Joseph-Honoré [Honoré l'aîné] Breau

• Sources:
  • "Acadian Immigrants to San Luìs de Natchez, 1768" - http://www.acadiansingray.com
    • In report of Acadians at Port Tobacco, Province of Maryland, Jul 1763, listed as Honoré Braux
    • Part of the party aboard the Jane that left the Potomac River, Province of Maryland, Dec 1767 for La Luisiana
    • In report on Acadians who settled at San Luìs de Natchez, 1768, listed as Nove Bro, "new-comer," age 37
    • Refused to settle at San Luìs de Natchez, threatened with deportation by Gov. ULLOA, Feb 1768, so he went into hiding with his brother
    • St.-Jacques, La Luisiana census, 1779

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• Notes:
  • Exiled to Province of Maryland 1755, age 24
  • Arrived in current day Louisiana in Feb 1768, age 37
  • Depicted with brother Alexis in Dafford Mural, Acadian Memorial, St. Martinville

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The largest contingent of Breaus to come to Louisiana--over 50 individuals, including a dozen families, four of them headed by widows, and several wives, one of the largest single Acadian family groups to come to the colony--arrived in February 1768 from Port Tobacco, Maryland, as part of an extended family of 150 Acadians led by brothers Alexis and Honoré Breau of Pigiguit.

Spanish Governor Antonio de Ulloa insisted that they settle at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, far from other Acadian communities. The Breaus, who had relatives at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques and St.-Gabriel, refused to go to Natchez, but the governor would not relent. He threatened to deport Alexis, Honoré, and their families if they did not go where he told them to go. To escape the governor's wrath, Alexis and Honoré went into hiding while Spanish soldiers escorted the rest of their clan upriver to the isolated post; it took them an entire month, from February to March, to get there. In late 1769, after a revolt against Ulloa had ousted the unpopular governor, his successor, General Alejandro O'Reilly, allowed the Breaus and their families to settle where they wanted. None of them remained at Natchez. They moved to where their kinsmen had settled on the Acadian Coast, at St.-Jacques, Ascension, and San Gabriel, where they had wanted to go all along.

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Honoré, third son of Alexandre Breau and Marie Dugas, born at Pigiguit in c1731, married Anne-Madeleine Trahan probably at Pigiguit in the early 1750s. The British transported him, his wife, and their infant daughter to Maryland in 1755. They were held at Port Tobacco on the lower Potomac. Along with older brother Alexis, he organized the emigration of 150 kinsmen to Louisiana in 1768; by then he and his wife had three children, including an infant son. When Spanish Governor Ulloa insisted that the Breau clan settle at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, far from the other Acadian communities on the lower Mississippi, Honoré and his brother refused to go there. The governor threatened to deport them and their families, so he and Alexis went into hiding with their families. Honoré and Alexis certainly encouraged and probably participated in the revolt against Ulloa in the fall of 1768. Ulloa's successor, General Alejandro O'Reilly, after crushing the revolt in August 1769, allowed the Breaus to settle where they wanted. They chose St.-Jacques, where their older brother Jean-Baptiste had settled in 1766. Honoré and Anne-Madeleine had more children, all daughters, at St.-Jacques. Their daughters married into the Quintero, Ququerier, and Simoneaux families. One of their daughters and their only son settled on Bayou Lafourche.

Joseph-Honoré, called Honoré, fils, born probably at Port Tobacco, Maryland, in c1767, married cousin Marie-Félicité, called Félicité, daughter of fellow Acadian Joachim-Hyacinthe Trahan and Marie Duhon, at St.-Jacques in April 1789 and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.

http://www.acadiansingray.com/Appendices-ATLAL-BREAUX.htm