Marie Henry (abt. 1733)

Born about 1733 in Acadie

Ancestors

Wife of François Jérôme Arbour — married 25 Nov 1765 in Havre de Grâce, France

Descendants

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Biography

Francois Arbourg is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 8-Left Le Beaumont. Listed with him is his spouse Marie Hervory [sic] and three children: Francois Henry, Jean Louis Firmin and Frederic Edouard ^[1]

Marie was born about 1733. She is the daughter of Joseph Henry and Christine Pitre. ^[2]

She was listed at age 19 in the 1752 La Roque census at Rivière-du-Ouest, Isle Saint-Jean, with her parents and siblings.^[3]

"Joseph Henry dit le petit homme, native of l'Acadie, ploughman, aged 45 years, has been in the country two years and nine months. Married to Catherine Pitre, native of l'Acadie, aged 40 years.

They have eight children, three sons and five daughters:

Joseph Henry, aged 17 years.

Bazille, aged 13 years.

Jean Baptiste, aged 6 years.

Marie, aged 19 years

Sephrose, aged 14 years.

Anne, aged 13 years.

Margueritte Modeste, aged 2 years.

Margueritte Joseph, aged 3 months.

In live stock, they have four oxen, one cow, one sheep, three sows, and two pigs.

The land upon which they are settled is situated on the north side of the said Rivière du Ouest and was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. They have a clearing on which they have sown two bushels of wheat and one bushel of oats."

She was married on 25 November 1765, at Le Havre de Grace, France, to Francois Jerome Arbour.^[4][5]

"Francois HAMBOURG, born about 1743, son of Francois & deceased Therese DESCOTEAUX, married on 25 Nov 1765 at Notre-Dame Church, LeHavre, S.-M, [France] to Marie HENRY, daughter of deceased Joseph & deceased Christine PITRE; two sons listed."

In September 1784, François Jérôme and Marie were listed on a census in Nantes taken at Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Bretagne, France of the Acadian families "who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of His [Spanish] Catholic Majesty," dated Sep 1784 (cited as A.D.S. Legajo 2575).^[6]

On the list from NANTES:

François HARBOURG, with wife Marie HENRI, 3 sons, for a total of 5 in family.

They immigrated to Louisiana in 1785. ^[7]

"Francois ARBOURG/HARBOURG, age 45, a calker, traveled with his wife Marie HENRY and three sons as the 17th family (of 5 persons) aboard the ship "Le Beaumont" which embarked in France on 11 Jun 1785 and arrived in Louisiana on 19 Aug 1785. "

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. 32
2. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader Marie Henry at Geneanet.
3. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), [hhttps://archive.org/details/reportconcerning21publ/page/n193/mode/2up La Roque Census], p. 82. The original census, in French, can be found at Census Original Version “Recensement de l'Isle Royal et de Isle Saint-Jean ” p. 307-308
4. ↑ Gerard-Marc Braud, LES ACADIENS EN FRANCE, NANTES ET PAIMBOEUF; 1775-1785; Nantes, Ouest Editions [1999]; pp. 27-28.. Francois ARBOURG (or HARBOURG), born around 1743, son of Francois & Thérese DESCOTEAUX. They stayed in Chatellerault (Vienne) before 1776.
5. ↑ Albert J. Robichaux, THE ACADIAN EXILES IN CHATELLERAULT; 1773-1785; LA, Hebert Publications, 1983; p. 53, family #104;
6. ↑ Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians; Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796; Jacqueline K. Voorhies - Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973; p. 505
7. ↑ Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index - Donald J. Hébert - Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995; pp. 34-35