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Acadian family names:
L'Acadie, as it was first named by the French, is known today as the Maritime Provinces of Atlantic Canada; Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island (formerly Ile St. Jean), New Brunswick, a part of lower Canada (Québec Province), and a part of eastern Maine.
The French explorer, Samuel De Champlain, claimed this region for the King of France, together with Maine to the Hudson River. The territory of Acadie was so-called by the explorer Jean Verrazano in 1524 because of the beauty of its trees. The first European colony in Acadia was founded in 1604, by the French at a place they called Port Royale. French cartographer Guillaume Levasseur used the name Coste de Cadie for what is now Maine, in 1621.
The ancestral roots of our family as with many of those with Acadian heritage; can be traced back not only to France, but to Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey particularly during times of religious persecution; French Camisards, Huguenots, Walloons and other Protestant reformation groups, as well as Jews were forced to flee into France. Such was the case of Jean Corporon & Marie Pinet, and the Savoie line.
Here Are Some of the Surnames:
Amirault, Boucher, Clermont, Corporon, D'Aussy, D'Bourbon,D'Bourgogne, D'Bretagne, D'Brosse, D'Chatillon, D' Entremont, D'Fieschi, D'Hainault, D'Hauteville, D'Valois, Dioron, Doucet, Duon, Godet, Gaudet, Hebert, Helie, Juneau, Lejeaune, Mius, Pinet, Pinot, Pinette, Pitre, Prejean, Rimbault, Savoye, Savoie, Seine, Spinola,
Here Are Some of the Ancestral Cities:
BELGIUM:
Brabantm Belguim;
CANADA:
L'Acadie
CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Praha,
FRANCE:
Abbaye De Maubuisson, Burgandy, Clermont, Creuse, Chatillon, Dijon, Fountainbleau, Nantes, Nice, Nord, Paris, Penthievre, Poitiers, Pontoise, Savoie, St. Germaine, Touraine, Valenciennes, Vienne
GREECE:
Saloniki, Greece;
ITALY:
Genoa, Monferrato, Torino, Italy;
PORTUGAL:
Beja, Santarbem, Lisboa, Portugal
SPAIN:
Barcelona, Cacares, Madrid, Valladolid, Zaragoza
TURKEY:
Constantinople, Turkey;
SWITZERLAND:
When the time for the deportation came, some from every settlement escaped into wooded areas, where they were aided by Micmac Indians, and made their way to Quebec or resettled follwing the war. Hundreds of Acadians were loaded onto overcrowded transport ships, two of which sank, drowning over 600 of the Acadians. Others, were put ashore in the English colonies or sent to English prisons or to France. The inhumane separation of families was one of the most difficult of all sufferings for them.
American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow bears this extreme form of suffering out, in an 1847 poem based on the story of the tragic expulsion of the Acadian French by the British. Evangeline is the heroine in his poem, and in Acadia, and Cajun Louisiana has become a legend. The historic deportment of the Acadians from the territory of Nova Scotia (known as Le Grand Dérangement), occurred in 1755, and names Gabriel Lajeunesse, as the fiance of Evangeline, from whom she is separated, on their wedding day.
Together with other exiles, she travels to Louisiana by way of the Mississippi River. Upon arriving in Louisiana, Evangeline learns that Gabriel indeed been there, but has now departed for the Ozarks. She leaves no stone unturned in her search for him, finding Gabriel at long last many years later; on his deathbed in a Philadelphia alms house. He dies, and Evangeline soon after, and they are buried together in nameless graves in the heart of Philadelphia.
Although the story’s characters are fictitious, Longfellow did base this account on a real woman.
...There the long-absent pastor regain his flock and his sheepfold. Beautiful is the land, with its prairies and forests of fruit trees; Under the feet a garden of flowers, and the bluest of heavens Bending above, and resting its dome on the walls of the forest. They who dwell there have named it the Eden of Louisiana!
