Person:Jean Cormier (3)

!BIRTH-PARENTS-CENSUS-MARRIAGE: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 406; own copy. #(12):

!CENSUS: 1714, Beaubassin, Acadia.

!BIRTH-RESIDENCES: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS, vols. 1-6; 1630-1775; Quebec, Le Conseil de la Vie Francaise en Amerique, 1965; p. 915 (Beaubassin); Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Library, CS31 A77 MAIN. Born in 1708, Jean-Baptiste settled in Louisiana.

  On p. 2463 (Louisiana) Jean-Baptiste CORMIER, son of Pierre & Catherine LeBlanc of Beaubassin, Acadia, married at Beaubassin on 11 Aug 1733 to Marie-Madeleine RICHARD, daughter of Martin & Marguerite BOURG; five children. In 1777 Jean was at St. James on the east bank of the Mississippi [LA].

!PARENTS-MARRIAGE: Milton P. and Norma Gaudet Rieder, ACADIAN CHURCH RECORDS; 1712-1748; vol. II, Metairie, LA, Author, 1976; p. 32; Salt Lake LDS Family History Library 971.6 V2d, also microfiche #6087649; includes transcripts of Beaubassin, Acadia church registers, now at the Archives of the Mayor of La Rochelle, Charente Maritime, France. Jean CORMIER, son of the deceased Pierre & Catherine CORMIER [sic, maiden name LE BLANC], residing of this parish, married 11 Aug 1733 to Magdeleine RICHARD, daughter of Martin & Marguerite BOURG, also residing in this parish. Witnesses: Charles BOURGEOIS & Jean CLEMENSEAU.

!MARRIAGE-RESIDENCES: Janet Jehn, ACADIAN EXILES IN THE COLONIES; 1755-1769; Covington, KY, author, 1977; p. 246, 252 & 259; own copy. Listed as Jean Batis CORMAIE with wife crossed out on the List of French Acadians kept imprisoned by the British at Halifax, dated 12 Aug 1763 [he would have been 55 years old, a widower?]. In notes, he was married to Marie RICHARD. He was at St. James, LA in 1777.

1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 406.

   Jean-Baptiste CORMIER, born around 1709, son of Pierre & Catherine LE BLANC.

2. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 406.

   In 1777 at Cabahannocer [LA] he was age 68 years.

3. ↑ Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, ed. Du Grand Dérangement à la Déportation: Nouvelles perspectives historiques. (Moncton, NB: Chaire d'études acadiennes, 2005)
   p. 269.

   "By 1763, twenty-one people went to Mobile, Alabama, on their way to Louisiana.[footnote] 99. These twenty-one people belonged to four families who have been identified by Stephen A. White and others as those of Jean-Baptiste Richard & Catherine Cormier, with their daughter Marie-Madeleine married to Jean-Baptiste Poirier and the latter's sister, Cécile Poirier married to Olivier Landry; the last family was headed by Catherine Cormier's brother [sic], Jean-Baptiste Cormier & his wife Madeleine Richard. These are the first Acadians known to have reached Louisiana after the expulsion. They are said to have come from New York, but there is no doubt that they had been deported to Georgia. Carl Brasseaux, THE FOUNDING OF NEW ACADIA (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1987), p. 102."

   Article by Paul Delaney, "The Acadians Deported from Chignectou to 'Les Carolines' in 1755: Their Origins, Identities and Subsequent Movements."

4. ↑ Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. "Arrival of the Acadians in Louisiana: A Reexamination,The". (Louisiana Genealogical Register (Dec 1985))
   p. 323.

   One of the first 20 Acadian exiles to arrive in Louisiana.

5. ↑ Winston De Ville. Parish of St. James in the Province of Louisiana, The. (Ville Platte, LA, Author, 1987)
   p. 20.

   Jean Bapatiste Cormier, 68;
   Marie Richard, his wife, 51;
   Pierre Bourg, son gendre [son-in-law], 24 [sic, he was 28];
   Anaztazie Cormier, his wife, 24;
   Margueritte, sa fille, 2;
   Rozallie, sa fille, 2;
   Felicitee, sa fille, 5;
   Charles Bourg, orphan, 15.