Marie Madeleine Gaudet
1768 - 1812 (~ 44 years)1. Marie Madeleine Gaudet was born Apr 1768, Grande-Digue, Dundas, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada; was christened 2 Jun 1768, Halifax, Digby, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Canada (daughter of Jean Augustin Gaudet and Marie Josephe Melanson); died 26 Aug 1812, Barachois, Beaubassin East, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada. Marie married Jean-Noel Arseneault [Group Sheet]
Children:- Susanne Arseneault was born 24 Aug 1801, Grand Digue-Notre Dame Parish, New Brunswick; died Deceased.
- Louis Arseneault was born About 1788, New Brunswick, Canada; died Deceased.
- Pacifique Arseneault was born 22 Jul 1792, Saint-Basile, Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada; died 26 Apr 1862, Grande-Digue, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada.
2. Jean Augustin Gaudet was born 1730, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France (son of Augustin Gaudet and Agnes Chiasson); died 24 Aug 1822, Memramcook, Westmorland, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada; was buried 25 Aug 1822, Memramcook, Westmorland, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada. Jean married Marie Josephe Melanson 29 Aug 1768, Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada. Marie (daughter of Pierre dit Parrotte Melanson and Marie Josephe Granger) was born 4 Mar 1747, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; was christened 5 Mar 1747, Saint Jean-Baptiste Catholic Church, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 1 Feb 1825, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada. [Group Sheet]
3. Marie Josephe Melanson was born 4 Mar 1747, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; was christened 5 Mar 1747, Saint Jean-Baptiste Catholic Church, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (daughter of Pierre dit Parrotte Melanson and Marie Josephe Granger); died 1 Feb 1825, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada. Children:
- Marguerite Gaudet was born 25 Sep 1773, Saint Marys Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada; was christened 23 Oct 1774, Sainte Anne De Ritigouche Catholic,Carleton,Bonaventure,Quebec; died 11 Mar, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada; was buried 11 Mar, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
- Pierre Gaudet was born About 1780, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada; died 31 Oct 1817, Memramcook, Dorchester, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada; was buried 1 Nov 1817, Saint Thomas RC Church, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
- 1. Marie Madeleine Gaudet was born Apr 1768, Grande-Digue, Dundas, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada; was christened 2 Jun 1768, Halifax, Digby, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 26 Aug 1812, Barachois, Beaubassin East, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
- Marie Anne Gaudet was born 12 Jan 1770, Pisquit, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada; was christened 26 May 1770, Saint Ours, Richelieu, Quebec; died 18 Dec 1849, Barachois, Gaspé-Est, Quebec, Canada; was buried 20 Dec 1849, Barachois, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
Generation: 3
4. Augustin Gaudet was born 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, New France (son of Pierre Gaudet L'Aine and Anne Marie Blanchard); died 7 Jun 1766, Restigouche, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada. Augustin married Agnes Chiasson 22 Feb 1713, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France. Agnes (daughter of Sébastien Chiasson and Marie Jeanne Belou) was born 1697, Beaubassin, Acadia, Canada; died Before 10 January 1746, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France. [Group Sheet]
5. Agnes Chiasson was born 1697, Beaubassin, Acadia, Canada (daughter of Sébastien Chiasson and Marie Jeanne Belou); died Before 10 January 1746, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France. Children:
- Joseph (dit Chaculo) Gaudet was born 1740, Beaubasson, Acadia, New France; died After 1 September 1812, Tignish,Prince Edward Island,Canada.
- 2. Jean Augustin Gaudet was born 1730, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France; died 24 Aug 1822, Memramcook, Westmorland, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada; was buried 25 Aug 1822, Memramcook, Westmorland, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada.
- Anne Gaudet was born 12 Sep 1716; died Oct 1806, Memramcook,NB,Canada.
- Marguerite Gaudet was born 1 Feb 1723, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France; was christened 10 Aug 1723, Roman Catholic Church, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France; died After 1796, France.
- Michel Gaudet was born 1725, Tintamarre, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France; died 21 Feb 1789, St. Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Vercheres, Quebec, Canada; was buried , St. Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Vercheres, Quebec, Canada.
6. Pierre dit Parrotte Melanson was born 1719, Port-Royal (Acadie), NS, Canada; died Abt. 1791, Minoudie, Nova Scotia, Canada. Pierre married Marie Josephe Granger 1 Jan 1746, Port-Royal (Acadie), NS, Canada. Marie (daughter of Laurent Granger and Marie Bourg) was born 12 Jan 1723, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 26 Oct 1764, Minudie, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]
7. Marie Josephe Granger was born 12 Jan 1723, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (daughter of Laurent Granger and Marie Bourg); died 26 Oct 1764, Minudie, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. Children:
- 3. Marie Josephe Melanson was born 4 Mar 1747, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; was christened 5 Mar 1747, Saint Jean-Baptiste Catholic Church, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 1 Feb 1825, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
- Dominique-Pierre Melanson was born About 1763, Pisiguit, New Brunswick, Canada; was christened 28 Aug 1768, Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada; died 11 Aug 1813, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada; was buried 12 Aug 1813, Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
Generation: 4
8. Pierre Gaudet L'Aine was born 1650, Acadia, Nouvelle-France (son of Denis Gaudet and Martine Gauthier); died Aug 12 1741, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France. Pierre married Anne Marie Blanchard 5 Jan 1672, Port Royal, Acadia, New France. Anne (daughter of Jean-Baptiste Blanchard and Jeanne Radégonde Lambert) was born 1644, Port-Royal, Acadia, Nouvelle-France; was christened 1644, Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Port Royal, Acadia, Nouvelle-France; died 12 Aug 1714, Beaubassin, Acadia, Nouvelle-France; was buried Aug 1714, Fort Lawrence, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]
9. Anne Marie Blanchard was born 1644, Port-Royal, Acadia, Nouvelle-France; was christened 1644, Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Port Royal, Acadia, Nouvelle-France (daughter of Jean-Baptiste Blanchard and Jeanne Radégonde Lambert); died 12 Aug 1714, Beaubassin, Acadia, Nouvelle-France; was buried Aug 1714, Fort Lawrence, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. Notes:
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Children:
- 4. Augustin Gaudet was born 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; died 7 Jun 1766, Restigouche, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada.
- Claude Gaudet was born 1677, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France; died Apr 1754, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Abraham Gaudet was born 1679, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; died 26 Nov 1728, Berthier-sur-Mer, Montmagny, Quebec, Canada; was buried , Berthier-sur-Mer Berthier-sur-Mer, Chaudiere-Appalaches Region, Quebec, Canada.
- Marie Gaudet was born 1693; died 1736.
- Madeleine-Marie Gaudet was born 1681; died 25 Nov 1757, Quebec, Quebec, Canada; was buried 26 Nov 1757, Quebec, Quebec, Canada.
- Jeanne Gaudet was born 1664, Port Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada; died July 28 1732, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Bernard Gaudet (dit le Vieux) was born About 1673, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; died 17 Mar 1751, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; was buried 19 Mar 1751, Garrison Graveyard, Annaplois Royal, Acnnapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada.
10. Sébastien Chiasson was born 1670, Port Royal, Acadia, New France (son of Guyon Denis Chiasson and Marie Jeanne Bérnard); died 1703, Beaubassin, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. Notes:
SÉBASTIEN CHIASSON
Guyon-Denis and Jeanne Bernard's fourth child, Sébastien, was born in Chebouctou (now Halifax) in 1670. As a child he moved with his family to the new Acadienne colony of Beaubassin where he helped his father and older brothers clear the land for crops.
When Sébastien was about twelve years old his mother died. Guyon-Denis took the family to Québec and got remarried to a woman only a few years older than Sébastien. They returned to Beaubassin where Sébastien's new step-mother gave him four more siblings.
In 1693, Sébastien (spelled Bastien in the 1693 census of Beaubassin) married Marie Blou (daughter of Jacques Blou and Marie Girouard). Their eventual family was small by Acadienne standards (Sébastien died in his early thirties) consisting of a son Jacques, and two daughters, Marie and Agnès; although later, a second (unnamed) boy appears in two censuses.
On September 21st 1696, New England militia led by Benjamin Church attacked Beaubassin, burning buildings, slaughtering livestock and killing some of its inhabitants, but most fled inland and survived because the English feared the Acadiennes? marksmanship and were unwilling to chase them beyond the reach of their ships? cannons. The following year the Treaty of Ryswick ended King William?s War and restored Acadie to France, but in 1702 after only a few years of peace, a new conflict began: The War of Spanish Succession.
By the 1698 census Sébastien and Marie's farm had sixty-three acres under cultivation, with 24 cattle, 12 sheep and 10 hogs, but by 1700 they were cultivating only twelve acres and the following year, just four acres. The 1701 census also reported that they had two boys and two girls. The existence of a fourth child in generally not known but this helps validate an entry in the 1703 census: The Widow Bastien, 2 boys, 2 girls. The inference is that Sébastien died between 1701 and 1703, and his widow Marie is referred to by what was perhaps his dit name: Bastien.
In late June 1704, Benjamin Church, the man who led New England militia against Acadie in 1696, returned with a force of seven hundred Bostonians and Massachusetts?s natives. They sailed into Bassin-de-Minas and attacked Grand-Pré, Pisiguit and Cobequid. At Grand-Pré, Church tried to sneak up on the Acadiennes by mooring his ships behind a small wooded island and approaching the village in whale boats, but after reaching the tideline and attempting to cross the mudflats on foot his men were blocked by deep tidal channels and returned to their boats to wait for the flood tide to cover the obstructions. The delay and rising sea revealed them to the locals, who fled into the woods.
His soldiers sacked the colony, killing livestock, burning houses, and breaking open the salt-marsh dikes which flooded the enclosed farmland with seawater, threatening to destroy the land?s usefulness for several years; but after Church?s men left the Acadiennes quickly repaired the aboiteaux, saving the soil from complete salt saturation and allowing them to plant crops the following year.
At Beaubassin, Germain Bourgeois (son of Jacques Bourgeois) negotiated with the New Englanders and showed them a signed document giving their sworn loyalty to the English king. This seemed to satisfy Church but many of his soldiers were less disciplined and went off to pillage the area and raze the village: burning houses, farms and the church.
Sébastien Chiasson's widow Marie Blou, with her family of young children, would have been there at the time and no doubt witnessed the destruction.
Around 1708 Marie got remarried to François Lapierre and had six more children with him.
In 1710, a fleet of English and New England ships commanded by General Francis Nicholson, sailed into Port-Royal basin carrying two thousand troops and laid siege to the fort. After a few days of bombardment Governor Subercase surrendered. Port-Royal was renamed Annapolis Royal.
In 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht ended The War of Spanish Succession in Europe and its North American extension: Queen Anne?s War. France ceded Acadie and Newfoundland to England but retained the St. Lawrence valley and the islands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, including Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) and Île Royale (Cape Breton Island). The treaty language however did not define the geographic extent of Acadie with enough detail, and France believed that a wide swatch of the mainland (the future province of New Brunswick and a portion of the future state of Maine) still belonged to them, while England held the opposite view, causing decades of conflict and skirmishes between French and British forces, finally erupting into full-scale battle during the Seven Years? War.
Families began to abandon their farms in peninsular Nova Scotia and started a migration to Île Royale and later Île Saint-Jean. The area of Beaubassin began to take on the role of a frontier, with French militia retreating into New Brunswick protected by their Micmac allies, and making lightning attacks across the Chignecto Isthmus against British targets of opportunity.
Marie Blou appears in the 1714 census of Beaubassin (Francois LaPierre and Marie Blou his spouse; children: Jacques, Michel, Marie-Josephe) and is presumed to have died after that year, which some unspecified sources say was 1726.Sébastien married Marie Jeanne Belou 1693, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia. Marie was born Abt 1671, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada; was christened Mar 1671, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France; died After 1714. [Group Sheet]
11. Marie Jeanne Belou was born Abt 1671, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada; was christened Mar 1671, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France; died After 1714. Children:
- 5. Agnes Chiasson was born 1697, Beaubassin, Acadia, Canada; died Before 10 January 1746, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France.
- Jacques Chiasson was born 1694, Beaubassin, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 1775, Miquelon, Saint Pierre et Miquelon, DOM, France.
14. Laurent Granger was born 1688, Port Royal, Acadia, New France (son of Lawrence Laurent Granger and Marie Henriette Landry); died 11 May 1751, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. Laurent married Marie Bourg 24 Apr 1711, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France. Marie (daughter of Bernard Bourg and Françoise Brun) was born About 1690, Port Royal, Acadia, New france; died 20 Oct 1752, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried 21 Oct 1752, Garrison Graveyard, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]
15. Marie Bourg was born About 1690, Port Royal, Acadia, New france (daughter of Bernard Bourg and Françoise Brun); died 20 Oct 1752, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried 21 Oct 1752, Garrison Graveyard, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. Children:
- 7. Marie Josephe Granger was born 12 Jan 1723, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 26 Oct 1764, Minudie, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada.