Louisiana Cousins: Broussard

Until I did two blog entries about my 5th great grandparents, Charles Dupuis and Anne Doucet I had not thought about relatives in Louisiana. After doing that research I discovered that I probably have quite a few cousins,* some from their siblings and others from other lines. One of them, my 6th great grand uncle Joseph Broussard,  is famous. Joseph was a sibling of Anne Doucet's grandmother Marie Broussard, daughter of Jean Francis Broussard and his wife Catherine Richard.

The Broussard family lived in Port Royal, L'Acadie, now Nova Scotia. Following the "expulsion" from Nova Scotia in 1755 by the British, Joseph and his brother Alexandre,  formed a resistance group which would fight the British and the expulsion for 4 years. Both were nicknamed "dit Beausoliel" meaning good sun, which in turn referred to that area of Nova Scotia which they had settled. Finally, to avoid killing their group off by starvation, Joseph negotiated a surrender which provided for his group being housed,fed and kept together as prisoners until 1763. Following the "Treaty of Paris" in 1764 Joseph chartered a schooner on which a large group of Acadian refugees sailed for "any land where French was spoken". 

This voyage taking the group initially to Santo Domingo (St.Dominique) and eventually to Louisiana in 1765. Upon arriving in Louisiana the group of Acadians were dispatched with tools to the Attakapas region with Joseph named as group leader with the rank of Captain in the militia. Shortly after his arrival at the Attakapas, Joseph would contract yellow fever and die, as did his brother Alexandre and other members of their family.

The Broussard clan would survive in Louisiana through their children. The Broussards are a particularly prolific family.

For more information see  http://kandrtell.tripod.com/gen/broussard.html. 

Descendants of Joseph, Alexandre and their siblings Catherine (1st Landry and 2nd Prejean) Isabelle (Trahan), Timothee, Armand, Charles Eloy and Francoise (LaBauve) settled in  St. Martinsville, Louisiana and surrounding areas. More information on St. Martinsville, LA.

more information on St. Martinsville, LA

http://www.cajuncountry.org/st-martinville.php

*I will be blogging about my other Louisiana cousins just as soon as I sort them all out. They include the surnames Dupuis, Doucet, Landry, Dugas, Bourg and Robichaud. 

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From Desc. of Francois & Nicolas Broussard CD ROM