Nicolas Bourgeois and Claire Carpentier arrived in the colony sometime between the 1667 census and 1670, they are absent from 1666 and 1667 censuses.
Known children from his marriage with Claire Carpentier or Charpentier:
Recensement 1681 Census Petite Auvergne:
Nicolas Bourgeois 40 ; Claire Charpentier, sa femme, 38 ; enfants : Marie Françoise 7, Nicolas 4, Pierre 2 ; 1 bête à cornes ; 4 arpents en valeur.[2]
At some point they moved to Île Jésus, after this census.
Claire Carpentier died in 1687 in Lachenaie.[1]
Marriage 2
Nicolas Bourgeois remarried on 4 Oct 1688 in Lachenaie with Marie Garnier, widow of Olivier Charbonneau[3]
He is present at the marriage of his daughter in 1692. No further trace was found of him, he is not mentioned on his second wife's funeral in 1701.[1]
Was he among those killed in the various raids from the Iroquois of this period? Île Jésus is one of the locations such happened.
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Categories: Petite Auvergne en 1681 | Lachenaie, Canada, Nouvelle-France | Migrants de Picardie au Canada, Nouvelle-France