Anne Breau (abt. 1708 - 1768)

Born about 1708 in Grand Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of Jean-Baptiste Dupuis — married 1729 in Acadie

Descendants

Died 1768 at about age 60 in Louisiana

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Biography

Anne Breau veuve Jean Dupuis is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 3-Left. Listed with her are three of their 12 children: Pierre, Marie and Monique.^[1]

Anne (Jeanne) Breau was born in 1708 in Grand Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia. Her parents were Antoine Breau and Marguerite Babin.

She married Jean-Baptiste Dupuis in 1729, son of Jean & Anne RICHARD.^[2]

Four of the 12 children born to this couple.^[3]

1. Monique Dupuis1739
2. Anne Elisabeth Dupuis
3. Pierre Dupuis1750
4. Jean Baptiste Dupuis 1706

1763 Widowed before Jul 1763 Jul 7 1763 living in Port Tobacco, Charles county, MD ^[4]

Immigration

Immigration: 4 FEB 1768, New Orleans, Orleans, LA^[5]

Text: Anne BREAU and her children (and Pierre GUEDRY & his wife-- her daughter) came to Louisiana in the English brigantine " Ginea" arriving 4 [2?] Feb 1768.

1768 On list dated 11 Feb 1768 at New Orleans: Distribution of Lands for the Acadian Families Who Are Destined for the Town of Saint Louis of Natchez." (near Vidalia, Louisiana) Ana BRO, widow with three children, on 4 arpents. ^[6]

Widow Anne [BRAUX], married to deceased Jean DUPUIS, head of household of five persons on the 1763 census of Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland Colony. She is also on the 1768 census at Natchez on the Mississippi; but is not listed in 1770 in Ascension Parish [LA].1770 ^[7]

Anne Breau, age 58, widow of Jean-Baptiste Dupuis, came with three children--Marie, age 29, Monique, age 24, and Pierre, age 18. Anne may have died at Fort San Luìs. Daughter Marie, who "had been ill with hemorrages[sic] for four years," died in early March on the voyage up to Natchez. After Ulloa's successor, General Alexandro O'Reilly, released Anne's family from Natchez in 1769, her children moved to Ascension on the Acadian Coast. Daughter Monique married into the Guidry family. ^[8]

Residence

Census: Date: 7 JUL 1763, Port Tobacco, MD. 1768. ^[9]

Census: 7 FEB 1768, Place: Natchez, MS ^[10][11]

She died 1768/1770 in Louisiana

Narrative of history of settlement along the Mississippi River

"...1768: The group that had been sent to San Luis de Natchez were augmented by a group of 29 families or 149 persons refugees who arrived at New Orleans on 4 February, 1768 from Maryland aboard the British brigantine "Ginea" or "Jane". , On 11 February 1768, after being lodged in a warehouse in New Orleans, were sent to Fort St. Louis de Natchez, present day Vidalia Louisiana to augment the group sent on earlier to help bolster the colonial defenses against English encroachment.

They traveled in 3 boats commanded by Pedro Piernas, after February 11, 1768. (p. 78 Brasseaux)

The Acadians, angered over Ulloas refusal to allow them to settle with their families and friends and instead, sending them to Natchez and other desolate outposts along the Mississippi river joined LaFreniere and his followers in their revolt against Ulloa.

This caused the Acadians to be a little disgruntled and when LaFreniere and his followers revolted against Ulloa in 1768, between 200 and 300 of them took up arms and joined in the march on the morning of October 29, 1768 which caused the expulsion of Ulloa.

This angered the authorities in Spain and on August 10, 1769, at 12:00 oclock Alexandre O'Rielly arrived with sufficient forces to take control of the colony.

When Spanish control was restored by Alexandre O'Reilly in August of 1769, and the leaders of the revolt had been tried and executed, O'reilly ordered a census of the Attakapas and a survey of the needs of the colony on November 24, 1769. After hearing the grievances of the Acadians, he allowed the Acadians in Natchez to migrate to Acadians settlements along the Mississippi River. This move pleased the Acadians...." ^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ "The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial"; Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; p. 16
2. ↑ Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes Stephen A. White; 2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999; p. 275 BREAU #3 h [later i]
3. ↑ Family tree of Karen Theirot Reader, genenet.org https://gw.geneanet.org/katheriot?lang=en&pz=frederick+joseph&nz=theriot&ocz=1&p=anne&n=richard&oc=2 Anne Richard].
4. ↑

   Text following is from an email sent from Karen Theriot Reader, a professional genealogist, when she was asked about Anne's parents. Details of her birth date, immigration and marriage is also included. "Originally, the “Bible” of Acadian genealogy did give Pierre Breau and Anne Le Blanc as Anne's parents. (See here for how the error continues.) [

   http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogy=Brault_Anne&pid=1217707&lng=en] However, there is an online database of corrections to this work. Originally: Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999), p. 275 BREAU #3 h [later i]. Anne BREAU, daughter of Pierre [sic] BREAU & his 2nd wife Anne LEBLANC [sic], born 31 Jan 1710, baptized 6 Apr 1710 (Grand Pré Register). Sponsors: Jean THÉRIOT (who signed) & Anne DUGAS. She married around 1729 to Jean-Baptiste DUPUIS, son of Jean & Anne RICHARD. This Anne is later proven by mtDNA test results not to be a child of the parents she was initially assigned to by Stephen A White et. al.--Pierre Breau and Anne Le Blanc. See: Lucie LeBlanc Consentino, www.Acadian-Home.org, Her parents (checked by Stephen A. White) are listed as Antoine BREAU & Marguerite BABIN in the lineage of Claire Mire Bettag, based on her mtDNA results. A subsequent revision was published by SAW in his corrections to the DGFA: Stephen A. White, Ajouts et Corrections, http://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/files/umcm-ceaac/wf/wf/pdf/cor-dict.pdf. Corrections made to Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes; Famille d'Antoine Breau (2) Il faut ensuite ajouter une nouvelle notice «k» comme suit: «k. Anne (selon S.A. White) n v 1708 (Rc Port Tobacco [Maryland] 1763, Liste des arrivés en Louisiane 1768 60a); m v 1729 Jean-Baptiste DUPUIS (Jean & Anne Richard)» Translation: It is necessary thus to add a new entry "k" as follows: k. Anne (according to S. A. White) born around 1708. (on the 1763 census at Port Tobacco, MD; on list of arrivals in Louisiana in 1768, age 60 years). She married around 1729 to Jean-Baptiste DUPUIS, son of Jean DUPUIS & Anne RICHARD. Final word was the mitochondrial DNA test result! Stephen A. White, Ajouts et Corrections, http://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/files/umcm-ceaac/wf/wf/pdf/cor-dict.pdf, for p. 274. Famille d'Antoine Breau (2) Ajouter une nouvelle Note de S.A. White, comme suit: iii. Originaire du Port-Royal, Jean-Baptiste Dupuis se serait établi à Pisiguit à cause de son mariage avec une fille de l'endroit. Or, à l'époque de ses noces, la famille d'Antoine Breau et de Marguerite Babin était la seule du nom à Pisiguit à compter parmi ses membres une fille à marier. Notre conclusion que l'épouse de Jean-Baptiste Dupuis devait être la fille d'Antoine est appuyée par l'identité des parcours des familles Dupuis et Breau lors du Grand Dérangement. En 1755, les Dupuis sont déportés de Pisiguit au Maryland à bord du navire Dolphin avec les familles d'Alexandre et de Charles à Antoine Breau (R.-G. LeBlanc, «Pisiguit: l'impact du Grand Dérangement sur une communauté de l'ancienne Acadie», dans R.-G. LeBlanc, dir., Du Grand Dérangement à la Déportation, Moncton, 2005, p 243-244). Ensuite, en 1768, les Dupuis passent en Louisiane avec les mêmes Breau. Encore une autre preuve selon laquelle l'épouse de Jean-Baptiste Dupuis était la fille d'Antoine Breau et de Marguerite Babin est fournie par les résultats d'un test de l'ADN mitochondrial chez l'un de ses descendants (haplotype J1b) (voir S.A. White, «L'ADN mitochondrial des mères d'Acadie», CEA, dossiers généalogiques, divers). Ceux-ci indiquent qu'Anne Breau devait descendre d'une des filles de Jean Gaudet, soit Marie ou Françoise. Or, Françoise Gaudet était la grand-mère maternelle de Marguerite Babin. Translation: Add a new Note of S. A. White, as follows: iii. Originally from Port-Royal, Jean-Baptiste Dupuis settled at Pisiguit on the occasion of his marriage with a girl from that place. At the time of this wedding, the family of Antoine Breau and Marguerite Babin was the only one of that name at Pisiguit to have a marriageable daughter. Our conclusion that the wife of Jean-Baptiste Dupuis must be the daughter of Antoine is supported by the routes of the Dupuis and Breau families during the Grand Dérangement. In 1755, the Dupuis were deported from Pisiguit to Maryland aboard the ship "Dolphin" with the families of Alexandre and Charles (son of Antoine) Breau (see reference above). Later, in 1768, the Dupuis went to Louisiana with the same Breaus. Still another proof that the wife of Jean Baptiste Dupuis was the daughter of Antoine Breau and Marguerite Babin was furnished by the results of the mitochondrial DNA test of one of her descendants (haplotype J1b) (see S. A. White, "L'ADN mitochondrial des mères d'Acadie", CEA, dossiers généalogiques, divers). This indicates that Anne Breau must descend from one of the daughters of Jean Gaudet, either Marie or Françoise. Now, Françoise Gaudet was the maternal grandmother of Marguerite Babin."
5. ↑ Posting by Roger Rozendal in Jun 2007.
6. ↑ Title: "Odyssey Continued: Acadians Arrive in Natchez" Author: Richard E. Chandler; Publication: in Louisiana History, vol. XIX, no. 4 (Fall 1978), pp. 446-463.
7. ↑ Gregory A. Wood, A GUIDE TO THE ACADIANS IN MARYLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURES; 1755-1899; Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1995; p . 114.
8. ↑ Steve Cormier, webmaster, Dupuis/Dupuy
9. ↑ Acadian Exiles in the Colonies; Janet Jehn; Publication: Covington, KY: Author, 1977; p. 152

   Text: Anne [BREAU] DUPUIS, widow [of Jean-Baptiste DUPUIS]; Marie DUPUIS; Marguerite DUPUIS; CONT Monique DUPUIS; Pierre DUPUIS.

10. ↑ Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians; Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796; Jacqueline K. Voorhies; Publication: Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973 p. 435 Note: Document found in A.D.S., Legajo 2585.

    Text: "Acadian Families Who Came to Louisiana and Were Going to Settle at St. Louis de Natchez in the year 1768." Ana BRO, widow, age 60; Pedro DE PUI, son, 18; Maria [DUPUIS], daughter, 29; Monica [DUPUIS], daughter, 24.

11. ↑ "Odyssey Continued: Acadians Arrive in Natchez"; Richard E. Chandler; Published in Louisiana History, vol. XIX, no. 4 (Fall 1978), pp. 446-463.

    Text: On list dated 11 Feb 1768 at New Orleans: Distribution of Lands for the Acadian Families Who Are Destined for the Town of Saint Louis of Natchez." Ana BRO, widow with three children, on 4 arpents. On "List of Acadian Families Who Have Come to Establish Themselves in This Providence [sic] of Louisiana and Are Lodged in the Habitation Constructed by the King," dated 7 Feb 1 768: Ana BRO, age 60; Pedro de PUI, 18; Maria, 29; Monica, 24.

12. ↑ [1]

See Also:

• Anne Brau, born January 31, 1709/10 in Riviere-aux-Canada, Grand Pre. Note: S. White puts birth date around 1708 She married Jean Baptiste Dupuis Abt. 1729. Brault Family Tree