♂Nicolas Barillot

Nicolas Barillot (born about 1650) was an early settler of Acadia who lived first at Port-Royal and later at Pisiguit^W, on the Minas Basin. He was the eighth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his son Nicolas Barillot (about 1703 – about 1755). Long after his death, and after the expulsion of the Acadians, two of his grandsons, exiled to Belle-Île off the coast of Brittany, declared in 1767 that he and his wife had come “out of France” and had died in the parish of L’Assomption at Pisiguit.

He appears at Port-Royal in the census of 1686, aged 36. By 1693 he had moved up to Les Mines, where the census taker wrote his name Barillet and Barrieu and gave his age as 45, and in 1701 he was listed on the Rivière de Kiniscour at Pisiguit. He married Martine Hébert, a daughter of Étienne Hébert and Marie Gaudet of Port-Royal, probably about 1682, and the couple are said to have had ten children, born between 1683 and 1707. The date of his death is not known.

The family

According to a compiled genealogy, the couple’s daughter Marguerite Barillot (born 1689) married Denis Girouard at Port-Royal on 15 October 1709 and was a widow ten weeks later, when he was buried at Grand-Pré on 26 December 1709. She married Louis Doiron in 1712, and her sons’ declaration of 1767 records that she died on Isle Saint-Jean^W.

Notes

His age and origin

The census of 1686 gives his age as 36, which points to a birth about 1650; the Les Mines census of 1693 gives 45, which points to about 1648. Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens writes him Nicolas Bariot, has him coming from France to Acadia about 1671, and says he lived in the parish of L’Assomption. Other family trees give his birth as 1648 in France and his death as 1714 at Pisiguit; no record behind those dates is cited. His surname is written Barillot, Bariot, Barillet, Barrieu and Barrieau.

The declaration at Belle-Île

The register of the Acadians at Belle-Île-en-Mer, printed in the Casgrain and Rameau Collection de documents inédits sur le Canada et l’Amérique, holds the declaration of the brothers Alexis and Jean Doüaron of the village of Bortereau, parish of Locmaria. It names their mother “Marguerite Bariot issue de Nicolas Bariot et de Martine Hébert sortis de France et décédés en la paroisse de l’Assomption”. The grandsons spoke from family memory, and Arsenault places Martine Hébert’s family at Port-Royal, so “out of France” may be true of Nicolas alone.

The marriage and children

The marriage about 1682 and the ten children (Marie, Françoise, Jeanne, Catherine, Marguerite, Madeleine, Antoine, Nicolas, Jacques and Pierre) come from Arsenault’s genealogy, a compiled source. Arsenault also gives Marguerite’s marriages and Denis Girouard’s burial.

The line to Floyd

Arsenault names the younger Nicolas Barillot (1703) as a son of Nicolas and Martine Hébert, a compiled link. The step below him, to his daughter Marguerite Bariault, the wife of Alexis Brault, rests on family-tree compilations that cite no record for the parentage, so the line through this family is not yet proved.