♂Charles Bourg

Charles Bourg (died before 8 January 1765) was an Acadian known from the marriage of his son Joseph at Le Havre, in Normandy, on 8 January 1765, when the register named Joseph the son of the late Charles Bourg and the late Marguerite Landry. He was the sixth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his son Joseph Bourg (about 1742 – before 1772).

The marriage, in the parish of Notre-Dame, joined Joseph to Rose Doiron, also a native of Acadia. The register, which spells the family names Bourc and Landri, gives Joseph as twenty-two and “fils mineur de feu Charles et de feue Marguerite Landri”, the under-age son of the late Charles and the late Marguerite. It does not say when or where either parent died. Joseph, born in Acadia about 1742, is the couple’s only child on record. Charles is said to have been a son of Charles Bourg and Cécile Melanson, but which of the Acadian men of his name he was is not settled.

Notes

The 1765 marriage

The clerk dated the head of the page January 1764, and Steven A. Cormier’s compiled history of the Acadians of Louisiana gives the marriage as 8 January 1764, but the volume is the register for 1765. When Joseph’s daughter Rose Adelaide was baptized at Le Havre on 14 October 1765, her godmother was Catherine Bourg, whom the register calls “sa tante”, the child’s aunt; WikiTree’s family for Charles and Marguerite includes a daughter Catherine, born about 1748.

A namesake couple

A younger Charles Bourg, born in 1727, also married a Marguerite Landry, about 1755, as his second wife. The compiled genealogy of Bona Arsenault^W makes him a son of Charles Bourg and Anne Boudrot and gives that couple two children, Jean-Charles in 1756 and Anne in 1757; Jean-Charles was baptized on Île Saint-Jean^W on 19 January 1756. Born only about fifteen years before Joseph, that Charles was too young to have been his father. The census of Île Saint-Jean and Île Royale^W taken in 1752 lists no household of a Charles Bourg and a Marguerite Landry.

Which Charles Bourg

His parentage comes from a WikiTree profile, which makes him a Charles Bourg born in Acadia in 1721, the son of Charles Bourg and Cécile Melanson, and gives him a death on 9 August 1761. The profile rests on an unpublished draft of Stephen A. White’s genealogy of the Acadian families from 1715 to 1780, as cited by another researcher; no register entry is known to name his parents. It also mixes him with the namesake: its list of his children includes Jean-Charles and Anne, and its dates put his marriage in 1742, the year after its date for Joseph’s birth. The father it gives him, Charles Bourg, the son of Martin Bourg and Marie Potet, appears at half a year old on the census of Port-Royal in 1698 and is absent from the census of 1700.