Guillaume Montet, son of Francois Montet and Marie Martin, was born 23 January 1737 in Cajolay, Perigord, Bordeaux, France. He immigrated to Acadie, where he lived until the British took the territory and eventually exiled the French living there. He was exiled to Virginia, where the ship was not accepted, and then on to Liverpool, England, where in 1763 he married Marie Josephe Vincent from Pisiquit, Acadia.[1]
Mariage 19 avr 1763 St Mary, Liverpool, Lancastre, Angleterre
At the end of the war they were repatriated first to Morlaix, France, then to Belle-Isle-en-Mer, Bretagne, France where they lived in the village of Kervarigeon, parish of Bangor.[2]
To be granted land and a year's provisions at Belle-Ile-en-Mer, the Acadians were required to prove their French lineage by giving an oral genealogy of their families. These were witnessed, recorded, and notarized by the parish priest of their village. His statement follows.
FAMILY OF GUILLAUME MONTET LIVING AT THE VILLAGE OF KERVARIGEON, PARISH OF BANGOR
On february 21, 1767 appeared Guillaume Montet, farmer of the village of Kervarigeon, parish of Bangor, who in the presence of Charles Granger, Joseph Billeray, Jean Theriot and Simon Pierre Trahant, all Acadians living on this island, declared that he was born in the parish of Cajolay in Perigord January 23, 1737 of Francois Montet and Marie Martin married at Liverpool by Messire Brayelle, priest, April 19, 1763 to Marie Josephe Vincent born at Riviere aux Canards, parish of Saint Joseph, April 22, 1746 of Joseph Vincent son of Michel Vincent and Anne Marie Douaron of the same parish, the said Joseph Vincent died at Liverpool in the month of September 1756 and of Marguerite Baudart daugther of Pierre Baudart who came from France and died in Maryland.
Of the marriage of Joseph Vincent and Marguerite Baudart [Bodart] was born in the parish of Saint Joseph on October 15, 1748, Pierre Vincent.
Of the marriage of Guillaume Montet with Marie Josephe Vincent were born the following:
Pierre Montet at Morlaix, parish of Saint Martin, Diocese of Saint Paul de Leon, January 23, 1764.
Marie Francoise Montet born at Palais, Belle-Isle-en-Mer,parish of Saint Gerand, November 12, 1765.
Such is the declaration of Guillaume Montet which was read to him and he declared that the contents was right and that he could not sign the statement. [Note: meaning he did not know how to sign his name]
Completed and drawn up under the signatures of the named witnesses present, of M. rector of Bangor, of M. Le Loutre, priest and witnesses present, of us clerk to the action, the said day, month and year as mentioned.[3]
They remained in Kervarigeon where his wife died in 1779,[4]
and he died on 18 Nov 1781.[5]
Sources
↑ Milton P. and Norma Gaudet Rieder, Acadians in France, vol. II: Belle Isle en Mer Register & La Rochette Papers (Metairie, LA: Authors, 1972) p. 121. Source courtesy Karen Theriot Reader, RootsWeb.com, Inc.
On the [English] roll of the 53 Acadian families detained at Liverpool, and embarked on board the royal sailing barge L'Esturgeon, commanded by Sieur Louis BELON, dated 7 Jun 1763:
52.
Guillaume MONTET;
Marie [VINCENT] MONTET.
↑ Donald J. Hébert, Acadians in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index (Baton Rouge, LA: Claitor’s Publishing Division, 2015) p. 330.
Guillaume Montet, age 28 years, born 23 Jan 1727 at Perigord, married to Marie VINCET [sic], 20 years; two children. This family was held at Liverpool, England, entered France at Morlaix. Six other children were born at Belle-Ile. They were family #59 at Kervarigeon, Bangor parish, Belle-Ile. Part of them left for Louisiana in 1785 on the Caroline.
South Louisiana Records Vol 1-B by Rev. Donald J. Hebert
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