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Genealogy History

1. Pierre Garsseault married Jacquett Soulard around 1650, St. Rene, Poitu, France

  • i. Jean Garceau
     ii. Pierre Garsseault
    2. Jean "Tranchemontagne" Garceau (born 1678, died 1710 Port-Royal, N.S.) married Marie- Jeanne Levron dit Nantais (born 1679) on Nov. 20, 1703 in Port-Royal.

     i. Pierre-Jean (b. 10/22/1704 Port-Royal)
  • ii. Daniel
     iii. Gregoire
     iv. Joseph (b. 3/20/1710)
    3. Daniel Garceau (born 1707 Port Royal) married Anne Doucet (born 1713) in 1726, Port-Royal

     i. M. Marguerite (b. 11/10/1731 Annapolis, Acadie married 1/20/1754 P.R.)
     ii. Marie-Josephte (b. 10/4/1733 Annapolis, Acadie married 1765 New York)
     iii. Joseph (b. 1735 married 1754 P.R. to Marie-Josephe Hautbois
     iv. Anne (b.1737)
     v. Jean-Baptiste (b. 1739 married 2/7/1769 Yamachiche to Marie Denevers di Boisvert)
     vi. Marie-Hypolite dite Appoline (b. 1742 married 1765 New York)
  • vii. Charles
     viii. Pierre (b. 1746 married 10/4/1773 Yamachiche to Angelique Lemay)
     ix. Magdeleine (b. 1748 married 9/21/1768 Yamachiche to Jean-Baptiste Boisvert)
     x. Francois (b. 1/22/1752 P.R. d.7/25/1823 Pointe-du-Lac married 1782 P.d.L.)
    4. Charles Garceau (b. 1744) married Marie-Josephe Grenier on 11/5/1770 in Yamachiche St.Anne.

     i. Charles (b.1/28/1774 d.4/7/1835 married 1/28/1799 Louiseville)
     ii Marie-Josephe (b. 12/30/1777)
     iii. Euphrosine (b.3/3/1779 d.11/27/1846 Yamachiche married 2/12/1804 Louiseville)
     iv. Pierre Garceau (b.9/27/1780 d.1852 married 11/23/1812 in Yamachiche)
     v. Joseph (b. 9/18/1782 married Marie Plante on 10/19/1807 in Yamachiche)
  • vi. Francois
     vii. Jean-Baptiste (b. 1787 d.4/18/1790 Yamachiche)
     viii. Augustin (b. 1788 d.11/14/1790 Y)
     ix. Augustin (b. 1791 d. 7/17/1792 Y)
    5. Francois Garceau (b. 4/13/1785 d.7/18/1853 Napierville) married Marie-Anne Daunais on Nov. 3rd, 1812 in Lacadie, Qc

     i. Charles (married 10/17/1837 to Sophie Morin, d.1886 Napierville)
  • ii. Alfred
     iii. Joseph (b. 1823)
     iv. Phebee (b. 1825 Napierville d.1830 Napierville)
     v. Nicolas (b.1827 d.1827 Napierville)
     vi. Anonyme (b.11/18/1828 d. 11/18/1828 Napierville)
     vii. Jean-Chrysostome (b.1830 N)
     viii. Flavie (married 6/8/30 Napierville to Jean-Baptiste Senezac)
     ix. Phebee (b.1832 Napierville married 2/21/1854 N)
     x. Alexis (married 16 AOu 1842 Napierville to Claire Couture)
    6. Alfred-Ovilla Garceau (b.1821 d.1/28/1892) married Rosemarie Montmigny on Feb. 11th, 1839 in St. Cyprien

     i. Constant (married 11/3/1868 in Lacolle to Henrilie Daigneault)
     ii. Francois-Jules (married 11/10/1863 in Lacolle to Esther Daigneault)
     iii. Jeremie (b. 1842 Napierville married 10/28/1867 N)
     iv. Narcisse (married 4/12/1872 in Lacolle to Phebee Corbiere)(father of Henry-Ulric)
     v. Marie (married 1/7/1873 in Lacolle to Israel Chaput)
  • vi. Alfred
     vii. Euphemie (married 7/6/1880 in Lacolle St-Bern)
     viii. Brigitte (b.1/6/1845)
     ix. Philomene
     x. Marie-Delima (b. 12/9/1865 Lacolle St-Bern)
    7. Alfred Garceau (born November 13th, 1853 in Lacolle, Province of Quebec, died May 29th, 1945) married Marie-Jeanne "Virginia" Gamelin (born June 14th, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont, died December 10, 1943) on Sept. 10th, 1879 in Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel, Lacolle

     i. Marie-Josephine (married 1 AOu 1904 in St. John the Baptist, Suncook, NH)
     ii. Marie-Albina (b. 4/9/1892 Lacolle St-Bern d.3/8/1963 St. Albans married 9/18/1910 in Rouse Point, Ny to Henry-Ulric Garceau son of Narcisse Garceau 'yup, cousins')
     iii. Rosella Garceau (born 1893, married July 19th, 1920)
     iv. Emile Joseph Garceau (born 7/30/1899, married Ethel Maude Barber 12/24/1919)
     v. Florence Garceau (b.6/14/03 -d.3/8/39, married December 5th, 1915 ae. 16 yrs)
  • vi. Lador Joseph Garceau
     vii. Alfred Garceau
    viii.Thomas Garceau
     ix. Joseph Garceau (married Irene Lombard)
     x. Celanire Garceau?
    8. Lador Garceau (born September 10th, 1895 in Ludlow, died March 18th, 1969 at 4:04 a.m.) married Alma Jacques (born 2/7/1901 in St. Albans died 3/5/75) on January 6th, 1918.

     i. Adrien Albert b.6/19/1920, killed in action 4/11/45 Pacific Theater WWII
     ii. Marie Helen "Theresa" b.2/26/1922
  • iii. George Charles
     iv. Blanche (Anna) b.8/13/1925
     v. Rose Pearl b.2/15/27
     vi. Jean Luis b.5/17/29
     vii. Cecile Alma b.6/21/30
     viii.Jeannine Edna b.6/27/32
     ix. Margaret Emma b.2/5/34
     x. Harriet Marrie b.10/19/37
    9. George Charles Garceau (born December 18th, 1923 in St. Albans, Vt) married Mary Acebo (born 4/28/23) on June 30th, 1943 in Barre, Vt.

     i. George Garceau b.4/9/46
     ii. Adrian Garceau b.4/27/49
  • iii. Alan Garceau
     iv. Tammy Garceau b.4/18/65
    10. Alan Garceau (born June 28th, 1952 in Barre, Vt) married Vickie Sainz (born April 22nd, 1952 in Barre, Vt) September 4, 1971. Divorced

  • i. Aron Garceau
     ii. Amy Garceau (born April 4th, 1975 in Berlin, Vt died May 30th, 1993 car accident)
    11. Aron Garceau (born January 6th, 1974 in Berlin, Vt) married Bethany Anne Johnson (born November 4th, 1974 in Little Rock, Ak) September 9th, 2000 in Graniteville at my father's home.

     i. Aria Aimee Marissa b. 4/18/03
     ii. Eamon Aron Johnson b. 5/10/05
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    They deported us from Acadia


    The land of Acadia was, before the conquest, as promising for young french families as any other region in the colony. Several fortifications were guarding its safety and navigation was not paralyzed by ice in the winter. Jean Garceau left St. René in Poitou at the end of the seventeenth century as a soldier in the “Compagnie de Chacornacle”. Son of Pierre Garsseault and of Jacquette Soulard, he was nicknamed Tranchemontagne as it was custom for soldiers to be nicknamed in accordance with their physical characteristics, character, origin or trade.

    Jean was a soldier in the garrison of Port Royal . On November 20th 1703 he wed Marie Levron, daughter of François Levron and Catherine Lavoye who came from France on the ship “l'Oranger” in 1671. A year later she gave birth to her first boy whom relatives baptized Pierre-Jean. Their second child, born in 1707, received the first name of his godfather, Daniel Auger de Subercase, and Acadia's final governor.

    Jean had two other sons prior to his death at thirty years old, Grégoire in 1709 and Joseph in 1710. In 1710, possibly during combat with the British that marked the defeat and the surrender of Port Royal, Jean Garceau died. His widow, with four young children to feed, was married again the following year to Alexandre Richard.

    The family grew in Acadia where the relative peace was troubled by the desire of the English to assimilate this population who refused to pledge an oath of allegiance to the british crown and to give up practicing its religion. Pierre-Jean married Agnès Doucet, daughter of Laurent and Jeanne Babin, in Port-Royal on January 19, 1728. By 1745, they had given birth to seven children. In 1730, Daniel married Anne Doucet who later gave birth to ten children. In 1732, Joseph married Marie Lambert and by 1745, Grégoire had a son.

    In the middle of the eighteenth century, the infamous "Highland Clearances" took place and the English deported as many Scottish from the British Isles as they could. At this time, the new British governor in Acadia concluded that the only way to dominate the new country was to deport the French population thereby leaving a place to put the Scottish (thus creating a turn of events which would lead Acadia to be renamed Nova Scotia). Then began the most tragic period Acadian history. People were dispossessed of their lands by troops and packed on boats and pushed into the sea. Families were split apart before being deported to different destinations, often without knowing where their relatives were sent. After having sailed in poor sanitary conditions on overcrowded boats, Cajuns were parked in circumscribed localities in the United States with no settlement possibility in Canada.

    Daniel, his wife and their eight youngest children were sent to Connecticut before their escape to the State of New York where his son Joseph and his four children were. Like all deported families, they experienced misery which in turn kept them more united than ever. With a questionable future, several weremarried civilly in this heretical country to compatriots experiencing the same misfortune. Three of Daniel's daughters, Marie, Appoline, and Marguerite, were married in this way.

    The deportees began, in 1767, to return to settle in Quebec for its familiar language and religious advantages. Civilly married couples hurried to rehabilitate their status by a catholic priest. The weddings of Marie and Appoline were celebreted in Bécancour in September 1767. All their children were also baptized under condition. On August 27, 1767, Joseph had five children baptized in Yamachiche. So many Cajuns settled on two lines between Yamachiche and Pointe-du-Lac that the two cities were appointed the titles “small and great Cadie”. One became the line of Acadia and the other, the line of Garceau.

    Daniel's son Charles, my direct ancestor, was 10 years old when the family was removed from Acadia. When the family finally settled back into Canada twelve years later he was 22 having spent most of his impressionable life in an unfamiliar land speaking an unfamiliar tongue. Daniel was sixty years old when he came back from this long exile and five years later he died peacefully and was buried in the Yamachiche cemetery of the first church built in the township. That church was hit by a lightning strike in 1780 and burned. This site is now under the current turnpike 40.

    So far we have not found any trace of Daniel’s three brothers Pierre-Jean, Grégoire and Joseph nor of their descendants. Did they perish in the journey? Did they reside in the United States or return in Europe? Some families changed their last name to the "dit" name assigned to the soldier/patriarch of the family. A search of the internet will bring up many families with the last name Tranchemontagne. Are these our relatives? For the moment, the mystery prevails.

    Written and researched by Jean-François Garceau

    Edited by Aron Garceau






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