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Comment by James P. LaLone on June 12, 2012 at 8:29pm

Cecelia, interesting question. To keep it simple I would call them French-Canadian since the first came there, just did not remain. With Louisiana you have French-Canadian settlers, Acadian settlers and French settlers. Since they would all have different historical backgrounds even though originally from France, they eventually become Louisiana French.

Comment by Cecelia Redmond on June 12, 2012 at 5:25pm

This information was taken from an article in the Deep South Genealogical Quarterly, February 1968, entitled "Spain and Mobile" by E. Herndon Smith, Mobile Public Library:
"Under Spanish rule much property changed hands. A few of the old French grants remained. Mon Louis Island remained in the possession of the heirs of Nicholas Baudin. He was neither interpreter, pilot or surveyor, but was awarded this estate for other reasons. He had married Francoise Pollet and Iberville had married Marie Pollet. Nicholas Baudin (Beaudoin) and his brother, Michael, the Jesuit who was excommunicated, were the sons of Gervais Beaudoin, a French physician who had settled Quebec.
"The colonists who came from Canada differed in some respects from those gathered from the towns and villages of France by the John Law Company. They loved the woods and the water and built their homes on the bayous or near the bay. Those from France preferred the sights and sounds of the streets of Mobile and New Orleans. They became shrewd in business transactions, more sophisticated in manners. The courier des bois roamed the wild lands, and far from civilization, mingled and mixed with the Indians."

Miles Womack has information (from Joan and Anabell Newman) stating that Gervais Beaudoin was a physician from France who settled in Quebec, Canada, then in Mobile, Ala. He was the father of Nicholas and Michael Beaudoin.

Comment by Cecelia Redmond on June 12, 2012 at 5:16pm

Basic guide to F-C, Acadian, etc books:http://www.genealogical.com/newsletters/genealogy_pointers_6-12-12.pdf

Well the genealogy of when Mobile was capital of French Louisiana is where the French along the Gulf Coast were here in my family. Some came directly from France and some from Canada, but as the posted document states at a time prior to 1803 the French territory went from the Gulf Coast to Canada. 

Gervais BaudinBodin (1620 - 1678)

is myr 7th great grandfather

Gervais BaudinBodin my 7th great grandfather

Birth 1620 in Tours, Puy-de-Dome, Auvergne, France

Death 1678 in Quebec, New France, Canada

 

Since his birth was in France and death in New France how do you suppose this lineage if considered? Was/is it French or French Canadian

His son: 

Sieur Miragouin Nicolas Baudin Bodin

My 6th great grandfather Birth 30 Nov 1675 in Buffières, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France France Mont Louis, France   Death 3 Feb 1746 in Mobile, West Florida, French Territory, French Louisiana 

 

So does this constitute a French or French Canadian descent?

Comment by James P. LaLone on June 12, 2012 at 9:09am

Basic guide to F-C, Acadian, etc books: http://www.genealogical.com/newsletters/genealogy_pointers_6-12-12.pdf

Comment by James P. LaLone on June 9, 2012 at 4:56am

Was your ancestor French? There were a number of Indian captives from New England who settled in Canada, see the following for more info;

One of the most popular books on the subject is New England captives carried to Canada: between 1677 and 1760 during the French and Indian Wars, 2 vols., by Emma Lewis Coleman.

Captors And Captives: The 1704 French And Indian Raid on Deerfield, by Evan Haefeli, Kevin Sweeney.

Captive Histories: English, French, And Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid, by Evan Haefeli

 

The Unredeemed Captive: a Family Story from Early America, by John Demos.

An Unredeemed Captive: Being the Story of Eunice Williams, Who at the Age of Seven Years, Was Carried Away from Deerfield by the Indians in the Year 1704, by Clifton Johnson.

Another book which is free from Google books - True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the Old French and Indian Wars, by Charlotte Alice Baker

http://books.google.com/books?id=BTUNAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcov...

Some online sites:

"Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704" a historical museum website. http://www.1704.deerfield.history.museum/people/short_bios.jsp

http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/gen/deerfild.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Deerfield

http://www.americancenturies.mass.edu/classroom/curriculum_6th/less...

http://burnpit.us/2012/02/english-settlement-deerfield-ma-attacked-...

Comment by Didymos Ornitheutes on May 10, 2012 at 4:10pm

Toussaint Baubaud dit Fleury and Marie Charbonneau were married on 1826-04-18 at Saint--Césaire, PQ.  I found this info at BMS2000

Comment by James P. LaLone on May 10, 2012 at 10:18am

I would like to remind everyone to post your messages on this page as the search engine will bring up the names you are researching so everyone, whether a member of this group or not, can see who you are researching:

A message from Florence Grisham to all members of French-Canadian Descendants on Genealogy Wise!
Looking for parents and children of Toussaint Bobeau dit Fleury and Marie Charbonneau married about 1826.  Some\all of their descendants lived in Shefford County, Quebec.  I've checked Drouin Records on Ancestry but I'm not sure where else to look.

Florence, I use the marriage record as a starting point. I would look at the Loiselle Marriage Index or the Rivest Marriage index (alphabetical by brides) to locate the marriage (you can order these films in through your local Family History Center). Then you can order in the parish film or look at it on Ancestry or on Family Search (usually better quality). You should be able to find baptisms, marriages and burials. Again, check the marriage indexes for the children to see what if any movement patterns emerge. Look at the census records also.

FLEURY can also be spelled FLEURI

Comment by James P. LaLone on May 9, 2012 at 9:59am

Discovery of North America -
http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/09/research-uncovers-new-detail...

Comment by Rosemary on May 1, 2012 at 9:28pm

Glad to be here! is anyone familiar with the Furtaw surname?

Comment by Terri Mercier on April 20, 2012 at 2:24pm

Yes I have actually checked the Drouin records, page by page, for those three towns in the years mentioned.  I am now trying to find another town or village where Nazaire and Victorine may have lived.  Quebec recording methods are so detailed and I am certain to find her death or a birth of their child somewhere.  Thanks again.

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