Anna Anastasie Nathalie Arsenault (abt. 1738 - 1821)

Born about 1738 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Bernard — married about 1755 in Malpèque, Ile-St-Jean, Acadie

Descendants

Died 20 Jun 1821 at about age 83 in Egmont Bay, Prince, Colony of Prince Edward Island

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Biography

Nathalie and Joseph are the ancestors of the Acadian Bernard families in Prince Edward Island ^[1]

Nathalie was born around 1738 to Abraham Arseneau and Marie Josèphe Savoie.^[2]

She appeared at age 14 in the 1752 census at Malpec with her parents and siblings.^[3]

Note that the parish records of Malpec are lost. They did not survive the 1758 Expulsion. It is not clear whether this family (or some of its members) left the island before the Expulsion, or whether they left as refugees - along with the rest of the Malpec residents - when news arrived of the British invasion & the start of the Expulsion.

Nathalie would have been around 17 years old when she married Joseph Bernard about 1755 in Acadie.^[2]

The newlyweds apparently settled on the mainland (not on the island), They would have fled from the Expulsion in late 1755. Historian Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc places their original home around Tintamarre (today's Upper Sackville, New Brunswick) in the greater Beaubassin district of the Isthmus of Chignecto. He lists their household among the refugees who experienced extraordinary hardship during the early years of the Expulsion period, at Camp Espérance on the Miramichi river in today's New Brunswick. He also found them listed in 1760 among the refugees who had proceeded northward from the Miramichi to Restigouche at the head of the Bay of Chaleur (at the border of today's NB & Quebec provinces).^[4]

The war & the Expulsion both came to a formal end in 1763. Nathalie & Joseph are found living at Havre-Saint-Pierre, on the northeastern part of Isle Saint-Jean in 1763 and still in 1765, with four children.^{[5] [1]}

[THIS PARAGRAPH TO BE EDITED - see the preceding.] This is an interesting location for them, considering that no records were found for the marriage or baptism of any of their children In St. Jean l'Evangeliste Parish between 1755 and mid-1758. [The parish of Saint-Pierre-du-Nord at Havre Saint-Pierre had long been a separate entity. However, it experienced interruptions in pastoral service & there are gaps in the parish records.] Would a family have immigrated TO Isle Saint Jean during or after the years of Acadian deportation and remained with the small remnant of families there in 1763? Having died there in 1821, they made a long life after the British regime took over.

Nathalie died and was buried at 83 years of age. Recorded as:
Nathalie Arsenault Or Bernard
 Death: 21 Jun 1821
 Prince Edward Island, Canada
 Age 83
 Estimated birth year: 1738^[6]

Research Notes

Birth was on Ile Saint-Jean according to the draft version of DGFA. However, the 1752 census indicates that the family had been residing on the island for 11 years (arrival 1741). More sources needed.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Arsenault, Georges et Earle Lockerby, "Les Acadiens à l’Île Saint-Jean et aux Îles de la Madeleine dans les années 1760", Les cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, Vol. 47, no 3, Septembre 2016, p. 114, 123, 128 accessed at https://societehistoriqueacadienne.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/vol-47-no3.pdf
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Anne Anastasie Arseneau citing Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780 - Stephen A. White - Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version - University of Moncton - Centre d'Études Acadiennes - 1 University of Moncton - BERNARD no. 23 spouse, Birth - Isle St. Jean, Acadia
3. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), La Roque Census, p. 156-157, Images 342-343. The original census, in French, can be found at Census Original Version “Recensement de l'Isle Royal et de Isle Saint-Jean ”, p. 583-584, Images 588-589

   Abraham Arcenaud dit le petit Abraham, native of l'Acadie, aged 50 years, he has been in the country 11 years, ploughman. Married to Marie Joseph Savoye, aged 42 years. They have ten children, five sons and five daughters:-
   Jean Baptiste, aged 16 years.
   Jacques, aged 12 years.
   Joseph, aged 8 years.
   Hilarion, aged 4 years.
   Baptiste, aged 2 years.
   Anne, aged 20 years.
   Marie Joseph, aged 18 years.
   Anne Nastasie, aged 14 years.
   Marguerite, aged 10 years.
   Martine, aged 6 years.
   In live stock they have two oxen, two cows, two calves, five wethers, eight ewes, and three pigs. The land upon which they are settled is situated to the west of the harbour of Macpec [Malpec], and was given to them by Messieurs Duchambon and Dubuisson. On it they have made a clearing where they can sow thirty-two bushels of wheat. They have sown only six bushels and a half of wheat, having no more seed.

4. ↑ LeBlanc, "List of Families," p. 3. And LeBlanc, "The Acadian Refugee Camp".
5. ↑ Liste of Inhabitants from Isle St Jean at Port LaJoye on 17th September, 1763 Letter to the King. List (Archived link) transcribed by Karen Theriot Reader (used with permission granted 5/22/20). Transcription and original published by Acadian.org "Rare list of P.E.I. Acadians intrigues N.B. researchers",

   Joseph, Bernard, Anathalie Arsen(o or a)u, avec quatre Enfants

   accessed 10/17/2020
6. ↑ "Prince Edward Island Death Card Index, 1721-1905," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939X-3SLY-3?cc=1827236&wc=MXMS-JZ9%3A161358401 : 20 September 2015), Abbot - Blanchard > image 887 of 994; Public Archives, Charlottetown. St. Jacques Roman Catholic Church, Egmont Bay, Book 2

See also:

• http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogy=Nathalie_Arsenault&pid=161958&lng=en
• LeBlanc, Ronnie-Gilles. “The Acadian Refugee Camp on the Miramichi, 1756-1761”. Translated by John Estano DeRoche in consultation with the author. Accessible online at [1] as of July 2021.
• LeBlanc, Ronnie-Gilles. “List of Refugee Acadian Households at Camp Espérance on the Miramichi, 1756-1757: Appendix to ‘The Acadian Refugee Camp on the Miramichi, 1756-1761’”. English translation & glossary of place name by John Estano DeRoche. Accessible online at [2] as of July 2021.
• Savard, Denis. "Dictionnaire généalogique des familles Arsenault ", Sainte-Foy, Québec : Editions MultiMondes, 2000, p. 5.
• Bernard, Jean. Généalogie des familles acadiennes de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard, c. 1764 - c. 1900, Baie de Malpèque, Î.-P.-É, 2009, Vol 1 Arsenault, pgs 11-12