Augustin (Beausoleil) Broussard

• Sources:
  • http://www.acadiansingray.com/Appendices-ATLAL-BROUSSARD.htm
  • "Acadian Immigrants to Cabanocé/Cabahannocer, 1766" - http://www.acadiansingray.com
    • Ascension, La Luisiana census, 1770, listed as Augustin Broussart, age 21
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1777, age 28
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1781
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1785, called Aug
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana militia list, Aug 1789, called Agustin Brusar
    • Succession dated 31 Jul 1811, St. Martin Parish courthouse

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• Notes:
  • Arrived in current day Louisiana in 1766, age 18

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• About:
  • Auguste or Augustin, son of perhaps Charles Broussard and Madeleine LeBlanc, born probably at Grand-Pré in c1748, likely was deported with his family to Maryland in 1755. He may have come to Louisiana as a teenaged orphan in 1766 with the first contingent of exiles from Maryland and followed them to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river, where he married Anne, daughter perhaps of fellow Acadians Pierre Landry and Marie-Josèphe LeBlanc and widow of Joseph Melanson, in 1769 or 1770. Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension, just above St.-Jacques, in August 1770. During the late 1770s, they moved to the Attakapas District and settled near his cousins on upper Bayou Vermilion. Their daughters married into the Dugas, Duhon, Hébert, Meaux, Mire, and Montet families, and probably into the LeBlanc family as well. Augustin, called by the Opelousas priest who recorded his burial an "inhabitant at Attakapas," died probably on the upper Vermilion in September 1810, "at age about 63 yrs."; he was a widower; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse, St. Martin Parish, the following July. All four of his sons married and created families of their own.

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PARENTS: Stanley LeBlanc says he is the son of Charles Broussard and Madeleine LeBlanc. Also in a copy of a letter from Stephen A. White, Genealogist with the Centre d'etudes acadiennes Université De Moncton in Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada to Miss Louisa M. Lognion dated Ma y 5, 1992 on file at the Calcasieu Parish Library in Lake Charles, La.:

There is no simple reference to show that Augustin Broussard was a son of Charles Broussard and Madeleine LeBlanc. The key to Augustin's identity is nonetheless contained in a single document. That Document is the 1769 Census of Cabahannocer, wherein Augustin is described as a nephew of Désiré LeBlanc. The problem then shifts to identifying Désiré LeBlanc.

Some have thought that he was a son of Jean LeBlanc and Jeanne Bourgeois, the evidence is against this. Rather Désiré first appears in the records as the godfather of Anne LeBlanc, daughter of Jean LeBlanc and Madeleine Theriot, in 1734, and of Claire Meunier, daughter of Joseph and Marie Josephe LeBlanc in 1736. As both Anne and Clarie were descendants of René LeBlanc and Anne Bourgeois, it is logical to suppose that Désiré belonged to the same branch of the LeBlanc family. Indeed, if one were to suppose that his selection as a godparent followed custom, one would be inclined to make Désiré a brother of either Jean LeBlanc or Marie Josephe LeBlanc. The siblings of the former are all listed in the Declarations, at Belle-Ile-en-Mer, of Jean's Brothers Honore, Charles, and Simon, and there is no Désiré among them. That leaves Marie Josephe LeBlanc. She was a daughter of the notary René LeBlanc, by the latter's first marriage to Isabelle Melanson. Given that Désiré's children included an Esther, a Simon, an Isabelle, and a Benjamin, all likewise given names in the Notary's family, the evidence mounts in favour of the conclusion that Desire was the notary's son too. When one considers the additional fact that Désiré was sent into exile in Maryland with Joseph and Etienne Bugeaud, grandsons of Isabelle Melanson, and that he subsequently accompanied the Bugeauds to Louisiana, the circumstantial evidence seems more than sufficient to support the deduction we have drawn regarding Desire's parentage. With the connection between Désiré LeBlanc and the notary established, it becomes quite simple to explain how Augustin Broussard was Désiré's nephew. Of all the notary's children and stepchildren only one, Madeleine, married a Broussard. Augustin Broussard must therefore been a son of Charles Broussard and Madeleine LeBlanc.[2]

Residence

Acadien ou Emigres d'Acadie aux Atkapa-Barriere (1805-1809 (Notes from Fr. Barriere)[3] Spouse, Anne Landry, married around 1770

They have 10 arpents of land. Augustin lived with [his uncle] the Désiré LeBLANC household in Cabanocey [St. James, LA] on the 1769 census.

Augustin BROUSSARD, age 21, married to Anne LANDRY, age 30, on the 1770 census at Ascension [Parish, LA].[4]

Augustin Broussard, 1781 Attakapas Census [General Census and Status of Receipts relative to the needs of the Church of Attacapas conforming to the parish deliberation date 1 April 1781] 9 individuals, 66 animals, 40 arpents lands.[5]

Military Service/Death

Augustin serve in the Attakapas Militia in the Revolutionary War.[6]

Burial/Succession

Augustin Broussard was buried at Opelousas, St. Landry, Louisiana, 3 Sept. 1810 at age about 63 yrs.[7] His succession was held at the St. Martin Parish Courthouse July 31, 1811.[8]

Sources

• ↑ 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. 13
• ↑ Augustin BROUSSARD
• ↑ Source: #DJH CD
• Text: Alexandre Broussard spouse of Anne Landry
• ↑ MARRIAGE-RESIDENCES-CENSUS: Gregory A. Wood, A GUIDE TO THE ACADIANS IN MARYLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURES; 1755-1899; Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1995; p. 169
• ↑ Title: Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900: compact disk #101; Author: Donald J. Hébert; Publication: Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001; CD 101. Personal Copy.
• ↑ Title: Find a Grave; Page: #65288847
• Text: Buried at Saint Landry Church Cemetery. Husband of Anne Landry; member of Attakapas Militia in Revolutionary War; burial record at St Landry Church, Opelousas, LA [V 1 - p 112].
• ↑ Source: #DJH CD
• Text: BROUSSARD, Augustin - inhabitant at Attakapas bur. 3 Sept. 1810 at age about 63 yrs. Fr. Louis BUHOT (Opel. Ch.: v.1, p.112)
• ↑ Source: #DJH CD

Text: BROUSSARD, Augustin widr. of Ann LANDRY 8 children: Louis, Joseph, Auguste, Benjamin, Francoise, Pollonne, Constance, Hortense. Succ. dated 31 July 1811 (SM Ct.Hse.: Succ.#94) Source: DJH CD Title: Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900: compact disk #101; Author: Donald J. Hébert; Publication: Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001; CD 101. Personal Copy http://www.hpeterjr.us/getperson.php?personID=I55076&tree=1 SOURCES RELATED TO AUGUSTIN'S PARENTS REFERENCED BY S. WHITE. Title: Cabanocey, Lillian C. Bourgeois; New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 957; reprinted Pelican Publ., 1998. p. 175 Text: #73 Deziré LEBLANC, 52; Marie LANDRY, wife, 46; Deziré, son, 16; Binjamain, son, 9; Enselme, son, 6; Grégoire, son, 5 months; Izabelle, daughter, 18; Marine, daughter, 14; Ozitte, daughter, 11;

• Augustin BROUSSARD, nephew [of Desiré LE BLANC], 20. Title: A Guide to the Acadians in Maryland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Gregory A. Wood, Gateway Press, Inc. 1995, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Personal copy; p. 156-157 Oxford [Maryland] 1763, Marie; 12 total in household Cabanocey 1769 Ascension 1770/1777 Head of Household: DésiréLeBlanc Désiré: 1769: 52 yrs. old; 9 arpents of land; one child since 1763 1770: 53 yrs.old; 9 arpents of land 1777: not living Marie: nee Landry Augustin Broussard: 1769: 20 yrs. old; cousin 1770: now married to Anne Landry, widow of Joseph Melançon, Snow Hill, 1763 Declarations de Belle-Ile-en-Mer http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=leecrocke...

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