Marie Pitre (1761 - 1825)

Born 25 Nov 1761 in Ille-et-Vilaine, France

Ancestors

Wife of Mathurin Antoine Marin — married 1787 in Lafourche, Louisiana, United States

Descendants

Died 2 Dec 1825 at age 64 in Lafourche, Louisiane, États-Unis d'Amérique

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Biography

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Marguerite Boudrot veuve Binjamin Pitre is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 10 Right L'Amitie. Six children are listed with her: Etienne, Jean, Marie, Magdeleine, Cecille and Margueritte. ^[1]

Marie Pitre was born on 25 Nov 1761 in Ille-et-Vilaine, France, daughter of Benjamin Pitre and Marie Marguerite Boudrot. She was baptized at St. Suliac, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France the next day. ^[2]

Widowed Marguerite emigrated to Louisiana with her 6 children on 8 November 1785.^[3]

Marguerite BOUDROT, widow of Benjamin PITRE, traveling with her six children as the 51st family (of 7 persons) aboard the ship "L'Amitie.

They were on a census in Lafourche Louisiana on 1 January 1788. She is 47 years old and head of her household with five children on 6 arpents of land. They have no slaves, 20 quarts of corn and 1 pig. ^[4]

Margueritte Boudreaut, 47, widow Pitre

Marie, her daughter, 25

Magdeleinne, id, 23

Olivette, id, 19

Margueritte, id, 17

Jean her son, 6

She married about 1786 to Mathurin Antoine Marine. Their first known child was baptized on 14 Oct 1787 in Ascension, Louisiana.^[5]

Marie died in Lafourche, Louisiane, États-Unis d'Amérique aged 64 and was buried on 2 Dec 1825 at Thibodaux.^[6]

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. 40
2. ↑ Acadiens en France; Nantes et Paimboeuf, 1775-1785 - Gérard-Marc Braud - Nantes, France: Ouest Éditions, 1999; p. 218
3. ↑ Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index - Donald J. Hébert - Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995; pp. 76-77
4. ↑ "Colonial Settlers along Bayou Lafourche", 1770-1798; Albert J. Robichaux, Jr.; Harvey, LA: 1974. 2nd printing Hébert Publications, 1980; p. 44
5. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge. Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records: Volume 2 1770-1803 (p. 766). Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge. Kindle Edition.

   Antoine Joseph (Antoine & Maria Pitre) bt. bn. [omitted] spo. Joseph Guioren & Isabel Landry (ASC-5, 14)

6. ↑ South Louisiana Records, vol. 1, 1794-1840 - Donald J. Hebert - Rayne, LA, Hebert Publications, 1978; p. 431

   Marie [PITRE], widow of Antoine [sic] MARINE, daughter of Benjamin, died 2 Dec 1825 at age 68 (sic) years (Thib.Ch.: v.1, p. 26).