13 Sullivan - Richard - Landry Family

Patrick Sullivan married Alice Eliza Richard 1855 - 1889

Alice was the daughter of Francois Regis Richard 1803 - 1892 and Angelique Dugas 1803 - 1888, she was the daughter of Andres Dugas 1780 and Appoline Landry 1779 - 1868

Francois Richard was the son of Luc Richard 1778 - 1860  and Marie Foret (Forest) 1780 - 1864

Marie Forest was the daughter of Maxien Forest 1758 -1840 and Scholastique Leblanc 1758 - 1805. the daughter of Jean Baptiste LeBlance 1722 - 1818 and Marie Landry 1729

Luc Richard was the son of Jean Richard 1734 - 1812 and Marie Therese Theriot 1746 - 1811.

Marie was the daughter of Rene Theriot 1721 - 1810 and Anne LeBlanc 1724 -1794, daughter of Rene LeBlanc 1684 - 1758 and Margureite Tribeault 1704 - 1756

Jean Richard was the son of Alexandre Richard 1692 - 1741 and Marie Thibodeau 1703 -1795

Alexandre Richard was the son of Martin Richard 1665 - 1748 and Marguerite Bourg 1673 - 1747

Martin Richard was the son of Michel Dit Sancoucy Richard 1630 - 1687 and Madeline Blanchard 1636 -1686

By now it is very much a jumbled up, mixed up Family Tree with so many cross marriages.  The poor Priest must have had difficulty working out who was who.   The Paternal lines and the maternal lines are intermingled

The Sullivan Family

Annie Sullivan, who married William Henry Jessome, was the daughter of Patrick Sullivan 1854 - 1889  and Alice Eliza Richard 1855 - 1889.  

She was born in 1887, in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Patrick Sullivan was the son of Dennis Sullivan c 1815 in County Kerry, and Mary Donovan 1821 - 1911. 

Dennis was the son of Dennis Sullivan, 1791 and Mary McDonnell 1790. 

 He arrived in Canada from Ireland,  c 1835.  He settled in Mill Creek, and  farmed the land.  He is buried at Chapel Point Cemetery.  

Arrived aged 19 from Dingle in Ireland between 1833 and 1838 to New Brunswick.

His farm. 1847 - 1931 Sullivan Farm and Orchard 381 Point Aconi Road Mill Creek, Little Bras d'Or Cape Breton, N.S.

Mary has  been attributed as born in  1821 at Cape Breton, and she married Dennis in 1847.  Her parents were Patrick Donovan and Catherine Houlihan.

 However, she has noted in the census records being born in Ireland.  If that was so, in all likelihood the family arrived in 1826.  Their son Thomas Donovan was christened in Cork, Parish 

Early settlers such as James and Catherine Donovan relied on their relatives and neighbours for earning a living whether drying fish, harvesting vegetables or cutting the winter’s wood. Coming

from the southeast coast of Ireland, the Irish Catholics of Ingonish brought their settlement patterns, their Roman Catholic faith, their work rhythms and their extended family ties to the Ingonish area. The enduring bonds of kinship among Irish Catholic families made for strong cultural bonds throughout the community.

Research, however, has also revealed that there was hundreds of Irish living among the French, British and New Englanders in Cape Breton from 1713 to 1768.12 Virtually all of the surnames common among the Irish in Cape Breton today were present at Louisbourg and other areas of the island during the French regime and beyond. There was also Irish living among the French at Ingonish during the 18th century

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The Richard Family

Many of the Richard families in Canada trace their ancestry to Michel Richard dit Sansoucy, who settled in Port-Royal, Acadia in the mid-1600s.This web site is intended to be a compendium of the research done on him and his descendants. Much has been published on this family in various historical books and family histories, some of it accurate, some not so accurate. As is often the case with family histories, once something is in print, it often is considered to be "gospel". It is my hope that this web site will facilitate a critical examination and discussion of the facts, legends, and myths surrounding this Richard family and to allow us Richard researchers and descendants to learn more about our origins and our relatives' contributions to early America

Michel Richard dit Sansoucy arrived in Acadia by the early 1650s, settling in Port-Royal. (Some say that he was a soldier under Emanuel Leborgne. Can anyone provide a primary source to support that?) Shortly after arriving (ca. 1656), he married Madeleine Blanchard (daughter of Jean Blanchard and Radegonde Lambert). They had 10 children: sons Rene, Pierre, Martin, and Alexandre, and daughters Catherine, Anne, Madeleine, Marie, Cecile, and Marguerite. 

The daughters married into the Brossard, Terriot, Babin, Vincent, Forest, and Leblanc families, respectively. After Madeleine Blanchard's death (sometime between 1678 and the early 1680s), Michel remarried to Jeanne Babin (daughter of Antoine Babin and Marie Mercier). Michel and Jeanne had two sons of their own: Michel and (another) Alexandre. Michel Richard dit Sansoucy died (probably in Port-Royal) between 1686 and 1693. His widow Jeanne Babin then remarried to Laurent Doucet. The Richard family lived along the Riviere-Dauphin on the right (southeast) bank upstream of Port-Royal. 

Several of the children of Michel Richard and Madeleine Blanchard left Port-Royal (after his death) and moved to Grand-Pre in the Minas Basin (Baie-des-Mines). The descendants of Michel and his two wives remained (for the most part) in Acadia until the French settlers were expelled from that region by the English in the 1750s. While some of the Richard descendants later made their home in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, others settled in Quebec (primarily Nicolet County area), and some went much further abroad to Louisiana and even back to France. 

Note: On this web site and in my records, I have chosen to omit the correct French accent marks (e.g., grave, acute, circumflex) since I am not fluent in the French language and am using an American English keyboard. My apologies go out to my French-Canadian cousins! 

http://arslanmb.org/richard/richard.html

 

The Landry Family

According to Professor White, there is no specific documentation to show that the ancestors of the Acadian Landrys actually originated from LaChaussee. Even though it is known that a majority of the first colonists in Acadia came from Loundunais [Genevieve Massignon, in her linguistic analysis] and there were numerous Landrys in the vicinity of LaChaussee in the 17th century, there is no certainty that the Landrys to arrive in Acadia were from that area. 

The task of establishing the progenitor of the Landry's of Acadia is problematical to say the least. Researchers have established that there were two Rene Landrys to settle early in Acadia. Some investigators have named one Rene Landry, native of LaChausee, as the founder of the clan in Acadia. He shows to be born ca 1618. He arrived ca 1640 and there married Perrine Bourg. The other Rene Landry shows to be born ca 1634, probably in Martiaze or Loudon, France. His parents are unknown. It is believed he married a Marie Bernard in 1659 while still in France. He arrived in Acadia that same year. 

Some researchers have attempted to link the two Renes as father and son. Some Acadian records list them as Rene L'aine [the elder] and Rene le Jeunne [the younger]. However, that is questionable due to several facts. Rene L'aine was born in 1618 while Rene le Jeunne was born in 1634. If this is correct, there would only be 16 years difference between the two. However, Father Clarence d'Entremont, historian and genealogist from Novia Scotia, states 

"I have an example in Acadia of a child when he was born had a father 15 years of age".

However, Rene L'aine arrived in Acadia ca 1640 whereas Rene le Jeune arrived in 1659, suggesting a seperation would have existed between the two. Father Archange Godbout [who was in his time one of the most outstanding genealogists in French Canada] in his "Dictionanaire des Acadiens" say plainly on page 423 that the second Rene Landry, born 1634, "came from France with his wife". [Venu de France avec sa femme, marie vers 1659 a Marie Bernard]. 

Robert C. West in his "Atlas of Louisiana Surnames of French and Spanish Origin" on p.9 and 12 states: Rene Landry, le jeunne, emigrated from France, with his wife Marie Bernard, to Acadie about 1659". Some researchers suggest that Rene le Jeunne married after arriving in Acadia. This is based on records "Rene De La Heve Landry (---de France) m. at Port Royal vers 1659 Marie Bernard (---de France)" found in the National Canadiens Francais , Vol. I-II, p.751. 

Victor Landry claims that Rene Landry le Jeunne emigrated to Acadia in 1653 with a group that included Emmanuel Leborgne and Marie Bernard, who latter became Rene's wife. [Victor Landry...MY FAMILY-THE LANDRY GENEALOGY (as given by an older member of the family).] However, no documentation can be found to support this position. 

Furthurmore, some researchers have shown Rene le Jeune to be the son of a Jean-Claude Landry and Marie Sale'. Writings in the publication" Familles Acadienne", Father Leopold Lanctot makes suggestions to the beginnings of the Landrys in the New World. 

He states 

"It all began in the year 1640 when a group of 10 from the Landry family came to Acadia from France. The Landry family were originally from La Ventrouze, near Mortagne-au-Perche, Department of Orne, France. They were encouraged to come to Acadia by Marguerite Landry, daughter of Jean-Claude, and her husband Robert Martin. They had been in Acadia for several years. 

The group of 10 consisted of Jean-Claude Landry, and three children from his first marriage; twin Rene (22) and Antoinette (22), and Perrine (29) with her first husband Jacques Joffriau. Also was Jean-Claude's wife by second marriage, Marie Sale'(40) and three children from her first marriage to Martin Aucoin. These children were Michelle (22), Francois (18), and Jeannne Aucoin (8). Also in the group was Rene (6), son of Jean-Claude and Marie. The group probably settled near the river Saint-John in the Cape Sable area. They later moved to Port Royal. Please note that there were two named Rene in this group; Rene (the elder) , son of Jean-Claude by his first marriage, and Rene (the younger), son of Jean-Claude and Marie. Rene (the elder) married Perrine Bourg in 1645."

This information was also found in the "Histoire et Geneologic des Acadians" by Arsenault on pp 623-624. "Jean-Claude Landry (born 1593) and Marie Sale' (born 1600), daughter of Jean Denys Sale' and Francoise Arnaud, were married in Orne Department, France, in 1633. This was a second marriage for both. One child was born from this marriage, Rene, born in 1634. Jean-Claude died in 1671 in Mortagne-Au-Perche, France. 

The name of Marie Sale', age 86, appears in the 1686 Census of Acadia living with her son "Rene." This is somewhat based on the information obtained in the 1686 census where Marie Sale' (widow of Jean Claude) is shown residing next door to Rene Landry and beyond Rene's oldest son, Antoine. In discussing Marie Sale's relationship to Rene Landry, Father d'Entremont states the following: 

"The listing of Marie Sale', age 86, in close proximity to Rene Landry and his family in the 1686 census, for some time caused confusion, amongst early genealogists, concerning the parents of Rene "le Jeune" Landry." Father d'Entremont continues "that Bona Arsenault, in his 1978 publication, p.624..footnote71, says that according to Father Godbout, Rene Landry [husband of Marie Bernard] would have had as a mother Marie Sale'.

This prompted a series of errors, one of which was to create a fictious Jean-Claude Landry, because Marie Sale' is said to be the widow of Jean Claude, who is in fact believed to have been a Micmac Indian. NOWHERE in any census or other documents is there to be found an Acadian by the name Jean-Claude Landry." 

In a recent letter dated July 30, 1997, to Dr. Don Landry, Father d'Entremont reinforces this by the following "Jehan (or John) Claude was an indian, of the Micmac tribe. His name occurs twice in the Port Royal Church registers, ALWAYS as Jehan Clause, NEVER given as family name Landry. As a matter of fact, if "Clause" had not been his family name, it would mean that a register gives him his first and SECOND name. Moreover, the registers of old ALWAYS give the WHOLE name of persons; but the fact is that Jehan Clause has his name given thus, NEVER with another name added to those two. If the family name had been omitted in the registers, it would be the only time that such a thing occurs in any register. Thus CLAUDE was the family name. 

I do not have Father Leopold Lanctot's work "Familles Acadiennes". But I have of him L'ACADIE DES ORIGINES-1603-1771. I just took it out of my library and all along the margin of the eight first chapters of this work, I have written (in the past) all along the margins FALSE and ERROR, etc. While reading it, I must have put the book aside after the 10th chapter on the account of the amount of errors I found in that book. I must say that in the work, he gives again, Landry as the family name of Jehan Clause. I must add that up to about 50 years ago, there were indians living in this vicinity of the Pubnicos. Some of these families had as a family name "Glaude". I always asked myself if this "Glaude" was not a corruption of "Clause" Father d'Entremont continues 

"So, who was the father and mother of Rene Landry? I do not know nor does anybody know....Thus the descendants of Rene Landry....in my humble opinion, cannot go furthur up in genealogy on the Landry side, as we do not know who the parents of this Rene Landry were!"

Marie Bernard was born ca.1645 probably in Beauvoir-Sur-Mer, France. There is some question also as to who her parents were. There is considerable proof that her mother was "Marie" Andree Guyon (Guidon). Professor White in his "Dictionaire genealogique des families acadiennes, partie I (1636-1714) " states ....."Marie Bernard d/o (?? Bernard) & Andree Guion , born 1645". However, Bona Arcenault's "Histoire et genealogie des Acadians", Vol 2, p428-429, states that Marie Bernard's father was Andre Bernard: 

ANDRE BERNARD, born 1620, Macon, originating in Beauvoir-sur-Mer, arrived in Acadia in 1641, "pour aller servir en l'habitation" for Charles de Latour, a Jemseg, on the river Saint-Jean in New Brunswick. He is the father of Jeanne, born 1643; Marie, born 1645; Nicholas, born 1662; and Rene, born 1663. "Apres la prise du fort de Jemseg par D'Aulnay", in 1645, he returned to France to return to Acadia "apres la rehabitation de Charles de LaTour, par la cour de France." According to footnotes on page 428, Andre Bernard "Lors de la prise du fort de Jemseg, par Charles d' Aulnay, gouverneur d'Acadia, le 17 avril 1645, plusieurs compagnons de Charles de LaTour, faits prisonnies, ont ete pendus sur place, apres deliberation du Conseil, pour servir d'exemple et de memoire a la poste-rite, d'une si obstinee rebellion. Andre Bernard est epargne et il en signe l'attestation, le 15 mai 1645. (Couillard, Charles de Saint-Etienne de La Tour, p.489). 

Disputing the fact that Andre Bernard was Marie Bernard's father is the following from Bona Arcenaults publication quoting "Father Godbout indicates that the mother of the child Marie Bernard is Andree Guion. Her father is not Andre Bernard......." 

Despite all the confusion to this point, it is agreed upon that Rene Landry le Jeunne and Marie Bernard were married and in Acadia in 1659. Together, they had fifteen (15) children, all born at Port Royal. They were Antoine, born 1660; Claude, 1663; Cecile, 1664; Jean, 1666; Rene, 1668; Marie, 1670; Marguerite, 1672; Germain, 1674; Jeanne, 1676; Abraham, 1678; Pierre, 1680; Catherine, 1682; Anne, 1684; Charles, 1688; and Isabelle, 1691. 

Rene Landry died ca. 1692. In the 1714 census, it is indicated that Rene Landry died sometime before this census and his widow, Marie Bernard, was living in Port Royal with one of her sons. Marie Bernard died on January 11, 1719 as document by Winston DeVille's "Acadian Church Records" vol 4 p.124-125. He also makes reference in his writings that "On April1, 1718, Marie Bernard, widow of Rene Landry, baptised a baby because of the danger in transporting the infant in cold weather." 

The Landry clan grew over the years and spread in various parts of Acadia. Before the Great Derangement, the Landry family was established at Port Royal, Grand Pre', Beaubassin, Chipoudie, Petcoudiac, Port-Toulouse, Royal Island, Port-Lajoye, and Isle St. John. Of particular  interest to the descendants of Rene Landry le Jeune, one Firmin Landry is of importance because he was the connecting factor between Acadia and Louisana. However, confusion and errors also exists around this Firmin Landry. 

Bona Arcenault has made claim that Firmin was "probably" the son of Pierre Landry and Marguerite Forest in his publication "Histoire et Genealogie des Acadians" vol 6, page 2522 "Firmin Landry, born 1728 probably the son of Pierre and Marguerite Forest..." and in Vol 4 p.1406 "without doubt the son of Pierre and Marguerite....." 

M.E."Mitch" Conover believes that Firmin was the son of Charles Landry and Marie Leblanc. He bases his believe on succession records in the St. Martinville Book of Original Acts whereby certain birth, baptismal and marriage certificates appear. John T. Harrell also believes that Firmin was the son of Charles and Marie. He bases his assumption on the close relationship of Marie LeBlance, widow of Charles Landry listed in the 1763 census of Oxford Maryland, placing Firmin Landry and Amant Landry among the known children of Charles Landry and Marie Leblanc. Firmin is later listed in the Attakapas census of 1777 as living next door to Amant Landry. Amant is later proven to be the son of Charles and Marie. 

Many researchers believe that he was the son of Alexandre Landry and Ann Flan. This believe is based on Father Hebert's listings in his southwest Louisiana Records as follows: "Landry Firmin (Alexandre & ------, of Acadie) m. Theotiste Thiboudau....." (SM ch: v4, #231)(Hebert vol 1) 

In a letter written to Dr. Donald Landry, Metairie, Louisiana, in response to a letter written about questions concerning Firmin Landry, Professor Stephen A. White states: "Regarding Firmin Landry, I am aware of the hypothesis that has recently been advanced to the effect that Firmin who married Francois Thibodeau and Theotiste Thibodeau was a son of Charles Landry and Marie Leblanc. 

The researchers who have reached this conclusion seem to have some reason for rejecting what appears to be recorded in Firmin's burial record at St.Martinville [SM ch: v4 #231] [4Feb. 1801 ag age 67 yrs] which according to Father Donald Hebert [Southwest Louisiana Records, vol 1, p.344] shows that Theotiste Thibodeau's husband was the son of Alexandre Landry. I do not know what their reason might be for this, and consequently I am not changed in my belief that Firmin Landry was the son of Alexandre Landry and Marguerite Blanchard. Insofar as I know, Marguerite Blanchard's husband was the only Alexandre Landry who was fathering children in Acadia around the time of Firmin Landry's birth. Please note that Alexandre Landry who married Anne Flan could not have been Firmin's father because he and Anne were only married in 1732." 

To further support Professor White's opinion, the following is loosely translated from a Spanish document found in St. Martinville "1801-entry 231-Firmin Landry--Day four of February of the year eighteen hundred and one, I Don Miguel Berndo Barriere priest of this church of St. Martin of the juristiction of Atakapas, buried in the 5th camp of the referred church, the body of Firmin Landry adult of age sixty and days and six years, legitimate son of Alexandre Landry and of ----------, natural of the Acadia, which was married with Theotiste Thibodau, did not receive the sacrements (the last rites), for having died suddenly, did not give testament an ( ): For the record was signed by Migel Bernado Barriere, curator. 

Germain Landry was the son of Rene Landry and Marie Bernard. He was born in 1674 at Port Royal, Acadia. He married in 1694 Marie Melanson, the daughter of Pierre Melanson and Marie Mius d'Entremont.. Marie was born in 1673 at Grand Pre'. The family was established at St. Famillie Parish, Pisiguit. The census of 1717 shows them having 6 boys and 6 girls; Alexandre, Abraham, Germain, Paul, Pierre, Marie, Marguerite, a missing boy and a missing girl. Germain died after the census of 1714. 

Now that some sort of ancestry has been established from Rene Landry to Firmin Landry, it is possible to move on with Firmin's history. He was born ca. 1728 in Pisiguit, married Francoise "Elizabeth" Thibodeau in 1752 at Pisiguit. They had issue of four children: Joseph, born 1753; Saturin, born 1755; Helene, born 1757; and Marie Madeleine, born 1759. He is remarried by 1770 to Theotiste "Sally" Thibodeaux, daughter of Charles Thibodeaux and Brigette Breaux. They have issue of ten children: Francoise (in memory of his first wife), born 1770; Hubert, 1773; Helene, 1774; Rosalie, 1776; Valentin, 1778; Marie, 1780; Alexandre, 1782; Agnes, 1784; Marguerite, 1789; and Madeleine. 

Firmin was deported to Maryland in 1755 with his first wife Francoise Thibodeau and three children. Proof of that is found in the FRENCH PRESENCE IN MARYLAND, p.193 "Acadians in the 1763 census--Oxford". "Landry Firmin, Elizabeth his wife, Joseph and Saturin, Eleine and Magdeleine". In this record Francoise is called Elizabeth, but this is the only mention of her under that given name, and may simply be an error. 

The Expulsion began sometime in November, 1755, when the village of Grand Pre, consisting to two parishes St. Charles at Riviere-Aux-Canards and St. Joseph at Grand Pre and little houses spread out for a mile and a half was burned to the ground. Of the 1600 people captured in that region, 178 were placed aboard the vessel Elizabeth and 242 aboard the Leopard, and were shipped to Maryland. These two vessels were joined by the Dolphin with 227 aboard and the Ranger with 323 aboard. 

More can be found

http://www.leveillee.net/ancestry/landry.htm