For the past 6 years I have been gathering information on the Hoffman and  Martineau family lines. Thanks to the help of Maurace Martineau and his site at  Planet Quebec that job was made easy. This site does not offer enough space for  all ancestors but a larger tree can be found on Ancestry.com with 10,000 family  members. My Database is over 65,000 so if you see a name I more than likely  have the family line. 
 The Martineau Family came to Westbrook from Quebec to work the mills, As did  many of my French ancestors. Many used The Canadian Highway Rt. 201 from Quebec  and setteled in the Fairfield area but, some ventuered further South to  Westbrook, Biddeford, and Sanford. The Hoffman side is another story It`s roots  come from Denmark, Francis Hoffman arrived in the U.S. around 1850. Francis Married a Bridget Loghan (maybe Logan) on 3 sep 1864 in Portland, Maine  she  was born in Ireland. 
   I had heard the name Sullivan mentioned by my father Clifford Leo Hoffman and  that he had thought the he was adopted however, it turns out that his father  Leo was the one adopted by John Francis Hoffman and Catherine Durgin. John was  a store owner and sold his groceries on Washington Ave. Portland, Maine the  site of the now vacant Nissens Bakery. Catherine Durgin was a dress maker and  had her shop on first Congress Street and than later on Forest Ave. the  Woodfords Area of Portland. She worked with her sister Margaret and her brother  Owen J. Durgin Jr. he was a clerk there, it was called Owen J. Durgin`s for her  father. I can only go back to her parents Owen J. Durgin born in Ireland and  Margaret Feeney also born in Ireland they were married in Portland, Maine 24  Mar 1856. They are all buried here in Calvery Cemetery South Portland, Maine.

ACADIAN HISTORY:
 In May of 1750, the British tried to take possession of the Village of  Beaubassin but failed thanks to the detachment of the French Canadians.  Furthermore L`Abbe LeLoutre, Missionary of the Micmacs continued to encourage  the resistence of the Acadians and tried to incite them to move to the French  territories of Ile Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) or to the South-East  section of todays southern New Brunswick. The Acadians were hesitant to abandon  their homes and land to follow the passionate but risky judgment of L`Abbe  LeLoutre. the French authorities were certain that the British would try to  take Beaubassin again. To foil this attempt, the Micmacs under the guidance of  L`Abbe LeLoutre set fire to the Village of Beaubassin, forcing the Acadians to  seek refuge in Fort Beausejour or Ile Saint-Jean.Alexis Landry and his family  had to relocate to the small village D`Aulac near fort Beausejour. This iswhere  we find them on the 1752 census. that year, his family includes 2 girls and 5  boys (3 stepsons named Cormier). Following the fall of Fort Beausejour in 1755,  Alexis follows the coast like many other Acadians. They were hiding as  fugitives in the Mirmichi area. Barely able to survive under difficult  conditions during the winter of 1756-1757, around 600 Acadians starved to death  in the region of Miramichi (Mahone bay, n.s.). In 1757, Alexis arrives in  Caraquet with a few hundred Acadians. They would settle in Sainte-Anne-du- Bocage, but tranquility would not last too long. a suprise expedition by the  British Army would take place in the fall of 1761. The settlers of Caraquet  were able to escape because the British Ships were filled to capacity by the  Acadians in Nipisiguit (Bathurst, N.B.) left under surveillance of Indian Chief  Pekemouche, the British told them to remain until their return in the spring.  Needless to say, the Acadians did not ask their permission to leave Caraquet  and saught refuge in Bonaventure on the north shore of the Baie Des Chaleurs,  an area that wasn`t under the jurisdiction of the government of Nova Scotia.  This is how we find Alexis Landry and his family on the 1765 census of  Bonaventure. he would then settle on the Ile Miscou near a river that would be  later named `Le Ruisseau Landry` By 1769 the war was over for six years and  Alexis Landry obtained the signed concent of the Magistrate of Nipisiguit to  retake possession of his land in Sainte-Anne-du-Bocage near Caraquet. The  Landry family moved from Ile Miscou to Caraquet in the spring of that year. Durring his time spent on the North Shore of the Baie des Chaleurs, Alexis  Landry had made some important contacts there with some British merchants. He  began to trade with them for supplies and thus became an important merchant in  Caraquet. as a carpenter he became a master shipbuilder. Alexis was born at  Grand Pre, Baptized on 25 August 1721. Alexis married Marie Anne Terriot, widow  of Jean Baptiste Cormier of Beaubassin, nine children born from 1746 to 1762.  alexis settled at Caraquet. This Alexis is the direct ancestor for a number of  New Brunswick Landrys. in 1798, Alexis died at Caraquet and his grave can be  found today at Sainte Anne Dubocage, where in 1961, a monument was raised to  mark his burial place, one of only a few of the known original Acadians. he would be my 6th great grandfather on my mothers side. My Grandmother Olive  Albert was born in Caraquet. I remember visiting once when I was young with my  Aunt Olive not knowing of the history of the family and the Acadian People. I  will return someday with a better sence of history.

FAMOUS FAMILY MEMBERS:
 Celine Dion is my 8th cousin, And Madonna (Madona Louise Veronica Fortin) would  be my 7th cousin and Queen Iasbella of Spain was My 13th Grand-Mother.

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