Person:Marguerite Broussard (2)

Marguerite Broussard
d.Aft 1 Jan 1777 , , LA
m. 24 Oct 1718
  1. Marguerite BroussardAbt 1719 - Aft 1777
  • HJacques MelansonAbt 1718 - Bef 1763
  • WMarguerite BroussardAbt 1719 - Aft 1777
m. Abt 1742
  1. Magdelaine Melancon1741 -
  2. Isabelle Melancon1746 -
  3. Marguerite Melancon1747 -
Facts and Events
Name Marguerite Broussard
Gender Female
Birth? Abt 1719 Port Royal, , , Acadia
Marriage Abt 1742 , , , Acadiato Jacques Melanson
Census[1] 1 Jan 1777 St. James, St. James, LA
Death? Aft 1 Jan 1777 , , LA
Census[2][3] Apr 1777 Left bank of the Mississippi, , Acadian Coast, Louisiana,

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS, vols. 1-6; 1630-1775; Quebec, Le Conseil de la Vie Francaise en Amerique, 1965; p. 473 (Port Royal); Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Library, CS31 A77 MAIN. Born 1719, she married Jacques MELANSON of Grand Pré.

    Also p. 2554 (Louisiana): Marguerite BROUSSARD, daughter of Claude & Anne BABIN of Port Royal, the widow of Jacques MELANCON, occupied lot #101 on the east bank of the Mississippi at St. James, LA in 1769.

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-CENSUS: Gregory A. Wood, A GUIDE TO THE ACADIANS IN MARYLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES; 1755-1899; Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1995; p. 171; own copy.

!CENSUS: Lillian C. Bourgeois, CABANOCEY, THE HISTORY, CUSTOMS AND FOLKLORE OF ST. JAMES PARISH; ; New Orleans, Pelican Publishing, 1957; p. 187; California State Library Sutro, F377 S134 B6; Census taken 1 Jan 1777 of the Parish of St. James at Cabahannocer. Marguerite BROUNARD (BROUSSARD), age 57, "mother," living with Pierre PART & his wife Marguerite MELANSON [her daugher] on the left bank of the Mississippi River.

References
  1. Winston De Ville. Parish of St. James in the Province of Louisiana, The. (Ville Platte, LA, Author, 1987)
    p. 12.

    Marguerite BROUSSARD, age 57, mother in household of Pierre PART & his wife Margueritte MELANSON [her daughter].

  2. Cabanocey : the history, customs, and folklore of St. James Parish
    p 186.
  3. Pierre Part28
    Marguerite Melanson, wife30
    Francois, son 4
    Joseph, son 3
    Francois Damour, orphan17
    Marguerite Brounard, mother57
    Olivier Part, brother30