Descendants of Antoine Bourg and Antoinette Landry
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Coat-of-arms of the Bourg-Bourcque family...
Note : Bourg, Bour, Bourq, Bourc, Bourck, Boureq, Bourque, Bourke, Burke and other variations seem interchangable in the available documentation.
Antoine Bourg was born in 1609, in Martaizé, a village in the province of Poitou, France.
Some believe Antoine's parents to be Simon Bourg, born in 1576 in Martaizé, and Helen Comptée, born in 1579, also in Martaizé. Others agree with Simon being the father, but offer a woman named Marianne, born in 1592 as being his wife. Antoine Bourg had a sister named Perrine Bourg, born in 1611, twice married (to Simon Pelletret in 1626, then to a René Landry in 1645 - only adding to the confusion around Bourg/Landry origins).
Antoine Bourg is considered to be the father of the Bourg family in Acadia. There is no actual proof of birthplace, but it is assumed that he was born in Martaizé, in the province of Poitou (today, Vienna), in France. Records show that he probably came from the estates of Charles D'Aulnay or from the estates of Charles D'Aulnay's mother, nearby or in Martaizé. Antoine arrived in Acadia with Commander Isaac de Razilly in 1632. In 1636, he moved to Port Royal and established his farm.
By 1642, in Port Royal, Antoine Bourg had met and married Antoinette Landry, sister of the transport ship's captain.
Unfortunately there is some debate as to the parents and birthplace of Antoinette Landry. Having distilled the information from numerous accounts, it seems likely that Antoinette Landry was born in 1618 in La Chausse, Vienne, France (near Martaizé), and that she emigrated to Port Royal in the late 1630's, with her brother René.
Due to records lost in a fire in the early 1700's, and due to the fact that there were two men named René Landry in the early days of Port Royal, researchers have come to no agreeable conclusion as to how the Landry name got started in Acadian history. (A quick Internet search for Jean-Claude Landry in Acadia will yield fascinating results.)
Antoinette is on the list of the "mothers of the Acadian people" as it is preserved on large yellowed paper in the Maritime Archives, Ministry of the Colonies, Paris. These women came principally from the areas of Poitou (where Martaizé is located), Berri, Bretagne and Touraine in France.
Map of France, showing the area known as Poitou, as it was when Antoine Bourg emigrated...
Simon Bourg
- born in 1576, in Martaizé, in the province of Poitou, France
- married Helen Comptée, born in 1579, in Martaizé (though some think his wife may have been Marianne _______, born in 1592)
- children :
- Antoine Bourg
- born in 1609, in the village of Martaizé, in the province of Poitou, France
- arrived in Acadia in 1632, under the command of Commander Isaac de Razilly
- married in 1642, on Port Royal, to Antoinette Landry (born in 1618 - listed in the 1671 census as age 53)
- Antoine Bourg
- 1733 map of Port Royal area, or Annapolis Royal - as it became known under English rule in 1713. Note "Bourg's Village" on the north side of the river channel.
- children :
- François Bourg
- born in 1643, in Port Royal
- married, in 1665, in Port Royal, to Marguerite Boudrot (born c1648, daughter of Michel Boudrot and Michelle Aucoin)
- Census Report
- François Bourg
- children :
- Michel Bourg
- born c1666
- Michel Bourg
- Marie Bourg
- born c1668
- François Bourg died between 1684 and 1686
- Margeurite Boudrot died November 9th, 1718
- Marie Bourg
- born in 1645, in Port Royal
- married, c1661, in Port Royal, to Vincent Breau (born c1631)
- Census Report
- children :
- Margeurite Breau
- born c1670
- Margeurite Breau
- François Breau
- born c1674
- Jean Breau
- born c1676
- Anne Breau
- born c1678
- Marie Breau
- born c1680
- Jeanne Breau
- born c1681
- René Breau
- born c1683
- Elisabeth Breau
- born c1685
- Vincent Breau died between 1684 and January,1686.
- Marie Bourg died September 19, 1730.
- Jean Bourg
- born in 1646, in Port Royal
- married, in 1667, to Marguerite Martin (born c1644, daughter of Pierre Martin and Catherine Vigneau)
- Census Report
- children :
- Ann Bourg
- born c1668
- Ann Bourg
- Margeurite Bourg
- born c1670
- Marie Bourg
- born c1673
- Isabelle Bourg
- born c1676
- Magdelaine Bourg
- born c1678
- Catherine Bourg
- born c1680
- Jean-Baptiste Bourg
- born c1683
- Jean Bourg died in 1698, in Cobequid.
- Margeurite Martin died April 24, 1707.
- Bernard Armande Bourg
- born in 1648, in Port Royal
- married, in 1670, to Françoise Brun (born c1653, daughter of Vincent Brun and Renee Breau)
- Census Report
- children :
- Marie Bourg
- born c1671
- Marie Bourg
- Margeurite Bourg
- born c1673
- (see Census Report for possible children with husband Claude Dugas)
- Rene Bourg
- born c1678
- Jeanne Bourg
- born c1679
- Anne Bourg
- born c1680
- Clair Bourg
- born c1683
- Françoise Bourg
- born c1684
- Abraham Bourg
- born c1686
- Marie Bourg
- born c1691
- Claire Bourg
- born c1695
- Bernard Armande Bourg died in1725, in Cobequid.
- Françoise Brun died on May 23, 1725.
- Martin Bourg
- born in 1650, in Port Royal
- married, in 1675, to Marie Potet (born c1657, daughter of M. Potet and Marie Gauterot)
- Census Report
- children :
- Marie Bourg
- born c1676
- Marie Bourg
- Abraham Bourg
- born c1679
- Pierre Bourg
- born c1681
- Jeanne Bourg
- born c1684
- Ambroise Bourg
- born c1687
- François Bourg
- born c1689
- Marie Bourg
- born c1689
- Madeleine Bourg
- born c1694
- resided at Cobequid
- Marie-Jeanne Bourg
- born in 1653, in Port Royal
- married, in 1673, to Jean Antoine Belliveau (born c1653, son of Antoine Belliveau and Marie Guyon)
- Census Report
- children :
- Charles Belliveau
- born c1678
- Antoinette Belliveau
- born c1680
- Marie-Jeanne died before 1704.
- Jean Belliveau died in 1734 or 1735.
- Renée Madeleine Bourg
- born in 1655, in Port Royal
- married, in 1672, to Charles Boudrot (born c1646, son of Michel Boudrot and Michelle Aucoin)
- census of 1678 reports "two boys" in the household
- Renée Bourg died before 1686.
- Charles Boudrot died after 1704.
- Huguette Bourg
- born in 1657
- married, in 1675, in Port Royal, to Sébastien Brun (born c1655, son of Vincent Brun and Renee Breau)
- Census Report
- children :
- Jeanne Brun
- born c1677
- Jeanne Brun
- Claude Brun
- born c1679
- Abraham Brun
- born c1680
- Vincent Brun
- born c1681
- Jean Brun
- born c1682
- Antoine Brun
- born c1685
- Huguette Bourg died in 1708, in France (or, died between 1687 and 1693).
- Sébastien Brun died August 15, 1728.
- Jeanne Bourg
- born in 1659, in Port Royal
- married, in 1677, to Pierre Comeau (son of Pierre Comeau and Rose Bayol of Port Royal)
- Census Report
- children :
- Marie Comeau
- born c1678
- Marie Comeau
- Abraham Comeau
- born c1679
- Margeurite Comeau
- born c1680
- Anne Comeau
- born c1681
- Jeanne Comeau
- born c1682
- Joseph Comeau
- born c1686
- Jeanne Bourg died in 1724.
- Pierre Comeau died April 8, 1730.
- Abraham Bourg
- born in 1662, in Port Royal
- married, c1683, to Marie Sébastienne Brun (born in 1659; daughter of Vincent Brun, born 1611, and Marie-Renee Breau, born 1616)
- Marie was a young widow with a small son (François, born 1679) living in Port Royal when she married Abraham Bourg. Her first husband, François Gautrot had died young.
- Map of Port Royal area mentioning Abraham Bourg.
- For a time, Abraham owned a tract of land on the north side of the River Dauphin, not far from Port Royal proper. Beside his was a tract of land owned by Bernard Bourg. Abraham may have been a person of standing in the community, as he could sign his name as witness at the wedding of his son Michel, on April 22, 1720, while other witnesses were unable to write their signatures.
- Abraham must have gone back to Port Royal though, for on September 16, 1727, he and François Richard and the deputies Charles Landry and Guillaume Bourgeois refused to take the new oath of allegiance to George II and were thrown into prison. Although many residents had taken the old oath unreservedly in 1695, by 1727 the Acadians were using it as a bargaining tool. They maintained they were neutral in any conflict the English had with the French and Mi'kmaq. They also insisted on the freedom to practice their own religion. It was ordered that Bourg, "in consideration of his great age" should be allowed to leave the territory as soon as possible - but without his goods. As the others were released after a short while, it appears unlikely that Abraham Bourg actually left. An oath of 1730 bears a signature which may be his.
- Abraham Bourg made the trip to Cape Breton with his daughter Marie, her husband and small children. Marie died at Port Toulouse along with her son Jean in 1727. He may have returned to Port Royal after this trip, too.
- children :
- François (Gautrot)
- born c1679
- a step-son (see info above)
- François (Gautrot)
- Jean-Baptiste Bourg
- born 1684
- Marguerite Bourg
- born 1686
- Claude Bourg
- born 1688
- Pierre Bourg
- born 1689
- Marie Bourg
- born 1691
- married ______
- children :
- a son ________
- Marie Bourg died in 1727, in Port Toulouse. Her son died then also.
- Michel Bourg
- born 1693
- married, on April 22, 1720, in Port Royal, to Anne Boudrot (born in 1699)
- marriage witnesses were Pierre Broussard, Alexander Broussard and Abraham Bourg
- Between 1713 and 1734, some 67 Acadian families chose to move from the fertile areas around Port Royal and in the Annapolis Valley to the far less fertile but excellent fishing region of Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) - this, at the behest of the French government that Acadian families move there to join with French fishermen from Newfoundland and populate the French Island.
- Michel was listed at various census as a navigator, labourer, carpenter and a farmer-fisherman. He did have a boat called a "goelette" - a schooner which was definitely capable of coastal navigation, and which was used for commerce, not fishing, according to the census of 1726. He and his young family were listed in the census at Port Toulouse, Cape Breton in the years 1722, 1724 and 1726. Port Toulouse was the second largest settlement on Cape Breton Island at this time and is known today as St. Peter's, Nova Scotia. (Debra Burke)
- Michel was at Tracadie, Île St. Jean (now known as Prince Edward Island) in 1728, 1734, and 1735 with his family and his boat. Tracadie was on the north side of Île St. Jean, roughly in its center. In the last French census, taken in 1752, Michel was still at Tracadie, Île. St. Jean... (Debra Burke)
- Map of Ile St. Jean (P.E.I.) showing Tracadie on the north side.
- Michel Bourg, fisherman and ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 60 years, and has been 24 years on the Isle. Married to Anne Boudrot, native of l'Acadie, aged 50 years. They have seven children, four sons and three daughters: Michel, aged 30 years, Joseph, aged 25 years, Abraham, aged 23 years, Pierre, aged 13 years, Anne, aged 27 years, Marie, aged 19 years, and Magdelaine, aged 14 years.
- In live stock they have four oxen, four cows, three calves, eight ewes, fifteen pigs, two sows, seventeen fowls or chickens; and one boat. The land upon which they are settled was given to them verbally by Messieurs de Pensens and Dubuisson. On it, they have made a clearing for the sowing of sixty-four bushels of grain, they have sown one half of this quantity.
- In 1755, Michel Bourg's family was caught up with the rest of the Acadian people in the expulsion. Michel was dead by 1761, but his widow was alive with their children at Nipisiguit in the area of Bathurst, New Brunswick. Anne is not listed in the census taken at Fort Beausejour in 1763, but seven adult children are. Her sons, Michel and Joseph arrived at Miquelon, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the ship "Les Deux Amis", November 11, 1765. Many Acadians fled to these islands after the war, but did not establish themselves there. Daughter Madeleine married at Miquelon in 1766. Daughter Anne and son Pierre were counted in the census of Miquelon in 1767, and the widow Anne was counted with the orphan Jean Arsenault. There are no further known records of Anne. (Debra Burke)
- children :
- Michel Bourg
- born 1721, in Port Toulouse, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island)
- Michel Bourg
- Anne Bourg
- born 1723, in Port Toulouse, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island)
- Joseph Bourg
- born 1727, in Port Toulouse, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island)
- Abraham Bourg
- born February 6, 1728, baptized May 21, 1729, in Port La Joie, Île St. Jean (P.E.I.)
- Marie Bourg
- born 1731
- Jean Bourg
- born February 2, 1734, baptized May 7, 1735, in St. Pierre du Nord, Île St. Jean (P.E.I.)
- Madeleine Bourg
- born November 27, 1737, batized May 25, 1738 in St. Pierre du Nord, Île St. Jean (P.E.I.)
- Pierre Bourg
- born December 1, 1740, in Tracadie, Île St. Jean (P.E.I.).
- married, in 1772, in Isle Madame, Cape Breton, to Cecile Dugas (daughter of Abraham Dugas and Margeurite Fougere)
- The family lived in River Bourgeois. The couple may be the godparents of Martial Dugas born August 17, 1771, to Jean Dugas and Marie Landry.
- children :
- Joseph Bourg
- born 1777
- Joseph Bourg
- first married in 1803, to Ruffine Landry (daughter of Pierre Landry and Anne Clerge)
- children by this marriage :
- Joseph Bourg
- born 1803
- Joseph Bourg
- Simon Bourg
- born 1807
- Ruffine Landry died about 1809.
- Joseph was established at River Bourgeois, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) where, in the census of 1811, he was listed as "Joseph Boureq" - a fisherman and co-owner (with "Peter" Boureq, relation unknown, or probably his father Pierre) of a 40' 6" boat named the Nancy.
- Joseph's second marriage, about 1812, was to Anne Boucher (daughter of Jean Boucher and Madeleine Coste).
- Joseph and his father Pierre (who was living with Joseph's family at that time), were both on the list of the militia in 1813, on the British side of The War of 1812.
- children by the second marriage :
- Edward Bourg
- born 1812
- born 1821
- married on January 24, 1848, in River Bourgeois, to Domitille Cordeau (born in 1821, daughter of Urbain Cordeau, born 1775, and Charlotte Benoit, possibly born in 1790). Marriage witnesses were Jean Landry, Jean Bourg, Placide Bourg , and Charles Cordeau. Priest's name was J. Courteau.
- The family lived in River Bourgeois. Damien was a fisherman.
- Nine children :
- Appoline Sara Bourg
- born Jan 21, 1849
- Appoline Sara Bourg
- Aime (or Amos) Bourg
- born May 2, 1850)
- Olive Bourg
- born Jan 13, 1852
- Damien Bourg (Jr.)
- born Oct 9, 1853
- Damien Bourg (Jr.) is Theresa Burke's grandfather on her father's side - "le vieux Damien".
- for more information on these descendants, follow this link...
- Mathilda Bourg
- born Oct 22, 1855
- Anne Bourg
- born Dec 13, 1858
- Abraham Joseph Bourg
- born Sept 12, 1860
- Charles Bourg
- born Oct 18, 1863
- Cyprien Bourg
- born May 15, 1866
- Province of Nova Scotia, District No. 41 Richmond, Sub-District No. 6, River Bourgeois... Census taken by Daniel Sampson, April 6, 1891. 225 families recorded.
- St. John The Baptist Church of River Bourgeois records
- (which state, in particular, that the parents of Damien Bourg to be Joseph Bourg and Anne Boucher, and parents of Domitille Cordeau to be Urbain Cordeau and Charlotte Benoit in the 1848 record of Damien's marriage to Domitille.)
| Husband, Damian Burk | age 70 |
Fisherman
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| Wife, Domitille | age 69 |
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| Son, Charles | age 28 |
Fisherman
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- Damien (Sr.) died November 18, 1898.
- Domitille Cordeau died October 12,1903.
- Joseph Bourg died ________ .
- Anne Boucher was buried on April 25, 1854, in River Bourgeois.
- Jean Bourg
- born 1783
- occupation: fisherman
- married c1809 to Marie Landry (daughter of Pierre-Jean Landry and _____ )
- Jean Bourg died November 3, 1880, in River Bourgeois.
- Pierre Bourg
- born 1785
- occupation: fisherman
- married c1808 to Anne Boucher (daughter of Louis Boucher and Perpetue Landry)
- children :
- Michel Bourq
- born c1807
- Maurice Bourq
- born c1810
- Aime Bourq
- born c1812
- Edouard Bourq
- born c1814, in River Bourgeois
- married on November 7, 1842, in River Bourgeois, to Anne Landry (born c1817, daughter of Anselme Landry and Anne Cordeau)
- children :
- Isaie Bourque (Isaac Burke)
- born September 9, 1844
- married Charlotte Deveau
- Adele Bourque
- born 1846
- died 1846
- Anselme Bourque (Sam Burke)
- born October 24, 1847
- Adele Bourque
- born September 20, 1850
- Marine Bourque
- born 1856
- Desire Bourque
- born 1858
- Angele Bourque
- born 1864
- get more info - link
- Lucien Bourq
- born c1816
- Sophie Bourq
- Pierre Bourq
- get more info - link
- Pierre Bourg was buried February 18, 1850, in River Bourgeois.
- Pierre Bourg died sometime after 1813.
- Cecile Dugas died in 1813.
- Michel Bourg died between 1752 and 1761.
- Anne Boudrot died sometime after 1767.
- Charles Bourg
- born 1695
- Joseph Bourg
- born 1697
- It is not presently known where or when Abraham Bourg died, but it was probably after April 13, 1736, when Marie Brun's burial record identifies her as the wife (not the widow) of Abraham Bourg. Abraham would have been 74 years of age then.
- Marie Sébastienne Brun died April 13, 1736.
- Michel Bourg
- born in 1665
- (insufficient proof for some to be included in this list of children)
- Madeleine Bourg
- born in1666
- (insufficient proof for some to be included in this list of children)
- married Pierre Leblanc
- Marguerite Bourg
- born in 1667, in Port Royal
- married, in 1690, to Louis Allain (born c1654, of Port Royal)
- Census Report
- children :
- Pierre Allain
- born c1691
- Pierre Allain
- Marie Allain
- born c1693
- Margeurite Bourg died in Port Royal on September 13, 1727.
- Loius Allain died June 15, 1737.
- Antoine Bourg died October 5, 1687, before the 1693 census in which his wife Antoinette was listed as a widow living at the house of her son Abraham, and his wife Marie Brun.
- Perrine Bourg
- born ______
- married in 1626, to Simon Pelletret
- second marriage, in 1645, to René Landry (l'aîné, the elder of two René Landry's in the area at the same time)
- Census Report
- children :
- Henriette Pelletret
- born c1641
- Henriette Pelletret
- Jeanne Pelletret
- born c1643
- Marie Pelletret (?)
- born c1646
- Marie Landry (?)
- born c1648
- Magdelene Landry
- born c1656
- Pierre Landry
- born c1658
- Claude Landry
- born c1663
- married Margeurite Terriot (born c1666)
- children :
- Margeurite Landry
- born c1685
- Simon Bourg died _________ .
- Helene Comptée died _________ .
How this family connects...
The generations in Canada to present include...
Antoine BOURG / Antoinette LANDRY
Abraham BOURG / Marie BRUN
Michel BOURG / Anne BOUDROT
Pierre BOURG / Cecile DUGAS
Joseph BOURG / Anne BOUCHER
Damien BOURG (Sr.) / Domitille CORDEAU
Damien BOURG (Jr.) / Eugenie LANDRY
Abraham Alfred Damien BURKE / Ellen Jane THIBEAU
Theresa Mary BURKE / Alfred LONGHURST
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