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From: "F. Robinson Givan" <>
Subject: Baiols,Bertrand ,Belliveau- First Families
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:41:04 -0300


The response that I have received since my posting in reference to James
Hannay's, fourth paper on, "First Acadian Families", has prompted me to post
the entire paper in several e-mail segments.

While reading the postings it should be kept in mind that the time reference
to , "now", would be at the time of the writing; January, 1899.
Taken from: "The New Brunswick Magazine", Vol. II No. 1, published by
W.K.Reynolds, St. John, NB, - "Our First Families", written by James Hannay.

Hopefully this will be of interest to many.
Fredrica Givan
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Barbe Baiols, widow of Savinien de Courpon, was probably one of the ancient
settlers of Acadia. The census of 1671 states that she had eight children
living in France and two daughters married at Port Royal. The latter were
Rose Baiols, wife of Pierre Commeaux, the cooper, and Marie Baiols, wife of
Jean Pitre, the edge tool maker. Barbe Baiols, who was then a
great-grandmother, must have been an independent sort of person, for she
maintained a house of her own, although poor. She was the owner of one cow
and five sheep when the census in 1671 was taken. When the census of 1686
was taken, Rose Baiols had disappeared from Port Royal; she was probably
dead for she was an aged woman fifteen years before. None of the name of
Baiols now remain in Acadia, nor does the name appear in any census after
that of 1671.

Bertrand is another name contained in the census of 1671 which has
practically disappeared from Acadia. When the census was taken Clement
Bertrand was fifty years old; his wife was Huguette Lambelot, he was by
trade a carpenter and he was well off for an Acadian at that time, being the
owner of ten horned cattle and six sheep, and having cultivated that year
six acres of land. He had no children at that time, but he may have had
some later for the name did not disappear just then. It was found in the
census of 1686, but not in that of 1714. Among the inhabitants of Port
Royal who signed the oath of allegiance in 1730 was Jacques Bertrand. There
were no Bertrands among the Acadians whom Winsow deported from Mines in
1755, but among the refugee Acadians who were gathered under the protection
of Fort Beausejour in 1754 were two families named Bertrand one from
Tantramar and the other from Petitcodiac. There are now two families of
Bertrands in Restigouche county and they are the only persons of that name
in the Maritime Provinces.

Bellineau is another name which is wrongly spelled in the census of 1671.
This document places among the inhabitants of Port Royal Aantoine Bellineau,
aged fifty , and his wife Andree Guion. They had two children, Jean aged
nineteen and one daughter. In this case it is evident that the letter which
has been taken for an 'n' by the copyists ought to be a v and that the name
is Belliveau. The name is to be found in the census of 1686 among the
inhabitants of Port Royal and was written Bellivault by the enumerator. The
name still existed at Port Royal when the census of 1714 was taken and was
then spelled Beliveau. Among the inhabitants of Port Royal who signed their
names to the oath of allegiance in 1730 were two named Charles Belliveaux;
six others whose names were spelled Bellivau, being unable to write, signed
with a mark. No person of the name of Belliveau was deported by Winslow from
Mines in 1755, but one family of that name from Tantramar was at Beausejour
in 1752. There are now about 175 families of that name in the Maritime
Provinces, of which ninety reside inWetmorland, forty in Digby county,
twenty-eight in Kent and a few in Yarmouth County.
James Hannay

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