♀Marie Josèphe Brun

Marie Josèphe Brun was an Acadian woman of Beaubassin, the wife of Paul Bourgeois. She was the sixth great-grandmother of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through her son Joseph Bourgeois (born about 1736).

Marriage and children

On 17 November 1727 at Port-Royal she, aged 17, married Paul Bourgeois, aged 22 and living at Beaubassin. She was the daughter of Jean Brun and Anne Gautrot, and the marriage record names both of her parents.

Five of the couple’s children were baptized at Beaubassin between 1733 and 1748. In the Beaubassin entry for Pierre, baptized in 1745, her name is spelled Brin. The 1759 marriage act of their son Joseph gives his mother’s name as Anne Brin, and the parents named in that act are set out in the notes to Paul Bourgeois’s life.

She was born at Port-Royal on 9 March 1710 and was baptized there on 23 March, by the priest Justinien Durand. She probably died between 1748 and 1750; the refugee roll of 1750 lists her husband as a widower.

Notes

The baptism

The Nova Scotia Archives’ transcription of the Port-Royal register (An Acadian Parish Remembered, RG 1 vol. 26 p. 93) records her baptism on 23 March 1710, with godparents Bonaventure Teriot and Marie Brun, and gives her birth as 9 March 1710, to Jean Brun and Anne Gautrot. A compiled genealogy adds that she had been privately baptized at birth by her paternal grandfather, Sébastien Brun; the transcription does not mention this.

The death

No death record for her is on file. A compiled genealogy places her death between 1748 and 1750, since her last child was baptized on 1 January 1748. The refugee roll of 1750 (ANF Colonies G1 vol. 466, no. 35, transcribed by Stephen A. White, 2019, p. 106) lists her husband as “veuf” (widower). That word is the roll’s own; the pairing of Paul with a second wife is White’s reconstruction.