FRANCOIS XAVIER BOURG is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 12L: La Ville D'Arcangel, Arrivee le 3 Decembre 1785. He is listed with his second wife, Marguerite Pelagie HENRY, and his children Felix Xavier, Joseph Faustin, Marie Isabelle, Maximilien, Isabelle, Pierre, and Anne Victoire BOURG, as well as Charles BOURG, and his wife, Marguerite LEBLANC.[1]
Anne Victoire BOURG, born 14 May 1785, embarked for Louisiana on 12 Aug 1785 with her parents, six other children, and another couple on the ship "La Ville d'Archangel." They debarked at New Orleans on 3 Dec 1785. She would have been just under 3 months old when voyage began, and 6 1/2 months old when it ended.
Anne Victoire died about 21 May 1786 in Bayou des Ecors, Louisiana aged 1.
Sources
↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, Wall of Names Committee, Jane G. Bulliard, Chair, (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 44.
↑ Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index - Donald J. Hébert - Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995 - pp. 102-103
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