The family of René LEBLANC and Anne BOURGEOIS

[43310] LEBLANC, René (Daniel & Françoise GAUDET [85560]), born about 1657 (rec. 1671, rec. 1686) or 1655 (rec. 1693) Port-Royal (bim) (Acadie), died 1734-01-03, buried 1734-01-04 Grand-Pré (Saint-Charles-des-Mines) (Acadie)

• married about 1678, from Port-Royal (bim 170) (Acadie)

BOURGEOIS, Anne (Jacques ou Jacob & Jeanne TRAHAN [84316]), born about 1661 (rec. 1671, rec. 1686) or 1663 (rec. 1693), died 1747-12-28, buried 1747-12-29 Grand-Pré (Saint-Charles-des-Mines) (Acadie)

     1) Claire, married Grand-Pré (Saint-Charles-des-Mines) (Acadie) 1717-01 or 1717-02 Jean LANDRY

     2) Claude, married about 1715 Marie THÉRIAULT, married Grand-Pré (Saint-Charles-des-Mines) (Acadie) 1718-05-04 Jeanne DUGAS

     3) Étienne, married Québec (Qc) 1716-11-23 Anne MAILLOUX

     4) François, born about 1682 (rec. 1686) or 1680 (rec. 1693) Port-Royal (Acadie), buried 1770-03-05 Saint-Ours (Qc), married about 1703 Jeanne HÉBERT

     5) Jacques, married after census 1700 Catherine LANDRY

     6) Marie ou Marguerite, married Grand-Pré (Saint-Charles-des-Mines) (Acadie) 1713-10-02 Jacques THÉRIAULT

     7) Pierre, married Grand-Pré (Saint-Charles-des-Mines) (Acadie) 1711-10-26 Jeanne THÉRIAULT

     8) René, royal notary (notaire royal), married Grand-Pré (Saint-Charles-des-Mines) (Acadie) 1709-07-30 Élisabeth MELANÇON, married Port-Royal (Acadie) 1720-11-26 Marguerite THÉBEAU, married before census 1752 ..

Bibliographie : Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (White); Déclarations de Belle-Île-en-Mer; Dictionnaire des Acadiens d'Archange Godbout; Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens (Arsenault); The Acadian Exiles in Saint Malo, 1758-1785; Diocese of Baton Rouge, Catholic Church records; PRDH-RAB; Parchemin; Acadian Church Records

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René LeBlanc Senior was born in 1657 in Port-Royal, where he married Anne Bourgeois around 1678. The couple had six children. Their son René was the most well-known and was immortalised in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Évangéline. A famous notary in Grand-Pré, René Junior married Élisabeth Melanson in 1709. They had five children. In 1720, he married his second wife, Marguerite Thébeau, with whom he had seventeen children. The name of René Junior's third wife is unknown, but they had three children. Around 1749, René Junior was captured by Mi'kmaq warriors who had been encouraged to rise in rebellion by Father Jean-Louis Le Loutre. He was held in Petcoudiac, the home of one the most well-known members of Acadian resistance, Beausoleil Broussard. René LeBlanc Junior did not escape the Deportation and, like many other Acadians, he was deported to Philadelphia, where he died some time after February 6, 1758.