Charles Landry (abt. 1733 - 1814)

Born about 1733 in Pisiguit, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Marguerite Boudrot — married 7 Nov 1759 in Saint-Servan, Bretagne, France

Descendants

Died 3 Mar 1814 at about age 81 in St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

Charles Landry is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 6 Right, Le Bon Papa. Listed with him is his wife, Margueritte Boudrot, and seven children: Firmin, Sebastien, Louis, Jean, Charles, Francois and Margueritte.^[1]

Charles Landry was born about 1733 in the parish of l'Assomption, Pisiguit, Acadia, Colony of Nova Scotia.^[2]

He was listed at age 19 in the 1752 La Roque census at Grande-Anse, Isle Saint-Jean with his aunt and uncle Marie Blanche LeBlanc (his mother's sister) and Jean Baptiste Landry.^[3]

In the summer of 1758, the fortress of Louisbourg on Isle Royale was attacked by British troops. The French capitulated, thereby forfeiting Ile Saint-Jean as well. Soldiers were sent to the Island with orders to deport the inhabitants to France. Some three thousand Islanders were successfully rounded up and crowded on ships that set sail for Europe later in the fall. For the Acadians, it was disaster. Fifteen hundred of them managed to escape deportation by fleeing to the Bay of Chaleurs region and to Quebec where many died of sickness and hunger. Of those deported to France, more that half drowned or died by disease and illness during the voyage and many others died in the months following their arrival in France.^[4]

Charles did not escape deportation. In the fall of 1758 he was put aboard one of five English deportation ships, and disembarked at St. Malo, France on 23 January 1759. On the passenger list he was counted with his widowed cousin Jean Bugeaud (son of Joseph Bugeaud and Marie-Josèphe Landry) and his children.^[5]

He was married on 7 November 1759 at St.-Servan, France to Marguerite Boudrot, daughter of Paul and Marie Josèphe Doiron, widow of Joseph Hébert.^[6] Gérard-Marc Braud lists 10 children born to Charles and Marguerite while they lived in exile in France.

Childen:^[7][8][2]

1. Charles Pierre Alain Landry, b. 19 Sep 1760, St-Servan-sur-Mer
2. Firmin Pancrace Landry, b. 12 May 1762, St-Servan-sur-Mer
3. Jean Pierre Landry, b. 3 Jan 1764, St-Servan-sur-Mer
4. Marguerite Françoise Landry, b. 27 Oct 1765, St-Servan-sur-Mer
5. Jean Sébastien Landry, b. 26 Aug 1767, St-Servan-sur-Mer
6. Charles Landry, b. 9 Jun 1769, St-Servan-sur-Mer
7. Louis Abel Landry, b. 6 Apr 1771, St-Servan-sur-Mer
8. Jean Jacques Landry, b. 30 Jan 1775, Châtellerault
9. Charles Landry, b. 12 Mar 1777, Nantes
10. François Marie Landry, b. 17 Nov 1779, Nantes
11. Valentin Landry

They resided at St. Servan from 1759 to 1772.^[9] They were in St.-Malo and Châtellerault between 1773 and 1775.^[7] In 1775 the family was in the 2nd convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes.^[7] They resided in Nantes from 1775 to 1785.^[7] Charles, his wife Marguerite Boudreau, 6 sons and 1 daughter were on a list of Acadian families "who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of His Catholic Majesty, dated Sep 1784 ^[10] The family left Nantes on 10 May 1785 aboard the French ship Le Bon Papa, which had been chartered by the Spanish government to deliver settlers to Louisiana. The ship arrived safely at the port of New Orleans on July 29, 1795 after 21/2 months at sea. The new arrivals were given supplies, medical attention, marriages were blessed, and children baptized as needed. They were then settled on land. This family along with 37 out of 38 families on the ship went to St. Gabriel in Iberville Parish along the Mississippi River.^[2][11]

Charles tended his farm and family for almost ten years, until he died in 1814. He was buried 3 March 1814 in St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, Louisiana. ^[12]

Research Notes

The accuracy of the following information which was in the biography, concerning the presence of Charles in Boulogne in 1758, is in question.

He was deported by the British and is on the list of Acadians debarked at Boulogne on 26 Dec 1758. In the household of Jean LANDRY & Blanche LEBLANC, his wife, we find Charles LANDRY, their [the wife's] nephew, age 25. ^[13]The ships destination had been St-Malo, but a fierce storm sent them to Boulogne.^[14]Most of these Acadians had been at Pointe Prim, Ile St. Jean (and at Cobequid before that). Like the other Acadians in France, they received welfare from the government (6 sous per day). Diseases such as smallpox struck down many of them. Unfortunately, the records from Pointe Prim went down with with one of the ships which sank during the storm. Charles' aunt and uncle are found on a list of Acadians at Boulogne who decided to join other Acadian exiles in France. In late spring 1766, they sailed aboard the le Hazard to St. Servan. A list attached to the St. Servan census of May 1766 identifies 77 of them. ^[15] Charles, at age 28, however, had already left Boulogne .

Researcher Marcel Walter Landry explains:^[7]

(Translation) On the site of the Les 179 Acadians of Boulogne it is indicated: "If there is not, to our knowledge, a complete list of the 179 Acadians who landed at Boulogne on December 26, 1758, we can however try to reconstruct a part of it by means of various documents such as the list of Saint-Servan, parish registers as well as the census of Ile Saint-Jean d'Acadie of 1752. " But beware, the information on this site is based on analyzes of information based in particular on the census of the island of St-Jean of 1752 (We note in particular the error of the date of birth of Jean which comes from this census). In reality Charles arrives in St-Malo with his cousin Jean Bugeaud (son of Marie Josephe Landry who is the sister of his father Charles Landry)

In other words, based on the 1752 census in which Charles is counted in the household of his aunt and uncle Marie Blanche LeBlanc and Jean Baptiste Landry, it was presumed in this website Les 179 Acadians of Boulogne that Charles was deported with this couple which was indeed deported from Isle Saint-Jean to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France where they disembarked on 26 December 1758. However, another source shows that Charles was deported with his cousin Jean Bugeaud on a ship which arrived in Saint-Malo on January 23, 1759. There is no document proving that he was at Boulogne-sur-Mer. Cormier-1939 20:08, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair, eds. (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller The Printer, 2015) p. 26
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Gérard-Marc Braud, Les Acadiens en France--Nantes et Paimboeuf, 1775-1785 (Nantes, France: Ouest Éditions, 1999) p. 166

   Born around 1729 in the parish of l'Assomption (Acadie), son of Charles LANDRY & Marie LEBLANC. He was a carpenter, and lived at Chantenay at l'Hermitage. He married Marguerite Boudrot 7 November 1759 at St-Servan (Ille-et-Vil).

3. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. 113, Image 255. The original census, in French, can be found at Census Original Version “Recensement de l'Isle Royal et de Isle Saint-Jean ” Image 426

   Jean Landry, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 51 years (sic), he has been in the country two years. Married to Marie Lablanche, native of l'Acadie, aged 24 years.
   They have Charles Landry, their nephew, aged 19 years.
   Théodose Boudrot, their niece, aged 15 years.
   And in stock, three oxen, five cows, two heifers, one horse, and one ewe. The land upon which they are settled is situated at the further end of the Grande Anse, it was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. On it they have made a clearing for the sowing of four bushels of wheat.

4. ↑ Georges Arsenault, The Acadians of Prince Edward Island. Georges-Arsenault Accessed 4 June 2020.
5. ↑ "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 167, accessed 9/9/2023

   
   Family # 8
   BUGEAU Jean, 29, widow
   BUGEAU Marie Rose, 6, daughter
   BUGEAU Joseph, 4, son, + at sea
   BUGEAU Xavier, 2, son, + at sea
   LE BERE Jeanne, 36 (daughter of Jean)
   LANDRY Charles, 28 (son of Charles)

6. ↑ THOT, Archives en ligne Ille-et-Vilaine, Registres paroissiaux et état civil, 10 NUM 35313 153, Saint-Servan,1759, Baptêmes/Mariages, Commune, p. 42/52 Marriage Charles Landry & Marguerite Boudro 7 November 1759

   (Translation): Charles Landry, son of Charles and Marie LeBlanc, 30 years old, and Marguerite Boudro, adult daughter of deceased Paul and of deceased Marie Josèphe Doueron, widow of Joseph Hébert, both originally from Assomption parish of Acadie, living in this parish, were married in this church this November 7th 1759 after the three proclamations of their future marriage canonically made without opposition; the nuptial blessing was administered to them on the said day by me, signed parish priest, in the presence of Charles Boudrot brother of the bride, Joseph Closquinet brother-in-law of the bride, Pierre Hébert brother-in-law of the bride, Jacques Haché who all ensured the aforesaid domicile and ---- of the contracting parties and declared not knowing how to sign.

7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4} Marcel Walter Landry Page for Charles Landry at Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed December 2020, citing:
   • Braud - Nantes et Paimboeuf, Gérard-Marc Braud, (Ouest Éditions, Nantes, France, 1999), CS 596 A25 B825 1999., Page 166.
   • Rieder Vol. 1 : 1762-1776, Milton P. Rieder, Jr & Norma Gaudet Rieder, (Rieder, Metairie, Louisiana - 1967), P. 4, 72
8. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader Page for Charles Landry at Geneanet
9. ↑ Albert Robichaux, The Acadian Exiles in St. Malo, 1758-1785 (Eunice, LA: Hebert Publications, 1981), vol II, p. 525
10. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians: Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796 (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973) citing A.D.S. Legajo 2575.
11. ↑ "The 7 Ships Passenger Lists" (Note: also has scans of actual ship manifests); online courtesy "Acadian-Cajun Genealogy & History" website; Seven Spanish Ships
12. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, vol. 3, 1804-1819 (Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese of BR, 1982)
13. ↑ Copyright © Bruno Haffreingue 2000. Tous droits réservés. Les 179 Acadiens de Boulogne
14. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home; 2004 - Present; [1] Acadians at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France 1758 - 1764]
15. ↑ Acadian-cajun.com website; Copyright © 1997-09 Tim Hebert

See also:

• Charlene Edwards, "Rodriguez & Bourgeois Family History" (c. 17 July 1999).

https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/179365/I069485/charles-landry/individual

• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/162927584/person/362278146549/facts