Marie Magdeleine Bugeaud (1762 - 1813)

Born 7 Dec 1762 in Oxford, Talbot, Province of Maryland

Ancestors

Wife of Firmin Blanchard — married 28 May 1781 in Ascension Church, Ascension, Louisiana, New Spain

Descendants

Died 27 Oct 1813 at age 50 in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

ETIENNE BUGEAUD is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 2 Right. Listed with him are five children: Francois, Mathurin, Pierre, Madeleine and Marie. the next plaque after Etienne's is one for his brother Joseph Bugeaud and his family.^[1]

Marie Magdeleine Bugeaud was born around 1761 in Maryland, where her parents were sent in exile during the Grand Derangement. She had a sister, Marie, born about the same time, so it is possible (though not confirmed) that they were twins--the daughters of Etienne Bugeaud and Brigitte Chenet, who died in Maryland shortly after the two girls were was born. Magdeleine is represented in the colonial Maryland census of July 7, 1763, as a member of Etienne's household at Oxford, Talbot County. ^{[citation needed]}

After her mother's death, Magdeleine's father took her and her siblings to Spanish Louisiana, where Etienne married a second time to Anne Forêt, the daughter of another family of Acadian exiles. This marriage immediately added two more males to the Bugeaud household, Anne's two sons from a previous marriage to Pierre Babin (1697-1756). The (newly expanded) family moved upriver from New Orleans to the Acadian Coast in St. James Parish, but subsequently settled on Bayou Lafourche just below Donaldsonville, in neighboring Ascension Parish.^{[citation needed]}

Magdeleine is registered in the September 14, 1769, Acadian Coast Census (Ascension Parish) as the eight-year old daughter of Etienne and her stepmother, Anne Forêt. She appears in the same capacity in the August 1, 1770, Ascension Census; and yet again, in the April 23, 1777, census (now age 16), with her full-blooded (twin?) sister, Marie, and her half brothers, Charles Babin (age 17) and Jean Augustin Bugeaud (age 9). They were living on her father's farm along Bayou Lafourche on a Spanish land grant he received in 1775.^{[citation needed]}

Marie married Firmin Blanchard, the son of Joseph Blanchard and Marie Josèphe Landry, at the Ascension Church in Donaldsonville on May 28, 1781.^[2] They had eight children, five girls and three boys. Several of their children died before reaching maturity. Survivors married into the Leblanc and Landry families in Louisiana.

Marie died in Ascension Parish on October 27, 1813, at the age of 52, and was buried in the Ascension Church Cemetery in Donaldsonville the following day.^{[citation needed]}

Sources

1. ↑ "The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial"; Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; p.
2. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Volume 2 1770-1803, (Baton Rouge, LA: Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, Kindle Edition)

   Firmin (Joseph & Maria Josefa Landry, of Acadia) m. 28 May 1781 Maria Magdalena BIJEAUD (Estevan & Brigida Chene, Acadians) wit. Anselmo Blanchard, Abraham Landry, Josef Bijeaud (ASC-1, 142)

See also:

• https://gw.geneanet.org/katheriot?lang=en&pz=frederick+joseph&nz=theriot&ocz=1&p=marie+madeleine&n=bugeaud
• https://www.acadianmemorial.org/ensemble_encore2/record_detail.php?id=2902
• LDS family tree - https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCFD-B52