Madeleine MELANSON

Born

3 July 1735 , Port Royal, Acadia

Died

11 June 1803 , Saint-Luc, Lower Canada

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Claude MELANSON Marguerite BABINEAU

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Born: 3 July 1735 in Port Royal, Acadia

Father: Claude MELANSON

Mother: Marguerite BABINEAU

Paternal grandparents: Charles MELANSON dit LAVERDURE , Marie DUGAS

Maternal grandparents: Jean BABINEAU , Marguerite BOUDROT

Madeleine was deported as part of the Acadian Exile / Grand Derangement around 1755.
Learn more: What Was The Acadian Expulsion of 1755? Unraveling the Grand Dérangement

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Madeleine married Joseph DUGAS abt. 1758 . Joseph DUGAS was born 12 May 1734 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia). Joseph was the child of Charles DUGAS and Anne ROBICHAUD.

Madeleine MELANSON died 11 June 1803 in Saint-Luc, Lower Canada.
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Madeleine MELANSON married

Joseph DUGAS
Marriage date: abt. 1758
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Joseph DUGAS was the child of Charles DUGAS and Anne ROBICHAUD

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Birth — 1735
3 July 1735
Port Royal, Acadia

1753 - The lightning rod is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

1763 - France cedes its North American posessions to Britain by the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). Quebec City French-speaking Catholics were now under the rule of Protestant Britain under King George III.

1775 - The Battle of Québec was fought on December 31 between the American Continental Army and British defenders of Québec City. It was the first major defeat for the Americans in the Revolutionary War.