Marie Josephe Vincent (abt. 1731 - 1812)

Born about 1731 in Pisiguit, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of Claude Amable Duon — married about 1757 in Miramichi, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died 30 Aug 1812 at about age 81 in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

Marie Josephe "Josette" Vincent was born in 1731 to Michel Vincent and his second wife, Anne Marie Doiron, in Pisiguit, Acadie^[1] (now Falmouth, Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada). She came of age during le Grand Derangement, and married Claude Amable Duon at Miramichi in 1757.^[1] According to her brother-in-law, Cyprien Duon (deported in 1755), from a statement he made in France in 1767:

Claude Duon, born at Port-Royal February 18, 1736, married at Miramichi by M. Manach, priest of the foreign missions, to Josephe Vincent, daughter of Michel Vincent and Anne Marie Douaron.^[2]

The 1757 marriage there indicates that she and Claude were among those who resisted the enforced deportations of 1755-56 by the English. Burned out of their homes and running out of food, after a year or so many of the resisters surrendered, and were imprisoned at Halifax until the end of the war in 1763. At the end of the war she and Claude were among the freed Acadians who stayed, working about year while awaiting the delayed release of Joseph Broussard, dit Beausoleil. Then together they bought passage to Martinique; they sailed on from there to become among the earliest arriving Acadians to Louisiana, where their only known child, Joseph Firmin Duon, was born in 1768.

Josette Vincente is listed on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, LA

Marie Josephe "Josette" Vincent, femme de Claude Amable Duon, died August 30, 1812,^[4] and was buried September 1 in St. Michael's Cemetery in St. Martinville, Louisiana, U.S.A.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Stephen White, Dictionnaire Genealogique Des Familles Acadiennes, vol. 1, p. 583 and vol. 2, p. 1579.
2. ↑ Abbé H. R. Casgrain, "Registers of Palais Parish, Belle-Isle-en-Mer," in Acadians of Belle-Isle-en-Mer: Unpublished Documents of French Canada, (Quebec, CA: Canada-Francais, L.J. Demers & Frère, 1890), online at "Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"
3. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by Jane G. Bulliard and the Wall of Names Committee (Scott, LA: Hulco, 2002) p. 16.
4. ↑ Donald J. Hébert, Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900, compact disk #101 ("SWLR CD"), (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001; reprints by Claitor's Publications)

   VINCENT, Marie Josephe - native of Acadie; widow of Amand DUHON - an inhabitant on Bayou Vermillion; died 30 Aug. 1812 at age 98[sic] years at her residence; buried 1 Sept. 1812 in the parish cemetery. Signed: Yve. GOPLET. Fr. Gabriel ISABEY (SM Ch.: v.4, #778)

5. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/Q29Y-MZBV : 11 July 2016), Marie Josephe Vincent Duhon, 1812; Burial, Saint Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, United States of America, Saint Michael's Cemetery; citing Find A Grave: Memorial #153156109.

See also:

• FSFTID: LKM6-22H.