Other Events:

• Residence: Nova Scotia
• Occupation: Jun 1867; a collier
• Occupation: 1874; carpenter

Notes:

Buried:
The burial entry gave his age as 73 years.

Laurent married Anne (Nancy) Melanson Abt 1832. Anne (daughter of Charles dit Charlitte Melanson and Modeste Niles) was born 20 Aug 1812, Minudie; died 29 Apr 1890, Minudie, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Elizabeth Comeau was born Abt 1838, Minudie, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia; died 23 Aug 1911; was buried 1911, St Thomas Aquinas Ragged Reef Cemetery, Ragged Reef, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada.
2. Mary Comeau was born Sep 1835, Nova Scotia; died Sep 1882.
3. Charles Como was born , Minudie, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia; died Bef Dec 1914.
4. Eustache\William Comeau was born Abt 1844, Minudie, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
5. Alfred Comeau was born Mar 1844, Minudie, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 18 Feb 1908.
6. Margret Comeau was born Mar 1846, Nova Scotia; died Abt 1846, Nova Scotia.
7. Thaddeus (Thaddee) Comeau was born 3 May 1850, Minudie, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia; died 16 May 1918, Joggins Mines, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried May 1918, St Denis Cemetery, Minudie, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
8. Modeste Comeau was born 29 Jul 1853, Minudie, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 10 Mar 1898, her home in Minudie, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Other Events:

• Baptised: 30 Apr 1769
• Residence: Jul 1814, the parish of Minudie
• Residence: Abt 1815, Bas Cap Pele; , having just settled there,
• Occupation: Aug 1819, the parish of Ste Anne de Menaudie; farmer
• Occupation: Apr 1820, the parish of Minudie; farmer
• Residence: Nov 1823, Cap Pelé, Westmorland County, New Brunswick
• Occupation: Jan 1824; labourer
• Residence: Jan 1824, Cap Pelé, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada

Notes:

Buried:
Present at his burial were Joseph Burk and Lazare Gotrot.

Pierre married Rosalie LeBlanc Abt 1789. Rosalie (daughter of Andre LeBlanc and Marie Trahan) was born , , Louisianna; died Bef Jul 1814, the parish of Minudie. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Residence: Jul 1814, the parish of Minudie

Other Events:

• Baptised: 19 Nov 1724, the parish of Grand Pré
• Residence: 1753, Petotcoudiac
• Residence: 1761, Fort Edward, Windsor, Nova Scotia
• Residence: 1768, Windsor, , Nova Scotia
• Residence: 1768, Minudie, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
• Residence: 1774, Baie Sainte Marie, Digby, Nova Scotia
• Residence: 1807, Menoudie, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

Notes:

Notes from Irene (Terrio) Melanson: Joseph Comeau came to Minudie in 1768. He worked for J.F.W. DesBarres and lived in the Elysian Fields. On May 8,1769, demised by lease to a group of men including Joseph Comeau, 600 acres of Minudie upland and 100 acres of marsh to be dykes at DesBarres' cost. One-third of their produce was given to desBarres which later was increased to half. Joseph's name also appears on the list of names of those who worked on the great aboiteau.

Passage from page 95 of Beloved Acadia of My Ancestors by Yvon Leger:
"In 1755, the Comeau family was most probably part of the painful caravan of refugees from the Petitcodiac region who sought the protection of Commandeur de Boishébert at Gédaique (Grand-Digue) and Cocagne, before reaching the banks of the Miramichi River. Joseph Comeau thus avoided deportation towards the British colonies of the South. In 1761, however, he was among a contingent of Acadians taken by Captain McKenzie to Forts Beauséjour and Edward, where they were kept as captives till 1763 or 1764.
Among the documents preserved at the Federal Archives (the Deschamps Papers), we find several mentions of Joseph Comeau, his wife Anastasie and their son Mathurin. After their liberation, Joseph Comeau and many ex-prisoners from Fort Beauséjour settled in Menoudie, that ancient and once prosperous Acadian colony on the banks of Riviere-Hébert, in Nova Scotia. The Deschamps Papers also mention that Joseph Comeau, his son Mathurin, Joseph Leger, Mathurin's father-in-law, along with other Acadians were the very first lease-holders of Joseph Frederick DesBarres. Their main assignment was the maintenance and repair of the dikes or aboiteaux built by their forefathers in the previous century."

Residence:
He worked for JFW DesBarres and lived in the Elysian Fields.

Residence:
He is widowed by this time.

Joseph married Madeleine Hebert 29 Dec 1767, Franklin Manor, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. Madeleine (daughter of Joseph Hebert and Madeleine Poirier) was born 25 Jan 1741, the parish of Beaubassin; died Bef Sep 1807. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Baptised: 9 Apr 1741, the parish of Beaubassin

Notes:

Baptised:
Her godparents were Pierre Poirier & Cecile Poirier. Parents and godparents were all inhabitants of this parish (Beaubassin).

Died:
She was deceased by the time her daughter, Modeste, married in September 1807.

Notes:

Married:
Their marriage in 1767 was in the civil registers of Franklin Manor. Their marriage was rehabilitated in the church 29th August 1768 in Pisiguit (today Windsor, Nova Scotia).

Notes:

Bona-vol.3,p.1221-name,b.yr.&loc. Irene-see LeBlanc notes for more -married Marie___ in 1755. He was taken prisonner threedays after hiswedding and was taken into exile on the brigantine ship "Experiment" (captain Stoddard), while his wife was placed aboard another ship. He was cast ashore at St Chrysostophe (a Haitien Island) where he worked on sugar plantations. He escaped...at New Orleans he met one of his brothers...he travelled up the Mississippi where he heard news of his wife from another exiled Acadian by the name of Blanchard. He met up with his wife;they lived in Louisianna where they had four children(one son was devoured by a wild boar while in his cradle). The family went to Mobile, Alabama where they lived until the Civil war broke. Marie his oldest daug married a Creole named Seignou, in Alabama and gave birth to a daug in 1777 named Rosalie(la vieille Tounie)-she later married Pierre Melanson and died of chicken pox in Minudie at 100 years...Andre eventually came back to Minudie where he said his parents had died. Much more to read in original notes.

Andre married Marie Trahan 1755. Marie died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Irene-detailed writeup on family-refer to original notes or her spouse -name

Other Events:

• Residence: Saint Charles des Mines, Grand Pré

Claude married Claire Landry 11 Nov 1721, St.Charles des Mines. Claire (daughter of Claude Landry and Catherine Thibodeau) was born Abt 1701; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1772, Saint Servan, France; as a widow, as a result of the deportations,

Notes:

Bona-vol.3,p.991-b.yr,marr.info. -vol.3,p.1036-spouse M01-p.14-b&d dts,marr.info.

Joseph married Madeleine Poirier 26 Jan 1734, Beaubassin. Madeleine (daughter of Jean Baptiste Poirier and Marie Cormier) was born 1715, Beaubassin. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Bona-vol.3,p.991-marr.info;daug of Jean & Marie Cormier. -vol.3, p.1036-b.yr,two spouses;second husband was from Pisiguit.

Notes:

bona-vol.3,p.1221-name,b.yr,marr.info. He lived at saint Charles des Mines. He was at l'Anse au Matelot,ile Saint Jean in 1752.
J02-p.159-born around 1695,he lived at Port Toulouse with his wife until about 1727 when he returned to Grand Pre.After Madeleine died in April 1747, he went to Beaubassin and then to ile Saint Jean. in 1758 he was transported to Boulogne where he was buried on 5 Oct 1765.

Claude-Andre married Madeleine Boudrot Abt 1719, Port Toulouse. Madeleine (daughter of Francois Boudrot and Marie Madeleine Belliveau) was born Abt 1699, Port Royal; died 3 Apr 1747, Grand Pre. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Bona-vol.3,p.1221-name,marr.info. J02-p.159-name,daug of Francois & Madeleine Belliveau,d.dt;see spouse for more notes. M01-p.197-burial dt &loc; aged about 50 years. Bona-vol.2,p.443-name,b.yr,spouse's parents given as:Jean and Marguerite Richard(I believe this is an error as all other evidence seems to indicate Claude-Andre was the son of Andre and Marie Dugas.)