Pierre Granger (1745 - abt. 1765)

Born 5 Mar 1745 in Grand-Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

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Biography

Pierre Granger died young.

Pierre Granger was born 5 March 1745, a son of Pierre Granger and Euphrosine Gautreaux. He was baptized the day of his birth at Saint Charles des Mines, Grand-Pré, Acadia. His godparents were Paul Granger and Elisabeth Leblanc.^[1][2]

At the age of ten, caught in le grand dérangement, he and his family and neighbors were deported to British colonial Maryland. He was counted there with his parents and five siblings at the end of the war on 7 July 1763 in Snowhill, Worcester, Maryland.^[3]

His father died sometime after that census of July 1763, and before his family reached Louisiana, c.1766 -- perhaps Pierre, fils and his younger brother died with their father. (His three oldest siblings were grown.) His widowed mother is listed on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana with only three children: Marie Anne, Joseph, and Jean Baptiste.^[4]

His date of death is unknown -- after July 1763 and before the family reached Louisiana -- so assumed to have been about 1765-6.

Sources

1. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Charles-des-Mines (Grand-Pré, N.-É.) - 1869; Canadiana, Heritage, Parish registers: Nova Scotia : C-1869 (Image 488): https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1869/488?r=0&s=4
2. ↑ "Canada, Nova Scotia Births and Baptisms, 1702-1896", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL5L-TX8 : 7 February 2020), Pierre Granger, 1745.

   Christening Date: 5 Mar 1745

   Event Place: Grand Pré, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

   Event Place (Original): Saint Charles, Grand Pre, Kings, Nova Scotia

   Birth Date: 5 Mar 1745

   Father's Name: Pierre Granger

   Mother's Name: Euphrasie Gautrot

3. ↑ Janet Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies (Covington, KY: Author, 1977), pp. 132 & 151;

   "Etat des gens Neutrals acadiens qui sont en Snowhill, En Maryland...Pierre Granger, Frausine Granger son epouse, Anne Granger, Marie Granger, Joseph Granger, Jean Baptiste Granger, Pierre Granger, Claude Granger."

   Dispersed Acadians in Snowhill, Maryland:

   Pierre GRANGER,

   Frausine GRANGER his wife,

   Anne GRANGER,

   Marie GRANGER,

   Joseph GRANGER,

   Jean Baptiste GRANGER,

   Pierre GRANGER,

   Claude GRANGER

4. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by Jane G. Bulliard and the Wall of Names Committee (Scott, LA: Hulco, 2002) p. 17.