Charles BELIVEAU

(b. 12 October 1731 , Port Royal, Acadia d. 10 August 1796 , Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada )

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Charles BELIVEAU was born 12 October 1731 in Port Royal, Acadia

Charles BELIVEAU was the child of Charles BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) and Marguerite GRANGER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean BELLIVEAU (BÉLIVEAU) and Madeleine MELANSON (maternal) René GRANGER and Marguerite THÉRIOT (THÉRIAULT)

Charles was deported as part of the Acadian Exile / Grand Derangement around 1755.
To learn more about the Acadian Exile / Grand Derangement, visit: What Was The Acadian Expulsion of 1755? Unraveling the Grand Dérangement

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Charles married Osithe Marie DUGAS 20 July 1755 in Port Royal, Acadia . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Osithe Marie DUGAS was born 18 December 1734 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia). Osithe Marie died 20 January 1820 in Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan). Osithe Marie was the child of Claude DUGAS and Marie Josephe MELANSON.

Charles BELIVEAU died 10 August 1796 in Saint-Jacques, Lower Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Family and Children of Charles BELIVEAU

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Charles BELIVEAU married

Osithe Marie DUGAS-- Date: 20 July 1755 Place: Port Royal, Acadia
Osithe Marie DUGAS was the child of Claude DUGAS and Marie Josephe MELANSON

Children of Charles BELIVEAU and Osithe Marie DUGAS:

Ludivine Elisabeth BELIVEAU (b.abt. 1757, Sturbridge, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. , )
m. Germain BOURGEOIS 10 June 1776 in Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan)

Joseph BELIVEAU (b.abt. 1767, Bonaventure, Province of Québec, Canada d. 24 September 1845, L'Assomption, Canada East )
m. Marie-Anne-Elizabeth BEAUDIN 12 September 1791 in Bonaventure, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bonaventure)

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1731 Birth
12 October 1731
Port Royal, Acadia

1753 - The lightning rod is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

1755 Marriage / Partner
Charles BELIVEAU and Osithe Marie DUGAS 20 July 1755, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

He was 23 years old.

1755 - Exile in Massachusetts
'Claude Dugas and his wife received an order to live in Sturbridge, but their children would be separated from them; Marguerite, Madeleine and Felecite were sent to Oxford. The two other daughters; Elizabeth (Cecile) and Hannah (Anne) were sent to Dudley, while the two sons, Charles and Joseph, left for Charlton. Charles Belliveau (Claude's son-in law) and his wife and their young children received an order to go to Leicester, but the second child was sent to Spencer. In the spring or summer of 1767, however despite anguish and misfortune, Claude Dugas succeeded in reaching the Province of Quebec with the whole family, except for Charles.'
History of the Franco-Americans of Southbridge, by Felix Gatineau, translated by Elizabeth Blood

1763 - France cedes its North American posessions to Britain by the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). Quebec City French-speaking Catholics were now under the rule of Protestant Britain under King George III.

1775 - The Battle of Québec was fought on December 31 between the American Continental Army and British defenders of Québec City. It was the first major defeat for the Americans in the Revolutionary War.

1776 Marriage of Child
Ludivine Elisabeth BELIVEAU married 10 June 1776, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan) to Germain BOURGEOIS

1784 - The bifocal lens is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1791 Marriage of Child
Joseph BELIVEAU married 12 September 1791, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bonaventure) to Marie-Anne-Elizabeth BEAUDIN

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)