Greetings from the Acadian Family of Joseph and Théogénie Thériault

CRADLE OF THE JOSEPH & THÉOGÉNIE THÉRIAULT FAMILY: the beautiful St John River Valley at Fort Kent, Maine and Claire, New Brunswick in the summer of 1940.This westerly view shows the river flowing from the horizon on the Canadian side at St. François, NB towards Claire at the center then on to Baker Brook, St Hilaire, Edmundston and St Basile. Joseph and Théogénie raised their family in St-Hilaire. The American towns on this side of the St John River are Fort Kent, Frenchville (Ste Luce), Madawaska, St David, Lille, Grand Isle and Van Buren. The American-Canadian boundary for this beautiful valley was not agreed upon until 1842 with the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. Photo by Jack Delano. 1940 [ref: 3]  Left click on photo to ZOOM.

of the Terriot family, there is something here for all Terriot/Theriault/Theriot's, and all Acadians as well as others who may be interested in Acadian history. For your pleasure and convenience, we have designed this site to read like a book...  it is easy to browse through each section and there are no commercial pop-up messages to distract you. To help create the setting for this story, we draw on our archive of old Acadian music which you hear in the background. But most important is that we try to mix the human element along with the historical and genealogical details to bring the 'past back to life' and to keep it interesting. So, take your time to read through each section. This is the

The greater Terriot family currently has about fifteen (15) generations in North America and an estimated several hundred Great-Branches of which a mere 67 are currently documented in our TERRIOT ACADIAN FAMILY websites. Here at this website, we focus on one relatively small branch of the family, the GREAT-BRANCH of JOSEPH AND THÉOGÉNIE THÉRIAULT, one of the early families of St-Jacques, New Brunswick and later, St-Hilaire. We dedicate this web site to this most intrepid couple, Joseph and Théogénie, pioneers of the Saint-John Valley in northwest New Brunswick.
 
 

The TERRIOT ACADIAN FAMILY has organized the genealogy of its family into Great-Branches where a Great-Branch is defined by a 9th-generation ancestral grand-son, or in certain cases, by an ancestral grand-daughter of the 9th or earlier generations. The first nine generations of all Great-Branches in the Terriot family are documented by our portal website, the JEHAN AND PERRINE TERRIOT FAMILY website. Here, in the JOSEPH AND THÉOGÉNIE THÉRIAULT FAMILY website and in websites such as this one, the 9th and later generations are documented and each is dedicated to one specific Great-Branch.

Joseph is a 9th-generation ancestral grandson of Jehan Terriot and Perrine Brault. Jehan and Perrine in turn are the progenitors or originators of the Terriot family in North America. Most, if not all Terriot's on the North American continent trace their roots to this courageous couple who first stepped on to the North American continent in the 1630's.

The JOSEPH AND THÉOGÉNIE THÉRIAULT GREAT-BRANCH spans four centuries from 1601 to the present and includes 15 generations. The first nine generations which define this Great-Branch span 314 years, the period of 1601 (when Jehan was born) to 1915 (when Joseph was deceased) and includes the lineage shown in the above table.

If your family does not descend from Joseph (II) but descends from one of his ancestors, for example, Dolphis, Charles, Charles-Marie, etc., then we are distant cousins or as we say back home, 'petit cousin'! After you browse through this website, we recommend that you visit the portal website for the TERRIOT ACADIAN FAMILY, which is the JEHAN AND PERRINE TERRIOT FAMILY website at WWW.TERRIAU.ORG

There we will tell you the story of the greater Terriot family, its early ancestors and its progenitors, Jehan Terriot and Perrine Brault and about their trek to the New World. We also have a photo tour of the Terriot ancestral village in France... the village of Martaizé and of the surrounding ancient province of Poitou, an archive of our old Acadian and Cajun music as well as a family newsletter. You will find all of this and more in the portal website which we have dedicated to the Terriot story. We hope that you will pass this Acadian story on to your children and to the rest of your family.

The JEHAN AND PERRINE TERRIOT FAMILY  website along with this JOSEPH AND THÉOGÉNIE THÉRIAULT FAMILY website form the beginning of a web-ring of TERRIOT ACADIAN FAMILY websites. So click on the Terriot Cross Crest at the end of this sentence and we will take you there. 

If your family descends from Joseph (II), you are especially welcome and we expect a little more from you!  We would like to know who you are and where you connect in the Terriot family. But at least, please browse through ourJOSEPH THÉRIAULT ARCHIVE^© to see if you, your children, parents, or grandparents are correctly recorded. And, if you see that some information is missing or is incorrect, let us know.⁹  We will correct your part of the family tree very quickly. The next time you drop in, you will be able to see your corrected family genealogy.

Our goals for the JOSEPH AND THÉOGÉNIE THÉRIAULT FAMILY website are the following: (1) to first make the Terriot story and its records available to as many members of our family as possible, (2) to continue the development of the Terriot genealogy to include as many of our family members as possible, and (3) to provide a communications link between the members of our family that promotes an understanding of the Terriot family, its history, culture as well as its people. Why?

Several reasons:

• Because we believe that it is important for us to know that of the billions of people on this small planet some of us share common parents and thus should not treat each other as strangers.
• Also because by understanding some of the strengths and weaknesses of my family, we might be able to use those strengths to improve our world before we leave. As to the weaknesses, we can learn to work around them and thus improve our lives and the lives of those around us.
• And one final reason, because of a simple desire to honor the men and women upon whose shoulders we came into this world.

I have been interested in the Theriault genealogy for well over 20 years. I have been aided in this pursuit by my loving Mother, Elsie Dubé Theriault, the late Reverend Father Louis J. Cyr (who originally researched our family tree from our church records), and others like my paternal cousin, Claude Thériault (Dénis, Joachim, Joseph) who stimulated my interest in the Acadian story many years ago. Most recently, I have had the assistance of the sweetest lady in Saint-Basile, NB; my dearest paternal Tante Georgette Thériault Cyr (Joachim, Joseph). So as you can see, the work that is represented in this website reflects the help, dedication and work of many people, genealogical and historical groups, societies and organizations. They're all listed in the Credits section... take a look at it when you get a chance.

Now, by using the Internet as my tool to research and distribute this information, we hope to find new information on our family and perhaps find some of the 'lost' or unrecorded members of our family.

So, stay for a while. If you wish to share this information with your family or use it for other non-commercial purposes, we have taken special care in designing the sections in this website for printing. So if you wish to have a hardcopy of these sections for your family, just print each section as you go through the website. The entire website including the Archive will print on about 500 pages... yes, make sure that your printer is loaded with paper.

We would love to hear from you. Click on our e-mail address at the end of this sentence to send us a note at JOSEPH-THEOGENIE@TERRIAU.ORG... If you want us to notify you when we make significant additions or changes to this website, let us know in your message and we will add you to our DISTINGUISHED VISITORS' ROSTER. When we do make significant changes, we will let you know what changes we have made so you can choose to check it out or not.

Below, you can see our new 'Table of Contents' button. If you haven't already opened the new Floating Table of Contents (TOC) window, click the button now to open it. Move it to a corner of your screen and leave it there. Click anywhere on this window to hide the TOC window and finish reading this section. When you finish with this section, close this window by clicking on the "X" in the upper right hand corner. Then, choose the next section (the "Guided Tour of Website") you wish to visit from the TOC window. Leave the TOC window open while you're visiting with us as a convenient way to go from one section to another.

Now, we would like to take you on a our 'Guided Tour' of our website.

The goal of the JOSEPH AND THÉOGÉNIE THÉRIAULT FAMILY©website is to promote the  history,  culture, current affairs and communication between the members of the Acadian family of Joseph and Théogénie Thériault. The GREAT-BRANCH© concept and genealogical organization is copyrighted by the TERRIOT ACADIAN FAMILY.This work including artwork, music and photography is not given, may not be used for commercial purposes and is not public domain.  Copyright © 1999-2003  J.R.T.Theriault. All rights reserved.

This Website is composed, designed, produced and owned by Joseph Ralph T. Theriault and was revised: 9 September 2003. Revisions to these pages are published as new information is produced. The JOSEPH THÉRIAULT ARCHIVE©(Version 2001.1) was generated 16 April 2001 with Legacy 3.0  from Millennia.

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