René was born in 1692 to Charles Babin and Madeleine Elizabeth Richard in the parish of St Charles aux Mines.[1][2] He is living with his family in Minas, at the age of one year, at the time of the 1693 Acadian census.[3]
All information from White, Stephen A., Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert. Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes. Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 1999, Print, p.63-64.
Marie-Josephe bn. 24 Nov 1717 in Grand Pre; wed Charles Daigre (Bernard & Angelique Richard) in about 1754
Jean-Baptiste bn. 11 Mar 1719 in Grand Pre; wed Madeleine Hebert (Joseph & Anne-Marie Boudrot) on 29 July 1745 in Beaubassin.
Joseph (dit Rene) bn. 24 Sept 1720; wed Marguerite LeBlanc (Rene & Marguerite Thebeau) on 22 Nov 1745 in Grand Pre; exiled to Massachusetts; died 4 Jan 1806 at St-Pierre de Baltimore.
↑Declarations de Belle-Ile-en-Mer, by Brother Jerôme Lepré, S.C., Acadian & French Canadian Ancestal Home website, accessed 30 Sept 2017. Declaration of Marguerite Dupuis, widow of Claude Babin on 8 March 1767.
Charles BABIN 28, Madeleine RICHARD 22, Anne 5, Marguerite 3, Rene 1; 6 cattle, 4 sheep, 5 pigs, 6 arpents, 1 gun
↑ Paroisse de St. Charles des Mines, Grand Pré, Acadie, Québec Province, digital images, Héritage, Genealogy collection, Library and Archives Canada, reel C-1869, Parish Registers: Nova Scotia : C-1869, roll 1, Image 576. Marriage for Rene Babin and Isabelle Gotrot, 26 Nov 1714. Accessed 19 Oct 2021. This register is a transcript written around 1895 of the original registers currently held at the Baton Rouge Diocese Archives in Louisiana, USA.
Rene Babin (Charle Babin and Magdeleine Richard, habitants de la Grand Pree) m. 26 Nov. 1714 Isabelle Gotrot (Claude Gotrot and Marie Terriot, habitants de la riviere des Gaspareaux) wit. Charle Leblanc (s); Joseph Bugauld (s); Jacques Terriot (s); sig. Rene Babin (s); {+} Isabelle Gotrot (SGA-1,39)
Marcel Walter Landry Page for René Babin at Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed July 2021 (Login required)
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