7. Dugas Family
Dugas Family 9GG Major Germaine Sieur de la Verdure Doucet 1595 - 1654 8GG Pierre Doucet; Marguerite Doucet m Abraham Dugas 1613 - 1698 son of Abraham Dugas 1590 - 1689 and Marguerite Carsonne 1590 - 1689 7GG Marie-Jean Dugas; Claude Dugas; Marguerite Dugas; Madeline Dugas; Marie Dugas http://ourancestors.homestead.com/Bourgeois.html BOURGEOIS, JACQUES (Jacob), surgeon, colonizer, founder of Beaubassin; b. sometime between 1618 and 1621 in France, probably at Couperans-en-Brie (department of Seine-et-Marne); d. 1701 at Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.); founder of the Bourgeois family in Acadia. Before leaving France, Bourgeois had entered the medical profession. He came to Port-Royal in 1642 with 18 families that Governor Menou* d’Aulnay brought with him on one of his voyages. Bourgeois’ father, also named Jacques, was an army officer at Port-Royal and was the brother-in-law of Germain Doucet, Sieur de La Verdure, Aulnay’s assistant. In 1654...