Olivier LeBlanc (1724 - bef. 1762)

Born 12 Apr 1724 in Grand Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Joseph Aucoin — married 23 Nov 1747 in Grand Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Descendants

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Biography

Olivier Leblanc was born 12 Apr 1724. He was the son of René LeBlanc and Jeanne Anne Landry. He was baptized the day he was born at Saint Charles des Mines, Grand-Pré, Acadia. His godparents were Jean Hebert and Marie Boudrot.^[1]

When he was 22, he married Marie Josèphe Aucoin, age 20, daughter of Martin Aucoin and Elisabet Boudrot 28 Nov 1747 at Saint Charles des Mines, Grand-Pré, Acadia.^[2]

Children:

1. Marie Madeleine LEBLANC b, before 1755
2. Unknown son LEBLANC, b. before 1755
3. Unknown daughter LEBLANC, b. before 1755
4. Unknown LEBLANC, b. before 1756

On 5 September 1755, Olivier 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 Claude Landry with 1 son and 2 daughters (spouses were not included on the list), and owned 4 bullocks, 2 cows, 5 young cattle, 12 sheep, 8 hogs, and 1 horse. His property and livestock became forfeit to the crown, and his family was required to prepare for deportation within 30 days. ^[3][4]

Olivier and Marie-Josèphe, as well as their daughter Marie Madeleine and two other unnamed children (1 boy and 1 girl), were deported on 27 October 1755 to Pennsylvania. They were recorded on a census in Pennsylvania in 1756. ^{[5] [4]}

Olivier died after the 1756 census, and before 1762 when Marie-Josèphe married Joseph Thibodeau. Their daughter Madeleine was married in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1765. The fate of the other children is not known. ^[4]

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 197): https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1869/197?r=0&s=4
2. ↑ 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 799): https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1869/799?r=0&s=4
3. ↑ Lucie Leblanc Consentino, Acadian & French-Canadian Ancestral Home, "Deportees of Grand-Pré - 1755," citing Collection of the Nova Scotia Historical Society 1870-1884 - Journal of John Winslow, volumes 1-4; "Grand-Pré, September the 15th 1755," line # 239,

   Olivier Leblanc, village Claude Landry, 1 son and 2 daughters (spouses were not included on the list), 4 bullocks, 2 cows, 5 young cattle, 12 sheep, 8 hogs, 1 horse.

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Paul Delaney. La liste de Winslow expliquée. (Moncton, N.-B.: Éditions Perce-Neige, 2020 - Kindle Edition), p. 295
5. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino. Pennsylvania 1756 Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home,"Liste (sic) of the Newtrall French remaining in Pennsylvania." (Original: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, vol XII, 2nd part, p. 107 and the following). Accessed Nov 2022

   Olivier LeBlanc & Wife and 4 children

• Marcel Walter Landry Page for Olivier LeBlanc at Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed Nov 2022 (login required)