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Marie Françoise Pago (abt. 1722 - aft. 1777)

Marie Françoise Pago aka Pagot, Pajeau, Doucet
Born about in Saint-Porchaire, Poitiers, Poitou, Francemap [uncertain]
Daughter of and
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married before 1749 in Louisiana, Nouvelle-Francemap [uncertain]
Descendants descendants
Died after after about age 55 in Grand Prairie, Opelousas, Louisiana, New Spainmap [uncertain]
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Biography

Marie Françoise Pago has French origins.
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Marie Françoise Pago lived in Louisiana.

Marie Francoise Pagot, daughter of Louis Pago and Jeanne Gallois, was born c.1721 at St. Porchaire, Poitiers, France.[citation needed] She was listed as 60 years old on the census of 1777;[1] however, ages on census records are not very reliable, depending on the giver of the information. She was more likely about 55. Her first known child, Louise Doucet I, is estimated to have been born about 1740-- her age also estimated based on the census of 1777. Assuming she had Louise at age 18, Francoise would have been born about 1722, give or take a few years.

On that census, in addition to a 25 year old son, a "Joseph DOUCET, orphan, 13" is listed with her, who seems likely to be the "son" listed below, whose birth (and parentage) was documented in 1764.

She married Pierre Doucet c.1739, probably in des Alibamons.

Known children of the marriage:
  1. Louise Doucet I (c.1740)
  2. Baptiste Doucet (c.1752)[1]
  3. Marie Louise Doucet II (c.1752)
  4. Joseph Doucet (1763)[2][1]

The French presence in the New World was greatly diminished by the outcome of the Seven Years War. The French forts along the present-day Gulf of Mexico were decommissioned by the 1763 Treaty of Paris, and many of the French inhabitants moved to New Orleans to avoid being under English rule. This would explain the birth of Pierre and Francoise's son in New Orleans in 1763. From there they settled at the Opelousas Poste, where she was widowed by 1777.

Her date of death is unknown, but she was last recorded, as far as is known, on the census of 1777.

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Winston De Ville, Southwest Louisiana Families in 1777: Census Records of Attakapas and Opelousas Posts, citing Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, at the General Archives of the Indies in Seville, Spain; legajo 2358, folios 258 -300) (Baton Rouge, LA: Claitor's reprint, 2010) pp. 18-19, Text:
    [Household #] 25.
    Widow Marie Francois[e?] PAGOT, 60. With 0 cattle, 15 horses, 0 pigs, 0 sheep.
    Garcons: Baptiste, 25;
    Joseph DOUCET, orphan, 13.
  2. Archdiocese of New Orleans Sacramental Records, Vol. 2, 1751-1771, Rev. Monsignor Earl C. Woods, ed. (New Orleans, LA: Diocese of N.O., 1988) p. 97
    DOUSSES Joseph (Pierre, surnamed MAURICE, and Marie PAGOT, bt. Feb. 9, 1764, bn. Sept. 24, 1763, s. Joseph SILVESTRE and Genevieve DAUPHINES, both from Alabama (SLC, B5, 38 )




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Pago-8 and Pago-1 appear to represent the same person because: One of a series of required merges. Same spouse and children.
posted by Jason Oubre