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.)

1. Marie Josephe Rose Comeau was born 23 Sep 1770, Petitcodiac, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada; was christened 9 Oct 1774, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 1844, Baie Sainte-Marie, Nova Scotia, Canada.
2. Joseph Justinien Comeau was born About 1775, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 24 Dec 1857, Meteghan River, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada.
3. Bruno Comeau was born 1773, ,,, Canada; died 1829, Saint Marys Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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]

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:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136320378/pierre-comeau

Pierre's last name is spelled Commeau on the census records. He's the son of Jean de Comeau IV Lord, Ecuyer de Chassenay and Marguerite Ocquidem.

He married Rose Bayol in Port Royal, Acadia in about 1649. They are the parents of the following:

1) Estienne (1650-1723) md Marie-Marguerite Landry and Marie-Anne Lefebvre
2) Pierre (1652-1730) md Jeanne Bourg
3) Francoise (1654-1678) md Jehan Gaudet
4) Jean (1657-1720) md Francoise Hebert and Catherine Joseph
5) Pierre (1658-about 1740) md Jeanne Bourgeois
6) Antoine (1661-) md Dorcus Wooden
7) Jeanne Commeau (1662-1725) md md Etienne Hebert
8) Marie-Jeanne (1664-) md Etienne Rivet
9) Jean-Augustin (1665-1755) md Catherine Babin

Please note that his parental information is from Family historian Father James Comeau, O.P., who claims that the Pierre Comeau who came to Acadia was the son of Jean de Comeau de Créancy, seigneur of Chassenay, in the upper Loire valley, and Marguerite Ocquidem de La Choselle. I don't know that this has been proven.

Pierre married Rose Bayol. Rose (daughter of Nicolas Bayol and Marie-Barbe Bayol dit Duparc) was born 1631, Dijon, Departement du Cantal, Auvergne, France; was christened 1631, Piney, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died Dec 1678, Port Royal, Richmond County, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried 1685, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136320576/rose-bayol

She married Pierre Comeau in about 1649, in Port Royal, Acadia. They are the parents of the following:
1) Estienne (1650-1723) md Marie-Marguerite Landry and Marie-Anne Lefebvre
2) Pierre (1652-1730) md Jeanne Bourg
3) Francoise (1654-1678) md Jehan Gaudet
4) Jean (1657-1720) md Francoise Hebert and Catherine Joseph
5) Pierre (1658-about 1740) md Jeanne Bourgeois
6) Antoine (1661-) md Dorcus Wooden
7) Jeanne Commeau (1662-1725) md md Etienne Hebert
8) Marie-Jeanne (1664-) md Etienne Rivet
9) Jean-Augustin (1665-1755) md Catherine Babin

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:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136913767/jeanne-trahan

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:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125968746/julien-lord

Julien was born in Orleanais, a former province of France, which included the cities of Orleans, Chartres, and Blois. He married Anne Charlotte Girouard before 1678. They are the parents of the following (*verified with PRDH):
1) Alexandre (1676-1740) md Francoise Beriault
2) Pierre (1683-1738) md Jeanne Doucet
3) Marie (1684-) unmarried
4) Jacques (1685-) md (a) Marie-Charlotte Bonnevie and (b) Angelique Comeau
5) *Anne (abt 1687-1770) md Mathieu Doucet
6) Madeleine (1694-) md Francois Amirault
7) Marguerite (1698-) md Joseph Amirault
8) *Charles (abt 1704-1776) md Marie-Josephe Doucet

Note: In 1790, Orleanis province was merged into the Centre Region, along with Touraine and Berry provinces. In 2015, Centre Region was renamed the Cenre-Val de Loire.

Julien married Anne Charlotte Girouard 1675, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France. Anne was born Jan 1659, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France; was christened Jan 1659, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France; died 9 Jan 1742, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America; was buried , Garrison Graveyard Annapolis Royal, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada . [Group Sheet]

Notes:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125968437/anne-charlotte-girouard

Anne married Julien Lord or Laure before 1678. They are the parents of the following (*verified with PRDH):
1) Alexandre (1676-1740) md Francoise Beriault
2) Pierre (1683-1738) md Jeanne Doucet
3) Marie (1684-) unmarried
4) Jacques (1685-) md (a) Marie-Charlotte Bonnevie and (b) Angelique Comeau
5) *Anne (abt 1687-1770) md Mathieu Doucet
6) Madeleine (1694-) md Francois Amirault
7) Marguerite (1698-) md Joseph Amirault
8) *Charles (abt 1704-1776) md Marie-Josephe Doucet

She was buried on 10 January 1742, in Port Royal.

Notes:

The Unbelievable Odyssey of the Barriaults (by James Carten, 1999, from the Acadian-Cajun Archives)Edited for this site by A. Côté 3 April 2008. The name Barriault has given place, since the arrival of the ancestor, Nicolas, in 1671, to many different [ortho]graphies: Barillaud, Barrios, Barillot, Bariault, Barriaux, Barilleaux, and even Bériau. All these variants return back to one forefather, Nicolas Barillot, born in France ca.1642 and married to Martine Hébert, daughter of Étienne Hébert and Marie Gaudet. Firstly settled in Port-Royal, he becomes, a few years later, one of the pioneers of Pisiguit, today Windsor, N.S. At the 1714 census, Nicolas Barillot is said to be a farmer and a landclearer, in the new parish of l'Assomption, at Pisiguit. A year before, the Treaty of Utrecht gave the Acadian Peninsula, as well as Newfoundland and the Hudson's Bay to England.[see note] The fact that Port-Royal, renamed Annapolis-Royal, became the capital of English Acadia, and since which is found strong English insurgence, surely incited Nicolas to settle further to the east, next to Pisiguit.
Five years later, 1719, begins the construction of the fortress Louisbourg, at Cape Breton. Already many Acadian families are leaving to settle at the Ile-St. Jean (Prince Edward Island) and at Cape Breton, where they are assured to be in the presence of French troops. Nicolas, though, prefers to remain at Pisiguit, where he became, forcebly, a subject of the new King of England, Georges I, who had just been crowned.
At the 1714 census, Nicolas Barillot has already ten children, of which four are sons; Antoine, b. 1697, Nicolas, b. 1703, Jacques, b. 1705, and Pierre, b. 1707. He had another son, Jean, the older, b. ca. 1685, but seems to be deceased at the moment of the census. He also had five daughters; Françoise, b. 1683, Marie, b. 1684, Catherine, b. 1687, Marguerite, b. 1689, and Madeleine, b. 1696. The descendants of his sons Antoine and Nicolas will settle in the region of St. Charles-de-Bellechasse, after the deportation. Those of Pierre will be principally in the Baie des Chaleurs in New Brunswick. Born at Pisiguit in 1707, Pierre Barillot, son of the forefather Nicolas, married in 1729 Véronique Girouard, daughter of Pierre Girouard and Marie Doiron, Véronique, who was born at St. Charles-des-Mines, was 17. Pierre was 22. They had baptized eight children at the church of l'Assomption-de-Pisiguit. Then, in 1750, doubting very much the eminent attack of the English, Pierre Barillot judged it prudent to transport his family to the Ile-St. Jean, remaining under the French administration. The family set up at the Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie where two other children were born. In August 1755 the storm broke loose in all of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The Acadians are arrested, imprisoned, dispossessed then deported into the ports of New England: Boston, New London, New York, Philadelphia. They arrive by flows, sick and extenuated, to Maryland, to the Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia. The Iles Royale and St. Jean remained French, but in 1758, a second wave of deportation arose. The inhabitants are loaded aboard ships bound for England, where the prisons of Liverpool, London and Southampton awaited them. For Pierre Barillot and his wife Véronique, it turned out to be a tragic voyage, one that they would not see the end [of]. Both died while crossing the Atlantic. Their son, Olivier Barillot, then 19, will be imprisoned in England. After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, he returne[d] to France. His brother, Jean-Baptiste, forefather of the Barilleaux of Louisiana, took refuge in Cherbourg, then at St. Malo, along with his sisters Agathe, Thérèse and Euphrosine. Olivier hurried to rejoin them. They settled in the parish of Pleudihan, in Brittany, where they were still yet in 1772. Their uncle, Nicolas Barillot, brother of Pierre, had just died before the 1755 Deportation, at Port-Toulouse, Ile Madame, Cap-Breton. Their uncle Antoine Barillot took refuge in Québec. He was at St. Antoine-de-Bellechasse, in 1758. Finally their uncle Jacques Barillot had less luck. He was deported to England in 1758. He was at La Rochelle, in France, in 1761/62. A few years later, we will find him in French Guyana in South America. But, getting back to Olivier Barillot, son of Pierre, refugee at Pleudihan, Brittany, with his brother, Jean-Baptiste and his sisters. It is in the Breton village that he will marry, ca. 1763, an unfortunate companion of exile, Anastasie Boudrot, daughter of Jean Boudrot and of Agathe Thibodeau. Two years later, after the birth of a daughter, Anne-Marie, in 1765, Anastasie Boudrot will pass away. Three years later, the (10th of May 1768) 10-05-1768, this time at St. Servan-de-St. Malo, Olivier Barillot marries, a second time, another exiled Acadian, Élisabeth Landry, daughter of Pierre Landry and of Anne Thériot, of the Rivière-aux-Canards. A first child, Charles-Olivier Barillot, will be born to this second union, the (22nd of March 1771) 22-03-1771. Another son, Jean-Baptiste, will see the light of day two years later. In the spring of 1774, Olivier, his wife and their three children decide to re-locate. They are among thirty Acadians who were aboard two goëlettes (schooners) of Charles Robin and his brothers from Jersey, who recruited fishermen and workers for their fishing settlements and commerce in Gaspé. Jim Carten[Source]
NOTE
The Treaty of Utretcht did and could not "give" any land to England, since the French never "owned" the land, nor did the Original people ever cede, convey, or sell any of it to the French. [return to paragraph]
Premier Ancêtre Nicolas Barillot-Barriault : nait en 1646 dans le Poitou au sud de la Normandie, il est venu du Berry pour s'installer en 1671 à Port-royal, Nouvelle-Écosse (Acadie), aujourd'hui Annapolis Royal. Vers 1680 il s'installe èa Pisiguit, Nouvelle-Écosse, aujourd'hui Windsor, Nova Scotia ou ils élevèrent leur 10 enfants; 6 filles et 4 garçons. en 1686 ils apparaissent dans le recensement. Autre information sur Acestry.com; Nicolas Barillot dit Bayol - An Acadian Mystery. In some geneology sites Nicolas Barillot (dit Bayol) is said to be the son of Nicolas Bayol and Barbe Bajolet and the brother of Rose Bayol. You might get a hit for Nicolas Barillot dit Bayol. Bayol is a variation of Bajolet. For some reason tha variations are extended to include Barillot but the Barillot name was already well established in France at the time. ( Nicolas Bayol b. 1605). Marie-Barbe Bajolet (b. 1608) was the daughter of one Antoine Bajolet or Bailolet (Bayol) who worked as a muleteer for Marie de Medici. Some sites list Nicholas Bayol as being married to Barbe Bajolet but the latter was married three times and in all cases to men of some power and wealth. Her marriages were well documented and so was the birth of all of her children. The Isaac Pesseley (her first husband) family was connected to the Baiolet - Bajolet. family. Barbe Bajolet's godparents were Pesseleys. All we know of Nicholas Bayol is that he sailed to Acadia on the St-Jehan with Marie-Barbe Bajolet's first husband Isaac Pesseley, in 1636. It is more likely that Nicholas Bayol was also a Baiolet -Bajolet, possibly a brother or a relative of Marie-Barbe Bajolet but certainly not her husband. We know that Bayol returned to France to collect his 9 year old daughter Rose in 1638. (Marie-Barbe Bayol, Rose Bayon). Marie-Barbe Bajolet married Isaac Pesseley in 1629, and was pregnant with her first child with Pesseley the very year of Rose Bayon's birth. In any event Bayol returned to Acadia with Rose and we never hear from him again. It is a certainty that both Bayol and Pesseley's widow were both in Port Royal in the year prior to Nicholas Barriault's Birth in France. Pesseley was killed in 1645. In 1646, Bajolet returned to France and married Martin Lefebvre. (1647). (Lefebvre died in 1648) The only remote possibility of Bajolet and Bayol being Barriault's mother is if she had been impregated by Bayol in Acadia just prior to her return to France but that is speculation. Nicholas Barillot dit Bayol a bastard son of Nicholas Bayol and Barbe Bajolet? Then why the name Barillot? Was the unwanted child raised by a Barillot family in France? Nicolas Bayol and Isaac Pesseley knew each other having sailed together as crew on the St-Jehan. Pesseley's wife Bajolet had not sailed with them on that voyage. Bayol would have known the Pesseley Bajolet couple quite well. It is more likely, once again, that Nicholas Bayol, given the similarity in name was more likely a relative of the Bajolets. Marie Barbe Bajolet married a third time in 1654. With her third husband and the children of her two preceding marriages, Barbe Bajolet returned to Acadia. Her family settled on a fief which was conceded to them by Charles de la Tour. A few years later, widowed again, thrice-widowed Barbe asked a vessel from Boston to give passage for her and her family to Port-Royal. It would be soon after that her daughter Marie Pesseley would marry Jean Pitre. There is no mention of a connection to Rose Bayol who we know to be Nicholas Bayol's daughter. So any connection to Nicholas becomes more and more distant. DNA testing has hinted that Rose Bayol was from Afro-Asian extraction. Was Nicholas Bayol black?
Was he, in fact, a slave or a servant who simply carried the Bayol name as many other slaves carried the names of the families they served? It would explain the lack of interest on Marie-Barbe Bajolet's part in Rose Bayol who also lived in Port Royal. Nicholas Barillot was born in 1646 and arrived at Port Royal on the Oranger in 1671. Nicholas Bayol was most likely already dead by then. His daughter Rose Bayol had been married to Pierre Comeau since 1649. Marie-Barbe Bajolet, a widow for the third time was living alone in Port Royal. Of her 8 children only 2 were in Acadia and 6 were in France. How does a man like Barillot end up on the

Nicholas married Martine Hébert Abt 1682, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. Martine (daughter of Étienne Hébert and Marie Ann Gaudet) was born About 1665, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; died About 1708, Pisiguit, Acadia, New France. [Group Sheet]