You need to see if your families were on the PemBrook They settled on the lower St John & were forced to move up-river at least twice before settling in the Madawanka area #56 - THE SEIZURE OF "THE PEMBROOK" BY THE ACADIANS http://www.museeacadien.ca/english/archives/articles/56.htm Isn't Lowell, MA a mostly French-Canadian/Acadian town? -----Original Message----- From: Leslie Johnson CPC via ACADIAN <acadian@rootsweb.com> Hi there! IS IT TIME TO RETIRE THE LIST? - Please, NO!!! Who are you? My name is Leslie LeBrun Johnson, I am descended of the family BRUN, le brun and finally as our name has condensed - LeBrun. My great grandparents came to the USA (Lowell, MA) during the 2nd Exodus, 1800s. Where you are? My LeBrun family mostly reside in Massachusetts, still. I am currently in Florida. Where & when were your families last in one of our "homelands"? Have never been. My daughter, now knowing our heritage, has a very strong yearning to go back to learn more. I would love to go back to see as well. What families are you researching? What Period? Ancestry has been "acting up" lately, so it's been very difficult to find my grandfather's family. I'd like to know more about the Deportation. I believe the Lebrun family escaped deportation and may have settled in the Madawaska region of what was, at that time, part of Maine. It's just a suspicion, certainly not a fact. Have you had your DNA done which tests? - I'm skeptical, being female. I'd like one of my brothers to go up through the male line, but am unsure how he feels about it. My mother's family has no Acadian. Any other Genealogical projects you are working on? I do some hunting for other family members here and there. What else would you like us to know? What family associations do you belong to? Aside from a couple of facebook pages, not too many. Do you have a blog, web site or online database you would like to share? Any unique resources you will do lookups? I like the Acadian Parish Remembered, which has now been absorbed by The Nova Scotia Archives - https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/ and here. http://novascotia.ca/archives/virtual/default.asp?Search=THgen&orderby=title I found a bit of Madawaska history in the "History of Aroostook (Maine), Vol 1" that had a very interesting description of Acadians. If you'd like a link to the online book, just let me know. I saved it for my family. National Archives is good - oh gosh, there are so many!! Maybe this should be another project for us - put our resources out for all to share. Do you like the "how related" we occassionally do? Do more, less, too personal? All my life, I have said to myself "I want to go home." I never understood what or where that was, but this yearning is so fierce sometimes and even my mother fought me about it as I grew up. Researching this family tree has helped me put so many things into perspective. Sharing with others? YES!! Are we related? If we have the common family lines between us, it makes the world just that much more small, and our family just that more large. I love it. Do you like our holiday breaks with recipes, family stories & traditions? YES!!! My grandfather forbade the family to speak any French. No one knew, no one spoke about any of the past. If they did, I was too young to appreciate. I learned some in high school and in college and my father said that I "ruined the pronounciation of our last name - from "la brun" to "le brun" lol. We still cook some foods and have some traditions that come from so far back - I thought it was just my family. I love hearing about our Acadian roots and I relay much back to my family. ___ This is a remarkable group with remarkable stories and a rich history that begs to be told. With this group, we can keep the Acadians ALIVE through each of us. Anyone can put a name on a page, but with everyone's discussion - although I read more than I participate, these names come alive and it's something we can teach our children. One thing that I've learned is that above all things, is that to our ancestors, family was everything. I do mean - everything. We had the church, we had our family. They still mean something to some of us. Thank you for being here and helping us learn and come home. Leslie . ------------------------------- To check our Archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/acadian/ ------------------------------- To subscribe to the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. You will receive a confirmation e-mail to try & stop "machine" enrollment spam. Give it the "Name" you would like us to call you. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Yes, Lowell is/was a huge area for the French Canadians. I didn't grow up there, but I grew up with LOTS of them, but I don't think any of us knew the connections of our families. His sisters lived there until at least into the late 70s or so until they died. My grandfather refused to speak any French at all, from what I understand, probably due to the Ku Klux Klan and Irish influences in the area during the 1920s. Nor would he teach any to his children. He moved from Lowell to the Boston area where my father & his brothers & sisters were born. Thanks for that link - I can't seem to piece it together except from the other book you recommended, which I did get: "A Great and Noble Scheme". I believe they escaped the British and I have a document which shows them north of Nova Scotia but after that, it's a mystery. I wish I knew more Geography, I might just have to do the map thing and plot their births and deaths to figure this out. Off to read the Pembrook info - thanks! Leslie Johnson, CPC Know what you know & Know Why you Know It! > -----Original Message----- > From: pleblan@aim.com > Sent: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:42:13 -0400 > To: acadian@rootsweb.com > Subject: Leslie LeBrun Johnson roll call > > You need to see if your families were on the PemBrook > They settled on the lower St John & were forced to move up-river at > least twice before settling in the Madawanka area > > #56 - THE SEIZURE OF "THE PEMBROOK" BY THE ACADIANS > http://www.museeacadien.ca/english/archives/articles/56.htm > > Isn't Lowell, MA a mostly French-Canadian/Acadian town? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Leslie Johnson CPC via ACADIAN <acadian@rootsweb.com> > > Hi there! > > > IS IT TIME TO RETIRE THE LIST? - Please, NO!!! > > Who are you? My name is Leslie LeBrun Johnson, I am descended of the > family BRUN, le brun and finally as our name has condensed - LeBrun. My > great grandparents came to the USA (Lowell, MA) during the 2nd Exodus, > 1800s. > > Where you are? My LeBrun family mostly reside in Massachusetts, still. > I am currently in Florida. > > Where & when were your families last in one of our "homelands"? Have > never been. My daughter, now knowing our heritage, has a very strong > yearning to go back to learn more. I would love to go back to see as > well. > > What families are you researching? What Period? Ancestry has been > "acting up" lately, so it's been very difficult to find my grandfather's > family. I'd like to know more about the Deportation. I believe the Lebrun > family escaped deportation and may have settled in the Madawaska region > of what was, at that time, part of Maine. It's just a suspicion, > certainly not a fact. > > Have you had your DNA done which tests? - I'm skeptical, being female. > I'd like one of my brothers to go up through the male line, but am unsure > how he feels about it. My mother's family has no Acadian. > > Any other Genealogical projects you are working on? I do some hunting > for other family members here and there. > > What else would you like us to know? > > What family associations do you belong to? Aside from a couple of > facebook pages, not too many. > > Do you have a blog, web site or online database you would like to share? > > Any unique resources you will do lookups? I like the Acadian Parish > Remembered, which has now been absorbed by The Nova Scotia Archives - > https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/ and here. > http://novascotia.ca/archives/virtual/default.asp?Search=THgen&orderby=title > > I found a bit of Madawaska history in the "History of Aroostook (Maine), > Vol 1" that had a very interesting description of Acadians. If you'd like > a link to the online book, just let me know. I saved it for my family. > > National Archives is good - oh gosh, there are so many!! Maybe this > should be another project for us - put our resources out for all to > share. > > Do you like the "how related" we occassionally do? Do more, less, too > personal? All my life, I have said to myself "I want to go home." I > never understood what or where that was, but this yearning is so fierce > sometimes and even my mother fought me about it as I grew up. > Researching this family tree has helped me put so many things into > perspective. Sharing with others? YES!! Are we related? If we have the > common family lines between us, it makes the world just that much more > small, and our family just that more large. I love it. > > Do you like our holiday breaks with recipes, family stories & traditions? > YES!!! My grandfather forbade the family to speak any French. No one > knew, no one spoke about any of the past. If they did, I was too young to > appreciate. I learned some in high school and in college and my father > said that I "ruined the pronounciation of our last name - from "la brun" > to "le brun" lol. We still cook some foods and have some traditions that > come from so far back - I thought it was just my family. I love hearing > about our Acadian roots and I relay much back to my family. > > ___ > This is a remarkable group with remarkable stories and a rich history > that begs to be told. With this group, we can keep the Acadians ALIVE > through each of us. Anyone can put a name on a page, but with everyone's > discussion - although I read more than I participate, these names come > alive and it's something we can teach our children. One thing that I've > learned is that above all things, is that to our ancestors, family was > everything. I do mean - everything. We had the church, we had our family. > They still mean something to some of us. > > Thank you for being here and helping us learn and come home. > > Leslie > > > > . > ------------------------------- > To check our Archive > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/acadian/ > ------------------------------- > To subscribe to the list, please send an email to > ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message. You will receive a > confirmation e-mail to try & stop "machine" enrollment spam. Give it the > "Name" you would like us to call you. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ACADIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >