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Canadian Besner Family of French
Origins
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The
embarkment list
Of the
hundred men recruited by Mr. de Gignoux and who appeared on the same
list as Jean Bezenere (it was the spelling used when he enrolled),
nine were put down as being born in Montauban, and eight of those
worked in the wool business. This list refers to the second convoy of
recruits to be forwarded to Canada from the Island of Ré. The
first convoy left in March 1752. In the year 1752, of four hundred
and fifty recruits sent to Canada, eighty six of them were said to be
natives of Montauban, and about nine of ten were working the wool as
combers or shearers. We can deduct that the recruiters knew that many
peasants came to work in this city in the winter, and that the
recruiters' work was facilitated by it. That is where Jean Bezanaire
was recruited, and had probably not given signs of life to his
family. Of the ninety seven embarked recruits, at least six were
married in Canada, according to the "Dictionnaire
Généalogique des Familles Canadiennes" (Canadian Families
Genealogical Dictionary) of Mgr Cyprien Tanguay.
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The
"Charente-Maritime" housed several sea ports on the Atlantic
Ocean: La Rochelle, Rochefort and the Island of
Ré
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A transatlantic in the
style of the 1750's
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