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About Cecile Melanson

  • Sources:
    • 1671 Acadie Census - shown to be 6 months old which estimates birth c.1671

The family of Abraham BOUDREAU and Cécile MELANÇON

[86031] BOUDREAU, Abraham (Michel & Michelle AUCOIN [84284]), born about 1657 (rec. 1671) or 1656 (rec. 1686)

  • married about 1686, from .. (Acadie)

MELANÇON, Cécile (Charles MELANÇON dit LARAMÉE & Marie DUGAS [43333])

     1) Anne, married Port-Royal (Acadie) 1720-04-22 Michel BOURG

2) Cécile, married Port-Royal (Acadie) 1717-10-14 Joseph MIUS d'ENTREMONT de POBOMKOU
3) Charles, married Port-Royal (Acadie) 1707-02-09 Marie Josèphe LANDRY
4) François, married Port-Royal (Acadie) 1717-01-11 Jeanne LANDRY
5) Marie, married Port-Royal (Acadie) 1709-10-21 Guillaume GAUDET
6) Michel dit Miquetau, married Port-Royal (Acadie) 1714-01-22 Anne LANDRY, married about 1727 Marguerite BROUSSARD


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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Cécile Mélancon, person ID 9W21-LYP. 3

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;;

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Cécile Mélancon, person ID 9W21-LYP. 3

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: Name: Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;;;

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Cécile Mélancon, person ID 9W21-LYP.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;;

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Juan Pedro Dupuis, person ID 94VX-3MX. 3

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Cécile Mélancon, person ID 9W21-LYP. 3

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;;

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Cécile Mélancon, person ID 9W21-LYP. 3

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: Name: Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;;;

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Cécile Mélancon, person ID 9W21-LYP.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;;

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Juan Pedro Dupuis, person ID 94VX-3MX. 3

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;;

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Cécile Mélancon, person ID 9W21-LYP. 3

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: Name: Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;;;

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Cécile Mélancon, person ID 9W21-LYP.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Cécile Mélancon, person ID 9W21-LYP. 3


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FamilySearch: Family Tree
Cecile Melanson
Birth  4 May 1671 • Port-Royal, Acadia, New France
Death  12 June 1753 • Port-Lajoie, Acadia, New France
Parents  Charles Melanson dit La Ramée • Mary Laverdure
Spouse  Jean Antoine Beliveau • Jean Charles Béliveau • boudrot or boudreau or boudreaux or boudrault
Children  Anne BOUDREAU • Anne Boudreau • Cecile Boudrot • Charles Jean Baptiste Boudreaux • Claude Boudreau • Francois Boudreau • Louis Béliveau • Madeleine Beliveau • Marie Boudrot • Marie Joseph Belliveau • Michel Or Miquetau Boudrot

Lead confidence: 5
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/9W21-LYP

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FamilySearch: Nova Scotia Births and Baptisms, 1702-1896
Cecile Melanson in entry for Louis Belivaux, "Nova Scotia Births and Baptisms, 1702-1896"
Lead confidence: 5
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL53-JSF

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FamilySearch: Nova Scotia Births and Baptisms, 1702-1896
Cecile Melancon in entry for Marie Judith Belivaux, "Nova Scotia Births and Baptisms, 1702-1896"
Lead confidence: 5
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL5S-FML

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In 1728 he was at Prince Edward Island

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!BIRTH: "Generations...Past to Present",by Phobe Chauvin Morrison: p. 56 Published by Terrebonne Genealogical Society, Houma, LA. Book located in main public library in Dallas, Texas. !MARRIAGE: "Generations...Past to Present",by Phobe Chauvin Morrison: p. 56 Published by Terrebonne Genealogical Society, Houma, LA. Book located in main public library in Dallas, Texas.

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!INTERIM SOURCE NOTE: This person is part of the generation that came to Acadia from France or was a member of the first few succeeding generations who lived in Acadia in the 1600s and early 1700s.
Information on this person is from one or more of the secondary sources listed below. Until I find the time to add the specific source information (volume/page and exact source) this interim note willhave to suffice. The sources are:
Denis Beauregard's Dictionnaire Genealogique de la Ancienne Acadie is located at http://www.francogene.com/dgaa/index.php (explanation in both English and French at viewer's option; dictionnaire in French). His Francogene, an extensive list of Acadian genealogical sources and bibliography is located at http://www.francogene.com/acadia/resources.php (in English).
Acadian History and Genealogy website (gives brief history of Acadia and some selected Acadian family trees), at http://www.craftconn.com/genealogy/acadianh.htm (in English).
Acadian and French Canadian Ancestral Home (a searchable data base of web sites with information on early Acadian families, at http://www.acadian.org/ (in English).
Center for Acadian Studies, University of Moncton (New Brunswick), has short genealogies of 37 Acadian families, at http://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/node/55 (in French).
See also, Stephen White's Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Acadiennes (in French, but available with an English supplement), the best and most recent secondary source for Acadian family information, described and available for purchase at http://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/node/38

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!INFORMATION: Antoine BOURG & Antoinette LANDRY listed in a book "Histoire Et Genealogie Des Acadiens" by Bona ARSENAULT, Tome 1, Pages 360, copies in possession of Renee M. EBERT of Las Vegas, NV: Michel BOURG, né vers 1695, fils d'Antonine et de Marie BRUN, marié à Port Royal, le 22 Avril 1720, à Anne BOUDROT, fille d'Abraham et de Cécile MELANSON: EFANTS: Michel 1722, Anne 1725, Joseph 1727, Marie 1733, Jean 1735, Madeleine 1737, Pierre 1739. !TRANSLATION OF WORDS: à = at; âge = age; au = to the, at the; Août = August; avril = April; cette = this, that; de = of; dècèdè = deceased; déportée = ? deport; des = some, any, of the; deuxiemes = second; du = of the; en = in, into, to, as; épouse = spouse, husband, wife; est = is; et = and; établir = establish; été = summer; famille = family; femme = woman, wife; Février = February; fille = daughter, girl; fils = son; il = he, it; ils = they; Janvier = January; le = the; leurs = their; marié = bridgegroom or groom; membre(s) = member; né = born; oû = where; père = father; premier = First; sa = his, her, its; secondes = second; sont = are; sur = on, over, upon; vers = toward; veuve = widow;


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Category:Isle Saint-Jean, Acadie
Category:Port-Royal, Acadie
Acadian

Biography ==NOTICE: this profile is protected by the Acadian Project because of frequent duplication. Please contact the Acadian Project before making any substantive changes. Thanks for helping make WikiTree the best site for accurate information.

Cecile Melanson was born in May, 1671 in Port Royal, as she was six months old on the 1671 Census. Her parents were Charles Melanson and Marie Dougas≤ref name=White>White, Stephen A., Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert. Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes. Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 1999, Print. P. 1147≤/ref>≤ref name= "Ancestry">Source: Ancestry Page: Birth year: 1670; Birth city: Port Royal; http://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=genepool&h=4466576&ti=... Birth date: 1670 Birth place: Port Royal, Acadia, Ns Marriage date: 1703 Marriage place: Port Royal. Title: FamilyData Collection - Individual Records Author: Edmund West, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com OperationsInc, 2000.≤/ref>≤ref>Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1671 Acadian Census, at Port-Royal, Acadie. 1671 Census Transcribed. The original census can be found at Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752” Images 3-14.≤blockquote>at Port Royal: Charles MELANCON, 28, wife Marie DUGAST 23; Children: Marie 7, Marguerite 5, Anne 3, Cecille 6 months; cattle 40, sheep 6.≤/blockquote>≤/ref>
She married Abraham Boudrot in 1686. ≤ref name=White />With Abraham, she had six children: Charles (dit Charlot), Michel (dit Miquetau), Francois, Marie, Cecile, Anne and by age 30 was a widow supporting thesechildren age one to fourteen.≤ref>Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1701 Acadian Census, at Port-Royal, Acadie 1701 Census Transcription. Theoriginal census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Images 174-211.≤blockquote>Cecile MELANCON (widow of Abraham BOUDROT) 30; Charles 14, Michel 12, Francois 9, Marie 6, Cecile 4, Anne If; 2 guns, 7 cattle, 10 sheep, 5 hogs, 2 arpents.≤/blockquote>≤/ref>She then married Jean Belliveau (widower of Jeanne Bourg) in 1703.≤ref name=White />≤ref>White, Stephen A. La généalogie des trente-sept familles hôtesses des "Retrouvailles 94", Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 25, nos 2 et 3 (1994). Belliveau≤/ref>≤ref name="Ancestry" />With Jean she had three more children: Marie Judith, Louis, and Marie Madeleine. All were born in Port Royal, from 1687 though 1711.
They were found in Ile St Jean in 1728 with one boy and one girl living with them.≤ref>Dépôt des papiers publics des colonies; état civilet recensements : Série G 1 : Recensements et documents divers : C-2574 Census 1728 Image 239≤/ref>
Cecile died in Ile St. Jean after the census of 1735.≤ref>White, Stephen A., Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert. Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes. Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 1999, Print. P. 1147 citing Déclarations de Belle-Ile-en-Mer≤/ref>

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See also:* Ancestry.com Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citationpoints you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners ofthese tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=36728149&pid...
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Cecile Melanson's Timeline

1671
May 1, 1671
Port Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France
May 5, 1671
Saint Jean Baptiste Catholic Church, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada
May 5, 1671
Saint Jean Baptiste Catholic Church, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada
1676
1676
Port Royal Annapolis Acadie
1679
1679
New Brunswick, Canada
1686
1686
Grand Pre, Acadia
1687
1687
Port Royal, New Brunswick, Canada
1687
Port-Royal, Acadie, [Nouvelle-France]