Firmin Gregoire LaVache (abt. 1753 - aft. 1822)

Born about 18 Mar 1753 in Port LaJoye, Isle St. Jean, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

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Biography

He was the son of Honore LaVache and Madeleine Daigre, born March 18, 1753 and baptized at Port Lajoie, 1754/04/22. ^[1]

After deportation, Firmin returned to Acadie.^[2]

He married about 1778, Jeanne Dugas, daughter of Claude Dugas and Marie Madeleine Belliveau.^{[citation needed]}

Gregoire made a living by fishing and sailing.

On March 8, 1786, Firmin-Gregoire LaVache was one of the seventy Acadien heads of families, the founders of Arichat Parish , that thanked the lieutenant governor of Cape Breton, J.F.W. DesBarres, "for the promise of land concessions, the permission to construct a church and school, and the request for tax exemptions."^[3]

He died after 1822.^{[citation needed]}

Research Notes

No events found for him in Quebec. They were deported to where? Karen Theriot Reader does not include that information.

Sources

1. ↑ Hebert, Timothy. Acadian Church Records: Port LaJoye, Ile St. Jean, 1749-1758: St. Jean L’Evangeliste Parish. Acadian-Cajun Geneaology & History, 2000, p. 43. The original record can be found at Archives Nationales d'outre-mer État civil, Ile Saint-Jean (Port La Joye) Parish Records 1721-1758, 1753, p. 1 Baptism

   Firmin Gregoire LAVACHE Baptized: April 22, 1753; Born: March 18, 1753
   Parents Thomas LAVACHE & Marie Magdelaine DAIGRE
   Godparents: Alexis LAVACHE, Marie Blance AMBROISE

2. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader [ https://gw.geneanet.org/katheriot?lang=en&pz=frederick+joseph&nz=theriot&ocz=1&p=firmin+gregoire&n=la+vache&oc=1 Firmin Gregoire] citing Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780 - Stephen A. White - Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version - DAIGRE #9 Notes - Jean-Baptiste and his brother Firmin-Grégoire LA VACHE returned to Acadie in 1774 with the family of [their uncle] Grégoire DAIGRE. We believe that their mother was a daughter of Charles DAIGRE.
3. ↑ This profile was created from information in the manuscript “The 70 signers of the Founding of Arichat Parish, Cape Breton”, published in 2006 by Lena White, readily available for reference at Ancestory.com. Ms. White attributes the facts and data in her manuscript to: Stephen A. White, article “Les fondateurs de la paroisse d'Arichat, Cap-Breton”, from Cahiers de la société historique Acadienne - Volume 23, Pagination 4 – 26, 1992