...from the Great-Branch of
'Philomene & Stephen Durant' [MRIN
1774]
[VERSION FRANÇAISE]
Migration:
Acadia... Southern NB... Nova Scotia
Lineage
1. Jehan
2. Germain
3. Pierre
4. Joseph
5. Alexis
6. Joseph
7. Clement
8. Damien
9. Philomene |
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The first four generations lived in Acadia
with the fourth generation (Joseph) forcefully emigrating to
Louisiana as part of the Great Eviction which began in 1755. The
whereabouts of Joseph after the 1763 census in Halifax are
unknown. Joseph probably never made it to Louisiana with his
widow and four of his sons. Joseph's elder son, Alexis (fifth
generation) stayed in the area of Acadia, marrying in Cobequid,
Acadia in 1747 just prior to the Great Eviction.
The fifth generation (Alexis) died in Acadia before the 1763
census, but his son Joseph somehow finished his life in the
former Acadia, exactly where is unknown. We do not know whether
Alexis migrated nor do we know anything about the location of
Generation 6 (Joseph) although we suspect that it was not far
somewhere between Cobequid and present-day southern New
Brunswick.
Generation 7 (Clement) emerged in the southeastern corner of
present-day New Brunswick in the early 1800's and later,
Generation 8 (Damien) returned to Nova Scotia where the 9th
generation (Philomene) remained around the Amherst area and
where some of their descendants live today.
Vincent Durant is a grandson of Philomene Theriault
and is our Delegate for the Philomene & Stephen Durant
Great-Branch.
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Philomene (Theriault) is one of the
sixth great-grand-daughters of Jehan Terriot. The couple raised their family
in Amherst, Nova Scotia. The 'Philomene / Stephen Durant' Great-Branch
is one of only three Great-Branches in the 'Jehan, Germain Trunk' so far
documented.
This
photo was submitted by grandson Vincent Durant (Gerald Archibald DURANT,
Philomene THERIAULT), Delegate of the Great-Branch. |

Mr and Mrs Stephen
Durant |
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