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Marguerite Richard was born and baptized on 16 May 1712.[1] She was the daughter of Michel Richard et Agnès Bourgeois.[2] Her godparents were Joseph Bourgeois and Jeanne Babin,
wife of Laurent Doucet.
Marguerite was listed in the 1714 census with her parents and four siblings at Port Royal. (named Annapolis Royal in 1710)[3]
At 19 years of age, she married René Lanoue, son of Pierre Lanoue and Marie Granger, on 8 January 1732 in Annapolis Royal. [4][2] The witnesses were Pierre Lanoue and Joseph Richard.
After René's death, "Marguerite was deported to South Carolina in 1755 with some of her children: Jean-Baptiste, Basile, François. She and François died from the disease smallpox on Vanderhost's Plantation, Charleston in 1756 leaving Jean Baptiste and Basile who where raised in the Protestant faith and changed their name to Lanneau."[7][8] Although there is no mention of Grégoire or Pierre, most likely they were also part of this group as there is evidence that they were also deported to South Carolina.[citation needed]
She passed away around 1756 shortly after her arrival in Charleston.[2]
Research Notes
Marguerite's date of birth and baptism has been transcribed as 7 May in Nova Scotia Archives website. However Stephen White in Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes p. 1382 gives the date 16 May.
An unknown child is listed by genealogist Karen Theriot Reader citing Calling All Cajuns! - Acadian Memorial Foundation - Newsletter of the Foundation.
Note www.acadianmemorial.org/news.php?id=27. Could not verify this information since the link is broken. Marcel Walter Landry and the article by David C. Jones do not mention an unknown child.
Sources
↑Nova Scotia Archives, "An Acadian Parish Remembered - The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755," register RG 1 volume 26 page 110; online database with images, Marguerite Richard Baptism, 16 May 1712, accessed September 2020
↑ 2.02.12.2 White, Stephen A. Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (Moncton, N.-B.: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999) p. 1382 (Richard),
Death: citing S.R. Mowbray & C.S. Norwood, Basile Lanneau of Charleston, Goldsboro (N.C.), 1985, p. 2
↑ (NOTE: the transcription in Acadian Cajun website indicates 2 sons 1 daughter but the census at Heritage Canadiana gives the correct data: 2 sons and 3 daughters, as indicated in DGFA p. 1383) Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1714 Acadian Census at Port-Royal, Acadie 1714 Census Transcription. The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Image 240.
Lafont and wife, 2 sons, 3 daughters
↑ (NOTE: act inscribed after those of 1755.)
Nova Scotia Archives, "An Acadian Parish Remembered - The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755," register RG 1 volume 26a page 527; online database with images, Pierre Lanoue & Marguerite Richard Marriage, 8 January 1732, accessed September 2020
↑Généalogie Des Familles Acadiennes, Report concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II, Appendix A, Ottawa, S.E.Dawson, 1905, Genealogist Placide Gaudet, Canadiana, Library and Archives Canada René Lanoue & Marguerite Richard p. 18, image 601
Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 07 September 2020), memorial page for Marguerite Richard Lanoue (16 May 1712–1756), Find a Grave Memorial no. 168553904, citing Brick House Stanyarne Hall Plantation, Johns Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA ; Maintained by AW (contributor 47829810) .Find A Grave: Memorial #168553904
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Marguerite by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
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