18 = Historical Guidebook of the Evangeline Region Bibienne Poirier Arsenault (1794-1893). This Acadian woman was born in the old Acadian settlement in Malpeque Bay. A great many of her descendants are living in the Evangeline Region. In 1815, she married Méléme Arsenault. In 1831, they moved to the parish of Egmont Bay, where eight of their nine children settled. Among their most illustrious de- scendants were their son, Senator Joseph-Octave Arsenault; their grand- sons, Judge Aubin- Edmond Arsenault, former Premier of P.E.I., Joseph-Octave Arsenault, teacher and first Francophone inspector for Acadian schools, and Sister Saint Fulbert, C.N.D. (Emilienne Arsenault), who was the first Island Acadian to become a nun. (Abram’s Village Handi- craft Centre Collection) The Hashie family in the Evangeline Region are descend- ants of Edouard Haché and Adéle Richard, who were married in Tignish in 1885. They lived in East Bideford (Lot 12) and then moved with their family in the early 1900s to Saint- Hubert in parish of Egmont Bay. Edouard Haché was the son of Joseph and Anna Haché and was born near Bathurst (New Brunswick). Gaudet Jean Gaudet, born in France around 1575, is the ancestor of the numerous Gaudet family. He arrived in Port-Royal around 1636 with his sec- ond wife Nicole Coleson. Joseph Gaudet, the fifth generation of the fam- ily in Acadie, is the ancestor of all the Gaudets on the Island. He was born in Beaubassin around 1740 and escaped deportation. He married Marie- Blanche Bourg in 1763. Subsequent records place them in Halifax (Nova Scotia); the French Island of Miquelon; Cocagne and Jolicure (New Bruns- wick); and finally in Malpeque around 1784. From Malpeque they moved to Tignish and Miscouche. The Gaudets who settled in the Evangeline Re- gion at the end of the 19th century came from Miscouche. LeClair The Island LeClairs trace their origins back to Pierre LeClair, who was born around 1749 in Yvignac near Saint-Malo, France. He married twice, and both women were Acadians born on Isle Saint-Jean. He and his first wife, Anne Comeau, were married on the French island of Saint-Pierre. His marriage to Rose Belliveau took place in La Rochelle, France. They lived on the French island of Miquelon, off the west coast of New- foundland, for several years, but after the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1798, they fled this location. Around 1793, they settled in Rustico. The Egmont Bay LeClairs are descendants of two of Pierre’s grandsons: Sylvestre LeClair who married Lucille Arsenault in 1839; and Jér6me LeClair who married Cécile Gallant around 1868. Maddix The surname Maddix (often pronounced Maddec) is of Irish origin. The ancestor of this family is James Maddix, who was born in Ireland around 1795. He was living in the Egmont Bay area by the 1820s. After the death of his first wife, Anne MacDougall, he integrated into the Acadian community when he married Scholastique (Colostie) Arsenault in 1851. The Maddix family descend from this second marriage. James Maddix died in Egmont Bay in 1875.