Marie Josèphine Boucher (abt. 1748 - abt. 1781)

Born about 1748 in Ile Royale, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Wife of Boniface Benoit — married about 1764 in Petit-Bras-d'Or, Cap-Breton, Colony of Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died about 1781 at about age 33 in Ile Royale, Acadie, Nova Scotia Colony

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Biography

Marie Josephine Boucher was born about 1748. She was the daughter of Honore Villedieu-Boucher and Marie-Anne Lasonde Marres of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. She married Boniface Benoit on 26 August 1771 at Au Passage De La Brador, Digby, Nova Scotia^[1] or at Saint Pierre-Aux-Liens, Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick (the same day).^[2] The marriage took place in the same year that the children were christened.

Children:

1. Scholastique Benoit (1764)^[3][4]
2. Ladivine Benoit (1767)^[5]

She passed away about 1781.

The subject of this profile is a matrilineal ancestor of an mtDNA tester reporting Haplogroup B2c.

Sources

1. ↑ "Canada Marriages, 1661-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F22M-BVC : 10 February 2018), Boniface Benoist and Marie Joseph Bouche, 26 Aug 1771; citing Au Passage De La Brador, Digby, Nova Scotia, reference p 34; FHL microfilm 1,320,000.
2. ↑ "Canada Marriages, 1661-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2PM-B47 : 10 February 2018), Boniface Benoit and Marie Joseph Bouche, 26 Aug 1771; citing Saint Pierre-Aux-Liens, Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, reference ; FHL microfilm 859,880.
3. ↑ "Nova Scotia Births and Baptisms, 1702-1896," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL5P-3WP : 10 February 2018), Marie Joseph Bouche in entry for Scholastique Benoist, 24 Dec 1764; citing ; FHL microfilm 1,320,000.
4. ↑ "Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2HN-MP6 : 10 February 2018), Marie Joseph Bouche in entry for Scholastique Benoist, 24 Dec 1764; citing , 24 Dec 1764, reference v 2 p 31; FHL microfilm 1,320,000. Text: Christened 1771.
5. ↑ "Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLRD-C82 : 10 February 2018), Marie Joseph Bouche in entry for Lydivine, 13 May 1767; citing , 13 May 1767, reference 2:N5C5T5; FHL microfilm 859,880. Text: Christened 1771.

See Also:

• Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader Family Tree page for Marie Josèphe Boucher
• Arsenault, Georges. 1996. "The Saga of Alexis Doiron." The Island Magazine, No. 39 (Spring/Summer):12-18. Also posted online at [1] and at [2]
• Genealogy of Canada Marie-Josephine Boucher
• Her profile at FamilySearch, listing sources for more children, https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L6TS-4XZ
• Louis Benoit, Histoire, Notes et Genealogie sur la Famille Acadienne Benoit (Quebec, Canada: Les Editions Faye, 1997).
• Descendants of Marie-Thérèze (Mi'kmaq) https://www.benoitfirstnation.ca/genpage_marie_therese.html
• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3Q8P-1YW : accessed 4 January 2019), entry for Marie-Josephe /Boucher/, cites sources; file (2:2:2:MMD8-GMQ), submitted 22 June 2014 by darienscottrhoton1 [identity withheld for privacy].