Alexis Breau

• Sources:
  • "Acadian Immigrants to Lafourche des Chitimachas/Valenzuéla, 1785-86" - http://www.acadiansingray.com
    • Moved to Île St.-Jean 1751
    • At Grande-Anse, Île St.-Jean, Aug 1752, listed as Alexis Breaud, age 30
    • Deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard Supply 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 9 Mar 1759, listed as Alexis Bro, age 36
    • At Trigavou, France, 1759-72
    • On list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, listed as Alexis Braud
    • Sailed to la Luisiana on L'Amitié, age 61[sic]
    • Valenzuela, la Luisiana census, 1788, listed as Alexis Breau, age 64[sic]
    • Valenzuela, la Luisiana census, 1791, listed as Alexis Braut, age 68
    • Valenzuela, la Luisiana census, 1795, listed as Alexos Braux, age 72
    • Valenzuela, la Luisiana census, 1797, listed as Alexis Breau, age 73[sic]
    • Valenzuela, la Luisiana census, 1798, listed as Alexis Breau, age 74[sic]
    • Succession dated 30 Dec 1808, Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse

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• Notes:
  • Arrived in current day Louisiana Nov 1785

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GEDCOM Note

Category: Great Upheaval
Category: Thibodaux, Louisiana
Category: Louisiana First Families
Category: Acadian Immigrants to Louisiana
Category: The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial

Biography

:Alexis Brod is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 10 Left L'Amitie, Arrivee le 7 Novembre 1785. Listed with Alexis is his spouse Marie Guillot and theirdaughter Margueritte, his neveu Fabien Guillot, and his cousin Jean Gotreau. ≤ref> Title: The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial; Author: Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; Personal Copy. p. 39.≤/ref>
:Alexis Breau was born about 1723 in Cobequit, Acadia, the firstchild of Pierre Breau and Anne Francoise Dupuis. Please note that many sources mistakenly indicate he is the son of Antoine Braud and Marguerite Dugas.
:In 1745, at the age of 23, he married Marie Madeleine Josephe Thibodeau, daughter of Alexandre Thibodeau and Francoise Benoit. They had 4children:

1. Anne Madeleine BREAU b: Abt 1746 in Pisiguit, , , Acadia
2. Anne Marie BREAU b: Abt 1747 in , , , Acadia
3. Marie Osite BREAU b: Abt 1749 in , , , Acadia#Marie Victoire BREAU b: 15 Nov 1751 in , , , Acadia c: 28 Jan 1752 inPort Lajoie, Isle St. Jean, , Acadia

:They fled to Isle St. Jean sometime around 1750 to avoid deportation.

:His wife died soon after the birth of their 4th child.
:He remarried to Marie Josephe Guillot, daughter of Rene (dit L'Angevin) Guillot and Marguerite Doiron. They had 6 children:

1. Charles BREAU b: Abt 1753 in , Acadia
2. Elisabeth BREAU b: Abt 1754 in , Isle St. Jean, Acadia
3. Fabien BREAU b: Abt 1756 in , Isle St. Jean, Acadia#Elisabeth Renee BREAU b: 11 May 1759 in Trigavou, Cotes d'Armor, France c: 11 May 1759 in Trigavou, Cotes d'Armor, France#Pierre BREAU b: 24 Aug 1762 in Trigavou, Cotes d'Armor, France c: 24Aug 1762 in Trigavou, Cotes d'Armor, France#Marguerite Blanche BREAU b: 27 May 1765 in Trigavou, Cotes d'Armor, France c: 27 May 1767 in Trigavou, Cotes d'Armor, France

:Alexis Braud, Marie Guillot, his wife and their children: Charles, Madeleine, Anne, Marie and Victoire were deported by the British from Acadia. They disembarked at St. Malo on March 9, 1759 from the British ship, du Supply. They resided at Trigavou, Brittany, France, 1759-1773.
:Their youngest 3 children were born in Trigavou, Cotes d'Armor, France.
:In 1785, he immigrated to Louisiana, along with his wife, Marie, daughter (Marguerite?), one nephew, and one cousin. They departed La Rochelle, France, aboard the Amitié, a merchant vessel chartered by the Spanish government to transport Acadian exiles to New Orleans. Arrived in Louisiana on November 7, 1785. They settled along Bayou Lafourche, probably near Thibodaux.

:Alexis Breau died in 1808 at the age of 85.

Sources

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• Birth:*:Title: Du Grand Dérangement à la Déportation: Nouvelles perspectives historiques
• :Author: Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, ed.
• :Publication: Moncton, NB: Chaire d'études acadiennes, 2005
• :Page: p. 229*:Note: Article by Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, "Pigiguit: l'impact du GrandDérangement sur une communauté de l'ancienne Acadie."*:Text: Alexis BREAU (30), son of Pierre (10). He was originallyfrom the village of Sainte-Croix in Acadia. He married 1st to Madeleine-Josephe THIBODEAU, daughter of Alexandre (9) THIBODEAU. He married 2nd to Marie-Josèphe GUILLOT, daughter of René (3) GUILLOT.
• Birth:
• :Title: Acadiens en France; Nantes et Paimboeuf, 1775-1785
• :Author: Gérard-Marc Braud
• :Publication: Nantes, France: Ouest Éditions, 1999
• :Note:
• :A genealogical approach.
• :Page: p. 70*:Text: Alexis BRAUD, born around 1722 in Cobequid, Acadie, son of Antoine BRAUD [sic] & Marguerite DUGAST [sic].
• Birth:
• :Title: Acadian Exiles in Saint-Malo, The, pt. I, vol. 1
• :Author: Robichaux, Albert J.
• :Publication: Eunice, LA: Hebert Publications, 1981
• :Text: 1758-1785
• :Note: *:Subtitled: The Genealogies of the Acadian Exiles in Saint-Malo and its *:Environs. Contains families beginning A-G.
• :Page: p. 161, Family #193*:Text: Alexis BRAUD, born about 1722, son of Antoine BRAUD [sic] & Marguerite DUGAST [sic].
• Death:
• :Title: South Louisiana Records, vol. 1, 1794-1840
• :Author: Donald J. Hebert
• :Publication: Rayne, LA, Hebert Publications, 1978
• :Note: *:Contains church and civil records of Lafourche & Terrebonne Parishes.
• :Page: p. 123*:Text: Alexa [BREAUX] died 16 Oct 1808, married to Mary GUIOT. Succession dated 30 Dec 1808 (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ. #3).
• Burial:*:Title: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780
• :Author: Stephen A. White
• :Publication: Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version
• :Repository:
• :Name: Centre d'Études Acadiennes
• :University of Moncton
• :Page: BREAU #30
• Census: 1752 Grande-Anse, Ile-St-Jean, Acadia:*:Title: Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, vol. II, pt. A
• :Author: Public Archives of Canada
• :Publication: 1905; reprint Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, 1994.
• :Note:
• :Appeared as Sessional Paper No. 18. Includes LaRoque census.
• :Page: p. 115*:Text: Alexis BREAUD, widower, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 30 years, he has been on the island one year.
• :He has four daughters:
• ::Magdelainne, 6 years;
• ::Anne, 5 years;
• ::Marie Ozitte, 3 years;
• ::Marie Victoire, 11 months.*:They have in live stock, two oxen, one cow and two pigs. The land onwhich they are settled was given to them verbally by Monsieur de BONNAVENTURE. On it they have made a clearing of one arpent square.
• Census: Sep 1784 Nantes, , Loire-Atlantique, France:*:Title: Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians; Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796
• :Author: Jacqueline K. Voorhies*:Publication: Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973
• :Repository:
• :Name: California State Library, Sutro
• :Page: p. 499*:Text: On the list of the Acadian families "who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of His Catholic Majesty, dated Sep 1784 (cited as A.D.S. Legajo 2575).
• :On list from NANTES:*:Alexis BRAUD, with wife Marie GUILLOTTE, 1 daughter, for a total of 3 in family.
• Immigration: 8 Nov 1785 New Orleans, Orleans, LA:
• :Title: Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index
• :Author: Donald J. Hébert
• :Publication: Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995
• :Page: pp. 72-73
• :Quality: 3*:Text: Alexis BRAUD, day laborer age 61, with his wife Marie GUILLOT, age 62, and a daughter, a nephew, and a cousin constituting the29th family (of 5 persons) aboard "L'Amitié."*:On the Spanish debarkation list, he is Alexo BREAUD, who received 1 each of axe, medium axe, shovel and knife, and 2 hoes.
• Census: 1788 , Lafourche, LA:*:Title: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780
• :Author: Stephen A. White
• :Publication: Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version
• :Repository:
• :Name: Centre d'Études Acadiennes
• :University of Moncton
• :Page: BREAU #30
• :Text: 3 hogs, 6 arpents of land, 30 quarts of Indian corn.
• Census: Dec 1795 , Lafourche, LA:
• :Title: Colonial Settlers along Bayou Lafourche, 1770-1798
• :Author: Robichaux, Albert*:Publication: Harvey, LA: 1974. 2nd printing Hébert Publications, 1980
• :Note:
• :Louisiana census records.
• :Page: p. 65
• :Text: Alexos BRAUX, age 72;
• :Maria GUIOT, 74.*:[Listed just below his daughter Magdalena BRUAX & husband Estevan HEBERT.]
• Probate: 30 Dec 1808 Thibodaux, Lafourche, LA:
• :Title: South Louisiana Records, vol. 1, 1794-1840
• :Author: Donald J. Hebert
• :Publication: Rayne, LA, Hebert Publications, 1978
• :Note: *:Contains church and civil records of Lafourche & Terrebonne Parishes.
• :Page: p. 123*:Text: Alexa BREAUX died 16 Oct 1808, married to Mary GUIOT. Succession dated 30 Dec 1808 at Lafourche Parish Courthouse, Thibodaux, LA (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ. #3).
• Marriage:*:Title: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780
• :Author: Stephen A. White
• :Publication: Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version
• :Repository:
• :Name: Centre d'Études Acadiennes
• :University of Moncton
• :Page: BREAU #30