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About René Joseph Granger, I
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- 1671 Acadie Census - shown to be 28 years old which estimates birth c.1643.
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Melanson-7
The family of Charles MELANÇON dit LARAMÉE and Marie DUGAS
[43333] MELANÇON dit LARAMÉE, Charles (Pierre LAVERDURE & Priscilla MELANÇON [85578]), ploughman (laboureur), born about 1643 (rec. 1671), 1642 (rec. 1686) or 1646 (rec. 1699), died between 1699 and 1701
- married about 1663, from Port-Royal (Acadie)
DUGAS, Marie1 (Abraham & Marguerite DOUCET [42835]), born about 1648 (rec. 1671, rec. 1686), 1650 (rec. 1699) or 1651 (rec. 1701), died 1731-07-07, buried 1731-07-08 Port-Royal (Acadie)
1) Ambroise, married Port-Royal (Acadie) 1705-11-10 Françoise BOURG, married Port-Royal (Acadie) 1719-01-23 Marguerite COMEAU
2) Anne, married about 1685 Jacques de SAINT-ÉTIENNE de LA TOUR, married about 1700 Alexandre ROBICHAUD
3) Cécile, married about 1686 Abraham BOUDREAU, married about 1703 Jean Antoine BÉLIVEAU
4) Charles, married about 1700 Anne dite Jeanne BOURG
5) Claude, married Port-Royal (Acadie) 1714-01-22 Marguerite BABINEAU
6) Élisabeth, married about 1689 Michel dit Michaud BOURG
7) Françoise, married about 1698 Jean CYR
8) Jean dit Jani, married Port-Royal (Acadie) 1714-01-22 Madeleine PETITOT dit SINCENNES
9) Madeleine, married about 1696 Jean BÉLIVEAU
10) Marguerite, born about 1694 (sép. 1758), died 1758-02-12, buried 1758-02-13 Québec (Qc), married Port-Royal (Acadie) 1714-01-22 Jean Baptiste dit Toc LANDRY
11) Marie1, married about 1682 David BASSET
12) Marie2, married before 1696 Charles BÉLIVEAU dit BIDEAU
13) Pierre, married Port-Royal (Acadie) 1712-11-07 Anne GRANGER
http://www.francogene.com/genealogie-quebec-genealogy/201/201099.php
Primary source of information is Research Bulletin #250, "The Melanson Settlement (1664-1755) published by Canadian Minister of Environment. R61-9/250E ISSN: 0228-1228
Note: The name Melancon had several spellings. Charles signed Mellanson, and the bulletin uses Melanson throughout, so we will use that spelling.
Charles Melanson, age 14, and his parents arrived in Acadia from England in 1657. His father, Pierre Laverdure, was a Huguenot who moved to England from France before 1632. His mother, Priscilla, was English, a fact that is well accepted by historians, although generations of die hard descendants, who will not admit an ounce of English blood continue to insist that she was Scottish. The family, which included at least two other children, Pierre and Jean, sailed fro England on the "Satisfaction"
with Thomas Temple, the newly appointed governor of Acadia.
The family is thought to have settled originally on the St. John River. Then in 1667, when Acadia was returned to France by the Treaty of Breda, Charles' parents and brother Jean moved to Boston. Charles and Pierre remained in Acadia. Charles has renounced Protestantism in 1664 and married Marie Dugas, daughter of Port Royal armourer, Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Doucet. Following their marriage, they probably settled on the land which we now know as the Melanson Settlement in the Port Royal area. Although no concession has been found, a British document of
1734 states that this land was granted originally to Charles Melanson and "honest" Marie Dugas.
By 1671, the Melansons were major landholders at Port Royal. The first census taken that year listed 20 arpents of workable land, not all under cultivation, 40 head of cattle and 6 sheep. Charles was described as a "laboureur" and the family had 4 daughters at the time. In total, 5 sons and 9 daughters were born between about 1664 and 1693. The eldest, Marie, was brought up in Boston by her grandmother strengthening Charles' ties with that colony. Of the other children, 8 established households in the Melanson Settlement where they remained for their adult lives.
One daughter settled elsewhere in the Port Royal area, one settled in Beaubassin, and one apparently died.
Charles Melanson and Marie Dugas had these children (birth dates are
approximate): Marie (1668-1754) (married David Basset); Marguerite (1666-1685); Anne (1668-1754) (married 1st Jacques Saint-Etienne de La Tour, 2nd Alexandre
(Robichaud); Cecille (1670- ?) (married 1st Abraham Boudrot, 2nd Jean Antoine (Belliveau); Isabel (Elizabeth) (1673- ?) (married Michel Bourg); Charles (1675-1757) (married Anne Bourg); Magdeleine (1677- ?) (married Jean Belliveau); Marie (1684- ?) (married Jean Sire); Pierre (1685-1725) (married Anne Granger); Ambroise (1685-1756) (married 1st Francoise Bourg, 2nd Marguerite Comeaux); Claude (1688-1737) (married Marguerite Babinot); Jean (1690-1760) (married Madeleine Petitot); Marguerite (1693- ?) (married Jean Baptiste Landry)
The Arrival : The two Mélanson brothers, Pierre Mélanson dit Laverdure, a stonemason, born in 1632, the spouse of Marie Marguerite Muis d'Entremont, the daughter of the Lord of Pomcoup, Philippe Mius d 'Entremont, and Charles Mélanson dit Laverdure, born in 1643, the husband of Marie Dugas, daughter of Armourer Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Doucet of Port Royal, arrived in Port Royal in 1657 accompanied their parents aboard the ship the Satisfaction, with Sir Thomas Temple, the new English Governor of Acadia .
The Mélanson Settlement: For almost a century, until the deportation of the Acadians in 1755, the settlement was the place of residence of Charles Mélanson, his wife Marie Dugas, and their descendants and associates. The Melanson Settlement is one of the principal Canadian archeological sites illustrating the way of rural life in Acadia in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is a mirror of the various aspects of the daily life, their homes, material culture and their prosperity.
The settlement was founded by Charles Melanson dit La Ramée and Marie Dugas after their marriage in about 1664. The couple built their home on the edge of the upland adjacent to the St. Charles marsh and, working with the Guilbeaux, their neighbours on the other side of the marsh, built the first dyke across the extensive marsh. Before Charles Melanson's death in about 1700, the couple had 14 children. As they grew to adulthood and married, eight of the children chose to remain in the family settlement, but not all at the same time
Under the British, the Melanson Settlement was part of a wider area sometimes known as Oak Point or Pointe aux Chesnes. Alexandre Robichaud and later Jean Melanson served as a deputy, representing the area in its dealings with the British governor and council at Annapolis Royal. The settlement on the upland grew slightly but seems to not have exceeded 10 to 12 households.
Dykeland agriculture continued at the site. A second dyke had been constructed by 1708. By 1725, the reclaimed marshland extended all the way to the river on both sides of the Melanson Settlement. Significant portions of the 17th and 18th-century Acadian dykes still survive.
By the time of the Deportation, four generations of Melansons had lived in the Melanson Settlement. Its residents were among the 1666 Acadians deported from the Annapolis Royal area in December of 1755. All of the buildings of the settlement probably were destroyed at this time.
CHARLES, born in 1643, the husband of Marie Dugas, daughter of Armourer Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Doucet of Port Royal, arrived in Port Royal accompanied their parents aboard the ship the Satisfaction, with Sir Thomas Temple, the new English Governor of Acadia, which arrived in 1657. During almost a century, just until the deportation of the Acadians in 1755, the settlement was the place of residence of Charles Melanson and his wife Marie Dugas, and their descendents and associates.
- http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/7961/meltwo.html
Charles dit La Ramée and his wife Marie would establish their family near the old Port Royal habitation in the Port Royal basin at what is today known as the Melanson Settlement (sometimes referred to as the "Melanson Village" in old records and maps). The settlement grew quite large over the years with a total of nine households being located on the land during its peak times.
Charles and his wife Marie seem to have done reasonably well as the census' show their cleared land expanding and their livestock increasing. They also had a large section of dyked marshland along the Rivière Daupin (the Annapolis River) adjacent to their property. It was from this dyke that archaeologists recently retrieved two intact aboiteax, one of which is the largest and oldest aboiteau found to date.
Other archaeological digs at the Melanson Settlement discovered the foundations of many of the homes and buildings that once stood on the site, including the structure that housed Charles Melanson (son of Charles dit La Ramée) and his wife Anne Bourg. The digs within these stone foundations have produced numerous artifacts that include an earthen cooking pot, a sword hand guard, beads, musket shot, and a variety of utensils, all of which are on display at the Memorial Chapel at Grand Pré.
Besides farming, in his elder years on the opposing side of his brother Pierre, Charles became a spy for the English.
http://www.gregor.ca/Acadia/Melanson/melansons-intro-gen1.htm#Pierre1
I was married to Marie Dugas in 1663 at Port-Royal, Acadie (now called Nova Scotia). We had 17 children together, 6 girls and 5 boys who survived and 6 children who died at birth. Ambroise was our 13th child, he was born in March, 1685. I arrived from England in Plympton, Nova Scotia in 1657 (aged 14). I was called 'La Ramee'. My father's name was Pierre Melanson (dit Laverdure) and my mother was Priscilla.
2nd born to Pierre and Priscilla.
Charles dit La Ramée Mellanson: Farmer; b. abt 1642, England (SW/MBM); d. abt 1700, Port Royal, Acadia (SW).
Married: abt 1663 (SW), Port Royal, Acadia, to Marie Dugas: (Abraham & Marguerite-Louise Doucet) b. abt 1646, Port Royal, Acadia; d. July 7, 1737, Port Royal (Rg), Nova Scotia. B. Dec. 20, 1707 (Rg), Port Royal, Acadia.
Note: witnesses on Burial record (Annapolis Royal Rg) included sons Charles Melanson, Jean Melanson and Ambroise Melanson. Marie was recorded as about 91 years old at time of death and widow of the late Charles Melanson. Was buried July 8, 1737 (Rg).
Children: Marie (Mary), Marguerite, Anne, Cécile, Françoise, Isabelle, Charles, Magdeleine, Marie, Ambroise (twin), Pierre (twin), Claude, Jean dit Janne and Marguerite.
http://www.gregors-gathering.ca/Acadia/Melanson/melansons-gen2.htm
Notes for Charles Melanson (I found this on the net):
- "Charles Melanson, age 14, and his parents arrived in Acadia from England in 1657. His father, Pierre LaVerdure, was a Huguenot who had moved to England from France before 1632. His mother, Priscilla, was English, a fact that is well accepted by historians, although generations of die-hard descendants, who will not admit an ounce of English blood, continue to insist that she was Scottish. The family, which included at least two other children, Pierre and John, sailed from England on the Satisfaction with Thomas Temple, the newly appointed Governor of Acadia. The family is thought to have settled originally on the Saint James River. Then in 1667, when Acadia was returned to France by the Treaty of Breda, Charles' parents and brother John moved to Boston. Charles and Pierre remained in Acadia. Charles had renounced Protestantism in 1664 and married Marie Dugas, daughter of Port Royal armorer, Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Douchet. Following their marriage, they probably settled on the land which we now know as the Melanson Settlement in the Port Royal area. Although no concession has been found, a British document of 1734 states that this land was granted originally to Charles Melanson and "honest" Marie Dugas. By 1671, the Melansons were majors landholders at Port Royal. The first census, taken that year listed 20 arpents of workable land, not all of it under cultivation, 40 head of cattle and 6 sheep. Charles was described as a "labourer", and the family had 4 daughters at the time. In total, 5 sons and 9 daughters were born ca. 1664 - ca. 1693. The eldest, Marie, was brought up in Boston by her grandmother, strengthening Charles' ties with that colony. Of the other children, 8 established households in the Melanson settlement, where they remained for their adult lives. One daughter settled elsewhere in the Port Royal are, one settled at Beaubassin, and one apparently died." Research Bulletin 250, The Melanson Settlement (1664-1755), Canadian Minister of the Enviroment - 1671 Port Royal: Charles Melanson 29, wife Marie Dugas 23, Marie 6, Marguerite 4, Anne 2; 40 cattle, 6 sheep, 20 arpents - 1686 Port Royal: Charles Melanson 44, Marie Dugas 38, Isabelle 13, Charles 11, Madeleine 9, Marie 7, Francoise 4, twins Pierre & Ambroise 10 months; 20 cattle, 12 sheep, 6 hogs, 6 arpents, 1 gun. - 1693 Port Royal: Charles Melancon 46, wife Marie Dugats 42, Charles 18, Madeleine 16, Marie 12, Francoise 10, twins Pierre & Ambroise 8, Claude 5, Jeanne 3; 20 cattle, 25 sheep, 12 hogs, 35 arpents, 4 guns. - 1698 Port Royal: Charles Melanson 57, wife Marie Dugast 52, Charles 23, Marie 18, twins Ambroise & Pierre 13, Claude 11, Jean 8, Marguerite 5; 15 cattle, 9 sheep, 9 hogs, 35 arpents, 76 fruit trees, 2 guns. - 1700 Port Royal: Charles Melanson 53, wife Marie Dugast 49, twins Pierrre & Ambroise 15, Claude 12, Jeanne 10; 30 cattle, 22 sheep, 35 arpents, 2 guns. - 1701 Port Royal: Widow Marie Dugas 50, twins Ambroise & Pierre 15, Claude 12, Jean 10, Marguerite 8; 9 cattle, 8 sheep, 8 hogs, 10 arpents, 2 guns. - 1703 Port Royal: Widow Charles Melanson, 4 boys, 1 girl - 1707 Port Royal: Widow Melanson, 3 boys 14 or older, 1 girl 12 or older; 18 cattle, 15 sheep, 12 hogs, 6 arpents, 2 guns. - 1714 Port Royal (near the fort): Widow Melanson
Probably a French Huguenot who went to Scotland or England iography Melanson Charles http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/biography.aspx?name=Melanson_Charles&i...
MELANSON, CHARLES, laboureur, colon, né en 1643, « décédé avant 1700 ».
Les historiens ne s’accordent ni sur son origine ethnique ni sur la date de son arrivée au Canada. Indiscutablement, il est « venu d’Écosse » ; mais, comme un acte notarié le désigne comme « sieur de La Ramée » et comme son frère Pierre était surnomme « La Verdure », Placide Gaudet conclut que la famille aurait pu être d’origine française et que, parce que huguenote, elle aurait émigré en Écosse, d’où elle serait passée en Acadie. Certains prétendent que les Melanson faisaient partie de la colonie fondée par Sir William Alexander, fils. D’après Placide Gaudet, la famille arrivait au pays en 1657 avec le gouverneur Temple ; elle s’établit à Port-Royal ; plus tard, elle aurait émigré à Boston, laissant en Acadie Pierre et Charles, les seuls membres de la famille dont l’histoire a retenu les noms.
L’aîné, Pierre, dit La Verdure, tailleur, époux de Marie-Marguerite Mius d’Entremont, fut l’un des fondateurs de Grand-Pré. Charles, « laboureur » (recensement de 1671), exploita le domaine paternel et devint prospère ; en 1664, après avoir abjuré le protestantisme, il épousait Marie Dugas, dont il eut plusieurs enfants. Leurs descendants sont nombreux.
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Recensements de 1671, 1686.— Placide Gaudet : notes, correspondance, études généalogiques aux APC et à l’université de Moncton ; étude publiée dans Weymouth Free Press, 6 janv. 1899.— Bona Arsenault, L’Acadie des ancêtres : avec la généalogie des premières familles acadiennes (Québec, 1955), 39–41, 143s.— James Hannay, Our first families, New Brunswick Magazine, I (1898) : 129,177–186 ; II (1899) : 92–96 ; III (1899) : 17.— Rameau de Saint-Père, Une Colonie féodale.— A. W. Savary, The Acadian Melansons, New Brunswick Magazine, I (1898) : 360 ; II (1899) : 222.— Le « Laverdure » dont il est question dans RAC, 1912, App. E, 56, 58 et App. F, 69, pourrait être Pierre. Source: Dictionnaire biographique du Canada en ligne
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http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/biography.aspx?name=Melanson_Charles&i... Biographie Melanson Charles
MELANSON, CHARLES, laboureur, colon, né en 1643, « décédé avant 1700 ».
Les historiens ne s’accordent ni sur son origine ethnique ni sur la date de son arrivée au Canada. Indiscutablement, il est « venu d’Écosse » ; mais, comme un acte notarié le désigne comme « sieur de La Ramée » et comme son frère Pierre était surnomme « La Verdure », Placide Gaudet conclut que la famille aurait pu être d’origine française et que, parce que huguenote, elle aurait émigré en Écosse, d’où elle serait passée en Acadie. Certains prétendent que les Melanson faisaient partie de la colonie fondée par Sir William Alexander, fils. D’après Placide Gaudet, la famille arrivait au pays en 1657 avec le gouverneur Temple ; elle s’établit à Port-Royal ; plus tard, elle aurait émigré à Boston, laissant en Acadie Pierre et Charles, les seuls membres de la famille dont l’histoire a retenu les noms.
L’aîné, Pierre, dit La Verdure, tailleur, époux de Marie-Marguerite Mius d’Entremont, fut l’un des fondateurs de Grand-Pré. Charles, « laboureur » (recensement de 1671), exploita le domaine paternel et devint prospère ; en 1664, après avoir abjuré le protestantisme, il épousait Marie Dugas, dont il eut plusieurs enfants. Leurs descendants sont nombreux.
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Recensements de 1671, 1686.— Placide Gaudet : notes, correspondance, études généalogiques aux APC et à l’université de Moncton ; étude publiée dans Weymouth Free Press, 6 janv. 1899.— Bona Arsenault, L’Acadie des ancêtres : avec la généalogie des premières familles acadiennes (Québec, 1955), 39–41, 143s.— James Hannay, Our first families, New Brunswick Magazine, I (1898) : 129,177–186 ; II (1899) : 92–96 ; III (1899) : 17.— Rameau de Saint-Père, Une Colonie féodale.— A. W. Savary, The Acadian Melansons, New Brunswick Magazine, I (1898) : 360 ; II (1899) : 222.— Le « Laverdure » dont il est question dans RAC, 1912, App. E, 56, 58 et App. F, 69, pourrait être Pierre. Source: Dictionnaire biographique du Canada en ligne
http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Melan... ID No: 840102 Prénom: Charles Nom: Melanson La Ramée Sexe: M Occupation: Naissance: 1643 vers Paroisse/ville: Pays: Angleterre Décès: Paroisse/ville: Pays: Information, autres enfants, notes, etc. Biographie / Anecdotes Charles Melanson Immigration en 1657 à Port Royal, Acadie.
Il débarque en Acadie avec une expédition militaire anglaise contre Port-Royal. Il abjure sa religion protestante pour se marier.
Au mariage de son fils Ambroise en 1705 il est décédé.
décédé vers 1700-1701
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1678 Acadian census
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Charles Melanson
Immigration en 1657 à Port Royal, Acadie.
Il débarque en Acadie avec une expédition militaire anglaise contre Port-Royal. Il abjure sa religion protestante pour se marier.
Au mariage de son fils Ambroise en 1705 il est décédé.
décédé vers 1700-1701
MELANSON, CHARLES, laboureur, colon, né en 1643, « décédé avant 1700 ».
Les historiens ne s’accordent ni sur son origine ethnique ni sur la date de son arrivée au Canada. Indiscutablement, il est « venu d’Écosse » ; mais, comme un acte notarié le désigne comme « sieur de La Ramée » et comme son frère Pierre était surnomme « La Verdure », Placide Gaudet conclut que la famille aurait pu être d’origine française et que, parce que huguenote, elle aurait émigré en Écosse, d’où elle serait passée en Acadie. Certains prétendent que les Melanson faisaient partie de la colonie fondée par Sir William Alexander, fils. D’après Placide Gaudet, la famille arrivait au pays en 1657 avec le gouverneur Temple ; elle s’établit à Port-Royal ; plus tard, elle aurait émigré à Boston, laissant en Acadie Pierre et Charles, les seuls membres de la famille dont l’histoire a retenu les noms.
L’aîné, Pierre, dit La Verdure, tailleur, époux de Marie-Marguerite Mius d’Entremont, fut l’un des fondateurs de Grand-Pré. Charles, « laboureur » (recensement de 1671), exploita le domaine paternel et devint prospère ; en 1664, après avoir abjuré le protestantisme, il épousait Marie Dugas, dont il eut plusieurs enfants. Leurs descendants sont nombreux.
Clément Cormier
Recensements de 1671, 1686.— Placide Gaudet : notes, correspondance, études généalogiques aux APC et à l’université de Moncton ; étude publiée dans Weymouth Free Press, 6 janv. 1899.— Bona Arsenault, L’Acadie des ancêtres : avec la généalogie des premières familles acadiennes (Québec, 1955), 39–41, 143s.— James Hannay, Our first families, New Brunswick Magazine, I (1898) : 129,177–186 ; II (1899) : 92–96 ; III (1899) : 17.— Rameau de Saint-Père, Une Colonie féodale.— A. W. Savary, The Acadian Melansons, New Brunswick Magazine, I (1898) : 360 ; II (1899) : 222.— Le « Laverdure » dont il est question dans RAC, 1912, App. E, 56, 58 et App. F, 69, pourrait être Pierre. Source: Dictionnaire biographique du Canada en ligne
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charles melanson
Birth 1642 • England
Death 1700 • Port Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada
Marriage 1663 • Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada
Parents pierre melanson laverdure • priscilla melanson unknown
Spouse marie dugas
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/107923
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Charles Melanson
Birth 1642 • Yorkshire, England
Death 1700 • Port Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada
Parents Pierre Melanson Laverdue • Priscilla Mallinson
Siblings Jean John Melancon • Pierre Melanson
Spouse Marie Dugas
Children Ambroise Melanson • Anne Melancon • Cecile Melanson • Charles Melancon • Claude Melanson • Elisabeth Melancon • Francoise Melancon • Jean Melancon Laramee • Madeleine Melancon • Marie Melancon • Pierre Melancon Melanson
Lead confidence: 2
René Joseph Granger, I
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Charles Melancon
Birth 1642 • England, United Kingdom
Death before 1714 • Port-Royal, Acadia, New France
Lead confidence: 3
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/9NWJ-8Y6
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Charles Melancon
Birth 1642 • England, United Kingdom
Death before 1714 • Port-Royal, Acadia, New France
Lead confidence: 3
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/9NWJ-8YX
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Charles Melanson settled at Port Royal. The site of his establishment is well known and was studied by archaeologists, during the 1980's. Charles Melanson was fairly well educated. In 1695, he wrote to the governor of Massachusetts giving him information on French activities in Acadia. He also went regularly to Boston, possibly to visit his daughter, Marie, who lived there where she had married aFrench Huguenot, David Basset. Three of Charles' letters to Governor Stoughton are preserved in the Massachusetts archives. Despite the family connections and collaboration with the Boston colonists,the British authorities deported the families of his grandsons and their descendants. They were shipped to several New England colonies as well as to prisons in the south of England. After the 1764 peace treaty, several of the family members found a home in France (Belle-N'le-en-mer) and in Louisiana. A certain number of Melanson families managed to escape their persecutors and found refuge in Quebec, particularly in the Trois-Rivieres region. Several returned to Acadia and settled in northern New Brunswick and in the Baie-Sainte-Marie area of Nova Scotia. Several descendants of the family left their mark in Acadian history, notably the Most Reverend Arthur Melanson who became the first archbishop of Moncton and who founded the teaching order of the Filles de Marie de l' Assomption.
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! Charles arrived in Acadia (Canada) about 1657.
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Arrived from England in 1657
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Charles MELANCON, 28, wife Marie DUGAST 23; Children: Marie 7, Marguerite 5, Anne 3, Cecille 6 months; cattle 40, sheep 6. 1671 Acadian Census Port Royal
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Charles remained in Acadia after his parents left for Boston, MA. He had already converted to Catholicism and married an Acadian girl. Charles and his wife would establish their family near the old Port Royal habitation in the Port Royal basin at what is today known as the Melanson Settlement (sometimes referred to as the "Melanson Village" in old records and maps). The settlement grew quite largeover the years with a total of nine households being located on the land during its peak times. Charles and his wife Marie seem to have done reasonably well as the cenuss' show their cleared land expanding and their livestock increasing. They also had a large section of dyked marshland along the Riviere Daupin (the Annapolis River) adjacent to their property. It was from this dyke that archaelogists recently retrieved two intact aboiteax, one of which is the largest and oldest aboiteau found to date. Other archaelogical digs at the Melanson Settlement discovered the foundations of many of thehomes and buildings that once stood on the site, including the structure that housed Charles Melanson (son of Charles and Marie) and is wife Anne bourg. Besides farming, in his elder years on the opposing side of his brother Pierre, Charles became a spy for the English. Pierre and Charles' descendants would remain on the lands of the Melansons Settlement and Grand Pre until the fateful year of 1755 that saw the Melansons and their families dispersed, along with an estimated 9,000 of their fellow Acadians, to various parts of England, France and the British colonies of New England during the Expulsions. Of the Melanson Acadians that were deported to or remained in English territories after the Expulsions, the original spelling of the Melanson surname was, for the most part, retained. For those that were deported to or otherwise ended up in French territories, the name was widely frenchinized with the"s" in "son" being replaced with a "c" or cedilla according to the french pronunciationof the soft "s" on the word "son".
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!Pierre,the father,left France because of his religious convictions. In 1630-1631 he emigrated to England, married there and moved to Canada in 1657 with his family aboard the "Satisfaction". !In the papers,"Original Immigrants to New France",by Robert E.Chenard,Charles Melanson is listed as being from Scotland, and that he married Marie Dugast, who was from Acadie, at Grand Pre, Acadie(Nova Scotia) in 1663. !Charles converted and established himself at Grand-Pre,Nova Scotia,Canada. !Pierre changed his name. All of the children carried their mother's surname.
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!BIRTH: "Generations...Past to Present",by Phobe Chauvin Morrison: p. 294 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. 294 Published by Terrebonne Genealogical Society, Houma, LA. Book located in main public library in Dallas, Texas.
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!Pierre,the father,left France because of his religious convictions. In 1630-1631 he emigrated to England, married there and moved to Canada in 1657 with his family aboard the "Satisfaction". !In the papers,"Original Immigrants to New France",by Robert E.Chenard,Charles Melanson is listed as being from Scotland, and that he married Marie Dugast, who was from Acadie, at Grand Pre, Acadie(Nova Scotia) in 1663. !Charles converted and established himself at Grand-Pre,Nova Scotia,Canada. !Pierre changed his name. All of the children carried their mother's surname. !Charles MELANCON, 28, wife Marie DUGAST 23; Children: Marie 7, Marguerite 5, Anne 3, Cecille 6 months; cattle 40, sheep 6. [1671 Census] !St.John Telegraph-Journal, Mon.,Aug.8,1994;p.A5- It was believed for a long time that this family originally came from Scotland. However, Father Clarence d'Entremont has established that this family is of French origins. The ancestor in Acadia, Pierre Laverdure, was a French Huguenot who went to England where he married an Englishwoman named Prescila Melanson.. Pierre Laverdure came to Acadia with Sir Thomas Temple during the English occupation. Two of his sons adopted their mother's surname, Melanson, and stayed in Acadia while a third, John, kept the surname Laverdure and moved to Boston. After Acadia was returned to France following the Treaty of Breda, in 1667, the family settled inBoston with the exception of his two sons, Pierre and Charles Melanson who had married Acadians and converted to Roman Catholicism.
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Charles is son of Pricilla Wright from second marriage
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Other sources give Scotland as their country of origin.
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!BIRTH-PARENTS-CENSUS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-DEATH: Stephen A. W hite, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 16 36-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes , 1999, 2 vols.; pp. 1145 & 1146; own copy. #2: !BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Arsenault, H&G, p. 687 (Port Roya l). Brother of Pierre, arrived in Acadia around 1657, marri ed around 1663. !NAME-IMMIGRATION-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: "Progenitors--Those Mo st Misunderstood," ACADIAN GENEALOGY EXCHANGE; ; vol. XXIII , no. 4 (Oct 1994); P. 118; own copy; these facts have bee n verified by the Centre d'Etudes acadiennes as accurate. " Pierre MELANSON, a French Protestant who emigrated from Fra nce to England. He met and married Priscilla
.They em igrated to Boston. Two of their three sons, Pierre and Char les, moved to Acadia. Priscilla later married a sea captain ." !IMMIGRATION: "emigrated to Acadia with his brother, who la ter became a pioneer in the settlement of Grand-Pre'." "Up on their arrival in Acadia, the Melanson brothers converte d to Catholicism." (AGE, v. 22, No. 4). !IMMIGRATION-MARRIAGE-RESIDENCES: ACADIAN GENEALOGY EXCHANG E; ; vol. 25, no. 4 (Oct 1996); p. 112; own copy. Article a nd picture on "The Melanson Settlement: circa 1664-1735," f rom THE GRIFFIN, publication of the Heritage Society of Nov a Scotia. Charles MELANSON came to Acadia from England in 1 657 as a boy of 14, with his parents and two brothers, Pier re and John. The father Pierre LAVENDURE [sic] was a Huguen ot who had moved to England from France before 1632; his wi fe Priscilla was English. In 1667 when Acadia was returne d to France by the Treaty of Breda, Charles' parents and br other John moved to Boston, MA, while Charles, who had marr ied three years before, and brother Pierre remained in Acad ia. A British document dated 1734 stated that the land no w known as Melanson Settlement was granted originally to Ch arles MELANSON and "honest" Marie DUGAS. Note: A bibliograp hy of documents, maps, photos of resea rch were published i n Environment Canada's RESEARCH BULLETIN No. 250 (Sep 1986). !MARRIAGE: D'Entremont "New Findings", FCAGR (Winter 1969) , p. 240. !CENSUS-NAME: 1671, Port Royal, Acadia, name spelled Charl e MELANSON, listed beside Pierre MELANSON, age 28 years, La borer, living with wife Marie DUGAST age 23, and their fou r daughters. There are also 40 cattle, 6 sheep and 20 worka ble "arpans" of land (quite a lot). !CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, age 44 years, name spell ed MELANSON, living with wife and 7 children. They have 1 g un, 6 arpens land, 20 cattle, 12 sheep and 6 pigs. Did th e 3 older girls marry? !CENSUS: 1693, Port Royal, Acadia, age 46 years [sic], nam e MELANCON. Living with wife Marie Du Gats [check] and 8 ch ildren. They have 20 cattle, 25 sheep, 12 pigs, on 35 arpen s of land, with 4 guns. !CENSUS: On the 1698 census of Port Royal Charles MELANCON , age 57 years, has 76 fruit trees. !CENSUS: 1700, age 53 years (sic).
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!NOTES: 1. Discrepancy on spelling of surname Melanson or Melancon?
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PART OF THE EXPEDITION WITH HIS FATHER THAT ARRIVED IN 1657. STAYED INPORT ROYAL; HIS FATHER REMOVED AND ESTABLISHED GRAND PRE.
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1671 Acadian Census Charles Melancon, 28, wife, Marie Dugast 23; Children: Marie 7,Marguerite 5, Anne 3, Cecille 6months Cattle 40, sheep 6. 1686 Census Port Royal, Acadia Charles Melanson 44, Marie Dugas 38, Children: Isabelle 13, Charles 11,Madeleine 9, Marie 7, Francoise 4, Pierre and Ambroise, twins, 10 months, 1 gun, 20 cattle, 12 sheep, 6 hogs, 6 arpents 1693 Acadian Census Charles Melancon 46, Marie Dugas 42, Charles 18, Madeleine 16, Marie 12, Francoise 10, Pierre and Ambroise(twins) 8, Claude 5, Jeanne 3 20 cattle, 25 sheep, 12 pigs, 35 arpents, 4 guns 1698 Acadian Census, Port Royal Charles Mellanson 57, Marie Dugast (wife) 52 Charles 23, Marie 18, Ambroise and Pierre, twins 13, Claude 11, Jean 8,Marguerite 5 15 cattle, 9 sheep, 9 hogs, 35 arpents, 76 fruit trees, 2 guns No. 250 September 1986 The Melanson Settlement: An Acadian Farming Community (ca. 1664-1755) Andrée Crépeau and Brenda Dunn Introduction During the summer of 1984, Environment Canada - Parks and the Nova ScotiaMuseum undertook a joint project to assess the archaeological evidence ofAcadian settlements along the Annapolis River in Nova Scotia. TheMuseum's team, under the direction of David Christianson, surveyed thearea locating potential sites. An earlier preliminary survey and anexcavation at Belleisle, also along the Annapolis River, had indicatedthat the full extent of the Acadian archaeological resource was not knownand was in need of urgent investigation due to pressures from farming anddevelopment. The Parks team, headed by Andree Crépeau, Fortress of LouisbourgArchaeolo-gist, tested four features that had been identified byChristianson. Only two produced material dating to the Acadian occupationand these form part of what is now known as the Melanson Settlement. Therichness of the initial two finds led to more extensive excavations. Inaddition, Brenda Dunn, Atlantic Regional Office historian, undertook toresearch the historical record for information on the area and its 17th-a nd 18th-century occupants. Our overall objective is to assess themagnitude and nature of the site. The Melanson Settlement is located on the north shore of the AnnapolisRiver, 6.5 kilometres from the town of Annapolis Royal (formerlyPort-Royal and hereafter cited as such), Nova Scotia (see Fig. 1). Likemany Acadian settlements, it was situated on a point of high ground onthe edge of an upland overlooking a salt marsh and the river. To the eastwas the large marsh of Saint-Charles, dyked and drained for cultivation.To the west was another marsh, and beyond that the site of the de MontsHabitation, built in 1605 and destroyed in 1613. For almost a century,until the British deportation of Acadians in 1755, the settlement washome to Charles Melanson, Marie Dugas and their descendants andassociates. The purpose of this Research Bulletin is to present both an overview ofthe history of the Melanson Settlement and the preliminary findings fromrecent archaeological excavations. A more comprehensive publication isanticipated after the completion of the excavations. History Charles Melanson came to Acadia when he was a boy of about 14,accompanying his parents on their voyage from England in 1657. His fatherwas Pierre Laverdure, a Huguenot who had moved to England from Francebefore 1632; his mother, whose first name was Priscilla, was English. Thefamily, which included at least two other children, Pierre and John,sailed from England on the Satisfaction with Thomas Temple, therecently-appointed English governor of Acadia. The family is thought to have settled initially on the Saint John River.Then in 1667, when Acadia as returned to France by the Treaty of Breda,Charles' parents and brother John moved to Boston.. Charles and Pierreremained in Acadia where they had begun to put down roots. CharlesMelanson had renounced Protestantism in 1664 and married Marie Dugas,daughter of Port-Royal armourer Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Doucet.Following their marriage, the young couple probabl y settled on the landwhich we now know as the Melanson Settlement in the Port-Royal area.Although no concession has been found, a British document of 1734 statesthat this land was granted originally to Charles Melanson and "honest"Marie Dugas. In 1671, seven years after their marriage, the Melansonswere major landholders at Port-Royal. The first census of Acadia, takenin that year, stated that Charles Melanson and Marie Dugas held 20arpents of workable land. Not all of it was under cultivation, for thenext census, in 1686, recorded that only six arpents of their land wasworked. In 1671, they owned 40 head of cattle and six sheep. Charles wasdescribed as a "laboureur," probably in the context of one who works theland. The family, at the time consisted of four young daughters. Intotal, nine daughters and five sons were born to Charles Melanson andMarie Dugas between circa 1664 and circa 1693 (see Table 1). The eldest,Marie, was brought up in Boston by her grandmother, strengthening CharlesMelanson's ties with that colony. Of the other children, eightestablished households in the family settlement, where many remained fortheir adult lives. Two daughters settled elsewhere in the Port-Royalarea, two established at Beaubassin and one apparently died. It seems that the Melanson settlement expanded to four families duringthe late 1690s. Cecille Melanson may have been the first child to formaseparate household within the family community when she married AbrahamBoudrot, identified in the late 1680s as an Acadian ship captain/trader.Another daughter, Anne, returned to Port-Royal from Cape Sable with herchildren after the death of her husband, Jacques Saint-Etienne de LaTour. Apparently accompanying Anne on her return was Jean Roy dit LaLiberte and his Indian wife, Marie Aubois. The 1698 census groups thesethree families with Charles Melanson and Marie Dugas for the first time.At that time the Melanson parents were still major Port-Royallandholders, with 35 arpents of land and oneof the largest orchards (76trees). Abraham Boudrot and Cecille Melanson owned three arpents whilethe other two newly-arrived couples held none. Thirty-nine head ofcattle, 23 sheep and 19 pigs constituted the livestock belonging to thefour families. There were 21 children in total, seven of them in CharlesMelanson's household. A series of deaths and marriages changed the composition of thesettlement over the next decade. Charles Melanson died circa 1700,leaving Marie Dugas to survive him by almost four decades, until herdeath in 1737 at the age of about 91. When Abraham Boudrot died, hiswidow remarried and apparently left the settlement. The widow La Tour orAnne Melanson, however, stayed on, marrying Alexandre Robichaud andbeginning a second family. Another daughter, Magdeleine, married JeanBelliveau and also settled in the family community, remaining there withher children after her husband was killed during a British assault on thefort at Port-Royal in 1707. Charles and Ambroise seemto have been thefirst Melanson sons to marry and bring their brides to the flourishingfamily settlement of the north shore of the Annapolis River. The five households and gardens of the Melanson Settlement appear on a1708 map which provides the first definite evidence of who was living inthe settlement (see Fig. 2). The households are identified as: "M. LaRamée" (Marie Dugas, La The households are identified as: "M. La Ramée" (Marie Dugas, LaRaméehaving been part of Charles Melanson's name), "Le Belliveau' (MagdeleineMelanson, Jean having died in 1707), "melancon" (probably Charles, theeldestson), "Alexdre Robicheau" (Anne's second husband), and "LaLiberté" (Jean Roy). Ambroise Melanson, who had married in 1705, wasprobably also living in the settlement. He likely owned the unidentifiedhouse beside his mothers on the next map of the settlement, drawn in1710. According to the 1707 census, which lists the six families together, theMelanson group had 17 arpents under cultivat ion and owned 75 cattle, 48pigs and 106 sheep. Jean Roy still did not have any land undercultivation which, combined with the fact that he was not related to theMelansons, made him somewhat of an anomaly in thesettlement. In 1714, a year after the Treaty of Utrecht ceded Acadia to GreatBritain, the settlement apparently reached its maximum size - ninehouseholds with 16 adults and 25 children. The Melanson sons headed fivehouseholds, a Melanson daughter (the widow Belliveau) headed another,while Alexandre Robichaud, Marie Dugas (the widow Melanson) and Jean Royheaded the other three. Expansion of the settlement seems to have ended with the marriage of thelast of the Melanson children in 1714. With the end of the French regime it becomes difficult to trace thehistory of the settlement because there are no censuses after 1714 and nomaps and documents showing precisely where people were living. Like mostAcadians, the Melansons and Roys chose to live under British rule ratherthan move to Isle Royale. In 1720 Alexandre Robichaud was one of thedeputies elected to represent the Acadians in their dealings with the newgovernment at Annapolis Royal; in 1745, the youngest Melanson son, Jean,was a deputy. The British sometimes extended "Pointe De Chesne" or "Pointe auxChesnes," the name of the point on the other side of the Saint-Charlesmarsh, to the Melanson settlement. In 1733 the settlement was describedas: "the land belonging to the Melansons of the Village formerly calledPointe De Chesne but now by the name of Oaktown." In 1734, on a listing of seigneurial rents owed to the British crown, thesettlement was identified as "No. 21 Plantation," owned by CharlesMelanson and his brothers, a description that reflects the Britishorientation to male Landholding. Interestingly, the British governmenthad acquired title to seigneurial rights in Acadia through a formerresident of the Melanson Settlement, Agathe Saint-Etienne de La Tour,Anne Melanson's daughter by her first marriage. In 1
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Charles Melanson & Marie Dugas had 14 children
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As of 1671 Charles was still listed as a laborer in the 1699 census.
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!BIRTH: Information from Beauregard, Dictionnaire Genealogique l'Ancienne Acadia, available on the Internet at http://www.cam.org/beaur/dgaa/dgaa-mo.html (gives year of birth but no parents' names butno place of birth); place of birth in England from: http://frenchcaculture.miningco.com/msub8.htm (website doesn't explain why children take mother's family name or why the family was in England). !CHRISTENING: Information from Beauregard, Dictionnaire Genealogique l'Ancienne Acadia, available on the Internet at http://www.cam.org/beaur/dgaa/dgaa-mo.html (assumed to be ay place of birth). !MARRIAGE: Information not found; estimated year is based on this person's year of birth and children's birth years. !DEATH: Information from: http://frenchcaculture.miningco.com/msub8.htm (website doesn't explain why children take mother's family name or why the family was in England). !BURIAL: Information not researched.
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Charles Melanson, ploughman and settler, was born in 1643 and died some time before 1700 (1695). Historians agree neither on his ethnic origin nor on the date of his arrival in Canada. Undeniably, he "came from Scotland"; but as a notarial contract designated him Sieur de La Ramee" and his brother was nicknamed "La Verdure", Placide Gaudet concluded that the family might have been of French originand that, because it was Huguenot, it might have emigrated to Scotland, whence it went to Acadia. Some writers claim that the Melansons belonged to the settlement founded by Sir William Alexander, the younger. According to Placide Gaudet, the family arrived in the colony in 1657 with Governor Temple; it settled at Port Royal; later it is thought to have emigrated to Boston, leaving in Acadia Pierre and Charles, the only members of the family whose names have been preserved in history. The elder, Pierre dit La Verdure, a tailor, husband of Marie Marguerite Mius d'Entremont, was one of the founders of Grand Pre. Charles, a "laboureur" (ploughman), according to the 1671 census, worked the paternal estate and became prosperous; in 1664, after renouncing Protestantism, he married Marie Dugas by whom he had several children. Their descendants have been numerous. From Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol I Renounced Protestantism in 1664 before marriage
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Charles Melanson "Charles Melanson, age 14, and his parents arrived in Acadia from England in 1657. His father, Pierre LaVerdure, was a Huguenot who had moved to England from France before 1632. His mother, Priscilla, was English, a fact that is well accepted by historians, although generations of die-hard descendants, who will not admit an ounce of English blood, continue to insist that she was Scottish. The family, which included at least two other children, Pierre and John, sailed from England on the Satisfaction with Thomas Temple, the newly appointed Governor of Acadia. The family is thought to have settled originally on the Saint James River. Then in 1667, when Acadia was returned to France by the Treaty of Breda, Charles' parents and brother John moved to Boston. Charles and Pierre remained in Acadia. Charles had renounced Protestantism in 1664 and married Marie Dugas, daughter of Port Royal armorer, Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Douchet. Following their marriage, they probably settled on the land which we now know as the Melanson Settlement in the Port Royal area. Although no concession has been found, a British document of 1734 states that this land was granted originally to Charles Melanson and "honest" Marie Dugas. By 1671, the Melansons were majors landholders at Port Royal. The first census, taken that year listed 20 arpents of workable land, not all of it under cultivation, 40 head of cattle and 6 sheep. Charles was described as a "labourer", and the family had 4 daughters at the time. In total, 5 sons and 9 daughters were born ca. 1664 - ca. 1693. The eldest, Marie, was brought up in Boston by her grandmother, strengthening Charles' ties with that colony. Of the other children, 8 established households in the Melanson settlement, where they remained for their adult lives. One daughter settled elsewhere in the Port Royal are, one settled at Beaubassin, and one apparently died." Research Bulletin 250, The Melanson Settlement (1664-1755), Canadian Minister of the Enviroment - 1671 Port Royal: Charles Melanson 29, wife Marie Dugas 23, Marie 6, Marguerite 4, Anne 2; 40 cattle, 6 sheep, 20 arpents - 1686 Port Royal: Charles Melanson 44, Marie Dugas 38, Isabelle 13, Charles 11, Madeleine 9, Marie 7, Francoise 4, twins Pierre & Ambroise 10 months; 20 cattle, 12 sheep, 6 hogs, 6 arpents, 1 gun. - 1693 Port Royal: Charles Melancon 46, wife Marie Dugats 42, Charles 18, Madeleine 16, Marie 12, Francoise 10, twins Pierre & Ambroise 8, Claude 5, Jeanne 3; 20 cattle, 25 sheep, 12 hogs, 35 arpents, 4 guns. - 1698 Port Royal: Charles Melanson 57, wife MarieDugast 52, Charles 23, Marie 18, twins Ambroise & Pierre 13, Claude 11, Jean 8, Marguerite 5; 15 cattle, 9 sheep, 9 hogs, 35 arpents, 76 fruit trees, 2 guns. - 1700 Port Royal: Charles Melanson 53, wife Marie Dugast 49, twins Pierrre & Ambroise 15, Claude 12, Jeanne 10; 30 cattle, 22 sheep, 35 arpents, 2 guns. - 1701 Port Royal: Widow Marie Dugas 50, twins Ambroise & Pierre 15, Claude 12, Jean 10, Marguerite 8; 9 cattle, 8 sheep, 8 hogs, 10 arpents, 2 guns. - 1703 Port Royal: Widow Charles Melanson, 4 boys, 1 girl - 1707 Port Royal: Widow Melanson, 3 boys 14 or older, 1 girl 12 or older; 18 cattle, 15 sheep, 12 hogs, 6 arpents, 2 guns. - 1714 Port Royal (near the fort): Widow Melanson
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:Charles (dit LA RAME'E) MELANSON was christened in London, England 14Dec 1642 named Carol Meranzon, parents are Petri Meranzon and Priscillae.≤ref>"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JMF1-LQ2 : 11 February 2018, Carol Meranzon, 14 Dec 1642); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 560,369, 560,370.≤/ref>≤ref>2003-2016 University of Toronto/Université Laval of Canadian Biography Online≤/ref>≤ref>Title: Cahiers, Les; Author: La Société historique acadienne; vol. 43, no. 3 (Sep 2012), p. 47. Source published by Karen Theriot Reader, Rootsweb.com:Text: In the parish register of St. Martin in the Fields Church in London, Caroly [Charles] Meranzon baptized December 14, 1642.≤/ref>
Charles came to Acadie with his parents and family which included at least two other children, Pierre and Jean, who sailed from England on the "Satisfaction" with Thomas Temple, the newly appointed governor of Acadia.≤ref name= "Delaney" /> They originally settled in the St. John River area. After his parents and brother Jean moved to Boston, Charles and Pierre remained in Acadia ≤ref name = "Settlement">Charles Melanson Story citing "The Melanson Settlement (1664-1755), Research Bulletin #250 published by Canadian Minister of Environment. R61-9/250E ISSN: 0228-1228≤/ref>
The Melanson sons were considered educated.≤ref name= "Delaney">Paul Delaney, “Les Melanson en Angleterre”, Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 43, no. 3 (September 2012), pp. 45.≤/ref> On the 1694 oath of allegiance at Port Royal, Charles MELLANSON could sign his name, making up one of the 29% of those able to do so.≤ref name = "Faracher">Faragher, John Mack. A Great and Noble Scheme: The TragicStory of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from TTheir Ameriocan Homeland, W. W. Norton & Company, Feb 17, 2006, p. 500Book≤/ref> He also wrote letters. ≤ref>Ebacher, Laurie "Charles Mellanson Letters," Memoires de la Scoiete Genealogique canadienne-francoise (1955), pp 326-317≤/ref>
Charles had close ties to Boston and the English, possibly giving him a favored status in trade and protection during altercations between the Acadians and English. In 1696, he ask for and received a militia captian commission from Massachusetts Lt, governor William Stoughton..≤ref>Reid, Joh G, Basque, Maurice, Mancke, Elisabeth. "The "conquest" of Acadia, 1710: Imperioal, Colonial, and Aboriginal Constructions, University fo Toronto Press, 2001, pp 52-54 Book≤/ref>
Charles Melanson and Marie Dugas, daughter of Abraham & Marguerite Doucet married around 1663 in Port-Royal.≤ref name= "white">White, Stephen A. ”Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes” 2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999, p 1146-1147 ≤blockquote>Charles Melanson dit La Ramée, (Pierre (1) & Priscilla---,) married around 1663 to Marie DUGAS, daughter of Abraham & Marguerite DOUCET.≤/blockquote> citing Déclarations de Belle-Île-en-Mer, 1767≤/ref> Following his marriage, they probably settled on the land which we now know as the Melanson Settlement≤ref>Melanson Settlement≤/ref> in the Port Royal area. A British document of 1734 states that this land was granted originally to Charles Melanson and "honest" Marie Dugas.≤ref name = "Settlement" />
In 1671, Charles lived with Marie, four daughters and had 40 cattle and six sheep.≤ref>1671 Census≤/ref> By 1686, his family had increased to seven children at home, and he had acquired a gun, six arpents of land, 12 sheep, six hogs, andhalf the cattle.≤ref>[http://www.acadian-home.org/census1686.html 1868 Census≤/ref> Charles continued to prosper; by 1693, he owned 35 arpents, 20 cattle, 25 sheep, 12 hogs and four guns.≤ref>1693 Census≤/ref> Five years later he also owns 76 fruit trees on the 35 arpents.≤ref>1698 Census≤/ref> He is still living in 1700 at the time of the census, with his wife Marie and four children still at home≤ref>1700 Census≤/ref> By the time of the 1701 Census, his wife was counted as a widow with the same five children, no sheep, 10 arpents, nine cattle, and eight hogs.≤ref>1701 Census≤/ref>
Charles died at Port-Royal in 1700 or 1701.≤ref>White, Stephen A. ”Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes” 2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999, p 1146-1147 ≤blockquote> Charles died (Belle-Ile-en-Mer Declaration) at Port Royal in 1700 or 1701.≤/blockquote>≤/ref>
Children≤ref>Children≤/ref>
- Marie MELANSON b: Abt 1664 in Port Royal, Acadia
- Marguerite MELANSON b: Abt 1666 in Port Royal, Acadia
- Anne MELANSON b: Abt 1668 in Port Royal, Acadia
- Cecile MELANSON b: Abt May 1671 in Port Royal, Acadia
- Elisabeth MELANSON b: Abt 1673 in Port Royal, Acadia
- Charles MELANSON b: Abt 1675 in Port Royal, Acadia
- Madeleine MELANSON b: Abt 1677 in Port Royal, Acadia
- Marie MELANSON b: Abt 1680 in Port Royal, Acadia
- Francoise MELANSON b: Abt 1683 in Port Royal, Acadia
- Ambroise MELANSON b: Abt Mar 1685 in Port Royal, Acadia
- Pierre MELANSON b: Abt Mar 1685 in Port Royal, Acadia
- Claude MELANSON b: Abt 1688 in Port Royal, Acadia
- Jean (dit Jani) MELANSON b: Abt 1690 in Port Royal, Acadia
- Marguerite MELANSON b: Abt 1693 in Port Royal, Acadia
; The eldest, Marie, was brought up in Boston by her grandmother, strengthening Charles' ties with that colony. Of the other children, eightestablished households in the Melanson Settlement, where they remained for their adult lives. One daughter settled elsewhere in the Port Royal area, one settled in Beaubassin, and one apparently died.≤ref>The Story of Charles Melanson≤/ref>
"L'aîné de ces fils fut Charles, né vers 1643, qui avait épousé Marie Dugas, fille d'Abraham Dugas et de Marguerite Doucet. Ceux-ci onteu neuf filles et cinq garçons, dont deux, Charles et Jean, sont devenus les ancêtres des Melanson du sud-est du Nouveau-Brunswick"≤ref>White, Stephen A. La généalogie des trente-sept familleshôtesses des "Retrouvailles 94", Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 25, nos 2 et 3 (1994).≤/ref> (translation: Theeldest of these sons was Charles, born about 1643, who had married Marie Dugas, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Doucet. They had nine daughters and five boys, two of whom, Charles and John, became theancestors of the Melanson of southeastern New Brunswick.)
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1698 Census
Rene GRANGER 23; Marguerite TERIOT (wife) 21; Marie 2, Madeleine 1/2; 6 cattle, 10 sheep, 10 1/2 arpents, 1 gun.
1700 Census
Rene GRANGER 28; Marguerite TERRIOT (wife) 21; Marie 4; Marguerite 2; 4 cattle, 6 sheep, 3 arpents, 1 gun.
1703 Census
Rene GRANGER, his wife, 2 boys, 1 girl, 1 arms bearer.
1707 Census
Rene GRANGER and his wife, 2 boys less than 12, 3 girls less than 12; 4 arpents, 20 cattle, 20 sheep, 13 hogs, 1 gun.
1714 Census
Rene GRANGER and wife, 5 sons, 3 daughters.
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Category:Acadia, Needs Formatting Category:Port-Royal, Acadie
Biography
LES ACADIENS DE GRAND’PRÉ
Aspect général de la sinistre ‘’liste de Winslow’’1La liste comprend 15 grandes pages, en forme d’état comparable, totalisées deux par deux, ce qui laisse supposerqu’elle fut écrite sur un grand registre, dans le sens horizontal. Les pages de droite sont seules totalisées, la dernière et
quinzième page sert de récapitulation générale.Sur la première page, en titre : ‘’Grand’Pré, September the 15th 1755, The names of the French Inhabitants,belonging to Grand’Pré, Mines River, Habitant, Cannard & Places adjatient Confined by Lieut Col Winslow within hiscamp in this place after coming in on his citation on the 5th of September’’.2Chaque page comprend les colonnes suivantes : ‘’Men’s names, Villages’names, Sons, Daughters, Bullocks,Cowes, Young Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Horses.3’’. A noter qu’à partir de la page 7, les ‘’bullocks’’ se transforment en ‘’oxen’’.Chaque Acadien ‘’chef de famille’’ est inscrit sur une ligne avec ses enfants et son cheptel. De nombreuses lignesincomplètes comprenant seulement nom et prénom, doivent être cellesde jeunes garçons (ceux au dessus de 10 ans)emprisonnés avec leur père. Il est donc probable que les ‘’ sons’’ figurant au regard de chaque père étaient âgés de moins de 10 ans.Très curieusement, dès la page 11, l’écriture n’est plus la même qu’au début, et ceci jusqu’au 2/3 environ de lapage 14. Le dernier nom inscrit de cette ‘’deuxième main’’ est celui d’Olivier Bellefontaine (nom du père d’Evangéline).Cette écriture ressemble d’ailleurs à celle des …… Acadiens eux-mêmes, comme on peut le vérifier avec plusieurs écrits, dont deux de Joseph-Simon Granger.Qu’est-ce à dire ? Winslow aurait-il eu l’impudence de faire faire son travail partiellement par un Acadien ? on ne peutl’affirmer. Il est probable cependant, que c’est le ‘’père’’ Francis Landry, interprète des Acadiens auprès de Winslow,cité d’ailleurs en fin de liste par Winslow lui-même, qui a complété le travail initial de recensement anglais. A la reprise,page 14, de l’écriture ‘’première main’’, il est visible, en tout cas, que l’assurance du scripteur n’est plus la même. Deslibations trop abondantes ont-elles précédé la reprise de sa tâche?La récapitulation générale indique 446 hommes en tout (chacun est numéroté en début de ligne). Suit la mention :‘’37 Dispatch List Not Given in’’ 4834. A ces 483 hommes ont été ajoutés : ‘’337 Women Married’’, ‘’527 sons’’ (inscritssur la liste), ‘’576 Daughters’’ (également inscrites sur la liste), soit un total de 1923 personnes.51 Ne doit pas être reproduite sans autorisation de la société d’Histoire du Massachusetts2 Grand’Pré le 15 septembre 1755, les noms des habitants français de Grand’Pré, Rivière des Mines, Habitant, Rivière-aux-Canards etlocalités adjacentes,enfermés en ce lieu par le Lieut Colonel Winslow dans son camp aprèss’y être rendus à sa réquisition le 5 septembre.3 Noms des Hommes, noms des Villages, fils, filles, taureaux, vaches, jeunes bovins, moutons, porcs, chevaux. Après la page 7 les taureaux deviennent des boeufs. 4 37 dont la liste nominative de départ n’a pas été remise.483 5 337 femmes mariées, 527 fils, 576 fillesEn dessous, en très petits caractères, le chiffre de ‘’820 Old &Infirm Not Mentionned Given in’’6. Le total général de la population serait donc de 1923 + 820 soit 2743. Noms des villagesMalgré l’écriture parfois difficile à lire, les déformations phonétiques et l’orthographe déficiente, il semble qu’onpuisse identifier et dénombrer un certain nombre de ‘’Villages’’ avec des ‘’Chefs de Clans’’ très souvent placés en tête: On trouve donc en tout vingt-trois villages qui devaient constituer autant de petites tribus groupées autour de leurfondateur ou de ses descendants. A la suite de chaque ‘’Chef de Clan’’, les gendres et beaux-frères expliquent la présence de patronymes différents.Parmi les villages présentant la plus grande homogénéité de noms, il faut citer :- le Village des Granger, avec un seul nom ‘’étranger’’, Honoré Daigre (n° 30) - le Village des Dupuis, - le Village des Antoine LandryCeci veut sans doute dire qu’ils étaient les plus récents, ce qui est confirmé par l’inscription à la suite (numéros 25 à 29), des cinq fils de René Granger.Il est possible d’en déduire que René Granger était le fondateur du Village des Granger, avec sa femme Marguerite Terriot, et queces deux pionniers doivent être enterrés à Grand’Pré, comme l’indiquent d’ailleurs les ‘’Fiches du Père Hébert’’, au Centred’Etudes Acadiennes de Moncton, et en contradiction avec Bona Arsenault qui place les décès à Port-Royal.Comme quoi, le Lieutenant-colonel Winslow a facilité sans le savoir la tâche des généalogistes futurs… Cheptel des Acadiens de Grand’PréL’élevage, (les Acadiens étaient grands consommateurs de viande salée), et la culture étaient les principales occupations de nos ancêtres. 96 Liste, qui a été remise, de 820 vieillards et infirmes dont les noms n’ont pas été mentionnés. 7 Un bègue ?Afin d’établir quelques comparaisons, et d’essayer d’en tirer des conclusions, voici le calcul de la moyenne des bestiaux par ‘’homme’’ inscrit sur la liste. On obtient ainsi :
Bœufs 1269/483 2,63 Vaches 1557/483 3,22 Veaux 2181/483 4,51 Moutons 8690/483 18,00 Porcs 4197/483 8,69 Chevaux 493/483 1,02 En ce qui concerne les ‘’records’’ du cheptel, il y a respectivement :
Bœufs Joseph Boudro (n° 366) 9 Vaches Pierre Landry (n° 419) 16 Veaux Charles Leblanc (n° 119) 31 Moutons Jean-Baptiste Daigre (n° 12) 98 Porcs Honoré-Michel Boudrot (n° 45) 70 Chevaux Simon Leblanc (n° 173) 6Ces chiffres paraissent indiquer que la viande ‘’de boucherie’’ était plutôt constituée par les moutons et les porcs.Le nombre assez faible de vaches laisse entendre qu’elles étaient surtout destinées à fournir le lait des familles. Les boeufs,sans doute unis par paires, servaient d’animaux de trait. Le cheval de la famille acadienne devait être attelé à la carriole, pour les déplacements.Tous ces chiffres varieraient bien entendu si l’on ne tenait compte que des ‘’Chefs de Familles’’ adultes, enéliminant dans les calculs les enfants mâles en bas âge, et donc non encore installés.
Les Granger possédaient à cette époque :
Noms Bœufs Vaches Veaux Moutons Porcs Chevaux Granger Joseph (n° 25) 3 3 3 30 20 2 Granger Jean Baptiste (n° 48) 5 7 8 40 12 1 Granger Joseph-Simon (n° 402) 4 8 16 30 12 2 Terriot Jean (n° 14) 4 4 6 40 15 3 Ils se seraient donc placés, si l’on se réfère seulement aux chiffres déterminés ci-dessus, quelque peu au-dessus de la moyenne des Acadiens des Villages de Grand’Pré. Positions respectives des Acadiens sur la listeIl est possible de situer la position de beaucoup d’Acadiens rapatriés en France, soit par lecture directe de la liste,soit par regroupements avec les Déclarations de généalogies de Belle-Île en Mer.
Les GrangerCinq fils de René Granger et de Marguerite Terriot sont placés en tête des autres Granger. Ce sont dans l’ordre :- Joseph (n° 25), René (n° 26), Charles (n° 27), François (n° 28), Jean (n° 29). Ils précèdent, en effet, toujours dans l’ordre,- Joseph (n° 31), Anselme (n° 32), Joseph (n° 33), Francis (n° 34), Charles (n° 35), Amand (n° 36), tous du village des Granger Viennent ensuite :- Jean-Baptiste (n° 48), du village de Jean Terriot, avec deux filles, - Joseph (n° 313), du village des Richard, - Amand (n° 321), du village de Petit-Gotro, - Pierre (n° 361), du village de Petit-Gotro, - Jean-Baptiste (n° 373), du village de Petit-Gotro, - Bruno (n° 379), du village de Petit-Gotro, - Laurent (n° 381), du village de Petit-Gotro,- Joseph-Simon (n° 402), du village des Granger, isolé des autres membres de sa famille, avec deux fils et une fille.- Charles (n° 440), sans indication de village, sous ‘’les Gasparaux’’. On peut en déduire :a) Que le vieux Joseph Granger 8 avait encore un fils de moins de 10 ans, qu’on ne retrouve pas à Belle-Île en Mer,b) Que Jos-Simon Granger dut avoir un deuxième fils entre son aîné (Jean Baptiste Toussaint et sa fille aînée, Elizabeth9, probablementdécédé avant l’afféagement à Belle-Île.c) Que Jean-Baptiste Granger dut également perdre une fille avant l’afféagement à Belle-Île. Il habitait le ‘’Village des Terriot’’, ce qui ne paraît pas illogique, sa femme étant Marie-Magdelaine Terriot, fille de Jean Terriot et Marie DaigreLa position ‘’en retrait’’ de Jos-Simon Granger est très bizarre. On sait qu’il fut pratiquement le leader du blocGranger à Belle-Île (avec le n° 1 des chefs de familles acadiennes), et il aurait dû, logiquement, se situer avec ses frères duvillage des Granger… Aurait-il pris les bois au lieu de se rendre àl’église Saint Charles des Mines, pour se faire prendreensuite ? Était-il en voyage ? Toutes les hypothèses peuvent être envisagées, mais il y a eu quelque chose à son sujet. (Aremarquer également qu’un Joseph Trahan est immédiatement avant lui). Etaient-ils ensemble au moment du rassemblementdu 5 septembre 1755 ? Étaient-ils parmi les députés acadiens emprisonnés à Halifax quelque temps avant ?
Les Terriot 13 Terriot figurent sur la liste de Winslow. Ce sont, dans l’ordre :- Pierre (n° 13), du village des Terriot ‘’de C’’ (Canard River, Rivière-aux-Canards) avec deux fils et sept filles10, - Janis (Jean n° 14), du village des Terriot, - Charles (n° 15), du village des Terriot ‘’de C’’, - Cyprien (n° 16), du village des Terriot, - Charles (n° 40), du village de Jean Terriot, - Germain (n° 44), du village de Jean Terriot, - Olivier (n° 266), du village de Pierre Leblanc, - Jean (n° 267), du village de Pierre Leblanc, - Pierre (n° 281), du village de Pierre Leblanc, - Jean (n° 406), du village de Jean Terriot, - Charles (n° 407), du village de Jean Terriot ? - Jacques (n° 414), du village de Grand’Pré.Là encore, on peut penser que Jean Terriot perdit un de ses fils entre 1755 et 1767, durant la captivité en Angleterre ou durant le séjour dans les ports français (où il y eut dans les deux cas des épidémies de variole dont furent victimes beaucoup d’Acadiens).Comme pour Jos-Simon Granger, Jean Terriot (n° 406) et Charles Terriot (n° 407) sont isolés des autres Terriot, habitant le village des Terriot. Un groupe Granger-Terriot-Trahan semble donc avoir été constitué, qui ne fut pas fait prisonnier dans les mêmes conditions que les autres… 8 Décédé à Falmouth-Penryn (Angleterre) le 31 décembre 17569 Mariée Le Palais le 11 juin 1776 avec le Jurassien Etienne Clavey ‘’Fourrier du régiment d’Enghien en garnison dans cette île’’ et demeurant à Kervarigeon (Bangor)10 Pratiquement tous mariés à des Granger du village des Granger voisin du leur. Jean Terriot (n° 14) est aussi décédé avant l’arrivée des déportés en France. Autres Acadiens belliloisIls étaient les signataires de documents que l’on retrouve en France, en Angleterre ou à Moncton, parmi eux :- Honoré Leblanc (n° 42), oncle de Jos-Simon Granger et Jean Baptiste Granger,- Joseph Trahan, signataire d’une lettre à Falmouth, (doit être len° 47, juste avant Jean Granger et près d’Honoré Leblanc n° 42),- Olivier Daigre, beau-frère de Jos-Simon Granger, (doit être le n°136, près de Germain Dupuis n°138), - Baptiste Daigre (doit être le n° 317)- Joseph Leblanc, signataire d’une lettre à Liverpool, (doit être soit le n° 246 (1 enfant en 1755), soit le n° 259 (avec 2 fils et 3 filles), le n° 246 étant le plus probable),- Jean Hébert, signataire de l’adresse aux Etats de Bretagne (n° 154) avec 1 fils et 2 filles,- Jean-Baptiste Hébert, signataire de l’adresse aux Etats de Bretagne, doit être le 335.Honoré Daigre suit les frères Granger avec le n° 30, Pierre Daigre doit être le n° 374 et Pierre Richard le n° 319,encore célibataire apparemment. Tous les 4 ont également signé l’adresse aux Etats de Bretagne. Recherche des familles acadiennes belliloisesLors de l’installation des Acadiens à Belle-Île, sous Louis XV, ilfut attribué à chaque chef de famille un numéro (y compris pour les veuves bénéficiant d’un afféagement). Ce numéro part de Jos-Simon Granger (n° 1) jusqu’à Pierre Doucet n° 78).Il n’est évidemment pas possible de retrouver les veuves des chefs de familles sur la liste de Winslow, mais on peut fort bien y retrouver une grande partie des autres, soit sans doute aucun (cas des Grangeren général), soit entre plusieurs possibilités dues à des homonymies.En se servant comme base de recherche du numéro ‘’bellilois’’, on peut obtenir le tableau suivant : 1 Granger Jos-Simon 402 2 Granger Jean-Baptiste 48 3 Granger Amant 36 4 Granger Joseph 33 6 Granger Charles 27 8 Granger Jean 29 9 Granger Pierre 361 10 Granger Laurent 381 11 Leblanc Honoré 42 12 Leblanc Charles 119 – 198 – 246 - 367 14 Leblanc Charles 119 – 198 – 246 - 367 15 Leblanc Simon 164 – 173 – 233 – 270 – 302 16 Leblanc Joseph 188 – 246 – 251 – 259 – 261 – 303 – 437 17 Leblanc Allain 269 – 298 – 439 18 Leblanc Jean-Baptiste 42 – 230 19 Leblanc Jean-Baptiste 42 – 230 20 Leblanc Joseph 188 – 246 – 251 – 259 – 261 – 303 – 437 21 Leblanc Jean 211 – 291 22 Leblanc Pierre 19 – 37 – 226 – 229 – 237 – 364 – 423 24 Leblanc Joseph 188 – 246 – 251 – 259 – 261 – 303 – 437 25 Daigre Honoré 30 26 Daigre Olivier 134 – 136 27 Daigre Simon-Pierre 374 28 Daigre Jean-Charles 20 – 372 – 24 31 Melanson Pierre 194 – 258 – 334 32 Melanson Jean 354 33 Richard Pierre 319 34 Richard Joseph 288 – 310 35 Richard Basile 18 36 Trahan Joseph 116 – 401 37 Trahan Pierre 102 – 112 – 159 39 Trahan Pierre 102 – 112 – 159 41 Trahan Pierre 102 – 112 – 159 42 Trahan Jean-Baptiste 158 45 Trahan René 111 46 Trahan Pierre 102 – 112 – 159 49 Aucoin Alexandre 90 52 Boudrot Pierre 144 – 224 – 337 – 394 53 Hébert Amable 213 – 356 54 Hébert Joseph 131 – 157 – 223 – 420 – 427 55 Hébert Charles 432 62 Terriot Jean-Baptiste 267 – 406 63 Terriot Jean 267 – 406 66 Babin Joseph 191 – 277 – 294 – 301 – 307 – 339 71 Gautrot Charles 196 – 355 78 Doucet Pierre 297Nous avons donc en tout 46 chefs de familles acadiennes de Belle-Île en Mer sur 78 qui ont de fortes chances de figurer sur la liste de Winslow, soit près de 58 %. Si l’on y ajoute tous les orphelins, les veuves chefs de familles et les vieillards à charge, il est certain que le pourcentage augmente beaucoup. C’est ainsi qu’il est possible de conclure que les Acadiens de Belle-Île en Mer étaient bien originaires, dans leur majorité, de Grand’Pré, ce que confirment d’autre part les célèbres déclarations de généalogies11.Dans certains cas, on peut d’ailleurs, de façon formelle, y trouverl’essentiel des familles installées à Belle-Île. Nous y trouvons, en effet :- 8 Granger sur 10, sans compter la veuve de Charles Granger (tous identifiés sans aucun doute), - 12 Leblanc sur 14, - 7 Trahan sur 12, - 2 Melanson, - 3 Richard,- 3 Hébert (léger doute sur le prénom d’Amable : Aman sur la liste. Aspect comptable et chiffrageLa qualité des chiffres est relativement bonne jusqu’à la page 12,où les surcharges sont abondantes, notammentdans les totaux. Les rectifications sont faites par la ‘’premièremain’’. La reprise, à partir du n° 435, par le premier scripteurs’avère laborieuse… Deux lignes ont été mélangées : Olivier Bellefontaine (n° 434) avec François Bourg (n° 435). Leserreurs d’addition sont rares, bien que l’alignement vertical des chiffres soit loin de révéler le comptable soucieux desimplifier sa tâche ! Un mouton ou un porc de plus ou moins, cela n’est pas grave, semble-t-il … En guise de conclusionCe qui est plus grave, c’est l’erreur des pages 7 et 8, quant au nombre des filles. Le total des filles de la page 8 s’élève à 294 mais la retenue de 70 unités de la page précédente a été oubliéece qui porte le total réel à 364…Au final, ce n’est pas 576 jeunes Acadiennes qu’il fallut déporter mais bien 646. Et le total général des malheureuxAcadiens ‘’ dispersés comme les feuilles au vent d’automne’’, originaires de Grand’Pré est en fait de 1993, auxquels il faut rajouter les 820 vieillards et infirmes, dénombrés mais non cités nommément sur la liste des proscrits, soit 2813 individus.
Name ===: Name: Rene /Granger/<ref>Source: #S-1494281564 Page: Birth year: 1676; Birth city: Port Royal; Birth state: Ns. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=4145233&ti=0&indiv... Data: Text: Birth date: 1676Birth place: Port Royal, Acadia, NsDeathdate: 1740Death place: Riviere Canards, AcadiaMarriage date: 1695Marriage place:</ref><ref>Source: #S-1494281725 Page: Ancestry Family Trees Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=21850837&pid...</ref>
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: Husband: Granger-597|Rene Granger
: Wife: Terriot-58|Marguerite Marie Terriot : Child: Granger-596|Marguerite Granger :: Relationship to Father: Natural :: Relationship to Mother: Natural : Marriage: :: Date: 1695:: Place: Grand Pre, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada<ref>Source: #S-1494281564 Page: Birth year: 1676; Birth city: Port Royal; Birth state: Ns. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=4145233&ti=0&indiv... Data: Text: Birth date: 1676Birth place: Port Royal, Acadia, NsDeath date: 1740Death place: Riviere Canards, AcadiaMarriage date: 1695Marriage place:</ref>
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- Source: S-1494281564 Repository: #R-1598127753 Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Author: Edmund West, comp. Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.; * Repository: R-1598127753 Name: Ancestry.ca* Source: S-1494281725 Repository: #R-1598127754 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Onlinepublication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. * Repository: R-1598127754 Name: Ancestry.com
- Racines et Rameaux - Recherche généalogique et histoire de l'Acadie(No. 37, juillet 2006 - article de Fernand René Perron)
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BIO: Rene married Marguerite Terriot in about 1695, in Canada. He was born about 1674 and died in about 1740. They are the parents of the following:1) Marie (1697-) md Germain Dupuis2) Marguerite (1698-1751) md Charles Beliveau3) Francoise (1700-1780) md Olivier Daigle4) Rene (1703-1756) md Angelique Comeau5) Joseph (1705-1757) md Marguerite Leblanc6) Claude (1708-1756) md Brigitte Leblanc7) Francois-Marie (1710-1756) md Anne Landry8) Jean-Baptiste (1713-1756) md Madeleine Landry9) Charles (1713-1756) md Francoise Leblanc :: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144426594/ren_-granger#add-to-vc
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Biography ==Granger-39|Laurent Granger and Landry-129|Marie Landry had an unnamed son born about 1674.<ref>Stephen A. White, Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (Moncton, N.-B.: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999) p.762.</ref> He was listed in the 1678 census at the age of 4. <ref>Tim Hebert; 1678 Port Royal Acadian Census noting that the correlations for this census were done by Rev. Clarence J. d'Entremont, Fairhaven, Massachusetts.1678 Census
The Widow Joffreau, Laurans Granger & Marie Landry. 4 acres 6 cattle 1 gun. 4 boys: Pierre 9, Jacques 6, boy 4, René 2, Marguerite 11.
</ref> Some believe that his name was Joseph.<ref> Karen Theriot Reader Joseph Granger citing "The Acadians and Belle Ile en Mer," on BRETAGNE GENEALOGY; webpage at <http:www.bretagne.com/english/doc/histoire/genealog/acadiens.htm>, seen in May 1999; p.2.
Joseph GRANGER is name of one of nine children born to Laurent & Marie LANDRY, between Jacques and Rene'.
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René Granger
Birth 1676 • Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death November 1740 • Riviere aux Canards, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada
Parents Laurent Granger • Marie Landry
Spouse Marguerite Theriot
Children Catherine-Josephte Granger • Charles Granger • Claude Granger • Francois Marie Granger • Francoise Granger • Jean Baptiste Granger • Joseph Granger • Marguerite Granger • Marie-Josephte Granger • Marie Granger • Rene Granger II
Lead confidence: 5
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Rene Granger
Birth 1676 • Port Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death Oct 31, 1740 • Grand-Pré, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada
Parents Laurent Granger • Marie Landry
Siblings Anne Granger • Claude Granger • Jacques Granger • Joseph Granger • Laurent Granger • Marie Granger • Marie Marguerite Granger • Pierre Granger
Spouse Marguerite Theriault
Children Charles Granger • Claude Granger • Francois Granger • Francoise Granger • Jean Granger • Joseph Granger • Marguerite Granger • Marie Granger • Rene Granger
Lead confidence: 2
René Joseph Granger, I
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Rene Granger
Birth 1676 • Port Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death Oct 31, 1740 • Nova Scotia, Canada
Marriage 1695 • Nova Scotia, Canada
Parents Laurent Granger • Marie Landry
Spouse marguerite theriot
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rene granger
Birth 1676 • Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death 1740 • Acadia, Louisiana, United States
Marriage 1695 • Grand-Pré, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada
Parents laurent granger • marie landry
Spouse marguerite terriot granger
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René Joseph Granger, I's Timeline
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December 14, 1642
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St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England (United Kingdom)
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1650
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Port Royal NS Acadian
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1657
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Port-Royal, (Acadie) NS.
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1676
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Kings County, NS, Canada
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1678
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Port Royal, Acadia
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1697
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Grand-Pré, Acadie, Canada
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1698
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Port Royal, Acadia; now Annapolis, Nova Scotia
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April 15, 1703
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Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada
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