Marie Pitre (abt. 1706 - 1758)

Born about 1706 in Cap Sable, Acadie, Nouvelle-France [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Jean Bourg — married about 1733 in Acadie

Descendants

Died 1758 at about age 52 in At sea

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Biography

Marie Pitre was born about 1706 to Marc Pitre and Jeanne Brun. ^[1]

Marie (26) married Jean Bourg (25) (born in Acadie, Nouvelle-France; son of Jean Baptiste Bourg and Marie Catherine Barrieau) in 1733 in Acadie. ^[1]

Their children were:

1. Jean Bourg (~1736–>1798) .
2. Charles Bourg (~1746–<1781)

In 1752 the family was recorded on the La Roque census in Rivière-des-Blonds, Ile Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island), with five children. ^[2]

They were deported to France in 1758 aboard one of the " Five English ships " (Yarmouth, Patience, Mathias, Restoration, John Samuel). Marie died at sea during the crossing. Jean disembarked at Saint-Malo on January 23, 1759 with his children but died soon after. ^[3][1]

Research Notes

Removed Charles (LaPierre) La Pierre (abt.1699-bef.1733) as her 1st husband. He married another Marie PITRE (Jean & Françoise Babin). See his profile for more details. (Cormier-1939 23:23, 20 September 2023 (UTC))

Note by Stephen White for p. 1323 in Ajouts & Corrections explaining why he believes Marie Pitre who married Jean Bourg is not the same Marie Pitre who married Charles Lapierre: ^[4]

(Translation: “Jan 22, 1761: Inquiry concerning the request for an affinity dispensation from Joseph Lapierre, aged thirty-five, son of Charles Lapierre and Marie Pitre, in order to be able to marry Rosalie Hébert. Appeared on the side of the supplicant, Charles Henry, twenty-eight years old, his first cousin, having borne out of a sister of his mother´. (M. Godret, ´Mariages acadiens à Cherbourg´, Racines & French Rameaux d'Acadie, no 26, 2002, p 9-10). Now this Charles Henry was the son of Joseph Henry and Christine Pitre. Joseph Lapierre's mother was thus the sister of Christine and the daughter of Jean Pitre and Françoise Babin. In his testimony during the same investigation, Joseph Lapierre said of his mother that she took refuge two years ago from St-Louis' feast, in the woods of Acadia to avoid the fury of the English´ (ibid., p 9). So she was still alive on August 25, 1758, the feast of Saint-Louis two years before his testimony. It is very likely that she was on Île St-Jean at the time. She cannot be the Marie Pitre who married Jean Bourg, because this one died at sea during deportation to France (Arch Port St-Servan). She was thefore another Marie Pitre who would have escaped in 1758. The only one we found on Île St-Jean was the wife of Mathieu Brasseur. Therefore we believe that she was the mother of Joseph Lapierre. ”

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes. (Moncton, N.-B.: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999), Print. p. 1324
2. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. 163, image 356

   Jean Bourg, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 45 years, he has been in the country one year. Married to Marie Pitre, native of l'Acadie, aged 46 years.

   They have five children, three sons and two daughters:-

   Jean, aged 17 years.

   François, aged 14 years.

   Charles, aged 6 years.

   Marguerite, aged 18 years.

   Marie, aged 8 years.

   In live stock they have three oxen, one cow, three heifers, and five pigs. The land upon which they are settled is situated as in the preceding cases. It was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. On it they have made a clearing for the sowing of six bushels of wheat in the coming spring.

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 173, accessed September 2023

   BOURG Jean, 56, a plowman, died in Pleudihen on 4 (sic) April 1759

   PITRE Marie, his wife, died at sea

   BOURG Charles, 13, son, lives in Pleudihen

   BOURG Marguerite, 26, daughter, died at hospital on 20 march 1759

   BOURG Marie, 16, daughter, lives in Pleudihen

4. ↑ White, Stephen A. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes, "Ajouts et corrections" Ajouts et corrections; University of Moncton, Centre d'études acadiennes; Online

• Find A Grave: Memorial #139628341 (unsourced)

• Birth, listed under parent Marc Pitre
• http://www.acadian-home.org/census1708.html

• Family on Cape Sable in 1708, Claude was 7

http://www.acadian-home.org/census1708.html

• Title: Newberry Library; Text: [From the French]

Listed 5th among the French families on the east coast:

Marc PITRE, 37 years;

Jeanne BRUN, 36;

Claude, his son, 7;

Jean, 5;

Marie, 2.