Pierre Darois (abt. 1736 - abt. 1803)

Born about 1736 in Beaubasin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Josephe Bourgeois — married 8 Apr 1765 in New Orleans, Louisiana, New Spain

Died about 4 Oct 1803 at about age 67 in St. James, Lower Louisiana Territory, United States

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Biography

PIERRE DAROIS is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 2 Right. Listed with him is his spouse, Marie Bourgeois, and their son Michel.^[1]

Pierre Darois, son of Jean Darois and Marguerite Breau, was born about 1736 in Beaubassin, Acadia. ^{[citation needed]} His grand dérangement story needs research to be told here.

After the grand dérangement, Pierre immigrated to Louisiana, where he and Marie Josephe Bourgeois, also from Beaubassin, had their marriage blessed by the church. They had married around 1763 at the close of the war and rehabilitated their marriage at St. Louis Church (now Cathedral) in New Orleans, Louisiana on 8 April 1765.^[2][3]

Their son, Michel Darois, was born and baptized on 19 February 1765 in New Orleans.

In 1769 on the Acadian Coast census in Ascension, Louisiana, a man named "Darzoin" is listed with a wife named Marie Bourgeois, but their son is listed as "Ollivier."^[4] This is believed to have been the family of Pierre Doiron, who was listed on the same plaque of the Wall of Names.^[1] On 1 January 1777 this Pierre Darois and his wife were counted, without their son, in nearby St. James, Louisiana.^[5]

Pierre died and was buried on 4 October 1803 in St. James, Louisiana.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair, eds., (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 15.
2. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader, geneanet.org, citing Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780, (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version);

   BOURGEOIS no. 13 c.; Married around 1763, rehabilitated on 8 Apr 1765 at St-Louis of New Orleans.

3. ↑ Archdiocese of New Orleans Sacramental Records, vol. 2, 1751-1771, Earl C. Woods, ed., (New Orleans, LA: Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1988) pp. 31 & 66;

   Pierre DAROY, son of Jean & Margueritte BREAU, native of Pelaudiaque[sic] in Acadia, married Marie BOURGEOIS, daughter of deceased Paul & deceased Anne[sic] BRUN, native of Beaubassin in Acadia, on 8 Apr 1765 (SLC, B5, 185 & M2, 16).

4. ↑ Lillian C. Bourgeois, "Cabanocey: The History, Customs and Folklore of St. James Parish," (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1998) p. 176;

   On the Left Bank of the Mississippi River:

   93. Pierre DARZOIN, 36

   Marie BOURGEOIS, wife, 35

   Ollivier, son, 5

5. ↑ Winston De Ville, The Parish of St. James in the Province of Louisiana: Abstracts from the Spanish Census of 1777, (Ville Platte, LA: Author, 1987) p. 7;

   Pierre DARROIS, age 40, with his wife Marie BOURGEOIS, age 42.

6. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Vol. 2, 1770-1803, (Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese of Baton Rouge) p. 223;

   Pierre DAROIS, age 64 years, husband of Marie BOURGOIS, buried 4 Oct 1803. (SJA-4, 23).