Ambroise Breau

• Sources:
  • Drouin Institute (Archived marriage record - see attached in Media tab)

    ---

Thanks to Leandre Maillet & his site: http://www.genealogie-acadienne.net/?action=indiDetails&I=19767

Au sujet d'Ambroise Breau: Veuillez prendre note qu'après vérification avec Kenneth Breau, archiviste rétiré au Centre d'Études Acadiennes de l'U.de Moncton:"Nouvelles" au sujet d'Ambroise Breau" ... Jusqu'à maintenant on croyai t qu'Ambroise Breau, après son installation à Chipoudy, aurait déménagé dans la région de Miramichi, à Neguac. Mais les dernières recherches démontrent qu'Ambroise, contrairement à ses deux fils, Anselme et Victor, aurait subi un tout autre sort . Voici une chronologie de sa vie en Acadie jusqu'a son décès à Rochefort, en France, en 1756.

Notes historiques

Vers 1730: Ambroise Breau et sa famille ont quitté Port-Royal pour aller s'établir à Chipoudy.

13 oct 1755: Identifiés par les Britanniques comme « les plus réfractaires et dangereux » des Acadiens, Ambroise Breau et vingt autres sont déportés sans leurs familles de Chignectou à la Caroline du Sud à bord du vaisseau de guerre la Syren. Il s arrivent à Charleston vers le 19 novembre suivant (voir Paul Delaney, « The Acadians Deported from Chignectou to ‘Les Carolines’ in 1755: Their Origins, Identities and Subsequent Movements » dans R.-G. LeBlanc, dir., Du Grand Dérangemen t à la Déportation, Moncton, 2005, p 261, 272, 337).

Entre déc 1755 & févr 1756: Suite aux ordres du gouverneur de la Caroline du Sud, seize des Acadiens « dangereux », y compris Ambroise Breau, sont envoyés en Angleterre (voir ibid. p 272-273).

Printemps 1756: Relâchés par les autorités en Angleterre, Ambroise Breau et ses compagnons sont permi de passer en France (voir ibid.). Plus tard cette même année, il se trouvait un emploi comme charpentier à la ville de Rochefort.

13 oct 1756: Entré malade à l’Hôpital de la Marine, Ambroise y décède sept jours plus tard (Rg Hôpital de la Marine de Rochefort). Il est inscrit au registre comme Ambroise « Le Breau ». Toutefois, une annotation marginale indique que ses vêtement s ont été remis à Joseph LeBlanc le 3 novembre, ce qui confirme qu’il était un des Acadiens de passage dans la ville. Stephen White confirme ceci dans ses Ajouts et corrections au Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes à la page 277 & 278: "p 277 (avril 2011) Famille de Jean Breau (4) b. Ambroise. À la fin de la notice, au lieu de «d av 25 janv 1768», lire «d Rg Hôpital de la Marine de Rochefort 20 oct 1756 --a».

p 278 (avril 2011) La même famille Ajouter, aux Documents officiels, après «Rg St-Ours (Qué)», «Rg Hôpital de la Marine de Rochefort (Aunis)».

http://genealowiki.com/bin/view.cgi/Breau/WebHome

Ambroise Breaux (1705-1768) was born in Port Royal and was there (age 9) in the 1714 census (spelled Breaux). He married Marie Anne Michel in 1726. They had ten children born in Port Royal (1727-1728), Chipoudy (1733-1737), Beaubassin (1740), Neguac (1747), and back to Chipoudy (1750-1753). His death was recorded in Neguac on January 28, 1768, as “Breau”. Marie’s death is recorded at Pointe Du Chene on January 25th the same year.

GEDCOM Note

wikiTrees:
ambroise breau
Birth  Oct 11, 1705 • Port Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death  Jan 25, 1768 • Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada
Marriage  Oct 29, 1726 • Port Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada
Parents  anne chiasson • jean breau
Spouse  marie anne michel
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/4365297

GEDCOM Note

Geni:
Ambroise Breau
Birth  Oct 11, 1705 • Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death  Oct 20, 1756 • Aquitaine, France
Parents  Anne Dite Lavallee Chiasson • Jean Braud Brault Breau Breault Breaux Brod
Siblings  Anne Breau • Antoine Breau Breaux Brault • Jean Baptiste Breau • Marie Brot • Marie Jeanne Breau • Pierre Brault • Simon Brot
Spouse  Marie Anne Michel
Children  Anastasie Breaux • Anselme Breaux • Athanese Breaux • Isabelle Anastasie Breau • Jean Baptiste Breaux • Joseph Breau • Marie Josephe Breau • Marie Magdeline Braud • Paul Breaux • Victor Breau

Lead confidence: 3
Ambroise Breau

GEDCOM Note

!Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens #2 Port Royal p. 467. The name is spelled Brot and Breaux. Internet File Name 115510 Submitter: msimon@stillman.edu

GEDCOM Note

Ambroise Breau Story By Richard Breault
AN ACADIAN PATRIOT FROM CHIPOUDY
Ambroise Breau was baptized by Father Justinien Durand in Port-Royal, Acadie on October 11, 1705. He was the son of Jean Breau and Anne dite Lavallée Chiasson of Port-Royal. His paternal grand-parentswere Vincent Brault and Marie Bourg and his maternal grand-parents were Guyon Chiasson dit Lavallée and Jeanne Bernard, all of Port-Royal. Godparents were René Granger(a distant cousin) and his Aunt Marguerite Brault. He married Marie Anne Michel (d/o Jacques Michel and Catherine Comeau of Port-Royal) on October 29, 1726 in Port-Royal. Marie Anne was born in Port Royal on September 12, 1706. After a few years at Port Royal, Ambroise took his family to Chipoudy (present day Hopewell Hill, New Brunswick) on the other side of the Bay of Fundy and settled and built his farm.
Ambroise, was one of the Acadian Militia leaders for Chipoudy and was captured along with over 400 male Acadians, on August 10, 1755, at the Muster Call by British Lt Colonel Robert Monckton at Fort Cumberland(formerly Fort Beauséjour) under false pretences. They had been told that good news was going to be mentioned about their lands. Instead, they were told that they were to be stripped of theirpossessions and lands, imprisoned and to be deported.
He was identified by the British as one of "the most refractory and dangerous" Acadians, Ambroise Breau and twenty others were deported on October 13, 1755 in shackles and without their families from Chignectou to South Carolina aboard the British warship Syren along with a fleet of 10 cargo ships containing over 1000 Acadians from the Chignectou area to the most southern colonies of South Carolina and Georgia. They arrived in Charleston, South Carolina on November 19, 1755 and following the orders of the Governor of South Carolina, sixteen of the "dangerous" Acadians, including Ambroise Breau, were sent to England in early January 1756.
In the spring of 1756 he was released by the authorities in England because of the lack of cause. Ambroise Breau and the other imprisoned Acadians are allowed to go to France where he found a job as acarpenter, most probably attempting to pay for passage back to Acadie, in the naval port of Rochefort. He fell sick on October 13, 1756 and died on October 20, 1756 at the Hôpital de la Marine de Rochefort, a French Naval hospital normally reserved for French sailors and Marines.
On August 31, 1755, the small Acadian community of Chipoudy was burned to the ground by the British Forces sent by Monckton to force the families of the imprisoned male Acadians to join them. Most didnot answer the call.
Ambroise's family managed to escape and his sons and sons in law's fought in the Acadian Resistance, a rag tag guerilla army fighting for sheer survival!
Today, his descendants are found throughout North America and play integral parts of Canadian and American societies.

GEDCOM Note

Ambroise Breau Story AN ACADIAN PATRIOT FROM CHIPOUDY By Richard Berault Ambroise Breau was baptized by Father Justinien Durand in Port-Royal, Acadie on October 11, 1705. He was the son of Jean Breau and Anne dite Lavallée Chiasson of Port-Royal. His paternal grand-parents were Vincent Brault and Marie Bourg and his maternal grand-parents were Guyon Chiasson dit Lavallée and Jeanne Bernard, all ofPort-Royal. Godparents were René Granger(a distant cousin) and his Aunt Marguerite Brault. He married Marie Anne Michel (d/o Jacques Michel and Catherine Comeau of Port-Royal) on October 29, 1726 in Port-Royal. Marie Anne was born in Port Royal on September 12, 1706. After a few years at Port Royal, Ambroise took his family to Chipoudy (present day Hopewell Hill, New Brunswick) on the other side of the Bay of Fundy and settled and built his farm. Ambroise, was one of the Acadian Militia leaders for Chipoudy and was captured along with over 400 male Acadians, on August 10, 1755, at the Muster Call by British Lt Colonel Robert Monckton at Fort Cumberland(formerly Fort Beauséjour) under false pretences. They had been told that good news was going to be mentioned about their lands. Instead, they were told that they were to be stripped of their possessions and lands, imprisoned and to be deported. He was identified by the British as one of "the most refractory and dangerous" Acadians, Ambroise Breau and twenty others were deported on October 13, 1755 in shackles and without their families from Chignectou to South Carolina aboard the British warship Syren along with a fleet of 10 cargo ships containing over 1000 Acadians from the Chignectou area to the most southern colonies of South Carolina and Georgia. They arrived in Charleston, South Carolina on November 19, 1755 and following the orders of the Governor of South Carolina, sixteen of the "dangerous" Acadians, including Ambroise Breau, were sent to England in early January 1756. In the spring of 1756 he was released by the authorities in England because of the lack of cause. Ambroise Breau and the other imprisoned Acadians are allowed to go to France where he found a job as a carpenter, most probably attempting to pay forpassage back to Acadie, in the naval port of Rochefort. He fell sick on October 13, 1756 and died on October 20, 1756 at the Hôpital de la Marine de Rochefort, a French Naval hospital normally reserved for French sailors and Marines. On August 31, 1755, the small Acadian community of Chipoudy was burned to the ground by the British Forces sent by Monckton to force the families of the imprisoned male Acadians to join them. Most did not answer the call. Ambroise's family managed to escape and his sons and sons in law's fought in the Acadian Resistance, a rag tag guerilla army fighting for sheersurvival! Today, his descendants are found throughout North America and play integral parts of Canadian and American societies.