Unknown Landry (bef. 1755 - abt. 1756)

Born before 1755 in Acadie

Ancestors

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Biography

Unknown Landry died young.

Charles Landry and Cécile Leblanc had one son whose name was lost to history. He was born before the September 1755 list of Acadian prisoners taken at Grand-Pré.

On 5 September 1755, his father, Charles Landry, was 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 des Landry with one son and five daughters (adult women were not included on the list), and owned 6 bullocks, 6 cows, 8 young cattle, 52 sheep, 20 hogs, and 2 horses. His property and livestock became forfeit to the crown, and his family was required to prepare for deportation within thirty days.^[1][2]

On 20 December 1755, Charles and Cécile, as well as their children, Marguerite, Marie-Madeleine, Geneviève, Marie-Josèphe and an unnamed son and unnamed daughter were deported aboard the Ranger. The 112 Acadians deported disembarked in Virginia on 20 January 1756. Many sickened and died from a smallpox epidemic that started in Virginia and rampaged in their crowded and unsanitary conditions.^[3] In May 1756, on the Bobby Goodridge, the family was deported again, from Virginia to Portsmouth, England, where they arrived on 23 June 1756. From there they were sent to Southampton, England, where they stayed for seven years until after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.^[2]

Nothing more is known about this son. He does not appear in any passenger lists or censuses after 1755.

Sources

1. ↑ 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 # 9;

   Charle Landry, Village de Landry, 1 son, 5 daughters (spouses were not included on the list), 6 bullocks, 6 cows, 8 young cattle, 52 sheep, 20 hogs, 2 horses.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Paul Delaney, La liste de Winslow expliquée, (Moncton, N.-B.: Éditions Perce-Neige, 2020)
3. ↑ Dorothy Vinter, The Acadian Exiles in England,1756 -1763,]