Jacques Celestin (1686)

Born 1686 in Grand-Pré, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Husband of Marie Landry — married 13 Feb 1719 in Grand-Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

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Biography

Jacques Célestin dit Bellemère was born in 1686 to André Célestin and Perrine Basile, in Grand Pré, Acadia. ^[1]

He married Marie Landry, daughter of Claude Landry and Catherine Thibaudeau, on February 13, 1719, at Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Grand-Pré, Acadie. ^[2][1]

Their children were:

• Pierre, born in 1720 ^[1]
• Bruno, born in 1722 ^[1]
• Hélène-Josephe, born in 1723 ^[1]
• Marie-Madeleine, born in 1724 ^[1]
• Théotiste, born in 1726 ^[1]
• Marie, born in 1729 ^[1]
• Marie-Judith, born in 1730 ^[1]
• Osite, born in 1732 ^[1]
• Pierre, born in 1733 ^[1]
• Marguerite, born in 1735 ^[1]
• Anastasie, born in 1739 ^[1]
• Félicité, born in 1740. ^[1]

On 5 September 1755, Jacques was imprisoned along with hundreds of other Acadian men, including his sons Joseph and Bruno, at the St. Charles des Mines church in Grand-Pré. On a list of prisoners, he was said to live in the village des Claude with 1 son and 4 daughters (spouses were not included on the list), and owned 6 bullocks, 6 cows, 13 young cattle, 26 sheep, and 10 hogs. His property and livestock became forfeit to the crown, and his family was required to prepare for deportation within 30 days. ^[3][4]

Jacques, his wife Marie and daughters Marguerite, Anastasie, Félicité and 2 unnamed children (1 boy and 1 girl) were deported to Virginia in 1755. Virginia was not welcoming to these Frenchmen who spoke a different language and worshiped differently. In May 1756, on the Bobby Goodridge, they were deported again, from Virginia to Portsmouth, England where they arrived on 23 June 1756. From there they were sent to Southampton, England.^[4]

Some members of this family were at Belle-Isle-en-Mer, France, in 1767 and in Chantellerault, France in 1782 and 1784. ^[1][4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14} Arsenault, Bona. ‘’Histoire et généalogie des acadiens, vol 3, ’Beaubassin, Grand-Pré’, CHAU-TV, 1988, page 1134.
2. ↑ Paroisse de St. Charles des Mines, Grand Pré, Acadie, Québec Province, digital images, Héritage, Genealogy collection, Library and Archives Canada, reel C-1869, Parish Registers: Nova Scotia : C-1869, roll 1, Image 601. Marriage for Jacques Bellemere and Marie Landry, 13 Feb 1719. Accessed 5 Nov 2021. This register is a transcript written around 1895 of the original registers currently held at the Baton Rouge Diocese Archives in Louisiana, USA.
3. ↑ Lucie Leblanc Consentino, Acadian & French-Canadian Ancestral Home, "Deportees of Grand-Pré - 1755," citing Collection of the Nova Scotia Historical Society 1870-1884 - Journal of John Winslow, volumes 1-4; "Grand-Pré, September the 15th 1755," line # 189,

   Village des Claude, Jaques Belmerre, 1 son and 4 daughters (spouses were not included on the list), and owned 6 bullocks, 6 cows, 13 young cattle, 26 sheep, and 10 hogs.

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Paul Delaney. La liste de Winslow expliquée. (Moncton, N.-B.: Éditions Perce-Neige, 2020 - Kindle Edition), p. 288

• http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogy=Celestin_Jacques&pid=430675&lng=en