♀Marie Bourg

Marie Bourg (born about 1674) was an Acadian of Les Mines^W, the wife of Bernard Daigle, known from the register of the parish of St. Charles aux Mines at Grand-Pré as the mother of six sons baptized or married there between 1709 and 1727. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Abraham Daigle.

Family

By 1693 the couple were at Les Mines: a transcription of the census taken there that year lists Bernard Daigre, twenty-two, with Marie Bourg, his wife, nineteen, and a son, Bernard, aged one. The household had six cattle, two sheep, two hogs and six arpents of land. Régis Brun’s history of the Acadians before 1755, drawing on the 1693 roll of the inhabitants of Les Mines, lists Bernard Daigle and Marie Bourque among the first settlers of the Mines, on the river of Kenescout at Pigiguit^W. In 1731 and 1737 the register described the family of their son Abraham as of the parish of L’Assomption at Pigiguit.

The couple married before 1693: the census of 1693 already finds them married, with a son, while the Grand-Pré register begins only in 1707 and does not record the wedding. The register records the births of two of the couple’s sons: René on 23 January 1709, baptized on 19 May, and Amand on 28 January 1712, baptized on 15 May, with a Bernard Daigre the younger (“le fils”) as his godfather. That younger Bernard was probably the couple’s son of the same name, who as “habitants de Pigiguit” married Angélique Richard on 22 October 1714.

Three more sons married in the parish in the 1720s, each entry naming Bernard and Marie as the groom’s parents. Jean Baptiste married Marie Magdeleine Landry on 10 November 1721; her father, Claude Landry, was also an ancestor of Floyd Amatus Delahorne. Widowed, Jean Baptiste married Marie Anne Braud on 3 February 1727. François married Marie Boudrot, daughter of Claude Boudrot and Catherinne Meunier, on 8 November 1725, and Abraham married Anne Marie Boudrot, daughter of Michel Boudrot and Cecille Leblanc, on 5 November 1727. In 1731 René stood godfather to Abraham’s son Aimable, and the register calls him the child’s paternal uncle.

A transcription of the census of Les Mines taken in 1714 counts Bernard and his wife with eight sons and two daughters, ten children in all, a larger family than the six sons the register names. A declaration made in 1767 by a relative of the family names a further son, Joseph, who married Magdeleine Gautrot; their children were baptized at Grand-Pré from 1725, though no register entry names Joseph’s parents.

Declarations made in 1767 at Belle-Île by her descendants call her “Claire Bourg of Port Royal” and say that she died at Pisiquid, in the parish of the Assumption. No year of her death is on record.

Notes

The censuses of 1693 and 1714 are known here from transcriptions published at acadian-home.org, not on the manuscript returns. Marie is nineteen in 1693, which puts her birth about 1674.

The Grand-Pré entries are known here from the abstracts published in the Diocese of Baton Rouge’s Catholic church records, volume 1A. They write the surname both Daigle and Daigre. The 1693 census and the register write Marie’s surname Bourg; Brun’s list writes it Bourque. No record names her parents.

Frère J.-Hervé Beliveau’s genealogical dictionary of the Belliveau families gives Jean Baptiste’s birth as 1698 and dates his first marriage 6 November 1721; the register abstract has 10 November, and that date is used here.

The line to Floyd Amatus Delahorne runs through Abraham’s son François Daigle (born about 1740). He appears as François Marie, aged twelve, in Abraham’s household on the 1752 census of Île Saint-Jean, which ties him to the couple who married in 1727.

She is a different woman from Marie Bourg (born about 1676), the wife of Pierre Theriot, also an ancestor of Floyd Amatus Delahorne.

The marriage

The census of 1693 is the record that places the couple together as husband and wife, so the marriage is dated before that year. Arsenault’s compiled history of the Acadians gives the wedding as about 1692. A later compiled dictionary of Acadian families by White, as quoted on WikiTree, gives 1691 at Pisiguit.