Jean-Baptiste Bourgeois

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Jean-Baptiste Bourgeois

Also Known As: "Baptiste Bourgeois"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Acadie, Beaubassin, Colony of Nova Scotia, [British Colony]
Death: March 1816 (79-87)
St. James Parish, Louisiana, United States
Place of Burial: Convent, St. James Parish, Louisiana, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Pierre Bourgeois and Marie-Françoise Cormier
Husband of Rosalie Leblanc; Marie-Madeleine Bourg and Osite-Anne Melancon
Father of Jean-Baptiste Bourgeois; Joseph-Marie Cabot Bourgeois; Claude Bourgeois; Pierre Victorin Bourgeois; Amand Alcide Bourgeois and 4 others
Brother of Pierre Bourgeois; Marie Bourgeois; Marguerite Bourgeois; Gilles Bourgeois; Michel Bourgeois and 7 others

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About Jean-Baptiste Bourgeois

  • Sources:
    • Drouin Institute (Archived birth and baptismal record - see attached in Media tab)
    • "Acadian Immigrants to Cabanocé/Cabahannocer, 1765" - http://www.acadiansingray.com
      • Cabanocé, La Luisiana census, 1766, listed as Baptista, age 43
      • St.-Jacques, La Luisiana census, 1777, listed as Baptiste, age 44
      • St.-Jacques, La Luisiana census, 1779, listed as Baptiste
  • Notes:
    • Arrived in current day Louisiana in 1765, Age 32

Jean Baptiste Bourgeois is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 2 Left. Listed with him is Madeleine Bourg, his wife, and their two children Jean Baptiste, Joseph Marie, and Claude. [1]

Baptiste was born around 1727. [2] Earlier genealogy research estimated his birth date as 1733. [3] [4] He passed away in 1816. [6]

Jean Bourgeois married three times:

  1. Madeleine Bourg, daughter of Joseph Bourg and Anne Cormier on 15 February 1757 at Port LaJoye, Ile Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island). [7] [8]
  2. Osite Melanson Married: 20 Feb 1776 in St. James, St. James, LA [9] [10]
  3. Rosalie LeBlanc, Married: 23 Jan 1804 in St. James, St. James, LA [11] [12]
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Jean-Baptiste Bourgeois's Timeline

1733
February 4, 1733
Acadie, Beaubassin, Colony of Nova Scotia, [British Colony]
February 4, 1733
Acadie, Beaubassin, Colony of Nova Scotia, [British Colony]
Drouin Institute
1754
1754
1759
1759
1761
1761
Acadie, British Colony
1763
March 10, 1763
Halifax?, Acadie, British Colony
1765
December 19, 1765
New Orleans, La Luisiana, New Spain
1769
1769
1772
1772
Saint James, St. James Parish, Louisiana