Marie married Frederick Corteau Melanson 14 Oct 1791, Baie Sainte Marie, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada. Frederick (son of Armand Melanson and Anne Marie LeBlanc) was born 25 Nov 1772, Windsor, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada; was christened 15 Oct 1774, St. Mary's Bay, Digby, Nova Scotia; died 1844, Church Point, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Clement Melanson was born 3 Nov 1801, Meteghan, Digby, Nova Scotia; died Deceased, Corrberrie, Digby, Nova Scotia.
2. Anne dit Petite Melancon was born 3 Apr 1801, Baie Sainte Marie, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada; was christened 4 Apr 1801, Baie Sainte Marie, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada; died Deceased.
3. Cyriac Melanson was born 1795, Meteghan, Digby, Nova Scotia; died Aft 1844.
4. Pierre Melanson was born 9 Jan 1800, Saint Marys Bay, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada; was christened 19 Jan 1800, Church Point, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 19 Mar 1886, Corberrie, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried , Corberrie, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada.
5. Monique Melanson was born Jun 1798, Meteghan, Digby, Nova Scotia; died 27 Apr 1889, Meteghan, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada.
6. Etienne Melanson

Notes:

A few months after their marriage in 1756, Justinien and his wife Nathalie went to Miramichi and from there to Restigouche. About the year 1763, they, and some other Acadian families made their way to Annapolis Royal, where they were still in January 1770, according to MA return of the state of the township Annapolis the 5th 1771 which show Justin Como has 100 acres of wood land, 3 cows, 2 young meat cattle, 9 sheep, 1 swine and his family consisted of 3 boys and 2 girls. They then moved from Annapolis to St. Bernard and from there to Meteghan River, where he died January 23 1825 at age 95 or 96.

Justinien married Natalie Bastarache 17 Feb 1756, Port Royal,Richmond,Nova Scotia. Natalie (daughter of Pierre Bastarache and Marie Marguerite Forest) was born 22 Jun 1738, Port-Royal,Annapolis,Nova Scotia; was christened 23 Jun 1738, Annapolis Royal,Annapolis,Nova Scotia; died Bef 1818. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

A few months after their marriage in 1756, Justinien and his wife Nathalie went to Miramichi and from there to Restigouche. About the year 1763, they, and some other Acadian families made their way to Annapolis Royal, where they were still in January 1770, according to MA return of the state of the township Annapolis the 5th 1771 which show Justin Como has 100 acres of wood land, 3 cows, 2 young meat cattle, 9 sheep, 1 swine and his family consisted of 3 boys and 2 girls. They then moved from Annapolis to St. Bernard and from there to Meteghan River, where he died January 23 1825 at age 95 or 96. (Source: Arbre Genealogique a Angele (Dorion) Bourque et al.)

François married Marie-Madeleine Lord 25 Feb 1726, Port-Royal, , Acadie, Nouvelle-France. Marie-Madeleine (daughter of Alexandre Lord and Marie Francoise Barrillot) was born 24 Dec 1703, Port-Royal, , Acadie, Nouvelle-France; was christened 24 Dec 1703, Port-Royal, , Acadie, Nouvelle-France; died Apr 1763, Restigouche, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Pierre married Marie Marguerite Forest 19 Jan 1724, Port Royal, Acadia, New France. Marie (daughter of Rene Pierre Forest and Francoise Dugas) was born 1697, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 27 May 1747, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; was buried 28 May 1747, Port Royal, Acadia, New France. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Several miles above the fort at Port-Royal, there was a spot on the Annapolis River that was called in the eighteenth century "l'Esturgeon." the nickname given to Pierre Comeau the elder derived from that place, because that is where he settled.
(note fact or fiction ??????)


Aug 1695 (old style): Pierre Comeau took the oath of allegiance to the King of England at Port-Royal; he made his mark on the document.

He is obviously "L'Aine" meaning the oldest because he is the 1st-born Pierre of Pierre and Rose Bayou. In the marriage of his daughter Anne in 1707, he is referred to as "Pierre L'Aine dit L'Estourgeon".
showing dit distinguishes from brother and other relatives with same name the reason they used the dit

Pierre married Jeanne Bourgeois 1689, Port-Royal, , Acadie, Nouvelle-France . Jeanne (daughter of Jacques Jacob Bourgeois and Jeanne Trahan) was born 1667, , , Acadie, Nouvelle-France; died 10 Jun 1716, Port-Royal, , Acadie, Nouvelle-France. [Group Sheet]

Alexandre married Marie Francoise Barrillot 1702, Pisquit, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada. Marie (daughter of Nicholas Barillot and Martine Hébert) was born About 1684, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France; died Deceased; was buried , Garrison Graveyard, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

from steven white...full text added as a STORY
Jean Bastarache (Joannis Basterretche), known as the Basque, was born around 1658. He settled in Port-Royal, on land on the south shore of the Dauphin River (now the Annapolis River), near the earthly Paradise (now Paradise). His name appears in the Acadian documents from the 1686 census, where he has already been married for about two years to Huguette Vincent, daughter of Pierre Vincent and Anne Gaudet. In 1714, the year after the definitive surrender of Acadia to Great Britain, Jean Bastarache was among the Acadian inhabitants who embarked on the ship of King Mary Joseph to pass to Île Royale. But if he was gone, it wasn't long before he turned around. Jean Bastarache died in Port-Royal on September 5, 1733, aged seventy-five years. He was the father of five children, the youngest of whom was Pierre

From Stephen White:

La généalogie des trente-sept familles hôtesses des « Retrouvailles 94 »

BAST ARACHE

http://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/files/umcm-ceaac/wf/wf/pdf/37fam-Bastar.pdf

Translated by Google:

The fact that Jean Bastarache was recorded at Port Royal in 1703 as " Joannis Lebasque " clearly indicates his origin. He was born around 1658 and came to Acadia before 1685 , when he married Huguette Vincent, daughter of Pierre Vincent and Anne Gaudet. Jean Bastarache died at Port Royal on September 5, 1733. The youngest of his five children was called Pierre. He was born in Port Royal, July 18, 1702 , and married in the same place on 19 January 1724 to Marguerite Forest, daughter of René and Françoise Dugas Forest . Pierre Bastarache died at Port Royal, 7 May 1751 .

geni.com
Jean Bastarache (Bastarache dit le Basque)
Gender: Male
Birth: circa 1658
Bayonne, Aquitaine, France
Death: September 06, 1733 (71-79)
New France, Acadia
Immediate Family:
Son of Joannis " Jean" Bazterretxe and N.n Bastarache
Husband of Huguette Agathe Vincent
Father of Marie-Anne Bastarache; Pierre Bastarache Dit Le Basque; Marie Orillon dit Champagne; Jeanne Bastarache; Michel Bastarache; Pierre Bastarache; Francois Marie Bastarache and Jean Bastarache « less


The ancestor of the Bastarache family in Acadia was Jean Bastarache. He was called "Le Basque" because he came from the Basque country

August 1695 Jean Bastarache took the oath of allegiance to the King of England at Port-Royal; he made his mark on the document.

In 1703 Jean Bastarache was listed in the census as "Joannis Le Basque" and in 1714 as "Le Basque," which clearly attests to his origin.

29 August Jean Bastarache appears on the list of the inhabitants of Acadia who embarked on the King's vessel, La Marie Joseph, to go to Ile-Royale.

Jean Joannis Bastarache/dit Le Basque, born in 1658 at Bayonne, in the Basque country of southern France, reached Acadia by 1684, the year he married Huguette or Agathe, a daughter of Pierre Vincent and Anne Gaudet, at Port-Royal. They settled on the upper south shore of Rivière-au-Dauphin, now the Annapolis River, miles above the village at Port-Royal, near present-day Paradis, Nova Scotia. Jean and Huguette had five children. Their two daughters married into the Orillon dit Champagne and Girouard families. All three of Jean and Huguette's sons created families of their own:

Oldest son François-Marie, born at Port-Royal in 1687, married Agnès, daughter of Louis-Noël Labauve and Marie Rimbault, at Annapolis Royal in 1714. They had five children, including two sons, but neither of them seems to have married and created families of their own.

Jean, fils, born at Port-Royal in 1696, married Angélique, daughter of Alexandre Richard and Isabelle Petitpas, at Annapolis Royal in 1721. Jean, fils died at Québec in 1757 during Le Grand Dérangement.

Youngest son Pierre, born at Port-Royal in c1702, married Marguerite, daughter of René Forest and Françoise Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in 1724. Pierre died at Annapolis Royal in 1751, age 50.

In 1707, Jean dit Le Basque and his family were still on the river above Port-Royal. When the British took over the colony in 1714, Jean left Port-Royal on the French vessel La Marie-Josèphe for Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island, probably to look at land there. He died at Annapolis Royal in September 1733, age 75, so he evidently had not liked what he had seen on the big island. Jean, père's sons, like their father, remained in the Annapolis Royal area.

According to Acadian genealogist Bona Arsenault, Jean's brother Michel dit Le Basque also came to the colony, where he was known as a flibustier, or pirate. He brought with him a wife and two children, including a son, Edmond. Arsenault insists that in 1713, at Annapolis Royal, Edmond married Agathe de Saint-Etienne de La Tour, a descendant of former governor Charles La Tour. According to genealogist Stephen A. White, however, it was Edmund Bradstreet of County Tipperary, Ireland, a young lieutenant in the British service, who married Agathe de La Tour at Annapolis Royal, in 1712. The Bastaraches who ended up in Louisiana came from Jean's line, not Michel's.

The family name is spelled Barastarache, Basque, Basterretche, Bastrash. [See also Book Ten]

BASTARACHE
[BAHS-tuh-rahk]

Sources: Arsenault, Généalogie, 401-05; Faragher, A Great & Noble Scheme, 388; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 601; Historical Atlas of Canada, 1: plate 29; "The Origins of the Bastarache, Bastrash and Basque Families," AGE, May 2008, 45; White, DGFA-1, 80-82, 266; White, DGFA-1 English, 17.

Jean married Huguette Agathe Vincent 1684, Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France. Huguette (daughter of Pierre Clement Vincent (-De-Piziguit) and Marie Anne Gaudet) was born About 1664, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; died 28 Oct 1717, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried 29 Oct 1717, Garrison Graveyard, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Rene married Francoise Dugas 1695, Port Royal, Acadia, New France. Francoise (daughter of Claude Dugas and Françoise Bourgeois) was born 3 Oct 1681, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France; died 21 Apr 1731, Bridgetown, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]