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The Bourgeois Family


Father: Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois: b. abt 1619 (SW), France; d. abt 1701 (SW), Port Royal, Acadia. 

Mother: Jeanne Trahan: (Guillaume & Françoise Charbonneau/Corbineau)

b. abt 1629 (SW), France; m. abt 1643 (SW), Acadia.

2nd Generation


Children:


  1. Jeanne Bourgeois: b. abt 1644 (SW), Acadia.


2. Charles Bourgeois: b. abt 1646 (SW), Acadia; d. bef 1679 (SW).

Married: abt 1668, Beaubassin (SW), Acadia, to Anne-Marie Dugas: (Abraham & Marguerite-Louise Doucet) b. abt 1654 (SW), Port Royal, Acadia; d. Nov. 4, 1740, Beaubassin, Acadia.

Children: Marie, Charles, Claude and Anne.


3. Germain Bourgeois: b. abt 1650 (SW), Acadia; d. 1711, Port Royal (Rg), Nova Scotia.

Note: Burial records states that Germain "died 1711, died during Durand's captivity at Boston".

Married: abt 1682 (SW), Port Royal, Acadia, to Magdeleine Dugas: (Abraham & Marguerite-Louise Doucet) b. abt 1664 (SW), Port Royal, Acadia; d. Aug. 8, 1738, Port Royal, Nova Scotia.

Children: Madeleine, Agnes, Anne, Joseph dit Jacques, Marie-Josèphe, Claude, François, Marguerite, Marie-Madeleine and Jeanne.


4. Marie Bourgeois: b. abt 1652 (SW), Acadia; d. Mar. 7, 1741, Beaubassin, Acadia.

Married: abt 1670 (SW), Acadia, to Pierre Cyr: b. abt 1644 (SW); d. abt 1679, Acadia.

Children: Jean, Pierre and Guillaume (married Marguerite Bourg, daughter of Isabelle "Élise" Melanson & Michel dit Michaud Bourg).

Married 2nd: June 9, 1680, Beaubassin, Acadia to Germain Girouard: (Francois & Jeanne Aucoin).


5. Guillaume Bourgeois: b. abt 1655 (SW), Acadia; d. unknown.

Married: bef 1690 (SW), Acadia, to Marie-Anne dit de Martignon D'Aprendestiguy: (Martin & Jeanne de Saint-Étienne).

Children: Jeanne.


6. Marguerite Bourgeois: b. abt 1658 (SW), Acadia; d. Aug. 8, 1732, Beaubassin (SW), Acadia.

Married 1st: abt 1676 (SW), Acadia, to Jean Boudrot: (Michel & Michelle Aucoin) b. abt 1655 (SW), Acadia; d. bef 1679, Grand Pré, Acadia.

Children: Marie-Anne.

Married 2nd: Nov. 30, 1679, Beaubassin (SW), Acadia, to Emmanuel dit Tavare Mirande: (Emmanuel & Catherine Spire).

Children: Joseph, François, Marie-Thérese, Marie-Madeleine, Jean, Françoise, Louis-Joseph, Michel and Alexis.

Married 3rd: Jan 12, 1707, Port Royal (SW), Acadia, to Pierre dit Baptiste Maisonnat: (Élie & Jeanne Ségure).


7. Marie-Françoise Bourgeois: b. abt 1659 (SW), Acadia; d. bef 1697 (SW), Port Royal, Acadia.

Married: abt 1673 (SW), Port Royal, Acadia, to Claude Dugas: (Abraham & Marguerite-Lousie Doucet) b. abt 1652 (SW), Port Royal, Acadia; d. Oct. 16, 1732, Port Royal, Nova Scotia.

Children: Marie , Claude, Françoise, Joseph, Marguerite, Anne, Jeanne, Agnes, François, Madeleine, Marie and Cécile.


8. Anne Bourgeois: b. abt 1661 (SW), Acadia; d. Dec. 28, 1747, Port Royal (SW), Nova Scotia.

Married: abt 1678 (SW), Port Royal, Nova Scotia, to René LeBlanc: (Daniel & Françoise Gaudet) b. abt 1657 (SW), Acadia; d. Jan. 3, 1734, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia.

Children: Jacques, François, René (married Élisabeth Melanson, daughter of Pierre dit La Verdure Mellanson & Marie-Marguerite Mius d'Éntremont), Pierre, Joseph, Étienne, Claude, Marie-Marguerite, Jean-Baptiste and Claire.


9. Marie Bourgeois: b. abt 1665 (SW), Acadia; d. unknown, St. Charles des Mines.

Married: abt 1681 (SW), Acadia, to Antoine LeBlanc: (Daniel & Françoise Gaudet) b. abt 1662 (SW), Acadia; d. July 20, 1730, St. Charles des Mines, Nova Scotia.

Children: Antoine, Charles, Pierre dit Pinou, Marie-Blanche, Jean des Sapins, Jacques dit Petit Jacques, Joseph dit Le Maigre, Marguerite, René and Élisabeth.


10. Jeanne Bourgeois: b. abt 1666 (SW), Acadia; B. June 10, 1716, Port Royal (Rg), Nova Scotia.

Note: recorded on Burial record as "being about 50 years old".

Married: abt 1689 (SW), Acadia, to Pierre le jeune dit Des Loups-Marins Comeau: (Pierre & Rose Bayon) b. abt 1658 (SW), Port Royal, Acadia.

Children: Pierre (died young: abt 13 yrs old - SW), Marie-Jeanne, Marie-Françoise, Anne, Jeanne, François, anonyme, Pierre (died young: abt 10 yrs old -SW), Pierre (died young: abt 8 yrs old - SW) and Alexandre.

 

 

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