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We thought George Beaupeurt was born in France about 1828.
On 31 March 2004 I found the web site with his family, at Bisping, now called Angviller-les-bisping

George Beaupeurt 9 Apr 1818 wed 1 May 1856 to Adelaide Barbiere, who is thought to have been born at Epinal, (or Ysches from her Naturalisation application, or Anveige) France about 1834, daughter of Francoise Juene and Francois Zavier Barbiere, a carpenter.
On 6 Sept 2000 Max and I got out of the French Underground train at Porte des Lilas, and emerged at the Round-about where Boulevard Serurier begins. We crossed at the traffic lights and turned left, to walk to 18 Boulevard Serurier, where the Paris Archives are housed.
We produced our Passports, and were given Reader's Cards for the day. I saw open shelves with various sets of books, and in the microfilm reading room I found the volumes of Parisian marriages in alphabetic order, from 1795 to 1862. There was only one Beaupeurt entry, my George, and his bride was Barbier. They were married 1 May 1856.

From the USA Beaupeurts, 10 Oct 2000

The Australian Story

Surname	Given names	Age	Month	Year	Ship	Code	Fiche	Page
ARTHUR	J M	27	MAR	1858	MANZANILLA	F	056	001
ARTHUR	M	24	MAR	1858	MANZANILLA	F	056	001
BEAUPEURT	---- MRS	24	MAR	1858	MANZANILLA	F	056	001
BEAUPEURT	G	29	MAR	1858	MANZANILLA	F	056	001
MARTINEAU	---- CAPT	-	MAR	1858	MANZANILLA	F	056	001

George and Adelaide Beaupeurt arrived at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on the 'Masanella' from Bordeaux, France on 15 March 1858. Their ninth child was two years old when George was thrown out of his cart, and died nine days later, on 27 Nov 1877. Adelaide was naturalised on 20 Dec 1877 and then married Patrick Regan on 6 Jan 1878. She died 1 May 1904.
Their eldest daughter Mathilda married Anders Janson
The photograph shows Baby Max Janson 1938, great-grandson of Adelaide

The Victorian birth certificate of their sixth child, Paul, born 31 Aug 1868, shows they were married 1858 in Paris, France, that George now 40 is a Gardener born at La Meurte, France, and Adelaide now 34, was born at Anveige, France. Their older children are George 1858, Mathilda 1 Mar 1860, Leon 1863, Felix (registered as Celestine 1864), and Adelaide 1866. Younger children were Patrick Arthur 1871, Eugenie Catherine 1873 died 1874, and Eugene Clement 1875 who was registered a second time, as Jean Clement.

On 23 Oct 1877, A B Beaupeurt received two blocks with a total area of 9.879 hectares, and on 22 Nov 1870 G Beaupeurt of Bellaura, near Stawell, Victoria, received a land grant to Block 10, of 5.919 hectares.
George Beaupeurt died 27 Nov 1877 aged 58, nine days after being thrown out of his cart.
In 1877 Adelaide applied for naturalisation, which was granted 20 Dec 1877.
Adelaide's naturalisation Memorial is dated 28 Nov 1877, the day after George's Inquest and Burial. She was naturalised 20 Dec 1877. Reference numbers are CRS A726 Vol 1, page 164 and CRS A727 No 1193, with a 6 page Memorial CRS A712 Item 77/M13898. Here we learn that Adelaide was born at Ysches, Dept of Vosges and came to Australia on the 'Masanella' from Bordeaux, France. As a new widow and trying to claim the land she had been granted, Adelaide had big problems.

Adelaide Beaupeurt married Patrick Regan on 6 Jan 1878, ref 626, at St Patricks Roman Catholic Church, Stawell She is described as a farmer at Bellaura aged 43, widowed in Nov 1877 with 1 dead and 8 living children.

Patrick Regan died in 1926 aged 94, ref 12171, hence born in 1836. When he married Adelaide he was a bachelor aged 42, born in Cork, Ireland to Michael Regan, a teacher, and Catherine Relepher (Father Fitzgerald's writing makes this name hard to decipher). The electoral roll for the 1899 Federal Referendum lists Patrick Regan at Lake Lonsdale, a labourer, and in the 1908 electoral roll he is listed as a gardener living at Bellaura. I appreciate Patrick because when Adelaide died he made sure her parents are listed on the death certificate, a privilege he was not given.

The only other Regan from Cork listed in the Pioneer Index is Michael Regan, who married Mary McMahon in 1867 and died in 1874 aged 47 (hence born in 1827).