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     CENSUS OF 1798 
     
     Acadian Families 
     
     Malpeque Rustico Bay Fortune 
     
     15 Arsenault 12 Gallant 6 Chiasson 
     
     10 Gallant 6 Martin 6 Bourque 
     
     6 Poirier 5 Pitre 4 Pitre 
     
     4 Bernard 3 Doiron 3 Cheverie 
     
     3 Doucette 2 Blanchard 3 Longuépée 
     
     3 Gaudet 2 Doucette 1 Michel 
     
     2 Chiasson 1 Chiasson 1 Landry 
     
     2 Richard 1 Gautreau 
     
     1 Bourque 1 LeBrun 
     
     1 DesRoches 1 Muise 
     
     1 Downing 1 Buote 
     
     1 Aucoin 1 Gaudet 
     
     1 Roussel 1 Pineau 
     
     1 St-Jean 1 LeClair 
     
     1 Blaquiére 
     
     1 Gauthier 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The travels of Alexis Doiron’s family lasted longer and were more 
     
     dramatic. Born in Acadie in 1723, Alexis Doiron moved with his 
     
     parents to fle Saint Jean in 1750 to settle in Grande Anse, near Point 
     
     Prim. He and his family were deported to France in 1758, but he 
     
     returned to the Island to settle in Rustico, probably during the 1770s°. 
     
    

    
     Louis Blaquiére was born in France in 1760 where his family had 
     
     landed following deportation from Louisbourg. His father brought 
     
     him out to Miquelon around 1763. Records show that Louis was 
     
     married in Miquelon and that he lived there until about 1792 when 
     
     he fled with other Acadians who refused to take an oath under the 
     
     new constitution adopted after the French Revolution. Louis Blaquiére 
     
     finally arrived in Rustico via the Magdalen Islands and Cape Breton 
     
     Island’. 
     
    

    
     The Acadians who decided to resettle on St. John’s Island were 
     
     obligated to swear an oath of loyalty to the King of England. According