Marie Jeanne (Theriot) Thériot (1725 - 1798)

Born 9 Jan 1725 in Grand Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of Jean Baptiste Aucoin — married about 1746 in Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died Sep 1798 at age 73 in Assumption, Spanish Louisiana

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Biography

JEAN AUCOING is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 7 Left, La Bergere arrivée le 15 Aout 1785. Listed with him is Jeanne Terriot, his wife, and their daughter Anne Felicite Aucoin.^[1]

Jeanne Theriot was born 9 January 1725, a daughter of Jean Theriot and Marie Daigle. She was baptized 11 March 1725 at Saint Charles des Mines, Grand-Pré, Acadia. Her godparents were Charles Teriot and Anne Marie Dupuis.^[2]

She married around 1746, nine years before the "Great Upheaval" of Acadians by the British in the Seven Years War. Her husband was [[Aucoin-522|Jean Baptiste Aucoin, son of Rene Aucoin and Madeleine Bourg, born about 1714 in Acadie.^[3]

Their known children:

1. Elisabeth Aucoin b: Abt 1748 in Grand Pré, Acadia
2. Michel AUCOIN b: Abt 1750
3. Joseph AUCOIN b: Abt 1752
4. Marie Anastasie Aucoin b: 8 Nov 1754 -1756
5. Charles Aucoin b: 24 Sep 1756
6. Marie Francoise AUCOIN b: 22 Mar 1761 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France
7. Marie Anastasie Aucoin (1759-1832)
8. Jean Charles Aucoin b: 8 Nov 1762
9. Anne Felicite Aucoin b: 15 May 1765
10. Marguerite AUCOIN b: Abt 1767

They apparently were caught up in the second wave of deportations, from Ile-Saint-Jean to France in 1758.^[4]

Jean Aucoin, 44 years

Jeanne Thériot, his wife, 35 years

Michel Aucoin, their son, 8 years

Elizabeth Aucoin, their daughter, 10 years

Marguerite Aucoin, their daughter, 6

Anne Aucoin, orphan, 5 years

They were counted on the census of 15 September 1772 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France.^[5] They were in Nantes, France in 1784.^[6]

They immigrated, arriving 15 August 1785 at the port of New Orleans, Louisiana. ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by Jane G. Bulliard and the Wall of Names Committee (Scott, LA: Hulco, 2002) p. 29
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 210-211): https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1869/210?r=0&s=4
3. ↑ BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CENSUS-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; (Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999) p. 49;

   #(26): Jean(-Baptiste) AUCOIN, son of René & Madeleine BOURG, born around 1714, married around 1746 to Jeanne (Anne) THÉRIOT, daughter of Jean & Marie DAIGRE. He was on the 1766 census at St-Servan, age 52 years; at St-Malo in 1772, age 58 years. On the list of passengers for LA in 1785, age 73 years. He died before the census of 1 Jan 1788[sic].

4. ↑ December 26, 1758 on the list of arrivals at Boulogne: Bruno Haffreingue, "The 179 Acadians of Boulogne" Copyright © Bruno Haffreingue 2000. All rights reserved.
5. ↑ Milton P. Rieder, Jr & Norma Gaudet Rieder, Acadians in France, Vol. I, 1762-1776, (Metairie, LA: Authors, 1967) p. 35

   Text: On "Role [sic] of the Truly Acadian Families:"

   Jean AUCOIN, 58, laborer, of St. Malo;

   Jeanne TERRIOT, 47, his wife;

   Michel, 22, their son;

   Joseph, 17, their son;

   Elizabeth, 24, their daughter;

   Marie Anastasie, 20, their daughter;

   Anne Felicite, 13, their daughter;

   Margueritte, 7, their daughter.

6. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians: Census Records of the Colony, 1758-1796, (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973) p. 503

   Text: On the list of the Acadian families "who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of His [Spanish] Catholic Majesty, dated Sep 1784 (cited as A.D.S. Legajo 2575).

   On list from NANTES:

   Jean AUCOIN, with his wife Jeanne THÉRIOT, 1 son, 2 daughters, for a total of 5 in family.

7. ↑ Donald J. Hébert, Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index, (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995) Source provided by Karen Theriot Reader, RootsWeb.com; pp. 14-15

   Text: Jean AUCOIN, plowman age 73, traveling with his wife Jeanne THERIOT, age 62, and their daughter as the 17th family (of 3 persons) aboard the ship "La Bergere," which embarked for Louisiana on 14 May 1785, and debarked on 15 Aug 1785.

• Albert Robichaux, Jr., THE ACADIAN EXILES IN SAINT-MALO; 1758-1785, Part I, Vol. I (Eunice, LA: Hebert Publications, 1981) pp. 12-13, family #21; contains Family Genealogies A-G. Jean AUCOIN, head of family #21,

Text: born about 1714 [no parents listed]. Married about 1744 to Jeanne TERRIOT [no parents given]; seven children listed. Jean, his wife and seven children arrived at St. Malo from Boulogne on 28 May 1766 aboard the Brigantine "Le Hazard." They resided in the parish of St. Servan between 1766-1772.

• BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-IMMIGRATION: Janet Jehn, ACADIAN DESCENDANTS, vol. II; 1575-1833, (Covington, KY: author, 1975) p. 419; contains the descendants of Jean GAUDET and his two wives.

Jean AUCOIN, born 1712, was on "La Bergere" arriving at New Orleans in 1785 with wife Jeanne TERRIOT and daughter Anne-Félicité, age 19. Listed next was Marie-Anastasie AUCOIN, age 26, "wife of absent Joseph TERRIOT." There is a possibility she was the daughter of Jean and Jeanne.