Person:Marguerite Gautrot (3)

!BIRTH-PARENTS-CENSUS-MARRIAGE-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 695; own copy. Marguerite GAUTROT, born at Pisiguit around 1693, daughter of Claude & Marie THÉRIOT. She married (Grand Pré Register) on 16 Nov 1711 to Jean-Baptiste LANDRY, son of Jean & Cécile MELANSON. She was on the 1752 census at Louisbourg, age 59 years. She died before 15 May 1767. [First daughter named Marguerite.]

    This woman is 2nd daughter: Marguerite GAUTROT, born around 1705, daughter of Claude & Marie THÉRIOT, married (Grand Pré Register) on 25 Jun 1726 to Pierre BREAU, son of Antoine & Marguerite BABIN. She was on the 1763 census of Port Tobacco, MD; on list of arrivals in Louisiana in 1768, age 63 years.

She died/was buried (Ascension Register) on 10/11 Aug 1773, age 67 years, a widow.

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-CENSUS-LAND-BURIAL: Gregory A. Wood, A GUIDE TO THE ACADIANS IN MARYLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES; 1755-1899; Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1995; p. 102; own copy. Marguerite GAUTEROT, widow of Pierre BRAUX, on the 1763 census of Port Tobacco, MD with four children. On the 1768 census at Natchez she was age 63 [so born around 1705], with 9 arpents of land. She was buried at age 67 on 11 Aug 1773 at Ascension Church, LA (ASC-1, 172e).

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 1171 (Grand Pré); own copy. Born 1692, Marguerite GAUTEROT married Jean-Baptiste LANDRY. [No 2nd marriage mentioned. This would be her older sister.]

!MARRIAGES: Janet Jehn, CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS TO ARSENAULT'S HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1550-1850; Covington, KY, author, 1988; p. 25 (reference to p. 1171); own copy. Marguerite GAUTEROT, born 1692, married 2nd [sic] at Grand Pré to Pierre BREAU, son of Antoine & Marguerite BABIN. Reference: Baton Rouge Diocese Archives.

!BIRTH-PARENTS-BURIAL: ACADIAN GENEALOGY EXCHANGE; ; vol. 25, no. 4 (Oct 1996); p. 95; own copy. Marguerite GAUTREAU was born ca 1706 at Grand Pré, daughter of Claude & Marie TERRIOT. She married 25 Jun 1726 at St. Charles des Mines to Pierre BRAUD. She died at the age of 67 [so born 1706], widow of Pierre BRAUD, at Ascension Parish, LA, was buried on 10 Aug 1773.

1. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge. Catholic Church Records, vol. 2, 1770-1803. (Baton Rouge, LA, 1980)
   p. 318.

   Margarita [GAUTREAUX], age 67 years, widow of Pierre BRAUD, buried 11 Aug 1773 at Ascension Catholic Church, Donaldsonville, LA (ASC-1, 172e).

2. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 695.
3. ↑ Richard E. Chandler. "Odyssey Continued: Acadians Arrive in Natchez". (in Louisiana History, vol. XIX, no. 4 (Fall 1978), pp. 446-463.)
   pp. 457 & 460.

   On list dated 11 Feb 1768 at New Orleans: Distribution of Lands for the Acadian Families Who Are Destined for the Town of Saint Louis of Natchez." Margarita BRO, widow with two children, on 9 arpents.
   
   On "List of Acadian Families Who Have Come to Establish Themselves in This Providence [sic] of Louisiana and Are Lodged in the Habitation Constructed by the King," dated 7 Feb 1768:
   Margarita BRO, age 63;
   Maria Josepha, 22;
   Maria Rosa, 20.

4. ↑ ACADIAN-CAJUN-L@rootsweb.com.

   Marguerite, widow Bro, age 63, with children Marie Josephe 22 and Marie Rose 20, arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana, 4 Feb 1768 aboard the vessel Ginea from Maryland. Also on board was Jean. 32, and family; also Marguerite, 30, with husband and children. Pierre and Marguerite had seven children, all born at Pisiguit.

   Posting by Harold Breaux (hbreaux1@comcast.net) in Nov 2004.