On this page of our website, we will share messages that we have received from several descendants of Michel Richard dit Sanosucy who have requested help in their genealogical research. If ever you need help of you have information on one of the individuals mentionned below, please send us a message by filling in the form on the bottom of the page.
June 2021
Denise Richard Maltais is looking for her great grandfather named Jack (Jean) Richard from the Shediac region in New Brunswick. He married Marie Bouchard in 1878 from Saint Basile,NB. He adopted his son Alphonse born in 1875 in Saint Basile. Jack died in 1908 and was interred in the Saint Basile cemetary. In the parish registry, his name is Jean S Richard of Shediac. Denise is trying to identify Jean (Jack)’s parents. He could speak french and english.
May 2021
Dennis Richard from Los Angeles, CA seeks to identify the man in the photo. He found it among photos belonging to his parents, but has no information except his name: Napoleon Richard.
Claude Richard from Quebec is looking for a birth or baptism document for Christine Richard, born in 1918 in St-Charles de Kent. She was the daughter of Mélème Richard and Marie Léa Daigle. She is said to have married a Paul Richard on April 24, 1940 in St. Rock, Quebec.
Émile Richard from Bouctouche, is looking for more information about his ancestor Charles Daniel Richard, son of Pierre Richard and Marguerite Landry. There are reports that Charles and his son are buried in St. Gabriel d´Iberville, Louisiana, but other reports say Charles was deported and died in France. His son Joseph would have married a Marie Luce Bourg in Saint-Servan, France before returning to Acadia or Louisiana.
Answer: Charles Richard would have married twice; 1st marriage in 1734 with Catherine Joseph Gautrot (Gautreau) who is Joseph’s mother. Catherine died at Grand-Pré in 1746. Charles, his son Joseph and his three daughters Marguerite Joseph, Elisabeth and Geneviève were deported to Virginia in 1755. When Virginia refused the deported Acadians, they were sent to Southampton in England .
On May 16, 1763 they would have be embarked on the ship Ambition which set out from Southampton to bring the Acadians to St Malo. According to some research, Charles appears on the 1772 census of St Malo with the following information. Charles 61, Anne 63 invalid and Joseph would be listed directly below them. (I still have to find a copy of the census to validate). Joseph married Marie Luce Bourg in Saint-Servan on January 22, 1771. Anne Comeau, 2nd wife of Charles Richard, died in Saint-Servan on July 22, 1777. According to the parish register of his burial, Charles was still alive at the time.
We found baptism records for Constant, Rebecca, Marie Esther and Marie Thérèse Richard, children of Joseph and Marie Luce Bourg in Carleton, Bonaventure, Quebec between 1772 and 1778. Marie Luce, Joseph’s wife remarried in 1784 in Bonaventure. Everything would therefore indicate that Joseph would have died in Bonaventure. As for Charles Richard, since his wife Anne Comeau died in France in 1777 and his son was already in Quebec at that time, it is very likely that he too died in France and not in Louisiana.
There is no indication that Charles or his son Joseph were ever in Louisiana.