Benoni Boucher (abt. 1744)

Born about 1744 in Acadie

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Biography

Benoni was born about 1744. He is the son of Honoré Boucher and Marie Anne Marres.

He appeared at 8 years of age on the 1752 La Roque census at Port Toulouse, Ile Royale (now Cape Breton). ^[1]

He married Marguerite Boudrot, daughter of Michel Boudrot dit Miquetau and Anne dite Jeanne Fougère, around 1776.

Their known children were: ^[2]

1. Angélique BOUCHER, b. ca 1777
2. Joseph BOUCHER, b. ca 1781
3. Unknown BOUCHER
4. Honoré BOUCHER, b. ca 1793
5. Jean BOUCHER, b. ca 1795

He was a ship's captain.

Sources

1. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. 17, image 64. A transcription of the original census, in French, can be found at Census Transcription of Original Record “Recensement de l'Isle Royal et de Isle Saint-Jean ” p. 54, Image 58

   Honoré Boucher, native of la Cadie, aged 36 years, of which he has passed 30 in the colony. Married to Marie Anne La Soude, native of Port Toulouse, aged 24 years.

   They have two sons and one daughter:

   Bellony Boucher, aged 8 years

   Jean Boucher, aged 2 years

   Marie Joseph, aged 4 years

   They have two oxen, two cows, and four fowls. Their house in on their mother's homestead.

2. ↑ Marcel Walter Landry Benoni Boucher at Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed 2023 (login required)

• Geneanet.org, Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree, Benoni Boucher citing 2: E-mail - Internet - From Stacey Mauger (email removed) in Mar 2019, relaying information sent by Stephen A. White. - Marguerite Boudrot (bt Port-Toulouse c 1753; m 1 between c 1772 and 1774 Germain Lejeune; m 2 c 1776 Bénoni Boucher). I think Marguerite's first husband must have been Germain Lejeune, who had first been married to Marie-Anne Marres dit LaSonde. This Marie-Anne had first been married to Honoré Boucher dit Villedieu and was Bénoni Boucher's mother. It might appear to be somewhat implausible that Bénoni had married his stepfather's widow, until one considers that his mother Marie-Anne had been about thirteen years older than his stepfather Germain, who was thus only about three years older than his stepson Bénoni. Germain meanwhile would have been about twelve years older than Marguerite Boudrot. Additionally, Germain and Marie-Anne's only known child, Félicité Lejeune, also settled, at least for a time, on the south side of Arichat Harbour, on the point that is still known by her husband's name, Kavanagh Point. That is the only other Lejeune connection to this part of Isle Madame, so it seems quite probable that Félicité and Scholastique would have had the same father.