RENNIE (RENYRINBEAU)

JEAN-BAPTISTE RENYRINBEAU ARRIVED IN POMQUET BETWEEN 1817-1827 ALONG WITH JEAN-BAPTISTE VENDOME.  THEY WERE CAPTURED BY THE BRITISH BUT ESCAPED & FLED TO FRANCE. THEY ARRIVED IN HALIFAX & MADE THEIR WAY TO ANTIGONSIH COUNTY & SETTLED IN POMQUET.

JEAN-BAPTISTE RIMBEAU MARRIED MARIE BROUSSARD DAUGHTER OF JOSEPH BROUSSARD & JEANNE LANDRY. ACCORDING TO THE TRACADIE RECORDS, THE FAMILY NAME IN 1854 WAS RAMBREAU BUT HAD ALREADY BEGUN CHANGING TO RENÉ BY 1855. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT RIMBEAU IS ON THE LIST OF ACADIAN NAMES AT GRAND PRÉ HISTORIC SITE. ALL THE RENNIES FROM POMQUET ARE DESCENDANTS OF JEAN- BAPTISTE RIMBEAU AND MARIE BROUSSARD