Person:Jean Landry (6)

Jean Baptiste Landry
d.Aft 1766
m. Abt 1687
  1. Jean Baptiste LandryAbt 1690 - Aft 1766
  2. Cecile LandryAbt 1716 - Abt 1758
m. 16 Nov 1711
Facts and Events
Name Jean Baptiste Landry
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1690 Pisiguit, , , Acadia
Marriage 16 Nov 1711 Grand Pré, Acadie, Nouvelle-Franceto Marguerite Gautrot, 1
Census[1] 1752 , , Isle Royale, Acadie
Death? Aft 1766

!BIRTH-PARENTS-CENSUS-OCCUPATION-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; pp. 926 & 943; own copy. #17: He was on the 1752 (LaRoque) census, age 60 years; on 1767 Miquelon census, age 76 years, a widower.

!CENSUS: 1693, Les Mines, Acadia, age 3 years.

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-RESIDENCES: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 1402 (Pisiguit) & p. 2241 (Isle Miquelon); own copy. Jean-Baptiste LANDRY, born 1690, son of Jean & Cécile MELANSON of Pisiguit, married to Marguerite GAUTEROT, daughter of Claude & Marie TERRIOT. Detained at Che'dabouctou after 1755, he was at Miquelon in 1764 and 1767, living at the home of his son Joseph.

!MARRIAGE: Diocese of Baton Rouge, CATHOLIC CHURCH RECORDS; 1707-1769; vol. 1, Baton Rouge, LA, Diocese, 1978; pp. 51 & 75; California State Library Sutro, F377 B3C3 v.1; Acadian records from Grand Pré, carried into exile to St. Gabriel Church of Iberville, LA. Jean Baptist [sic] LANDRY, son of Jean & Cecille MELANCON, married on 16 Sep 1711 [sic] to Marguerite GOTROT, daughter of Claude & Marie TERRIOT. Recorded (SGA-1, 53).

!RESIDENCE: Charles Samson, "Our Acadian Heritage:" Jean-Baptiste's name is included on the Oath Petition, signed Decemeber 23, 1729, and the Oath of Allegiance, signed by over 600 Acadians from the Mines, Coquebid, Pisiguit and Beaubassin villiages, in April 1730." (Chapter 2, Acadian Biography: The Landry Ancestors) Jean-Baptiste emigrated to Cape Breton on August 15, 1751 at the age of 62. Three sons, Jean-Baptiste, Joseph and Alexis accompanied him, as well as 15 of his grandchildren.

References
  1. Public Archives of Canada. Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, vol. II, pt. A. (1905; reprint Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, 1994.).

    Jean-Baptiste LANDRY, age 60
    Marguerite, age 59
    Jean DAIGLE, nephew, age 20
    Marguerite LANDRY, niece, age 18.