HEBERT GENEALOGY
ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF HEBERT
Though HERBERT is basically an OLD FRENCH surname, it has ENGLISH, FRENCH, and GERMAN variations. It originally comes from a German personal name composed of the elements:
HERI, HARI (army), plus BERHT (bright, famous).
Somewhere along the way, someone began using it as a surname. That usually happened when someone would say, "My name is Jean, son of Hebert." The father's given name would become the son's surname.IN FRANCE------
The history of this ancient Provence family traces its ancestry as a family of French origin before the year of 1100 and appears first in the ancient records in Province.
It appears to have been spread throughout Normandy. Early Normandy had at least ten aristocratic HEBERT families. The ancient Norman family of HEBERT contains records with the names of:
Girard and Gabriel Hebert (of Canchy)
Guillaune and Jacques Hebert (of St. Milo)
Louis and Jean Francoise Hebert (of Colombieres)
Michael Hebert (Isigny)
Herve and Henri Hebert (of Torigny, Bayeux in 1543)
Charles Hebert (of Gonneville, Sieur de Varaville ca 1543)
Gabriel and Francoise Hebert (of Escrameville)
Jacques and Pierre Hebert (of Tour)
Jean Hebert (of Tour)
Daniel, Etienne and Adrien Hebert (of Canbe)
Jean Hebert (of Varaville, in Caen)As we approach the Acadien time period, we find Jean Hebert, Seigneur Boulon at the beginning of the 17th century. He was of the ancient Norman line and lived at Caen.
IN ENGLAND -----
This Old French name was brought to Britain by the Normans, where the most common variant was HERBERT. The surname, Herbert first appeared in the Doomsday Book of 1086. Some say it also derived from the given name, Hubert. The earliest use in England is by William, son of Herbert, who was granted the manor of Norbury, Derbys, in 1125 and was the first to use it as a surname.
In the 13th century, names such as Adam Hebert and Henry Hebard start appearing in records. The first record of Hebert being used as a surname is a roll of Oxfordshire, England in 1279, which lists a Reginald Hebert.
Jacques Hebert was born before 1600 and was one of the 1st Acadiens.
ACADIA
Acadia is a former province of Canada, usually consisting of Nova Scotia, though it originally included other territory. Port Royal, the 1st settlement, in 1604, and the most important town, is now Annapolis Royal. In 1621, Acadia granted by James l to Sir William Alexander, who settled a small Scottish colony there, named it Nova Scotia.
(New Scotland). The region was restored to France in 1632 and was settled by the French.
It was transferred to England by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. In 1755, this peaceful French farming people were ordered deported, owing to the feeling aroused by the last French & Indian War. Nearly 7,000 were sent away and relocated along the coast from Maine to Georgia. Longfellow's Evangeline is a story of this exodus. Acadia is also the name of a National Park on Mt. Desert Island, Maine.
(Webster unified Dictionary & Encyclopedia)The Acadiens were French settlers who lived in what is now Nova Scotia. Until the British had acquired the area in 1713, after Queen Anne's War, it had been French. Even after France had lost the colony, it's people were determined to remain French. They refused to adopt British customs or to obey British laws. The British feared and resented this stubbornness.
When the French and Indian War broke out in 1755, Great Britain feared the Acadiens would help France. Therefore, the government of King George ll, decided to move against them before they had time to revolt. Their lands were seized, their houses and barns were burned. The Acadiens, numbering over 4,000, were loaded on British ships and transported to other British colonies, mainly Maryland and Virginia.
Later, many Acadiens went to the French West Indies, and many made their way back to their old homeland. After 1765, approximately 2,000 of them went to Louisiana. There, the Spanish authorities were kind to them and encouraged their immigration. They were given liberal grants for lands and their settlements flourished. This was particularly true of St. Martinville, which became the center of Acadien culture. By the 20th century, the Acadien population of Louisiana was more than 300,000. They were called Cajun and lived in the bayou region and spoke a French dialect in addition to English. For many American's, the Acadien migration, with all it's suffering, has been immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, EVANGELINE.
(The Golden Home and High School Encyclopedia)
Marriage Notes for Jacques Hebert and Marie JUNEAU-335335
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Germain (dit Laverdure) DOUCET
Dit Laverdure. Shirley sent some genealogy that said he was born in Couperons, En Brie, France.
The birthplace of Germain Doucet (Sieur de La Verdure) has not yet been established. According to researcher / genealogist F. Rene Perron of Sevres, France, La Verdure lies 10 kilometers north of Coutran, in the Bassevelle Parish. La Verdure was the fiefdom of Germain Doucet. Commander of Port Royal. It is located in Champagne Brie, 10 kilometers north of La Ferte-Gaucher.
Germain Doucet came to Acadia in 1632, with Commander Isaac de Razilly, by order of Cardinal Richelieu (Minister of State to King Louis XIII) They came to re-occupy the colony after the St. Germain-en-Laye Treaty of March 29, 1632.
According to author, Andrew Hill Clark, regarding ACADIA: THE GEOGRAPHY OF EARLY NOVA SCOTIA TO 1730 (page 91): "Razilly ... sailed from France on July 4,1632, in L'Esperance a Dieu, shepherding two transports, and disembarked some three hundred people, (mostly men) and a variety of livestock, seeds, tools, implements, arms,munitions, and other supplies at La Have (LaHeve, at the mouth of La Have River in the present Lunenburg County) on September 8."
Razilly was a cousin of Richelieu and a royal councillor. One of the leaders of The Company of New France, called "Canada" and the Governor of "Acadia".
According to Authors, Sally Ross and Alphonse Deveau, regarding THE ACADIANS OF NOVA SCOTIA - PAST AND PRESENT (page 16): "In September, Isaac de Razilly arrived in Acadia with three sailing vessels, 300 hand-picked men , three Capuchin Fathers and a few women and children."
While in correspondence with Jacques Comeau, I have come across the name of another vessel, which may have been part of the original 1632 voyage, namely the St. Jehan.
On a document signed July 14, 1640, Germain Doucet was at Port Royal and Captain of the Army of Pentagoet, as well as the right-hand man of Governor of Acadia (Charles de menou d'Aulnay de Charnizay).
After the death of the Governor, in 1650, Germain was the Commander at the fort of Port Royal and Deputy Guardian of the Governor's children.
On August 16, 1654, when 500 Bostonian soldiers, under the command of Robert Sedgewick, attacked the fort of Port Royal, Germain found it wise to give up without a struggle, as he had only 100 men to oppose them.
All military personnel were repatriated back to France.
Germain left his brother-in-law, Jacques Bourgeois, surgeon, as Lieutenant of {Port Royal and as a witness to see that the conditions of the treaty were carried out.
Germain and his wife returned to France in 1654.
Dit Doucet-Laverdure
from HGDA, doc G-45-4, pp 567:"Francois Girouard, born in 1621, without doubt
from La Chaussee, department of Vienne, in the Region of Loudun, France;
arrived in Acadia around 1640, Married around 1647 Jeanne Aucoin. Children:
Jacques, 1648; Marie, 1651; Madeleine, 1654; Germain, 1657; Anne, 1659;
Charlotte, 1660."
from Doc B-107-6, FCAR, v 7, # 1,"Census of Port Royal, Acadia, 1678":lists
Francois Girouer and Jeanne Aucoin 15 acres 18 cattle
since his wife died on April 18, 1718 and was a widow then, he must have died
before then and after the census
came aboard "Saint-Jehan"
from Doc A-115-1, ACR, v 3, page 124:"April 18, 1718 Death Jeanne Aucoin widow
of Girouer the father of the Girouers more than ninety years old."
from HGDA, doc G-45-5:"Francois Gauterot, born in 1613, was originally from
Martaize, in the region of Loudun, department of Vienne; arrived from France in
Acadie around 1636, married to Edmee Lejeune. Children: Marie, 1636; Charles,
1637; Marie, 1647; Jean, 1648; Francois, 1652; Renee, 1652; Marguerite, 1655;
Claude, 1659; Charles, 1661; Jeanne, 1664; Germain, 1668."
from Doc B-107-6, FCAR, v 7, # 1, p 58,"Census of Port Royal, Acadia, 1678"
lists Francois Gautreau & Aymee LeJeune"
see AGE, Vol XX, N0 4. , p119
see AGE, Vol XX, N0 4. , p119
Marriage Notes for Nicholas Colson and Genevieve PETIT-335859
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from "Acadian Descendants" by Janet Jehn Vol I page 22 filed under Gaudet
see Augustin rin 1528 notes
"Louis (1727-1803) married Marie Madeleine Hebert (1732-1801) in 1751, daughter
of Jacques Hebert (b. 1702) and of Anne Arsenault, daughter of Abraham
Arsenault ... Louis died at Lafourche, Louisiana."
see chart of Cecilie M. Toups for birth/death date Doc F-147-5 filed under
Falgouts.
from "Acadian Descendants" by Janet Jehn vol I page 22 filed under Gaudet
from the same source as rin 158: see note for rin 1317
from "Acadian Descendant" by Janet Jehn 1972 page 37
from "Acadian Descendants" by Janet Hebert 1972 page 37:"Rosalie married
Michel Caissy dit Roger (b. 1714 at Beaubassin), son of Pierre Caissy dit Roger
and Therese Mirande of Beaubassin."
see doc R-57-1, SLR, vol 1, page 463
see also Doc R-57-1, L'HE, page 38