Person:Olivier Daigre (1)

NAME: Was his name also Jean Olivier DAIGRE sometimes? When did it change to DAIGLE?

!BIRTH-NAME: E-mail posting on newsgroup <ACADIAN-CAJUN-L@rootsweb.com> on 6 Sep 1998 by Bernice CAMPBELL (dcampbell@navnet.net). Olivier DAIGRE, born in Aigre, Poitou, France in 1643, married Marie GAUDET in 1666, died 1683 at Port Royal [Acadia].

!BIRTH-IMMIGRATION-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-DEATH: "Daigle Family Origins in Quebec," from The Baton Rouge Advertiser, in ACADIAN GENEALOGY EXCHANGE; vol. XVII, no.4 (Oct 1998); p.131. Olivier DAIGRE was born in France in 1643, probably in town of Aigre in Angoumois (today in La Charente), 32 miles NW of Angouleme. He most likely came to Acadia with Emmanuel LeBORGNE, sieur de Coudray, aboard the ship "La Paix" in 1664. He married in 1666 to Martine GAUTHIER; by the 1671 census they had three sons; six more children born later, the last in 1681. Olivier had died by the census of 1686, and his widow had remarried to Jean FREDET or FARDEL.

!NAME-IMMIGRATION: "Etudes genealogiques: Jean Daigle dit Lallemand," MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE, vol. IV, no. 1 (Jan 1950);; pp. 11-17; in collection of Peggy Walker. The first ancestor named DAIGLE in New France did not carry the name DAIGLE, since the Acadian married at Port Royal around 1666 was named Olivier DAIGRE. [BEWARE: The rest of the article is on the descendants of the Canadian Jean DAIGLE, who was Austrian in origin, and could not write his name, so the exact spelling was established by priests or notaries variously as: DEYME, D'Aigue, DAIGNE, DEIGNE. He was born around 1649, son of Georges DEYME (or DAIGNE) & Marie CHAUVIN; married 5 Nov 1685 to Marie-Anne PROTEAU; buried at Quebec 17 Dec 1742.]

!MARRIAGE-DEATH: (See: Acadian Descendants, vol. 1, p. 30 mistakenly has dates.) Wife is 36 with their oldest child 16 when censused in 1686 with second husband, Jean FARDEL. This child must be Olivier DAIGLE's, from 1st marriage.

!CENSUS: 1678, Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Recensement de Port-Royal," in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE; vol. 22, no. 4; p. 229; sent by PERSI in Jun 1999. On Folio 18: Olivier DAIGRE, with Marie GODET, in household with six boys (oldest 12 years) and two girls ([oldest] age 2 years). ["6 pieces de be'tail (grazing animal)" on 4arpents at "St Christoffe au Ruisseau Ste Marie". Recheck.]

CENSUS: Olivier does not appear on 1686 census, but his widow has remarried.

The patriarch of this family, in Acadia, is a young frenchman, OLIVIER DAIGRE.

OLIVIER, a native of Poitou, France, arrived in Acadia in 1663, when he was 20 years old, on the ship, "LA PAIX", 200 TONS, which was manned by Captain Siberon. He was accompanied by Le Borgne de Belle-Isle (dit Lejeune), from the Provence du Port de la Rochelle.

According to genealogist, Landot, he was among a number of men, hired by Emmanuel Le Borgne du Cordroy, "Seigneur de Port-Royal, Acadia", for whom he worked for a period of three years. He was paid 80 pounds per year, his passage from France to Acadia, having been paid by Le Borgne. He received an advance of 30 pounds, before embarking on the ship.

He married the daughter of an old established Acadian family, MARIE GAUDET, daughter of Denis Gaudet and Martine Gautier.

The Port Royal Census, (1671), lists Olivier as a labourer, age 28, his wife, Marie Gaudet, age 20, and their children, Jean (4 years), Jacques (2 years), and Bernard (1 year). Their ploughable land, 2 acres, horned beasts, 6 pairs of sheep.

He died around 1683, at the age of 43, leaving a family of nine children, including seven sons. He had lived in both France and Acadia. His widow remarried in 1688 , to Jean Fardel.

The New Brunswick Daigles are descended from two of this pioneer's sons, BERNARD and OLIVIER. There are descendants of OLIVIER DAIGLE in the Maritime Provinces, Quebec, Louisiana, and France (Belle-Isle-en-Mer and Chatellerault).

Massignon, Genealogist, points out that the ancient parish registers reflect the spellings "D'aigre", "d'Aigre", or Daigle; that the spelling "Daigle" was rare in Acadia during the French regime, but that it appeared in 1727 at Beaubassin, where the family expanded more than it had in Port Royal or Piziquid; that the spelling "D'Aigre", often found in the parish registers of Saintonge, indicates that an ancestor might have come from the village of Aigre, in the Departement de Charente, France.

• • Note that OLIVIER was a DAIGRE. His descendants became DAIGLE in 1727, at the third generation.

__________________________________________________ Sources for the family of OLIVIER DAIGLE / DAIGRE / D'AIGRE:

LES ACADIENS / Bona Arsenault LE GRAND ARANGEMENT DES ACADIENS AU QUEBEC / Adrien Bergeron Lowell Daigle MADAWASKAN HERITAGE / Leo G. Cyr GENEALOGIE DES PLUS GRANDES FAMILLES DAIGLE DU MADAWASKA / Pea Daigle (1994) TELEGRAPH JOURNAL, Saint John, N.B., ( August 1, 1994) Ralph G. Courtois Biddeford, Maine (March 8, 1997) Philip and Noreen (DAIGLE) Drummond , Randolph, Maine Alden and Lou Daigle, New Port-Richey, Florida Emma (Martin) Underhill Leola (DAIGLE) Dumont ___________________________________________

(Research):Bona Arsenault. Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens. Québec, 1965. p.380.

1. ↑ Nova Scotia, Canada. Recensements d'Acadie (1671 - 1752)
   pg. 4.

   Recensement 1671, Port Royal, Acadie
   "Laboureur - OLIVIER DAIGRE aagé de 28 ans, sa femme Marie Gaudet aagée de 20 ans, Leurs enfans 3, Jehan aagé de quattre ans, Jacques deux ans, Bernard un an, Leurs terres en Labour deux arpans, bestes a Cornes six paires et six brebis."

   !CENSUS: 1671, Port Royal, Acadia, age 28 years, Laborer, name spelled Olivier DAIGRE. Living with wife Marie GAUDET age 20 and their 3 children. They have 2 arpents of worked land, 6 "paires" [is this "pieces"?] of cattle and 6 sheep. Karen Theriot Reader

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} The Upper St.John River Valley .
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Rev. Louis Cyr, ptre. Family Tree prepared by Father Cyr, 50 rue de l'Eglise, Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada.
4.   White, Stephen A; Hector-J Hébert; and Patrice Gallant. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes. (Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999)
   p. 446.
   1. 1: Olivier DAIGRE, born around 1643, "laboureur," married around 1666 at Port-Royal (Belle-Ile-en-Mer Declaration) to Marie GAUDET, daughter of Denis & Martine GAUTHIER; ten children. He died at Port Royal before the census of 1686.
5.   Arsenault, Bona. Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens. (Quebec: Le Conseil de la Vie française en Amérique, 1965)
   p. 500.

   (Port Royal). Olivier DAIGRE arrived in Acadia from France around 1663, married around 1666.