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Marie Anne Bergeron (1706 - 1779)

Marie Anne Bergeron aka dit d'Amboise
Born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 1725 in Ste-Anne-de-la-Rivière-St-Jean, Acadie, Nouvelle-Francemap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 73 in Cherbourg, Normandy, Francemap
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Biography

NOTE: She is Marie Anne and has a sister Anne Marie. Both sisters married Godin brothers. The sister Anne Marie and her Godin husband went to Louisiana, while Marie Anne and Joseph ended up in Cherberg, France.

Marie Anne was born in Boston MA USA on June 24 1706 while her parents Barthelemy Bergeron and Genevieve Serreau were held in captivity. Later that year she was baptised in Port Royal Acadia (Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada) on September 20. [1]
Around 1726 at the St Jean River (Frederickton New Brunswick) Marie Anne married Joseph Godin dit Bellefontaine dit Beausejour, son of Gabriel Godin and Andree-Angelique Jeanne. [2] They lived a fairly well off life there until 1759. AFter Joseph refused to sign the allegiance to the British kind, he and his family were taken prisoner first in Annapolis Royal, then Boston, Halifax, England and finally he was sent to Cherbourg.[3]
Marie Ann is found in the Cherbourg France census in 1761, 1767, and 1772. She died Sept 15, 1779 in Cherberg, France[4]

Sources

  1. Nova Scotia Archives, An Acadian Parish Remembered, The Registers of Saint Jean the Baptiste, Register-RG 1 volume 26 page 52 Priest-Justinien Durand Registration Date- 20 September 1706 Event-Baptism Name-Marie Anne Bergeron born - 24 June 1706 Father - Barthelemy Bergeron Mother- Genevieve Sero Godparents- Pierre Pellerin, Françoise Moyse, Baptism & Birth Image Reg. Marie Anne Bergeron
  2. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes; Author: Stephen A. White; Publication: 2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999. p. 122
  3. George MacBeath, “GODIN, Bellefontaine, Beauséjour, JOSEPH,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 4, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed August 23, 2020, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/godin_joseph_4E.html. GODIN, dit Bellefontaine, dit Beauséjour, JOSEPH
  4. Registres paroissiaux et d'état civil de la Manche, Register Très-Ste-Trinité of Cherbourg, Image 145 of 262 Burial.
    On the 16th of September 1779 , the body of Marie Anne Bergeron, native of Acadia, widow of ? Joseph Bellefontaine,former major of the National militia, of l"ile St Jean, died yesterday in this city aged around 75 years, has been interred in the cemetery . Guillaume (William) Guyon(Maybe) priest of this place in the presence of the undersigned (sousligne) Maybe we the undersigned, Duval, MJ Soulet.

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  • Note: Appeared in Nov 1999 & Sep 2003. Page: for p. 122 (Apr 2011) Text: Age around 75 years (Register Très-Ste-Trinité of Cherbourg).




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Bergeron dit D'Amboise-76 and Bergeron-349 appear to represent the same person because: same birth date, same name (Bergeron is preferred last name), same parents, same spouse.
posted by Jacqueline Girouard

Rejected matches › Marie Louise Bergeron (1714-1777)

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