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Céline Pinet
Catherine Hébert, Philippe’s widow, and her children had moved from Mines Bay to Île Royale (Cape Breton) in 1714. During the Deportation of 1755, the descendants of Philippe Pinet were settled in Île Royale and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), where many Acadians had taken refuge. In 1756, the population of Île Saint-Jean exceeded 4,400. Poverty was soaring. French governor Villejoin encouraged the departure of 700 to 800 Acadians to France (La Rochelle) and 1,000 to Quebec. Among those who went to Quebec, we find Pierre Pinet, ancestor of the vast majority of Acadians Pinet.
In the summer of 1758, Louisbourg, the last French stronghold in the region falls to English forces, and follows, the deportation of the Acadians from Île Royale and Île Saint-Jean. Between the Fall of 1758 and the Spring of 1759, over 3,500 Acadians from Île Saint-Jean are forced to embark on nine frigates and are deported to England. Three of these vessels, the Duke William, the Ruby and the Violet are lost at sea. Nearly 1,000 Acadians perish. Many are descendants of Philippe Pinet (see below). Others die victims of epidemics. The survivors, prisoners in England, are transported to France after the Treaty of Paris in 1763. Some later returned to Louisiana and Canada.
DEPORTED FROM ÎLE SAINT-JEAN (PEI) to Europe
Antoine Pinet’s family (son Philippe and Catherine Hébert)
Françoise Pinet (Antoine’s daughter) wife of Charles Bouillé - Her name was on the list of Acadians who arrived at La Rochelle in 1759. She died at Rochefort on August 7th 1762 at 53 years old.
Noël Pinet’s family (son of Philippe and Catherine Hébert)
Rose Henry (Noël’s widow) died in Cherbourg, France on October 1759.
Jean-Baptiste Pinet (Noël’s son) husband of Jeanne Isabelle Pilon - This family is in Saint-Pierre-du-Nord, Île Saint-Jean in 1758. There is no mention of Jean-Baptiste and children Charles, Jean-Baptiste, Rosalie, Pierrette and Michel in the 1761 census. As for his son Basile, he is mentioned in the census for Cherbourg, France in 1761. It is very probable that the family was deported. Jean-Baptiste’s wife, Jeanne, remarried to Joseph Grandbois around 1770.
Brigitte Pinet (Noël’s daughter) wife of Martin Percheron - Her name was on the list of Acadians who arrived in Saint-Malo, France in 1759 (age 41). She is mentioned in the census for St. Suliac in 1762 (age 43) and Saint-Malo in 1772 (age 53). She died in Archigny (burial September 20th 1774, Archigny).
Marie-Françoise Pinet (daughter of Noël’s son Joseph) - She died in 1776 at Mole Saint Nicolas, Saint-Domingue.
Pierre Pinet (Noël’s son) husband of Genevieve Trahan - The family was at Saint-Pierre-du-Nord, Île Saint-Jean from 1749 to 1758. After, there are no traces of the couple or their children: Jean-Pierre Armand, Paul, Marie-Brigitte, Pierre and Michel. They were among the unfortunate passengers who died when the Ruby ran aground on the rocks of Pico in the Azores.
Philippe (Noël’s son) - He died in Cherbourg in November 1759 at 28 years old.
Charles Pinet called Pinel (Noël’s son) married to Anne-Marie Durel LaCroix - Three children, Anne-Charlotte, Lazarus and Françoise were born in the Île Saint-Jean and seven others: Jeanne-Charlotte, Louis, Marie-Modeste, Marguerite, Marie-Madeleine, Martin-Charles and Rene-Jean were born in France. Charles is mentioned in the census for Cherbourg in 1772 (age 40). In 1785, on the list of passengers of the frigate l’Amitié on route to Louisiana from LaRochelle, France we find the names of Charles and Anne-Marie and their three children: Louis, Marie-Modeste (her husband, Jean-Charles Haché) and Marie-Madeleine. The other living children have remained in France. Louis married Anne-Blanche Vincent in New Orleans. They had 7 children who settled in Louisiana. Their descendants are known by the surnames Pinel, Pinell and Pinette.
Marie Pinet’s family (daughter of Philippe and Catherine Hébert)
Marie-Madeleine Simon-Boucher (Marie’s daughter) wife Louis Bernard - She died at sea during the crossing to England.
Marie Simon-Boucher (Marie’s daughter) wife of Charles LeBreton - She died at sea during the crossing to England.
DEPORTED FROM LOUISBOURG to Europe
Charles l‘aîné’s family (son of Philippe and Catherine Hébert)
Marie Marchand (Charles l’aîné’s widow) – she is mentioned in the 1771 and 1772 census for Morlaix, France.
Charles Pinet (Charles l’aîné’s son) husband of Jeanne Samson. This couple, with their three children, Jean-Pierre, Marie and Jeannette were deported to France in August 1758 on the Queen of Spain. Jeanne and her two daughters died during the crossing and Jean is mentioned on the list of arrivals in Saint-Malo on November 17th 1758. He is 7 years old and an orphan. He stayed with a Miss Deliens, rue Saint-Sauveur after his arrival. From 1758 to 1760, he lived in Saint-Malo and from 1760 to 1763 in Saint-Servan, where he died in 1763. As for Charles, he is mentioned in the 1770 census for La Rochelle (age 45) and with his mother Marie Marchand in the1772 census of Morlaix (age 48).
Jeanne Pinet (Charles l’aîné’s daughter) - She died in Rochefort on August 8th 1759. She had married René Robin.
Jean-Baptiste Pinet (Charles l’aîné’s son) - his name is on the 1761 and 1762 census for La Rochelle.
Angélique Pinet (Charles l’aîné’s daughter) married to Michel Léger-Richelieu. In 1758, during the capture of Louisbourg, she was deported to France. At 18 years old she was the youngest of the family. She is listed in the 1761, 1770 (age 28 (sic)), 1772 (age 30 (sic)) census for La Rochelle, France. The family lived in Miquelon from 1765 to 1767 where two children were born. They were in Saint-Domingue in 1768 and returned to LaRochelle, arriving on May 23rd 1769. On May 10th 1785, Angélique, widowed (age 44) and two of her sons, Louis and Jean-Baptiste, leave Paimboeuf, France on the Bon Papa, direction Louisiana. They land on July 29th , after 80 days at sea and are reunited with the family’s eldest child, Michel Prospère.
Marie-Josephe Pinet (Charles l’aîné’s daughter) - She was mentioned with her mother in the 1771 census for Morlaix, France. She married Pierre Dubois.
Charles Pinet le jeune’s family (son of Philippe and Catherine)
Marie-Louise Testard dit Paris (Charles le jeune’s widow) remarried to Pierre Daigre. Both were mentioned on the list of arrivals in Saint-Malo in January 1759 and died in hospital in Saint-Malo on February 11th 1759. She was 53 years old and he was 66 years old.
Charles and Louis-Guillaume Pinet (Charles le jeune’s grandsons, sons of Charles and Marguerite Lavandier). They are listed in the 1761 and 1762 census for La Rochelle, France. They returned to St-Pierre and Miquelon, probably in 1763 (after the Treaty of Paris) and Charles (age 10), Louis-Guillaume (age 7) and their half-brother Jean-Baptiste (age 17) drowned in Miquelon on September 5th 1767.
Sources:
Arsenault, Georges – Les Acadiens de l’Île – 1720-1980
Hébert, Pierre-Maurice – Les Acadiens du Québec
Lanctôt, Léopold – L’Acadie des origines 1603-1771
Le LÉGER – Vol. 2, no. 3 p. 13
Société historique acadienne - Vol. ll # 8
White, Stephen – Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (Tomes 1 et 11)
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