| Nom |
Priscilla MERANSON DIT MELANSON |
- En 2011, Paul Delaney, un professeur d'anglais retiré et un décendant des Melanson découvre dans les record paroissial de St. Martin in the Fields, situer à Londre quatres batistère d'enfant de Pierre et Priscilla Meranson. Sur les quatre batistères, Prescilla est référer comme Priscilla Meranson.
Ref: Paul Delany, Les Melanson en Angletere, Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienna Vol 43, no3, p44.
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| Naissance |
vers 1610 |
England, United Kingdom  |
| Genre |
Féminin |
| Marié |
1630 |
England, United Kingdom |
| Document |
1657 |
Saint Jean NB |
| it is widely accepted that Pierre and Priscilla landed in 1657 after sailing from England with their sons onboard the ship Satisfaction. It is also generally accepted that the family disembarked at St. John's fort at the mouth of the St. John River. The family had sailed to Acadia with the newly appointed English Governor of Acadia, Sir Thomas Temple and a group of other settlers. Pierre and Priscilla, however, were to reside in Acadia for only 10 years. |
| Document |
1667 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA |
| During their time in Boston, Pierre Laverdure, his wife Priscilla and their son John were known by the name "Laverdure". This name was also to be consistently used as a surname for Pierre and Priscilla's granddaughter, Marie Melanson (first child and eldest daughter of Charles dit La Ramée Mellanson and Marie Dugas) who went to Boston to live with her grandmother at a young age. Marie became known as Mary Laverdure until later marrying David Basset. |
| Document |
5 mars 1677 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA |
A Boston court document from 1677 (Priscilla's petition of May 3, 1677) recorded Priscilla's late husband, "Peter Leverdure", as being a Frenchman and a Protestant and "Priscilla Leverdure" as being an Englishwoman.
Another petition to the Governor of Massachusetts and his counsel was also found. In this petition, she requests that 100 pounds she had submitted for bail on behalf of her son Jean, who had skipped bail, be returned to her.
The petition goes on to state that Priscilla's husband had left "[St.] John's fort to escape the wrath of his countrymen Papists". This latter statement clearly suggests that Pierre was a French Huguenot who might have left France as the Catholic government's tolerance for the Protestant Huguenots began to rapidly deteriorate during the 1620's. Either due to the problems unwinding in France or for some other reason, Pierre ended up in England were he and his Priscilla were married about 1630 |
| Marié |
4 fév 1680 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA |
| Priscilla Married 2nd: April 8, 1680, at Boston/Dorchester (SW/MCM), Mass., New England, to Captain William Wright, Sr.: (widow of Milah Snow - MCM). |
| Décès |
Janvier 1692 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA |
| Notes |
- Priscilla last name is unknown, no official document gives her maiden name.
Many have suggested that it was Mallinson (or a variation thereof) but there are no records to indicate this in any official sense that would serve to accurately enhance any historical or genealogical research. In an effort to present the most factual data available, most professional researchers and genealogists omit any suggestion of a maiden name for Priscilla from their work.
They were both know as "La Verdure" her sons took the name of Melanson.
In Boston, Pierre Laverdure, his wife Priscilla and their son John were known by the name "Laverdure". This name was also to be consistently used as a surname for Pierre and Priscilla's granddaughter, Marie Melanson (first child and eldest daughter of Charles dit La Ramée Mellanson and Marie Dugas) who went to Boston to live with her grandmother at a young age. Marie became known as Mary Laverdure until later marrying David Basset.
Many spelling variations resembling the Mellanson name did exist in England during the 1500's and 1600's but it seems unlikely that Pierre and Charles, both apparently well educated and obviously literate, would go on to consistently misspell their surname when they settled in the New World. This and other details surrounding the origin of the name has gone on to create many theories and possibilities, but it is not known for certain why or from where Pierre and Charles started to use the Mellanson surname.
Of interesting note is that the Mellanson/Melanson name is not found in England prior to the year 1755. It is only after the 1755 expulsions of the Acadian people from Nova Scotia that the name begins to show up on records in England, where some of Pierre and Charles' descendants had been deported to.
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| ID personne |
I18 |
Bugeauld/Bujold |
| Dernière modif. |
8 juil 2017 |
| Famille 1 |
Sieur Pierre DE LAVERDURE DIT MELLANSON, Senior, n. 1608, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France d. 1677, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Âgé de 69 ans) |
| Enfants |
| + | 1. Pierre MELLANSON DIT LAVERDURE, n. 15 aout 1637, London England d. après mid-1720, Grand Pré NS (Âgé de 84 ans) [Père: géniteur / génitrice] [Mère: géniteur / génitrice] |
| | 2. Katherina DE LAVERDURE DIT MELLANSON, n. 19 Avril 1640, Londre Angleterre [Père: géniteur / génitrice] [Mère: géniteur / génitrice] |
| + | 3. Charles MELLANSON DIT LA RAMÉE (MELANSON), n. Decembre 1642, London England d. apres1700, Port Royal NS (Âgé de 57 ans) [Père: géniteur / génitrice] [Mère: géniteur / génitrice] |
| | 4. John LAVERDURE, n. 1651, London England ent. apres 5 Sept 1676 (Âgé de ~ 25 ans) [Père: géniteur / génitrice] [Mère: géniteur / génitrice] |
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| ID Famille |
F7 |
Feuille familiale | Tableau familial |
| Dernière modif. |
26 août 2017 |
vers 1610 - 1692 (82 ans)
