Charles Orillon

GEDCOM Note

Category:Port-Royal, Acadie

Category:Queen Anne's War

Biography ==Charles was born in 1652. He is the son of Julien Orillon and Anne Roger.

"Acadians in Gray: 'Charles was born in 1652. Charles dit Champagne, son of Julien Orillon and Anne Roger of St.-Thomas de La Flèche, Angers, France, born in c1652, probably no kin to the Orions at Plaisance, arrived at Port-Royal in c1703, early in Queen Anne's War, to serve asa soldier and mason in the garrison at Port-Royal and also as a servant in the home of Acadian governor Jacques-Francois de Bouillan. Not along after he reached the colony, Charles dit Champagne married Marie-Anne, daughter of Jean Bastarache, at Port-Royal in January 1704.≤ref>Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Port-Royal, N.-É.)-1870 C-1870 (image 117) http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1869/117?r=0&s=5≤/ref>≤ref>An Acadian Parish Remembered The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755 Charles Orillon dit Champagne and Marie Bastarache marriage RG 1 volume 26 page 269 https://novascotia.ca/archives/acadian/archives.asp?ID=1191&Language=≤/ref> This gave him good reason to remain in the colony when the war finally ended in 1714. Charles dit Champagne died at Port-Royal in December 1742, age 90. He and Marie-Annehad nine children, including seven sons, all born at Port-Royal, fiveof whom created families of their own. One of their daughters married into the Hébert family.
Oldest son Jean-Baptiste dit Champagne l'aîné, born in November 1704, married Cécile, daughter of René Labauve, probably at Port-Royal in c1735. They moved to Chignecto.
Jean, a twin, born in November 1708, died 10 days after his birth. Joseph died the day before his twin brother Jean.
Charles dit Champagne, fils, born in August 1713, married first to Anne, daughter of Francois Richard, at Port-Royal in September 1734. They remained in the Port-Royal area until Le Grand Dérangment. Charlesdit Champagne, fils's second wife was Marie, daughter of Louis Doucet, whom he married at Nicolet, Québec, in June 1763 after Le Grand Dérangement.
Pierre dit Champagne, born in December 1715, became a blacksmith and married Brigitte, daughter of Jean Brun dit Le Brun, at Port-Royal in January 1742. They also remained at Port-Royal.
Joseph, born in August 1718, married Marguerite, daughter of FrançoisDugas, at Port-Royal in February 1746. They remained in the Port-Royal area until the late 1740s or early 1750s, when they moved to the Pointe Beauséjour area of Chignecto.
Youngest son Jean-Baptiste dit Champagne le jeune, born in January 1722, followed older brothers Jean-Baptiste l'aîné and Joseph to Chignecto, where he married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Deveau, in October 1746.
Charles Rion died 5 December 1742, aged about ninety years, widower ofMarie Bastarache and was buried the next day at Port Royal. Witnesseswere Charles Savoye, Antoine Blanchard and Jean Landry.≤ref>An Acadian Parish RememberedThe Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755 CharlesRion burial RG 1 volume 26a page 234 https://novascotia.ca/archives/acadian/archives.asp?ID=2607≤/ref> According to S. White the scanned original shows buried on "seize" (sixteenth), died the day before
In 1755, descendants of Charles Orillon dit Champagne could be found at the family's home base of Port-Royal, which the British called Annapolis Royal, and at Chignecto..'" ≤ref>Entered by Carroll Woods, Oct 29, 2012≤/ref> ≤ref>[http://www.acadiansingray.com/Appendices-ATLAL-ORILLION.htm]≤/ref>

Sources

≤references />* BIRTH-MARRIAGE-BURIAL: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes - Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes, Première Partie 1636-1714 - Stephen A. White - 2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999 - p. 1254 -* "Genealogie Quebec" [http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogy=Orion_...]

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