♀Anastasie Bourg

Anastasie Bourg (born 1708) was an Acadian woman of Les Mines whose godfather at her baptism was the French officer commanding the settlement. She was probably the sixth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Marie Josephe Godin (about 1744 – before 23 September 1822).

Birth and baptism

She was born on 26 April 1708, a daughter of Alexandre Bourg and Marguerite Melancon, and baptized on 22 May at the church of St. Charles aux Mines at Grand-Pré. The priest set down her godfather’s rank in full: Mr. De Latour, ensign of a company of the colonial marine troops^W, seigneur in part of Acadia, and commandant at Les Mines. Her godmother was Elizabeth Melanson.

Marriage and family

Jean-Baptiste Godin and Anastasie Bourg most likely married about 1729; he was a son of Gabriel Godin and Andrée Angélique Jeanne, and went by the name Godin dit Lincour. He is said to have died before 12 August 1763, the date of a census of the Acadians. Their daughter Marie Josephe was born about 1744. By 1766 she was living at St. James on the Mississippi, the wife of Pierre Arceneaux; widowed within three years, she then married Basile Prejean. Her descent from the couple rests on the name Lincour that she carried.

Notes

Her baptism

The Diocese of Baton Rouge’s Catholic Church Records, vol. 1A, abstracts the entry from the first register of St. Charles aux Mines (SGA-1, 4): Anastasie Bourg, daughter of Alexandre Bourg and Marguerite Melanson, born 26 April 1708, baptized 22 May 1708; sponsors Delatour, who signed, and Elizabeth Melanson. The priest describes the godfather as Mr. De Latour, ensign of a company of the marine detachment, seigneur in part of Acadia and commandant at Les Mines. The register spells her mother’s name Melanson. Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens gives her birth year as 1708 in her parents’ entry.

Her marriage

Her marriage to Jean-Baptiste Godin about 1729 comes from Stephen A. White’s Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes, p. 747, as quoted on WikiTree; no record of the wedding is known. No record of her death is known.

The link to Marie Josephe Godin

White makes Marie Josephe the daughter of Jean-Baptiste Godin and Anastasie Bourg. By his own note, this is an inference from the name Lincour: the censuses of 1766, 1769 and 1777 write her Marie Licourt, Lincourt and Lincour, and the register of St. James writes her Marie Joseph Bellefontaine in 1777, another name of the Godin family. None of the records of her own life names her parents. Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens gives instead a Jean Godin dit Bellefontaine dit Lincour, born in 1712, married to Françoise Dugas on the Saint John River, and does not list her among his children. The descent through Jean-Baptiste and Anastasie therefore rests on White’s reading and is probable rather than proved.