Jean Bourg was born around 1684 in Port-Royal, Acadie.[1] He passed away in February 1757 at about 74 years of age, and was buried on 22 February of that year in the cemetery of Port-la-Joye, (sud-ouest de la Croix). [2]
Residence
CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, age 3 [after 6 daughters]
CENSUS: 1693, age 9 years.
CENSUS: 1698, age 14 [or 16] years, resident, unmarried.
Marie Josephe Marie-Madeleine BOURG b: Abt 1729 in Cobeguit, Acadia
Francois BOURG b: Abt 1732 in Acadia
Sources
↑ White, Stephen A. Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (Moncton, N.-B.: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999) p. 224 & 240; #10:
He was on the 1752 census at Louisbourg, age 69 years. He was buried (Port Lajoie Register) on 22 Feb 1757, age 74 years.
Placide Gaudet, REPORT CONCERNING CANADIAN ARCHIVES FOR THE YEAR 1905; 1600-1800; vol. II, part A, original a Sessional Paper no. 18 of the Archives, reprinted Heritage Books, 1994; p. 79; copy in possession of Karen Theriot Reader Reader-22.
The census in 1752 by the Sieur de la ROQUE: Jean BOURG, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, age 69 years, has been in the country 15 months. Married to Francoise AUCOIN, age 64; four children. They have 4 cows, 1 calf, 1 sow, 4 pigs, and 8 fowls or chickens on land given to them verbally by Monsieur de BONNAVENTURE, situated on the south side of the Riviere du Ouest. They have made a clearing and sown 3 bushels of grain.
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