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Note: was born about 1740 at Pisiquit in Acadia. He was deported to Cherbourg. The exact date of the deportation is unknown. IMMIGRATION: The long awaited departure finally came on June 11, 1785. On the ship, the Beaumont, were Francois Daigle and four of his children (family 16) along with Francois Arbour (family 17) Francois Alexandre Daigle who had married on September 23 at Chantenay, was also on board along with his wife, Rose Adelaide Bourg,, and his two children (family 23) The youngest was still nursing. IMMIGRATION: Francois Daigle, Jeanne Holley and five of their six children - only Marie Therese stayed in France - departed for Louisiana on June 11, 1785 on the Beaumont, (families 6 and 23). "He was also related to the Guillots, and he wrote to them about 20 or 30 years ago, offering them all sorts of assistance to come to Louisiana, even giving them the name of a person at Orleans who would give them funds for this purpose. At one point, he even considered sending them the assistance of a young 19 year old man of the family. But the long journey frightened him and he refused to go. They have had no news since. This Daigle claimed to have ships and to live at Baton Rouge on the Mississippi." IMMIGRATION: Even Rameau de Saint P�ere seems to have been taken in by these never-ending questions. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/froux/daigle/daigle1e.html MARRIAGE: He married on January 17, 1761 to Jeanne Holley, daughter of Thomas Holley and Scholastique Le Gentilhomme, a nobleman from Cherbourg. A marriage contract executed on December 17, 1760, give the impression that this family was rather well off. MARRIAGE: The marriage contract, written in French, is in the archives of Blubonnet Library in Baton Rouge, and is almost illegible. I obtained an English transcription which has many blanks spaces. MARRIAGE: Extract of the marriage contract bewtween Francois Daigle and Jeanne Holley MARRIAGE: In the name of the father, of the son, and of the Holy Ghost MARRIAGE: On Sunday, the seventh day of the month of December, of one thousand sevent hundred and sixty, at Cherbourg, the portions of marriage expected to be performed after the ceremonies of our Holy Mother the Church, observed between Monsieur Francois Marie Daigre, son of Abraham Daigre and of Anne Marie Boudrot, originaly from the parish of St. Jean in Cadiz, is the father and mother on one part and Jeanne Holley daughter of Monsieur. Thomas Holley and Scholastique Le Gentilhomme the father and mother on the other part MARRIAGE: [���.] MARRIAGE: The said future wife has declared to be owner of one [��] bed [��] a [ �..] with every thing for a bed, one dozen sheets, a dozen and a half of chemises and an dozen napkins [��]. a dozen handkerchiefs, five ensembles complete, a dress with the [��.] apron , an ensemble of white cotton, and another of Indiana with an apron , two cottonade petticoats [ ��] The [ ��] furniture has been estimated at the sum of two hundred and fifty nine pounds �. Done in the presence and with the contentement of the brother of the said future husband, in the presence of Jean Daigre, brother of Pierre Daigre, Marguerite Daigre, Marie Rose Daigre, brother and sister of the said future husband [��] and on the presence of Schlolastique Le Gentilhomme, mother of the said future wife, Marie Marguerite Condry, wife of Jean Francois Holley, Marie Catherine Holley, the wive of Pierre Danoit, and of Anne Holley... CHILDREN: Their first four children were born in Cherbourg: Marie Therese in 1761, Francois Alexandre in 1763, Louis Francois in 1766, Marie Jeannne Jacqueline in 1769. The couple then moved to Havre where Flore Adelaide (1770) and Marie Louise (1773) were born. CHILDREN: The Daigle family settled at Manchac in Louisiana. This family did not do things halfway. In 1790 the unwed children were 24, 21, 20 and 17 years old. It was time to get them married and that is occurred, all within in a period of three months. Louis Francois married Marie Rose Moulaison and Flore Adelaide married Jean Charles LeTullier in a double ring ceremony on July 21, 1790, in the church of St. Anne de Morganza near Pointe Coupee. On Septenber 27, 1790, in another double ring ceremony, this time at St. Gabriel parish of Iberville, Marie Jeanne married Francois Marie Arbour and Marie Louise married Isidore Francois Tullier. PROPERTY: Then the Poitou adventure ensued. He is granted farms 17 and 19 to him; his neighbor is Francois Arbour, who also came from Havre. He did not do much work on the farm because he frequently went to Nantes in hopes of leaving for Louisiana. His wife, however, took a full part in the life of the colony and her signature appears on several requests or petitions. In 1776, the marriage of Marie Therese to Rene Baudeau took place. Farm 29 was given to the newly weds, but they to wanted to go to Louisiana. However, this could not be because Rene Baudeau was not Acadian. DEATH: The year 1790, hoerver, was not only a year of marriages and happiness. In October, Francois Daigle died. We might even suspect that these rushed weddings were due to the illness of Francois Daigle signaling an imminent end, and thus his desire to secure his children's future. DEATH: Francois Daigle's wealth was not great, but this might be this inheritance that gave rise to repeated questions from the Acadian descendants to Rameau de Saint P�ere 70 years later. DEATH: Here is the transcript of Francois Daigle's will, preserved in "Spanish West Florida Documents" Vol. 1 of the Blubonnet Regional Library at Baton Rouge. DEATH: In the Fort Bute of Manchac, on the twenty first day of the month of October of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, I, Don Francisco Rivas, lieutenant of the regiment of infantry of Louisiana, and Commandant civil and military of the expressed fort and its districts, in consequence of having presented herself before me, Jeanne Holley, wife of the deceased Francois Marie Daigre and her children heirs Alexandre Daigre, Louis Daigre, Jeanne Daigre and her husband Francois Arbur. Flora Adelaide Daigre and her husband Isidore Tullie, who having agreed and accorded among themselves to divide the property which is shown in the present inventory, belonging to their deceased father, at the price at which they were appraised, in consequence of which and at the request of the stated heirs, I went at the hour that was about eight o'clock in the morning of this same day, accompanied by the witnesses and appraisers of the present inventory, to the domicile of the said deceased and in the presence of the cited witnesses and appraisers , the named heirs divided among themselves the property expressed in this inventory in the same kind and quality as its estimation, in the following form: The expressed widow Jeanne Holley received the sum of the marriage contract which she presented and is inserted which is fifty nine pesos which deducted from four hundred and ninety five pesos and seven reales of the total sum of the inventory,four hundred and thirthy six pesos and seven reales remain, of this sum she she received also the half, which is two hundred eighteen pesos hich correspond to her from the community of the marriage and the other two hundred and eighteen pesos and seven reales remaining, they divided in six equal parts which amount to thirty six pesos and four reales which each one of the stated heirs, children of the deceased has received. And the aforesaid widow has also received thirty six pesos and four reales for the part of Maria Theresa Daigre, also daughter of the deceased, because of her being absent in France, with the obligation of remitting it to her. And all expressed themselves as satisfied with the succession of their deceased father; and that it may appear for all time, In testimony where of they signed it and those who did not know how to write made the accustumed sign of the cross, whith the witnesses and appraisers who were all present with me, the said Commandant of the same day, month and year that "ut supra". DEATH: Louis Daigle Jeanne Holley DEATH: Sign of Alexandre Daigre X DEATH: Sign of Flora Adelaide Daigre X DEATH: Sign of Jeanne Daigre X DEATH: Mari of Franxois Daigre X DEATH: Sign of Marie Louise Daigre X DEATH: Sign of Isidore Tullie X DEATH: Jean Charles Tullie Pol Trahan DEATH: Jo Sephmir J W Butler DEATH: Francois Rivas DEATH: Sign of Pierre Guidry
Note: IMMIGRATION: Francois Marie Daigle, son of Abraham and Anne Marie Boudrot
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