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Ambroise left Acadia (now Nova Scotia), Canada, as a young man with his parents during the British Expulsion of 1755. He was exiled to France, where he remained until 1785. He married another Acadian refugee, Marie-Modest Molaison, in Cherbourg. Like most Acadians, however, France did not seem like home and he longed for the New World.
After the Spanish aquired Louisiana from France in 1762, the Spanish government desired to populate the colony in order to thwart British attempts at regaining the territory. In 1785, the Spanish government outfitted seven ships to transport Acadians in France to Louisiana, already dominated by the French culture. Ambroise, Modeste, and their family joined the passengers and crew of the ship "La Ville D'Archangel" on 12-Aug-1785 and returned to the New World, this time to Louisiana.
One officer aboard the Archangel, Felix Gilles-Louis Bernard du Montier, the son of a minor French aristocrat, caught the eye of Ambroise's daughter, Marie-Victorie. By the time the ship reached New Orleans on 3-Dec-1785, Felix decided to remain in Louisiana and marry Victorie. |
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| ID: | F0723 | | Spouse: | Molaison, Marie Modeste | | Marriage: | 12 JUL 1763 | Ste. Trinite, Cherbourg, Manche, France | | | Sex: | F | | Birth: | ABT 1745 | Acadia, Canada | | | Death: | | | |
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| 1. | | F | 28 MAY 1764 | 18 AUG 1827 | | 2. | | F | 30 APR 1766 | | | 3. | | F | 30 DEC 1767 1530 | 3 MAR 1773 1531 | | 4. | | F | 16 FEB 1770 1532 | | | 5. | | F | 7 NOV 1771 | | | 6. | | F | ABT 1773 | | | 7. | | F | 27 MAR 1774 | | | 8. | | M | ABT 1 FEB 1776 | | | 9. | | M | 3 MAR 1777 | | | 10. | | F | 13 JUN 1779 | | | 11. | | F | 12 AUG 1781 | | | 12. | | M | 17 JUL 1783 | | | 13. | | F | 15 MAR 1786 | |
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| ID: | F0725 | | Spouse: | Pitre, Anne-Josephe | | Marriage: | 1 JUN 1757 5018 | Port-Lajoie, Isle St. Jean, France | | | Sex: | F | | Birth: | ABT 1737 | | | | Death: | DEC 1759 | Cherbourg, Manche, France | |
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