Cotton and Lumber Mills – Nashwaak Marysville, New Brunswick
Marysville is on the site of the original Acadian/Maliseet settlement of Ste-Marie which was destroyed by the British Colonel Robert Monckton in 1758. Today’s Marysville is part of Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Gagetown from the St John River | Early 20th Century
My Acadian ancestors and their Maliseet friends knew this area as Grimross back in the mid 18th century when they were escaping the British. This was where Colonel Monckton’s Rangers tracked down and killed and scalped several Read more »
A Canadian Family Through the Generations: Our Theriaults (Gen.5)
Joseph Terriot II & Marie-Joseph Girouard
18th Century
(Generation 5)
Joseph Terriot II was born in Grand Pre on Sep 4th, 1723 in Grand Pre and died in the winter of 1796/97 in Caraquet, New Brunswick. He is the progenitor of two Theriault branches – one in Maine (USA) and one in New Brunswick (CAN). The Maine branch descends from Joseph and his first wife Angelique Landry.
Our branch at A Canadian Family descends from Joseph and his second wife Marie-Joseph Girouard, who was the daughter of Germain Girouard and Marie Doucet. The Joseph Theriault/Marie-Joseph Girouard marriage took place on June 2nd, 1754 in Riviere-aux-Canards, Acadia. Read more »
Jehan Theriault’s Poitou Homeland – A Photo Gallery by Jean Paul Laurendeau
Some time ago – through the marvels of modern DNA matching and online databases – I met a Jean Paul Laurendeau who lives in France. Our match is through my Theriault father’s YDNA but Jean Paul is not a Theriault. We probably connect because we both have ancestors in Poitou, France – although he has many more than I do. Jean Paul actually has many surnames in his family tree that Acadians and French Canadians would recognize including Thibaudeau, Moreau, Arsenault and Archambeau. For those of you who are unaware Jehan Theriault (var. Jean Tario, Terio, Therriau etc.) was from Vienne, Poitou-Charentes (France). Jehan and Perrine Rau are the founding couple of all Theriaults in North America. I rediscovered Jean Paul when I came across his beautiful photos of the Poitou region of France and he’s been generous enough to share these with A Canadian Family readers. So if your ancestors are from Poitou please sit back and take a “virtual” tour of this ancestral homeland of so many French Canadians.
Eglise Martaize (Church) France
Jean Paul's daughter Laëtitia points out a detail
Martaize - a Round Tower
Martaize (Church) Internal View with Laëtitia
Eglise La Chaussee (Church) France
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