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From: "LucieMC" <>
Subject: Re: THE EUROPEAN ORIGIN OF THE LANDRYS IN NORTH AMERICA
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:22:09 -0500
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Hi again Carole,

Vincent Breau married Marie Bourque Abt. 1661 - As you say, Marie was born
abt 1645 died and was buried 19 September 1730 at Port-Royal. Her parents
ANTOINE BOURQUE and ANTOINETTE LANDRY who married abt 1642.

Marie died at the age of 86 Present: Jean Breau, her son and Prudent
Robichaud son of one of the deputies.

Source: Dictionnaiare Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A.
White, page 270

Vincent was born Abt. 1631 and died Bet. November 1684 - January 1685

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A.
White, p 270

Lucie LeBlanc Consentino
Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home
http://www.geocities.com/lucieleblanc.geo
http://www.acadian-home.org
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From: "Carole Brow" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 7:37 PM
Subject: RE: THE EUROPEAN ORIGIN OF THE LANDRYS IN NORTH AMERICA


> Does anyone know anything about the parents of Antoinette Landry? My
> ancestor Vincent Brault married Marie Bourg (Boure) sometime between
> 1659 and 1661. Marie Bourg was a first generation Acadian born in Port
> Royal in 1645. Her parents, Antoine Boure and Antoinette Landry, were
> from Martaizé and La Chaussée respectively. I would love to find out
> more about Antoinette.
>
> Carole Brow
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 10:33 AM
> To:
> Subject: THE EUROPEAN ORIGIN OF THE LANDRYS IN NORTH AMERICA
>
> On the origin of the North American Landrys:
>
> There are at least 4 separate lines (or clans) of Landrys that settled
> in
> North America.
>
> 1st - Guillaume Landry, settled at Ile d'Orleans in Québec.
> It appears that Guillaume Landry's father, Maturin Landry, from
> Neuilly-sur-Eure (Orne), and married to Damiane Desavis, daughter of
> Guillaume Desavis. Damiane was born about 1600 in
> La-Ventrouze-au-Perche,
> Tourouvre, Mortagne, France may have had come to Canada to the region of
>
> Trois Rivieres in the employ of the Jesuits sometime before the summer
> of
> 1643. His son Guillaume Landry, who was born at La Ventrouze-au-Perche,
> which
> was situated between four large French provinces: Normandie,
> Ile-de-France,
> Orleans and Maine, emigrated to Canada sometime in 1653
> =========
> 2nd - René Landry dit l' aisne (the elder), born in France in 1618 and
> believed to have arrived in Acadia ca. 1640
> =============
> 3rd - René Landry, dit le jeune (the younger) was born in France in
> 1634,
> whose date of arrival in Acadia is unknown, and was married at Acadia in
> 1659
> ==============
> Because Guillaume Landry was born at La-Ventrouze-au-Perche, Tourouvre,
> Mortagne, France, and his father was originally from Neuilly-sur-Eure
> (Orne),
> reaserchers have assumed (with no documentation) that the René Landrys
> were
> from either La-Ventrouze-au-Perche, Tourouvre, Mortagne, France, or from
>
> Neuilly-sur-Eure (Orne).
>
> However, because the records of the progenitors of the Acadian Landrys
> (René
> Landry dit l' aisne (the elder) and René Landry, dit le jeune (the
> younger)
> were lost in the many fires that occurred in Port Royal, there is no
> documentation (as yet discovered) that indicates either the parents or
> the
> place of origin of either René Landry.
>
> "..... The reason why it is very difficult to trace early Acadian
> families to
> their places of origin in France is because all of Acadia's early
> records,
> whether parish registers, notorial archives, or others, have all long
> since
> been lost. This is a real handicap in Acadian research. .... I am given
> to
> understand that the Landry name, for example, is well known in the area
> around Loudun in Poitou (N. Bujold and M. Caillebeau, Les origines
> françaises
> des premieres familles acadiennes: le sud Loundais (Poitiers:
> Imprimeirie
> L'Union, 1979) p. 32), but is rather hard to find elsewhere in France."
> (Professor Stephen A. White, Genealogist at the Université De Moncton in
> New
> Brunswick).
>
> " ...... there is no specific documentation to show that either the
> elder
> or younger René LANDRY actually originated from LaChaussée. Even though
> we do
> know that a majority of the first colonists in Acadia came from
> Loundunais
> (Geneviéve Massignon, in her linguistic analysis), and there were
> numerous
> LANDRYS in the vicinity of La Chaussée in the 17th century, it is only a
>
> matter of probability, but there is no certainty, that either the elder
> or
> the younger René Landry came from La Chaussée in the Loudun area of
> west?central France. "
>
> Father Clarence J. d'Entremont states that dealing with the origins
> of a
> great number of Acadians who "were married before 1700, when the
> registers of
> Port Royal were destroyed in a fire; the Landrys are among this group".
> There is ample evidence of René Landry's presence in Acadia, but to
> my
> knowledge, any vital information about him before his showing up in the
> 1786
> census of Port Royal, does not exist.
>
> and
>
> "..... regarding the origins of the Landrys, I must say that there is
> probably no other Acadian family about whose background there has been
> so
> much speculation and wishful thinking. The result is that what we
> actually
> know about the Landry families who immigrated from France to Acadia has
> come
> to be regrettably enshrouded in a dense fog of error and confusion."
> (Stephen
> A. White)
> ======================
>
> 4th - Jean Jacques Henri Landry and Susanne Celestine Sandoz who settled
> in
> St. Martinville in the 1830s, and today, their progeny are concentrated
> in
> the Lafayette, Louisiana area.
>
>
>
>
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