Jean Baptiste Girouard (1725 - abt. 1808)

Born 9 Jun 1725 in Annapolis Royal, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Madeleine (Leblanc) LeBlanc — married about 1751 in Pisiquit, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died about 1808 at about age 82 in Antigonish, Colony of Nova Scotia

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Biography

Jean Baptiste dit Mangeau Girouard was born 9 June 1725. He was the son of Francois Girouard and Anne Bourgeois. He was baptized the same day at Port Royal. His godparents were Jean Baptiste Brossar [Brossard] son of the late François Brossard and Jeanne Dupuy, wife of Guillaume Blanchard.^[1][2][3]

He married Madeleine LeBlanc, daughter of Pierre & Francoise Theriot about 1751 in Acadia. ^[3]

In 1752, Jean-Baptiste and Madeleine were refugees at Memramcook as shown in the census that year. No children were listed yet. It was one of many displacements that the Girouard family would experience over the next few years during the Grand Dérangement. ^[4] By 1755, a boy and a girl were recorded in the family home in Memramcook, likely Marie-Madeleine and François. ^[5][6] Some time between 1756 and 1757, they fled to Camp d'Espérance 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 1250 Acadians who went there. ^[7]

In 1761, the family was residing in Nepisiguit where they had sought refuge for their growing family of 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls. ^[8] Another census was taken in November that year. There were 5 people recorded in Nepisiguit.^[9]

In 1763, Jean-Baptiste, Madeleine and their children Marie, François, Joseph and Modeste were on a list of prisoners at Fort Cumberland (Beauséjour). . ^[10]

After 1763, and having managed to escape deportation, they settled in Tracadie, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. ^[6]

He passed away about 1808, aged about 83 at Tracadie, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Port-Royal, N.-É.)-1870 C-1870 (image 81) https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1870/81?r=0&s=5
2. ↑ An Acadian Parish Remembered The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755 Jean Baptiste Giroard RG 1 volume 26 page 217 https://novascotia.ca/archives/acadian/archives.asp?ID=1041
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} White, Stephen A. White, Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (Moncton, N.-B.: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999) p. 731 (#34) Jean-Baptiste dit Mangeau, son of François Girouard & Anne Bourgeois. Born 9 June 1725 Port-Royal, baptized next day. Fort Beauséjour 1763. Married according to E.L. Girroir, around 1751 Madeleine LeBlanc (Pierre & Françoise Thériot). Died, according to P. Gaudet, in Tracadie (N.S) around 1808.
4. ↑ 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 National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Images 277-308.

   Jean GIROUARD and his wife.

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

   Jean Girouard, his wife, 1 boy, 1 girl.

6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} White, Stephen A. 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. 326-327.
7. ↑ Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, “List of Refugee Acadian Households at Camp Espérance on the Miramichi, 1756-1757: Appendix to ‘The Acadian Refugee Camp on the Miramichi, 1756-1761’”. English translation & glossary of place name by John Estano DeRoche. Accessible online for download at The Official Blog of the Association des Acadiens-Métis Souriquois, March 30, 2018, https://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-blog/news-and-reflections-the-acadian-refugee-camp-on-the-miramichi-1756-1761-march-30-2018

   Jean Baptiste Girouard (François #8) m to Madeleine LeBlanc (Pierre #43) around 1751. Census 1755 in Memramcook: 4 people. Census 1761(July) in Nepisiguit: 6 people. Census 1761 (November) in Nepisiguit: 5 people. At Fort Beauséjour in 1763. Settled in Tracadie, Nova Scotia.

8. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; 1761 Gaspesie Refugees Census, original record 1761 Gaspesie Refugees Original Amherst Papers (WO 34) : C-12837, Images 176-184, image 179

   Baptiste Girouard, his wife, 2 boys, 2 girls, total of 6.

9. ↑ original record 1761 Acadians Inhabiting from Gaspay to Bay Verte not Surrendered at Fort Cumberland Amherst Papers (WO 34) : C-12838, Images 1855-1857, image 1855

   Jean Girouard, 5 people

10. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino. List of Acadian Prisoners at Fort Cumberland as of August 24, 1763, Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home, original record, digital images, Héritage, Genealogy collection, Library and Archives Canada. / France. Fonds des Archives nationales: Série C12. Correspondance générale; Saint-Pierre et Miquelon : C-9146, vol. 1, f. 22-26. Images 33-47, Image 37, accessed Aug 2021

    Jean Girouard

    Magdelaine Girouard (all the women on the list were given their married name)

    Marie Girouard

    Francois Girouard (Name is Fran?oise in Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home, Francois in Héritage, Genealogy collection)

    Joseph Girouard

    Modeste Girouard

• Geneanet.org, Karen Theriot Reader’s Family Tree, page for Jean Baptiste dit Mangeau Girouard
• BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 1391 (Pisiguit). Jean-(Baptiste) GIROUARD, born 1729, married around 1749 to Madeleine LeBlanc [sic], daughter of Claude & Madeleine BOUDROT; six children. he was at Halifax in 1763; at Tracadie in 1785.