Anne Cosset (abt. 1745 - 1827)

Born about 1745 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of Jean Cournalé — married 13 Oct 1766 in St. Pierre, St-Pierre-et-Miquelon, France

Descendants

Died 26 Aug 1827 at about age 82 in Pardies, Basses-Pyrénées, France

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Biography

Anne was born about 1745. Her mother, Marguerite Poirier, passed away in Beaubassin when Anne was 8 years old (1753). Then she lives in Prince Edward Island with her father and his new wife Françoise Gallais who is only 11 years older than Anne. Three children are born in P.E.I. Françoise (1754), Guillaume (1755) and Jean-Robert (1758).

At the end of 1758, they are deported by boat to France by the English in catastrophic conditions. ^[1]

The three little ones died at sea and in the days following their arrival in Saint Malo. Anne Cosset lived with her father and mother-in-law in France between 1759 and 1765, in La Gouasniére, near Saint-Malo, in the small village of Bonaban. Rose was born here in 1760, Barthélémy-Louis and Louise-Geneviève (of whom Anne was godmother) in 1762 (twins) and Marie-Françoise in 1764.

Following the 1763 Treaty of Paris, Saint Pierre and Miquelon is the only colony in North America to remain French. It was therefore on March 9, 1765 that Anne with her parents and siblings left for St Pierre and Miquelon, surely hoping to be able to return to Prince Edward Island afterwards. It was during this stay that Anne Cosset, 19, married Jean Cornalé on 10/13/1766 in St Pierre et Miquelon. He is a mason , originally from Pardies in Bearn, he had emigrated to New France.

But the inhabitants will be sent back to France again in 1778, when Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon was taken by the British. On March 24, 1768, in the list of Acadians from the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon and staying in Port Louis (near Lorient), we find Barthélémy and his family.

In St Pierre, Anne Madeleine, the 15-day-old daughter of Jean Cournalé and Anne Cosset, died on August 11, 1767. Jean and Anne then left for "America" so they arrived in Louisiana in 1767 on the boat "La Pucelle". Then they will leave Louisiana for the island of Saint Domingue where their daughter Louise-Françoise will be born in 1768 or 1769 in Port au Piment. The French Revolution triggered cascading violence. The settlers demanded autonomy and free people of color, real equality with whites. The revolt of the Blacks began in August 1791 following the Ceremony of Bois-Caïman, in the plain of the North: more than 1,000 Whites had their throats cut and the houses burned down. Probably Jean, Anne and Louise-Françoise left Saint Domingue at this time to return to France in Pardies.

Louise-Françoise married Pierre-Thimothée Lavigne and they live in Pardies in France where they had eleven children. Anne Cosset died the 26 august 1827, after a long life tough and tormented, like many Acadians of this generation.

Sources

1. ↑ "Rolle des habitans de l'Isle St Jean débarqués à St Malo le 23 janvier 1759 des 5 paquebots anglois le Yarmouth, la Patience, le Mathias, la Restoration et le John et Samuel," Fonds de l'inscription maritime de Saint-Servan (France): C-4619, MG6 C2, Library and Archives Canada, Roll of the " Five English ships " (Yarmouth, Patience, Mathias, Restoration, John Samuel) disembarked at Saint-Malo on January 23, 1759 image 180-181, accessed 2 Oct 2023

   COSSET Barthélemy, 43, plowman,

   GALLAIS Françoise, 21, his wife

   COSSET Anne, 13, daughter

   COSSET Jean Robert, 7 months, died on 16 February 1759

   COSSET Françoise, 4, daughter, died at sea,

   COSSET Guillaume, 3, son, died at sea

• Mariage avec Jean Cournalé en 1766 à St Pierre et Miquelon:

• Décès à Pardies (France) le 26 août 1827: