Brief Life History of Marie Roseina
When Marie Roseina Bourgeois was born on 11 April 1833, in Thibodaux, Lafourche, Louisiana, United States, her father, Valery Bourgeois, was 36 and her mother, Rosalie Marguerite Richard, was 36. She married Guillaume Toups on 16 January 1851, in Thibodaux, Lafourche, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 9 daughters. She lived in Louisiana, United States in 1870 and Lafourche, Louisiana, United States in 1880. She died on 6 September 1905, in Thibodaux, Lafourche, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Thibodaux, Lafourche, Louisiana, United States.
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- Rosémonda Bourgeois in household of Váléry Bourgeois, "United States Census, 1850"
- Marie R Bourgeois Toups, "Find A Grave Index"
- Rosemer Bourgeois in entry for Emile Boudreaux and Felicia Toups, "Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1837-1957"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Marcel, Emile, Alphonse, Armand, Camille, Gaston, Monique, Pierre, Lucien, Michel, Normand.
French: from bourgeois ‘burgher’ (from Old French burgeis, from burc ‘fortified town’), a status name for an inhabitant and (usually) freeman of a fortified town (see Bourg ). Compare Lebourgeois and also Boss , Burgess , and Bushway .
History: Jacques Bourgeois from France married Jeanne Trahan in Acadia c. 1643. Pierre Bourgeois from Poligny in Jura, France, married Marie-Louise Cléroux in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, QC, in 1753.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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