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- According to the Dictionnaire Genealogique Des Familles Acadiennes English Supplement Explanatory Notes for Jean-Baptiste Landry & Marguerite Gaitrot (Page 202):
i. At the time of La Roque's census in 1752, Jean-Baptiste Landry and Marguerite "Boucherut” were living in the midst of their sons Joseph, Alexis, and Jean-Baptiste. Note that the Jean "Daigle” who lived in their household was in fact Jean Dingle.
Jean-Baptiste's name is included on the Oath Petition, signed December 23, 1729, and the Oath of Allegiance, signed by over 600 Acadians from the Mines, Coquebid, Pisiguit and Beaubassin villages, in April 1730. (Chapter 2, Acadian Biography: The Landry Ancestors)
The 1752 Census of Île Royale in Rivière aux Habitants records Jean Bapte Landry age 60 Plowman native of la Cadie, wife Marie Goutraut (?) age 59 native of Pepeguit (sic), and nephew Jean Daigle age 20 and niece Margueritte Landry age 18 natives of la Cadie.
According to Paul C. Landry's L'Ardoise, Cape Breton, Nova scotia website (located at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pclandry/Lardoise/):
The Landry family in Cape Breton descends through 2 distinct branches of the family tree. The River Bourgeois Landrys descend from Pierre Landry. He was deported to France. Lists of 1761 and 1762 show Pierre at La Rochelle, France. By this time he had married Anne Clergé, daughter of Claude Clergé and Françoise Lavergne. Anne had been at Port Toulouse, Île Royale, about 1742.
On Isle Madame, the largest line of Landry's descend from Jean-Baptiste Landry and Marguerite Gauterot. Sixty-two year old Jean-Baptiste Landry with three of his sons (38 year old Jean-Baptiste, 35 year old Joseph, and 27 year old Alexis) and a group of grandchildren, came to Cape Breton during August of 1751, specifically Rivière aux Habitants. They did not stay long at that location. Their sons, Alexis Landry, married to Marguerite Aucoin, Joseph Landry, married to Marie Marguerite Breau, and Jean Baptiste dit L'Abbe Landry, married to Marie Josephe LeBlanc soon settled the Isle Madame area. Most of the Isle Madame Landry's can trace their roots to this branch of the Landry family.
It is interesting to note, this branch of the Landry's who came to Cape Breton, came voluntarily, and came before the deportations took place.
The Landry's who settled in L'Ardoise descend from both these branches to the family. Michael Landry who married Elizabeth/Isabella Marchand is a descendant of the Isle Madame Landry family. His grandfather was Alexis Landry who married Marguerite Aucoin. Most of the L'Ardoise Landrys can trace their roots through this branch of the family.
The second branch of the L'Ardoise Landry family descends through Pierre Landry and Anne Clerge. This line of the family is the lineage most of the River Bourgeois Landry's, including myself, can trace their roots through. Their grandson, Pierre Landry who married Susanne Mombourquette, had ties to the River Bourgeois and L'Ardoise areas. Several of their descendants settled in the L'Ardoise area.
Stephen A. White does not identify Jean-Baptiste Landry, husband of Marguerite Gautrot, as one of the "fondateurs" signing the March 8 1786 letter to J.F.W. DesBarres. Perhaps Jean-Baptiste Landry had died or, being about 95 years old, was unable to sign.
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