Jean Pitre is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 11 Right, La Ville D'Archangel arrivee le 3 Decembre 1785. Also on the plaque with him is Felicite Daigle, his wife; and six Daigle children: Charlotte Marie, Pierre, Jacques, Francoise, Felicite & Marguerite. [1]
Felicite Daigle, daughter of Jean Daigle and Marie Anne Breau, was born about 1734 in Pisiguit, Acadie. [2] She died in Louisiana after 1785.
Felicite Daigle and Jean Baptiste Pitre married in Acadie about 1756. [3]
Children Note: all children were born and christened in Mordreux or Pleudihen, Cotes d'Armor, France.
Census: 1758 St. Malo, , Ille-et-Vilaine, France [5]
Census: 1762 Pleudihen, , Cotes d'Armor, France [6]
Census: 1772 St. Malo, , Ille-et-Vilaine, France [7]
Immigration: 3 Dec 1785 New Orleans, Orleans, LA [8]
Sources
Source: DRFT Title: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780; Author: Stephen A. White; Publication: Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version; Source published by Karen Theriot Reader, RootsWeb.com. DAIGRE #8 i
↑ Title: The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial; Author: Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; Personal copy in possession of Jacqueline Girouard; p. 43
↑ Title: Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index; Author: Donald J. Hébert; Publication: Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995. Source published by Karen Theriot Reader, RootsWeb.com; pp. 96-97
Text: Félicité DAIGLE, age 55, wife of Jean PITRE, traveling with him and six children as the 32nd family (of 8 persons) aboard "La Ville d'Archangel."
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