Marguerite Melanson (abt. 1722 - 1756)

Born about 14 Oct 1722 in Grand Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of Jean Baptiste (Leblanc) LeBlanc — married 11 Jan 1745 in Saint Charles des Mines, Grand Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died 1756 at about age 33 in Southampton, Hampshire, England

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Biography

Marguerite Melanson was born in Acadie about 1722, a daughter of Joseph Melanson and Marguerite LeBlanc. She was baptized 14 Oct 1722 in Grand-Pré but no birth date was given. Her godparents were Jacques Terriot and Marguerite LeBlanc.^[1]

At age 23, she married Jean Baptiste Leblanc, age 30, son of Jean Leblanc and Anne Landry on 11 January 1745 at Saint Charles des Mines, Grand-Pré, Acadia.^[2]

Their known children:

1. Jean Baptiste LEBLANC (1746)
2. Unknown son LEBLANC, b. bef 1755
3. Unknown son LEBLANC, b. bef 1755
4. Unknown son LEBLANC, b. bef 1755
5. Unknown daughter LEBLANC, b. bef 1755
6. Unknown daughter LEBLANC, b. bef 1755

On 5 September 1755, Jean Baptiste was imprisoned along with hundreds of other Acadian men at the St. Charles des Mines church in Grand Pré. On a list of prisoners, he was said to live in the village de Landry with four sons and two daughters (spouses were not included on the list), and owned 6 bullocks, 7 cows, 15 young cattle, 40 sheep, 15 hogs, and 4 horses. His property and livestock became forfeit to the crown, and his family was required to prepare for deportation within 30 days. ^[3][4]

On 20 December 1755, Jean-Baptiste, Marguerite, and their six children were among the 112 deported aboard the Ranger, arriving in Virginia on 20 January 1756. The governor of Virginia refused to accept responsibility for them, however, and in May 1756, they were deported again, on the Bobby Goodridge, from Virginia to Portsmouth, England, where they arrived on 23 June 1756. From there they were sent to Southampton, England, where they were detained for seven years, until the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763. But Marguerite died in Southampton in 1756.^[4][5]

Sources

1. ↑ 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 165): https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1869/165?r=0&s=4
2. ↑ 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 770): https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1869/770?r=0&s=4
3. ↑ Lucie Leblanc Consentino, Acadian & French-Canadian Ancestral Home Website, "Deportees of Grand Pre - 1755," citing Collection of the Nova Scotia Historical Society 1870-1884, Journal of John Winslow, volumes 1-4; Grand Pre, September the 15th 1755," line # 6,

   Baptiste Sapin, Village de Landry, 4 sons, 2 daughters (spouses were not included on the list), 6 bullocks, 7 cows, 15 young cattle, 40 sheep, 15 hogs, 4 horses

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Paul Delaney, La liste de Winslow expliquée, (Moncton, N.-B.: Éditions Perce-Neige, 2020), p. 82.
5. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader, Geneanet.org., Family Tree, Page for Marguerite Melanson citing Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes: 1715 à 1780, (Moncton, NB: Centre d'études acadiennes, draft version);

   MELANSON no. 14 b. - Marguerite died in Southampton, England in 1756 (citing Declaration Belle-Ile-en-Mer).