JEAN PITRE is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 11 Right, La Ville D'Archangel arrivee le 3 Decembre 1785. Also on the plaque with him is Felicite Daigle, his wife; and six Pitre children: Charlotte Marie, Pierre, Jacques, Francoise, Felicite & Marguerite. [1]
In 1758 Jean-Baptiste, Félicité and their infant son Jean-Baptiste were deported to France aboard the Duke William. They disembarked at Saint-Malo on 1 November 1758. Their son died at sea during the crossing. [3]
The family immigrated to Louisiana in 1785. They disembarked from the ship La Ville d'Archangel on 3 December 1785 with six children. [5]
Sources
↑ Title: The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial; Author: Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; Personal copy in possession of Jacqueline Girouard; p. 43
↑ 2.02.12.2 Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Jean Baptiste Pitre citing Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes: 1715 à 1780, (Moncton, NB: Centre d'études acadiennes, draft version) DAIGRE #8 i
Jean-Baptiste PITRE, son of Claude & Marguerite DOIRON, married around 1756 to Félicité DAIGRE, daughter of Jean DAIGRE & Marie-Anne BREAU.
↑ "Etat des gens de mer, habitans et autres qui ont débarqué à St Malo du paquebot Anglois le Duc Guillaume," Fonds de l'inscription maritime de Saint-Servan (France): C-4619, MG6 C2, Library and Archives Canada, Roll of the Duke William, disembarked at Saint-Malo on November 1, 1758 image 136, accessed 26 Dec 2023
Family # 25
PITRE Jean Baptiste, 26, from Acadie. Hospitalized from 4/11 to 4/12/1758
DAIGUE Félicie (cousin of Grégoire), his wife, hospitalized from 4/11 to 4/12/1758
PITRE Jean Baptiste, son, died at sea
Discharged for Rochefort on 5 December 1758
↑ Albert J. Robichaux, The Acadian Exiles in St. Malo: 1758-1785, pt 1, vol. II, (Eunice, LA, Hebert Publications, 1981) p. 667, family #777
Jean-Baptiste PITRE, born about 1733 (no parents given), married about 1757 to Felicite DAIGLE (no parents given); sixteen children listed. He and wife disembarked at St. Malo on 1 Nov 1758 from the ship "Le Duc Guillaume;" one of their children died on the crossing. They resided at Pleudihen from 1759 to 1772. Jean and wife with six children came to Louisiana aboard "La Ville D'Archangel" in 1785.
↑ Donald J. Hébert, Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index, (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995) pp. 96-97
Jean PITRE, age 58, father of the 32nd family (of 8 persons) aboard the ship "La Ville d'Archangel," traveling with his wife and six children.
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