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ROBICHAUD: Jean-Baptiste Robichaud born c1751 in Great Village (near Truro) NS, died 4 Mar 1808, s/o Joseph Robichaud and Claire LeBlanc: m. 4 Feb 1773 at Saint-Servan, Brittany, France, Félicité Cyr b. 1754 d/o Jean Cyr and Marie-Josephte Hébert: went to Bonaventure, QC in 1774, then came to NB in 1790 and settled at Shippagan in Gloucester County:
Children:
1) Jean-Baptiste Robichaud b. 16 Nov 1773 at Saint-Servan, m. (1st) 22 Feb 1797 in Shippagan, Théotiste Savoie d/o François Savoie and Anne Poirier: had issue: m. (2nd) Barbe Poulin d/o Louis Poulin...
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ROBICHAUD: Jean-Baptiste Robichaud born c1751 in Great Village (near Truro) NS, died 4 Mar 1808, s/o Joseph Robichaud and Claire LeBlanc: m. 4 Feb 1773 at Saint-Servan, Brittany, France, Félicité Cyr b. 1754 d/o Jean Cyr and Marie-Josephte Hébert: went to Bonaventure, QC in 1774, then came to NB in 1790 and settled at Shippagan in Gloucester County:
Children:
1) Jean-Baptiste Robichaud b. 16 Nov 1773 at Saint-Servan, m. (1st) 22 Feb 1797 in Shippagan, Théotiste Savoie d/o François Savoie and Anne Poirier: had issue: m. (2nd) Barbe Poulin d/o Louis Poulin and Hélène Haché: had no children:
2) Joseph Robichaud born 7 Aug 1775 at Bonaventure, QC:
3) Claire Robichaud b. 10 Jan 1777 at Bonaventure, married (1st) 23 Jul 1794 Jean-Baptiste Léger s/o Olivier Léger and Josephte Hébert: m. (2nd) 8 Jan 1822 Mathurin Landry s/o Anselme Landry and Marie Brideau:
4) Modeste Robichaud b. 17 May 1778 at Bonaventure, QC, m. at Caraquet, NB, Tranquille Blanchard:
5) Anastasie Robichaud b. 22 Nov 1779 at Bonaventure, QC, died Oct 1823, married Joseph Savoie of Shippagan:
6) Luce Robichaud born and died at Bonaventure, QC:
7) David Robichaud b. c1782 at Bonaventure, QC, died 8 May 1857, married (1st) 13 Jan 1807 at Shippagan, NB, Rébecca Savoie d/o Pierre Savoie and Marie Bijeau of Neguac, Alnwick Parish, Northumberland County: had issue: m. (2nd) 20 Nov 1854 Vénérande Losier, the widow of Clément Arseneau of Tracadie, NB: had no children:
8) Vincent Robichaud born 27 Jan 1783 at Bonaventure, QC:
9) Paul Robichaud b. 22 May 1784 at Bonaventure:
10) Léon Robichaud b. 19 Sep 1787 at Bonaventure, QC, died 13 Feb 1866, m. 10 Jan 1814 at Caraquet, Blanche Dugas d/o Joseph Dugas and Agathe Landry: had children:
11) Charlotte Robichaud b. c1788 at Bonaventure, m. 23 Aug 1807 Édward Savoie s/o Joseph Savoie and Madeleine Bijeau:
12) Julie Robichaud b. 2 Apr 1790 at Bonaventure, QC, married (1st) 25 Feb 1811 at Caraquet, NB, Ephrem or Fred Blanchard of Caraquet, (2nd) 25 Nov 1818 Moise Godin of Caraquet:
13) Sophie Robichaud born 21 Aug 1791 at Shippagan, NB, d. 18 Jun 1792:
14) Luc Robichaud b. c1795 at Shippagan, d. 28 Mar 1807:
15) Augustin Robichaud b. - , d. Jul 1857, married 27 Nov 1827 at Shippagan Marie Rose Chiasson d/o Nicolas Chaisson and Geneviève Gionet: they had children.
Sources: MC1286 Volume V Dictionary of Canadian Biography, pages 719-720: surname was also spelled Robichaux and Robicheau: Jean Sr's brothers Isidore Robichaud settled at Pokemouche in Inkerman Parish, Gloucester County, and Joseph Robichaud, Pierre Robichaud, Michel Robichaud and Charles Robichaud settled at Saint Charles, Kent County: see also MC80/286 Donat Robichaud's Le grand Chipagan: histoire de Shippagan, pgs 305-315: see also MC80/577 Donat Robichaud's Les Robichaud histoire et généalogie, page 86ff.: see also MC80/781 Bona Arsenault's Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, Vol. II, pg 846: see MC80/2515 Donat Robichaud's Les Robichaud d'Amérique: dictionnaire généalogique.
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About ROBICHAUD, Jean-Baptiste
ROBICHAUX (Robichaud, Robicheau), JEAN-BAPTISTE, fisherman; b. c. 1751 in Village des Cadet (Great Village), N.S., son of Joseph Robichaux, dit Cadet, and Claire Le Blanc; d. 4 March 1808 in Grand Chipagan (Shippegan), N.B.
Jean-Baptiste Robichaux's father came from Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N. S.) but settled in the region of Cobequid (near Truro) at Village des Cadet after his marriage in 1726. Eleven children were born there; Jean-Baptiste was the tenth. Although many of their neighbours responded in the early 1750s to the efforts made by the French government and its agents to persuade Acadians living under British rule to remove to French territory [see Jean-Louis Le Loutre*], the Robichaux family remained in Nova Scotia; their distance from Annapolis Royal and the presence of French troops at Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), and Fort Beauséjour (near Sackville, N.B.) perhaps gave them a sense of security on their lands. Nevertheless, they had eventually to take the weary road to exile. About the time of the deportation in 1755 [see Charles Lawrence] – whether before or after is unclear – Joseph Robichaux took his family by the "emigrants' road" to Tatamagouche, and then by ship to Pointe Prime (Point Prim) on Île Saint-Jean (P.E.I.). It was there that many Acadians from Cobequid, as well as the former parish priest, Jacques Girard*, had settled.
The surrender of Louisbourg to British forces under Jeffery Amherst* and Edward Boscawen* in July 1758 brought with it the capitulation of Île Saint-Jean. In spite of an appeal by Pierre Cassiet and Jean Biscaret, two of the missionaries to the Acadians on the island, it was decided that Colonel Lord Rollo* should proceed with plans to deport the inhabitants. Sent to France, the Robichaux family arrived at Saint-Servan in Brittany at the onset of winter, after a crossing that proved fatal for their father. They settled in the tiny village of Pleudihen on the outskirts of Saint-Servan and, like other Acadian families, were supported for some years by the French government. But they had difficulty adapting to their new life and dreamed of returning home.
On 4 Feb. 1773, at Saint-Servan, Jean-Baptiste married a fellow exile, Félicité Cyr (Sire); they were to have 15 children. At that time the Jersey merchants of the firm Robin, Pipon et Cie were eager to sign on the Acadian families living on the coasts of France in order to obtain a stable work-force for their settlements in Gaspé and on Cape Breton Island, since the young people from Jersey did not seem to want to take up permanent residence there. Early in the spring of 1774 Jean-Baptiste and his brothers went to Jersey, and in April the Acadian contingent left Saint Helier on two ships, the Hope and the Bee, bound for Charles Robin*'s establishment at Paspébiac in Gaspé, which they reached the following month. Jean-Baptiste and his wife settled at Bonaventure with their eldest child, Jean-Baptiste, who had been born on 16 Nov. 1773 at Saint-Servan. There they lived in straitened circumstances on his ten-acre plot, completely dependent on the company, Charles Robin having encouraged the Acadians to concentrate on fishing rather than farming. Unable to gain secure possession even of this small property, Robichaux contemplated joining the Acadian families south of the Baie des Chaleurs. About 1790 he crossed the bay with his family to settle at Grand Chipagan, taking up residence on Pointe Brûlé to the west of the harbour. He was the first settler from Grand Chipagan to petition the government for title to his land, in 1798. His rights were recognized, but he was not long to enjoy peaceful possession of his property. He died on 4 March 1808, and was buried the next day in the old cemetery at Caraquet. His widow went to live at Caraquet in the home of one of her daughters, where she died some years later.
Jean-Baptiste Robichaux's story clearly recalls the numerous moves that Acadian families had to endure at the time of the deportation. He was one of the first Acadians to settle at Grand Chipagan and a pioneer of that locality. His brothers all established themselves in New Brunswick, Isidore being an early settler at Pokemouche (Inkerman), and Joseph, Pierre, Michel, and Charles the founders of Saint-Charles (Kent County).
In 1790 he left Bonaventure to settle in Shippegan. He and his wife arrived from France in 1774 on a schooner owned by Charles Robin, with a group of Acadian refugees from Britanny. They were the main founders of the Robichaud village in Shippegan. In the expulsion to PEI, then to Brittany, where he married Felicity Sire-Cyr. He was brought back later to Canada by the Robin firm to Paspebiac, then to Shippagan, NB. Jean-Baptiste went to Shippagan NB, which he founded with Mallets & Duguays Buried: 03-05-1808 in (St-Jerome) Shippagan, NB............................................................................ROBICHAUX (Robichaud, Robicheau), JEAN-BAPTISTE, fisherman; b. c. 1751 in Village des Cadet (Great Village), N.S., son of Joseph Robichaux, dit Cadet, and Claire Le Blanc; d. 4 March 1808 in Grand Chipagan (Shippegan), N.B. Jean-Baptiste Robichaux's father came from Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N. S.) but settled in the region of Cobequid (near Truro) at Village des Cadet after his marriage in 1726. Eleven children were born there; Jean-Baptiste was the tenth. Although many of their neighbours responded in the early 1750s to the efforts made by the French government and its agents to persuade Acadians living under British rule to remove to French territory [see Jean-Louis Le Loutre*], the Robichaux family remained in Nova Scotia; their distance from Annapolis Royal and the presence of French troops at Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island), and Fort Beauséjour (near Sackville, N.B.) perhaps gave them a sense of security on their lands. Nevertheless, they had eventually to take the weary road to exile. About the time of the deportation in 1755 [see Charles Lawrence] – whether before or after is unclear – Joseph Robichaux took his family by the "emigrants' road" to Tatamagouche, and then by ship to Pointe Prime (Point Prim) on Île Saint-Jean (P.E.I.). It was there that many Acadians from Cobequid, as well as the former parish priest, Jacques Girard*, had settled. The surrender of Louisbourg to British forces under Jeffery Amherst* and Edward Boscawen* in July 1758 brought with it the capitulation of Île Saint-Jean. In spite of an appeal by Pierre Cassiet and Jean Biscaret, two of the missionaries to the Acadians on the island, it was decided that Colonel Lord Rollo* should proceed with plans to deport the inhabitants. Sent to France, the Robichaux family arrived at Saint-Servan in Brittany at the onset of winter, after a crossing that proved fatal for their father. They settled in the tiny village of Pleudihen on the outskirts of Saint-Servan and, like other Acadian families, were supported for some years by the French government. But they had difficulty adapting to their new life and dreamed of returning home. On 4 Feb. 1773, at Saint-Servan, Jean-Baptiste married a fellow exile, Félicité Cyr (Sire); they were to have 15 children. At that time the Jersey merchants of the firm Robin, Pipon et Cie were eager to sign on the Acadian families living on the coasts of France in order to obtain a stable work-force for their settlements in Gaspé and on Cape Breton Island, since the young people from Jersey did not seem to want to take up permanent residence there. Early in the spring of 1774 Jean-Baptiste and his brothers went to Jersey, and in April the Acadian contingent left Saint Helier on two ships, the Hope and the Bee, bound for Charles Robin*'s establishment at Paspébiac in Gaspé, which they reached the following month. Jean-Baptiste and his wife settled at Bonaventure with their eldest child, Jean-Baptiste, who had been born on 16 Nov. 1773 at Saint-Servan. There they lived in straitened circumstances on his ten-acre plot, completely dependent on the company, Charles Robin having encouraged the Acadians to concentrate on fishing rather than farming. Unable to gain secure possession even of this small property, Robichaux contemplated joining the Acadian families south of the Baie des Chaleurs. About 1790 he crossed the bay with his family to settle at Grand Chipagan, taking up residence on Pointe Brûlé to the west of the harbour. He was the first settler from Grand Chipagan to petition the government for title to his land, in 1798. His rights were recognized, but he was not long to enjoy peaceful possession of his property. He died on 4 March 1808, and was buried the next day in the old cemetery at Caraquet. His widow went to live at Caraquet in the home of one of her daughters, where she died some years later. Jean-Baptiste Robichaux's story clearly recalls the numerous moves that Acadian families had to endure at the time of the deportation. He was one of the first Acadians to settle at Grand Chipagan and a pioneer of that locality. His brothers all established themselves in New Brunswick, Isidore being an early settler at Pokemouche (Inkerman), and Joseph, Pierre, Michel, and Charles the founders of Saint-Charles (Kent County). Donat Robichaud AAQ, 311 CN, I–VI. AD, Ille-et-Vilaine (Rennes), État civil, Saint-Servan, 1762; 4 févr. 1773. AP, Saint-Bonaventure (Bonaventure), Reg. des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures; Saint-Joseph (Carleton), Reg. des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures. Arch. paroissiales, Caraquet, N.-B., Reg. des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures de l'Acadie, 1768–99. BL, Add. mss 21862: 17b (transcript at PAC). Northumberland County Registry Office (Newcastle, N.B.), 8: 23–25, testament de J.-B. Robichaux. Placide Gaudet, "Généalogie des Acadiens, avec documents," PAC Rapport, 1905, II, iiie partie: 333. Patrice Gallant, Les registres de la Gaspésie (1752–1850) (6v., [Sayabec, Québec, 1968]), 5: 454–56. Donat Robichaud, Les Robichaud: histoire et généalogie (Bathurst, N.-B., [1967]), 86–90....................................................................................ROBICHAUX (Robichaud, Robicheau), JEAN-BAPTISTE, pêcheur, né vers 1751 au village des Cadet (Great Village, Nouvelle-Écosse), fils de Joseph Robichaux, dit Cadet, et de Claire Le Blanc ; décédé le 4 mars 1808 au Grand Chipagan (Shippagan, Nouveau-Brunswick).Le père de Jean-Baptiste Robichaux était originaire de Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, Nouvelle-Écosse), mais il s'établit dans la région de Cobequid (près de Truro), au village des Cadet, après son mariage en 1726. Onze enfants y naquirent ; Jean-Baptiste fut le dixième. Les Robichaux demeurèrent en Nouvelle-Écosse en dépit du fait qu'au début des années 1750 bon nombre de leurs voisins répondirent aux pressions du gouvernement français et de ses agents qui cherchaient à persuader les Acadiens vivant sous le régime britannique d'aller s'installer en territoire français [V. Jean-Louis Le Loutre*]. Peut-être que la grande distance qui les séparait d'Annapolis Royal et la présence de troupes françaises à Louisbourg, île Royale (île du Cap-Breton), et au fort Beauséjour (près de Sackville, Nouveau-Brunswick) leur donnèrent un sentiment de sécurité sur leur terre. Finalement, ils durent malgré tout prendre le long chemin de l'exil. Vers 1755 – soit avant ou après la déportation des Acadiens –, Joseph Robichaux emmena sa famille par le « chemin des émigrants » jusqu'à Tatamagouche, d'où ils se rendirent par bateau à la pointe Prime (Point Prim) dans l'île Saint-Jean (Île-du-Prince-Édouard). À cet endroit, plusieurs Acadiens de Cobequid de même que leur ancien curé, Jacques Girard, s'étaient installés.La capitulation de Louisbourg aux mains des forces britanniques sous le commandement d'Amherst et d'Edward Boscawen, en juillet 1758, amena la capitulation de l'île Saint-Jean. En dépit des réclamations de Pierre Cassiet et de Jean Biscaret, deux des missionnaires auprès des Acadiens de l'île, il fut décidé que lord Rollo donnerait suite au projet de déporter les habitants. On achemina la famille Robichaux vers la France ; elle arriva à Saint-Servan, en Bretagne, au début de l'hiver, après une traversée qui s'avéra fatale pour le père. Établis aux abords de Saint-Servan dans le petit village de Pleudihen, les Robichaux obtinrent, comme d'autres familles acadiennes, l'appui du gouvernement français pendant quelques années. Mais ils s'adaptèrent difficilement à leur nouvelle condition et rêvèrent de retourner au pays.Le 4 février 1773, Jean-Baptiste Robichaux épousa à Saint-Servan une compagne d'exil, Félicité Cyr (Sire) ; 15 enfants naquirent de cette union. À cette époque, les marchands jersiais de la firme Robin, Pipon et Cie désiraient embaucher les familles acadiennes de la côte française afin de fournir une main-d'œuvre stable à leurs établissements en Gaspésie et dans l'île du Cap-Breton, puisque les jeunes Jersiais ne semblaient pas vouloir s'y établir en permanence. Au début du printemps de 1774, Robichaux et ses frères se rendirent à Jersey et, le 26 avril, le contingent acadien quittait Saint-Hélier sur deux navires, le Hope et le Bee, à destination de l'établissement de Charles Robin à Paspébiac, en Gaspésie, où ils arrivèrent le mois suivant. Robichaux et son épouse s'établirent à Bonaventure avec leur aîné, Jean-Baptiste, né à Saint-Servan le 16 novembre 1773. À l'étroit sur son lopin de terre de dix arpents où il vivait dans la dépendance complète de la compagnie – Robin ayant encouragé les Acadiens à concentrer leur activité sur la pêche plutôt que sur l'agriculture – et incapable de s'assurer la possession même de cette petite propriété, Robichaux songeait à rejoindre les familles acadiennes établies au sud de la baie des Chaleurs. Vers 1790, il traversa la baie avec sa famille pour s'installer au Grand Chipagan. Établi sur la pointe Brûlé, à l'ouest du havre, il fut, en 1798, le premier habitant du Grand Chipagan à présenter une requête au gouvernement pour les titres de ses terres. Ses droits furent reconnus, mais il ne devait pas jouir longtemps de la possession tranquille de ses terres, puisqu'il mourut le 4 mars 1808 ; il fut inhumé le lendemain dans le vieux cimetière de Caraquet. Sa veuve s'en fut demeurer à Caraquet chez, une de ses filles, où elle mourut quelques années plus tard.L'histoire de Jean-Baptiste Robichaux illustre bien les nombreux déplacements qu'eurent à subir les familles acadiennes lors de la dispersion. Il fut l'un des premiers Acadiens établis au Grand Chipagan et l'un des pionniers de cette localité. Parmi ses frères, qui s'installèrent tous au Nouveau-Brunswick, Isidore fut pionnier de Pokemouche (Inkerman), et Joseph, Pierre, Michel et Charles furent les fondateurs de Saint-Charles (comté de Kent).Donat RobichaudSourceAAQ, 311 CN, I-VI.— AD, Ille-et-Vilaine (Rennes), État civil, Saint-Servan, 1762, 4 févr. 1773.— AP, Saint-Bonaventure (Bonavent
from NBGS records
ROBICHAUD: Jean-Baptiste Robichaud born c1751 in Great Village (near Truro) NS, died 4 Mar 1808, s/o Joseph Robichaud and Claire LeBlanc: m. 4 Feb 1773 at Saint-Servan, Brittany, France, Félicité Cyr b. 1754 d/o Jean Cyr and Marie-Josephte Hébert: went to Bonaventure, QC in 1774, then came to NB in 1790 and settled at Shippagan in Gloucester County:
Children:
1) Jean-Baptiste Robichaud b. 16 Nov 1773 at Saint-Servan, m. (1st) 22 Feb 1797 in Shippagan, Théotiste Savoie d/o François Savoie and Anne Poirier: had issue: m. (2nd) Barbe Poulin d/o Louis Poulin and Hélène Haché: had no children:
2) Joseph Robichaud born 7 Aug 1775 at Bonaventure, QC:
3) Claire Robichaud b. 10 Jan 1777 at Bonaventure, married (1st) 23 Jul 1794 Jean-Baptiste Léger s/o Olivier Léger and Josephte Hébert: m. (2nd) 8 Jan 1822 Mathurin Landry s/o Anselme Landry and Marie Brideau:
4) Modeste Robichaud b. 17 May 1778 at Bonaventure, QC, m. at Caraquet, NB, Tranquille Blanchard:
5) Anastasie Robichaud b. 22 Nov 1779 at Bonaventure, QC, died Oct 1823, married Joseph Savoie of Shippagan:
6) Luce Robichaud born and died at Bonaventure, QC:
7) David Robichaud b. c1782 at Bonaventure, QC, died 8 May 1857, married (1st) 13 Jan 1807 at Shippagan, NB, Rébecca Savoie d/o Pierre Savoie and Marie Bijeau of Neguac, Alnwick Parish, Northumberland County: had issue: m. (2nd) 20 Nov 1854 Vénérande Losier, the widow of Clément Arseneau of Tracadie, NB: had no children:
8) Vincent Robichaud born 27 Jan 1783 at Bonaventure, QC:
9) Paul Robichaud b. 22 May 1784 at Bonaventure:
10) Léon Robichaud b. 19 Sep 1787 at Bonaventure, QC, died 13 Feb 1866, m. 10 Jan 1814 at Caraquet, Blanche Dugas d/o Joseph Dugas and Agathe Landry: had children:
11) Charlotte Robichaud b. c1788 at Bonaventure, m. 23 Aug 1807 Édward Savoie s/o Joseph Savoie and Madeleine Bijeau:
12) Julie Robichaud b. 2 Apr 1790 at Bonaventure, QC, married (1st) 25 Feb 1811 at Caraquet, NB, Ephrem or Fred Blanchard of Caraquet, (2nd) 25 Nov 1818 Moise Godin of Caraquet:
13) Sophie Robichaud born 21 Aug 1791 at Shippagan, NB, d. 18 Jun 1792:
14) Luc Robichaud b. c1795 at Shippagan, d. 28 Mar 1807:
15) Augustin Robichaud b. - , d. Jul 1857, married 27 Nov 1827 at Shippagan Marie Rose Chiasson d/o Nicolas Chaisson and Geneviève Gionet: they had children.
Sources: MC1286 Volume V Dictionary of Canadian Biography, pages 719-720: surname was also spelled Robichaux and Robicheau: Jean Sr's brothers Isidore Robichaud settled at Pokemouche in Inkerman Parish, Gloucester County, and Joseph Robichaud, Pierre Robichaud, Michel Robichaud and Charles Robichaud settled at Saint Charles, Kent County: see also MC80/286 Donat Robichaud's Le grand Chipagan: histoire de Shippagan, pgs 305-315: see also MC80/577 Donat Robichaud's Les Robichaud histoire et généalogie, page 86ff.: see also MC80/781 Bona Arsenault's Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, Vol. II, pg 846: see MC80/2515 Donat Robichaud's Les Robichaud d'Amérique: dictionnaire généalogique. |
