Charles Dugas (1736 - 1808)

Born 18 Sep 1736 in Annapolis Royal, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Marguerite Broussard — married about 1759 in Acadie

Descendants

Died 7 Sep 1808 at age 71 in Fausse Pointe, St. Martin, LA

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Biography

Charles Dugas is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 3 Left. Listed with him is his spouse Marguerite Broussard. ^[1]

Charles dit Charlitte Dugas was born on September 18, 1736 in Acadie. He was baptized on 21 May 1737 in Annapolis Royal, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia. ^[2] His parents were Charles Dugas and Anne Robichaud. ^[3] His sponsors were Jean Baptiste Richard and Marie Joseph Dugas.

Charles, his parents, and siblings Joseph, Jean, Marguerite, Osite, Madeleine, Pierre, and Marin were among the Acadians who escaped the 1755 Deportation by seizing, with other passengers, the boat Pembroke, which was supposed to transport them from Annapolis Royal to exile in North Carolina. Of the seven ships involved in this exodus, the Pembroke was unique in having only eight Englishmen in the crew. When bad weather separated the Pembroke from the other boats in the party, the Acadians on board revolted, and took control of the ship. They sailed first to Saint Mary's Bay, then on to the Saint Jean river. It was there that they were discovered by the British. Following a skirmish that forced the British to retreat, the Acadians burned the boat so it would not again fall into enemy hands. They then traveled by foot to the village of Sainte-Anne-des-Pays-Bas (Fredericton) where they spent the winter. Food and supplies were scarce. ^[3] So, the following summer they migrated again. Some families went to Quebec. Charles and his family went north to the Camp d'Espérance on the Miramichi, in present-day northeastern New Brunswick, which was established at the end of the summer of 1756 to protect from famine and from the roundups of the British soldiers the 1 376 Acadians who were refugees there. They suffered greatly because of diseases and lack of food at the camp. ^[4][5]

He married Marguerite Broussard around 1759. ^[4][3]

In 1761 they were recorded in Miramichi with 1 son.^[6] Charles was on a list of prisoners at Fort Edward in 1761-1762, a total of 3 in the family. ^[7]

Children: ^[8]

1. Unknown son Dugas /1762-
2. Joseph DUGAS 1765-
3. Eloi Edouard Dugas ca 1770-1835
4. Marie Madeleine DUGAS 1773-1794
5. Louis Dugas

He died on September 07, 1808 in Fausse Pointe, St. Martin. He was buried on 8 September 1808 at St Martinville. ^[9]

Residence

Residence: 8 Feb 1756 St. John, New Brunswick, Canada ^[3]

Immigration: Feb 1765 New Orleans, Orleans, LA ^[10]

Census: 25 Apr 1766 Bayou Queue de Tortue, Attakapas, LA ^[11]

Census: 1769 Attakapas, Spanish Louisiana ^[12]

Census: 1771 Attakapas, St. Martin, LA ^[13]

Census: 30 Oct 1774 Attakapas, St. Martin, LA ^[14]

Census: 4 May 1777 Attakapas, St. Martin, LA ^[15]

Research

^[16]

• DUGAS, Louis (Charles & Marguerite BROUSSARD) b. 18 Nov. 1776, bt. 24 Nov. 1776 Spons: Louis LEURON & Marie TIBODO. Fr. Louis MARIE, Capucin of Opelousas, during the absence of a priest in St. Joseph's of Attapakas Post. (SM Ch.: Folio B-1)

• DUGAS, Louis (Charles DUGA & Marguerite BROUSSARD) b. 18 Nov. 1776, bt. 24 Nov. 1776 Spons: Luis LEURON & Marie THIBAU Fr. Louis MARIE, Cap. (SM Ch.: v.1, p.47)

• DUGAS, Louis - native of this parish (dec. Charles & Marguerite BROUSSARD) died 24 Oct. 1813 at age 40 years at his home at La fausse pointe; buried 25 Oct. 1813 in the parish cemetery . Signed: Nicolas LEBLANC, Pierre BROUSSARD fils. Fr. Gabriel ISABEY (SM Ch.: v.4, #863)

• DUGAS, Marie Magdeleine (Charles DUGA & Marguerite BROUSSARD) b. 22 April 1773, bt. 29 April 1773 Spons: Germain TRAHAN & Magdeleine THIBAUDOT. Fr. IRENEE (SM Ch.: v.1, p.35)

• DUGAS, Eloy of this Post (Charles & Marguerite BROUSSARD) m. contract dated: 14 Oct. 1795 [date is actually written by combining French and Spanish "mil sept cent nonante cinq" - written by the Commandant who was Spanish] Suzanne BONAIN, native of this Post (dec. Jean Louis & Marguerite PRINCE) Wits: BENOIT St. Clair, Louis DEBLANC; Francisco CASO Y LUENGO (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.16, #130)

• DUGAS, Eloy (Charles & Marguerite BROUSSARD - natifs de l'Acadie au Port Royal) m. 3 Nov. 1795 "apres midi" [in the afternoon] Suzanne BONIN (dec. Jean Louis - de la Mobile & Marguerite PRINCE - du Mariland) Wits: Joseph BONIN - "oncle de l'epouse" [bride's uncle], Louis DUGA - "frere de l'epoux" [groom's brother], Louis BONIN - "frere de l'epoux" [bride's brother], Honore CARLIN. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: v.4, #121)

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial; Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; p. 15
2. ↑ The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755, register RG 1 volume 26a page 161; online database with images, Charles Dugas, 21 May 1737, accessed Dec 2021.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Lucie LeBlanc Consentino. Pembroke Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home, Pembroke Passenger List Reconstructed by Paul Delaney and Lucie Consentino, translated by Karen Theriot Reader. Accessed November 2021. Originally published in Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne vol. 35, nos. 1 & 2 (Jan-Jun 2004)

   Member of Family #2 with his parents and seven siblings. A note states: Charles DUGAS (his father) is mentioned as being among those found on the "Pembroke" and he made his mark on the letter of the former inhabitants of Port-Royal to abbé DAUDIN on 31 Jul 1756. This family did not go to Québec; in 1761 they are found at Caraquet, and later went to Louisiana [one son].

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, “List of Refugee Acadian Households at Camp Espérance on the Miramichi, 1756-1757: Appendix to ‘The Acadian Refugee Camp on the Miramichi, 1756-1761’”. English translation & glossary of place name by John Estano DeRoche. https://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/uploads/3/4/5/0/34506400/acadian_refugee_camp_on_the_miramichi_1756-1761.pdf

   Charles (44) DUGAS, son of Charles (18) DUGAS, from Port Royal, married around 1759 to Marguerite Broussard, daughter of Joseph (5) Broussard. At Miramichi on the du Calvet census of Jul-Aug 1761 with 3 in household; at Fort Edward 1761-1762 with 3. Settled at Attakapas, LA

5. ↑ Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, “The Acadian Refugee Camp on the Miramichi, 1756-1761”. Translated by John Estano DeRoche in consultation with the author. Accessible online at https://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/uploads/3/4/5/0/34506400/acadian_refugee_camp_on_the_miramichi_1756-1761.pdf
6. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; 1761 Gaspesie Refugees Census, p. 5 of 6, original record 1761 Gaspesie Refugees Original Amherst Papers (WO 34) : C-12837, Image 183

   Charles Dugas, his wife, 1 boy.

7. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino. List of Acadian Prisoners at Fort Edward, 1761-1762, Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home

   Ch. Dugas 3 people

8. ↑ Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Charles dit Charlitte Dugas
9. ↑ Donald J. Hébert, Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900: compact disk #101, (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001).

   Text: DUGAS, Charles dit Charlitte - of Lafousse pointe, a native of Acadia d. 7 Sept. 1808 at his home, bur. 8 Sept. 1808 at age 80 yrs. Signs: D. PREVOST. Fr. Gabriel ISABEY (SM Ch.: v.4 , #529).

10. ↑ ACADIAN-CAJUN at rootsweb.com; Stanley LeBlanc webmaster.

    Text: Charles dit Charlitte, son of Charles and Anne Robichaux, married to Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoliel and Agnes Thibodeaux. They arrived with Joseph in February 1765 and went to Attakapas.

11. ↑ Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians; Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796; Jacqueline K. Voorhies; Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973; p. 125

    Text: Carlos DUGAST, with 1 woman. [Listed after Pedro DUGAST, alone.]

12. ↑ Attakapas Post in 1769--The First Nominal Census of Colonial Settlers in Southwest Louisiana; Donald Joseph Arceneaux; Claitor's Publishing Division, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2014; p. 24

    Text: [31] Charles Dugas, age 32

    His wife [identified as Marguerite Broussard]

    Pierre Dugas, brother, 20

    Also: 5 Cows & 4 Suivant; 2 Oxen; 3 Bulls and heifers; 3 Horses and 4 Pigs.

13. ↑ Attakapas Post: The Census of 1771; Winston De Ville; Provincial Press, Claitor's Publishing, Reprint 2010; Author copyright 1986. Note: Transcription of Papeles Procedentes de Cuba (in the Archives of the Indies, Seville, Spain), Legajo 188C, on microfilm at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwest Louisiana, in Lafayette, LA.; p. 13

    Text: Charles DUGA, age 35, with his wife, age 35, and a boy, age 1. They have 25 cattle and 6 horses, on 12 arpents of land, without title.

14. ↑ Marriage Contracts of the Attakapas Post, 1760-1803; Winston DeVille; Publication: St. Martinville, LA: Attakapas Historical Assoc., 1966; Note: Special Publication No. 1. Note: Includes "1774 Census of Attakapas" by Jane Guillory Bulliard & Leona Trosclair David; pp. 61 & 66

    Text: No. 159: Charles DUGAS et sa femme; with 2 children, 40 cattle, 14 horses or mules, and 15 hogs.

15. ↑ Title: Southwest Louisiana Families in 1777: Census Records of Attakapas and Opelousas Posts Winston De Ville, comp. Ville Platte, LA: Author, 1987 Note: (Source: Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, at the General Archives of the Indies in Seville, Spain ; legajo 2358, folios 258-300); p. 13

    Text: 76. Charle DUGAT, 39;

    Marguerite BROUSSARD, wife, 38.

    Garcons: Elois, 7;

    Louis, 1.

    Filles: Marie, 4.

    There were 40 cattle, 10 horses, and 25 hogs.

16. ↑ "Southwest Louisiana Records", Rev. Donald Joseph Hebert, Volumes 1-30 digitized on CD; Claitor’s Publishing Division, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.