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• The Mazerolle
• of
• America
• Author Rodrigue Mazerolle

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Summary of the Mazerolle History

• The Mazerolles in America initially came from
  France
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• Their first appearance in France was in Vienne
  department of the Poitou-Charente region. The
  commune was founded in 696
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• Twenty (20) localities in France were called
  Mazerolle

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The Mazerolle Castle
The Mazerolles Castle was built during the 12th
century in the Mazerolle Domain in the Auvergne
Department. This domain then comprised two (2)
villages. Today, the Mazerolle Castle belongs to
an Englishman and his sister by the name of
Greenwood. The sister lives in Belgium.
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The Mazerolles arrived in Acadia in 1685 at Port
Royal. The first Mazerolle to arrive was Louis
Mazerolle (nicknamed Saint-Louis). He was born
in France about 1661. He became a soldier at
Fort Port-Royal.
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Louis Mazerolle (nicknamed Saint-Louis) married
the widow of François Savary at Port Royal. They
had three (3) daughters and one son   - Cécile
(1698) - Élizabeth-Françoise (1705) - Marie
(1708) - Joseph (1711)   Louis Mazerolle
(nicknamed Saint-Louis) permanently leaves Port
Royal in August 1714 and settles in Port-Toulouse
(now St-Peters in Cape-Breton, Nova Scotia).
Marie (1708), his youngest daughter, joins him
there and marries. Marie (1708) then settles
along the Moulin-à-Scie River, which flows into
the Northeast River (now the Hillsborough River)
on St-John Island (now Prince-Edward
Island).   Acording to a Prince Edward Island
historian by the name of Harvey, Louis Mazerolle
(nicknamed Saint-Louis) (1661), becomes
co-founder of the Racicot locality (now, Rustico,
PEI).
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The rest of Louis Mazerolles (nicknamed
Saint-Louis) (1661) family settles in Grand-Pré,
N.S. His son, Joseph (1711) born in Port Royal
first marries Marie-Josephte Douaron (Doiron) in
1743. They had the following four children   -
Marie-Josephe (1736) - Joseph (1739) - Jean
(1741) - Simon (1743) Joseph (1711) then
remarries (approx. 1748) to Anne Daigle. They had
the following four children   - Mathurin
(1749)   - Françoise (1751?) - Pierre-Augustin
(1753?) - Paul (1754?) Joseph (1711) and
his second family settle in 1750 in Baie-Verte
N.B. near the current village of Port-Elgin
 
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The Mazerolle Deportation
Children of Louis Mazerolle (nicknamed
Saint-Louis) (1661) and Geneviève Laforest
(1663). Louis (1690) Son, settles in the region
of Kamouraska, Québec. Possibly Louis
Mazerolles step-son from Geneviève Laforests
first mariange Cécile (1698) Daughter,
deported to Maryland, USA - 1755   Elizabeth
(1705) Daughter, very little is known as she is
believed to have died before the deportation.  

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The Mazerolle Deportation

• Children of Louis Mazerolle (nicknamed
  Saint-Louis) (1661) and Geneviève Laforest
  (1663). (continued)
• Marie (1708)
• Daughter, deported in 1758, from Saint John
  Island on the ship Le Violette that was
  shipwrecked in a storm off the coast of
  Cape-Breton. She and her family perished at sea
  on 13 December 1758.
• Joseph (1711)
• Son, escapes the deportation and settles in
  Grand-Pré, N.S The descendants of Joseph (1711)
  will eventually settled in Nova Scotia and New
  Brunswick.

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The Mazerolle Deportation

• Children of Joseph (1711) son of Louis Mazerolle
  (nicknamed Saint-Louis) (1661)