Marguerite Josèphe Bourgeois (1720 - bef. 1780)

Born 18 Mar 1720 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Daughter of Claude Bourgeois and Anne Blanchard

Wife of Michel Bourg — married 31 Jan 1741 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Descendants

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Biography

Marguerite-Josèphe was born and baptized 18 Mar 1720 at Beaubassin. She was the daughter of Claude Bourgeois and Anne Blanchard. Her godparents were Charles Bourgeois and Marie Godet. ^[1][2]

At 21 years of age, she married Michel Bourg on 31 January 1741 at Beaubassin. Witnesses: Michel Bourg, father of the groom; Joseph Bourgeois, brother of the bride; le sieur Borgeau, notary; Henry L'Hostellier; Charles Lyons.^[3]

Their known children were:

1. Marie Françoise Bourg (about 1743 – Aug 9 1835) .
2. Unknown Bourg (about 1744 – unknown) [uncertain].
3. Marie Blanche Bourg (Jul 8 1746 – unknown) .
4. Michel Bourg (about 1750 – after 1836) .
5. Madeleine Bourg (about 1752 – Jan 21 1849) .
6. Marie Bourg (about 1756 – before 1817) .
7. Mélhème Bourg (about 1759 – Mar 25 1835)

In 1752 they resided at Pré-des-Bourgs with 3 boys and 2 girls. ^[4] In the 1755 census taken at Pré-des-Bourgs, there were 2 boys and 2 girls in the family household. ^{[5] [6]}

In 1755, Michel was deported without his family to South Carolina. ^[6] Some time between 1756 and 1761, the family (had Michel made his way back from exile?) fled to Camp d'Espérance on the Miramichi which was established at the end of the summer of 1756 to protect from famine and from the roundups of the British soldiers the approximately 1700 Acadians who went there. They suffered greatly because of sickness and lack of food at the camp. ^[7] In 1761 they were taken prisoner at Fort Cumberland (formerly Fort Beauséjour). ^[8]

Michel Bourg

Marguerite Bourg

Blanche Bourg

Michel Bourg

Magdelaine Bourg

Marie Bourg

Bleme Bourg

Pierre Bourgeois

"Most of these names (on the list of prisoners) are those of Acadians who were captured on the Memramcook and Peticodiac Rivers by military parties sent from Fort Cumberland (Beausejour) or perhaps others coming from Cocagne and Miramichi who had made their oath of allegiance in 1760. English authorities now considering them to be British subjects, refused to let them go. The following year, they were offered land but most among them preferred to escape secretly to the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Islands and from there to France, to Saint-Domingue and to Louisiana. Nonetheless, many then returned from Miquelon to Cap-Breton, or to the Gulf coast..." ^[8]

By 1767 they were refugees at Miquelon, France: ^[9]

Michel BOURG, venu de Pisiguit, 47

Marguerite BOURGEOIS, sa femme, 45

Michel BOURG, leur fils, 17

Madeleine BOURG, leur fille, 15

Marie BOURG, leur fille, 11

Mélem BOURG, leur fils, 8

The family made its way back to Acadie. Some settled in Pré-d'en-Haut and Memramcook and Cap-Pelé. It is believed that Marguerite-Josèphe died before 1780 and Michel died in 1790 in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.^[10] A source is needed to support this claim.

Sources

1. ↑ Library and Archives Canada Fonds des Archives départementales de la Charente-Maritime [La Rochelle, France] : C-1207 Registres de Beaubassin - reel_c1207 MG 6 A 2 (Image 07) http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1207/7?r=0&s=6
2. ↑ White, Stephen A. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes” 2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999. p. 262
3. ↑ Library and Archives Canada Fonds des Archives départementales de la Charente-Maritime [La Rochelle, France] : C-1207 Registres de Beaubassin - reel_c1207 MG 6 A 2 (Image 77) http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1207/77?r=0&s=6
4. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; 1752 Census The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Image 277

   Michel BOURG, his wife, 3 boys, 2 girls

5. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino;1755 Census image 13 of 32

   Michel Bourg, his wife, 2 boys, 2 girls

6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Stephen A. White, Recensements de Beaubassin et des Trois Rivières de Chipoudie, de Memramcook et de Petcoudiac (1686-1755). Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 50, nos 2-4, juin-décembre 2019, p. 262-263.

   Michel deported without his family to South Carolina. Family at Camp d'Espérance. After 1763 settled at Pré-d'en-Haut, Memramcook, Cap-Pelé.

7. ↑ Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, “List of Refugee Acadian Households at Camp Espérance on the Miramichi, 1756-1757: Appendix to ‘The Acadian Refugee Camp on the Miramichi, 1756-1761’”. English translation & glossary of place name by John Estano DeRoche. Accessible online for download at The Official Blog of the Association des Acadiens-Métis Souriquois, March 30, 2018, https://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-blog/news-and-reflections-the-acadian-refugee-camp-on-the-miramichi-1756-1761-march-30-2018
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; Acadian Prisoners at Fort Beauséjour (renamed Fort Cumberland) as of August 24, 1763 citing: Historique Acadienne for their permission to post this article. "La Socièté Historique Acadienne, March 1965", Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. The source noted by La Socièté Historique Acadienne for this information was Archives nationales, Fonds des Colonies, C. 12 (Correspondance gènérale, Saint Pierre et Miquelon, vol. 1, f. 22-26.

   Michel Bourg

   Marguerite Bourg

   Blanche Bourg

   Michel Bourg

   Magdelaine Bourg

   Marie Bourg

   Bleme Bourg

   Pierre Bourgeois

9. ↑ Arche Musée et Archives Recensement Miquelon 1767

   Michel BOURG, venu de Pisiguit, 47

   Marguerite BOURGEOIS, sa femme, 45

   Michel BOURG, leur fils, 17

   Madeleine BOURG, leur fille, 15

   Marie BOURG, leur fille, 11

   Mélem BOURG, leur fils, 8

10. ↑ Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Michel dit Michaud Bourg citing E-mail posting at #193 on 23 Oct 1998 by Michel LEGER (mleger at cancom.net)/ Michel died in Nov 1790 at Cumberland, Nova Scotia. [check?]

See also:

• White, Stephen A. La généalogie des trente-sept familles hôtesses des "Retrouvailles 94, Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 25, nos 2 et 3 (1994). (Bourque)
• French Canadian Genealogical Society
• http://ourmaritimeties.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I3905&tree=Annette

DNA

• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an exact HVR1 and HVR2 match between this Family Tree DNA mtDNA test for Debby (Jennings) Sinera and this Family Tree DNA mtDNA test of her maternal line cousin Christopher Young.