♀Huguette Bourg

Huguette Bourg (born about 1657) was an Acadian woman of Port-Royal, a daughter of the early settlers Antoine Bourg and Antoinette Landry, who married Bastien Brun, while two of her brothers married two of his sisters, and died young, leaving him seven children. She was the eighth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), by three separate lines of descent, through her sons Claude Brun and Jean Brun (1684–1751).

Port-Royal

Huguette was one of eleven children of Antoine Bourg and Antoinette Landry. In the census of Port-Royal taken in 1671 she was fourteen and unmarried, at home with six unmarried brothers and sisters, among them Abraham, nine. Four elder ones were already married, among them her brother Bernard, whose wife was Françoise Brun, a sister of her future husband.

Marriage

Bastien Brun and Huguette Bourg married at Port-Royal before 1677; no record of the wedding survives, and compiled genealogies place it about 1676. The marriage was one of three between the two families: Bastien’s sisters Françoise and Marie Brun married Huguette’s brothers Bernard and Abraham Bourg, so the children of the three couples were double first cousins. By the census of 1678 the couple had a daughter of two and a son of one, six acres of land and eight cattle. The census of 1686 lists Bastien, thirty-two, and Huguette, twenty-eight, with six children, Jeanne, Claude, Abraham, Vincent, Jean and Antoine, from nine years old down to one, and twelve cattle. A seventh child, Marie, followed about 1687.

Huguette was alive at the birth of Marie about 1687 and died young, sometime before the census of 1693, which lists Bastien as a widower with all seven children at home. When their son Jean married at Port-Royal on 2 October 1708, the register named his parents as Sébastien Brun and Huguette Bourg and marked her as deceased.

Lines of descent

Bastien and Huguette reach Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014) by three separate lines of descent, through two of their children. Two of the lines run through their son Claude Brun, born about 1679, and one through their son Jean Brun (1684–1751). Each line is ten generations long, and all three come down the mother’s side of Floyd’s family, through Floyd’s mother Ida Serrette (1903–1990).

The lines meet again twice. They meet in Leonard Thibodeau (1823–1857), whose parents Mathilde Valentine Landry (1805–1879) and Placide Cyrille Thibodeaux (1802–1838) both descend from Bastien and Huguette. They meet again in Amelia Pennison Daigle (1869–1906), Ida Serrette’s mother, whose parents Melia Thibodeaux (born about 1850) and Jean Baptiste Daigle (born about 1847) both descend from them.

Notes

Huguette’s birth about 1657 rests on her age of fourteen in 1671, and the census of 1686 gives her twenty-eight; both entries come from the original rolls. Her place in the family rests on that 1671 entry and on Bona Arsenault’s compiled Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, which gives Huguette Bourg, born in 1657, daughter of Antoine and Antoinette Landry, as the wife of Sébastien Brun.

The censuses of 1678 and 1693, and the children’s names in 1686, are known here only from an online transcription of the Port-Royal rolls. The transcription of 1693 gives Marie as six. Léopold Lanctôt’s compiled Familles acadiennes places Huguette’s death between 1690 and 1693, and Arsenault gives Marie’s birth as about 1690. No record of her death or burial is known.