Jean Baptiste Blanchard (1730 - abt. 1758)

Born 1730 in Cobequit, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Anne Hebert — married 1754 in Acadie

Died about 1758 at about age 28 in At sea, during the crossing to France

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Biography

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Jean-Baptiste Blanchard was born around 1730, in Cobequit, Acadie, the son of Pierre Blanchard and Francoise Brault.^[1]

In 1754 he married Anne Hébert, daughter of Jean Hébert and Claire Dugas, in Acadie. ^[2]

In 1758 Jean-Baptiste, his wife Anne, and their son Jean were deported to France aboard one of five British ships that left Isle Saint-Jean or Ile Royale, and docked at Saint-Malo, France on 23 January 1759. Listed with this family was Joseph Blanchard, brother of Madeleine. ^[3] Jean and his son died at sea during the crossing. Anne was at the hospital from 26 January to 7 February 1759 in Ploubalay. She remarried on October 15 the following year, at the age of 21, to 38 year old Joseph Aucoin, at Ploubalay, Côtes-d'Armor, France. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Karen Theriot Reader Jea Baptiste citing Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes: 1715 à 1780, (Moncton, NB: Centre d'études acadiennes, draft version) BLANCHARD #41

   Born around 1730, son of Pierre (9) BLANCHARD & Françoise BREAU.

   Spouse Anne Hébert - She married 2nd on 15 Oct 1759 to Joseph AUCOIN, widower of Anne BLANCHARD.
2. ↑ Albert J. Robichaux, The Acadian Exiles in Saint-Malo: 1758-1785; vol. 1, pt. 1, (Eunice, LA, Hebert Publications, 1981) p. 68, family #85 contains Family Genealogies A-G.

   Jean BLANCHARD, married about 1754 to Anne HEBERT; son Jean born about 1755. He died at sea during the crossing to France in 1758/1759; his wife remarried Joseph AUCOIN (see family #25).

3. ↑ "Rolle des habitans de l'Isle St Jean débarqués à St Malo le 23 janvier 1759 des 5 paquebots anglois le Yarmouth, la Patience, le Mathias, la Restoration et le John et Samuel," Fonds de l'inscription maritime de Saint-Servan (France): C-4619, MG6 C2, Library and Archives Canada, Roll of the " Five English ships " (Yarmouth, Patience, Mathias, Restoration, John Samuel) disembarked at Saint-Malo on January 23, 1759 image 177, accessed September 2023

   BLANCHARD Jean, died at sea,

   HEBERT Anne, 21, his wife, at hospital 26 Jan-7 Feb in Ploubalay

   BLANCHARD Jean, 3, son, died at sea

   BLANCHARD Joseph, brother of Madeleine,

See also:

• Genealogy of Quebec: Jean-Baptiste Blanchard c1725
• Genealogy of Quebec: Marriage of Joseph Aucoin and Anne Hebert