Marguerite Aucoin (abt. 1740 - bef. 1794)

Born about 1740 in Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Wife of Simon Pierre Comeau — married about 1763 in Bristol, England

Descendants

Died before 1794 before about age 54 in Louisiana, Nouvelle-Espagne

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Biography

SIMON COMO is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 12 Left, La Ville D'Archagel. Listed with him is his wife Marguerite Aucoin and eight children: Marie, Isabelle, Magdelaine, Felicite, Jean Baptiste, Alexandre, Pierre and Joseph Marie.^[1]

Marguerite Aucoin migrated from France to Louisiana.

Marguerite Aucoin was born about 1740 in Acadie. She was the daughter of Jean Aucoin and Marguerite Pitre.^[2]

She was deported to the Virginia Colony in 1755 with her family. The unfortunate Acadians who were deported to the Virginia Colony were not allowed to stay there by the Colonial governor. They were put on a ship and sent to Bristol, England. Tim Hebert (archived link) writes about what happened to them:

The Virginia Packet arrived at Bristol in the middle of June in 1756 with 289 Acadians. The town was unprepared for their arrival. For three days and nights, the Acadians were left on the wharves. Then they were put in old, ruined buildings. Many died of smallpox and exhaustion.

La Rochette visited the Acadians at Bristol after the Liverpool Acadians told him of their location. On January 31, he arrived at Bristol. He again found distrust. But upon hearing their story, he felt sympathy towards them. They told him [that] of the 340 that had been shipped from Virginia, 300 survived the trip.

They weren’t prepared to trust him. In fact, they already knew about him, having talked to the two Acadians from Southampton on their way to see Nivernois. At this point, there were 184 Acadians left in this group.^[3]

From Liverpool, they were sent to Bristol, England by June 1756, where her father died in a smallpox epidemic.^[4] Paul Delaney estimates Marguerite and Simon Comeau married while still living in Bristol, around 1763, shortly before being sent on to St. Malo, France.^[5] At the end of the war they were sent to Southampton, England in 1763, awaiting transport and repatriation to St.-Malo, France.^[6] Lastly, she and her husband chose to immigrate to Louisiana in 1785.^[7] where they were settled in Assumption Parish and finally allowed to prosper after 30 years of exile.^[8]

When the census was taken of New Feliciana, Louisiana in 1793, she is not listed with her husband and children; it is assumed she died before then.^[9]

Simon is called "widower Marguerite Aucoin" when he died in June of 1818.^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by Jane G. Bulliard and the Wall of Names Committee (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 44.
2. ↑ Paul Delaney, "L’Identification des Acadiens morts de la variole à Bristol en 1756" in Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 30, no. 1, (1999) pp. 17 & 25
3. ↑ The papers of LaRochette, the source of the lists on this page, contain a list of people related to the Acadians that were allowed to move from Bristol to Southampton on May 14, 1763. Tim Hebert (archived link), Acadian-Cajun.com.
4. ↑ Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes, ("DGFA")"Ajouts et corrections" (N.B.: University of Moncton, Centre d'études acadiennes) p. 43 [of the DGFA online].
5. ↑ Paul Delaney, "L’Identification des Acadiens morts de la variole à Bristol en 1756," Les Cahiers, de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 30, no. 1, (1999) p. 25.
6. ↑ Milton P. and Norma Gaudet Rieder, Acadians in France, vol. II: Belle Isle en Mer Register & La Rochette Papers, (Metairie, LA: Authors, 1972) courtesy Karen Theriot Reader, Geneanet.org, updated: 2019; Accessed on 6 Nov. 2019.

   98 Head of household with his wife, and two of his brothers.

   On the Role[sic] of the Acadian families embarked on the royal frigate La Dorothee, under Captain LAVENANT, who acknowledged receiving them on 17 May 1763, to be delivered to Saint-Malo, France. There are 45 numbered families, plus six prisoners of war from Bristol.

   26. Simon COUMAUD;

   Marguerite [AUCOIN] COUMAUD;

   Joseph COUMAUD;

   Charles COUMAUD.

7. ↑ Gérard-Marc Braud, From Nantes to Louisiana, (Lafayette, LA: La Rainette, 1999) p. 102;

   Passenger List, La Ville d'Archangel:

   COMMAUX, Simon (44), AUCOIN, Marguerite, his wife (45), and their 7 children.

8. ↑ Donald J. Hébert, Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995) pp. 98-99;

   Simon COMO/COMEAUX, father of family, age 44, traveling with his wife Marguerite AUCOIN and eight children as the 39th family (of 10 persons) aboard La Ville d'Archangel.

9. ↑ Albert J. Tate & Winston De Ville, Baton Rouge & New Feliciana: Census Reports for Louisiana's Florida Parishes in 1782, 1786, and 1793 (Lafayette, LA: Provincial Press, 2000) non-paginated; citing microfilm of the original Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Archives of the Indies, Seville, legajo 208-A, folio 354.

   Simon Comeau: one old male [over 50], one young male child under age of puberty, three middle male children, three middle female children. [post-puberty - 50. The Spanish divided individuals into three age groups. De Ville says the groups are "probably over fifty, post-puberty to fifty and birth to puberty."]

10. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, vol. 3, 1804-1819, (Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese, 1982) p. 222;

    Simon [COMMEAUX], age 77 years, widower Marguerite AUCOIN, son of Jean Baptiste & Marie AUCOIN, buried 20 Jun 1818 (ASM-2, 130).

Acknowledgments

Karen Theriot Reader, Geneanet.org, updated: 2019; Accessed on 6 Nov. 2019.