From:"Lucie Consentino" < //
Subject: [AFC] From Stephen A. White re: Marguerite Lavigne married toJosephPoirier
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:55:42 -0400
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Joseph Poirier dit Lantime was a son of Joseph Poirier and Jeanne Gaudet.
He is listed with them at Port-Toulouse in LaRoque's census in 1752. The
census indicates that they had been there for two years, or since 1749 or
1750. It also says that Joseph the son was then fifteen, which is our basis
for saying that he was born about 1737.

The index to the missing registers of Port-Toulouse has an entry for a
marriage of a Joseph Poirier. From its volume and page reference I can tell
that the marriage took place about 1757. Given how few Joseph Poiriers
there were at Port-Toulouse who were of an age to marry around that time,
one may conclude that this reference is to the marriage of Lantime to
Marguerite Lavigne. By 1760 the family was at Restigouche, in 1761 at
Nipisiguit (now Bathurst), and in 1763 at Halifax. Placide Gaudet's wife
was a great-granddaughter of Lantime's only surviving son, Prospère (two
other boys having died as infants), and after his marriage Placide collected
quite a lot of information from his bride's relatives. According to his
notes, Lantime's wife had asked him to go live under the British at Halifax,
but we may well imagine that it was the circumstances, whereunder the
Poiriers were facing potential starvation, just as were all the other
Acadians who had outlived the French presence in the remote parts of Acadia,
rather than a simple request, that required the family's surrender.

Placide Gaudet tells us that from Halifax the Poiriers went to "Cumberland,"
meaning that they went back to Lantime's native area, because he had been
born at Beaubassin. For some time the family made their hay at Tintamarre
and on the hillside near the fort. According to Placide's notes, Joseph
Poirier died either at Cumberland or at Jolicoeur, although the published
history of the parish of Cocagne indicates that in 1772 he had taken out a
grant of 360 acres there, and it thus seems more likely that he would have
died in the latter place. Placide does admit elsewhere that Prospère
Poirier had lived for a couple of years at Bélair, which was a part of the
early Cocagne settlement. In any event, Lantine's death would have taken
place about 1779 (and not in 1799). A couple of years after that, Prospère
Poirier brought his mother, Marguerite Lavigne, and his sisters (Marguerite, Barbe, Scolastique, Marie and Louise) with him to
live at Malpèque, on Île St-Jean.

Regarding Marguerite Lavigne, she was born and baptized at Port-Toulouse
about 1737. She, like her future husband, is listed as having been fifteen
years old at the time of LaRoque's census in 1752. Placide Gaudet says that
she died at the home of her son-in-law Jean-Charles Doiron at Rustico, at
the age of 101 years. She was probably some years younger than that, but we
do know that she died after 1828, so she was at least in her nineties when
she passed away.

Marguerite Lavigne's father, Nicolas Lavigne, was sixty-eight years old at
the time of LaRoque's census. That age is the basis for the calculation
that places his birth about 1684. The census also says that he was born at
St-Denis, but it does not specify which St-Denis in France that was. There
is an entry in the index to the Port-Toulouse records that shows that a
certain Nicolas Lavigne was buried there. I place this burial about 1756.
As Nicolas's son and namesake died during the expulsion in 1758, this 1756
burial must be that of the father. I do not know where anyone would have
gotten 1770 for the date of his death, and he certainly could not have died
at Port-Toulouse at such a time, as Port-Toulouse ceased to exist in 1758.

Clémenceau family in the DGFA-1 (p. 362): Nicolas Lavigne's wife was born
on Feb. 15, 1710, and not on Feb. 21, 1708. Jean Clémenceau and Anne Roy
did have a daughter who was born on the earlier date, but she was the girl
who married Charles Héon at Port-Toulouse about 1725. I do not know where
the date of Nov. 21, 1758, could have been obtained for Marie-Anne
Clémenceau's death. As I show on the page of the DGFA-1 just mentioned, she
died at sea during the crossing from Île Royale to France. This occurred in
the fall of 1758, but we do not know the exact date of Marie-Anne's death.

Lucie LeBlanc Consentino
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