Charles Daigre (1772 - 1799)

Born 20 Feb 1772 in Bretagne, France

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Died Dec 1799 at age 27 in Assumption, Louisiana, New Spain

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This person was a member of the Acadian Daigle family, please see The Two Daigle Families of Louisiana for details.

Biography

EUSTACHE DAIGRE is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 8 Left; La Bergere, Arrivee le 15 Aout 1785. Listed with him: Magdelene Dupuy, his wife., and children Jean, Charles and Etienne.^[1]

Charles Daigre was born on 20 Feb 1772 in France, son of Acadian exiles Eustache Daigre and Madeleine Dupuis. ^[2] He was baptized the next day in Plouër, Bretagne, now Côtes d'Armor, France. ^[3]

In May of 1774, his parents Eustache, Madeleine, and family, along with 779 other exiles, arrived in Chatellerault, where the French government had encouraged them to go to develop the land. The French gave them land and the transportation to get to it. Life was hard for them in Chatellerault; crops failed and many starved. Those wanting to leave were sent west to Nantes.^[4] Eustache, his wife, Madeleine Dupuis, with five others in their party, were in the fourth convoy leaving Châtellerault for Nantes from March 6 to 13, 1776.^[5][6] The other five in the family group would have been Pierre, Marie Marguerite, Jean Joseph, Charles Marc, and Joseph.

In Nantes the family settled in the parish of Saint-Nicolas. Eustache and Madeleine would have 4 more children while living in Nantes. However, as an indication of the hardships they suffered, three would die before reaching the age of 2. Their sole surviving daughter, Marie Marguerite, would marry Isaac Hebert on July 11, 1780.

On December 10, 1784, Etienne was born. He was the youngest of the children, and the only one born in Nantes who survived through childhood.

After 20 years in France, and with still no dependable livelihood, an offer was made by the King of Spain to take the Acadian exiles to help populate Louisiana. In the second ship of seven, known as La Bergere, Eustache, Madeleine, and their three children, Jean, Charles, and Etienne, departed the harbor of Paimboeuf on May 12, 1785, and went on to the port of New Orleans, arriving August 15, 1785.^[7][8]

Charles and his family settled on property located on the present Highway 1, which runs along Bayou Lafourche, across from the Assumption Church in Plattenville, Louisiana.^[9][10]

Charles died in Dec 1799 in Assumption, Louisiana, New Spain aged ~27. ^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by the Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller the Printer, 2015) p. 31.
2. ↑ Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Charles Marc Daigre citing Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes: 1715 à 1780, (Moncton, NB: Centre d'études acadiennes, draft version) DAIGRE no. 42 f.
3. ↑ Gérard-Marc Braud , Acadiens en France; Nantes et Paimboeuf, 1775-1785, (Nantes, France: Ouest Éditions, 1999) A genealogical approach. - p. 85
4. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, "Census: Sep 1784 Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France," Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians: Census Records of the Colony, 1758-1796 (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973) p. 491;

   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).

   On list from Nantes:

   Eustach DAIGRE, with wife Magdeleine DUPUIS, 3 sons, for a family of 5.

5. ↑ Milton P. Rieder, Jr. and Norma Gaudet Rieder, The Acadians in France, 1762-1776, (Metairie, Louisiana, USA: the authors, 1967) p.119.
6. ↑ Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., The Acadian Exiles in Nantes, 1775-1785, (Harvey, Louisiana, USA: Hebert Publications, 1978) p. 44;

   "Eustache Daigle, Madeleine Dupuis, his wife and family of 7 persons were in the Fourth Convoy leaving Châtellerault for Nantes from March 6 to March 13, 1776."

7. ↑ Donald J. Hébert, Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995) pp. 26-27;

   Charles DAIGLE, age 1e, son of Eustache DAIGLE & his wife Magdelaine DUPUIS, traveling with them and two brothers as the 67th family (of 5 persons) aboard "La Bergère."

8. ↑ Albert Robichaux, Jr., Acadian Exiles in Nantes, p. 44;

   "Eustache Daigle, Madeleine Dupuis, his wife and 3 sons: Jean, Charles and Etienne were passengers (Family No. 67) aboard La Bergere, which departed France on May 12, 1785 and arrived in Louisiana on August 15, 1785."

9. ↑ Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., "Census: 1 Jan 1788 Lafourche, Louisiana," Colonial Settlers along Bayou Lafourche, 1770-1798 (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1980) p. 25;

   Eustache DAIGLE, 60, 6 arpents, 30 quarts of corn, 2 horned cattle, 1 horse, 8 swine, total of 5 persons;

   Magdeleinne DUPUIS, his wife, 45;

   Jean, his son, 18;

   Charles, id, 15;

   Etienne, id, 3.

10. ↑ "Census: 1789 Lafourche District" Eustache Daigre.

    Identified as Ustache Daigle in the 1789 census of the Lafourche District. The 1789 census of the Lafourche District indicates that he was the sixty-one-year-old head of a household that included Magdelaine (Madelaine) Dupuis (Dupuy), his forty-seven-year-old wife, Jean Daigle (Daigre), his nineteen-year-old son, Charles Daigle (Daigre), his sixteen-year-old son, and Étienne Daigle (Daigre), his five-year-old son. He and his family occupied a tract of land with six arpents frontage. They owned fifty barrels of corn, two cows, one horse, and eight hogs.

11. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, vol. 2, 1770-1803, (Baton Rouge, LA, Diocese of Baton Rouge 1980) p. 213.

    Carlos [DAIGLE], age 27 years, son of Eustachio & Magdalena DUPUIS, buried on 2 Dec 1799 at Assumption Catholic Church, Plattenville, LA (ASM-3, 23).

• *Birth, Death, Marriage, Children, Residence:

  Title: The Daigle Family Acadia to Valence

  Author: Ethel Tregre Daigle, Labadieville, La.

  Publication: Pub. by: Audrey B. Westerman in 1991

  Note: Highly reliable source since she has many birth, marriage and death records from Archives.

  Note: Terrebonne Parish Library North Branch, Houma, La.

  Media: Book

  Page: 7

• Birth, Residence:

  Author: Albert Robichaux Jr

  Title: Colonial Settlers Along Bayou Lafourche

  Publication: Name: 1973;

  Repository:

  Name: Wisconsin Historical Society Library

  Page: 1788 Census of Lafourche, p. 25

• Death, Burial:

  Title: Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Vol. 2

  Publication: Name: Catholic Church of Baton Rouge;

  Repository:

  Name: Wisconsin Historical Society Library

  Page: DAIGLE p. 219