Anne (Leborgne) Le Borgne de Bélisle (abt. 1690)

Born about 1690 in Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Wife of Jean Baptiste Rodrigue — married 16 Mar 1707 (to 27 Sep 1733) in Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Wife of Jean-Baptiste Duperie — married 5 Mar 1738 in Lorembec NS

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Biography

Anne La Borgne de Belle Isle was born about 1690 (she was age 3 in the 1693 census). She was the daughter of Alexandre Le Borgne and Marie St-Étienne.

Her mother was already widowed by the time she was 2.

In 1693, at Port Royal, Anne, aged 3, was living with her mother, Marie de St. Estienne, aged 38, widow, and her six siblings: Emanuel [sic] LEBORGNE [sic], aged 17, Marie [sic], aged 15, Alexandre, aged 13, Jeanne [sic], aged 11, Charles, aged 8, and Marie Francoise, aged 5. The family owned 2 guns and was living on 31 arpents of cultivable land with 13 cattle, 15 sheep, and 20 pigs.^[1]

She married Jean De Fonds dit Rodrigue, son of Jean De Fonds of Portugal and the late Anne Maure 16 March 1707, at Port Royal. Witnesses were Sieur de Subercase, Governor of the province, Monsieur de Goutin and Monsieur de Falaise.^[2][3]

They had at least two and possibly eight children.^[4]. "Rodrigue probably arrived in Acadia after 1700. In 1707 he married Anne Le Borgne whose parents, Alexandre Le Borgne * of Belle-Isle and Marie of Saint-Étienne de La Tour, belonged to eminent Acadian families. Rodrigue and his wife had at least eight children.^[5]. The couple had eleven children: Joseph, Michel, Jean-François, Jean-Baptiste, Antoine, Pierre, Marie-Anne, Louis, Catherine-Josèphe, François-Luc and Anne-Charlotte.^[6] Or even 13 children.^[7]

Anne Le Borgne dit Bélisle became a widow in 1733 and with her two sons, Michel and Pierre De Fonds dit Rodrigue, ran the family company, which at the time was one of the most prosperous of Île Royale.

After his death, on a business trip to Quebec City in the autumn of 1733, his wife and two of his sons, Michel and Pierre, administered the family business. In 1738, his widow married Jean Duperié (or Duperier) of Louisbourg. This Duperie had been second in a fishing vessel of Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 1731."^[5]

”Anne Le Borgne dit Bélisle est devenu veuve en 1734 et dirige avec ses deux fils, Michel et Pierre De Fonds dit Rodrigue l'entreprise familliale qui à l'époque était l'une des plus prospère de l'Île-Royale. Cette forteresse de Louisbourg devint une place importante forte française en Amérique du Nord durant les années 1720 à 1745. Cette forteresse de Louisbourg, a été attaqué par les Britaniques durant la guerre de Sept-Ans qui dura de 1756-1763.”^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1693 Acadian Census at Port-Royal, Acadie 1693 Census Transcribed. The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the Library and Archives Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752,” Images 62-108;

   at Port Royal: Marie de St. Estienne 38, Emanuel LEBORGNE (son) 17, Marie 15, Alexandre 13, Jeanne 11, Charles 8, Marie Francoise 5, Anne 3; 13 cattle, 15 sheep, 20 pigs, 31 arpents, 2 guns. In the original 1693 census at Port Royal, Emmanuel was listed as Emanuel, Le Borgne was listed as le Borgne but transcribed as LEBORGNE, Marie Madeleine was listed as just Marie, and Marie Jeanne was listed as just Jeanne.

2. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Port-Royal, N.-É.)-1870 C-1870 (image 126) https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1870/126?r=0&s=5
3. ↑ An Acadian Parish Remembered The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755 Jean De Fonds dit Rodrigue and Anne La Borgne de Belle Isle marriage, RG 1, volume 26, page 283 https://novascotia.ca/archives/acadian/archives.asp?ID=1223
4. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader Anne
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Bernard Pothier, « RODRIGUE, JEAN-BAPTISTE », dans Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, vol. 2, Université Laval/University of Toronto, 2003– , consulté le 17 juin 2023, Biography
6. ↑ http://www.famillesrodrigue.com/en/ancestors_descendants.html
7. ↑ Marcel W Landry “Généalogies des Landry a travers le monde” Anne's family Accessed 6/19/2023.
8. ↑ Généalogie du Québec et d'Amérique française, page for Anne LeBorgne citing an online source that cannot be consulted because of a broken link.

See also:

• References for Bernard Pothier article.

Archives of Charente-Maritime (La Rochelle), Admiralty of Louisbourg, B 265; B 266s,; B 268, ff.160-164; B 277.-AN, Col., C 11B , 1-14; Col., C 11C , 7, ff.54ss; 15; Section Overseas, G 1 , 406, 467; Overseas Section, G 3 , 2040, 15 May 1707, 17 March 1709; 2,046; 2 054, Exhibit 52, 14 August 1710; 55, 18 August 1710; 2 055, Exhibit 2, 22 Feb. 1712; , pp. 216-32, p. 18, p. 183. PANS, mss docs., XXVI (parish register of Port-Royal) http://www.biographi.ca/fr/bio/rodrigue_jean_baptiste_2F.html