Marie LeBlanc (abt. 1687 - 1758)

Born about 1687 in Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Wife of Germain Cormier — married about 1703 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died 16 Jan 1758 at about age 71 in Québec, Canada, Nouvelle-France

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Biography

Marie was born around 1687 to parents André LeBlanc and Marie Dugas. There is no birth record. She was born in Acadia.

In 1693, at Minas, Marie, aged 6, lived with her parents, Andre LeBlanc, aged 35, and Marie Dugas, aged 26, and her three siblings: Jean, aged 8, Pierre, aged 4, and Anne, aged 1. The family owned 1 gun and lived on 8 arpents of cultivable land with 8 cattle, 3 sheep, and 5 pigs.^[1]

Marie (15) married Germain Cormier (22) (born about 1680 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Nouvelle-France; son of Thomas Cormier and Marie Madeleine Girouard) in 1703 in Beaubassin, Acadie.^[2]

Their known children were:

1. Pierre Cormier (abt. 1705–aft. 1756)
2. Marie Cormier (abt. 1706– )
3. Anne Marie Cormier (abt. 1707–1777)
4. Marguerite Cormier (abt. 1713– )
5. Germain Cormier (abt. 1714–bef. 1746)
6. Jean Baptiste Cormier (abt. 1716– )
7. Jean Cormier (abt. 1718–abt. 1719)
8. Pierre Cormier (1720–bef. 1764)
9. Marie Magdeleine Germaine Cormier (1722–1756)
10. François Cormier (abt. 1724–abt. 1760)
11. Charles Cormier (abt. 1726–1796)
12. Michel Cormier (abt. 1728– )

The censuses between 1703 and 1750 show that Germain and Marie resided at Beaubassin where they tended their farm and raised their children, more specifically in the village of Ouescoque.^[3]

By 1752 they were refugees at Baie-Verte, near the border separating present-day New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. No children were counted in the household. Germain was recorded as Le vieux Jean [sic], with his wife.^[4][5]

Marie was widowed between 1752 and 1754-55. In the 1754-1755 census, she was listed as widow Cormier in the household of Bernard Poirier in Jolicoeur. (Upper Point de Bute, New Brunswick).^[3][6] She managed to escape deportation by fleeing to Quebec, probably with her daughter-in-law Madeleine Doucet and her five children. Her husband François had been deported to Georgia in 1755 without his family and died in New York, on his way back to find his loved ones.^[3] According to researcher André-Carl Vachon, she travelled to Quebec by boat in 1757 with Jean Baptiste Cormier and his wife Marie Madeleine Bernard and other members of the Cormier family.^[7]

A smallpox epidemic was raging in Quebec in 1756-1757. Many of the 1144^[7] Acadians that reached Quebec City during that period were already exhausted by famine, other diseases and their many displacements trying to escape the roundups of the British soldiers. Approximately 300 Acadian exiles died in the city of Quebec alone.^[8] The church register of Notre-Dame-de-Quebec parish shows numerous entries of deceased Acadians indicated by a cross and the letters "acc" or "acad" in the margins.^[9] Marie died on January 16 1758 in Quebec City, and was buried on the 18th of that month.^[10] Four of her grandchildren, (François and Madeleine Doucet's children) died in Quebec City between 1756 and 1758:

Madeleine Cormier (abt.1746-1757)

Pierre Cormier (abt.1751-1757)

Félix Cormier (abt.1753-1758)

Marie Cormier (abt.1755-1756)

The cause of death was not noted in the church registers.

The children of Germain and Marie were impacted by the Grand Dérangement (Great Expulsion of the Acadians):

• Deported to South Carolina with their families: Pierre "le Grand Pierre", Jean Baptiste, Marie Madeleine and Michel
• Deported to Georgia without their families: Pierre "le Petit Pierre and François. François died in New York on his way back trying to find his family.
• Settled in the Province of Quebec: Anne Marie, Marguerite, and Charles

Censuses:

• 1701 Acadian census at Beaubassin: Germain Cormier and his wife, 1 arms bearer.

• 1707 Acadian census at Beaubassin: Germain Cormier and Marie LeBlanc, 1 boy less than 14; 4 arpents, 9 cattle, 10 sheep, 10 hogs.

• 1714 Acadian census at Beaubassin: Germain Cormier and Marie LeBlanc his spouse; children: Pierre, Marie, Margueritte, Anne, Germain.

• 1750-1751 Acadian census Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; 1750/1751 Census 1750/1751 Census Transcribed.

  Germain Cormiers and his wife.

Sources

1. ↑ Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1693 Acadian Census at Port-Royal, Acadie 1693 Census Transcribed. The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the Library and Archives Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752,” Images 62-108;

   at Minas: Andre LeBlanc 35, Marie Dugas 26, Jean 8, Marie 6, Pierre 4, Anne 1; 8 cattle, 3 sheep, 5 pigs, 8 arpents, 1 gun. In the original 1693 census at Minas, Dugas was listed as Du Gast.

2. ↑ White, Stephen A., Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert.Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes. Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 1999, Print, p. 408-409, 991-992.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Melanson, Michael B., Cormier Genealogy: Generations 1-7. (Dracut, Massachusetts: Lanesville Publishing, 2021) p. 77-81
4. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; 1752 Census The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752,” Images 277-308;

   The older Jean Cormier and his wife.

5. ↑ White, Stephen A., Recensements de Beaubassin et des Trois Rivières de Chipoudie, de Memramcook et de Petcoudiac (1686-1755). Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 50, nos 2-4, juin-décembre 2019, p. 288-289.
6. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino;1755 Census image 17

   Veuve (widow) Cormier in household of Bernard Poirier

7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Vachon, André-Carl. Les réfugiés et miliciens acadiens en Nouvelle-France 1755-1763, Tracadie, La Grande Marée, 2020, p. 93, 264-265
8. ↑ Jobb, Dean W. The Cajuns: A People's Story of Exile and Triumph. (John Wiley & Sons, 14 janv. 2010) 272 pages accessed at Google Books
9. ↑ Burial record of Pierre Cormier (abt.1751-1757), Marie's grandson. "Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-899Q-MKQQ?cc=1321742&wc=HC3D-ZNL%3A17585101%2C19508101%2C26879601 : 16 July 2014), Québec > Notre-Dame-de-Québec > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1757-1759 > image 119 of 259; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal.
10. ↑ Burial Record "Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G99Q-MKWH?cc=1321742&wc=HC3D-ZNL%3A17585101%2C19508101%2C26879601 : 16 July 2014), Québec > Notre-Dame-de-Québec > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1757-1759 > image 140 of 259; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal.

See also:

• Marielle Côté-Gendreau, "Witnessing history through parish registers: Smallpox in the colonial era," Généalogie et histoire du Québec, Drouin Institute https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/2020/07/07/witnessing-history-through-parish-registers-smallpox-in-the-colonial-era/
• Kim Kujawski, "Smallpox in New France & Canada: How "The Speckled Monster" wreaked havoc on the lives of Canadians for over 300 years", The French-Canadian Genealogist, https://www.tfcg.ca/smallpox-in-canada
• http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogy=Marie_Leblanc&pid=659270&lng=en