She married 1st (Belle-Ile-en-Mer Declaration) around 1735 to Joseph LE BLANC, son of Francois & Jeanne HÉBERT. She married 2nd around 1760 to Paul DAIGRE, son of Paul & Anne ARSENEAU (widower of Marie-Josephe HÉBERT. The marriage was rehabilitated (Bailly [Caraquet] Register) at Arichat on 12 Aug 1771.[1]
She was on the census of Havre la Fortune in 1752, age 35 years.[2]
"Joseph Leblanc, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 40 years, he has been in the country one year. Married to Marie Bourg, native of l'Acadie, aged 35 years.
They have five children of their marriage, all sons:
Ambroise LeBlanc, aged 14 years. Simon Joseph, aged 12 years. Benony, aged 3 years. Charles, aged 4 months, Joseph, aged 8 years.
In live stock they have four oxen, six cows, five calves, one horse, six pigs, and fourteen fowls or chickens.
The land upon which they are settled was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure, commandant of this island, to the south-west of the dwelling of Joannis Laborde. They have made a clearing on it where they have sown four bushels of wheat
RESIDENCES: Went to Ile-St.-Jean with family after Joseph died. (Acad. Des., v. 2.)[citation needed]
Sources
↑ BIRTH-PARENTS-CENSUS-MARRIAGES: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 248; own copy.
Text: Marie-Josephe, born around 1717, daughter of Ambroise BOURG & Élisabeth MELANSON.
↑ 'Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), Archive Version, p. XX. This is an English transcript of the 1752 Census by La Roque. Here is a simplified transcription :Acadian-home website; Lucie Consentino, owner; "1752 Census of Ile Royal" Original publication by S. E. Dawson; 1906 Transcribed by Maureen McNeil; Micro Film 1006146-1, and also here: Island Register Sieur de la Roque 1752 Census for PEI & Ile St-Jean
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