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"Earliest Ancestors"

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Earliest mitochondrial ancestor (maternal clan)

• Pope - Strenke (1923) - Richard (1902)
• Demers (1875) - Bosse (1853) - Roy dit Lausier (1823)
• Senechal (1787) - Therioux (1759) - Cormier (1722)
• Leblanc (1683) - Hebert (1656) - Lefranc (1613, France, d. in New France after 1686)

Earliest Y-Chromosome ancestor (paternal clan)

• Johannes Kiess B:5 Feb 1582 Moehringen, Neckarkreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, D: 1628

Immigrations

Kies - Kehlen, Luxembourg (1854, via Sheboygan, WI like brothers?)

• Schanck - Luxembourg (ditto)
• Miller/Muller - Luxembourg (1851, via WI)
• Machen - ditto?

• Schmidt - West Prussia (1881, on the "Australia")
  • Schmidt - ditto (Schmidt's spouse also a Schmidt)
  • Neuman - Hesse Darmstat (1861)
  • Arnold - ditto
  • Siemens - France? (before 1860)

Schaefer - Luxembourg (1847, via Canada)

• Kauten - Luxembourg (1866)

• Farni - Germany (1839, via Ohio)
  • Schmitt - Alsace (1847)
  • Weis - ditto

Pope - Southern England (by 1643)

• Clark - ?

• Swinson - Canada (by 1868 birth of child) - England (before 1849 birth of child)
  • Smith - ?

Strenke/Strünke - Prussia (1890, via New York)

• Wolters - ditto

• Richard - Canada (between 1881-1894) <- France (1652, Michel Rene Richard dit Sansoucy & Andre (mother/step-mother left in France? died before they left?))
  • Babineau -
  • Leblanc - France (before 1645)
  • Leger -
  • Demers/Dumais - Normandy France (before 1658)
  • Beaucage -
  • Bosse/Bassie - Normandy France (before 1662)
  • Roy -

• • Lejeune - MicMac

Timeline

Acadian Civil War 1635-1654)

fought between competing governors. Governor Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour (a Protestant) had been granted one area of territory by King Louis XIV, and Charles de Menou d'Aulnay (a Catholic) had been granted another area. The divisions made by the king were geographically uninformed, and the two territories and their administrative centres overlapped. The conflict was intensified by personal animosity between the two governors, and came to an end when d'Aulnay successfully expelled la Tour from his holdings. D'Aulnay's success was effectively overturned after his death when la Tour married D'Aulnay's widow in 1653 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadian_Civil_War

• Pope - by 1643 - Southern England

• Leblanc - France (c. 1645) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_LeBlanc_(settler)

• Richard - bef. 1652 - from France (1652, Michel & Andre (mother/step-mother left in France? died before they left?))
  • Demers/Dumais - Normandy France (before 1658)
  • Bosse/Bassie - Normandy France (before 1662)

Siege of Port Royal - 1710

Port Royal conquered by England as part of Queen Anne's War - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Port_Royal_(1710)

Deportation of the Acadians - 1755, 1758

Between six and seven thousand Acadians were expelled from Nova Scotia[38] to the lower British American colonies.[39][40] Some Acadians eluded capture by fleeing deep into the wilderness or into French-controlled Canada. The Quebec town of L'Acadie (now a sector of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) was founded by expelled Acadians

After the Siege of Louisbourg (1758), a second wave of the expulsion began.

After 1764, many exiled Acadians finally settled in Louisiana, which had been transferred by France to Spain at the end of the French and Indian War. The demonym Acadian developed into Cajun, which was first used as a pejorative term until its later mainstream acceptance.

Britain eventually moderated its policies and allowed Acadians to return to Nova Scotia. However most of the fertile former Acadian lands were now occupied by British colonists. The returning Acadians settled instead in more outlying areas of the original Acadia, such as Cape Breton and the areas which are now New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

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By 1755, the descendants of Daniel and Francoise LeBlanc had created the largest family in Acadia. Le Grand Dérangement (The Great Expulsion) of the 1750s scattered this huge family to the winds. Since most of the LeBlancs lived in the Minas settlements, dozens of them fell into the hands of the British in the fall of 1755 and ended up on ships bound for Maryland, Virginia, and other English colonies down the Atlantic seaboard.[7] Many LeBlancs were exiled to France and then about 1785, along with Acadian families carrying other surnames, left aboard ships for then Spanish Louisiana; some of these LeBlancs gave testimony in France to a Catholic Priest who carefully recorded their oral testimony of who their ancestors were (since the Catholic and Civil records were unavailable, destroyed, or lost due to their mistreatment by the British authorities). LeBlancs were among the first families of Acadia and some of the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_LeBlanc_(settler)

War of 1812

Farni- Germany (1839, via Ohio)

Mexican-American War - 1846-48

• Schmitt - Alsace (1847)
• Weis - ditto

• Schaefer - Luxembourg (1847, via Canada)

• Siemens - France? (before 1860)

• Kies - Kehlen, Luxembourg (1854, via Sheboygan, WI like brothers?)
  • Schanck - Luxembourg (ditto)
  • Miller/Muller - Luxembourg (1851, via WI)
  • Machen - ditto?

Civil War

• Schmidt - West Prussia (1881, on the "Australia")
  • Schmidt - ditto (Schmidt's spouse also a Schmidt)
  • Neuman - Hesse Darmstat (1861)
  • Arnold - ditto

• Richard between 1881-1894 - from Canada to US (between 1881 Candadian Census-1894 WI Marriage)

• • Kauten - Luxembourg (1866)

• • Clark - ?

• Swinson - Canada (by 1868 birth of child) - England (before 1849 birth of child)

• Smith - ?

• Strenke/Strünke - Prussia (1890, via New York)
  • Wolters - ditto