Geneviève Serreau (1667 - aft. 1739)

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Geneviève Serreau was born on August 07, 1667 in Québec, Canada, Nouvelle-France. Her parents were Jean Serreau and Marguerite Boileau. ^[1][2] She was baptized on 9 August 1667 in the church of Notre-Dame of Québec.^[3] Her godparents were Sixte Charrier dit Mignard, officer of the Carignan regiment, and Geneviève Macart, wife of Charles Bazire.

When Geneviève was about 9 years of age, she came with her father who "settled at Pesmocadie (Passamaquoddy) on the Sainte-Croix River in Acadia soon after 1676. In June 1684, he received a fairly extensive land grant which he made into a prosperous seigneury. He went to live on Île Archimagan, near what is now the town of St Andrews, N.B., and became the most influential citizen of the locality."^[4]

She married Jacques Petitpas, son of Claude Petitpas and Catherine Bugaret, about 1690.^[1]

Together they had 2 children:^[1]

1. Jean Petitpas
2. Nicolas Petitpas

On 9 November 1692, Jacques Petitpas and Charles Serreau, Geneviève's younger brother with his wife and children as well as Jacques and his family who were captured by Church ^[5], all residents of Archimayan in Acadie, were taken prisoner by the British and brought to Boston with their families.^[1]

“In order to obtain their freedom, the two heads of families pretended to accept the proposal that they should go with two deserters from Quebec to carry off or assassinate Saint-Castin. But when they reached Penobscot Bay, they tied up the two traitors and took them to Governor Robinau de Villebon, who had them executed. Villebon rewarded the two Acadians with a sum of money sufficiently large ‘to enable them to deliver their wives and children from the English."^{[6] [4][7]}

How, when and where Genevieve met Barthélemy Bergeron is not known though both were in Boston in prison as the same time^[8]. No marriage record has been found. Genevieve had presumably been taken prisoner with her husband Jacques "and their families" so was in Boston for a period of time. She likely returned to Acadie after she was released. However, her first child with Barthelemy was born in Québec.

Geneviève (27) married Barthélemy Bergeron (31) (born in Amboise, Touraine, France) in 1695 in Port Royal, Acadie.

Their known children were^[1]:

1. Barthélemy Bergeron, baptised on 1 January 1696 in Saint-François, Île d'Orléans (his maternal grandmother is his godmother)^[9] – before Apr 9 1766) .
2. Marie Josephe Bergeron (Acadie, about 1698 – after Oct 1763) .
3. Michel Bergeron (Port Royal, Acadie, about 1700 – before Aug 6 1764) .
4. Augustin Bergeron (Port Royal, Acadie, about 1702 – Aug 30 1765) .
5. Marie Anne Bergeron (Boston, Jun 24 1706 – Sep 15 1779) .
6. Marie Anne Bergeron (Port Royal, Acadie, Sep 24 1709 – Jan 1 1770)

The movements of the family are illustrated from the baptismal records of their children. Their first child was baptised near Quebec at St-François on Île d'Orléans. Their fifth child, Marie-Anne, was born in Boston on June 24 1706 and baptised in Port-Royal later that year on September 20. The sixth child, Anne-Marie, was born in Port-Royal on 24 September 1709 and baptised two days later.

In 1714 Barthélemy and Geneviève were living close to the fort at Port-Royal with three sons and three daughters.^[10]

She died after the 1739 census.^{[1] [11]}

Biographie

Naissance Geneviève Serreau de Saint-Aubin est née le 7 août 1667 à Québec, Canada, Nouvelle-France. Elle a été baptisée le 9 août 1667 en l'église Notre-Dame de Québec.^[3] Elle était la fille de Jean Serreau et Marguerite Boileau.^[1]

Après 1676

Installation en Acadie

"Peu après 1676, il (son père, Jean Serreau de Saint-Aubin) vint s’établir à Pesmocadie (Passamaquoddy) sur la rivière Sainte-Croix, en Acadie. En juin 1684, il reçut une concession assez étendue qu’il érigea en une seigneurie prospère. Installé dans l’île Archimagan, près de la ville actuelle de St. Andrews au Nouveau-Brunswick, il devint le citoyen le plus influent de l’endroit."^[12]

Vers 1690

Premier mariage

Mariage en Acadie avec Jacques Petitpas.^{[1] [13]} né vers 1667, fils de Claude et Catherine Bugaret.^[14]

1692-1695

Prisonnière à Boston

Le 9 novembre 1692, Jacques Petitpas et Charles Serreau, le frère cadet de Geneviève, (voir les notes de recherche) résidents d'Archimayan en Acadie, furent faits prisonniers par les Britanniques et emmenés à Boston avec leurs familles. ^[1] ( Stephen White citant Beamish Murdock, «A History of Nova Scotia, or Acadia», 1865, vol I, p. 241) “Les deux chefs de famille, pour obtenir leur liberté, feignirent d’accepter la proposition qu’on leur fit d’aller avec deux déserteurs de Québec enlever ou assassiner Saint-Castin. Mais arrivés dans la baie Penobscot, ils ligotèrent les deux traîtres et les conduisirent au gouverneur Robinau de Villebon qui les fit exécuter. Villebon récompensa les deux Acadiens par une somme d’argent assez considérable ‘pour leur donner moyen de retirer leurs femmes et enfans des mains des Anglois’ ”^[12]

Vers 1695

Second mariage

Mariage en Acadie avec Barthélemy Bergeron dit d'Amboise.^[1][15]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} White, Stephen A. Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (Moncton, N.-B.: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999) p. 122, 1299 & 1463
   • "Geneviève Serrau de Saint-Aubin (Jean (1) & Marguerite Boileau) n/b Rg Qué 7/9 aout 1667; vve Jacques Petitpas; d après Rc 1739"
   • Née le 7 août et baptisée le 9 du même mois en 1667, le parrain fut Sixte Charrier dit Mignard, officier du régiment Carignan, et la marraine fut Geneviève Macart, épouse de Charles Bazire. Tranlation follows:
   • Geneviève SERREAU de SAINT-AUBIN, daughter of Jean & Marguerite BOILEAU, born/baptized (Register of Québec) on the 7/9 Aug 1667. Sponsors: Xyste CHARRIER dit Mignard & Genevieve MACARD (wife of Charles BAZIRE).
2. ↑ Actes d’état civil et registres d’église du Québec (Collection Drouin), 1621 à 1967. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin. Search: Q > Québec > Notre-Dame (baptêmes 1621-1679) > 1621-1671 > image 91 of 93. Accessed on ancestry.ca, December 2020.
   • View Ancestry Record 1091 #15051092 (requires subscription).
   • View free Ancestry Sharing Image.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Institut Généalogique Drouin: Le Lafrance: Baptêmes et Sépultures 1621-1861 Baptême
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Clarence J. d’Entremont, “SERREAU DE SAINT-AUBIN, JEAN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed December 17, 2020, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/serreau_de_saint_aubin_jean_2E.html.
5. ↑ Bergeron, Richard J. "The First Bergeron d’Amboises in The Americas.” Acadian.org, accessed at https://www.acadian.org/genealogy/families/first-bergeron-damboises-americas/
6. ↑ Stephen White citing Beamish Murdock, A History of Nova Scotia, or Acadia, 1865, vol I, p. 241
7. ↑ White, Stephen A. English Supplement to the Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes ,Part I 1636 to 1714; Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 2000, Print. P. 307

   9 Nov 1692: Jacques Petitpas and Charles Serreau, Sr. de Saint-Aubin, both residents of Archimayan, in Acadia, were captured by the English and brought to Boston with their families. The governor of Massachusetts sent them along with two French deserters to capture M de Saint-Castin, keeping their families as hostages, but they betrayed the plan to the French authorities and delivered the deserters to them.

8. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader see Spouse 2 entry"
9. ↑ Baptême Barthélemy Bergeron Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
10. ↑ Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1714 Acadian Census, at Port-Royal, Acadie 1714 Census Transcription. The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Images 239-.

    DAMBOUC (sic) and wife, 3 sons, 3 daughters. (Damboise in original census, image 243)

11. ↑ 1739 census Rivière St-Jean. Original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Images 274-276.

    Could she be the relative “parente” living with Augustin St-Aubin?

12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} C. J. d’Entremont, « SERREAU DE SAINT-AUBIN, JEAN », dans Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, vol. 2, Université Laval/University of Toronto, 2003– , consulté le 17 déc. 2020, http://www.biographi.ca/fr/bio/serreau_de_saint_aubin_jean_2F.html.
13. ↑ Francogene: Généalogie des Français d'Amérique du Nord Jacques Petitpas
14. ↑ Francogene: Généalogie des Français d'Amérique du Nord Mariage Geneviève Serreau/Jacques Petitpas
15. ↑ Francogene: Généalogie des Français d'Amérique du Nord Barthélémy Bergeron

See also:

• PRDH: Research Programme in Historical Demography (membership): Individu: 69339