Victoire Henry (1750 - 1759)

Ancestors

Biography

Victoire Henry was born in Fall of 1750 in Acadie, daughter of Francois Henry and Marie Dugas. She was 16 months old on the 1752 census, having been in L'acadie before the family moved. In 1752 they appeared on the detailed La Roque census in Grande Ascension, Ile Saint-Jean, with two sons and three daughters. ^[1]

She was 6 years old during the Deportation of over 1000 Acadians from Isle Saint Jean in the fall in 1758. She died during the voyage.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. 117, image 264. 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. 435, Image 439

   Francois Henry, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 36 years, he has been in the country 13 months. Married to Marie Dugast, native of l'Acadie, aged 30 years.

   They have two sons and three daughters :

   Basille Henry, aged 11 years

   Joseph, aged 9 years

   Margueritte Joseph, aged 7 years

   Elizabeth, aged 4 years

   Victoire, aged 16 months

   And in stock, three oxen, two cows, four heifers, three ewes, one sow, three pigs and ten fowls. The land on which they are settled is situated as in the preceding cases. It was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. On it they have made a clearing for the sowing of two bushels of wheat in the coming spring.

2. ↑ "Rolle des habitans de l'Isle St Jean débarqués à St Malo le 23 janvier 1759 des 5 paquebots anglois le Yarmouth, la Patience, le Mathias, la Restoration et le John et Samuel," Fonds de l'inscription maritime de Saint-Servan (France): C-4619, MG6 C2, Library and Archives Canada, Roll of the " Five English ships " (Yarmouth, Patience, Mathias, Restoration, John Samuel) disembarked at Saint-Malo on January 23, 1759 image 198, accessed 11 Sep 2023

   Family #113
   HENRY François, died at sea
   DUGAST Marie, 35, his wife
   HENRY Bazile, 18, his son
   DUGAST Eulalie, 21, wife of Bazile
   HENRY Joseph, 14, his son
   HENRY Anne Marguerite Josephe, 14, daughter
   HENRY Elisabeth, 8 ans, daughter
   HENRY Alexis, 5, his son, died at sea
   HENRY François, 2, his son, died at sea
   HENRY Victoire, 6 ans, fille, died at sea