Madeleine MELANÇON (MELANSON)

(b. abt. 1697 , Acadia, Canada d. 30 April 1769 , Yamachiche, Province of Québec, Canada )

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Madeleine MELANÇON (MELANSON) was born abt. 1697 in Acadia, Canada

Madeleine MELANÇON (MELANSON) was the child of Philippe MELANÇON (MELANSON) and Catherine Marie DUGAS and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre MELANÇON (MELANSON) dit LAVERDURE and Marguerite MIUS D'ENTREMONT (maternal) Claude DUGAS and Françoise BOURGEOIS

Madeleine 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):

Madeleine married Jean LANDRY 22 January 1714 in Port Royal, Acadia . The couple had (at least) 12 children.
Jean LANDRY was born abt. 1696 in Acadia, Canada (Acadie). Jean was the child of Antoine LANDRY and Marie THIBODEAU.

Madeleine MELANÇON (MELANSON) died 30 April 1769 in Yamachiche, Province of Québec, 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 Madeleine MELANÇON (MELANSON)

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Madeleine MELANÇON (MELANSON) married

Jean LANDRY-- Date: 22 January 1714 Place: Port Royal, Acadia
Jean LANDRY was the child of Antoine LANDRY and Marie THIBODEAU

About 1717 in Acadia, Canada, Jean married Madeleine Melanson, the daughter of Philippe and Marie (Dugas) Melanson.

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

Children of Jean LANDRY and Madeleine MELANÇON (MELANSON):

Antoine LANDRY (b.26 October 1720, , Acadia, Canada d. 28 December 1763, L'Islet, Province of Québec, Canada )
m. Anne CORMIER 14 November 1740 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

Madeleine LANDRY (b.abt. 1722, , Acadia, Canada d. , )
m. Jean Baptiste GRANGER 1740 in , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

Marguerite LANDRY (b.27 January 1724, , Acadia, Canada d. , )

Marie LANDRY (b.2 December 1726, , Acadia, Canada d. abt. 1756, , Crown Colony of Virginia)
m. Jean-Baptiste LEBLANC 8 November 1745 in Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia)

Marie-Anne-Madeleine LANDRY (b.3 June 1729, Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia d. 28 February 1801, Yamachiche, Lower Canada )
m. Charles TRAHAN 1749 in , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

Dosithee LANDRY (b.abt. 1730, , Acadia, Canada d. , )

René LANDRY (b.abt. 1732, , Acadia, Canada d. 30 January 1786, )
m. Anne BENOIT 1752 in , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

Joseph LANDRY (b.20 March 1733, Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia d. 21 March 1787, Yamachiche, Province of Québec, Canada )
m. Madeleine DOIRON 1755 in , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

Paul LANDRY (b.30 March 1735, , Acadia, Canada d. , )

Charles LANDRY (b.4 November 1737, , Acadia, Canada d. 5 March 1795, Yamachiche, Lower Canada )
m. Marie HEBERT 1767

Simon Pierre LANDRY (b.24 October 1739, , Acadia, Canada d. , )

Anselme LANDRY (b.19 October 1741, , Acadia, Canada d. , )

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1698 - The steam engine is invented (Thomas Savery, England)

1714 Marriage / Partner
Madeleine MELANÇON (MELANSON) and Jean LANDRY 22 January 1714, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

1715 - September 1 - Louis XV becomes King of France

1720 - June 10 - Mrs Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard

1720 Birth of Child
Antoine LANDRY was born 26 October 1720, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

1724 Birth of Child
Marguerite LANDRY was born 27 January 1724, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

1726 Birth of Child
Marie LANDRY was born 2 December 1726, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

1729 Birth of Child
Marie-Anne-Madeleine LANDRY was born 3 June 1729, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia)

1733 Birth of Child
Joseph LANDRY was born 20 March 1733, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia)

1735 Birth of Child
Paul LANDRY was born 30 March 1735, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

1737 Birth of Child
Charles LANDRY was born 4 November 1737, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

1739 Birth of Child
Simon Pierre LANDRY was born 24 October 1739, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

1740 Marriage of Child
Antoine LANDRY married 14 November 1740, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) to Anne CORMIER

1741 Birth of Child
Anselme LANDRY was born 19 October 1741, , Acadia, Canada (Acadie)

1745 Marriage of Child
Marie LANDRY married 8 November 1745, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada (Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Acadia) to Jean-Baptiste LEBLANC

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

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.