Jean Aucoin (1698 - aft. 1755)

Born 1698 in Riviere Aux Canards, Acadie

Ancestors

Husband of Marguerite Pitre — married 1722 in Annapolis Royal, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died after Sep 1755 after age 57 in Cobequid, Acadie

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Biography

Jean Aucoin, son of Martin Aucoin and Marie Gaudet was born about 1700. He married Marie Marguerite Pitre, daughter of Claude Jean Pitre and Marie Comeau about 1722 in Acadie. ^[1]A list of children may be found here.

He died between September 1755 & the end of September 1766 during a smallpox epidemic in Bristol, England, where he had been deported by the British from Acadie. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes; Stephen A. White; Publication: 2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999. p. 1319.
2. ↑ "Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes", "Ajouts et corrections"; Stephen A. White; Publication: University of Moncton, Centre d'études acadiennes; Online for p. 43 of the DGFA

   Note: Article on the smallpox epidemic in Bristol, England. May have died from the time of leaving Acadia up to then.

   He died between Sep 1755 and the end of Sep 1756. Cites P. Delaney, "L'identification des Acadiens morts de la variole à Bristol en 1756," in Société historique acadienne, CAHIERS, vol. XXX (1999), pp. 22, 24.