Joseph Dupuis (1736 - 1781)

Born 1736 in Grand Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Anne Marie Hebert — married 27 Mar 1769 in Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, New Spain

Descendants

Died Dec 1781 at about age 45 in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, New Spain

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Biography

JOSEPH DUPUIS is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 3 Right. Also listed as members of his household are Jean Baptiste Dupuis, Pierre Dupuis, Simon Dupuis and Marie Dupuis, relationship not specified, but probably they were his nieces and nephews, children of his brother, Antoine Dupuis, who died at Mireabalais, Santo Domingo (Haiti).^[1]

Joseph Dupuis was born about 1736 in Grand Pré to Antoine Dupuis and Marie Josephe Dugas.^[2] He was a boy during the Great Upheaval of Acadians by the British, and his family fled to Miramichi in 1756-57. From Camp Espérance, the refugees were taken to Halifax and released at the end of the war, in 1763. From there, a large party went on to settle in Spanish Louisiana.^[3]

He was listed among the Acadian exiles in New Orleans in 1767.^[4] He was in New Orleans with Jean Baptiste Dupuis, Pierre Dupuis, Simon Dupuis, and Marie Dupuis. Extant documents indicate that he had received his monthly quota of rations from the government for July, 1767.^[5]

He married Anne Marie Hebert on 27 March 1769 in Point Coupee, Louisiana.^[6]

Known children:

1. Joseph Aubry Dupuis (c.1770)
2. Jean Joseph Dupuis (1773)
3. Anne Melanie Dupuis (1775)
4. Magloire Dupuis (1777)
5. Hippolyte "Paul" Dupuis (1779)
6. Helene Louise Dupuis (1781)

He died and was buried on 7 December 1781 in St. Gabriel, Louisiana.^[7][8]

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair, eds. (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 16
2. ↑ Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Acadiennes, 1636-1714, (Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999,) p. 604.

   Joseph DUPUIS, a twin son of Antoine & Marie-Josephe Dugas, born (Belle-Ile-en-Mer Declaration) around 1736. He was on the 1767 census at New Orleans. He married (Point-Coupée Register) on 27 Mar 1769 to Anne-Marie HÉBERT, daughter of Paul & Marguerite-Josephe MELANSON. He was buried (St. Gabriel, Iberville Register) on 7 Dec 1781.

3. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader, Joseph Jean, citing "Camp Espérance, List of Refugee Acadians," - List of Refugee Acadian Households at Camp Espérance on the Miramichi, 1756-1757; LeBlanc, Ronnie-Gilles - Internet - p. 10 - Joseph (52) DUPUIS, son of Antoine (6) DUPUIS, from Rivière-aux-Canards, married in 1759 [sic, should be 1769] at Pointe-Coupée to Anne-Marie HÉBERT, daughter of Paul (56) HÉBERT. Settled at St-Gabriel-d'Iberville, LA.
4. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians: Census Records of the Colony, 1758-1796, (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973) pp. 426-427.

   At New Orleans July 23rd 1767 deposited at the royal office of the Province of Louisiana. signed: Estevan Gauarre August 5th 1767.

   List of Acadians Who Are in the City in the Month of July 1767.

   People who have received their food supplies for the month of July.

   Joseph Dupuis, Jean-Bte. Dupuis, Pierre Dupuis, Simon Dupuis, Joseph St. Pierre, Charles St. Pierre, Jean-Bte. Doucet, Marie Dupuis, Magdeleine Babineau, Wido St. Pierre.

5. ↑ "Life Lines," Ensemble Encore, (Acadian Memorial Foundation, Database of Acadian Immigrants to Louisiana) link?

   Entry for Joseph Dupuis; citing List of Acadian Families, 1767, AGI, ASD, 114.

6. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Acadian Records, 1707-1769, vol. 1a, Revised ("DOBR-1a"), (Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese of Baton Rouge, 1999) p. 169;

   Joseph DUPUIS, native of Acadia, son of Antoine & Marie Anne DUGAS, both deceased, married on 27 Mar 1769 to Anne Marie HEBERT, native of Acadia, daughter of Paul & Marguerite MELANCON. Witnesses: Simon RICHARD, Missionary; Joseph HEBERT. Recorded at St. Francis Church, Pointe Coupee, LA (PCP-3, 280 & PCP-4, 38).

7. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, vol. 2, 1770-1803 ("DOBR-2"), (Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese of Baton Rouge, 2003) p. 269;

   Joseph [DUPUIS] buried 7 Dec 1781 at St. Gabriel Catholic Church, Iberville, Louisiana (SGA-5, 54). [Next entry cites same record # for another Joseph, age 27 years, son of Joseph DUPRE, buried on 25 Feb 1784.]

8. ↑ Marcel W Landry “Généalogie des Landry a travers le monde” Joseph Accessed 5/31/21.

See Also:

• LDS family tree - https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L7GS-Y2C