Augustin Landry (abt. 1727 - bef. 1759)

Born about 1727 in St-Charles-aux-Mines, Grand Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Marguerite Granger — married 26 Jun 1748 in Grand-Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

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Biography

Augustin Landry was born about 1727. He was the son of Benjamin Landry and Marguerite Babin.

When he was 21, he married Marguerite Granger, daughter of the late Charles Granger and Marie Leblanc 26 June 1748 at Saint Charles des Mines, Grand-Pré, Acadia.^[1][2]

Augustin and Marguerite were listed on the 1752 La Roque census at Rivière-du-Nord, Isle Saint-Jean. ^[3]

He died before 29 May 1759 when Marguerite was married to Jean Baptiste Testard dit Paris in France.

Sources

1. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Charles-des-Mines (Grand-Pré, N.-É.) - 1869; Canadiana, Heritage, Parish registers: Nova Scotia : C-1869 (Image 803): https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1869/803?r=0&s=4
2. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Acadian Records, Revised - Registers of St. Charles Aux Mines in Acadia. Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese of Baton Rouge, 1999, vol. 1a Revised, p. 106

   Augustin Landry, age ca 20 (Benjamin Landry and Marguerite Babin, of Pigiguit) m. 26 June 1748 (consanguinity 4th degree) Marguerite Grangé, age ca 19 (Charles Grangé decd, and Marie Leblanc) wit. Benjamin Landry; Francois Landry; Joseph Babin; Joseph Landry (signed); Joseph Grangé (signed); Laurent Grangé; sig. Augustin Landry; Marguerite Grangé (SGA-3, 50b)

3. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), La Roque Census, p. 83. The original census, in French, can be found at Census Original Version “Recensement de l'Isle Royal et de Isle Saint-Jean ” Page 313-314

   Augustin Landry, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 26 years, has been in the country for two years. Married to Margueritte Granger, native of l'Acadie, aged 23 years. They have one son and one daughter:-
   Benjamin Landry, aged 18 months.
   Margueritte, aged 3 months.
   They have the following live stock, two oxen, two cows, one bull, two ewes, two sows, one pig and fifteen fowls or chickens. The land upon which they were settled was given them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. They have made a clearing in it for the sowing of two bushels of wheat next spring.

See also:

• Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader Family Tree. page for Augustin Landry