JEAN PITRE is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 11 Right, La Ville D'Archangel arrivée 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, and Marguerite.[1]
Jacques Francois Pitre, son of exiled Acadians Jean Baptiste Pitre and Felicite Daigre, was born November 3, 1767 at Mordreuc (sometimes spelled Mordreuc), Bretagne (today Côtes-d'Armor), France, and baptized the same day at nearby Pleudihen (today Pleudihen-sur-Rance, Côtes-d'Armor). His godparents were Jacques Blondeau, St. de la Lauray and Francoise-Jeanne Bouret, wife of Le Gentil.[2]
He immigrated with his parents and siblings on 3 December 1785 to Spanish Louisiana through the port of New Orleans.[3][4]
Jacques Pitre and Anne Tarsille Thibodeau were married 26 January 1788 in Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, recorded at St. Francis Catholic Church, Pointe Coupee, Louisiana.[5]
↑The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, Wall of Names Committee and Jane G. Bulliard, eds. (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 43.
↑ Albert J. Robichaux, The Acadian Exiles in Saint-Malo, 1758-1785, pt 1, vol. II (Eunice, LA: Hebert Publications, 1981) p. 668, family #777
↑ Donald J. Hébert, Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index, (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995) pp. 96-97.
Text: Jacques PITRE, age 18, son of Jean & his wife Félicité DAIGLE, traveling with them and five other children as the 32nd family (of 8 persons) aboard La Ville d'Archangel.
↑Diocese of Baton Rouge, Catholic Church Records, 1770-1803, vol. 2 (Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese, 1980) pp. 593 & 687;
Jacque PITRE, an Acadian, resident of Bayou des Ecors (parents not given), married on 26 Jan 1788 to Anne TERZIL [sic] (parents not given). Witnesses: Pierre TIBODEAU; Jacque Jean AUCOIN. (PCP-19, 15).
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Karen Theriot Reader, RootsWeb.com, for providing Donald J. Hébert's Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index source.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jacques by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
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Birth: dd mm 1730 - New Brunswick, Canada
Death: date - city, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Marriage: date - Nova Scotia, Canada
Spouse: name surname
F: JEAN Marc Pitre
The other Ancestry link on here is for Marguerite Arseneau. KTR has her married July 2, 1760 to Jean Baptiste Pitre which lines up with the facts you have above for Jean Baptiste Pitre born about 1730. This would make him the son of https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pitre-57, not a duplicate of him (the father) but a duplicate of https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pitre-223.
Which do you prefer, I can edit to match either. As a long term unconnected profile, he's going nowhere by himself :) Not a single substantive edit to add family since 2016.
Cindy
If he arrived in New Orleans in 1785, he likely came aboard one of the 7 Spanish ships from France. There is a Jacques Pitre in the Wall of Names Booklet. He is listed as a son of Jean Pitre and Felicite Daigle. This would make him a duplicate of https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pitre-206 but birth location is different. They were on La Ville D'Archangel which arrived in New Orleans on 3 Decembre 1785
Jackie, back to this profile, it looks like the original data was not a real person as the mother died before he was born (generally thought to be impossible).
The two Ancestry trees give two possibilities, and there is another profile with different dates that matches his name and locations. I put all three on the profile in the Research Notes. Any leaning towards one of those as the right match?
Original Pitre-2642 was conflation of several people. Chose one to merge.
JEAN Baptiste Pitre
Birth: dd mm 1730 - New Brunswick, Canada Death: date - city, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada Marriage: date - Nova Scotia, Canada Spouse: name surname F: JEAN Marc Pitre
M: JUDITH Therriot
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pitre-57
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pitre-206
Which do you prefer, I can edit to match either. As a long term unconnected profile, he's going nowhere by himself :) Not a single substantive edit to add family since 2016. Cindy
The two Ancestry trees give two possibilities, and there is another profile with different dates that matches his name and locations. I put all three on the profile in the Research Notes. Any leaning towards one of those as the right match?
Cindy