{"id":2954,"date":"2008-09-26T23:42:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T06:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/the-marriage-of-andre-poirier-and-philomene-bourgeois-1874\/"},"modified":"2008-09-26T23:42:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T06:42:44","slug":"the-marriage-of-andre-poirier-and-philomene-bourgeois-1874","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2954","title":{"rendered":"The Marriage of Andr\u00e9 Poirier and Philom\u00ed\u00a8ne Bourgeois – 1874"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 24 Aug 1874, Andr\u00e9 Poirier and Philom\u00ed\u00a8ne Bourgeois were married in the parish of St. Joseph in Sh\u00e9diac, New Brunswick, Dominion of Canada.<\/p>\n

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The Marriage Record of Andr\u00e9 Poirier and Philom\u00ed\u00a8ne Bourgeois – 1874<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SOURCE: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada: Institut G\u00e9n\u00e9alogique Drouin. Sh\u00e9diac, New Brunswick, Dominion of Canada, 1874. Marriage Record of Andr\u00e9 Poirier and Philom\u00ed\u00a8ne Bourgeois, page 30.<\/p>\n

Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Marriage Record of Andr\u00e9 Poirier and Philom\u00ed\u00a8ne Bourgeois<\/a> – 1874. Translated from the French the record reads:<\/p>\n

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M[arriage]. 10
\nAndr\u00e9 Poirier and Philom\u00ed\u00a8ne Bourgeois<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 On the twenty-eighth of August one-thousand eight-hundred seventy-four, considering the dispensation of four with the fourth degree of consanguinity as thus the dispensation of two banns of publication accorded by us under the terms of the capacities granted to us by his eminence T- Sweeney, Bishop of St. Jean, N[ew] B[runswick]. Considering also the publication of one bann of marriage made at the homily of our parish mass between Andr\u00e9 Poirier, son of legal age of Simon Poirier and Henriette Arsenault of this parish of the first part and Philom\u00ed\u00a8ne Bourgeois, daughter under legal age of Armand Bourgeois and Modeste Foster of the parish of Grande Digue (Visitation) of the second part. Not finding any other impediment to marriage and having the consent of the parents of the daughter, We the undersigned parish priest, having received their mutual consent for marriage and having given them the nuptial benediction in the presence of Napoleon Bourgue, Obeline Poirier and others.
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This\u00c2\u00a0marriage record is more complicated than most because, from what I can tell from my limited knowledge of French,\u00a0it includes a discussion of the fact that Andr\u00e9 Poirier and Philom\u00ed\u00a8ne Bourgeois are related to each other and had to receive a dispensation in order to marry .\u00a0<\/p>\n

This record can be found as image 37\/260<\/a> in the Acadia French Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1670-1946 on Ancestry.com as part of the records for Sh\u00e9diac 1863-1899. The record appears on page 30.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2008 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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