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Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s

Jean Naquin dit L'Étoile, a master tailor, born in France in c1662, reached Port-Royal during the 1690s and married Marguerite, daughter of Jean Bourg, at Port-Royal before 1698. In 1700, Jean purchased land from Étienne Pellerin at Bélair, on the river above Port-Royal. Jean died there in February 1706, in his mid-40s. He and Marguerite had five children, including two sons, both born at Port-Royal, who created families of their own. Jean dit L'Étoile's only daughter, Marguerite, died three months after her birth.

Jacques Naquin

Son of Jean Naquin dit L'Étoile & Marguerite Bourg

Older son Jacques, born in c1700, married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Melanson, at Port-Royal in c1725. They settled at Cobeguit, but by the early 1750s they had moved on to Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, probably to get free of British authority.

Jacques, now a widower, sons Jacques, fils, Joseph, and Pierre, and daughters Marguerite, Élisabeth, and Anne-Marie were living at Ance-à-Pinet on Île St.-Jean when they were counted by a French official in 1752.

Francois Naquin

Son of Jean Naquin dit L'Étoile & Marguerite Bourg

Younger son Francois, born in June 1704, married Angélique, daughter of René Blanchard, probably at Port-Royal in c1728. Francois and his family followed older brother Jacques and his family to Cobeguit and then on to Île St.-Jean. Francois, his wife Angélique, sons Jean-Baptiste, Francois, fils, Charles, Joseph, and Jean, and daughters Angélique, Anne, Marianne-Anastasie, Ursule, and Tarsile, also were counted at Ance-à-Pinet in 1752.

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, the Naquins, living on an island controlled by the French, escaped the fate of their former neighbors at Port-Royal and Cobeguit. Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however. After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the victorious British seized Île St.-Jean, rounded up the Acadians still on the island, and deported them to France. Naquins were among the deportees, and many of them died in the terrible crossing.

Ambroise Naquin & Elizabeth Bourg

Ambroise Naquin, age 34, son of Jacques, Ambroise's wife Élisabeth Bourg, age 33, and five of their children--Élisabeth, age 7, Jean-Baptiste, age 5, Pierre, age 4, and Marguerite, age 2--made the crossing on the British transport Supply, which left the Gut of Canso in late November 1758 and finally reached St.-Malo in early March 1759. Ambroise, Élisabeth, and their two older children survived the voyage, but the two younger children died at sea; Élisabeth was pregnant when she left Acadia; daughter Marguerite was born probably at St.-Malo in April 1759, less than a month after the family reached France, but the newborn died in May, only a few weeks old.

Joseph Naquin & Francoise Bourg

Joseph Naquin, age 28, son of Jacques, Joseph's wife Francoise Bourg, age 20, and Francoise's brother Pierre Bourg, age 29, were luckier; they, too, crossed on Supply, but all of them survived the ordeal.

Families of Jacques and Francois Naquin

Sons of Jean Naquin dit L'Étoile & Marguerite Bourg

The families of Jacques Naquin, older son of Jean Naquin dit L'Étoile, and Francois Naquin, the progenitor's younger son, were not so lucky. Jacques, age 63, a widower, called Jean-Baptiste on the passenger list, crossed with two of his younger children on one of the five English transports that left the Gut of Canso in late November 1758 and reached St.-Malo in late January 1759. His health no doubt ruined by the voyage, Jacques died soon after the ship reached port; son Pierre, age 18, died in the hospital probably at St.-Malo in March 1759, a few weeks after he buried his father; only daughter Anne-Marie, age 16, survived the terrible crossing.

Family of Francois Naquin & Angelique Blanchard

Francois, age 54, his wife Angélique Blanchard, age 53, and their seven children also crossed on one of the Five Ships. Francois, Angélique, and five of their seven children--unmarried son Francois, age 26, and daughters Marie-Anastasie, age 17, Ursule, age 14, Marie-Anne, age 8, and Marguerite, age 6--died either at sea or in hospitals at St.-Malo soon after reaching France; only son Charles, age 21, and daughter Tarsile, age 10, survived the ordeal.

The Naquins who survived the crossing to France endured the frustrations of life in the mother country for a quarter of a century.

Ambroise and Elisabeth

Ambroise remained a plowman. He and wife Élisabeth settled in the town of St.-Suliac, near St.-Malo, and had more children in France, all born at St.-Suliac--daughter Marguerite-Suline, born in October 1760 but died at age 1 in December 1761, son Ambroise-Francois, born in May 1763 but died at age 11 in March 1774, twin sons Joseph-Jacques and Pierre-Paul, born in January 1766, and daughter Madeleine-Hélène born in October 1768 but died at age 8 in 1776.

Anne-Marie Naquin & Pierre Borg

Ambroise's sister Anne-Marie, called Marie, also survived the crossing to St.-Malo and married Pierre, son of Francois Borg, at St.-Suliac, near St.-Malo, in January 1761. They raised a large family, but most of their children also died young.

Charles Naquin & Thomas Doiron

Ambroise's cousin Charles married Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Thomas Doiron, at St.-Suliac in November 1765. Charles worked as a day-laborer. Daughter Anne was born c1767 in St.-Malo, daughter Ives or Olive in September 1769, and son Jean-Charles in September 1771.

Anne Naquin & Francois Gautreaux

Charles' sister Anne survived the crossing to St.-Malo on one of the Five Ships with her husband Francois Gautreaux, but they had lost all four of their children at sea. Anne and Francois had a daughter, Rose-Marie Gautreaux, at Plouër in December 1762, but in less than a year Anne was a widow with an infant daughter to support. She remarried to widower Charles Dugas at St.-Suliac in September 1765.

Leigne-les-bois

Ambroise, Charles, Anne-Marie and their families participated in the Leigne-les-bois settlement scheme in the early 1770s. This was an attempt by French authorities to settle Acadians who were languishing in the port cities on marginal land owned by an influential nobleman in the Poitou region. Charles's younger sister Tarsile married Hilaire, son of fellow Acadian Jean Clément, at Leigne-les-bois in October 1774. When the venture failed after two years of effort, Ambroise and Anne-Marie, with their families, retreated in late 1775 to the port city of Nantes with the majority of the Poitou Acadians and survived on government hand outs and whatever work they could find. But Charles and his family remained in Poitou, where more children were born to them--Marguerite-Ludivine in February 1775, Renée in February 1777, and Paul at Archigny in May 1780. But by the early 1780s, Charles, too, had moved his family to Nantes. His younger sister Tarsile died in April 1784, in her late 30s, and was buried at St.-Nicolas, Nantes; she left behind her husband Hilaire Clément and two young children.

When the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, all of the Naquins agreed to take it. They were finished with life in a mother country that neglected its Acadian children and were ready for the challenges of the New World ... again.

LOUISIANA: RIVER SETTLEMENTS

The Naquins from France--two families and two wives--sailed to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in September 1785. Le St.-Rémi had been the most crowded of the Seven Ships, and scurvy and smallpox took its toll of passengers both on the crossing and after the ship reached Louisiana. The Naquins followed the majority of the passengers from their ship to the Acadian community of Ascension, also called Lafourche des Chitimachas, on the river above New Orleans, near the confluence with Bayou Lafourche.

When the Spanish counted the Acadians at Ascension in January 1788, neither Ambroise Naquin nor his wife Élisabeth Bourg appeared in the census, so they may not have survived the crossing to Louisiana, or disease may have claimed them soon after they reached the colony. They had taken with them their twin sons Joseph-Jacques and Pierre-Paul, age 19 when they had made the crossing. Both sons married at Ascension in 1787 but settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.

The other Naquin family that sailed on Le St.-Rémi, that of Ambroise's widowed first cousin Charles, was the larger of the two families. Charles took with him to Louisiana four daughters, Anne-Marie, age 18, Ives or Olive, age 16, Marguerite-Ludivine, age 10, and Renée, age 8, and two sons, Jean-Charles, age 14, and Paul, age 5. Two of Charles Naquins children also may not have survived the crossing to New Orleans or died soon after they reached the colony: neither daughter Marguerite-Ludivine nor son Paul appear in the Ascension census of 1788 with the rest of the family. They would have been 13 and 7 at the time, so they probably died young. Jean-Charles settled on the upper Lafourche. His daughters married into the Dugas and Dupré families.

Two Naquin wives crossed on Le St.-Rémi in 1785--Ambroise's sister Anne-Marie, who crossed with husband Pierre Bourg, a son, and two daughters, and Charles's sister Anne, who crossed with husband Charles Dugas, a grown daughter, and a young orphan. They, too, settled at Ascension.

LOUISIANA: LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

By the mid-1790s, Spanish officials were counting Naquins in the upper valley of Bayou Lafourche. It was there that twins Joseph Jacques and Pierre-Paul raised their families, and more of their cousins married and raised families of their own.

Renee Naquin & Joseph Dugas

Charles's younger daughter Renée married Jean-Pierre, son of fellow Acadian Joseph Dugas, at Assumption, on the Lafourche, in February 1800. Jean-Pierre also had come to Louisiana aboard Le St.-Rémi.

Jean-Charles Naquin & Madeleine LeBoeuf

Charles's older son Jean-Charles married Madeleine, daughter of French Creole Jean LeBoeuf, at Assumption in December 1800.

Anne-Marie Naquin & Jean-Baptiste-Teodore Henry

Charles's older daughter Anne-Marie married Jean-Baptiste-Théodore, son of fellow Acadian Charles Henry, at Assumption in July 1803; she was 36 years old. Jean-Baptiste-Théodore had come to Louisiana aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships from France.

Bayou Lafourche

Naquins set down deep roots in the Bayou Lafourche valley. In 1795, Charles Naquin obtained a 400-acre grant from the Spanish along Bayou Terrebonne, a distributary of Bayou Lafourche, near the present-day Houma. Son Jean-Charles probably joined his father there after he married in 1800.

Only three young Naquins--Ambroise's twin sons and Charles's older son--survived to raise families of their own. Their sons, in turned, filled the Lafourche and Terrebonne valleys with many Naquin households.

Descendants of Joseph-Jacques NAQUIN (1766-?)

See Descendants of Joseph-Jacques NAQUIN

Descendants of Pierre-Paul NAQUIN (1766-1851)

See Descendants of Pierre-Paul NAQUIN

Descendants of Jean-Charles NAQUIN (1771-?)

See Descendants of Jean-Charles NAQUIN

CONCLUSION

The Naquin family suffered terribly during Le Grand Dérangement, especially in the deportation to France in the late 1750s. The years in France also took their toll on the family's spirit. Death continued to plague them on the voyage to New Orleans in 1785. But enough of them survived to secure a place for this family in the development of southeast Louisiana. During the early 1800s, one looks in vain for Naquins on the Mississippi River or the western prairies. Most of them remained along bayous Lafourche and Terrebonne, where their Acadian immigrant ancestors had settled. Others moved farther south to the edge of the Terrebonne marshes, especially around the communities of Montegut (pronounced MON-tee-gyoo) and Pointe-aux-Chênes and along Bayou Petit Caillou, where they farmed, fished, and trapped. Some of them moved west from the Lafourche valley to Chacahoula, east of Bayou Black.

In the decade before the War Between the States, a number of Naquins owned slaves. Pierre Paul, fils of Lafourche Parish, held 20 slaves in 1850, which qualified him as a planter. That same year, cousin Paul Naquin held 13 slaves on his Bayou Lafourche farm. But most of their Naquin relations, especially those in slave-rich Terrebonne Parish, owned no slaves at all and participated only peripherally in the South's antebellum plantation economy.

Dozens of Naquins served Louisiana in uniform during the War Between the States. Most of them served honorably and returned to their loved ones after the Southern Confederacy fell in 1865. At least one member of the family died in Confederate service. Maximin Mertile, son of Maximin Naquin, enlisted in Company E of the 4th Regiment Louisiana Infantry in May 1861 at Camp Moore, Tangipahoa Parish. That summer, the 4th Louisiana Infantry was sent to the Mississippi coast, where its companies were stationed at Pascagoula, Biloxi, Pass Christian, Ship Island, and Mississippi City. Maximin Mertile fell ill and died in a hospital at Mississippi City probably in September 1861; he was only 19 years old. Father Charles Menard of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Thibodeaux, in a letter to the archbishop of New Orleans, claimed that 2,000 people attended the young soldier's funeral on 7 October 1861.

During the war, successive Federal incursions devastated the Lafourche and Terrebonne valleys. Confederate foragers also plagued the area when the Federals were not around.

After the war, Naquins remained on their simple homesteads along the bayous and marshes of Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes. Those who had owned slaves did the best they could in a free-labor postwar economy. A few moved west into the lower valley of Bayou Teche, especially to New Iberia, and, by the 1880s, some of them had moved as far up that stream as Cecilia and Arnaudville in upper St. Martin Parish. One family of Naquins could be found near Ville Platte, in present-day Evangeline Parish, far out on the prairie west of Opelousas. And when the material economy of the twentieth century began to transform the lives of Louisiana's Cajuns, there was the lure of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and even Houston, Texas. But the great majority of the descendants of Ambroise and Charles Naquin remained in the Lafourche and Terrebonne valleys, where, especially in the cities of Thibodaux and Houma, they can be found in abundance today.

Sources:

1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Lafourche Parish; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Lafourche Parish; Arsenault, Généalogie, 702-03, 1506-07, 2564; BRDR, vols. 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; Remembering from whence we came; Roll of the Supply, disembarked at Saint-Malo on march 9, 1759, Family Nos. 6, 11; Roll of the "Five english ships" (YARMOUTH, PATIENCE, MATHIAS, RESTORATION, JOHN SAMUEL), disembarked at Saint-Malo on january 23, 1759, Family Nos. 50, 100, 149, 150, 187; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 80-81, 132; Richey, Tirailleurs, 22, 271; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 32-33, 138; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 634-39; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 113-14, 183; White, DGFA-1, 1247-48; White, DGFA-1 English, 265.

Settlement Abbreviations

(present-day parishes that existed during the War Between the States in parenthesis; hyperlinks on the abbreviations take you to brief histories of each settlement):

Asc Ascension
Lf Lafourche (Lafourche, Terrebonne)
PCP Pointe Coupée
Asp Assumption
Natc Natchitoches (Natchitoches)
SB San Bernardo (St. Bernard)
Atk Atakapas (St. Martin, St. Mary, Lafayette, Vermilion)
Natz San Luìs de Natchez (Concordia)
StG St.-Gabriel d'Iberville (Iberville)
BdE Bayou des Écores (East Baton Rouge, West Feliciana)
NO New Orleans (Orleans)
StJ St.-Jacques de Cabanocé (St. James)
BR Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge)
Op Opelousas (St. Landry, Calcasieu)

Name
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Profile

Ambroise NAQUIN 01 Sep 1785 Asc
born c1725, probably Cobeguit; son of Jacques NAQUIN & Jeanne MELANÇON; brother of Anne-Marie; plowman; married, age 24, Élisabeth BOURG, daughter of probably Claude BOURG & Judith GUÉRIN, c1749; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard Supply 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 9 Mar 1759, called Ambroise NAQUIN, de l'Isle Saint Jean, age 34; at St.-Suliac, France, 1759-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault, France, to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, with wife & 2 sons; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 60, head of family; may have died on the crossing to LA or soon after reaching the colony

Anne NAQUIN 02 Sep 1785 Asc
born c1734, probably Cobeguit; daughter of Francois NAQUIN & Angélique BLANCHARD; sister of Charles; at Ance-à-PINET, Île St.-Jean, 1752, age 18; married (1)Francois GAUTREAUX, widower of _____, probably Île St.-Jean; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, age 24; at Plouër, France, 1759-64; at St.-Suliac, France, 1764-66; married, age 30, (2)Charles DUGAS, son of Joseph DUGAS & _____, & widower of Euphrosine THÉRIOT, 16 Sep 1765, St.-Suliac; at St.-Meloir-des-Onde, France, 1766-72; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 50; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, called Anne NAQUIN widow DUGATS, age 50[sic], with daughter Rose[Marie-GAUTREAUX] age 24, orphan Anne HÉBERT [actually LEBERT] age 11, son-in-law Mathurin DAUNIS age 24, 6 arpents, 0 slaves, 30 qts. corn, 1 horned cattle, 4 swine; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, called Anne NAQUIN, age 56, with son-in-law Mathurin DONIS age 24, minor Jean CLÉMENT age 15, "minor premise" Marie _____ [CLÉMENT?] age 15, 0 slaves, 6 arpents, 0 qts. rice, 130 qts. corn, 5 horned cattle, 1 horse, 15 swine

Anne-Marie NAQUIN 04 Sep 1785 Asc, Asp
born c1738, probably Cobeguit; called Marie; daughter of Jacques NAQUIN & Jeanne MELANÇON; sister of Ambroise; at Ance-a-PINET, Île St.-Jean, 1752, age 14; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Marie, age 16[sic]; married, age 23, Pierre BOURG, son of Francois BOURG & Madeleine HÉBERT, 26 Jan 1761, St.-Suliac, France; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; at St.-Nicolas, Nantes, 1776-84; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, called Marie, with husband, 1 son, & 3 daughters; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 46; in Ascension census, 1788, right [west] bank, called Marie NAQUIN widow BOURG, age 45[sic], with son Pierre BOURG age 20, daughters Jeanne [BOURG] age 21, Victoire [BOURG] age 14, 6 arpents, 18 qts. corn, 2 horned cattle, 1 horse, 8 swine; in Ascension census, 1791, right [west] bank, called Marie NAQUIN Widow BOURG, age 54, with son Pierre [BOURG] age 23, daughters Jeanne [BOURG] age 24, Victoire [BOURG] age 16, 0 slaves, 6 arpents, 0 qts. rice, 100 qts. corn, 4 horned cattle, 3 horses, 12 swine; in Assumption census, 1795, called Maria, age 58, with family of son-in-law Josef D'AIGLE, daughter Victoria BOURQUE; in Assumption census, 1797, called Anne NAQUIN, Widow, age 60, with Anne DUGATS, Widow, 0 slaves, next to son-in-law Joseph DAIGLE; in Assumption census, 1798, called Marie RACIO[sic], Widow, age 60, with family of son-in-law Joseph DAIGLE, including daughters Victoire & Jeanne; died [buried] Assumption Parish 20 Sep 1822, age 86[sic]

Anne-Marie NAQUIN 03 Sep 1785 Asc, Asp, Lf
born & baptized 9 Sep 1766, St.-Suliac, France; daughter of Charles NAQUIN & Anne DOIRON; sister of Jean-Charles, Ives, Marguerite-Ludivine, Paul, & Renée; at St.-Suliac, 1766-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-1780s; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed father & siblings; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 18; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, age 20, with widowed father & siblings; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, age 24, with widowed father & siblings; in Assumption census, 1795, called Ana, age 30[sic], with widowed father & siblings; in Assumption census, 1797, age 31, with widowed father & brother; in Lafourche census, 1798, age 20[sic], with widowed father, brothers, & "orphan" Jean CLÉMENT; married, age 36, Jean-Baptiste-Théodore HENRY, son of Charles HENRY & Marguerite-Josèphe THÉRIOT, & widower of Marie-Félicité BOUDREAUX, 26 Jul 1803, Assumption, now Plattenville

Charles NAQUIN 05 Sep 1785 Asc, Asp, Lf
born c1738, probably Cobeguit; son of Francois NAQUIN & Angélique BLANCHARD; brother of Anne; at Ance-à-PINET, Île St.-Jean, 1752, age 14; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, age 21; day laborer; at Plouër, France, 1759-64; married, age 27, Anne DOIRON, daughter of Thomas DOIRON & Anne GIROIR, 19 Nov 1765, St.-Suliac; at St.-Suliac, France, 1765-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-80s; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, with no wife, 2 sons, & 4 daughters; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 48, widower, head of family; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, age 50, with sons Jean age 19, Yves [actually daughter] age 17, daughters Anne age 20, Renette age 10, 6 arpents, 0 slaves, 60 qts. corn, 2 horned cattle, 4 swine; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, age 53, with sons Jean age 18, daughters Anne age 24, Rennés age 14, 0 slaves, 6 arpents, 0 qts. rice, 200 qts. corn, 8 horned cattle, 1 horse, 28 swine; in Assumption census, 1795, called Carlos, age 60[sic], with son Juan age 24, daughters Ana age 30, & Renata age 18; in Assumption census, 1797, age 61, with son Jean age 21, & daughter Anne age 31, 0 slaves; in Lafourche census, 1798, age 60, with daughter Anne age 20, sons Jean age 24, & Benoit [probably daughter Renée] age 19, & "orphan" Jean CLÉMENT age 21, 8/45 arpents, 0 slaves

Ives or Olive NAQUIN 06 Sep 1785 Asc, Asp
born 15 Sep 1769, probably St.-Suliac, France; daughter of Charles NAQUIN & Anne DOIRON; sister of Anne-Marie, Jean-Charles, Marguerite-Ludivine, Paul, & Renée; at St.-Suliac, 1769-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-80s; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed father & siblings; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 16; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, called Yves, son, age 17[sic], with widowed father & siblings; married, age 19, Jean DUPRÉ, 21 Jan 1788, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, called Olive, age 21, with husband Jean DUPRES & no children; in Assumption census, 1795, called Oliva, age 25, with husband Juan DUPRES, sons Maturino [DUPRÉS] age 4, & Juan Carlos [DUPRÉS] age 3; in Assumption census, 1797, called Oliva, age 26[sic], with husband Jean DUPRE age 32, sons Mathurin [DUPRÉ] age 5, & Jean-Charles [DUPRÉ] age 3, 0 slaves

Jean-Charles NAQUIN 07 Sep 1785 Asc, Asp, Lf
born 28 Sep 1771, probably St.-Suliac, France; son of Charles NAQUIN & Anne DOIRON; brother of Anne-Marie, Ives, Marguerite-Ludivine, Paul, & Renée; at St.-Suliac, 1771-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-80s; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed father & siblings; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 14; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, age 19[sic], with widowed father & siblings; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, age 18, with widowed father & sisters; in Assumption census, 1795, called Juan, age 24, with widowed father & sisters; in Assumption census, 1797, called Jean, age 21[sic], with widowed father & sister; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Jean, age 24[sic], with widowed father, sisters, & "orphan" Jean CLEMENT; married, age 29, Madeleine LEBOEUF of St.-Charles des Allemands, daughter of Jean LEBOEUF & Marie-Renée MATHERNE, 28 Dec 1800, Assumption, now Plattenville

Joseph-Jacques NAQUIN 08 Sep 1785 Asc, Asp, Lf
born & baptized 21 Jan 1766, St.-Suliac, France; son of Ambroise NAQUIN & Élisabeth BOURG; twin brother of Pierre-Paul; at St.-Suliac, 1766-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & brother; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 19; married, age 21, Marie-Josèphe ARCEMENT, daughter of Pierre ARCEMENT & Marie HÉBERT, 17 Apr 1787, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; in Ascension census, 1791, right [west] bank, age 24, with wife Marie-Josèph age 28, son Broise age 1, daughter Marie age 2, 0 slaves, 6 arpents, 0 qts. rice, 100 qts. corn, 3 horned cattle, 2 horses, 6 swine; in Assumption census, 1795, called Josef, age 30, with wife Maria Josefa age 33, son Josef age 5, & daughter Maria age 1, next to brother-in-law Pedro DUGAT; in Assumption census, 1797, age 31, with wife Marie age 34, son Joseph age 6, & daughter Marie age 2, 0 slaves, next to brother-in-law Pierre DUGATS; in Lafourche census, 1798, age 33, with wife Marie age 35, sons Joseph age 7, Ambroise age 1, daughter Marie age 10, 6/50 arpents, 0 slaves, next to brother-in-law Pierre DUGATS

Marguerite-Ludivine NAQUIN 09 Sep 1785 Asc
baptized 25 Feb 1775, Leigne-les-bois, Poitou, France; called Ludivine; daughter of Charles NAQUIN & Anne DOIRON; sister of Anne-Marie, Ives, Jean-Charles, Paul, & Renée; in Poitou, 1775-80s; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed father & siblings; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 10; not in Ascension census of 1788 with the rest of her family, so she may have died on crossing from France or soon after reaching LA

Paul NAQUIN 10 Sep 1785 Asc
baptized 2 May 1780, Archigny, Poitou, France; son of Charles NAQUIN & Anne DOIRON; brother of Anne-Marie, Ives, Jean-Charles, Marguerite-Ludivine, & Renée; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed father & siblings; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 3[sic]; not in the Ascension census of 1788 with the rest of his family, so he may have died on crossing from France or soon after reaching LA

Pierre-Paul NAQUIN 11 Sep 1785 Asc, Asp, Lf
born & baptized 21 Jan 1766, St.-Suliac, France; son of Ambroise NAQUIN & Élisabeth BOURG; twin brother of Joseph; at St.-Suliac, 1766-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault, France, to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & brother; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 19; married, age 21, Anne-Théotiste ROBICHAUX, daughter of Pierre ROBICHAUX & Anne HÉBERT, 17 Jul 1787, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; in Ascension census, 1788, right [west] bank, age 22, with wife Anne age 18, no children; 6 arpents, 10 qts. corn, 1 horned cattle, 1 horse, 4 swine; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, called Pierre, age 25, with wife Anne age 20, sons Joseph age 2, Francois age 1, 0 slaves, 3 arpents, 0 qts. rice, 80 qts. corn, 0 horned cattle, 1 horse, 15 swine; in Assumption census, 1795, called Pedro, age 30, with wife Ana age 25, son Josef age 7 daughters Rosalia age 4, & Maria age 2, & [orphan] Juana BOURQUE age 30; in Assumption census, 1797, called Pierre, age 31, with wife Anne age 26, son Joseph age 8, daughters Rosalie age 5, Marie age 3, & "orphan" Jeanne BOURG age 32, 0 slaves; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Pierre, age 81[sic, probably meant 31], with sons Joseph age 8, Pierre age 2, daughter Rosalie age 5, & "single" [probably his wife!] Anne ROBICHO age 27, 6/40 arpents, 0 slaves; died Lafourche Interior Parish 1 Jan 1851, age 84

Renée NAQUIN 12 Sep 1785 Asc, Asp, Lf
baptized 10 Feb 1777, Leigne-les-bois, Poitou, France; daughter of Charles NAQUIN & Anne DOIRON; sister of Anne-Marie, Ives, Jean-Charles, Marguerite-Ludivine, & Paul; in Poitou, 1777-80s; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed father & siblings; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 8; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, called Renette, age 10, with widowed father & siblings; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, called Rennes, age 14, with widowed father & siblings; in Assumption census, 1795, called Renata, age 18, with widowed father & siblings; in Lafourche census, 1798, called "son" Benoît, age 19, with widowed father & siblings; married, age 23, Jean-Pierre DUGAS, son of Joseph DUGAS & Anastasie BARRILLEAUX, 18 Feb 1800, Assumption, now Plattenville

NOTES

01. Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Ambroise NAQUIN, & lists him with his wife & 2 sons; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1507, his profile in the Cobequid section, calls him Ambroise NAQUIN, says he was born in 1725 but gives no birthplace, says his parents were Francois NAQUIN & Angélique BLANCHARD, that wife Élisabeth BOURG was sans doute la fille de Claude BOURG & Judith GUÉRIN, that they married c1750 but gives no place of marriage, & lists only 1 child for them, daughter Élisabeth, born in 1751, but gives no birthplace; [http:perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm], Family No. 6, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, he, his wife, age 33, & 2 of their children, daughter Élisabeth, age 7, & son Jean-Baptiste, age 5, survived the crossing, but 2 of their children, son Pierre, age 4, & daughter Marguerite, age 2, died at sea, & daughter Madeleine, born 4 Apr 1759, less than a month after they reached France, died age 1 mo. on 4 May 1759, probably at St.-Malo; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 634-35, Family No. 734, calls him Ambroise NAQUIN, says he was born c1725 but gives no birthplace, does not give his parents' names, says his wife Élizabeth BOURG was born c1728 but gives no birthplace nor her parents' names, says they married c1749 but gives no place of marriage, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Élizabeth, born c1750 but gives no birthplace, died 16 Aug 1771, age 21, & buried 17 Aug 1771, St.-Suliac, son Jean-Baptiste, born c1753 but gives no birthplace, died 10 Jun 1766, age 13, buried 11 Jun 1766, St.-Suliac, son Pierre, born c1755 but gives no birthplace, died at sea during crossing to France, 1758-59, daughter Marguerite, born c1757 but gives no birthplace, died at sea during crossing to France, 1758-59, daughter Madeleine-Francoise, born 4 Apr 1759, baptized 5 Apr 1759, St.-Servan, goddaughter of Pierre BOURG, her uncle, & Francoise LE POITRE, died 4 May 1759, age 1 mo., St.-Servan, daughter Marguerite-Suline, born & baptized 13 Oct 1760, St.-Suliac, goddaughter of Joseph MINIAC & Marguerite-Josèphe HÉBERT, died 18 Dec 1761, buried 19 Dec 1761, St.-Suliac, son Ambroise-Francois, born 24 May 1763, baptized 25 May 1763, St.-Suliac, godson of Pierre BOURG & Élizabeth NAQUIN, died 14 Mar 1774, age about 11, Pont Hougart, buried 15 Mar 1774, Pleudihen, son Joseph-Jacques, a twin, born & baptized 21 Jan 1766, St.-Suliac, godson of Jean-Baptiste NAQUIN & Tarsille NAQUIN, son Pierre-Paul, a twin, born & baptized 21 Jan 1766, St.-Suliac, godson of Paul LANDRY & Marie-Madeleine BOURG, & daughter Madeleine-Hélène, born & baptized 19 Oct 1768, St.-Suliac, goddaughter of Alain BOURG & Anne DOIRON, says he, his wife, & daughter Élizabeth were at Ance-à-PINNET, Île St.-Jean, in 1752, that he, his wife, son Jean-Baptiste, & daughter Élizabeth disembarked at St.-Malo 9 Mar 1759 from du Supply, & that the family lived at St.-Suliac from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 138, Family No. 251, calls him Ambroise NAQUIN, says that he was born in 1725 but gives no birthplace, says that his parents were Jacques NAQUIN & Jeanne MELANSON, that wife Élizabeth BOURG was born c1726 but gives no birthplace nor her parents' names,, says they married c1749 but gives no place of marriage, includes the death/burial record of daughter Madeleine-Hélène, died age 8 & buried 4 Aug 1776, St.-Jacques, Nantes, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 46-47, calls him Ambroise NAQUIN, laboureur, age 60, on the embarkation list, & Ambroise NAQUIN, plowman, age 60, on the complete listing, says that he was in the 24th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his wife & 2 sons, details his marriage, says his parents were Jacques NAQUIN & Jeanne MELANÇON but does not give her parents' names, says that they married c1749 but gives no place of marriage, & that twin sons Joseph & Pierre were born in 1766 but gives no birthplace.

Why were he & his wife not in the Ascension census of 1788? Did they even survive the crossing to New Orleans? Le St.-Rémi has no debarkation list unfortunately. If I find evidence that he did not survive the crossing to LA, I will removed him from this list. He & his wife may have been victims of the smallpox that plagued the passengers of Le St.-Rémi soon after it reached the colony. See Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 64.

02. Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Anne NAQUIN, & lists her with her husband, a daughter, & a female minor; [1], Family No. 100, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, she, with her husband Francois GAUTROT, age 34, survived the crossing, but all 4 of their children--sons Jean-Baptiste, age 12, & Francois-Xavier, age 4, & daughters Marie-Rose, age 6, & Catherine, age 2--died at sea; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 342, Family No. 415, calls her Anne NAQUIN, says she was born c1735 but gives no birthplace, calls her first husband Francoise GAUTROT, says he was born c1725 but gives no birthplace, does not give his parents' names, says he died 23 Apr 1763 "in England"[sic], includes birth/baptismal & death/burial data on son Jean-Baptiste GAUTROT, born c1746 "possibly of a previous wife" but gives no birthplace, died at sea during crossing to France, 1758-59, daughter Marie-Rose GAUTROT, born c1752 but gives no birthplace, died at sea during crossing to France, son Francois-Xavier GAUTROT, born c1754 but gives no birthplace, died at sea during crossing to France, daughter Catherine GAUTROT, born c1756 but gives no birthplace, died at sea during crossing to France, daughter Marie-Anne GAUTROT, born & baptized 15 Feb 1761, Plouër, goddaughter of Charles NAQUIN (maternal uncle) & Marie PITRE, & daughter Rose-Marie GAUTROT, born 5 Dec 1762, baptized 6 Dec 1762, Plouër, goddaughter of Nobleman Joseph BOURDE, Sr. de Champs, & Marie LEBLANC, says he & her husband disembarked at St.-Malo on 23 Jan 1759 from one of the Five Ships, & lists the family's residences in the St.-Malo area, 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 290, Family No. 357, calls her Anne NAQUIN, says she was born c1735 but gives no birthplace, gives her first husband's name, details her second marriage, including the names of her second husband's father & first wife, & says she & her second husband resided at St.-Melior from 1766-72; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls her Anne NAQUIN, sa [Charles DUGAT's] feme, age 50, on the embarkation list, Anne NAQUIN, his [Charles DUGAT's] wife, age 50, on the complete listing, says she was in the 31st Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her husband, a daughter, & a female minor.

The family just above hers on the passenger list of Le St.-Rémi is that of her brother Charles.

03. Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Anne [NAQUIN], & lists her with her widowed father & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls her Anne, sa [Charles NAQUIN's] fille, age 18, on the embarkation list, & Anne NAQUIN, his [Charles NAQUIN's] daughter, age 18, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 30th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her widowed father & 5 siblings; BRDR, 2:377, 562 (ASM-2, 85), her marriage record, calls her Ana NAQUIN of St.-Malo, gives her & her husband's parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Joseph BOUDRAUX & Ambroise HÉBERT.

Why did she wait so long to marry?

04. Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Marie NAQUIN, & lists her with her husband & 3 children; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 638-39, Family No. 737, calls her Anne-Marie NAQUIN, says she was born c1738 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, says her father was born c1700 but gives no birthplace, says he was a ploughman & "died during the disembarkation from one of the 'Five ships' in 1759, that her mother was born c1706 but gives no birthplace, that her mother was daughter of Pierre MELANSON but does not give her mother's mother's name, details her family's residence on Île St.-Jean in 1752, as well as her deportation to St.-Malo in 1758-59; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 150, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, her father, called Jean-Baptiste on the passsenger list, age 63 & a widower, died as soon as he disembarked from the ship, & brother Pierre, age 18, died in the hospital at St.-Malo 8 Mar 1759, a month & a half after they reached France, so she was the only one to survive the crossing; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 157-58, Family No. 184, calls her Anne-Marie NAQUIN, says she was born c1743 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, details his marriage, including her husband's parents' names, & includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Marie-Suline BOURG, born 18 Sep 1763 & baptized 19 Sep 1763, St.-Suliac, goddaughter of Alain BOURG & Élizabeth NAQUIN, died age 10 of smallpox & buried 18 May 1773, St.-Suliac, daughter Jeanne-Madeleine-Francoise BOURG, born & baptized 24 Jun 1765, St.-Suliac, goddaughter of Paul LANDRY & Tergide NAQUIN, son Pierre-Olivier BOURG, born 15 Apr 1767 & baptized 16 Apr 1767, St.-Suliac, godson of Ambroise NAQUIN (paternal uncle) & Marie-Madeleine BOURG, daughter Marguerite-Victoire BOURG, born & baptized 24 Dec 1768, St.-Suliac, goddaughter of Jean-Pierre GUÉRIN & Anne DOIRON, daughter Anne-Pérrine BOURG, born & baptized 17 Jan 1771, St.-Suliac, goddaughter of Jérôme GUÉRIN & Marie PITRE, died 26 Jan 1771, age 10 days, & buried 27 Jan 1771, St.-Suliac, & son Ambroise-David BOURG, born & baptized 4 Feb 1772, St.-Suliac, godson of Ambroise PITRE & Sulienne BOURG; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 32-33, Family No. 60, calls her Anne-Marie NAQUIN, says she was born c1733 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, details her marriage, including her husband's parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of son Ambroise-David BOURG, died age 4 & buried 8 May 1776, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, daughter Marie-Madeleine BOURG, baptized 13 Apr 1779, died age 3 1/2 & buried 14 Jun 1782, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, son Jean-Marie BOURG, baptized 2 Sep 1781, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, died age 28 mos. & buried 4 Jan 1784, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, & daughter Marguerite BOURG, died age 16 & buried 2 Oct 1784, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls her Marie NAQUIN, sa [Pierre BOURG's] feme, age 46, on the embarkation list, & Marie NAQUIN, his [Pierre BOURG's] wife, age 46, on the complete listing, says she was in the 25th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her husband & 3 children, details her marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names, but gives no place of marriage, & says daughter Jeanne BOURG was born in 1765 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 4:426 (ASM-3, 153), her death/burial record, calls her Marie NAQUIN, age 86 yrs., but does not give her parents' or husband's name. See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 493; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 25, 68, 109, 111, 156.

Why was her age so understated on the passenger list of one of the Five Ships of 1758-59? Her estimated birth year is calculated from other sources, especially the passenger list of Le St.-Rémi & the LA censuses in which she is found.

Where did the Spanish census taker at Assumption in 1798 get RACIO? Is this a misprint?

05. Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Charles NAQUIN, & lists him without a wife & 6 children; [2], Family No. 149, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, both his parents, ages 54, & 53, & 5 of his 6 siblings perished in the ordeal--unmarried brother Francois, fils, age 26, died in the hospital probably at St.-Malo 30 Jan 1759, a week after they reached the port city, sisters Marie-Anastasie, age 17, & Ursule, age 14, also died in hospital, 9 Apr & 31 Jan respectively, while sisters Marie-Anne, age 8, & Marguerite, age 6, died at sea, that only sister Tersile, age 10, survived the crossing with him; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 636, Family No. 735, calls him Charles NAQUIN, says he was born c1738 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names, details his marriage, calls his wife Anne DOIRON, says she was born c1744 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, includes birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Anne-Marie, born & baptized 9 Sep 1766, St.-Suliac, goddaughter of Pierre DOIRON & Tarsille NAQUIN, daughter Jeanne-Marguerite, born 5 Apr 1768 & baptized 6 Apr 1768, St.-Suliac, goddaughter of Jacche DOIRON & Anne NAQUIN, died age 6 1/2 mos., 22 Oct 1768, buried same day at St.-Suliac, daughter Yves, born 15 Sep 1769, no birthplace given, son Jean-Charles, born 28 Sep 1771, no birthplace given, & son Joseph-Suliac, born 18 Jun 1773, baptized 19 Jun 1773, St.-Suliac, godson of Nobleman Joseph Thomas ST. DE LA CHABOSSIERE & Marie GAUTROT, died age 15 days, 3 Jul 1773 & buried 4 Jul 1773, St.-Suliac, says he & his parents disembarked at St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759 from one of the "Five Ships," & that his family resided at Plouër from 1759-64 & at St.-Suliac from 1765-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 80-81, Family No. 158, calls him Charles NAQUIN, says he was born c1738 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names, says he was a laborer, details his marriage, calls his wife Anne DOIRON, says she was born c1744 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, says she died age 40 & was buried 18 Jul 1782 at Archigny, which is in Poitou, & includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Marguerite-Ludivine, baptized 25 Feb 1775, Leigne-les-bois, goddaughter of Hilaire CLÉMENT & Marie DOIRON, daughter Renée, baptized 10 Feb 1777, Leigne-les-bois, goddaughter of Henry CRON & Renée FERRE, daughter Marie, baptized 5 Jan 1779, Leigne-les-bois, goddaughter of Jean-Charles GUILLOT & ____ NAQUIN, died age 3 mos. & buried 17 Apr 1779, Leigne-les-bois, & son Paul, baptized 2 May 1780, Archigny, godson of Paul GUILLOT & Anne NAQUIN; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls him Charles NAQUIN, laboureur, age 48, on the embarkation list, & Charles NAQUIN, day laborer, age 48, on the complete listing, says he was in the 30th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with no wife & 6 children, details his marriage, including his & his wife's parents' names but gives no place of marriage, says his wife died 18 Jul 1782 but gives no place of death or burial, that daughter Marguerite-Ludivine was born in 1775, daughter Renée in 1777, & son Paul in 1780, but gives no birthplaces. See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 46, 91, 132, 178.

His wife's name also can be found in the marriage records of his children in BRDR, 2:562-63. Though he was only 44 when his wife died, he never remarried.

The family just below his on the passenger list of Le St.-Rémi is that of his sister Anne.

06. Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Yves [NAQUIN], & lists her with her widowed father & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls her Ives, sa [Charles NAQUIN's] fille, age 16, on the embarkation list, & Ives NAQUIN, his [Charles NAQUIN's] daughter, age 16, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 30th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her widowed father & 5 siblings; BRDR, 2:269, 563 (ASC-2, 11), her marriage record, calls her Ives NAQUIN, calls her husband Jean DUPUIS, does not give her or his parents' names, & says the witness to her marriage was Jean-Charle GOTRO. See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 46, 52, 78, 180.

The Ascension census of 1791 & the Assumption censuses of 1795 & 1797 list her husband as DUPRÉS or DUPRÉ, which is not Acadian but French Creole.

07. Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Jean [NAQUIN], & lists him with his widowed father & 5 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls him Jean, son [Charles NAQUIN's] fils, age 14, on the embarkation list, & Jean NAQUIN, his [Charles NAQUIN's] son, age 14, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 30th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his widowed father & 5 siblings; BRDR, 2:486, 563 (ASM-2, 58), his marriage record, calls him Juan Carlos NAQUIN of Diocese of Treguier in France, calls his wife Magdalena LE BEUF of St. John the Baptist Parish, gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Juan BOUDREAUX & Ambrosio HÉBERT.

08. Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Joseph [NAQUIN], & lists him with his parents & twin brother; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2564, calls him Joseph NAQUIN, says he was born in 1740 but gives no birthplace, says he was son of Francois [NAQUIN] & Angélique BLANCHARD of Cobeguit, that he married Marie ARCENEAUX c1765 but gives no place of marriage, lists only 1 child for them, daughter Marie, born in 1788 but gives no birthplace, & says he settled at Ascension; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 635, Family No. 734, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Joseph-Jacques NAQUIN, says he was a twin, that his parents were Ambroise NAQUIN & Élizabeth BOURG, that his godparents were Jean-Baptiste NAQUIN & Tarsille NAQUIN, & that his family resided at St.-Suliac from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 138, Family No. 251, calls him Joseph [NAQUIN], shows that his parents were Ambroise NAQUIN & Élizabeth BOURG, & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 46-47, calls him Joseph, son [Ambroise NAQUIN's] fils, charpentier, age 19, on the embarkation list, & Joseph NAQUIN, his [Ambroise NAQUIN's] son, carpenter, age 19, on the complete listing, says he was in the 24th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his parents & twin brother, & that he & his twin brother were born in 1766 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:26, 563 (ASC-2, 7), his marriage record, calls him Joseph NAQUIN, calls his wife Marie ARSENAU[sic], does not give his or her parents' names, typical of the priest at Ascension then, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Joseph HÉBERT, Ambroise GARIDET, & Joseph TÉRRIOT.

09. Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Ludovinne [NAQUIN], & lists her with her widowed father & 5 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 80, Family No. 158, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marguerite-Ludivine NAQUIN, & says her godparents were Hilaire CLÉMENT & Marie DOIRON; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls her Ludovinne, sa [Charles NAQUIN's] fille, age 10, on the embarkation list, & Ludovinne NAQUIN, his [Charles NAQUIN's] daughter, age 10, on the complete listing, says she was in the 30th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her widowed father & 5 siblings, &, calling her Marguerite-Ludivine, says she was born in 1775 but gives no birthplace.

There was no debarkation list for Le St.-Rémi unfortunately, so if I find evidence that she died on the crossing from France, I shall remove her from this listing. She could have been one of the victims of the smallpox that struck the passengers of Le St.-Rémi soon after they reached the colony, in which case she will remain on this listing. See Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 64.

10. Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Paul [NAQUIN], & lists him with his widowed father & 5 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 80-81, Family No. 158, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Paul NAQUIN, & says his godparents were Paul GUILLOT & Anne NAQUIN; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls him Paul, son [Charles NAQUIN's] fils, age 3, on the embarkation list, & Paul NAQUIN, his [Charles NAQUIN's] son, age 3, on the complete listing, says he was in the 30th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his widowed father & 5 siblings, & that he was born in 1780 but gives no birthplace.

There was no debarkation list for Le St.-Rémi unfortunately, so if I find evidence that he died on the crossing from France, I shall remove him from this listing. He could have been one of the victims of the smallpox that struck the passengers of Le St.-Rémi soon after they reached the colony, in which case he will remain on this listing. See Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 64.

11. Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Pierre [NAQUIN], & lists him with his parents & twin brother; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 635, Family No. 734, his birth/burial record, calls him Pierre-Paul NAQUIN, says he was a twin, that his parents were Ambroise NAQUIN & Élizabeth BOURG, that his godparents were Paul LANDRY & Marie-Madeleine BOURG, & that his family resided at St.-Suliac from 1759-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 138, Family No. 251, calls him Pierre [NAQUIN], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 46-47, calls him Pierre, son [Ambroise NAQUIN's] fils, charpentier, age 19, on the embarkation list, & Pierre NAQUIN, his [Ambroise NAQUIN's] son, carpenter, age 19, on the complete listing, says he was in the 24th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his parents & twin brother, & that he & his twin brother were born in 1766 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:563, 636 (ASC-2, 9), his marriage record, calls him Pierre-Paul NAQUIN, does not give his or his wife's parents' names, typical of the priest at Ascension then, but says they all were Acadians, & that the witness to his marriage was Pierre BOURQUE; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 3:385 (Thib.Ch.: v. 1, #702), his death/burial record, calls him Pierre NAQUIN, does not gives his parents' names or mention a wife, & says he was 84 years old when he died. See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1777-98, 132.

The census taker at Lafourche in Jan 1798 must have been drunk! Why else would he have called Pierre's wife "single"?

12. Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls her Renné [NAQUIN], & lists her with her widowed father & 5 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 80-81, Family No. 158, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Renée NAQUIN, & says her godparents were Henry CRON & Renée FERRE; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls her Renné, sa [Charles NAQUIN's] fille, age 8, on the embarkation list, & Renné NAQUIN, his [Charles NAQUIN's] daughter, age 8, on the complete listing, says she was in the 30th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her widowed father & 5 siblings, & that she was born in 1777 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:257, 563 (ASM-2, 49), her marriage record, calls her Reynalda NAQUIN, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says all of the parents were "of Acadia," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Joseph DUGAT & Ambroise HÉBERT.