Germain  BOURGEOIS

Biography
'Germain, born in c1650, married Madeleine, daughter of Antoine Belliveau, probably at Chignecto in c1673. They had three children, including a son who married into the Mius de Plenmarais and Thibodeau families. Their daughter married into the Breau family. Germain remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Abraham Dugas and sister of brother Charles's wife Anne, probably at Chignecto in c1682. They had 10 children, including two sons who married into the LeBlanc family. Their eight daughters married into the Poirier, Richard dit Lafond and dit Beaupré, Girouard, LeBlanc, and Robichaud dit Prudent families. Germain commanded a ship in Pierre Le Moyne, sieur d'Iberville's attack on the New England fort at Pemaquid, Maine, in 1696 during King William's War. Later that year, Germain confronted Massachusetts Colonel Benjamin Church when the Englishman attacked Chignecto. Germaine died in 1711, in his early 60s, from the rigors of being held hostage by British Colonel Samuel Vetch in the...Read MORE...


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1671 Port Royal
Jacob BOURGEOIS, Surgeon, 50; wife Jeanne TRAHAN 40; Children (two married): Jeanne 27, Charles 25, Germain 21, Marie 19, Guillaume 16, Marguerite 13, Francois 12, Anne 10, Marie 7, Jeanne 4; cattle 33, sheep 24.
1671 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1686 Beaubassin
1686 Census Beaubassin
Germain Bourgeois 34, Magdelaine Dugas 22; children: Guillaume 12, Marie 9, Michel 7, Magdelaine 3; 2 guns, 5 arpents, 8 cattle, 3 sheep, 4 hogs.


1686 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1686 Birth of Child
Agnes BOURGEOIS was born 10 January 1686 , Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence)

1693 Beaubassin
Germain BOURGEOIS 41, Madeleine DUGAS 26, Guillaume 18, Marie 16, Michel 14, Madeleine 10, Agnes 7, Anne 4, Joseph 1 1/ 2; 24 cattle, 23 sheep, 12 pigs, 8 arpents, 3 guns
1693 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1698 Beaubassin
1698 Beaubassin: Jacques Bourgeois 82, Jeanne Trahan 72, Germain 48, Madne. Dugas (wife) 34, Guillaume 24, Agnes 12; 22 cattle, 15 hogs, 21 arpents, 3 guns, 1 servant.
1698 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1700 Beaubassin
1700 Beaubassin: Germain Bourgeois 50, wife Madeleine Dugast 37, Guillaume 26, Joseph 11, Claude 6, Agnes 16, Anne 12, Marie 7, Francoise 2; 19 cattle, 12 hogs, 22 arpents, 5 guns.
1700 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1701 Beaubassin
1701 Beaubassin: Germain Bourgeois, wife, 2 boys, 4 girls; 22 cattle, 10 hogs, 20 arpents, 6 guns.
1701 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1704 Birth of Child
Marie Madeleine BOURGEOIS was born 22 December 1704, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

1705 Marriage of Child
Guillaume BOURGEOIS married 17 February 1705, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) to Catherine Josephe THIBODEAU

1707 Marriage of Child
Agnes BOURGEOIS married 25 February 1707 , Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) to Michel RICHARD

1708 Marriage of Child
Anne BOURGEOIS married 7 February 1708, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia) to François GIROUARD

1709 Birth of Child
Jeanne BOURGEOIS was born 30 November 1709, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)

Death - St. Jean Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, Acadia
Burial
Germain Bourgeois
died 1711, died during Durand's captivity at Boston

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