Marie Anne Comeau (abt. 1678 - 1707)

Born about 1678 in Port Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Wife of Claude Pitre — married 1698 in Quebec City, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died 9 Jul 1707 at about age 29 in Port Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Acadians Project WikiTree [send private message], Liander Lavoie [send private message], and Roland Arsenault [send private message]

Marie Anne Comeau is an Acadian. Join: Acadians Project Discuss: ACADIA

Biography

Marie Comeau was born about 1678. She was the daughter of Pierre Comeau and Jeanne Bourg. She was counted on the 1678 census of Port Royal.^[1] She married Claude Pitre, son of Jean and Marie Pesseley about 1696 at Port Royal. Marie Comeau, wife of Claude Pitre passed away 5 July 1707 and was buried the next day in the cemetery of St Jean Baptiste parish, Port Royal, Acadia.^[2][3]

Claude Pitre was born about February 1671, appearing in the 1671 census as a 9-month-old, the youngest of Jean and Marie's three children at that census. Acadia at that time was a community of about 400 people.

Over the next 20 years a relative stability existed within the colony, as they farmed, fished and traded. As relations were becoming more heated with the British, Claude married, probably at Port Royal c1696, to Marie Anne Comeau who was about eighteen. She was the oldest daughter of early Acadians Pierre Comeau, known as l'Esturgeon, and Jeanne Bourg. Having eight children over the next eleven years must have taken its toll as Marie Anne died at the age of twenty-nine only a month after their twins were born.

Census

CENSUS: 1678, Port Royal, Acadia: Pierre Comeau & Jeanne Bourg; 2 cattle; 1 girl

CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia: Pierre COMO 32, Jeanne BOURC 22; children: Marie 8, Abraham 7, Marguerite 6, Anne 5, Jeanne 4, Joseph 5 months; 1 gun, 10 cattle, 10 sheep, 6 hogs.

CENSUS: 1693, Port Royal, Acadia: Pierre COMEAU 42, Jeanne BOURG his wife 36, Marie 13, Abraham 12, Marguerie 11, Anne 9, Jeanne 8, Joseph 7, Pierre 5, Angelique 2, Elizabeth and Catherine, twins, 1; 15 cattle, 20 sheep, 12 hogs, 20 arpents, 1 gun.

CENSUS: 1698, Port Royal, Acadia: Claude PITRE 25; Marie COMMEAU (wife) 20; Marie 1; 2 cows, 4 sheep.

Pierre COMMEAU 48, Jeanne BOURG (wife) 42; Abraham 20, Marie 21, Marguerite 18, Jeanne 16, Anne 14; Claudine 11, Catherine 9, Cecile 7, Angelique 5, Isabelle 3; 1 gun, 15 cattle, 20 sheep, 14 hogs, 12 arpents.

Sources

1. ↑ Tim Hebert; 1678 Port Royal Acadian Census noting that the correlations for this census were done by Rev. Clarence J. d'Entremont, Fairhaven, Massachusetts.1678 Census

   Pierre Comeau & Jeanne Bourg; 2 cattle; 1 girl

2. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Port-Royal, N.-É.)-1870 C-1870 (image 193) https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1870/193?r=0&s=5
3. ↑ An Acadian Parish Remembered The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755 Marie Comeau burial RG 1 volume 26 page 344 https://novascotia.ca/archives/acadian/archives.asp?ID=1424

• BIRTH-PARENTS-CENSUS-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 375

• Source: S9 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree Ancestry Family Tree https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/89229671/family Certainty: 0