Anne Marguerite Metra (1767 - bef. 1788)

Born 7 May 1767 in Garo, Bretagne, France

Ancestors

Wife of Claude Francois Boudeloche — married 17 May 1785 in Chantenay, Bretagne, France

Died before 1 Jan 1788 before age 20 in Louisiana, New Spain

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Biography

Jean Metra is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 10-Right. Listed with him is his Acadian wife Margueritte Bourg and their daughter Anne Margueritte.^[1]

Anne Marguerite Metra was born on May 7, 1767 in Garo, Bretagne, France, daughter of Jean Metra and exiled Acadian Marguerite Bourg. She was baptized the same day in Pleudihen, Bretagne (today Côtes-d'Armor), France. ^[2]

In September 1784, the family was on a list of Acadian families in Nantes who wished to establish themselves in Louisiana. ^[3]

On 17 May 1785, in Saint-Martin parish of Chantenay, France, she married Claude François Boudeloche, a Frenchman, son of François Boudeloche and Anne Douet. ^[4] The witnesses were Francois Baudeloche, father of the groom, Jean Metra father of the bride, Ignace Hamon uncle of the bride, Cecile Jean Bourque, cousin of the bride, Joseph Henry also uncle by mariage of the bride.

Anne-Marguerite, age 18, and her parents, were on the embarkation list of the ship L'Amitié that left France in August 1785 and reached New Orleans in November after three long months at sea. Her husband Claude François also traveled on L'Amitié with them, but only appeared on the debarkation list. ^[5]

Anne died before 26 May 1789 in Louisiana the date her husband remarried.

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. 40
2. ↑ Albert J. Robichaux, The Acadian Exiles in Saint-Malo: 1758-1785; vol. 1, pt. 1, (Eunice, LA, Hebert Publications, 1981) p. 621, family #717
3. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians: Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796, (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973) p. 493

   On the list of the Acadian families "who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of His [Spanish] Catholic Majesty," dated Sep 1784 (cited as A.D.S. Legajo 2575).

   On list from NANTES: Jean METRA, with wife Marguerite BOURG, 1 daughter, and 1 orphan, for a total family of 4.
4. ↑ Archives départementales du Loire-Atlantique, Chantenay-Saint-Martin,1785, image 38 Marriage
5. ↑ Donald J. Hébert, Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index, (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995), pp. 80-81, 84-85
   • Anne Marguerite MÉTRA, age 18, daughter of Jean MÉTRA & his wife Marguerite BOURG, traveling with them as the 61st family (of 3 persons) aboard "L'Amitié."
   • Francisco BOUCITE, listed on debarkation list, but with no reference on the Embarkation list made at La Rochelle, France.
   He was granted 1 axe, shovel, hatchet and knife; 2 hoes, by the Spanish authorities.