Jean Bourg (abt. 1736 - aft. 1798)

Born about 1736 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Anne Josephe Daigre — married 5 May 1767 in Pleudihen, Cotes d'Armor, France

Descendants

Died after 19 Jul 1798 after about age 62 in Louisiana, New Spain

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Biography

JEAN BOURG is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, at Plaque 11 Left, La Ville d'Arcangel, Arrivee le 3 Decembre 1784. Listed with Jean Bourg and his wife Anne Daigle are their children, Marie, Francois, Marguerite, Magdelaine, Jeanne, Jean, Joseph, and Charlotte Francoise.^[1]

Jean Bourg, son of Jean Bourg and Marie Pitre, was born about 1736^[2] in Beaubassin, Acadie. In 1752 the family was recorded on the La Roque census in Rivière-des-Blonds, Ile Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island), with five children. Jean, the eldest son of the family, was 17 years of age.^[3] He came of age at the time of le grand dérangement.

Jean Bourg and Marie Aucoin, daughter of Antoine Aucoin and Elisabeth (Isabelle) Amireau were married about 1758.^[4]

Known children of the marriage:^[5]

1. Joseph Firmin Bourg (1760)
2. Rose Perrine Bourg (1761)
3. Anne Charlotte Bourg (1764)

They married during the Seven Years (AKA French and Indian) War, and the siege of Louisbourg Fortress in 1758 resulted in the British expelling the Acadians from Ile Saint-Jean. Jean and Marie were deported to France in 1758. They disembarked at Saint-Malo on January 23 1759 from one of the infamous "Five English ships" (Yarmouth, Patience, Mathias, Restoration, John Samuel).^[6]

After Marie's untimely death in France in 1764, Jean Bourg and Anne Josephe Daigre, daughter of Jean Daigre and Marie Anne Breau, were married on 5 May 1767 in Pleudihen, Cotes d'Armor, France.^[7][8]

Known children of the marriage: ^[5]

1. Marie Josephe Bourg (1768)
2. Francois Marie Bourg (1769)
3. Marguerite Perinne Bourg (1770)
4. Madeleine Jeanne Bourg (b/d 1772)
5. Madeleine Jeanne Bourg (1773)
6. Anne Jeanne (Helene) Bourg (1775)
7. Charles Alain Bourg (1776)
8. Jeanne Anne Bourg (1778)
9. Jean Marie Bourg (1779)
10. Anne Josephe Bourg (1781)
11. Joseph Marie Bourg (1782)
12. Charlotte Francoise Bourg (1785)

He was age twenty-six when in 1762 when he was counted on the census of Pleudihen, France.^[9] Ten years later, in 1772, he was counted on the census of St. Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France.^[10]

On 3 December 1785, he and his wife and eight children landed at the port of New Orleans, Louisiana, having emigrated from France.^[11]

He settled in and was counted on the census of 10 April 1797 in Valenzuela, Ascension, Louisiana.^[12]

He died at an unknown date after 19 July 1798 in Louisiana.

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by Jane G. Bulliard and the Wall of Names Committee (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 41.
2. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader, citing Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780 ("DGFA draft version") (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version) p. 978; No place given.
3. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. 163, image 356;

   Jean Bourg, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 45 years, he has been in the country one year. Married to Marie Pitre, native of l'Acadie, aged 46 years.

   They have five children, three sons and two daughters:-

   Jean, aged 17 years.

   François, aged 14 years.

   Charles, aged 6 years.

   Marguerite, aged 18 years.

   Marie, aged 8 years.

   In livestock they have three oxen, one cow, three heifers, and five pigs.

   The land upon which they are settled is situated as in the preceding cases. It was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. On it they have made a clearing for the sowing of six bushels of wheat in the coming spring.

4. ↑ White, DGFA draft version, p. 978 & AUCOIN #14 b.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Karen Theriot Reader, "Jean Bourg".
6. ↑ "Rolle des habitans de l'Isle St Jean débarqués à St Malo le 23 janvier 1759 des 5 paquebots anglois le Yarmouth, la Patience, le Mathias, la Restoration et le John et Samuel," Fonds de l'inscription maritime de Saint-Servan (France): C-4619, MG6 C2, Library and Archives Canada, Roll of the "Five English ships" (Yarmouth, Patience, Mathias, Restoration, John Samuel) disembarked at Saint-Malo on January 23, 1759 image 174, accessed September 2023

   BOURG Jean, 23, son of Jean, plowman, lives in Pleudihen

   AUCOIN Marie, 25, his wife, was hospitalized 24 Jan-4 Feb, 9 Feb-13 Mar

7. ↑ White, DGFA draft version, BOURG #27 b;

   Text: There was a dispensation for 4-4 consanguinity.

8. ↑ Archives Départementales des Côtes d'Armor, [Marriage Register] acte de marriage: Pleudihen-sur-Rance Parish, 1766 - 1773, image 55 of 426 consulté Août 2023. permanent: scan of marriage document.
9. ↑ White, DGFA draft version, p. 978;

   Age 26 years.

10. ↑ White, DGFA draft version, p. 978;

    Age 36 years.

11. ↑ Donald J. Hébert, Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995) pp. 86-87;

    Marguerite BOURG, age 15, daughter of Jean BOURG, Sr. & Anne DAIGLE, traveling with them and seven siblings as the 6th family (of 10 persons) aboard La Ville d'Archangel.

12. ↑ Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., Colonial Settlers along Bayou Lafourche, 1770-1798, (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1980) p. 90;

    General Census of the Habitants of Valenzuela of Lafourche, Two Thousand Sixty-four Persons; April 10, 1797; /s/ N, Verret; (citing Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 215A)

    Jean BOURQUE, age 63;

    Anne DAIGLE, his wife, 51;

    Margueritte, his daughter, 25;

    Magdeleinne, id, 23;

    Jeanne, id, 13.

Acknowledgments

• Karen Theriot Reader
• Jacqueline Girouard