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- 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
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1646 - 1725 (79 years)