Marie Anne Guilbeau (1751 - 1832)

Born 25 Mar 1751 in Annapolis Royal, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of François Cyr — married 19 Feb 1770 in Ekoupahaq, Colony of Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died 19 Feb 1832 at age 80 in Madawaska, Colony of New Brunswick

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Biography

Marie was born and baptized on 25 March 1751 in Annapolis Royal (formerly Port-Royal). ^[1]

At the age of 7, she lost both her parents and three siblings (Ursule, Joseph, Jean-Baptiste) who all died within one week in 1758 at St-Charles de Bellechasse.

She married François Cyr in 1770 in Caraquet.^[2][3]

She passed away on 19 February 1832 at the age of about 83 according to the register and was interred on the 21th . ^[4]

Oral and documented family history

By: Robert G. Daigle

Based on oral history passed down in the Upper St. John River Valley, it is highly likely that Marguerite and her family were passengers on the Pembroke.^[5]

Azilda Daigle of Baker Brook, New Brunswick, used to explain that she was alive because one of her ancestors stopped crying during the Deportation. The story that was passed down in her family reported that during the Deportation, a family of her ancestors was hiding from English soldiers on a boat in thick fog. The youngest child of the family was crying, and because noise travels far over water the parents were desperately trying to get the child to stop. Fearing that the crying would alert the English soldiers to their whereabouts, the parents were trying to decide if they should drown the child in order to save all the other people on the boat. As the story goes, the child eventually stopped crying, the parents were not forced to drown her, and the child lived on to become Azilda's ancestor.

The details of this oral history account match up quite well with the historical account of the Pembroke. The Pembroke was one of eight ships of Acadian deportees that left Port Royal on December 8, 1755, headed for North Carolina. It was separated from the seven other boats in bad weather and since there were only eight English crew members on board, the Acadians were able to seize control of the ship and eventually lead it up the St. John River.

The Pembroke survivors spent the winter of 1755-56 in the Acadian settlement of Ste-Anne-des-Pays-Bas in the region of modern-day Fredericton. Many of them eventually made their way to the French parishes on the south of the St-Lawrence. In the winter of 1757-58, a devastating epidemic broke out among the Acadian refugees. Of the eight members of the family of Pierre Guilbault and Madeleine Forest who managed to escape to Québec during the Deportation, six of them died between December 17, 1757 and April 7, 1758. Only Marguerite and her youngest sister Marie-Anne survived.

In all likelihood, Marie-Anne Guilbault is the young child who was crying aboard the ship while her family and others were hiding from the English soldiers in the fog. Marie-Anne was four years old in 1755 and her big sister Marguerite was sixteen. As the older sibling, Marguerite would have likely become the family storyteller, but after she died around 1775, her sister Marie-Anne would have been the only remaining member of her family to transmit the story to her descendants. The story could have passed down to Azilda Daigle from either of her parents, or both of them. Her parents were second cousins who were both descendants of Marguerite Guilbeau AND Marie-Anne Guilbeau.

Marguerite married the Acadian refugee Joseph Simon Daigre/Daigle and Marie-Anne married another Acadian refugee named François Cyr. Their husbands both appear with their families in the 1783 census of the French Inhabitants on the Lower St. John River. After they were displaced by the arrival of the Loyalists in 1783-84, both men became founders of the Madawaska Settlement and settled nearby to one another on the south bank of the St. John River near the modern-day St. David church in Madawaska, Maine.

Sources

1. ↑ Baptism : Nova Scotia Archives, "An Acadian Parish Remembered - The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755," register RG 1 volume 26a page 431; online database with images, Anne Guillebeau baptism March 1751, accessed February 2020

   Date 25 March 1751
   Event Baptism
   Name Anne Guillebeau born March 1751
   Father Pierre Guillebeau
   Mother Anne Forest
   Godparents Joseph Guillebeau, Isabelle Guillebeau

2. ↑ Marriage : Ancestry.com. Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1757-1946 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin. Search: C > Caraquet > 1768-1899 > image 21 of 1632. Accessed on ancestry.ca, February 2020.
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3. ↑ Drouin Genealogical Institute (membership required) Marriage
4. ↑ Burial : Madawaska, Nouveau-Brunswick, Registre de la paroisse Saint-Basile-de-Madawaska, catholique, 1792-1830 ( F.M. 9, A 11, vol 7-1/7-2), Image 877, entry for Marianne Tibau Guilbeau Burial 21 February 1832, digital images, Héritage, Genealogy collection, Library and Archives Canada, reel C-3017, Parish Registers: New Brunswick : C-3017, accessed February 2020.
5. ↑ Consentino, Lucie LeBlanc, and Paul Delaney. “Pembroke Passenger List Recontructed.” Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home, http://www.acadian-home.org/PD-Pembroke.html

See also:

• Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=13226668&pid=192

• Genealogy Marie-Anne Guilbault, Genealogy of Canada, http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?pid=330198