Marguerite was born about 1716 in Parish of Saints-Pierre-et-Paul, Cobequid, Acadie (area of today's Truro NS). Her father was Jean Hebert and her mother was Marie Cecile or Marie Marguerite Landry (facts seem the same except for the name Cecile)[1]
Married around 1735, White gives her mothers name as Marie Marguerite Landry.[2] Bore 2 daughters, followed by 3 sons.
She passed away some time around 1744 to 1746 (last child born ca. 1744; husband remarried c. 1746).
Her widowed husband François Bourg remarried ca. 1746, & both he & his 2nd wife, as well as their 4 children by this marriage, died in the course of the 1758-1759 expulsion --
the parents & the eldest child in hospital at Saint-Malo, Brittany, France, in early 1759.[3]
Sources
↑ Karen Theriot Reader Marie Marguerite citing Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 816; own copy.
↑ Karen Theriot Reader citing Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes - Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes, Première Partie 1636-1714 - Stephen A. White - 2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999 - p. 816 -
François BOURG, son of Pierre & Marguerite BLANCHARD, married around 1735 to Marguerite HÉBERT, daughter of Jean HÉBERT & Marie-Marguerite LANDRY.
↑ Entered by John deRoche, Jan 21, 2012, edited Nov 19, 2017.
francogene.com: Sources: Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Acadiennes (Stephen A. White), Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens (Arsenault), Dictionnaire des Acadiens D'Archange Godbout, Acadian Exiles in Nantes, France, The Acadian Exiles in Saint Malo, France 1758-1785
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Before I can approve the merge, the profile for Hebert-2579 has to be made "open"...a it is supposed to be, since she was born over 200 years ago. I can't see her profile, to check whether the data match.