Jean Baptiste COMEAU

(b. 21 February 1724 , Port Royal, Acadia d. 27 February 1797 , L'Acadie, Lower Canada )

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Jean Baptiste COMEAU was born 21 February 1724 in Port Royal, Acadia

Jean Baptiste COMEAU was the child of Augustin COMEAU and Marie Jeanne LEVRON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean COMEAU and Françoise HÉBERT (maternal) François LEVRON dit NANTAIS and Catherine SAVOIE

Jean Baptiste was deported as part of the Acadian Exile / Grand Derangement around 1755.
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Jean Baptiste married Anne BOURGEOIS 3 February 1748 in Port Royal, Acadia . The couple had (at least) 5 children.
Anne BOURGEOIS was born 17 October 1723 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia). Anne died 27 May 1781 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Anne was the child of Guillaume BOURGEOIS and Catherine Josephe THIBODEAU.

Jean Baptiste COMEAU died 27 February 1797 in L'Acadie, 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
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Jean Baptiste COMEAU married

Anne BOURGEOIS-- Date: 3 February 1748 Place: Port Royal, Acadia
Anne BOURGEOIS was the child of Guillaume BOURGEOIS and Catherine Josephe THIBODEAU

Jean Baptiste Comeau married Anne Bourgeois, daughter of Guillaume Bourgeois and Catherine Josephe Thibodeau, 3 FEB 1748 in Port Royal, Acadia, Canada

Source:
Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire Genealogique Des Familles Acadiennes., p. 260

Children of Jean Baptiste COMEAU and Anne BOURGEOIS:

Augustin COMEAU (b.6 December 1749, Port Royal, Acadia d. 17 December 1806, L'Acadie, Lower Canada )

Nathalie COMEAU (b.5 July 1751, Port Royal, Acadia d. 24 January 1838, L'Acadie, Lower Canada )
m. Michel BOURGEOIS 2 February 1773 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

Jean-Baptiste COMEAU (b.9 June 1753, Port Royal, Acadia d. , )

Joseph COMEAU (b.abt. 1754, , Canada d. 7 August 1832, Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Lower Canada )

Josephte COMEAU (b.abt. 1761, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Jean THIBERT 27 November 1780 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

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1724 Birth
21 February 1724
Port Royal, Acadia

1748 Marriage / Partner
Jean Baptiste COMEAU and Anne BOURGEOIS 3 February 1748, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

He was 23 years old.

1749 Birth of Child
Augustin COMEAU was born 6 December 1749, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

Jean Baptiste was 25 years old.

1751 Birth of Child
Nathalie COMEAU was born 5 July 1751, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

Jean Baptiste was 27 years old.

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

1753 Birth of Child
Jean-Baptiste COMEAU was born 9 June 1753, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

Jean Baptiste was 29 years old.

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.

1773 Marriage of Child
Nathalie COMEAU married 2 February 1773, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité) to Michel BOURGEOIS

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.

1780 Marriage of Child
Josephte COMEAU married 27 November 1780 , La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité) to Jean THIBERT