Marie Modeste Cormier was born about 1798 in Margaree, Nova Scotia.[1]
Marie Modeste Cormier appears in the Acadian Census of 1809, for Margaree. She was living in the household of her mother, Isabelle Boudrot, the widow of Guillaume Cormier[2]
Marie Modeste Cormier appears in the St Michael Parish of Margaree marriage records as the daughter of Guillaume Cormier (deceased) and Isabelle Boudrot. She married Celestin LeBlanc, the son of Hilaire LeBlanc and Scholastique LeBlanc (deceased) on Apr 26, 1819[3].
Notes
Trish LeBlanc, who transcribed many of the Acadian parish records for Margaree has an online tree of some of the families, including Marie Modeste[4]
Several books on the Acadians of Margaree have profiles for Marie Modeste[5][6]
Sources
↑ Birth date is an estimate based on an assumption that she was about 21 years old at her marriage in 1819. Birth place was assumed to be the same as her siblings.
↑ The Leblanc and MacLean Families. St. Michaels Parish Records 1812-1891. Margaree, Inverness County, Nova Scotia. Transcriptions by Trish LeBlanc. Accessed 2020.
↑ Butt, Kirk.R., Early Settlers of Bay St. George, Volume 1, Revised Fifth Edition(Oshawa, On; Boonen Books, 2013) page 412
↑ Chiasson, Anselme, History and Acadian Traditions of Chéticamp,(St. John's, NF: Breakwater Books, 1986), 290, Census of Margaree in Cape Breton in 1809.
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