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- From Wikitree....
At the age of about 64, on 3 Oct 1743, widow Anne Daigre took farmer-fisher Mathurin Tennier, who was around age 53, as a second husband .Tennier was originally from the village of Marcey-les-Grèves, slightly northwest of the old cathedral town of Avranches in southwestern Normandy, near the monastic fortress of Mont Saint-Michel.
Anne was with Tennier for 13 & a half years, still in the parish of Saint-Pierre-du-Nord, before she was widowed again, on 1 Mar 1757. The 1752 census by La Roque found Anne Daigre & Mathurin Tennier (“Thenière”) living “in the interior at half a league distance from the parish on the King’s Highway to Grande Source.” With them was 8-year-old granddaughter Anne Royer. On the face of it, Anne & Mathurin seem to have been very poor, possessing only “one cow, with her calf,” along with a mere bushel & a half of wheat sown in their field. The census also reports that Anne Daigre had sold off a piece of land at Pointe Saint-Pierre, on the south side of the farm of François Douville. The purchasing family, Pierre Bonnière & Madeleine Forest, had moved to ISJ 2 years earlier.
Louisbourg fell to the British for the second & final time in July of 1758, about 17 month's after Mathurin Tennier's death. The twice-widowed Anne may have been living, at that point, with her first-born offspring, Madeleine Poitevin, 61-year-old widow of Guillaume Leprieur dit Dubois. Anne was about 79 when she and most of her surviving family members were rounded up by the British. They were among the approximately two-thirds of non-aboriginal islanders who failed to elude the captors. They were put aboard ships sailing for exile in France. En route, close to their destination, two of the ships sank on Dec 12/13. Only 5 exiles survived in lifeboats from the Duke William, while no one made it off the Violet. Anne Daigre & Madeleine Potevin & 5 of Madeleine’s own offspring were among the people aboard those two vessels. Also on the Violet was young Anne Royer, the granddaughter who had been with Anne Daigre & Mathurin Tennier in 1752. Shortly after, on Dec 16, the Ruby was wrecked on the coast at the Azores. Although 120 - of the 310 exiles who set sail on this ship - did come out of the wreck alive, among those who did not were the 6th & 7th of Madeleine's offspring to die en route to France: the recently widowed Marie Leprieur, along with 5 of her children (ages 1 to 12); & Pierre the elder Leprieur dit Dubois, plus his wife & all 4 of their children (ages 1 to 10). Various others also lost their lives, among the sons- & daughters-in-law of Anne Daigre & Étienne Potevin, besides more of their grandchildren & some great-grandchildren. Some of their family made it to France, to endure the unsettled years that this contingent of Acadians went through. A few others survived the Expulsion by gaining refuge in today's Quebec province or by hiding out in the Maritimes until the drive to expel them ended in 1763. All told, the fateful story of the Potevin-Daigre descendants is as tragic as it is complex.
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1679 - 1758 (79 ans)
