Person:Barnabé Martin (1)

!BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-DEATH: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS, vols. 1-6; 1630-1775; Quebec, Le Conseil de la Vie Francaise en Amerique, 1965; p. 678 (Port Royal); Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Library, CS31 A77 MAIN. A footnote after his name says he could be the nephew of Pierre MARTIN who married Catherine VIGNEAU, originally from Saint-Germain de Bourgueil. He is the ancestor of one of the two MARTIN branches in Acadia. Barnabe' was born in 1636, "would be the son of Robert & Marguerite LANDRY." [But this statement is refuted by others.] Barnabe' married in 1666 to Jeanne PELLETRET, the daughter of Perrine BOURG (who married 2nd to Rene' LANDRY) and a native of Paris. Six children are listed for this marriage. At the census of 1686, Barnabe' had died; in 1693 [census] his widow was married to Jacques VARNIER.

!IMMIGRATION-PARENTS: "Progenitors--Those Most Misunderstood," ACADIAN GENEALOGY EXCHANGE; ; vol. XXIII, no. 4 (Oct 1994); P. 118; own copy; these facts have been verified by the Centre d'Etudes acadiennes as accurate. "We know next to nothing about Barnabe' before his arrival [in Acadia], except that he was in no way related to Pierre. There was no Robert, brother, father or uncle to either."

!BIRTH-PARENTS: Child of Robert MARTIN, born in France, & Marguerite LANDRY. See: Landry Letters, vol. 1, issue 11 (Oct 1994).

!CENSUS: 1678, Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Recensement de Port-Royal," in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE; vol. 22, no. 4; p. 234; sent by PERSI in Jun 1999. On Folio 20: Bernabe MARTIN & Jeanne PELLETRE, with two boys and four girls. They have 4 head of cattle, on 6 arpents of land.

!DEATH: Died before the 1686 census, leaving a widow Jeanne PELTRET and 7 children, 2 unnamed. [The youngest named child is Estienne, age 8. Could the other two children have been born after Barnabe's death?]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} FrancoGene.
2.   Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 1128.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Nova Scotia, Canada. Recensements d'Acadie (1671 - 1752)
   pg. 9.

   Recensement 1671, Port Royal, Acadie
   "Laboureur - BARNABE MARTIN aagé de 35 ans, sa femme Jeanne Pelletrot, aagée de 27 ans, Leurs enfans deux, Marie aagée de 4 ans, René aagé de huict mois, Leurs bestiaux a cornes trois et deux brebis, Leurs terres Labourable et en valeur deux arpans et demy."

   !CENSUS: 1671, Port Royal, Acadia [p. 11], listed as Laborer, age 35. Living with wife Jeanne PELLETROT, age 27, and 2 children: Marie age 4, and Rene' age 8 months. They have 3 cattle, 2 sheep and 2 1/2 arpents of land. Karen Theriot Reader

4.   "Familles Acadienne" by Leopold Lanctot; Editions du Libre-Echange, Inc.; Ottawa: 1994.