June 1875 to 6 September 1917 My Great-Grandmother Daughter of Nicholas Provost and Marie Emilie (Armide) Judice Wife of Luc (Luke) Alexander Provost Mother of Robert Nicholas, Joseph Robert, Earl, Emile Louis, Marcel Eno, Gertrude Enola, Lucy Helen, Margaret Theresa, Charles Luke Note: My Many Mothers has focused on the ancestral mothers of my maternal…
Author: Sindi Broussard Terrien
Claire Babin Guidry (2 of 2)
When Claire Babin arrived in Louisiana from Maryland in 1768, it must have been such a foreign place for her. The land needed to be tamed and developed, and communities needed to be established. The land and climate were so different from that of Maryland where she had been exiled since 1755 from and her…
Letter to My Many Mothers
Dear Ancestral Mothers, You may have noticed that my biographical writings of you have been on pause this past year. Please forgive me. It has been a time of working many more hours in the real world than I had worked in the previous years. I do miss my visits to the historical world and…
Claire Babin Guidry (1 of 2)
My Sixth Great Grandmother (about 1744 to 1780) Daughter of Antoine Babin and Catherine Landry Husband Pierre Guidry Mother of David, Oliver, Joseph, Jean Baptiste, Hippolite, and Augustin In the mid 1700s, an eleven-year-old Acadian girl’s day-to-day life experience would have been vastly different from an eleven-year-old American girl’s life in the twenty-first century. Yet,…
Marie Landry Dupuis – two of two
Marie Landry lived during a turbulent time in Acadia (now Nova Scotia). A few years before Marie was born France, England, the Dutch Republic, and Denmark signed the Treaty of Breda in 1667. The treaty returned Acadia to France once again. Territorial disputes arose between Acadia and New England in the ensuing years since boundaries…
Marie Landry Dupuis – one of two
My Eighth Great-Grandmother (about 1671-1746) Wife of Martin Dupuis Mother of Jean, Antoine, Germain, Marie Josephe, Isabelle, Anne, Marguerite, Magdelaine, Marie, Joseph, Henriette, Charles (and possibly Cecile) Marie Landry may be one of the more common female names in Acadia. Marie Landry was the name of my eighth great-grandmother. So, how do I know I…
Anne Dupuis Blanchard
My Seventh Great-Grandmother Daughter of Martin Dupuis and Marie Landry Wife of Joseph Blanchard Mother of Alexis, Francois, Germain, Charles, and Belony Anne Dupuis Blanchard is my seventh great-grandmother as was Claire Vincent Forest. Their names were not on many of the surviving records from the 1700s, but they are there. Anne’s name can be…
Letter of Grace for Jean Serreau
Scandal, intrigue, murder. More than 350 years ago, Jean Serreau killed a man who had made advances on his wife, Marguerite Boyleau.* The scene of the crime was on the l’Isle D’Orléans, Nouvelle-France (an island on the St. Lawrence River near Quebec). Taking control, Serreau fled to France to beg for the King’s pardon by…
Marguerite Terriot Pitre
My Seventh Great Grandmother (about 1701-1758) Wife of Jean Pitre Mother of Marie, Elizabeth, Suzanne, Jean, Pierre, Ann, Anselme (there may be other unknown children) Died at sea along with her husband during the deportation crossing. The cruelty of Governor Lawrence’s decision to deport Acadians from Nova Scotia in 1755 and the British policy to…
Suzanne Pitre Henry Hebert
My Sixth Great Grandmother (about 1731 to 1786) Daughter of Jean Pitre and Marguerite Terriot Widow of Jean-Baptiste-Olivier Henry Mother of Marguerite Josephe, Marie Madeleine, Marie, Isabelle, Ozite Wife of Pierre Hebert Mother of Marie-Josephe, Pierre-Jean, Anne-Josephe, Francois-Etienne, Joseph-Yves, Mathurin-Pierre-Francois, Jean Baptiste Olivier, Anne-Perinne Highlights Suzanne’s name was not given to many Acadian girls at…