Charles Granger (1738 - 1795)

Born 11 May 1738 in Riviere-aux-Canards, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Madeleine Daigre — married 26 Dec 1757 in Falmouth, Cornwall, England

Died 1795 at about age 56 in Tinéüé, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, Bretagne, France

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Biography

Birth

Charles Granger,fils was born in Acadia at the Riviere aux Canards, parish of Saint Joseph, on May 11, 1738 to Charles Granger and Francoise LeBlanc. ^[1]

Siblings ^[1]

1. Marie Granger (1736)
2. Marguerite Granger (1739)
3. Anne Granger (1742)
4. Francoise Josette Granger (1748)
5. Jean Jacques Granger (1753)

On 5 September 1755, his father Charles was imprisoned along with hundreds of other Acadian men at the St. Charles des Mines church in Grand Pré. On a list of prisoners, he was said to live in the village des Granger with 6 sons and 5 daughters (spouses were not included on the list), and owned 6 bullocks, 12 cows, 16 young cattle, 74 sheep, 20 hogs, and 2 horses. His property and livestock became forfeit to the crown, and his family was required to prepare for deportation within 30 days. ^[2][3]

On 27 October 1755, his parents as well as his siblings Jean-Jacques, Marie, Marguerite, Anne, Françoise-Josèphe and 5 more children whose names were lost to history were deported from Grand-Pré to Virginia aboard one of the 14 ships that departed on that day. The Acadians were held over winter in Virginia. In May 1756, on the Fanny Bovey, they were deported again to England. ^[3] The ship transporting 204 Acadians arrived in Falmouth, England on 18 June 1756. ^[4] From there they were taken to Penryn, England. ^[3]

Charles, pere, his father, died at Falmouth, England on September 29, 1756. ^[1]

Marriage and Children ^[1]

Charles, fils was married at Falmouth, England on December 26, 1757 to Magdeleine Daigre. ^[1]

1. Jean Charles Granger at Falmouth (1760)
2. Simon Joseph Granger at Falmouth (1762)
3. Pierre Mathurin Granger at Morlaix, France (1764)
4. Jacques Etienne Granger at Belle-Isle-en-Mer (1766)

At the end of the Seven Years War in February 1763, the Acadian people were given passage to France. They sailed from England to France in 1763. Charles and his family were on a census in Belle-Ile-en-Mer on 1 November 1765. ^[5]

He passed away in 1795 at Belle-Ile-en-Mer. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} "Acadians of Belle-Isle-en-Mer: Registers of Palais Parish, Belle-Isle-en-Mer," by Abbé H. R. Casgrain, translated by Brother Jerôme Lepré, S.C., in Unpublished Documents of French Canada, Canada-Francais, Quebec, L.J. Demers & Frère, 1890. Online courtesy © Lucie LeBlanc Consentino, "Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home," 1998 - Present. http://www.acadian-home.org/frames.html. Citing sources (Belle Isle En Mer Registers - Le Palais Parish Registers) contributed to the Acadian & French-Canadian Ancestral Home by François Roux, and (Bangor Registers - Belle Isle En Mer Registers) by Milton P. Rieder, Jr. and Norma Gaudet Rieder.
2. ↑ Lucie Leblanc Consentino, Acadian & French-Canadian Ancestral Home, "Deportees of Grand Pre - 1755," citing Collection of the Nova Scotia Historical Society 1870-1884 - Journal of John Winslow, volumes 1-4; "Grand Pre, September the 15th 1755," line # 27,

   Charle Granger, Village des Granger,

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Paul Delaney. La liste de Winslow expliquée. (Moncton, N.-B.: Éditions Perce-Neige, 2020), p. 99
4. ↑ Paul Delaney, Chronologie des déportations et migrations des Acadiens (1755-1816). Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 36, nos 2-3, septembre 2005, p. 52-86. https://societehistoriqueacadienne.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/3602_total.pdf
   Translation at Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home Translation: "The Chronology of Deportations and Migrations of the Acadians 1755-1816."
5. ↑ Jean-Marie Fonteneau, LES ACADIENS, CITOYENS DE L'ATLANTIQUE; 1500-1785, (Rennes, Editions Ouest-France, 1996); p. 202. (Source cited by Karen Theriot Reader at Geneanet.org)

   Charles GRANGER, head of family #6 on list of Acadian Families at Belle-Ile-en-Mer made 1 Nov 1765. He married Marie-Madeleine DAIGRE; three sons. They came from Falmouth [England] and Morlaix, settled at Tinéüé, Bangor, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, France.

• Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Charles Granger citing Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1600-1800; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, vols. 2-6; p. 2343 (Belle-Ile-en-Mer).

  Charles GRANGER, born 1738, son of Charles & Francoise LeBLANC of Grand-Pré, parish of Riviere-aux-Canards. He married at Falmouth, England on 26 Dec 1757 to Marie-Madeleine DAIGRE, daughter of Jean-Baptiste & Madeleine TERRIOT; eight children. Charles was at Falmouth from 1756-1763; at Morlaix in 1764; at Bangor, Belle-Ile later. He lived at Tinéüé, Bangor, Belle-Ile. The census of 1792 noted that he is "infirm from a invasion acquired in the service of King's barge." He died at Tinéüé in 1795; his wife died at Palais in 1808.

• Marcel Walter Landry Page for Charles Granger at Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed July 2021 (Login required)