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From: "LucieMC" <>
Subject: Re: Concentration camps in England
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 10:23:35 -0400


Hi Martha and Everybody!

Acadians were imprisoned in Bristol, Falmouth, Southhapmton and Liverpool..

This is on my web site in English and in French on our cousin François Roux'
web site:

The Acadians were exiled in England for seven years. Two ships were lost at
sea during their voyage. Out of 1,226 Acadians survived the ocean crossing
and upon arrival were separated into four groups: 336 were sent to
Liverpool; 340 to Southampton; 300 to Bristol; 250 to Penryn(Falmouth).

Their hell ended on November 3, 1672 at the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
By January 1763 though there had been some births during their exile, only
866 Acadians had survived of the 1,226 originally deported.

Conditions were always bad for the Acadians because they were hated for
being French, for being Catholic and for being neutral - thus the name given
them when deported and while in exile: French Neutrals. Lucie

Lucie LeBlanc Consentino
Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/6106





----- Original Message -----
From: Martha Guthrie <>
To: LucieMC <>; <>
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 9:50 AM
Subject: Concentration camps in England


> Is there any history of the conditions the Acadians were under in the
> concentration camps in England? I know at least one of my families, Anne
> ROBICHAUD, widow of Charles LEBERT and her children Jean Charles, Pierre
> Joseph and Marie Madeleine were in one. I'm descended through Marie
> Madeleine, who marred Olivier LeBlanc. They and their children came to
> Louisiana on La Bergere.
>
> Martha
> Martha Hardcastle Guthrie
> "The cheese stands alone"
>
> You can see my pathetic wobbly first web page at:
> http://hometown.aol.com/lofiwoman/myhomepage/index.html
>
> Coming soon! Martha's "I Used to be a Babe" page!
>

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