Soiurce :

The following is from Stephen White:

At the CEA we identified this Pierre Bourgeois as the son of Hilarion

Bourgeois and Marie Doiron and his first wife, Rosalie LeBlanc, as the

daughter of Pierre LeBlanc and Perpétue Gauvin some time ago.

These identifications are chiefly based upon circumstantial evidence. In

Pierre Bourgeois's case, for example, his connection to the family of

Hilarion Bourgeois is made clear by the appearance of several of Hilarion's

other children among the godparents of his children, notably Hippolyte in

1848, Emilie in 1849, Marguerite in 1859, and Casimir in 1865.

Incidentally, there is no surviving baptismal record for this Pierre,

because at the time of his birth his family resided at Menoudie. The

surviving Menoudie records begin in 1848, but there was an earlier register

kept for that parish beginning in 1824, the apparent year of Pierre's birth.

Before that, the records for the same families all appear in the Memramcook

registers. There are baptisms for Pierre's two older brothers, Hippolyte

and Casimir, at Memramcook. At a later date Pierre's parents moved from

Menoudie to St-Anselme.

Regarding Rosalie LeBlanc, her proximity to Pierre LeBlanc and Perpétue

Gauvin's family is important, combined with the fact that Pierre and

Perpétue did indeed have a daughter Rosalie whose birthdate corresponds with

Pierre Bourgeois's wife's age in the censuses. Additionally, Pierre and

Perpetue's sons Marcel (who was actually baptized as Marcellin) and Louis

were among the godfathers of Rosalie's children (both in 1852, because

Rosalie had a child born in 1851 who was only baptized early the following

year, and a second child who was born and baptized late in that same year).

In the case of the dispensation in the third degree of affinity granted when

Pierre Bourgeois married his second wife, Apollonie Bourgeois, I think we

just have to accept that the priests did not always get everything right,

and that in this case the actual relationship would have been in the third

to the fourth degrees, unless Placide Gaudet was incorrect regarding the

parentage of the Anne Thibodeau who married Pierre à Firmin LeBlanc. This

latter possibility is quite unlikely, however, as Placide Gaudet's own

maternal grandmother came from this branch of the Thibodeau family.

Furthermore, it is worth mentioning here that besides this inaccuracy

regarding the degree of affinity, the priest who officiated at Pierre

Bourgeois's second wedding overlooked the fact that Pierre and his second

bride were related to one another in the fourth degree, through Pierre's

father's mother's mother and Apollonie's father's father's mother being

sisters (Claire and Anne LeBlanc).