Joseph Aucoin (1748)

Born 1748 in Cobequit, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Elisabeth Henry — married 29 May 1770 in St. Suliac, Ille-et-Vilaine, France

Husband of Euphrosine Barrieau — married 17 Oct 1797 in Plattenville, Assumption Parish, Louisiana, New Spain

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Louisiana, USA

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Biography

JOSEPH AUCOIN is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 6 Right, Le Bon Papa Arrivee e 29 Juillet 1785. Listed with him is Elisabeth Henry, his wife, and Joseph Jean, Francois Toussaint, Isabelle Jeanne, Marie Modeste and Victoire Claire, their children.^[1]

Joseph Aucoin, a son of Paul Aucoin and Marie LeBlanc, was born in 1748 in Cobiquid, Acadia, only a few years before the "Great Upheaval" of Acadians by the English in Nova Scotia, when he and his family were deported from Acadia.^[2][3] He was age 4 when he was counted with them on the census of 1752 in Riviere du Nord-est, Isle St. Jean, Acadie.^[4] Three years later, the deportations began. If he was deported from Isle St. Jean, it would have been in 1858 and directly to France. This part of his story needs research, and to be added here.

He arrived at St. Malo, France, from Boulogne, France with his parents on 28 May 1766 aboard the ship le Hazard. They lived at Pleudihen from 1766-1770.^[5]

He married on 29 May 1770 at St. Suliac, France to Elizabeth Henry, daughter of Francois Henry and Marie Dugast.^[2] They resided with two daughters at St. Suliac from 1770-1772.^[6]

Their known children were:

1. Marie Josephe Aucoin (1771)
2. Elisabeth Jeanne Aucoin (1773)
3. Joseph Jean Aucoin (1776)
4. Francois Toussaint Aucoin (1778)
5. Isabelle Jeanne Aucoin (1780)
6. Marie Modeste Aucoin (1781)
7. Victoire Claire Aucoin (1783)
8. Marguerite Aucoin (1786)
9. Paul Marie Aucoin (a twin, 1788)
10. Appoline Aucoin (a twin,1788)
11. Rosalie Aucoin (1789)

By September 1784 they were in Nantes, France, on the list of the Acadian families who wanted to go to Louisiana at the invitation of the Spanish government, which was ceded Louisiana by France at the end of the war, and needed settlers.^[7] He immigrated to Louisiana in the summer of 1785 with his wife and five children.^[1][8]

Wife Elizabeth Henry died a few years after their arrival, c.1790 or so; he remarried another immigrant from Saint-Malo, Euphrosine Barrieau, a three-time widow with children, on 17 October 1797 in Plattenville, Assumption, Louisiana.^[9][10][5]

He presumably died in Louisiana.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair, eds., (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 27.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Albert J. Robichaux, The Acadian Exiles in Saint-Malo, 1758-1785, vol. 1, pt. 1, (Eunice, LA: Hebert Publications, 1981) pp. 20-21:

   family #28.

3. ↑ Bona Arsenault, Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens, (Montreal: Lemeac, 1978) p. 1466;

   (Cobequid) Joseph, born 1748 [no further entry].

4. ↑ "Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, vol. II, pt. A, Sessional Paper No. 18, (Public Archives of Canada,1905; reprint Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1994) p. 86;

   LaRoque census:

   Paul AUCOIN, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 41 years, has been 13 months in the country. Married to Marie LA BLANCHE, native of l'Acadie, aged 37 years. They have a son and three daughters:--

   Joseph, aged 4 years; [this boy]

   Marie Joseph, aged 8 years.

   Marguerite Suzanne, aged 6 years;

   Terzille, aged 2 years.

   They have the following livestock:-- one ox, one cow, one wether, one sow, four pigs and seven fowls or chickens. The land on which they are settled was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure, and they have made a clearing on it for sowing a bushel of wheat.

5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780, (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
   • AUCOIN #20 c;

   Census: 1766 St. Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, France: Age 16 years.

   • AUCOIN #52;

   Joseph AUCOIN married 2nd Euphrosine BARRIEAU, daughter of Pierre (5) & Véronique GIROUARD. Witnesses: Joseph DUPUIS; Fabien AUCOIN; Jean DAIGRE.

6. ↑ Milton P. Rieder, Jr & Norma Gaudet Rieder, Acadians in France, 1762-1776, Vol. I, (Metairie, LA: Authors, 1967) p. 35;

   Census: 15 Sep 1772 St. Malo, France:

   Joseph AUCOIN, age 23, laborer of St. Malo, listed with his wife Elizabeth HENRY, age 21, who spins, and two daughters.

7. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians: Census Records of the Colony, 1758-1796, (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973) p. 507;

   On the list of the Acadian families "who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at t he expense of His Catholic Majesty, dated Sep 1784 (cited as A.D.S. Legajo 2575).

   On list from NANTES:

   Joseph AUCOIN, with wife Elisabeth HENRY, 2 sons, 3 daughters, for a total of 7 in family.

8. ↑ Donald J. Hébert, Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index, (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995) pp. 6-7;

   Text: Joseph AUCOIN, age 36, a sailor, traveling with wife Élizabeth HENRY, age 35, and five children as the 17th family (of 7 persons) aboard "Le Bon Papa."

9. ↑ Shirley Chaisson Bourquard, Marriage Dispensations in the Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas, 1786-1803, (New Orleans, LA: Polyanthos, 1980) p. 19;

   16 Aug 1797: Father Bernardo DEVA O.M. Cap. of Lafourche to Bishop Luis PENALVER y CARDENAS. Joseph AUCOIN, resident of Lafourche and widower of Isabel HENRY, wishes to marry Eufrosin a BARIOT, widow of Francisco BOUDREAUX, related in the third grade. They declare through [witnesses] Fabian AUCOIN and Joseph DUPUIS to be related as follows: Claudio BOUDRAUX was father of Francois BOUDRAUX & of Margarita BOUDRAUX [married Francois LE BLANC). Eufrosina BARIOT, the intended wife, was married to [Joseph] Francois BOUDRAUX, son of Francois BOUDRAUX. Her intended husband Joseph AUCOIN was son of Maria LE BLANC, daughter of Margarita BOUDRAUX. DEVA asks for dispensation because of the many children of AUCOIN, their poverty and mutual love. Granted.

10. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, vol. 2, 1770-1803, (Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese of Baton Rouge, 1980) pp. 35-36 & 60;

    Text: Josef AUCOIN, widower of Ysabel HENNRY, son of Pablo & Maria LeBLANC of Acadia, married on 17 Oct 1797 to Eufrosina BARIOT, widow of Carlos BROUSSARD, daughter of Pedro & Veronica GIROIR of Acadia. Witnesses: Josef DUPUIS; Fabian AUCOIN; Jean DAIGLE. (ASM-2, 28).

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Karen Theriot Reader, RootsWeb.com. for her research and sources.