Alexandre BROUSSARD dit BEAUSOLEIL

(b. abt. 1699 , Acadia, Canada d. 18 September 1765 , St-Martinville, Territory of Orleans )

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Alexandre BROUSSARD dit BEAUSOLEIL was born abt. 1699 in Acadia, Canada

Alexandre BROUSSARD dit BEAUSOLEIL was the child of Jean-François BROUSSARD (BROSSARD) and Marie Catherine RICHARD and the grandchild of: (maternal) Michel RICHARD dit SANSOUCY and Madeleine BLANCHARD

Alexandre was deported as part of the Acadian Exile / Grand Derangement around 1755.
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Alexandre married Marguerite THIBODEAU 7 February 1724 in Port Royal, Acadia . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Marguerite THIBODEAU was born 22 December 1705 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia). Marguerite died 4 September 1765 in St-Martinville, Louisiana, USA. Marguerite was the child of Michel THIBODEAU and Agnès DUGAS.

Alexandre BROUSSARD dit BEAUSOLEIL died 18 September 1765 in St-Martinville, Territory of Orleans.
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Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

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Family and Children of Alexandre BROUSSARD dit BEAUSOLEIL

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Alexandre BROUSSARD dit BEAUSOLEIL married

Marguerite THIBODEAU-- Date: 7 February 1724 Place: Port Royal, Acadia
Marguerite THIBODEAU was the child of Michel THIBODEAU and Agnès DUGAS

Children of Alexandre BROUSSARD dit BEAUSOLEIL and Marguerite THIBODEAU:

Marguerite BROUSSARD (b.15 March 1726, Port Royal, Acadia d. abt. 1763, , Territory of Orleans)
m. Jean TRAHAN 26 December 1744 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

Victor Gregoire BROUSSARD (b.abt. 1728, , Acadia, Canada d. abt. 1766, , Territory of Orleans)
m. Elisabeth LEBLANC 1752 in , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

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Alexandre dit Beausoleil, whose nickname came from the haute rivière village where the Broussards lived, born in c1699, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Thibodeau, at Annapolis Royal in February 1724. In c1730, they moved to Chepoudy, where her kinsmen lived, and then to LeCran, today's Stoney Creek, on Rivière Petitcoudiac, probably to put more distance between themselves and British authority in Nova Scotia. In c1740, they moved farther upriver to Village-des-Beausoleils, present-day Boundary Creek, New Brunswick.
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1720 - June 10 - Mrs Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard

1724 Marriage / Partner
Alexandre BROUSSARD dit BEAUSOLEIL and Marguerite THIBODEAU 7 February 1724, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

1726 Birth of Child
Marguerite BROUSSARD was born 15 March 1726, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

1744 Marriage of Child
Marguerite BROUSSARD married 26 December 1744, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) to Jean TRAHAN

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

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT
After yet another war erupted between Britain and France in 1754, the Acadians were again caught in the middle of it. When British and New England forces attacked Fort Beauséjour at Chignecto in June 1755, Broussards were among the area Acadians who were serving in the fort as militia, though they may have left the fort a few days before it surrendered on June 16. Governor Lawrence was so incensed to find so-called French Neutrals fighting with French regulars at Beauséjour that he ordered his officers to deport the Chignecto Acadians to the southernmost British colonies on the Atlantic seaboard. In mid-October 1755, the British transported Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil and his nephew Victor to South Carolina aboard the British warship HMS Syren. They were transported in chains, under heavy guard, along with other Acadian 'troublemakers.' They reached Charleston in late November and were held in close confinement on Sullivan's Island outside of the city.
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1756
Sometime probably in the summer of 1756, Joseph dit Beausoleil's brother Alexandre and Joseph's son Victor joined the resistance movement. Although at first held in close confinement in South Carolina, Alexandre and Victor had been allowed to go to the workhouse in Charleston, from which they escaped. They made their way through the coastal swamps and marshes into the Carolina backcountry, and, after a long, perilous journey across the face of the Appalachian Mountains, assisted no doubt by Indians friendly to the French, they returned to Acadia to fight again. Amazingly, Alexandre was in his late 50s at the time, but the rigors of advancing old age could not stop him from rejoining his family. He and Victor, along with seven other Acadians who had fled from Carolina, appeared at the Acadian settlement on Rivière St.-Jean in June 1756, about the time that other Chignecto exiles who had been deported to South Carolina returned to Acadia by boat. Alexandre and Victor did not remain ...Read MORE...

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