Anne Darois (abt. 1717 - aft. 1763)

Born about 1717 in Grand Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of Etienne Saulnier — married 4 Jun 1740 in Beaubassin

Descendants

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Biography

Anne was born about 1717. She was the daughter of Jérôme Darois and Marie Gareau. She married Etienne Saulnier, son of Louis Saunie and Louise Bertrand 4 June 1740 at Beaubassin.^[1]

They followed Étienne's older brothers Jacques and Pierre to Petitcoudiac where they appeared on the 1752 census with 4 sons and 4 daughters and again in 1755 with 5 sons and 2 daughters. ^[2][3][4][5]

Around 1756 Étienne and his family fled to Camp d'Espérance on the Miramichi, in present-day northeastern New Brunswick, which was established at the end of the summer of 1756 to protect from famine and from the roundups of the British soldiers the approximately 1400 Acadians who were refugees there. ^[6] They suffered greatly because of diseases and lack of food at the camp.

By 1761 many of the Acadian refugees around Baie des Chaleurs were captured by British forces, or promised to surrender the following year, and were imprisoned in Halifax or Fort Edward. Étienne and Anne were rounded up and brought to Halifax. They appeared on a list of prisoners in Halifax dated 12 August 1763, with 9 children. ^[7][8][9]

The prisoners in Halifax were released after the treaty of 1763. The British authorities permitted Acadians to remain in the Colony of Nova Scotia as long as they took an oath of allegiance. However the majority of the prisoners rejected their offer and left the colony by their own means by leasing vessels since the British refused to pay their passage to other colonies. Many chose to go to French-controlled colonies like Saint-Pierre et Miquelon and Saint-Domingue (Haiti) but quickly left the dire conditions there and travelled north, most of them settling in Louisiana in the spring of 1765. ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Library and Archives Canada Fonds des Archives départementales de la Charente-Maritime [La Rochelle, France] : C-1207 Registres de Beaubassin - reel_c1207 MG 6 A 2 (Image 69) http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1207/69?r=0&s=6
2. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; 1752 Census The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the Library and Archives Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Image 283.

   Etienne SAUNIER, his wife, 4 boys, 4 girls.

3. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino;1755 Census image 8

   Estienne Saulnier, his wife, 5 boys, 2 girls

4. ↑ Stephen A. White, Recensements de Beaubassin et des Trois Rivières de Chipoudie, de Memramcook et de Petcoudiac (1686-1755). Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 50, nos 2-4, juin-décembre 2019, p. 392-393
5. ↑ Charles C. Trahan, trans, Acadian Census 1671-1752 (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1994), 1752, p. 6.

   Text: At Petkoudiack: Etienne Saunier, his wife, 4 boys, 4 girls.

   [This might be: Étienne Saulnier age 50; Anne Darois age 32; Françoise age 22; Marguerite age 20; Marie-Josephe age 18; Sylvain age 15; Boy age 10? Boy age 7? Madeleine age 5; Olivier age 1.]
6. ↑ LeBlanc, R.-G. (2012). Les réfugiés acadiens au camp d’Espérance de la Miramichi en 1756-1761 : un épisode méconnu du Grand Dérangement. Acadiensis, 41(1). Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/19077/21083. (See appendix at the end) Also English translation by John Estano DeRoche "The Acadian Refugee Camp on the Miramichi, 1756-1761"
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} LeBlanc, Ronnie-Gilles, Les Acadiens à Halifax et dans l’île Georges, 1755–1764. Port Acadie no 22-23 (2012) : p 66-67, 76 of PDF https://doi.org/10.7202/1014976ar
8. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino. List of Acadian Prisoners at Halifax, August 12, 1763, Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home. Transcription, digital images, Roy, J.-Edmond. "12 Août 1763: Liste des françois Accadiens demeurants prisonniers a halifax port d'amérique Septentrionale Sous le gouvernement de Sa majesté Britannique" in Rapport sur les archives de France relatives à l'histoire du Canada. Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, 1911 accessed at BANQ numérique pages 628-631/images 630-633], Image 630, accessed Dec 2022

   de tiene saunaie, his wife, 9 children, total of 11.

9. ↑ Janet Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies (Covington, KY: Author, 1977), pp. 243, 249 & 253.

   Note: Probably included two nieces, Madeleine & Marie-Anne LALANDE.

   Text: On photocopy of document titled "Liste des françois Accadiens Demeurants prisoniers a Halifax port D'ámerique Septentrianale Sous le gouvernement De La Majesté Britannique," dated 12 Aug 1763 (a List of the French Acadians who were kept prisoner at Halifax under the government of His Britannic Majesty.) First listed is Etiene SAUNAIE [sic], his wife and nine children , for a total of 11 persons.

• White, Stephen A., Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert. Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes. Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 1999, Print, p470.