Hi Listers, I have received this today in response to my post of the other day: <<I agree with everything you said about Stephen White, but I noted your rationale regarding the LeBlanc ancestry was a little off the mark. You said: "Moreover, when one thinks about it, why would someone from a family of nobility - in other words a family that was very comfortable in French society leave France to become a farmer in the 1600s? That was highly unlikely." What about the Damours of Québec and Acadia? Charles, who married Marie-Anne Thibodeau about 1695, was a descendant of the Royal families of Europe, including William I "The Conqueror" Duc de Normandie & Charlemagne. I agree that most of the immigrants were peasants, but there were a few more like Charles Damours. Note that I didn't publish this on the Acadian-Cajun list, because I have too much respect for your contributions to that list.>> I do appreciate the message that I received today and I thought I would respond on the list as well for everybody to know my response: <<I thought of all that when I posted but I was not going to get into all of the family lineages and as you noted I specifically mentioned the LeBlanc family *not* being connected to nobility in any way. I think everyone understood my intent. For 99% of the families who went to Acadia, what I said was true. The D'amours were in Quebec before they went to Acadia. Mathieu DAmours was a counselor to the King. Things were better there. Another reason I did not mention them nor the D'Entremonts, etc. was because I would then have to mention how they were all given seigneuries... which proves what I said - again: why would people of nobility go to pioneer as farmers. In the case of the D'Amours, d'Entremonts, etc., they did not become farmers - they were given land and others did the work. That was my point.>> I guess I was trying to keep my post short and it probably was too short and misleading though I hope not. Now you have the other side of the story. <smile> Lucie Lucie LeBlanc Consentino Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home <http://acadian-home.org> http://acadian-home.org <http://www.acadian-home.org> http://www.promises.acadian-home.org/frames.html CMA 2004 - <http://www.cma2004.com/> www.cma2004.com Grand-Pré - <http://www.grand-pre.com/> www.grand-pre.com/ <http://www.umoncton.ca/etudeacadiennes/centre/cea.html> www.umoncton.ca/etudeacadiennes/centre/cea.html <http://www.umoncton.ca/etudeacadiennes>