Angelique Anne Dugas (1743 - aft. 1804)

Born 10 Jun 1743 in Louisbourg, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Wife of Jacques Cyr — married 28 Dec 1762 in Halifax, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Descendants

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Biography

Angelique Anne Dugas was born in 1743. She was the daughter of Joseph Dugas and Marguerite LeBlanc. ^[1]

Angelique (19) married Jacques Cyr (22) (born in Acadie; son of Pierre Cyr and Magdeleine Poirier) on 28 December 1762, in Halifax. ^[2] Their marriage was revalidated in Miquelon on 29 May 1766. ^[3] It was noted in their marriage record that they had one child age 23 months.

Children: ^[4]

1. Unknown Cyr b. Bef 12 Aug 1763
2. Marien (Adélaïde) Cyr (about 1764– ) b. 15 Feb 1764, Halifax,
3. Anastasie Cyr c. 18 Jun 1766, Miquelon,
4. Amand Cyr b. 17 May 1768, Miquelon,
5. Jacques Cyr b. 12 Mar 1771, Miquelon,
6. Marie Françoise Cyr b. 31 Dec 1773, Miquelon,
7. Jean Baptiste Cyr b. 2 Jul 1776, Miquelon,
8. Jean Baptiste Marin Cyr b. 3 Oct 1778 d. 20 May 1779, St-Servan,
9. Angélique Victoire Cyr b. 21 May 1781, St-Servan,
10. Claude Victor Cyr b. 14 Sep 1783, St-Pierre,
11. Auguste Benjamin Cyr b. 25 Nov 1784, St-Pierre,

They were on a list of prisoners in Halifax in 1763 with one child. ^[5]

After the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the prisoners were set free and many, instead of settling in the Colony of Nova Scotia, chose to go to a French Colony like Miquelon. That is where they settled and where several of their children were born.

She was still at Miquelon in 1784

In her daughter Angélique Victoire's marriage record on 26 June 1804, Jacques was listed as a sailor, sixty-six years old, and Angelique Dugas, his wife, fifty-eight years old, both residing in Saint-Servan.

Sources

1. ↑ Institut Généalogique Drouin: Le Lafrance: Baptêmes 1621-1861 Baptism Registration
2. ↑ LeBlanc, Ronnie-Gilles « Les Acadiens à Halifax et dans l’île Georges, 1755–1764 ». Port Acadie no 22-23 (2012) : 43–76. https://doi.org/10.7202/1014976ar p. 74 of article.
3. ↑ Archives Nationales d'outre-mer État civil, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon parish records, 1763-1905, Year 1766, P. 2 Marriage, 29 May 1766, accessed July 2023.
4. ↑ Marcel Walter Landry Jacques Cyr dit Le Tartare at Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed 2023 (login required)
5. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino. List of Acadian Prisoners at Halifax, August 12, 1763, Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home. Transcription, digital images, Roy, J.-Edmond. "12 Août 1763: Liste des françois Accadiens demeurants prisonniers a halifax port d'amérique Septentrionale Sous le gouvernement de Sa majesté Britannique" in Rapport sur les archives de France relatives à l'histoire du Canada. Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, 1911 accessed at BANQ numérique], Image 633, accessed July 2023

   jaque sire , his wife, 1 child.

• BIRTH: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 1156 (Grand Pré);

• CENSUS: 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. 17; Anne DUGAS, age 8 years, daughter of Joseph DUGAS, widower of the late Margueritte LE BLANC.

• BIRTH-MARRIAGE-RESIDENCES: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 2231 (Isle Miquelon);