“ 10ème Famille. -- GUIDRY ou GUAIDERY. --
Nous sommes ici en présence d’une de ces familles, problématiques et vagabondes, dont on rencontre le nom très souvent dans les documents, et qui ne figurent même pas dans les recensements. On connaît leur existence, on pressent, par les détails de leur vie, que leur établissement doit être ancien en Acadie, mais on ne saurait en préciser l’époque, ni établir l’enchaînement méthodique des faits qui nous sont connus.

Les registres de Belle-Isle ne fournissent point leur généalogie, mais cette famille y est mentionnée deux fois. Dans la 12ème déclaration de la paroisse de Sauzon, on lit: “que Marie Leblanc, née en 1735 à Pigiguit, se maria à l’île St-Jean, à Anselme Guedry fils de Pierre Guédry et de Marguerite Brosseau, demeurant actuellement (1767) aux îles St-Pierre et Miquelon.”

Puis à la 13ème déclaration de Sauzon, il est fait mention d’une Marie Guédry qui était veuve d’un Benjamin Mius.

Dans les recensements que nous avons de L’Acadie, il n’est fait aucune mention des Guidry, sauf dans celui de 1698, et dans quelques petits recensements des côtes de l’Est.

Voici ce que dit le recensement de 1698: Paroisse de Port-Royal, Claude Guaidry, âgé de 50 ans, marié à Marguerite Petitpas, âgée de 40 ans, 10 enfants: Abraham 20 ans; -- Claude 16; -- Jean-Baptiste 14; -- Charles 12; -- Alexis 10; -- Augustin 8; -- Marie-Joseph 6; -- Claude 4; -- Joseph 3; -- Pierre 6 mois. Abraham l’aîné a donc dû naître en 1678; Claude Guaidry, son père marié vers 1676 à Port-Royal, où il était né en 1648.

Le recensement qui pécède celui-ci était de 1692, on n’y trouve aucune mention des Guaidry; et dans les recensements de 1699 et de 1701, il n’est déjà plus question d’eux. Claude Guaidry n’a donc été à Port-Royal qu’un oiseau de passage; il s’y montre cependant avec les apparences d’un homme civilisé, et d’un agriculteur, 10 vaches, des brebis, etc., etc.; mais il y a fagots et fagots, il y a aussi cultures et cultures, et s’il ramena ses vaches dans les roches de la Hève, il est probable qu’il n’en fit pas des vaches grasses.

En 1701 il résidait dans ce dernier pays de la Hève, car nous avons trouvé dans les registres de Port-Royal, que Claude Guidery et Marguerite Petitpas eurent en 1701 un nouvel enfant qui fut baptisé à Mirliguesh, sous le nom de Paul Guidery, son parrain était un Baptiste Guidery; cet enfant était le onzième garçon de la famille, et c’est celui de tous dont nous pouvons suivre le plus longtemps la trace, comme nous le verrons tout à l’heure.

Dans ces actes figurent de temps en temps des Guidery aux baptêmes et aux mariages, il en est de même dans les documents de la Nouvelle-Ecosse, sous l’administration anglaise; la famille Guidery avec plusieurs autres familles métisses, prirent alors des terres de la main du colonel Mascarene, sur la côte de l’Est. Dans les temps de la proscription, ces families métisses firent leur soumission, et prêtèrent serment aux Anglais.

Vers 1735 nous voyans entrer en scène ce Paul Guidery, le dernier enfant de Claude Guidery, dont nous avons ci-dessus relaté la naissance; c’était un garçon leste, adroit, paraît-il, et surtout fort gai, il est constamment désigné ainsi: Paul Guidery dit Grivois, ou quelquefois le Jovial; il épousa, un peu après 1730, Anne Mius d’Entremont, fille naturelle d’un Mius d’Entremont, et d’une squaw métisse de la côte de l’Est. Une fois marié il continua l’existence de son père, vivants de pêche et de cabotage; il pratiquait la pèche depuis la baie Ste-Marie jusqu’au Cap Nord de l’île du Cap-Breton.

En 1745 on le trouve toujours à Mirligouesh, où il passe pour un excellent pilote côtier (dépêche de M. de Beauharnois du 12 septembre 1745). Le 21 octobre 1747, il est mis hors la loi par Shirley avec 12 autres acadiens. A partir de ce moment, il cesse en quelque façon d’avoir une demeure fixe; les excursions de pêche et de cabotage deviennent son était normal autour de Louisbourg.

Au milieu des dépenses énormes qu’entraîne la création de cette place, il ramasse les miettes de ces prodigalités, et il vit sur as barque avec sa famille. Il fréquentait fort souvent la baie Espagnole d’où il rapportait de la houille et divers matériaux. Ce fut en ce lieu qu’il fit la rencontre d’un officier français nommé Bogard de Lanoue, lequel devint si fortement épris de l’une de ses filles, que, malgré la défense expresse de M. d’Aillebout, commandant du Cap-Breton, il parvint à l’épouser le 17 février 1755. Ce mariage fut attaqué en nullité, au nom du roi, parce qu’il était défendu aux officiers d’épouser des filles de sang mêlé; il en résulta un débat assez scadaleux, que nous avon résumé dans les notes de la colonie féodale, 4ème série No. V.

Après la prise de Louisbourg, Guidry fit sa soumission, comme presque tous les Métis des côtes de l’Est; il rentra dans ses cantonnements et on n’entendit plus parler de lui. Il est probable qu’il existe un bon nombre de descendants de cette famille, parmi les trois ou quatre mille personnes, réputées d’origine française, et qui sont dispersées sur la côte entre Halifax et la cap Sable. Parlent-ils encore français? ont-ils même conservé leurs nome sans trop les défigurer? je l’ignore; mais il est certain qu’ils ont conservé une tradition solide de leur origine française, dont ils réclament l’enregistrement à tous les recensements.

Tous les Guidry néanmoins ne sont pas restés fixés sur cette côte. Un des frères de Guidery le Grivois se rendit, au temps de la proscription, dans l’île St-Jean. Il se nommait Pierre et était né en 1698; un de ses fils nommé Anselme épousa alors dans cette île une fille dite Marie Leblanc, originaire de Pigiguitk. Lorsque l’île fut à son tour occupée par les Anglais, Pierre Guidry et sa femme, Marguerite Brosseau, se réfugièrent à St-Pierre et Miquelon, où ils étaient en 1767, et où leurs descendants existent peut-être encore aujourd’hui.

A quelle époque les Guidry sont-ils venus s’établir en Amérique? Nous n’avons sur ce point aucune donnée bien précise. D’après le recensement de 1698, Claude Guidry était né en 1648; c’est un homme qui avait toujours vécu en dehors du groupe agricole de Port-Royal; bien qu’il eût 23 ans en 1671, bien qu’il fût marié en 1676, et qu’il ait eu une nombreuse famille longtemps avant 1698, il ne figure dans aucun recensement antérieur, ni en 1671, ni en 1686, ni en 1693; on le rencontre fontuitement à Port-Royal en 1698, et depuis lors le nom de Guidry ne se retrouve plus sur aucune liste. Cette famille a donc toujours demeuré avec les sauvages et les Métis; Guidry est un homme de la Hève, il est né là, il y a vécu et il s’y plait; son père devait être une de ces rudes pratiques des côtes de l’Est, qui refusèrent de suivre D’Aulnay à Port-Royal; peut-être était-il venu avec Razilly, peut-être remontait-il au-delà, jusqu’aux compagnons de Latour et de Krainguille. Il est très possible qu’il ait épousé une squaw, comme Latour et plusieurs autres. Rien n’est certain, mais tout cela est possible!

Quoi qu’il en soit, la famille Guidry nous offre les mêmes caractères et les mêmes péripéties que les Martin, les Petitpas, les Lejeune, etc., etc., et on a tout droit de présumer qu’elle est très ancienne dans la contrée. Ces études nous donnent une idée approximative de cette société d’aventuriers que Razilly retrouva à la Hève, et une idée assez nette et assez claire du mélange qui se forma par l’adjonction des familles que ce dernier amena avec lui. Mélange assez mal défini, où prévalurent promptement des allures grossières et vagabondes, dont les traces survécurent longtemps dans certaines familles.

Cet état de choses n’avait cependant pas duré plus de 5 à 6 ans, et cependant D’Aulnay eut beucoup de peine à réagir contre cette influence, lorsqu’il voulut concentrer la populations française à Port-Royal; il fallut exercer une sorte de pression pour déterminer certaines familles à suivre le mouvement, quelque-unes même ne cédèrent point comme nous le voyons; elles restèrent parmi les sauvages et les Métis, ou y retournèrent plus tard. Or il suffit de suivre leur histoire et leur destinée, pour bien apprécier avec quelle sagesse et quelle juste prévoyance D’Aulnay s’établit loin des entrainements de la sauvagerie, à Port-Royal. Dans ce centre exclusivement agricole et français, il lui fut plus facile de préparer l’avenir de la société qu’il allait créer, car c’est dans la pratique d’un travail bien réglé, et d’une patiente économie que se formèrent peu à peu les fortes moeurs du peuple acadien. “

Translation:
“ 10th Family. -- GUIDRY or GUAIDERY. --
We are here in the presence of one of those families, questionables and vagabonds, of whom we encounter the name very often within the records, and which does not even appear in the censuses. We are aware of their existence, we ascertain, from the details of their life, that their establishment in Acadia must be old, but we cannot state precisely the time nor establish the systematic linking of facts that are known to us.

The registers of Belle-Isle do not provide their genealogy, but that family is mentioned there twice. In the 12th declaration from the parish of Sauzon, one reads: “that Marie Leblanc, born in 1735 at Pigiguit, married at Isle St-Jean, to Anselme Guedry, son of Pierre Guédry and of Marguerite Brosseau, now (1767) living at Isles St-Pierre and Miquelon.”

Then in the 13th declaration of Sauzon, there is mentioned a Marie Guédry who was the widow of a Benjamin Mius.

In the censuses that we have of Acadia, there is not made any mention of Guidry except in that of 1698, and in a few small censuses of the East Coast.

Here is what the census of 1698 says: Parish of Port-Royal, Claude Guaidry, 50 years old, married to Marguerite Petitpas, 40 years old, 10 children: Abraham 20 years; -- Claude 16; -- Jean-Baptiste 14; -- Charles 12; -- Alexis 10; -- Augustin 8; -- Marie-Joseph 6; -- Claude 4; -- Joseph 3; -- Pierre 6 months. Abraham, the eldest, must, therefore, have been born in 1678; Claude Guaidry, his father, was married about 1676 at Port-Royal, where he was born in 1648.

The census which preceds this one was of 1692, one does not find there any mention of the Guaidry; and in the censuses of 1699 and 1701, there is already no more question of them. Claude Guaidry has not, to be sure, been at Port-Royal as a bird of passage; he is seen, however, with the appearances of a civilized man, of a farmer, 10 cows, some sheeps, etc., etc.; but men are not all alike, he also has there cultivated land, and he has brought his cows out of the rocks of La Hève, it is likely that it did not suit the fat cows.

In 1701 he resided in this rugged region of La Hève, for we have found in the register of Port-Royal, that Claude Guidery and Marguerite Petitpas had in 1701 a new child who was baptized at Mirliguesh, with the name of Paul Guidery, his godfather was a Baptiste Guidery; this child was the eleventh boy of the family, and he is the main one by whom we can follow the trail the longest time as we will see in a moment.

In these records appear from time to time some baptisms and marriages of the Guidery, there is the same about them in the documents of Nova Scotia, under the English administration; the Guidery family with several other hald-bred families, got then some land from the hand of Colonel Mascarene, on the East Coast. During the time of the exile, these half-bred families made their submission and took the oath from the English.

About 1735 se see entering on the scene this Paul Guidery, the last child of Claude Guidery, of whom we have related above the birth; he was an active, skillful young fellow, it appears, and especially quite merry, he is constantly called thus: Paul Guidery dit Grivois, or sometimes le Jovial; he married a little after 1730, Anne Mius d’Entremont, illegitimate daughter of a Mius d’Entremont and of a half-bred squaw of the East Coast. Once married he continued the life of his father, lifetime of fishing and of the coasting trade; he practiced the fishing from Baie St-Marie to Cap Nord of the Isle of Cap-Breton.

In 1745 we find him still at Mirligouesh, where he is considered an excellent coasting pilot (dispatch of M. de Beauharnois of 12 September 1745). The 21st of October 1747, he is made an outlaw by Shirley with 12 other Acadians. From this moment on, he ceases in any manner to have a fixed residence; the fishing and coasting trips become his normal circumstance around Louisbourg.

In the midst of the huge expenditures which the creation of that situation entails, he gathers the bits of these extravagance, and he lives on his boat with his family. He visited quite often the Baie Espagnole from where is brought back coal and miscellaneous materials. It was in this place that a French officer named Bogard de Lanoue, who became so strongly in love with one of his daughters, that, in spite of the formal pleas by M. d’Aillebout, commanding officer of Cap-Breton, he married her 17 February 1755. That marriage was contested with invalidity, in the name of the king, because it was forbidden for officers to marry girls of mixed blood; there resulted from it a rather scandalous debate, which we summarized in the Notes de la Colonie Féodale, 4th series No. V.

After the capture of Louisbourg, Guidry submitted, as nearly all the Métis of the East Coast; he returned to his quarters and we no longer hear of him. It is probable that there are a considerable number of descendants of this family, among the three or four thousand persons, considered of French origin, and who are scattered on the coast between Halifax and Cap Sable. Do they still speak French? Have they also preserved their names without distorting them too much? I am unaware of it; but it is certain that they have preserved a strong tradition of their French origin, of which they demand recording of it in all the censuses.

All the Guidry nevertheless have not remained settled on that coast. One of the brothers of Guidery le Grivois surrendered, at the time of the exile, on the Isle St-Jean. He was called Pierre and was born in 1698; one of his sons named Anselme married then on that isle a girl called Marie Leblanc, originally of Pigiguitk. When the isle was occupied at his place by the English, Pierre Guidry and his wife Marguerite Brosseau, took refuge at St-Pierre and Miquelon, where they were in 1767, and where their descendants live perhaps even today.

At which time have the Guidry come to establish themselves in America? We do not have any very precise data on that point. According to the census of 1698, Claude Guidry was born in 1648; this is a man who had always lived outside of the agricultural group of Port-Royal; although he was 23 years old in 1671, although he has married in 1676, and that he has had a large family long before 1698, he does not appear in any earlier census, neither in 1671, nor in 1686, nor in 1693; we encounter him by chance at Port-Royal in 1698, and since then the name of Guidry is not met with again on any list. That family has, to be sure, always lived with the savages and the Métis; Guidry is a man of La Hève, he was born there, he has lived there and it pleases him; his father must have been one of those rugged characters of the East Coast, who refused to follow D’Aulnay to Port-Royal; perhaps he had come with Razilly, perhaps he went back further, even to the companions of Latour and of Krainguille. It is very possilbe that he married a squaw, as Latour and several others. Nothing is certain, but all this is possible!

Be that as it may, the Guidry family offers us the same characters and the same vicissitudes as the Martin, the Petitpas, the Lejeune, etc., etc., and we have every right to presume that they are very old in the country. These studies give us an approximate idea of that company of adventurers that Razilly met again at La Hève, and a perception rather distinct and rather free of mingling that took shape by joining of families that this last brought with him. Intermixing defined rather badly, were readily prevailed some rough demeanours and vagabonds, of which the traces survived a long time in certain families.

This state of affairs, however, had not lasted more than 5 or 6 years, and yet D’Aulnay had a great deal of difficulty to react against that influence, when he wanted to concentrate the French population at Port-Royal; it was necessary to exert a sort of pressure in order to cause certain families to follow the movement, some even did not submit as we see; they remained among the savages and the Métis, or returned there later. But it suffices to follow their history and their fate, in order to properly appreciate with what wisdom and what accurate foresight D’Aulnay settled far from the allurements of the wild, at Port-Royal. Within this center exclusively agricultural and French, it was easier for him to prepare the future of the community that he proceeded to create, because it is in the practice of a very steady occupation, and of an enduring economy that fashion little by little the strong manners and customs of the Acadian people. “4507,4508

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“ JOSEPH LEBLANC, 1709, fils de Jean et de Jeanne Bourgeois, de Grand-Pré, marié à Grand-Pré, le 18 juillet 1730, à Marie-Madeleine Lalande, fille de Pierre et d’Anne Prétieux, de Port-Royal. Enfants: Joseph, 1731; Anne, 1733; Marie, 1735; Marguerite, 1738; Désiré-Gaspard, 1740; Blanche-Cécile, 1742. Il demeurait à L’Assomption. Son épouse est décédée à Pisiguit, en 1754. Déporté en Angleterre, il est décédé à Liverpool, en 1756. Plusieurs de ses enfants étaient à Morlaix, France, en 1764. “

Translation:
“ JOSEPH LEBLANC, 1709, son of Jean and of Jeanne Bourgeois of Grand-Pré, married at Grand-Pré 18 July 1730 to Marie-Madeleine Lalande, daughter of Pierre and of Anne Prétieux of Port-Royal. Children: Joseph, 1731; Anne, 1733; Marie, 1735; Marguerite, 1738; Désiré-Gaspard, 1740; Blanche-Cécile, 1742. He lived at L’Assomption. His wife has died at Pisiguit in 1754. Deported to England, he has died at Liverpool in 1756. Several of his children were at Morlaix, France in 1764. “5589

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“ JOSPEH LEBLANC, né en 1708, fils de Jean et de Jeanne Bourgeois, de Grand-Pré, paroisse Saint-Charles des Mines, marié à Grand-Pré, le 18 juillet 1730, à Madeleine Lalande, fille de Pierre et d’Anne Prétieux. Enfants: Anne et Joseph, 1731; Marguerite, 1732; Marie, 1735; Désiré-Gaspard, 1740; Blanche-Cécile. Madeleine Lalande est décédée à Pisiguit, en 1754. Lors de la dispersion des Acadiens, en 1755, Joseph LeBlanc et ses enfants furent déportés en Angleterre. Il est mort à Liverpool, Angleterre, en 1756. Il demeurait en la paroisse L’Assomption de Pisiguit, avant la dispersion. “

Translation:
“ JOSEPH LEBLANC, born in 1708, son of Jean and of Jeanne Bourgeois of Grand-Pré, Saint-Charles des Mines Parish, married at Grand-Pré 18 July 1730 to Madeleine Lalande, daughter of Pierre and of Anne Prétieux. Children: Anne and Joseph, 1731; Marguerite, 1732; Marie, 1735; Désiré-Gaspard, 1740; Blanche-Cécile. Madeleine Lalande has died at Pisiguit in 1754. At the time of the dispersion of the Acadians in 1755, Joseph LeBlanc and his children were deported to England. He has died at Liverpool in 1756. He lived in L’Assomption Parish of Pisiguit before the dispersion. “5546

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“ MARIE LEBLANC, 1735, fille de Joseph et de Marie-Madeleine Lalande, épousa à l’île Saint-Jean, vers 1755, Anselme Guidry, fils de Pierre et de Marguerite Brosseau. Elle était à Miquelon en 1767. “

Translation:
“ MARIE LEBLANC, 1735, daughter of Joseph and of Marie-Madeleine Lalande, wed at Ile Saint-Jean about 1755 Anselme Guidry, son of Pierre and of Marguerite Brosseau. She was at Miquelon in 1767. “5590

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“ PORT-ROYAL

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JEAN GUEDRY, 1730, fils de Paul et d’Anne Mius d’Azit, marié, vers 1755, à Marie LeBlanc. Enfants: Jean, 1757; Alexandre, 1760; Joseph, 1763; Marie-Marguerite, 1765; Jacques, 1767; Marie-Josephe, vers 1770. Il était à Ristigouche, à la baie des Chaleurs, en 1760; prisonnier des Anglais, à Halifax, de 1760 à 1763. Il était à Miquelon en 1766 et en France vers 1767. Il s’embarque sur le Beaumont, à destination de la Louisiane, le 11 juin 1785, avec sa femme, ses fils Jean et Jacques, ainsi que sa fille Marie-Josephe. “

Translation:
“ PORT-ROYAL

. . . .

JEAN GUEDRY, 1730, son of Paul and of Anne Mius d’Azit, married about 1755 to Marie LeBlanc. Children: Jean, 1757; Alexandre, 1760; Joseph, 1763; Marie-Marguerite, 1765; Jacques, 1767; Marie-Josephe, about 1770. He was at Ristigouche at the Bay des Chaleurs in 1760; prisoner of the English at Halifax from 1760 to 1763. He was at Miquelon in 1766 and in France about 1767. He embarked on the Beaumont bound for Louisiana 11 June 1785 with his wife, his sons Jean and Jacques as well as his daughter Marie-Josephe. “5567

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“ PORT-ROYAL

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JEAN GUEDRY, né en 1730, fils de Paul et d’Anne Mius d’Entremont, marié vers 1754 à Marie LeBlanc. Enfants: Jean, 1757; Joseph, 1763; Marie, 1765; Jacques, 1767. Cette famille, retenue prisonnière des Anglais, à Halifax, lors de la dispersion des Acadiens, était à Miquelon, en 1766, et s’est établie en Louisiane, vers 1785. “

Translation:
“ PORT-ROYAL

. . . .

JEAN GUEDRY, born in 1730, son of Paul and of Anne Mius d’Entremont, married about 1754 to Marie LeBlanc. Children: Jean, 1757; Joseph, 1763; Marie, 1765; Jacques, 1767. That family, held prisoner of the English at Halifax at the time of the dispersion of the Acadians, was a Miquelon in 1766 and has settled in Louisiana about 1785. “5558

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“ JEAN GUEDRY, né en 1730, fils de Paul et d’Anne Mius d’Entremont, de Port-Royal, marié à Marie LeBlanc. Il était à Ristiguouche en 1760, détenu à Halifax, en 1763, à Miquelon en 1766, en France vers 1767 et en Louisiane en 1785. “

Translation:
“ JEAN GUEDRY, born in 1730, son of Paul and of Anne Mius d’Entremont of Port-Royal, married to Marie LeBlanc. He was at Ristigouche in 1760, imprisoned at Halifax in 1763, at Miquelon in 1766, in France about 1767 and in Louisiana in 1785. “5568

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“ ANSELME GUEDRY, 1730, fils de Pierre et de Marguerite Brasseau, marié vers 1756, à l’île Saint-Jean, à Marie LeBlanc, fille de Joseph et de Marie-Madeleine Lalande. Il était à Miquelon en 1767. “

Translation:
“ ANSELME GUEDRY, 1730, son of Pierre and of Marguerite Brasseau, married about 1756 at Ile Saint-Jean to Marie LeBlanc, daughter of Joseph and of Marie-Madeleine Lalande. He was at Miquelon in 1767. “5350

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“ ANSELME GUEDRY, né en 1730, fils de Pierre et de Marguerite Brasseau, marié vers 1756, à l’île Saint-Jean, à Marie LeBlanc, fille de Joseph et de Marie-Madeleine Lalande. Cette famille était à Miquelon, en 1767. “

Translation:
“ ANSELME GUEDRY, born in 1730, son of Pierre and of Marguerite Brasseau, married about 1756 at Ile Saint-Jean to Marie LeBlanc, daughter of Joseph and of Marie-Madeleine Lalande. This family was at Miquelon in 1767. “5182

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“ E3 Jean Anselme Guidry (dit Grivois) b. 1730 m. 1755 Marie LeBlanc at Prince Edward Island. This family was at Ristigouche on the Bay des Chaleurs in 1760, a prisonnier of the English in Halifax from 1760 to 1763 (Ft. Beausejour) (7) at Miquelon in 1766, in France around 1767, at Rochefort, France in 1772. Listed as a carpenter when he sailed to LA, on Le Beaumont (family #25) on June 11, 1785 with his wife and children, Jean, Jacques, and Marie Joseph. He acquired a land grant and settled in St. James Parish. Listed in the census of Lafourche des Chitimachas on January 1, 1791 age 60 with wife Marie LeBlanc age 60 and no children. Listed in census of Valenzuela in Lafourch in December 1795 age 68 with wife Marie LeBlanc age 64. Listed in census of Valenzuela 1797 age 69 with wife Marie age 65. Listed in census of Lafourche in 1798 as age 69 with wife Marie age 68.

1. Jean Fermin (Fabien) Guidry (81) b. 1757 m. 1786 Celeste Boudreaux.
Listed as a carpenter, had a land grant in St. James, resident of Bayou Lafourche in 1791.
2. Alexandre b. 1760
3. Joseph b. 1763
4. Marie Marguerite b. 1765
5. Jacques b. 1767
6. Marie Joseph b. 1770

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(7) *Note: I found a statement which said that in 1775 Jean Sr. & Marie were part of the Acadian families taking part in the second convoy leaving Nantes, France for New Orleans. The list, however, says Jean, Sr. and Jean, Jr. were absent. In 1763 Jean Anselme, his wife and two oldest children were prisoners of war at Fort Beausejour on August 24, 1763 (see Dudley LeBlanc’s “The Acadians”. “5569

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“ Jean Anselme (D3) and his wife, Marie Leblanc, were held prisoners by the English in Halifax for a number of years during the expulsion. Anselme (as Jean was called) was probably captured at Mirligueche when Captain Sylvanus Cobb removed the settlers in 1752. Anselme’s name is among a list of 374 names of Acadian prisoners at Fort Beausejour dated August 24, 1763. This list was sent to the Duc de Niverois with an appeal for help in obtaining their release from captivity. Most of these French people had moved from Acadia before the exile and were captured on the Memramcook and Peticodiac Rivers. Some were from Cocagne and Miramichi. It is possible Anselme Guidry was part of the majority of self-exiled although there is a possibility as well that he was one of the settlers rounded up at Mirligueche in 1752. While at Fort Beausejour, the English considered the French settlers to be prisoners of war and refused to allow them to leave. In 1764 Anselme and other Acadians were offered land by the English but Anselme and most of the others refused and left for the Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Anselme lived for a while on Miquelon and then went on to France as had done Pierre. We find him again on June 11, 1785, when he and his wife, along with their children Jean, Jacques, and Marie Joseph, boarded the ship Beaumont bound for Louisiana. Anselme had spent some 20 years in France where he received 6 cents per day assistance from the French King and had been part of several unsuccessful attempts organized by the French Government to resettle the Acadians in various places including the effort of resettlement at Grand Lane, near Châtellerault. “4770

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“ ACADIENS PRISONNIERS AU FORT BEAUSEJOUR (ACADIE)

AOUT 1763

(liste communiquée au Duc de Choiseul par Dangeac, gouverneur de St Pierre et Miquelon)
A. N. Col C12-1 f 22 et suiv.

Noms et surnoms des familles qui sont au fort Cumberland autrefois appelé la pointe Beauséjour. Ne sachant signer nous avons fait notre marque ordinaire

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Jean Guedry X
Marie X
Jean X
Alexandre X

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Les noms mentionnés ci-dessus sont tous les Acadiens qui sont présentement prisonniers au Fort Cumberland le 24 août 1763. Il y a en outre au-dessus de cinquante families sur l’isle St Jean et le long de la côte qui, nous pensons, sont sûrement dans le même désir que nous; mais ils ne savent pas encore ces nouvelles, mais nous ferons notre possible pour les leurs faire parvenir au plutôt.

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A. N. C 12. 1; f 22 et suivant. Cette liste a été publiée dans les cahiers de la société acadienne,
7eme cahier, Moncton, 1965, par le R. P. BAUDRY. “

Translation:
“ ACADIAN PRISONERS AT FORT BEAUSEJOUR (ACADIA)

AUGUST 1763

(Official roll to the Duc de Choiseul by Dangeac, Governor of St. Pierre and Miquelon)
A. N. Col C12-1 f 22 and following.

Names and surnames of the families who are at Fort Cumberland formerly called Pointe Beausejour. Not knowing how to sign, we have made our ordinary mark.

. . . .

Jean Guedry X
Marie X
Jean X
Alexandre X

. . . .

The names mentioned above are all the Acadians who are now prisoners at Fort Cumberland 24 August 1763. There are further more than fifty families on Ile St Jean and all along the coast who, we think, certainly have the same desire as us; but they do not know yet this news, however, we will do our best to send it to them soon.

. . . .

A. N. C 12. 1; f 22 and following. This roll has been published in the Cahiers of the Société Historique Acadienne, 7th Cahier, Moncton, 1965, by R. P. BAUDRY. “5570,5566

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“ LIST OF THE ACADIAN PRISONERS AT FORT BEAUSEJOUR ON AUGUST 24, 1763:

This list of 374 names was sent to the Duc de Nivernois with a pathetic appeal to help them get away. Most of these people had moved from Acadia before the exile and were captured on the Memramcook and Peticodiac rivers. Others were from Cocagne and Miramichi. The English authorities considered them prisoners of war and refused to allow them to leave. The next year they were offered land but most of them left clandestinely and reached the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. From there a few went to France but the most part went to St. Dominque and then to Louisiana.

From the Archives National, Fonds des Colonies, C 12 - Vol. 1, fol. 22-26, and quoted in the 7th Edition of the Acadian Historical Society, March 1965 - Moncton, N. B., Canada.

. . . .

Jean Guedry
Marie
Jean
Alexandre “5556,5566

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“ REGISTRES DES ACADIENS DE Belle-Île-en-Mer

. . . .

COPIE DU REGISTRE DES ACADIENS DE SAUZON

. . . .

Déclaration de Joseph LeBlanc, du village de Bernantec.
L’an mil sept cent soixante-sept le six Mars a comparu Joseph LeBlanc demeurant au village de Bernantec, parioisse de Sauzon, lequel en présence de Joseph Babin, Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet et Simon-Pierre Daigre, tous acadiens demeurans en cette isle, témoins, a déclaré . . .

. . . .


Du mariage de Joseph LeBlanc et de Magdelaine La Lande sont nés à Pigiguit paroisse de l’Assomption, sçavoir:

. . . .

Marie Leblanc en mil sept cent trente-cinq, mariée à l’Isle Saint-Jean à Anselme Guedry, fils de Pierre Guedry et de Marguerite Brosseau, demeurant actuellement aux isles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon.

. . . . “

Translation:
“ REGISTER OF THE ACADIANS OF Belle-Île-en-Mer

. . . .

COPY OF THE REGISTER OF THE ACADIANS OF SAUZON

. . . .

Declaration of Joseph LeBlanc of the village of Bernantec.
On March 6, 1767 appeared Joseph LeBlanc living at the village of Bernantec, parish of Sauzon, who in the presence of Joseph Babin, Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet and Simon Pierre Daigre, all Acadians living on this island,witnesses, declared...

. . . .

Of the marriage of Joseph LeBlanc and Magdelaine La Lande were born at Pigiguit,parish of l’Assomption, the following:

. . . .

Marie LeBlanc in 1735, married at Isle Saint Jean to Anselme Guedry, son of Pierre Guedry and Marguerite Brosseau, presently living at Isles Sainte Pierre and Miquelon.

. . . .“5571,4775

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“ MIQUELON RECENSEMENT DE MAY 1767

Familles Acadiennes qui sont maintenant, aux iles St Pierre et Miquelon suivant le recensement d’icelles, fait le 15 mai 1767

. . . .

Jean Guédry (venu id) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 ans
Marie LeBlanc, sa femme . . . . . . . . . . . 30 “
Jean Guédry, leur fils . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 “
Joseph “ , leur fils . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 “
Marie “ , leur fille . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 “ “

Note: The term ‘venu id’ here mean ‘venu d’Halifax’.

Translation:
“ MIQUELON CENSUS OF MAY 1767

Acadian families who are now at Iles St Pierre and Miquelon according to the census of them made 15 May 1767

. . . .

Jean Guédry (came from same) . . . . . . . . 32 years
Marie LeBlanc, his wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 “
Jean Guédry, their son . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 10 “
Joseph “ , their son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 “
Marie “ , their daughter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 “ “4784,5535,5536

Note: The term ‘came from same’ here means ‘came from Halifax’.

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“ MIGRATION DE 1767

ILES ST-PIERRE ET MIQUELON COLONIES 1767

Archives Nationales colonies G1-518 S.O.M.

LISTE GENERALE DES HABITANTS DES ILES ST-PIERRE ET MIQUELON EMIGRES POUR LA FRANCE
(l’Acadie et l’Amérique) LA PRESENTE ANNEE 1767 SUR DIVERS BATIMENTS

SAVOIR:

. . . .

SUR LE SENAULT DU ROI “LA PETITE FORTUNE”
N.B.: arrivé a st martin de ré près de Rochefort.

. . . .

Jean GUEDRY - Présent à Rochefort le 24 mars 1770
Marie LE BLANC, sa femme - Présent à Rochefort le 24 mars 1770
Jean, leur fils Présent à Rochefort le 24 mars 1770
Joseph, leur fils Présent à Rochefort le 24 mars 1770
Marie, leur fille Présent à Rochefort le 24 mars 1770
Pierre, leur fils - Présent sous le prénom de Jacques à Rochefort en 1770 ? Semblerait s’être
embarqué pour la Louisiane “

Translation:
“ MIGRATION OF 1767

ILES ST-PIERRE AND MIQUELON COLONIES 1767

Archives Nationales colonies G1-518 S.O.M.

GENERAL ROLL OF THE INHABITANTS OF ILES ST-PIERRE AND MIQUELON EMIGRATING TO FRANCE
(Acadia and America) THE PRESENT YEAR 1767 ON VARIOUS VESSELS

NAMELY:

. . . .

ON THE KING’S SNOW “LE PETITE FORTUNE”
N.B.: arrived at St. Martin de Ré, Ile de Ré near Rochefort.

. . . .

Jean GUEDRY - Present at Rochefort 24 March 1770
Marie LE BLANC, his wife - Present at Rochefort 24 March 1770
Jean, their son Present at Rochefort 24 March 1770
Joseph, their son Present at Rochefort 24 March 1770
Marie, their daughter Present at Rochefort 24 March 1770
Pierre, their son - Present under the first name of Jacques at Rochefort in 1770. Seems to have embarked for Louisiana “5572,5526

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“ Familles Renvoyées des Iles St-Pierre et Miquelon en 1767 Rochefort le 20 mars 1770

Archives Nationales Colonies S.O.M. G1 458.

. . . .

Jean GUEDRY
De l’Acadie; A été retenu pendant trois ans après le dernier siège de Louisbourg par les Anglais. Renvoyé de St-Pierre et Miquelon en 1767. Marin, charpentier - calfat il est employé à la vieille forme du port où il a fait une chute qui lui a cassé les reins et en est resté estropié.

Marie LEBLANC, sa femme
Agée de 38 ans
De l’Acadie, a suivi son mari.

Jean GUEDRY, leur fils
Agé de 12 ans
De l’isle St-Jean. A suivi ses parents

Marie GUEFRY, leur fille
Agée de 7 ans
De l’Acadie; A suivi des parents

Jacques GUEDRY, leur fils
Agé de 3 ans
Né aux iles St-Pierre et Miquelon “

Translation:
“ Families Returned from Iles St-Pierre and Miquelon in 1767
Rochefort 20 March 1770

Archives Nationales Colonies S.O.M. G1 458.

. . . .

Jean GUEDRY
From Acadia; he was imprisoned three years after the last siege of Louisbourg by the English. Returned to St-Pierre and Miquelon in 1767. Sailor, carpenter - calker. He was employed at the old dock of the port where he has fallen and broken his back and was left crippled by it.

Marie LEBLANC, his wife
Age of 38 years
From Acadia, has followed her husband

Jean GUEDRY, their son
Age of 12 years
From Île St-Jean. Has followed his parents

Marie GUEFRY, their daughter
Age of 7 years
From Acadia; Has followed her parents

Jacques GUEDRY, their son
Age of 3 years
Born at Iles St. Pierre and Miquelon “5541,5527

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“ ROLE OF THE TRULY ACADIAN FAMILIES - SEPTEMBER 15, 1772

. . . .

JEAN GUEDRY, 41, carpenter, of Rochefort
Marie LeBlanc, 40, his wife, spins with cotton
Jean, 17, their son, carpenter’s helper
Jacques, 5, their son “5232

    ____________________

“ Marguerite-Adelaide GAUTROT
. baptized July 20, 1774
. (St. Jean L’Evangeliste, Chatellerault, Vienne)
. sponsors: Alexis GAUTROT and Marie LEBLANC, wife of Jean GUEDRY “5521

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“ STATE OF THE ACADIAN FAMILIES COMPRISING THE SECOND CONVOY LEAVING Châtellerault FOR NANTES NOVEMBER 15, 1775

. . . .

JEAN GUEDRY, 43, carpenter (absent)
Marie LeBlanc, 40, his wife
Jean, 17, their son (absent)
Jacques, 11, their son “5573

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“ ACADIANS IN FRANCE September, 1784

Copy of the list of the Acadian families who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of his Catholic Majesty.*

. . . .

Jean Guidry (head of family), Marie LeBlanc (wife)

. . . .

* This document is found in Archivo General De Indias, audiencia De Santa Domingo (A.D.S.), Legajo 2575. Two separate lists of the Acadians and allied families who left France in 1785 to come to Louisiana, have already been published.
The first publication documented with Spanish archival material is Oscar William Winzerling, Acadian Odyssey (Baton Rouge, 1955), pp. 199-206. The second publication, relying entirely on French archival documents is Milton P. Rieder Sr. and Norma Gaudet Rieder, editiors, The Crew and Passenger Registration Lists of the Seven Acadian Expeditions of 1785, (Metairie, La. 1965).
The roll of the Acadian families appearing in the present compilation is documented by a third source. It is felt that it provides a valuable addition to the already published lists and corroborates that information. “5185,5143

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“ LE BON PAPA

Departed France June 11, 1785
Arrived Louisiana August 19, 1785

. . . .

List of the Acadian passengers who are to embark on the ship, Le Beaumont, Captain Mr. Olivier Daniel, for New Orleans in Louisiana

. . . .

(25) JEAN GUEDRY, 50, caulker
Marie LeBlanc, 50, wife
Jean, 27, son, carpenter
Jacques, 17, son, carpenter “5201

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“ LE BEAUMONT

LIST OF EMBARKATION - 11 JUNE 1785

. . . .

25th family (4 persons)
Jean GUEDRY calfat 50
Marie LEBLANC, sa femme 50
Jean, son fils charpentier 27
Jacques, idem idem 17



LIST OF DEBARKATION - 19 AUGUST 1785

. . . .

26th family (5 persons)
Juan GUEDRY
Maria LEBLANC, su muger
Juan, su higo
Santiago, idem
Maria Josef BELLEME, su prima


COMPLETE LISTING

. . . .

25th family (4 persons)
Jean GUEDRY caulker 50
Marie LeBLANC, his wife 50
Jean GUEDRY, his son carpenter 27
Jacques GUEDRY, his son carpenter 17 “5533

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“ Liste des Acadiens qui doivent l’Embarger dans le Navire le Beaumont Capitaine Monsieur Olivier Daniel, Pour La Nouvelle Orleans dans la Louisiane.

. . . .

25e famille
Jean Guedry .............calfat 50
Marie LeBlanc sa femme ............... 50
4 Jean son fils ........ ...charpentier 27
Jacques idem .........idem 17 “

Translation:
“ List of Acadians who have Embarked on the Ship le Beaumont, Captain Mister Olivier Daniel, for New Orleans in Louisiana.

. . . .

25th family
Jean Guedry ................caulker 50
Marie LeBlanc his wife ................. 50
4 Jean his son .................carpenter 27
Jacques same ..............same 17 “5203

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“ EMBARKATION LISTS OF THE SEVEN SHIPS ON DEPARTING FOR LOUISIANA IN 1785

. . . .

LIST OF THE HEADS OF FAMILIES, TOGETHER WITH CHILDREN AND OTHER PERSONS ATTACHED TO THE FAMILY (in parentheses is stated the age of the person)

. . . .

LE BEAUMONT

. . . .

GUEDRY, Jean (50), LEBLANC, Marie, his wife (50), and their 2 sons “5192

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“ APPENDIX C

Pedro Aragon y Villegas’ list of Acadian arrivals in New Orleans on Le Beaumont:*

. . . .

25th - Juan Guédry; María LeBlanc, wife; Juan, son; Santiago, son; María Josef Belleme, cousin.

. . . .

* Pedro Aragon y Villegas registration, New Orleans, September 6, 1785, in Cuba, 626, Archivo General de Indias, Cuba (A. G. I.) “5574,5191

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“ Marriage Contract:

Jean Femillien Guedry, son of Jean Guedry and of Marie LeBlanc, native of Acadia, Diocese of Quebec; Celeste Boudreaux, daughter of the late Pierre Boudreaux and of deceased Magdelaine Bourg, native of Acadia, same diocese. Appearing for the groom are Joseph Guedry, his uncle, and Joseph Caillote, his cousin; for the bride are Jean Delaune, her friend, and Abroise Martin, also her friend; and assisted by Christophe Delaune, who reared her. The bride brings to the marriage 100 piastres, which has been confirmed by Sieur Delaune. The groom brings 100 piastres, confirmed by his father.
/S/ Miguel Cantrelle, Jean Femiliene Guedry, Christophe Delaune, Joseph Callouet
/M/ Jean Guedry, Jean Delaune, Celeste Bourdreaux, Ambroise Martin, Joseph Guedry

1786-148
Feb. 24
pp 29-32
#296 “5591,5576

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“ ACADIANS CABAHANNOCEE DISTRICT August 16, 1788

Report on the amounts of corn which are necessary for the subsistence of the newly arrived Acadian families from France who have suffered losses of their crops during the flooding of the Mississippi.

. . . .

Juan Guedry, father 4 persons 6 barrels corn
Juan Guedry, son 3 persons 7 1/2 barrels corn

. . . .

As stated in an appended letter, these families came from France in 1785. “5581,5143

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1791 CENSUS OF LAFOURCHE DES CHETIMACHAS

General Census of the habitants established in LaFourche which begins on the right bank above at the names Francisco Mathias and ends below at Francois Bruner; and begins on the left bank above at Nicolas Daublin and ends below at Joseph Antoine Arabiy, as follows:

. . . .

LEFT BANK

. . . .

Jean GUEDRI 60 0 slaves; 6 arpents land; 0 arpents rice; 150 quarts corn;
2 horned cattle; 0 horses; 13 swine; 2 total persons
Marie LEBLANC, his wife 60

. . . .

THE FIRST OF JANUARY OF THE YEAR 1791
N. VERRET “5582,5583

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“ 1795 CENSUS OF VALENZUELA

Census of the inhabitants of the Bayou de Valenzuela, their sons and daughters, their Negroes and Negresses, liberated and slaves, age and religion, taken by order of the Most Reverend Senor, Don Luis de Penalver y Cardenas, first bishop of this province, in the month of December of the year of 1795.

. . . .

Juan GUEDRY 68
Maria LEBLANC 64 “5584

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“ 1797 GENERAL CENSUS OF THE HABITANTS OF VALENZUELA IN LAFOURCHE

. . . .

Jean GUEDRY 69
Marie LEBLANC, his wife 65 2 Total Persons 0 Slaves


GENERAL CENSUS OF THE HABITANTS OF VALENZUELA OF LAFOURCHE
TWO THOUSAND SIXTY-FOUR PERSONS
APRIL 10, 1797
/S/ N. VERRET “5585,5586

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“ 1798 GENERAL CENSUS OF THE INHABITANTS OF LAFOURCHE

. . . .

Jean GUEDRY 69 6 arpents land 40 aprents depth 0 slaves
Marie, his wife 68
Jean LE LBLANC, single 14 6 arpents land 40 aprents depth 0 slaves

. . . .

IN LAFOURCHE, JANUARY 1, 1798
/s/ Nicolas VERRET “5587,5588

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The Succession for Marie LeBlanc married to Jean Guidry, also known as Grivois, was filed in the Terrebonne Parish Courthouse in Houma, LA on 17 September 18075551,5552.

Arsenault4778,4792, Rieder4775 and several other references4780,4781,4782 confuse the parentage of Jean Guédry who married Marie LeBlanc. The Jean Guédry, born about 1730, who married Marie LeBlanc, born about 1735-1737, was almost certainly the son of Paul Guédry and Anne-Marie Mius d’Entremont d’Azy. The several references listed above cite an Anselme Guédry, son of Pierre Guédry and Marguerite Brasseau, who married Marie LeBlanc, born in 1735. Without doubt this Anselme Guédry is actually Jean Guédry, son of Paul Guédry and Anne-Marie Mius d’Entremont d’Azy. At this time there is no direct evidence for the existence of an Anselme Guédry, son of Pierre Guédry and Marguerite Brasseau, other than this marriage reference. The confusion seems to have originated in the declarations made in the Register of the Acadians at Belle-Île-en-Mer, France. Since the original Acadian church registers had been lost during the Acadian deportation of 1755-1763, Father Le Loutre attempted to reconstruct the information in the original registers by having each of the Acadian families at Belle-Île-en-Mer prepare a declaration citing vital statistics of their extended family to the best of their ability. These declarations were prepared in 1767 - many years after the original events occurred. Although the declarations are very useful in establishing the Acadian family relationships, care must be used as memories were often foggy and errors crept into the declarations. In the “Declaration of Joseph LeBlanc of the village of Bernantec” on 6 March 1767 it is stated “Marie LeBlanc in 1735. Married at Isle Saint Jean to Anselme Guedry son of Pierre Guedry and Marguerite Brosseau, presently living at Isles Saint Pierre and Miquelon.” The phrase “Marie LeBlanc in 1735” refers to the birth of Marie LeBlanc in 1735. Marie LeBlanc was the sister of the Joseph LeBlanc making the declaration. We know from other sources that Jean Guédry and Marie LeBlanc with their family of three children (Jean, Joseph and Marie) were living at St. Pierre and Miquelon on 15 May 17674784. This Jean Guédry was the son of Paul Guédry and Anne-Marie Mius d’Entremont d’Azy. We have no record of an Anselme Guédry ever living at St. Pierre and Miquelon. All known evidence confirms that Paul Guédry and Anne-Marie Mius d’Entremont d’Azy had a son Jean Anselme Guédry, born about 1730, who married Marie LeBlanc, born about 1735-1737 and who was the daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Magdelaine Lalande. This Jean Guédry and Marie LeBlanc is the couple cited in the “Declaration of Joseph LeBlanc of the village of Bernantec” on 6 March 1767; however, the parentage given for Anselme (Jean) Guédry was incorrect. This oversight is easily understood if one remembers that Joseph LeBlanc was attempting to reconstruct the lives of his five brothers and sisters (most of whom he had not seen in several years) as well as his own life. Since Paul Guédry and Pierre Guédry were brothers and born next to each other chronologically, it would be easy to confuse one for the other.

Marie LeBlanc
Maria LeBlanc
María LeBlanc
Maria Leblanc
Marie Le Blanc

“ 10ème Famille. -- GUIDRY ou GUAIDERY. --
Nous sommes ici en présence d’une de ces familles, problématiques et vagabondes, dont on rencontre le nom très souvent dans les documents, et qui ne figurent même pas dans les recensements. On connaît leur existence, on pressent, par les détails de leur vie, que leur établissement doit être ancien en Acadie, mais on ne saurait en préciser l’époque, ni établir l’enchaînement méthodique des faits qui nous sont connus.

Les registres de Belle-Isle ne fournissent point leur généalogie, mais cette famille y est mentionnée deux fois. Dans la 12ème déclaration de la paroisse de Sauzon, on lit: “que Marie Leblanc, née en 1735 à Pigiguit, se maria à l’île St-Jean, à Anselme Guedry fils de Pierre Guédry et de Marguerite Brosseau, demeurant actuellement (1767) aux îles St-Pierre et Miquelon.”

Puis à la 13ème déclaration de Sauzon, il est fait mention d’une Marie Guédry qui était veuve d’un Benjamin Mius.

Dans les recensements que nous avons de L’Acadie, il n’est fait aucune mention des Guidry, sauf dans celui de 1698, et dans quelques petits recensements des côtes de l’Est.

Voici ce que dit le recensement de 1698: Paroisse de Port-Royal, Claude Guaidry, âgé de 50 ans, marié à Marguerite Petitpas, âgée de 40 ans, 10 enfants: Abraham 20 ans; -- Claude 16; -- Jean-Baptiste 14; -- Charles 12; -- Alexis 10; -- Augustin 8; -- Marie-Joseph 6; -- Claude 4; -- Joseph 3; -- Pierre 6 mois. Abraham l’aîné a donc dû naître en 1678; Claude Guaidry, son père marié vers 1676 à Port-Royal, où il était né en 1648.

Le recensement qui pécède celui-ci était de 1692, on n’y trouve aucune mention des Guaidry; et dans les recensements de 1699 et de 1701, il n’est déjà plus question d’eux. Claude Guaidry n’a donc été à Port-Royal qu’un oiseau de passage; il s’y montre cependant avec les apparences d’un homme civilisé, et d’un agriculteur, 10 vaches, des brebis, etc., etc.; mais il y a fagots et fagots, il y a aussi cultures et cultures, et s’il ramena ses vaches dans les roches de la Hève, il est probable qu’il n’en fit pas des vaches grasses.

En 1701 il résidait dans ce dernier pays de la Hève, car nous avons trouvé dans les registres de Port-Royal, que Claude Guidery et Marguerite Petitpas eurent en 1701 un nouvel enfant qui fut baptisé à Mirliguesh, sous le nom de Paul Guidery, son parrain était un Baptiste Guidery; cet enfant était le onzième garçon de la famille, et c’est celui de tous dont nous pouvons suivre le plus longtemps la trace, comme nous le verrons tout à l’heure.

Dans ces actes figurent de temps en temps des Guidery aux baptêmes et aux mariages, il en est de même dans les documents de la Nouvelle-Ecosse, sous l’administration anglaise; la famille Guidery avec plusieurs autres familles métisses, prirent alors des terres de la main du colonel Mascarene, sur la côte de l’Est. Dans les temps de la proscription, ces families métisses firent leur soumission, et prêtèrent serment aux Anglais.

Vers 1735 nous voyans entrer en scène ce Paul Guidery, le dernier enfant de Claude Guidery, dont nous avons ci-dessus relaté la naissance; c’était un garçon leste, adroit, paraît-il, et surtout fort gai, il est constamment désigné ainsi: Paul Guidery dit Grivois, ou quelquefois le Jovial; il épousa, un peu après 1730, Anne Mius d’Entremont, fille naturelle d’un Mius d’Entremont, et d’une squaw métisse de la côte de l’Est. Une fois marié il continua l’existence de son père, vivants de pêche et de cabotage; il pratiquait la pèche depuis la baie Ste-Marie jusqu’au Cap Nord de l’île du Cap-Breton.

En 1745 on le trouve toujours à Mirligouesh, où il passe pour un excellent pilote côtier (dépêche de M. de Beauharnois du 12 septembre 1745). Le 21 octobre 1747, il est mis hors la loi par Shirley avec 12 autres acadiens. A partir de ce moment, il cesse en quelque façon d’avoir une demeure fixe; les excursions de pêche et de cabotage deviennent son était normal autour de Louisbourg.

Au milieu des dépenses énormes qu’entraîne la création de cette place, il ramasse les miettes de ces prodigalités, et il vit sur as barque avec sa famille. Il fréquentait fort souvent la baie Espagnole d’où il rapportait de la houille et divers matériaux. Ce fut en ce lieu qu’il fit la rencontre d’un officier français nommé Bogard de Lanoue, lequel devint si fortement épris de l’une de ses filles, que, malgré la défense expresse de M. d’Aillebout, commandant du Cap-Breton, il parvint à l’épouser le 17 février 1755. Ce mariage fut attaqué en nullité, au nom du roi, parce qu’il était défendu aux officiers d’épouser des filles de sang mêlé; il en résulta un débat assez scadaleux, que nous avon résumé dans les notes de la colonie féodale, 4ème série No. V.

Après la prise de Louisbourg, Guidry fit sa soumission, comme presque tous les Métis des côtes de l’Est; il rentra dans ses cantonnements et on n’entendit plus parler de lui. Il est probable qu’il existe un bon nombre de descendants de cette famille, parmi les trois ou quatre mille personnes, réputées d’origine française, et qui sont dispersées sur la côte entre Halifax et la cap Sable. Parlent-ils encore français? ont-ils même conservé leurs nome sans trop les défigurer? je l’ignore; mais il est certain qu’ils ont conservé une tradition solide de leur origine française, dont ils réclament l’enregistrement à tous les recensements.

Tous les Guidry néanmoins ne sont pas restés fixés sur cette côte. Un des frères de Guidery le Grivois se rendit, au temps de la proscription, dans l’île St-Jean. Il se nommait Pierre et était né en 1698; un de ses fils nommé Anselme épousa alors dans cette île une fille dite Marie Leblanc, originaire de Pigiguitk. Lorsque l’île fut à son tour occupée par les Anglais, Pierre Guidry et sa femme, Marguerite Brosseau, se réfugièrent à St-Pierre et Miquelon, où ils étaient en 1767, et où leurs descendants existent peut-être encore aujourd’hui.

A quelle époque les Guidry sont-ils venus s’établir en Amérique? Nous n’avons sur ce point aucune donnée bien précise. D’après le recensement de 1698, Claude Guidry était né en 1648; c’est un homme qui avait toujours vécu en dehors du groupe agricole de Port-Royal; bien qu’il eût 23 ans en 1671, bien qu’il fût marié en 1676, et qu’il ait eu une nombreuse famille longtemps avant 1698, il ne figure dans aucun recensement antérieur, ni en 1671, ni en 1686, ni en 1693; on le rencontre fontuitement à Port-Royal en 1698, et depuis lors le nom de Guidry ne se retrouve plus sur aucune liste. Cette famille a donc toujours demeuré avec les sauvages et les Métis; Guidry est un homme de la Hève, il est né là, il y a vécu et il s’y plait; son père devait être une de ces rudes pratiques des côtes de l’Est, qui refusèrent de suivre D’Aulnay à Port-Royal; peut-être était-il venu avec Razilly, peut-être remontait-il au-delà, jusqu’aux compagnons de Latour et de Krainguille. Il est très possible qu’il ait épousé une squaw, comme Latour et plusieurs autres. Rien n’est certain, mais tout cela est possible!

Quoi qu’il en soit, la famille Guidry nous offre les mêmes caractères et les mêmes péripéties que les Martin, les Petitpas, les Lejeune, etc., etc., et on a tout droit de présumer qu’elle est très ancienne dans la contrée. Ces études nous donnent une idée approximative de cette société d’aventuriers que Razilly retrouva à la Hève, et une idée assez nette et assez claire du mélange qui se forma par l’adjonction des familles que ce dernier amena avec lui. Mélange assez mal défini, où prévalurent promptement des allures grossières et vagabondes, dont les traces survécurent longtemps dans certaines familles.

Cet état de choses n’avait cependant pas duré plus de 5 à 6 ans, et cependant D’Aulnay eut beucoup de peine à réagir contre cette influence, lorsqu’il voulut concentrer la populations française à Port-Royal; il fallut exercer une sorte de pression pour déterminer certaines familles à suivre le mouvement, quelque-unes même ne cédèrent point comme nous le voyons; elles restèrent parmi les sauvages et les Métis, ou y retournèrent plus tard. Or il suffit de suivre leur histoire et leur destinée, pour bien apprécier avec quelle sagesse et quelle juste prévoyance D’Aulnay s’établit loin des entrainements de la sauvagerie, à Port-Royal. Dans ce centre exclusivement agricole et français, il lui fut plus facile de préparer l’avenir de la société qu’il allait créer, car c’est dans la pratique d’un travail bien réglé, et d’une patiente économie que se formèrent peu à peu les fortes moeurs du peuple acadien. “

Translation:
“ 10th Family. -- GUIDRY or GUAIDERY. --
We are here in the presence of one of those families, questionables and vagabonds, of whom we encounter the name very often within the records, and which does not even appear in the censuses. We are aware of their existence, we ascertain, from the details of their life, that their establishment in Acadia must be old, but we cannot state precisely the time nor establish the systematic linking of facts that are known to us.

The registers of Belle-Isle do not provide their genealogy, but that family is mentioned there twice. In the 12th declaration from the parish of Sauzon, one reads: “that Marie Leblanc, born in 1735 at Pigiguit, married at Isle St-Jean, to Anselme Guedry, son of Pierre Guédry and of Marguerite Brosseau, now (1767) living at Isles St-Pierre and Miquelon.”

Then in the 13th declaration of Sauzon, there is mentioned a Marie Guédry who was the widow of a Benjamin Mius.

In the censuses that we have of Acadia, there is not made any mention of Guidry except in that of 1698, and in a few small censuses of the East Coast.

Here is what the census of 1698 says: Parish of Port-Royal, Claude Guaidry, 50 years old, married to Marguerite Petitpas, 40 years old, 10 children: Abraham 20 years; -- Claude 16; -- Jean-Baptiste 14; -- Charles 12; -- Alexis 10; -- Augustin 8; -- Marie-Joseph 6; -- Claude 4; -- Joseph 3; -- Pierre 6 months. Abraham, the eldest, must, therefore, have been born in 1678; Claude Guaidry, his father, was married about 1676 at Port-Royal, where he was born in 1648.

The census which preceds this one was of 1692, one does not find there any mention of the Guaidry; and in the censuses of 1699 and 1701, there is already no more question of them. Claude Guaidry has not, to be sure, been at Port-Royal as a bird of passage; he is seen, however, with the appearances of a civilized man, of a farmer, 10 cows, some sheeps, etc., etc.; but men are not all alike, he also has there cultivated land, and he has brought his cows out of the rocks of La Hève, it is likely that it did not suit the fat cows.

In 1701 he resided in this rugged region of La Hève, for we have found in the register of Port-Royal, that Claude Guidery and Marguerite Petitpas had in 1701 a new child who was baptized at Mirliguesh, with the name of Paul Guidery, his godfather was a Baptiste Guidery; this child was the eleventh boy of the family, and he is the main one by whom we can follow the trail the longest time as we will see in a moment.

In these records appear from time to time some baptisms and marriages of the Guidery, there is the same about them in the documents of Nova Scotia, under the English administration; the Guidery family with several other hald-bred families, got then some land from the hand of Colonel Mascarene, on the East Coast. During the time of the exile, these half-bred families made their submission and took the oath from the English.

About 1735 se see entering on the scene this Paul Guidery, the last child of Claude Guidery, of whom we have related above the birth; he was an active, skillful young fellow, it appears, and especially quite merry, he is constantly called thus: Paul Guidery dit Grivois, or sometimes le Jovial; he married a little after 1730, Anne Mius d’Entremont, illegitimate daughter of a Mius d’Entremont and of a half-bred squaw of the East Coast. Once married he continued the life of his father, lifetime of fishing and of the coasting trade; he practiced the fishing from Baie St-Marie to Cap Nord of the Isle of Cap-Breton.

In 1745 we find him still at Mirligouesh, where he is considered an excellent coasting pilot (dispatch of M. de Beauharnois of 12 September 1745). The 21st of October 1747, he is made an outlaw by Shirley with 12 other Acadians. From this moment on, he ceases in any manner to have a fixed residence; the fishing and coasting trips become his normal circumstance around Louisbourg.

In the midst of the huge expenditures which the creation of that situation entails, he gathers the bits of these extravagance, and he lives on his boat with his family. He visited quite often the Baie Espagnole from where is brought back coal and miscellaneous materials. It was in this place that a French officer named Bogard de Lanoue, who became so strongly in love with one of his daughters, that, in spite of the formal pleas by M. d’Aillebout, commanding officer of Cap-Breton, he married her 17 February 1755. That marriage was contested with invalidity, in the name of the king, because it was forbidden for officers to marry girls of mixed blood; there resulted from it a rather scandalous debate, which we summarized in the Notes de la Colonie Féodale, 4th series No. V.

After the capture of Louisbourg, Guidry submitted, as nearly all the Métis of the East Coast; he returned to his quarters and we no longer hear of him. It is probable that there are a considerable number of descendants of this family, among the three or four thousand persons, considered of French origin, and who are scattered on the coast between Halifax and Cap Sable. Do they still speak French? Have they also preserved their names without distorting them too much? I am unaware of it; but it is certain that they have preserved a strong tradition of their French origin, of which they demand recording of it in all the censuses.

All the Guidry nevertheless have not remained settled on that coast. One of the brothers of Guidery le Grivois surrendered, at the time of the exile, on the Isle St-Jean. He was called Pierre and was born in 1698; one of his sons named Anselme married then on that isle a girl called Marie Leblanc, originally of Pigiguitk. When the isle was occupied at his place by the English, Pierre Guidry and his wife Marguerite Brosseau, took refuge at St-Pierre and Miquelon, where they were in 1767, and where their descendants live perhaps even today.

At which time have the Guidry come to establish themselves in America? We do not have any very precise data on that point. According to the census of 1698, Claude Guidry was born in 1648; this is a man who had always lived outside of the agricultural group of Port-Royal; although he was 23 years old in 1671, although he has married in 1676, and that he has had a large family long before 1698, he does not appear in any earlier census, neither in 1671, nor in 1686, nor in 1693; we encounter him by chance at Port-Royal in 1698, and since then the name of Guidry is not met with again on any list. That family has, to be sure, always lived with the savages and the Métis; Guidry is a man of La Hève, he was born there, he has lived there and it pleases him; his father must have been one of those rugged characters of the East Coast, who refused to follow D’Aulnay to Port-Royal; perhaps he had come with Razilly, perhaps he went back further, even to the companions of Latour and of Krainguille. It is very possilbe that he married a squaw, as Latour and several others. Nothing is certain, but all this is possible!

Be that as it may, the Guidry family offers us the same characters and the same vicissitudes as the Martin, the Petitpas, the Lejeune, etc., etc., and we have every right to presume that they are very old in the country. These studies give us an approximate idea of that company of adventurers that Razilly met again at La Hève, and a perception rather distinct and rather free of mingling that took shape by joining of families that this last brought with him. Intermixing defined rather badly, were readily prevailed some rough demeanours and vagabonds, of which the traces survived a long time in certain families.

This state of affairs, however, had not lasted more than 5 or 6 years, and yet D’Aulnay had a great deal of difficulty to react against that influence, when he wanted to concentrate the French population at Port-Royal; it was necessary to exert a sort of pressure in order to cause certain families to follow the movement, some even did not submit as we see; they remained among the savages and the Métis, or returned there later. But it suffices to follow their history and their fate, in order to properly appreciate with what wisdom and what accurate foresight D’Aulnay settled far from the allurements of the wild, at Port-Royal. Within this center exclusively agricultural and French, it was easier for him to prepare the future of the community that he proceeded to create, because it is in the practice of a very steady occupation, and of an enduring economy that fashion little by little the strong manners and customs of the Acadian people. “4507,4508

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“ PORT-ROYAL

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PAUL GUEDRY dit GRIVOIS (1), né en 1701, fils de Claude et de Marguerite Petitpas, marié, vers 1720, à Anne Mius d’Entremont. Enfants: Jacques, 1724; Jean, 1730; Marguerite, 1732; Thomas, 1733; Pierre, 1741; Paul, 1742; Jean, dit P’tit Jean, 1743; Françoise, 1750.

(1) Il portait le nom de Grivois dans les registres de Port-Lajoie, en 1749, ce nom est aussi devenu Grivas. “

Translation:
“ PORT-ROYAL

. . . .

PAUL GUEDRY dit GRIVOIS (1), born in 1701, son of Claude and of Marguerite Petitpas, married about 1720 to Anne Mius d’Entremont. Children: Jacques, 1724; Jean, 1730; Marguerite, 1732; Thomas, 1733; Pierre, 1741; Paul, 1742; Jean, dit P’tit Jean, 1743; Françoise, 1750.

(1) He carried the name of Grivois in the registers of Port-Lajoie in 1749, this name also has become Grivas. “4788

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“ PORT-ROYAL

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PAUL GUEDRY dit GRIVOIS (54), 1701, fils de Claude et de Marguerite Petitpas, marié, vers 1720, à Anne Mius d’Azit, de Pobomcoup, sans doute la fille de Philippe, fils, et de Marie, une sauvagesse qu’il avait épousée. Enfants: Judith, 1721; Jacques, 1724; Jean, 1730; Marguerite, 1732; Thomas, 1733; Paul, 1742; Petit-Jean, 1743; François, 1749. Il a aussi demeuré à Mirliguoèche, sur les côtes de l’Est. Il était à la baie des Espagnols, au Cap-Breton, en 1752.

(54) Certains de ses descendants portent les noms de Grivois et de Grivas. “

Translation:
“ PORT-ROYAL

. . . .

PAUL GUEDRY dit GRIVOIS (54), 1701, son of Claude and of Marguerite Petitpas, married about 1720 to Anne Mius d’Azit of Pobomcoup, without doubt the daughter of Philippe, fils and of Marie, a Savage whom he had wed. Children: Judith, 1721; Jacques, 1724; Jean, 1730; Marguerite, 1732; Thomas, 1733; Paul, 1742; Petit-Jean, 1743; François, 1749. He also lived at Mirliguoèche on the East Coast. He was at the Bay des Espagnols at Cap-Breton in 1752.

(54) Certain of his descendants carry the names of Grivois and of Grivas. “4766

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“ PORT-ROYAL

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JEAN GUEDRY, 1730, fils de Paul et d’Anne Mius d’Azit, marié, vers 1755, à Marie LeBlanc. Enfants: Jean, 1757; Alexandre, 1760; Joseph, 1763; Marie-Marguerite, 1765; Jacques, 1767; Marie-Josephe, vers 1770. Il était à Ristigouche, à la baie des Chaleurs, en 1760; prisonnier des Anglais, à Halifax, de 1760 à 1763. Il était à Miquelon en 1766 et en France vers 1767. Il s’embarque sur le Beaumont, à destination de la Louisiane, le 11 juin 1785, avec sa femme, ses fils Jean et Jacques, ainsi que sa fille Marie-Josephe. “

Translation:
“ PORT-ROYAL

. . . .

JEAN GUEDRY, 1730, son of Paul and of Anne Mius d’Azit, married about 1755 to Marie LeBlanc. Children: Jean, 1757; Alexandre, 1760; Joseph, 1763; Marie-Marguerite, 1765; Jacques, 1767; Marie-Josephe, about 1770. He was at Ristigouche at the Bay des Chaleurs in 1760; prisoner of the English at Halifax from 1760 to 1763. He was at Miquelon in 1766 and in France about 1767. He embarked on the Beaumont bound for Louisiana 11 June 1785 with his wife, his sons Jean and Jacques as well as his daughter Marie-Josephe. “5567

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“ PORT-ROYAL

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JEAN GUEDRY, né en 1730, fils de Paul et d’Anne Mius d’Entremont, marié vers 1754 à Marie LeBlanc. Enfants: Jean, 1757; Joseph, 1763; Marie, 1765; Jacques, 1767. Cette famille, retenue prisonnière des Anglais, à Halifax, lors de la dispersion des Acadiens, était à Miquelon, en 1766, et s’est établie en Louisiane, vers 1785. “

Translation:
“ PORT-ROYAL

. . . .

JEAN GUEDRY, born in 1730, son of Paul and of Anne Mius d’Entremont, married about 1754 to Marie LeBlanc. Children: Jean, 1757; Joseph, 1763; Marie, 1765; Jacques, 1767. That family, held prisoner of the English at Halifax at the time of the dispersion of the Acadians, was a Miquelon in 1766 and has settled in Louisiana about 1785. “5558

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“ JEAN GUEDRY, né en 1730, fils de Paul et d’Anne Mius d’Entremont, de Port-Royal, marié à Marie LeBlanc. Il était à Ristiguouche en 1760, détenu à Halifax, en 1763, à Miquelon en 1766, en France vers 1767 et en Louisiane en 1785. “

Translation:
“ JEAN GUEDRY, born in 1730, son of Paul and of Anne Mius d’Entremont of Port-Royal, married to Marie LeBlanc. He was at Ristigouche in 1760, imprisoned at Halifax in 1763, at Miquelon in 1766, in France about 1767 and in Louisiana in 1785. “5568
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“ PIERRE GUEDRY dit LABINE, né en 1697, fils de Claude et de Marguerite Petitpas, marié vers 1720, à Marguerite Brasseau, fille de Pierre et d’Isabelle Forest. Enfants: Marie-Josephe, 1722; Pierre, 1723; Charles, 1726; Marguerite, 1727; Hélène, 1729; Anselme, vers 1730; Joseph, 1731; Jean, 1735; Augustin, 1740; Agnès, 1742. “

Translation:
“ PIERRE GUEDRY dit LABINE, born in 1697, son of Claude and of Marguerite Petitpas, married about 1720 to Marguerite Brasseau, daughter of Pierre and of Isabelle Forest. Children: Marie-Josephe, 1722; Pierre, 1723; Charles, 1726; Marguerite, 1727; Hélène, 1729; Anselme, about 1730; Joseph, 1731; Jean, 1735; Augustin, 1740; Agnès, 1742. “4509

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“ PIERRE GUEDRY dit LABINE, 1697, fils de Claude et de Marguerite Petitpas, marié vers 1720, à Marguerite Brasseau, fille de Pierre et de Gabrielle Forest. Enfants: Marie-Josephe, 1722; Pierre, 1723; Charles, 1726; Marguerite, 1727; Hélène, 1729; Anselme, vers 1730; Joseph, 1731; Jean, 1735; Augustin, 1740; Agnès, 1742. “

Translation:
“ PIERRE GUEDRY dit LABINE, 1697, son of Claude and of Marguerite Petitpas, married about 1720 to Marguerite Brasseau, daughter of Pierre and of Gabrielle Forest. Children: Marie-Josephe, 1722; Pierre, 1723; Charles, 1726; Marguerite, 1727; Hélène, 1729; Anselme, about 1730; Joseph, 1731; Jean, 1735; Augustin, 1740; Agnès, 1742. “4766

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“ ANSELME GUEDRY, 1730, fils de Pierre et de Marguerite Brasseau, marié vers 1756, à l’île Saint-Jean, à Marie LeBlanc, fille de Joseph et de Marie-Madeleine Lalande. Il était à Miquelon en 1767. “

Translation:
“ ANSELME GUEDRY, 1730, son of Pierre and of Marguerite Brasseau, married about 1756 at Ile Saint-Jean to Marie LeBlanc, daughter of Joseph and of Marie-Madeleine Lalande. He was at Miquelon in 1767. “5350

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“ ANSELME GUEDRY, né en 1730, fils de Pierre et de Marguerite Brasseau, marié vers 1756, à l’île Saint-Jean, à Marie LeBlanc, fille de Joseph et de Marie-Madeleine Lalande. Cette famille était à Miquelon, en 1767. “

Translation:
“ ANSELME GUEDRY, born in 1730, son of Pierre and of Marguerite Brasseau, married about 1756 at Ile Saint-Jean to Marie LeBlanc, daughter of Joseph and of Marie-Madeleine Lalande. This family was at Miquelon in 1767. “5182

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“ E3 Jean Anselme Guidry (dit Grivois) b. 1730 m. 1755 Marie LeBlanc at Prince Edward Island. This family was at Ristigouche on the Bay des Chaleurs in 1760, a prisonnier of the English in Halifax from 1760 to 1763 (Ft. Beausejour) (7) at Miquelon in 1766, in France around 1767, at Rochefort, France in 1772. Listed as a carpenter when he sailed to LA, on Le Beaumont (family #25) on June 11, 1785 with his wife and children, Jean, Jacques, and Marie Joseph. He acquired a land grant and settled in St. James Parish. Listed in the census of Lafourche des Chitimachas on January 1, 1791 age 60 with wife Marie LeBlanc age 60 and no children. Listed in census of Valenzuela in Lafourch in December 1795 age 68 with wife Marie LeBlanc age 64. Listed in census of Valenzuela 1797 age 69 with wife Marie age 65. Listed in census of Lafourche in 1798 as age 69 with wife Marie age 68.

1. Jean Fermin (Fabien) Guidry (81) b. 1757 m. 1786 Celeste Boudreaux.
Listed as a carpenter, had a land grant in St. James, resident of Bayou Lafourche in 1791.
2. Alexandre b. 1760
3. Joseph b. 1763
4. Marie Marguerite b. 1765
5. Jacques b. 1767
6. Marie Joseph b. 1770

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(7) *Note: I found a statement which said that in 1775 Jean Sr. & Marie were part of the Acadian families taking part in the second convoy leaving Nantes, France for New Orleans. The list, however, says Jean, Sr. and Jean, Jr. were absent. In 1763 Jean Anselme, his wife and two oldest children were prisoners of war at Fort Beausejour on August 24, 1763 (see Dudley LeBlanc’s “The Acadians”. “5569

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“ Jean Anselme (D3) and his wife, Marie Leblanc, were held prisoners by the English in Halifax for a number of years during the expulsion. Anselme (as Jean was called) was probably captured at Mirligueche when Captain Sylvanus Cobb removed the settlers in 1752. Anselme’s name is among a list of 374 names of Acadian prisoners at Fort Beausejour dated August 24, 1763. This list was sent to the Duc de Niverois with an appeal for help in obtaining their release from captivity. Most of these French people had moved from Acadia before the exile and were captured on the Memramcook and Peticodiac Rivers. Some were from Cocagne and Miramichi. It is possible Anselme Guidry was part of the majority of self-exiled although there is a possibility as well that he was one of the settlers rounded up at Mirligueche in 1752. While at Fort Beausejour, the English considered the French settlers to be prisoners of war and refused to allow them to leave. In 1764 Anselme and other Acadians were offered land by the English but Anselme and most of the others refused and left for the Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Anselme lived for a while on Miquelon and then went on to France as had done Pierre. We find him again on June 11, 1785, when he and his wife, along with their children Jean, Jacques, and Marie Joseph, boarded the ship Beaumont bound for Louisiana. Anselme had spent some 20 years in France where he received 6 cents per day assistance from the French King and had been part of several unsuccessful attempts organized by the French Government to resettle the Acadians in various places including the effort of resettlement at Grand Lane, near Châtellerault. “4770

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“ 9 - Anne Mius.
Anne Mius naquit en 1705, même si le recensement de 1752 la ferait naître en 1709. Elle épousa Paul Guidry, dit Gravois, né en janvier 1701; par erreur le recensement de 1708 le fait naître en 1702 et celui de 1752 en 1705. Il fut baptisé par le Père Félix Pain le 8 septembre 1705. Il était le frère de Jean-Baptiste, époux de Madeleine Mius, qui devait être pendu à Boston en 1726. Cette famille fera sa résidence à Merliguesh, comme celle de Jean-Baptiste, son frère. Les Guidry étant dit parfois Labrador, nous nous demandons si ce qui est indiqué comme la ferme de Labrador, (Labrador’s Farm), propriété de Paul Labrador, que l’on trouve sur une carte de Merliguesh de 1753, ne se rapporterait pas à notre Paul Guidry. Aussi ce qui est donné ailleurs comme la maison de Labrador, (Labrador’s House), devait nécessairement étre la maison qui se trouvait sur cette ferme (a). Nous parlerons davantage des Labrador au chapitre 35ième.

Ce fut leur fille Judique qui naquit à Boston en 1722 (b), comme nous avons déjà dit. Agée de 16 ans, demeurent à “Merligues à la coste de l’Est”, cette Judique Guidry épousera le 12 novembre 1737, à Grand-Pré, Jean Cousin, âgé d’environ 21 ans, capitaine de navire marchand et pilote pour le roi à Louisbourg, fils de feu Guy Cousin et de Charlotte M., de l’évêché de Dol, en Bretagne. Le recensement de 1752 le dit natif de Saint-Malo. Notons que Bona Arsenault a tort de placer cette famille à Pobomcoup et de dire que le mariage eut lieu à Port-Royal (c). Une fille de ce couple, du nom de Madeleine, était à Cherbourg en 1767, non mariée, dite “de Louisbourg, fille de Jean ... et de Judith Guédry qui étoit fille d’un Anne Dantremont, parente des Cydessus” d’Entremont réfugiés à Cherbourg (d). On remarquera qu’elle se dit de Louisbourg, quoiqu’au recensement de 1752 la famille de Jean Cousin fût à la baie des Espagnols, aujourd’hui le havre de Sydney.

Marguerite, une autre fille de Paul Guidry et d’Anne Mius, née en 1732, épousa à la baie des Espagnols le 11 février 1754

le Sr Jules César Félix de la Noue, fils de feu haut et puissant Seigneur Messire Toussaint Marie de la Noüe, Chevalier au Parlement de Bretagne, et de dame Marie Madeleine Prassac, natif de la paroisse de Quaissais, évêché de St. Brieux, [quand] Damoiselle Marguerite Guédry, fille de Paul Guédry et de noble dame Anne D’Entremont, natifs de la paroisse Ste Croix en la Cadie, [est dite avoir eu pour mère] une fille d’une Sauvagesse concubine de Mius D’Entremont, Acadien.

C’est pour cette dernière raison que M. d’Ailleboust, commandant de l’île Royale, avait non seulement refusé au sieur de La Noüe la permission de contracter ce mariage, mais lui avait même défendu de retourner à la baie des Espagnols. Le sieur de La Noüe présenta alors sa démission au commandant, qui ne voulut pas l’accepter. Mais le Père Hyacinthe Lefèvre, Récollet, du Port-Dauphin, fit le mariage malgré la défense de l’autorité civile, qui pour cela le déclara “clandestin, scandaleux et abusif et annulé” (a). M. d’Ailleboust fit mettre le sieur Bogard de La Noüe en prison et ensuite le fit passer en France. Le ministre d’autre part suggéra que le missionnaire qui avait fait le marriage soit également renvoyé en France, ce qui arriva en cette même année 1754, apprenons-nous de M. Joubert, capitaine aux troupes de la Marine, qui, dans une lettre du 15 septembre 1754, disait à M. de Surlaville:

Le chevalier La Noüe est passé par order de la Cour, en France, ainsi que le moine.

Le ministre suggérait en plus que la fille et la famille de Paul Grivois soient envoyées au Canada. Ecrivant le premier juillet 1754 à MM. de Drucour et Prévost, il dit:

Rien de plus irrégulier et de plus dangereuse conséquence que le mariage du Sr Bogard de la Noue. M. D’Aillebout a bien fait de le faire arrêter, et le roi approuvera qu’il soit renvoyé en France. Pourront envoyer au Canada la fille et la famille de Paul Grivois. Il est à désirer que le missionnaire qui s’est prête à la célébration de ce mariage puisse être renvoyé en France, et il convient que la justice s’explique sur la nullité d’un mariage si contraire à toutes les règles (a).

Déjà sous-lieutentant de grenadiers dans Bresse en 1743, enseigne de la Lieutenance-Colonelle dudit régiment en 1744, lieutenant au même corps en 1745, enseigne en second à l’île Royale en 1750, son mariage de février 1754 n’empêcha pas le chevalier de La Noüe d’être fait enseigne en pied le premier avril suivant. Après être passé en France, il dut revenir à l’île Royale, car le 20 février 1758 on trouve:

Ordre pour faire servir le Sr Bogard de la Noüe, enseigne à l’île Royale, en qualité de lieutenant à la Louisiane (b).

Dans une liste de lieutenants en pied de l’île Royale, allant de 1747 à 1763, on trouve le Chev. de La Noüe Bogard retiré (c). Quant à sa légitime épouse, nous ne savons pas ce qu’elle devint; nous ne savons même pas si elle put vivre avec son mari, malgré les protestations de l’autorité civile.

Quant à ses parents, ils avaient fait baptiser un enfant à Port-Lajoie le 19 novembre 1749. Au recensement de la baie des Espagnols, île Royale, en 1752, il est dit qu’ils y étaient depuis le mois d’août 1750. Ils ont alors avec eux cinq garçons et une fille (d). Durent-ils s’exiler au Canada après le mariage de leur fille? Nous n’avons rien trouvé à leur sujet après ce mariage.

1016
(a) - Winthrop Bell, The “Foreign Protestants” and the Settlement of Nova Scotia, (University of Toronto Press, 1961), p. 431.
- Collection Northcliffe, p. 24 de l’éd. fr.; p. 22 de l’éd. ang.
(b) - Rapport concernant les Arch. Can. pour l’année 1905, vol. II, 1re Partie, p. 44 de l’éd. fr.; p. 45 de l’éd. ang.
(c) - Bona Arsenault, Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens, (Le Conseil de la Vie française en Amérique, Québec, Canada, 1965), vol. II, p. 876.
(d) - Rapport concernant les Arch. Can. pour l’année 1905, vol. II, 3ième Partie, p. 202 de l’éd. fr.; p. 144 de l’éd. ang.

1017
(a) - Rapport concernant les Arch. Can. pour l’année 1905, vol. I, VIe Partie, pp. 492-3.
(b) - Rameau de Saint-Père, Une Colonie Féodale en Amérique. L’Acadie. (1604-1881), (Paris, Librairie Plon, imprimeurs-éditeurs. - Montréal, Granger Frères, libraires-éditeurs. - 1889), vol. II, p. 376, en transcrivant cet extrait des registres du Greffe du Conseil supérieur de Louisbourg, a fait un certain nombre d’erreurs, ce qu’a copié Gaston du Boscq de Beaumont, dans Les Derniers Jours de l’Acadie, 1748-1758, p. 113, en note.

1018
(a) - Rapport concernant les Arch. Can. pour l’année 1905, vol. I, VIe Partie, p. 195.
(b) - Gaston du Boscq de Beaumont, Les Derniers Jours de l’Acadie, 1748-1758, pp. 111-113.
- Rapport concernant les Arch. Can. pour l’année 1905, vol. I, VIe Partie, p. 505.
(c) - J. S. McLennan, Louisbourg, (1918), p. 343.
(d) - Rapport concernant les Arch. Can. pour l’année 1905, vol. I, 1ière Partie, p. 45 de l’éd. fr.; p. 46 de l’éd. ang. “

Translation:
“ 9 - Anne Mius.
Anne Mius was born in 1705, even if the census of 1752 would make her born in 1709. She wed Paul Guidry, dit Grivois, born in January 1701; in error the census of 1708 makes him born in 1702 and that of 1752 in 1705. He was baptized by Père Félix Pain the 8th of September 1705. He was the brother of Jean-Baptiste, husband of Madeleine Mius, who had to be hung at Boston in 1726. This family will makes its residence at Merliguesh, as that of Jean-Baptiste, his brother. The Guidry were sometimes called Labrador, we ask ourselves if that which is shown as the farm of Labrador (Labrador’s Farm), property of Paul Labrador, that we find on a map of Merliguesh from 1753, did not refer to our Paul Guidry. Also that which is given elsewhere as the house of Labrador (Labrador’s House) must necessarily be the house which is on that farm (a). We talk more about Labrador in the 35th chapter.

It was their daughter Judique who was born at Boston in 1722 (b) as we have already said. Sixteen years of age, living at “Merligues on the East Coast”, this Judique Guidry married the 12th of November 1737 at Grand-Pré Jean Cousin, about 21 years old, captain of a merchant-ship and pilot for the king at Louisbourg, son of the deceased Guy Cousin and of Charlotte M., of the bishopric of Dol in Bretagne. The census of 1752 called him native of Saint-Malo. Notice that Bona Arsenault is wrong to place this family at Pobomcoup and to say that the marriage took place at Port-Royal (c). A daughter of this couple with the name of Madeleine was at Cherbourg in 1767, unmarried, called “from Louisbourg, daughter of Jean ... and of Judith Guidry who was daughter of an Anne Dantremont, relative of the Above” d’Entremont refugees at Cherbourg (d). We noted that she called herself from Louisbourg, although in the census of 1752 the family of Jean Cousin was at the Baie des Espagnols, today the port of Sydney.

Marguerite, another daughter of Paul Guidry and of Anne Mius, born in 1732, wed at Baie des Espagnols the 11th of February 1754

Sr Jules César Félix de la Noue, son of the late and important and powerful Seigneur Messire Toussaint Marie de la Noüe, Chevalier at the Parliament of Bretagne, and of dame Marie Madeleine Prassac, native of the parish of Quaissais, bishopric of St. Brieux, (while) Damoiselle Marguerite Guédry, daughter of Paul Guédry and of noble lady Anne D’Entremont, natives of the parish of Ste Croix in la Cadie, (is said to have had for a mother) a daughter of a Savage concubine of Mius D’Entremont, Acadian.

It is said for that last reason M. d’Ailleboust, commandant of Île Royale, had not only refused to Sieur de La Noüe permission to contract that marriage, but had even forbidden him to return to Baie des Espagnols. Sieur de La Noüe offered then his resignation to the commandant, who did not want to accept it. But Père Hyacinthe Lefèvre, Récollet, of Port-Dauphin, married them in spite of the resistance of the civil authority, which for that declared it “underhanded, scandalous and improper and annulled” (a). M. d’Ailleboust put Sieur Bogard de La Noüe in prison and afterward made him go to France. The minister of another place suggested that the missionary who had married them be also returned to France where he arrived in the same year 1754, we learn from M. Joubert, captain of the troops of the Navy, who, in a letter of 15 September 1754, said to M. de Surlaville:

The Chevalier La Noüe is taken by order of the Court to France at the same time as the friar.

The minister suggested in addition that the daughter and family of Paul Grivois be sent to Canada. Writing the first of July 1754 to MM. de Drucour and Prévost, he says:

Nothing more irregular and of more dangerous consequence than the marriage of Sr Bogard de la Noue. M. D’Aillebout has rightly stopped the thing and the king approved that he be returned to France. Should send to Canada the daughter and the family of Paul Grivois. He desires that the missionary who has lent himself to the celebration of that marriage be returned to France and he agrees that justice is cleared up about the nullity of a marriage if contrary to all the laws (a).

Already sub-lieutenant of the grenadiers in Bresse in 1743, ensign of the Lieutenant Colonel of the said regiment in 1744, lieutenant of the same corps in 1745, second ensign at Île Royale in 1750, his marriage of February 1754 prevented the Chevalier de La Noüe from being made ensign on foot the first of April following. After being sent to France, he had to return to Île Royale because the 20th of February 1758 we find:

Order served Sr Bogard de la Noüe, ensign at Île Royale, in rank of lieutenant at Louisiana (b).

In a list of lieutenants on foot at Île Royale going from 1747 to 1763 we find the Chev. de La Noüe Bogard retired (c). As for his legitimate wife, we do not know what became of her; we do not even know if she was able to live with her husband in spite of the protests of the civil authority.

As for her parents, they had a child baptized at Port-Lajoie the 19th of November 1749. In the census of Baie des Espagnols, Île Royale in 1752, it is said that they were there since the month of August 1750. They have at that time with them five boys and one girl (d). Did they have to exile themselves to Canada after the marriage of their daughter? We have found nothing on their account after that marriage.

1016
(a) - Winthrop Bell, The “Foreign Protestants” and the Settlement of Nova Scotia, (University of Toronto Press, 1961), p. 431.
- Collection Northcliffe, p. 24 of the Fr. ed.; p. 22 of the Eng. ed.
(b) - Rapport concernant les Arch. Can. pour l’année 1905, vol. II, 1st Part, p. 44 of the Fr. ed.; p. 45 of the Eng. ed.
(c) - Bona Arsenault, Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens, (Le Conseil de la Vie française en Amérique, Québec, Canada, 1965), vol. II, p. 876.
(d) - Rapport concernant les Arch. Can. pour l’année 1905, vol. II, 3rd Part, p. 202 of the Fr. ed.; p. 144 of the Eng. ed.

1017
(a) - Rapport concernant les Arch. Can. pour l’année 1905, vol. I, 6th Part, pp. 492-3.
(b) - Rameau de Saint-Père, Une Colonie Féodale en Amérique. L’Acadie. (1604-1881), (Paris, Librairie Plon, imprimeurs-éditeurs. - Montréal, Granger Frères, libraires-éditeurs. - 1889), vol. II, p. 376, in transcribing that extract from the registers of the Clerk’s Officer of the Superior Council of Louisbourg, has made a certain number of errors which Gaston du Boscq de Beaumont has copied in Les Derniers Jours de l’Acadie, 1748-1758, p. 113, in note.

1018
(a) - Rapport concernant les Arch. Can. pour l’année 1905, vol. I, 6th Part, p. 195.
(b) - Gaston du Boscq de Beaumont, Les Derniers Jours de l’Acadie, 1748-1758, pp. 111-113.
- Rapport concernant les Arch. Can. pour l’année 1905, vol. I, 6th Part, p. 505.
(c) - J. S. McLennan, Louisbourg, (1918), p. 343.
(d) - Rapport concernant les Arch. Can. pour l’année 1905, vol. I, 1st Part, p. 45 of the Fr. ed.; p. 46 of the Eng. ed. “4702

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“ TOUR OF INSPECTION MADE BY THE SIEUR DE LA ROQUE. CENSUS. 1752.

CENSUS OF THE SETTLERS IN THE BAYE DES ESPAGNOLS.

. . . .

Paul Guedry, ploughman, native of la Cadie, aged 45 years. Married to Anne Mus, native of la Cadie, aged 43 years. They will have been in the Baye des Espagnols two years at the commencement of August, and have been given rations for that time.
They have five sons and one daughter: --
Jean aged 22 years;
Thomas, aged 19 years;
Paul, aged 10 years;
Petitjan, aged 9 years;
François, aged 2 years;
Margueritte, aged 20 years;
The dwelling in which they are settled was given them by Messieurs Desherbiers and Prevost. They have cleared land of about two arpents in extent, where they have grown cabbage, turnips and beans in abundance. In addition, they have a good deal of fallow land where they will sow seed this year. “4800

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“ - NOTE INFORMATIVE -

La tournée d’inspection La Roque, en 1752, a fait l’inventaire suivant en ce qui concerne les familles Guildry demeurant alors sur l’Isle Saint-Jean: en voici l’énumération:
Pte-à-la-Jeunesse: Charles Guédry + Magdeleine Hébert: deux enfants .........................
Baie-aux-Espagnols: Paul Guédry + Anne Mius d’Entremont: six enfants .........................
Ibidem: Joseph Guédry + Marie-Josephte Benoit: trois enfants .......................................
Rivière-de-Miré: Joseph Guédry: célibataire, âgé de 20 ans .............................................
Anse-au-Matelot: Claude Guédry + Anne Terriot: trois enfants .......................................
Bédec: Jacques Guédry dit Griovye + Brigitte Le Jeune: trois enfants .............................
N.B. - Vous aurez sans doute remarqué qu’a l’encontre de nos Acadiens de Saint-Jacques de l’Achigan, les Guildry-Labine, ils se nomment Guédry.

Translation:
“ - INFORMATIONAL NOTES -

The journey of the La Roque survey in 1752 has made the following inventory with regard to the Guildry families living at that time on Ile Saint-Jean: here is the enumeration:
Pte-à-la-Jeunesse: Charles Guédry + Magdeleine Hébert: two children ...................................
Baie-aux-Espagnols: Paul Guédry + Anne Mius d’Entremont: six children ................................
Same: Joseph Guédry + Marie-Josephte Benoit: three children ...............................................
Rivière-de-Miré: Joseph Guédry: single, age of 20 years .........................................................
Anse-au-Matelot: Claude Guédry + Anne Terriot: three children .............................................
Bédec: Jacques Guédry dit Grivoye + Brigitte Le Jeune: three children ...................................
N.B. - You will have with doubt observed that contrary to our Acadians of Saint-Jacques de l’Achigan, the Guildry-Labine, these are called Guédry. “4829

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“ Recensement Général des habitans des Ports et havres de l’Isle Royale . . . fait en Juillet et Aoust 1753.

. . . .

Bras du Ouest

. . . .

Paul Grivois Hommes 1; Femmes 1; Garçons 5; Filles 1; Boeufs 2; Vaches 2; Veaux 2; Cochons 4; Truyes 4; Arpts de terre defrichée 3; Toises 269. “

Translation:
“ General Census of the inhabitants of the ports and harbors of Île Royale . . . made in July and August 1753.

. . . .

Bras de Ouest

. . . .

Paul Grivois Men 1; Women 1; Boys 5; Girls 1; Oxen 2; Cows 2; Calves 2; Pigs 4; Sows 4; Arpents of cleared land 3; Fathoms 269. “4822

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“ ACADIENS PRISONNIERS AU FORT BEAUSEJOUR (ACADIE)

AOUT 1763

(liste communiquée au Duc de Choiseul par Dangeac, gouverneur de St Pierre et Miquelon)
A. N. Col C12-1 f 22 et suiv.

Noms et surnoms des familles qui sont au fort Cumberland autrefois appelé la pointe Beauséjour. Ne sachant signer nous avons fait notre marque ordinaire

. . . .

Jean Guedry X
Marie X
Jean X
Alexandre X

. . . .

Les noms mentionnés ci-dessus sont tous les Acadiens qui sont présentement prisonniers au Fort Cumberland le 24 août 1763. Il y a en outre au-dessus de cinquante families sur l’isle St Jean et le long de la côte qui, nous pensons, sont sûrement dans le même désir que nous; mais ils ne savent pas encore ces nouvelles, mais nous ferons notre possible pour les leurs faire parvenir au plutôt.

. . . .

A. N. C 12. 1; f 22 et suivant. Cette liste a été publiée dans les cahiers de la société acadienne,
7eme cahier, Moncton, 1965, par le R. P. BAUDRY. “

Translation:
“ ACADIAN PRISONERS AT FORT BEAUSEJOUR (ACADIA)

AUGUST 1763

(Official roll to the Duc de Choiseul by Dangeac, Governor of St. Pierre and Miquelon)
A. N. Col C12-1 f 22 and following.

Names and surnames of the families who are at Fort Cumberland formerly called Pointe Beausejour. Not knowing how to sign, we have made our ordinary mark.

. . . .

Jean Guedry X
Marie X
Jean X
Alexandre X

. . . .

The names mentioned above are all the Acadians who are now prisoners at Fort Cumberland 24 August 1763. There are further more than fifty families on Ile St Jean and all along the coast who, we think, certainly have the same desire as us; but they do not know yet this news, however, we will do our best to send it to them soon.

. . . .

A. N. C 12. 1; f 22 and following. This roll has been published in the Cahiers of the Société Historique Acadienne, 7th Cahier, Moncton, 1965, by R. P. BAUDRY. “5570,5566

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“ LIST OF THE ACADIAN PRISONERS AT FORT BEAUSEJOUR ON AUGUST 24, 1763:

This list of 374 names was sent to the Duc de Nivernois with a pathetic appeal to help them get away. Most of these people had moved from Acadia before the exile and were captured on the Memramcook and Peticodiac rivers. Others were from Cocagne and Miramichi. The English authorities considered them prisoners of war and refused to allow them to leave. The next year they were offered land but most of them left clandestinely and reached the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. From there a few went to France but the most part went to St. Dominque and then to Louisiana.

From the Archives National, Fonds des Colonies, C 12 - Vol. 1, fol. 22-26, and quoted in the 7th Edition of the Acadian Historical Society, March 1965 - Moncton, N. B., Canada.

. . . .

Jean Guedry
Marie
Jean
Alexandre “5556,5566

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“ REGISTRES DES ACADIENS DE Belle-Île-en-Mer

. . . .

COPIE DU REGISTRE DES ACADIENS DE SAUZON

. . . .

Déclaration de Joseph LeBlanc, du village de Bernantec.
L’an mil sept cent soixante-sept le six Mars a comparu Joseph LeBlanc demeurant au village de Bernantec, parioisse de Sauzon, lequel en présence de Joseph Babin, Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet et Simon-Pierre Daigre, tous acadiens demeurans en cette isle, témoins, a déclaré . . .

. . . .


Du mariage de Joseph LeBlanc et de Magdelaine La Lande sont nés à Pigiguit paroisse de l’Assomption, sçavoir:

. . . .

Marie Leblanc en mil sept cent trente-cinq, mariée à l’Isle Saint-Jean à Anselme Guedry, fils de Pierre Guedry et de Marguerite Brosseau, demeurant actuellement aux isles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon.

. . . . “

Translation:
“ REGISTER OF THE ACADIANS OF Belle-Île-en-Mer

. . . .

COPY OF THE REGISTER OF THE ACADIANS OF SAUZON

. . . .

Declaration of Joseph LeBlanc of the village of Bernantec.
On March 6, 1767 appeared Joseph LeBlanc living at the village of Bernantec, parish of Sauzon, who in the presence of Joseph Babin, Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet and Simon Pierre Daigre, all Acadians living on this island,witnesses, declared...

. . . .

Of the marriage of Joseph LeBlanc and Magdelaine La Lande were born at Pigiguit,parish of l’Assomption, the following:

. . . .

Marie LeBlanc in 1735, married at Isle Saint Jean to Anselme Guedry, son of Pierre Guedry and Marguerite Brosseau, presently living at Isles Sainte Pierre and Miquelon.

. . . .“5571,4775

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“ MIQUELON RECENSEMENT DE MAY 1767

Familles Acadiennes qui sont maintenant, aux iles St Pierre et Miquelon suivant le recensement d’icelles, fait le 15 mai 1767

. . . .

Jean Guédry (venu id) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 ans
Marie LeBlanc, sa femme . . . . . . . . . . . 30 “
Jean Guédry, leur fils . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 “
Joseph “ , leur fils . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 “
Marie “ , leur fille . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 “ “

Note: The term ‘venu id’ here mean ‘venu d’Halifax’.

Translation:
“ MIQUELON CENSUS OF MAY 1767

Acadian families who are now at Iles St Pierre and Miquelon according to the census of them made 15 May 1767

. . . .

Jean Guédry (came from same) . . . . . . . . 32 years
Marie LeBlanc, his wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 “
Jean Guédry, their son . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 10 “
Joseph “ , their son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 “
Marie “ , their daughter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 “ “4784,5535,5536

Note: The term ‘came from same’ here means ‘came from Halifax’.

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“ MIGRATION DE 1767

ILES ST-PIERRE ET MIQUELON COLONIES 1767

Archives Nationales colonies G1-518 S.O.M.

LISTE GENERALE DES HABITANTS DES ILES ST-PIERRE ET MIQUELON EMIGRES POUR LA FRANCE
(l’Acadie et l’Amérique) LA PRESENTE ANNEE 1767 SUR DIVERS BATIMENTS

SAVOIR:

. . . .

SUR LE SENAULT DU ROI “LA PETITE FORTUNE”
N.B.: arrivé a st martin de ré près de Rochefort.

. . . .

Jean GUEDRY - Présent à Rochefort le 24 mars 1770
Marie LE BLANC, sa femme - Présent à Rochefort le 24 mars 1770
Jean, leur fils Présent à Rochefort le 24 mars 1770
Joseph, leur fils Présent à Rochefort le 24 mars 1770
Marie, leur fille Présent à Rochefort le 24 mars 1770
Pierre, leur fils - Présent sous le prénom de Jacques à Rochefort en 1770 ? Semblerait s’être
embarqué pour la Louisiane “

Translation:
“ MIGRATION OF 1767

ILES ST-PIERRE AND MIQUELON COLONIES 1767

Archives Nationales colonies G1-518 S.O.M.

GENERAL ROLL OF THE INHABITANTS OF ILES ST-PIERRE AND MIQUELON EMIGRATING TO FRANCE
(Acadia and America) THE PRESENT YEAR 1767 ON VARIOUS VESSELS

NAMELY:

. . . .

ON THE KING’S SNOW “LE PETITE FORTUNE”
N.B.: arrived at St. Martin de Ré, Ile de Ré near Rochefort.

. . . .

Jean GUEDRY - Present at Rochefort 24 March 1770
Marie LE BLANC, his wife - Present at Rochefort 24 March 1770
Jean, their son Present at Rochefort 24 March 1770
Joseph, their son Present at Rochefort 24 March 1770
Marie, their daughter Present at Rochefort 24 March 1770
Pierre, their son - Present under the first name of Jacques at Rochefort in 1770. Seems to have embarked for Louisiana “5572,5526

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“ Familles Renvoyées des Iles St-Pierre et Miquelon en 1767 Rochefort le 20 mars 1770

Archives Nationales Colonies S.O.M. G1 458.

. . . .

Jean GUEDRY
De l’Acadie; A été retenu pendant trois ans après le dernier siège de Louisbourg par les Anglais. Renvoyé de St-Pierre et Miquelon en 1767. Marin, charpentier - calfat il est employé à la vieille forme du port où il a fait une chute qui lui a cassé les reins et en est resté estropié.

Marie LEBLANC, sa femme
Agée de 38 ans
De l’Acadie, a suivi son mari.

Jean GUEDRY, leur fils
Agé de 12 ans
De l’isle St-Jean. A suivi ses parents

Marie GUEFRY, leur fille
Agée de 7 ans
De l’Acadie; A suivi des parents

Jacques GUEDRY, leur fils
Agé de 3 ans
Né aux iles St-Pierre et Miquelon “

Translation:
“ Families Returned from Iles St-Pierre and Miquelon in 1767
Rochefort 20 March 1770

Archives Nationales Colonies S.O.M. G1 458.

. . . .

Jean GUEDRY
From Acadia; he was imprisoned three years after the last siege of Louisbourg by the English. Returned to St-Pierre and Miquelon in 1767. Sailor, carpenter - calker. He was employed at the old dock of the port where he has fallen and broken his back and was left crippled by it.

Marie LEBLANC, his wife
Age of 38 years
From Acadia, has followed her husband

Jean GUEDRY, their son
Age of 12 years
From Île St-Jean. Has followed his parents

Marie GUEFRY, their daughter
Age of 7 years
From Acadia; Has followed her parents

Jacques GUEDRY, their son
Age of 3 years
Born at Iles St. Pierre and Miquelon “5541,5527

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“ ROLE OF THE TRULY ACADIAN FAMILIES - SEPTEMBER 15, 1772

. . . .

JEAN GUEDRY, 41, carpenter, of Rochefort
Marie LeBlanc, 40, his wife, spins with cotton
Jean, 17, their son, carpenter’s helper
Jacques, 5, their son “5232

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“ Marguerite-Adelaide GAUTROT
. baptized July 20, 1774
. (St. Jean L’Evangeliste, Chatellerault, Vienne)
. sponsors: Alexis GAUTROT and Marie LEBLANC, wife of Jean GUEDRY “5521

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“ STATE OF THE ACADIAN FAMILIES COMPRISING THE SECOND CONVOY LEAVING Châtellerault FOR NANTES NOVEMBER 15, 1775

. . . .

JEAN GUEDRY, 43, carpenter (absent)
Marie LeBlanc, 40, his wife
Jean, 17, their son (absent)
Jacques, 11, their son “5573

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“ ACADIANS IN FRANCE September, 1784

Copy of the list of the Acadian families who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of his Catholic Majesty.*

. . . .

Jean Guidry (head of family), Marie LeBlanc (wife)

. . . .

* This document is found in Archivo General De Indias, audiencia De Santa Domingo (A.D.S.), Legajo 2575. Two separate lists of the Acadians and allied families who left France in 1785 to come to Louisiana, have already been published.
The first publication documented with Spanish archival material is Oscar William Winzerling, Acadian Odyssey (Baton Rouge, 1955), pp. 199-206. The second publication, relying entirely on French archival documents is Milton P. Rieder Sr. and Norma Gaudet Rieder, editiors, The Crew and Passenger Registration Lists of the Seven Acadian Expeditions of 1785, (Metairie, La. 1965).
The roll of the Acadian families appearing in the present compilation is documented by a third source. It is felt that it provides a valuable addition to the already published lists and corroborates that information. “5185,5143

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“ LE BEAUMONT

Departed France June 11, 1785
Arrived Louisiana August 19, 1785

. . . .

List of the Acadian passengers who are to embark on the ship, Le Beaumont, Captain Mr. Olivier Daniel, for New Orleans in Louisiana

. . . .

(25) JEAN GUEDRY, 50, caulker
Marie LeBlanc, 50, wife
Jean, 27, son, carpenter
Jacques, 17, son, carpenter “5201

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“ LE BEAUMONT

LIST OF EMBARKATION - 11 JUNE 1785

. . . .

25th family (4 persons)
Jean GUEDRY calfat 50
Marie LEBLANC, sa femme 50
Jean, son fils charpentier 27
Jacques, idem idem 17



LIST OF DEBARKATION - 19 AUGUST 1785

. . . .

26th family (5 persons)
Juan GUEDRY
Maria LEBLANC, su muger
Juan, su higo
Santiago, idem
Maria Josef BELLEME, su prima


COMPLETE LISTING

. . . .

25th family (4 persons)
Jean GUEDRY caulker 50
Marie LeBLANC, his wife 50
Jean GUEDRY, his son carpenter 27
Jacques GUEDRY, his son carpenter 17 “5533

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“ Liste des Acadiens qui doivent l’Embarger dans le Navire le Beaumont Capitaine Monsieur Olivier Daniel, Pour La Nouvelle Orleans dans la Louisiane.

. . . .

25e famille
Jean Guedry .............calfat 50
Marie LeBlanc sa femme ............... 50
4 Jean son fils ........ ...charpentier 27
Jacques idem .........idem 17 “

Translation:
“ List of Acadians who have Embarked on the Ship le Beaumont, Captain Mister Olivier Daniel, for New Orleans in Louisiana.

. . . .

25th family
Jean Guedry ................caulker 50
Marie LeBlanc his wife ................. 50
4 Jean his son .................carpenter 27
Jacques same ..............same 17 “5203

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“ EMBARKATION LISTS OF THE SEVEN SHIPS ON DEPARTING FOR LOUISIANA IN 1785

. . . .

LIST OF THE HEADS OF FAMILIES, TOGETHER WITH CHILDREN AND OTHER PERSONS ATTACHED TO THE FAMILY (in parentheses is stated the age of the person)

. . . .

LE BEAUMONT

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GUEDRY, Jean (50), LEBLANC, Marie, his wife (50), and their 2 sons “5192

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“ APPENDIX C

Pedro Aragon y Villegas’ list of Acadian arrivals in New Orleans on Le Beaumont:*

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25th - Juan Guédry; María LeBlanc, wife; Juan, son; Santiago, son; María Josef Belleme, cousin.

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* Pedro Aragon y Villegas registration, New Orleans, September 6, 1785, in Cuba, 626, Archivo General de Indias, Cuba (A. G. I.) “5574,5191

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“ Marriage Contract:

Jean Femillien Guedry, son of Jean Guedry and of Marie LeBlanc, native of Acadia, Diocese of Quebec; Celeste Boudreaux, daughter of the late Pierre Boudreaux and of deceased Magdelaine Bourg, native of Acadia, same diocese. Appearing for the groom are Joseph Guedry, his uncle, and Joseph Caillote, his cousin; for the bride are Jean Delaune, her friend, and Abroise Martin, also her friend; and assisted by Christophe Delaune, who reared her. The bride brings to the marriage 100 piastres, which has been confirmed by Sieur Delaune. The groom brings 100 piastres, confirmed by his father.
/S/ Miguel Cantrelle, Jean Femiliene Guedry, Christophe Delaune, Joseph Callouet
/M/ Jean Guedry, Jean Delaune, Celeste Bourdreaux, Ambroise Martin, Joseph Guedry

1786-148
Feb. 24
pp 29-32
#296 “5575,5576

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“ Sale:

Jean Guedry pere, established at Bayou LaFourche des Chetimaches, declares he has sold to Jacques Guedry, his son, land of 6 arpents. It is bounded below by land of Joseph Guedry, and above by that of Dame Widow Martin. The amount of the sale is 300 piastres.
Witnesses: Bernard Andry, Jean Baptiste ___?___
/S/ Miguel Cantrelle, Jacques Guedry

1786-182
Nov. ?
pp 295-297
#322 “5577,5578

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“ Sale:

Joseph Guedry, accompanied by his wife, Izabelle Coumeaux, declares he has sold to Jean Guedry, his brother, 6 arpents of fallow land, situated above his establishment, and adjoining the land of Dame Widow Martin. The amount of sale is 100 piastres, which have been paid.
Witnesses: Jean Baptiste Rougier, Auguste Verret
/S/ Miguel Cantrelle
/M/ Izabelle Coumeaux, Joseph Guedry, Jean Guedry

1787-200
Mar. 26
pp 391-392
#339 “5579,5580

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“ ACADIANS CABAHANNOCEE DISTRICT August 16, 1788

Report on the amounts of corn which are necessary for the subsistence of the newly arrived Acadian families from France who have suffered losses of their crops during the flooding of the Mississippi.

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Juan Guedry, father 4 persons 6 barrels corn
Juan Guedry, son 3 persons 7 1/2 barrels corn

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As stated in an appended letter, these families came from France in 1785. “5581,5143

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1791 CENSUS OF LAFOURCHE DES CHETIMACHAS

General Census of the habitants established in LaFourche which begins on the right bank above at the names Francisco Mathias and ends below at Francois Bruner; and begins on the left bank above at Nicolas Daublin and ends below at Joseph Antoine Arabiy, as follows:

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LEFT BANK

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Jean GUEDRI 60 0 slaves; 6 arpents land; 0 arpents rice; 150 quarts corn;
2 horned cattle; 0 horses; 13 swine; 2 total persons
Marie LEBLANC, his wife 60

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THE FIRST OF JANUARY OF THE YEAR 1791
N. VERRET “5582,5583

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“ 1795 CENSUS OF VALENZUELA

Census of the inhabitants of the Bayou de Valenzuela, their sons and daughters, their Negroes and Negresses, liberated and slaves, age and religion, taken by order of the Most Reverend Senor, Don Luis de Penalver y Cardenas, first bishop of this province, in the month of December of the year of 1795.

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Juan GUEDRY 68
Maria LEBLANC 64 “5584

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“ 1797 GENERAL CENSUS OF THE HABITANTS OF VALENZUELA IN LAFOURCHE

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Jean GUEDRY 69
Marie LEBLANC, his wife 65 2 Total Persons 0 Slaves

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GENERAL CENSUS OF THE HABITANTS OF VALENZUELA OF LAFOURCHE
TWO THOUSAND SIXTY-FOUR PERSONS
APRIL 10, 1797
/S/ N. VERRET “5585,5586

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“ 1798 GENERAL CENSUS OF THE INHABITANTS OF LAFOURCHE

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Jean GUEDRY 69 6 arpents land 40 aprents depth 0 slaves
Marie, his wife 68
Jean LE LBLANC, single 14 6 arpents land 40 aprents depth 0 slaves

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IN LAFOURCHE, JANUARY 1, 1798
/s/ Nicolas VERRET “5587,5588

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The Succession for Marie LeBlanc married to Jean Guidry, also known as Grivois, was filed in the Terrebonne Parish Courthouse in Houma, LA on 17 September 18075551,5552.

Arsenault4778,4779, Rieder4775 and several other references4780,4781,4782,4783 confuse the parentage of Jean Guédry who married Marie LeBlanc. The Jean Guédry, born about 1730, who married Marie LeBlanc, born about 1735-1737, was almost certainly the son of Paul Guédry and Anne-Marie Mius d’Entremont d’Azy. The several references listed above cite an Anselme Guédry, son of Pierre Guédry and Marguerite Brasseau, who married Marie LeBlanc, born in 1735. Without doubt this Anselme Guédry is actually Jean Guédry, son of Paul Guédry and Anne-Marie Mius d’Entremont d’Azy. At this time there is no direct evidence for the existence of an Anselme Guédry, son of Pierre Guédry and Marguerite Brasseau, other than this marriage reference. The confusion seems to have originated in the declarations made in the Register of the Acadians at Belle-Île-en-Mer, France. Since the original Acadian church registers had been lost during the Acadian deportation of 1755-1763, Father Le Loutre attempted to reconstruct the information in the original registers by having each of the Acadian families at Belle-Île-en-Mer prepare a declaration citing vital statistics of their extended family to the best of their ability. These declarations were prepared in 1767 - many years after the original events occurred. Although the declarations are very useful in establishing the Acadian family relationships, care must be used as memories were often foggy and errors crept into the declarations. In the “Declaration of Joseph LeBlanc of the village of Bernantec” on 6 March 1767 it is stated “Marie LeBlanc in 1735. Married at Isle Saint Jean to Anselme Guedry son of Pierre Guedry and Marguerite Brosseau, presently living at Isles Saint Pierre and Miquelon.” The phrase “Marie LeBlanc in 1735” refers to the birth of Marie LeBlanc in 1735. Marie LeBlanc was the sister of the Joseph LeBlanc making the declaration. We know from other sources that Jean Guédry and Marie LeBlanc with their family of three children (Jean, Joseph and Marie) were living at St. Pierre and Miquelon on 15 May 17674784. This Jean Guédry was the son of Paul Guédry and Anne-Marie Mius d’Entremont d’Azy. We have no record of an Anselme Guédry ever living at St. Pierre and Miquelon. All known evidence confirms that Paul Guédry and Anne-Marie Mius d’Entremont d’Azy had a son Jean Anselme Guédry, born about 1730, who married Marie LeBlanc, born about 1735-1737 and who was the daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Magdelaine Lalande. This Jean Guédry and Marie LeBlanc is the couple cited in the “Declaration of Joseph LeBlanc of the village of Bernantec” on 6 March 1767; however, the parentage given for Anselme (Jean) Guédry was incorrect. This oversight is easily understood if one remembers that Joseph LeBlanc was attempting to reconstruct the lives of his five brothers and sisters (most of whom he had not seen in several years) as well as his own life. Since Paul Guédry and Pierre Guédry were brothers and born next to each other chronologically, it would be easy to confuse one for the other. Arsenault4785,4786 should not have listed a son named Anselme for Pierre Guédry and Marguerite Brasseau.

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In his Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens Bona Arsenault mistakenly assigns Anselme Guédry (i.e., Jean Anselme Guédry) as the son of Pierre Guédry and Marguerite Brasseau rather than correctly listing him as the son of Paul Guédry and Anne-Marie Mius d’Entremont dit d’Azy.4787,4788 Later in these same works he does provide the correct parentage for Jean Guédry (i.e., Jean Anselme Guédry).4789,4788 For both Anselme Guédry and Jean Guédry (i.e., Jean Anselme Guédry) he lists the wife as Marie LeBlanc and the birth year of Jean Guédry and Anselme Guédry as 1730. In fact, Jean Guédry and Anselme Guédry are one and the same person here - Jean Anselme Guédry, the son of Paul Guédry and Anne-Marie Mius d’Entremont dit d’Azy.

Jean Anselme Guédry dit Grivois
Jean Anselme Guidry (dit Grivois)
Jean Guédry
Jean Guedry
Jean Guedry pere
Jean Guidry
Jean Grivois
Juan Guédry
Juan Guedry
Jean Guedri
Juan Gedri
Juan Frederic
Juan Frederick
Anselme Guédry
Anselme Guedry