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     position of respect, distinction or 
     
     leadership. Marie Roger‘s name stands 
     
     out as does that of her husband. François 
     
     Douville, and others in the Douville 
     
     family. Jean Baptist Veco. Jacques Veco, 
     
     Jacques Oudy, Louis Aubin LeBuff, the 
     
     community doctor, Dominique DuClos 
     
     and Louis Talbot are a few others. Talbot 
     
     conducted a number of burials at times 
     
     when no pn'est was available. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The register of Saint-Pierre-du-Nord 
     
     reveals a number of place names. some of 
     
     which are familiar, others less so. Havre- 
     
     à-l’Anguille was used interchangeably 
     
     with Havre-aux—Sauvages. particularly 
     
     during the first half of the F rench regime. 
     
     but during the second half the name 
     
     Havre—à—l’Anguille apparently fell into 
     
     disuse. Tracadie, which was initially 
     
     within the parish of Saint-Pierre-du—Nord. 
     
     by 1753 became part of the parish of 
     
     Saint—Louis-du-Nord-Est, following the 
     
     establishment of that parish. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The village of Portage is referred t0 on a 
     
     few occasions. It was at the head of the 
     
     Hillsborough River. Marie Gentil and her 
     
     husband, Jean-Baptiste Hache, described 
     
     as residents of Portage, had a child 
     
     baptised in 1736. Madame Gentil’s name 
     
     became better known in lsland French 
     
     history through Louis Franquet’s writing 
     
     of her in 1751 while travelling between 
     
     Port-LaJoye and Saint-Pierre-du—Nord. 
     
     Though by now widowed, she still lived, 
     
     according to Franquet, by the portage, 
     
     though he does not refer to a village by 
     
     that name.5 Havre—de-Bonne-Fortune is 
     
     mentioned Presumably, this is the same 
     
     as Havre—de—Fortune or Baie—de—Fortune, 
     
     the “Bonne” having gotten dropped. 
     
     There was also Havre—de—Bonne—Espérance, 
     
     being dependent on the parish of Saint- 
     
     Pierre—dn—Nord — its location is unlcnown. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     François Douvillc‘s buriul cntry in I757 
     
     is interesting in that it claims lhnt 
     
     Douville was thc ñrst rcsident ol' Île 
     
     Saint—Jean. Anothcr interesting cntry 
     
     occurred in February l758 when Futhcr 
     
     Bisearret married Paul Dcvaux and 
     
     Marguerite Potier. Both arc described as 
     
     refugees in the parish. Thc groom‘s 
     
     parents. from Beaubassin, were said to bc 
     
     prisoners of the British. Thc bridc‘s 
     
     mother, formerly from Beaubassin, 'as 
     
     living at Havre—aux-Sauvagcs. but thc 
     
     bride‘s father was also a prisoncr of thc 
     
     British. Quite probably. thc three parents 
     
     were being held at Fort C‘umberland. 
     
     forrnerly Fort Beauséjour. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Though the last register entry made on Île 
     
     Saint-Jean occurred in September 1758, 
     
     there is one subsequent entry. Made on 
     
     April l8, 1759 at St—Malo, it gives a 
     
     fleeting glimpse into the register’s 
     
     joumey t0 France. On that date Marie 
     
    
   
   
    
     Roger. Louis Talbot, Louis Aubin LeBuff Z 
     
    
   
   
    
     and our friend, Simon Billard, ex-soldier, 
     
     lover and blacksmith, and several others 
     
     appeared before two notaries at St-Malo. 
     
     Charles de la Borde, formerly of Saint— 
     
     Pierre-du-Nord and quite likely the man 
     
     who owned the black slave, Dorothée, 
     
     needed a baptismal extract conceming his 
     
     son who had been baptized in Île Saint- 
     
     Jean in 1750. Marie Roger and Louis 
     
     Talbot had been the godparents. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In testimony given before the notaries,_ it 
     
     was stated that following the fall of lle 
     
     Saint-Jean to the British, the register had 
     
     come t0 St—Malo aboard one of the 
     
     transports and had been given t0 a St- 
     
     Malo church official. It was retrieved 
     
     from the official in order to have a 
     
     baptismal extract prepared, but the 
     
     relevant baptism could not be found in the 
     
     register. It was stated that during the 
     
    
   
   
    
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