A letter from S. White dated 1984. I (George Rose) had asked for information
on the Landry family.

I can trace the Landrys from your great-grandmother descended back to a
Pierre Landry, born about 1732, who is listed in the LaRoque's census of Ile
Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island), in the household of his step-father,
Pierre Gautrot. At the time of this census, Pierre's mother, Elisabeth
Theriot, had just recently married Gautrot. He was her third husband. The
first had been Pierre Landry's father, but no available records reveal this
man's given name, nor his parentage. Besides Pierre, Elisabeth had a
daughter, Marie-Josephe, from this first marriage. Her second husband was
Pierre Melanson, by whom she had two more sons. And from her third marriage
Elisabeth had one more daughter, Marguerite, born about 1753. Pierre Gautrot
meanwhile had ten children from his first marriage, to Agnes LeBlanc .
Elisabeth Theriot was thus Pierre Gautrot's second wife.

What happened to Pierre Landry after the fall of Louisbourg in 1758 and the
subsequent capture of Ile Saint-Jean and Ils Royale ( Cape Breton Island) by
the British is not entirely clear, but it seems that he was deported to
France. Lists of 1761 and 1762 show Pierre at LaRochelle. By this time he
had married Anne Clerge, daughter of Claude Clerge and Francoise Lavergne.
Anne had been at Port Toulouse, Ile Royale, about 1742.

The eldest of Pierre and Anne's children, Pierre-Jean, was born in France
about 1762. In 1764 Pierre and Anne left France for Saint-Pierre and
Miquelon. Their second son, Charles-Gabriel , was baptized at Saint-Pierre,
July 1, 1764. Soon after, the family must have moved to Miquelon, and the
third son , Benoni, was baptized there, Nov. 3, 1766. The islands
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon were evacuated in 1767. The inhabitants were given
the choice regarding where they could go. Pierre Landry and Anne Clerge
chose to move to Nova Scotia, to Chezzetcook, where many of Anne's relatives
had congregated. They travelled there on the schooner "LA MARIANNE." The
Landrys may have stayed at Chezzetcook for as long as twenty-two years.
About 1789, however, they went to settle permently at River Bourgeois, Cape
Breton.

Pierre Landry, his sons Benoni, Thomas, and Jean, his son-in-law Louis
Boucher, his wife's nephew Jean Samson and Louis Samson received from the
Cape Breton government a crown lease of 1600 acres at River Bourgeois, July
27, 1805. Pierre Landry seems to have died between this date and the census
of 1811.

Jean Landry, fifth son of Pierre and Anne, married Marie Dugas, daughter of
Jean-Baptiste Dugas and Marie Landry, about 1796. Jean was one of the
lessees of 1805, as mentioned above. The 1811 census describes his as a
fisherman. He also had three cattle and five sheep in 1811.

Tranquille Landry, son of Jean Landry and Marie Dugas, was born , according
to his age in the 1871 census, about 1804. He was a fisherman , like his
father. I do not know when he died . His wife was Rufine Samson , daughter
of Louis Samson and Marie LeCointe, whom he married 7, Jan. 1840, at River
Bourgeois. Rufine's father was another of the lessees of 1805. He was
Tranquille's father's first cousin, and Tranquille and Rufine were obioged
to obtain a dispensation from their relationship in order to marry.

Dosithee Landry , born Jan. 2 1866, was Tranquille and Rufine's youngest
child. I do not know whom Dosithee married , nor anything about their
offspring.

I hope the foregoing adequately answers your questions.

Sincerely Yours

(signature) Stephen A. White genealogist