Martin Detcheverry (abt. 1714 - 1758)

Born about 1714 in Guéthary, Labourd, France

Husband of Marie-Josèphe Oudy — married 16 Nov 1735 in Havre Saint-Pierre (parish of Saint Pierre du Nord), Île Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island, Canada)

Died Dec 1758 at about age 44 in sinking of ship carrying him and family to exile in France

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Biography

Martin Detcheverry migrated from France to Acadia.

Martin Detcheverry was born around 1714 in Guéthary, an ancient town within the diocese of Bayonne, in the province of Labourd - which was the Basque country of southwestern France near the Spanish border (today part of the département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques). He was the son of Jean Detcheverry dit Savate and Marie-Anne Du Halle.^[1]

The first record found, so far, of Martin's presence in North America, is the account of his wedding in the Parish of Saint-Pierre-du-Nord at Havre Saint-Pierre, on the north side of Île Saint-Jean (today's Canadian province of Prince Edward Island).^[2]

For details of his married life & family, see the Wikitree profile of his spouse, Marie-Josèphe Oudy.

Note that he, his wife, and all 9 of their offspring (ages 1 to 20) were caught up in the Expulsion of the Acadians (& the French) from the island in the later part of 1758. This family happened to be aboard one of the ships of exiles that sank shortly before reaching its destination in France. All drowned. No descendants.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Data provided in the record of his marriage, Parish Register of Saint-Pierre-du-Nord, Images 83-84. See also his profile in Landry: ID 39913.
2. ↑ He is absent from all 6 of the censuses conducted in this colony from 1728 through 1735. Note that those surveys did not identify the very numerous non-resident seasonal fishers who crossed the Atlantic annually. Martin might have been with one of those fleets. See Library & Archives Canada (LAC) for these census records,
3. ↑ Landry: ID 39913, based on explorations by Stephen A. White re the likely passengers of the doomed ships, for which a key bit of evidence is their absence from lists of persons arriving in England or France.

See also:

• Landry, Marcel Walter. Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde. Database: “Acadiens avant 1825.” Person ID 39913. Updated to 25 Oct 2019. Search page: http://mwlandry.ca/genealog/searchform.php. (Note that this site is extremely well researched but specific citations are generally not provided.)
• LAC (Library and Archives Canada). Censuses of Île-Saint-Jean: two in 1728, ine in 1730, two in 1734, & one in 1735. France. Dépôt des papiers publics des colonies; état civil et recensements : Série G 1 : Recensements et documents divers. LAC reel c2574, images 222-280 (pp. 216-273). Accessed 25 Mar 2020 at http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c2574.
• Parish Register of Saint-Pierre-du-Nord 1724-1758 (transcript done in 1923). Canadiana-Héritage sites. Fonds des Archives départementales d'Ille-et-Vilaine [Rennes, France] - Reel No. C-2970. Accessed 18 June 2020 at https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c2970/1?r=0&s=1.
• 1752 La Roque census at Saint-Pierre-du-Nord. Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. 131, image 292. A transcription of the original census, in French, can be found at Census Transcription of Original Record “Recensement de l'Isle Royal et de Isle Saint-Jean ” p. 491, Image 496

  Martin Tchiparé, fisherman and ploughman, native of Bayonne, aged 38 years, he has been 24 years in the colony. Married to Marie Oudy, native of l'Acadie, aged 36 years.

They have six children, three sons and three daughters:-

Jacques Martin, aged 14 years.

Pierre, aged 8 years.

Martin, aged 2 years.

Marie Anne, aged 13 years.

Cecile, aged 11 years.

Magdelaine, aged 4 years.

Guillaume Gallet, native of ____, aged 22 years, domestic to the said Tchiparé.

They have in live stock five oxen, one cow, two heifers, one calf, five wethers, three ewes, two lambs, two pigs, three sows, eight geese, ten hens, together with one boat.

The land upon which they are settled is situated on the north side of the river Saint-Pierre. It was granted to them by deed, but they were unable to produce the title to us having lost it. They have made a clearing on which they have sown twelve bushels of wheat and a bushel and a half of peas and they will have sufficient fallow land for the sowing of nine bushels.