Marie Françoise Dugas (abt. 1714 - abt. 1753)

Born about 1714 in Port Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Bourg — married 1735 in Acadie

Descendants

Died about 6 Nov 1753 at about age 39 in Isle St. Jean, Acadie, Nouvelle-France [uncertain]

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Biography

Francoise Dugas, daughter of Joseph Dugas and Claire Bourg, was born in Port Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France, evidently sometime after the 1714 census.

She married Joseph Bourg, a farmer, c.1735.

Known children of the marriage:

1. Joseph Bourg (c.1736)
2. Agnes Bourg (c.1738)
3. Isabelle Bourg (c.1740)
4. Bernard Bourg (c.1742)
5. Marie Francoise (c.1744)
6. Marguerite Josephe Bourg (c.1746)
7. Francois Bourg]] (c.1749)
8. Jean Baptiste Bourg (c.1752)

The family was recorded on the 1752 La Roque census at Rivière du Nord-Est (North side), Isle Saint-Jean, Acadie. Joseph, a ploughman, had brought Marie Françoise and the children to the island one year earlier. They already had livestock and had made a garden on their land. ^[1][2]

She died at Ile Saint-Jean, Acadie in 1753.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999) p. 571; Source courtesy Karen Theriot Reader, RootsWeb.com, Inc.
2. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. 85, image 200. The original census, in French, can be found at Census Original Version “Recensement de l'Isle Royal et de Isle Saint-Jean ” p. 321, image 325

   Joseph Bourg, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 41 years and 5 months. He has been in the country one year. Married to Françoise Dugast, aged 29 years.
   They have four sons and four daughters:-
   Joseph Bourg, aged 16 years.
   Bernard, aged 10 years.
   François, aged 40 months.
   Jean Baptiste, aged 3 months.
   Agnès, aged 14 years.
   Isabelle, aged 12 years.
   Marie Françoise, aged 8 years.
   Margueritte Josephe, aged 6 years.
   They have live stock as follows: four oxen, one cow, one calf, two sows and three pigs. The land upon which they are settled was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. On it they have made a garden.

3. ↑ Acadian Church Records, Port LaJoye, Ile St. Jean, 1749-1758, Tim Hebert, trans. & ed. (Houma, LA: Acadian-Cajun Genealogy & History, 2000) p. 85.

   Note: Parish records of St. Jean l'Evangeliste Parish. (Source courtesy Karen Theriot Reader, Rootsweb.com, Inc.)

   Francoise DUGAS, spouse of Joseph BOURG, buried 6 Nov 1753, age about 40 years.