Olivier Melanson (abt. 1767)

Ancestors

Died [date unknown] in Louisiana [uncertain]

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Biography

Amand Melanson is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 5 Left. Listed with him is his spouse Anne Babin and 5 children: Joseph, Anne, Simon, Mathurin and Olivier.^[1]

Olive Melanson was born about April 1767, son of Amand Melanson and Marie Anne Babin. This would have been a chaotic time for Acadians with the end of the war, being released to leave their imprisonment, and travelling to their desired places to settle. We don't know where he was born but we know when he was born.

Olivier died in Louisiana at an unknown date and age.

The family was deported from Acadia to Maryland in 1755. On 7 July 1763 Amand and Marie-Anne were recorded on a census in Baltimore, Maryland with their children Joseph, Anne and Marguerite who died before 1767. Olivier had yet to be born. ^[2]

marque + de Amand Mellancon, Anne Babin mon epouse, Joseph Mellancon, Anne Mellancon, Marguerite Mellancon .... 5

"at the isle of Baltimord, State of the Neutral Acadians Who Are at Baltimore in Maryland"

Mark of Amand MELLANCON, Anne BABIN my wife, Joseph MELLANCON, Anne MELLANCON, Marguerite MELLANCON.

They immigrated to Louisiana in 1767 when he was just a few months old; perhaps he was born on the journey from Maryland to Louisiana. ^[3]

Aman LANSON (MELANÇON), age 39;

Ana, 37;

Joseph LANSON, son, 15;

Simon LANSON, son, 3;

Maturin LANSON, son, 1½;

Olibie, LANSON, son, 3 months;

Ana LANSON, daughter, 7.

August 1767 :Census - St. Gabriel, Iberville, LA ^[4]

Aman MELANSON (Armand MELANCON), with his wife and five children, on 8 arpents of land.

On "List of the Acadian Families That Have Come to Establish Themselves in This Province of Louisiana and an Account of Their Belongings:" Aman LANSON, age 39, with 2 trunks; Ana, age 37;

Jph, age 15; Simon, age 3; Mathuren, age 1 year, 6 months; Olibie, age 3 months; Ana, age 7 years.

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. 22
2. ↑ Janet Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, (Covington, KY: Author, 1977) pp. 145 & 158

   "a l'ile de Baltimord [sic], Etat de gens neutrals Acadiens qui sont a Baltimore En Maryland"

3. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians; Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796, (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973) p. 434

   On "LIST OF ACADIAN FAMILIES WHO CAME TO LOUISIANA TO BE ESTABLISHED [sic] IN THE YEAR 1767" signed by Julian Alverez, found in the Papeles procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 114: 40.

4. ↑ "End of an Odyssey: Acadians Arrive in St. Gabriel, Louisiana" - R. E. Chandler - Louisiana Historical Association, vol. XIV, no. 1 (winter 1973), pp. 69-87 - Originals in Seville, Spain: General Archives of the Indies, Section 5, Government, Audiencia of Santo Domingo, Legajo 2585. - pp. 81 & 86