Anne Josephe Dugas Boudreaux

My Fourth Great-Grandmother

Daughter of Athanase Dugas and Rose LeBlanc 

First husband Louis Foret and second husband Joseph Marie Boudreaux

Children with Louis Foret: Maria Delphine Foret 

Children with Joseph Marie Boudreaux: Joseph (1807), Jerome (1809), Mariana Escolastica (1816), Charles Marcil, Anne Seraphine 

Anne Josephe Dugas was my fourth great-grandmother. She was the grandmother of my great-grandmother, Louise Boudreaux. Louise was introduced in December 2021. Louise was the grandmother of my maternal grandmother, Velma Mary Carrow Provost. The biographies of mothers on Louise’s maternal line have been published within this blog site. The mothers on Louise’s paternal line begins with Anne Josephe.  She was born to Acadians who arrived in Louisiana as young children. 

A twin, Anne Josephe Dugas was born to Acadians Athanase Dugas and Rose LeBlanc 27 February 1780 in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. She and her sister Maria Magdalena were baptized the day of their birth. Her godparents were Joseph Roger and Ana Landry, possibly her grandmother.^[1]Ana Josefa Dugast baptism, 27 February 1780, La Iglesia de la Ascension de Nostro Senor JesuCristo da Lafourche de los Chetimaches, (Donaldsonville, Louisiana), digital image supplied 3 March … Continue reading Her name is a combination of her godparents’ names. Her sister’s godparents were Ennrique Robichaud and Maria Landry.^[2]Diocese of Baton Rouge, Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Diocese of Baton Rouge) 2:259. She had nine brothers and sisters of which one was an older brother and seven younger siblings. 

Anne’s maternal grandfather Pierre LeBlanc probably died at the beginning of 1791. Her father died a short time later in March of 1791 when she was eleven.^[3]The date of Pierre LeBlanc’s death is based on civil records in Eileen Larre’Behrman, Ascension Parish, Louisiana Civil Records 1770-1804 (Conroe, Texas, 1986), pgs. … Continue reading Her mother died in February 1792 when she was twelve.^[4]Diocese of Baton Rouge, Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Diocese of Baton Rouge) 2:482. “LEBLANC, Rosa, age 36 years & widow of … Continue reading How sad to lose parents and grandfather in such a short period. Then her younger sister Henrriqueta died in 1795.^[5]Diocese of Baton Rouge, Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Diocese of Baton Rouge) 2:255. “Enrrica, age 13 years (Atanasio & Rosa Leblanc) bur. 5 … Continue reading So much death for a young girl to witness in four years. 

After her parents died, she and her siblings may have lived with their maternal grandmother, Anna Landry; but they may have also lived with one of their Dugas uncles, Theodoro, Michel or Charles. When Anne’s younger sister Rosalie married Jean Baptiste Gaudin 16 October 1809, her uncle Charles gave consent as her tutor.^[6]Diocese of Baton Rouge, Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Diocese of Baton Rouge), 3:292. The term tutor in this sense meant guardian. 

At age twenty-two, Anne married Louis Foret 28 February 1802 at Ascension Parish.^[7]Louis Foret and Anna Maria Dugat marriage, 28 February 1802, La Iglesia de la Ascension de Nostro Senor JesuCristo da Lafourche de los Chetimaches, (Donaldsonville, Louisiana), digital … Continue reading Their one child, a daughter, Maria Delphine, was born 25 September 1804.^[8]Diocese of Baton Rouge, Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records  (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Diocese of Baton Rouge) 2:330. But their marriage ended less than a year later when Louis died in 1805 in Thibodaux, Louisiana.^[9]Donald J. Hebert, South Louisiana Records Church and Civil Records of Lafourche-Terrebonne Parishes, (Rev. Donald J. Hebert: Cecilia, Louisiana, 1978) 1:189.  

Beginning a new life, Anne married Joseph Marie Boudreaux 20 August 1806 in Ascension Parish. Witnesses were Paul Boudreaux, most likely Joseph’s father or brother and Charles Dugas, probably Anne’s uncle.^[10]Louis Foret and Anna Maria Dugat marriage, 28 February 1802, La Iglesia de la Ascension de Nostro Senor JesuCristo da Lafourche de los Chetimaches, (Donaldsonville, Louisiana), digital … Continue reading Land records suggest that the Boudreaux, Dugas and Foret families lived near each other.^[11]Walter Lowrie, Early Settlers of Louisiana as Taken From Land Claims in the Eastern District of the Orleans Territory (Easley, South Carolina, Southern Historical Press, Inc., … Continue reading   

Anne had two sons, Joseph in 1807 (named after her husband) and Jerome born in 1809. Her grandmother, Ana Landry died in 1808.^[12]Diocese of Baton Rouge, Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records (Diocese of Baton Rouge), 3:479. “LANDRY, Anna, age 77 yrs., wid. Pedro LeBlanc, bur. 13 May 1808 (ASC-4,81).” By 1810, Anne’s family lived in Lafourche. She and Joseph had three children at that time: Marie Delphine, Joseph, and Jerome, all under ten years old.^[13]1810 U.S. census, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, p. 192, Joseph Marie Boudreau household; National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) microfilm publication M252, roll … Continue reading 

Did Anne’s husband participate in the War of 1812? There was at least one man with the name of Joseph Boudreaux in the list of Louisiana soldiers for 1812, but there were many men at that time who had the name Joseph Boudreaux, so there is no certainty.^[14]Louisiana, U.S., Soldiers in the War of 1812 database on-line, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/3339/images/LASoldiers1812-001912-14?pId=1551 : … Continue reading 

By 1820, the family grew to at least three sons and three daughters: Marie Delphine Foret, Joseph, Jerome, Charles (possibly named after her uncle), Mariana Escolastica and Anne Serephine (possibly named after Anne).^[15]Sindi Broussard Terrien, “Carrow-Walker Family Tree,” Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/76901568/person/46353451875/fact : viewed 28 May 2022), … Continue reading  A man over the age of forty-five and another boy under ten who may have been a father and son lived with the Boudreaux family. They also enslaved seven people, three young boys and a man as well as three females.^[16]1820 U.S. census, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, p. 192, Joseph Marie Bodreau household; National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) microfilm publication M33, roll … Continue reading Having enslaved people implies that the family was in agriculture and needed assistance on the farm and in the home. 

Joseph died around 1823 as there was a summons at the Thibodaux Court House for a succession on 19 May 1823.^[17]Donald J. Hebert, South Louisiana Records Church and Civil Records,1:89. 

It is possible that Anne was living in Ascension Parish with three children when the 1830 census was taken. Described as the widow Joseph M. Boudreaux, she was about fifty years old and lived with three children, a boy between five and ten, a boy between ten and fifteen and a girl between five and ten.^[18]1830 U.S. census, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, p. 61, Vwe. Joseph M. Boudreaus household; National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) microfilm publication … Continue reading The boy between ten and fifteen may have been her son Charles and the others could be grandchildren. 

Anne’s son Jerome was the great-grandfather of my grandmother. 

The next posting will be about Anne’s mother, Rose Leblanc who came to Louisiana as a child during the Great Expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia. 

C’est tout!  (That’s all!)