Acadian Exile - Grand Derangement flag male ancestor  Jean Antoine  MELANÇON (MELANSON)

  (b. abt. 1733 Acadia, Canada   d. 14 March 1816 Louiseville, Lower Canada )  

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Jean Antoine MELANÇON (MELANSON) was born abt. 1733 in Acadia, Canada

Jean Antoine MELANÇON (MELANSON) was the child of Pierre Paul MELANÇON (MELANSON)   and   Marie Catherine THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT) and the grandchild of: (paternal)  Pierre MELANÇON (MELANSON) dit LAVERDURE and Marguerite MIUS D'ENTREMONT (maternal)  Germain THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT) and Marie Anne RICHARD

Jean Antoine was deported as part of the Acadian Exile / Grand Derangement around 1755.
To learn more about the Acadian Exile / Grand Derangement, visit: What Was The Acadian Expulsion of 1755? Unraveling the Grand Dérangement


Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Jean Antoine  married  Françoise BENOIT abt. 1761 in Province of Massachusetts Bay .  The couple had (at least) 5 children.
Françoise BENOIT  was born abt. 1734 in Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia).  Françoise died 28 August 1806 in Louiseville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup).  Françoise was the child of Claude BENOIT and Jeanne HÉBERT.

Jean Antoine MELANÇON (MELANSON) died 14 March 1816 in Louiseville, Lower Canada .
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