Marie Dugas (1667 - 1734)

Born 1667 in Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Wife of André LeBlanc — married after 1683 in Grand-Pré, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died 13 Jan 1734 at about age 67 in Grand-Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

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Biography

Marie Dugas was born in 1667 in Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France, daughter of Abraham Dugas (abt. 1616–bef. 1700) and Marguerite Doucet (abt. 1625–1707).

She was counted in the census of 1678 in the home of her parents.^[1]

Marie (15) married André LeBlanc (23) (born about 1659 in Port-Royal; son of Daniel LeBlanc and Françoise Gaudet) in 1683 in Grand-Pré, Acadie. Their known children were:

1. Jean LeBlanc (abt. 1684–bef. 1754) .
2. Marie LeBlanc (abt. 1687–1758) .
3. Pierre LeBlanc (abt. 1689–aft. 1756) .
4. Anne (Leblanc) LeBlanc (abt. 1692– ) .
5. Jacques LeBlanc (abt. 1694–1743) .
6. Claude André LeBlanc (1696–1765) .
7. François LeBlanc (abt. 1698– ) .
8. Joseph André LeBlanc (1704–aft. 1763) .
9. Charles LeBlanc (1707–abt. 1764) .
10. Claire LeBlanc (1710–aft. 1772)

In 1686, at Port Royal, Marie DUGAS, aged 19, was living with her husband, André LEBLANC, aged 26 and their two-year-old son Jean. André was working on the paternal land at Port-Royal. Later that same year, André moved his family to Grand-Pré where he owned his land and a farm.^[2]

She was found in Les Mines in 1693, age 26, with four children ages 8 to 1^[3]

Marie lived a long life and died in Grand Pré on 13 Jan 1734, aged about 70 years.^[4][5][6]

Sources

1. ↑ Tim Hebert; 1678 Port Royal Acadian Census noting that the correlations for this census were done by Rev. Clarence J. d'Entremont, Fairhaven, Massachusetts.1678 Census

   Abraham Dugast & Marguerite Doucet

   12 acres 20 cattle 1 gun 1 boy 18 2 girls 15 12
2. ↑ Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1686 Acadian Census, at Port-Royal, Acadie 1686 Census Transcribed. The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752,” Images 15-60;

   at Port-Royal: Andre LeBlanc 26, Marie DUGAS 19; child: Jean 2.

3. ↑ 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 National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752,” Images 62-108;

   Andre LEBLANC 35, Marie DUGAS 26, Jean 8, Marie 6, Pierre 4, Anne 1; 8 cattle, 3 sheep, 5 pigs, 8 arpents, 1 gun

4. ↑ Paroisse de St. Charles des Mines, Grand Pré, Acadie, Québec Province, digital images, Héritage, Genealogy collection, Library and Archives Canada, reel C-1869, Parish Registers: Nova Scotia : C-1869, roll 1, Image 846. Burial for Marie Dugas. 1734-01-14, accessed 16 Oct 2021. This register is a transcript written around 1895 of the original registers currently held at the Baton Rouge Diocese Archives in Louisiana, USA.
5. ↑ Stephen A. White, Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert. Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes., Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 1999, Print, p991.
6. ↑ www.grandesfamilles.org Title: Les Grandes Familles Abbreviation: Les Grandes Familles Publication: Online Database

See also:

• Denis Beauregard, Dictionnaire gâenâealogique de l'ancienne Acadie http://www.francogene.com/dgaa/index.php
• https://gw.geneanet.org/katheriot?lang=en&pz=karen+ann&nz=theriot&p=marie&n=dugas&oc=1