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Since this research is continually ongoing, I thought I had found Joseph Boudreau (husband of Rosalie Haché)'s death for you, but I ran this question by the world's Acadian expert, Stephen White of Moncton, NB last April 2006, and here was his response on the death of Joseph Boudreau:
Yesterday, I thought I would try to determine who the Joseph Boudrot who was buried at Petit-Rocher in 1867 was. As you know, there is a parish census for Petit-Rocher in 1866 and a federal census for Canada in 1871, so theoretically at least this Joseph might be identified through his "disappearance" between those two dates. As it happens, I count twelve Joseph Boudrots, two married men and ten small boys, in the 1866 census, ten of whom are easy to match up with the Joseph Boudrots who appear in the two sections of Beresford civil township in 1871. The two who "disappear" are a three year old (in 1866), son of Pierre Boudrot and Rosalie Comeau, who disappear likewise, making it seem probable that they simply moved elsewhere, and Madeleine Landry's husband. Madeleine Landry meanwhile is shown as a widow in 1871, so it is more than a little likely that the Joseph Boudreau who was buried at Petit-Rocher on Feb. 4, 1867, was her husband. Madeleine and Joseph had been married at Bathurst on Nov. 4, 1816, just over fifty years before Joseph died. This Joseph was, as I am sure you must know, a son of Joseph Boudrot and Rosalie Haché. Regarding his father, all I have been able to determine is that he was still living when his daughter Reine married Luc Godin at Petit-Rocher on Sept. 4, 1838, for he is specifically named as a witness in their marriage record, as Rosaline Guitard has even noted in her repertoire de mariages of the parish. Presumably he died sometime between then and the 1861 census. Another source, such as the land records, might eventually help to narrow this range. SAW
Moving on from Steve's response, without any notations of the deaths of Joseph Boudreau and his son Marc Boudreau in the registers of Petit-Rocher, the parish in which they were living (rather than at Bathurst), you will have simply approximate data gleaned from the censuses of the parish and civil township as stated above. I would suggest looking at copies of these documents, also including the subsequent censuses of 1881 and 1891. I have not researched Marc's family further, except to note that he was born in 1801 at Bathurst. One would have to check the Petit-Rocher parish registers for his presence at events up to 1868, the year when his daughter Monique married Polycarpe Haché, and the following federal censuses of the area to see if he was still among the living. As for exact dates of their deaths, none have survived to my knowledge, unfortunately. As Steve suggests, all one can do is narrow down the range of years to between this year and that, and this from other sources. I'll leave that detective work to you since you are so interested in finding out. By the way, these federal censuses are available from the Provincial Archive of New Brunswick and probably in books found in genealogical societies. I would suggest you start there.
Dennis Boudreau
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