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This illustration is but a symbol. It is not a photograph of any of my ancestors. -M.L.

En 1626 est n� Daniel LeBlanc * dans l'ancienne province de Dauphin�e, en France.** En 1645 il �pousa Fran�oise Gaudet � Port-Royal, en Nouvelle-�cosse. Daniel fut le premier LeBlanc en terre acadienne. Nous sommes de ses descendants. Aux environs de 1632 arrivait � La H�ve mon anc�tre maternel, Fran�ois Gautreau, accompagn� de ses deux fr�res.*** Sans savoir de fa�on absolue, certains croient qu'il �tait originaire de la r�gion de Poitou. Ma m�re m'a dit que son p�re,i.e., mon grand-p�re On�zime Gautreau, parlait parfois de Poitou.

Nos anc�tres furent parmis ceux qui ont �chapp� � la d�portation en terres �trang�res. Ils s'�parpill�rent vers diff�rentes parties des Provinces Maritimes et le Qu�bec.Certains sont venus s'�tablir sur les terres fertiles de la Vall�e de Memramcook.

Apr�s la mort de mon p�re en 1986, je me suis int�ress� d'avantage au pass� de mes parents, � l'�volution de leur vie � travers les difficult�s, les peines et les joies. Alors je me suis tourn� vers ma m�re. Elle a bien voulu �crire quelques pages de souvenirs et commentaires au sujet de la vie durant sa jeunesse. Nous avons pass� plusieurs heures ensembles pour parler du "bon vieux temps". Elle parlait, j'�coutais et je captais sur mon magn�tophone. Ce document est le r�sultat de ses �crits et de nos conversations. J'y ai ajout� des t�moignages provenant de cousins, cousines et amis de mes parents. Il est bon de conna�tre nos origines pour mieux comprendre qui nous sommes. J'esp�re que ce document aidera � mes enfants, Marc et Annie, � ma soeur Andr�e, et aux autres membres de ma parent� � r�pondre � l'�ternelle question: qui suis-je? La r�ponse ne sera jamais compl�te. Ce modeste travail n'est qu'un commencement. Vous serez fiers de d�couvrir que l'histoire de nos anc�tres est un �legant t�moignage de courage, honneur et foi chr�tienne.

ENGLISH:

Daniel LeBlanc, my ancestor from France, was born in the anciant province of Dauphin�e, France, in 1626. In 1645, he married Fran�oise Gaudet in Port Royal, Nova Scotia.

Daniel was the first LeBlanc to set foot on North American soil. We are his descendants.

In 1632, Fran�ois Gautreau, my ancestor on my mother's side, arrived in La H�ve, Nova Scotia, with his two brothers. It is thought that he was from the French province of Poitou.

Most of my ancestors escaped the Deportation, though a few were deported to Massachusetts and Louisiana. The majority settled in the Memramcook Valley, in the south west part of New Brunswick, near the city of Moncton.

.We are all related. Everyone, on the average, must have 4 first cousins, (the children of his uncles and aunts), 16 second cousins(the grand-children of his great-uncles and great-aunts, probably 64 third cousins, about 250 fourth cousins, roughly 1,000 fifth cousins, and some 1 million relatives as close as tenth cousins. The range of 50th cousins will easily cover the planet. ..The average person has approximately one million ancestors with some thousand names just in the past 500 years.*

Click on photo above for facts, anecdotes and stories related by mother........... .....

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* Guy Murchie, TheOldFarmer'sAlmanac, 1999, p.22

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Genealogy

SUMMARY

On my father's side:

Maurice LeBlanc (1933- )

Ernest LeBlanc (my father) (1896-1989) ----------Irene Gautreau (my mother) (1899-1994)

Sa�l LeBlanc (186?-?) ----------------------------Elizabeth Young (?-1888?)

Philippe (� Jorno) LeBlanc-------------------------Sylvie Bourque (1840-?)

Jean LeBlanc(1796-1878)-------------------------Marguerite LeBlanc (?)

Jean LeBlanc (1753-1832)------------------------Marguerite Bourgeois (1765-1826)

Augustin LeBlanc (1724-1786)--------------------Fran�oise H�bert (?-1769)

Pierre LeBlanc (1686-1769)-----------------------Fran�oise Landry (1690-?)

Antoine LeBlanc (1661-?)-------------------------Marie Bourgeois (?)

Daniel LeBlanc (1626-1696)----------------------Fran�oise Gaudet (1623-1699?)

On my mother's side:

Maurice LeBlanc (1933-).......................................Huguette Grondin

Irene Gautreau (1899-1994)-----------------------Ernest LeBlanc

On�zime Gautreau (1844-1936)-------------------Bibienne Bourque (1853-1937)

Simon Gautreau (1799-1871)----------------------Marguerite Cormier (?-1894)

Pierre Gautreau (1768-1864)----------------------Anne Babin

Paul Gautreau (1728-1775)------------------------Anne Belliveau

Pierre Gautreau (1694-?)-------------------------- Marie-Joseph Bujold

Charles Gautreau (1661-)--------------------------Fran�oise Rimbeault (1665-)

Fran�ois Gautreau (1613-)-------------------------Edm�e Lejeune (1622-)

DETAILED GENEALOGY

My father's ancestry:

1.Daniel LeBlanc: born 1626 in France. Mar. 1645 in Port-Royal, N.S., to Fran�oise Gaudet who was born in France in 1623. and died in Port-Royal in 1699. Daniel died in Port-Royal in 1696.

2.Antoine LeBlanc: born 1661 in Port-Royal. Mar. 1680 to Marie Bourgeois. Deux branches de la famille LeBlanc au sud-est du Nouveau-Brunswick peuvent se r�clamer d'Antoine LeBlanc, n� vers 1661, cinqui�me fils de Daniel. Antoine �pousa vers 1631 Marie Bourgeois, fille de Jacques Bourgeois, chirurgien, et de Jeanne Trahan.

A Son:

3.Pierre LeBlanc: born 1686. Wife- Fran�oise Landry, born in 1690. Leur fils, Pierre, dit Pinou, n� vers 1686, �pousa � Grand-Pr�, le 16 f�vrier, 1711, Fran�oise Landry, fille d'Antoine Landry et de Marie Thibodeau. L'endroit o� Pierre LeBlanc s'est install� � Grand-Pr� �tait connu comme le village des Pinou. En 1775, Pierre fut transport� au Massachussets avec plusieurs membres de sa famille. Il se rendit ensuite � Montr�al o� il fut inhum� le 23 octobre, 1769.

A Son:

4. Augustin LeBlanc: born Nov. 25th, 1724 in Grand-:Pr�. Mar. 1752 to Fran�oise H�bert in Yamachiche, Qu�. He died July 14th, 1786. in Yamachiche, Qu�. Fils de Pierre, il naquit � Grand-Pr� le 25 novembre,1724. Vers 1752, il unit sa destin�e � celle de Fran�oise H�bert, fille de Jean H�bert et d'�lizabeth Granger. D�port�s au Massachusetts vers 1`755, Augustin et Fran�oise sont venus s'installer � Yamachiche en 1767. Ils sont d�c�d�s dans cette m�me paroisse, Fran�oise en 1769 et Augustin en 1786. Leurs plus jeunes enfants sont rest�s au Qu�bec, mais leurs trois premiers fils, Jean, Augustin et Charles retourn�rent en Acadie, s'�tablissant d'abord au pays-Bas, puis ensuite � Saint-Anselme.

A Son:

5. Jean LeBlanc: born 1753 in Rivi�res-aux-Canards. Mar. 1789 to Marguerite Bourgeois, born May, 1765 and died June 17th, 1826. He died Dec.18th, 1832 in St.Anselme, N.B.

A Son:

6. Jean LeBlanc: born 1796. Mar. to Marguerite LeBlanc. He dies April 8th, 1878. Jean LeBlanc (� Augustin � Pinou � Antoine), Jean dit Jarno, n.v. 1792; mar. Memramcook 26 Feb., 1821 Marguerite LeBlanc (Pierre et Anne Thibodeau); died St.Anselme April 8th, 1878.

A Son:

7. Phillipe (� Jorno) LeBlanc: born 1838. Mar. in St.Anselme, N.B. Feb. 10th, 1863 to Sylvie Bourque who was born in1840. He died in Dover, N.B.

Children: Sa�l, Josh, R�simond, �variste, Rose, Evelyn, Matilda (Tilda), Jos�phine (m�re de Jeanne qui demeure � Dieppe), Victoria.

8. Sa�l LeBlanc: Mar. Elizabeth Young who died in 1897. He died in Leger's Corner.

A son:

3 Children: Ernest, Willie and Aur�le.

9. Ernest LeBlanc: born October 23, 1896, in Dover, N.B. Mar. Sept.12th, 1932, in St.John, N.B. to Ir�ne Gautreau, born Jan. 26th, 1899 in Canaan, N.B. (small village near Moncton). She died Oct. 31, 1994, in Edmundston, N.B. My father died Jan. 10th, 1989, in Edmundston, N.B.

10. Maurice LeBlanc: born Dec. 16th, 1933, in Campbellton, N.B. Mar. June 11th, 1967, to Huguette Grondin, in Edmundston, N.B..

A son:

11: Marc LeBlanc: born April 20th, 1970, in Edmundston, N.B.

A son:

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My mother's ancestry:

Commentaires sur les origines de Gautreau: Fran�ois Gautreau �tait parmi les premiers colons du l'Acadie. N� en France vers 1613, il s'est mari� deux fois: en premi�res noces, vers 1635, � Marie, dont on ignore le nom de famille, et en secondes noces, vers 1644, � Edm�e Lejeune. Onae enfants sont issus de ces deux alliances. Les troisi�me et quatri�me fils du second lit sont les anc�tres des Gautreau du sud-est du Nouveau-Brunswick.

1. Fran�ois Gautreau: born 1613 in France. Mar. 1635 . Married a second time in 1645 in Port-Royal to Edm�e Lejeune who was born in 1622 in Poitou, France.

2. Charles Gautreau: born 1661. Mar. 1685 in Acadie to Fran�oise Rimbault whos was born in 1665.

A son:

3. Pierre Gautreau: born 1694. Mar. 1716 in Acadie to Marie-Joseph Bujold. Une troisi�me ligne de Gautreau au Nouveau-Brunswick remonte � Pierre, n� vers 1694, quatri�me fils de Charles Gautrot et de Fran�oise Rimbault. Vers 1716, Pierre �pousa Marie-Jos�phe Bujold, fille du notaire Pierre-Alain Bujold et d'�lizabeth Melanson.

A son:

Nous croyons que plusieurs ann�es apr� le d�c�s de Marguerite Lejeune, Pierre convola en secondes noces aved la fille de Pierre Lejeune et de Marie Thibodeau, et veuve d'Alexandre Trahan. Du premier marriage de Pierre naquit � Grand-Pr�, le 11 avril , 1728, Paul, qui selon les notes de Placide Gaudet, revint vers 1761, l'�poux d'Anne Belliveau, fille de Louis Belliveau et de Louise Hach�. Paul Gautreau se noya vers 1775. Sa veuve a �pous� Jean-Baptiste Bourque, veuf de Marie H�bert.

4. Paul Gautreau:born April 11th, 1728, in Grand-Pr�. Mar. Anne Belliveau, 1761, in St.Pierre Miquelon. They lived in Menoudi, N.S., from 1769 to 1775. He drowned with his son in 1775. He had escaped the Acadian Deportation by being on Ile St.Jean (Prince Edward Island) in 1755. He again escaped by fleeing to St. Pierre Miquelon and Ristigouche after 1758. He and his wife were taken prisoners to Fort Edward (Windsor, N.S.) where he remained from 1763 to 1768.

A son:

5. Pierre Gautreau: (dit Petit Pierre). Born on Tuesday, November 1st, 1763, in Ristigouche Village. Mar. Anne Babin in 1793 in Memramcook. He was the founder of Gautreau Village. He died on Sunday, October 23rd, 1864.

A son:

6. Simon Gautreau: born in 1799. Mar. Jan.28th, 1828, in Memramcook, N.B. to Marguerite Cormier, also born in Memramcook. She died Feb. 14th, 1894, in Memramcook. He died Feb. 1st, 1871, in Memramcook.

A son:

Paul, Jean and Pierre ( dit Petit Pierre) Gautreau were thesons of Paul Gautreau, who lived in Menoudi, N.S. Pierre, our direct ancestor, whose son was the father of Grandfather On�zime, was the first in the family to settle in the Memramcook Valley, at a location now called " Village des Gautreau".

Most of the land in the valley was owned by a D�barre, a French huguenot who was a ruthless and crooked landowner. The Acadians were ogbliged to pay hom a land rent. They protested and took him to court. The case lasted 55 years. Dicsouraged fater spending large sums of money to dishonest lawyers, most of the Acadians left the valley to settle in areas now known as Shediac, Cocagne, Richiboutou, and other places in the Shediac area., but Pierre remained. He later invites his brothers, Paul and Jean, to join him. They became the founders of Gautreau Village. The year was 1804.

7. On�zime Gautreau: born 1844 in Memramcook, N.B. Mar. Bibienne Bourque who was born in McGinley's Corner in 1853. They died in Moncton, N.B. They are buried in the cemetary of St. Thomas church, in St. Joseph., Memramcook Valley. The church register entry is as follows: on page 25: "Section 1, partie 1, planche 13, rang�e # 2, 5, 6.

A son:

A daughter: Irene, my mother.

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Documents regarding Moncton and the surrounding townships during the early 1900's.