Marie-Madeleine Béliveau

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Category:Port-Royal, Acadie

Biography ==Marie-Madeleine * BELLIVEAU was born about 1711 in Port Royal, Acadia ≤ref name = SAW>Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes; 1636-1714. Centre D'études Acadiennes - Université de Moncton≤/ref>≤ref>Registre de L'Abbe Charles-François Bailly; Ed Galvin's loose English translation. 1771. Ile Madame, Richmond Co., Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, CAN. [http://elgalvin.mysite.syr.edu/]≤/ref>

When Marie-Madeleine Belliveau was only 16 or 17 years old she marriedthe widower, Jean Fougère at St. Peters in about 1728≤ref name = SAW/>. Jean had several young children which Marie-Madeleine raised. Our ancestor Charles Fougère, son of the first marriage lost his motheras an infant, so Marie-Madeleine would have been the only mother he knew. Jean and Marie-Madeleine had at least 10 children of which 3 diedyoung. Jean died sometime after 1745, leaving Marie-Madeleine with a large family to raise. She took a second husband, her cousin, Claude Dugas around 1750. He was the son of Joseph Dugas and Marguerite Coste.In 1756, Claude's sister Madeleine Dugas married Marie-Madeleine's step son, Charles Fougère. The Acadians freguently married relatives since in such a small population, they were related to everyone. Often siblings married into different generations of the same family. The census of 1752 by Sieur de LaRoque shows Marie-Madeleine and her second husband, Claude Dugas living in St. Peters with several of their relatives nearby. The children of the first marriage of Jean Fougère had grown up and married except for Charles. Joseph Fougère had married Marguerite Coste and was living in a house sold to him by his step-father, Claude Dugas.≤ref name=Charlene> "Marie-Madeline Beliveau", Charlene(Fraser) McKenzie. [http://www.accesswave.ca/~cfraser/Belliveau.html.article%E2%89%A4/ref>

Children with Jean:Madeleine [1] FOUGÈRE b: by 1730 in Port Toulouse, île Royale, Acadia≤br />
Madeleine [2] FOUGÈRE b: ABT 1731 in Acadia≤br />Judith FOUGÈRE b: ABT 1733 in Port Toulouse, île Royale, Acadia≤br />Louise * 'Marie-Louise' FOUGÈRE b: ABT 1735 in Port Royal, Acadia≤br />
Barbe FOUGÈRE b: ABT 1736 in Acadia≤br />
Marie FOUGÈRE b: by 1737 in Acadia≤br />
Jean FOUGÈRE b: by 1742 in Port Toulouse, île Royale, Acadia≤br />
Michel FOUGÈRE b: by 1743 in Acadia≤br />
Marie-Gervaise FOUGÈRE b: by 1744 in Acadia≤br />
She married Claude Dugas in about 1750≤ref>Karen Theriot Reader Marie Belliveau citing Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 412 (Port Royal); own copy. ≤blockquote>Born 1722, Madeleine BELIVEAU married Claude DUGAS (no parents given) of Port Toulouse, Isle Royale. On p. 549 (Jean FOUGERE's entry, 1st husband) it says Jean's widow Madeleine BE'LIVEAU married Claude DUGAS of Port-Toulouse around 1751. This family was at Petit-De-Grat, Cap-Breton in 1771.≤/blockquote>≤/ref>. Claude Dugas, second husband of Marie-Madeleine Belliveau was recorded in 1752 as a Coaster. Goods shippedfrom LaRochelle, France arrived at Louisbourg and were then distributed throughout the colony by coastal traiders. St. Peters was the centre of this activity. Claude was listed as being 26 years old at the time and Marie-Madeleine was 34. The ages recorded in this census were frequently wrong. They had 4 sons and 2 daughters. Only one of these wasa Dugas child. The rest were Fougère children from her first marriage. Our ancestor, Jean, was only 10 years old at this time. deLaRoque also recorded of the family "In live stock they have 2 oxen, 2 cows, one mare, one goose, one pig, and 5 fowl. They have cleared a garden andthe remainder of the homestead is in meadow land from which they draw20 to 30 quintals of hay. The land they occupy was sold to them by the late Robert Henry. The extent of the said land was not specified in the deed of sale."≤ref name=Charlene/>≤ref name = SAW /> ≤ref>Steven DeRoche. Fougères of Nova Scotia. [http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/2229/]≤/ref>≤ref>Census. 1752. "Inspection Voyage of Sieur de La Roque". Acadia. [http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/2229/laroque.html]≤/ref>
Childen with ClaudeJoseph DUGAS b: ABT 1751 in Port-Toulouse, île Royale, Acadia [later St. Peters]≤br />
Théotiste DUGAS≤br />
Jeanne DUGAS≤br />
Just 6 years later their community was uprooted with the fall of Louisbourg. All evidence indicates that neither Marie-Madeleine Belliveau nor any member of her family was expelled from Cape Breton. They must have gone into hiding until it was safe to emerge. Marie-Madeleine was still living in 1771 when a missionary priest, Fr. Charles-François Bailly de Messein visited Ile Madame. Catholics had been without priests for many years. Marriages and baptisms preformed without benefit of clergy were revalidated by Fr. Bailly. The entire population of Petit de Grat consisted of Marie-Madeleine Belliveau's step children and their offspring, her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.≤refname=Charlene/>
She died after 1771 ≤ref>E-Mail Message. Research compiled by Francis Snyder (via Jim Fraser). 1998≤/ref> ≤ref>Ron Frazier. Fougeres of North America [http://www.angelfire.com/ma/ronspage/FougereGenealogy.html]3.29.00≤/ref>

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See also:*http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?pid=835417&partI...

Acknowledgements ==*Taken, with gratitude, in toto from a RootsWeb profile [http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ib4eexcep.... Needsto be sourced, checked and formatted. ] Foley-1031 14:11, 9 August 2015 (EDT)