Marie Claire Dugas (abt. 1706 - 1759)

Born about 1706 in Cobequid, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Wife of Jean Hebert — married 1730 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died 13 Feb 1759 at about age 53 in Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France

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Biography

Claire Dugas, the daughter of Joseph Dugas (c1680) and Claire Bourg (c1682), was born in 1706 at Cobeguit, Acadie.^[1] She married Jean Hebert, son of Jean Hebert (c1681) and Marie-Marguerite Landry (c1682), in 1730 at Beaubassin, Acadie.^[2]

In the census of 1752 she was a widow, the family residing at Grande Ascension, Ile Saint-Jean, Acadie:

Claire Dugast, widow of the late Jean Hébert, aged 46 years, she has been in the country one year. She has two sons and six daughters: Pierre Hébert, aged 17 years; Jean, aged 12 years; Françoise, aged 21 years; Elisabeth, aged 19 years; Anne, aged 15 years; Hélène, age 10 years; Marie Joseph, aged 8 years; Victoire, aged 5 years. And in stock they have three oxen, one cow, one bull, three wethers, two sows and two pigs.^[3]

After Louisbourg fell in 1758, there was a large "second wave" of deportations of Acadians from Ile Royale and Ile Saint-Jean. 3,500 people were deported to France in 1758. Claire and her children Hélène, Marie-Josèphe, Victoire and Jean were forced aboard one of the infamous "Five English ships" (Yarmouth, Patience, Mathias, Restoration, John Samuel) and disembarked in Saint-Malo on January 23, 1759. Her son Jean died at sea during the crossing. ^[4]

Claire Dugas died soon after arriving in France on February 13, 1759 at l'Hôtel-Dieu in Saint-Malo, Bretagne. She was buried in the Saint-Malo cemetery the next day^[5][6].

Sources

1. ↑ Genealogy of Canada: Claire Dugas
2. ↑ Genealogy of Canada: Marriage of Jean Hebert and Claire Dugas
3. ↑ Journal and Census of Ile Royale, prepared by le Sieur de la Roque, under the direction of M. le Comte de Raymond, in the year 1752, translated within the Sessional papers of the Dominion of Canada 1906, Volume: 40, no.7, pt.2, Sessional Papers no. 18.
4. ↑ "Rolle des habitans de l'Isle St Jean débarqués à St Malo le 23 janvier 1759 des 5 paquebots anglois le Yarmouth, la Patience, le Mathias, la Restoration et le John et Samuel," Fonds de l'inscription maritime de Saint-Servan (France): C-4619, MG6 C2, Library and Archives Canada, Roll of the " Five English ships " (Yarmouth, Patience, Mathias, Restoration, John Samuel) disembarked at Saint-Malo on January 23, 1759 image 199, accessed 12 Oct 2023

   DUGAST Claire, widow of Jean Hebert, 62, died at hospital on 13 February 1759,

   HEBERT Hélène, 18, daughter, at Ploubalay

   HEBERT Marie Josephe, 16, daughter, at hospital 7 to 31 March

   HEBERT Victoire, 14, daughter

   HEBERT Jean, 19, son, died at sea

5. ↑ AD 35 Ille-et-Vilaine (Acte de décès) S Saint-Malo 1759 - 10 NUM 35288 732 vue 10/41
6. ↑ Genealogy of Canada: Claire Dugas

• http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogy=Claire_Dugas&pid=202922&lng=en Genealogy of Canada: Claire Dugas
• http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogy=Claire_Dugas&pid=202922&lng=en Genealogy of Canada: Marriage of Jean Hebert and Claire Dugas
• http://www.archive.org/stream/n07sessionalpaper40canauoft/n07sessionalpaper40canauoft_djvu.txt Sessional papers of the Dominion of Canada 1906, Volume: 40, no.7, pt.2, Sessional Papers no. 18