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- I, a descendant, ID: LYFN-S47, submit the following description:
Ancestor Rosalie Comeau (pronounced ?Coh-MOH,? with various spellings) was an Acadian (colonial French-culture living in present-day Nova Scotia). Her parents had a place in the village of Pisiquit, a settlement along the Pisiquit River; refer to ?Pisiquit,? in Wikipedia. The Comeau family is described by Bona Arsenault in ?Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens,? Vol. 4, page 1366. According to Arsenault, Rosalie was a twin, born around 1720. She married twice; first to Michel Caissey and then to Jean Baptist Perial and lived in the Acadian village of Beaubassin, destroyed in 1750 to prevent its capture by the British army. The Caissey family fled to Isle St. Jean (Prince Edward Island) and ancestor Comeau was there in 1755 (age 35 years). After this date, she disappears from the records; the French at Isle St. Jean were captured in 1758 and most were imprisoned or deported. It is not known if she survived the Diaspora but there is no record of her immigration to Louisiana. She is presumed dead before the end of the French and Indian War (1754-1763).
Ancestor Commeau is also described in Phoebe Chauvin Morrison, ?Generations ? Past to Present,? Vol. 1, page 91. There is a descending genealogy of ancestors Caissey and Comeau presented in Janet Jehn, ?Acadian Descendants,? Vol. II, beginning on page 360.
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1720 - Deceased