Marie Josèphe Raymond (1750)

Born 8 Sep 1750 in Annapolis Royal, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

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Biography

Marie Josèphe was born and baptized on 8 September 1750 in Annapolis Royal. She is the daughter of Charles Raymond and Magdelaine Petitot. ^[1] Her sponsors were Jean Melançon and Brigitte St. Seine.

Marie Josèphe and her family were among the Acadians who escaped the 1755 Deportation by seizing, with other passengers, the boat Pembroke, which was supposed to transport them from Annapolis Royal to exile in North Carolina. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755, register RG 1 volume 26a page 413; online database with images, Marie Joseph Raimon Baptism, 8 Sep 1750, accessed Jan 2022.
2. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino. Pembroke Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home, Pembroke Passenger List Reconstructed by Paul Delaney, translated by Karen Theriot Reader. Accessed November 2021. Originally published in Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne vol. 35, nos. 1 & 2 (Jan-Jun 2004) https://societehistoriqueacadienne.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/3501_total.pdf