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!BIRTH-OCCUPATION-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-CENSUS-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton,New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 251; owncopy. #1: Jacques dit Jacob BOURGEOIS, born around 1619, a surgeon andcolonizer, married around 1643 to Jeanne TRAHAN, daugher of Guillaume &Francoise CORBINEAU;ten children. He died (Belle-Ile-en-Mer Declaration)at Port Royal in 1701 (according to C. CORMIER).
!BIRTH-IMMIGRATION-OCCUPATION-MARRIAGE-RESIDENCES-CHILDREN: Webpage by Stephen A. White, also published as La Societe historique acadienne,CAHIERS; vol. 25, nos. 2 & 3 (Apr-Sep 1994),;covers 37 Acadian families, with descent in New Brunwsick. JacquesBOURGEOIS, born in France around 1619, arrived in Acadia as surgeon in1641 on the ship "Le Saint-Francois." Around two years later he marriedJeanne TRAHAN, daughter of Guillaume & Francoise CORBINEAU, and settledat Port Royal. In 1672 he sent colonists to Beaubassin, of which he isconsider the founder.
!CHRISTENING: Rene' Perron, in LE RE'VEIL ACADIEN; vol. XIII, no. 1 (Feb 1997); p. 11. Jacques BOURGEOIS was born at La Ferte'-Gaucher, baptizedon 8 Jan 1621 at St-Romain Catholic Church. Cites own articles in theCAHIERS of the Socie'te'Historique Acadiennes, vol. 22, no. 4 (1991) andvol. 23, no. 1 (1992). He learned his surgical profession from theKnights of the Order of Malta of Coutran, where he was recruited byRazilly.
!BIRTH: Born in province of LaBrie, France, according to letter from A. Henri CHAMPAGNE, 215 Bourchard Avenue, Dracut, MA 01826, in Jan 1995.
!BIRTH-OCCUPATION-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Document from Archives Publiques du Canada. Placide Gaudet, GENEALOGIES ACADIENNES PAR PLACIDE GAUDET;(M.G.30, D103, Vol. 4); Article called "Famille Bourgeois", copy made on17 Jan 1968, p. 1 in possession of Karen Reader. 1st generation at PortRoyal for the BOURGEOIS family was Jacques, "chirurgien", born 1621 inFrance. Jacques married in 1643 at Port Royal to Jeanne TRAHAN, born 1631in France [was she really about 12 years old at marriage?]. Threechildren are listed for them: Jeanne, born 1644; Charles, born 1646; andGermain, born 1650. [Are the rest on the next page?]
!BIRTH-CHRISTENING-RESIDENCES: Clarence BREAUX responded to a query in Acadian Genealogy Exchange, vol. 23, no. 4 (Oct 1994) with: "JacquesBOURGEOIS was baptized 8 Jan. 1621 in the parish of St. Romain, LaFerte'-Gaucher, Dept. of Seine-et-Marne, France. There is reason tobelieve that he was an illegitimate son of his mother, MargueriteBOURGEOIS, and he grew up with the BOURGEOIS name. Marguerite's husbandwas Nicolas GRANDJEHAN, but it is not known if he was still alive at thetime of Jacques' birth. (Source: Rene' Perron in Les Amitie's Acadiennesand Cahiers of the Societe Historique Acadienne.)"
!CHRISTENING-FATHER: A letter from G. J. OLIVIER, 1014 Bond Street, Houma, LA 70360-5722, of 30 Dec 1994 cites the above article: E. RenePERRON, LES AMITIES ACADIENNES; issue #58 (4 Qtr 1991) ref. in AcadianGenealogy Exchange, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Apr 1992), p. 41. He specified parishof baptism of Jacob BOURGEOIS was St. Romain; sponsor, Isaac LE GENDRE.Father (deceased) was Nicolas GRANDJEHAN, mother Marguerite BOURGOEIS;child was raised as a BOURGEOIS.
!BIRTH-OCCUPATION-IMMIGRATION-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Arsenault, Histoire et Genealogie, p. 456 (Port Royal). Born in 1621, surgeon,arrived in Acadia from France in 1642, married around 1644. On the censusof 1698 he lived at Beaubassin, but later he returned to Port Royal. Hehad received from Governor d'Aulnay some land "en censive." A footnotefurther states that in the censuses he is often designated by the name ofJacob. He was lieutenant of Port Royal until the surrender on 16 AUG1654. Around 1672 he founded the colony "Bourgeois," known later by thename of Beaubassin, on the Bay of Chignectou.
!RESIDENCES: Bona Arsenault, HISTORY OF THE ACADIANS; 1600-1800; Ottawa, Lemeac, 1978; p. 48; own copy. Jacques BOURGEOIS was one of the firstsettlers in Beaubassin around 1672, with his sons Charles & Germain; hispilot Pierre ARSENAULT,and others.
!IMMIGRATION: A BOURGEOIS was known to be in the 1632 expedition of settlers arriving at Lahave on the Atlantic Coast on the eve of the Feastof the Assumption and eventually retake Port Royal from the Scots.(Rushton, The Cajuns, p. 308).Was this a relative of his mother?
!PARENTS: Is this the Jacques BOURGEOIS who is said by Arsenault to be brother-in-law to Germain DOUCET dit LAVERDURE? See HISTOIRE ETGENEALOGIE, p. 505 (Port Royal). A relation?
!CENSUS-NAME: 1671, Port Royal, Acadia. Name Jacob BOURGEOIS, age 50, a surgeon or physician ("Chirurgien"), living with wife Jeanne TRAHAN, age40 and their children (they have 10, but 2 are married). They have 33cattle and 24 sheep on 20 arpens workable land, more or less, "en deuxendroit." He is listed first of all the census records. [Does thisindicate his importance in the community, geography, or both?]
!CENSUS: 1678, Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Recensement de Port-Royal," in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE; vol. 22, no. 4;p. 230; sent by PERSI in Jun 1999. On verso of Folio 18: Jaq BOURGEOIS &Jeanne TRAHAN, living with two [youngest] girls, ages 15 and 12. Theyhave 20 arpents of land, with 15 head of cattle.
!CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, age 67 [birth year 1619?]. Living with wife 57 and son Guillaume, 31. They have 20 arpents worked land, butno animals. [Did he not live in Beaubassin, which he helped found around1672?].
!CENSUS: 1693, Port Royal, Acadia, age 74 [born 1619?]. Living with wife, 64, and a 3-year-old granddaughter, Jeanne. They have 15 cattle, 20sheep, 15 pigs, on 40 arpens of land, with 1 gun.
!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-OCCUPATION-RESIDENCES: Reginald L. Olivier, YOUR ANCIENT CANADIAN FAMILY TIES; Logan, Utah, Everton, 1972; pp. 35-36; SutroCalifornia State Library, CS89 O4. Jacques BOURGEOIS, surgeon, was bornin France in 1618, and married at Port-Royal, Acadia in 1643 to JeanneTRAHAN. He arrived in Acadia on the ship Aulnay in 1642, having the rankof Military Doctor. He was the founder of Beaubassin. Reference: 4: Bk.I,Pg. 361.
!IMMIGRATION-OCCUPATION-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Benjamin Joseph Bourgeois, DESCENDANTS OF JACQUES BOURGEOIS IN LOUISIANA; 1618-1900; Houston, BourgResearch, 1994; p. 4; own copy. Jacques came to North America in 1642,with eighteen other families, in his early twenties and single. Hemarried Jeanne TRAHAN, daughter of Guillaume & Francoise CHARBONNEAU, atPort-Royale in 1643; they had ten children. Jacques was a farmer,shipbuilder, and an English interpreter. He handled coatal shipping andtrading with the Indians in Baie Francoise, and traded with the Englishcolonists living in Boston. He moved to the Chignecto Basin in 1672 withtwo sons and two sons-in-laws, to found a colony known as Bourgeois,where he built a flour mill and a sawmill. It later became Beaubassin. Hereturned to Port-Royale in 1699, where he died in his eighties.
!RESIDENCES: "1672--Jacques Bourgeois, former surgeon to d'Aulnay, establishes his own and five other families in the Beaubassin area, thusbeginning a process of outmigration and shift of population center fromFort Royal to the other dikable marshlands of the peninsula." Suggeststhat "these pioneers merely wanted to distance themselves from thegovernment's reinforced garrison and its attempts to regulate such thingsas illegal trade with the New Englanders." (See Rushton, The Cajuns, p.310.) He moved back to Port Royal in 1698, 2 years before his death.
!MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Called "chirurgien" (surgeon) on daughter Marie's second marriage record, "of the parish of St. Jean Baptiste ofPort Royal." (DeVille, ACR, 1.)
!CHILDREN: "It is believed that all BOURGEOIS in Lafourche [LA] were descended from him." (Acadian Descendants, vol. 1, p. 111.)
!OCCUPATION: Surgeon (according to 1671 census). What were the functions of a 17th century doctor?
!OCCUPATION: Was he the "officier militaire de Coupreray en Brie, Champagne", see Pedigree Chart of Peggy Walker. Has this person beenconfused with his father? Which one came to Acadia with d'Aulnay in 1642?
!HISTORY: A deposition [from the Public Archives of Canada] dated 31 JUL 1699 has Sieur Jacques BOURGEOIS swearing to several facts regarding theestablishment of colonies in Acadia. (See text).
!DEATH: Between Jul 1699 and 1702 (Ancestral File).
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Jacques Bourgeois was a surgeon in service to King Louis X IV of France.
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From WFT VOL 5 PED 3663:
Arsenault calls him a surgeon and says he arrived in Acadia from Francein 1640. At the 1698 census he had settled in Beaubassin, butlaterreturned to Port-Royal. He received extensive land from governord`Aulnay(before 1654, as d`Aulnay left after the 1654 fall of Port-Royalto theBritish) -Arsenault V 2 p 456. In fn 24, it says that in thecensus, he had the name Jacob Bourgeois. Hewas a Lieutenant at Port-Royalat the time of its fall 16 Aug 1654.Around 1672, he founded the ColonyBourgeois, which continued later underthe name Beaubassin, on the Bay ofChignectou. The 1678 census shows himliving with Jeanne Trahan on 20acres with 15 cattle and 2 daughters ages15 and 12.
Source "In search of our Acadian Roots" CD (C-Hale GEDCOM)
"Many of their descendants were deported to Massachusetts." from Internet site - "Acadian Roots"
The following is from Wft Vol 2 Ped# 3251: One of the most prosperous inhabitants of Port Royal, Acadia. Hedeveloped a new colony in about 1662called Chignecttou by the Indians.It later became Bourgeouis, thenBeaubassin. He was a surgeon. He arrivedin Acadia in 1640 underd`Aulnay`s regime and handled coastal shippingand trading with theIndians in Baie Francaise. By the 1698 census he andhis wife lived inBeaubassin, and later moved to Port Royal. He wasmaster surgeon to Sieurd`Aulnay who had been sent by the Frenchgovernment to help organize atrading company for Quebec and Acadia afterthe treaty of Germain en Layein 1632. About 1672 he began anagricultural development, later known asBeaubassin, in the CumberlandBasin. Thought to have been the illegitimatechild of his mother and hisgodfather Isaac LeGendre. As a child he wasunder the protection of theKnights Hospitaliers (Knights of St John ofMalta). (There is a book inthe Library at ACGS that goes into greatdetail about this theory- GJR)He was one of the pioneer settlers ofBeaubassin, setting up a flour millthere. Many descendants of Jacquesmigrated from Acadia. It is believed thatall the Bourgeois in LaFourcheParish, La. were descended from him.
and translated from the internet site of Robert Rachom, "Liste desPatronymes", MIDDLE-class JACQUES The Middle-class men go up only ofonly one stock,that of Jacques Bourgeois, originating in Couperans, inBrie (today atthe department of the Seine and Marne), in France. Hearrives in Acadie,probably into 1632, with his brother-in-law GermainDoucet, known asLaverdure, married to Marie Bourgeois. Considering thefunctions whichthey fill later, they were to be officers in the quota ofsoldiersbrought by the commander Isaac de Razilly, to take againpossession ofAcadie in the name of king de France. In 1642, a son namedJacques, comesto join it with Port-Royal, Jacques (also called Jacob)embraced themedical career and is described as military surgeon. Jacobwas borntowards 1618. He arrives at Port-Royal with Menou d' Aulney,governor ofAcadie, with the head of a fleet of four ships. In 1643,Middle-classJacob marries with Port-Royal, Jeanne Trahan, born towards1629, inBourgueuil, in the province of Anjou, in France. She came inAcadie into1636, with her father Guillaume Trahan, his mother FrancoiseCorbineauand a sister (of which the first name is unknown). In 1645, withdied ofIsaac Pesseley (ancestors of several Acadian), major of thegarrison ofPort-Royal, the uncle of Jacob, German Doucet, saidLaverdure, theright-hand man of the governor of Aulney, is named major ofthe garrison,while Jacques Bourgeois, father,become " lieutenant of theplace ".Towards 1646, Mr. de Menou d' Aulney concedes in Middle-classJacob anisland called Isle with the Pigs, located in the river Dauphin(todayAnnapolis River). At August 1654, major Sedgewick, " without anycommandof his superiors " and although France and England are in peace,appearsin the basin of Port-Royal, with the head of an army of 500Englishsoldiers. It arrives from strong Midsummer's Day, where it madecaptiveCharles of Saint-Etienne of the Tower, governor of Acadie. Afterseveraldays of seat, Germain Doucet must capitulate, it is turned over toFrancewith Jacques Bourgeois (father). Charles of Saint-Etienne isbroughtprisoner in England. Middle-class Jacob, only surgeon of theplace, isextremely occupied, during several weeks, to give care to thecasualties.Guillaume Trahan, father-in-law of Jacob, act like syndic oftheinhabitants. Jacob becomes farmer-merchant thereafter, then lieutenantofPort-Royaland, into 1672, founder of this famous " Bourgeois colony",on Bay of Chignitou, which becomes then, amplified by Vallie,thisBeaubassin which takes a so great place in our history. Of thetenchildren of Jacob and Jeanne, it is a son whobinds us totheMiddle-class men, Germain, born towards 1650. He marries into1673,Marguerite Bliveau, (three children) but she dies into 1680.Germainmarries then into 1682, Magdeleine Dugas, (ten children) born in1663,girl of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite-Louise Doucet (girl ofGermainDoucet, known as Laverdure and of Marie Bourgeois). With theacadiancensus of 1686, Germain Doucet has 34 years and Magdeleine Dugas A22years, in Beaubassin. Then, a son of Middle-class Germain andMagdeleineDugas continues the descent, Joseph Bourgeois, born into 1690.He marriesin 1719, Anne Leblanc, born in 1700, girl of Pierre LeblancandMagdeleine Bourg. Of the twelve children of Joseph Bourgeois andAnneLeblanc, FlicitMiddle-class, born in 1727, wife in 1750,PierreLePrince, born in 1723, wire of Jean LePrince and Jeanne Blanchard,whichcontinues the link to my mother, Pierre Boisvert. With the acadiancensusof 1686, Jacques Bourgeois is 67 years old and Jeanne Trahan has57ans.With the census of 1698, Middle-class Jacob is now 82 years oldandJeanne Trahan is 72 years old, always remain in theirMiddle-classGermain son, in Beaubassin. With the census of 1700, it isnot mentioned,nor his wife. They must have died recently.
( this does not acknowlege the latest version, especially as to theparentage of Jacob/Jacques - GJR)
the "other Jacques Bourgeois and his son Robert: The first Bourgeois in North America was Jacques, who came to Arcadie in1632, probably with hisbrother-in-law, Germain Doucet dit Laverdure. Thetwo men were most likelyofficers in the contingent of soldiers who cameto the colony with Isaacde Razilly, who retook Acadie from the Englishin the name of the King ofFrance in 1632. With de Razilly, he first settled at La Heve, on thesouthern coast ofpresent day Nova Scotia. In 1636, after the death ofRazilly, the newgovernor, Charles de Menou d`Aulnay abandoned La Have andreestablishedthe colony at Port-Royal to the northeast. One of Jacquessons, Robert, either came with his father or else joinedhim later.Jacques would later serve as Lieutenant of the garrison atPort-Royalunder Germain Doucet. Robert Bourgeois was also an officer ofthegarrison. Another son of Jacques, also named Jacques, was born in 1621 inFranceat La Ferte-Gaucher, church parish of Saint-Romain, Rene` Perron,aFrench Acadian genealogist says that Jacques was born there on Jan9,1621, the son of Jacques and Marguerite Bourgeois
Sept 1997 :- The above has become suspect. There is a strong possibilityThat Jacques also known as Jacob was illigitimate and that hismothersname was Bourgeois and that there is no evidence that Jacques Srexistedand unlikly that he was the father of Jacques aka Jacob.
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From the New Brunswick, Canada Telegraph-Journal, July 29, 1994; page A4 and was contributed to that newspaper by Fidele Theriault of Fredericton,New Brunswick:
By his own account, Jacques Bourgeois, the pioneer of the Bourgeois family in Acadia, came to Acadia as a surgeon in 1642, during thegovernorship of Charles d'Aulnay.
The most recent theory about Jacques Bourgeois' birthplace comes from Rene baptismal certificate of Jacob Bourgeois, born on January 9, 1621,son of Marguerite Bourgeois. He might have learned his trade of surgeonin a commandery of the Order of Malta in nearby Coutrans.
[n.b. Paul-Pierre Bourgeois, in a special report to 'le bourgeois' (Vol 8, Apr 1998), a newsletter of the Association of Bourgeois in America,wrote that he had seen a birth record for Jacques Bourgeois. This viewingcame on a visit by himto the traditional birth place of Jacques, La Fert
The record, dated 8 January 1621 is written in Latin and reads as follows: "...Jacobus, filisu defuncti Nicolai Grandjehan, usque ___Bourgeois relictae ejusdem..."
Although Paul-Pierre Bourgeois did not offer a translation, I believe it can be partially translated as "...Jacobus, son of the deceased NicolaiGrandjehan,..." jkc]
Around 1643, shortly after his arrival in Acadia, Jacques Bourgeois married Jeanne Trahan, daughter of Guillaume and Fran
When Port-Royal surrendered on August 16, 1654, Jacques was lieutenant of the small Acadian garrison. His name tops the 1671 census list wherehe is described as a surgeon. Judging by the extent of the cultivatedacreage of his farm, in two different places, and by the number of cattlehe owned, Bourgeois made a living from agriculture as much as from hisprofession. It is possible this means that he had already begun hissettlement at Beaubassin.
in 1671, Jacob Bourgeois, surgeon, age 50 was enumerated with his wife, Jeanne Trahan, age 40; children: Jeanne, 27; Charles, 25; Germain, 21;Marie, 19; Guillaume, 16; Marguerite, 13; Francois, 12; Anne, 10; Marie,7; Jeanne, 4; 33 cattleand 24 sheep.
Jacques Bourgeois was a jack of all trades. He was equally at home as carpenter, merchant and colonizer.
It was he who established the colony of Beaubassin by settling his sons there, as well as his sons-in-law, Pierre Cyr and Germain Girouard. WhenBeaubassin was granted to La Vallinot to interfere with the settlersalready established there.
At Beaubassin, Jacques Bourgeois was involved in ship building and he also built a flour and a sawmill. His knowledge of English allowed him totrade with the Boston merchants, notably with one John Nelson. He died atPort-Royal in 1701.
His son Charles settled at Beaubassin and continued his father's work. His brother Germain stayed at Port-Royal where he was a merchant. TheAcadian Bourgeois are descended from these two brothers.
The majority of the members of the Bourgeois family living in Acadia in 1755 were deported to New England, especially to Massachusetts, and toSouth Carolina and Connecticut.
Unable to live as exiles among anglo-protestants, they courageously took to the roads in order to come back to Canada and most of them settled inthe Nicolet, Saint-Grescendants of that family are also to be found onIles-de-la-Madeleine and on Cape Breton, particularly in Ch
In New Brunswick, this family settled in the southern part of the province, especially at Memramcook and in Grande-Digue.
The ancestor of the Bourgeois family of Memramcook and of Grande-Digue, Pierre-Benjamin, was a grandson of Germain Bourgeois of Port-Royal.
Pierre-Benjamin died at Grande-Digue, in 1821, at the age of approximately 95.
It is not because of his longevity that he is interesting, but rather because he married five times. Only the names of four of his five wivesare known: C
However, not all the Memramcook Bourgeois descend from Pierre-Benjamin. Some are descended from Pierre-Benjamin's cousin from Beaubassin, JosephBourgeois. Often called Calotte, Joseph married Fierre-Benjamin, he livedto a ripe old age, 94, and died at Memramcook in 1833.
Joseph was the ancestor of Father Philias Bourgeois, a professor at Coll.
From the New Brunswick, Canada Telegraph-Journal, August 11, 1994: "...Jean Poirier, the first ancestor of this family in Acadia, was bornin France where he married, around 1646, Jeanne Chabrat. He appears tohave been the soldier "Jehan Poirier" who came to Acadia in 1641 withJacques Bourgeois on board the ship Saint-Francois."
In his book, "History of the Acadians", Bona Arsenault writes that Jacques Bourgeois was one of the most prosperous inhabitants of PortRoyal, Acadia in 1671. Records show that he owned 33 cattle and a herd ofsheep in 1671. He had arrivedin 1640 as surgeon under d'Aulnay's regimeand was in charge of coastal shipping and trading with the Indians inBaie Francaise, now the Bay of Fundy.
Jacques and his sons, Charles and Germain, as well as others, began the settlement of Beaubassin around 1672.
The following was taken from a paper read before the 'Historical Society of Chignecto', by W.C. Milner, pub. 190 1, in"Acadensis", vol. l, no.3
"The advantages of Chipecto for fur trading with the Indians, and for cattle raising, had not escaped the eyes of Port Royal; and one of theresidents there, Jacques Bourgeois, who, in coasting along the bay,engaged in trading ventures amongst the Indians, had spied out the landat Beaubassin; and, returning to Port Royal, sold out his farm and cattleand came back to Beaubassin, accompanied by his two sons-in-law, PierreSire and Germain Girouard, and the latter's two brothers-in-law, JacquesBelon and Thomas Connier, and also by Pierre Arsinault.
This little colony comprised the first European settlers in Chignecto, and, excepting the settlement at Baie des Vents, the first in theprovince of New Brunswick.
Bourgeois, the leader of the immigrants, was in his way a notable man. He was a surgeon by profession; his name appears in the capitulation of1654 as brother-in-law and lieutenant of Doucet de La Verdure, guardianof the children of d'Aulnay, and commandant at Port Royal; and he was oneof the hostages delivered to the English. His settlement at Beaubassinwas made between the years 1671 and 1675.
Sieur de La Valliere's grant did not permit him to interfere with existing rights, so he located himself beside Bourgeois and constructedthere his manorial buildings.
He brought with him from Canada a number of families, amongst them were the Chiasson and the Cottard; also he had employed people bearing thefamiliar names of Mercier, Lagasse and Perthuis, (the latter held theresponsible office of armorer), and also Hache Galand, who was a man ofbusiness and his men-at-arms; he could lead a fur trading expedition intothe wilderness, or he could direct an attack on the English. He marriedan Acadian lass - Anne Connier - and their descendants to-day numberhundreds of families. As nearly all the female part of the population wason the Bourgeois side of the settlement, it was not long before anyjealousies melted away and the people were all Bourgeois.
It is presumable, but not certain, that the Bourgeois settlement was at Fort Lawrence, in the vicinity of the Chignecto Ship Railway Dock."
chirurgien militaire arriva en Acadie en 1636 un des fondateurs de Beaubassin
D./P.O.B.: 1618, (21 Aug 1994 CompuServe message from Benjamin Bourgeois). D./P.O.B.: c1620, France, (D./P.O.B.: "American CanadianGenealogist", Vol. 18, p. 64). D.O.B.: 1621, (1671 census of Acadia, age50); c1619 ("Acadian Genealogy Exchange", Vol. XX, No. 3, p. 85 (ref.:1686 census of Port Royal, age 67). D./P.O.B.: 1628, France, ("AcadianGenealogy Exchange", Vol. II, No. 1, 1973, p. 6, an Ancester Chartsubmitted by Dorothy Naquin. D./P.O.Bapt.: 8 Jan 1621, St. Romain Parish,La Ferte-Gaucher, Dept. of Seine-et-Marne, France, ("Acadian GenealogyExchange", Vol. XXIII, No. 4, 'Ancestor Found', p. 103, (ref.: RenePerron in "Les Amities Acadiennes", and "Cahiers" of the SocieteHistorique Acadienne).
D.O.M.: 1643, ("Acadian Genealogy Exchange", Vol. II, No. 1, 1973, p. 6, an Ancester Chart submitted by Dorothy Naquin).
D./P.O.Imm.: 1642, Port Royal, (21 Aug 1994 CompuServe message from Benjamin Bourgeois).
Occ.: Druggist, "Acadian Genealogy Exchange", Vol. II, No. 11, p. 2, (ref.: "The First Acadian Census", written by Truman Stacey for the LakeCharles American Press, April 8, 1972 (Louisiana)).
"Les Amities Acadiennes", No. 64, p. 17: "On se rappelle qu'il [Claude de Launay-Razilly, frere du Commandeur] conduisit, sur le "Saint-Francois"en 1641, Jacob Bourgeois et le soldat Jehan Poirier, a destination de laNouvelle-France.
21 Aug 1994 CompuServe message from Benjamin Bourgeois:
"By 1672, Jacques had moved to the Chignecto Basin and founded the Bourgeois settlement, later renamed Beaubassin. In 1699 he returned toPort Royal and died in 1701 and octogenarian."
5 Sep 1994 Internet message from Philippe Houdry from Nancy, France, (prod-doc@inist.inist.fr):
"I have no Acadian ancestors but I have had a little discussion about Jacques BOURGEOIS with Jeffrey M. Bernard in December 1993. He asked forhelp in translating an extract of an article published in the Frenchmagazine "Les amities acadiennes" (num. 65, 1993).
In this issue, the discover [sic] of the birthplace of Jacques BOURGEOIS was announced. Jacques BOURGEOIS (or Jacob as used in the old Frenchrecords) would born [sic] the 8th january 1621 at Saint-Romain in LaFerte-Gaucher. This town is in the Brie Region, in the Seine-et-Marne(77) department, 60 km east from Paris."
7 Sep 1994 CompuServe message from Judy Dressler:
"Census of Port Royal 1671 (In Paris Archives)
Jacob (practically all other documents Jacques) Bourgeois druggist age 50 wife Jeanne Trahan; Jeanne 27, Charles 25, Germain 21, Marie 19,Guillaume 16, Marguerite 13, Francois 12, Anne 10, Marie 7, Cattle 33,Sheep 24."
per Dclarations de Belle-le-en-Mer
1671 census at Port Royal: Jacob (Jaques) BOURGEOIS, Druggist, 5
Jacques founded Beaubassin in 1672, but returned to Port and accepted thegovernorship of Aulnay of Terres.He was the first surgeon in Acadie.
Founder of Beaubassin. Before leaving France, Bourgeois had entered themedical profession. He might have learned his trade of surgeon inacommandery of the Order of Malta in nearby Coutrans. He cametoPort-Royal in 1642 with 18 families that Gov. Menou d'Aulnay broughtwithhim on one of his voyages, Bourgeois' father, also names Jacques, wasanarmy officer at Port-Royal and the brother-in-law of GermainDOUCET,Sieur de La Verdure, Aulnay's assistant....
While Jacques Senior was returned to France, his son remained in Acadiawhere he became the ancestor of a large number of descendants, In1643 hehad married Jeanne, Guillaume Trahan's daughter, who was born inFrancein 1631; they has ten children; seven girls and three boys.
Through this marriage he entered into one of the oldest Acadian families.When Port-Royal surrendered on August 16, 1654, Jacques waslieutenant ofthe small Acadian garrison. His name tops the 1671 censuslist where heis described as a surgeon. Judging by the extent of thecultivatedacreage of his farm, in two different places, and by the numberof cattlehe owned, Bourgeois made a living from agriculture as much asfrom hisprofession. It is possible this means that he had already begunhissettlement at Beaubassin. Jacques Bourgeois was a jack of all trades.Hewas equally at home as carpenter, merchant and colonizer. It was hewhoestablished the colony of Beaubassin by settling his sons there, aswellas his sons-in-law, Pierre Cyr and Germain Girouard. When Beaubassinwasgranted to La Vallie as a seigniory in 1676, his patent lettersstatedhe was not to interfere with the settlers already establishedthere. AtBeaubassin, Jacques Bourgeois was involved in ship building andhe alsobuilt a flour and a sawmill. His knowledge of English allowed himtotrade with the Boston merchants, notably with one John Nelson. He diedatPort-Royal in 1701.
At Port-Royal, Jacques became a farmer and shipbuilder. He traded withthe Bostonians, particularly with John NELSON and William PHIPS;helearned their language, and was the interpreter for the French intheirdealings with the English. In 1672 he sold part of his holdingsdatPort-Royal in order to settle, with his sons Charles and Germain, andtwlof his sons-in-law, in the Chigneto Basin, thus becoming thefirstpromoter of settlement in this region; he built a flour mill and asawmill there. A few years later, in 1676, the region was made intoaSeigneury, the holder of which was Michel LENEUF de la Valliere(theelder), a nobleman born at Trois-Rivieres; the new fief, 100squareleagues in extent, was names Beaubassin. As LaValliere broughtinsettlers and indentured employees from Canada, twodistinctestablishments adjoined each other at Beaubassin; but a clause inthetitle to the land grant protected the interests of Jacques BOURGEOISandthe otherAcadian settlers established on the domain; it was notlongbefore the two elements of the population merged into one.... Thedistinguished colonist had settled at Port-Royal again before 1699;hedied there, an octogenarian, in 1701. The family name was perpetuatedbytwo of his three sons: Charles, born in 1646, who married Anne Dugasin1668; and Germain, born about 1650, who married his first wife,MargueriteBelliveau, in 1673 and his second wife, Madeleine Dugas, in1682; thethird son, Guillaume, left only a daughter.
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!LIFE: From "Acadien Descendants, Vol. 1 and 2". Jacques was one of themost prosperous inhabitants of Port Royal, Acadia. He began to developa newcolony in about 1672 called Chignectou by the Indians. Later itbecame Bourgeoisand then Beaubassin. He arrived in Acadia in 1640 as asurgeon underd'Aulnay's regime. Handled caostal shipping and trading withthe Indians in Baie Francaise. Date of marraige and birth info onchildren in books. After1698 census he moved to Port Royal. !CENSUS: 1698Acadia: Lived with his wife at Beaubassin.
Reginald Olivier, "Your Ancient Canadian Family Ties", c. 1972, Page 35.He was a surgeon born in France in 1618, and married at PortRoyal,Acadia to Jeanne Trahan. He arrived in Acadia on the ship "Aulnay"in1642, having the rank of Military Doctor. The later was the founderofBeaubassin. Jacques Bourgeois born 1621 and a surgeon byprofession,arrived in Acadia in 1642. In 1644 he married Jeanne Trahanand many oftheir descendents were deported to Massachusetts. (CentreAcadien,Universite Sainte-Anne, Church Point, Nova Scotia, Canada)
From articles on the history of the more common Acadian families aspublished by the Telegraph-Journal newspaper, Friday, July 29, 1994;p.A4 in recognition of the Acadian World Congress held in Moncton.
By his own account, Jacques Bourgeois, the pioneer of the Bourgeoisfamily in Acadia, came to Acadia as a surgeon in 1642, duringthegovernorship of Charles d'Aulnay. The most recent theory aboutJacquesBourgeois' birthplace comes from Rene Perron. His research ontheorigins of Acadian families in France brought his to a LaFerte-Gaucherwhere he found in the registers of the parish ofSaint-Romain thebaptismal certificate of Jacob Bourgeois, born on January9, 1621, son ofMarguerite Bourgeois. He might have learned his trade ofsurgeon in acommandery of the Order of Malta in nearby Coutrans. Around1643,shortly after his arrival in Acadia, Jacques Bourgeois marriedJeanneTrahan, daughter of Guillaume and Francoise Charbonneau. Throughthismarriage he entered into one of the oldest Acadian families.
When Port Royal surrendered on August 16, 1654, Jacques was lieutenant ofthe small Acadian garrison. His name tops the 1671 census list whereheis described as a surgeon. Judging by the extent of thecultivatedacreage of his farm, in twodifferent places, and by the numberof cattlehe owned, Bourgeois made a living from agriculture as much fromhisprofession. It is possible this means that he had already begunhissettlement at Beaubassin. Jacques was a jack of all trades. Hewasequally at home as carpenter, merchant and colonizer. It was hewhoestablished the colony of Beaubassin by settling his sons there. WhenBeaubassin was granted to La Valliere as a seigniory in 1676, hispatentletters stated he wasnot to interfere with the settlersalreadyestablished there. At Beaubassin, Jacques was involved in shipbuildingand he also built a flour and a sawmill. His knowledge ofEnglishallowed him to trade with the Boston merchants, notably with oneJohnNelson. He died at Port Royal in 1701.
His son Charles settled at Beaubassin and continued his father's work.His brother Germain stayed at Port Royal where he was a merchant. TheAcadian Bourgeois are descended from these two brothers. The majorityofthe members of the Bourgeois family living in Acadia in 1755weredeported to New England, especially to Massachusetts, and toSouthCarolina and Connecticut. Unable to live as exilesamonganglo-protestants, they courageously took to the roads in order tocomeback toCanada and most of them settled in the Nicolet,Saint-Gregoire,Becancourt, L'Assumption and Saint-Jacques-de-l'Achiganareas.Descendents of the family are also to be found onIles-de-la-Madeleineand on Cape Breton, particularly in Cheticamp andIle-Madame. In NewBrunswick, this family settled in the southern part ofthe province,especially at Memramcook and in Grande-Digue. The ancestorof theBourgeois family of Memramcook and of Grande-Digue,Pierre-Benjamin, wasa grandson of Germain Bourgeois of Port Royal. Pierre-Benjamin died atGrande-Digue, in 1821, at the age of approximately95. It is not becauseof his longevity that he is interesting but ratherbecause he marriedfive times. Only the names of four of his wives areknown: CecileAucoin, Anne LeBlanc, Anne Thibault and Anne Thibodeau.
Other descendents come from Joseph Bourgeois of Beaubassin. Often calledCalotte, Joseph married Felicite Belliveau at Pisiquit in 1764. LikePierre-Benjamin, he lived to a ripe old age of 94 and died atMemramcookin 1833. Joseph was the ancestor of Father Philias Bourgeois,aprofessor at College de Saint-Joseph and the author of Vie de l'AbbeF.-XLafrance and of a Histore Du Canada en 200 lecons, published bytheLibrairie Beauchemin in 1902 and 1903.
Census of 1671 Port Royal Jacob (Jacques) Bourgeois druggist age 50 and Jeanne Trahan 40 Jeanne age 27 Charles age 25 Germain age 21 Marie age 19Guillaume age 16 Marguerite age 13 Francois age 12 Anne age 10 Marie age7 Jeanne 4
Census of 1678 Port Royal Jacques Bourgeois and Jeanne Trahan 2 Girls age 15 (1663) age 12 (1666) 20 Acres, 15 Cattle
Taken by Monsieur De Meulles, Intendant of New France and Acadia at thebeginning of 1686. Census of 1686 Port Royal Jacob Bourgeois age 67and Jeanne Trahan age 57 Guillaume age 31 (1655) 20 arpents
1693 Acadian Census, Port Royal Jacob Bourgeois age 74 and Jeanne Trahan age 64 Jeanne age 3 (granddaughter) 15 cattle, 20 sheep, 15 pigs, 40arpents, 1 gun
1698 Acadian Census, Beaubassin Sieur Jacques Bourgeois age 82 and Jeanne Trahan age 72 Germain age 48 and Madeleine Dugas age 34 Guillaumeage 24 (1674) Agnes age 12 (1686) 22 cattle, 15 hogs, 21 arpents, 3 guns,1 servant
[Les amities acadiennes] (num. 65, 1993)." "In this issue, the discoverof the birthplace of Jacques BOURGEOIS was announced. JacquesBOURGEOIS(or Jacob as used in the old French records) was born the 8thJanuary1621 at Saint-Romain in La Ferte-Gaucher. This town is in theBrieRegion, in the Seine-et-Marne (77) department, 60 Km east fromParis."
1671 PORT ROYAL Jacob (Jacques) BOURGEOIS, surgeon, 50; wife Jeanne TRAHAN 40; children: Jeanne 27, Charles 25, Germain 21, Marie 19,Guillaume 16, Marguerite 13, Fran
Jacques Jacob Bourgeois & Jeanne Trahan had 10 children
Occupation: Surgeon.
Arrived in Acadie in 1642.
In the census of 1698, Jacques and his wife are living in Beaubassin. Later, they returned to live in Port-Royal.
DAS r7221 1994
Death may have been before 1698 in Beaubassin, Nova Scotia
Jacques ou Jacob pharmacien, d'apres le recensement de 1671 venu en Acadie en tant que chirurgien d'Aulnay Recensement de 1671: 33 vaches et24 moutons a Port Royal
WORK: Druggist (Census 1671) Came to Acadia as d'Aulnay's surgeon.(BBS)
1671 CENSUS: 33 cattle & 24 sheeps. (Port Royal)
1678 CENSUS: 15 cattle & 20 acres. (this could be frontage acres). Port Royal
Arrived in Acadia in 1642. A surgeon in service for King Louis XIV.
Jaques arrived in Acadia in 1640 under d'Aulnay's regime and handledcoastal shipping and trading with the Indians in Baie Franaise(Bay ofFundy). He was 53 years old in 1672 and was the surgeon toCharlesd'Aulnay. He was the second in command Aug 16, 1654 in PortRoyal. In the 1671 census he was listed as aprosperous resident owning33 cattle and sheep. He developed a newcolony around 1672 at BaieFranasie, known today as Cumberland Basin. Heset up 2 sons and threesons-
REFN: 195 Arrive de France en Acadie en 1642. Au rec. de 1698, il etait a Beaubassin, mais il retourna plus tard a Port-Royal. Il avait recu deGouverneurd'Aulnay des terres en censive. Dans les rec., il est souventdesigne sous lenom de Ja
REFN: 195 Arrive de France en Acadie en 1642. Au rec. de 1698, il etait a Beaubassin, mais il retourna plus tard a Port-Royal. Il avait recu deGouverneurd'Aulnay des terres en censive. Dans les rec., il est souventdesigne sous lenom de Ja
!Source: Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens Vol.1 Acadian Church Records Vol.3 Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens Vol.2!Jacques (or Jacob) was a surgeon in the military (de' Coupuray-en-BrieChampagne arrived in Acadie with sons and D. Aulnay 1642) (for historysee Historique de Villoneuve et Pelletier) They moved to Beaubassin by1698 in Acadie. He was one of the most prosperous inhabitants of PortRoyal, began to develop a new colony in about 1672, called Chignectou bythe Indians. It later became Bourgeois, then Beaubassin. After arrivingin Acadia under "Aulnay's regim he handled c
Jacques Bourgeois was an army surgeon, and came to Acadia in 1642. "Au recensement de 1698, il demeurait Beaubassin, mais il retourna plus tard Port-Royal. Il avait reu du gouverneur d'Aulnay des terres en censive."
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Arsenault calls him a surgeon and says he arrived in Acadia from Francein 1640. At the 1698 census, he had settled in Beaubassin, but helaterreturned to Port Royal. He received extensive land fromgovernord'Aulnay (before 1654, as d'Aulnay left after the 1654 fall ofPort-Royalto the British) (Arsenault, Vol 2, page 456). In FN 24, itsays that inthe censuses, he had the name Jacob Bourgeois. He waslieutenant atPort-Royal at the time of its fall 16 Aug 1654. Around 167
Arrive de France en Acadie en 1642. Au rec. de 1698, il etait a Beaubassin, mais il retourna plus tard a Port-Royal. Il avait recu deGouverneur d'Aulnay des terres en censive. Dans les rec., il est souventdesigne sous le nom de Jacob Bour
Also died; 1701 at Port Royal. Jacques was the Lieutenant of a smallgarrison in Acadia. His name tops the 1671 Census list wherein hisprofessionis described as that of a "surgeon". Judging the extent ofthecultivated acreage of his farm,in two different places, and by thenumber ofcattle he owned, Jacques apparently made his living as much fromagriculture asfrom his profession. Jacques is described as having been a"jack-of-all-trades". He wasequally at home as a carpenter, merchant,farmer or colonizer. It was he who established the colony at Beaubassinby settling hissons there, as well as his sons-in-law, Pierre CYR andGermain GIROUARD. WhenBeaubassin was granted to La Valliere as a"seigniory" in 1676, his patentletters stated he was
9th Great Grandfather of Alan Lamoureux
*One of the most prosperous inhabitants of Port Royal. He began to develop a new colony in about 1672, called Chignectou by the indians. Itlater became Bourgeois, then Beaubassin. He was a surgeon and arrived inAcadia in 1640 under 'Au
Jacques Bourgeois, son, was a surgeon. He may have learned this profession in a commandery of the Order of Malta near his home in France.He joined his father and brother in Acadie in 1643, likely making him thefirst to practice medicine in the colony. In 1643, Jacques Bourgeois,son, married Jeanne Trahan, the daughter of Guillaume Trahan and Franimeof her marriage to the younger Jacques. This union is the progenitor ofthe present day Acadian family, Bourgeois. In 1646, the Governor d'Aulnaygranted Jacques and Jeanne Bourgeois an island called Isle aux Cochonssituated in the Dauphin River (today called the Annapolis River) justupstream from Port Royal. In 1654, the English Major Sedgewick attackedPort Royal, despite the fact that he had no orders to do so and thatFrance and England were at peace. The fort was surrendered after manydays of a siege, and both Jacques , father, Robert, and Jacques, son,participated in the battle. Following the battle, Jacques, father, andRobert are forced to leave the colony and return to France, consistentwith the terms of the surrender. Jacques and Jeanne Bourgeois remain,however, and by this time, they have a family consisting of twodaughters, Jeanne and Marie, and two sons, Charles and Germain. TheEnglish did not leave a presence at Port Royal and in 1667, the colony isceded to France, although the French do not take possession until 1670.In the interim, the Acadians governed themselves under a syndic ruled byGuillaume Trahan, the father of Jeanne Bourgeois. By the census of 1670,Jacques and Jeanne had added six children, one son, Guillaume, and fivedaughters, Marguerite, Franhis time, Charles, their oldest son hadmarried Anne du Gast (Dugas), and they have one daughter, Marie. Theoldest daughter of Jacques and Jeanne was also married by 1670, to PierreSIRE (CYR), and they had a son, Jehan. In addition to hisprofession ofsurgeon, Jacques is a farmer and marine merchant. His boats follow thecoast of the Baie Franues, aided by his three sons and his son in law,Pierre SIRE, and his future son in law, Jean Boudrot, founded thesettlement of Beaubassin, near the border separating present day NewBrunswick from Nova Scotia. Jacques and his son, Guillaume, returned tolive at Port Royal after the establishment at Beaubassin, although theykept farms at the new settlement. Jacques' other two sons, CharlesandGermain, stay at Beaubassin with their families. In 1686, Jacques andJeanne move
work: Military officer
REFN: 197 Officier militaire.
Officier militaire.
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Death may have been before 1698 in Beaubassin, Nova Scotia
Jacques ou Jacob pharmacien, d'apres le recensement de 1671 venu en Acadie en tant que chirurgien d'Aulnay
Recensement de 1671: 33 vaches et 24 moutons a Port Royal
Recensement de 1678: 15 vaches et 20 acres (facade?) a Port Royal
WORK: Druggist (Census 1671) Came to Acadia as d'Aulnay's surgeon.(BBS)
1671 CENSUS: 33 cattle & 24 sheeps. (Port Royal)
1678 CENSUS: 15 cattle & 20 acres. (this could be frontage acres). Port Royal
Arrived in Acadia in 1642. A surgeon in service for King Louis XIV.
Jaques arrived in Acadia in 1640 under d'Aulnay's regime and handledcoastal shipping and trading with the Indians in Baie Franaise(Bay ofFundy). He was 53 years old in 1672 and was the surgeon toCharlesd'Aulnay. He was the second in command Aug 16, 1654 in PortRoyal. In the 1671 census he was listed as aprosperous resident owning33 cattle and sheep. He developed a newcolony around 1672 at BaieFranasie, known today as Cumberland Basin. Heset up 2 sons and threesons-in-law at Cumberland Basin on the South bank of the MissagouashRiver betweenPointe Beausejour and Amherst, later known as Beaubasin. Heset up anall important flour mill. Trade flourished between New Englandin peacetime but almost non-existent with France because French shipswere a rarity. He lived in Beaubasin in 1698and later moved to PortRoyal. The census lists him as Jacob. It isbelieved that all Bourgeoisin Lafourche Parish, Louisiana were descendedfrom him.
REFN: 195 Arrive de France en Acadie en 1642. Au rec. de 1698, il etait a Beaubassin, mais il retourna plus tard a Port-Royal. Il avait recu deGouverneurd'Aulnay des terres en censive. Dans les rec., il est souventdesigne sous lenom de Jacob Bourgeois. Il etait lieutenant de Port-Royal,lors de la reddition de cette place, le 16-08-1654. Vers 1672, il fondala colonie Bourgeois, connue plus tard sous le nom de Beaubassin, sur labaie de Chignectou.
REFN: 195 Arrive de France en Acadie en 1642. Au rec. de 1698, il etait a Beaubassin, mais il retourna plus tard a Port-Royal. Il avait recu deGouverneurd'Aulnay des terres en censive. Dans les rec., il est souventdesigne sous lenom de Jacob Bourgeois. Il etait lieutenant de Port-Royal,lors de la reddition de cette place, le 16-08-1654. Vers 1672, il fondala colonie Bourgeois, connue plus tard sous le nom de Beaubassin, sur labaie de Chignectou.
!Source: Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens Vol.1 Acadian Church Records Vol.3 Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens Vol.2
!Jacques (or Jacob) was a surgeon in the military (de' Coupuray-en-Brie Champagne arrived in Acadie with sons and D. Aulnay 1642) (for historysee Historique de Villoneuve et Pelletier) They moved to Beaubassin by1698 in Acadie. He was one of the most prosperous inhabitants of PortRoyal, began to develop a new colony in about 1672, called Chignectou bythe Indians. It later became Bourgeois, then Beaubassin. After arrivingin Acadia under "Aulnay's regim he handled coastal shipping and tradingwith the indians in Baie Francaise. It believed that all Bourgeois inLafourche Parish, Louisiana were descended from him. Jean Baptiste, adescendant, fought at the Battle of New Orleans. Michel, anotherdescendant, escaped from Acadia in 1755 and lived for two years among theIndians with his wife and three sons before coming to settle in Lockport,La. where he died in 1811.
Jacques Bourgeois was an army surgeon, and came to Acadia in 1642. "Au recensement de 1698, il demeurait Beaubassin, mais il retourna plus tard Port-Royal. Il avait reu du gouverneur d'Aulnay des terres en censive."
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Arsenault calls him a surgeon and says he arrived in Acadia from Francein 1640. At the 1698 census, he had settled in Beaubassin, but helaterreturned to Port Royal. He received extensive land fromgovernord'Aulnay (before 1654, as d'Aulnay left after the 1654 fall ofPort-Royalto the British) (Arsenault, Vol 2, page 456). In FN 24, itsays that inthe censuses, he had the name Jacob Bourgeois. He waslieutenant atPort-Royal at the time of its fall 16 Aug 1654. Around1672, he foundedthe colony Bourgeois, which continued later under thename Beaubassin, onthe bay of Chignectou. The 1678 census shows himliving with JeanneTrahan on 20 acres with 15 cattle and two daughtersages 15 and 12, bornin 1663 and 1666, respectively.
Source: 'In Search of our Acadian Roots CD' (C-Hale GEDCOM)
Arrive de France en Acadie en 1642. Au rec. de 1698, il etait a Beaubassin, mais il retourna plus tard a Port-Royal. Il avait recu deGouverneur d'Aulnay des terres en censive. Dans les rec., il est souventdesigne sous le nom de Jacob Bourgeois. Iletait lieutenant de Port-Royal,lors de la reddition de cette place, le16-08-1654. Vers 1672, il fonda lacolonie Bourgeois, connue plus tard sous le nom de Beaubassin, sur labaie de Chignectou.
Also died; 1701 at Port Royal. Jacques was the Lieutenant of a smallgarrison in Acadia. His name tops the 1671 Census list wherein hisprofessionis described as that of a "surgeon". Judging the extent ofthecultivated acreage of his farm,in two different places, and by thenumber ofcattle he owned, Jacques apparently made his living as much fromagriculture asfrom his profession.
Jacques is described as having been a "jack-of-all-trades". He wasequally at home as a carpenter, merchant, farmer or colonizer.
It was he who established the colony at Beaubassin by settling hissons there, as well as his sons-in-law, Pierre CYR and Germain GIROUARD.WhenBeaubassin was granted to La Valliere as a "seigniory" in 1676, hispatentletters stated he was not to interfere with the settlers alreadyestablished there.
At Beaubassin, Jacques was involved in ship building and he also builta flour mill and a saw mill. His knowledge of the english language allowedhimto trade with the merchants in the Boston, Massachusetts Colony.Notableamong these was oneJohn NELSON.
9th Great Grandfather of Alan Lamoureux
*One of the most prosperous inhabitants of Port Royal. He began to develop a new colony in about 1672, called Chignectou by the indians. Itlater became Bourgeois, then Beaubassin. He was a surgeon and arrived inAcadia in 1640 under 'Aulnay's regime and handled coastal shipping andtrading with the indians in Baie Francaise.
Jacques Bourgeois, son, was a surgeon. He may have learned this profession in a commandery of the Order of Malta near his home in France.He joined his father and brother in Acadie in 1643, likely making him thefirst to practice medicine in the colony. In 1643, Jacques Bourgeois,son, married Jeanne Trahan, the daughter of Guillaume Trahan and Franimeof her marriage to the younger Jacques. This union is the progenitor ofthe present day Acadian family, Bourgeois. In 1646, the Governor d'Aulnaygranted Jacques and Jeanne Bourgeois an island called Isle aux Cochonssituated in the Dauphin River (today called the Annapolis River) justupstream from Port Royal. In 1654, the English Major Sedgewick attackedPort Royal, despite the fact that he had no orders to do so and thatFrance and England were at peace. The fort was surrendered after manydays of a siege, and both Jacques , father, Robert, and Jacques, son,participated in the battle. Following the battle, Jacques, father, andRobert are forced to leave the colony and return to France, consistentwith the terms of the surrender. Jacques and Jeanne Bourgeois remain,however, and by this time, they have a family consisting of twodaughters, Jeanne and Marie, and two sons, Charles and Germain. TheEnglish did not leave a presence at Port Royal and in 1667, the colony isceded to France, although the French do not take possession until 1670.In the interim, the Acadians governed themselves under a syndic ruled byGuillaume Trahan, the father of Jeanne Bourgeois. By the census of 1670,Jacques and Jeanne had added six children, one son, Guillaume, and fivedaughters, Marguerite, Franhis time, Charles, their oldest son hadmarried Anne du Gast (Dugas), and they have one daughter, Marie. Theoldest daughter of Jacques and Jeanne was also married by 1670, to PierreSIRE (CYR), and they had a son, Jehan. In addition to hisprofession ofsurgeon, Jacques is a farmer and marine merchant. His boats follow thecoast of the Baie Franues, aided by his three sons and his son in law,Pierre SIRE, and his future son in law, Jean Boudrot, founded thesettlement of Beaubassin, near the border separating present day NewBrunswick from Nova Scotia. Jacques and his son, Guillaume, returned tolive at Port Royal after the establishment at Beaubassin, although theykept farms at the new settlement. Jacques' other two sons, Charles andGermain, stay at Beaubassin with their families. In 1686, Jacques andJeanne moved definitively to Beaubassin to live with their son, Germain.On Oct. 15, 1687, Jacques Bourgeois signed a document, along with others,attesting to the works of the ex-governor d'Aulnay in the colony. At thebeginning of Sept. 1696, the English Colonel Benjamin Church from Bostonattacked Beaubassin, which has been left undefended by the French.Jacques is enlisted to negotiate with the English contingent from Boston.Jacques obtained a promise from Church that the residentswould be left inpeace, but Church reneged on his promise and the soldiers from Bostonburned most of the homes in the region. The Acadians of Beaubassin wereforced to flee to the woods; however, the English respected the Acadians'capabilities as marksmen and refused to chase the Acadians out of thereach of their ship's cannons. Jacques died shortly before 1700, as he isnot listed in the census of that year. In 1702, the commandant of thefort at Port Royal referred to him in an official report as the lateJacques Bourgeois. At the time of the deportation in 1755, many ofJacques' grandchildren were deported to the American colonies where theysuffered greatly. Some eventually made their way back to Canada, and theBourgeois name is common today in southeastern New Brunswick. Others madetheir way to Louisiana during the mid-1760's. At least nine Bourgeois mensettled on the east bank of the Mississippi River in St. James Parish.Five of these, Paul, Joseph, Michel, Pierre and Jean-Baptiste, werebrothers, the sons of Paul Bourgeois and Marie-Josephe Brun, originallyof Beaubassin, Acadia. From this group came a number of successful sugarplanters in St. James Parish. Beginning in the 1790's and continuing intothe 1820's, some of the children and grandchildren of the originalBourgeois settlers moved to Bayou LaFourche. Most settled belowThibodaux. At least three of the sons of the original Louisiana settlersmigrated further west, to the Attakapas. Simon (son of Joseph Bourgeoisand Marie Giroir) and Joseph (son of Pierre, Sr. and Marie Bergeron)settled on the Bayou Teche north of St. Martinville. Louis (son of MichelBourgeois and Anne Landry) settled on Bayou Vermillion near Lafayette.Another Bourgeois, Jean-Baptiste and his wife, Marie Borel, settled onthe Teche south of St. Martinville. Many of his descendants eventuallysettled further south, near Charenton and Franklin.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
work: Military officer
REFN: 197 Officier militaire.
Officier militaire.
!He too was a military office, Couporay-en-Brie, Champagne , as was his son Jacques.
officier militaire
Anne married Michel CHAUVIN on July 27, 1647 and settled down as a happily married couple. In 1651, their new neighbor, Louis Prudhomme,recognized Michel as the husband of a girl in still living in France,made a formal accusation which resulted in his marriage to Anne beingannulled and his banishment from Montreal. Anne remarried to JeanGERVAIS on 3 February 1654, and they had about 9 children. There wasalso one child born from the union of Michel, Marie Charlotte CHAUVIN,who was adopted by Jean Gervais.
!RESEARCH NOTE: Birthdate is also listed as 8 Jan 1618/19 !RESEARCH NOTE: Mother is also listed as Marguerite Bourgeois
Jacques Bourgeois was a surgeon SAW page 165 Tony LeBlanc data Ronald J LeBlanc Notes
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One of the most properous inhabitants of Port Royal, Acadia. He developed a new colony in about 1762 called Chignectou by the Indians. It laterbecame Bourgeouis, then Beaubassin. He was a Surgeon. He arived inAcadia in 1640 under d'Aulnay's regrime and handled coastal shipping andtrading with the Indians in Baie Francaise. By the 1698 census heand hiswife lived in Beaubassin, and later moved to Port Royal. He was mastersurgeon to the Sieur d'Aulnay who had been sent by the Franch governmentto heop organize a trading company for Quebec and Acadia after the Treatyof Germain en Laye in 1632. About 1672 he began anagriculturaldevelopment, later known as Beaubassin, in the Cumberland Basin. Thoughtto have been the illegitimate child of his mother and his godfather IsaccLeGendre. As a child he was under the protection of the KnightsHospitaliers (Knights of St. John of Malta). he was one of the pioneersettlers of Beaubassin, setting up aflour mill there. Children: 1. Jeanne b. 1645 2. Charles b. 1646 m. 1668 Anne Dugas 3. Germain b.1650 m. 1673 Marguerite Belliveau, 1682 Madeline Dugas 4. Marie Anne b.1661 d. 28 Dec 1747 m. 1679 Rene LeBlanc 5. Marie b. 1664 m. 1680Antoine LeBlanc 6. Jeanne b. 1667 d. Jun 1716 m. 1689 Pierre Comeau7. Marguerite b. 1658 m. 1676 Jean Boudrot, 30 Nov 1674 Emanuel Mirande,17 Jan 1707 Pierre Maissonet 8. Marie b. 1652 m. 1669 Pierre Cyr,1680 Germain Girouard 9. Guilliaume b. 1655 m. 1686 Marie Anned'Aprandestguy 10 Francoise Marie b. 1659 m. 1673 Claude Dugas By the1698 census he and his wife lived at Beaubassin. Later they moved toPort Royal. Many descendants of Jacques migratedfrom Acadia. It isbelieved that all Bourgeois in lafourche Parish, la. were descended fromhim.
1 BIRT 2 DATE 28 JAN 1621 2 PLAC Couperans-en-Brie, Champagne, France 2 SOUR S002435 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Mar 23, 2001 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1699 2 SOUR S002435 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Mar 23, 2001 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1701 2 PLAC Port-Royal, Acadie, Canada
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a surgeon and pioneer in Acadia -------- Pioneer of the Bourgeois family in Acadia, came to Acadia in as a surgeonin 1642. Was a lieutenant of theAcadian garrison when Port Royal surrendured onAugust 16, 1654.Established colony of Beaubassin.[Broderbund WFT Vol. 7, Ed. 1,Tree#2489, Date of Import: Nov 30, 1997]
In 1698 he was living in Beaubassin. Then he returned to Port Royal. "Ilavait recu du gouverneur d'Aulney des terres en censive. Dans lesrecensements,il est souvent designe sous le nom de Jacob Bourgeois, iletait lieutenantde Port Royal,lors de la reddition de cette place, le 16aug. 1654. Vers 1672,il fonde la colonie Bourgeois, connu plus tard sousla nom de Beaubassin, sur labaie de Chignectou. He was asurgeon.[Broderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #4512, Date ofImport: Nov 30,1997]
A surgeon, he arrived in Acadia in 1642 from France in the employ ofD'Aulnay as a military surgeon. In the census of 1698, JacquesBourgeois and hiswife were living in Beaubassin.
Arrived in Acadie in 1842, he was a surgeon and an Lt. in the army. Heused his mother's last name, a family name of a famous medical familyinthe area of his birth.
Bourgeois family
Telegraph-Journal, Friday, July 29, 1994; p. A4
By his own account, Jacques Bourgeois, the pioneer of the Bourgeoisfamily in Acadia, came to Acadia as a surgeon in 1642, duringthegovernorship of Charles d'Aulnay.
The most recent theory about Jacques Bourgeois' birthplace comes fromRen Perron. His research on the origins of Acadian families in Francebroughthim to a La Fert-Gaucher where he found in the registers of theparish ofSaint-Romain the baptismal certificate of Jacob Bourgeois, bornon January9, 1621, son of Marguerite Bourgeois. He might have learnedhis trade ofsurgeon in a commandery of the Order of Malta in nearbyCoutrans.
Around 1643, shortly after his arrival in Acadia, Jacques Bourgeoismarried Jeanne Trahan, daughter of Guillaume and FranoiseCharbonneau.Through this marriage he entered into one of the oldestAcadian families.
When Port-Royal surrendered on August 16, 1654, Jacques was lieutenant ofthe small Acadian garrison. His name tops the 1671 census list whereheis described as a surgeon. Judging by the extent of thecultivatedacreage of his farm, in two different places, and by the numberof cattlehe owned, Bourgeois made a living from agriculture as much asfrom hisprofession. It is possible this means that he had already begunhissettlement at Beaubassin.
Jacques Bourgeois was a jack of all trades. He was equally at home ascarpenter, merchant and colonizer.
It was he who established the colony of Beaubassin by settling his sonsthere, as well as his sons-in-law, Pierre Cyr and Germain Girouard.WhenBeaubassin was granted to La Vallie as a seigniory in 1676, hispatentletters stated he was not to interfere with the settlersalreadyestablished there.
At Beaubassin, Jacques Bourgeois was involved in ship building and healso built a flour and a sawmill. His knowledge of English allowed himtotrade with the Boston merchants, notably with one John Nelson. He diedatPort-Royal in 1701.
His son Charles settled at Beaubassin and continued his father's work.His brother Germain stayed at Port-Royal where he was a merchant.TheAcadian Bourgeois are descended from these two brothers.
The majority of the members of the Bourgeois family living in Acadia in1755 were deported to New England, especially to Massachusetts, andtoSouth Carolina and Connecticut.
Unable to live as exiles among anglo-protestants, they courageously tookto the roads in order to come back to Canada and most of them settledinthe Nicolet, Saint-Grgoire, Bcancourt, L'AssomptionandSaint-Jacques-de-l'Achigan areas. Descendants of that family are alsotobe found on les-de-la-Madeleine and on Cape Breton, particularlyinChticamp and le-Madame.
In New Brunswick, this family settled in the southern part of theprovince, especially at Memramcook and in Grande-Digue.
The ancestor of the Bourgeois family of Memramcook and of Grande-Digue,Pierre-Benjamin, was a grandson of Germain Bourgeois ofPort-Royal.
Pierre-Benjamin died at Grande-Digue, in 1821, at the age ofapproximately 95.
It is not because of his longevity that he is interesting, but ratherbecause he married five times. Only the names of four of his fivewivesare known: Ccile Aucoin, Anne LeBlanc, Anne Thbault and AnneThibodeau.
However, not all the Memramcook Bourgeois descend from Pierre-Benjamin.Some are descended from Pierre-Benjamin's cousin fromBeaubassin, Joseph Bourgeois. Often calledCalotte, Joseph married FlicitBelliveau at Pisiquit in 1764. LikePierre-Benjamin, he lived to a ripeold age, 94, and died at Memramcookin 1833.
Joseph was the ancestor of Father Philias Bourgeois, a professor atColle de Saint-Joseph and the author of Vie de l'abb F.-X. Lafranceand of aHistoire Du Canada en 200 leons, published by the LibrairieBeauchemin in1902 and in 1903.
Contributed by Fidele Theriault of Fredericton, NewBrunswick.[stuarts_old.ftw]
Subj: Re: Jacques Bourgeois Date: 7/10/00 3:59:05 PM Central Daylight Time From: ct9965@yahoo.com (Chris Thomas) To: DGuntner@aol.com
Hi, My sources are all secondary and, rather than try to split them out and attribute them to particular facts, I thought I'd just send my notes. Hope it helps Chris Thomas ================================================== I have the birthdate ofJacob Jacque Bourgeois 08 Jan. 1621. ? -------------------------------"The advantages of Chignecto for fur trading with the Indians, and forcattle raising, had not escaped the eyes of Port Royal; and one of theresidents there,Jacques Bourgeois, who, in coasting along the bay,engaged in trading ventures amongst the Indians, had spied out the landat Beaubassin; and , returning to Port Royal, sold out his farm andcattle and came back to Beaubassin, accompanied by his two sons-in-law,Pierre Sire and Germain Girouard, and the latter's two brothers-in-law,Jacques Belon and Thomas Cormier, and also by Pierre Arsenault. Thislittle colony comprised the first European settlers in Chignecto, and,excepting the settlement at Baie des Vents, the first in the province ofNew Brunswick.
Bourgeois, the leader of the immigrants, was in his way a notable man. He was a surgeon by profession; his name appears in the capitualtion of1654 as brother-in-law and lieutenant of Doucet de La Verdure, guardianof the children of d'Aulnay, and commandant at Port Royal; and he was oneof the hostages delivered to the English. His settlement at Beaubassinwas made between the years 1671 and 1675.
Sieur de La Valliere's grant did not permit him to interfere with existing rights, so he located himself beside Bourgeois and constructedthere his manorial buildings.
He brought with him from Canada a number of families, amongst them were the Chiasson and the Cottard; also he had employed people bearing thefamiliar names of Mercier, Lagasse and Perthuis, (the latter held theresponsible office of armorer), and also Hache Galand, who was a man ofbusiness and his man-at-arms; he could lead a fur trading expedition intothe wilderness, or he could direct an attack on the English. He marriedan Acadian lass - Anne Cormier - and their descendants to-day numberhundreds of families. As nearly all the female part of the populationwas on the Bourgeois side of the settlement, it was not long before anyjealousies melted away and the people were all Bourgeois.
It is presumable, but not certain, that the Bourgeois settlement was at Fort Lawrence, in the vicinity of the Chignecto Ship Railway Dock."
-taken from a paper read before the ,'Historical Society of Chignecto', by W.C. Milner, pub. 1901, in"Acadensis",vol.1,no.3================================================================================== Pat Hayes also sharedthe following: >There is a record of Jacques Bourgeois baptized on Jan.21, 1620 or 21 in >La Ferte-Gaucher, north-east of Paris. His mother wasMarguerite Bourgeois. The father is unknown. Marguerite was married toNicholas Grandjehan, but Nicholas died some time before Jacques was born. Speculation is that Jacques was therefore illegitimate and thus kept hismother's name. His godparents were Isaac LeGendre and Nicole deBeaufort (both from families of lawyers and notaries - well known incourt circles). The priest's name was Martin. He was probablyapprenticed as surgeon at the hospital in Coutran near La Ferte-Gaucher,where was located a Commanderie de l'Ordre de Malte > >He probablyarrived in New France in 1641 aboard the Saint-Francois (source NicolasDenys, a descendant of the Le Gendre family). Most genealogists thinkthat there was only one Jacques, not two. >You might want to check thisout with some others who are researching Bourgeois. A lot of my materialcomes from Marielle Bourgeois and Pierre Paul Bourgeois.
Fredrica Givan, New Brunswick givan@brunnet.net
=============================== ===================================================== Jacques and hiswife, Jeanne Trahan, were the 7th great grandparents of Doris Jane Cyrand the 9th great grandparents of Doris Jane Smith-Thomas.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------!Computerized Genealogy Library; 15 April 1983: Started Beaubassin whichwas originally called Bourgeois Colony. Jacques (Jacob) Bourgeois,surgeon, colonizer, founder of Beaubassin, was born in 1621 atCouperans-en-Brie France. He was the first Bourgeois to settle in NewFrance.
Before leaving France, Bourgeois entered the medical profession. He came to Port Royal in 1642 with 18 families that Governour Menou d'Aulnaybrought with him on one of his voyages. Bourgeois' father, also namedJacques (Jacob), was an Army officer at Port Royal, brother-in-law ofGermain Doucet the Sieur de LaVerdure and son of Nicholas Grandjehan born1570 in France and Marguerite Bourgeois born in 1579 in France. Jacquesthe elder returned to France but his son remained behind in Acadie andbecame the ancestor of several.
In 1643, Jacques the younger married fourteen year old Jeanne Trahan, daughter of Guillaume who was born in France in 1629. Together Jacquesand Jeanne had ten children (seven girls and three boys).
At Port Royal, Jacques became a farmer and a shipbuilder. He traded with the Bostonians, in particular one John Nelson and one William Phips. He learned to speak their language and became an interpreter in dealingsbetween the French andthe English. In 1672, he sold a portion of hisPort Royal holdings so that he could settle near the Chignecto Basin withhis sons Charles and Germain and two of his son-in-laws. In doing so, hebecame the first promoter of settlement in the area. At Chignecto Basin,he built a flour mill and a sawmill but, a few years later in 1676, theregion became a seigneury held by Michel LeNeuf de La Valliere (theelder), a nobleman born at Trois-Rivieres. The new fief was 100 squareleagues in size and was named Beaubassin. As La Valliere brought insettlers and indentured employees from Canada, two distinctestablishments adjoined one another at Beaubassin. However, a clause inthe title to the land grant protected the interests of Jacques and theother Acadien settlers already established in the area. Before long thetwo groups became one.
The Chignecto region provided Jacques and the other settlers with fertile marshes with high ground suitable for farming. The Shediacportage was an important relay station in communication between Acadieand Canada and a stragic position commanding the isthmus and the BaieFrancaise (Bay of Fundy). By the time of the expulsion of the Acadiensby the English, Beaubassin had become one of the most prosperous areas inAcadie. Some believe that it's prosperity was one of the reasons for theexpulsion as it wasn't until the Acadiens had built Acadie up that theEnglish began to push for their rights to the land they called NovaScotia.
Jacques returned to Port Royal to settle sometime before 1699 and died there in 1701 at the age of 80. The family name was carried on by two ofhis three sons. Charles, born in 1646, married Anne Dugas in 1668.Germain, born 1650, married twice. His first wife was MargueriteBelliveau (in 1673) and, after her death, he married Madeleine Dugas (in1682). Jacques third son had only one child, a girl.
2) Jacques Bourgeois travelled from France to Port Royal, Acadie in the year 1642 on the ship Aulney. On board he had the rank of MilitaryDoctor. Jacques was the founder of Beaubassin, orginally calledBourgeois Colony. On the 1698 census he was living in Beaubassin butreturned to Port Royal later to receive an land grant from GovernorAulney. He married Jeanne Trahan when he was 22 and she was 14.
3) From Acadien Descendants, Vol 1 and 2. Jacques was one of the most prosperous inhabitants of Port Royal, Acadia. He began to develop a newcolony in about 1672 called Chignectou by the Indians. Later it becameBourgeois Colony and then Beaubassin. He arrived in 1640 as a surgeonunder d'Aulnays regime and handled coastal shipping and trading with theIndians in Baie Francaise.
4) One of the most prosperous inhabitants of Port Royal, Acadia, he developed a new colony in about 1672 called Chignectou by the Indians. It later became Bourgeois, then Beaubassin. He was a Surgeon and arrivedin Acadia in 1640 under d'Aulnay's regime. He handled coastal shippingand trading with the Indians in Baie Francaise. By 1698 he and his wifewere living at Beaubassin but later moved to Port Royal. He was MasterSurgeon to the Sieur d'Aulnay who had been sent by the French governmentto help organize a trading company for Quebec and Acadia after the Treatyof Germain en Laye in 1632. About 1672 he began an agriculturaldevelopment, later known as Beaubassin, in the Cumberland Basin. Thoughtto have been the illegitimate child of his mother and his godfather IsaacLeGendre. As a child he was under the protection of the KnightsHospitaliers (Knights of St John of Malta). He was one of the pioneersettlers of Beaubassin, setting upa flour mill there. Children: 1. Jeanne b 1645 2. Charles b 1646 m 1668 Anne Dugas 3. Germain b 1650 m1673 Marguerite Belliveau, m 1682 Madeleine Dugas 4. Marie Anne b 1661 d28 Dec 1747 m 1679 Rene LeBlanc 5. Marie b 1664 m 1680 Antoine Le Blanc6. Jeanne b 1667 d Jun 1716 m 1689 Pierre Comeau 7. Marguerite b 1658 m1676 Jean Boudrot, m 30 Nov 1674 Emmanuel Mirande, m 17 Jan 1707 PierreMaissonet. 8. Marie b 1652 m 1669 Pierre Cyr, m 1680 Germain Girouard9. Guillaume b 1655 m 1686 Marie Anne d' Aprandestguy 10. FrancoiseMarie b 1659 m 1673 Claude Dugas
Many descendants of Jacques migrated from Acadie. It is believed that all Bourgeois in LaFourche Parish, Louisianna were descended from him. [Broderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #3251, Date of Import: Jan 7, 1997]--------------------------------------------------------------------------
We have never known the name of the wife of Germain Doucet. Many persons have for years assumed her name to be that of Marie Bourgeois. I amcurrently awaiting a mini translation re the first couple of pages ofnotes that I obtained in Moncton at the Universit de Moncton ... thenshall post to the group.
In the meantime, it has been proven by Ren Perron of Sres, France, that Marguerite Bourgeois was indeed married to a Nicolas Grandjehan. It isclear that she is the mother of Jacques (also known as Jacob) Bourgeoiswho was the surgeon at Port Royal. The nature of the brother-in-lawrelationship that existed between Germain Doucet and Jacques (Jacob)Bourgeois has never been a clear one and such remains the case even as Itype this reply to you. You may wish to refer more to the followingpublications re La Socit Historique Acadienne ...
Les Cahiers Vol 22 Number 4 October/December 1991 pp86 - 114 " De Germain Doucet Jacob Bourgeois "
Les Cahiers Vol 23 Number 1 January/March 1992 pp27 - 46 " Bourgeois & Doucet: Basseville, des suites surprenantes "
Although this may not clear up any unresolved issues for many, I am still very proud of the Acadian heritage to which I am a part.
Warmest regards, Cuzin Michele Acadian GenWeb Coordinator ------------------------------------------------------------
This is what Paul Pierre Bourgeois (I am proud to say that I have met this fine gentleman ... he popped in for a visit last summer while he andhis wife were touring Newfoundland) says in his book (of which I possessa copy) ...
"But wait: something has disturbed the eye of our friend Perron. An innocent little note with a special inscription. The text is in latin. Itis the registration for the baptism of a certain Jacobus, dated January8th 1621. He is said the son of deceased Nicolas Grandjehan (Big John)and a Bourgeois woman whose name is left blank. She is said the widow ofGrandjehan. This family is well known in this town. The woman's name isMarguerite. She has baptized five other children,the last one in January1620, where her name always figured. The Grandjehan-Bourgeois family hasvarious alliances with the Order of Malta, the medical society, and eventhe court of France.
A look at the ways of those times suggests that not only was this little Jacques born an orphan; he was also illegitimate. This is not wellperceived by church or family. But once the "sin" has been recognized,the mother could raise the child under her maiden name. In this case,Bourgeois.
The registers for later dates do not reveal any mention of this Jacques after 1621. Finally, Mr. Perron cannot in all honesty escape thefollowing conclusion: this baby Jacques (Grandjehan)-Bourgeois, baptizedin the church of Saint Romainin La Fert-Gaucher on January 8th 1621 isprobably the same person for whom we are searching a document of birth.He would have been raised under his mother's family name. His naturalfather remains unknown. His education was received atthe Commandery ofCoutran from where he left to serve in Acadia in 1641. He was twentyyears of age when he was thus recruited by Germain Doucet or d'Aulnayhimself to become surgeon for the governor, his troops, and the newcolony."
pp 14-15 la recherche des Bourgeois d'Acadie (1641 1800)
The previous articles that I brough to your attention re La Socit Historique Acadienne (which operates out of Moncton, New Brunswick) ...
Les Cahiers Vol 22 Number 4 October/December 1991 pp86 - 114 " De Germain Doucet Jacob Bourgeois "
Les Cahiers Vol 23 Number 1 January/March 1992 pp27 - 46 " Bourgeois & Doucet: Basseville, des suites surprenantes "
... both were written by the same Mr. Perron that Paul Pierre alludes to.
Hope this helps!
Cuzin Michele Acadian GenWeb Coordinator --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- DGuntner@aol.com wrote: > Ms. Thomas, > I was digging around on Rootsweb for additional > information on my husband's > 9th greatgrandfather Jacques Bourgeois and sent > your cousin Jeff Cyr a > messageasking for the sources for the following > information if possible. He >refered me to you saying that you would probably > have the sourcesbecause he > had regrettably not entered his sources. > > Father: JACQUESBOURGEOIS b: 28 JAN 1620/21 in De > Couperay, France > Mother: JEANNETRAHAN b: 1631 in St. Germain de > Bourge, France > > I wanted to knowwhere the birth and place > information came from. A 3rd > cousin of myhusband that I have met on line sent me > information such as the > nameof Jacques' father being Nicolas Grandjehan and > his mother being >Marguerite Bourgeois. He stated that the Bourgeois > were surgeons andthat > Jacques being a surgeon used her name. While I love > having allof this > information, I also lovehaving sources for all of > it!!!! Didyou get this > information from a book or was it from copies of > actualdocuments? I am > fortunate enough to have received quite a few copies >of birth, death, and > marriage documents from another cousin of my >husband's! The documents are of > his 4th great grandmothers birth in1758 in Acadia > and her family's various > documents!!! > > Any helpthat you can give me will be deeply > appreciated! > Denise Talbot >Nederland, Texas
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1 BIRT 2 DATE 8 JAN 1620/21 2 PLAC La Ferte-Gaucher, St. Romain FRANCE 2 PLAC 874 2 SOUR S12480 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 29,1999
1 BIRT 2 DATE 28 JAN 1621 2 PLAC Couperans-en-Brie, Champagne, France 2 SOUR S002435 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Mar 23, 2001 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1699 2 SOUR S002435 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Mar 23, 2001 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1701 2 PLAC Port-Royal, Acadie, Canada
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a surgeon and pioneer in Acadia -------- Pioneer of the Bourgeois family in Acadia, came to Acadia in as a surgeonin 1642. Was a lieutenant of theAcadian garrison when Port Royal surrendured onAugust 16, 1654.Established colony of Beaubassin.[Broderbund WFT Vol. 7, Ed. 1,Tree#2489, Date of Import: Nov 30, 1997]
In 1698 he was living in Beaubassin. Then he returned to Port Royal. "Ilavait recu du gouverneur d'Aulney des terres en censive. Dans lesrecensements,il est souvent designe sous le nom de Jacob Bourgeois, iletait lieutenantde Port Royal,lors de la reddition de cette place, le 16aug. 1654. Vers 1672,il fonde la colonie Bourgeois, connu plus tard sousla nom de Beaubassin, sur labaie de Chignectou. He was asurgeon.[Broderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #4512, Date ofImport: Nov 30,1997]
A surgeon, he arrived in Acadia in 1642 from France in the employ ofD'Aulnay as a military surgeon. In the census of 1698, JacquesBourgeois and hiswife were living in Beaubassin.
This individual was found on GenCircles at:http://www.gencircles.com/users/angelone44/1/data/1213
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