VENEDAM

JEAN-BAPTISTE VENEDAM ARRIVED IN POMQUET SOMETIME AROUND 1817 WITH JEAN-BAPTISTE RENYRIMBEAU. THEY WERE SOLDIERS FIGHTING WITH NAPOLEON DURING THE NAPOLEONIC WARS. THEY WERE CAPTURED BY THE BRITISH BUT ESCAPED & FLED TO FRANCE. THEY ARRIVED IN HALIFAX & MADE THEIR WAY TO ANTIGONISH COUNTY & SETTLED IN POMQUET.

JEAN-BAPTISTE VENEDAM MARRIED OSITE ROSIA, DAUGHTER OF FRANCOIS ROSIA & MADELEINE ' BROUSSARD. THEY HAD ONE DAUGHTER & JEAN- BAPTISTE REMARRIED AFTER OSITE'S DEATH TO ADELE DUON DAUGHTER OF CYPRIEN-PIERRE DUON AND MARIE MODESTE GIRROIR. ALL THE VENEDAMS ARE DESCENDANTS FROM JEAN- BAPTISTE VENEDAM.

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