Gautreau Village


A few years after the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763, the Acadians were repatriated from british prisons. Among them, Paul Gautreau married to Anne Belliveau Abt. 1761. Held prisoner at Fort Edward with his wife and their children, he settled first at Menoudie village in Nova Scotia.

During that time, many small villages in the Memramcook region were sprouting up here and there, inhabited by Acadians returning from exile in Massachusetts, freed from prisons, coming out of the woods if they had hidden there to escape deportation.

Paul Gautreau and his son Joseph who was born Abt. 1762 both drowned in the Minoudie River. Another of his sons, Petit Jean born 28 October 1769 and married to Madeleine Forest abt 1793, left with some friends to settle to the interior of Memramcook at a place referred to as the "second village" (deuxi?me village).

Charles Gautreau married to Marie-Fran?oise Bourque in 04 September 1762, was a distant cousin of Petit Jean of Petit Pierre, as were his two sons, Cyprien who married Marguerite Gaudet abt Abt. 1800 and Paul, had already settled at Beaumont.

At this time, it was difficult for Acadians to obtain land. Having been unable to obtain a concession in the area, Charles, Cyprien and Paul Gautreau decided to leave. They settled respectively in Barachois, Sh?diac and Cap-Pel?.

When Petit Jean's mother, Anne, remarried, Petit Pierre born 01 November 1763 joined Petit Jean at the "second village". It is there that he wed Anne Babin of Memramcook Abt. 1796. They had seven children. Petit Pierre lived to be 100 years old. Petit Jean who had wed Madeleine Forest from Menoudie also had eight children. Gautreau Village was so named to honor these first colonists.

Source: "Les Cahiers de la Soci?t? de la Vall?e de Memramcook Vol. 5, No. 2, Nov. 1993 (a translation from french).




? Lucie LeBlanc Consentino
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