Joseph-François Mallet

http://genealogie-acadienne.net/?action=indiDetails&I=274767

http://migrations.fr/malletfrancois.htm

http://migrations.fr/francoismallet.htm

http://www.acadienouvelle.com/chroniques/2015/09/27/racines-acadien...

http://www.e-hubert.com/bases50/exiles-detail.php?id=1742

The Following is a quote from My Life & Thoughts, by Raymond Malley, "Francois Mallet - Pioneer, was born in the Village of Bouillon, just south of the important port city of Granville, on the west coast of the Cotentin Peninsula of Upper Normandy, France. It is near the entrance to the Bay of Mont St. Michel, which contains the famous abbey. Bouillon is strategically located on a hill near the sea. Today it is part of the modern resort town of Jullouville, which did not exist in the 18th century. The Granville region has for centuries been a prime fishing center. The city was one of the most important French ports active in Cod & other fishing on the Great Banks off Newfoundland and in the St. Lawrence Bay & River. Much of the population worked in the fishiing industry, and some like Francois settled permanently in the New France & Acadia. Recently researchers of the Mallets have discovered in France Navy Records that Francois joined the Navy as a teenager and made many visits to the Great Banks & St. Lawrence, both as a sailor and fisherman. Ships on which he served are named. He is described as of medium height with brown hair & an oval face. In 1729, he left the Navy & settled in the growing fishing village of Pabos, controlled by Lefebvre de Bellefeuille. The French government had given the Bellefeuille family Pabos and area as a seigneury to create & operate a fishing business. It flourished into one of the most successful in Quebec. For decades Pabos exported fish & products to Granville, St. Malo, Bayonne & other ports, prospering until destroyed by the English. Francois drowned with two other men when their small fishing boat overturned in a storm at the entrance to the harbor on Sept. 27, 1752. Presumably, they were returning from fishing. Francois is described in the offical death notice as "about" 50 years old. They were buried in the local cemetery. His wife remarried into the well-known Denys family in Paspebiac. Pabos today is part of the small city of Chandler, located on a quiet area beside the bay, far from the commercial center. The existance of the Parc du Bourg de Pabos museum attests it's past importance. The history of the Bellefeuille Seignery is described on large metal placecards lining the graveled path alongside the low lying museum building. More paths lead to marsh & the meandering Bay. Diagrams describe the layout of the fishing operation, but on the ground today ones sees only the foundations of an Inn, an inside well, and several small houses. The large house of the seigneur & the community's church and cemetery, where Francois was buried were located on an island a hundred yards or so off shore, much of the island is now submerged. Both, outside & inside the museum, buildings, are objects obtained primarily through diggings; they illustrate the fishing business and the manner of life of the seigneury. Reasearchers also recently identified the parents & grandparents of Francois Mallet in Normandy. Jean Mallet & Jeanne LeGros were his parents. Gilles Mallet & Michelle Hamelin his grand-parents. Even one great-grandparent, Joan Mallet (male) born around 1630. All were born & livied in & around Boiuillon and Granville. The Navy records indicate that Francois had followed in the footsteps of his Father Jean, who was also in the French Navy & a fisherman. Jean drowned off Newfoundland in 1721. The author has examined hundreds of years of Bouillon church archives kept in the Jullouville library.

https://fafa-acadie.org/images/stories/Mallet/texte_En_v._6_-20_sep...

Where he was baptised,
https://www.wikimanche.fr/%C3%89glise_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_de_Bouillon_(Jullouville)

https://www.wikimanche.fr/Cat%C3%A9gorie:%C3%89glise_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_de_Bouillon_(Jullouville)_(image)

He may descend from Guillaume Malet, who gave money to establish ,
https://www.normandy-abbeys.com/abbaye/abbaye-de-graville-le-havre/