Person:Alexandre Daigre (1)

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1600-1800; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, vols. 2-6; p. 1370 (Pisiguit); own copy. Alexandre DAIGRE, born 1730, son of Pierre & Madeleine GAUTEROT, married around 1750 to Élizabeth GRANGER [no parents given]; four children listed. He was at Isle St. Jean in 1752. Some members of this family were at Boulogne-en-Mer in 1765, and in Louisiana around 1785.

!CENSUS: Webpage at <http://brhaffre.free.fr/> called "Les 179 Acadiens de Boulogne," which tries to reconstitute a complete list of those Acadians who debarked at Boulogne on 26 Dec 1758. Bruno Haffreingue used various documents--the Saint-Servan lists, the parish registers, as well as the 1752 census of Ile Saint-Jean. Alexandre DAIGLE & Elizabeth GRANGER and their son Charles are there.

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Albert Robichaux, Jr., THE ACADIAN EXILES IN SAINT-MALO; 1758-1785; Eunice, LA, Hebert Publications, 1981, Part I, Vol. I; pp. 231-232, family #286; own copy; contains Family Genealogies A-G. Alexandre DAIGLE, born about 1729 [no parents given], married about 1751 to Elizabeth GRANGER, born about 1733 [no parents given]; nine children are listed. In 1752, Alexandre, Elizabeth his wife and Charles Daigle, their son were residents of Riviere-du-Nord on Isle St. Jean. In 1758-1759, this family was transported to Boulogne-sur-Mer in France. On May 28, 1766, Alexandre [DEGLE], Elizabeth his wife and their children: Alexis-Maturin, Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre, and Elizabeth Daigle arrived at St. Malo from Boulogne on the brigantine "Le Hazard." They resided in the parish of St. Servan from 1766-1772.

!RESIDENCES: Albert J. Robichaux, THE ACADIAN EXILES IN ST. MALO; 1758-1785; Part II [vol. 3]; Eunice, LA, Hebert Publications, 1981; p. 1158; own copy; Acadian Marriages in France. Appendix has list of arrivals at Boulogne on the brigantine "Le Hazard," Mr. Jean PATELLE, Captain, counted on 28 May 1766. Family #100 was Alexandre DEGLE, 37 years old, of Acadie, living at St. Servan with his family, including his wife Elizabeth GRANGE and three children. Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre was their 1-year-old son, the youngest.

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILD-RESIDENCES: Albert J. Robichaux, THE ACADIAN EXILES IN NANTES; 1775-1785; Harvey, LA, Author, 1978; p. 43, family #84; Salt Lake Family History Library Europe 944.14 Dar. Alexandre DAIGLE was born around 1729 (no parents listed), married around 1760 to Elizabeth GRANGER, who was born around 1733 (also no parents listed). Only one child is listed: Charles-Daniel DAIGLE, who died at age 6 and was buried 18 Sep 1779 at Saint-Similien of Nantes, France. Alexandre DAIGLE, Elizabeth GRANGER, his wife and family of 8 persons were in the Fourth Convoy leaving Chatellerault for Nantes from 6 Mar to 13 Mar 1776. [Jean Baptiste A. was age 10.]

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Gerard-Marc Braud, LES ACADIENS EN FRANCE, NANTES ET PAIMBOEUF; 1775-1785; Nantes, Ouest Editions [1999]; pp. 84-85; own copy. Family #112: Alexandre DAIGLE, born around 1729, married around 1751 to Elizabeth GRANGER; nine children listed. He lived successively at Boulogne-sur-Mer, St-Servan in Bretagne from 1763 to 1773, then at Chatellerault, Vienne. Alexandre [sic, this was his son Alexis] left Nantes [for LA] on "La Bergere" as family #54 on 14 May 1785.

1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
   DAIGRE no. 25.

   No place given for birth.

2. ↑ Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, ed. Du Grand Dérangement à la Déportation: Nouvelles perspectives historiques. (Moncton, NB: Chaire d'études acadiennes, 2005)
   p. 232.

   Village of origin Kenescout.

   Article by Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, "Pigiguit: l'impact du Grand Dérangement sur une communauté de l'ancienne Acadie."

3. ↑ Gérard-Marc Braud. Acadiens en France; Nantes et Paimboeuf, 1775-1785. (Nantes, France: Ouest Éditions, 1999)
   p. 84.

   Born around 1729 (no parents given).

4. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
   DAIGRE no. 25.

   No place given for death. His wife was a widow when she was buried on 28 Mar 1779.

5. ↑ Public Archives of Canada. Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, vol. II, pt. A. (1905; reprint Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, 1994.)
   p. 84.

   Alexandre DAIGRE, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, age 22 years, has been in the country one year, married to Elisabeth GRANGER, also native of l'Acadie, age 20 years; son Charles is age 3 months. In livestock they have 1 ox, 1 cow and 1 sow. The land on which they are settled at Riviere du Nord was given to them verbally by M. de BONNAVENTURE. They have made no clearing, "having been there only a short time."
   [This is a tight group at Riviere du Nord on Isle St. Jean, consisting of seven households, all interrelated in some way.]

   Sessional Paper no. 18 of the Archives, census by the Sieur de la Roque at Isle St. Jean.

6. ↑ Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, ed. Du Grand Dérangement à la Déportation: Nouvelles perspectives historiques. (Moncton, NB: Chaire d'études acadiennes, 2005)
   p. 232.

   Place of refuge listed as Port-La-Joye.

   Article by Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, "Pigiguit: l'impact du Grand Dérangement sur une communauté de l'ancienne Acadie."

7. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
   p. 10.

   Age 43 years.