Marine LeBlanc (1736 - 1789)

Born 15 Oct 1736 in Grand-Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Babin — married 9 Nov 1756 in Southampton, Hampshire, England

Descendants

Died 8 Sep 1789 at age 52 in Ascension, Louisiana, New Spain

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Biography

Marine (Marianne?) Le Blanc veuve Joseph Babin is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, Plaque 1 Left. Listed with her are children Francois Laurent, Victoire, Pierre Moise, Mathurin, Anne Marguerite and her oncle Charles Babin.^[1]

Birth: 15 October 1736 in Grand Pré, Acadie^[2]

Christening: 16 October 1736 in Grand Pré, Acadie^[3][4]

Death: 8 September 1789 in Ascension, Louisiana ^[5]

Burial: 9 September 1789 Donaldsonville, Ascension, Louisiana ^[6]

She must have been among those Acadians exiled to England, possibly via refusal at Virginia c.1855.

She married Joseph Babin in Southampton, Hampshire, England in 1756. (Widowed by October 1788.)

Children:^[7]

1. Joseph Nicaise BABIN b: 11 Oct 1757 in Southampton, Hampshire, England
2. Bonaventure BABIN b: 29 Nov 1759 in Southampton, Hampshire, England
3. Marie Theotiste BABIN b: 3 Dec 1761 in Southampton, Hampshire, England
4. Marie Victoire BABIN b: 19 May 1763 in at sea during the crossing to France
5. Laurent Francois BABIN b: 2 Jan 1766 in Belle-Ile-en-Mer, France c: 3 Jan 1766 in Palais, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, Morbihan, France
6. Pierre Moise BABIN b: 31 May 1768 in Loquelfas, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, France c: 31 May 1768 in Sauzon, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, France
7. Anne Marguerite BABIN b: 13 Aug 1770 in Belle-Ile-en-Mer, France c: 14 Aug 1770 in Sauzon, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, France
8. Mathurin Louis BABIN b: 22 Aug 1773 in Loquetta, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, France c: 23 Aug 1773 in Sauzon, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, France
9. Jean Charles BABIN b: 1 Feb 1776 in Ille-et-Vilaine, France c: 1 Feb 1776 in St. Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
10. Francoise Marie BABIN b: 30 May 1778 in Ille-et-Vilaine, France c: 30 May 1778 in St. Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
11. Victor Angelique BABIN b: 10 Jul 1779 in Ille-et-Vilaine, France c: 10 Jul 1779 in St. Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, France

Exile

She and her family boarded the Brigitte, Joseph Gravois' schooner which departed St. Pierre, a French island near the southern coast of Newfoundland, for Louisiana around October 16, 1788. Arrived at Pass à l'Outre (now called Pass à Loutre, at the mouth of the Mississippi River), December 11, 1788.^[8]

Children listed on immigration ship list:

1. François Laurent (born 1767),
2. Pierre Moïse (born 1768),
3. Victoire (born 1771),
4. Mathurin (born 1773),
5. Anne Marguerite (born 1779).

Note: another son also arrived in Louisiana, Bonaventure, who married Felicite Landry 10 November 1788, shortly after the family arrived. It is unclear if Bonaventure was on that ship.

Research Notes

Immigration

• "Le Raconteur," in Le Comité des Archives de la Louisiane, vol. XVI, no. 1 (Baton Rouge: Apr 1996) p. 50

Question: Did they return after 1788 to Carlton, Quebec?

Text: Article by Judy Riffel, "Two Acadian Families Arrive in Louisiana," cites the passport from LeVER, the "commissaire classes" at St. Pierre, Newfoundland, dated 16 Oct 1788, for eighteen persons, headed by the Acadian Joseph GRAVOIS, age 49 years, to leave his colony. All their ages are given.

Both families had been exiled to England, but left there in 1763 for France. She cites Albert Robichaux's THE ACADIAN EXILES AT SAINT-MALO (vol. 1, p. 369) who says that Joseph GRAVOIS and his family returned to England in 1767. On p. 34 he notes that Joseph BABIN's family resided at St. Servan from 1763-1765, at Belle-Isle-en-Mer from 1765-1773; and returned to St. Servan in 1773.

Riffel notes that Ignacio BALDERA noted the arrival of their ship the Bridget at the mouth of the Mississippi River in a letter [another passport?] to Estevan MIRO dated 11 Dec 1788, found in the PAPELES PROCEDENTES DE CUBA, Archivo General de Indias, Legajo 14, pp. 652-653a.

Both families settled in St. James Parish, Louisiana.

• Carl A. Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia: the Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana 1765-1803 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987) pp. 105 & 208

Note: It is believed that this was the last group of exiled Acadians to reach Louisiana before the 1785 resettlement.

On October 16, 1788, nineteen [sic, only 18 listed] Acadians boarded the schooner "Brigite" and set sail for Louisiana from St. Pierre Island (St. Pierre and Miquelon, Newfoundland); the vessel, commanded by Captain Joseph Gravois, to whom seventeen of the passengers were related [sic, only remotely], arrived at Pass à L'Outre, the principal entrance to the Mississippi in the eighteenth century, on December 11. Armed with a passport from Ygnacio Balderas, a Spanish official they encountered, they ascended the Mississippi to New Orleans and evidently secured permission to join relatives in present-day Ascension Parish. (Citing: PPC [Papeles Procedentes de Cuba], [legajo] 14:652, 652a, 653, 653a, 656.)

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by Jane G. Bulliard and the Wall of Names Committee (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 10
2. ↑ Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780, draft version ("DRFT") (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes) p. 532

   Text: Sponsors: Jean LE BLANC, brother & Marguerite LE BLANC.

3. ↑ 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 382): https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1869/382?r=0&s=4
4. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, vol. 1a: Acadian Records, 1707-1748: The Registers of St. Charles aux Mines in Acadia, from Grand Pré, carried into exile to St. Gabriel Church of Iberville, Louisiana (Baton Rouge: Diocese, 1999) p. 147

   Text: Sponsors: Jean LEBLANC, child's brother, & Marguerite LEBLANC (SGA-2, 157).

5. ↑ White, DRFT, p. 532

   Text: Died / was buried (Register Ascension) on 8/9 Sep 1789, age 55 years.

6. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, vol. 2, 1770-1803 (Baton Rouge: Diocese, 1999) p. 478

   Text: Marina [LEBLANC], age 55 years, buried on 9 Sep 1789 at Ascension Catholic Church, Donaldsonville, LA (ASC-4, 4, #7).

7. ↑ Albert J. Robichaux, Acadians in Exile in Saint Malo 1758-1785, Vol. 1 (Eunice, LA: Hebert Publications, 1981) pp. 33-34
8. ↑ Acadian Memorial Foundation, Ensemble Encore, "Life Lines," Entry for Marine LeBlanc citing: List of French Settlers Embarked aboard the Schooner Brigitte, Bound for Louisiana, Capt. Gravois, October 16, 1788, AGI, PPC, 14:653a; List of Passengers aboard the Schooner Brigitte, December 11, 1788, AGI, PPC, 14:652-652a; Ygnacio Balderas to Esteban de Miro, December 14, 1788, AGI, PPC, 14:656.

Acknowledgements

Van Landry

Karen Theriot Reader Rootsweb.com.

Jacqueline Girouard