Emmanuel  MIRANDE-TAVARE

On 30 November 1679 Marguerite, married Emmanuel Mirande dit Tavare, in Beaubassin, Acadia, Canada.

(White, Stephen A. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Famillies Acadiennes. volume I. Moncton, Canada: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999).

Emmanuel dit Tavare, son of Emmanuel Mirande and Catherine Spire of Ste.-Croix, Île de Gratiose, in the Azores, was a Portuguese sailor. He settled first in Canada, at La Canardière, where, in 1670, at age 22, he contracted for marriage with Françoise Duval. The contract "was subsequently cancelled," however, and Françoise married someone else. A few years later, Emmanuel, described as "a Spaniard," was "keeping company" with Catherine Basset, who, in August 1675, was ordered by city authorities at Québec "'to clear out of this city and its outskirts within three days, owing to her bad reputation.'" Evidently Emmanuel thought it best to "clear out," too. He moved to Chignecto, where he married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Bourgeois and Jeanne Trahan and widow of Jean Boudrot, at Beaubassin, in November 1679; witnesses to the marriage were not only two of young widow's brothers, but also the seigneur of Chignecto, Michel Le Neuf de La Vallière, then serving as the colony's commander, who may have encouraged the Portuguese to settle on his seigneurie. De Meulles found Emmanuel and Marguerite still at Chignecto in 1686, and recorded that Emmanuel was age 38, and Marguerite was 28. With them was a 9-year-old daughter from Marguerite's first marriage, and four children, three sons and a daughter, ages 5 to 2, from their own marriage. They owned 3 guns and were raising 18 cattle, 8 sheep, and 30 hogs on 25 arpents. Marguerite gave Emmanuel nine children, including a son who created a family of his own.

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