Anne Dugas (abt. 1724 - aft. 1798)

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Biography

OLIVIER BOUDROT is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 12-R: La Caroline arrivee le 12 decembre 1785. Listed with him are his second wife, Anne Dugast, and their two children, Jean and Marie Boudrot.^[1]

Anne Dugas was born about 1724 in Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia, daughter of Charles Dugas and Anne Marie Benoit. ^[2]

Anne and her family were among the hundreds of Acadians who were put aboard one of the five English ships in 1758 and disembarked at Saint-Malo on January 23, 1759. Charles and two of their ten children did not survive the horrible conditions during the crossing to Europe that could last up to two months, and died at sea.^[3]

She was recorded on a census in 1762 at Saint-Énogat, France, with her widowed mother and her siblings. ^[4]

Anne Marie Benoist, 57 years, widow of Charles Dugast

Jean Bapte. Dugast, 25 years, her son

Anne Dugast, 29 years, her daughter, married Olivier Boudrot

Marie Madeleine Dugast, 27 years, her daughter

Marie Josephe Dugast, 22 years, her daughter

Victoire Dugast, 13 years, her daughter

Pierre Ignace Dugast, 19 years, her son

Pierre Dugast, 17 years, her son

Antoine Dugast, 15 years, her son,

Anne married Olivier Boudrot, son of Denis Boudreau and Agnes Vincent, on 24 May 1762 at the church of Saint-Enogat in Dinard, Bretagne (today Ile-et-Vilaine), France.^[5] Their children were:

1. Charles Olivier Boudrot
2. Marie Boudrot
3. Jean Baptiste Boudrot.

They appeared on a French census in 1762 at Trigavou, Côtes-d'Armor, Bretagne, France. Welfare Rolls. Arrived via 1 of 5 Ships. Olivier Bouderot,-50, married to Anne Dugast. ^[4] They were counted on the French census of 15 September 1772 at Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France. He was a laborer, age 60; Anne was a weaver, age 39; and they had three young children.

Olivier Boudrot-60, laborer;

wife Anne DuGats-39, weaves;

Charles Olivier-9;

Jean Baptiste-5,

Marie-6. ^[4]

In March of 1776, they were in a 4th Convoy to the port city of Nantes. Olivier and wife Anne Dugast and all three children were in their party. ^[4] He was 74 years old and Anne was 52 when they and two of their grown children were added to the passenger list of La Caroline, ^[6] a ship chartered by the Spanish government to transport Acadian exiles from France to a new home in Louisiana. They sailed from Nantes, France on 19 October 1785, and arrived at the port of New Orleans two months later, on December 12.^[1] Anne appeared on a census dated 1 January 1798 in Lafourche, Louisiana Territory, with her son Jean, age 28. ^[7]

• 1788 census of the Lafourche District indicates that she was the sixty-year-old head of a household including Jean Boudrot (Boudreaut), her twenty-year-old son, and marie Boudrot (Boudreaut), her twenty-one-year-old daughter. She and her children occupied a tract of land with six arpents frontage. They owned thirty barrels of corn and one hog. Identified in the 1789 census of the Lafourche District as Anne Duga, Veuve Boudereau.

• 1789 census of the left-bank settlements of the Lafourche District indicates that she was the twenty-seven-year-old (sic) head of a household that included Jean Boudrot (Boudereau), her twenty-one-year-old son, and Marie Boudrot (Boudereau), her twenty-two-year-old daughter.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by Jane G. Bulliard and the Wall of Names Committee (Scott, LA: Hulco, 2002) p. 47.
2. ↑ Bona Arsenault , Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens, (Montreal: Lemeac, 1978), 6 vols. - Vols. 2-6 contain genealogies by area, paged continuously. - p. 1486 (Source and note provided by Karen Theriot Reader: (Cobequid) [More likely born between 1720 and 1727, given her ages on the censuses in Louisiana along Bayou Lafourche. I have estimated 1724.) Anne DUGAS, born 1733, daughter of Charles DUGAS & Anne-Marie BENOIT.
3. ↑ "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 185, accessed 15 SEP 2023

   Family # 70
   

   DUGAST Charles, + en mer (died at sea)

   BENOIST Marie

   DUGAST Jean Baptiste, 22 ans, fils

   DUGAST Anne, 26 ans, fille (Anne Agnes)

   DUGAST Marie Madeleine, 24 ans, fille

   DUGAST Marie Josèphe, 19 ans, fille

   DUGAST Pierre Ignace, 16 ans, fils

   DUGAST Pierre, 14 ans, fils

   DUGAST Antoine, 12 ans, fils

   DUGAST Victoire, 10 ans, fille

   DUGAST Marguerite, fille, + en mer

   DUGAST Joseph, fils, + en mer

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Milton P, Rieder and Norma Gaudet Rieder, The Acadians in France, 1762-1776; rolls of the Acadians living in France distributed by towns for the years 1762 to 1776. ( Metairie, La. : M. P. Rieder, 1967) p. 26 (1762) p. 42 (1772) p. 119 (1776) available online at https://archive.org/details/acadiansinfrance0000ried/mode/2up
5. ↑ Eglise catholique. Saint-Enogat (Dinard, Ille-et-Vilaine) . Archives départementales d’Ille-et-Vilaine, cote XXXX. Registres paroissiaux et état civil. 10 NUM 35093 68 - DINARD-SAINT-ENOGAT - 1762 - 1762 - Baptêmes/Mariages - COMMUNE. Image 8 of 20. Summary:
   • Olivier Boudrot, widower of Henriette Guerin, and Anne Dugas, major daughter of the late Charles Dugas and Marie Benoist, both from Acadia, Diocese of Quebec, married on 24 May 1762 in the presence of Marie Benoist, mother of the bride and Jean Dugas, Marie Joseph Dugas, Pierre & Anthoinne Dugas, Zacarie Bouderois, Michel Aucoin, and others.
6. ↑ Gérard-Marc Braud, From Nantes to Louisiana, (Lafayette, LA: La Rainette, 1999) p.103.
7. ↑ Sources: Colonial Settlers along Bayou Lafourche, 1770-1798 - Robichaux, Albert - Harvey, LA: 1974. 2nd printing Hébert Publications, 1980 - Louisiana census records. - p. 129 Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 215A. - Jean BOUDREAUT, ]age] 28, 6 x 25 [arpents], [total of] 2; Anne DUGAT, his mother, [age] 77.

See also:

• Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Anne Dugas
• Deportation Lists compiled by Louis-Xavier PEREZ. http://froux.pagesperso-orange.fr/St_malo_arrivees/index_arrivee.htm

• RIEDER, MILTON P., JR., and NORMA GAUDET RIEDER, compilers and editors. The Crew and Passenger Registration Lists of the Seven Acadian Expeditions of 1785; a Listing by Family Groups of the Refugee Acadians Who Migrated from France to Spanish Louisiana in 1785. Metairie, La.: the compilers, 1965.

• Early Louisiana census records (Ensemble-Encore database)