Rose Adelaide Bourg (1765 - 1804)

Born 14 Oct 1765 in Le Havre, Normandie, France

Ancestors

Wife of Francois Alexandre (Daigre) Daigle — married 23 Sep 1783 in Chantenay, Bretagne, France

Descendants

Died 19 Jul 1804 at age 38 in Louisiana, Orleans Territory, USA

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Biography

FRANCOIS ALEXANDRE DAIGLE is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 8 Right: Le Beaumont. Listed with him is his wife, Rose Adelaide Bourg, and two children: Emelie Adelaide and Francois Joseph Daigle.^[1]

Rose Adelaide Bourg, daughter of exiled Acadians Charles Joseph Bourg and Rosalie Doiron, was born on 14 October 1765 in Le Havre, Normandie (today Seine-Maritime), France, and was baptized the following day at the church of Notre-Dame there.^[2]

She married Francois Alexandre Daigle on 23 September 1783 in Chantenay, Bretagne (today Loire-Atlantique), France.^[3]

In September of 1784, with their first child they were on the list of the Acadian families "who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of His [Spanish] Catholic Majesty," in Nantes, France.^[4]

They sailed from Nantes on June 11, 1785 and arrived with two children at the port of New Orleans on 19 August 1785.^[5]

She died in Louisiana and was buried on 19 July 1804 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair, eds., (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 32.
2. ↑ Donald J. Hebert, Acadians in Exile, (Cecilia, LA: Hebert Publications, 1980) p. 47;

   Text: Adelaide Rose BOURG, daughter of Charles Joseph & Rose DOIRON, born and baptized 14 Oct 1765. Sponsors: Jean Baptiste CHESNE, child's uncle & Catherine BOURG, her aunt. Recorded at Notre Dame Church, Le Havre, France.

3. ↑ Gérard-Marc Braud, From Nantes to Louisiana: The History of Acadia: the Odyssey of an Exiled People, (Lafayette, Louisiana: La Rainette, 1999) p. 82;

   Text: François Alexandre DAIGLE married on 23 Sep 1783 at St. Martin of Chantenay to Rose-Adélaide BOURG.

4. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians: Census Records of the Colony, 1758-1796, (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973) p. 505;

   On the list of the Acadian families "who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of His [Spanish] Catholic Majesty," dated Sep 1784 (cited as A.D.S. Legajo 2575).

   François Alex. DAIGRE, with wife Rose BOURG, 1 daughter, for a total of 3 in family.

5. ↑ Donald J. Hébert, Acadians in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index, (Baton Rouge, LA: Claitor’s Publishing Division, 2010) pp. 36-37;

   François Alexandre DAIGLE, plowman age 22, traveling with his wife and two children as head of the 23rd family (of 4 persons) aboard "Le Beaumont."

6. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, vol. 3, 1804-1819, (Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese, 1982) p. 150;

   Rose Adelaide BOURKE, wife of Alexander DAGLE, buried 19 Jul 1804 at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Baton Rouge, LA (SJO-4, 32).