Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s
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ACADIA
Abraham Dugas, a skilled gunsmith perhaps from Chouppes, Poitiers, France, born in c1616, reached Acadia in c1640 and was thus among the earliest settlers in the colony. In October 1687, Abraham "made his mark on an attestation in favour of Governor d'Aulnay's accomplishments," which shows how early he had come to the colony. Abraham also was more than a gunsmith at Port-Royal. According to a high French official, Abraham Dugas "carried out the functions of general representative of the King [in civil and criminal matters]." Abraham married Marguerite, daughter of Germain Doucet, sieur de La Verdure, at Port-Royal in c1647. They had eight children, including three sons, all born at Port-Royal, who created families of their own. Abraham's five daughters married into the Melanson dit La Ramée, Bourgeois, Châtillon, Arseneau, and LeBlanc families. Abraham died at Port-Royal by 1700. In December 1705, in order to increase the size of the fort at Port-Royal, colonial officials appropriated two lots "adjoining and drawing towards the old fort" that belonged to Abraham's heirs. Some of his children left Port-Royal and settled at Chignecto, Cap-Sable, Minas, and on Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island.
Oldest son Claude, born in c1649, a gunsmith like his father, married first to Francoise, 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 settled at Cobeguit, and children from his second marriage settled not only at Port-Royal but also on Rivière St.-Jean and at Port-Toulouse and Port-d'Orléans on Île Royale, today's Cape Breton Island. Several of his grandchildren settled at Minas. By the early 1750s, many of his grandchildren had moved to Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, probably to escape British authority in Nova Scotia.
Martin, born in c1656, married Marguerite, daughter of Claude Petitpas, at Port-Royal in c1677. They moved to Île Royale in the 1710s. They had two children, including a son, Abraham dit Grivois, who married into the Landry family. Their daughter married into the Cressonet dit Beauséjour family at Louisbourg, Île Royale. One of his grandsons settled on Rivière St.-Jean, and another moved to Île St.-Jean by the early 1750s.
Youngest son, Abraham, fils, born in c1661, a navigator and a carpenter, married Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Guilbeau, at Port-Royal in c1685. They lived at Cap-Sable in the 1680s and 1690s before moving to Minas by 1701. By the early 1720s, they had moved on to Port-Toulouse on Île Royale. Later in the decade, they were living at Louisbourg. They had six children, including a son, Joseph, a builder and navigator, who married into the Richard family and settled at Minas and Île Royale; Joseph's schooner was called La Sainte-Anne. Abraham, fils's four daughters married into the Hébert, Breau, Richard, and LeBlanc families. Some of them remained at Minas.
By 1755, descendants of Abraham Dugas the master gunsmith could be found in many parts of greater Acadia: at Port-Royal, Chignecto, Minas, and Cobeguit in British-controlled Nova Scotia, and on Rivière St.-Jean, Île St.-Jean, and Île Royale, controlled by the French. They were especially numerous at Port-Royal, which the British called Annapolis Royal, and on Île St.-Jean.
LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT
The fate of an Acadian family during Le Grand Dérangement depended largely on where they settled in greater Acadia. The more scattered the family in 1755, the more scattered it became in the decades that followed. This was especially true for the oldest Acadian families. Since Dugass could be found in a number of settlements in both British- and French-controlled greater Acadia in 1755, they ended up in many far-flung places during the great upheaval: in the British Atlantic colonies of Connecticut and Massachusetts; at Miramichi and Restigouche on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; at St.-Malo, Boulogne-sur-Mer, La Rochelle, Rochefort, Poitou, and Nantes in France; in Haiti; at Halifax; up and down the St. Lawrence valley; on the Gaspé Peninsula; in northeastern New Brunswick; on Baie St.-Marie, Île Madame, and Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia; on Îles St.-Pierre and Miquelon; in Newfoundland; and in Louisiana.
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In late autumn of 1755, the British shipped the Acadians in the Annapolis Basin to Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and North Carolina. Many Dugass were on these vessels. However, the ship heading to North Carolina, the Pembroke, never got there. Soon after the Pembroke embarked from Goat Island in the lower basin with 232 exiles aboard, the Acadians, among them Charles Dugas, seized the vessel, sailed it to Baie Ste.-Marie on the western coast of Nova Scotia and then crossed the Bay of Fundy to the lower Rivière St.-Jean, where they abandoned the ship and escaped into the wilds of present-day New Brunswick. The rest of their Annapolis valley brethren were not so lucky. After their ships had reached their destinations, the Acadians who ended up in New England eventually were allowed to come ashore and endure the disdain of the English colonists. Meanwhile, the Dugass who had escaped the British roundup at Annapolis Royal crossed the Bay of Fundy the following winter and found refuge on upper Rivière St.-Jean, where Dugas cousins lived. Some moved on to Miramichi and Restigouche on the Gulf of St. Lawrence or endured the long, dangerous trek to the St. Lawrence valley, where their fellow Frenchmen treated them badly.
Dugass who found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence suffered more reverses in the final years of the French and Indian War. In July 1760, British forces, in what proved to be the final offensive of the war, attacked one of the last French strongholds, at Restigouche on the Baie des Chaleurs, where many Acadians had found refuge from earlier roundups. The French at Restigouche surrendered in the fall of 1760 after holding out for several months. Some of the Port-Royal Dugass who had taken refuge there ended up as prisoners in Nova Scotia, especially at Halifax, in the final months of the war.
After the French and Indian War ended and they were allowed to seek their own destiny, Dugass who had made the long trek to the St. Lawrence River valley, who had escaped the British roundups in greater Acadia, including the capture of Restigouche, or who had been exiled to New England for eight long years, found new homes in present-day Québec Province at Québec City, Ste.-Foy, Bécancour, Batiscan, Louiseville, St.-Jacques-de-l'Achigan, and St.-Paul-de-Lavaltire on the upper St. Lawrence, at Rimouski, St.-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Rivière-du-Loup, and Cap-Chat on the lower St. Lawrence, and at Carleton and Bonaventure on the northern shore of the Baie des Chaleurs; at Caraquet in present-day northeastern New Brunswick; in Nova Scotia at Chédabouctou, at Pointe-de-l'Église, now Church Point, Grosses-Coques, L'Anse-aux-Belliveau, and Meteghan on Baie Ste.-Marie, at D'Escousse and Nureichak on Île Madame, and at Chéticamp on Cape Breton Island; and in Newfoundland. Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and until the Acadian reunions of the mid-twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed.
In the early 1760s, during the final months of the war, Acadians exiled in the British colonies had been encouraged by French officials to go to St.-Dominique, today's Haiti, to work on a huge French naval base at Môle St.-Nicolas. Although driven from North America, the French were determined to hang on to what was left of their shrinking empire. The new naval base on the north shore of St.-Domingue would protect the approaches to what was left of their possessions in the Caribbean basin. French officials saw the Acadian exiles as a ready source of cheap labor. They promised them land of their own if they came to Haiti to help build the naval base. And so Acadians, including Dugass from New England, came to the island, but they found no farmland there, only empty promises, misery, and death in the jungles of northern Haiti. Beginning in the summer of 1765, after several years of what they saw as fruitless effort, Acadians sought permission to leave the naval base, but French officials refused to let them go. Some Acadians, including Dugass, left the project anyway and moved to Mirebalais in hopes of resuming their lives as farmers. Anne Dugas, widow of Étienne Hébert, died at Mirebalais in December 1764, in her late 70s. Marguerite Dugas, wife of Joseph Babineau dit Des Lauriers, died there in April 1765, in her early 60s.
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Living in territory controlled by France, the many Dugass on Île St.-Jean and Île Royale had escaped the British roundup in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1755. Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however. After the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in July 1758, the victorious British swooped down on the rest of Île Royale and on Île St.-Jean and rounded up most of the Acadians there, Dugass among them. Later that year, the British packed hundreds of island Acadians into hired merchant vessels and shipped them to St.-Malo and other French ports. The deportation devastated the Dugas family.
Élisabeth Dugas, age 24, and her husband Jérôme Lejeune crossed on the British transport Supply; Jérôme died at sea, and Élisabeth died at St.-Malo in August 1759 probably from the rigors of the voyage. Pierre Dugas of Île St.-Jean, age 50, wife Isabelle Bourg, age 47, and six of their children, ages 21 to 3, crossed on the transport Tamerlane; they all reached St.-Malo safely. Most of the island Dugass crossed on the five British transports that left the Gut of Canso in late November and reached St.-Malo in late January. Marguerite-Josèphe Dugas, age 24, crossed with husband Joseph Bourg, age 26; he survived, but she died at sea. Joseph Dugas, age 59, crossed with wife Marie Hébert, age 54, and three children, ages 15, 14, and 10; Joseph, Marie, and the 14-year-old died at sea; the other two children--Joseph, age 15, and Anne, age 10, survived. Alexis Dugas, age 32, crossed with wife Anne Bourg, age 32, and six children, ages 10 to infancy; only Alexis and 10-year-old Anne-Josèphe survived; the rest of the family died at sea. Charles Dugas crossed with wife Marie Benoit and 10 children, ages 26 to very young; Charles and the two youngest children died at sea; the others, including Anne, age 26, Marie-Madeleine, age 24, Jean-Baptiste, age 22, Marie-Josèphe, age 19, Pierre-Ignace, age 16, Pierre, age 14, Antoine, age 12, and Victoire, age 10, survived. Paul Dugas, age 48, crossed with wife Anne-Marie Boudrot, age 48, and five children, ages 15 to 6; son Paul, fils, age 9, and Anne-Marie died in a St.-Malo hospital in January and February, probably from the rigors of the voyage; Paul, père and the other children--Marguerite, age 15, Marie, age 12, Simon, age 11, and Isabelle, age 6--survived; Ambroise Dugas, age 30, crossed with wife Marguerite Henry, age 29, and four children, ages 7 to 1 1/2; Ambroise and son Ambroise, fils, age 7, survived, but the others died, either at sea or in a St.-Malo hospital in February and March. Jean-Baptiste Dugas, age 40, crossed with wife Madeleine Moïse and six children, ages 17 to 1; Jean-Baptiste and four of the children--Jean-Baptiste, fils, age 17, Josèphe, age 15, Marin, age 12, and Marie, age 10--survived, but Madeleine and the two youngest children died at sea. Pierre Dugas, age 31, son of Claude, crossed with wife Marguerite Daigle, age 35, three children, ages 6, 4, and 2, and his brother Amand, age 12; they all survived except the youngest, Victoire-Osite, age 2, who died at sea. Another Pierre Dugas, age 26, son of Joseph, crossed with wife Anne-Josèphe Henry, age 27, and three children, ages 5, 4, and 2; Pierre and Anne-Josèphe survived, but all three of their children died at sea. Madeleine Dugas, age 17, crossed with husband Jean-Baptiste Hébert, age 26; both survived. Marie Dugas, age 35, crossed with husband Francois Henry, six children ages 14 to 2, and her sister Eulalie, age 21; Francois and the three youngest children died at sea; the others survived. Claire Dugas, age 62, widow Hébert, crossed with four children, age 19 to 14; the 19-year-old son died at sea, and Claire died in a St.-Malo hospital in February, no doubt from the rigors of the voyage; the other three children survived. Isabelle Dugas, age 21, crossed with husband Jean-Baptiste Landry, age 35, two children ages 8 and 5, and Jean-Baptiste's cousin Charles Robichaux, age 23; they all survived. Charles Dugas, age 35, crossed with wife Euphrosine Thériot, age 34; he survived, but she died in a St.-Malo hospital in February. Francoise Dugas, age 20, crossed with husband Antoine Henry, age 22; they died in a St.-Malo hospital in January and February. Marguerite Dugas, husband Charles Hébert, and seven of their children were on one of the two British transports lost at sea. Island Dugass also landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer, La Rochelle, and Rochefort.
The Dugass of St.-Malo settled in many suburbs of the city, at St.-Suliac, Plouër, St.-Servan, St.-Énogat, St.-Melior, La Gouesniere, Pleurtuit, St.-Coulomb, and Château-Malo. They lived on government handouts and on what work they could find. ...
By the early 1770s, French authorities were tired of providing for the Acadians languishing in the port cities. A French nobleman offered to settle them on some marginal land he owned near the city of Châtellerault. The Acadians, including several families of Dugass, tried mightily to bring life to the rocky soil around the long line of houses in the woods of Poitou. In late 1775 and early 1776, after the venture failed miserably, the Dugass and other Poitou Acadians retreated in four convoys to the port city of Nantes, where they lived once again on government hand outs. ...
A Dugas family from Port-Toulouse, Île Royale, had escaped the British roundup there in late 1758 and settled on one of the French-owned islands off the southern coast of Newfoundland. Hundreds of other Acadians migrated to the small islands--St.-Pierre and Miquelon--and within a few years French authorities despaired that the islands' dwindling resources would be unable to support such a large population. Pressured by the French and poor living conditions, Joseph Dugas, his second wife Louise Arseneau, and two of his children, Joseph, fils, and Marie, elected to go to France. They reached St.-Malo aboard the schooner La Creole in November 1767. It did not take them long to see that conditions in the French port and its suburbs were no better than on the crowded Maritime islands. They returned to St.-Pierre and Miquelon the following March. But another war, this one the American Revolution, forced them from the islands again. In 1778, France joined the United States in its fight against Britain. The islands by now, with their smaller populations, were a chief source of salted cod for the European market, and the Acadians there were thriving. This made the islands a tempting target, and British forces from Newfoundland seized St. Pierre and Miquelon later in the year. "In scenes reminiscent of of the deportations of 1755," wrote one historian, "the inhabitants of St. Pierre and Miquelon were forced aboard vessels, without being given time 'to even save their clothes," while soldiers went from house to house, burning the structures and their contents. Once again, the Miquelonnais were forced to sail to France." Joseph Dugas, wife Louise Arseneau, his son Joseph, fils's widow Anastasie Bourg, and three of her Dugas children, made the crossing back to France aboard the brigantine La Jeannette, which reached St.-Malo in early November 1778. Anastasie died at St.-Servan in June 1779; she was only 27. Daughter Adélaïde Dugas died at St.-Servan the following September; she was only 1 1/2.
In the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana. Weary of living in a mother country that neglected its Acadian children, dozens of Dugass at Nantes and St.-Malo agreed to take it.
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Meanwhile, back in North America, after the French and Indian War finally ended, the Dugass being held at Halifax had a serious dilemma on their hands. The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article 14 that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories. In the case of the Acadians, however, this meant that they could return only to French soil. Rivière St.-Jean was no longer French territory, and Port-Royal had not been French for over half a century. British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors. If Acadians chose to remain in Nova Scotia, they could live only in the interior of the peninsula in small family groups and work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New England "planters." If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation. They would also have to take the hated oath if they joined their cousins in Canada. After all that they had suffered on the question of the oath, no self-respecting Acadian would consent to take it if it could be avoided. Some Halifax exiles, including Dugass, chose to relocate to Miquelon, a French-owned island off the southern coast of Newfoundland. Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, today's Haiti, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies, including Dugass, already had gone, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which, thanks to British control of Canada, was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles. Whatever their choice, they would not remain in old Acadia. So the Dugass gathered up what money they could and prepared to leave their beloved homeland.
LOUISIANA: WESTERN SETTLEMENTS
Dugas were among the first families of Acadia and among the earliest Acadians to seek refuge in Louisiana. Three Dugas families, one of them childless, two wives, a hand full of young bachelors, and a very young orphan--19 Dugass in all--reached the colony in February 1765 with the Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil party from Halifax via St.-Domingue. Only the Broussards outnumbered the Dugass in the Beausoleil party. After a short respite in the city, where they exchanged their Canadian card money for Louisiana funds, they followed the Broussards to the Atakapas District, where they helped create La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche:
Jean Dugas l'aîné of Port-Royal and Ékoupag, Rivière St.-Jean, age 53, came with wife Marie-Charlotte Godin, age unrecorded, and six children--Francois, age 25, Marie-Rose, age 16, Charles, age 15, Athanase, age 12, Michel, age 8, and Théodore, age 6. In April 1765, before leaving New Orleans, Jean was one of the eight signers of the Dauterive agreement that gave the Teche Acadians their start as cattlemen, but he and his wife died in the epidemic of 1765 before the dream could be realized.
Joseph Dugas, age unrecorded, came with wife Cécile Bergeron, age 30, and four children--Cécile, age 12, Joseph dit Cadet, age 10, Pélagie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, age 6, and infant Mathilde, who died in New Orleans soon after they reached the colony and was perhaps the first Acadian to die in Louisiana. Joseph, père died in the epidemic of 1765.
Charles Dugas dit Charlitte, age 28, came with wife Marguerite Broussard, age 28, and no children.
Charles dit Charlitte's younger brothers, Jean le jeune, age 24, and Pierre, age 16, also were in the party, as well as Joseph Dugas, age unrecorded, who died in the epidemic of 1765, and orphan Jean Dugas, age 1, who also was a victim of the epidemic.
Madeleine Dugas, age unrecorded, came alone. She died in the epidemic of 1765.
Madeleine-Marguerite Dugas, age unrecorded, came with husband Anselme Broussard and 1-year-old son.
Marie Dugas, age unrecorded, came with husband Mathurin Landry, age 28, and no children. She died in the epidemic of 1765.
When a mysterious epidemic struck the Teche valley Acadians in the summer of 1765, six of the victims were Dugass--Jean l'aîné, Joseph, père, a younger Joseph, Marie, wife of Mathurin Landry, Madeleine, and infant Jean. Jean l'aîné's wife also died; only the Bergerons lost as many kin in the epidemic. That fall, Jean l'aîné's six children and Joseph, père's wife and her three children, as well as Jean, brother of Charles dit Charlitte, retreated back across the Atchafalaya Basin to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where other Acadians were settling in large numbers. Charles dit Charlitte, his wife, and his younger brother Pierre remained on the Teche. Their brother Jean returned to the Teche later in the decade. Jean l'aîné's and Joseph, père's children remained on the river.
Descendants of Charles dit Charlitte DUGAS (c1737-1808)
Charles dit Charlitte, elder son of Charles Dugas and Anne Robichaux, born in Acadia in c1737, married Marguerite, daughter of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil of Petitcoudiac, during Le Grand Dérangement. Charlitte probably was part of the Acadian resistance in present-day southeastern New Brunswick led by his father-in-law. They ended up as prisoners in Halifax with the Broussards. They followed Marguerite's father and kinsmen to Louisiana via St.-Domingue in 1764-65, and, after a short respite in New Orleans, went with them to Bayou Teche. When an epidemic devastated the Teche community and killed some of their relatives, including Marguerite's famous father, in the summer and fall of 1765, Charlitte and Marguerite did not retreat with many of their kinsmen to the river but remained with the Broussards on the western prairies, where their children were born. They settled at Fausse Pointe near present-day New Iberia, the original Broussard settlement. Charles dit Charlitte died at his home at Fausse Pointe in September 1808; the priest who recorded his burial said that Charles was 80 years old when he died, but he was closer to 70. All but two of his many grandsons and a great-grandson married Broussard cousins from Fausse Pointe.
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Older son Éloi, born at Atakapas in c1770, married Susanne, daughter of French Creole Jean-Louis Bonin of Mobile, at Atakapas in November 1795; Susanne's mother was a Prince. They settled at Fausse Pointe. Their son Éloi, fils was born at Fausse Pointe in February 1796, Benjamin Aurelien or Aurelien Benjamin, called Aurelien, in May 1800, Jean-Baptiste in July 1802, Désiré in April 1806, and Louis Éloi in February 1812. Their daughters married into the Gonsoulin, Hayse, Judice, Labauve, and Ranconnet families. Éloi, père died probably at Fausse Pointe in December 1835; he was 65 years old; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse later that month.
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Eloi, fils married Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Broussard of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1816. They settled at Fausse Pointe. Their son Éloi III was born at Fausse Pointe December 1817, Jean Baptiste Treville in December 1818, Aurelien le jeune in February 1820 but died at age 8 in April 1828, Louis Demaseliere was born in January 1823, Édouard in October 1824, Louis Ferjus died "at age about 1" in November 1828, Louis Éloi le jeune was born in August 1830, Charles Fualdes, called Fualdes, in May 1833 but died at age 15 months in August 1834, Severin Onesiphore was born in February 1837, and Jean Baptiste Désiré in July 1839. Their daughter married a Broussard cousin. ...
Éloi III married cousin Céleste Emma, daughter of fellow Acadian Nicolas Amand Broussard, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1838. ...
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Aurelien married Élisabeth Anne or Anne Élisabeth, called Erasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard Broussard of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1821. Their son Benjamin was born at Fausse Pointe in July 182[2] but died the following December, a second Benjamin was born in October 1823, Édouard in March 1831, and Vital Octave, called Octave in April 1835 but died at age 2 1/2 in October 1837. ...
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Jean Baptiste married Adélaïde or Adele, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Broussard, of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in April 1822. Their son Jean Valcour was born probably at Fausse Pointe in April 1827, Éloi Ulinor in June 1829, Alexandre Fenelon in October 1831, Joseph Clesmé in February 1834, and Alcide or Alcée in June 1837. Their daughter married a Broussard cousin. Jean Baptiste died in St. Martin Parish in March 1840; the priest who recorded his burial said that Jean Baptiste was 35 years old when he died, but he was 37; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the following month.
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Désiré married Marguerite Émelie, called Amelie and Melite, another daughter of Édouard Broussard, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1829. Their son, name unrecorded, died in St. Martin Parish at age 2 months in March 1834, and Maximilien Désiré was born in May 1839. ...
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Louis Éloi married Marie Adélaïde or Adeline, daughter of fellow Acadian Jacques LeBlanc, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1831. Their son Louis Joseph died in St. Martin Parish, age 1 month, in July 1832, Edmond was born in May 1837, and Cleopha Noemi in November 1839. ...
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Younger son Louis, born at Atakapas in November 1776, married Constance, daughter of fellow Acadian Gilles LeBlanc of St.-Jacques. They settled at Fausse Pointe and then at Pont-Breaux, today's Breaux Bridge. Their son Louis, fils was born at Fausse Pointe in September 1800, Sosthène in October 1804, and Norbert in December 1812. Their daughters married into the Bernard, Broussard, and Mouton families. Louis died at his home at Fausse Pointe in October 1813; the priest who recorded his burial said that Louis was 40 years old when he died, but he was only 36; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in October 1816, and another one at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in November 1832.
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Louis, fils married Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Broussard, fils of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1822. Their son Louis III was born at Fausse Pointe in January 1823, Francois in January 1825, Pierre in January 1827, Darmancourt died "age about 2 years" in January 1829, a son, name unrecorded, died in May 1832 8 days after his birth, and Guillaume Mozart was born in January 1836. They also had a son named Émile. ...
Émile died in St. Martin Parish in May 1820. The priest who recorded his burial said that Émile was 20 years old when he died, but he probably was only 17 or 18. He did not marry.
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Sosthène married Marie Louise dite Tonton, another daughter of Alexandre Broussard of Fausse Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1825. Their son Sosthène Darmas was born probably at Fausse Pointe in February 1827. ...
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Norbert married Marie Eurasie, called Eurasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Julien Breaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in June 1831. Their son Joseph Aristide was born near New Iberia, then in St. Martin but now in Iberia Parish, in June 1838. Norbert died in St. Martin Parish in September 1839; the priest who recorded his burial said that Norbert was 30 years old when he died, but he was only 26; his succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse the next month.
Descendants of Pierre DUGAS (c1749-c1829)
Pierre, third and youngest son of Charles Dugas and Anne Robichaux, born in Acadia in c1749, ended up as a prisoner in Halifax with the Broussards, who were in-laws of his older brother Charles dit Charlitte. Pierre followed his brothers and the Broussards to Louisiana via St.-Domingue in 1764-65. When an epidemic devastated the Teche community and killed some of his relatives in the summer and fall of 1765, Pierre remained on the Teche with his oldest brother Charlitte and married Anne dite Nanette, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Thibodeaux, at Atakapas in July 1772. They settled at Anse La Butte on upper Bayou Vermilion between present-day Lafayette and Breaux Bridge and at nearby Grand Prairie, today's downtown Lafayette. Their daughters married into the Bernard, Breaux, Markham, Martin, and Mouton families. Pierre's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in November 1829; he would have been 80 years old that year.
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Older son Pierre, fils, born at Atakapas in March 1777, married Marie Marthe, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Mouton dit Chapeau of Carencro, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1810. They settled at La Butte. Their son Pierre III was born at La Butte in January 1815, and Valerien in January 1818. They also had a son named Théodule. Their daughters married Breaux and Mouton families. Pierre, fils remarried to Marie Clarisse, called Clarisse, daughter of French Creole Francois Milhomme of St. Landry Parish, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1827; he was 49 years old. Pierre, fils died in Lafayette Parish in April 1837; the priest who recorded his burial said that Pierre was 40 years old when he died, but he was 60; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following June.
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Théodule, by his first wife, married Émelie, daughter of French Creole Pierre Bossier of Grand Coteau, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1835; Emélie's mother was a Guidry. Their son Alexandre died in Lafayette Parish in July 1837 8 days after his birth, and twin children, perhaps a son or sons, names and age unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish in December 1840. ...
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Valerien, by his first wife, married Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier Guidry, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in August 1838. ...
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Younger son Alexandre, born in c1793 and baptized at Atakapas, age 6, in April 1799, married Adélaïde, another daughter of Jean Mouton dit Chapeau and widow of Joseph Malchaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1811, and remarried to Émilie, called Émelite, daughter of fellow Acadian David Guidry of Carencro, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in February 1817. Alexandre died in Lafayette Parish in March 1835; he was only 42 years old; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in October 1840.
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Soon after the Broussard party reached New Orleans, another shipload of Acadians arrived from Halifax via St.-Domingue. After a short respite in the city, they also crossed the Atchafalaya Basin, but they did not follow the Broussards to Bayou Teche. They went, instead, to the wide, open prairie north of the Atakapas and settled near present-day Opelousas. Among them was Marguerite Dugas, age 30, native of Cobeguit, her husband Pierre Richard, age 25, from Chignecto, Pierre's brother Victor, age 18, and Marguerite and Pierre's three sons, ages 13, 5, and 2.
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A Dugas who had come to the Teche with two of his brothers in the spring of 1765 but who may have left the valley that fall to escape an epidemic, returned Atakapas later in the decade and settled near his brothers:
Descendants of Jean DUGAS (c1741-1809)
Jean, second son of Charles Dugas and Anne Robichaux, born in Acadia in c1741, probably participated with his older brother Charlitte in the Acadian resistance in present-day southeastern New Brunswick led by Charlitte's father-in-law, Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil. Jean, like his brothers, ended up as a prisoner in Halifax with the Broussards. Jean, still a bachelor, followed his brothers and the Broussards to Louisiana via St.-Domingue in 1764-65. When an epidemic devastated the Teche community and killed some of his relatives in the summer and fall of 1765, Jean seems to have retreated with dozens of other Acadians to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river. He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Dupuis, probably at Cabanocé in the late 1760s and returned to Atakapas, where colonial officials counted them in 1771. They settled at Anse La Butte on upper Bayou Vermilion between present-day Lafayette and Breaux Bridge and at nearby Grand Prairie, today's downtown Lafayette. Their daughters married into the Babineaux, Dugas, Gautreaux, Guilbeau, and LeBlanc families. Jean died at Grand Prairie, then in St. Martin but now in Lafayette Parish, in September 1809, in his late 60s. Four of his six sons married and settled on the upper Vermilion and on the upper Teche. A grandson settled on the lower Teche.
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Oldest son Augustin, born probably on the river in February 1770 and baptized at Atakapas in April 1771, married Marie-Rose, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles-Claude Duhon, at Atakapas in July 1789. The next month, Augustin appeared on the Atakapas militia list. They settled at La Butte and at Grand Prairie. Their son Charles dit Charlitte le jeune was baptized at Atakapas, age 18 months, in April 1795, and Éloi was born in January 1802. Their daughters married into the Boudreaux, Chiasson, Guidry, Leger, and Sonnier families. Augustin died at his home at La Butte in May 1811; he was only 41 years old. His succession record was filed at the St. Martinville courthouse in August 1819.
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Charles dit Charlitte le jeune married Clarisse or Claire, daughter of fellow Acadian Agricole Landry of the Vermilion valley, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in May 1818. They settled at Au Large on the lower Vermilion near Côte Gelée. Their son, name unrecorded, died at birth in April 1819, another son, name unrecorded, died at birth in February 1820, and Gilles was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 23 days, in January 1825. ...
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Éloi married 20-year-old fellow Acadian Aimée Chiasson in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in April 1822. They settled near Grand Coteau. Éloi remarried to Marcellite, daughter of Baptiste Lejeune, at the Opelousas church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1828. ...
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Jean, fils, born at Atakapas in August 1777, married Marie Anastasie, called Anastasie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Poirier of La Pointe, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1808. They settled at Anse La Butte. Their son Jean III was born at nearby Grand Prairie in April 1809, Louis le jeune, called Don Louis, at La Butte in December 1810, and Joseph Roseaimé in April 1815. Their daughter married into the Savoie family. ...
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Don Louis married Émelite or Émerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1834. Their son Terence was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in April 1835 but died in May, Athanase Lasty was baptized at age 1 month in June 1836 but died the following September, and Jean le jeune was born in April 1840. ...
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Jean III married Amelina, called Meline, daughter of fellow Acadian Narcisse Guidry, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1840. Their son Désiré was born in St. Martin parish in October 1840. ...
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Jean-Charles, called Charles, baptized at Atakapas, age 3 months, in April 1780, married Marie Théodate, Théodose, or Thérèse, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Gautreaux of Iberville Parish and widow of Joseph Brasseaux, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1808. After living for a few years near her family at St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, they settled at La Butte. Their son Aurelien was born near St. Gabriel in November 1808, and Charles, fils at La Butte in December 1812. Their daughter married into the Landry family. ...
Charles, fils married Marie Uranie, called Uranie, daughter of fellow Acadian Francois Primeaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in December 1833. Their son Charles III was born in Lafayette Parish in January 1840. ...
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A second Jean, fils, born at Atakapas in December 1781, died at his home at La Butte in August 1814. The priest who recorded his burial said that Jean was 30 years old when he died, but he was 32. He evidently did not marry.
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Joseph, born at Atakapas in July 1788, married Marie Célanie, called Célanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Breaux of St. James Parish and the Vermilion valley, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in February 1812. They settled on the upper Vermilion and at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche. Their son Jean Léonard was born on the Vermilion in December 1812, Jean Carmillien at La Pointe in December 1814, Charles Urciscien in May 1820, Pierre in Lafayette Parish in November 1823, Paul Hulerien was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in age 2 months, in October 1826, and Adrien at age 13 months in February 1831. Their daughter married into the Toups family. ...
Jean Carmillien married Marie, also called Amelie Célanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Savoie, in a civil ceremony in St. Mary Parish in March 1832. They settled on the lower Teche. Their son Pierre was born in St. Martin Parish in June 1835, and Joseph in December 1836. ...
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Youngest son Louis, born at Atakapas in February 1794, died at age 3 1/2 in December 1797.
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The arrival dates of two Dugass who settled on the western prairies are difficult to determine:
Marie Dugas evidently came to the colony alone. She first appears in Louisiana records in 1771, age 15, with the family of Jean Berard. Her fate is anyone's guess.
The fate of the other Dugas is well-documented in church and civil records. What is still a mystery is the circumstance that brought him to Louisiana:
Descendants of Amand DUGAS (c1746-1823)
Amand, son of Claude Dugas and Anne Hébert and younger brother of Charles, was born probably at Cobeguit in c1746. His parents or relatives may have taken him to Île St.-Jean to escape the British roundup in Nova Scotia in 1755. Three years later, in late 1758, he may have been rounded up with the majority of the Acadians on Île St.-Jean and deported to France aboard one of the five British transports that reached St.-Malo in January 1759. The Amand Dugas of the Five Ships traveled not with his parents but with older, married brother Pierre. Amand may have resided at Plouër, near St.-Malo, from 1759 to 1766, at nearby St.-Servan from 1766 to 1771, and was back at Plouër in 1771. He married Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadian René Robichaux, at Atakapas in January 1779, so he may have been one of those rare Acadians who made his way to Louisiana from France before 1785. He and Geneviève settled at Anse La Butte on upper Bayou Vermilion between present-day Lafayette and Breaux Bridge. Their daughters married into the Cormier and Sonnier families. Amand died at his home at La Butte in October 1823 after a long illness; he was in his late 70s. He was one of the first to be buried behind the new church in nearby Vermilionville. His succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse in August 1824.
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Oldest son Isaac, born at Atakapas in May 1783, died "from a fall" in October 1790. He was only 7 years old.
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Jean-Amand, born at Atakapas in April 1785, married Marie Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Sonnier of St. Landry and La Butte, at Atakapas in August 1806. They settled at La Butte. Their son Cyrille was born at La Butte in October 1813. Their daughters married into the Brasseaux and Clark families. Jean remarried to Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Brasset and widow of Pierre Richard, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in July 1835; he was 50 years old. ...
Cyrille married Marie Carmelite, daughter of French Creole Jean Pierre Frugé, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in July 1833. Their son Cyrille, fils was born in Lafayette Parish in April 1834 but died at age 3 1/2 in October 1837, Leufroi was born in November 1835, Jean le jeune in July 1837, and Arvillien was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in October 1839. By 1860, Cyrille's sons had moved to southeastern Texas.
During the War Between the States, Leufroi, Jean, called John, and Arvillien served in Company H of the 25th Regiment Texas Cavalry, also known as the 3rd Texas Lancers, a front-line unit that fought gallantly in Arkansas. Arvillien died at Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois, in February 1863 after his unit was captured at Arkansas Post, Arkansas, in January. Following their release from prison camp, Leufroi and John served the rest of the war in Company H of the Consolidated 24th and 25th Regiment Texas Cavalry. They survived the war.
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Augustin, born at Atakapas in May 1788, married Louise, daughter of fellow Acadian Sylvain Sonnier of St. Landry Parish, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in January 1811. They settled at La Butte, where Augustin died in May 1815; he was only 27 years old. He and his wife had no sons, so this line of the family died with him.
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Célestin married cousin Isabelle, daughter of Jean Dugas of La Butte, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1809. They settled at Grand Prairie on upper Bayou Lafourche, today's downtown Lafayette, and on Mermentau Prairie west of Atakapas in present-day Acadia Parish. Their son Zenon was born at La Butte in June 1811 but died at age 1 1/2 in April 1813, Symphorien was born in December 1813, a son, name unrecorded, died at age 7 months in September 1817, and Théogène was born in September 1818 but died at age 6 months in March 1819. Isabelle died at Grand Prairie in September 1818 probably from complications of giving birth to Théogène; she was only 24 years old. Célestin filed a succession record at the St. Martinville courthouse in May 1820 and remarried to Julie, daughter of fellow Acadian Basile Chiasson of St. Landry Parish and widow of Jean Doucet, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1820. Their son Jules was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 6 months, in April 1826, and Prosper at age 7 1/2 months in June 1832 but died at age 3 1/2 in August 1835. Their daughter married into the Sonnier family. ...
Symphorien, by his first wife, married Marguerite Arthémise or Arthémise Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in September 1832. Their son Alcide was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in January 1834 but died at age 3 1/2 in October 1837, Calet was baptized at age 2 months in March 1835, Joseph at age 1 month in October 1837 but died at age 4 months the following February, and Célestin le jeune was born in December 1840. ...
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Youngest son Maximien, Maxime, or Maximilien, born at Atakapas in May 1797, married Carmelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Brasseaux of Manchac on the river, at the St. Martinville church, St. Martin Parish, in September 1816. Their son Joseph was born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in January 1821, and Narcisse was born in Lafayette Parish in December 1822. ...
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Dozens of Dugass immigrated from France aboard the Seven Ships of 1785. Most of them settled along the Acadian Coast on the river above New Orleans or on upper Bayou Lafourche, but some of them chose to go to the Atakapas District:
Charles Dugas, age 48, from Cobeguit, older brother of Amand and twice a widower, crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, with five children--Marie-Josèphe, age 22, Jean-Charles, age 20, Pierre-Olivier, age 18, Joseph-Simon, age 16, and Marguerite, age 4. From New Orleans, they went straight to the Atakapas District, where brother Amand had settled. Charles remarried--his third marriage--to Francoise, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Trahan and widow of Pascal and Pierre Hébert, at Atakapas in July 1797. She gave him no more children. Meanwhile, daughter Marie-Josèphe married cousin Pierre, son of Pierre Richard, at Opelousas in May 1787; Pierre's mother was a Dugas. Charles died "at his residence at La Prairie Sorel," St. Martin Parish, in January 1809; the priest who recorded his burial said that Charles was 66 years old when he died, but he was in his early 70s. His three sons married and remained on the western prairies. His youngest child Marguerite married widower Louis Richard, père in a civil ceremony in Lafayette Parish in July 1826; she was 45 years old when she married. Marguerite died in Lafayette Parish in January 1829, in her late 40s.
Élisabeth or Isabelle Dugas, age 44, from Cobeguit, perhaps Charles's sister, crossed on La Bergère with husband Jean-Baptiste Landry of Grand-Pré, age 61, and four children, ages 24 to 9. They also went straight to Atakapas.
Joseph Dugas, fils, age 23, crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, and married at New Orleans soon after he reached the colony. He and his bride then moved to Atakapas.
Élisabeth-Eulalie Dugas, age 17, crossed on Le St.-Rémi with her parents and eight siblings, including older brother Joseph, fils, and probably followed her parents to Ascension. She did not remain there, however. She joined her older brother in the Atakapas District, where she married Joseph, son of fellow Acadian Amand Prejean, in June 1786.
Anne-Osite Dugas, age 30, widow of Charles Hébert, crossed on La Bergère with three young children. They went first to Ascension before moving to Atakapas, where Anne-Osite remarried to Joseph, son of fellow Acadian Pierre Granger, in January 1791. They settled at Prairie Sorel, where Anne-Osite died, a widow again, in April 1809, in her late 50s.
Pierre Dugas of Cobeguit came to Louisiana aboard La Bergère with wife Marguerite Daigle and daughters Anne-Marie and Marie-Victoire. Pierre and Marguerite settled at Ascension on the river before moving to the Opelousas District, where Marguerite died in March 1808. She was described as a widow in her burial record, so Pierre had died before then. Marie-Victoire married Louis, son of fellow Acadian Pierre Richard, probably at Opelousas in c1785 and died in St. Landry Parish before July 1826, when her husband remarried in Lafayette Parish.
Descendants of Joseph DUGAS, fils (1762-)
Joseph, fils, eldest son of Joseph Dugas and his first wife Anastasie Henry, born at St.-Suliac, France, near St.-Malo, in May 1762, came to Louisiana with his father, stepmother, and nine siblings and half-siblings aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785. He married Élisabeth or Isabelle, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Landry, at New Orleans in October 1785 soon after he reached the colony. Isabelle had crossed on La Bergère, an earlier ship. They followed her family to the Atakapas District. Their daughter married into the Dubois and Landry families. Joseph and Élisabeth may have had no sons, so this line of the family, except for its blood, would have died with him.
Descendants of Jean-Charles DUGAS (1764-1818)
Jean-Charles, eldest son of Charles Dugas and his first wife Marguerite Granger, born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in July 1764, came to Louisiana with his widowed father and four siblings aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785. He followed his father to the Atakapas District, where he married Esther, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Martin, in January 1789. Esther was a native of Louisiana. Jean Charles died at his home at La Pointe in November 1818; he was 54 years old. He and his wife may have been that rare Acadian couple who had no children, so his line of the family died with him.
Descendants of Pierre-Olivier dit Pierrot DUGAS (1766-1820)
Pierre-Olivier, called Pierrot, second son of Charles Dugas and his first wife Marguerite Granger, born at St.-Servan, France, near St.-Malo, in November 1766, came to Louisiana with his widowed father and four siblings aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785. He followed his father to the Atakapas District, where he married Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand-Paul Gautreaux, in February 1795. Sophie was a native of Louisiana. They settled at Grand Prairie on upper Bayou Vermilion, today's downtown Lafayette, at Anse La Butte on the upper Vermilion between Lafayette and Breaux Bridge, and at Prairie Sorel. Their daughter married into the Chiasson family. Pierrot died a widower at his home on Prairie Sorel in March 1820; the priest who recorded his burial said that Pierrot was "about 52 years" old when he died; he was 53; his succession record (the parish clerk erroneously called him Pierre Auguste) was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in May 1824.
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Oldest son Pierre-Onesime, born at Atakapas in February 1800, married Anne Célanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in January 1829. ...
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Achille, baptized at Atakapas, age "about 5 mths.," in October 1802, probably died young.
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Marcellin, born at Grand Prairie in May 1807, died in Lafayette Parish in January 1840. The priest who recorded his burial said that Marcellin was 30 years old when he died, but he was 32. He probably did not marry.
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Joachim, born at Grand Prairie in August 1810, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1829. Their child, perhaps a son, died in Lafayette Parish 5 days after its birth in February 1830, Sylvanie was born in June 1831, and Thiburse was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 3 months, in July 1839. ...
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Youngest son Léonard, born at La Butte in October 1814, married double cousin Marie Célanie, called Célanie, daughter of Jérôme Gautreaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1833; Marie's mother was a Dugas. Their child, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish 5 days after its birth in May 1835, their son Joseph was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 3 months, in March 1838, and Pierre Octave at age 2 months in March 1840. ...
Descendants of Joseph-Simon DUGAS (1769-1830)
Joseph-Simon, third and youngest son of Charles Dugas and his first wife Marguerite Granger, born at St.-Servan, France, near St.-Malo, in January 1769, came to Louisiana with his widowed father and four siblings aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785. He followed his father to the Atakapas District, where he married distant cousin Céleste or Célestine, daughter of Jean Dugas, in August 1794. They settled at Grand Prairie on upper Bayou Vermilion, today's downtown Lafayette, and at La Pointe on upper Bayou Teche. Their daughters married into the Babineaux, Guidry, and Richard families. Joseph died in Lafayette Parish in August 1830; he was 61 years old; his succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse the following December.
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Oldest son Joseph, fils, baptized at Atakapas, age "about 6 mths.," in March 1799, married Marguerite Arminionne, daughter of fellow Acadian Moïse Hébert, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in June 1827. Their son, name unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish 11 days after his birth in August 1828, Moïse was born in November 1831, and Jean Lessin le jeune was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 2 months, in November 1838. ...
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Narcisse, born at Grand Prairie in May 1800, married Céleste, 16-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Cormier III dit Mano, at the Grand Coteau church, St. Landry Parish, in May 1821. Their son Narcisse, fils was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 13 months, in September 1832 but died the day after his baptism, Joseph Hernesse was baptized at age 7 months in March 1834 but died at age 4 in September 1837, a child, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, died in Lafayette Parish 3 days after its birth in May 1836, and Edmond Darty was born in May 1837. ...
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Marcellin, born at Grand Prairie in October 1804, married Melanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Olivier Boudreaux, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in April 1828. Their son Sosthène was born in Lafayette Parish in November 1832. ...
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Youngest son Jean Lessin, born at La Pointe in August 1812, married Marguerite Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Olidon Broussard, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in February 1833. Their son Duplessis was born in Lafayette Parish in November 1833 but died at age 1 1/2 in March 1835, a second Duplessis was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 13 days, in March 1835, a child, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, died 5 days after its birth in February 1835, and Joseph le jeune was baptized at age 1 month in October 1837. ...
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Other DUGASs on the Western Prairies
Local church and civil records make it difficult to link some Dugass on the western prairies with known lines of the family there. The parish clerks in the area were especially negligent in their recordkeeping:
Pierre Dugas "of Canada," husband of Marguerite Lege (probably Léger) died at Atakapas in November 1787. He was only 30 years old. The priest who recorded his burial did not bother to give Pierre's parents' names. Was he a French-Canadian Dugas and not an Acadian, or did the recording priest consider Acadia to be a part of Canada?
Élisabeth or Isabelle Dugas married Anglo-American David Caruthers of Carencro at Atakapas in October 1793. The priest who recorded the marriage did not give either the bride's or the groom's parents' names. Élisabeth, called "wife of David Karuthers of Carencro," died at Carencro in September 1810; she was 40 years old. Since, according to her burial record, she was born in c1770, she probably was a native of Louisiana. But who were her parents?
Jean Charles Dugas married Céleste Dupuis. They settled at La Grand Pointe on upper Bayou Teche. Their son Edmond was born in c1814 but died at "age about 3 years at his parent's" home at La Grand Pointe in September 1817. Was Jean Charles Acadian? Who were his parents?
Pierre Dugas, "spouse in a second marriage" to Marie Sonnier, died in Lafayette Parish in July 1826. The priest who recorded Pierre's burial said that he was 90 years old when he died. Pierre's succession record was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse later that month.
Joachim Dugas married Sophie Gautreaux probably in Lafayette Parish in the early 1830s.
Anne Dugas's son Rosémond married Amelie, daughter of André Martin, at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, in October 1837. Their son Pierre Adrien Gesner was baptized at the Vermilionville church, age 6 months, in December 1838. Who were Anne's parents, and who was Rosémond's father? The priest who recorded the marriage does not tell.
Alexis Dugas married Marguerite Trahan probably in Lafayette Parish in the late 1830s.
The succession record for Elias Dugas was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in April 1836. The parish clerk who recorded the document did not mention a wife.
Pierre Arvillien Dugas married Nanette Broussard. Their son Pierre was baptized at the Vermilionville church, Lafayette Parish, age 3 months, in January 1836.
Marie Dugas married Valcourt Cortini in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in May 1839. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not bother to give their parents' names.
Joseph Dugas married Marie Azélie Bouzeva in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in December 1839. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not bother to give their parents' names.
Édouard Dugas married Célestine Belair in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in February 1840. The parish clerk who recorded the marriage did not bother to give their parents' names.
LOUISIANA: RIVER SETTLEMENTS
Other Dugass--three widows and a wife--came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765. They settled not on the western prairies with the majority of their cousins but at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river above New Orleans where 20 Acadians from Georgia had settled the year before:
Marguerite Dugas, age 62, widow of Barthélemy Bergeron dit d'Amboise or Rivière St.-Jean, came with her 22-year-old son Germain.
Marie Dugas, age 54, Marguerite's sister and widow of Augustin Bergeron of Rivière St.-Jean, came with her 16-year-old daughter Anne-Marie.
Angélique Dugas, age 31, came perhaps directly from St.-Domingue with husband Joseph Marant, age 36, and two teenage Orillion orphans, her nephew and niece. Angélique died at St.-Gabriel, upriver from St.-Jacques, in September 1787, in her early 50s.
Anastasie Dugas, age 26, came with husband Amable Robichaux, age unrecorded, and three children, ages 4, 2, and 1.
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Most of the Dugass who went to the Bayou Teche valley with the Broussards in the spring of 1765 retreated to Cabanocé on the river that autumn to escape a mysterious epidemic that devastated the Teche community:
Cécile Bergeron, wife of Joseph Dugas, lost her husband in the epidemic that devastated the Acadians on Bayou Teche in the summer and fall of 1765. She and her children--Cécile, age 12, Joseph dit Cadet, age 10, and Pélagie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, age 6--retreated with dozens of other Acadians to the river that autumn, and there they remained. Cécile married into the Comeaux family and settled at nearby St.-Gabriel. Madeleine married into the Bernard family and settled at St.-Jacques before following her family to the Bayou Lafourche valley in the 1810s. Joseph dit Cadet also settled at St.-Jacques but remained on the river.
Also fleeing the 1765 epidemic were the six recently orphaned children of Jean Dugas and Marie-Charlotte Godin--Francois, age 25, Marie-Rose, age 16, Charles, age 15, Athanase, age 12, Michel, age 8, and Théodore, age 6. As Spanish censuses in the late 1760s and the 1770s reveal, the brothers stayed close to one another at St.-Jacques and Ascension. Marie-Rose married into the Landry family and moved to upper Bayou Lafourche. Her brothers remained on the river, all of them settling at Ascension. Some of the brothers' sons and grandsons, however, moved to upper Bayou Lafourche in the early 1800s.
Descendants of Francois DUGAS (c1740-1798)
Francois, eldest son of Jean Dugas and Marie-Charlotte Godin, was born probably at Ékoupag, Rivière St.-Jean, in c1740. He followed his family into exile in present-day southeastern New Brunswick and ended up with them a prisoner in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s. His family came to Louisiana in February 1765 with the party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and followed the Broussards to the Bayou Teche valley. When an epidemic devastated the Teche community and killed his parents and other relatives in the summer and fall of 1765, Francois retreated with his four brothers and a sister, along with dozens of other Teche Acadians, to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river. He married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Babin, at Cabanocé in June 1768. They moved upriver to Ascension, where colonial officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river in 1770 and 1777. They also may have lived in Assumption Parish on upper Bayou Lafourche. Their daughter married into the LeBlanc family. Francois died at Ascension in October 1798; the priest who recorded his burial said that Francois was 66 years old when he died, but he was closer to 58.
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Oldest son Joseph married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Honoré Breaux, at St.-Jacques in February 1795, and remarried to Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Poirier and widow of Charles Hébert, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in February 1809. Their son Francois Camille was born near Convent, St. James Parish, in October 1814. Their daughters married into the Landry and Mire families. ...
Francois Camille married Marie Melite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Louviere, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in September 1837; they had to secure dispensation for fourth degree of relationship in order to marry. ...
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Athanase le jeune, also called Francois, born at Ascension in September 1773, married Francoise, daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin Broussard, at Ascension in February 1798, the same day his brother Michel married. Their son Francois-Larmusion or Jean-Morusian was born at Ascension in February 1802 but died at age 7 in October 1809, and Jean Vincent, a twin, was born in January 1804 but died 3 weeks after his birth. Their daughter married into the Chiasson family. Athanase le jeune died at Ascension in July 1807; he was only 33 years old. When his older son died two years later, this line of the family, except for its blood, died with him.
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Michel-Noël, born at Ascension in December 1775, married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Babin, at Ascension in February 1798, the same day his brother Athanase married. Their son Michel-Eugène was born at Ascension in November 1801 but died age 6 months in May 1802, Louis-Ulgère, called Ulgère, was born in February 1803, and Joseph Trasimond, called Trasimond, in October 1806. Their daughter married into the LeBlanc family. Michel Noël died in Ascension Parish in July 1807; he was only 31 years old.
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Ulgère married cousin Marie Mathilde, daughter of fellow Acadian Auguste Broussard, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in December 1825; they had to secure dispensation for third degree of ____ in order to marry. Their son Léon Mathurin, called Mathurin, was born in Ascension Parish in November 1826 but died in December. Ulgère remarried to Émilie, daughter of fellow Acadian Donat Landry, at the Donaldsonville church in October 1829. Their son Léon was born in Ascension Parish in January 1831. ...
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Trasimond married Melanie, daughter of French Creole Pierre Denoux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish in June 1837. ...
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Hippolyte married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Francois Duhon and widow of Louis Foret, at Ascension in September 1800. ...
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Jean, baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in November 1783, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Duhon, at St.-Jacques in February 1805. Their son Francois Rosémond was born at Ascension in January 1806, Jean Achille, called Achille, at St.-Jacques in April 180[7], twins Jérôme and Joseph Ovide in August 1808, and Joseph Léon in July 1817. They moved to Assumption Parish on upper Bayou Lafourche in the late 1810s or 1820s after their sons were born on the river.
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Youngest son Jérôme, born at Ascension in April 1790, died at Ascension in April 1807. He was only 17 years old and did not marry.
Descendants of Charles DUGAS (c1750-1809)
Charles, second son of Jean Dugas and Marie-Charlotte Godin, was born probably at Ékoupag, Rivière St.-Jean, in c1750. He followed his family into exile in present-day southeastern New Brunswick and ended up with them a prisoner in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s. His family came to Louisiana in February 1765 with the party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and followed the Broussards to the Bayou Teche valley. When an epidemic devastated the Teche community and killed his parents and other relatives in the summer and fall of 1765, Charles retreated with his four brothers and a sister, along with dozens of other Teche Acadians, to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river. He married Rose, daughter of fellow Acadian Antoine Babin, probably at nearby Ascension in c1772. Colonial officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river at Ascension in 1777. He may have taken his family to Atakapas in the late 1770s or early 1780s, but they returned to Ascension. His daughter married into the Breaux and Landry families. Charles died in Ascension Parish in November 1809; he was 59 years old.
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Oldest son Charles-Grégoire, called Grégoire, born at St.-Jacques in December 1774, married Élisabeth or Isabelle-Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadian Mathurin Landry, at Ascension in January 1796. Their son Joseph-Nicolas or -Colin, was born at Ascension in August 1798, Hippolyte-Gustave in December 1800, and Godefroi-Léopold in October 1802. Their daughter married into the Godin family. Grégoire remarried to French Creole Francoise Barbay probably at Ascension by 1805. Their daughter married into the Gaudet family. Grégoire died in Ascension Parish in May 1827; he was 52 years old.
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Joseph Nicolas married cousin Clarisse Emeranthe, daughter of fellow Acadian Édouard Landry, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in March 1821; they had to secure dispensation for third degree of relationship in order to marry. Their son Théophile died near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, age 10 months, in August 1822, Paul Edward was born in Ascension Parish in January 1826, and Joseph Grégoire in January 1834. ...
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Godefroi Léopold, by his first wife, married first cousin Mathilde, daughter of his uncle Jérôme Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in August 1827; they had to secure dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry. Godefroi died in Ascension Parish in September 1829; the priest who recorded his burial said that Godefroi was "age ca. 22 yrs." when he died; he was 26.
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Victor, born at Ascension in April 1779, died the following October.
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Paul, called Paulin, baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in November 1785, married Marie Clémence, called Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph LeBlanc, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in February 1808. Their son Paul Rosémond was born in Ascension Parish in July 1809, Joseph Émile, called Émile, in March 1811 but died at age 3 1/2 in July 1814, Jérôme Adélard was born in November 1813, Florentin Aimé in April 1818, Lazare Eleuter in September 1822, Henri died 6 days after his birth in July 1824, and Joseph Eupheme was born in March 1827. Their daughter married into the Melançon family. ...
Jérôme Adélard married first cousin Francoise Elmire, daughter of his uncle Joseph Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in September 1836. ...
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Laurent, baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in November 1787, died at age 1 1/2 in June 1789.
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Joseph, born at Ascension in March 1790, married Hortense, daughter of French Creole Pierre Arrieux, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in April 1810. Their son Vernon Ignace or Ignace Vernon was born in Ascension Parish in October 1814. Joseph remarried to Marie Aurore, called Aurore, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Gaudin, at the Donaldson church in December 1816. Their son Étienne Rosémond was born in Ascension Parish in December 1817. Their daughter married a Dugas first cousin. Joseph died in Ascension Parish in October 1819; he was only 29 years old.
Ignace Vernon, by his first wife, married Marguerite Coralie, called Coralie, daughter of fellow Acadian Louis Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in June 1833. Their son Joseph Camille was born in Ascension Parish in July 1836 but died the following October. ...
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Jérôme, born at Ascension in August 1792, married Eugènie Mathilde, called Mathilde, another daughter of Pierre Arrieux, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in February 1811. Their son Étienne Jérôme Valéry was born in Ascension Parish in December 1819. Their daughters married into the Arrieux, Dugas, and Giraud (Foreign French, not Acadian) families. Jérôme died in Ascension Parish in February 1839; he was 46 years old.
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Youngest son Édouard-Benjamin, born at Ascension in July 1795, ...
Descendants of Athanase DUGAS (c1753-1791)
Athanase, third son of Jean Dugas and Marie-Charlotte Godin, was born probably at Ékoupag, Rivière St.-Jean, in c1753. He followed his family into exile in present-day southeastern New Brunswick and ended up with them a prisoner in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s. His family came to Louisiana in February 1765 with the party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and followed the Broussards to the Bayou Teche valley. When an epidemic devastated the Teche community and killed his parents and other relatives in the summer and fall of 1765, Athanase retreated with his four brothers and a sister, along with dozens of other Teche Acadians, to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river. He married Anne-Rose, called Rose or Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre LeBlanc, at St.-Jacques in September 1777. Their daughters married into the Babin, Boudreaux, Foret, Gaudin, and Thibodeaux families. Athanase died at nearby Ascension in March 1791, in his late 30s. Only one of his two sons created a family of his own and settled upriver at St. Gabriel before returning to Ascension.
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Older son Jérôme-Athanase, also called Joseph, born at Ascension in September 1778, married Élisabeth or Isabelle Cécile, daughter of fellow Acadian Firmin Babin, at Ascension in January 1805. Their son Marius Toussaint was born in Ascension Parish in November 1805, Jean Lesimond, called Lesimond, near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in January 1808, Louis Rigobert in Ascension Parish in November 1813, and Jean Marie was born posthumously in April 1826. Isabelle Cécile died a day after son Jean Marie was born, probably from complications of childbirth. Jérôme Athanase had died in Ascension Parish in January 1826, four months before son Jean Marie's birth and his wife's death; Jérôme was 47 years old when he died. Their daughters married into the Breaux, Hamilton, and Landry families.
Lesimond married Marie Adamiene, daughter of French Creole Félix Pallaquin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1826; Marie's mother was a Bellemère. Their son Stanislas Jérôme was born in Ascension Parish in September 1827 but died at age 5 "of long illness and fever" in November 1832. Lesimond (the recording priest called him Onésime) died in Ascension Parish in April 1829; the priest who recorded Lesimond's burial said that he was 23 years old when he died, but he was only 21. When his only son died three years later, this line of the family died with him.
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Younger son Henri, born probably at Ascension in c1782, died at age 13 in April 1795.
Descendants of Michel DUGAS (c1757-1828)
Michel, fourth son of Jean Dugas and Marie-Charlotte Godin, was born in Acadia in c1757 during Le Grand Dérangement. He was imprisoned with his family in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s. He family came to Louisiana in February 1765 with the party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and followed the Broussards to the Bayou Teche valley. When an epidemic devastated the Teche community and killed his parents and other relatives in the summer and fall of 1765, Michel, still a boy, retreated with his four brothers and a sister, along with dozens of other Teche Acadians, to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river. He married Anne-Rose or -Sophie, called Sophie, daughter of fellow Acadian Bonaventure Foret, at St.-Jacques in February 1778. Their daughters married into the Babin, Futele, Landry, and LeBlanc families. Michel remarried to Rose or Rosalie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Foret and widow, perhaps, of Joachim Maroi, at Ascension in July 1800. Their daughter married into the Babin family. Michel died in Ascension Parish in October 1828; he was 71 years old.
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Oldest son Michel-Édouard, by his first wife, born at Ascension in January 1781, died at age 6 months the following July.
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Joseph, by his first wife, baptized at Ascension, no age recorded, in April 1787, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1812. They settled on Bayou Lafourche.
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Joseph-Alexandre, called Alexandre, from his second wife, born at Ascension in April 1801, married cousin Marie Adeline, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Babin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1825; Marie's mother, also, was a Foret. Their son Joseph Zephirin was born in Ascension Parish in October 1829. ...
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Joseph-Valéry, called Valéry, from his second wife, born at Ascension in November 1802, married cousin Marguerite Séraphine, called Séraphine, another daughter of Charles Babin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1827. They lived near the boundary of Ascension and Assumption parishes. Their son Joseph Valéry, fils was born in Ascension Parish in November 1827, Joseph Jules in September 1836, and Joseph Séverin Valéry in August 1839. ...
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Youngest son Thomas Clovis, called Clovis, by his second wife, born in Ascension Parish in December 1809, married cousin Claire Dugas probably in Ascension Parish in the 1830s. ...
Descendants of Théodore DUGAS (c1759-1827)
Théodore, fifth and youngest son of Jean Dugas and Marie-Charlotte Godin, was born in Acadian in c1759 during Le Grand Dérangement. He was imprisoned with his family in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s. His family came to Louisiana in February 1765 with the party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and followed the Broussards to the Bayou Teche valley. When an epidemic devastated the Teche community and killed his parents and other relatives in the summer and fall of 1765, Théodore, still a boy, retreated with his four brothers and a sister, along with dozens of other Teche Acadians, to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river. He married Marie-Victoire, called Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Foret, at Ascension, just upriver from St.-Jacques, in October 1784. Their daughters married into the Babin and Guidry families. Théodore died in Ascension Parish in March 1827; he was 69 years old. Only one of his four sons married.
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Oldest son René, baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in November 1787, probably died young.
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Francois-Isidore, called Isidore, a twin, born at Ascension in October 1793, died in Ascension Parish in April 1826. The priest who recorded his burial said that Isidore was 23 years old when he died, but he was 33. He did not marry.
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Pierre-Octave, born at Ascension in March 1799, married Anne Orsise, daughter of Auguste Léveque, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, in December 1821. Their son Aymar Hercule Théodore was born in Ascension Parish in August 1825 but died at age 1 in August 1826, and Francois Augustin Théodore was born in October 1833 but died at age 6 months in April 1834. ...
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Youngest son Hubert Severin, born at Ascension in February 1806 two months before his father's burial, died at age 6 months the following August.
Descendants of Joseph dit Cadet DUGAS (c1751-1833)
Joseph dit Cadet, son of Joseph Bourg and Cécile Bergeron, born in Acadia in c1751, followed his family into exile in present-day southeastern New Brunswick and ended up with them as a prisoner in Nova Scotia in the early 1760s. His family came to Louisiana in February 1765 with the party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and followed the Broussards to the Bayou Teche valley. When an epidemic devastated the Teche community and killed his father and other relatives in the summer and fall of 1765, Joseph dit Cadet retreated with his widowed mother and two sisters, along with dozens of other Teche Acadians, to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcel LeBlanc, in October 1780. Their daughters married into the Arceneaux, Bessou, Breaux, and Dicharry families. Joseph dit Cadet died near Convent, St. James Parish, in January 1833; he was 80 years old. His three sons settled on the left, or east, bank of the river in St. James Parish, though one lived briefly on the western prairies.
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Oldest son Étienne-Sylvestre, born at St.-Jacques in December 1787, married Scholastique, daughter of fellow Acadian Bonaventure Godin, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in August 1806. Their son Étienne, fils was born near Convent, St. James Parish, in September 1812. ...
Étienne, fils married Marie Melisaire or Melissa, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Bourgeois, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1834. Their son Félicien died near Convent, St. James Parish, age 2 months, in December 1838. ...
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Benjamin, born at St.-Jacques in October 1799, married Louise Marie Émelie Melisaire, called Melisaire or Serre, daughter of Benjamin Folcher, Forchere, Fulcher, or Volkes, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in April 1826; Melisaire's mother was an Arceneaux. Their son Joseph Norbert was born near Convent in July 1826, Benjamin, fils in Lafayette Parish in August 1832 but died near Convent at age 15 months in December 1833, and Louis was baptized at the Convent church, age 6 months, in February 1835. Why did they move to the western prairies in the early 1830s and return to the river so quickly? ...
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Youngest son Lucas, called Luc, born at St.-Jacques in March 1802, married cousin Émelite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Mire, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in February 1821; they had to secure dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry. Their son Luc, fils was born near Convent in August 1824, and Michel Éloi in September 1826. ...
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The arrival dates, and the fate, of several Dugass who settled on the river are difficult to determine:
Anne Landry, widow of ____ Dugas, came with two sons, Athanase and Michel. They first appear in Louisiana records at New Orleans in 1768. ...
Augustin, Pierre, and Alexandre Dugas first appear in Louisiana records in March 1777 at St.-Gabriel d'Iberville. Augustin, age 30, his unnamed wife, age 21, and a 2-year-old daughter, were living near Pierre, age 23, and his unnamed wife, age 19, and Alexandre, age 19, a bachelor, on the "left bank ascending" at St.-Gabriel, so they may have been brothers.
Théodore, son of Claude Dugas and Marie Bourg, married fellow Acadian Madeleine Richard, widow of Pierre Babin, at St.-Jacques in April 1778. This was Théodore's first appearance in Louisiana records. He died near St. Gabriel, upriver from St. James, in April 1806. He was 60 years old. One wonders if he and his wife Madeleine had any children in Louisiana.
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Most of the Dugass who came to Louisiana--55 individuals and a dozen families--arrived 20 years after the first of their family reached the colony. They came on every one of the Seven Ships from France in 1785:
Three families, one led by a widow, and a wife, crossed on Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in July. They followed the most of the passengers from their ship to St.-Gabriel de Manchac, south of Baton Rouge:
Jean-Baptiste Dugas, age 66, from Minas, crossed with third wife Anne Bourg, age 64, daughter Anne, age 21, and granddaughter Marie-Adélaïde Boudrot, age 5. Jean-Baptiste and Anne had no more children in Louisiana. Daughter Anne married into the Crochet family and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.
Marie-Madeleine Dugas, age 53, crossed with husband Pierre Quimine, age 59, and two daughters, ages 24 and 14. Pierre died at Manchac soon after they reached the colony, and Marie-Madeleine and her daughters moved to the upper Bayou Lafourche.
A younger Jean-Baptiste Dugas, age 49, crossed with wife Marie Grossin, age 49, daughter Marie-Josèphe, age 11, and orphan Marie Haché, age 18. They had no more children in Louisiana. Daughter Marie-Josèphe married into the Lebert family at Baton Rouge. Marie died at Baton Rouge in July 1809, in her early 70s; the priest who recorded her burial described her as the spouse, not the widow, of Jean Baptiste Dugas.
Francoise Boudrot, age 45, widow of Marin Dugas, crossed with son Jean-Pierre-Marin, called Pierre, Dugas, age 11. Pierre married at Ascension but settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.
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Four families, five wives, and two widows crossed on La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August. Most followed the majority of the passengers from their ship went to Ascension, near the confluence of the Mississippi River with Bayou Lafourche. One family and a wife, who were siblings, chose to settle in the Atakapas District:
Paul Dugas, age 75, a widower, crossed with two children--Simon, age 37, and Anne-Marie, age 19. His fellow passengers selected Simon as one of the five leaders of their "expedition." Simon married at Ascension but settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. Anne-Marie married Vincent Dumene of Nantes, France, and also settled on the upper Lafourche.
Marie-Madeleine Dugas, age 43, Paul's daughter and widow of Jean-Baptiste Hébert, crossed with seven children, ages 20 to infancy. Marie-Madeleine never remarried and died at Assumption, on upper Bayou Lafourche, in October 1793, in her early 50s. Her children also settled on Bayou Lafourche.
Marie Dugas, age 39, another of Paul's daughter, crossed with husband Prosper Giroir, age 41, and six children, ages 18 to 7. Marie became a widow and followed her children to upper Bayou Lafourche.
Élisabeth or Isabelle Dugas, age 32, Paul's daughter, crossed with husband Ambroise Pitre, age 35, and three children, ages 9, 6, and 1. Ambroise died at Ascension, Élisabeth remarried to Spanish Creole Jean-Marie Campos at Ascension in February 1789, and they settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.
Marie-Osite Dugas, age 24, also Paul's daughter, crossed with husband Étienne Dupuis, age 36, and no children. They, too, settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.
Pierre Dugas, age 57, from Cobeguit, crossed with wife Marguerite Daigle, age 60, and two daughters--Anne-Marie, age 23, and Marie-Victoire, age 20. Needless to say, Pierre and Marguerite had no more children in Louisiana. Pierre, probably after his wife died, and daughter Marie-Victoire moved to the western prairies.
Marguerite-Blanche Dugas, age 31, daughter of Pierre, crossed with husband Pierre Bourg, age 24. She was pregnant on the voyage and gave birth to son Martin at either Balize or New Orleans soon after reaching the colony. Marguerite-Blanche died at Ascension by October 1789, when Pierre remarried there. Martin died in infancy.
Anne-Osite Dugas, age 30, widow of Charles Hébert, another daughter of Pierre, crossed with three children, ages 5, 4, and 2. She moved to Atakapas in the late 1780s or early 1790s.
Charles Dugas, age 48, from Cobeguit, a widower and perhaps Pierre's half-brother, crossed with five children. Charles's fellow passengers chose him as one of the five leaders of their "expedition." He took his family to Atakapas.
Élisabeth or Isabelle Dugas, age 44, from Cobeguit, perhaps Charles's sister, crossed with her husband and four children and also went to Atakapas.
Ambroise Dugas, age 34, from Cobeguit, crossed with wife Marie-Victoire Pitre, age 32, also of Cobeguit, and four children--Marguerite-Josèphe, age 9, Louis-Ambroise, age 5, Céleste, age 1, and Eulalie-Martine, who was born aboard ship. They had more children in Louisiana, including sons, and settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.
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A Dugas wife and a small family crossed on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in August. Most of the passengers aboard that ship went to St.-Gabriel de Manchac and Baton Rouge:
Marguerite Dugas, age 26, crossed with husband Francois-Xavier Boudrot, age 25, and no children. She died near Baton Rouge in September 1786, only 26 years old, perhaps from the rigors of childbirth.
Jean-Pierre Dugas, age 20, crossed with his French wife Jeanne Cabon, age 34, and no children. Did he and his wife go to Baton Rouge, and did they have children there?
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Four families, three wives, and an orphan crossed on Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in September. They went to Ascension:
Alexis Dugas, age 62, from Cobeguit, a widower, crossed with daughter Marie-Rose, age 22. Alexis died at Ascension in September 1795, in his late 60s. Marie-Rose married Spaniard Louis Oncale or Uncal, at Ascension in September 1786, but they settled on the upper Lafourche.
Charles Dugas, age 60, crossed with second wife Anne Naquin, age 50, stepdaughter Rose-Marie Gautrot, age 22, and orphan Anne Lebert, age 9. Charles and Anne had no more children in Louisiana. Charles died by January 1788, when Anne was listed in the Lafourche census as a widow.
Pierre Dugas, age 53, crossed with third wife Rose or Rosalie LeBlanc, age 43, and two children--Rose, age 3, and infant Anne-Pérrine, called Pérrine. Daughters Rose and Pérrine probably died young. Pérrine, in fact, could have died on the voyage to Louisiana. Pierre and Rose had another daughter in Louisiana but no sons. They settled on the upper Lafourche. Their Louisiana-born daughter married into the Thibodeaux family.
Joseph Dugas, age 43, Pierre's brother, crossed with second wife Anastasie Barrieau, age 43, and nine children--Joseph, fils, age 23, Marie, age 21, Cécile-Anne, age 19, Élisabeth-Eulalie, age 17, Francois-Basile-Étienne, age 14, Anastasie-Céleste-Marie, age 12, Jean-Pierre, age 10, Anne-Marguerite, age 7, and Marguerite-Euphrosine, age 2. Joseph, fils married in New Orleans soon after he reached the colony and followed his wife's family to the Atakapas District. Élisabeth-Eulalie followed her brother to Atakapas, where she married into the Prejean family. Joseph and Anastasie had no more children in Louisiana. They, with their other children, settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, and their other daughters married into the Aucoin, Daigle, Guillot, and Lerois families.
Anne Dugas, age 36, Joseph and Pierre's sister, crossed with husband Joseph-Ignace Hébert, age 37, and four children, ages 15 to 2. They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. Anne died by January 1798, when her husband was listed in the Lafourche census without a wife.
Anne-Josèphe Dugas, age 36, from Cobeguit, crossed with husband Jean-Baptiste Hébert, age 36, fives sons, ages 14 to newborn. They also settled on Bayou Lafourche.
Marie Dugas, age 18, crossed with husband Jean Thibodeau, age 42, two of his children, ages 18 and 14, and a Thibodeau kinswoman. They settled on Bayou Lafourche, where Jean died in the late 1790s and Marie remarried.
Jean Dugas, age 13, crossed with his mother, Frenchwoman Anne Bonfils, and his stepfather Pierre Labauve. They settled on Bayou Lafourche.
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Claude-Bernard Dugas, age 28, crossed alone on L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in November. He went to Ascension, where he married, but he settled on upper Bayou Lafourche.
Victoire Dugas, age 38, widow of Frenchman Thomas Aillet, crossed with two sons, ages 10 and 6, aboard La Ville d'Archangel, the sixth of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in December. They followed most of the passengers from their ship to the new Acadian community of Bayou des Écores, today's Thompson's Creek, north of Baton Rouge. After the Acadians abandoned the settlement in the early 1790s, they moved downriver to Baton Rouge.
Anne Dugas, age 59, crossed with husband Olivier Boudrot, age 74, and two children, ages 18 and 17, on La Caroline, the last of the Seven Ships, which reached New Orleans in December. They also went to Ascension, where she became a widow by January 1788. She and her children settled on the upper Lafourche.
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Most of the Dugas who immigrated from France in 1785 and chose to go to communities on the river, moved to upper Bayou Lafourche either soon after they reached the colony or in the early 1790s. None established new Dugas families on the river.
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Other DUGASs on the River
Local church and civil records make it difficult to link some Dugass on the river with known lines of the family there:
Francoise Dugas, wife of Spanish Creole Pedro Rivas, died at St.-Gabriel in July 1788. She was 58 years old. The priest who recorded her burial did not bother to list her parents' names. No Francoise Dugas appears on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names, so one wonders if she was Acadian.
Marie-Ludivine Dugas died at Ascension at age 3 in November 1791. The priest who recorded the girl's burial must have come a bit unhinged. For her parents he wrote "Jesu Cristo & Maria Lideivina DUGAS"!
Eugène Dugas married Christine Dugas Landry probably in Ascension Parish in the 1830s.
LOUISIANA: LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS
During the late 1780s and early 1790s, Spanish officials were counting Dugass on upper Bayou Lafourche. Most of them were immigrants from France who either had settled on the river before moving to the bayou, or had gone from New Orleans directly to the Lafourche:
Marie-Rose, daughter of Alexis Dugas and wife of Spanish Creole Louis Oncale, died at Assumption in April 1795. She was only 32 years old.
Marie Dugas, widow of Jean Thibodeaux, remarried to French Creole Louis-Gabriel Richard of Toulon, France, at Assumption in October 1803.
Marie Dugas, widow of Prosper Giroir, died in Assumption Parish in November 1805. The priest who recorded her burial said that she was 63 years old when she died, but she was closer to 59.
Anastasie Dugas, wife of Joseph Roger, died in Assumption Parish in August 1811. The priest who recorded her burial said that she was 80 years old when she died, but she was closer to 72.
Pierre Dugas died in Assumption Parish in October 1813. He was 79 1/2 years old. He brought no sons with him to Louisiana in 1785 and had no sons there, so his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him.
Marie Dugas, wife of Alexandre Daigle, died in Assumption Parish in November 1813. She was 50 years old.
Marie-Osite Dugas, wife of Étienne Dupuis, died in Assumption Parish in September 1814. She was 52 years old.
Anne Dugas, widow of Yves Crochet, died in Assumption Parish in April 1825. She was 60 years old.
Pélagie Madeleine, called Madeleine, Dugas, widow of Jean Baptiste Bernard, followed her family from St. James Parish to the Bayou Lafourche valley and died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1831. She was 72 years old.
Anne Josèphe, wife of Jean Baptiste Hébert, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1831. The priest who recorded her burial said that she was 88 years old when she died, but she was closer to 82.
Joseph Dugas died in Lafourche Interior Parish in March 1833. He was 91 years old.
Élisabeth Dugas, widow of Jean Marie Campos, died "at home of Paul Aucoin," Assumption Parish, in January 1837. She was 84 years old.
Marie Victoire Dugas, widow of Louis Richard of St. Landry Parish, died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1837. The priest who recorded her burial said that she was 70 years old when she died, but she was actually 72.
Descendants of Simon DUGAS (c1748-1829)
Simon, son of Paul Dugas and his first wife Anne-Marie Boudrot, born in Acadia in c1748, was deported from either Île St.-Jean or Île-Royale to St.-Malo, France, in 1758-59. His mother died in the terrible crossing. He became a carpenter in France, went to Poitou with his widowed father and stepmother in the early 1770s, and was still a bachelor in his late 30s when he sailed to Louisiana with his twice-widowed father and a much younger half-sister aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785. His fellow passengers selected him as one of the five leaders of their "expedition." He married Marie-Geneviève, called Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadian Alain Bourg, at Ascension in June 1787; he was in his late 30s, and she was 22 and had come to Louisiana on Le Beaumont, the third of the Seven Ships. Colonial officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river at Ascension in 1788 and 1791. They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. Judging by the birth and marriage patterns of their children, they must have lived near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes. Their daughters married into the Cedotal, Cupelo, Daigle, Freoux, and Hopwood families. Simon died in Assumption Parish in July 1829; he was 80 years old. Only one of his four sons married and carried on the line.
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Oldest son Magloire, born at Ascension in August 1789, probably died young.
2
Jean-Baptiste, born at Ascension in October 1790, married Constance, daughter of French Creole Joseph Simoneaux, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1811; Constance's mother was a Bourque. Their son Jean Baptiste Leufroi was born in Assumption Parish in April 1813, and Francois Xavier in December 1823. Their daughters married into the Daigle and Hébert families. Jean Baptiste died in Ascension Parish in November 1829; the priest who recorded his burial said that Jean Baptiste was 49 years old when he died, but he was only 39.
Jean Baptiste Leufroi married Clémence, daughter of fellow Acadian Timothée Hébert, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in September 1838. ...
3
Paul, born at Ascension in February 1792, died in Assumption Parish in June 1836. The priest who recorded Paul's burial said that he was 42 years old when he died, but he was 44. Paul evidently did not marry.
4
Youngest son Joseph Michel or Michel Joseph, born in Ascension Parish in September 1808, died at age 22 months in July 1810.
Descendants of Ambroise DUGAS (c1751-1816)
Ambroise, son of Ambroise Dugas and Marguerite Henry, was born at Cobeguit in c1751. He followed his parents to Île St.-Jean and was still a child when the British deported him and his family to St.-Malo, France, in 1758-59. Ambroise became a sailor in France and married Marie-Victoire, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Pitre of Cobeguit, at St.-Suliac, near St-Malo, in March 1773. They went to Poitou with other Acadians from the St.-Malo area and retreated with them to Nantes when the Poitou venture failed. They sailed to Louisiana with four children aboard La Bergère, the second of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They had more children in Louisiana, including sons. Colonial officials counted Ambroise and Marie-Victoire on the right, or west, bank of the river at Ascension in 1788 and 1791. They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. Their daughters married into the Boudreaux, Daniau, Doiron, Fernandes, Matherne, and Plaisance families. Ambroise died a widower in Assumption Parish in March 1816; he was 65 years old.
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Oldest son Louis-Ambroise, born at Nantes, France, in May 1780, married Élisabeth, called Babette, daughter of French Creole Pierre Berthelot, at Assumption in November 1802. Their son Louis Olivier was born in Assumption Parish in September 1804. Their daughters married into the Boudreaux and Terrebonne families. ...
Louis Olivier died in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1826. He was only 22 years old. He did not marry. He was his parents' only son, so his line of the family, except for its blood, died with him.
2
Augustin, born at St.-Jacques in January 1790, probably died young.
3
Olivier-Ambroise, born in August 1791 and baptized at New Orleans in March 1792, married cousin Marie Eugènie, called Eugènie, 22-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Bernard, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in February 1822; Eugènie's mother was Madeleine Dugas. They moved to Lafayette Parish soon after their marriage but were back on the Lafourche later in the decade. Their son Victor Saintville was born in Lafayette Parish in January 1828, Jean Baptiste Émile in Lafourche Interior Parish in July 1829, and Joseph Lovency in March 1831. ...
4
Ambroise, fils, born at Assumption in October 1792, married Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Paul Bourgeois, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in February 1814. Their son Pierre Brutus was born in Assumption Parish in January 1815, Ambroise III in August 1817, and Joseph Hulice in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1826. They lived near the boundary between Ascension and Assumption parishes before moving down bayou to Terrebonne Parish. Their daughter married into the Bergeron family. ...
Pierre Brutus married cousin Eugènie, 21-year-old daughter of French Creole Philippe Plaisance, in a civil ceremony in Lafourche Interior Parish in December 1834; Eugènie's mother was Marie Dugas. Their son Pierre was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in May 1839. ...
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Youngest son Joseph-Marie, born at Assumption in March 1795, died at age 7 months the following November.
Claude-Bernard DUGAS (1759-)
Claude-Bernard, son of Jean-Baptiste Dugas and Marguerite-Josèphe Doiron, born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, in August 1759, was a bachelor in his late 20s when he sailed to Louisiana aboard L'Amitié, the fifth of the Seven Ships from France, in 1785. He followed the majority of the passengers from his ship to Ascension, where he married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Claude Benoit and widow of Joseph Précieux, in February 1786. Marguerite also had crossed "alone" on L'Amitié. Colonial officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at Ascension in 1788 and 1791. They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. They were that rare Acadian couple who had no children.
Descendants of Francois-Basile-Étienne DUGAS (1771-1819)
Francois-Basile-Étienne, elder son of Joseph Dugas and his second wife Anastasie Barrieau, born at St.-Suliac, France, near St.-Malo, in April 1771, sailed to Louisiana with his parents and siblings, both full and half, aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785. He followed them to the upper Bayou Lafourche valley, where he married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Hilaire Clément, at Assumption in February 179[7]. Marie also had crossed on Le St.-Rémi. They settled in what became Lafourche Interior Parish. Their daughters married into the Breaux, Lejeune, and Naquin families. Francois died in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1819; he was 48 years old; his succession inventory was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in the next month, and a family assembly was held in April 1820.
Basile-Atille, born at Assumption in February 1802, was placed under the tutorship of his uncle Jean Pierre Dugas after the death of Basile's father in August 1819. Basile married Eulalie Émilie, also called Carmelite, 16-year-old daughter of Spanish Creole Antoine Dias, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in May 1824; Eulalie's mother was a Pitre. Their son Basile, fils was born in Assumption Parish in August 1826, Ignace in Lafourche Interior Parish in November 1827, Julien in November 1828, and Jean Marie in January 1832. Basile remarried to Madeleine, daughter of German Creole André Tregle of St. John the Baptist Parish, at the Thibodauxville church in January 1834. ...
Descendants of Jean-Pierre DUGAS (1775-1832)
Jean-Pierre, younger son of Joseph Dugas and his second wife Anastasie Barrieau, born at Leigne-les-bois, Poitou, France, in January 1775, sailed to Louisiana with his parents and siblings, both full and half, aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785. He followed them to the upper Bayou Lafourche valley, where he married Renée, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Naquin, at Assumption in February 1800. Renée also had crossed on Le St.-Rémi. Their daughters married into the Field and Naquin families. Jean Pierre was granted tutorship of nephew Basile Dugas after Jean Pierre's older brother Francois died in 1819. Jean Pierre died in Lafourche Interior Parish in either January or February 1832; he was 57 years old; his succession inventory was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse in February 1834.
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Oldest son Henri Pierre Francois, called Henry, born at Assumption in March 1806, married Marie Marcellite, called Marcellite, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Chiasson of Terrebonne Parish, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in June 1831. Their son Cyprien was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1833, Joseph Octave in March 1836, and Jean Adam in December 1839. ...
2
Eusèbe, born in Assumption Parish in March 1811, ...
3
Youngest son Jean Baptiste Placide, born in Assumption Parish in November 1813, ...
Descendants of Jean DUGAS (c1772-1822)
Jean, son of Jean Dugas and Anne or Jeanne Bonfils, a Frenchwoman, was born at St.-Nicolas, Nantes, France, in c1772. He sailed to Louisiana with his mother and stepfather, Acadian Pierre Labauve, aboard Le St.-Rémi, the fourth of the Seven Ships, in 1785 and followed them to Ascension, where colonial officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river in 1788 and 1791. They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche, where Jean married Isabelle-Jeanne, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean-Baptiste Hébert, at Assumption in August 1797. Judging by the birth patterns of their children, they must have lived near the boundary of what became Ascension and Assumption parishes. Their daughter married into the Pizzani family. Jean died in Lafourche Interior Parish in February 1822; he was 50 years old; a petition for his succession inventory was filed at the Thibodauxville courthouse the following December.
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Oldest son Pierre-Paul, baptized at Assumption, age unrecorded, in January 1798, ...
2
Joseph, born at Assumption in September 1799, probably died young.
3
Youngest son Dominique Marcellin, born at Ascension in April 1806, ...
Descendants of Jean-Pierre-Marin DUGAS (c1774-1832)
Jean-Pierre-Marin, called Pierre-Marin, son of Marin Dugas and Francoise Boudrot, born at St.-Servan, France, near St.-Malo, in October 1773, followed his widowed mother to Louisiana aboard Le Bon Papa, the first of the Seven Ships, in 1785. They settled at St.-Gabriel de Manchac before moving downriver to Ascension, where Pierre married Francoise, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Arcement, in May 1794. They settled on upper Bayou Lafourche. Their daughters married into the Boudreaux, Maillet, Richard, and Talbot families. Pierre Marin died in Lafourche Interior Parish in October 1832; he was 59 years old.
1
Older son Pierre-Marin, baptized at Assumption, age unrecorded, in September 1796, probably died young.
2
Younger son Basile, born at Assumption in December 1801, married Claire or Clarisse, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Baptiste Robichaux, at the Thibodauxville church, Lafourche Interior Parish, in January 1821. Their son Ovile Basile was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in August 1830, and Pierre Amédée in November 1833. ...
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In the early antebellum period, Dugass from the river moved to the Bayou Lafourche valley perhaps as a result of the creation of large sugar plantations along the lower Mississippi:
Descendants of Jean DUGAS (c1783-)
Jean, fifth son of Francois Dugas and Marguerite Babin, baptized at Ascension, age unrecorded, in November 1783, married Marguerite, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Duhon, at St.-Jacques in February 1805. They moved to Assumption Parish in the late 1810s or 1820s after most of their children were born at St.-Jacques. Their daughter married into the Landry and LeBlanc families. ...
1
Oldest son Francois Rosémond, called Rosémond, born at Ascension in January 1806, married Marguerite or Marie Melanie, called Melanie, daughter of fellow Acadian Donat LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1827. Their son Sosthène died in Assumption Parish soon after his birth in November 1827, Jérôme Sosthène was born in August 1829, Onesime Oscar, called Oscar, in January 1832 but died at age 1 1/2 in September 1833, and Joseph Assard or Aword was baptized at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, age 6 months, in April 1836. ...
2
Jean Achille, called Achille, born at St.-Jacques in April 180[7], married Marie Farelise, called Farelie, daughter of fellow Acadian Simonet LeBlanc, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in May 1829. Their son Simon Aristide was born in Assumption Parish in February 1830, and Joseph Félix in August 1831. ...
3
Jérôme, Joseph Ovide's twin, born in St. James Parish in August 1808, ...
4
Joseph Ovide, Jérôme's twin, born in St. James Parish in August 1808, died in St. James Parish in September 1825. He was only 17 years old and did not marry. One wonders if he followed his family to Bayou Lafourche.
5
Joseph Léon, born in St. James Parish in July 1817, ...
Descendants of Joseph DUGAS (c1787-)
Joseph, younger son of Michel Dugas and his first wife Anne Sophie Foret, baptized at Ascension, no age recorded, in April 1787, married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Landry, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1812. They settled on Bayou Lafourche. Their daughters married into the Bourg, Daigle, and LeBlanc families. ...
1
Oldest son Joseph Avantin or Evantine, born in Assumption Parish in February 1815, married cousin Marie Seraphine, daughter of Louis Babin, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1835; they had to secure as dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry. Their son Joseph was born in Assumption Parish in September 1837. ...
2
Joseph Drosin, a twin, born in Assumption Parish in June 1818, ...
3
Joseph Achille, born in Assumption Parish in July 1823, ...
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Other DUGASs in the Lafourche Valley
Local church and civil records make it difficult to link some Dugass in the Bayou Lafourche valley with known lines of the family there:
Alexandre Dugas married Acadian Marie Adeline, called Adeline, Babin, probably in Assumption Parish in the late 1820s. Their son Joseph Clovis was born in Assumption Parish in December 1831. ...
Forestal Dugas married Marie Adele Bernard perhaps in Lafourche Interior Parish in the 1830s.
NON-ACADIAN FAMILIES in LOUISIANA
After the Louisiana Purchase, Foreign French who spelled their surnames Duga and Dugot came to Louisiana from France and Mexico. In 1830, a French-Canadian from Trois-Rivières married a French Creole and settled in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley near his Acadian namesakes. He may have been a descendant of Acadian Dugas who had found refuge in the St. Lawrence valley during Le Grand Dérangement. A few years later, a Dugas from Georgia, who also may have been a descendant of Acadian Dugass, settled among his namesakes in Ascension Parish:
Widow Duga, age 33, and her son Edward Duga, reached New Orleans aboard the ship New York Packet out of Bordeaux, France, in February 1822. The widow listed their destination as France, however, so they probably returned to Bordeaux.
Joseph Élie, son of Jacques Dugas and Marie Laventana, "native of Three Rivers Dist., Canada," married Stephanie, daughter of French Creole Jacques Verret, in a civil ceremony in Terrebonne Parish in July 1830. They moved up bayou to Assumption Parish. Their son Artur Numa was born in c1834 and baptized at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in April 1838. ...
Louis Charles, son of Louis René Adrien Dugas and Pauline Vincendier of Georgia, married Marie Claire Eugènie, daughter of Joseph Conand, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in November 1834.
Charles Dugot, a 39-year-old merchant from France, reached New Orleans aboard the ship Bonita out of Veracruz, Mexico, in June 1852. His destination was not recorded.
CONCLUSION
Dugass were among the early settlers of Acadia and among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana. The first of them--19 individuals, including 2 large families--arrived with the Broussard dit Beausoleil party from Halifax via St.-Domingue in early 1765. They followed the Broussards to the Bayou Teche valley, but life there soon became unbearable. A mysterious epidemic that summer and fall killed dozens of Teche Acadians. Only one other family (the Bergerons) buried as many family members as the Dugass, and more Dugass died than Broussards! A few Dugass remained on the Teche, but most of them retreated with dozens of other Acadians to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river. With only one exception, there they remained. As a result, two centers of family settlement had emerged by the late 1760s. One family on the western prairies stayed at the original Broussard settlement at Fausse Pointe near today's New Iberia, but most of his brother and cousins moved to Anse La Butte and Grand Prairie on upper Bayou Vermilion, which, according to one authority, became "probably the most important historical center of the Dugas clan in the state." On the river, some remained at St.-Jacques, but most moved upriver to Ascension. In the 1770s, a Dugas arrived perhaps from France and joined his cousins on the upper Vermilion.
The largest contingent of Dugass who came to Louisiana--55 individuals and a dozen families--reached the colony from France on every one of the Seven Ships of 1785. One large family of six, some wives, a widow, and a young newlywed, chose to join their kinsmen on the western prairies, but most of the refugees from France chose settlements along the river on the Acadian Coast or on upper Bayou Lafourche. By the late 1790s, nearly all of the Dugass from France had moved to the Lafourche, creating a third center of family settlement that rivaled in numbers their cousins who remained on the river.
During the antebellum period, a few Dugass from the river joined their kinsmen on Bayou Lafourche, some Lafourche Dugass moved down to the coastal marshes east of Bayou Terrebonne, and one moved temporarily from the Lafourche valley to the western prairies. But the most dramatic migration of family members in the antebellum period occurred on the western prairies. By the 1850s, Dugass from the Teche and Vermilion valleys had moved west to the Mermentau River valley, where they worked large herds of cattle on the Calcasieu prairies. Some did not stop there. By 1860, four Dugas families had established homes in Liberty and Chambers counties in southeastern Texas, where they spelled their surname Dugat.
Meanwhile, a French-Canadian Dugas who may have had Acadian ancestry settled among his namesakes in the Lafourche/Terrebonne valley, and a Dugas from Georgia who also may have had Acadian ancestry settled in Ascension Parish. In the 1820s and 1850s, a few Dugas and Dugots came to Louisiana from France, but none of them seem to have established families in the Bayou State. The great majority, if not all, of the Dugass of South Louisiana are descendants of Abraham the gunsmith. ...
Dozens of Dugass served Louisiana and Texas in uniform during the War Between the States. ...
The family's name also is spelled Douga, Dugast, Dugats, Dugons, Huga, Hugas.
Sources: Arsenault, Généalogie, 524-34, 959-60, 1155-58, 1484-88, 2230-32, 2299, 2475-81; Brasseaux, Foreign French, 1:179, 3:91; Brasseaux, Scattered to the Wind, 60, source of quote about Miquelonnais in 1778; BRDR, vol. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.); Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 123-25; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vol. 1; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, 2-C, 3; NOAR, vols. 2, 4, 5; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Supply.htm>, Family No. 15; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/Tamerlan.htm>, Family No. 6; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family Nos. 55, 66, 67, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 111, 113, 119, 144, 190, 192; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 37-39; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 58-65; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 285-307; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 64-65, 163-64, quote from p. 65; White, DGFA-1, 562-80; White, DGFA-1 English, 119-24.
Settlement Abbreviations
(present-day parishes that existed
during the War Between the States in parenthesis; hyperlinks on the
abbreviations take you to brief histories of each settlement):
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Ascension |
Lafourche (Lafourche, Terrebonne) |
Pointe Coupée |
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Assumption |
Natchitoches (Natchitoches) |
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Atakapas (St. Martin, St. Mary, Lafayette, Vermilion) |
San Luìs de Natchez (Concordia) |
St.-Gabriel d'Iberville (Iberville) |
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Bayou des Écores (East Baton Rouge, West Feliciana) |
New Orleans (Orleans) |
St.-Jacques de Cabanocé (St. James) |
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Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge) |
Opelousas (St. Landry, Calcasieu) |
For a chronology of Acadian Arrivals in Louisiana, 1764-early 1800s, see Appendix.
The hyperlink attached to an individual's name is connected to a list of Acadian immigrants for a particular settlement and provides a different perspective on the refugee's place in family and community.
| Name | Arrived | Settled | Profile |
| *Alexandre DUGAS 01 | 17?? | StG | born c1758; in St.-Gabriel census, 1777, left bank ascending, called Alexandre DUGA, age 19, bachelor, with 6 cattle, [0 horses?] 4 hogs, 8 fowl, 6 arpents near Augustin & Piere DUGA |
| Alexis DUGAS 02 | Sep 1785 | Asc | born c1726, Cobeguit; son of Joseph DUGAS & Anne-Marie HÉBERT; carpenter; married (1)Anne BOURG; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the 5 ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Alexis DUGAST, age 32; married, age 37, (2)Marguerite MOÏSE, daughter of Francois MOÏSE & Marie BRUN of Cobeguit, 2 Jun 1760, St.-Suliac, France; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, with no wife & 1 unnamed daughter; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 58, probably a widower, head of family; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, called Alexis DUGATS, age 64[sic], with son-in-law Louis ONCAL, daughter Marie-Rose, & granddaughter Marie [ONCAL]; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, called Alexis DUGA, age 66, with son-in-law Louis UNCAL, daughter Marie-Rose, grandson Louis [UNCAL], & granddaughter Alexis [UNCAL]; died [buried] Ascension 23 Sep 1795, age 72[sic] |
| *Amand DUGAS 03 | 177? | Atk | born c1746, probably Cobeguit; son of Claude DUGAS & Anne HÉBERT; brother of Charles & perhaps Élisabeth/Isabelle, half-brother of Pierre?; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Amand DUGAST, frère de Pierre, fils de Claude, age 12?; at Plouër, France, 1759-66?; at St.-Servan, France, 1766-71?; at Plouër, 1771?; arrived LA 1770s?; married, age 33, Geneviève ROBICHAUX, daughter of René ROBICHAUX & Marguerite MARTIN dit Barnabé, 11 Jan 1779, Atakapas, now St. Martinville; in Atakapas census, 1781, called Amand DUGAS, with 2 unnamed individuals, 10 animals, no arpents listed; in Atakapas census, 1785, called Amt DUGAS, with 4 unnamed free individuals, 0 slaves; owned 100 head of cattle, 1803; settled at Anse La Butte; died 23 Oct 1823 "of long illness & received the sacraments" at his home at Anse La Butte, Lafayette Parish, buried "in parish cemetery," Vermilionville, next day, age 68[sic]; succession record dated 14 Aug 1824, Lafayette Parish courthouse; one of the author's paternal ancestors~~ |
| Ambroise DUGAS 04 | Aug 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | born c1751, Cobeguit; son of Ambroise DUGAS & Marguerite HENRY; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Ambroise DUGAST, age 7; sailor; married, age 21, Marie-Victoire PITRE, daughter of Amand PITRE & Geneviève ARCEMENT of Cobeguit, 30 Mar 1773, St.-Suliac, France; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, with wife, 1 unnamed son, & 2 unnamed daughters; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 32[sic], head of family; received from Spanish on arrival 2 each of axe, hatchet, & hoe, 1 each of shovel & meat cleaver; in Ascension census, 1788, right [west] bank, called Ambroise DUGATS, age 36, with wife Marie age 35, sons Constant age 4, Louis age 1, daughters Margueritte age 11, Ulalie age 2, 6 arpents, 24 qts. corn, 1 horned cattle, 4 swine; in Ascension census, 1791, right [west] bank, called Ambroise DUGA, age 39, with wife Marie age 37, sons Louis age 11, Auguste age 1, daughters Margrithe age 14, Ulalie age 6, Marie age 3, 0 slaves, 6 arpents, 0 qts. rice, 100 qts. corn, 4 horned cattle, 1 horse, 30 swine; in Assumption census, 1795, called Ambrosio DUGAT, age 45, with wife Maria age 43, sons Luis age 16, Olivier age 5, Ambrosio age 3, daughters Eulalia age 12, & Maria age 8; in Assumption census, 1797, called Ambroise DUGATS, age 46, with wife Marie age 44, sons Louis age 17, Olivier age 6, Ambroise age 4, daughters Eulalie age 13, & Marie age 9, 0 slaves; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Ambroise DUGATS, age 48, with wife Marie age 46, sons Louis age 18, Olivier age 7, Ambroise age 5, daughters Ulalie age 12, & Marie age 10, 6/60 arpents, 0 slaves; died [buried] Assumption Parish 19 Mar 1816, age 63[sic], a widower |
| Anastasie DUGAS 05 | 1765 | StJ, Asc, Asp | born c1739; married, age 21, (1)Amable ROBICHAUX, son Joseph ROBICHAUX & Marie FOREST, c1760, Acadia; on list of Acadian prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763, unnamed, with husband & 3 children; arrived LA 1765, age 26; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, unnamed in a militia census & called Nastasie DUGAS widow ROBICHAUD, age 27, in the general census, with sons He[n]ry [ROBICHAUD] age 6, Jean-Baptiste [ROBICHAUD] age 4, & daughter Marie [ROBICHAUD] age 2, 0 slaves, 6 arpents, 0 cattle, 0 sheep, 1 hog, 1 gun; in Cabanocé census, 1769, occupying lot number 56, right [west] bank, called Nastazie HUGAS widow ROBICHAUD, age 31, with sons Henry ROBICHAUD age 8, Jean-Baptiste [ROBICHAUD] age 6, & Louis-Uzèbe [ROBICHAUD] age 2; married, age 31, (2)Joseph CAISSIE dit ROGER, son of Michel CAISSIE dit ROGER & his second wife Rosalie COMEAUX of Chignecto, c1770, St.-Jacques or Ascension; in Ascension census, 1770, right [west] bank, age 32, with husband & 3 ROBICHAUX sons; in Ascension census, 1777, right [west] bank, called Anastazie, age 38, with husband, 3 ROBICHAUX sons, 2 ROGER sons, & 1 ROGER daughter; died [buried] Assumption Parish 3 Aug 1811, age 80[sic] |
| Anastasie-Céleste-Marie DUGAS 06 | Sep 1785 | Asc, Asp | born 2 Feb 1773, baptized next day, St.-Suliac, France; called Céleste; daughter of Joseph DUGAS & his second wife Anastasie BARRILLEAUX; sister of Anne-Marguerite, Francois-Basile-Étienne, Jean-Pierre, & Marguerite-Euphrosine, half-sister of Cécile-Anne, Élisabeth-Eulalie, Joseph, fils, & Marie; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & siblings; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 12; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, called Céleste, age 14, with parents & siblings; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, called Céleste, age 18, with parents & siblings; married, age 19, Simon-Francois GUILLOT, son of Charles-Olivier GUILLOT & Madeleine-Josèphe BOUDREAUX, 14 May 1792, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; in Assumption census, 1795, called Anastasia DUGAT, age 24[sic], with husband & 1 son; in Assumption census, 1797, called Anne DUGATS, age 25, with husband & 1 son; died by Apr 1799, when her husband remarried |
| Angélique DUGAS 07 | 1765 | StJ, Asc, StG | born 4 Sep 1734, baptized next day, Port-Royal; daughter of Francois DUGAS & Claire BOURG; married, age 21, Joseph MARANT, c1755, probably Port-Royal; in report of Acadians in SC, Aug 1763, with husband Joseph MOREAU[sic] et al.; arrived LA 1765 probably from St.-Domigue, age 29; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, age 30, with husband, nephew Joseph AURION [ORILLION] & niece Marguerite AURION [ORILLION]; in Cabanocé census, 1769, right [west] bank, called Angélique HUGARD, age 34, with husband Joseph MARANT & no children; in Ascension census, 1770, right [west] bank, age 30, with husband & no children; in Ascension census, 1777, right [west] bank, age 46, with husband & family of nephew-in-law Paul FORREST; died [buried] St.-Gabriel 4 Sep 1787, age 53 |
| Anne DUGAS 08 | Jul 1785 | StG, Asc, Asp, Lf | born 17 May 1764, La Pahorie, baptized same day, St.-Meloir-des-Ondes, France; daughter of Jean-Baptiste DUGAS & his third wife Anne BOURG; at St.-Melior 1764-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & 1 unnamed orphan; sailed to LA on Le Bon Papa, age 21; married, age 26, Yves-Jean CROCHET, son of Jean-Yves CROCHET & Pélagie BENOIT, c1790, probably Ascension, now Donaldsonville; in Ascension census, 1791, right [west] bank, called Anne DUGA, age 26, with husband, no children, & widowed mother; moved to Lafourche valley; in Assumption census, 1795, called Ana DUGAT, age 31, with husband, 3 daughters, & widowed mother; in Assumption census, 1797, called Ana DUGAT, age 32, with husband, 1 son, & 2 daughters; in Lafourche census, 1798, age 34, with husband, 1 son, 2 daughters, & widowed mother; died [buried] Assumption Parish 17 Apr 1825, age 60, a widow, called Anne Isabelle |
| Anne DUGAS 10 | Sep 1785 | Asc, Asp | born c1749; daughter of Joseph DUGAS & Anne-Marie HÉBERT; sister of Joseph & Pierre; deported from either Île St.-Jean or Île Royale to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Anne DUGAST, age 10; married, age 19, Joseph-Ignace HÉBERT, son of Jean HÉBERT & Madeleine DOIRON, 9 Feb 1768, St.-Suliac, France; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, with husband, 3 sons, & 1 daughter; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 36; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, called Anne DUGATS, age 39, with husband, 2 sons, & 1 daughter; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, called Anne DUGA, age 42, with husband, 2 sons, & 2 daughters; in Assumption census, 1795, called Ana DUGAT, age 49[sic], with husband, 1 son, & 2 daughters; in Assumption census, 1797, called Anne DUGAT, age 50[sic], with husband, 1 son, & 2 daughters; died by Jan 1798, when her husband was listed in the Lafourche census without a wife |
| Anne DUGAS 12 | Dec 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | born c1726; daughter of Charles DUGAS & Anne-Marie BENOIT; sister of Jean-Baptiste, Marie-Madeleine, & Victoire; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Anne DUGAST, age 26[sic]; married, age 36, Olivier BOUDREAUX, son of Denis BOUDREAUX & Agnès VINCENT of Pigiguit & Grand-Pré, & widower of Henriette GUÉRIN, 14 May 1762, St.-Énogat, France; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, with husband, 2 unnamed sons, & 1 unnamed daughter; sailed to LA on La Caroline, age 56[sic]; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, called Anne DUGATS widow BOUDREAUT, age 60[sic], with son Jean age 20, daughter Marie age 21, 6 arpents, 30 qts. corn, 1 swine; in Ascension census, 1791, right [west] bank, called Anne DUGA, age 65, with family of daughter Marie BOUDEREAU & son-in-law Francoise BRUNER; in Assumption census, 1795, called Ana DUGAT, age 72[sic], with son Juan BOUDRAUX age 20; in Assumption census, 1797, called Anne DUGATS, Widow, age 73[sic], with son Jean BOUDROT age 21, 0 slaves; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Anne DUGAT, age 77[sic], with son Jean BOUDREAUT |
| Anne-Josèphe DUGAS 13 | Sep 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | born c1749, probably Cobeguit; daughter of Alexis DUGAS & his first wife Anne BOURG; half-sister of Marie-Rose; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Anne-Josèphe DUGAST, age 10; married, age 19, Jean-Baptiste HÉBERT, son of Jean HÉBERT & his first wife Madeleine DOIRON, 9 Feb 1768, St.-Suliac, France; at St.-Suliac 1768-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, called Anne, with husband & 4 unnamed sons; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 36; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, called Anne DUGATS, age 39, with husband & 4 sons; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, called Anne DUGA, age 43, with husband, 4 sons, & "minor premise" Cicile BOUDEREAUX; in Assumption census, 1795, called Ana DUGAT, age 47, with husband & 3 sons; in Assumption census, 1797, called Anne DUGAT, age 48, with husband & 3 sons; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Anne, no surname given, age 50, with husband & 2 sons; died Lafourche Interior Parish 13 Nov 1831, age 88[sic] |
| Anne-Marguerite DUGAS 11 | Sep 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | baptized 11 Jan 1778, St.-Similien, Nantes, France; daughter of Joseph DUGAS & his second wife Anastasie BARRILLEAUX; sister of Anastasie-Céleste-Marie, Francois-Basile-Étienne, Jean-Pierre, & Marguerite-Euphrosine, half-sister of Cécile-Anne, Élisabeth-Eulalie, Joseph, fils, & Marie; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & siblings; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 6; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, age 10, with parents & siblings; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, age 14, with parents & siblings; in Assumption census, 1795, called Ana, age 19[sic], with parents & siblings; in Assumption census, 1797, age 20, with parents & siblings; in Lafourche census, 1798, age 21, with parents & siblings; married, age 21, Alexis-Joseph AUCOIN, son of Joseph AUCOIN & his first wife Marie-Josèphe HÉBERT, & widower of Francoise HENRY, 8 Jan 1799, Assumption, now Plattenville |
| Anne-Marie DUGAS 09 | Aug 1785 | Asc, Op | born & baptized 26 Jul 1761, Plouër, France; daughter of Pierre DUGAS & Marguerite DAIGLE; sister of Anne-Osite, Marguerite-Blanche, & Marie-Victoire; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 23; probably moved to Opelousas District with her parents & younger sister; never married |
| Anne-Marie DUGAS 14 | Aug 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | born c1766, France; sometimes called Marie; daughter of Paul DUGAS & his second wife Hélène BLANCHARD; sister of Marie-Osite, half-sister of Élisabeth/Isabelle, Marie, Marie-Madeleine, & Simon; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 19; in Ascension census, 1788, right [west] bank, called Anne DUGATS, age 25[sic], with brother Simon, his wife Marie, & her brother's sister-in-law Anne BOURG; married, age 23, Vincent DUMENE of Nantes, son of Andrés DUMENE & Vincente PICHON, & widower of ______, 7 Jan 1790, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; in Ascension census, 1791, called Marie DUGA, age 25, with husband Vincent DUMINI age 30, [step-]daughter Rose DUMINI age 3, 0 slaves, 6 arpents, 0 qts. rice, 180 qts. corn, 4 horned cattle, 3 horses, 15 hogs; in Assumption census, 1797, called Anne DUGATS, Widow, age 32, with son Fabien DUMINY age 7, 0 slaves; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Anne DUGATS, Widow, age 33, with son Fabien [DUMENE] age 7, 6/60 arpents, 0 slaves |
| Anne-Osite DUGAS 15 | Aug 1785 | Asc, Atk | born c1752, Cobeguit; called Osite & Dosithée; daughter of Pierre DUGAS & Marguerite DAIGLE; sister of Anne-Marie, Marguerite-Blanche, & Marie-Victoire; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Osite DUGAST, age 6; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; married, age 26, (1)Charles HÉBERT, son of Charles HÉBERT & Marguerite-Josèphe BOURG of Cobeguit, 6 Oct 1778, St.-Similien, Nantes; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, called Anne DUGAS, with husband, 1 unnamed son, & 2 unnamed daughters; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 30[sic], widow, head of family; received from Spanish on arrival 1 each of axe, shovel, & meat cleaver, 2 each of hatchet & hoe; moved to Atakapas; married, age 39, (2)Joseph GRANGER, son of Pierre GRANGER & Euphrosine GAUTREAUX, & widower of Anne-Geneviève BABIN, 16 Jan 1791, Atakapas, now St. Martinville; died Prairie Sorel, St. Martin Parish, 12 Apr 1809, age "over 60[sic] yrs.," buried next day |
| Anne-Pérrine DUGAS 16 | Sep 1785 | Asc | baptized 8 Jan 1785, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, France; called Pérrine, daughter of Pierre DUGAS & his third wife Rose LEBLANC; sister of Rose; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, an infant; not in Ascension censuses of 1788 & 1791 with her family & may not even have survived the voyage to LA |
| Athanase DUGAS 17 | Feb 1765 | Atk, StJ, Asc | born c1753, probably Ékoupag, Rivière-St.-Jean; son of Jean DUGAS & Marie-Charlotte GODIN; brother of Charles, Francois, Marie-Rose, Michel, & Théodore; on list of Acadians prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763, unnamed, with parents & siblings; arrived LA Feb 1765, age 12, with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; moved to Cabanocé fall 1765 after the death of his parents probably to escape an epidemic; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, JUDICE's Company, Cabanocé Militia, called Athanasio DUGAR, age 13, with 4 brothers, 1 sister, 5 arpents, & 1 gun; in Cabanocé census, 1769, occupying lot number 53 next to brother Francois, right [west] bank, called Atanaze HUGAS, age 18, listed singly; in Ascension census, 1770, right [west] bank, called Athanaze, age 19, head of "family" number 21, listed singly, with 6 arpents fallow next to brother Francois; in Ascension census, 1777, right [west] bank, called Athannasse, age 22, head of family number 21, with brother Michel age 20, 6 arpents next to brother Charles, 0 slaves, 5 cattle, 4 horses, 0 sheep, 10 hogs, 2 arms; married, age 24, Anne-Rose or Rose-Ann, called Rose, LEBLANC, daughter of Pierre LEBLANC & Anne LANDRY, 15 Sep 1777, St.-Jacques; in VERRET's Company, Acadian Coast Militia, 1779, called Atanas, fusileer; died [buried] Ascension 26 Mar 1791, age 38 |
| Athanase DUGAS 18 | 176? | ? | son of ______ DUGAS & Anne LANDRY; brother of Michel |
| *Augustin DUGAS 19 | 17?? | StG | born c1747; married _______; in St.-Gabriel census, 1777, left bank ascending, called Augustin DUGA, age 30, with unnamed wife age 21, 1 unnamed daughter age 2, 8 cattle, 2 horses, 5 hogs, 17 fowl, 6 arpents near Alexandre & Piere DUGA |
| Cécile DUGAS 20 | Feb 1765 | Atk, StJ, StG | born c1753; daughter of Joseph DUGAS & Cécile BERGERON; sister of Joseph, Madeleine, & Mathilde; on list of Acadian prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763, unnamed, with parents & siblings; arrived LA 1765, age 12, with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; moved to Cabanocé fall 1765 probably to escape an epidemic; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, age 13, with widowed mother, widowed uncle Joseph HÉBERT, & 2 siblings; in Cabanocé census, 1769, left [east] bank, age 12[sic], with widowed mother, 2 siblings, & [orphan?] Nicolas LAHURE; married, age 23, Jean-Charles COMEAUX, son of Charles COMEAUX & Madeleine LANDRY, 23 Sep 1776, St.-Jacques; in St.-Gabriel census, 1777, right bank ascending, unnamed, age 18[sic], with husband, no children, widowed father-in-law, & brother-in-law |
| Cécile-Anne DUGAS 21 | Sep 1785 | Asc | born & baptized 7 Sep 1765, St.-Suliac, France; daughter of Joseph DUGAS & his first wife Anastasie HENRY; sister of Élisabeth-Eulalie, Joseph, fils, & Marie, half-sister of Anastasie-Céleste-Marie, Anne-Marguerite, Francois-Basile-Étienne, Jean-Pierre, & Marguerite-Euphrosine; at St.-Suliac 1765-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with father, stepmother, & siblings; sailed to LA on Le St.-Remi, age 19; not in the Ascension censuses of 1788 & 1791 with the rest of her family |
| Céleste DUGAS 22 | Aug 1785 | Asc | baptized 27 May 1784, St.-Jacques, Nantes, France; daughter of Ambroise DUGAS & Marie-Victoire PITRE; sister of Eulalie-Martine, Louis-Ambroise, & Marguerite-Josèphe; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & siblings; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 1; not in Ascension censuses of 1788 & 1791 & Assumption census of 1795 with the rest of her family, so she probably died young |
| Charles DUGAS dit Charlitte 23 | Feb 1765 | Atk | born c1737, probably Port-Royal; son of Charles DUGAS & Anne ROBICHAUX; brother of Jean & Pierre; married Marguerite BROUSSARD, daughter of Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil & Agnès THIBODEAUX of Petitcoudiac; arrived Feb LA 1765, age 28, with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by his father-in-law; in Atakapas census, 1766, Bayou Queue[sic] de Tortue, called Carlos DUGAST, with 1 woman in his household; in Atakapas census, 1771, age 35, with unnamed wife [Marguerite] age 35, unnamed boy age 1, 0 slaves, 25 cattle, 6 horses, 12 arpents without title; in Atakapas census, 1774, with unnamed wife [Marguerite], 2 unnamed children, 0 slaves, 40 cattle, 14 horses & mules, 15 pigs, 0 sheep; in Atakapas census, 1777, called Charle DUGAT, age 39, head of family number 76, with wife Marguerite age 38, sons Elois age 7, Louis age 1, daughter Marie age 4, 0 slaves, 40 cattle, 10 horses, 25 hogs, 0 sheep; in Atakapas census, 1781, called Charlitte, with no individuals or animals listed, 40 arpents; died "at his home" at Fausse Pointe, Atakapas, present-day Iberia Parish, 7 Sep 1808, buried next day, age 80[sic]; depicted in Dafford Mural, Acadian Memorial, St. Martinville |
| Charles DUGAS 24 | Feb 1765 | Atk, StJ, Asc, Atk?, Asc | born c1750, probably Ékoupag, Rivière St.-Jean; son of Jean DUGAS & Marie-Charlotte GODIN; brother of Athanase, Francois, Marie- Rose, Michel, & Théodore; on list of Acadians prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763, unnamed, with parents & siblings; arrived LA Feb 1765, age 15, with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; moved to Cabanocé fall 1765 after the death of his parents probably to escape an epidemic; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, JUDICE's Company, Cabanocé Militia, called Carlose DUGAR, age 16, with 4 brothers, 1 sister, 5 arpents next to brother Francois, & 1 gun; in Cabanocé census, 1769, occupying lot number 55, right [west] bank, called Charles HUGAS, age 19, with brothers Michel age 12, Théodore age 9, & sister Roze age 20; in Ascension census, 1770, right [west] bank, age 19, head of "family" number 23, listed singly so still a bachelor, with 6 arpents next to brother Francois; married, age 22, Rose BABIN, daughter of Antoine BABIN & Catherine LANDRY, c1772, probably Ascension; in Ascension census, 1777, right [west] bank, age 26, with wife Rose age 24, son Charles age 2, daughter Adélaïde age 8 mos., brother Théodore age 18, 6 arpents between brothers Francois & Athannasse, 0 slaves, 11 cattle, 2 horses, 0 sheep, 15 hogs, 2 arms; returned to Atakapas District; in Atakapas census, 1781, with 7 unnamed individuals, 140[sic] animals, & 56[sic] arpents?; settled at Ascension; died [buried] Ascension Parish 26 Nov 1809, age 59 |
| Charles DUGAS 25 | Aug 1785 | Atk | born c1737, probably Cobeguit; son of Claude DUGAS & Anne HÉBERT; brother of Amand & perhaps Élisabeth/Isabelle, half-brother of Pierre?; carpenter or pit sawyer; married, age 24, (1)Marguerite GRANGER, c1761, France; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; married, age 38, (2)Marguerite DAIGLE, daughter of Joseph DAIGLE & Marguerite GRANGER, 18 Sep 1775, St.-Jean-Baptiste, Châtellerault, France; in Second Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Nov 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, with no wife, 3 unnamed sons, & 2 unnamed daughters; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 46[sic], widower, head of family; appointed 1 of the 5 leaders of the La Bergère expedition; received from Spanish on arrival 1 meat cleaver, 2 each of hatchet & shovel, 3 axes, & 4 hoes; reunited with parents & brother Amand in the Atakapas District after decades of separation; married, age 60, (3)Francoise TRAHAN, daughter of Pierre TRAHAN & Jeanne DAIGLE, & widow of Pascal or Pierre HÉBERT, 4 Jul 1797, Atakapas, now St. Martinville; died "at his residence at La Prairie Sorel," St. Martin Parish, 31 Jan 1809, age 66[sic], buried next day |
| Charles DUGAS 26 | Sep 1785 | Asc | born c1724; son of Joseph DUGAS & _____; plowman; married (1)Euphrosine THÉRIOT; deported from probably Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Charles DUGAST, fils de Joseph, age 35; at St.-Suliac, France, 1759-66; married, age 40, (2)Anne NAQUIN, daughter of Francois NAQUIN & Angélique BLANCHARD of Cobeguit & Île St.-Jean, & widow of Francois GAUTREAUX, 16 Sep 1765, St.-Suliac; at St.-Meloir-des-Onde, France, 1766-72; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 60, head of family; died by Jan 1788, when his wife was listed in the Ascension census as a widow |
| Claude-Bernard DUGAS 28 | Nov 1785 | Asc, Asp | born & baptized 20 Aug 1759, St.-Nicolas, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France; son of Jean-Baptiste DUGAS & Marguerite-Josèphe DOIRON; sailed to LA on L'Amitié, age 28[sic], no occupation given, on this ship's debarkation list but not on embarkation list, so probably a stowaway; married, age 27, Marguerite BENOIT, daughter of Claude BENOIT & Élisabeth THÉRIOT, & widow of Joseph PRECIEUX, 14 Feb 1786, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, called Glode-Bernard DUGATS, age 30, with wife Margueritte age 36, no children, 6 arpents, 25 qts. corn, 4 swine; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, called Claude-Bernard DUGA, age 31, with wife Margrithe age 40, his mother Margrithe DOIRON widow DUGA age 57, no children, 0 slaves, 6 arpents, 0 qts. rice, 0 qts. corn, 4 horned cattle, 0 horses, 8 swine; in Assumption census, 1795, called Glodio DUGAT, age 38[sic], with wife Margarita age 43, & no children; in Assumption census, 1797, called Claude DUGATS, age 39, with wife Marguerite age 44, & no children, 0 slaves |
| Élisabeth/Isabelle DUGAS 29 | Aug 1785 | Atk | born c1740, probably Cobeguit; perhaps daughter of Claude DUGAS & Anne HÉBERT of Cobeguit; perhaps sister of Amand & Charles, half-sister of Pierre?; married, age 18, Jean-Baptiste LANDRY, son of Antoine LANDRY & Marie-Blanche LEBLANC of Grand-Pré, & widower of Élisabeth/Isabelle AUCOIN, c1758, probably Île St.-Jean; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Isabelle DUGAST, age 21[sic]; at Plouër, France, 1762; at St.-Malo 1772; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, called Élisabeth, with husband, 1 unnamed son, & 3 unnamed daughters; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 44; died by Feb 1791, when she was listed as deceased in a daughter's marriage record |
| Élisabeth/Isabelle DUGAS 30 | Aug 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | born c1753; daughter of Paul DUGAS & his first wife Anne-Marie BOUDREAUX; sister of Marie, Marie-Madeleine, & Simon, half-sister of Anne-Marie & Marie-Osite; deported from either Île St.-Jean or Île Royale to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Isabelle DUGAST, age 6; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; married, age 21, (1)Ambroise PITRE, son of Amand PITRE & Geneviève ARSEMENT, 6 Apr 1774, Pleurtuit, France; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, with husband, 2 sons, & 1 daughter; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 32; married, age 36, (2)Jean-Marie CAMPOS, 9 Feb 1789, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; in Ascension census, 1791, right [west] bank, called Isabelle CAMPEAU, widow, age 38, with sons Pol[-Ambroise PITRE] age 15, Jean[-Marie PITRE] age 8, [Joseph] CAMPEAU age 1, daughters Marie [PITRE] age 10, Céleste [PITRE] age 5, 0 slaves, 6 arpents, 0 qts. rice, 200 qts. corn, 3 horned cattle, 2 horses, 10 swine; in Assumption census, 1795, called Isabel DUGAT, age 40[sic], with no husband, sons Paul[-Ambroise] PITRE age 20, Juan Maria [PITRE] age 13, Josef CAMPAU age 6, Martin [CAMPAU] age 5, daughters Maria [PITRE] age 15, Célesie [PITRE] age 10, & Juan Bautista [THERIOT, engage] age 24; in Assumption census, 1797, called Isabelle DUGATS, Widow, 41[sic], with sons Paulle [PITRE] age 21, Jean-Marie [PITRE] age 14, Joseph [CAMPOS] age 7, Augustin [CAMPOS] age 7, daughters Marie [PITRE] age 17, Céleste [PITRE] age 12, & engagé Jean-Baptiste TÉRRIOT age 25, 0 slaves; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Élisabeth DUGATS, Widow, age 44, with sons Paulle [PITRE] age 22, Jean [PITRE] age 13, Joseph [CAMPOS] age 8, Augustin [CAMPOS] age 7, & daughter Marie [PITRE] age 18, 6/60 arpents, 0 slaves; died "at home of Paul AUCOIN," Assumption Parish, 23 Jan 1837, age 84, a widow |
| Élisabeth-Eulalie DUGAS 31 | Sep 1785 | Asc, Atk | born 12 Mar 1768, baptized next day, St.-Suliac, France; daughter of Joseph DUGAS & his first wife Anastasie HENRY; sister of Cécile-Anne, Joseph, fils, & Marie; half-sister of Anastasie-Céleste-Marie, Anne-Marguerite, Francois-Basile-Étienne, Jean-Pierre, & Marguerite-Euphrosine; at St.-Suliac 1768-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with father, stepmother, & siblings; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 17; married, age 20, Joseph PREJEAN, son of Amand PREJEAN & Madeleine MARTIN, 26 Jun 1786, Atakapas, now St. Martinville |
| *Eulalie-Martine DUGAS 32 | Aug 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | sailed to LA on La Bergère; born 3 Jun 1785, aboard ship; daughter of Ambroise DUGAS & Marie-Victoire PITRE; sister of Céleste, Louis-Ambroise, & Marguerite-Josèphe; baptized 3[sic]Aug 1785, New Orleans, soon after the family reached LA; in Ascension census, 1788, right [west] bank, called Eulalie, age 2, with parents & siblings; in Ascension census, 1791, right [west] bank, called Ulalie, age 6, with parents & siblings; in Assumption census, 1795, called Eulalia, age 12[sic], with parents & siblings; in Assumption census, 1797, called Eulalie, age 13, with parents & siblings; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Ulalie, age 12, with parents & siblings; married, age 18, Jean-Joseph BOUDREAUX of Chantenay, France, son of Joseph BOUDREAUX & Madeleine RICHARD dit Sapin, 28 Jun 1803, Assumption, now Plattenville |
| Francois DUGAS 33 | Feb 1765 | Atk, StJ, Asc, Asp? | born c1740, probably Ékoupag, Rivière St.-Jean; son of Jean DUGAS & Marie-Charlotte GODIN; brother of Athanase, Charles, Marie-Rose, Michel, & Théodore; on list of Acadians prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763, unnamed, with parents & siblings; arrived LA Feb 1765, age 25, with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; moved to Cabanocé fall 1765 after the death of his parents probably to escape an epidemic; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, JUDICE's Company, Cabanocé Militia, called Franco DUGAR, age 26, probably a bachelor, with brothers Charles age 16, Michel age 14, Anasthase age 13, Théodore age 8, sister Rose age 17, 0 slaves, 6 arpents next to brother Charles, 0 cattle, 0 sheep, 1 hog, 1 gun; married, age 28, Marguerite BABIN, daughter of Joseph BABIN & Anne THÉRIOT, 28 Jun 1768, Cabanocé; in Cabanocé census, 1769, occupying lot number 54 next to brother Athanase, right [west] bank, called Francois HUGAS, age 28, with wife Margueritte age 20 & no children; in Ascension census, 1770, right [west] bank, age 30, head of family number 22, with wife Margueritte age 20, son Joseph age not given [probably an infant], 6 arpents next to brothers Athanase & Charles; in Ascension census, 1777, right [west] bank, age 37, head of family number 19, with wife Margueritte age 27, sons Joseph age 7, Hipolitte age 6, Athannasse age 4, Michel age 1, 6 arpents next to brother Charles, 1 slave, 20 cattle, 2 horses, 0 sheep, 9 swine, 2 arms; in VERRET's Company, Acadian Coast Militia, 1779, fusileer; died [buried] Ascension 29 Oct 1798, age 66[sic] |
| Francois-Basile-Étienne DUGAS 34 | Sep 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | born 2 Apr 1771, baptized next day, St.-Suliac, France; son of Joseph DUGAS & his second wife Anastasie BARRILLEAUX; brother of Anastasie-Céleste-Marie, Anne-Marguerite, Jean-Pierre, & Marguerite-Euphrosine, half-brother of Cécile-Anne, Élisabeth-Eulalie, Joseph, fils, & Marie; at St.-Suliac 1771-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & siblings; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 14; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, age 16, with parents & siblings; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, age 20, with parents & siblings; in Assumption census, 1795, called Francisco, age 25, with parents & siblings; married, age 25, Marie CLÉMENT, daughter of Hilaire CLÉMENT & Tarsile NAQUIN, 8 Feb 1796[sic, perhaps 1797], Assumption, now Plattenville; in Assumption census, 1797, age 26, with parents & siblings; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Francois DUGATS, age 27, with wife Marie age 23, no children, 4/40 arpents, 0 slaves, next to his father; died Lafourche Interior Parish 28 or 29 Aug 1819, age 48; succession inventory record dated 9 Sep 1819, Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse; family assembly held 4 April 1820, Lafourche Interior Parish |
| Jean DUGAS 35 | Feb 1765 | Atk | born 5 May 1712, baptized 7 Jun 1712, Port-Royal; son of Abraham DUGAS dit Grivois & Marie-Madeleine LANDRY; married, age 22, Marie-Charlotte GODIN, daughter of Gabriel GODIN dit Châtillon & Andrée-Angélique JEANNE of Rivière-St.-Jean, c1734; settled Ékoupag, Rivière-St.-Jean; on list of Acadian prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763, with unnamed wife & 8 unnamed children; arrived LA Feb 1765, age 53, with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; signed DAUTERIVE agreement in New Orleans, 4 Apr 1765, with 7 other leaders of the BROUSSARD party; died Atakapas 4 Sep 1765, age 53, buried the next day, less than 2 months after his wife died |
| Jean DUGAS 36 | Feb 1765 | Atk, StJ, Atk | born c1741, probably Port-Royal; son of Charles DUGAS & Anne ROBICHAUX; brother of Charles dit Charlitte & Pierre; arrived LA Feb 1765, age 24, with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; moved to Cabanocé fall 1765 probably to escape an epidemic; in Cabanocé census, 1766, VERRET's Company, Cabanocé Militia, called Juan, with no one else in his household; married Marguerite DUPUIS, daughter of Joseph DUPUIS & Isabelle LEBLANC, probably late 1760s, probably Cabanocé; moved back to Atakapas District, settled Grand Prairie; in Atakapas census, 1771, age 30, with unnamed wife [Marguerite] age 20(?)[sic], [brother] Pierre age 22, unnamed boy [Augustin] age 1, 0 slaves, 14 cattle, 4 horses, 12 arpents without title; in Atakapas census, 1774, with unnamed wife [Marguerite], 3 unnamed children, 0 slaves, 20 cattle, 5 horses & mules, 25 pigs, 0 sheep; in Atakapas census, 1777, called Jean DUGAT, age 36, head of family number 75, with wife Marguerite age 26, son Augustin age 7, daughters Julie age 5 & Félicitée age 3, 0 slaves, 30 cattle, 8 horses, 28 hogs, 0 sheep; in Atakapas census, 1781, with 7 individuals, 76 animals, & 46 arpents; in Atakapas census, 1785, called Jn, with 9 free individuals, 0 slaves; on Atakapas militia list, Aug 1789, called Juan; died & buried Grand Prairie, Atakapas, 5 Sep 1809, age 70[sic] |
| *Jean DUGAS 37 | Feb 1765 | Atk | born c1764; arrived LA Feb 1765, age 1, with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil, probably an orphan; died [buried] Atakapas 19 Sep 1765, age 1 |
| Jean DUGAS 38 | Sep 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | born c1772, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, France; son of Jean DUGAS & Anne/Jeanne BONFILS; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 13, traveled with his mother & stepfather Pierre LABAUVE; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, called Jean DUGATS, age 13[sic], with mother & stepfather; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, called Jean DUGA, age 17, with mother & stepfather; in Assumption census, 1795, called Pedro no surname given, age 22, with mother, stepfather, & half sister; in Assumption census, 1797, called Pierre no surname given, age 23[sic], with mother, stepfather, & an "orphan"; married, age 24, Isabelle-Jeanne HÉBERT, daughter of Jean-Baptiste HÉBERT & Marie-Madeleine DUGAS, 16 Aug 1796[sic, probably 1797], Assumption, now Plattenville; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Jean DUGATS, age 25, with wife Isabelle age 25, & no children, 4/40 arpents, 0 slaves, next to his mother & stepfather Pierre LABOVE; died Lafourche Interior Parish 7 Feb 1822, age 50; petition for succession inventory dated 13 Dec 1822, Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse |
| Jean-Baptiste DUGAS 39 | Jul 1785 | StG, Asc | born c1719, probably Cobeguit; son of Joseph DUGAS & Claire BOURG; brother of Paul; carpenter; married, age 21, (1)Marguerite BENOIT, daughter of Jean BENOIT & Marie-Anne BREAUX, c1740, probably Minas; married, age 35, (2)Madeleine MOÏSE, daughter of Francoise MOÏSE & Marie BRUN, c1754, probably Île St.-Jean; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Jean-Baptiste DUGAST, age 40; married, age 41, (3)Anne BOURG, daughter of Francois BOURG & Madeleine HÉBERT, & widow of Jean-Baptiste BLANCHARD, 22 Sep 1760, St.-Suliac, France; at St.-Meloir-des-Ondes, France, 1762, age 43; at St.-Malo 1772, age 51; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, called Jean-Bte., with wife, 1 unnamed daughter [Anne], & 1 unnamed orphan [probably granddaughter Marie-Adélaïde BOUDREAUX]; sailed to LA on Le Bon Papa, age 66, head of family; died by Jan 1788, when his wife was listed in the Ascension census without a husband |
| Jean-Baptiste DUGAS 40 | Jul 1785 | StG, BR | born c1736; son of Charles DUGAS & Anne-Marie BENOIT; brother of Anne, Marie-Madeleine, & Victoire; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Jean-Baptiste DUGAST, age 22; day laborer; married, age 32, Marie GROSSIN, daughter of Michel GROSSIN & Marie CAISSIE [ROGER] of St.-Pierre-du-Nord, Île St.-Jean, 9 Feb 1768, St.-Servan, France; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Second Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Nov 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, called Jean-Bte., with wife, 1 unnamed daughter, & 1 unnamed orphan; sailed to LA on Le Bon Papa, age 49, head of family; on list of Acadians at Baton Rouge, 1788, called Juan Bta. DOUGA, with unnamed wife [Marie], 1 unnamed child [daughter Marie], 4 1/2 units corn, 0 units rice |
| Jean-Charles DUGAS 41 | Aug 1785 | Atk | born 26 Jul 1764, baptized next day, St.-Nicolas, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France; son of Charles DUGAS & his first wife Marguerite GRANGER; brother of Joseph, Marguerite, Marie-Josèphe, & Pierre-Olivier; Boulogne 1764-66; St.-Servan, France, 1766-68; Plouër, France, 1769-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Second Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Nov 1775; sailor; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed father & siblings sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 20; married, age 24, Esther MARTIN, daughter of Joseph MARTIN & Isabelle THIBODEAUX, 28 Jan 1789, Atakapas, now St. Martinville |
| Jean-Pierre DUGAS 42 | Aug 1785 | BR | born c1765, France; son of perhaps Jean-Baptiste DUGAS & Marguerite-Josèphe DOIRON; carpenter; married Jeanne CABON, France; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, with wife & Marguerite DUGAS; sailed to LA on Le Beaumont, age 20 |
| Jean-Pierre DUGAS 43 | Sep 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | baptized 31 Jan 1775, Leigne-les-bois, France; son of Joseph DUGAS & his second wife Anastasie BARRILLEAUX; brother of Anastasie-Céleste-Marie, Anne-Marguerite, Francois-Basile-Étienne, & Marguerite-Euphrosine, half-brother of Cécile-Anne, Élisabeth-Eulalie, Joseph, fils, & Marie; in Poitou, France, 1775; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & siblings; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 10; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, age 12, with parents & siblings; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, age 15, with parents & siblings; in Assumption census, 1795, called Juan Pedro, age 21, with parents & siblings; in Assumption census, 1797, age 22, with parents & siblings; in Lafourche census, 1798, age 23, with parents & sisters; married, age 25, Renée NAQUIN, daughter of Charles NAQUIN & Anne DOIRON, 18 Feb 1800, Assumption, now Plattenville; died Lafourche Interior Parish 31 Jan or 1 Feb 1832, age 57; succession inventory filed 5 Feb 1834, Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse |
| Jean-Pierre-Marin DUGAS 81 | Jul 1785 | StG, Asc, Asp, Lf | born & baptized 21 Oct 1773, St.-Servan, France; called Pierre; son of Marin DUGAS & Francoise BOUDREAUX; half-brother of Jeanne-Marguerite CLOSSINET; sailed to LA on Le Bon Papa, age 11, traveled with widowed mother; moved to Ascension; married, age 20, Francoise ARCEMENT, daughter of Pierre ARCEMENT & Marie HÉBERT, 12 May 1794, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; moved to Lafourche valley; in Assumption census, 1795, called Pedro DUGAT, age 22, with wife Francisca age 19, & daughter Constancia age 1, next to brother-in-law Josef NAQUIN; in Assumption census, 1797, called Pierre DUGATS, age 24, with wife Francoise age 20, & daughter Constance age 2, 0 slaves, next to brother-in-law Joseph NAQUIN; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Pierre DUGATS, age 23, with wife Francoise age 23, son Marin age 2, 6/50 arpents, 0 slaves, next to brother-in-law Joseph NAQUIN; died Lafourche Interior Parish 30 Oct 1832, age 59 |
| Joseph DUGAS, père 44 | Feb 1765 | Atk | married Cécile BERGERON, daughter of Barthélemy BERGERON dit D'Amboise & Marguerite DUGAS of Port-Royal; on list of Acadian prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763, with unnamed wife & 3 unnamed children; arrived LA Feb 1765 with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; died Atakapas 26 Jul 1765, buried next day, or buried 6 or 11 Oct 1765 |
| Joseph dit Cadet DUGAS 45 | Feb 1765 | Atk, StJ | born c1755; called Cadet; son of Joseph DUGAS & Cécile BERGERON; brother of Cécile, Madeleine, & Mathilde; on list of Acadian prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763, unnamed, with parents & siblings; arrived LA Feb 1765, age 10, with party from Halifax led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; moved to Cabanocé fall 1765 probably to escape an epidemic; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, age 15[sic], with widowed mother, widowed uncle Joseph HÉBERT, & 2 sisters; in Cabanocé census, 1769, left [east] bank, age 14, with widowed mother, 2 sisters, & a half-brother; in St.-Jacques census, 1777, left [east] bank, age 22, with stepfather Pierre BERNARD, mother, half-brother Nicolas LAHARE(?)[sic], stepbrothers Pierre & Louis BERNARD, & stepsister Adélaïde BERNARD; in St.-Jacques census, 1779, unnamed, with stepfather, mother, & others; married, age 25, Marguerite LEBLANC, daughter of Marcel LEBLANC & Marie BREAUX, 16 Oct 1780, St.-Jacques; died [buried] St. James Parish 31 Jan 1833, age 80[sic] |
| Joseph DUGAS 90 | Feb 1765 | Atk | arrived LA Feb 1765 with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; died Atakapas 26 Jul 1765, buried next day, or buried 6 or 11 Oct 1765 |
| Joseph DUGAS, père 46 | Sep 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | born c1742; son of Joseph DUGAS & Anne-Marie HÉBERT; brother of Anne & Pierre; deported from either Île St.-Jean or Île Royale to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Joseph DUGAST, age 15; pit sawyer; at St.-Suliac, France, 1759-72; married (1)Anastasie HENRY, daughter of Pierre HENRY & Anne AUCOIN, 30 Jun 1761, St.-Suliac; married, age 28, (2)Anastasie BARRILLEAUX, daughter of Pierre BARRILLEAUX & Véronique GIROIR, 1 May 1770, Pleudihen, France; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, with wife, 3 unnamed sons, & 6 unnamed daughters; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 43, head of family; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, called Joseph DUGATS, age 45, with wife Anastasie age 44, sons Francois age 16, Jean-Pierre age 12, daughters Céleste [Cécile?] age 14, Anne age 10, Margueritte age 4, 6 arpents, 50 qts. corn, 10 swine; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, called Joseph DUGA, age 49, with wife Nasthasie age 48, sons Francois age 20, Jean-Pierre age 15, daughters Céleste age 18, Anne age 17, Margrithe age 7, 0 slaves, 6 arpents, 0 qts. rice, 250 qts. corn, 11 horned cattle, 2 horses, 40 swine; in Assumption census, 1795, called Josef DUGAT, age 54, with wife Anastasia age 54, sons Francisco age 25, Juan Pedro age 21, daughters Ana age 19, & Margarita age 13; in Assumption census, 1797, called Joseph DUGATS, age 56, with wife Anastasie age 55, sons Francois age 26, Jean-Pierre age 22, Pierre age 12, daughters Anne age 20, & Margueritte age 16, 0 slaves; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Joseph DUGATS, age 56, with wife Anastasie age 56, son Jean-Pierre age 23, daughters Anne age 21, & Margueritte age 14, 7/40 arpents, 0 slaves, next to son Francois; died Lafourche Interior Parish 24 Mar 1833, age 91 |
| Joseph DUGAS, fils 47 | Sep 1785 | Atk | born & baptized 14 May 1762, St.-Suliac, France; son of Joseph DUGAS & his first wife Anastasie HENRY; brother of Cécile-Anne, Élisabeth-Eulalie, & Marie, half-brother of Anastasie-Céleste-Marie, Anne-Marguerite, Francois-Basile-Étienne, Jean-Pierre, & Marguerite-Euphrosine; at St.-Suliac 1762-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; carpenter; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with father, stepmother, & siblings; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 23; married, age 23, Isabelle LANDRY, daughter of Jean-Baptiste LANDRY & his second wife Isabelle DUGAS, 23 Oct 1785, New Orleans, soon after they reached LA on separate ships; settled in Atakapas District; died by Aug 1789, when his wife remarried in Atakapas |
| Joseph DUGAS 48 | ???? | ? | no information ... yet |
| Joseph DUGAS 49 | ???? | ? | no information ... yet |
| Joseph-Simon DUGAS 50 | Aug 1785 | Atk | born & baptized 5 Jan 1769, St.-Servan, France; son of Charles DUGAS & his first wife Marguerite GRANGER; brother of Jean-Charles, Marguerite, Marie-Josèphe, & Pierre-Olivier; at Plouër, France, 1769-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Second Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Nov 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed father & siblings; sailor; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 16; married, age 25, Céleste DUGAS, daughter of Jean DUGAS & Marguerite DUPUIS, 2 Aug 1794, Atakapas, now St. Martinville; settled Grand Prairie; died Lafayette Parish 14 Aug 1830, age 61, buried next day "in the church cemetery"; succession record dated 22 Dec 1830, Lafayette Parish courthouse |
| Louis-Ambroise DUGAS 51 | Aug 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | baptized 20 May 1780, St.-Jacques, Nantes, France; son of Ambroise DUGAS & Marie-Victoire PITRE; brother of Céleste, Eulalie-Martine, & Marguerite-Josèphe; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & sisters; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 5; in Ascension census, 1788, right [west] bank, called Louis, age 1[sic, probably 7/8], with parents & siblings; in Ascension census, 1791, right [west] bank, called Louis, age 11, with parents & siblings; in Assumption census, 1795, called Luis, age 16, with parents & siblings; in Assumption census, 1797, called Louis, age 17, with parents &siblings; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Louis, age 18, with parents & siblings; married, age 22, Élisabeth BERTHELOT, daughter of Pierre BERTHELOT & Ana KIERNE of St. John the Baptist Parish, 22 Nov 1802, Assumption, now Plattenville |
| Madeleine DUGAS 54 | Feb 1765 | Atk | arrived LA Feb 1765 with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; died [buried] Atakapas 6 Oct 1765 |
| Madeleine-Marguerite DUGAS 55 | Feb 1765 | Atk | married Anselme BROUSSARD; arrived LA Feb 1765 with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil |
| Marguerite DUGAS 56 | 1765 | StJ | born c1703; daughter of Claude DUGAS & his second wife Marguerite BOURG; sister of Marie; married, age 18, Barthélemy BERGERON dit D'Amboise, son of Barthélemy BERGERON dit D'Amboise & Geneviève SERREAU de Saint-Aubin, 21 Apr 1721, Port-Royal; settled Rivière St.-Jean; arrived LA 1765, age 62, a widow; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, age 63, with family of son-in-law Pierre ARCENEAUX & daughter Anne BERGERON |
| Marguerite DUGAS 57 | 1765 | Op | born c1735, probably Cobeguit; daughter of Alexis DUGAS & Marie BOURG; married, age 17, Pierre RICHARD, son of Alexandre RICHARD & Madeleine THIBODEAUX of Chignecto, c1752; arrived LA 1765, age 30; in Opelousas census, 1766, unnamed, but probably the woman in the household of Pedro RICHARD; in Opelousas census, 1771, unnamed, age 36, with husband, brother-in-law Victor RICHARD, 3 sons, & 1 daughter; in Opelousas census, 1777, age 48[sic], with husband, 5 sons, & 1 daughter; in Opelousas census, 1788, Bellevue, unnamed, with husband & 6 others; died before 1797, the year her husband remarried in the Opelousas District |
| Marguerite DUGAS 59 | Aug 1785 | Atk | born c1781, Nantes, France; daughter of Charles DUGAS & his second wife Marguerite DAIGLE; half-sister of Jean-Charles, Joseph, Marie-Josèphe, & Pierre-Olivier; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed father & siblings; sailed to LA on La Bergére, age 4; married, age 45, Louis RICHARD, père of Opelousas, son of Pierre RICHARD & Marguerite DUGAS, & widower of Marie Victoire DUGAS, 21 Jul 1826, Vermilionville; died [buried] St. Landry Parish 22 Jan 1829, age 50[sic]; succession record dated Feb 1829, St. Landry Parish courthouse |
| Marguerite DUGAS 60 | Aug 1785 | BR | born c1761, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France; daughter of Claude DUGAS & his second wife Marguerite CYR; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; married, age 24, Francois-Xavier BOUDREAUX, son of Antoine BOUDREAUX & Brigitte APART, 10 May 1785, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, France; sailed to LA on Le Beaumont, age 24; died [buried] probably Manchac 5 Sep 1786, age 26 |
| Marguerite-Blanche DUGAS 58 | Aug 1785 | Asc | born c1754, Cobeguit; daughter of Pierre DUGAS & Marguerite DAIGLE; sister of Anne-Marie, Anne-Osite, & Marie-Victoire; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Marguerite-Blanche DUGAST, age 4; married, age 30, Pierre BOURG, son of Joseph BOURG & his second wife Marie-Madeleine GRANGER, 23 Nov 1784, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, France; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 31; died by Oct 1789, when her husband remarried at Ascension |
| Marguerite-Euphrosine DUGAS 61 | Sep 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | baptized 26 Aug 1783, St.-Similien, Nantes, France; daughter of Joseph DUGAS & his second wife Anastasie BARRILLEAUX; sister of Anastasie-Céleste-Marie, Anne-Marguerite, Francois-Basile-Étienne, & Jean-Pierre, half-sister of Cécile-Anne, Élisabeth-Eulalie, Joseph, fils, & Marie; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & siblings; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 2; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, called Margueritte, age 4, with parents & siblings; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, called Margrithe, age 7, with parents & siblings; in Assumption census, 1795, called Margarita, age 13, with parents & siblings; in Assumption census, 1797, called Margueritte, age 16[sic], with parents & siblings; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Margueritte, age 14, with parents & siblings; married, age 36, Julien Alexandre LEROIS, son of Michel LEROIS & Jacquiette CHENAU of St.-Bernarie, Loire Inferieure, France, 12 Jan 1819, Assumption, now Plattenville |
| Marguerite-Josèphe DUGAS 62 | Aug 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | baptized 6 May 1776, St.-Nicolas, Nantes, France; daughter of Ambroise DUGAS & Marie-Victoire PITRE; sister of Céleste, Eulalie-Martine, & Louis-Ambroise; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & siblings; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 10[sic]; in Ascension census, 1788, right [west] bank, called Margueritte, age 11, with parents & siblings; in Ascension census, 1791, right [west] bank, called Margrithe, age 14, with parents & siblings; married, age 16, Jean DOIRON, son of Jacques DOIRON & Anne BREAUX of St.-Malo, France, 16 Apr 1792, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; in Assumption census, 1795, called Margarita DUGAT, age 19, with husband & 1 daughter; in Assumption census, 1797, called Margueritte DUGAT, age 20, with husband, 2 daughters, & Luce BREAUX, Widow; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Margueritte, no surname given, age 23, with husband & 1 daughter |
| Marie DUGAS 63 | Feb 1765 | Atk | married Mathurin LANDRY; arrived LA Feb 1765 with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; died Atakapas 28 Jul 1765, buried the next day |
| Marie DUGAS 64 | 1765 | StJ | born c1711, Port-Royal; daughter of Claude DUGAS & his second wife Marguerite BOURG; married Augustin BERGERON, son of Barthélemy BERGERON dit D'Amboise & Geneviève SERREAU de Saint-Aubin, c1729, probably Port-Royal; settled Rivière St.-Jean; arrived LA 1765, age 54; in Cabanocé census, 1766, left [east] bank, called Marie DUGAS widow BERGERON, age 55, with family of daughter Geneviève BERGERON widow DAMOUR [LOUVIERE] |
| Marie DUGAS 70 | 17?? | Atk | born c1756; in Atakapas census, 1771, age 15, with family of Jean BERARD |
| Marie DUGAS 66 | Aug 1785 | Asc, Asp | born c1746; daughter of Paul DUGAS & his first wife Anne-Marie BOUDREAUX; sister of Élisabeth/Isabelle, Marie-Madeleine, & Simon, half-sister of & Anne-Marie & Marie-Osite; deported from either Île St.-Jean or Île Royale to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Marie DUGAST, age 12; married, age 18, Prosper-Honoré GIROIR, son of Honoré GIROIR & Marie-Josèphe THÉRIOT, 14 Feb 1764, St.-Coulomb, France; at St.-Coulomb 1764-70; at St.-Jouan-des-Guerets, France, 1770-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Second Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Nov 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, with husband, 3 unnamed sons, & 3 unnamed daughters; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 39; in Ascension census, 1788, right [west] bank, called Marie DUGATS, age 42, with husband, 2 sons, & 2 daughters; in Ascension census, 1791, right [west] bank, called Marie DUGA, age 45, with husband, 2 sons, & 1 daughter; died [buried] Assumption Parish 3 Nov 1805, age 63[sic], a widow |
| Marie DUGAS 68 | Sep 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | born & baptized 21 Mar 1764, St.-Suliac, France; daughter of Joseph DUGAS & his first wife Anastasie HENRY; sister of Cécile-Anne, Élisabeth-Eulalie, & Joseph, fils, half-sister of Anastasie-Céleste-Marie, Anne-Marguerite, Francois-Basile-Étienne, Jean-Pierre, & Marguerite-Euphrosine; at St.-Suliac 1764-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & siblings; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 21; not in the Ascension censuses of 1788 & 1791 with the rest of her family; married, age 24, Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre DAIGLE, son of Alexandre DAIGLE & Élisabeth/Isabelle GRANGER, 6 Jun 1786, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; in Ascension census, 1788, right [west] bank, called Marie DUGATS, age 23, with husband & 1 daughter; in Ascension census, 1791, right [west] bank, called Marie DUGA, age 27, with husband, 1 son, & 1 daughter; in Assumption census, 1795, called Maria DUGAT, with husband, 1 son, & 3 daughters; in Assumption census, 1797, called Marie DUGATS, age 33, with husband, 1 son, & 3 daughters; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Marie, no surname given, age 34, with husband, 2 sons, & 3 daughters; died [buried] Assumption Parish 15 Nov 1813, age 50 |
| Marie DUGAS 69 | Sep 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | born c1767, Trellières, France; daughter of Michel DUGAS & Francoise DURAND; married, age 18, (1)Jean THIBODEAUX, son of Pierre THIBODEAUX & Hélène GAUTREAUX of l'Assomption, Pigiguit, & widower of Francoise HUERT, 10 May 1785, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, France; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 18; in Ascension census, 1788, right [west] bank, called Marie DUGATS, age 21, with husband, 1 stepson, 1 stepdaughter, & 1 daughter; in Ascension census, 1791, right [west] bank, called Marie DUGA, age 24, with husband, 1 stepdaughter, & 2 daughters; in Assumption census, 1795, called Maria DUGAT, age 30[sic], with husband, 1 son, 2 daughters, & child [probably orphan] Martin AHHÉ [ACHÉE]; in Assumption census, 1797, called Marie DUGATS, age 31, with husband, 1 son, & 3 daughters; in Lafourche census, 1798, age 30, with husband & 4 daughters; married, age 35, (2)Louis-Gabriel RICHARD, son of Dominique-Alexis RICHARD & Marie-Victoire PASCALES of Toulon, France, 3 Oct 1803, Assumption, now Plattenville |
| Marie-Josèphe DUGAS 65 | Jul 1785 | StG, BR | born 30 Jan 1774, baptized next day, St.-Enogat, France; daughter of Jean-Baptiste DUGAS & Marie GROSSIN; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & a minor orphan; sailed to LA on Le Bon Papa, age 11; moved to Baton Rouge district; on list of Acadians at Baton Rouge, 1788, unnamed, with parents & no siblings; married, age 20, Pierre-Joseph LEBERT of Plouër, France, son of Charles LEBERT & Anne-Marie ROBICHAUX, 11 Feb 1794, Baton Rouge; died [buried] Baton Rouge 16 Apr 1825, age 51 |
| Marie-Josèphe DUGAS 71 | Aug 1785 | Atk, Op | born & baptized 28 Feb 1762, St.-Nicolas, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France; daughter of Charles DUGAS & his first wife Marguerite GRANGER; sister of Jean-Charles, Joseph, Marguerite, & Pierre-Olivier; Boulogne 1762-66; St.-Servan, France, 1766-68; Plouër, France, 1769-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Second Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Nov 1775; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed father & siblings; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 22; moved to Opelousas District; married, age 24, Pierre RICHARD, son of Pierre RICHARD & Marguerite DUGAS, 8 May 1787, Opelousas; in Opelousas census, 1788, Bellevue, unnamed, with husband & probably 1 son; in Opelousas census, 1796, Bellevue District, unnamed, with husband, 3 white males, & 3 white females |
| Marie-Madeleine DUGAS 72 | Jul 1785 | StG, BR, Asp | born c1732; sometimes called Madeleine; daughter of Charles DUGAS & Anne-Marie BENOIT; sister of Anne, Jean-Baptiste, & Victoire; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Marie-Madeleine DUGAST, age 24[sic]; married, age 38, Pierre QUIMINE, son of Jacques QUIMINE & Marie-Josèphe CHIASSON of Chignecto, & widower of Louise GROSSIN, c1770, France; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, called Marie, with husband,1 daughter, & 2 stepdaughters; sailed to LA on Le Bon Papa, age 50[sic]; moved to Baton Rouge district; on list of Acadians at Fort Bute, Manchac, 1788, called Madelena QUIMIN, widow, with 3 persons in her family, 3 barrels corn, 0 barrels rice, 1/4 qt.; moved to Lafourche valley; in Assumption census, 1795, called Maria DUGAT, age 64, with family of daughter Victoria QUEMINE & son-in-law Santiage TEMPLET; in Assumption census, 1797, called Marie DUGATS, Widow, age 65, with no one else, 0 slaves, next to son-in-law Jacques TEMPLE |
| Marie-Madeleine DUGAS 53 | Aug 1785 | Asc, Asp | born c1742; called Madeleine; daughter of Paul DUGAS & his first wife Anne-Marie BOUDREAUX; sister of Élisabeth/Isabelle, Marie, & Simon, half-sister of Anne-Marie & Marie-Osite; married, age 16, Jean-Baptiste HÉBERT, c1758, probably Île St.-Jean; deported from either Île St.-Jean or Île Royale to St.-Malo, France, 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Madeleine DUGAST, age 17; at Pleurtuit, France, 1759-60; at St.-Coulomb, France, 1760-67; at St.-Servan, France, 1767-71; at St.-Melior-des-Ondes, France, 1771-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, called Magdeleine DUGAS, widow Jean-Bte. HÉBERT, with 3 unnamed sons, & 3 unnamed daughters; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 43, widow, head of family; received from Spanish on arrival 1 meat cleaver, 2 shovels, & 3 each of hoe, axe, & hatchet; in Ascension census, 1788, right [west] bank, called Magdeleinne DUGATS widow HÉBERT, age 40[sic, probably 46], with sons Pierre [HÉBERT] age 22, Joseph [HÉBERT] age 14, Francois [HÉBERT] age 8, [Étienne HÉBERT] age 3, daughters Marie [HÉBERT] age 20, Isabelle [HÉBERT] age 13, 6 arpents, 30 qts. corn, 1 horned cattle, 1 horse, 10 swine; in Ascension census, 1791, right [west] bank, called Madelaine DUGA widow HÉBERT, age 48, with sons Pierre [HÉBERT] age 24, Joseph [HÉBERT] age 20, Francois [HÉBERT] age 12, Étienne [HÉBERT] age 6, daughter Isabelle [HEBERT] age 19, 0 slaves, 6 arpents, 0 qts. rice, 200 qts. corn, 6 horned cattle, 2 horses, 15 swine; died [buried] Assumption 19 Oct 1793, age 51, a widow |
| Marie-Osite DUGAS 73 | Aug 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | born c1761, St.-Coulomb, France; daughter of Paul DUGAS & his second wife Hélène BLANCHARD; sister of Anne-Marie, half-sister of Élisabeth/Isabelle, Marie, Marie-Madeleine, & Simon; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, called Marie, with 1 unnamed orphan; married, age 23, Étienne DUPUIS, son of Charles DUPUIS & Marie TRAHAN, 16 Nov 1784, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, France; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 20[sic]; in Ascension census, 1788, right [west] bank, called Marie-Osite DUGA, age 27, with husband, 1 son, & 1 daughter; in Ascension census, 1791, right [west] bank, called Marie DUGA, age 29, with husband, 3 sons, & 1 daughter; in Assumption census, 1795, called Osita DUGAT, age 34, with husband, 5 sons, & 2 daughters; in Assumption census, 1797, called Osite DUGAT, age 35, with husband, 3 sons, & 1 daughter; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Marie, no surname given, age 37, with husband, 5 sons, & 2 daughters; died [buried] Assumption Parish 11 Sep 1814, age 52 |
| Marie-Rose DUGAS 74 | Feb 1765 | Atk, StJ, Asp | born c1749, probably Ékoupag, Rivière St.-Jean; called Rosalie or Rose; daughter of Jean DUGAS & Marie-Charlotte GODIN; sister of Athanase, Charles, Francois, Michel, & Théodore; on list of Acadians prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763, unnamed, with parents & siblings; arrived LA Feb 1765, age 16, with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; moved to Cabanocé fall 1765 after the death of her parents probably to escape an epidemic; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, age 17, with 5 brothers; in Cabanocé census, 1769, right [west] bank, called Rose HUGAS, age 20, with 3 brothers; married Francois LANDRY, son of probably Francois LANDRY & Dorothée BOURG of Pigiguit, probably early 1770s, St.-Jacques; in St.-Jacques census, 1777, left [east] bank, called Rozalie, age 27, with husband, 1 son, 2 daughters, & engagé Jean MIRE; in St.-Jacques census, 1779, unnamed, with husband & 5 unnamed others; died [buried] Assumption Parish 27 Mar 1829, "age ca. 93[sic] yrs," a widow |
| Marie-Rose DUGAS 75 | Sep 1785 | Asc, Asp | born c1763, France; daughter of Alexis DUGAS & his second wife Marguerite MOÏSE; half-sister of Anne-Josèphe; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed father; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 20[sic]; married, age 23, Luis JUNCAL, son of Domingo JUNCAL & Dominga GARCIA of Portevedra, Galicia, Spain, 9 Sep 1786, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, called Marie-Rose DUGATS, age 25, with husband Louis ONCAL age 31, daughter Marie ONCAL age 1, father Alexis DUGATS age 64, 4 arpents, 50 qts. corn, 6 horned cattle, 1 horse, 10 swine; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, called Marie-Rose DUGA, age 28, with husband Louis UNCAL age 36, son Louis [UNCAL] age 2, daughter Rose [UNCAL] age 1, father Alexis DUGA age 66, 0 slaves, 4 arpents, 15 qts. rice, 50 qts. corn, 4 horned cattle, 1 horse, 5 swine; died [buried] Assumption 7 Apr 1795, age 32 |
| Marie-Victoire DUGAS 67 | Aug 1785 | Asc, Op | born 5 Aug 1764, baptized next day, Plouër, France; daughter of Pierre DUGAS & Marguerite DAIGLE; sister of Anne-Marie, Anne-Osite, & Marguerite-Blanche; at Plouër 1764-72; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 20; married, age 21, Louis RICHARD, son of Pierre RICHARD & Marguerite DAIGLE of Opelousas, c1786, probably Opelousas; in Opelousas census, 1788, Bellevue, unnamed with husband & 2 unnamed males; in Opelousas census, 1796, Bellevue District, unnamed, with husband, 3 unnamed white males, & 1 unnamed white female, next to brother-in-law Pierre RICHARD & her father-in-law; died by Jul 1826, when her husband remarried at Vermilionville; succession record dated Jun 1829, St. Landry Parish courthouse |
| *Mathilde DUGAS 76 | Feb 1765 | NO | born 6 Mar 1765, baptized 8 Mar 1765, New Orleans, soon after her family reached LA from Halifax via St.-Domingue with party led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; daughter of Joseph DUGAS & Cécile BERGERON; sister of Cécile, Joseph, & Madeleine; died New Orleans 11 Mar 1765, age 5 days; perhaps the first Acadian to die in LA |
| Michel DUGAS 77 | Feb 1765 | Atk, StJ, Asc | born c1757; son of Jean DUGAS & Marie-Charlotte GODIN of Rivière St.-Jean; brother of Athanase, Charles, Francois, Marie-Rose, & Théodore; on list of Acadians prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763, unnamed, with parents & siblings; arrived LA Feb 1765, age 8, with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; moved to Cabanocé fall 1765 after the death of his parents probably to escape an epidemic; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, JUDICE's Company, Cabanocé Militia, called Miguel DUGAR, age 13[sic, probably 9], with 4 brothers, 1 sister, & 5 arpents; in Cabanocé census, 1769, right [west] bank, called Michel HUGAS, age 12, with 2 brothers & 1 sister; in Ascension census, 1770, right [west] bank, age 14, with family of brother-in-law Mathurin LANDY; in Ascension census, 1777, right [west] bank, age 20, with brother Athannasse, 2 cattle, 1 horse, 10 sheep, 1 arm; married, age 21, (1)Anne-Rose or -Sophie, called Sophie, FORET, daughter of Bonaventure FORET & Claire RIVET, 23 Feb 1778, St.-Jacques; in JUDICE's Company, Acadian Coast Militia, Jul 1779, listed as married; married, age 43, (2)Rose or Rosalie FORET, daughter of Joseph FORET & Isabelle LEGER, & perhaps widow of Joachin MAROI, 21 Jul 1800, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; died [buried] Ascension Parish 11 Oct 1828, age 71 |
| Michel DUGAS 78 | 176? | Asc | born c1756; son of ______ DUGAS & Anne LANDRY; brother of Athanase; in Ascension census, 1770, right [west] bank, called Michel DUGAS, "his brother-in-law" [actually stepson], age 14, with stepfather Mathurin LANDRY, his mother, & a stepsister |
| Paul DUGAS 79 | Aug 1785 | Asc | born c1709, probably Minas; son of Joseph DUGAS & Claire BOURG; brother of Jean-Baptiste; carpenter; married, age 25, (1)Anne-Marie BOUDREAUX, daughter of Claude BOUDREAUX & Catherine HÉBERT, 17 Jun 1734, Grand-Pré; deported from either Île St.-Jean or Île Royale to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Paul DUGAST, age 48[sic]; married, age 49, (2)Hélène BLANCHARD, daughter of Pierre BLANCHARD & Francoise BREAUX, & widow of Alexis AUCOIN, 30 Jun 1760, Ploubalay, France; at St.-Coulomb, France, 1762, age 51; at St.-Malo 1772, age 61; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 75, a widower, head of family; received from Spanish on arrival 1 each of axe, hatchet, shovel, & meat cleaver |
| Pélagie-Madeleine DUGAS 52 | Feb 1765 | Atk, StJ, Lf | born c1759; called Madeleine; daughter of Joseph DUGAS & Cécile BERGERON; sister of Cécile, Joseph, & Mathilde; on list of Acadian prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763, unnamed, with parents & siblings; arrived LA Feb 1765, age 6, with party from Halifax led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; moved to Cabanocé fall 1765 probably to escape an epidemic; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, called Magdelaine, age 12[sic], with widowed mother, widowed uncle Joseph HÉBERT, & 2 siblings; in Cabanocé census, 1769, left [east] bank, called Marie-Magdelaine, age 10, with widowed mother, 2 siblings, & [orphan?] Nicolas LAHURE; married, age 17, Jean-Baptiste BERNARD, son of Pierre BERNARD, her stepfather, & his first wife Marguerite ARCENEAUX, 23 Sep 1776, St.-Jacques; in St.-Jacques census, 1777, left [east] bank, called Magdelaine BERGERON, age 18, with husband & no children; in St.-Jacques census, 1779, unnamed, with husband & 2 others; moved to Lafourche valley; died Lafourche Interior Parish 8 Mar 1831, age 72, a widow |
| Pierre DUGAS 80 | Feb 1765 | Atk | born c1749, probably Port-Royal; son of Charles DUGAS & Anne ROBICHAUX; brother of Charles dit Charlitte & Jean; arrived LA Feb 1765, age 16, with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; in Atakapas census, 1766, Bayou Queue[sic] de Tortue, called Pedro DUGAST, with no one else in his household; in Atakapas census, 1771, age 22, with older brother Jean & family; married, age 23, Anne dite Nanette THIBODEAUX, daughter of Charles THIBODEAUX & Brigitte BREAUX, 18 Jul 1772, Atakapas, now St. Martinville; on Atakapas militia list, Jan 1773; in Atakapas census, 1774, called Pierre DUGAT, with unnamed wife [Anne], 1 unnamed child, 0 slaves, 15 cattle, 3 horses & mules, 8 pigs, 0 sheep; in Atakapas census, 1777, called Pierre DUGAT, age 27, head of family number 58, with wife Anne age 22, son Pierre age 1, daughter Sélisie age 2, orphan Joseph RICHARD age 13, 0 slaves, 50 cattle, 9 horses, 15 hogs, 0 sheep; in Atakapas census, 1781, with 6 individuals, 169 animals, & 50 arpents; in Atakapas census, 1785, called Pre, with 5 free individuals, 1 male slave, 1 female slave; succession record dated 14 Nov 1829, Lafayette Parish courthouse |
| *Pierre DUGAS 84 | 17?? | StG | born c1754; married ______; in St.-Gabriel census, 1777, left bank ascending, age 23, with unnamed wife age 19, no children, 10 cattle, 2 horses, 8 hogs, 16 fowl, 6 arpents near Alexandre & Augustin DUGA |
| Pierre DUGAS 82 | Aug 1785 | Asc, Op | born c1728, probably Cobeguit; son of Claude DUGAS & Marguerite COSTE; half-brother of Amand, Charles, & Élisabeth/Isabelle?; carpenter; married Marguerite DAIGLE, c1752, probably Cobeguit; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Pierre DUGAST, fils de Claude, age 31; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Third Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Dec 1775; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 57, head of family; received from Spanish on arrival 1 each of axe, shovel, & meat cleaver, 2 hatchets, & 3 hoes; moved to Opelousas District; died by Mar 1808, when his wife was described as a widow in her burial record |
| Pierre DUGAS 83 | Sep 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | born c1733, Cobeguit; son of Joseph DUGAS & Anne-Marie HÉBERT; brother of Anne & Joseph; carpenter; married, age 21, (1)Anne-Josèphe HENRY, c1754, Cobeguit or Île St.-Jean; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Pierre DUGAST, fils de Joseph, age 25; married, age 36, (2)Cécile MOÏSE, widow of Michel BOURG, 21 Jun 1768, St.-Suliac, France; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; married, age 47, (3)Rose LEBLANC, daughter of Jacques LEBLANC & Marguerite LABAUVE, 3 Aug 1779, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, France; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, with wife, 1 unnamed son, & 1 unnamed daughter; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 51, head of family; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, called Pierre DUGATS, age 55, with wife Rose age 42, daughters Rose age 5, [Anne-]Margueritte age 3, 6 arpents, 50 qts. corn, 1 horse, 6 swine; in Ascension census, 1791, left [east] bank, called Pierre DUGA, age 58, with wife Rosalie age 45, daughter Margrithe age 4, 0 slaves, 6 arpents, 0 qts. rice, 150 qts. corn, 6 horned cattle, 1 horse, 13 swine; in Assumption census, 1795, called Pedro DUGAT, age 63, with wife Rosalia age 50, & daughter Ana age 9; in Assumption census, 1797, called Piere DUGATS, age 64, with wife Rosalie age 51, & no children, 0 slaves; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Pierre DUGATS, age 64, with wife Rose age 58, & daughter Anne age 11, 6/40 arpents, 0 slaves; died [buried] Assumption Parish 6 Oct 1813, age 79 1/2 |
| Pierre-Olivier dit Pierrot DUGAS 85 | Aug 1785 | Atk | born & baptized 16 Nov 1766, St.-Servan, France; sometimes called Olivier & Pierrot; son of Charles DUGAS & his first wife Marguerite GRANGER; brother of Jean-Charles, Joseph, Marguerite, & Marie-Josèphe; in Poitou, France, 1773-75; in Second Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Nov 1775; sailor; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, unnamed, with widowed father & siblings; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 18; on Atakapas militia list, Aug 1789, called Oliva DUGA; married, age 28, Sophie GAUTREAUX, daughter of Amand GAUTREAUX & Marie LANDRY, 10 Feb 1795, Atakapas, now St.-Martinville; settled Grand Prairie & Prairie Sorel; died a widower "at his home" at Prairie Sorel, then in St. Martin Parish, 16 March 1820, age "about 52[sic] years, buried next day "in the parish cemetery"; succession record filed Lafayette Parish courthouse 26 May 1824 |
| Rose DUGAS 86 | Sep 1785 | Asc | baptized 14 Feb 1782, St.-Martin-de-Chantenay, France; daughter of Pierre DUGAS & his third wife Rose LEBLANC; sister of Anne-Pérrine; on list of Acadians at Nantes, France, Sep 1784, unnamed, with parents & brother; sailed to LA on Le St.-Rémi, age 3; in Ascension census, 1788, left [east] bank, age 5, with parents & sister; not in Ascension census of 1791 with the rest of her family, so she may have died young |
| Simon DUGAS 87 | Aug 1785 | Asc, Asp, Lf | born c1748; son of Paul DUGAS & his first wife Anne-Marie BOUDREAUX; brother of Élisabeth/Isabelle, Marie, & Marie-Madeleine, half-brother of Anne-Marie & Marie-Osite; deported from either Île St.-Jean or Île Royale to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Simon DUGAST, age 11; carpenter; in Poitou, France, 1773-76; in Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776; on list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, listed singly; sailed to LA on La Bergère, age 37, no wife listed; appointed 1 of the 5 leaders of the La Bergère expedition; received from Spanish on arrival 1 each of axe, hatchet, hoe, shovel, & meat cleaver; married, age 39, Marie-Geneviève BOURG, daughter of Alain BOURG & Anne-Marie COMEAUX, 11 Jun 1787, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; in Ascension census, 1788, right [west] bank, called Simon DUGATS, age 50[sic, probably 40], with wife Marie age 24, sister-in-law Anne BOURG age 66, sister Anne age 25[sic], 6 arpents, 12 qts. corn, 1 horned cattle, 1 horse, 4 swine; in Ascension census, 1791, right [west] bank, called Simon DUGA, age 47[sic], with wife Marie age 26, son Jean age 1, 0 slaves, 6 arpents next to father-in-law Alain BOURG, 0 qts. rice, 100 qts. corn, 3 horned cattle, 1 horse, 12 swine; in Assumption census, 1795, called Simon DUGAT, age 50[sic], with wife Maria age 31, sons Juan age 5, Pablo age 4, daughters Maria age 2, & Ana age 1, next to his father-in-law; in Assumption census, 1797, called Simon DUGATS, age 51[sic], with wife Marie age 32, sons Jean age 6, Paulle age 4, daughters Marie age 3, & Anne age 2, 0 slaves, next to his father-in-law; in Lafourche census, 1798, called Simon DUGATS, age 52[sic], with wife Marie age 34, sons Jean age 7, Paulle age 5, daughters Marie age 4, Anne age 2, & Élisabet age 1, 3/50 arpents, 0 slaves, next to his father-in-law; died [buried] Assumption Parish 9 Jul 1829, "age ca. 80 yrs." |
| Théodore DUGAS 88 | Feb 1765 | Atk, StJ, Asc | born c1759, perhaps Halifax; son of Jean DUGAS & Marie-Charlotte GODIN of Rivière St.-Jean; brother of Athanase, Charles, Francois, Marie-Rose, & Michel; on list of Acadians prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763, unnamed, with parents & siblings; arrived LA Feb 1765, age 6, with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; moved to Cabanocé fall 1765 after the death of his parents probably to escape an epidemic; in Cabanocé census, 1766, right [west] bank, age 8, with 4 brothers & 1 sister; in Cabanocé census, 1769, right [west] bank, called Théodore HUGAS, age 9, with 2 brothers & 1 sister; in Ascension census, 1777, age 18, with family of brother Charles; in JUDICE's Company, Acadian Coast Militia, Aug 1779, called Théodorre, fusileer; married, age 25, Marie-Victoire FORET, daughter of Pierre FORET & Marguerite BLANCHARD, 11 Oct 1784, Ascension, now Donaldsonville; died [buried] Ascension Parish 20 Mar 1827, age 69 |
| *Théodore DUGAS 27 | 177? | StJ, StG | born c1746; son of Claude DUGAS & Marie BOURG; married, age 32, Madeleine RICHARD, widow of Pierre BABIN, 24 Apr 1778, St.-Jacques; died [buried] St. Gabriel 17 Apr 1806, age 60 |
| Victoire DUGAS 89 | Dec 1785 | BdE, BR | born c1747; daughter of Charles DUGAS & Anne-Marie BENOIT; sister of Anne, Jean-Baptiste, & Marie-Madeleine; deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, aboard one of the Five Ships 25 Nov 1758, arrived St.-Malo 23 Jan 1759, called Victoire DUGAST, age 10[sic]; married Thomas AILLET, France; sailed to LA on La Ville d'Archangel, age 38, widow, head of family; moved to Baton Rouge district; on list of Acadians at Baton Rouge, 1788, called Bitoria DOUGA, (widow)[sic], with 2 unnamed children [sons Louis & Thomas AILLET], 3 units corn, 1/4 unit rice; on list of inhabitants of Baton Rouge, Nov 1792, called Vitoire DUGATS |
NOTES
01. Not in Wall of Names. See De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 8-9.
Were Alexandre, Augustin, & Pierre brothers? Why are they not listed in Wall of Names? Were they French Creole DUGASs? I have found no such creatures in LA ... yet.
02. Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls him Alexis DUGAT, & lists him with a daughter & no wife; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 67, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, he & daughter Anne-Josèphe, age 10, were the only survivors of the crossing, that his first wife Anne BOURG, age 32, & 5 other children--sons Josaphat, age 8, Grégoire, age 6, & Joseph, age 4, daughter Perpétué, age 2, & an unnamed infant, all died at sea; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls him Alexis DUGAT, charpentier, age 58, on the embarkation list, & Alexis DUGAT, carpenter, age 58, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 5th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with no wife & a daughter; BRDR, 2:253 (ASC-4, 20), his death/burial record, calls him Alexos DUGAS, age 72 years, gives his parents' names, says his father was also deceased, & that he & his parents were all natives of "the Parish of St. Peter & St. Paul in Cobequites in Acadia." See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 505; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 39, 169.
His estimated birth year is not from his death/burial record but from the ages given in the passenger list of Le St.-Rémi & in the LA censuses in which he is found.
He & his first wife & their children probably were among the families of Cobeguit who escaped the deportation of the autumn of 1755 by escaping to Île St.-Jean, from which they were deported to France 3 years later after the fall of the French fortress at Louisbourg in Jul 1758.
His daughter Anne-Josèphe's family was No. 4, just above his, on the passenger list of Le St.-Rémi.
03. Not in Wall of Names. Arsenault, Généalogie, 2476, 2478, says his family was from Cobeguit; White, DGFA-1, 573, says his father was son of Claude DUGAS & Jeanne BOURG of Acadia; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 287, Family No. 352, calls him Amand DUGAST, says he was born in c1746, gives his father's but not his mother's name, says he was brother of Charles & Pierre DUGAST, that he "disembarked at St. Malo on January 23, 1759 from one of the 'Five ships,'" & that he resided at Plouër from 1759-66, at St.-Servan from 1766-71, & at Plouër again in 1771; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:268, 677 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.72; SM Ch.: Folio B-1), his marriage records, call him Aman DUGA, native of Acadia & Amon DUGAS d'Acadie, gives his parents' names, in one record says that his parents were "parishioners of this parish of St. Joseph of Atakapas," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Jean-Baptiste BERARD, Jean-Baptiste BROUSSARD, & Joseph CORMIER; West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 65, calls him Amant DUGAS, says that his father's name was Charles DUGAS, & that he was "a distant relative" of Charles, Jean, & Pierre DUGAS, who were brothers, & gives the size of his herd in 1803; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:313-14 (Laf. Ch.: v.1, p. 17; Laf. Ct.Hse.: Succ.#47), his death/burial & succession records, call him Armand DUGAS, says he was a widower, & that his legal heirs were sons Jean, Célestin, & Maximilien, & daughters Rosalie, wife of Pierre CORMIER, & Adélaïde, wife of Pierre SONNIER. See also Hebert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:821; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1785, 9.
There is a compelling mystery about this ancestor of mine (his daughter Rosalie is my paternal great-great-great grandmother). When did he reach LA? Did he go there from France in the 1770s? That would have been most unusual if not unique. If he was the Amand, son of Claude & brother of Charles & Pierre, who was at Plouër, France, in 1771, coupled with the fact that he married in LA in Jan 1779, his arrival date in LA would be sometime in the 1770s. There is the intriguing possibility that he may have gone to North America with French forces during the American Revolution, but his marriage at Atakapas in Jan 1779 puts him in America too early to have come on a French transport or man-of-war. Perhaps he was only an ordinary seaman. If so, he would have had to be sailing on a Spanish vessel to get to New Orleans in the 1770s. How and when he got to LA is anyone's guess.
There is some mystery about his parents as well. The priest who recorded his marriage contract, dated 11 Jan 1779, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:268 (SM Ch.: Folio B-1), stated that Claude & Anne were "parishioners of this parish of St. Joseph of Atakapas," the original name of the church that became St. Martin of Tours. Is the priest actually referring to Amand and his wife, not to his parents, as parishioners of St. Joseph? This is the only bit of evidence that places Claude DUGAS & Anne HÉBERT in LA, which is probably why they are not on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names & why Stephen A. White in DGFA-1, p. 573 does not place them there. Did Claude & Anne die in Acadia before Le Grand Dérangement? Here is a clue: When son Amand was deported from Île St.-Jean to St.-Malo, France, in 1758, the boy was, according to a passenger list, only 12 years old. Most tellingly, he was traveling not with his parents but with an older, married brother, Pierre. Claude and Anne do not appear on the passenger lists of any of the ships that carried the Acadians from Île St.-Jean to France, nor do they appear as residents of any French community in Albert J. Robichaux's studies of the Acadians in France. The only other possibly is that they escaped the British roundup on Île St.-Jean in 1758 & got to LA on their own by Jan 1779. But how? When? If they had married in c1727, as White, cited above, says they did, they would have been quite elderly in the late 1770s. My guess would be that they died in Acadia.
There is another question: Why is Amand not listed on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names since he was clearly an Acadian who came to LA & created a family there? He is not the only well-documented Acadian immigrant who fails to appear on the Memorial's Wall of Names. Follow this link to see more names that should be on that wall.
04. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Ambroise DUGAST, & lists him with his wife & 3 children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 73, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, both of his parents, Ambroise DUGAST, père, age 30, & Marguerite HENRY, age 29, perished, the father in the hospital probably at St.-Malo 6 Mar 1759, a few weeks after reaching France, the mother at sea, but young Ambroise, fils, also lost all 3 of his siblings--brother Joseph, age 15 months, died in hospital 1 Feb 1759, & sisters Marguerite-Josèphe, age 5, & Francoise, age 3, both died at sea--& Ambroise probably lived with relatives after his father died; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls him Amboise [Ambroise] DUGAST, marin, age 32, on the embarkation list, Ambroise DUGATS, on the debarkation list, & Ambroise DUGAT, sailor, age 32, on the complete listing, says he was in the 49th Family aboard La Bergère with his wife & 3 children, details his marriage, including the names of his & his wife's parents but gives no marriage place, says daughter Anne-Marie was born in 1774 but gives no birthplace, & lists the implements the Spanish gave to him & his family after they reached LA; BRDR, 3:284 (ASM-3, 116), his death/burial record, calls him Ambrosio DUGAS, age 63 yrs., widower of Maria PITRE, but does not give his parents' names.
Note that his wife's father & sister were the family next to his on the passenger list of La Bergère.
The baptismal record of son Olivero Ambrosio (Olivier-Ambroise), dated 13 Mar 1792, in NOAR, 5:141 (SLC, B11, 188), says that Ambroise & his wife wee "natives of Isle of St. Jean in France," which probably means Acadia.
05. Wall of Names, 24, calls her Anastasie DUGAS veuve Amable ROBICHAUD; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2581, profile for her husband in the LA section, calls her Anastasie DUGAS, does not give her parents' names, says she married Amable ROBICHAUX in c1760 but gives no place of marriage, & says he died at St.-Jacques in c1766; BRDR, 3:284 (ASM-3, 70), her death/burial record, calls her Anastasia DUGAS, age 80 yrs., married to Joseph ROGER, but does not give her parents' names. See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 117, 207, 455; Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 166, 175.
Voorhies, J., p. 117, lists her first husband, Amable ROBICHAUD, in a census of militiamen in JUDICE's Company at Cabanocé in 1766 with an unnamed wife, 2 unnamed sons, and an unnamed daughter, as if he were still alive. Bourgeois, p. 166, & Voorhies, J., p. 207, however, call Anastasie DUGAS a widow in the Apr 1766 general census at Cabanocé, & Wall of Names follows this. A complication arises, however, in the Cabanocé census of 1769, which gives her a son named Louis-Uzèbe [ROBICHAUD], age 2, who was not in the 1766 census. Louis was not a mistaken identity for daughter Marie, who is not in the 1769 census with her family; he actually existed. If Louis was born in c1767, as the 1769 census hints, & Anastasie came to LA in 1765, which the censuses of 1766 show, then Louis was born in LA ... & Anastasie came to the colony with her husband, not as a widow. Even if she was a pregnant widow in 1765, Louis would have been born sometime in 1766 (probably after Apr), not in 1767. When she became a widow is anyone's guess, but it seems clear from the JUDICE Company militia list of 1766 & Louis's estimated birth year that she became a widow after she reached LA. Arsenault, cited above, agrees, as does West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 128.
The ages given in the LA censuses in which she is found provide a consistent estimated birth year, so the age in her burial record is way off--not unusual at that time, since the recording priests had to depend not on written records but on the memory of family members for the age of the deceased.
06. Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls her Anastasie [DUGAT], & lists her with her parents & 8 siblings/half-siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 38-39, Family No. 77, calls her Eulalie-Céleste [DUGAST], & details her family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 61-62, Family No. 114, calls her Eulalie-Céleste & Anastasie [DUGAST] & details her family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls her Anastasie, sa [Joseph DUGAT's] fille, age 12, on the embarkation list, & Anastasie DUGAT, his [Joseph DUGAT's] daughter, age 12, on the complete listing, says she was in the 6th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her father, mother, & 8 siblings/half-siblings, & that she was born in 1773 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:254, 349 (ASC-2, 47), her marriage record, calls her Anastasia DUAGAS, gives her & her husband's parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Charles GUILLOT & Luys JUNCAL.
In her husband's second marriage record in BRDR, 2:349 (ASM-2, 40), dated 1 Apr 1799, she is called Anastasia Céleste Marie DUGAT.
07. Wall of Names, 22, calls her Angélique DUGAS; White, DGFA-1, 579, calls her Angélique DUGAS, gives her parents' names, her birth/baptismal dates, says her godparents were Pierre BOUDROT & Marie-Josèphe DUGAS, records her at Caroline du Sud in 1763, at Cabahannocer in 1766, age 30, again in 1769, age 34, at Ascension in 1770, age 30(sic), again in 1777, age 46(sic), details her marriage but does not give her husband's parents' names, says they were married in c1755, & details her burial at St.-Gabriel d'Iberville.
How did she, her husband, & the ORILLION orphans get from SC to LA? Did they go to St.-Domingue in 1764 and hook up with the refugees from Halifax who came thru Cap-Francais, Haiti, in 1765 on their way to LA?
08. Wall of Names, 27 (pl. 6R), calls her Anne [DUGAST], & lists her with her parents & a niece; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 291-93, Family No. 359, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Anne DUGAST, twin, gives her parents' names, her exact birthplace, says her godparents were Grégoire BLANCHARD, half-brother, & Marie DUGAST, her sister, & that the family resided at St.-Melior from 1760-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 60-61, Family No. 112; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 6-7, calls her Anne, sa [Jean Bte DUGAST's] fille, age 21, on the embarkation list, Ana, su [Juan Bautista DUGAT's] hija, on the debarkation list, & Anne DUGAT, his [Jean-Baptiste DUGAT's] daughter, age 21, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 16th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her parents & a niece; BRDR, 4:181 (ASM-3, 183), her death/burial record, calls her Anne Isabelle DUGAS, age 60 yrs., wid. of Ive CROCHET, & gives her parents' names.
Only her burial record uses the middle name Isabelle.
09. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Anne [DUGAST], & lists her with her parents & a sister; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 65; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 24-25, calls her Anne, sa [Pierre DUGAST's] fille, age 23, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Anne DUGAT, his [Pierre DUGAT's] daughter, age 23, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 56th Family aboard La Bergère with her parents & a sister.
What happened to her in LA? Did she ever marry?
10. Wall of Names, 35, calls her Anne DUGAT; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 66, shows that on the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59 she lost both of his parents--Joseph DUGAST, age 59, & Marie HÉBERT, age 54--at sea, as well as 1 of her 2 siblings, brother Jean, age 14, who also died at sea, & that only she & her brother Joseph, age 15, survived the crossing; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 93-94, Family No. 173, calls her Anne DUGAST, says he was born c1748 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, details her marriage, including her husband's parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Élizabeth-Jeanne HÉBERT, baptized 18 Mar 1776, St.-Similien, Nantes, son Joseph HÉBERT, baptized 21 Jan 1779, St.-Similien, Nantes, died 22 Jan 1779 probably Nantes, son Louis-Marie HÉBERT, baptized 26 Feb 1781, St.-Similien, Nantes, died 8 Feb 1783, probably Nantes, & son Louis-Ambroise HÉBERT, baptized 28 Nov 1783, St.-Similien, Nantes, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls her Anne DUGAT, sa [Joseph-Ignace HÉBERT's] femme, age 36, on the embarkation list, & Anne DUGAT, his [Joseph-Ignace HÉBERT's] wife, age 36, on the complete listing, says she was in the 1st Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her husband & 4 children, & details her marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names, but gives no place of marriage.
Her brothers Pierre & Joseph's families were nos. 2 & 6 on the passenger list of Le St.-Rémi. Her husband's brother Jean-Baptiste HÉBERT's family was No. 4 on the same ship.
Her husband remarried in May 1805 at Assumption.
11. Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls her Anne [DUGAT], & lists her with her parents & 8 siblings/half-siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 61-62, Family No. 114, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Anne-Marguerite DUGAST but does not give her godparents' names, &, calling her Anne [DUGAST], details her family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls her Anne, sa [Joseph DUGAT's] fille, age 6, on the embarkation list, & Anne DUGAT, his [Joseph DUGAT's] daughter, age 6, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 6th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her parents, & 8 siblings/half-siblings; BRDR, 2:32, 253 (ASM-2, 39), her marriage record, calls her Ana DUGAT, gives her but not her husband's parents' names, says her parents were Acadians, gives her husband's first wife's name, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Joseph AUCOIN, Francisco HÉBERT, & Simon GUILLOT.
12. Wall of Names, 47, calls her Anne DUGAST. Her birth year is a compromise of the ages given on the passenger list of La Caroline & in the Ascension censuses of 1788 & 1791, the Assumption censuses of 1795 & 1797, & the Lafourche census of 1798. See <acadian-cajun.com>; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourches, 1770-98, 47, 52, 78, 129, 166. <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No.70, gives a birth year closer to c1733, which makes me wonder if we are dealing with the same person here. Her marriage record in Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 940, unfortunately does not give her age at the time of her marriage.
13. Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls her Anne-Josèphe DUGAT, & lists her with her husband & 4 sons; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 67, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59 she was the only 1 of her parents' 6 children to survive the crossing, detailed in the footnote to her father's profile; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 56-57, Family No. 111, calls her Anne-Josèphe DUGAST, says she was born c1746 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, details her marriage but gives no place of marriage, includes the the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of son Firmain-Joseph, baptized 13 Oct 1775, Leigne-les-bois, Vienne, godson of Jean-Pierre BOURG & Perpétué DUGAST, died age 4 days & buried 18 Oct 1774, Leigne-les-bois, burial witnessed by Pierre ROBICHAUX & Pierre-Olivier PITRE, "his uncles," & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 91-92, Family No. 170, calls her Anne-Josèphe DUGAST, says she was born c1746 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of son Alexis-Toussaint HÉBERT, died age 7 & buried 6 Mar 1776, Ste.-Croix, Nantes, daughter Anne-Marie-Augustine HÉBERT, baptized 28 Aug 1776, Ste.-Croix, Nantes, died age 8 mos. & buried 6 May 1777, Ste.-Croix, Nantes, son Simon HÉBERT, baptized 4 Apr 1778, St.-Similien, Nantes, daughter Marie-Jeanne HÉBERT, baptized 3 Mar 1781, St.-Similien, Nantes, died 14 Jun 1781 & buried probably St.-Similien, Nantes, & son Alexis-Thomas HÉBERT, baptized 21 Dec 1782, St.-Similien, Nantes, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadians Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls her Anne-Josèphe DUGAT, sa [Jean Bte HÉBERT's] femme, age 36, on the embarkation list, & Anne-Josèphe DUGAT, his [Jean-Baptiste HÉBERT's] wife, age 36, on the complete listing, says she was in the 4th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her husband & 4 sons, details her marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names, but gives no play of marriage, & says son Ambroise-Mathurin HÉBERT was born in 1772 but gives no birthplace; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:190 (Thib.Ch.: v. 1, p. 71), her death/burial record, calls her Anne Joseph DUGAS of St. Jean, Acadie m. Jean Baptiste HÉBERT, but does not give her parents' names. See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 505; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 45, 59, 91, 132, 178.
Her father & half-sister Marie-Rose were in Family No. 5, just below hers, aboard Le St.-Rémi.
14. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Anne [DUGAST], & lists her with her widowed father & brother; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 24-25, calls her Anne, sa [Paul DUGAST's] fille, age 19, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Anne DUGAT, his [Paul DUGAT's] daughter, age 19, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 62nd Family aboard La Bergère with her widowed father & brother; BRDR, 2:253-54, 264-65 (ASC-2, 28), her marriage record, calls her Anna DUGAS, calls her husband Vincente DUMENE, widower of Nantes, France, gives her & her husband's parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Étienne PUIS & Jean DAIGLE. See also See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 157.
15. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Anne-Ozite DUGAST veuve HÉBERT, & lists her 3 children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 75, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, she, her parents, Pierre DUGAST, age 31, & Marguerite DAIGUE, age 35, & sister Marguerite-Blanche, age 4, survived the crossing, but sister Victoire-Osite, age 2, died at sea; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 64-65, Family No. 119, says she was born c1752 "in the Parish of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul of Cobequid in Acadie," details her marriage, says that she was resident of St.-Similien, Nantes, at the time of her marriage, & details her family's participation in the Grand Ligne settlement in Poitou & her parents' & 2 sisters' voyage to LA in 1785; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 86-87, Family No. 163, says she was born c1752 at Cobeguit, that her husband was born c1750 also at Cobeguit, that he was a joiner & resident of St.-Nicolas, Nantes, gives his parents' names, details their marriage, provides the birth/baptismal records of her son Charles HÉBERT & daughters Anne-Victoire & Marguerite-Sophie HÉBERT, & details her family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 24-25, calls her Anne-Osite DUGAST, veuve HÉBERT, age 30, on the embarkation list, Anne-Osite DUGATS, on the debarkation list, & Anne-Osite DUGAT, widow HÉBERT, age 30, on the complete listing, says she was in the 57th Family aboard La Bergère with 3 children, details her marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names but gives no place of marriage, & lists the implements the Spanish gave to her & her children after they reached LA; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:269, 361 (SM Ch.: v.4, #49), the record of her second marriage, calls her Anne DUGAT "of St. Pierre & St. Paul in Acadia, wid. of Charles HÉBERT, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says her husband was from "Georgentonon, Acadia," gives his first wife's name, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Jean-Baptiste GRANGER (her husband's brother), Olivier LANDRY, Joseph LANDRY, & Félix LOPES; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:252 (SM Ch.: v.4, 568), her death/burial record, calls her Dosithée DUGAS wid. of Joseph GRANGER, "she was born in Acadia, living at Prairie Sorel," says she died at her residence, was "age over 60 yrs," & was buried next day, but does not give her parents' names. See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 491.
Robichaux's study of the Acadians in Nantes does not give her first husband's death date, but, since he was on the Sep 1784 listing at Nantes, it must have been in late 1784 or early 1785, not long before she & her children left France for LA. She & her children are on the passenger list of La Bergère just below her parents & 2 sisters. She & her children also settled in the same community as her parents. How did she hook up with a fellow from Atakapas?
16. Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls her Anne-Périnne [DUGAT], & lists her with her parents & a sister; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 64, Family No. 118, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Anne-Pérrine DUGAST, does not include her godparents' names, &, calling her Pérrine, details her family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls her Anne-Pérrine, a là mamelle, on the embarkation list, & Anne-Pérrine DUGAT, dgtr. [of Pierre DUGAT's], a nursling, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 2nd Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her parents & a sister. See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 45, 177.
Anne-Pérrine could have died on the voyage to LA (Le St.-Rémi left no debarkation list in 1785), or soon after reaching New Orleans. She is not in the Ascension censuses of 1788 & 1791 with her family--the daughter named Margueritte & Margrithe listed in those censuses was sister Anne-Marguerite, baptized at Ascension in Sep 1787 & probably born at Ascension a year or so earlier. Until I know Anne-Périnne's fate, I will keep her on this list.
17. Wall of Names, 15, calls him Athanase DUGAS. Arsenault, Généalogie, 2477, says he was born in 1751 & was older than brother Michel, but the Cabanoce census of 1766 says he was younger. The Cabanoce census of 1769, Ascension 1770, & Ascension 1777 all say that he was older, so they are followed here. The 4 censuses give him birth years ranging from c1751 to c1755, so I will take the middle ground. See Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 166, 175; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 2, 11. His death/burial record in BRDR, 2:254, seals it by saying that he was 38 when he died in 1791.
18. Wall of Names, 16, calls him Athanase DUGAS. I have found him in no other source.
19. Not in Wall of Names. See De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 8-9.
Were Alexandre, Augustin, & Pierre brothers? Why are they not listed in Wall of Names? Were they French Creole DUGASs?
20. Wall of Names, 16, calls her Cécile DUGAS. Her birth year is from the Cabanoce census of 1766, not from the other censuses in which she is found. See Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 162, 177; De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 5.
21. Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls her Cécille [DUGAT], & lists her with her father, stepmother, & 8 siblings/half-siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 38-39, Family No. 77, calls her Cécile [DUGAST], & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 61-62, Family No. 114, calls her Cécile [DUGAST], & details her family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls her Cécille, sa [Joseph DUGAT's] fille, age 19, on the embarkation list, & Cécille DUGAT, his [Joseph DUGAT's] daughter, age 19, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 6th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her father, stepmother, & 8 siblings/half-siblings.
What happened to her in LA?
22. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Céleste [DUGAST], & lists her with her parents & 2 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls her Céleste [DUGAST], no age given, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Céleste DUGAT, age 1, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 49th Family aboard La Bergère with her parents & 2 siblings.
23. Wall of Names, 15, calls him Charles DUGAS. His dit & the parents of his wife are from the brochure that accompanies the Robert Dafford Mural, Acadian Memorial, St. Martinville, which spells the dit Charlit. See also the Atakapas census of 1781, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:821, & his death/burial record in Hébert, D., 1-B:252, for his dit, which spell it Charlitte, followed here. His estimated birth year is a compromise between the Atakapas censuses of 1771 & 1777. See De Ville, Attakapas Census, 1771, 13; De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 13. His death/burial records seems to exaggerate his age, not unusual for old patriarchs like this.
24. Wall of Names, 15, calls him Charles DUGAS; BRDR, 3:285 (ASC-4, 90), his death/burial record, calls him Charles DUGAS, age 59 yrs., nat. Acadia, spouse Rose BABIN, but does not give his parents' names.
25. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Charles DUGAST, & lists him with no wife & 5 children; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 37-38, Family No. 76, calls him Charles DUGAST, says he was born in c1737 but gives no birthplace, that his parents were Claude DUGAST & Marguerite COSTE, details his first 2 marriages, including his second wife's parents' names; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 59-60, Family No. 110, calls him Charles DUGAST, says he was born in 1737, gives his parents' names, calling his mother Marguerite COSTE, details his first 2 marriages, says his first wife was born c1740 but gives no birthplace nor her parents' names, says they married c1761 but gives no place of marriage, says his second wife was born c1752 but gives no birthplace nor her parents' names, says they were married c1775 but gives no place of marriage, says his second wife died at age 32 & was buried 27 Apr 1784 at St.-Similien, Nantes, gives the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of son Jean-Baptiste, baptized 9 Jul 1776, St.-Similien, Nantes, died age 2 years, 3 months & buried 22 Oct 1778, St.-Similien, Nantes, gives the birth/baptismal record of son Blaise, baptized 2 Feb 1778, St.-Similien, Nantes, & details the families participation in the Grand Ligne settlement in Poitou as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls him Charles DUGAST, cieur de long, age 46, on the embarkation list, Charles DUGAST, on the debarkation list, & Charles DUGAT, pit sawyer, age 46, on the complete listing, says he was in the 55th Family aboard La Bergère with no wife & 5 children, details his second marriage, calls his second wife Marguerite DAIGLE but does not give the date or place of marriage, calls his parents Clause [DUGAST] & Marguerite COSTE, names his 4 children in late 1775 when the family left Châtellerault for Nantes--Jean-Charles, René-Olivier, Joseph-Simon, Marie-Josèphe--& lists the implements the Spanish gave to him & his family after they reached LA; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:270, 271, 765, 766 (SM Ch.: v.4, #145; SM Ch.: Marriage Investigation: Folio D, #16; NI Ch.: OA-#4), the records of his third marriage, call him Charles DUGA of Acadia, widower of Marguerite GRANGER, give his parents' names, call his mother Anna & Anne HEBERT, says his third wife also was from Acadia, gives his third wife's parents' names & the name of her previous husband, calling him both Pierre TRAHAN & Pierre HÉBERT, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Jean BERARD, Louis CHEMIN, Jean BABIN, & Joseph GRANGER; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:252 (SM Ch.: v.4, #557), his death/burial record, calls him Charles DUGAS of Acadia, does not give his parents' names or mention a wife, & says he was "age 66 years" when he died "at his residence at La Prairie Sorel."
So was his mother Marguerite COSTE or Anne HÉBERT? Where does Robichaux in his studies of the Acadians in France, cited above, get Marguerite COSTE as his mother's name? If Charles's mother was Marguerite COSTE, was he only a half-brother of Amand, whose mother was Anne HÉBERT? White, DGFA-1, 573, gives his father Claude DUGAS only one wife--Anne HÉBERT. None of the other Claude DUGASs in DGFA-1 married Marguerite COSTE. Though Robichaux's work is most reliable, I will follow the primary source here & call Charles's mother Anne HÉBERT.
For his appointment as 1 of the 5 Acadian leaders aboard La Bergère, see Hebert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 29.
He & his family chose to settle in the Atakapas District & not the lower Lafourche valley with the majority of the passengers from La Bergère perhaps because his brother Amand was already in Atakapas. His putative sister Élisabeth/Isabelle & her family, who also crossed from France aboard La Bergère, went to the Atakapas as well.
Why doesn't the record of his third marriage, to Francoise TRAHAN, say that he was the widower of Marguerite DAIGLE, not Marguerite GRANGER, if Marguerite DAIGLE was his second wife?
26. Wall of Names, 36 (pl. 9L), calls him Charles DUGAT, & lists him with his second wife, a stepdaughter, & a female minor; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 190, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, he & niece Perpétué DUGAST, age 6, survived, but his first wife, Euphrosine, age 34, died in the hospital probably at St.-Malo 16 Feb 1759 soon after they reached France; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 290, Family No. 357, calls him Charles DUGAST, says he was born c1724 but gives no birthplace, gives his father's but not his mother's name, says he was a ploughman, that his first wife was born c1725 but gives no birthplace, does not give the date or place of his first marriage nor his first wife's parents' names, says he & his first wife disembarked at St.-Malo on 23 Jan 1759 from one of the Fives Ships, that she died age 34 on 16 Feb 1759 at the hospital at St.-Malo, details his second marriage, says his second wife was born c1735 but gives no birthplace, does not give her parents' names but does give her first husband's name, & lists his family's residences at St.-Suliac & St.-Melior from 1759-72; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 48-49, calls him Charles DUGAT, laboureur, age 60, on the embarkation list, & Charles DUGAT, plowman, age 60, on the complete listing, says he was in the 31st Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his second wife, a stepdaughter, & a female minor, details his second marriage, including his father's but not his mother's name, does not include his wife's parents' names, & says Rose [GAUTROT] was born in 1762 but gives no birthplace.
27. Not in Wall of Names. Arsenault, Généalogie, 2481, calls him Théodore DUGAS, says his parents were Claude [DUGAS] & Marie BOURG, says he was born in c1757 but gives no birthplace, details his marriage to Madeleine RICHARD, says that he married a second time to Victoire FOREST in c1785, & lists his children as René, born in 1787, but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:261, 624 (SJA-1, 47a), his marriage record, calls him Théodore DUGAS of Acadia, calls his parents Claude [DUGAS] & Marie BOURG, both decd., does not give his wife's parents' names but gives her first husband's name, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Simon RICHARD & Paul BABIN; BRDR, 3:292 (SGA-8, 39), probably his death/burial record, calls him Théodore DUGAS, age 60, but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife.
His estimated birth year is based on the age given in his burial record, not on Arsenault, who, in showing a second marriage for this Théodore, confused him with a younger Théodore. See below. The younger Théodore lived at Ascension, not St. Gabriel.
In listing a second marriage for him, Arsenault is confusing this Théodore DUGAS with the son of Jean DUGAS & Marie-Charlotte GODIN, who was the one who married Marie-Victoire, called Victoire, daughter of Pierre FORET & Marguerite BLANCHARD, at Ascension in October 1784. See BRDR, 2:261 (ASC-1, 157 & 158). The marriage record of Théodore, son of Jean, is clear about who his parents were, so there is no doubt that there were 2 Théodore DUGASs on the river in the 1770s & 1780s.
This Théodore's marriage record states clearly that he was "of Acadia," so why is he not on the Acadian Memorial's Wall of Names with his Acadian cousins?
28. Wall of Names, 42, calls him Bernard DUGATS, & lists him singly with the ship's immigrés; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 123, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Claude-Bernard DUGAS, gives his parents' names, says they were from Acadia & were refugees in France, & that his godparents were Claude DUGAS & Marie-Catherine STRICQ; BRDR, 2:72, 83 (ASC-1, 165), his marriage record, calls him Claude BERNARD[sic], "an Acadian," calls his wife Margarita BENOIT, "widow of Claude DUGAST[sic]," does not give any parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were ____ LAGARDE & Jean-Baptiste LEBLANC. See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1777-98, 46, 179.
The Ascension priest who recorded his marriage really blew it. It was true that Claude's wife was a widow at the time of their marriage, but her first husband was not the man she was marrying at that time! The priest seems oblivious to the actual name of her first husband; he got right only the fact that she was a widow. The priest obviously recorded Claude's middle name as his surname--according to Wall of Names & my own research, there was no Claude BERNARD at that place at that time--& the editors of the BRDR did not catch the priest's mistake. Interestingly, Marguerite was 6 years older than Claude. Note that they crossed "alone" on the same ship.
It was unusual for an Acadian couple to have no children, but her age at the time of their marriage--33--and the fact that she had no children by her first husband could help explain it.
29. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Isabelle DUGAST, & lists her with her husband & 4 children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 144, shows the fate of her family in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, detailed in the footnote for her husband's profile; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 106, Family No. 196, calls her Élizabeth DUGAST, says she was born in c1738 but gives no birthplace, does not give her or her husband's parents' names, says they were married in c1759 but gives no place of marriage, provides the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Rose LANDRY, died age 8 & buried, St.-Similien, Nantes, 28 Jun 1777, son Pierre LANDRY died age 8, buried 18 Feb 1778, St.-Similien, Nantes, & daughter Rose-Adélaïde LANDRY, baptized 11 Oct 1780, St.-Similien, Nantes, died 12 Oct 1783, probably St.-Similien, Nantes, & details her family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 24-25, calls her Isabelle DUGAST, sa [Jean-Baptiste LANDRY's] femme, age 44, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Isabelle DUGAT, his [Jean-Baptiste LANDRY's] wife, age 44, on the complete listing, says she was in the 60th Family aboard La Bergère with her husband & 4 children, details her marriage, giving her husband's but not her parents' names & no place of marriage, says that daughter Marie-Anne was born in 1775 but gives no place of birth, & that daughter Isabelle was born in 1760 but gives no birthplace.
Her parents' names are just a hunch, hence the qualifying language.
She & her husband chose to settle in the Atakapas District & not the lower Lafourche valley with the majority of the passengers from La Bergère perhaps because her putative brother Amand was already in Atakapas. Her possible brother Charles & his family, who also crossed from France aboard La Bergère, went to the Atakapas as well.
Daughter Marguerite LANDRY's marriage record, dated 14 Feb 1791, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:478 (SM Ch.: v.4, #53), calls her Isabel DUGAT, & say she was deceased.
30. Wall of Names, 32 (pl. 8L), calls her Élisabeth DUGAST, & lists her with her first husband & 3 children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 71, shows the fate of her family in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, detailed in the footnote for his father's profile, below; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 82-83, Family No. 162; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 140-41, Family No. 257; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 26-27, calls her Élisabette DUGAST, sa [Ambroise PITRE's] femme, age 32, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Élizabeth DUGAT, his [Ambroise PITRE's] wife, age 32, on the complete listing, says she was in the 70th Family aboard La Bergère with her first husband & 3 children, details her first marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names, & says son Paul-Ambroise [PITRE] was born in 1775 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 5(rev.):208 (ASM-3, 263), her death/burial record, calls her Elizabeth DUGAS, age 84 yrs., widow CAMPO, says she "d. at home of Paul AUCOIN," but does not give her parents' names.
31. Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls her Élizabet [DUGAT], & lists her with her father, stepmother, & 8 siblings/half-siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 38-39, Family No. 77, calls her Élizabeth [DUGAST], & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 61-62, Family No. 114, calls her Élizabeth [DUGAST], & details her family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls her Élisabet, sa [Joseph DUGAT's] fille, age 17, on the embarkation list, & Élisabet DUGAT, his [Joseph DUGAT's] daughter, age 17, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 6th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her father, stepmother, & 8 siblings/half-siblings; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:271-72 (SM Ch.: v.3, #122), her marriage record, calls her Élisabeth DUGAS de St. Suliac de St. Malo en Bretagne, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says she was a minor daughter, but does not list any witnesses to her marriage.
Did she go to Ascension with her parents & siblings & then cross the Atchafalaya to the Atakapas District, or did she go straight to the Atakapas from New Orleans? Her husband had come to Louisiana as a 5-year-old in 1765 & settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, so they did not meet in France or on the voyage to LA. His family moved from St.-Jacques to Atakapas in the 1770s. So how did they meet?
32. Not in Wall of Names because of the circumstance of her birth. NOAR, 4:108 (SLC, B9, 382), her birth/baptismal record, calls her Eulalia Martina DUGAT, gives her parents' names, her birth date, says she was baptized 3 Aug, & says that her godparents were Martin NAVARRO, intendant of this province, & Eulalia LIVOAUDAYS VILLARS; BRDR, 3:122, 286 (ASM-2, 85), her marriage record, calls her Eulalia DUGAT of New Orleans, gives her & her husbands' parents' names, her husband's birthplace, & says the witnesses to their marriage were Josef BOUDRAUX & Ambroise HÉBERT.
I placed a [sic] after her baptismal date because the ship on which her family traveled, La Bergère, did not reach New Orleans until 15 Aug. The Acadians cherished Martin NAVARRO, intendant of LA in 1785, for his kindness to them, & so many of their newborns were named Martin or Martina, the Spanish equivalent of Martine.
33. Wall of Names, 15, calls him Francois DUGAS; BRDR, 2:255 (ASC-4, 30), his death/burial record, calls him Francisco DUGAS, age 66 years, but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife. See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 165-66; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 117.
The Cabanocé census of 1766 calls Charles & Michel his nephews. However, Arsenault, Généalogie, 2477, & Wall of Names, say they were brothers. Voorhies, J., cited above, listed only 1 man & 1 boy in his household in Apr 1766. Where did Bourgeois get all of her names?
He & his family may have lived at Assumption on the upper Lafourche. Son Joseph's marriage record, dated 16 Feb 1795, in BRDR, 2:256 (SJA-2, 29), says that Francisco [DUGAS] & Margarita BABIN were "of Assumption Parish." But, as his burial record shows, Francois died at Ascension; at least his burial was recorded there.
The age given in his burial record is way off compared to the ages found in the censuses at St.-Jacques and Ascension.
34. Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls him Francois [DUGAT], & lists him with his parents & 8 siblings/half-siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 38-39, Family No. 77, calls him Francois [DUGAST], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 61-62, Family No. 114, calls him Francois [DUGAST], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as it voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls him Francois, son [Joseph DUGAT's] fils, age 14, on the embarkation list, & Francois DUGAT, his [Joseph DUGAT's] son, age 14, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 6th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his parents & 8 siblings/half-siblings; BRDR, 2:191, 255 (ASM-2, 17), his marriage record, calls him Franco DUGAT, gives his & his wife's parents' names, says both sets of parents were from France, that her father was deceased at the time of the marriage, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Josef AUCOIN & Ambrosio HÉBERT; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:191 (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: year 1819), his succession record, calls him Francois DUGAS, gives his father's but not his mother's name, gives his approximate death date, says he was m. Marie CLAIMANT or CLEMENT, & dates his succession inventory; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:191 (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: year 1820), calls him Francois DUGAS m. Marie CLEMENT, does not give his parents' names, & dates his family assembly.
If he & his wife were married in Feb1796, why was he still counted with his parents in the Assumption census of Apr 1797? The marriage record's date may be wrong.
35. Wall of Names, 15, calls him Jean DUGAS; Arsenault, Généalogie, 531, in the Port-Royal section, calls him Jean DUGAS, says he was born in 1712, givs his parents' names, details his marriage, including his wife's parents' names, says he married Marie-Charlotte GODIN in c1735, says she was born in c1715 but gives no birthplace, that, according to the 1739 census, he was at Ékoupag, à la rivière Saint-Jean in Nouveau-Brunswick, with his wife & 3 children, & that members of his family settled in LA; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2614, in the LA section, says he died 6 Sep 1765; White, DGFA-1, 575, calls him Jean [DUGAS], gives his parents' names, his birth/baptismal dates, says his godparents were Jacques MIUS de Pobomcoup & Anne LANDRY, details his marriage, including his wife's parents' names, says he married Marie-Charlotte GODIN in c1734 but gives no place of marriage, says he was at Halifax in 1763, & that he died at St.-Martinville on 4 Sep 1765, was buried the next day at premier camp d'en bas, that his burial was recorded on 6 Sep 1765, but does not give his age when he died; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:273 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.11; SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register v.1, #19-A), his death/burial record, calls him Jean DUGAS, says he died 4 Sep 1765, was buried the next day, & his burial was recorded on 6 Sep 1765.
Ékoupag on Rivière St.-Jean is present-day Maugerville, New Brunswick.
36. Wall of Names, 15, calls him Jean DUGAS 2. Arsenault, Genealogie, 2476, says they were married c1765, but the Cabanoce census of 1766 seems to say otherwise. See Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 115. They were probably married in the late 1760s. They are not on the list of marriages at Cabanocé, 1766-68. See Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 171-72; Voorhies, J., pp. 424-25. His death/burial record, which says he was from la grand prairie, is in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:254.
37. Not in Wall of Names. See Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:273 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.12), his death/burial record.
Was this the son of Jean DUGAS who had died in the Atakapas only a few days before?
38. Wall of Names, 37 (pl. 9R), calls him Jean DUGAT fils a la femme [of Pierre LA BOVE], & lists him with his mother & stepfather; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 101, Family No. 186, calls him Jean DUGAST, gives his mother's & stepfather's names, & details his family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 52-53, calls him Jean DUGAT, fils à la femme, age 13, on the embarkation list, & Jean DUGAT, son of the wife, age 13, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 43rd Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his mother & stepfather; BRDR, 2:257, 375 (ASM-2, 20), his marriage record, calls him Juan DUGAT, says they were married 16 Aug 1796, gives his & his wife's parents' names, says his father was deceased at the time of the marriage, calls his mother Juana BONFY of Nantes, France, says her parents were from Acadia, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Josef HÉBERT & Lorenzo BLANCHARD. See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 64, 101, 172.
Despite what his marriage record claims, I have not found his mother's family--BONFILS--in either Arsenault or White, so she probably was a native of Nantes & the daughter of a Frenchman.
His birthplace can be found in daughter Maria Leonor's baptismal record, dated 2 Feb 1801, in BRDR, 2:259 (ASM-1, 192). The same record says that his wife was from St.-Malo. She actually was born at St.-Melior-des-Ondes, a suburb of St.-Malo.
So, as the Assumption censuses of 1795 & 1797 suggest, was his name Jean-Pierre or Pierre-Jean? His stepfather, Pierre LABAUVE, had no son named Pierre. Jean DUGAS was his only "son," at least the only one he brought with him to LA. Pierre's son Pierre-Marie LABAUVE, by his first wife Madeleine LEBRUN, died at Chantenay, France, age 5, in Feb 1784. See Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 101, Family No. 186.
Again, there is a conflict between a marriage record date & a census, in this case the Assumption census of 1797, which was taken in Apr. If, as the church record says, Jean was married in Aug 1796, why would the census of Apr 1797 have him still living with his mother & stepfather & not his wife?
39. Wall of Names, 27 (pl. 6R), calls him Jean-Baptiste DUGAST, & lists him with his third wife, a daughter, & a granddaughter; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1486, the Cobeguit section, calls him Jean-Baptiste DUGAS, says he was born in 1719, gives his parents' names, details only 1 marriage, says he married Anne BOURG, widow of Jean BLANCHARD, in c1740 but gives no place of marriage, says nothing of his other marriages, says his family was at St.-Melior, France, in 1762, that they sailed to LA aboard Le Bon Papa in 1785, & lists his children as Olivier, born in 1741, Jean-Baptiste in 1742, Victor in 1746, Marin in 1747, Marie in 1749, Perpétué in 1753, Francoise in 1751, & Mathurin & Anne in 1764, but gives no birthplaces; White, DGFA-1, 571, calls him Jean-Baptiste DUGAS, gives the names of his parents, says he was born in c1719 but gives no birthplace, details his 3 marriages, including the names of his wives' parents & previous husbands, says that he required "disp 3-3 cons, 3-3 & 3-4 aff" when he married his third wife, & details his residences, dates, & ages in Acadia & France; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 74, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59 his second wife, Madeleine MOÏSE, age 29, died in the hospital probably at St.-Malo 6 Mar 1759, 6 weeks after they reached France, that 2 of their 6 children--Mathurin, age 3, & daughter Anastasie, age 1--died at sea, & the other 4 children--sons Jean-Baptiste, fils, age 17, & Marin, age 12, & daughters Josèphe, age 15, & Marie [Perpétué?], age 10--survived the crossing (none of them emigrated to LA); Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 60-61, Family No. 112, calls him Jean-Baptiste DUGAST, gives his approximate birth year but not his birth place, says he was a carpenter, does not mention his first wife, Marguerite BENOIT, says his second wife, Madeleine MOYSE, died during the crossing from Acadie to France, details his marriage to Anne BOURG, widow of Jean-Baptiste BLANCHARD, details their participation in the Grand Ligne settlement in Poitou, provides the death/burial record of a son by Anne BOURG, Mathurin, who died age 17 & was buried 4 Aug 1780 at St.-Martin, Chantenay, & details his family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 6-7, calls him Jean Bte DUGAST, charpentier, age 66, on the embarkation list, Juan Bautista DUGATS, on the debarkation list, & Jean-Baptiste DUGAT, carpenter, age 66, on the complete listing, says he was in the 16th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with his third wife, a daughter, & a granddaughter, & says he married his third wife in 1760.
Arsenault, p. 1486, is way off on his marriage record; White, as usual, is followed here.
The granddaughter who went with them to LA, Marie-Adélaïde BOUDREAUX, was the daughter of Louis BOUDREAUX & Perpétué DUGAS (born c1751, married 25 Nov 1777, St.-Similien, Nantes), who was Jean-Baptiste DUGAS's daughter by his first wife, Marguerite BENOIT. See Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 24, Family No. 44, which includes Marie-Adélaïde's birth/baptismal record.
40. Wall of Names, 27 (pl. 6R), calls him Jean-Baptiste DUGAST, & lists him with his wife, a daughter, & a female minor; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 70, shows that in his family 2 of his 9 siblings, sister Marguerite & brother Joseph, no ages given, died with his father in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, & his mother & his other siblings survived; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 1045, his marriage record, calls him Jean DUGAS, gives his parents' names, her parents' names, says that both fathers were deceased at the time of the marriage, & says the witnesses to their marriage were Pierre DUGAS (brother of the groom), Antoine DUGAS (brother of the groom), Pierre QUIMINE (brother-in-law of the bride), & Paul PATRIS, none of whom signed; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 61, Family No. 113, calls him Jean-Baptiste DUGAST, gives his parents' names, calls his wife Marie GROSSIN, give her parents' names, their marriage information, details their participation in the Grand Ligne settlement in Poitou, provides the birth/baptismal/burial records of 2 of their sons--Étienne DUGAS, baptized at St.-Similien, Nantes, 27 Dec 1775, & buried at St.-Similien 22 Mar 1778, & Jean-Baptiste DUGAS, died at age 9, buried 26 Apr 1781, St.-Martin, Chantenay; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 6-7, calls him Jean Bte DUGAT, journalier, age 49, on the embarkation list, Juan Baptista DUGATS, on the debarkation list, & Jean-Baptiste DUGAT, day laborer, age 49, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 15th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with his wife, a daughter, & a female minor.
41. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Jean-Charles [DUGAST], & lists him with his widowed father & 4 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 124, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jean-Charles DUGAS, gives his parents' names, but does not give his godparents' names; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls him Jean-Charles, son [Charles DUGAST's] fils, marin, age 20, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him Jean-Charles DUGAT, son [of Charles DUGAT], sailor, age 20, on the complete listing, says he was in the 55th Family aboard La Bergère with his widowed father & 4 siblings, &, called René-Olivier, was among the children of his family leaving Châtellerault for Nantes in Nov 1775; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:274, 545 (SM Ch.: v.4, #24; SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.7, #62), his marriage records, call him Jean-Charles DUGAS, "native of Boulogne en Picardie," says he was a major son, gives his & his wife's parents' names, says his father was native of "la Cadie," that his wife was "native of the Poste des Attakapas," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Joseph MODENA, ___ BERARD, Charles DUGA (his father), Amant DUGAT (his uncle), Jean DUGAT, Michel DOUCET père, Claude MARTIN, J. JENNE, Élie JENNE, & Alexandre Chevalier DECLOUET.
42. Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls him Jean-Pierre DUGAST, & lists him with his wife Jeanne CABON & no children; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 40-41, calls him Jean-Pierre DUGAST, charpentier, age 20, on the embarkation list, Juan Pedro DUGATS, on the debarkation list, & Jean-Pierre DUGAT, carpenter, age 20, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 40th Family aboard Le Beaumont with his wife Jeanne/Juana CABON, age 34, & no children.
Was he son of Claude DUGAS & Marguerite SIRE, or of Joseph DUGAS & Marguerite-Josèphe DOIRON? Two Jean-Pierre DUGASs were born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France in 1764, Claude's son in March, Joseph's son in July. Both were baptized in the same church, St.-Nicolas. See Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 124. According to the Spanish survey of Acadians in France, Marguerite-Josèphe DOIRON, widow of Jean-Baptiste DUGAS, had 3 unnamed sons at Nantes in Sep 1784. She also sailed to LA aboard Le Beaumont, alone, & went to Baton Rouge before going to Ascension. Is this a clue as to Jean-Pierre's parentage? There is nothing definitive here, hence the qualifying language.
How was Marguerite DUGAS at Nantes kin to him?
43. Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls him Jean-Pierre [DUGAT], & lists him with his parents & 8 siblings/half-siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 38-39, Family No. 77, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Jean-Pierre [DUGAST], says he was godson of Ambroise DUGAST & Marie DUGAST, & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 61-62, Family No. 114, calls him Jean-Francois [DUGAST], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as it voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls him Jean-Pierre, son [Joseph DUGAT's] fils, age 10, on the embarkation list, & Jean-Francois DUGAT, his [Joseph DUGAT's] son, age 10, on the complete listing, says he was in the 6th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his parents & 8 siblings/half-siblings, & that he was born in 1775 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:257, 563 (ASM-2, 49), his marriage record, calls him Juan Pedro DUGAT, gives his & his wife's parents' names, says all of the parents were from Acadia, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Joseph DUGAT & Ambroise HÉBERT.
44. Wall of Names, 16 (pl. 3L), calls him Joseph DUGAS, & lists him with his wife & 3 children.
His early arrival in LA is based on the fact that his infant daughter Mathilde was born 6 Mar 1765, baptized on 8 Mar, died 3 days later, & was buried in New Orleans. See NOAR, 2:105 (SLC, B5, 84). This puts Joseph DUGAS & his family in the BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil party from Halifax that reached New Orleans via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, in late Feb & went to the Atakapas District in Apr. The next party of Acadians did not reach New Orleans from Halifax via St.-Domingue until later in Mar or in Apr, & they went to the Opelousas District, north of Atakapas.
Was Joseph DUGAS's family among the 82 Atakapas Acadians who fled from the Teche Valley in the fall of 1765 with Fr. Jean-Francois de CIVREY to escape an epidemic? See Brasseaux, Founding of New Acadia, 102. Since he disappears from the record after 1765, Joseph probably was one of the Acadians who succumbed to an epidemic along the Teche in the summer & fall of 1765. See Arsenault, Généalogie, 2614, for the exact date of the death of a Joseph DUGAS in the Atakapas in Oct 1765; this is probably him. However, Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:274 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.8; SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register, v.1, #8; SM Ch.: v.1, p.13; SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register, v.1, #22), lists 2 Joseph DUGASs who died at Atakapas in 1765, the first on 26 Jul, buried the next day, the second buried 6 or 11 Oct. Which one was Joseph, husband of Cécile BERGERON? He could have been either one. Cécile appeared in the Cabanocé census of 1766, taken in Apr, as a widow. See Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 162.
45. Wall of Names, 16, calls him Joseph DUGAS' Arsenault, Généalogie, 2481, calls him Joseph DUGAS, & says he was born in c1751 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 5(rev.):208 (SMI-4, 100), his death/burial record, calls him Joseph Cadet DUGAS, age 80 yrs., but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife. See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 162, 177; De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 11.
The birth year given in Arsenault, cited above, agrees with the age given in the Cabanocé census of 1766. However, the Cabanocé census of 1769 & the St.-Jacques census of 1777 give ages that place his birth in c1755.
His dit is from the marriage record of daughter Melanie, dated 8 Sep 1825, in BRDR, 4:184 (SMI-2, 125), as well as his burial record, cited above. Cadet is like fils, or junior.
46. Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls him Joseph DUGAT, & lists him with his second wife & 9 children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No.66, shows that on the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59 he lost both of his parents--Joseph DUGAST, age 59, & Marie HÉBERT, age 54--at sea, as well as 1 of his 2 siblings, brother Jean, age 14, who also died at sea, & that only he & his sister Anne, age 10, survived the crossing; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 852, the record of his second marriage, calls him Joseph DUGAS, gives his & his wife's parents' names, does not give the name of his first wife, says that he & his second wife were both major children & that all of their parents were deceased at the time of the marriage, says they both were natives of Acadia & residents of "Saint Sulia," that they were relatives "of the third to fourth degree of affinity," that they were granted dispensations for their degrees of affinity, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Joseph LEGANGNOUX, Jean HINEL, Francois Ed. BOUREE, & Marain BAUDROT, all of whom signed; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 38-39, Family No. 77, calls him Joseph DUGAST, says he was born c1744 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names, details both his marriages, including his wives' parents' names, says his first wife was born c1740 but gives no birthplace, that she died 7 Mar 1769, age 29, & was buried 8 Mar 1769 at St.-Suliac, includes the birth/baptismal record of son Jean-Pierre, baptized 31 Jan 1775, Leigne-les-bois, Vienne, godson of Ambroise DUGAST & Marie DUGAST, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 61-62, Family No. 114, calls him Joseph DUGAST, says he was born c1744, does not give his parents' or his first wife's names, says he was a laborer & carpenter, details his second marriage but gives no place of marriage, includes the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of daughter Anne-Marguerite, baptized 11 Jan 1778, St.-Similien, Nantes, son Olivier-Marie, baptized 10 Feb 1781, St.-Similien, Nantes, died 15 Nov 1782, probably St.-Similien, Nantes, & daughter Marguerite-Euphrosine, baptized 26 Aug 1783, St.-Similien, Nantes, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as it voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls him Joseph DUGAT, cieur de long, age 43, on the embarkation list, & Joseph DUGAT, pit sawyer, age 43, on the complete listing, says he was in the 6th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his second wife & 9 children, details his second marriage, including his & his wife's parents' names & the name of his first wife but gives no place of marriage, & says son Jean-Pierre was born in 1775, daughter Cécille in 1765, & daughter Anastasie in 1773 but gives no birthplaces.
His sister Anne & brother Pierre's families were nos. 1 & 2 on the passenger list of Le St.-Rémi.
47. Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls him Joseph [DUGAT], & lists him with his father, stepmother, & 8 siblings/half-siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 38-39, Family No. 77, calls him Joseph [DUGAST], says he was godson of Ambroise DUGAST & Marie DUGAST, & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 61-62, Family No. 114, calls him Joseph [DUGAST], & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as it voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls him Joseph, son [Joseph DUGAT's] fils, charpentier, age 23, on the embarkation list, & Joseph DUGAT, his [Joseph DUGAT's] son, carpenter, age 23, on the complete listing, says he was in the 6th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his father, stepmother, & 8 siblings/half-siblings; NOAR, 4:108, 180 (SLC, M5, 41), his marriage record, calls him Joseph DUGAT, gives his & his wife's parents' names, says his mother was Anastasia ANRRY, that he & his wife were natives of St.-Malo, France, & that the witnesses to his marriage were Josef MARTINEZ & Vicente LLORCA.
48. Wall of Names, 16, calls him Joseph DUGAS 2. I have found him in no other source. Is he the other Joseph DUGAS who died at Atakapas in 1765?
49. Wall of Names, 16, calls him Joseph DUGAS 3. I have found him in no other source. Is he the other Joseph DUGAS who died at Atakapas in 1765?
50. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Joseph [DUGAST], & lists him with his widowed father & 4 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls him Joseph, son [Charles DUGAST's] fils, marin, age 16, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him Joseph DUGAT, son [of Charles DUGAT], sailor, age 16, on the complete listing, says he was in the 55th Family aboard La Bergère with his widowed father & 4 siblings, &, called Joseph-Simon, was among the children of his family leaving Châtellerault for Nantes in Nov 1775; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:274 (SM Ch.: v.4, #99), calls him Joseph DUGAS, gives his & his wife's parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Charles DUGAT (his father), Aman LANDRY, Auguste RICHARD, Aman DUGAS (his uncle), & PEYTAVIN Du Bousquet.
His middle name also is from Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 59. His birth place is from various birth/baptismal records of his children in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:275, 1-B:255.
51. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Louis-Amboise [DUGAST], & lists him with his parents & 2 sisters; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 59, Family No. 109, his birth/baptismal record, calls him Louis-Ambroise DUGAST, & says he was baptized at St.-Jacques of Nantes; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls him Louis-Ambroise, sa [Ambroise DUGAST's] fils, age 5, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him Louis-Ambroise DUGAT, his [Ambroise DUGAT's] son, age 5, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 49th Family aboard La Bergère with his parents & 2 sister; BRDR, 2:86-87, 257 (ASM-2, 72), his marriage record, calls him Luis DUGAT of St. Sebastian Parish in Nantes, France, calls his wife Élisabeth BERTOLLET of St. John the Baptist Parish, gives his & his wife's parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Ambrosio DUGAT (his father) & Juan Marie PITRE.
52. Wall of Names, 16, calls her Madeleine DUGAS; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2421, 2509; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:191 (Thib.Ch.: v. 1, p. 63), her death/burial record, calls her Madeleine DUGAS m. d.Jean Baptist BERNARD, says she died "at age 72 yrs.," but does not give her parents' names. See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 162, 177; De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 13.
Her first name is from daughter Marie Félicienne BERNARD's marriage record, dated 3 Oct 1814, in BRDR, 2:396 (ASM-2, 227).
Her estimated birth year is from the Cabanocé census of 1769, the St.-Jacques census of 1777, & her burial record.
53. Wall of Names, 32 (pl. 7R), calls her Magdeleine DUGAS veuve HEBERT, & lists her with 7 children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 111, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, both she & her husband survived the crossing & took no children with them; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 460-61, Family No. 516, calls her Marie-Madeleine DUGAST, says she was born in c1742 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, calls her mother Marguerite-Marie BOUDROT, says she married in c1758 but gives no place of marriage, that her husband was born in c1732 but gives no birthplace, does not give his parents' names, says he was a ploughman, that he died 22 Jul 1784 at "les Hauts Pavee," age 52, & was buried 23 Jul 1784, St.-Similien, Nantes, provides the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of son Jean-Baptiste HÉBERT [fils], born 3 Apr 1760, baptized next day, St.-Coulomb, godson of Paul DUGAST (maternal grandfather) & Marie-Madeleine GRANGER, died age 17 & buried 26 Oct 1776, St.-Similien, Nantes, daughter Marie-Madeleine HÉBERT, born 30 Jun 1761, baptized next day, St.-Coulomb, goddaughter of Paul CAISSY & Marie DUGAST, died age 15 & buried 21 Nov 1776, St.-Similien, Nantes, daughter Anne-Simone HÉBERT, born & baptized 2 Apr 1764, St.-Coulomb, goddaughter of Simon DUGAST & Anne REVER, son Pierre-Michel HÉBERT, born & baptized 3 Apr 1776, St.-Coulomb, godson of Michel CAISSY & Anne GRANGER, daughter Anne-Marie HÉBERT, born & baptized 13 Apr 1768, St.-Servan, goddaughter of Charles HÉBERT & Henriette GROSSIN, son Joseph-Servan HÉBERT, born & baptized 13 May 1770, St.-Servan, godson of Joseph BOURG & Marie MELANSON, & daughter Isabelle-Jeanne HÉBERT, born & baptized 23 Jun 1772, St.-Melior-des-Ondes, goddaughter of Jean-Baptiste HÉBERT (brother) & Isabelle DUGAST, says she & her husband "disembarked at St.-Malo on January 23, 1759 from one of the 'Five ships," & that the family resided at Pleurtuit from 1759-60, St.-Coulomb from 1760-67, St.-Servan from 1767-71, & St.-Melior from 1771-72; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 90, Family No. 168, calls her Marie-Madeleine DUGAST, says she was born in c1742 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, calls her mother Marguerite-Marie BOUDROT, details her marriage, says she married in c1759 but gives no place of marriage, that her husband was born in c1732 but gives no birthplace, does not give his parents' names, says he was a laborer & farm hand, that he died 22 Jul 1784 at "les Hauts Pavée," age 52, & was buried 23 Jul 1784, St.-Similien, Nantes, provides the birth/baptismal & death/burial records of son Jean-Baptiste HÉBERT, [fils], died age 17 & buried 26 Oct 1776, St.-Similien, Nantes, daughter Madeleine HÉBERT, died age 15, buried 21 Nov 1776, St.-Similien, France, son Alexis-Médard HÉBERT, baptized 8 Jun 1777, St.-Similien, Nantes, died age 6 & buried 5 Aug 1783, St.-Similien, Nantes, son Prosper-Francois HÉBERT, born & baptized 2 Dec 1779, St.-Similien, Nantes, son Firmain HÉBERT, baptized 15 Feb 1782, St.-Similien, Nantes, died 25 Jul 1783, probably Nantes, & son Étienne HÉBERT, baptized 28 Dec 1784, St.-Similien, Nantes, & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 26-27, calls her Magdeleine DUGAST, veuve HÉBERT, age 43, on the embarkation list, Magdeleine DUGATS, on the debarkation list, & Magdeleine DUGAT, widow HÉBERT, age 43, on the complete listing, says she was in the 65th Family aboard La Bergère with 7 children, details her marriage, calling her Marie-Madeleine DUGAST, & including her parents' names & her husband's year of death, 1784, but not her husband's parents' names, says that daughter Isabelle [HÉBERT] was born in 1772 but gives no birthplace, lists the implements that Spanish gave her after she & her family reached LA, & says she owned 6 arpents of land but does not say when or where; BRDR, 2:257 (ASM-3, 3), her death/burial record, calls her Magdalena DUGAS, widow of Juan Bautista HÉBERT of Acadia, but does not give her parents' names or her age at the time of her death.
She & her family follow the family of sister Marie on the passenger list of La Bergère & are 3 families down the list from her widowed father & 2 more of her siblings.
She never remarried.
54. Wall of Names, 16, calls her Madeleine DUGAS; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:276 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.13; SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register v.1, #23), her death/burial record, calls her Magdeleine DUGAS, says her burial was recorded on 12 Oct 1765, but does not give her parents' names or her age at the time of her death.
Who was she?
55. Wall of Names, 13, calls her Madeleine-Marguerite DUGAS.
56. Wall of Names, 11, calls her Marguerite DUGAS veuve Barthélemy BERGERON; White, DGFA-1, 565.
57. Wall of Names, 24, calls her Marguerite DUGAS.
58. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Margueritte DUGAST, & lists her with her husband & no children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 75; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 33, 65; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 24-25, calls her Margueritte DUGAST, sa [Pierre BOURG's] femme, age 31, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Marguerite DUGAT, his [Pierre BOURG's] wife, age 31, on the complete listing, says she was in the 59th Family aboard La Bergère with her husband & no children, &, calls her Marguerite-Blanche, details her marriage but gives no parents' names or place of marriage.
59. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Margueritte [DUGAST], & lists her with her widowed father & 3 half-siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls her Margueritte, sa [Charles DUGAST's] fille, age 4, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Marguerite DUGAT, his [Charles DUGAT's] daughter, age 4, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 55th Family aboard La Bergère with her widowed father & 4 siblings; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:258 (Laf.Ct.Hse.: Notarial Acts: v.5, #659; Laf.Ct.Hse.: Mar.#27), her marriage records, call her Marguerite DUGAS, native of France, call her husband Louis RICHARD, père, gives hers but not his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Moyse HÉBERT, John GREIG, Narcisse DUGAST, Philipe RICHARD, Judge Thomas B. BRASHEAR, & that the wedding was "done at the residence of Mrs. Pierre RICHARD"; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:258 (Laf.Ct.Hse.: Succ.#484), her succession record, calls her Margaret DUGAS of Nantes, France, m. Louis RICHARD, & gives her parents' names.
Her husband's first wife's name is from his succession record, dated Aug 1829, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:258 (Opel.Ct.Hse.: Succ.#496), & from Arsenault, Généalogie, 2578. The strange thing is, Marie Victoire DUGAS did not die until Feb 1837! See her burial record, dated 19 Feb 1837, in Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:191 (Thib.Ch.: v.1, #764), which calls her Marie DUGAS m. d.Louis RICHARD. So something is amiss here. There probably were 2 Louis RICHARDs in St. Landry Parish, & the church records are awry.
Marguerite was well into her middle age when she married & died 2 1/2 years later, so she had no children. Why did she wait so long to marry? Was this her only marriage? As one can see, her husband's mother was Marguerite DUGAS, his first wife was Marie DUGAS, & his second wife was ... Marguerite DUGAS. Interesting.
60. Wall of Names, 34 (pl. 8R), calls her Margueritte DUGAST, & lists her with her husband & no children; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 19-20, Family No. 36, calls her Marguerite DUGAST, says she was born c1761 at Boulogne-sur-Mer, gives her parents' names, details her marriage, including her husband's parents' names, says "both parties [were] residents of the Parish of Saint-Martin of Chantenay" at the time of the marriage, & details their voyage to LA in 1785; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 60, Family No. 111, calls her Marguerite DUGAST, says she was born c1761 at Boulogne-sur-Mer, details her marriage, calling her husband Francois-Xavier BOUDROT, gives her parents' names, says her father was born c1715 but gives no birthplace, son of Joseph DUGAST & Claire BOURG, that his first wife was Marie-Josèphe AUCOIN, daughter of Michel AUCOIN & Jeanne BOURG, that they married c1735 but gives no place of marriage, says her mother's parents were Louis CYR & Marie-Josèphe MICHEL, that her parents married 10 Sep 1753, Port-Lajoie Île St.-Jean, & details her family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s, noting that her father was a widower once again in Mar 1776; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 36-37, calls her Margueritte DUGAST, sa [Francois-Xavier BOUDREAU's] femme, age 24, on the embarkation list, Margarita DUGATS, su [Franco Xavier BAUDREAUD's] muger, on the debarkation list, & Marguerite DUGAT, his [Francois-Xavier BOUDROT's] wife, age 24, on the complete listing, says she was in the 30th Family on the embarkation list & in the 31st Family on the debarkation list of Le Beaumont with her husband & no children, & details her marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names, but gives no place of marriage; BRDR, 2:258 (SGA-8, 5, #18), her death/burial record, calls her Margarita DUGAS, age 26 years & wife of Janvier BUDRO of Acadia, but does not give her parents' names.
Although her burial was recorded by a St.-Gabriel priest, she probably died & was buried at the southern edge of the Baton Rouge District, in an area called Manchac, where the majority of passengers from Le Beaumont settled after they reached New Orleans. Baton Rouge did not have its own church until 1793, so priests from St.-Gabriel administered the sacraments in the lower Baton Rouge District until it did. Judging from her age at the time of her death, she probably died from complications of childbirth. Or perhaps she died from the rigors of the voyage from France to LA.
61. Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls her Marguerite [DUGAT], & lists her with her parents & 8 siblings/half-siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 61-62, Family No. 114, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marguerite-Euphrosine DUGAST, does not give her godparents' names, &, calling her Marguerite [DUGAST], details her family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls her Marguerite, sa [Joseph DUGAT's] fille, age 2, on the embarkation list, & Marguerite DUGAT, his [Joseph DUGAT's] daughter, age 2, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 6th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her parents & 8 siblings/half-siblings; BRDR, 3:289, 577 (ASM-7, 38), her marriage record, calls her Marguerite DUGAS, gives her & her husband's parents' names, says her parents were from "St. Maximilien, Nantes, France, res. Lafourche," that her husband's parents' were from "St. Bernarie, Dept. of Loire Inferieure, France," that her husband's father was deceased at the time of the marriage, & that the witnesses to her marriage were ____ BOUVET & Michel BOURGEOIS.
Why did she wait so long to marry? The birth/baptismal record of son Alexandre Jean Baptiste LEROIS in BRDR, 2:577 (ASM-8, 165), dated 10 Oct 1819, calls her Marguerite Euphrasine DUGAR (DUGAS) & her husband Julien Alexandre LEROIS.
62. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Anne-Marie [DUGAST], & lists her with her parents & 2 siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 58, Family No. 109, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marguerite-Josèphe DUGAST; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 59, Family No. 109, detailing the family's voyage to LA in 1785, calls her Anne-Marie DUGAST; Hébert, D., Acadian Familis in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls her Anne-Marie, sa [Ambroise DUGAST's] fille, age 10, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Anne-Marie DUGAT, his [Ambroise DUGAT's] daughter, age 10, on the complete listing, says she was in the 49th Family aboard La Bergère with her parents & 2 siblings, &, calling her Anne-Marie DUGAST, says she was born in 1774 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 2:243, 258 (ASC-2, 45), her marriage record, calls her Margarita DUGAS of Nantes, France, gives the names of her & her husband's parents, says her husband's parents were from St.-Malo, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Jean BERTRAND & Sulia BLANCHARD. See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1777-98, 27, 56, 86, 159.
As the Ascension censuses of 1788 & 1791, the Assumption censuses of 1795 & 1797, & her marriage record show, her name was Marguerite-Josèphe, not Anne-Marie. Anne-Marie, according to a death/burial record in Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 59, Family No. 109, was the name of an older sister who died at age 5 & was buried at St.-Pierre, Reze, France, in Aug 1779. It is anyone's guess why the official who took the names of the passengers on La Bergére called her Anne-Marie & not Marguerite.
63. Wall of Names, 20, calls her Marie DUGAS; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:276-77 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.8; SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register, v.1, #9), her death/burial records, call her Marie DUGAS, wife of Mathurin LANDRY, but do not give her parents' names or her age at the time of her death.
Her son Isidore LANDRY was born on 26 Jul, 2 days before she died, so she probably was a victim of childbirth, not the epidemic that swept thru the Teche communities that summer & fall. The boy died probably at Atakapas the following September. See Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:476 (SM Ch.: Baptism Register: v.1, p.8; SM Ch.: Slave Baptism Register v.1, p.2, #4). Her husband did not remain on the Teche.
64. Wall of Names, 11, calls him Marie DUGAS veuve Michel BERGERON; White, DGFA-1, 566, calls her Marie DUGAS, gives her parents' names, says she was born in c1711, that she was counted at Port-Royal with her father in 1727, calls her husband Augustin BERGERON, gives his parents' names, says they were married in c1729, that she was counted at Cabanocé in 1766, age 55, a widow, & died there before 15 Apr 1777.
65. Wall of Names, 27 (pl. 6R), calls her Marie [DUGAST], & lists her with her parents & 1 minor; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 6-7, calls her Marie DUGAT, sa [Jean Bte DUGAT's] fille, age 11, on the embarkation list, Maria, su [Juan Baptista DUGATS's] hija, on the debarkation list, & Marie DUGAT, his [Jean-Baptiste DUGAT's] daughter, age 11, on the complete listing, & says that she was in the 15th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her parents & 1 minor; BRDR, 2:258, 458 (SJO-3, 4), her marriage record, calls her Maria DUGAT, gives her parents' names, says they were from "St. Nogat in France," gives her husband's parents' names & says they were from "Blevoir, France," which was actually Plouër, near St.-Malo, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Josef BAHAMONDE & Juan Bautista DUGAT; BRDR, 4:344 (SJO-11, 13), her death/burial record, calls her Marie LEBERT, wife of Pierre LEBERT, but does not give her parents' names.
66. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Marie DUGAST,& lists her with her husband & 6 children; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 71, shows the fate of her family in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, detailed in the footnote for his father's profile, below; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 70-71, Family No. 133; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 26-27, calls her Marie DUGAST, sa [Prosper GIROIR's] femme, age 39, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Prosper GIROIRE, his [Prosper GIROIRE's] wife, age 39, on the complete listing, says she was in the 64th Family aboard La Bergère with her husband & 6 children, details her marriage, including her & her husband's parents' names but gives no place of marriage, & says daughter Jeanne was born in 1771 but gives no birthplace; BRDR, 3:290 (ASM-3, 48), her death/burial record, calls her Maria DUGAS, age 63 yrs., wid. of Prospero GIROIRD, but does not give her parents' names.
She & her husband's family are 2 families down on the passenger list of La Bergère from her widowed father & 2 of her siblings & the family just above her widowed sister Marie-Madeleine's family.
67. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Marie [DUGAST], & lists her with her parents & a sister; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 305-06, Family No. 369, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Marie-Victoire DUGAST, gives her parents' names, calls her godparents Charles DAIGLE & Anne DUGAST, & says her family resided at Plouër from 1759-72; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2578, profile of her husband in the LA section, calls her Marie-Victoire DUGAS, gives her parents' names, says she married Louis RICHARD in c1765, & lists their children as Louis-André, born in 1787, Marie-Dosithée in 1791, Pierre-Séverin in 1792, Céleste in 1795, Joseph in 1797, Jean in 1799, Anastasie in 1802, & Denis in 1804, but gives no birthplaces; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 24-25, calls her Marie, sa [Pierre DUGAST's] fille, age 20, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Marie DUGAT, his [Pierre DUGAT's] daughter, age 20, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 56th Family aboard La Bergère with her parents & a sister; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:649 (Opel. Ct.Hse.: Succ.#491), her succession record, calls her Marie Victoire DUGAT, says she married Louis RICHARD, Sr., but does not give her parents' names, her death date, or her age at the time of her death.
Arsenault's date for their marriage--c1765--is absurd in light of her birthday & the fact that she did not reached LA until 1785. He may have meant c1785. When did she move from the river to the western prairies & meet her husband? Immediately after she got to LA? They must have married by 1786 since their oldest child was born in 1787. I have not found their marriage record. The succession record of Louis RICHARD, père, dated Aug 1829, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:648 (Opel. Ct.Hse.: Succ.#496), says he was m.(1)Marie Victoire DUGA, lists their children as Louis, Marie m. Joseph VICTOR, Pierre Severin, Céleste m. Julien LANDRY, Joseph, Jean, Anastasie m. Francois DUPRÉ, Denis, Paul, & Cleonise, m.(2)Marguerite DUGA, no children.
Her succession record is dated years after her death. Why?
So who was the Marie DUGAS, widow of Louis RICHARD, who died in Lafourche Interior Parish on 19 Feb1837? See Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:191 (Thib.Ch.: v.1, #764), which calls her Marie DUGAS, "b. in Nante, France, m. d.Louis RICHARD," died "at age 70 yrs.," but does not give her parents' names. The Marie-Victoire DUGAS who married Louis RICHARD of Opelousas was born at Plouër, which is near St.-Malo, not Nantes. She lived in Nantes with her parents before they left for LA, but she was not born there.
68. Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls her Marie [DUGAT], & lists her with her father, stepmother, & 8 siblings/half-siblings; Robichaux, Acadians in Chatellerault, 38-39, Family No. 77, calls her Marie [DUGAST], & details the family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 61-62, Family No. 114, calls her Marie [DUGAST], & details her family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls her Marie, sa [Joseph DUGAT's] fille, age 21, on the embarkation list, & Marie DUGAT, his [Joseph DUGAT's] daughter, age 21, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 6th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her father, stepmother, & 8 siblings/half-siblings; BRDR, 2:214, 259 (ASC-2, 3), her marriage record, calls he Marie DUGAS, says her husband was "of Acadia," does not give her or his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Alexis DAIGLE [his brother] & Julia BLANCHARD; BRDR, 3:290 (ASM-3, 85), her death/burial record, calls her Maria DUGAS, age 50 yrs. of St. Suliac Parish, gives her parents' names, cays they were deceased also, but does not mention a husband. See Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche 1770-98, 138.
That she is the Marie DUGAS who married Jean-Baptiste DAIGLE is verified in the baptismal records of her sons Jean-Pierre & Joseph DAIGLE, dated 14 Aug 1796 & 15 Sep 1798, in BRDR, 2:216 (ASM-1, 72), 2:215 (ASM-1, 120), which give the boys' grandparents' names.
69. Wall of Names, 37 (pl. 9R), calls her Marie DUGAS, & lists her with her husband, 2 stepchildren, & a widowed kinswoman of her husband; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 757, Family No. 885, calls her Marie DUGAST, says she was born in c1767 "in the parish of Trellières," gives her parents' names, details her marriage, says her husband was born in c1742 "in the Parish of L'Assomption of Pisiguit in Acadie," gives his parents' names, says he was a seaman, gives his first wife's name, & says she died at age 40 & was buried at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay on 16 Jan 1781; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 160, Family No. 288, calls her Marie DUGAST, says she was born in c1767 "in the Parish of Trellières," gives her parents' names, details her marriage, says her husband was born in c1742 "in the Parish of L'Assomption of Pisiguit in Acadie," gives his parents' names, says he was a seaman, gives his first wife's name, says she died at age 40 & was buried at St.-Martin-de-Chantenay on 16 Jan 1781, & details the family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 54-55, calls her Marie DUGAT, sa [Jean THIBODAU's] femme, age 18, on the embarkation list, & Marie DUGAT, his [Jean THIBODEAUX's] wife, age 18, on the complete listing, says she was in the 55th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her husband, 2 stepchildren, & a widowed kinswoman of her husband, details her marriage, include her & her husband's parents' names, & says they were married in 1785 but gives no place of marriage; BRDR, 2:258, 624 (ASM-2, 87), the record of her second marriage, calls her Maria DUGAS, widow of Juan TIBODAUX, native of Chantenay, Diocese of Nantes, France, calls her husband Luis Gabriel RICHARD of Tulon, gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Étienne BOUDRAUX & Ambroise HÉBERT.
Her hometown, Trellières, is near Nantes. She was young enough to be her husband's daughter. She was, in fact, the same age as her stepson, Jacques THIBODEAUX.
Her second husband was French Creole, not Acadian.
70. Wall of Names, 16, calls her Marie DUGAS.
Who was she? Who were her parents? When did she reach LA? What happened to her?
71. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls her Marie-Josèphe [DUGAST], & lists her with her widowed father & 4 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls her Marie-Josèphe, sa [Charles DUGAST's] fille, age 22, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Marie-Josèphe DUGAT, his [Charles DUGAT's] daughter, age 22, on the complete listing, says she was in the 55th Family aboard La Bergère with her widowed father & 4 siblings, & was among the children of her family leaving Châtellerault for Nantes in Nov 1775; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:277, 666 (Opel. Ch.: v.1-A, p.3), her marriage record, calls her Marie-Josèphe DUGAS of Atakapas, gives her & her husband's parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Amand DUGAS (her uncle), Joseph DUGAS (her brother), Pierre RICHARD-father (her husband's father), Joseph BOURQUE, Pierre DUGAS (her brother), & Fabiren RICHARD (her husband's brother).
72. Wall of Names, 27 (pl. 6R), calls her Marie-Magdeleine DUGAST, & lists her with her husband, 1 daughter, & 2 stepdaughters; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 70, if this is her, would give her a birth year of c1735; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 100, calls her Marie-Madeleine DUGAST, says she was born c1740 & that she married Pierre KIMINE c1771 but gives no place; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 4-5, calls her Marie-Magdeleine DUGAST, sa [Pierre QUINTIN's] femme, age 50, on the embarkation list, Maria Magdalena, su [Pedro KIMIN's] muger, on the debarkation list, & Marie-Magdelaine DUGAT, his [Pierre KIMINE's] wife, age 50, on the complete listing, says she was in the 13th Family aboard Le Bon Papa with her husband & 3 daughters, details her marriage, including hers & his parents' names, says that they were married in 1770 but gives no place, & says that her daughter Victoire-Francoise was born in 1771. See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 51, 77.
Her birth year is determined not from the age given in the passenger list of Le Bon Papa but from the ages given in the Assumption censuses of 1795 & 1797.
Why did she wait so long to marry? Was Pierre her first husband?
73. Wall of Names, 32 (pl. 8L), calls her Marie DUGAST, & lists her with her husband & no children; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 26-27, calls her Marie DUGAST, sa [Étienne DUPUY's] femme, age 20, on the embarkation list, does not include her on the debarkation list, calls her Marie DUGAT, his [Étienne DUPUIS's] wife, age 20, on the complete listing, says she was in the 68th Family aboard La Bergère with her husband & no children, & details her marriage but gives no parents' names or place of marriage. See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 509; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1777-98, 26, 58, 157.
Her estimated birth year is from the ages given in the Ascension censuses of 1788, 1791, & the Assumption census of 1795, not the age given on the passenger list of Le Bergère. Amazingly, the age given in her burial record gives an estimated birth year close to one derived from the censuses. Large discrepancies in the ages given in censuses & in burial records were not unusual at that time, since the recording priests had to depend not on written records but on the memory of family members for the age of the deceased.
74. Wall of Names, 15, calls her Rose DUGAS; BRDR, 4:185 (ASM-3, 210), probably her death/burial record, calls her Rose DUGAS, wid. of Francois LANDRY, says she was "ca. 93 yrs." when she died, but does not give her parents' names.
Her first name is from her daughter Marie-Rose LANDRY''s marriage record in BRDR, 2:442.
So who was the Rosalie DUGAS, "age 75 yrs.," who was buried in Assumption Parish on 13 Jan 1824? The priest who recorded the burial did not bother to give Rosalie's parents' names or mention a husband. See BRDR, 4:185 (ASM-3, 166).
75. Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls her Marie-Rose [DUGAT], & lists her with her widowed father & no siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls her Marie-Rose, sa [Alexis DUGAT's] fille, age 20, on the embarkation list, & Marie-Rose DUGAT, his [Alexis DUGAT's] daughter, age 20, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 5th Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her widowed father & no siblings; BRDR, 2:260, 396 (ASC-2, 4), her marriage record, calls her Marie-Rose DUGAS, an Acadian & widow of Alexas DUGAS, calls her husband Louis JUNCAL (FUNCAL) of Porte Vedra, Spain, does not give her or his parents' names, nor the names of the witnesses to her marriage; BRDR, 2:260 (ASM-3, 6), her death/burial record, calls her Maria Rosa DUGAS, "age 32 years, married to Luis JUNCAL, a Spaniard," but does not give her parent' names. See also Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 505; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 39, 169.
Despite what the priest at Ascension wrote in her marriage record, cited above, Alexis DUGAS was her father, not her first husband. This is the same Spanish priest who usually did not bother to record parents' names in marriage records he entered into the parish registry.
Her husband was a Spaniard, perhaps a soldier, who came to LA in c1778 with Gov. Bernardo de GALVEZ. The family name evolved from JUNCAL to UNCAL to ONCALE in LA.
76. Not in Wall of Names because of the circumstance of her birth. NOAR, 2:105 (SLC, B5, 84), her birth/baptismal record, calls her Mathilde DUGUAS, gives her parents' names, calls them Acadians, says her godparents were Andrés Antonio DE ABREU, Spanish officer, & Marie-Josèph (GAUCIEN?), & has the marginal note--"died, March 11, 1765."
Since she was in utero at the time of her family's arrival in LA, she counts here as an exile to the colony. Her early death may have been the result of the rigors of sea travel.
77. Wall of Names, 15, calls him Michel DUGAS; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2477, says he was born in 1752; BRDR, 4:184 (ASC-4, 189), his death/burial record, calls him Michel DUGAS, age 71 yrs., & gives his parents' but not his wives' names. See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 166, 175; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 2, 11.
His estimated birth year is based on the ages given in most of the LA censuses in which he is found & in his burial record.
78. Wall of Names, 16, calls him Michel DUGAS. See also Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 2.
What happened to him?
79. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Paul DUGAST, & lists him with no wife & 2 children; White, Dictionnaire Acadiennes, 571, calls him Paul DUGAS, & provides most of his personal information, including the name of his first wife, Anne-Marie BOUDROT, & her parents' names, & the notation that he & his second wife needed a dispensation of "3-4 cons, 3-3 aff"; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 71, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, his first wife, age 48, died in the hospital probably at St.-Malo 13 Feb 1759, that 4 of their children--daughters Marguerite, age 15, Marie, age 12, & Isabelle, age 6, & son Simon, age 11--survived the crossing, but son Paul, fils, age 9, also died in hospital, 28 Jan 1759, 5 days after they reached St.-Malo; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 24-25, calls him Paul DUGAST, charpentier, age 75, on the embarkation list, Paul DUGATS, on the debarkation list, & Paul DUGAT, carpenter, age 75, on the complete listing, says he was in the 62nd Family aboard La Bergère with no wife & 2 children, & lists the implements the Spanish gave to him after they reached LA.
80. Wall of Names, 15, calls him Pierre DUGAS; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2476; BRDR, 2:261, 693 (PCP-2, part 2, 139a), his marriage record, calls him Pierre DUGAS, gives his & his wife's parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were Augustin GREVENBERG & Gerald DE VERBOIS; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:278, 744-45 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.27; SM Ch.: Folio A-1, p.19), his marriage records, call him Pierre DUGAS of Attakapas, calls her Anne THIBAUDOT of Attakapas, gives his & her parents' names, & says the witnesses to his marriage were ____ BORDA, ____ DE VERBOIS, _____ BERARD, Augustin GREVEMBERG, Francois GREVEMBERG, _____ DURIEN, & Joseph LANDRY; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-C:260 (Laf.Ct.Hse.: Succ.#172), his succession record, calls him Pierre DUGAS, père, m. Nanette THIBODEAUX, but does not give his parents' names.
It was not unheard of for Atakapas & Opelousas baptisms & marriages to be recorded by Pointe-Coupée priests in the 1770s. Evidently the Atakapas parish, created in 1765, at times did not have a priest of its own because of its remote location, & the Opelousas parish was not created until 1776. Pointe-Coupée, created in 1728, was near a northern route across the Atchafalaya Basin & thus the closest river church to the western settlements. Pointe-Coupée priests, then, would have served as missionaries to these outlying settlements until Atakapas & Opelousas had priests of their own. Pierre's & Anne's marriage record at the St. Martinville church may be a copy of the Pointe-Coupée record.
81. Wall of Names, 28 (pl. 6R), calls him Pierre [DUGAST], & lists him with his widowed mother; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 10-11, calls him Pierre, son [Francoise BOUDREAU, veuve DUGAST's] fils, age 11, on the embarkation list, Pedro DUGATS, su [Francisca BOUDREAUD, viuda DUGATS's] hijo, on the debarkation list, & Pierre DUGAT, her [Francoise BOUDROT, widow DUGAT's] son, age 11, on the complete listing, & says he was in the 32nd Family aboard Le Bon Papa with his widowed mother; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:193 (Thib.Ch.: v. 1, #482), his death/burial record, calls him Pierre Marin DUGAS, "born in St. Malaux, in Bretagne, France," says he was 59 years old when he died, but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife.
82. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Pierre DUGAST, & lists him with his wife & 2 daughters; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 75, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, his wife Marguerite DAIGUE, age 35, brother Amand, age 12, & daughters [Anne-]Osite, age 6, & Marguerite-Blanche, age 4, survived, but daughter Victoire-Osite, age 2, died at sea; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 305-06, Family No. 369, calls him Pierre DUGAST, says he was born in c1728, & gives his father's but not his mother's name; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 64-65, Family No. 119, calls him Pierre DUGAST, says he was born in 1728 but gives no birthplace, gives his parents' names, calls his mother Marguerite COSTE, says he was a carpenter, details his marriage but does not give his wife's parents' names or place of marriage, provides the marriage records of daughters Anne-Osite, born c1752 "in the Parish of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul of Cobequid in Acadie," resident of the Parish of St.-Similien, Nantes, when she married Charles HÉBERT on 6 Oct 1778, St.-Similien, Nantes, & Marguerite-Blanche, born in 1755 at Cobeguit & resident of St.-Martin, Chantenay, when she married on 23 Nov 1784 Pierre BOURG at St.-Martin, Chantenay, & details his family's participation in the Grand Ligne settlement in Poitou as well as its voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 24-25, calls him Pierre DUGAST, charpentier, age 57, on the embarkation list, Pierre DUGATS, on the debarkation list, & Pierre DUGAT, carpenter, age 57, on the complete listing, says he was in the 56th Family aboard La Bergère with his wife & 2 daughters, details his marriage, including the names of his parents but not hers, does not give a place of marriage, & lists the implements the Spanish gave to him & his family after they reached LA.
So where did Robichaux in his study of the Acadians in Nantes get the name Marguerite COSTE for his mother? If his mother was Marguerite COSTE, was he only a half-brother of Amand, Charles, & Élisabeth, whose mother was Anne HÉBERT? White, DGFA-1, 573, gives his father Claude DUGAS only one wife--Anne HÉBERT. None of the other Claude DUGASs in DGFA-1 married Marguerite COSTE. The passenger list of 1758 is clear--he had a much younger brother named Amand, though it may not have been the same Amand DUGAS who emigrated to LA.
83. Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls him Pierre DUGAT, & lists him with his wife & 2 daughters; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 76, shows that in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, he & his first wife, age 27, lost all 3 of their children at sea--son Jean-Pierre, age 5, & daughters Anne-Josèphe, age 4, & Marie-Rose, age 2; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 64, Family No. 118, calls him Pierre DUGAST, says he was born c1732 but gives no birthplace, that he was a carpenter, gives his father's but not his mother's name, details his 3 marriages, says his first wife was born c1732 but gives no birthplace, that they married c1754 but gives no place of marriage, does not give her parents' names or her date of death or place of burial, that his second wife was born c1724, does not give her parents' names but does name her first husband, says she died age 52 & was buried 14 Dec 1776 at St.-Similien, Nantes, gives his third wife's parents' names, includes the birth/baptismal records of 2 daughters by his third wife, Rose, baptized 14 Feb 1782, St.-Martin, Chantenay, & Anne-Pérrine, baptized 8 Jan 1785, St.-Martin, Chantenay, & details his family's participation in the Leigne-les-bois settlement in Poitou in the early 1770s as well as their voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1784, 42-43, calls him Pierre DUGAT, charpentier, age 51, on the embarkation list, & Pierre DUGAT, carpenter, age 51, on the complete listing, says he was in the 2nd Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with his third wife & 2 daughters, & details his third marriage, including his wife' parents' names but not his parents' names, & gives no place of marriage; BRDR, 3:291 (ASM-3, 78), his death/burial record, calls him Pedro DUGAS, "age 79 yrs., 6 mos. of Sts. Peter and Paul parish in Acadia [Cobeguit], married to Rosalie LEBLANC," & gives his parents' names.
His sister Anne & brother Joseph's families were nos. 1 & 6 on the passenger list of Le St.-Rémi.
84. Not in Wall of Names. See De Ville, St. Gabriel Census, 1777, 8-9.
Were Alexandre, Augustin, & Pierre brothers? Why are they not listed in Wall of Names? Were they French Creole DUGASs?
85. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Pierre-Olivier [DUGAST], & lists him with his widowed father & 4 siblings; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 22-23, calls him Pierre-Olivier, son [Charles DUGAST's] fils, marin, age 18, on the embarkation list, does not include him on the debarkation list, calls him Pierre-Olivier DUGAT, son [of Charles DUGAT], sailor, age 18, on the complete listing, says he was in the 55th Family aboard La Bergère with his widowed father & 4 siblings, & was among the children of his family leaving Châtellerault for Nantes in Nov 1775; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:278 (SM Ch.: v.4, #111), his marriage record, calls him Pierre DUGAS of St.-Malo, France, gives his & his wife's parents' names, says she was "of Assumption Parish in Lafourche, des Chettimachas," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Jean BERARD, Charles DOUGAT (his father), & Francois BROUSSARD; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:321 (SM Ch.: v.4, #1341), his death/burial record, calls him Pierre dit Pierrot DUGAS, "inhabitant at la Prairie Sorel," says he died "at age about 52 years at his home," that he was buried next day "in the parish cemetery," but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-B:321 (Laf.Ct.Hse.: Succ.#35), his succession record, calls him Pierre Auguste DUGAS wid. is Sophie GOTRAU.
His dit Pierrot is from his son Joachim's baptismal record, dated 26 Apr 1813, in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:254 (SM Ch.: v.6, #1502), & in his burial record, cited above.
86. Wall of Names, 35 (pl. 8R), calls her Rose [DUGAT], & lists her with her parents & a sister; Robichaux, Acadians in Nantes, 64, Family No. 118, her birth/baptismal record, calls her Rose DUGAST, but does not include her godparents' names, & details her family's voyage to LA in 1785; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 42-43, calls her Rose, sa [Pierre DUGAT's] fille, age 3, on the embarkation list, & Rose DUGAT, his [Pierre DUGAT's] daughter, age 3, on the complete listing, & says she was in the 2nd Family aboard Le St.-Rémi with her parents & a sister.
87. Wall of Names, 31 (pl. 7R), calls him Simon [DUGAST], & lists him with his widowed father & sister; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2481, calls him Simon DUGAS, does not give his parents' names, his birth date, or his birth place, says he married Geneviève BOURG, but does not give the marriage date or place nor her parents' names, lists their children as Marie-Madeleine, born in 1788 but gives no birthplace, & says they settled at Donaldsonville; <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No. 71, shows the fate of his family in the crossing to St.-Malo in 1758-59, detailed in the footnote for his father's profile, above; Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 24-25, calls him Simon, son [Paul DUGAST's] fils, charpentier, age 37, on the embarkation list, Simon DUGATS, on the debarkation list, & Simon DUGAT, his [Paul DUGAT's] son, carpenter, age 37, on the complete listing, says he was in the 62nd Family aboard La Bergère with his widowed father & sister, & lists the implements the Spanish gave to him after he reached LA; BRDR, 2:122, 261 (ASC-2, 8), his marriage record, calls him Simon DUGAS, calls his wife Geneieve BOURG, does not give his or her parents' names, & says the witness to his marriage was Prosper GIROIR; BRDR, 4:185 (ASM-3, 211), his death/burial record, calls him Simon DUGAS, age ca. 80 yrs. of Acadia, husband of Geneviève BOURQUE, but does not give his parents' names.
For his appointment as 1 of the 5 Acadian leaders aboard La Bergère, see Hébert, D., Acadian Families in Exile 1785, 29.
88. Wall of Names, 15, calls him Théodore DUGAS; BRDR, 2:261, 295 (ASC-1, 157 & 158), his marriage record, calls him Theodoro DUGAS, calls his parents Juan [DUGAS] & Maria Charlot (GODIN), gives his wife's parents' names & says they were "of Acadia," & that the witnesses to his marriage were Maturin LANDRY & Carlos DUGAS [his brother]; BRDR, 4:185 (ASC-4, 191), his death/burial record, calls him Théodore DUGAS, age 69 yrs., but does not give his parents' names or mention a wife. See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 165-66, 175.
The Cabanocé census of 1766 says that he was a nephew of Francois & Rose DUGAS along with brothers Athanase, Charles, & Michel. He was, in fact, Francois's & Rose's youngest brother.
89. Wall of Names, 45, calls her Victoire DUGAST veuve Thomas AYE, & calls her sons Thomas HAYE & Louis HAYE. <acadian-cajun.com>, says that the debarkation list says she was the widow of ______ HENRY. Wall of Names says nothing of it. See also <perso.orange.fr/froux/St_malo_arrivees/5bateaux.htm>, Family No.70.
90. Wall of Names, 16 (pl. 3L), calls him Joseph DUGAS 2, & lists him singly.
Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:274 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.8; SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register, v.1, #8; SM Ch.: v.1, p.13; SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register, v.1, #22), lists 2 Joseph DUGASs who died at Atakapas in 1765, the first on 26 Jul, buried the next day, the second buried 6 or 11 Oct. He could have been either one of them.
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