Alexis-Jean-Mathurin [Mathurin] Daigle

• Sources:
  • Passenger List for La Bergère - May 14, 1785 - August 15, 1785 - Paimboeuf, France to New Orleans, Orleans, La Luisiana, New Spain (age: 22)
  • "Acadian Immigrants to Lafourche des Chitimachas/Valenzuéla, 1785-86" - http://www.acadiansingray.com
    • At Boulogne-sur-Mer 1763-66
    • Sailed from Boulogne-sur-Mer to St.-Malo, France, aboard Le Hazard, arrived St.-Malo 28 May 1766, age 3
    • At St.-Servan, France, 1766-72
    • In Poitou, France, 1773-76
    • In Fourth Convoy from Châtellerault to Nantes, France, Mar 1776
    • On list of Acadians at Nantes, Sep 1784, listed as Mathurin Daigre, listed singly
    • Sailed to la Luisiana on La Bergère, age 22
    • Valenzuela, la Luisiana census, 1788, listed as Jean, age 25
    • Valenzuela, la Luisiana census, 1791, listed as Mathurin, age 26
    • Valenzuela, la Luisiana census, 1795, listed as Maturino D'Aigle, age 33
    • Valenzuela, la Luisiana census, 1797, age 34, listed as Mathurin, age 34
    • Valenzuela, la Luisiana census, 1798, age 35, listed as Mathurin, age 35
    • Succession dated 12 Nov 1806, Interior Parish courthouse?
    • Succession inventory dated 15 Jun 1815, Lafourche Interior Parish courthouse

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• Notes:
  • Arrived in current day Louisiana Aug 1785

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Given Names: Alexis (sometimes Mathurin)

Surname: Daigle (D'Aigle)

Date of Birth: 1/6/1763

Birthplace: Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France

Baptised At: St. Nicolas Church, Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France

Date of Baptism: Fri, Jan 7, 1763

Mother: Élizabeth (Élisabeth, Isabelle) Granger

Father: Alexandre Daigle (D'Aigle)

Marriage: Married Marie Josèphe Françoise Levron (LeBron, Levrot), whose parents were Acadians, at Ascension Parish, La., January 29, 1788. The marriage record was witnessed by François Landry. Marie Levron had sailed to Louisiana aboard the St. Remi.

Children: Joseph Alexandre (born November 11, 1788), Charles Marie (born March 22, 1790), Jean Baptiste (born April 5, 1792), Joseph Silvestre (born September 13, 1794), Claire Clarisse (born ca. 1796), Mathurin Pascal (born March 25, 1799), Pierre Michel (born November 2, 1800), Marie Scholastique (born July 18, 1803)

Exile: Probably resided at Saint-Servan, Brittany, Frrance, 1763-1774. Departed France aboard the Bergère, a 300-ton merchant vessel chartered by the Spanish government to transport Acadian exiles to Louisiana, May 12, 1785. Arrived in Louisiana, August 15, 1785.

Louisiana: Late eighteenth-century Louisiana records frequently misidentify Alexis Daigle as Jean Daigle, Alexis's brother. The 1788 census of the Lafourche District, which identifies Alexis as Jean Daigle, indicates that he was the twenty-five-year-old head of a household including Marie Levron, his twenty-five-year-old spouse. He and his wife owned a tract of land with five arpents frontage, fifteen barrels of corn, and four hogs. The 1789 census of the Lafourche District indicates that Alexis Daigle was the twenty-six-year-old head of a household including Marie Levron (Levrot), his twenty-six-year-old spouse. The couple occupied a tract of land with five arpents frontage. They owned fifteen barrels of corn, one horse, and ten hogs. The 1791 census of the Lafourche region lists Mathurin Daigle, the twenty-six-year-old head of a household including Marie Levron, his twenty-six-year-old spouse, Joseph, his two-year-old son, and Charles, his one-year-old son. The 1795 census of the Lafourche region lists Mathurin (Maturino) Daigle as the thirty-three-year-old head of a household including his thirty-three-year-old spouse, Marie Levrons (sic), Jean Baptiste, his three-year-old son, and Joseph, his one-year-old son. The 1797 census of the Lafourche region lists Mathurin Daigle as the thirty-four-year-old head of a household including Marie Levron, his thirty-four-year-old wife, Jean Baptiste, his four-year-old son, and Joseph, his two-year-old son.

Interred At: Assumption Catholic Church, Plattenville, Louisiana

Date of Burial: Sunday, October 22, 1815

Sources: Bugeon and Hivert-Le Faucheux, comps., Les Acadiens partis de France en 1785, pp. 21-25; Rieder and Rieder, comps., Seven Acadian Expeditions of 1785, 20; Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, 2:212; General census of the settlers in the Lafourche District, 1788, AGI, PPC, 201:668-680; General Census of the Settlers of the Lafourche District, 1789, AGI, PPC, 202:248-259vo; Woods and Nolan, comps., Sacramental Records, 6:70; Marchand, An Attempt to Re-Assemble the Old Settlers in Family Groups, 31; Karen Theriot Reader, "Family Grouop Record: Alexis Mathurin Daigle and Marie Josephe Levron."