André Bernard

Male 1620 - 1664  (44 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  André Bernard was born 1620, la Vendée, Saône et Loire, Bourgogne, France, Beauvoir-sur-Mer; died 1664, Acadie, Canada.

    André married Andree Guyon About 1639, France. Andree (daughter of Pierre Guion and Marguerite Couillon) was born 5 Dec 1620, Saint-Jean-d'Angély, Charente-Maritime, France; was christened 1620, France; died 29 Aug 1686, Annapolis Royal (Annapolis), Annapolis, , Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried 1686, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 2. Marie Jeanne Bérnard  Descendancy chart to this point was born About 1647, Acadia, New France; died 6 Oct 1683, Beaubassin, Acadia, Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried , Québec, Canada.

    André married Marie Delezay [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 3. Andre Bernard  Descendancy chart to this point was born 12 Jun 1644, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France; was christened 12 Jun 1644, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France; died 23 May 1724, Saint-Laurent, L'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada; was buried , Saint-Laurent Cemetery Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Capitale-Nationale Region, Quebec, Canada.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Marie Jeanne Bérnard Descendancy chart to this point (1.André1) was born About 1647, Acadia, New France; died 6 Oct 1683, Beaubassin, Acadia, Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried , Québec, Canada.

    Marie married Guyon Denis Chiasson 1666. Guyon was born 1638, La Rochelle, St-Sauveur-d'Aunis, Charente-Maritime, France; died 1693, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 4. Sébastien Chiasson  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1670, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; died 1703, Beaubassin, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada.
    2. 5. Marie Angelique Chiasson  Descendancy chart to this point was born About 1678, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France; died Before 14 November 1740, Acadia, New France.

  2. 3.  Andre Bernard Descendancy chart to this point (1.André1) was born 12 Jun 1644, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France; was christened 12 Jun 1644, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France; died 23 May 1724, Saint-Laurent, L'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada; was buried , Saint-Laurent Cemetery Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Capitale-Nationale Region, Quebec, Canada.

    Notes:

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    Andre is the son of Andre Bernard (1614-1676) and Marie Delezay (1619-). He married Marie Giton (dauther of Denis Giton and Marie Pain) on 26 November 1676, in Quebec. They are the parents of the following:

    1) Marguerite (1682-1749) md Francois Audet
    2) Marie-Anne (1683-) md Francois Paquet

    Andre married Marie Giton. Marie was born 1649, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France; died 17 Jan 1708, Saint-Laurent, L'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada; was buried 19 Jan 1708, Saint-Laurent Cemetery Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Capitale-Nationale Region, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet]

    Andre married ??? ???. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 6. Rene Bernard  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1663, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; died Abt.1708, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Sébastien Chiasson Descendancy chart to this point (2.Marie2, 1.André1) was born 1670, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; 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]

    Children:
    1. 7. Agnes Chiasson  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1697, Beaubassin, Acadia, Canada; died Before 10 January 1746, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France.
    2. 8. Jacques Chiasson  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1694, Beaubassin, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 1775, Miquelon, Saint Pierre et Miquelon, DOM, France.

  2. 5.  Marie Angelique Chiasson Descendancy chart to this point (2.Marie2, 1.André1) was born About 1678, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France; died Before 14 November 1740, Acadia, New France.

    Marie married Michel Poirier Bonhomme [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 9. Joseph Poirier  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1704, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, Canada; died Before 1752, Québec, Canada.
    2. 10. Marie Anne Poirier  Descendancy chart to this point was born From 1694 to 1717, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France or Trois-Rivières, Saint-Maurice, Quebec, Canada; died 11 Aug 1762, Trois-Rivières, Saint-Maurice, Quebec, Canada; was buried 11 Aug 1762, Trois-Rivières, Saint-Maurice, Quebec, Canada.
    3. 11. René Poirier  Descendancy chart to this point was born 23 Oct 1718, Beaubassin, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada; was christened 23 Oct 1718, Roman Catholic Church, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France; died 3 Mar 1766, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France; was buried 4 Mar 1766, Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France.

  3. 6.  Rene Bernard Descendancy chart to this point (3.Andre2, 1.André1) was born 1663, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; died Abt.1708, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France.

    Rene married Magdeleine Doucet About 1689, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France. Magdeleine (daughter of Pierre Doucet and Henriette Pelletret) was born 1 Aug 1671, Port Royal, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 25 Feb 1740, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried , Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, Arcadia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 12. Joseph Charles Bernard  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1 Jul 1692, Beaubassin, Nouvelle-Écosse, Canada; was christened 1 Jul 1692, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 19 Dec 1757, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada; was buried After ?? 1765, St Josephs, Carleton, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada.
    2. 13. Marie Madeleine Bernard dit Renochet  Descendancy chart to this point was born About 1690, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America; died 1740, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada.
    3. 14. Marguerite Bernard  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1700, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America; died 22 Nov 1782, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America; was buried 22 Nov 1782, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America.


Generation: 4

  1. 7.  Agnes Chiasson Descendancy chart to this point (4.Sébastien3, 2.Marie2, 1.André1) was born 1697, Beaubassin, Acadia, Canada; died Before 10 January 1746, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France.

    Agnes married Augustin Gaudet 22 Feb 1713, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France. Augustin (son of Pierre Gaudet L'Aine and Anne Marie Blanchard) was born 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; died 7 Jun 1766, Restigouche, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 15. Joseph (dit Chaculo) Gaudet  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1740, Beaubasson, Acadia, New France; died After 1 September 1812, Tignish,Prince Edward Island,Canada.
    2. 16. Jean Augustin Gaudet  Descendancy chart to this point 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.
    3. 17. Anne Gaudet  Descendancy chart to this point was born 12 Sep 1716; died Oct 1806, Memramcook,NB,Canada.
    4. 18. Marguerite Gaudet  Descendancy chart to this point 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.
    5. 19. Michel Gaudet  Descendancy chart to this point 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.

  2. 8.  Jacques Chiasson Descendancy chart to this point (4.Sébastien3, 2.Marie2, 1.André1) was born 1694, Beaubassin, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 1775, Miquelon, Saint Pierre et Miquelon, DOM, France.

    Jacques married Marie Joseph Arsenault 10 Jan 1719, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, Canada. Marie (daughter of Abraham Arsenault and Jeanne Gaudet) was born 1704, Beaubassin Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada; died After 1767, Miquelon, Saint Pierre and Miquelon. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 20. Elisabeth Chiasson  Descendancy chart to this point was born About 1736, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, Canada; died Deceased.
    2. 21. Marguerite Chiasson  Descendancy chart to this point was born About 1727, Port Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada; was christened 5 Nov 1733, Roman Catholic,Beaubassin,Cumberland,Nova Scotia; died 1820, Havre-Aubert, Canada.

  3. 9.  Joseph Poirier Descendancy chart to this point (5.Marie3, 2.Marie2, 1.André1) was born 1704, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, Canada; died Before 1752, Québec, Canada.

    Joseph married Jeanne Arsenault (daughter of Abraham Arsenault and Jeanne Gaudet) [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 22. Raymond Simon Poirier  Descendancy chart to this point was born About 1745, Chéticamp, Inverness County, Nova Scotia; died 26 Apr 1830.

  4. 10.  Marie Anne Poirier Descendancy chart to this point (5.Marie3, 2.Marie2, 1.André1) was born From 1694 to 1717, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France or Trois-Rivières, Saint-Maurice, Quebec, Canada; died 11 Aug 1762, Trois-Rivières, Saint-Maurice, Quebec, Canada; was buried 11 Aug 1762, Trois-Rivières, Saint-Maurice, Quebec, Canada.

    Marie married Francois Doucet (son of Charles Doucet, Sr. and Huguette Ranegonde Guérin) [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 23. Charles Doucet dit Charlitte  Descendancy chart to this point was born About 1725, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France; died 14 Sep 1798, Bathurst, Gloucester, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada; was buried , Bathurst, Gloucester, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada.

  5. 11.  René Poirier Descendancy chart to this point (5.Marie3, 2.Marie2, 1.André1) was born 23 Oct 1718, Beaubassin, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada; was christened 23 Oct 1718, Roman Catholic Church, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France; died 3 Mar 1766, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France; was buried 4 Mar 1766, Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France.

    René married Anne Gaudet 14 Nov 1740, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France. Anne (daughter of Denis Gaudet and Anne Doucet) was born 1720, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France; died 8 May 1779, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 24. Anne Poirier  Descendancy chart to this point was born 5 Dec 1743, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France; was christened 15 Dec 1743, Beaubassin, Cumberland, N.S.; died 1781, Aacadia,,,.

  6. 12.  Joseph Charles Bernard Descendancy chart to this point (6.Rene3, 3.Andre2, 1.André1) was born 1 Jul 1692, Beaubassin, Nouvelle-Écosse, Canada; was christened 1 Jul 1692, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 19 Dec 1757, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada; was buried After ?? 1765, St Josephs, Carleton, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada.

    Joseph married Marie Josephe Gaudet 1725, Beaubassin, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. Marie (daughter of Claude Gaudet and Marguerite Belou) was born About 1705, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, Canada; was christened Abt. 1705, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America; died After 1 January 1752, Beaubassin, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 25. Joseph Bernard  Descendancy chart to this point was born Abt. 1723, Egmont Bay, Prince Edward Island, Canada; died Deceased.
    2. 26. Anne Bernard  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1737, St-Pierre-du-Nord, Ile-St-Jean, Acadie; died 1802.

  7. 13.  Marie Madeleine Bernard dit Renochet Descendancy chart to this point (6.Rene3, 3.Andre2, 1.André1) was born About 1690, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America; died 1740, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada.

    Marie married Guillaume Girouard (son of Jacques Jacob Girouard and Marie Anne Marguerite Gaudreau) [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 27. Francoise Girouard  Descendancy chart to this point was born 10 Mar 1724, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France; died 5 Mar 1803, Richibucto, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada.

  8. 14.  Marguerite Bernard Descendancy chart to this point (6.Rene3, 3.Andre2, 1.André1) was born 1700, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America; died 22 Nov 1782, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America; was buried 22 Nov 1782, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, British Colonial America.

    Marguerite married François Arseneault (son of Pierre Arseneault and Marie Guerin) [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 28. Marie Anne Arseneault  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1726, Beaubassin, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada; was christened 15 Jun 1722, Beaubassin, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 19 Sep 1768, Bathurst, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada; was buried , Beaubassin, Quebec..