Louis Bourg

GEDCOM Note

Category:Isle Saint-Jean, Acadie
Category:Cobeguit, Acadie

Category: Port-Royal, Acadie
Category: Great Upheaval

Biography

:Birth: About 1690 in Port Royal, Acadia ≤ref>Title: Acadiens en France; Nantes et Paimboeuf, 1775-1785; Author: Gérard-Marc Braud; Publication: Nantes, France: Ouest Éditions, 1999; p. 66:Text: Born around 1687. Note: he was said to be 65 years old on the census of 1752 but that is an approximation and not to be accepted without further research. Others put the date at 1790.≤/ref>
:Marriage: Cecile Martin about 1721 in Acadie. Stephen White puts the year around 1721, while Gérard-Marc Braud puts the year around 1715. First known child was born about 1722, and last was 1744.
:Jean Baptiste Bourg was estimated to have been born in Cobequit in 1724≤ref>Karen Theriot Reader SonJean Baptiste citing Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 1478 (Cobequid); own copy.≤/ref>
:Census: 1752 Riviere Au Crapaud, Ile-Royale, Acadia 2≤ref>Placide Gaudet, REPORT CONCERNING CANADIAN ARCHIVES FOR THE YEAR 1905; 1600-1800;vol. II, part A, original a Sessional Paper no. 18 of the Archives, reprinted Heritage Books, 1994; p. 163; census by the Sieur de la Roqueat Riviere au Crapeau, Isle St. Jean in 1752. :Louis BOURG, ploughman, native of Port Royal, l'Acadie, age 65 [sic] years, has been 22 months in county. Married to Cecille MICHEL, age 58years. They have seven children, three sons and four daughters:≤br>:Eustache, aged 30 years. Louis, aged 22 years. Charles, aged 15 years. Marguerite, aged 25 years. Elizabeth, aged 24 years. Marie Magdelaine, aged 19 years. Anne Joseph, aged 8 years.≤br>In live stock, they have two oxen, four cows, one calf, four pigs, and ten fowls.The land upon which they are settled is situated on the east bank of the said river. It was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. They have made a clearing on it for the sowing of four bushels of wheat.≤/ref>
:Death: 1758-1759 in at sea during the crossing to France from Acadie.≤ref>Albert Robichaux, Jr., THE ACADIAN EXILES IN SAINT-MALO; 1758-1785; Eunice, LA, Hebert Publications, 1981, Part I, Vol. I; p. 151, family #176; own copy; :Louis BOURG, born about 1688, a ploughman, married about 1720 to Cecile MICHEL; seven children listed. In 1752 Louis, his wife and their 7 children were residents of Riviere-des-Blonds on Isle St. Jean. On 23 Jan 1759 his widow, and 1 daughter disembarked at St. Malo from one ofthe "Five ships." They resided at Pleudihen from 1759-1772.≤/ref>

Sources

≤references />*Birth-Parents-Name-Census-Marriage-Death: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 225; #(20)