Joseph Petitpas (abt. 1731 - abt. 1819)

Born about 1731 in Port Toulouse, Isle Royale, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Louise Fougère — married 1754 in Tracadie , Antigonish , Nova Scotia , Canada

Husband of Marguerite Breau — married about 1767 in Chezzetcook, Colony of Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died about 1819 at about age 88 in Tracadie, Antigonish, Colony of Nova Scotia

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Biography

Joseph Petitpas was born about 1731 in Port Toulouse, île Royale, Acadia. He was the son of Claude Petitpas and Françoise Lavergne.

Joseph married 1st Marie-Louise Fougère in 1754 in Chezzetook, Nova Scotia. Marie-Louise and Joseph continued to reside in Chezzetook where they raised their family including at least six children including Angelique, b. abt. 1755; Rosalie b. abt. 1757; Jean Baptiste; Julia; Michel, b. July 24, 1765; and Marguerite, b. abt. 1767.

After his first wife, Marie-Louise, died in 1767, Joseph married 2nd Marguerite Breau in Cheezetook, Nova Scotia on July 23, 1768. The witnesses were his brothers Louis and Jean-Baptiste. ^[1] Joseph had five additional children with Marguerite including Louis b. 1768; Euphrosine b. 1770; Boniface b. 1771; Joseph b. abt. 1774; and Alexandre b. abt. 1778.

Sometime between 1774 and 1778, Joseph removed his family to Tracadie, Nova Scotia, where he died in 1819.

Research Notes

Alternate date for death: before 1796. He died in his sixties. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Registre de l'abbé Charles-François Bailly, 1768 à 1773 (Caraquet), transcrit sous la direction de Stephen A. White, Moncton, s.n., 1978, 221 pages, p. 1-2, Marriage Joseph Petitpas & Marguerite Breau p. 1 Marriage Joseph Petitpas & Marguerite Breau p. 2, 23 July 1768, accessed November 2020
2. ↑ Bérubé, Martine, avec la collaboration de Stephen A. White. Le cahier de messes de l’abbé François Lejamtel: Missionnaire à l’Isle Madame, Cape Breton. (Lévis, Québec: Martine Bérubé, 2023) p. 92, online at BAnQ https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/4631675 accessed 31 Dec 2023,

   (105) Petitpas, Joseph : d. av. 1796. (Claude & Françoise Lavergne) m. v. 1754 à Louise Fougère (Jean & Marie Madeleine Belliveau) et m. v. 1767 à Marguerite Brault (Jean & Anne Gautreau). Désigné comme le père de Michel Petitpas. Né vers 1731, Joseph serait décédé dans la soixantaine. (Google translation: Petitpas, Joseph: d. bef. 1796. (Claude & Françoise Lavergne) m. ca 1754 to Louise Fougère (Jean & Marie Madeleine Belliveau) and married ca. 1767 to Marguerite Brault (Jean & Anne Gautreau). Referred to as the father of Michel Petitpas. Born around 1731, Joseph died in his sixties.)

See also:

• https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.genealogie-acadienne.net/%3Faction%3Dfamilies%26surnameId%3D31%26page%3D31&prev=search

• Acadia, Canada, Vital Church Records (Drouin Collection) (orig. hand-scribed registry), 1757-1946. Marriage Place: Caraquet, Acadie, Joseph Petitpas and Margaret Breau, Marriage performed by Charles Francois Bazilly, July 23, 1768. [Repository: Ancestry.com. Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1757-1946 (database on-line, Frame #4 of 1632). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin.] (marriage #2 record)

• RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Avery & Deslauriers [and allied families], Entries: 171969; Updated: 2017-05-10 23:01:18 UTC (Wed); Owner: Eileen; Rosa Lane (descendant & Acadian Project member): Accessed 1/14/2019; Lists parents, spouse, children: https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ib4eexcept&id=I575

• Stephen A. White, Periodical: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes; 1636-1714; Publication: Centre D’études Acadiennes - Université de Moncton, p. 643 & p. 1298.

• Rev. Ferdinand J. Melanson, Periodical: Genealogies of the Families of Chezzetcook, NS: Petitpas Family, Page: 6. Page: [lists location; lists date: ca 1764]

• Sandra (Petitpas) Perro, Periodical: Getting to the Roots of My Family Tree, Publication: (self-published), p. 119.

• Bona Arsenault, Periodical: Vol. 2 of 6, Histoire et Génealogie des Acadians, p. 724
• Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde Joseph Petitpas