Antoine  BABIN

Biography
Antoine Babin, a farmer perhaps from La Chaussée, near Blois, in the Orleanais region of the Loire valley in France, born in c1631, came to Acadia by c1662, when he married Marie Mercier, daughter of Françoise Gaudet and ____ Mercier, whose given name has been lost to history. (After Marie's father died, Françoise remarried to Daniel LeBlanc and became the matriarch of that prolific Acadian clan.) Antoine died at Port-Royal in c1687, in his mid-50s, and Marie Mercier became a widow like her mother. But before his death, Antoine gave her 11 children. Their seven daughters married into the Rimbault, Landry, Richard dit Sansoucy, Doucet, Breau, Comeau, Doiron, Benoit, Martin, Sauneuf, and Pitre families. Three of their four sons, all born at Port-Royal, created families of their own. All of them settled in the Minas Basin, and one of them moved on to Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island.

Oldest son Charles, born in c1664, married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Richard ...Read MORE...


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1671 Census - Port Royal
Antoine BABIN, farmer, 45, his wife, Marie MERCIER 25 Children: Marie 9, Charles 7, Vincent 5, Jeanne 3, Marguerite 1 cattle 6, sheep 8 and 2 arpents of cultaved land.
1671 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1678 Port Royal
Anthoine Babin & Marie Mercier

1 acre --4 cattle & 2 sheep

3 boys 15 1663 Charles

13 1665 Vincent

3 1675 Antoine

6 girls 11 1667 Jeanne

9 1669 Marguerite

7 1671 Catherine

5 1673 Anne

3/ M 1678 Madeleine

1678 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1686 Port Royal
Antoine BABIN 55, Marie MERCIER 40 children: Vincent 21, Marguerite 16, Catherine 14, Rnne 12, Antoine 10, Magdelaine 8, Francoise 5, Jean 2 1 gun, 1 1/ 2 arpents, 10 cattle, 12 sheep, 8 hogs.
1686 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion