HELP! Ancestor is complete! Grave has been located immigrant flag male ancestor  Pierre  COMEAU

  (b. abt. 1598 France   d. abt. 1690 Port Royal, Acadia )  

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Pierre COMEAU was born abt. 1598 in France

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Pierre was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1632.

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Pierre  married  Rose BAYOL abt. 1649 in La Heve, Acadia, Canada .  The couple had (at least) 9 children. Rose BAYOL  was born abt. 1631 in France. 

Pierre COMEAU died abt. 1690 in Port Royal, Acadia .
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Pierre COMEAU married Grave has been locatedAncestor is complete!immigrant flag female ancestor Rose BAYOL-- Date: abt. 1649 Place: La Heve, Acadia, Canada
"Pierre Comeau, b. in France in 1605, m. Rose Bayols, had two sons Pierre, one b. 1652, dit L'esturgeon; the other b. 1660, dit des Loups Marins.."

Title History of the county of Annapolis: including old Port Royal and Acadia : with memoirs of its representatives in the provincial parliament, and biographical and genealogical sketches of its early English settlers and their families
Authors William Arthur Calnek, Alfred William Savary
Editor Alfred William Savary
Contributor Alfred William Savary
Publisher William Briggs, 1897
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Oct 10, 2007
Length 660 pages
Page 643



" Pierre Comeau, a cooper, born in France in c1598, came to Acadia with Isaac Razilly and the sieur d'Aulnay in 1632. He was, therefore, along with Germain Doucet, one of the first permanent settlers in the colony.

There have been questions about the origin of the Comeau family progenitor in Acadia. Family historian Father James Comeau, O.P., claims that the Pierre Comeau who came to Acadia was the son of Jean de Comeau de Créancy, seigneur of Chassenay, in the upper Loire valley, and Marguerite Ocquidem de La Choselle. According to eminent Acadian genealogist Stephen A. White: "There is, however, no proof of this claim. Father Comeau only found this: that a Pierre de Comeau, born in 1606, was the son of Jean de Comeau de Créancy. The similarity of names does not constitute by itself a proof of identity. All things considered, it would seem most unlikely for this to have been one and the same person, for the following reasons: a. One never finds the particle (de) in any documentation concerning the Comeau family in Acadia. b. According to the censuses, the Acadian Pierre Comeau was at least eight years older than the similarly named Pierre de Comeau. c. The trade of the Acadian Pierre Comeau was hardly the type of employment to which a member of a noble family would have been destined in the seventeenth century. One never sees the titles 'esquire' and 'barrelmaker' attributed to the same person in documents of that time period."

Pierre Comeau the barrel maker worked his trade at La Hève, Razilly's headquarters, and eventually moved to Port-Royal, where he married Rose Bayol in c1649 when he was 51 years old. Rose, who was 18 at the time of their marriage, had come to Acadia aboard the St.-Jehan with her father in 1636. She and Pierre had nine children. Their three daughters married into the Gaudet, Hébert, and Rivet families. Five of their six sons, all born at Port-Royal, created families of their own. Pierre was counted at Port-Royal in 1686; he was 88 years old. The date of his death has been lost to history. "

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Children of Pierre COMEAU and Rose BAYOL:

Grave has been locatedflag male ancestor Étienne COMEAU (b.abt. 1650, Port Royal, Acadia   d. 21 January 1723, Port Royal, Acadia )
m. Marie-Anne LEFEBVRE abt 1670 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)
m. Marie Marguerite Dit La Cadette LANDRY abt. 1694

flag male ancestor Pierre COMEAU dit L'ESTURGEON (b.abt. 1653, Port Royal, Acadia   d. 8 April 1730, Port Royal, Acadia )
m. Jeanne BOURG 1677 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

flag female ancestor Françoise COMEAU (b.abt. 1656, Port Royal, Acadia   d. abt. 1681, Pisiquit, Acadia )
m. Jehan (Jean) GAUDET abt. 1672 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

Grave has been locatedflag male ancestor Jean COMEAU (b.abt. 1657, Port Royal, Acadia   d. 3 November 1720, Port Royal, Acadia )
m. Françoise HÉBERT abt 1677 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)
m. Catherine JOSEPH 7 January 1720 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

Grave has been locatedflag male ancestor Pierre COMEAU dit DES LOUPS-MARINS (b.abt. 1658, Port Royal, Acadia   d. 10 June 1716, Port Royal, Acadia )
m. Jeanne Marie BOURGEOIS 1689 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

flag male ancestor Antoine COMEAU (b.abt. 1661, Port Royal, Acadia   d. , )

flag female ancestor Jeanne COMEAU (b.abt. 1662, Port Royal, Acadia   d. abt. 1727, Port Royal, Acadia )
m. Étienne HÉBERT abt 1674 in , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

flag female ancestor Marie Anne (Jeanne) COMEAU (b.abt. 1664, Port Royal, Acadia   d. , , Acadia, Canada )
m. Étienne RIVET abt. 1677 in , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

flag male ancestor Jean Augustin COMEAU (b.abt. 1665, Port Royal, Acadia   d. abt. 1755, , Acadia, Canada )
m. Catherine BABIN 1686 in Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia)



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Pierre Comeau
'COMMEAUX IS ANOTHER WIDELY DIFFUSED ACADIAN NAME, THERE BEING MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED FAMILIES OF THE NAME IN THE MARITIME PROVINCES, THE MOST OF THEM IN DIGBY COUNTY, WHICH CONTAINS 320 FAMILIES. THERE ARE 120 FAMILIES NAMED COMMEAUX IN GLOUCESTER, 20 IN KENT AND 25 IN WESTMORLAND. PIERRE COMMEAUX, WHOSE NAME APPEARS IN THE CENSUS OF 1671, WAS THE COMMON ANCESTOR OF ALL THESE PEOPLE. HE WAS BY TRADE A COOPER AND WAS 75 YEARS OLD. HIS WIFE WAS ROSE BAIOLS AND HE HAD NINE CHILDREN, SIX SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS, THE OLDEST SON, STEPHEN COMMEAUX, AGED 21, BEING MARRIED TO MARIE LEFEBVRE, AND HAVING ONE CHILD, A GIRL. THE CENSUS OF 1686 FOUND THE COMMEUX FAMILY STILL AT PORT ROYAL, BUT IN 1714 SOME OF THEM HAD REMOVED TO MINES. IN 1730 FIVE PERSONS BY THE NAME, RESIDENTS OF ANNAPOLIS RIVER, SIGNED THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE, SOME SPELLING THE NAME COMO AND SOME GIVING IT AS COMMEAU. NONE OF THESE PEOPLE COULD WRITE THEY ALL USED A MARK TO EXPRESS THEIR SIGNATURES. THERE WERE 12 FAMILIES NAME...Read MORE...


1671 Port Royal
Pierre COMMEAUX, cooper, 75, wife, Rose BAYOLS; Children (1 married): Etienne 21, (not married): Pierre 18, Francoise 15, Jehan 14, Pierre 13, Anthoine 10, Jeanne 9, Marie 7, Jehan 6; cattle 16, sheep 22.
1671 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion
1678 Port Royal
Pierre Comeau Widower

Pierre 18 1660 Pierre

Jean 14 1664 Jean

Anth.e 17 1661 Antoine

Jeanne 16 1662 Jeanne

12 cattle 1 compass 4 oxen 14 acres

1678 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion
1686 Port Royal
Pierre COMMEAU (widower) 88; children: Jean 21, Pierre 25, Antoine 24; 6 arpents, 4 cattle, 12 sheep, 4 hogs.
1686 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion
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Acadian Ancestors, The Lewiston Daily Sun, Lewiston, Maine, February 19, 1983

Pierre is buried at: Garrison Graveyard
St. George St.

Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

From ameriquefrancaise.org: "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."
Added: - Updated: 9/25/2015 3:48:55 PM
Did You Know?Canadian Ancestry - Acadia - Did you know?  In general, Acadians who returned to the Maritimes [after 1755] avoided resettling their former land because it was now occupied by English colonists and because the British authorities preferred to...Read MORE...



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