Louis Turcot

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Maureen Withey on 5th May 2020

A French Canadian political prisoner, convicted following the Patriot War in Canada in 1837-38, who was transported to New South Wales. On 28th September 1839, the Ship Buffalo left Quebec, Canada, taking 144 prisoners to Van Diemen’s Land and New South Wales, following the Patriot War in Canada in 1837-38. Some of the prisoners were French Canadians patriots and others were American patriots, captured after the Battle of the Windmill. The Ship went first to Van Diemens Land, arriving at Hobart on 11th February 1840, where most of the American prisoners were landed, and then went on to Sydney, arriving on 26th February 1840, where the 58 French speaking prisoners were landed. They were separated mainly because there was hostility between the Americans from Lower Canada and the Canadians from Upper Canada. The prisoners were in the main, literate, idealistic and honest men, with no criminal record. -------------------------------------------------- EIGHTH TRIAL, began February 7, ended February 21, 1839. Louis Turcot, Sainte-Martine, grower, aged 33, father of six, condemned to death, transported. -------------------------------------------------- The following is a list of the names of the Lower Canada rebels transported to Botany Bay - Jean Louis Thibert, Jean Marie Thibert, Leandre Ducharme, Joseph Guimond, Louis Guerin des Dussault alias Blanc Dussault, Frs Maurice Lipailleur, Chas Huot, Achille Morin, Jos Jacquet Hebert, Hubert Drossin Leblanc, David Drossin Leblanc, Pierre Hector Morin, Jos Pare, Pascal Pisonneault, Theophile Robert Jacques Longtin, Ignace Gabriel Chevrefils, Joseph Dumouchelle, Louis Dumouchelle, Jacques Goyette, Toussaint Rochon, Frs Xavier Prieur, Jean Laberge, Frs Xavier Touchette, Pierre Lavoie, Antoine Coupal dit Lareine, Theodore Bechard, Frs Bigonesse dit Beaucaire, Jos Marceau dit Petit Jacques, Louis Turcot, Desire Bourbonnais, Charles Roy dit Lapensee pere, Frs Xavier Prevost, Andre Papineau dit Montigny, David Gagnon, Louis Bourdon Jean Bte Bousquet, Frs Guertin, Chas Guillaume Bouc, Edouard Pascal Rochon, Louis Defaillette, Jacques David Hebert alias David Jacques Hebert, Oxypolite Lanctot, Louis Pisonneault, Rene Pisonneault, Etienne Languedoc, Etienne Langlois, Moyse Longtin fils de Jacques, Michel Allary, Joseph Goyette, Roy, Jos Roy dit Lapensee fils de Louis, Constant Buisson, Chs Bergevin dit Langevin, Jean Bte. Trudelle, Samuel Newcombe, Jerome Rochon, Benjamin Mott. Montreal Herald The Sydney Herald, 20 May 1840. -------------------------------------------------- Pardons. — .His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies has transmitted in his Despatch of the 20th January, 1044, Free Pardons, which Her Majesty has boon graciously pleased to grant to the undermentioned persons, namely:— (Free Pardons, dated 27th January, 1044.) Theodore Bechard, Charles Bergevin (dit Langevin), Charles Guillaume Bouc, Jean Baptiste Bousquet, Constant Buisson, Antoine Coupal (dit Loraine), Joseph Dumouchelle, Jean Laberge, Hypolite Lanctot, Etienne Langlois, Etienne Languedoc, Jacques Longtin, Joseph Manceau (dit Petit Jacques), Pascal Ponsonneau, Theophile Robert, Edouard Paschal Rochon, Jerome Rochon, Francois Xavier Touchette, Louis Turcot, all by the ship Buffalo. The Australian, June 19 1844.