I’ve been looking into the information available on Ancesty.com about our alleged Tullier (or LeTullier, or Thuillier, or Tuillier,) ancestors.
According to the majority of the information on the site, Collette Renaud LeTullier came over on the ship L’Amitié at age 45. Her husband, Rene, had died. She traveled with three of her children: Jean-Charles – carpenter 19 years, Isidore (who is my ancestor) 14 years, and Adélaïde 16 years.
What is strange, is that I found Collette and Rene in Ile St Jean in Quebec in 1767 just four years after their marriage. Listed in the “Report Concerning Canadians 1767” (yes, it brings up Thuillier the damn name has been misselled so many different ways} are Collette and Rene. Apparently she petitioned the government for assistance since they did not even have “the subsistence of 6 sols” (according to my poorly translated French) and received 200 sol. Why did they go in 1767? Were any of their children born there? Did they use that 200 sol to return to France?
I think Collette and her family ended up in France after their expulsion. There she met and married René. Sometime in 1767 she and René were on Ile St Jean, as evidenced in the listing from the above report. They ended up back in France, before Collette and the three children headed for Louisiana. René died on the way to La Rochelle where they were to depart.
Research to do:
Confirm Collette’s mother: Marie Madeleine Pothier
Confirm Collette’s father: Jean Baptiste Renaud
Confirm René’s mother: Joanne (Jeanne) LePigeon
Confirm René’s father: Marin (Martin) Tullier (LeTullier)
Confirm Collette and René’s children
Sketches and descriptions of life in French Acadia (later British)
Brief Acadian History (as I have summed up. I am still reading ‘A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland’]
Settled in the 17th and early 18th centuries
French government specified land bordering the atlantic coast roughly between the 40th and 46th parallels
Population included the various indigenous First Nations that comprised the Wabanaki Confederacy, the Acadian people, and other French settlers
1605 Port-Royal was established as the first capital of Acadia. It was the longest serving French Acadian capital until the British siege of Port-Royal in 1710
Six colonial wars in a 74 year period in which the British interests tried to capture Acadia, starting with King William’s War in 1689.
Dude. There were, like, so many wars.
Acadia was conquered in 1710 during Queen Anne’s War in 1710, New Brunswick and most of Maine remained contested territory
Prince Edward Island (Ile St Jean) and Cape Breton (Ile Royale) remained under French control as agreed under Article XIII of the Treaty of Utrecht. However the Acadians were required to take an Oath of Allegiance to the British government.
September 1755 Acadians refused to take the oath. The British were not interested in tolerating their Catholicism
10,000+ Acadians were rounded up and sent to the thirteen colonies in the south. Their homes, shops, buildings, crops, livestock, etc., were burned. Some Acadians went to England and were arrested. Others went to France but were treated as outcasts.
Latter part of the 18th century, 3,000 Acadians traveled to Louisiana. Most worked as laborers and were treated as outcasts because of their strange French dialect.
Sources:
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. “Acadia.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 4 Nov. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia
Cyr, Dennis. “History.” Acadian Genealogy - Historical Acadian-Cajun Resources, 2 Dec. 2018, https://www.acadian.org/history/
“The History of Acadia.” Edited by Histogracial, YouTube, 6 Dec. 2021, https://youtu.be/eHgsKex2edI.
A map I made of the various places I have connected with my Tullier/Jones family.
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