Person:Alexandre Melanson (1)
Alexandre Melanson
b. , , , Acadia
d.Abt 1768 Snow Hill, Worcester, MD
Parents and Siblings
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m. Aft 11 Jan 1701
  1. Marguerite MelansonAbt 1702 - Bef 1761
  2. Jean Baptiste MelansonAbt 1705 - Bef 1763
  3. Paul Melanson1708 -
  4. Pierre Melanson1710 - Bef 1763
  5. Marie Josephe Melanson1713 - Bef 1767
  6. Alexandre Melanson1717 - Abt 1768
  7. Jacques MelansonAbt 1718 - Bef 1763
  8. Madeleine Melanson1720 - Bef 1771
  9. Cecile MelansonAbt 1721 - Bef 1763
  10. Etienne Melanson1724 - Aft 1786
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m. Abt 1740
Spouse and Children
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m. Abt 1749
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Facts and Events
Name Alexandre Melanson
Gender Male
Birth? , , , Acadia
Christening[1] 1717 Grand Pré, Acadie, Nouvelle-France
Marriage Abt 1740 , , , Acadiato Marie Josephe Gautrot
Marriage Abt 1749 , , , Acadiato Marie Osite Hebert
Census[3][4] 7 Jul 1763 Snow Hill, Worcester, MD
Census[5] Jul 1767 New Orleans, Orleans, LA
Death[2] Abt 1768 Snow Hill, Worcester, MD

!CHRISTENING-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CENSUS-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 1157; own copy. #(23):

!PARENTS: Keith A. Manuel, query "MELANSON/LeBLANC" in LOUISIANA ROOTS; vol. 5, no. 1 (May-Jun 1999); p. 11. Alexandre (married to Osite HEBERT) was one of six children of Philippe MELANSON & Marie DUGAS of Grand Pré.

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES-DEATH: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS, vols. 1-6; 1630-1775; Quebec, Le Conseil de la Vie Francaise en Amerique, 1965; p. 2553 (Louisiana); Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Library, CS31 A77 MAIN. Alexandre MELANCON, born 1716, son of Jean & Marguerite DUGAS of Grand Pré. He married 1st around 1740 to Marie-Josephe GAUTEROT; four children listed. He "probably" married 2nd around 1748 to Osite HÉBERT; seven children. He died before 1769, when his widow Osite HEBERT occupied lot number 122 on the east bank of the Mississippi, in Louisiana.

!MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Judy Riffel, ed., A HISTORY OF POINTE COUPEE PARISH AND ITS FAMILIES; Baton Rouge, Le Comite' des Archives de la Louisiane, 1983; p. 260; Seaside Family History Center, LA 11. Alexandre MELANCON was expelled from Acadia with wife Osite HEBERT and children (Jean, Madeleine, Pierre Jacques, Joseph, Etienne, Paul, and Charles) and sent to Maryland in 1763. He 1st married Marie Josephe GAUTREAU; 5 children listed.

!MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES-CENSUS-DEATH: Gregory A. Wood, A GUIDE TO THE ACADIANS IN MARYLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURES; 1755-1899; Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1995; pp. 165-166; own copy. Alexandre MELANSON, head of household of 8 persons on the 1763 census of Snow Hill, MD, with wife Osite [HÉBERT]. By the 1769 census at Cabanocey [LA] he was not living.

References
  1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
    p. 1157.

    Alexandre was baptized (Grand Pre' Register) on 6 --- 1717. Sponsors: Alexandre DOUVILLE de ---- (who signed with the father) & ---- LANDRY. [The act was torn.]

  2. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
    p. 1157.

    Alexandre died between Jul 1767 & the census of 14 Sep 1769.

  3. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
    p. 1157.
  4. ↑ Michael B. Melanson. Melanson~Melançon: The Genealogy of an Acadian and Cajun Family. (Dracut, MA: Lanesville Publishing, 2004)
    p. 61.

    Listed with his 2nd wife and six children: Jean; Madeleine; Jacques; Joseph; Étienne; and Paul.

  5. ↑ Michael B. Melanson. Melanson~Melançon: The Genealogy of an Acadian and Cajun Family. (Dracut, MA: Lanesville Publishing, 2004)
    p. 61.

    Was he named on this list?

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