Marguerite Boudrot veuve Binjamin Pitre is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 10 Right L'Amitie. Six children are listed with her: Etienne, Jean, Marie, Magdeleine, Cecille and Margueritte. [1]
Madeleine Modeste Pitre, n. 22 juil 1763, St-Suliac
Jean Baptiste Pitre, n. 22 déc 1765, St-Suliac
Cécile Olive Pitre, n. 19 jan 1768, St-Suliac
Marguerite Charlotte Pitre, n. 25 jan 1770, St-Suliac
François Jean Baptiste Pitre, n. 12 août 1773, St-Suliac
Geneviève Louise Pitre, n. 17 juil 1775, St-Jean-l'Évangéliste, Châtellerault
Étienne Pitre, b. 4 juin 1778, St-Pierre de Rezé
Jean Pitre, b. 2 oct 1780, St-Pierre de Rezé
Mathurin Pitre, b. 24 jan 1783, St-Pierre de Rezé
Widowed Marguerite emigrated to Louisiana with her 6 children on 8 November 1785.[5]
Marguerite BOUDROT, widow of Benjamin PITRE, traveling with her six children as the 51st family (of 7 persons) aboard the ship "L'Amitie.
They were on a census in Lafourche Louisiana on 1 January 1788.
She is 47 years old and head of her household with five children on 6 arpents of land. They have no slaves, 20 quarts of corn and 1 pig. [6]
Margueritte Boudreaut, 47, widow Pitre
Marie, her daughter, 25
Magdeleinne, id, 23
Olivette, id, 19
Margueritte, id, 17
Jean her son, 6
Marie Marguerite died after this census 1788 in Louisiane, Nouvelle-Espagne .
Sources
↑ "The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial"; Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; p.
Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780 - Stephen A. White - Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version - University of Moncton - PITRE no. 20, 2nd spouse
Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index - Donald J. Hébert - Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995. pp. 76-77 - Marguerite BOUDROT, widow of Benjamin PITRE, traveling with her six children as the 51st family (of 7 persons) aboard the ship "L'Amitie'."
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