Person:Antoine Belliveau (1)

!BIRTH-CENSUS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-OCCUPATION: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 96; own copy. #1: Since the names BELLIVEAU and GUYON (or GUILLON) figure in several records in the parish registers of La Chause'e (Poitou), it is possible that Antoine came from this region. (Reference: G. Massignon, LES PARLERS FRANCAIS D'ACADIE; vol.I, p.51.).

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Placide Gaudet, REPORT CONCERNING CANADIAN ARCHIVES FOR THE YEAR 1905; 1600-1800; vol. II, part B, originally Sessional Paper No. 18 of the Archives, reprinted Heritage Books, 1994; p. 22; own copy. Antoine BELLIVEAU, born 1621, married around 1650 to Andre'e GOUIN [sic]. Three children listed: Jean-Antoine, 1652; Madeleine, born 1654, married to CHIASSON dit Lavalle'e of Beaubassin; Marguerite, married in 1673 to Germain BOURGEOIS.

!BIRTH-IMMIGRATION-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1600-1800; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, vols. 2-6; p. 408 (Port Royal); own copy. Antoine BELLIVEAU, born in 1621, originally from La Chausse'e in the Loudun region, department of Vienne, France (a footnote cites Massignon, vol. 1, p. 51). He arrived in Acadia around 1645, married [in France] around 1643. First child Marie born 1645, married Guyon CHIASSON dit Lavale'e; Jean-Antoine, 1652; Madeleine, born 1654, married Germain BOURGEOIS.

!MARRIAGE-IMMIGRATION-CHILDREN: Acadian Genealogy Exchange, Vol. XII, No. 2 (Apr 1983), p. 110. Antoine BELLIVEAU and his wife Marie-Andre'e GUION left France and arrived in Acadia towards 1645, where they settled in Port-Royal. They had at least two children: Jean-Antoine and Madeleine. A footnote disputes the parentage of Marie, as listed in Bona Arsenault (above).

!CENSUS: 1686, Acadian Census, contains 23 pp. for Port Royal, others for Cap de Sable, Baye des Mines, and Beaubassin; 1686; microfilm roll from Canada, National Archives (MG1, vol. 466, pt. 1); p. 16; Santa Cruz Genealogical Society has roll of Acadian census from 1671-1752. Antoine BELLIVAULT, age 70 (sic), with wife Andree' GUION, also 70, living with son Jean BELLIVAULT, 34 and his wife Jeanne BOURC, age 28, and their four grandchildren.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Nova Scotia, Canada. Recensements d'Acadie (1671 - 1752).

   Recensement 1671, Port Royal, Acadie
   "Laboureur - ANTHOINE BELLINEAU (BELLIVEAU) aagé de 50 ans, sa femme Andrée Guion aagée de 56 ans, Leurs enfans deux, Jehan aagé de 19 ans, Magdeleine aagée de 17 ans, Leurs bestiaux a cornes onsce, et huict brebis, point de terre."

   !CENSUS-NAME: 1671, Port Royal, Acadia [p. 11], name spelled Anthoine, age 50 [born 1621], living with wife 56 and their 2 children, Jehan, age 19; and Magdeleine, age 17. They have 11 cattle, 8 sheep, and no land ("point de terre"). His occupation is "Laboreur" (Plowman). [Where is oldest daughter Marie, born around 1645? If she is married, why not listed in census as are most other married children? Could she have been left in France?] Karen Theriot Reader

2.   Our First Families, by James Hannay, in The New Brunswick Magazine. (Saint John, New Brunswick: W. K. Reynolds)
   Volume 2; Page 48, January-June 1899.

   "Bellineau is another name which is wrongly spelled in the census of 1671. This document places among the inhabitants of Port Royal Antoine Bellineau, aged fifty, and his wife Andrée 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 in Westmorland, forty in Digby county, twenty-eight in Kent and a few in Yarmouth county."