| LOUIS FONTAINE dit BEAULIEU,
baptized at Port Royal (now known as Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia) on September
11, 1707 as Louis Corporon, the natural son of Isabelle Corporon,
daughter of Jean Corporan and Francoise Savoie. His father was
Rene Fontaine, secretary of Subercase, the last French governor of
Acadia. Isabelle Corporon married around 1715 to Guillaume Jeanson
(William Johnson) of Scotland. Louis Fontaine married at Port
Royal on September 10, 1730 to Marie-Madeleine Roy, daughter of Jean Roy
and Marie Aubois. Deported to Connecticut with his family in 1755,
they left and settled at L'Assomption, Quebec in 1767. Children:
Marie-Mathilde, born 1731; Anne, born 1732; Luce, born 1734;
Louise-Thaddee, born 1736, Marguerite, born 1739;
Eulalie-Valburge, born 1741; and Helene, born 1744. He only had
one son to carry on the family name. [From Histoire
et Genealogie des Acadiens,
by Bona Arsenault; and baptism from Vol. 3, page 1104 Histoire
du Cap-Sable,
by Rev. C. J. d'Entremont.] |
