Alexis Aucoin (1684 - 1759)

Born 14 Mar 1684 in Grand Pré, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Anne Marie Bourg — married 1707 in Cobequid, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died 25 Dec 1759 at age 75 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France

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Biography

Alexis Aucoin is one of twins.

Alexis Aucoin migrated from Acadie to France.

Alexis "Lexy" Aucoin, twin brother to Augustin Aucoin, was born to Martin Aucoin and Marie Gaudet on or before his christening day, March 14, 1684 in Beaubassin, Acadia (now Nova Scotia).^[1] His twin did not live to be baptized.^[2]

In 1686, at Baye des Mines, Alexis, aged 3, was living with his parents, Martin AUCOIN, aged 35, and Marie GAUDET, aged 27, and his seven siblings: Martin, aged 12, Marie, aged 10, Michel, aged 9, Isabelle, aged 7, Louis [recte Louise], aged 6, Agnesse [sic], aged 4, and Cecille [sic], aged 7 months. The family owned 1 gun and had 15 cattle, 10 sheep, and 6 hogs.^[3][4]

Alexis (22) married Anne Marie Bourg (15) (born about 1691 in Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France; daughter of Martin Bourg and Marie Potet) in 1707 in Cobequid, Acadie. Their known children were:

1. Pierre Aucoin (1708–abt. 1757) .
2. Sylvain Aucoin (abt. 1711–1759) .
3. Marie Aucoin (abt. 1713–bef. 1759) .
4. Alexis Aucoin (1717–abt. 1759) .
5. Jean Aucoin (1719–abt. 1758) .
6. Joseph Aucoin (abt. 1721–abt. 1788) .
7. François Aucoin (1725–aft. 1767) .
8. Alexandre Aucoin (1725–1780) .
9. Claude Aucoin (abt. 1728–1759) .
10. Hyacinthe Aucoin (1732–1808) .
11. Amand Aucoin (abt. 1733–1756) .
12. Cherubin Aucoin (1737– )

He farmed the land, married, and fathered nine children. Then came le grand derangement, and his family was forcibly evicted from their land, shipped as prisoners of war to various far-away ports and held there for the duration of the Seven Years' War.

According to his son Alexandre's sworn declaration of genealogy in the parish register at Belle-Ile-en-Mer, France in 1767, Alexis had married Anne Marie Bourg c.1707 at St. Charles Parish in Mines, and they had the following children in Cobeguit, Acadie (now Nova Scotia):

1. Pierre (1708)
2. Marie (1713)
3. Alexis, fils (1717)
4. Jean (1719)
5. Joseph (1721)
6. Francois (1724)
7. Alexandre (1725)
8. Cherubim (1737)
9. Hyacinth (1742)^[5]

After the Siege of Louisburg in 1758, the British exiled, to France this time, a second wave of about 3000 Acadians who had tried to fight, run, or just wait out the British. Most of these had been rounded up from Pointe Prim, Ile St. Jean, and Cobequid. Alexis, Anne Marie and some of their children were put on a ship among a convoy bound for Saint-Malo, France. They encountered a storm that sank two of the ships, Duke William and Violet. Their ship, the Neptune was blown off course, and made it to Boulogne-sur-Mer on December 26, 1758. Their names can be found here on a reconstructed partial list of the 179 Acadians of Boulogne.

Alexis died in Boulogne-sur-Mer on Christmas Day the following year.^[4] He was buried that day in the cemetery of Paroisse Saint-Nicolas in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Registres paroissiaux (Acadie)-Canadiana, Heritage, Parish registers: Nova Scotia:C-3021(Image 21): http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c3021/21?r=0&s=6
2. ↑ Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes, Première Partie 1636-1714 (Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999) pp. 42, 47

   Alexis, twin son of Martin & Marie GAUDET, baptized (Beaubassin Register) 14 Mar 1684.

3. ↑ Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1686 Acadian Census, at Port-Royal, Acadie 1686 Census Transcribed. The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the Library and Archives Canada "Acadie Recensements 1671 - 1752," Images 15-60;

   at Baye des Mines: Martin AUCOIN 35, Marie GAUDET 27; children: Martin 12, Marie 10, Michel 9, Isabelle 7, Louis 6, Agnesse 4, Alexis 3, Cecille 7 months; 1 gun, 15 cattle, 10 sheep, 6 hogs. In the original 1686 census at Baye des Mines, Louise was listed as Louis, Agnès was listed as Agnesse, and Cecile was listed as Cecille.

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Rev. Donald J. Hebert, Acadians in Exile, ("AIE") (Rayne, LA: Hebert Publications, 1996) pp. 16, 472, 509.

   p.32:

   Martin Aucoin 35

   Marie Gaudet 27

   Enfants:

   Martin 12

   Marie 10

   Michel 9

   Isabelle 7

   Louis 6

   Agnesse 4

   Alexis 3

   Cecille 7 mos.

5. ↑ "Registers of Palais Parish, Belle-Isle-en-Mer," compiled by Abbé H. R. Casgrain, included in Acadians of Belle-Isle-en-Mer: Unpublished Documents of French Canada (Quebec, Canada-Francais: L.J. Demers & Frère, 1890); Online at URL http://www.acadian-home.org/declarations-BIM.html, © Lucie LeBlanc Consentino, "Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home," citing research contributed to the website by François Roux, and by Milton P. Rieder, Jr. and Norma Gaudet Rieder.
6. ↑ Paroisse Saint-Nicolas (Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France), Sépultures, 1749-1760 , Boulogne-sur-Mer 1749 an I; Cote: 5 MIR 160/4; Image 1114/1130; accessed 15 Aug 2015.

   Translation: Alexis Aucoin, Canadien, died on the 25th of December in the morning. He was the husband of Marie Bourque and was 75 years old. He was buried the same day in the cemetery of this parish in the presence of Jean Baptiste Bonnet and Louis Delvoye(?). digital images, Les Archives du Pas-de-Calais.