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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 Françoise BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) (1675, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Pisiquit, Acadia) - 21 February 1758, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Charles BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) & Renee Madeleine BOURG)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephe BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) (19 October 1723, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 3 April 1788, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Joseph BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) & Jeanne Françoise COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Madeleine BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) (1736, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
(Jean Baptiste BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) & Marie Louise SAULNIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Paul BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) (16 October 1707, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1758, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Claude BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) & Catherine MEUNIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) (1712, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 2 June 1759, Cherbourg, France)
(Claude BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) & Catherine MEUNIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) (1722, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 30 September 1771, Cherbourg, France)
(Charles BOUDROT dit MADOUESSE (BOUDREAU) & Marie Josephe LANDRY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) (24 November 1723, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 1760, )
(Claude BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) & Catherine Geneviève HÉBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Pierre BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) (1732, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 9 February 1776, Chatellerault, Poitou, , France)
(Joseph BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) & Jeanne Françoise COMEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Prudent BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) (1734, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 17 February 1782, Ille-et-Vilaine, France)
(Antoine BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) & Cécile BRASSEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Zacharie BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) (1721, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1786, , Louisiana, USA)
(Jean Baptiste BOUDROT (BOUDREAU) & Cecile CORPORON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Alexandre BOURG (12 October 1709, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 4 June 1770, Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Sales-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud))
(Alexandre BOURG dit BELLE-HUMEUR & Marguerite MELANÇON (MELANSON))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anastasie BOURG (1751, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 25 June 1779, Saint-Malo, France)
(Pierre BOURG & Marguerite VIGNEAULT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Ange BOURG (1748, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 28 June 1788, Opelousas, St Landry Parish, Louisiana. USA)
(Charles BOURG & Marie Anne BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne BOURG (1699, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 15 July 1766, , France)
(Alexandre BOURG dit BELLE-HUMEUR & Marguerite MELANÇON (MELANSON))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne BOURG (1725, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 11 December 1760, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Claude BOURG & Judith GUÉRIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne Josephte BOURG (1743, , Prince Edward Island, Canada (Ile Saint-Jean) - , )
(Louis BOURG & Cecile MICHEL)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Anne Marie BOURG (1691, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 14 January 1766, , France)
(Martin BOURG & Marie POTET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Antoine Bénoni BOURG (1724, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 20 December 1813, Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand) (Bécancour)*)
(Michel BOURG & Marie CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Cécile BOURG (1729, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 7 October 1795, L'Assomption, Québec, Canada (St-Pierre-du-Portage))
(Abraham BOURG LE JEUNE & Marie DUGAS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles BOURG (1720, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) - 17 December 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Jean Baptiste BOURG & Françoise AUCOIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Charles BOURG (1727, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 12 December 1758, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Charles BOURG & Marie Anne BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Dorothee BOURG (1713, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1763, , Maryland, USA)
(Alexandre BOURG dit BELLE-HUMEUR & Marguerite MELANÇON (MELANSON))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Elisabeth Lucie BOURG (1704, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 15 February 1759, , France)
(Abraham BOURG & Marie THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François BOURG (1698, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 18 January 1771, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste) )
(Michel BOURG & Elisabeth Isabelle MELANSON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  François BOURG (1716, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 23 February 1759, St-Malo, Ille et Vilaine, France)
(Pierre BOURG & Marguerite BLANCHARD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Gertrude BOURG (1747, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 9 June 1827, Lapointe, St Martin, Louisiana, USA)
(Charles BOURG & Marie Anne BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Isabelle BOURG (1704, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 1765, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence))
(Michel BOURG & Elisabeth Isabelle MELANSON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jacques BOURG (29 May 1732, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 19 January 1789, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception))
(Michel BOURG & Marie CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste BOURG (1684, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 22 February 1757, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia))
(Jean BOURG & Marguerite MARTIN)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Jean Baptiste BOURG (1712, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 3 April 1759, St Malo, Bretagne, France)
(Michel BOURG & Elisabeth Isabelle MELANSON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph BOURG (1706, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 8 December 1758, Cherbourg, France)
(Michel BOURG & Elisabeth Isabelle MELANSON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph BOURG (1739, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  male ancestor  Joseph BOURG (1750, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 20 January 1806, Opelousas, St Landry Parish, Louisiana, USA)
(Charles BOURG & Marie Anne BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine BOURG (1694, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1756, , England (United Kingdom))
(Martin BOURG & Marie POTET)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine BOURG (1696, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 1 December 1751, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Michel BOURG & Elisabeth Isabelle MELANSON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine BOURG (1728, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - , )
Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine BOURG (1741, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 14 November 1800, Nicolet, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste) )
(François BOURG & Marie BELIVEAU)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Madeleine BOURG (1752, Malpeque, Prince, Prince Edward Island, Canada - 21 January 1849, Cocagne, New Brunswick, Canada)
(Michel BOURG dit MICHAUD & Marguerite Josephte BOURGEOIS)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite BOURG (1728, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1758, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Francois BOURG (BOURQUE) & Madeleine HEBERT)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite BOURG (1729, Saint Peters, Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Toulouse, Acadia) - 13 December 1758, Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean (at sea)*)
(Pierre BOURG & Marie Josephe LANDRY)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marguerite BOURG (19 April 1737, St-Pierre-du-Nord, Isle St. Jean, Acadia, Canada - 26 July 1820, , Louisiana, USA)
(Charles BOURG & Marie Anne BOUDROT (BOUDREAU))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie BOURG (1695, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 23 November 1764, Le Mirebalais, Haiti)
(Alexandre BOURG dit BELLE-HUMEUR & Marguerite MELANÇON (MELANSON))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie BOURG (1727, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 3 December 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(François BOURG & Catherine CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie BOURG (1738, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 1785, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, France)
(Michel BOURG & Marie CORMIER)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Anne BOURG (1702, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 20 September 1756, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Michel BOURG & Elisabeth Isabelle MELANSON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Anne BOURG (23 November 1718, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 3 February 1803, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers))
(Pierre BOURG & Elisabeth BROUSSARD (BROSSARD))

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Anne BOURG (30 May 1731, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 23 August 1813, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie))
(Joseph BOURC (BOURG) & Louise ROBICHAUD)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Josephte BOURG (1727, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1761, )
Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Louise BOURG (1693, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) - 11 February 1757, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City))
(Michel BOURG & Elisabeth Isabelle MELANSON)

Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement  female ancestor  Marie Luce Eloise BOURG (1751, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) - 1819, Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton) (St-Omer))
(Michel BOURG & Jeanne Anne HÉBERT)

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