Person:Alexis Daigre (1)

!BIRTH-CHRISTENING: Albert J. Robichaux, THE ACADIAN EXILES IN SAINT-MALO; 1758-1785; vol. 1, pt. 1, Eunice, LA, Hebert Publications, 1981; p. 231, family #286; own copy. Alexis-Maturin DAIGLE, born 7 Jan 1763, baptized 6 Jan 1763 [sic, baptism is listed as one day before birth. Probably born on the 7th, baptised on the 8th?] Sponsors: Alexis GAUTRAUX & Marguerite GRANGER [aunt?]. Recorded in St. Nicolas Church of Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France.

!MARRIAGE: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1600-1800; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, vols. 2-6; p. 2469 (Louisiana); own copy. Alexis DAIGRE married at Donaldsonville, LA on 28 Jan 1788 to Marie LeBRUN [sic].

!BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-LAND-DEATH: Audrey B. Westerman, FIRST LAND OWNERS AND 1810 ANNOTATED CENSUS OF LAFOURCHE INTERIOR PARISH, LA; 1785-1810; Houma, LA, Terrebonne Genealogical Society, 1995; No. 537; own copy. Alexis Mathurin DAIGLE, born 7 Jan 1763 at Boulogne, France, son of Alexandre & Elizabeth GRANGER. He married on 29 Jan 1788 at Ascension, LA to Marie Josephe Francoise LEVRON, daughter of Michel & Marguerite TRAHAN. Living with no wife and six children on 1810 census of Lafourche parish, LA. Land: T14S R16 E Sec. 30 & T15S R16E Sec. 129 LBBL. More notes.

!CENSUS: Albert J. Robichaux, COLONIAL SETTLERS ALONG BAYOU LAFOURCHE; 1770-1798; Harvey, LA, Author, 1974; pp. 24 & 66, 163; own copy. On the 1788 census of Lafourche (Papeles Procedentes de Cuba; legajo 201): Jean [sic] DAIGLE, age 25, with his wife Marie LEVRON, age 25. They have 5 arpents of land, with 15 quarts of corn, 4 hogs. [His brother is listed a few pages later as Jean Baptiste DAIGLE, age 22, with wife and daughter.

    On the 1791 census: Mathurin DAIGLE, age 26, with his wife Marie LEVRON, also 26, and two sons: Joseph, age 2, and Charles, age 1.
    On the 1795 census: Maturino D'AIGLE, age 33, with Maria LEVRONS, 33, and two children, Juan Bautista, age 3, and Josef, age 1 [their first two sons are missing on this census].
    On the 1797 census: Mathurin DAIGLE, with his wife Marie LEVRON, both age 34, and two sons: Jean Baptiste, age 4, and Joseph, age 2.
    In 1798: Mathurin DAIGLE, with his wife Marie, both age 35, and three children ages 6 to 1. They have 4x40 arpents of land.

!MARRIAGE-BROTHER: Diocese of Baton Rouge [LA], CATHOLIC CHURCH RECORDS, vol. 3; 1804-1819; Baton Rouge, published by the diocese, 1982; p. 234; Sutro Library F377 B3 C3 v.3. On 2 Jan 1812 Maturino DAIGLE acted as witness at the wedding of his nephew Bautista DAIGLE, son of Juan Bautista, deceased, & Maria DUGAT, to Rosalia BLANCHARD.

!PROBATE: Donald J. Hebert, SOUTH LOUISIANA RECORDS; 1794-1840; vol. 1, Rayne, LA, Hebert Publications, 1978; p. 165; own copy; Church and civil records of Lafourche-Terrebonne Parishes. Alexis LEJEUNE, inventory of his property dated 8 Dec 1825 at Lafourche Parish Courthouse, Thibodaux, LA (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: year--1825). Mentions [son] Jean Baptiste, married to Marie Carmelite LEJEUNE.

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

   Sponsors: Alexis GAUTROT & Marguerite GRANGER (Register St-Nicolas of Boulogne-sur-Mer).

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

   Baptized on 6 [sic] Jan 1763 at St-Nicolas, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France.

3. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge. Catholic Church Records, vol. 3, 1804-1819. (Baton Rouge, Diocese, 1982)
   p. 240.

   Maturino [DAIGLE], age 50 years [really 52?] of Acadia, widower of Maria LEBRON, buried on 22 Oct 1815. Recorded in Assumption Church, Plattenville, LA (ASM-3, 107).

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

   Age 9 years.

5. ↑ Donald J. Hébert. Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index. (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995)
   pp. 22-23.

   Alexis DAIGLE, age 22, an engraver, was the 54th family (of 1 person) aboard the ship "La Bergere," embarked in France on 14 May 1785, debarked at Louisiana on 15 Aug 1785. He was listed just after Mathurin TRAHAN, a printer aged 24, and his wife. Just after him was the family of widower Charles DUGAT, 46 [who had been married 1st to his aunt Marguerite GRANGER]. Upon debarking, Alexis received the allotment of 1 each of: axe, shovel, meat cleaver; two of hoe & hatchet.

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

   Listed as Jean, age 25 years.