Jean Baptiste Thibaudault was born October 5, 1723, in Port Royal, Acadia, to parents Michel Thibodeau and Agnès Dugas, daughter of Charles and of Marie Landry. He was baptized at birth by François Michel and ceremonies took place 17 Oct 1723 at Port Royal. His godparents were François Forest and Marguerite Bourgois, daughter of Guillaume Bourgois.[1][2][3]
The family was deported to South Carolina in 1755.
He died sometime before 1763 and Marie-Josèphe was married to Jean-Baptiste Cormier, also a deportee in South Carolina, and widower of Marie-Josèphe Hugon. [3][6] On August 12 1763, Marie-Josèphe and her 2nd husband Jean-Baptiste Cormier appeared on a census in South Carolina with 4 children from both marriages:[7]
Jean Cormier
Marie Lanou his wife
Rose Cormier 16
Modeste Cormier 10
Marie Thibodeau 12
Jean Thibodeau 3
Marie-Josèphe and Jean-Baptiste emigrated to Môle-St-Nicolas, St-Domingue (present-day Haiti) in 1764. [6]
↑ 3.03.1 White, Stephen A. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes” 2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999, p 1518
↑ 4.04.1 Arsenault, Bona. ‘’Histoire et généalogie des acadiens, vol 2, Port-Royal’’, CHAU-TV, 1988.
↑ Marcel Walter Landry, Page for Jean-Baptiste Thibodeau, Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed Sep 2022 (login required)
↑ 6.06.1 Melanson, Michael B. Cormier Genealogy: Generations 1-7. (Dracut, Massachusetts: Lanesville Publishing, 2021) p. 109-111
↑ Roy, J.-Edmond. «12 Août 1763: Noms et nombre des familles habitans si devan de lacadie quy ont Este transportés a la Caroline du Sud Et quy desirent se Retirer soubs Les Etandars de Leurs Roy sca majesté tres chretienne. » in Rapport sur les archives de France relatives à l'histoire du Canada. Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, 1911, no. 6 Acadian Families Detained in South Carolina Wishing to go to a French Colony 12 August 1763 Images 637 to 640 (pages 633-636 of book), Image 639 . Canadiana, accessed November 2021
Jean Cormier
Marie Lanou his wife
Rose Cormier 16
Modeste Cormier 10
Marie Thibodeau 12
Jean Thibodeau 3
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