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Cecile Melanson
(abt. May 1671 - April 1735)


Cecile Melanson  (abt. May 1671,  Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)  - April 1735,  L'Île St-Jean (Île-du-Prince-Édouard), Acadie 



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Cecile  was the child of Charles Melanson and Marie Dugas

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Cécile Melanson was born in 1670 in Port-Royal, Acadia, Canada. She was the daughter of Charles Melanson dit LaRamée and Marie Dugas. About 1686 Cécile, married Abraham Boudrot, son of Lieutenant-General Michel Boudrot and Michelle Aucoin, in Port-Royal, Acadia, Canada.

Madden, Betty Lou. Ancestors of Exzelia Elizabeth Boudreau and Branch Lines of Boudreau, Senezaque, Senet and Menard Ancestors. volume I. Hasings, Nebraska: The Cornhusker Press, 1968.

About 1703 Cécile, married Jean-Antoine Bélieveau, in Acadia, Canada. Cécile Melanson died after 1735 in Île St. Jean (now Prince Edward's Island), Canada.

(White, Stephen A. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Famillies Acadiennes. volume I. Moncton, Canada: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999).

Ancestor's Life Events



census Port Royal Click here to go to source1671 Acadian Census 
Charles MELANCON, 28, wife Marie DUGAST 23; Children: Marie 7, Marguerite 5, Anne 3, Cecille 6 months; cattle 40, sheep 6.



census Port Royal Click here to go to source1686 Acadian Census 
Abraham BOUDROT 30, Cecile MELANSON his wife 16; 2 guns, 5 cattle, 15 sheep.



census Port Royal Click here to go to source1693 Acadian Census 
Abraham BOUDROT 36, Cecille MELANCON 23, Jean Baptiste 6, Michel 4, Francois 1; 8 cattle, 12 sheep, 10 pigs, 1 gun



census Port Royal Click here to go to source1698 Acadian Census 
Abraham BOUDROT 41; Cecile MELLANSON (wife) 28; Charles 12; Michel; 9; Francois 6; Marie 4; Cecile 1/2; 10 cattle, 9 sheep, 6 hogs, 3 arpents, 8 fruit trees, 1 gun.



 Port Royal Click here to go to source1700 Acadian Census 
Abraham BOUDROT 43; Cecille MELANSON (wife) 30; Jean-Baptiste 13; Michel 11; Francois 8; Marie 5; Cecille 3; Anne 1; 10 cattle, 17 sheep, 10 arpents, 1 gun.



census Port Royal Click here to go to source1701 Acadian Census 
Cecile MELANCON (widow of Abraham BOUDROT) 30; Charles 14, Michel 12, Francois 9, Marie 6, Cecile 4, Anne If; 2 guns, 7 cattle, 10 sheep, 5 hogs, 2 arpents.




Ancestor's Marriage(s) and Child(ren)


marriage married Abraham Boudrot (Boudreau) -- Date: abt. 1684 Place:  Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)
"Cecile, another of Charles Melanson's daughters, married the Acadian merchant Abraham Boudrot of Port Royal, and accompanied him on his business trips to Massachusetts, where she stayed with her sister (Marie) and brother-in-law (David Basset)..."

Source: A Great and Noble Scheme by John Mack Faragher, page 103

"Abraham, born in c1657, married Cécile, daughter of Charles Melanson, at Port-Royal in c1686 and remained at Port-Royal, where he was a prominent merchant and an erstwhile spy for Acadia's Governor Villebon during King William's War. He fathered six children, including three sons who married into the Landry and Broussard families. Abraham's daughters married into the Gaudet, Mius d'Entremont, and Bourg families. Abraham died by c1703, when Cécile remarried at Port-Royal."

Source: http:/www.acadiansingray.com/
Family Group Record for Cecile Melanson and Abraham Boudrot (Boudreau)


Children:

son Charles Boudrot (abt. 1686, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1726, Saint Peter's, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Toulouse, Acadia))

son Jean Baptiste Boudrot (abt. 1687,  - , )

son Michel Boudrot (1689, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - 1732, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia))

son Francois Boudrot (1692, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )

daughter Marie Boudrot (1695, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )

daughter Cecile Boudrot (1697, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )

daughter Anne Boudrot (1698, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) - , )



marriage married Jean Antoine Belliveau -- Date: abt. 1703 Place:  Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)
Cecile Melanson married Jean Beliveau, son of Antoine Belliveau and Andree Guyon, circa 1703 at Port Royal

Source:

Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire Genealogique Des Familles Acadiennes, p96.


Children
Judith Beliveau b. 21 Dec 1704
Madeleine Beliveau b. c 1711
Family Group Record for Cecile Melanson and Jean Antoine Belliveau



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