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Barbe Baiols, widow of Savinien de Courpon, was probably one of the ancient settlers of Acadia. The census of 1671 states that she had eight children living in France and two daughters married at Port Royal. The latter were Rose Baiols, wife of Pierre Commeaux, the cooper, and Marie Baiols, wife of Jean Pitre, the edge tool maker. Barbe Baiols, who was then a great-grandmother, must have been an independent sort of person, for she maintained a house of her own, although poor. She was the owner of one cow and five sheep when the census of 1671 was taken. When the census of 1686 was taken, Rose Baiols had disappeared from Port Royal; she was probably dead for she was an aged woman fifteen years before. None of the name of Baiols now remain in Acadia, nor does the name appear in any census after that of 1671.

Bertrand is another name contained in the census of 1671 which has practically disappeared from Acadia. When the census was taken Clement Bertrand was fifty years old; his wife was Huguette Lambelot, he was by trade a carpenter and he was well off for an Acadian at that time, being the owner of ten horned cattle and six sheep, and having cultivated that year six acres of land. He had no children at that time, but he may have had some later for the name did not disappear just then. It was found in the census of 1686, but not in that of 1714. Among the inhabitants of Port Royal who signed the oath of allegiance in 1730 was Jacques Bertrand. There were no Bertrands among the Acadians whom Winslow deported from Mines in