The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

Melancon · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Marguerite Melancon

Born about 1676.

Marguerite Melancon (born about 1676) was a woman of Acadie. She was probably the seventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her daughter Anastasie Bourg (born 1708).

She was the daughter of Pierre Melancon (born about 1632) and Marie Marguerite Mius d’Entremont (born about 1650). She was 10 in 1686 and 16 in 1693. In 1686 she was living at Les Mines, Acadie, in her parents’ household. Her birth year of about 1676 is an estimate from those ages. She is said to have married Alexandre Bourg (born 1671).

Notes

Marriage

Arsenault, Bona, Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, 2e éd., vol. 3, p. 1263, is the source for the marriage to Alexandre Bourg. It is a printed compilation of Acadian families, not a parish register.

Residence in 1686

The 1686 census of the Baye des Mines lists the household of Pierre Melancon (written Pierre Melançon dit la Verdure, aged 54) and his wife (written Marie Mius Dautremon in the record, aged 36), with the children Philippe 20, Cécile 18, Pierre 16, Marie 13, Marguerite 10, Isabelle 7 and Jean 5. The record calls the place the Baye des Mines. The head and wife are the parents named for Marguerite, and the daughter Marguerite at 10 fits the birth year of about 1676 from the same ages. The same parents’ household appears again in the 1693 census, when she is 16.

Family time line

◉ Marguerite Melancon abt 1676–
◉ Alexandre Bourg 1671–
Married, date not known
○ Marie Bourg abt 1695–
○ Marie-Madeleine Bourg abt 1696–
○ Anne Bourg 1699–
◉ Anastasie Bourg 1708–
○ Alexandre Bourg 1709–
○ Marie-Josèphe Bourg 1711–
○ Dorothée Bourg 1713–
○ Paul Bourg 1715–
○ Michel Bourg 1717–
○ Benony Bourg 1718–
○ Jean-Baptiste Bourg 1720–
○ Joseph Bourg 1722–

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth
from census ages: 10 in 1686, 16 in 1693
 abt 1676 on record
Living at
'Marguerite 10' in Pierre Melançon dit la Verdure's household, 1686 census of the Baye des Mines - record, read on the image
 1686 Les Mines, Acadie on record
16761686 1680

Sources

  • Census of Acadia, Port-Royal, 1671, 1686 and 1693 (manuscript nominal censuses of Acadia) — Birth, Living at, about this person
  • Arsenault, Bona, Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, 2e éd. (Ottawa: Léméac, 1978), 6 vols., pagination continuous across volumes — about this person, family with Alexandre Bourg, Marriage (Alexandre Bourg)

Borders as they stood about 1700, from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

  1. Pierre Melancon abt 1632–
    1. Pierre Melancon –bef 1677
    2. Priscilla (surname unknown) abt 1602–
  2. Marie Marguerite Mius d'Entremont abt 1650–
    1. Philippe Mius d'Entremont abt 1609–
    2. Madeleine Hélie abt 1626–

Descendants

  1. Marie Bourg abt 1695–
    1. Bernard LeBlanc 1719–
    2. Anne LeBlanc 1722–
    3. Joseph LeBlanc 1724–
      1. Marie Marguerite Leblanc –1821
        1. Ange Poirier 1771–1861
        2. Jean-Baptiste Poirier 1779–
      2. Jean-Baptiste Leblanc-Bourquet
        1. Madeleine Leblanc-Bourquet
    4. Marguerite LeBlanc 1728–
    5. Marie-Madeleine LeBlanc 1734–
    6. Pierre LeBlanc 1737–
  2. Marie-Madeleine Bourg abt 1696–
    1. Jean-Baptiste Babin 1719–1762
      1. Marie Magdeleine Babin 1746–1833
        1. Marie Madeleine Vincent 1772–1842
    2. Ambroise Babin 1731–1797
      1. Marie Lutine Babin 1760–1822
        1. Marie Bernard 1791–1850
      2. Thomas Babin 1763–1810
        1. Joseph Babin 1795–1871
  3. Anne Bourg 1699–
  4. Anastasie Bourg 1708–
    1. Marie Josephe Godin abt 1744–bef 1822
      1. Éléonore Prejean 1770–
        1. Éléonore Carmélite Thibodeaux 1795–
        2. Marie Arthémise Thibodeaux 1797–
        3. Anne Doralie Thibodeau 1799–1855 ⛓
        4. Barthélémy Thibodeaux 1801–1818
        5. François Thibodeaux 1801–
        6. Marcelline Thibodeaux 1803–
        7. Onésime Thibodeaux 1806–
        8. Rufin Thibodeaux 1808–
        9. Narcisse Thibodeaux 1808–
        10. Ovide Thibodeaux 1810–
        11. Adelaide Azema Thibodeaux 1812–
        12. Surville Thibodeaux bef 1817–1825 ✧
        13. Derville Thibodeaux bef 1817–
      2. Antoine Célestin Prejean 1777–1822
      3. Émilie Prejean 1780–
      4. Constance Prejean bef 1792–
  5. Alexandre Bourg 1709–
    1. Simon Bourg 1755–1830
      1. Jean Baptiste Bourg 1804–
        1. Louis Olivier Bourque 1847–
  6. Marie-Josèphe Bourg 1711–
    1. Madeleine Landry 1747–
    2. Marie Landry 1748–
    3. Joseph Landry 1750–
      1. Louis Landry 1776–
    4. Marguerite Landry 1752–
    5. Gertrude Landry 1754–
  7. Dorothée Bourg 1713–
    1. Anastasie Landry 1732–
    2. François Landry 1741–
      1. Marguerite Landry 1770–
        1. Paul François Savoie 1790–abt 1855
    3. Joseph Landry 1750–
  8. Paul Bourg 1715–
  9. Michel Bourg 1717–
  10. Benony Bourg 1718–
  11. Jean-Baptiste Bourg 1720–
  12. Joseph Bourg 1722–