APPENDICES

Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s

QUIMINE

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ACADIA

Jacques, son of Daniel Quimine and Marie Torel of Pennemart, Nantes, France, born in the late 1690s, came to Acadia by February 1715, when he married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Gabriel Chiasson, at Chignecto.  They settled at Chignecto before moving to Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, by the early 1750s.  They settled at St.-Pierre-du-Nord.  They had eight children, including two sons who settled on Île St.-Jean.  Their daughters married into the Charpentier, Douville, Fouquet, Le Buf or Le Buffe, and Montary, Montaury, or Montory families and also settled on Île St.-Jean.   

Older son Pierre, born in c1727, married first to Marie-Louise, called Louise, daughter of Michel Grossin, at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, Île St.-Jean, in February 1755, and remarried to Marie-Madeleine Dugas in France during Le Grand Dérangement.   

Younger son Jean-Jacques, born in c1729, married Madeleine, daughter of Charles Thériot, at Port-Lajoie, Île St.-Jean, in November 1751. 

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

When the British rounded up the Acadians in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755, the Quimines, living in territory controlled by France, remained unmolested.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the victorious British rounded up most of the Acadians on Île St.-Jean and deported them to France.  The deportation devastated the family. 

Jacques Quimine, age 60, wife Marie-Josèphe Chiasson, age unrecorded, and unmarried daughter Françoise, age 23, crossed on one of the five British transports that left the Gut of Canso in late November 1758 and reached St.-Malo in late January 1759.  Jacques and Marie-Josèphe died at sea, but daughter Françoise survived the terrible crossing.  Another of Jacques's daughter, Marie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, wife of Jacques Montaury, sailed with her husband and six children aboard the British transport Supply, which did not reach St.-Malo until early March 1759; two of her children, a 3-year-old son and a son born aboard ship, died at sea; the others survived.  Jacques's daughter Anne, age 40, wife of Louis-Aubin Le Buf, age 43, made the crossing with her family aboard one of the five ships; one of her children, daughter Marguerite, age 2, died at sea; the others survived.  Jacques's daughter Marguerite, age 20, crossed with sister Anne's family and also made it to St.-Malo.  Daughter Judith, age 28, wife of Jacques Douville, age 32, sailed aboard one of the five ships with two of their children and servant Pierre Cosset; all of them survived.  Jacques's older son Pierre Quimine, age 32, wife Louise Grossin, age 25, and daughters Marie-Josèphe, age 3, and Geneviève, age 2, also made the crossing aboard one of the five ships; Pierre and Louise survived the ordeal, but their daughters died at sea. 

Jacques's youngest son Jean-Jacques Quimine, wife Madeleine Thériot, and their children do not appear on the rolls of the St.-Malo-bound ships nor in any church records in France; one wonders, then, if they escaped the British roundup on Île St.-Jean and made their way to Canada.  

In France, Madeleine Quimine and husband Jacques Montaury settled at St.-Servan, near St.-Malo, but they did not remain there.  In 1763, after the French and Indian War finally ended, "the entire family went to reside at St. Pierre and Miquelon," French-held islands off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  They had returned to Acadia, more or less. 

Anne Quimine and husband Louis-Aubin Le Buf also settled at St-Servan, where a son was born to them in January 1760 but died the following month.  Louis-Aubin died "at the hospital" probably at St.-Servan in June 1762.  The following year, Anne and her children, following her older sister, took the ship Le Marie Charlotte to St.-Pierre and Miquelon. 

Judith Quimine was pregnant when she crossed to St.-Malo.  A daughter was born to her and husband Jacques Douville at St.-Servan in January 1759 less than a week after they reached the mother country.  Another daughter was born at St.-Servan in December 1761.  They followed Judith's older sisters to St.-Pierre and Miquelon in 1763. 

Marguerite Quimine, still unmarried, followed her sisters to St.-Pierre and Miquelon but did not remain there. 

Françoise Quimine married Louis, son of Charles Charpentier of St.-Pierre-du-Nord, at St.-Servan in February 1760.  They did not follow her sisters to St.-Pierre and Miquelon.  In 1764, "the entire family," including infant son Louis-Jacques-Laurent, "went to Cayenne" in South America "on the ship Le Fort.  When French authorities conducted a census of the inhabitants at Sinnamary, Cayenne, in March 1765, they counted Louis but not Françoise and Louis-Jacques-Laurent.  Next to Louis's name was the word dissentaire, so one wonders if any member of the family survived the rigors of the tropics. 

Pierre Quimine was the only member of the family who remained in France after the French and Indian War ended.  He made his living as a carpenter first at Paramé, near St.-Malo, and then at nearby St.-Servan, where his sisters had lived for a time.  He and wife Louise Grossin had more children in France:  Anne-Louise was born at Paramé in May 1760, and Marie-Pérrine in January 1762.  Louise died at St.-Servan in September 1765, in her early 30s, and Pierre remarried to Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Dugas, at St.-Énogat, near St.-Servan, in January 1770.  Marie-Madeleine gave him at least one more daughter, Victoire-Françoise, born at St.-Servan in March 1771.  In the early 1770s, Pierre and his family became part of an attempt by the French government to settle Acadians from the coastal cities on land owned by an influential French nobleman near Châtellerault in the Poitou region.  The experiment ended badly, and in March 1776, Pierre and his family retreated with other disgruntled Acadians to the port city of Nantes.  They settled at Chantenay, now a part of Nantes, and subsisted on government hand-outs and whatever work Pierre could find.  Marie-Pérrine married Pierre-Ignace, son of fellow Acadian Ignace Heusé, at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay in April 1785.  Anne-Louise remained unmarried. 

Meanwhile, Pierre's youngest sister Marguerite returned from Îles St.-Pierre and Miquelon, where she had gone with her older sisters.  She married fellow Acadian Jean-Aubin, son of Charles Fouquet of Île St.-Jean and perhaps twice widowed, probably in France in the 1760s.  They were at Port-Louis, near Lorient in Brittany, in 1770 and moved to Nantes by September 1784. 

In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France a chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana.  Hundreds of them, including Pierre and Marguerite Quimine, agreed to take it.  

LOUISIANA:  RIVER SETTLEMENTS

Pierre Quimine, age 59, sailed to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships of 1785, which reached New Orleans in July.  With him were second wife Marie-Madeleine Dugas, age 53, and daughters Anne-Louise, age 24, and Victoire-Françoise, age 14.  They followed the majority of the passengers from their ship to Manchac, south of Baton Rouge.  Pierre died at Manchac in the late 1780s; he was in his early 60s.  Anne-Louise married fellow Acadian Simon Babin at Manchac or Baton Rouge in December 1789.  On the same day and probably at the same place, Victoire-Françoise married fellow Acadian Jacques-Olivier Templet.  They followed their husbands and their mother to upper Bayou Lafourche, where Victoire-Françoise remarried to Antoine Ledet, a French Creole from Île de Ré, France, in November 1797. 

Marguerite Quimine, age 50, sailed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships of 1785, which reached New Orleans in November.  With her were husband Jean-Aubin Fouquet, age 52, and two daughters, ages 15 and 11.  They may have followed some of the passengers from their ship to San Bernardo, also called Nueva Gálvez, an Isleño community on the river below New Orleans. 

LOUISIANA:  LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

By the mid-1790s, Spanish officials were counting Quimines from France on upper Bayou Lafourche: 

Anne-Louise Quimine died by April 1822, when her husband Simon Babin remarried in Lafourche Interior Parish. 

CONCLUSION

Pierre Quimine brought no sons to Louisiana and fathered no sons after he arrived there.  As a result, the Acadian branch of the Quimine family did not take root in the Bayou State.  Its blood, however, did survive in a number of South Louisiana families. 

The family's name also is spelled Guemine, Guemire, Kimmin, Quemine, Quintin.

Sources:  Arsenault, Généalogie, 1006-07, 2136, 2574; BRDR, vol. 2; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 373-74; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 3; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 7, 83, 156, 157;Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 100; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 192-93, 282, 516-19, 580-81, 626-27.

Settlement Abbreviations 
(present-day parishes that existed during the War Between the States in parenthesis; hyperlinks on the abbreviations take you to brief histories of each settlement):

For a chronology of Acadian Arrivals in Louisiana, 1764-early 1800s, see Appendix.

The hyperlink attached to an individual's name is connected to a list of Acadian immigrants for a particular settlement and provides a different perspective on the refugee's place in family and community. 

NOTES

01.  Wall of Names, 27 (pl. 6R), calls her Anne [QUINTIN], & lists her with her father, stepmother, sister, & stepsister; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 518-19, Family No. 579, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Anne-Louise KIMINE, gives her parents' but not her godparents' names, & says her family resided at Paramé from 1759-64, at St.-Servan from 1764-71, & at Paramé in 1771-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 100, Family No. 185; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 4-5, calls her Anne, sa [Pierre QUINTIN's] fille, age 24, on the embarkation list, Ana, su [Pedro KIMIN's] hija, on the debarkation list, & Anne KIMINE, his [Pierre KIMINE's] daughter, age 24, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 13th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her father, stepmother, sister, & stepsister; BRDR, 2:55, 611 (PCP-19, 28), her marriage record, calls her Anne QUEMINE "of St.-Malo, France," calls her husband Simon BABIN "of Angleterre," gives her & his parents' names, does not mention his first wife, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Servant TEMPLET, Francois BABIN, Mathurin USÉ, & Francois DUGUE.

Although her marriage was recorded at Pointe Coupée, it probably was performed at Manchac, on the southern edge of the Baton Rouge District, where her family settled.  There was no church at Baton Rouge until 1793, so priests from Pointe Coupée from across the river administered the sacraments in the Baton Rouge District until it got a parish of its own.  Her younger sister Victoire-Françoise was married at the same place on the same day. 

The remarriage record of her husband Simon BABIN, dated 24 Apr 1822, in Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:31, 260 (Thib.Ch.: v. 1, p. 25), calls her Anne Louise GUIMIRE.  

02.  Wall of Names, 42, calls her Marguerite QUIMINE; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 517, "Family" No. 578, calls her Marguerite KIMINE, says she was born in c1738 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, says she "disembarked at St.-Malo with the family of Louis-Aubin LE BUFFE, her brother-in-law, on January 23, 1759 from one of the 'Five ships'," says she resided at St.-Servan from 1759-63, & that "In 1763, she went to reside at St.-Pierre and Miquelon."  

When did she return to France from St.-Pierre & Miquelon & marry her husband?  Where were they married?

See the footnote for her husband's profile for a discussion of their going to San Bernardo. 

03.  Wall of Names, 27 (pl. 6R), calls her Marie [QUINTIN], & lists her with her father, stepmother, sister, & stepsister; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 99, 100, Family Nos. 184 & 185, call her Marie-Pérrine KIMINE, gives her birth date, birth place, parent's names, details her marriage, calls her husband Pierre-Ignace HEUZÉ, gives his birth date, baptism date, birth place, & parents' names, details her family's participation in the Poitou settlement of the early 1770s, & says she sailed to LA with her parents & sisters; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 4-5, calls her Marie, sa [Pierre QUINTIN's] fille, age 23, on the embarkation list, Maria KIMIN, su [Pedro USÉ's] muger, & Maria, su [Pedro KIMIN's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Marie KIMINE, his [Pierre HEUZÉ's] wife, & Marie KIMINE, his [Pierre KIMINE's] daughter, age 23, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 13th Family (also Family 11-A) aboard Le Bon Papa with both her husband & her father, stepmother, sister, & step sister.  

04.  Wall of Names, 27 (pl. 6R), calls him Pierre QUINTIN, & lists him with his wife & 3 daughters; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 170, 374, record of his first marriage, recorded at St.-Pierre-du-Nord, p. 60, calls him Pierre QUEMINE, calls his wife Marie-Louise GROSSIN, gives his & her parents' names but gives no witnesses to his marriage; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 157, reveals that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59 he & his wife Louise, age 25, survived the crossing, but both of their children, daughters Marie, age 3, & Geneviève, age 2, died at sea; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 518-19, Family No. 579; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 100, Family No. 185; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 4-5, calls him Pierre QUINTIN, charpentier, age 65, on the embarkation list, Pedro KIMIN, on the debarkation list, & Pierre KIMINE, carpenter, age 65, on the complete listing, says that he was in the 13th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with his wife & 3 daughters, details his second marriage, including the names of his & his second wife's parents, & says his daughter Victoire-Françoise was born in 1771.

05.  Wall of Names, 27 (pl. 6R), calls her Victoire-Françoise [QUINTIN], & lists her with her parents & 2 stepsisters; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 518-19, Family No. 579, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Victoire-Françoise KIMINE, gives her parents' names, says her godparents were Louis CLOSSINET & Victoire DUGAST, & that her family resided at St.-Servan from 1764-71, & returned to Paramé in 1771-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 100, Family No. 185; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 4-5, calls her Victoire-Francoise, sa [Pierre QUINTIN's] fille, age 14, on the embarkation list, Victoria Francisca, su [Pedro KIMIN's] hija, on the debarkation list, & Victoire-Françoise KIMINE, his [Pierre KIMINE's] daughter, age 14, on the complete listing, says she was in the 13th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her parents & 2 stepsisters, & says she was born in 1771 but gives no place of birth; BRDR, 2:611, 685 (PCP-19, 28), the record of her first marriage, calls her Victoire QUEMINE "of St.-Malo, France," calls her husband Jacques TEMPLÉ "of St.-Malo, France," gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Servant TEMPLÉ & François BABIN; BRDR, 2:487, 611 (ASM-2, 28), the record of her second marriage, calls her Victoria Francisca QUIMINE, "widow of Jacab TEMPLET of St.-Malo, France, calls her husband Antoine LEDÉ, "widower of Marguarita BILIQUE & native of Island of Ré, Diocese of Launny, France," gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Jean-Charles BROUSSARD & Ambroise HÉBERT.

Although her first marriage was recorded at Pointe Coupée, it probably was performed at Manchac, on the southern edge of the Baton Rouge District, where her family settled.  There was no church at Baton Rouge until 1793, so priests from Pointe Coupée from across the river administered the sacraments in the Baton Rouge District until it got a parish of its own.  Her older sister Anne was married at the same place on the same day. 

Île de Ré is near La Rochelle, France. 

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