A rare list of P.E.I. Acadians, misfiled in a French archive in Paris, was recently discovered by an unnamed American in the Boston area and submitted to Regis Brun, an archiver employed at the University of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. The list of 287 names of Acadians were living on Prince Edward Island in 1763. The list was submitted to Ancestry by SCseke who obtained the document from the "Acadian Archives of Prince Edward Island".
De L'isle de St. Jean dit Port Lajoye Liste des habitants acadiens demeurants sur Lisle de St. Jean et autres places De La ditte Isle
A ST. PIERRE HABITANTS
Ambroise Poirier, Marie Gaudet avec quatre enfants
La veuve Marie Poirier: 1 enfant
Joseph Bernard, Anathalie Arsenou avec quatre enfants
La veuve Joseph Savoy: 9 enfants
Francois Bourque: Joseph Arcenou: 1 enfant
Charles Doucet, Anne Arcenou: 6 enfants
Piere [sic] [Francois] Arcenou, Marguerite Bernard: 1 enfant
Paul Doucet, Marie Poirier
Piere Poirier, Marguerite Giroire: 3 enfants
Joseph Poirier, Jeanne Godet: 2 enfants
Vincent Arcenou, Margt Poirier: 5 enfants
Louis Arcenou, Marie Poirier: 1 enfant
Jean Pitre, Margte Arcenou: 2 enfants
DE LA BAY FORTUNE
Piere Mitchelle, Isabelle Bourck
Ambroise Bourk: veuf
Ambroise Bourck, Anne Brou avec huit enfants
Paul D'aigle, Marie Bourck: 7 enfants
Joseph Pitre, Anne Bourk: 4 enfants
DE MOULIN A VENT
Francois Ashay, Anne Boudrau: 12 enfants
Joseph Chiasson, Anne Ashay: 4 enfants
La veuve Charles Gallant [Genevieve Lavergne]: 2 enfants
Pierre Melanson, Lizete Ashay: 1 enfant
Louison Gallant, Anne Chiasson: 3 enfants
A TRACADIE
Jacques Chiasson, Marie Arcenou: 1 enfant
Paul Chiasson, Lizette Boudrau: 3 enfants
Charles Boudreau, Anne [sic Madeleine] Chiasson: 2 enfants
Jacques Chiasson, Judith Boudrau: 1 enfant
Pierre Mannou, Isabelle Chiasson
Pierre Boudrau, Magdelaine Bourck: 4 enfants
Francois Cormier, Anne Chiasson: 7 enfants
Louis Beliveau, Lizette Ashay: 7 enfants
Michelle Doucet, Katish Boudrot: 1 enfant
A ROSICOU
Francois Blanchard, veuve: cinq enfants
Alexis Provencal, Francoise Doucet: 2 enfants
Joseph Coumeau, Anne Doucet: 6 enfants
ISLE DE LA MAGDALAINE
Joseph Arcenau, Margueritte Boudreau: 7 enfants
Francois Boudreau, John [Jeanne] Landrie: 1 enfant
Charles Doucet, Jeane Boudreau: 6 enfants
Joseph Boudrau, Louise Arcenou: 7 enfants
Paul Arcenou, Anne Bernard: 2 enfants
MAGDELAINE ISLES
Alexandre Arcenou
John Arcenou, Magdeln Boudreaux: cinq enfants
Jacques Arcenou, Marie Poirier
Marie Joseph Richard: 5 enfants
Claude Arcenou, Marie Coumeau: 2 enfants
Charles Arcenou, Anne Arcenou: 1 enfant
Piere Poirier, Anne Arcenau: 3 enfants
Jacques Ashay, Josephe Boudrau: 7 enfants
Joseph Mimik [Hache], Anne Ashay: 1 enfant
Jean Chiasson, Isabelle Boudrau: 1 enfant
Chls Poirier, Magln Landry: 4 enfants
La veuve Richard: cinq enfants
DU PORT LAJOYE
Charles Devau, Marie Godet: 6 enfants
Nore Coomeau, Marguerite Poirier: 4 enfants
Marie Henry: 6 enfants
Archives nationales de France - 662-AP16-Fonds d'Estaing
Regis Brun believes this list represents Acadians who were imprisoned at Fort Amherst in 1763. The Fort Amherst list for 1763 has been lost for some reason.
"In that same year, we had the list of Acadian prisoners at Fort Beausejour, at Saint John, New Brunswick, at Halifax...They were known, they've been published, but there's one at Fort Amherst, it had disappeared in thin air...It's a missing link in the paper trail of people the British wanted to keep an eye on, and of who needed to be fed, said Brun."
Stephen White , a genealogist at the centre, has a different take on the meaning of this find. He thinks the list could be a petition to the French king.
At the end of the so-called Seven Years War, the French were inviting Acadians who had been deported to settle in French colonies, mainly in the Caribbean, Santo Domingo and Haiti, said White.
"These people were aware of that, but they hadn't been invited, but they believed they were qualified. And the cover letter says 'We're the same as these others and you invited them so we want to be invited to move to French territory as well because we've always been French loyal subjects in French territory' because they lived in Isle St. Jean," he said.
"The document lists the different places where they live - St. Pierre, St. Peters today; Baie Fortune, which is Rouleau Bay, or that area, and Le Moulin a Vent, which is Savage Harbour; Tracadie, which is still Tracadie and Rustico, which is spelled a little different today. And there's a whole bunch of people, 17 households from the Magdalen Islands."
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