Marguerite Dugas (1737 - 1820)

Born 21 Jul 1737 in Annapolis Royal, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of Armand Bourgeois — married 1767 in Province of Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 4 Jul 1820 at age 82 in Saint-Jacques-de-l'Achigan, Bas-Canada

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Biography

Marguerite,daughter of Claude Dugas and Marie Joseph Melançon, was born 21 Jul 1737 and baptized the same day in the parish of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia. ^[1]

Amand Bourgeois and Marguerite Dugats, acadiens sent to the Province of Boston for twelve years, had their marriage rehabilitated 26 Jul 1767 in the parish of L'Assomption, Province de Québec. ^[2]

Known children of this marriage: ^[3]

1. Marie Anne Bourgeois, 1767-1767 L'Assomption
2. Marie Josephe Bourgeois, 1768 L'Assomption
3. Abraham Bourgeois, 1770 L'Assomption
4. Marie Marguerite Bourgeois, 1772 L'Assomption
5. Claude Bourgeois, 1774 L'Assomption
6. Marie Angelique Bourgeois, 1774-1774
7. Marie Esther Bourgeois, 1776 Saint-Jacques
8. Jean Baptiste Bourgeois, 1778 Saint-Jacques
9. Joseph Bourgeois, 1780 Saint-Jacques

Marguerite Dugas, widow of the late Amand Bourgeois and with a given age of eighty-two years, died 4 Jul 1820 and was buried 6 Jul 1820 in the cemetery of Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm, Bas-Canada. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Baptismal record: Nova Scotia Archives, "An Acadian Parish Remembered - The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755," register RG 1 volume 26a page 166; online database with images https://archives.novascotia.ca/acadian/archives/?ID=2219
2. ↑ Rehabilitation of Marriage, Amand Bourgeois and Marguerite Dugats: "Canada, Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G99S-2X15?cc=1321742&wc=HCNP-829%3A14637901%2C14637902%2C14637903 : 16 July 2014), L'Assomption > L'Assomption > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1756-1782 > image 172 of 588; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal.
3. ↑ PRDH - Programme de recherche en démographie historique.
4. ↑ Burial record: "Canada, Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-899Q-99WN-7?cc=1321742&wc=HCMT-DP8%3A21117401%2C21117402%2C21117403 : 16 July 2014), Saint-Jacques > Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1808-1832 > image 295 of 688; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal.

• Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader Family Tree page for Marguerite Dugas
• BIRTH: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1600-1800; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, vols. 2-6; p. 531 (Port Royal); source cited by others.
• PRDH: Research Programme in Historical Demography (membership): Individu: 110674
• http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogy=Marguerite_Dugas&pid=618243&lng=en