René Landry (1730 - bef. 1801)

Born 8 Aug 1730 in Grand-Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Marguerite Babin — married about 1761 in Southhampton, Hampshire, England

Descendants

Died before 6 Jul 1801 before age 70 in Louisiana

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Biography

RENE LANDRY is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 12 Left, La Ville d'Arcangel arrivee 3 Decembre 1785. Listed with Rene are eight children: Marie, Servanne, Jean Raphael, Marguerite, Anne, Pierre, Joseph, Jeanne, and his beau frere (brother-in-law), Paul Babin. ^[1]

René Landry, son of Antoine Landry and Marie Melanson, was born on 8 August 1830 and baptized on 13 August 1730 in Grand-Pré, Acadie. His sponsors were René Landry & Izabel Darouet.^[2]

On 5 September 1755, René and his brother Antoine were 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 Landry. No children or livestock were listed for him. He was 25 years of age at the time, and not married. He was required to prepare for deportation within 30 days. ^[3][4]

On 20 December 1755, René, his parents, and his brother Antoine were deported aboard the Ranger. The 112 deported Acadians were held over winter in Virginia on 20 January 1756. In May 1756, on the Bobby Goodridge, they were deported again, from Virginia to Portsmouth, England where they arrived on 23 June 1756. From there they were sent to Southampton, England where his parents died that same year.^[4] René and Antoine spent the duration of the Seven Years War detained in England.

He married Marguerite Babin, daughter of Jean Babin and Marguerite Thériot, around 1759 in England.^[4]

Children: ^[5]

1. Marie Madeleine LANDRY (c.1762)
2. Servanne Laurence Marie Honorine LANDRY (1764)
3. Jean Baptiste Raphaël LANDRY (1767)
4. Marguerite Josephte LANDRY (1769)
5. Pierre Marie LANDRY (1771)
6. Anne Marie Jeanne LANDRY (1773)
7. Pierre LANDRY (1775)
8. Joseph Marie LANDRY (1778)
9. Jeanne Guillemette LANDRY (1781)

After the 1763 Treaty of Paris, the Acadians were released, and those in England were identified and turned over to France. Rene, his wife and oldest daughter disembarked at St. Malo from England on 23 May 1763 from the ship La Dorothee. They resided at St. Servan from 1763-1772.^[6][7]

They had at least eight children before his wife died in France. By 1785 he had decided to take his children and start fresh in Spanish-ruled Louisiana, which had become a haven for displaced Acadians.

He and his eight children arrived on 3 December 1785 at the port of New Orleans, Louisiana.^[8]

He died before 6 July 1801 in Louisiana. ^{[citation needed]}

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. 44.
2. ↑ Paroisse de St. Charles des Mines, Grand Pré, Acadie, Québec Province, digital images, Héritage, Genealogy collection, Library and Archives Canada, reel C-1869, "Parish Registers: Nova Scotia : C-1869," roll 1, Image 285, René Landry Baptism, 13 August 1730, accessed July 2021. This register is a transcript written around 1895 of the original registers currently held at the Baton Rouge Diocese Archives in Louisiana, USA.
3. ↑ 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 # 395;

   Antoine Landry, Village des Landry

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Paul Delaney, La liste de Winslow expliquée, (Moncton, N.-B.: Éditions Perce-Neige, 2020) p. 87.
5. ↑ Marcel Walter Landry Page for René Landry at Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed July 2021 (Login required).
6. ↑ Albert J. Robichaux, THE ACADIAN EXILES IN ST. MALO, 1758-1785, pt 1, vol. II, (Eunice, LA: Hebert Publications, 1981) pp. 542-543, family #611.
7. ↑ Milton P. and Norma Gaudet Rieder, The Acadians in France, vol. II: Belle Isle en Mer Register & La Rochette Papers, (Metairie, LA: Authors, 1972) pp. 89, 96;

   Text: On the numbered list of 219 French Neutrals delivered by Edw. NOBLE to Sieur DE LA ROCHETTE at Southampton, England.

   165. Rene LANDRI, 30;

   [166] Antoine LANDRI, 28.

   Text: On the Roll of the Acadian families embarked on the royal frigate “La Dorothee,” under Captain LAVENANT, who acknowledged receiving them on 17 May 1763, to be delivered to Saint Malo, France. There are 45 numbered families, plus six prisoners of war from Bristol.

   3. Jean LANDRY;

   Marie LANDRY;

   Rene LANDRY;

   Marguerite LANDRY;

   Marie Magdeleine MELANCON;

   Antoine LANDRY.

8. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader, Rene Landry citing Donald Joseph Hebert, Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index, (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995) pp. 100-101;

   Text: René LANDRY, age 53, father, traveling with his eight children, plus Paul BABIN, his brother-in-law age 52, as the 44th family (of 10 persons) aboard "La Ville d'Archangel."

See also:

• Geneanet.org, Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree, Rene Landry

Acknowledgements

Karen Theriot Reader Geneanet.org

Jacqueline Girouard