Marie Anne Clémenceau (1710 - 1758)

Born 5 Feb 1710 in Port Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Daughter of Jean Clémenceau and Anne Roy

Wife of Nicolas Lavigne — married about 1729 in Port-Toulouse, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died 1758 at about age 47 in At Sea

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Biography

Descendant of First Nations Christine Aubois.

Marie-Anne was born at Port Royal Acadia on February 5 1710, to parents Jean Clémenceau and Anne Roy. Her father was a Sergeant in the French King`s service. Sadly, her mother died when she was 7 years old. The family lived in Port Royal in 1714 but eventually some of them moved to the French territory of Port Toulouse îsle Royale (now St Peter`s Cape Breton, Canada).

In 1729 Marie-Anne married Nicolas Lavigne, son of Claude Lavigne and Francoise Le Dorez, at Port Toulouse. Nicolas was a coaster and a native of St-Denis France. He had lived in Port Toulouse since 1727.

According to the 1752 Census at Port Toulouse Marie-Anne gave birth to at least six children between 1733 and 1750: Anne, Nicolas, Marguerite, Madeleine, Barbe, and Genevieve. When Genevieve was around 8 years old, the french fortress at Louisburg fell to the British.^{[citation needed]} The British deported many of the Acadians to France. Marie-Anne and five of her children were among the deportees to St Malo on the British transport Queen of Spain.^{[citation needed]} Tragically, she died at sea enroute to France, along with three of her younger children.

Timeline

1710 birth, in Port Royal

1714 residence, Port Royal

1727 marriage to Nicolas Lavigne at Port Toulouse

c1733 birth, daughter Anne

c1738 birth, son Nicolas

c1737 birth, daughter Marguerite

c1741 birth, daughter Madeleine

c1745 birth, daughter Barbe

c1750 birth, daughter Genevieve

1752 residence, Port Toulouse

July 1758 Fall of French Fortress at Louisburg to the British

1758 deported by the British to France

1758 death, at Sea, enroute to France

Sources

See also:

• White, Stephen A., Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert. Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes. Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 1999, Print, p362-364.

• http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?pid=85375&partID=85376

• 1714 Acadian census at Port Royal (near the fort): CLEMENCEAU and his wife, 1 son, 3 daughters. Presumably this is a second wife.

• [http://www.acadian-home.org/1752laroque.pdf 1752 Laroque Census at Port Toulouse: Nicolas Lavigne, coaster, native of St. Denis, aged 68 years, 25 years in the colony Marie Anne Demanceau, aged 43 years, his wife. Nicolas, aged 14 years, Anne, aged 19 years. Marguerite, aged 15 years, Madeleine, aged 11 years, Barbe, aged 7 years, Genevieve, aged 2 years

• Additional information from 1752 Census: Of live stock they havetrwo oxen, two cows, two bulls, four geese and seven fowls The homestead on which they are was merely granted to them verbally by Messieurs de Saint-Ovide and Le Normand. They have made a clearing for a garden and the rest of the land is in pasture.

• Email from Stephen A White as part of the the Mothers of Acadia Project regarding daughter of Marie- Anne Clémenceau and Nicoals Lavigne: Marguerite Lavigne (bt Port-Toulouse c 1737; m Port-Toulouse c 1757 Joseph dit Lantime Poirier). See also sources provided by Stephen White regarding Marguerite Lavigne. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ACADIAN-FRENCH-CANADIAN/2007-10/1192488921

• Deportation of some of the Clemenceau family. Acadians in Grey accessed July 25 at http://www.acadiansingray.com/Appendices-ATLAL-CLEMENCEAU.htm

DNA Sources

• Savard, Denis, Administrator, Mothers of Acadia mtDNA Project reports mtDNA Test Results (Accessed 4 Dec 2023), Kits: tester1 348700 tester2 241277. EKA: Marie Christine Aubois Haplogroup: A2.
• Savard, Denis, Administrator, Mothers of Acadia mtDNA Project reports this diagram depicting a matrilineal descent for Tester with kit 241277. From the Mothers of Acadia DNA Project.

DNA Confirmations

• Maternal relationship is confirmed through Mitochondrial DNA test results on Family Tree DNA. Annette Cormier, FTDNA kit # 348700, and her maternal line cousin ANONYMOUS (a direct matrilineal descendant of Therese Ethier), Kit # 241277, have a Full Sequence mtDNA match with a Genetic Distance = 1, matching perfectly on HVR1 and the Coding Region, and with a single difference at position 309.2C in HVR2, thereby confirming their direct maternal lines back to their most-recent common ancestor who is Marie Christine Aubois the 8x great grandmother of Annette Cormier and the 9x grandmother of ANONYMOUS.
  • The subject of this profile is Marie Anne Clémenceau (1710-1758), a graddaughter of Marie Christine Aubois through daughter Anne Roy (abt.1686-1717).
  • Tester Annette Cormier is a grandchild of Elizabeth Guimond and an 8x great-grandchild of Marie Christine Aubois through daughter Anne Roy (abt.1686-1717).
  • Tester ANONYMOUS is a grandchld of Merie Milina Lafleur (abt.1881-abt.1909) and and a 9x great-grandchild of Marie Christine Aubois through daughter Marie Roy dit Laliberteé (abt.1689-1765)