Recensement 1671, Port Royal, Acadie "Charpentié - CLEMENT BERTRANT aagé de 50 ans, sa femme Huguette Lambelot aagée de 48 ans, point denfans, Leurs bestiaux a Cornes 10 et six brebis, Leurs terres Labourables six arpans."
Our First Families, by James Hannay, in The New Brunswick Magazine. (Saint John, New Brunswick: W. K. Reynolds) Volume 2; Page 46-47, January-June 1899.
"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 Winslow deported from Mines in 1755 but among the refugee Acadians who were gathered under the protection of Fort Beausejour in 1752 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."
