Claude  DUGAS

Biography
Oldest son Claude, born in c1649, a gunsmith like his father, married first to Françoise, daughter of Jacques Bourgeois, at Port-Royal in c1673. They had 12 children, including three sons who married into the Bourg family, all daughters of Bernard Bourg. Their nine daughters married into the Melanson, Forest, Bourg, Part dit LaForest, Thibodeau, Hébert, Broussard, and Brun families. Claude remarried to Marguerite, another daughter of Bernard Bourg, at Port-Royal in c1697. They had 10 children, including five sons who married into the Coste, Girouard, and Robichaud families. Their five daughters married into the Aubois dit Dubois, Bergeron dit d'Amboise, Amireau, and Belliveau families. Claude also owned land at Chignecto as early as 1682. Claude died at Port-Royal in October 1732, in his early 80s, no doubt surrounded by many children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren. Most of his children from his first marriage remained at Port-Royal, though two of his sons...Read MORE...


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1671 Port Royal
Abraham DUGAST, gunsmith, 55, wife Marie Judith DOUCET 46; Children: Claude 19, Martin 15, Abraham 10, Marie 23, Anne 17, Margueritte 14, Magdeleine 7, Marie 5; cattle 19, sheep 3.
1671 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1681 Birth of Child
Marguerite DUGAS was born 19 March 1681, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

1693 Port Royal
Abraham DUGAS 74, Marguerite DOUCET 66, Claude 44, Francoise BOURGEOIS (his wife) 34, Marie 17, Claude 16, Francoise 14, Joseph 13, Marguerite 11, Anne 10, Jeanne 9, Agnes 7, Francois 5, Madeleine 4, Cecile 1; 20 cattle, 30 sheep, 15 pigs, 26 arpents, 4 guns

1693 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1695 - Oath of Allegiance to King William III
In August 1695, English authorities imposed on the Acadian inhabitants at Port-Royal an oath of allegiance to King William III. Many family heads signed or made their marks on the document that attested to their having taken the oath. Louis Allain, Jean Babineau, called Babinot, Jean Bastarache, Jean Belliveau, Martin and Guillaume Blanchard, Bernard and Martin Bourg, François Broussard, Pierre Cellier, called Le Cellier, Étienne, Jean l'aîné, Pierre l'aîné, and Pierre le jeune Comeau, Jean Corporon, Pierre Doucet, Claude Dugas, ___ Dupuis, Jean Fardel (an Englishman whose wife was a Gaudet), Pierre Gaudet, Jacob and Alexandre Girouard, Laurent Granger, Giraud (Jérôme) Guérin, Emmanuel Hébert, Claude and Pierre Landry, Daniel LeBlanc, Jacques Léger dit La Rosette, Pierre Martin, fils, Étienne Pellerin, Martin Richard, Charles Robichaud dit Cadet, François Robin, Germain Savoie, Pierre Sibilau, Claude and Bonaventure Thériot, and Jacques Triel dit Laperrière--all made their marks....Read MORE...


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1700 Port Royal
Marguerite DOUCET, widow of Abraham DUGAST; Claude DUGAST 51; Marguerite BOURG (wife age not reported); Claude 23; Francois 12; Joseph 2; Marguerite 18; Anne 17; Jeanne 16; Agnes 14; Madelaine 11; Cecille 8; Marguerite 3; 40 cattle, 25 sheep, 28 arpents, 3 guns.
1700 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1701 Marriage of Child
Marguerite DUGAS married 11 January 1701, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) to Jean MELANÇON (MELANSON)

1703 Birth of Child
Louis DUGAS was born 12 November 1703, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

1704 Marriage of Child
Madeleine DUGAS married 25 January 1704, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) to Jean-Emmanuel HÉBERT

1704 Marriage of Child
Agnès DUGAS married 13 November 1704, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) to Michel THIBODEAU

1706 Birth of Child
Claire DUGAS was born 21 January 1706, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

1707 Marriage of Child
Jeanne DUGAS married 3 February 1707, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) to Pierre PARR (PART) dit LE FORET

1707 Birth of Child
Marie Anne DUGAS was born 16 April 1707, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

1709 Birth of Child
Charles DUGAS was born 18 February 1709, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

1709 Marriage of Child
Cecile DUGAS married 27 November 1709 , Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) to Claude BRUN

1709 Marriage of Child
Marie DUGAS married 27 November 1709, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) to Abraham BOURG LE JEUNE

1712 Birth of Child
Claude DUGAS was born 28 May 1712, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

1713 Marriage of Child
François DUGAS married 24 October 1713 , Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) to Claire BOURG

1715 Birth of Child
Michel DUGAS was born 13 November 1715, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

1717 Marriage of Child
Elisabeth DUGAS married 11 January 1717 , Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) to Pierre HAUTBOIS

1721 Marriage of Child
Marguerite DUGAS married 21 April 1721 , Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) to Barthelemy BERGERON

1726 Marriage of Child
Claire DUGAS married 28 August 1726 , Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) to Charles AMIRAULT (MIREAULT)

1732 Death
16 October 1732
Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)