Person:Marie Bourg (6)

!BIRTH-CHRISTENING-PARENTS-MARRIAGES-CENSUS-BURIAL: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 235; own copy.

!BIRTH-MARRIAGES: Arsenault, H&G, p. 1117 (Grand Pré), parents of 1st husband probably wrong. See his entry. Given here as Gabriel & Andrée-Angélique JOANNES, of Beaubassin and River Saint Jean. Footnote lists baptismal sponsor Jean MOUTON as a surgeon.

!BIRTH-CHRISTENING: Diocese of Baton Rouge [LA], CATHOLIC CHURCH RECORDS; 1707-1769; vol. 1, Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, 1978; p. 22; Sutro, [CA] State Library, F377 B3 C3 V.1; contains the 3 registers of the church of St. Charles-aux [des]-Mines, Grand Pré, that were carried into exile by Acadians to St. Gabriel d'Iberville, LA. Marie Josephe BOURG, daughter of Alexandre & Marguerite MELANSON, born 16 Jun 1711. Sponsors: Jean MOUTON & Marguerite DUGAS. Recorded at St. Gabriel (SGA-1, 21).

!MARRIAGES: She was 18 at her first marriage in 1730, and 15 years later, now 33, she remarried a man 44.

!BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES-DEATH: Gregory A. Wood, A GUIDE TO THE ACADIANS IN MARYLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES; 1755-1899; Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1995; p. 146; own copy. Marie Josephe BOURG, daughter of Alexandre & Marguerite MELANCON, married at age 18 on 22 Aug 1730 to Pierre GODIN, son of Barthe'lemi, deceased & Angélique Robert JASNE at River St. Jean. Her father the notary Alexandre BOURG was witness, along with uncle Phillip MELANCON (SGA-2, 220).

    In 1763 she and [2nd] husband Joseph LANDRY, whom she married as a widow on 11 Jan 1745 (SGA-3, 30a), were in Oxford, MD with six other persons in household. By 1767 Joseph was no longer living, and Marie Josephe was a widow in New Orleans, with three unmarried daughters: Madeleine, Marguerite, and Gertrude (PPC Legajo 114).
    At Cabanocey, LA on the 1769 census she is 56 years old, a widow with 4 arpents of land. By 1777 she is living at Ascension parish, LA with son Joseph, age 66 years. She died on 5 Sep 1792 at age 86 [?] (W2-2-11).

1. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge. Catholic Church Records, vol. 1a: Acadian Records, 1707-1748. (Diocese, 1999,)
   p. 38.

   Sponsors: Jean MOUTON & Marguerite DUGAS (SGA-1, 21).

2. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge. Catholic Church Records, vol. 2, 1770-1803. (Baton Rouge, LA, 1980)
   p. 126.

   Maria Josepha [BOURG], age 86 years [really 81?], widow of [omitted] LANDRY, buried on 5 Sep [sic] 1792 at Ascension Church, Donaldsonville, LA (ASC-4, 11).

   Discrepancy with succession record of death on 5 Aug 1792.

3. ↑ Eileen Larré Behrman, comp. Ascension Parish, Louisiana, Civil Records, 1770-1804. (Conroe, TX: Author, 1986)
   pp. 79-80.

   Inventory request dated 4 Nov 1792, on pp. 651-654 of CONVEYANCE RECORD, vol. B: "succession of deceased Marie Burk, his [Sieur Don Joseph Landry] mother, who died at his house the 5 August last."

4. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies. Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians; Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796. (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973)
   p. 426.

   "LIST OF ACADIANS WHO ARE IN THE CITY (of New Orleans) IN THEMONTH OF JULY 1767"Marie Joseph Landry, widow;Magdeleine Landry, her daughter;Margueritte Landry, her daughter;Gertrude Landry, her daughter.