Joseph Savoie (1727 - bef. 1767)

Born 8 Jun 1727 in Grand Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Anne Prejean — married about 1758 in Acadie, Nova Scotia Colony

Descendants

Died before 22 Dec 1767 before age 40 in Cabanocey, St James, Louisiana, New Spain [uncertain]

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Biography

JOSEPH SAVOIE is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 6 Left. Listed with Joseph is Anne Prejean, his wife, and two children, Marguerite and Joseph Andre.^[1]

Joseph Savoie, son of François Xavier Savoie and Marie Josèphe Richard, was born in Les Mines, Acadie in June 1727,^[2] and christened at Grand Pré 15 July 1727.^{[3] [4][5]}

Joseph and Anne Prejean, daughter of Joseph Prejean and Marie Louise Comeau, were married in Acadie about 1758.^[6]

Children of the marriage:

1. Marguerite Savoie b: Abt 1759 in Acadia
2. Unnamed Savoie b: Bef 12 Aug 1763 in Acadia
3. Andre Savoie c: Abt 22 Sep 1765 in New Orleans, Louisiana
4. Joseph Francois Savoie b: 4 Nov 1766 in Louisiana c: 17 Mar 1767 in New Orleans

He was counted on the census of 12 August 1763 at Halifax, Nova Scotia at the end of the Seven Years' War.^[7]

His story at the website "Acadians in Gray:"

Joseph, sixth son of François Savoie le jeune and Marie-Josèphe Richard, born at Minas in June 1727, married, according to Stephen A. White, Anne, daughter of Joseph Préjean and Marie-Louise Comeau, c.1758, no place given, but it probably was during exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. Anne gave Joseph a daughter, Marguerite, c.1760. By then, they may have taken refuge in the French stronghold at Restigouche at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs. The British attacked Restigouche in late June 1760, and another British force accepted the garrison's, and the Acadians', surrender there the following October. A Joseph Savoye with a family of four appears on a 24 October 1760 list of 1,003 Acadians surrendered with the garrison; this may have been Joseph à François. The British held them in a prison compound in Nova Scotia for the rest of the war. In August 1763, British officials counted Joseph, Anne, and two children on Georges Island, Halifax harbor, near his older brother Charles and his family. Joseph, Anne, and daughter Marguerite, now age 5, followed Charles and his family from Halifax to Louisiana in 1764-65. One wonders what happened to their other child and if it was a son or a daughter. Anne was pregnant on the voyage and gave birth to a son-- Joseph-André, called André--either aboard ship or at New Orleans soon after their arrival. After baptizing their newborn son at New Orleans in September, they followed brother Charles and his family to Cabahanncoer, where Anne gave Joseph another daughter, Josèphe-Barbe, in November 1766; they baptized her at New Orleans the following March--four children, at least two daughters and a son, between 1760 and 1766, in greater Acadia and Louisiana. Joseph died by December 1767, in his late 30s, when Anne remarried to an Hébert at Cabahannocer. Only her and Joseph's son married. He settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where he created a vigorous line.^[2]

He was counted on the census of 9 April 1766 in Cabahannocer (Lower), St. James, Louisiana.^[8][9]

Joseph died before 22 December 1767, the date his widow Anne remarried to Joseph Hebert in Cabanocey.^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, Wall of Names Committee and Jane G. Bulliard, compilers (Louisiana: Bodemuller The Printer, USA, second edition, 2015) p. 24.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Steven A. Cormier, "Joseph (1727-c.1767) à Germain à François Savoie", Acadians in Gray, website.
3. ↑ Stephen White, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes ("DGFA") (Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999) p. 1461

   Text: Sponsors: Joseph BREAU & Marie-Josephe SAVOIE.

4. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Charles-des-Mines (Grand-Pré, N.-É.) - 1869; Canadiana, Heritage, Parish registers: Nova Scotia : C-1869 (Image 243): https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1869/243?r=0&s=4
5. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, vol. 1a: Acadian Records, 1707-1748 (Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese of BR, 1999) pp. 177-178

   Text: Sponsors: Joseph BREAUX & Marie Joseph SAVOIE (SGA-2, 77).

6. ↑ DGFA, p. 1461.
7. ↑ DGFA, p. 1461;

   Text: Joseph SAVOIE, son of François SAVOIE & Marie(-Josèphe) RICHARD, was at Halifax in the census of 1763.

8. ↑ DGFA, p. 1461;

   Text: age 37.

9. ↑ Lillian C. Bourgeois, Cabanocey: The History, Customs, and Folklore of St. James Parish (Parish Histories) (New Orleans, LA: Pelican Publishing, reprinted 1998) p. 167;

   Text: Joseph SAVOYE, 37, with 6 arpents of land, 1 hog, and 1 gun;

   Anne PREJEN, wife, 38;

   Marguerite, daughter 7.

10. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians; Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796 (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973) p. 424;

    Text: "LIST OF THE ACADIANS WHO HAVE BEEN MARRIED SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF KABAHANOSSÉ," citing: Papeles procedentes de Cuba, legajo 187-I-A, appended to a letter dated 14 Feb 1768, written by Louis JUDICE to the governor.

    Joseph HEBERT & Anne PRÉJEAN, widow SAVOY.

See also:

• Savoie Master Data Base Joseph Savoie

• MyHeritage.com family tree

Record ID Number: MH:S15

User ID: 21D3BB1F-C399-4424-8F7D-0114047663DD

Author: Whitney&Sidney Dartez

Title: Dartez Web Site

Family site: Dartez Web Site

Family tree: 6239646-5

• Ancestry Family Tree: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/17481697/family

Acknowledgments

Savoie-627 was created by Richard Van Wasshnova through the import of Savoy.ged on May 14, 2014.

WikiTree profile Savoie-333 created through the import of Mueller Family Tree.ged on Oct 9, 2012 by Denise Dati.