♀Marguerite Boudrot

Marguerite Boudrot (12 October 1725 – 20 October 1764) was an Acadian woman of Rivière-aux-Canards in Acadia, the wife of Antoine Dupuis, whose children were orphans by 1769 and settled in Louisiana. She was the fourth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Jean Baptiste Dupuis.

Family

Marguerite was born on 12 October 1725 and baptized the next day at Grand-Pré, the daughter of Michel Boudrot and Cécile LeBlanc, with Germain Dupuis as godfather. A sworn declaration made on 27 February 1767 on Belle-Île-en-Mer by Marie-Josèphe Dupuis, widow of Pierre Theriot and sister of Marguerite’s husband, lists Antoine Dupuis, “married there to Marguerite Boudrot, daughter of Michel Boudrot and Anne-Marie LeBlanc”. Three Dupuis children married three Boudrot children of the same parents: besides Antoine and Marguerite, the declaration has Marguerite Dupuis marrying Pierre Boudrot and Anne-Marie Dupuis marrying Michel Boudrot, both sons of Michel Boudrot and Anne-Marie LeBlanc. The Grand-Pré register has only one Michel Boudrot household, with a Pierre, a Michel and a Marguerite among its children, so these are most likely the same three children.

Life

Antoine Dupuis and Marguerite Boudrot married at Rivière-aux-Canards, most likely between 1746 and 1750, though no register of the marriage survives. Marguerite and Antoine Dupuis lived at Rivière-aux-Canards in the Minas district of Acadia before the expulsion of 1755, according to Steven A. Cormier’s compiled history of the Acadians of Louisiana. Their children included Jean Baptiste (born about 1752), Simon-Joseph (about 1754) and Marie Madeleine (about 1755).

Cormier’s compilation has the family deported in 1755 to Connecticut, where it was still in August 1763, and then carried to Le Mirebalais in Saint-Domingue^W, where, it says, her husband and two of her sons died in 1764 and 1765. A burial entry at Le Mirebalais dated 20 October 1764 is most likely hers, although it gives the dead woman’s name as Anne. Cormier counts the children among the relatively few Acadians who reached Louisiana directly from Saint-Domingue: four of them were taken to New Orleans by their uncle Joseph Dupuis, where Spanish officials counted them in July 1767, and settled at St. Gabriel.

When her daughter Marie Madeleine married Jean Baptiste Hébert on 27 March 1769, the Pointe Coupée register recorded both of her parents as dead. Her son Jean Baptiste’s marriage at Ascension in 1775 names her as “Margarite Budrot”, and his second marriage in 1816 as “Margarita Budrou”. Her son Simon-Joseph married Louise Divine Landry at Ascension on 5 October 1778, and the register calls him Simon and names his parents as Anthony and Margarita Budrot, Acadians. Her youngest son, Pierre, born about 1765, is said by Cormier to have died unmarried at St. Gabriel as a young man. A Pedro, son of Antonio and Margarita Budro, was buried at St. Gabriel on 25 January 1781, and the tree takes him to be that Pierre.

Notes

Family trees give her dates as about 1725 to 1764 and place her death in Saint-Domingue. The burial entry at Le Mirebalais of 20 October 1764 names the dead woman as Anne Boudrot, wife of Antoine Dupuis, aged thirty, and a later act for her son Felix, two days afterwards, also calls her the late Anne Boudrot. The priest had written Marguerite in his entries that summer and autumn, and the age of thirty does not fit her birth in 1725, so the identification is probable rather than certain. The registers show that she was dead by March 1769. The abstracts of her sons’ marriages in 1775 and 1778 and of Pedro’s burial in 1781 name her without saying whether she was living. Her mother, Cécile LeBlanc, was buried at Grand-Pré on 26 May 1731, and her father married Anne Prejean at Annapolis Royal on 16 April 1732. The declaration’s mother, Anne-Marie LeBlanc, does not appear in the registers; the most likely explanation, an interpretation and not a record, is that the deponent ran together the stepmother’s first name and the mother’s surname.

The marriage

The marriage is known only from compiled histories. Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens gives it as about 1750 at Rivière-aux-Canards (volume 3, page 1164, and volume 2, page 446). White’s Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes gives about 1746 (page 208, as cited on WikiTree at Boudrot-525), and a FamilySearch family record gives the same year. The register of Rivière-aux-Canards is lost, and the Diocese of Baton Rouge’s volume 1a (1707–1748) holds no act of the marriage.

Connecticut in 1763

Cormier’s compilation has the family still in Connecticut in August 1763. Arsenault, who places them in New York, has the couple there that year with nine children; the tree lists seven children for them.