Bourg

also Bourcq, Bourque

Like so many other Acadian and Québecois families, this one - variously spelled, but usually Bourg - originated in the Mortagne, in the villages around Loudon. Martaize was the home of Simon Bourg (c1578-) and his wife Hélène Comtée (c1579-); they were married about 1600, very likely at the parish church of St-Maurice (above). We know of only one child, the immigrant ancestor Antoine Bourg (1609-1686), who was born in Martaize and traveled (as a soldier) to Acadia with Isaac de Razilly in 1632. He owned a farm near Port-Royal in 1636, and married Antoinette Landry in that year (or perhaps in 1642, sources vary).

Their eleven children: François (c1643-c1684, married Marguérite Boudreau); Marie (1645-1730, married Vincent Brault); Jean (1646-1707, see below); Bernard (1648-1707, married Françoise Brun); Martin (1650-1698, married Marie Potet); Marie-Jeanne (1653-1724, married Jean-Antoine Béliveau); Renée (1655-1686, married Charles Boudreau); Huguette (1657-a1693, married Sebastien Brun); another Marie-Jeanne (1659, married Pierre Comeau); Abraham (1662-1751, married Marie Brun); and Marguérite (1667-1727, married Louis Allain and Martin Richard).

Jean Bourg married Marguérite Martin (daughter of Pierre Martin and Catherine Vigneau) about 1667, probably in Port-Royal. They had at least two children: Marie (married Charles Robichaud in 1703); and our ancestor Marie-Madeleine Bourg, who married Pierre Leblanc in or before 1698. See Leblanc for their eight children. They were great-great-great-great-grandparents of Marie Eva Jean Martin.