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Suzanne,
How do I know?
There are two branches of the Bourgeois family at the Islands, one from Joseph Bourgeois & Angelique Boudrot of Miquelon, which is very large, and the other from Jean Bourgeois and Angelique Poirier of Cheticamp which is quite small.
Your ancestor Raymond was born in Cheticamp before the 1809 census, and married Esther (born ca 1810 of the Islands) in 1833 at Cheticamp. Of this marriage were born the following at Cheticamp:
Evariste 1830 Cheticamp, Eugene 1831 Cheticamp, Zacharie 1833 Cheticamp.
The family moved to Bassin (whose parish was Havre-Aubert) on the Islands about 1835, where son Zacharie died in 1836.
At the Islands were born:
Julie 1838, another Zacharie 1840, Emile 1842, William 1844, Alexandre 1845, and Josephine 1847.
In 1848, Raymond and Esther migrated with a group from the Islands, with their pastor to Sandy Bay, NF where we find the following:
Damase ca 1849-1850
Raymond died there in 1849 of diptheria; Esther remarried Charles Royer there in 1851, but did not return to the Magdalens. I didn't research this family further after that except for the following.
Son Emile went to Cheticamp where he married Olive Poirier in 1867; after her death, he removed to Havre-Aubert where he married in 1872 with Archange Lapierre, and had a large family at Bassin with her. He died there in 1929. All the descendants of Raymond at the Magdalens belong to this family, but as I said earlier, they are small when compared to the main branch which originated in Miquelon.
By a short time at the Islands, I meant a mere "dozen years". Actually Raymond spent more time at Cheticamp in comparison, and an even shorter time in Newfoundland. His wife Esther never returned to the Magadalens after her second marriage. I think she too died in Newfoundland.
Their son Emile on the other hand, lived on the Islands longer than his parents.
As I said earlier, this family lived at Bassin but all the records for them are at Havre-Aubert. Bassin did not get its own church/parish until the 1870s. It was where my grandmother was baptized.
That's how I know. Have a nice trip there. Dennis
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