Anne Bourgeois (abt. 1718)

Born about 10 Aug 1718 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Daughter of Claude Bourgeois and Anne Blanchard

Wife of François Arseneau — married about 1739 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Descendants

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Biography

Anne dite Annette Bourgeois was born about 1718. She was the daughter of Claude Bourgeois and Anne Blanchard. She was baptized 10 Aug 1718 at Beaubassin. No birthdate was given. Her Godparents were Jacques Bonnevie and Anne Bourgeois. ^[1]

She married François dit Petit François Arseneau around 1739. No location was given by Stephen White. ^[2]

Children: ^[3][4]

1. Pierre ca 1739-
2. Marie-Madeleine 1740-1827
3. Anne1743-1770
4. Marguerite 1746-
5. Unknown girl (Marie?)
6. Henriette
7. Anastasie
8. Anne Adelaide
9. Apollonie

Residence: ^[5]

• 1750 Mésagouèche (Beaubassin) 6 children ^[6]
• 1752 refugees at Baie-Verte with 5 boys, 2 girls ^[7]
• 1755 Baie-Verte 3 boys 4 girls

It is believed that they they fled to Camp d'Espérance on the Miramichi, in present-day northeastern New Brunswick, which was established at the end of the summer of 1756 to protect from famine and from the roundups of the British soldiers the 1 376 Acadians who were refugees there. They suffered greatly because of diseases and lack of food at the camp. ^[8] They were prisoners at Fort Beauséjour. ^[3][9] On February 10, 1763, the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years War. Many Acadians in exile decided to return to Canada or go emigrated to French colonies. The family chose to go to Saint-Pierre et Miquelon. Anne was on the 1767 census at Miquelon, age 51 years with François age 56, and their six children. There was also an orphan named Fidèle with them. ^[2][10]

The family made their way back to their homeland in 1767 and settled in Cocagne and Richibouctou-Village. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Library and Archives Canada Fonds des Archives départementales de la Charente-Maritime [La Rochelle, France] : C-1207 Registres de Beaubassin - reel_c1207 MG 6 A 2 (Image 04) http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1207/4?r=0&s=6
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Stephen A. White, Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (Moncton, N.-B.: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999) p. 262
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} White, Stephen A. La généalogie des trente-sept familles hôtesses des "Retrouvailles 94, Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 25, nos 2 et 3 (1994). (Arsenault)

   François Arsenault, frère de Joseph ci-dessus, a lui aussi laissé une certaine descendance au Nouveau- Brunswick. Né vers 1710, François s'est marié vers 1739 à Anne Bourgeois, fille de Claude Bourgeois et d'Anne Blanchard. Ils sont passés du fort Beauséjour à Miquelon en 1763 , pour revenir s'établir à Cocagne en 1767.

4. ↑ Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Anne dite Annette Bourgeois
5. ↑ Stephen A. White, Recensements de Beaubassin et des Trois Rivières de Chipoudie, de Memramcook et de Petcoudiac (1686-1755). Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 50, nos 2-4, juin-décembre 2019, p. 240-241

   Family was at Camp d'Espérance and later settled in Cocagne and Richibouctou-Village

6. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; 1750/1751 Census 1750/1751 Census Transcribed.

   Francois ARSENEAU, his wife and 6 children.

7. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; 1752 Census The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Image 290.

   Francois ARSENEAU, dit Bresle, his wife, 5 boys, 2 girls.

8. ↑ ( On list of additional families whose presence at Camp Espérance is uncertain but likely, p. 22) Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, “List of Refugee Acadian Households at Camp Espérance on the Miramichi, 1756-1757: Appendix to ‘The Acadian Refugee Camp on the Miramichi, 1756-1761’”. English translation & glossary of place name by John Estano DeRoche. Accessible online for download at The Official Blog of the Association des Acadiens-Métis Souriquois, March 30, 2018, https://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-blog/news-and-reflections-the-acadian-refugee-camp-on-the-miramichi-1756-1761-march-30-2018
9. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; Acadian Prisoners at Fort Beauséjour (renamed Fort Cumberland) as of August 24, 1763 citing: Historique Acadienne for their permission to post this article. "La Socièté Historique Acadienne, March 1965", Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. The source noted by La Socièté Historique Acadienne for this information was Archives nationales, Fonds des Colonies, C. 12 (Correspondance gènérale, Saint Pierre et Miquelon, vol. 1, f. 22-26.

   (He is the only François Arseneau on the list) Names of families at Isle aux Perdrix: Francois Arsenaux

10. ↑ « Familles Acadiennes qui sont maintenant, aux îles St Pierre et Miquelon suivant le recensement d'icelles, fait le 15 mai 1767. » in Archives canadiennes pour l'année 1905. Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, 1909, Vol II, 3rd part, Document No 18 A.Acadian Families at Saint-Pierre et Miquelon 15 May 1767 p. 233 / Image 797, Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, accessed Dec 2021

    François Arseneau (venu id) meaning from Halifax 56

    Anne Bourgeois , his wife 51

    Pierre, their son 25

    Marguerite, their daughter 22

    Henriette, their daughter 20

    Fidèle, their daughter's cousin, an orphan 15

    Astasie daughter 13

    Adélaide daughter 10

    Appolonie daughter 7

• Marcel Walter Landry. Page for Anne dite Annette Bourgeois. Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed Dec 2021
• French Canadian Genealogical Society, Vernon, CT
• Added info from Ancestry.com

DNA

• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an exact HVR1 and HVR2 match between this Family Tree DNA mtDNA test for Christopher Young and this Family Tree DNA mtDNA test of his maternal line cousin Debby (Jennings) Sinera.