier Paul THIBODEAU & Marie BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Olivier Paul THIBODEAU (1733, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 30 April 1776, Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Nativité-de-Notre-Dame-de-Becancour) (Saint-Edouard-de-Gentilly))
(Pierre THIBODEAU & Madeleine CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Paul THIBODEAU (25 September 1708, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )
(Pierre THIBODEAU & Anne Marie AUCOIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Philippe THIBODEAU (1692, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1756, , Massachusetts, USA)
(Pierre THIBODEAU & Anne BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre THIBODEAU (1744, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 31 May 1830, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce))
(Michel THIBODEAU & Anne Marie RICHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre THIBODEAU (25 December 1745, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 31 May 1819, Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Charles Alexis THIBODEAU & Anne Marie MELANÇON (MELANSON))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Rosalie THIBODEAU (1744, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 15 June 1815, Fredericton, York, New Brunswick, Canada)
(René THIBODEAU & Anne Marie BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Simon THIBODEAU (1744, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 24 October 1819, Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada)
(Alexis THIBODEAU & Marie-Anne BLANCHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Theotiste THIBODEAU (1725, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 10 March 1759, Ille-et-Vilaine, France)
(Philippe THIBODEAU & Isabelle VINCENT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Timothee THIBODEAU (12 April 1733, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 30 March 1812, Sainte-Marie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce))
(Michel THIBODEAU & Anne Marie RICHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Alexis THIBODEAU dit LACROIX (1742, , Nova Scotia, Canada - 6 March 1801, Baie-Ste-Anne, New Brunswick, Canada)
(René THIBODEAU & Anne Marie BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Agnes TRAHAN (1742, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 3 June 1776, Nantes, France)
(Jean TRAHAN & Marie Charlotte COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne TRAHAN (1700, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1763, Plouër-sur-Rance, Côtes-d'Armor, Bretagne, France)
(Jean Charles TRAHAN & Marie Françoise BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Brigitte TRAHAN (1744, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 22 February 1802, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila))
(Paul TRAHAN & Marie BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles TRAHAN (1703, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1761, Falmouth, England)
(Guillaume TRAHAN & Jacqueline BENOIT dite LABRIERE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles TRAHAN (7 June 1730, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 15 May 1785, Yamachiche, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche))
(Joseph TRAHAN & Elisabeth THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Claire (Clara) TRAHAN (1710, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 7 June 1768, Natchez, Mississippi, USA)
(Alexandre TRAHAN & Marie PELLERIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Elisabeth TRAHAN (1746, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 18 January 1807, Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Québec, Canada )
(Paul TRAHAN & Marie BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Honore TRAHAN (1725, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 16 July 1791, Saint-Landry Parish, Louisiana, USA)
(Etienne TRAHAN & Marie Françoise ROY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Isabelle Elisabeth TRAHAN (1 January 1726, Canard, Nova Scotia, Canada (Riviere Aux Canards, Acadia) - 1804, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, Morbihan, Bretagne, France)
(Jean Baptiste TRAHAN & Anne Marie HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean TRAHAN (18 March 1719, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 10 April 1799, Attakapas County, Louisiana, USA)
(Rene TRAHAN & Isabelle DAROIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste TRAHAN (1697, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 14 April 1778, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité))
(Jean Charles TRAHAN & Marie Françoise BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste TRAHAN (1706, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 14 February 1758, Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Québec, Canada )
(Alexandre TRAHAN & Marie PELLERIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Charles TRAHAN (1740, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 3 April 1828, Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada)
(Paul TRAHAN & Marie BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean-Baptiste TRAHAN (2 January 1729, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 18 February 1803, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Jean Baptiste TRAHAN & Anne Marie HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph TRAHAN (1700, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 1756, Penryn, Cornwall, England)
(Guillaume TRAHAN & Jacqueline BENOIT dite LABRIERE)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph TRAHAN (1704, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - April 1757, , England (United Kingdom))
(Jean Charles TRAHAN & Marie Françoise BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph TRAHAN (1728, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 14 August 1763, )
(Jean Baptiste TRAHAN & Anne Marie HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph TRAHAN (1728, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 15 May 1785, Yamachiche, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche))
(Rene TRAHAN & Isabelle DAROIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph Charles TRAHAN (7 June 1730, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 17 May 1785, Yamachiche, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche))
(Jean Baptiste TRAHAN & Anne Marie HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine TRAHAN (1704, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 19 November 1766, , France)
(Alexandre TRAHAN & Marie PELLERIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine TRAHAN (23 December 1732, Canard, Nova Scotia, Canada (Riviere Aux Canards, Acadia) - , )
(Pierre TRAHAN & Jeanne DAIGRE (DAIGLE))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite TRAHAN (1714, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 30 August 1759, Liverpool, England)
(Jean Charles TRAHAN & Marie Françoise BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite TRAHAN (1722, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 15 August 1756, Bristol, England)
(Jean TRAHAN & Marie Charlotte COMEAU)

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