Expulsion of the Acadians by George Craig
This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it
Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman?
Where is the thatch-roofed village, the home of Acadian farmers,—
Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands,
Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven?
Waste are those pleasant farms, and the farmers forever departed!
Scattered like dust and leaves, when the mighty blasts of October
Seize them, and whirl them aloft, and sprinkle them far o’er the ocean.
Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré.
Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient,
Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman’s devotion,
List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest;
List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy.
Excerpt from “Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
who were the acadians?
French immigration to New France began in the early 1600’s and resulted in two separate and unique cultures, the Quebecois and the Acadians, a distinction based upon geography. The French-Canadians or Quebecois were those who settled in the Saint Lawrence Valley, a region built around the booming fur trade. Todays French-Canadians are descended from those original settlers. The Acadians settled along the Atlantic coast, south of the Notre Dame Mountains, in what is now Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and eastern Maine. They harvested fish, raised cattle and traded with the native Miꞌkmaq people. Some of the French and Mi’kmaq intermarried further integrating the two cultures. Together they formed a happy and peaceful society which was detailed by Moses Delesdernier after a visit in 1750.
Sadly, this virtuous Acadian society would be short-lived. Longfellow’s epic poem “Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie” tells the tragic story of young lovers ripped apart during the Acadian expulsion. Although the characters, Evangeline and Gabriel, are fictional, the events which frame their drama really occurred.
our acadian boudrot/boudreau family
On June 20, 1632, Michel Boudrot set sail from La Rochelle, France, to help build three forts in the French colony of Acadia. In a document dated October 15, 1687, he describes the project he helped complete.
After construction was complete in 1641 Michel returned to France and married Michelle Aucoin. The next year the couple sailed back to Acadie to start a family in Port Royal. The Boudrots are listed as one of Acadia’s founding families, with 11 children counted in the 1671 census, and Michel served as the Lieutenant General and judge of the Port-Royal Tribunal. Michel died before 1693 and Michelle about 1706.
While many of the Boudrot children remained in Port Royal, sons Charles, Claude, Jean, and Michel helped establish new settlements. Michel Boudrot, Jr., our ancestor, moved to Beaubassin around 1700 with his wife Marie Madeleine Cormier. Beaubassin’s lowland location attracted many young couples because of its rich farmland and good cattle grazing pastures.
Tragically, Michel and Marie Madeleine both died before 1714, when three of their sons are listed as orphans in the census. At eight years old, our ancestor, Anselme Boudrot, was was living with Jean Baptiste and Marie (Cormier) Poirier, his aunt and uncle on his mom’s side.
the grand dérangement
In 1710 after the Siege of Port Royal, the British captured Acadia’s capitol city and demanded that residence sign an oath of allegiance to the British crown. This started a struggle for territorial control that would continue for four decades, until the Guerre de la Conquête or War of Conquest (known in the colonies as the French and Indian War).
As part of the war effort against the French, the British forcibly removed between 10,000-12,000 Acadians from their land at gunpoint between 1755-1763. This mass expulsion became known as The Great Deportation or Le Grand Dérangement. The Acadians were forced onto ships and either relocated to the colonies, where they suffered disease and starvation, were sent back to France, or they were shipped to England and held as prisoners of war. A few escaped into the woods, where they were either captured or crossed into Quebec and hid until the end of the war in 1763. After the war the deportees who attempted to return to their land found their communities destroyed and land taken over by New Englanders. As a result, most of the Acadians relocated to either Quebec or Louisiana, where they are commonly referred to as Cajuns. The Acadians that returned to their homeland had to establish new communities.
Most of the Boudrot family members who were listed in deportation records were sent to the colonies, but I could not find Anselme’s family in any of these records so it is possible that they escaped into Quebec. Certainly Anselme’s children made their way to French Canada after the war, as his son Etienne (our ancestor) was married in Quebec in 1771. Both the Grandpre and Gregoire sides of our family directly descend from Etienne Boudrot.
Additional Acadian Families in our tree include:
- Aucoin
- Babin
- Belou
- Beliveau
- Bourgeois
- Blanchard
- Brault
- Bugaret
- Daigle
- Doucet
- Dugas
- Dupuis
- Clouatre
- Comeau
- Cormier
- Gautreaux
- Gaudet
- Girouard
- Granger
- Hebert
- Landry
- Lanoue
- LeBlanc
- Melançon
- Mercier
- Pepitpas
- Poirier
- Richard
- Roulett
- Theriault/Terriot
- Thibodeau
- Trahan
Sources
Association des Boudreau. “Arrival of Michel Boudrot – Version 1.” http://webteque.net/Boudreauweb2/Boudreauweb2/Ancestor-1.html : 2019.
“Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie.” Poems Database. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Maine Historical Society Website. https://www.hwlongfellow.org : 2019
Delesdernier, Moses. “Observations of the Situation, Customs and Manners of the Ancient Acadians.” Documented Records of Early Acadia. https://www.acadian.org/history/documented-records-early-acadia/ : 2019
Faragher, John Mack. A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland. Kindle Edition. New York. W.W. Norton & Company. 2006.
“Finding Aid 300.” Database with Images. Library and Archives of Canada. https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca : 2019.
Marsh, James H. “Acadian Expulsion (The Great Upheaval). The Canadian Encyclopedia. 15 Jul 2015. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca : 2019.
Douglas W. Robertson
October 25, 2019I love the way you cite your references. Thanks for exemplifying solid research.
How did you enjoy your certificate class?
Michelle
October 25, 2019Thank you! The class was very time intensive but I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Steve Gredell
January 27, 2020Very nicely done. I also trace my descent from Anselme through his son Etienne (my great grandfather’s side) and his son Jean Baptiste (my great grandmothers side) so I found this to be quite interesting as we are cousins. In my research I have found Anselme Boudrot listed as a refugee following the burning of Beaubassin by La Loutre at La Butte a Roger in 1750 and Tintamarre in 1752-1755. From there it appears that they went to Quebec based on the marriage records of his children. My Boudreau family migrated to the States from Canada in the 1850’s along with many others of Acadian heritage eventually settling in Oklahoma.
Michelle
January 27, 2020Hello Steve, Wonderful to hear from you. Interesting that your family ended up in Oklahoma. I haven’t heard of that much in French Canadian migration. I also have Oklahoma roots on my father’s side. (The French Canadian/Acadian is on my mother’s side.) I would love to hear more about the records you have found. I will PM you.
Lisa Beaudreau
July 19, 2021How did you trace your history? I learned from my grandmother who is going to pass soon from my family history. Her husband was a Beaudreau and I only remember a French Canadian, Iroquois ancestry from 3-4 generations to her knowledge. I remember Joseph Beaudreau as long time used name throughout our history. Any tips would be invaluable in my search for history.
Michelle
July 19, 2021Hi Lisa,
Great question! I wrote a blog post about how to get started tracing your ancestry. Once you are ready to move past the basics I also have two posts on suggestions for tracing your French Canadian ancestry. It is not usually not difficult to trace your ancestry and it is a lot of fun! Best wishes in your research and feel free to email me if you have questions!
Steve Gredell
July 20, 2021Hi Lisa,
I was quite fortunate in that my father had a cousin who was interested in the Boudreau family history and spent many years researching it. She ultimately published the results of her study in a 2 volume edition which she made available to her relations. Using that as a foundation, I have added details as I have been able to uncover them.
Denise Boudreau Schwabe
May 11, 2020Hi Michelle! I am also a descendant of Anselme but through his son Joseph who escaped to northern New Brunswick where he married Jeanne Hache-Gallant. My Boudreau ancestors were among the founding families of Caraquet where my grandfather was born in 1904. My research also leads me to believe that Anselme eventually made his way to way to Quebec where he died in the early 1760’s. I am intrigued regarding the deaths of Michel Boudrot and his wife Madeliene Cormier as they were both still rather young and wonder if the circumstances of their deaths were suspicious. But have been frustrated trying to uncover that story. I believe the baseball player Lou Boudreau is part of Anselme’s branch of the family tree.
Michelle
May 11, 2020Hello Denise. It is great to connect with a Boudreau cousin! I have also wondered about Michel and Madeleine…whether their death was from an epidemic or other cause? It is interesting that your family stayed close to their original home. My Boudreau family moved to Illinois in the 1850s after years of conflicts between the British and Quebecois. I hope to visit Nova Scotia someday…photos of the area are beautiful. Please stay in touch and let me know if you find additional records that might shed light on Michel and Madeleine’s deaths or Anselme’s final years.
Daniel Charles Boudreau
January 21, 2021Lou Boudreau is not part of my family linage.
Bobby Stelly
September 21, 2020Hello Michelle,
I descend from Charles Boudrot & Renée Bourg the first son of Michel & Michelle Aucoin-Boudrot.
Charles Boudrot & Renée Bourg
Jean Baptiste Boudrot & Cécile Corporon
Antoine Boudrot & Brigitte Apart or Part (Acadian Expulsion-Migrated to France.
In 1751 Antoine was at La Traverse, Isle St. Jean; at St. Malo, France in 1772, and at Chatellerault in 1775.
Étienne Boudrout/Boudreaux (my 6th great-grandfather and first Boudrot-Boudreaux in Louisiana) & Victoire Andrée Gautreau(Gautreaux) also migrated in 1785.
Stanislaus Étienne Boudreaux (1793-1867) & Rosalie Marie LeFere (1791-1829)
Joseph Aurelien or Orelien Boudreaux (c. 1814-1837) & Eugénie Emelite Marie Gautreaux (c. 1815-1885)
Jean Pierre Boudreaux (1837-1898) my 3rd great grandfather & Rosema Marie Bourg (1838-1929)
He migrated from from Lafouche Crossing to Iberia Parish, Louisiana after the Civil War
First to be born in New Ibeira, LA — Octave Bodureaux (1868-1927) & Marie LeBlanc (1864- Bef. 1900)
Justilien Boudreaux (1891-1975) & Lidie Migues (1901-1994)
Wilton Boudreaux (1923-1978) & Delta J. Viator (1931-2013) my grandparents.
Michelle
September 27, 2020Hi Bobby,
That is an interesting progression from France to Acadia, back to France, and then to Louisiana. My Boudreaux ancestors were somehow able to sneak into Quebec during the great expulsion. I have many Acadian DNA matches in Louisiana, though.
Thank you for saying hello!
Michelle
Trey Boudreaux
October 13, 2020My name is Charles Boudreaux of Lafayette, LA (I go by Trey as I am the third). My father recently showed me family records showing Michel Boudreaux and Charles Boudrot as ancestors. I’m very happy to have found this account of history, thank you!
Michelle
October 13, 2020Hello Trey,
Glad that you found the blog and thank you for saying hello. I always love hearing from cousins whose families went to Louisiana during the Acadian expulsion. My ancestors apparently snuck into Quebec. We are a resilient bunch! I would love to hear more about your line of the family if you have time to share.
Michelle
Gervais
April 15, 2021Hello Michelle,
I found your blog by chance and it is very interesting. My Boudreau roots are from Port-Royal in Nova Scotia. They hid in the woods during the war between the French and England. They were fed by Native Americans (Mi’kmaq) for a year in order to survive. Subsequently, they left Nova Scotia to settle in Quebec while other family members settled in the United States mainly in New England and Louisiana. Subsequently, they settled in Brunswick in Maine to return to Quebec.
I am sending you a link in French on the history of the Boudrau family of a singer from Louisiana Zachary Richard. You will be able to look at the places and the land where the Boudrots lived. You don’t need to understand the language. You can look at the pictures, because the landscapes are so beautiful.
Hoping that you will find it interesting
Film
https://www.tv5unis.ca/videos/zachary-richard-toujours-batailleur?fbclid=IwAR2bPuRfkpUyn-1YIXeSK-IA20Sth5x8JEnc6KCy3yuLQV55aDXDkCeAtnk
The family Boudreau
https://annapolisheritagesociety.com/genealogy/family-histories/acadian-boudreau-family/?fbclid=IwAR1RX6CwweUeURYCVq1YxEKVc5kgzpr-0B9Lb2dpBc9qrKJnlWkUSJyichY
Michelle
April 17, 2021Hello Gervais,
It is great to hear from a Boudreau cousin! Thank you for the links. I have read stories of some of the families that hid in the woods and I always assumed that is what our Boudreau’s did. Do you know of any sources for more information about their time in the woods with the Mi’kmaq?
Michelle
Gervais Tremblay
April 24, 2021Source of information hid in the woods with Mi’kmaq
Reference in the video
Dianne Marshall
Historian
She mention it in English
You have to go around 30 minutes in the video.
I am still doing some research.
The Boudreau brache is divided mainly into two branches, the deportation branch (from Grand-Pré) which is found in the United States (Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, mainly in Louisiana) and the branch which returns to Quebec after several moves to escape the war.
According to my family’s stories, my ancestor Boudreau was hiding in the woods with the Mi’kmaq. This is confirmed in part by historian Dianne Marchall. He would have had Métis children. According to my cousin’s family tree, the Boudrot of my family branch and yours are mixed race between Acadian and Mi’kmaq.
Subsequently, several Boudreau returned to Acadia, a few to Maine or the Midwestern United States . Some of them visit the family and decide to move in the Midwest for agriculture, marriage or family reasons. Usually, you will find many families related. They have never moved without friends or family.
Reference in the video
Dianne Marshall
Fidèle Theriault
Historian
Ronnie-Gillles Leblanc
Historian
Sally Ross
Historian
George Arsenault
Historian and author
Suzanne Surette-Draper
President, friends of Grand-pré
Pointe des Boudrot
Mining Basin
New Scotland
Marc Lavoie
Archaeologist and historian
University of Moncton
Acadian Studies Center
Stephen W. White
Genealogist
Alan Melancon
President, Royal Annapolis Historical Society
Gervais Tremblay
July 24, 2021I found your ancestor Anselme with his family on the boat leaving Acadia for New France (Quebec) in the book on Acadian refugees. These refugees had managed to leave before the deportation to succeed in taking a boat for Quebec. They are from the same trip as my ancestor, a different branch but from the same Boudreau family.
Here where the book I got the information about page 244-247
https://www.renaud-bray.com/Livres_Produit.aspx?id=3224503&def=R%C3%A9fugi%C3%A9s+et+miliciens+acadiens+en+Nouvelle-France%2C+1755-1763(Les)%2CVACHON%2C+ANDR%C3%89-CARL%2C9782349723963
Between 1755 and 1763, following Lieutenant Governor Lawrence’s order for the deportation of the Acadians, 1935 Acadians sought refuge in New France. These refugees came mainly from the region of Fort Beauséjour and Île Saint-Jean. Although they are welcomed by Canadians, their integration has not been smooth. This book traces their journey, their difficulties and the challenges they had to face. It also contains an exhaustive list of the boats and their passengers who took refuge at the port of Quebec.
Gervais
gervais
September 14, 2021Sorry for the correction of my last email.
Anselm Boudreau and René Boudreau died during the war. Many members of the Boudreau family were separated. Their wife were on different ship the Brillant and the Le Dondonnais but the arrived at the same place Quebec.
Margerite Gaudet (widow of Anselm Boudreau)
The ship Le Dondonnais who left Île Saint-Jean on July 26, 1756 with 215 passengers. He arrived at the port of Quebec on August 13, 1756. On the ship, there are Marie-Anne Boudreau and her husband Jean Chiasson, her mother Margerite Gaudet (widow of Anselm Boudreau), and her two brothers Pierre Boudreau and Etienne Boudreau .
Ship 3103
https://www.naviresnouvellefrance.net/vaisseau1700/html/page1756.html
Gervais Trembly
September 12, 2021Hello Michelle
Here more information about our ancestors
After the first British attack on the Acadians, many had avoided deportation and were looking for a place to take refuge. In the summer of 1756, Governor Vaudreuil ordered all Acadians to take refuge in Miramichi in French Acadia and not in Quebec.
However, the number of refugees has a problem of overpopulation and famine forcing the military officers in place to send Acadians to Quebec.
Anselm Boudreau and my ancestor René left Miramichi in May and June 1757 on one of the two ships, probably the Jason (120 people) or the Brillant (149 people). They arrived at the port of Quebec in July 1757. According to Governor Vaudreuil we learn that poverty is extreme and the absolute need to bring the Acadians to Quebec.
On the boat we find Anselm and Margerite Gaudet, his son Étienne and his children.
Jean-Baptiste, Étienne, Marie-Elisabeth, Firmin, Marie, Rose, Pierre-Adam and Marguerite.
Gervais Tremblay
December 6, 2021Hello Michèlle,
I am sending you the rest of Boudreau’s story. During the period of the Acadian deportation. We find the Boudreau family on two boats. A boat will be sent to Boston. It is the boat of your ancestor Paul Trahan and Marie Boudreau. Marie Boudreau then left Boston for Quebec City.
The second boat was to leave for North Carolina, but a revolt of the crew including members of the Boudreau family allows the crew to take control of the boat and divert the boat towards French Acadia. The Boudreau family will be divided into two locations: Miramichi and Île Saint-Jean. They will survive by overcoming famine and the fear of being captured again. The family will then leave Acadia for Quebec City. It is in Quebec City that the Boudreau family will be fully reunited. It is also in Quebec that Marie-Boudreau daughter of Pierre Boudreau will meet Etienne Boudreau son of Aùnselm Boudreau. They are now safe and secure after having lived through famine, deportation and a multitude of displacements but they have both lost their parents. Etienne is getting married at 24 years old and Marie 20 years old on June 27, 1771 in St-Philippe-de-La Prairie, Quebec after having lived quite a story!
We find ourselves among the descendants of the Boudreau family Anselm Boudreau, the Governor of Canada
https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-14910
Lisa Beaudreau
July 19, 2021My family resided and grew up in Brunswick ME (my grandparents and my mother and her siblings) I wish I new more how to trace back our family tree. But I know so little from stories passed down from childhood from my grandmother. I wonder if it is Iroquois or Mik Maq ancestry based off the history, but my grandmother told me the story and lineage was from Iroquois, even shared a song from her childhood she had learned.
I don’t want our family history or roots to disappear with her passing. Any tips where I should start my research?
Michelle
July 19, 2021Hello again,
The Acadian settlers definitely had relations with the Miꞌkmaq people and some intermarried, so that family story is not far-fetched. During the Great Expulsion, it is believed that members of the Boudreau family actually lived with their tribal friends. In addition to the links about how to research your family history that I posted to your previous comment, DNA testing at Ancestry.com or 23andMe may help confirm Indigenous American ethnicity.
Rosemonde Boudreau
August 10, 2023Hi, I would like to know about the Acadian/Mi’kmaq connection. Names,metis children! Thanks Mr Gervais
Gervais
April 16, 2021Hello Michelle
My name is Gervais Tremblay from Montréal
My family is linked to the history of the Boudrot family in the following way:
1 – Michel Boudreau; Michelle Aucoin
2 – Claude Boudreau, Anne-Marie Thibodeau
3 – Michel Boudreau, Marie-Cécile Leblanc
4 – René Boudreau, Miller, Judith Pitre, Acadie
5 – Pierre Boudreau, Josephte Tremblay, Québec
6 – Joseph Boudreau, Véronique Bouchard, Québec
7 – Siméon Boudreau Trader, Félicité Desgagné, Québec & Brunswick Main USA
8- Marie Boudreau et Joseph Harvey Trader, Québec & Brunswick Maine USA
9 – Thomas Tremblay & Antonia Harvey, Québec & Brunswick Maine USA
Joseph Harvey and Marie Boudreau lived a good part of their life in Brunswick Maine USA. Marie Boudreau returned to Quebec after the death of her husband Joseph Harvey around 1904.
Some members of the Boudreau family immigrated around 1861 to the United States. Here is some information from my research about Boudreau and Tremblay. It’s a bit complicated because they often have the same first name.
Anselme Boudreau & Marguerite Gaudet
Etienne Boudreau & Marie Boudreau (Mother Marie Richard)
Etienne Boudreau & Marie-Clotilde Béchard
Etienne Boudreau & Adelaïde Tremblay
Bourdonnais
Kankakee, Illinois
USA
Etienne Boudreau et Marguerite Roy
Bourdonnais
Kankakee, Illinois
USA
Anselme Boudreau & Marguerite Gaudet
Etienne Boudreau & Marie Boudreau (Mother Marie Richard)
Jean-Baptiste Boudreau & Marie Granger
Etienne Boudreau & Françoise Mercier
Pierre Boudreau & Elizabeth Migneault (immigration USA 1861)
Kankakee, Illinois
USA
Peter Boudreau 22 ans & Azilda 17 ans
Kankakee, Illinois
USA
Cordelia Boudreau & Albert Tetreault
Central City, Linn, Iowa
USA
Etienne Boudreau & Marie Boudreau
Etienne Boudreau & Marie-Louise Bourassa
Etienne Boudreau & Clotilde Clouart
Jean-Baptiste Boudreau & Philomène DeCort
Kankakee, Illinois
USA
Anselme Boudreau & Marguerite Gaudet
Etienne Boudreau & Marie Boudreau
Etienne Boudreau & Marie-Louise Bourassa
Médard Boudreau
Narcisse Boudreau
Rosalie Boudreau & Joseph Arthur Arnaud
North Adams, Massachusetts
USA
Anselme Boudreau & Marguerite Gaudet
Pierre-Adam Boudreau & Dorothee Tremblay
Michelle
April 17, 2021Gervais,
Thank you for sharing your connection. It looks like you have done a great job of researching their descendants. I descend from four of Michel Boudrot and Michelle Aucoin’s children on different family lines that all converge in Kankakee County, Illinois. Two of my family lines are through their son Claude. I hope to visit Quebec and Montréal someday!
Thanks so much for saying hello!
Michelle
Gervais Tremblay
May 8, 2021Hello Michel
I did not know that I have acadien roots before reading your blog. Looking at the web page for the city of Brunswick, Maine. I came across the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow house Wow !I always wondered why the family that my great-grandfather Thomas went on vacation to Brunswick to visit family. I will try to find Boudreau in Brunswick, because I cannot find Tremblay or Harvey from my family. I continue my research.
Thx
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick,_Maine#/media/File:House_Where_Longfellow_Roomed,_Brunswick,_ME.jpg
Gervais Tremblay
December 17, 2021Hello Michelle
Here some information about the french settlers in Kankakee.
https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=88&GA=99&DocTypeId=HR&DocNum=217&GAID=13&LegID=89916&SpecSess=&Session=
Gina Boudreaux LaGrange
May 6, 2021Does anyone know where Michel Boudrot is buried? I descend from his sons Charles and Claude.
I live in south Louisiana.
Michelle
May 6, 2021Hi Gina,
It is possible that he may be buried in the Garrison Graveyard in Annapolis Royal which is believed to be one of the oldest European graveyards in Canada, but I don’t know that anyone knows for certain. I would love to hear comments if anyone else has research otherwise. Here is a link to an article about the graveyard you might enjoy.
Gervais Tremblay
May 6, 2021Hello Michel
We do not have all the information on the Boudreau family and the Richards during the war between the French and the English. We do not have all the information on the disappearance of all the men and there are pieces missing on the brothers Michel, Charles and Claude and on the separation of the children. In addition, they are wanted by the English and they traveled a lot to flee between 1755-1764. Some hostes were taken prisoner and others died or disappeared (Claude). They even married while the men were in prison in Halifax, but the women managed to protect the children and survive in the woods with the alliance with the Mi’cmaq. There was resistance from the Boudreau with the privateer Jean-François Broussard until their departure for Haiti around 1764 and finally to settle in Louisiana. The Boudreau were on the boat of Jean-François Broussard dit Beausoleil and his wife Catherine Richard with 100 other Acadians. Singer Celestine Beyoncé Knowles-Lawson (Beyoncé) is a descendant of Jean-François Broussard.
After 1764, there were other moves (France, Acadia, Quebec and back to Louisiana) depending on the wars and the separation of the various Boudreau families.
For more information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Broussard
Hope that can help for your reseach
Michelle
May 6, 2021That is wonderful information, Gervais. Thank you for sharing. I can’t imagine what it was like for them to be chased from their homes and have to survive in the woods…terrifying! We come from strong people.
Gervais Tremblay
May 7, 2021Hello Michel
We come from strong people and good singer!
I am curious to know who are the people who took the boat to Louisiana with Joseph Broussard.
Just for fun
Creole and Acadian blood runs through the veins of American star Beyoncé, one of the most famous singers in the world.
She was born and raised in Texas, but her mother is the daughter of Creole parents from Louisiana.
Beyoncé has many Cajun ancestors. One of his great-grandmothers was named Odilia Broussard, from the line of Joseph Broussard, dit Beausoleil, the Acadian hero of the resistance during the Deportation. After the Grand Dérangement, Beausoleil Broussard led a group of Acadians to Louisiana.
BROSSARD (Broussard), dit Beausoleil, JOSEPH
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/brossard_joseph_3E.html
Michelle
May 8, 2021Gervais,
Thank you for sharing. What a great heritage! I wonder if Beyoncé knows? 🙂
Gervais Tremblay
May 9, 2021Beyoncé
She knows the whole story. Every year, his family meets for a reunion in Louisiana to be with his family according to the Cadien Warren Perin who knows cousins and cousins of Beyoncé.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/598703/lien-beyonce-acadie
Gervais Tremblay
May 9, 2021For fun
I think that your have many ancestor in common with Beyoncé!
Through her mother, Beyoncé is a descendant of Acadian leader Joseph Broussard and Jean-Vincent d’Abbadie de Saint-Castin.
Beyoncé Genealogy
https://famouskin.com/ahnentafel.php?name=26983+beyonc%C3%A9
https://www.vogue.com/article/beyonce-september-issue-2018
Gervais Tremblay
May 22, 2021After having managed to survive in the woods, some Boudreaux families are captured and they are sent to New England.
It was after hearing of Governor James Murray’s Proclamation (March 1, 1765), which offered free land to new immigrants, that Acadians deported to New England requested permission to immigrate to Quebec. After deliberation, Governor Murray agreed to welcome these Acadians to the Province of Quebec. The first boat arrived at the port of Quebec on the evening of August 31, 1766. Today, 4.8 million Quebecers have Acadian origins, many of whom are the descendants of those Acadians who chose Quebec as their land of welcome. . In this book, you will discover new facts concerning this important page in our history, in particular the complete list of all the boats and all the Acadians who came between 1765 and 1775.
French référence
https://www.amazon.ca/Acadiens-d%C3%A9port%C3%A9s-accept%C3%A8rent-loffre-Murray/dp/2349723402
Michelle
May 26, 2021This is great information. Thank you once again, Gervais!
Gervais Tremblay
June 6, 2022Hello Michelle,
I found this link on Beyoncé’s genealogy. I think you should find this interesting, because she has Acadian origins like your ancestors Boudreau, Trahan and Richard.
https://www.tfcg.ca/beyonces-acadian-roots
Denise
August 15, 2022Catherine Richard’s brother Martin was married to Marguerite Bourg, daughter of Marguerite Boudrot. Do you know which Boudreau were involved in Broussard resistance?
Gervais Tremblay
May 8, 2021Hello Michel
I made a mistake with the wrong Michel Boudreau
Michel Boudrot (Michelle Aucoin) was buried in Saint-Jean Baptiste cemetery, Port-Royal, Nova Scotia. There is no gravestone.
Steve Gredell
May 7, 2021Hi Gina,
Michel Boudrot died after the 1687 census as he was missing in the 1693 census which did list his widow Michelle Aucoin who was living with her son Francois. The record I have says that Michelle was buried 18 December 1706 at Port Royal so presumably Michel was also buried there also.
Michelle
May 8, 2021Thank you, Steve!
Michelle
June 20, 2021Hello My Name Is Michelle Boudreaux I have Been Reseaching For Many Years You Have Been Very Heplful . My Boudreaux’s Are From Thibodaux Louisiana (Lafouche Parish And Other Surrounding Areas) My Grandfather Migrated To San Francisco California . I Am Still Reseaching Thank You For Sharing
Michelle
June 22, 2021Hi Michelle,
Thank you for saying hello! Have you been able to find your connection to Acadie yet? It can be difficult getting past the Great Expulsion. Best of luck with your research!
Lisa Beaudreau
July 19, 2021Hi there, I see others here have been researching their familial history and ancestry as I’ve been researching for a few years looking into the stories my grandmother has told me about my great great- great grandparents. I remember Joseph Beaudreau as a long-time familial name. My grandfather was Charles Beaudreau. And I was told of having Iroquois and French-Canadian ancestry. I know my family descends from Maine and Connecticut, but that only covers a starting point from 1940s. Any other reference points I could start? I’m at a dead end. Thank you.
Teresa Kammerer
August 27, 2021I’m related to Michel Boudrot on my father’s side. My father was Gary Boudreau, his father Alfred Boudreau, his father Albert Boudreau, his father Theophile….etc to Michel Boudrot.
Teresa Kammerer
August 27, 2021I forgot to mention….My family line follows from Michel to Francios to Pierre.
Teresa Kammerer
August 27, 2021Hello Michelle,
My dad also said he had Iroquois in him, but when I asked another Boudreau researcher, he said there was none. I’m wondering how this many Boudreau’s could know about the Iroquois and there not be some kind of connection. And my dad was dark skinned.
Gervais Tremblay
October 16, 2021Hello Michelle
I would like to send my research to my little cousin Michelle.
The Boudot family was dispersed before and during the war but some managed to survive. They left Acadia by ship to take temporary refuge at the port of Quebec. Afterwards, they settled in Quebec or Louisiana while others returned after the war to Acadia. Here is the list of Boudrots found on ships bound for the port of Quebec.
Ship: Le Dondonnais
Departure date July 26, 1756
Departure point: Île Saint-Jean
Arrival date: August 13, 1756
place of arrival: port of Quebec city
Passengers: Anselme Boudreau and Marguerite Gaudet (widow)
Ship: Le Flore
Departure date August 9, 1756
Departure point: Île Saint-Jean
Arrival date: August 25, 1756
place of arrival: port of Quebec city
Passengers: Jean-Baptiste Trahan and Catherine Boudrot
Paul Trahan and Marie Boudrot
Two ships:
Departure date September 30, 1756
Departure point: Île Saint-Jean
Arrival date: October 18, 1756
place of arrival: port of Quebec City and Île d’Orléans
Passengers: Charles Boudrot and Marie-Josèphe Doucet (3 children)
Two ships
Ship: The Jason
Departure date May 29, 1757
Departure point: Miramichi
Arrival date: June 13, 1757
place of arrival: port of Quebec city
Ship: Le Brilliant
Departure date 22 June 1757
Departure point: Miramichi
Date of arrival: July 6, 1757
place of arrival: port of Quebec city
Passengers: Charles Boudrot and Marie-Josèphe Petitot dit Saint-Seine (3 children)
François Boudrot and Marguerite Pitre (7 children)
Jean Boudreau and Agnèse Pitre
René Boudreau and Judith Pitre (widow) (6 children)
Jean-Baptiste Pitre and Cécile Boudrot
Two ships:
Ship: L’oyseau Royal
Departure date October 2, 1757
Departure point: Île Saint-Jean
Date of arrival: 20 October 1757
place of arrival: Port of Quebec city
Ship: La Goelette de Jean Maréchal
Departure date October 21, 1757
Departure point: Île Saint-Jean
Arrival date: November 8, 1757
place of arrival: Port of Quebec city
Passengers: Felix Boudrot and Jeanne Buisseau
Pierre Buisseau and Magdeleine Boudrot
Hoping that will help
Michelle
December 18, 2021Hello Gervais,
Thank you for all of the new information! I can’t wait to dig further into all of the records you are sharing.
Gervais Tremblay
December 21, 2021Hello Michelle, I am sending you websites and information on the Boudrot family that I just found for my research. It is not easy to follow the many movements of this family, but it is as interesting as a novel.
Anselme Boudrot
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Boudrot-654
Paul Trahan and Marie Boudrot
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Trahan-530
Marguerite Boudrot daughter of Anselme Boudrot
Acadian deportation
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Boudrot-642
https://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Boudreau_Anselme&pid=1127050
https://genealogie-acadienne.net/?action=indiDetails&I=13303
Joseph Boudreau son of Anselme Boudrot
He was a member of the refugee group in Restigouche in 1761.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Boudreau-358
Pierre “le Grand Pierre” Boudrot
He was a member of the refugee group in Restigouche.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Boudrot-123
Passenger of the Pembroke page 33
https://museeacadien.ca/en/the-seizure-of-the-pembrook-by-the-acadians/
https://societehistoriqueacadienne.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/3501_total.pdf
Marguerite Boudrot daughter of Michel Boudrot
Acadian deportation
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Boudrot-525
Michelle
December 30, 2021Thank you, Gervais. A novel is a great idea!
Gervais Tremblay
March 22, 2022Hello Michelle,
I am sending you the story of the Boudreaus in my family over 9 generations. The English translation with Google follows the French section. I put a link from Joseph Harvey and Marie Boudreau. The text is in French, but the images are bilingual!
https://sagbox-academie.com/entrepreneuriat/histoire-entrepreneurial-des-boudreau/
Regarding my novel, I decided to make a book. It’s easier. An English version will be available in the future. You can see the husband of Marie Boudreau’s daughter (Thomas Tremblay) on the cover.
https://www.sagbox-shop.com/products/livre-histoire-des-tremblay-mathias-et-tremblay-romaine-jerome.
I will send you some information about your ancestor that I have found in the near futur.
Cordially,
Gervais
Gervais Tremblay
June 6, 2022Hello Michelle,
Here my new projet on genealogy.
I am working on the Tremblay emigration on the east coast (Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, etc.), the Midwest of the United States. There are also several branches of the Boudreau family related to Tremblay. Doing research in the United States is not easy because of the change of surname Tremblay, Trombley, Trembly).
Here the story about my ancestors Joseph Harvey and Marie Boudreau in the Maine USA about 1891. You can copie the text and use Google Translate French to English. My last link is not working anymore.
https://sites.google.com/site/histoiredesharveyquebecois/12–histoires-inusitees-chez-les-harvey/11-3-lexode-des-harvey-aux-%C3%A9tats-unis/2-les-harvey-au-maine/6-joseph-harvey-1846-1899
Regards,
Gervais
https://sagbox-shop.com/products/entrepreneurial-history-and-genealogy-of-the-tremblay-mathias-and-the-tremblay-romaines
https://sagbox-shop.com/products/entrepreneurial-history-and-genealogy-of-the-tremblay-mathias-and-the-tremblay-romaines
Rosemonde Boudreau
August 10, 2023Hello, I am a direct descendant of Michel Boudrot and Michelle Aucoin; j’ai les noms de Anselme Boudrot et Marguerite Gaudet, Paul Trahan&Marie Boudrot, aussi M.Thérèse Thrahan et Jean-Baptiste Daigle ( on my mother’s side, she was a Daigle) dans mon arbre généalogique. Je suis de Bathurst,NB…Thank You Gervais!
Gervais Tremblay
January 23, 2022Hello Michel, I am sending you a document on the guardianship of his minor children of the late Marie Boudreau and Étienne Boudreau after the death of Marie-Boudreau. You can download the document. Also a link on Domitilde Tremblay from Kankakee (1840 – 1918) for fun!
The life of Marie Boudrot would be a good source of inspiration for a novel. I’ll come back to you for more information.
Marie Boudrot link
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3418593
Domitilde Tremblay (1840 – 1918)
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tremblay-809
Michelle
January 23, 2022Thank you, Gervais! BAnQ is a wonderful resource and I appreciate you passing along these links.
Lee Butler
March 1, 2022I just found your site on the web – thank you for the work you have accomplished re the Boudrot/Boudreau/Boudreaux ancestry. I am a descendant of Claude Boudreau, b. Port-Royal 1663. To be more specific my US linage is from Marin, Etienne, David Valentine, Etienne and Henry (b.1870 d.1948). I wrote a family history some time ago and am currently reviewing and adding where I find new information. I only wish someone could discover the parents of Michel Boudrot.
Catherine Houston
March 18, 2022My name is Catherine Boudreau Houston and I am a direct descendant of Lucien Boudreau. My aunt was able to trace our branch of the family to La Rochelle, France. I would love to know more about the family in both Canada and France. I visited Boudreauville, Nova Scotia, when I was a teenager (may years ago) and was able to meet many of my cousins (my grandfather was Philias Boudreau from Boudreauville). The town, on the Bay of Fundy, was a lovely place. Also, there is a Rue Boudreau outside the Paris Opera House.
Cathe Boudreau
September 4, 2022I’ve read this entire thread…and I’m also a Catherine Boudreau- from Boston. I am descended from the same line as you are, until the birth of Simon Henry, who became the dad to my great great grandfather, who left Nova Scotia for better pastures in Boston, in the early 1900s. He met and fell in love with my great grandmother, a little Italian girl raised in the North End. They had several kids, including my grandmother Claire Lillian Boudreau, and she in turn, had my dad, Richard. Although I call California home now. (nearby the lands that Henriete Boudreau sponsored), my sister and dad are still living by the Boston shorelines. Hello to all my cousins here on your blog. (Turns out I’m the token Comedian in the family, albeit, the relatives in the past had some wild comments during the Port Royal arguments, prior to the joining of the M’ikmaqs and after.
Belinda Boucher
September 11, 2022My name is Belinda Boucher and after meeting a Melanson and he giving me the information that I have Acadian roots I began searching for information. Recently I have come to speak to a few of my Cousins one being a Maloney. He told me about my bloodlines to yours and therefore my Acadian roots! Marie Boudot Boudeau being my 5th Great Grandmother. My Mother is a Lawrence who changed their name from Lauren and our family is from Barachois, Quebec or the Gaspsie !
Sir Robert Pere Noel Robertson
October 20, 2022Wow.! This is so interesting to learn about my Birth Fathers background and mine. His Name was Darcy Boudreau. But found out everyone on his side passed away. But I have done 23andme and found cousins. But sad part is no one wants to chat. Thanks for doing all this work on the family. Cheers.!
Sincerely
SIR ROBERT PERE NOEL ROBERTSON
Bruce Peter Altobelli
February 18, 2023Michelle and Gervais,
While trying to break through a roadblock on one line of my mid-1800’s ancestors, I came across this blog.
Thank you both so much for all the really detailed information on the Boudrot (eau) families. I’ve learned more in the last hour than I have in the last 5 years about my maternal heritage. I especially found it interesting in how my family made it from Nova Scotia to Quebec where they settled in Sherbrooke so the links that you have provided will keep me busy for many weeks if not months to come.
As an aside, here is a very basic lineage from Michel to my maternal grandparents:
Michel Boudrot-Michelle Aucoin
Michel Boudrot-Madeleine Cormier
Anselme Boudreau-Marguerite Gaudet
Etienne Boudreau-Marie Boudrot
Jean Baptiste Boudreau-Marie Granger
Julien Boudreau-Emilie Richard
Caliste Boudreau-Emilie Terrien
Caliste Boudreau-Mary Louise Cole
Adrien Boudreau-Mae Edna Poulin
Thanks again so much!
Bruce Altobelli
Genevieve Budrow
June 28, 2023Hello all,
I’m a long time lover of history and a new lover of ancestry. I live in New Brunswick, Canada and although my last name is Budrow (maiden name) not that long ago my x3 great grandparents had been Boudreau. My husband, children and I love to travel the Acadian coast and have explored Grand Pre and Port Royal.
Thank you for all of the information.