René married Marguerite Trahan 1775. Marguerite (daughter of Jean Trahan and Marguerite Broussard) was born 21 Dec 1753; died 9 Jul 1832. [Group Sheet]

1. Marguerite Leblanc was born 20 Oct 1785, Saint Martinville, St. Martin, Louisiana, United States; died Deceased.

Notes:

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Rene Leblanc and Pierre Leblanc are two different people, both married to different Anne Theriots. Do not combine these records with Pierre Leblanc

Rene-Pierre married Anne Thériault About 1722, Acadia, New France. Anne (daughter of Germain Thériault and Marie Anne Richard) was born About 1705, Riviere aux Canards, Acadia; was christened Abt 1705, Rivière aux Canards, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 1759, Miramichi, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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From the marriage of Rene LEBLANC were born at Port Royal: Jacques, Francois, Rene, Pierre, Etienne, Joseph, Claude, Marie, Jean Bapiste, and Victoire. Etienne and Joseph were twins and died as infants.
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As per Find A Grave
Rene Leblanc
Birth 1654 Port Royal, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death 3 Jan 1734 Grand Pré, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Burial Saint-Charles-des-Mines Grand Pré, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Aged 80 years, buried 4 January 1734.

He married Anne Bourgeois (daughter of Jacques) at Port Royal, in about 1678. They settled in Minas and had ten children - six sons and four daughters including the following:

1) Jacques (1678-1755) md Catherine Landry
2) Francois (1680-1770) md Jeanne Herbert
3) Rene (1682-1758) md Elisabeth Melanson and Marguerite Thibault
4) Pierre (1684-) md Jeanne Theriault
5) Etienne (1688-) md Anne Mailloux
6) Claude (1691-1763) md Jeanne Dugas and Marie Theriault
7) Claire (1692-) md Jean Landry
8) Marie (1693-1725) md Jacques Theriault

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Aged 80 years, buried 4 January 1734.

He married Anne Bourgeois (daughter of Jacques) at Port Royal, in about 1678. They settled in Minas and had ten children - six sons and four daughters including the following:

1) Jacques (1678-1755) md Catherine Landry
2) Francois (1680-1770) md Jeanne Herbert
3) Rene (1682-1758) md Elisabeth Melanson and Marguerite Thibault
4) Pierre (1684-) md Jeanne Theriault
5) Etienne (1688-) md Anne Mailloux
6) Claude (1691-1763) md Jeanne Dugas and Marie Theriault
7) Claire (1692-) md Jean Landry
8) Marie (1693-1725) md Jacques Theriault

René married Anne Bourgeois 1679, Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France. Anne (daughter of Jacques Jacob Bourgeois and Jeanne Trahan) was born About 1661, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France; died 28 Dec 1747, Grand Pré, Acadia, New France; was buried 29 Dec 1747, Saint-charles-des-mines Cemetery, Grand Pré, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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Buried 29 December 1747 at the age of 87. Wife of the late Rene Leblanc.

Burials of St-Charles-aux-Mines de la Grande Prée (Grand-Pré) 1709-1748, compiled from Drouin Collection Microfilms, which was microfilmed from register at Ottawa Archives, by Roger Hetu.

From further research:

Anne married Rene in 1678, in Port-Royal, Acadie. They settled in Mines and had ten children - six sons and four daughters including the following:

1) Jacques (1678-1755) md Catherine Landry
2) Francois (1680-1770) md Jeanne Herbert
3) Rene (1682-1758) md Elisabeth Melanson and Marguerite Thibault
4) Pierre (1684-) md Jeanne Theriault
5) Etienne (1688-) md Anne Mailloux
6) Claude (1691-1763) md Jeanne Dugas and Marie Theriault
7) Claire (1692-) md Jean Landry
8) Marie (1693-1725) md Jacques Theriault

Additional information provided by G. Abbott #46954848

Marie Anne Bourgeois (b. 1661)
Marie Anne Bourgeois (daughter of ) was born 1661 in Port Royal, Nova
Scotia, and died 28 Dec 1747 in Mines, Grand Pre, Nova Scotia. She married Rene
LeBlanc on 1679 in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, son of Daniel LeBlanc and Marie
Francoise Gaudet.

More About Marie Anne Bourgeois and Rene LeBlanc:
Marriage: 1679, Grand Pre, Nova Scotia.

Children of Marie Anne Bourgeois and Rene LeBlanc are:
i. +Jacques LeBlanc, b. 1680, Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, d. Oct 1755, Pisiguit,
Nova Scotia.
ii. +Francois LeBlanc, b. 1682, Mines, Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, d. 04 Jan 1767,
Quebec.
iii. +Marie Marguerite LeBlanc, b. 1694, Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, d. Abt. 1755,
Boston, Massachusetts.

Germain married Marie Anne Richard 25 Jun 1686, Grand Pré, Acadie, Nouvelle-France. Marie (daughter of Michel René Richard de Beaupre and Marie Madeleine Blanchard) was born Oct 1671, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France; died 9 May 1745, Grand Pré, Acadia, New France; was buried 10 May 1745, Grand Pré, Acadia, anada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Daniel married Marie Francoise Gaudet 1645, Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France. Marie (daughter of Jean Gaudet and Marie Daussy) was born 23 Sep 1623, Martaize, Loudun, Vienne, France Christening; was christened 24 Sep 1623, Martaizé, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; died 25 Oct 1698, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; was buried 1698, Garrison Graveyard, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Francoise was born in about 1623. She is the daughter of Jean Gaudet and his first wife. She married (1) Jean Mercier in 1640, in Nova Scotia. They are the parents of at least the following:
1) Marie (1645-) md (a) Antoine Babin and (b) Guillaume Lejuge

She married (2) Daniel LeBlanc in 1650, in Port Royal. She was baptized in Port-Royal in 1671, when she was 48 years old. According to the 1671 census, she says she is 48 years, her husband Daniel is 45 and that: "... their cattle has 18 horns and 26 sheep, 10 labour their land arpans in two places." They are the parents of the following:
1) Jacques (1651-1730) md Catherine Hebert
2) Francoise (1653-) md Martin Blanchard
3) Etienne* (1656-)
4) Rene (1657-1734) md Anne Bourgeois
5) Andre (1659-1743) md Marie Dugas
6) Antoine (1662-) md Marie Bourgeois
7) Pierre (1664-1717) md (a) Marie Theriault and (b) Madeleine Bourg
*Etienne is believed to have been a navigator who sailed away at a young age and was never heard from again.

Notes:

According to Acadian historian Father Clément Cormier, Jacques Bourgeois was an army officer who served at Port-Royal in the 1650s and evidently was the brother-in-law of Germain Doucet, sieur de La Verdure, an associate of Acadian Governor Charles d'Aulnay. When the English seized Acadia in 1654, four years after d'Aulnay's death, Robert Sedgwick, leader of the English expedition, held Jacques Bourgeois as "hostage" to insure that Doucet, in command at Port-Royal, would fulfill the terms of surrender. Father Cormier says Jacques was repatriated to France along with other French officers and never returned to Acadia. According to Cormier, it was Jacques's son, Jacques dit Jacob, not Jacques, père the soldier, who was progenitor of the family in Acadia. However, more recent studies devoted to this important family, including that of genealogist Stephen A. White, tell a different story:

Jacques dit Jacob or Jacobus Bourgeois was born in France, perhaps at La Ferté-Gaucher on Rivière Grand-Morin in Champagne east of Paris, in c1619, parents unknown. A young surgeon, trained perhaps by members of l'Ordre de Malte, Jacques was recruited by Claude Launay-Rasilly, brother of Isaac de Razilly, after the French re-established control of Acadia in the 1630s. Jacques came to Acadia in 1641 aboard the St.-François and established one of the first families in the colony. He married Jeanne, daughter of prominent settler Guillaume Trahan and his first wife Françoise Corbineau, at Port-Royal in c1643. Jeanne had come to Acadia even earlier than Jacques--in 1636 aboard the St.-Jehan, with her father, mother, and a sister. In February 1653, Jacques stood as a witness to the marriage of Governor Charles La Tour and Jeanne Motin de Reux, the widow of former Governor Charles d'Aulnay. Jacques was second in command of the post when Robert Sedgwick and his New Englishmen captured Port-Royal August 1654. Jacques remained there with his wife and children and became a farmer and a shipbuilder. He also worked as a merchant, trading regularly with the New Englanders of Boston. Having learned to speak English fluently, he served as the King's interpreter in dealings with the English. Jacques also became a successful fur trader among the Indians and ventured to every corner of the colony. It is said that in 1671, when the first Acadian census was taken, Jacques was the most properous habitant in the colony. In 1672, he sold a part of his holdings at Port-Royal and, with his two older sons and two of his sons-in-law, pioneered the major Acadian settlement of Mésagouèche, later Missaguash, on the isthmus of Chignecto, "the first swarming of the Acadians to establish their hive," as one historian describes it. He built a flour mill and a saw mill at Chignecto to encourage settlement beside the wide salt marshes that were perfect for cattle raising. In 1676, part of Chignecto became the seigneurie of Canadian-born French nobleman Michel LeNeuf de La Vallière, père, who named his 100-league holding Beaubassin. La Vallière brought in settlers and indentured employees from Canada, in direct competition with the earlier, adjacent Bourgeois settlement. According to Acadian tradition, a clause in La Vallière's land grant title "protected the interests of Jacques Bourgeois and the other Acadian settlers established on the domain," and "it was not long before the two elements of the population merged into one."

Jacques and Jeanne had 10 children, seven daughters and three sons. Six of their daughters married into the Cyr, Girouard, Boudrot, Mirande dit Tavare, Maisonnat dit Baptiste, Dugas, LeBlanc, and Comeau le jeune dit Des Loups-Marins families. A French census taker found Jacques living with one of his sons at Chignecto in 1698, but otherwise he spent his final days at Port-Royal. He died at Port-Royal in c1701, in his early 80s. All three of his sons, born at Port-Royal, created families of their own, but only two of them had sons:

Oldest son Charles, born in c1646, married Anne, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Doucet, at Port-Royal in c1668. Charles and Anne had four children, including two sons who married into the Blanchard family. One of their daughters married into the Caissie family. One of Charles's grandsons, Honoré, who married twice into the Richard family, moved from Chignecto to Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, in the late 1740s or early 1750s probably to escape British authority in Nova Scotia.

Germain, born in c1650, married Madeleine, daughter of Antoine Belliveau and Andrée Guyon, probably at Chignecto in c1673. They had three children, including a son who married into the Mius de Pleinmarais and Thibodeau families. Their daughter married into the Breau family. Germain remarried to Madeleine, another daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Doucet and sister of brother Charles's wife Anne, probably at Chignecto in c1682. They had 10 children, including two sons who married into the LeBlanc family. Their eight daughters married into the Poirier, Richard dit Lafond and dit Beaupré, Girouard, LeBlanc, and Robichaud dit Prudent families. In 1696, during King William's War, Germain commanded a ship in Pierre Le Moyne, sieur d'Iberville's attack on the New England fort at Pemaquid, Maine. Later that year, Germain confronted Massachusetts Colonel Benjamin Church when the Englishman attacked Chignecto. Germaine died in 1711, in his early 60s, from the rigors of being held hostage by British Colonel Samuel Vetch in the dungeon at Port-Royal during Queen Anne's War.

Youngest son Guillaume, born in c1655, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Martin d'Aprendestiguy, sieur de Martignon, a Basque fur trader and seigneur on lower Rivière St.-Jean, and Jeanne de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, daughter of former governor Charles La Tour, probably at Port-Royal in c1686. Guillaume did not follow his older brothers to Chignecto but remained with his father at Port-Royal, where he became a merchant like his father. In September 1727, he was one of the delegates from Port-Royal representing Acadian interests before the Nova Scotia Council at Port-Royal. Along with two other Acadian leaders, Charles Landry and Abraham Bourg, Guillaume refused to take the oath of allegiance to British King George II and was imprisoned for his opposition. Guillaume and his wife had only a single child, a daughter, who married into the LeBlanc family.

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Jacques was a surgeon by trade. He immigrated to Port-Royal in 1642. He married Jeanne Trahan in 1643, and they are the parents of the following:

1) Jeanne (1644-1730) md Andre Coudray
2) Charles (1646-) md Anne Dugas
3) Germain (1650-1711) md Marguerite Belliveau and Madeleine Dugas
4) Marie-Francoise (1652-1741) md Pierre Cyr and Germain Girouard
5) Guillaume (1655-) md Marie-Anne D'Aprendestiguy
6) Marguerite (1658-1732) Jean Boudreau and Pierre Maisonnat
7) Francoise 1659-1697 md Claude Dugas
8) Anne (1661-1747) md Rene Leblanc
9) Marie (1665-) md Antoine Leblanc
10) Jeanne (1667-1716) md Pierre Comeau

Jacques became a farmer and shipbuilder in Port Royal. He traded with Bostonians and learned English, enabling him to become an interpreter. He sold part of his holdings in 1672, and settled in the Chignecto Basin, along with his two oldest sons and two of his sons-in-law. He became the first promotor of Beaubassin, by building a flour mill and a saw mill, encouraging more people to settle the area, which became very prosperous.

He returned to Port-Royal again before 1699, living there until his death in 1701.


Jacob (Jacques) BOURGEOIS, Druggist, 50; cattle 33, sheep 24.
wife Jeanne TRAHAN 40;
children: Jeanne 27,
Charles 25,
Germain 21,
Marie 19,
Guillaume 16,
Marguerite 13,
Francois 12,
Anne 10,
Marie 7,
Jeanne;

1671 Port Royal Acadian Census

https://www.acadian.org/census1671.html

Jacques married Jeanne Trahan About 1643, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France. Jeanne (daughter of Guillaume Trahan and Françoise Charbonneau) was born 8 Jan 1629, De Bouguil, Indre-et-Loire, France; was christened 1629, Bourgueil, Département d'Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France; died Jul 1699, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried Jul 1699, Garrison Graveyard, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Jeanne is the daughter of Guillaume Trahan and Francoise Charbonneau. She married Jacques Bourgeois in 1643, in Port Royal, Acadie. They are the parents of the following:

1) Jeanne (1644-1730) md Andre Coudray
2) Charles (1646-) md Anne Dugas
3) Germain (1650-1711) md Marguerite Belliveau and Madeleine Dugas
4) Marie-Francoise (1652-1741) md Pierre Cyr and Germain Girouard
5) Guillaume (1655-) md Marie-Anne D'Aprendestiguy
6) Marguerite (1658-1732) Jean Boudreau and Pierre Maisonnat
7) Francoise 1659-1697 md Claude Dugas
8) Anne (1661-1747) md Rene Leblanc
9) Marie (1665-) md Antoine Leblanc
10) Jeanne (1667-1716) md Pierre Comeau

Thank you Gloria Moreau #48849488 providing the death and husband info for child (1) Jeanne.

Notes:

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Claude was born in about 1637. He and Marie were married in about 1661, in Port-Royal, Acadie. They are the parents of at least the following:
1) Germain (1662-) md Marie-Anne Richard
2) Marie (1665-) md Pierre Leblanc
3) Marguierte (1667-) md Claude Landry
4) Jean (1670-) md Jeanne Landry
5) Anne (1672-) md Vincent Babin
6) Jeanne (1675-1751) md Bernard Gaudet
7) Claude (1678-1752) md Agnes Aucoin
8) Marie (1681-1753) md Antoine Beliveau
9) Madeleine (1683-) md Francois Robichaud
10) Elisabeth (1685-1735) md Antoine Blanchard
11) Pierre (1684-1711) died in Boston, during the captivity
12) Joseph (1687-1711) died in Boston, during the captivity
13) Marguerite (1693-1777) md Rene Richard

He was a laborer by occupation.

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Claude was born in about 1637. He and Marie were married in about 1661, in Port-Royal, Acadie. They are the parents of at least the following:
1) Germain (1662-) md Marie-Anne Richard
2) Marie (1665-) md Pierre Leblanc
3) Marguierte (1667-) md Claude Landry
4) Jean (1670-) md Jeanne Landry
5) Anne (1672-) md Vincent Babin
6) Jeanne (1675-1751) md Bernard Gaudet
7) Claude (1678-1752) md Agnes Aucoin
8) Marie (1681-1753) md Antoine Beliveau
9) Madeleine (1683-) md Francois Robichaud
10) Elisabeth (1685-1735) md Antoine Blanchard
11) Pierre (1684-1711) died in Boston, during the captivity
12) Joseph (1687-1711) died in Boston, during the captivity
13) Marguerite (1693-1777) md Rene Richard

He was a laborer by occupation.

Claude married Marie Louise Gaudreau 8 Jan 1660, Port Royal, Richmond, Nova Scotia, Canada. Marie (daughter of François Gaudreau, I and Edmee Aimee Lejeune) was born 1647, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 29 Nov 1732, Port Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried , Garrison Graveyard Annapolis Royal, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Marie is the daughter of Francois Gaudreau/Gautreau and Edmee-Aimee Lejeune.

Claude and Marie were married in about 1661, in Port-Royal, Acadie. They are the parents of at least the following:

1) Germain (1662-) md Marie-Anne Richard
2) Marie (1665-) md Pierre Leblanc
3) Marguierte (1667-) md Claude Landry
4) Jean (1670-) md Jeanne Landry
5) Anne (1672-) md Vincent Babin
6) Jeanne (1675-1751) md Bernard Gaudet
7) Claude (1678-1752) md Agnes Aucoin
8) Marie (1681-1753) md Antoine Beliveau
9) Madeleine (1683-) md Francois Robichaud
10) Elisabeth (1685-1735) md Antoine Blanchard
11) Pierre (1684-1711) died in Boston, during the captivity
12) Joseph (1687-1711) died in Boston, during the captivity
13) Marguerite (1693-1777) md Rene Richard

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138542701/marie-gaudreau

Marie is the daughter of Francois Gaudreau/Gautreau and Edmee-Aimee Lejeune.

Claude and Marie were married in about 1661, in Port-Royal, Acadie. They are the parents of at least the following:

1) Germain (1662-) md Marie-Anne Richard
2) Marie (1665-) md Pierre Leblanc
3) Marguierte (1667-) md Claude Landry
4) Jean (1670-) md Jeanne Landry
5) Anne (1672-) md Vincent Babin
6) Jeanne (1675-1751) md Bernard Gaudet
7) Claude (1678-1752) md Agnes Aucoin
8) Marie (1681-1753) md Antoine Beliveau
9) Madeleine (1683-) md Francois Robichaud
10) Elisabeth (1685-1735) md Antoine Blanchard
11) Pierre (1684-1711) died in Boston, during the captivity
12) Joseph (1687-1711) died in Boston, during the captivity
13) Marguerite (1693-1777) md Rene Richard

Notes:

http://greenerpasture.com/Ancestors/Details/916:
Michel RICHARD dit SANSOUCY was born 1630 in , France. Michel RICHARD dit SANSOUCY was the child of

Michel was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1652.

He married Madeleine BLANCHARD 1656 in Port Royal, Acadia . The couple had (at least) 10 children. Madeleine BLANCHARD was born 1643 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada / Port Royal, Acadia . She died 1679 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada / Port Royal, Acadia . She was the daughter of Jean-Baptiste BLANCHARD and Radegonde LAMBERT.

He married (2) Jeanne BABIN 1683 in Port Royal, Acadia . The couple had (at least) 2 children. Jeanne BABIN was born abt. 1668 in , Acadia, Canada (Acadie) . She died 1714 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada / Port Royal, Acadia . She was the daughter of Antoine BABIN and Marie MERCIER.

Michel RICHARD dit SANSOUCY died abt. 1687 in Port Royal, Acadia.

additional:
http://www.acadiansingray.com/

Michel married Marie Madeleine Blanchard 1656, Port Royal, Acadia. Marie (daughter of Jean-Baptiste Blanchard and Jeanne Radégonde Lambert) was born 1643, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; died 1686, Port Royal, Annapolis, Ns, Nova Scotia,; was buried , Annapolis Royal, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]