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Pierre Thibodeau

Male 1631 - 1704  (73 years)


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  • Name Pierre Thibodeau 
    Born 1631  Les Moutiers, Vendee, Poitou, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 26 Dec 1704  Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I124181  Little Chute Genealogy
    Last Modified 24 Jun 2006 

    Father Mathurin Rhibauoa Thibodeau,   b. 1605, Les Moutiers, Vendee, Poitou, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Jan 1685, Lachine, Île-de-Montréal, Québec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Mother Marie Dolbeau,   b. 1609, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 1630  Vienne, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F48846  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jeanne Theriault,   b. 05 Sep 1643, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 08 Dec 1726, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Married 01 Jan 1659  Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Marie Anne Thibodeau,   b. cir 1661, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Feb 1711, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 50 years)
     2. Marie Thibodeau,   b. 1663, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Anne Marie Thibodeau,   b. 1666, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1700, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 34 years)
     4. Pierre Thibodeau,   b. cir 1670, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Nov 1723, Pisiquit, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 53 years)
     5. Jeanne Thibodeau,   b. cir 1672,   d. 07 Apr 1741, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years)
     6. Jean Thibodeau,   b. 1674, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 09 Dec 1746, Grand Pre, Kings Co, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years)
     7. Antoine Thibodeau,   b. 1676, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
     8. Pierre Thibodeau,   b. cir 1678, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
     9. Michel Thobodeau,   b. cir 1680, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Nov 1734, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 54 years)
     10. Cecile Thibodeau,   b. 1680, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Apr 1717, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years)
     11. Claude Thibodeau,   b. 1685, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Aug 1756, New Brunswick, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)
     12. Catherine Josephe Thibodeau,   b. 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Feb 1750, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years)
     13. Charles Thibodeau,   b. 04 Jan 1689, Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Aug 1756, Port Lajoie, Prince Edward Island, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2022 
    Family ID F48845  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Notes 
    • Thibodeau family

      Telegraph-Journal, Wednesday, August 10, 1994; p. A8

      The ancestor of this family in Acadia, Pierre Thibodeau, is believed to have been born in 1630 in Marans, a village near La Rochelle, France. He followed Emmanuel LeBorgne de Belle-Isle to Acadia as a young man during the middle of the 1650s. Shortly after his arrival he married a young Acadian girl, Jeanne ThTriault, who gave birth to 17 children.

      Pierre Thibodeau settled approximately 17 kilometres from the mouth of the Port-Royal river in a lovely spot called PrTe-Ronde. There he built his house, his farm and his flour and grist mill. Pierre was undoubtedly prosperous but he had larger ambitions. On June 20, 1695, Governor de Frontenac granted him on the Kennebec river (Maine), a seigniory two leagues deep and a league on each bank of the Kennebec river along with the islands.

      At the age of 67, the enterprising Pierre Thibodeau decided to found a new community on the northern part of Baie Frantaise (Fundy) called Chipoudie, now Hopewell Cape. He associated his sons and a few neighbors for this new foundation and had the necessary machinery for a flour and grist mill brought over from Boston.

      In addition to his occupations as a farmer and a miller, Pierre Thibodeau was also a merchant. He traded furs with the Indians. Pierre Thibodeau died at PrTe-Ronde and was buried at Port-Royal on December 27, 1704. His children settled at Port-Royal, Grand-PrT and Chipoudie.

      In 1755, the Thibodeaus were deported to Massachusetts, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. Several of them escaped deportation and found refuge in Quebec while others ended up in France or in Louisiana. One of Pierre Thibodeau's grandchildren, Olivier, married to +lisabeth Melanson, abandoned all of his properties at the time of the Deportation and fled to Quebec. Once there an epidemic of measles decimated his family including Olivier and his wife. They left behind three orphans: one of them Urbain, married Anastasie Deblois in 1777.

      He was father to Pierre-Chrysologue Thibaudeau who settled at Cap-SantT (Quebec) and fathered 16 children, several of whom became merchants and politicians.

      The Madawaska Thibodeaus are descended from Jean-Baptiste Thibodeau and Marie LeBlanc from Grand-PrT. Jean-Baptiste sought refuge with with his family on the Saint John river, then at Quebec after the destruction of the community of Sainte-Anne (Fredericton) in 1759. He returned to the Saint John river during the 1770s and settled at Saint-Basile after the arrival of the Loyalists. There he died in 1795.

      The Thibodeaus of the Tracadie and Miramichi areas are descended from Alexis, son of RenT, son of Pierre. Alexis Thibodeau was deported to Massachusetts where he married Marguerite Dupuis in 1763. In 1767, he managed to get closer to Acadia by moving to Trois-RiviFres (QuTbec). In 1777, he migrated to the St. John Rivers. After the arrival of the Loyalists, members of his family moved to Baie-Sainte-Anne and to Tracadie.

      Contributed by Fidele Theriault of Fredericton, New Brunswick.