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about 30 in all, who spell their name Breaux. They are all residents of Northumberland. Breans are quite numerous among the French, but whether this is a misspelling of Breau or not I am not prepared to say.

Bellineau is another name which is wrongly spelled in the census of 1671. This document places among the inhabitants of Port Royal Antoine Bellineau, aged fifty, and his wife Andrée Guion. They had two child-ren, Jean aged nineteen and one daughter. In this case it is evident that the letter which has been taken for an n by the copyists ought to be a v and that the name is Belliveau. The name is to be found in the census of 1686 among the inhabitants of Port Royal and was written Bellivault by the enumerator. The name still existed at Port Royal when the census of 1714 was taken and was then spelled Beliveau. Among the inhabitants of Port Royal who signed their names to the oath of allegiance in 1730 were two named Charles Belliveaux; six others whose names were spelled Bellivau, being unable to write, signed with a mark. No person of the name of Belliveau was de-ported by Winslow from Mines in 1755, but one fam-ily of that name from Tantramar was at Beausejour in 1752. There are now about 175 families of that name in the Maritime Provinces, of which ninety reside in Westmorland, forty in Digby county, twenty-eight in Kent and a few in Yarmouth county.

One of the best known Acadian names in New Brunswick is Cormier. There are about 600 families of that name in the Maritime Provinces of whom nearly 500 live in New Brunswick. The name is very abundant in Westmorland where there are 200 families of Cormiers, while in Kent there are 190 and in Gloucester 75. The common ancestor of this large connection was Thomas Cormié whose name first appears in the census of 1671. His age is there given as thirty-five