Anne Girouard (abt. 1721 - 1770)

Born about 1721 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of Pierre Gaudet — married 14 Nov 1740 in Beaubassin, Acadie

Died Apr 1770 at about age 49 in La Rochelle, Aunis, France

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Biography

Anne Girouard was born about 1721 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia, daughter of Germain Girouard and Marie Doucet. ^[1]

Anne married Pierre Gaudet on 14 Nov 1740 in Beaubassin. ^[1][2]

Their children were: ^[3]

1. Catherine GAUDET ca 1743-
2. Pierre Paul Gaudet (1747 - <1772).
3. Marie Marguerite GAUDET ca 1750-
4. Marie Modeste GAUDET 1753-1782
5. Marie GAUDET ca 1762-1774

Pierre and Anne were recorded on censuses taken at Tintamarre (Upper Sackville, N.B) in 1752 ^[4] and 1755. ^{[5] [6]}

Around 1756 the family fled to Camp d'Espérance on the Miramichi, in present-day northeastern New Brunswick, which was established at the end of the summer of 1756 to protect from famine and from the roundups of the British soldiers the 1 400 Acadians who were refugees there. ^[7] They suffered greatly because of diseases and lack of food at the camp. This forced Acadians to move further north to Ristigouche in the Baie des Chaleurs area. In October 1760, Pierre was on a list of Acadian refugees in Ristigouche, a total of 4 people in the family. ^[8] In 1761 they were at Nipisiguit (Bathurst, N.B) ^[9] A widow Girouard was listed next to them. Could it be Anne's mother? By 1761 many of the Acadian refugees around Baie des Chaleurs were captured by British forces, or promised to surrender the following year, and were imprisoned in Halifax, Fort Edward or Fort Beauséjour. ^[10] The family was on a list of prisoners in Fort Beauséjour (renamed Fort Cumberland by the English) in 1763. ^[11]

The Acadian prisoners were released after the treaty of 1763. The British authorities permitted Acadians to remain in the Colony of Nova Scotia as long as they took an oath of allegiance. However the majority of the prisoners rejected their offer and left the colony by their own means by leasing vessels since the British refused to pay their passage to other colonies. Many chose to go to French-controlled colonies like Saint-Pierre et Miquelon and Saint-Domingue (Haiti) but quickly left the dire conditions there and travelled north, most of them settling in Louisiana in the spring of 1765.

Pierre and Anne and their children were recorded on the 1767 census in Miquelon. ^[12]

Pierre Gaudet (came from d'Halifax) 47

Anne Girouard, his wife

Pierre, their son, 20

Marie, their daughter, 17

Modeste, their daughter, 14

Marie, their daughter, 6

In 1767, the French government decided that the islands were too small and too poor for the Acadians. and deported them from Miquelon to France.

Anne died in Apr 1770 in La Rochelle, Aunis, France aged ~48. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (Moncton, N.-B.: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999) p. 736

   She was on 1763 census at Fort Beauséjour; on 1767 census at Miquelon, age 46 years. Anne died (according to S. GAUDETTE) at La Rochelle in Apr 1770.

2. ↑ Library and Archives Canada Fonds des Archives départementales de la Charente-Maritime [La Rochelle, France] : C-1207 Registres de Beaubassin - reel_c1207 MG 6 A 2 (Image 73) http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1207/73?r=0&s=6
3. ↑ Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Anne Girouard
4. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; 1752 Census The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the Library and Archives Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Image 278.

   Pierre GODET, his wife, 2 boys, 1 girl.

5. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino;1755 Census p. 15

   Pierre Godet, his wife, 2 boys, 3 girls

6. ↑ Stephen A. White, Recensements de Beaubassin et des Trois Rivières de Chipoudie, de Memramcook et de Petcoudiac (1686-1755). Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 50, nos 2-4, juin-décembre 2019, p. 322-323.
7. ↑ LeBlanc, R.-G. (2012). Les réfugiés acadiens au camp d’Espérance de la Miramichi en 1756-1761 : un épisode méconnu du Grand Dérangement. Acadiensis, 41(1). Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/19077/21083. (See appendix at the end) Also English translation by John Estano DeRoche "The Acadian Refugee Camp on the Miramichi, 1756-1761"
8. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; 1760 Restigouche Census

   Pierre Godet, 4 peole

9. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; 1761 Gaspesie Refugees Census, p. 4 original record 1761 Gaspesie Refugees Original Amherst Papers (WO 34) : C-12837, Image 180

   Pierre Gaudet, his wife, 1 boy, 2 girls

10. ↑ Judith Beattie and Bernard Pothier, The Battle of the Restigouche, Parks Canada Canadian Heritage, 1996 p. 41 http://parkscanadahistory.com/series/saah/restigouche.pdf
11. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino. List of Acadian Prisoners at Fort Cumberland as of August 24, 1763, Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home, original record, digital images, Héritage, Genealogy collection, Library and Archives Canada. / France. Fonds des Archives nationales: Série C12. Correspondance générale; Saint-Pierre et Miquelon : C-9146, vol. 1, f. 22-26. [​​https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c9146/35 Image 35], accessed Dec 2022

    Pierre Gaudet

    Anne Gaudet

    Pierre

    Marguerite

    Modeste

    Marie

    Marie

    Total of 7

12. ↑ « Familles Acadiennes qui sont maintenant, aux îles St Pierre et Miquelon suivant le recensement d'icelles, fait le 15 mai 1767. » in Archives canadiennes pour l'année 1905. Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, 1909, Vol II, 3rd part, Document No 18 A.Acadian Families at Saint-Pierre et Miquelon 15 May 1767 p. 233 /Image 797 Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, accessed Dec 2022

    Pierre Gaudet (came from d'Halifax) 47

    Anne Girouard, his wife

    Pierre, their son, 20

    Marie, their daughter, 17

    Modeste, their daughter, 14

    Marie, their daughter, 6

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