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- He came to Louisiana, but we don't yet know when or how. He is neither of the two Joseph Guilbeaus listed on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 3 Right. They can be viewed at Joseph Guilbeau, dit l'Officier and Joseph Guilbeau. However, since he may have been Acadian and he immigrated to Louisiana, it seems he should be on it.
He was born on Miquelon in c1765, but Acadians from that island were transported to France by the French & British in the 1770s. Church records in Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 173, show the family at La Rochelle, France, in 1779-82, when Joseph would have been in his teens. Some of the Acadians returned to the island in the 1780s, but many of them remained in France. The name Joseph GUILBEAU appears on none of the 7 Ships passenger lists; he may still have come in that large expedition, but the extant records just do not show it. He would have been about 20 years old in 1785 & could have joined the handful of 7 Ships Acadians who chose to settle in the Attakapas District, where he knew he had many relatives.
Source: Steven A. Cormier, Acadians in Gray
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vers 1765 - 1822 (57 ans)
