Person:Pierre Bourgeois (4)

Pierre Bourgeois
d.Abt Dec 1814 , St. James, LA
  • HPierre Bourgeois1745 - Abt 1814
  • WMarie BergeronAbt 1750 - 1828
m. 9 Nov 1767
Facts and Events
Name Pierre Bourgeois
Alt Name Pedro _____
Gender Male
Birth[1] 23 Jan 1745 Beaubassin, , , Acadia
Census[3] 9 Apr 1766 Cabahannocer, St. James, LA
Marriage 9 Nov 1767 St. James, St. James, LAto Marie Bergeron
Census[4] 1 Jan 1777 Cabahannocer, St. James, LA
Death? Abt Dec 1814 , St. James, LA
Burial[2] 1 Jan 1815 St. James, St. James, LA

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS, vols. 1-6; 1630-1775; Quebec, Le Conseil de la Vie Francaise en Amerique, 1965; vol. 2, p. 877 & 2435 (Louisiana); Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Library, CS31 A77 MAIN. Pierre BOURGEOIS, born in 1745, son of Paul & Marie-Josephe BRUN of Beaubassin, Acadie. He married at St. James [LA] on 9 Nov 1767 to Marie BERGERON, daughter of Michel & Marie HEBERT [sic, should be 2nd wife Marie DUGAS] of Port-Royal and the River St-Jean; three children listed. In 1769 Pierre occupied lot number 94 on the east bank of the Mississippi at St. James.

RESIDENCES: "Of Beausejour, Acadia" (Marchand).

!MARRIAGE: Marchand. Q[?]-715. "This contract was executed before Louis Judice, 'Commandant of the Acadians', at Kabahanoce." [This is present-day St. James Parish, LA.]

!BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Benjamin Joseph Bourgeois, DESCENDANTS OF JACQUES BOURGEOIS IN LOUISIANA; 1618-1900; Houston, Bourg Research, 1994; p. 16; own copy. By 1769 the family was living on lot number 94 on the east side of the Mississippi River at St. James.

References
  1. [email protected]
    18 Jan 2001.

    Message from Roger Rozendal ([email protected]).

  2. Diocese of Baton Rouge. Catholic Church Records, vol. 3, 1804-1819. (Baton Rouge, Diocese, 1982)
    p. 148.

    Pierre BOURGEOIS, age about 69 years, native of Acadia, buried on 1 Jan 1815 at St. James Catholic Church, St. James, LA (SJA-4, 39a).

  3. Lillian C. Bourgeois. Cabanocey. (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1957.)
    p. 167.

    Pierre BOURGEOIS, 20, with 6 arpents of land, and 1 gun.
    [Next door are his brothers Michel, Joseph with family, and then Paul.]

  4. Winston De Ville. Parish of St. James in the Province of Louisiana, The. (Ville Platte, LA, Author, 1987)
    p. 7.

    Pierre ARCENEAUX [sic, should be BOURGEOIS], age 28, with his wife Marie BERGERSON [sic], age 22, and their four children: Pierre, age 7; Joseph, age 5; Marianne "daughter of said Pierre BOURGEOIS," 3; and Louise, "daughter of said Pierre BROUGEOIS [sic], age 2.

  5.   West, Robert Cooper, and Louisiana State University. An atlas of Louisiana surnames of French and Spanish origin. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Geoscience Publications, Louisiana State University, 1986)
    pg. 37.

    Son of Paul BOURGEOIS & Marie-Josephe BRUN of Beaubassin, Acadia. With four brothers came as refugees from Acadia in the mid-1760s, settling on the east bank of the Mississippi in St. James Parish, LA.