Firmin Louis Aucoin (1779 - 1825)

Born 8 Feb 1779 in Nantes, Bretagne, France

Ancestors

Husband of Pelagie Arceneaux — married 3 Feb 1806 in St. James, Orleans Territory, United States

Descendants

Died 9 Jan 1825 at age 45 in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, USA

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Biography

MARGUERITE HEBERT, veuve BOURG is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 7-L, La Bergere arrivee le 15 aout 1785. Listed with her is her daughter, Marguerite Bourg (the widow "Aucoing"), and her grandson, Firmin Aucoing.^[1]

His surname, according to the passenger list of La Bergere published by Gerard-Marc Braud, is Aucoin.^[2]

Firmin Aucoin migrated from France to Louisiana.

Firmin Louis Aucoin was born the son of Firmin Aucoin and Marguerite Bourg on 8 February 1779, in Nantes, Bretagne, (in present-day department of Loire-Atlantique), France, and baptized in the parish of Saint-Jacques on the same day. The baptism registry lists his parrain, Olivier Aucoin (paternal grandfather) and marraine, Marguerite Hebert, widow Bourg (maternal grandmother); and is signed by "Olivier Terrio," his uncle by marriage, the husband of his father's sister, Marie Aucoin.^[3][4]

He arrived in the Spanish Territory of Louisiana at the young age of 6, with his widowed mother and his marraine, aboard "La Bergere" on 15 August 1785.^[4]

Firmin married Pelagie Arceneaux on 3 February 1806 in St. James Parish, Louisiana.^[5] Together they had at least 8 children:

1. Adeline Aucoin, 14 Mar 1807 -?
2. Apollinaire Firmin Aucoin, 23 Aug 1810 - c. 1852
3. Theodule Aucoin, 18 Nov 1811-?
4. Evariste Aucoin, 25 Jan 1813 - Oct 1823
5. Irene Aucoin, 9 Aug 1816 -?
6. Eulalie Aucoin, 29 Apr 1819 - ?
7. Onesiphore Aucoin, 6 Mar 1822 -?
8. Manette Ernestine Aucoin, 11 Dec 1824 -?

According to the 1810 census, Firmin and his young family were by then living in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, Orleans Territory, United States.^[6]

He died and was buried on 9 January 1825 in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, USA.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Acadian Memorial: The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by Jane G. Bulliard and the Wall of Names Committee (Scott, LA: Hulco, 2002) p. 29.
2. ↑ Passenger List: Gerard-Marc Braud, From Nantes to Louisiana, (Lafayette, LA: La Rainette, 1999) p. 95.

   HEBERT, Marguerite (55), widow of BOURG, Alexandre; her daughter widow AUCOIN, and her grandson.

3. ↑ Baptism: Loire Atlantique Archives départementales, Saint-Jacques - B - 1779-1780 (janvier), in Loire-Atlantique archives - Registres paroissiaux et d'état civil, p.5. https://archives-numerisees.loire-atlantique.fr/v2/ad44/visualiseur/registre.html?id=440205354 Translation of baptism entry:

   The eighth day of February 1779 was baptized by me Benedictine priest undersigned Firmin Louis born this day, son of Firmin Aucoin and of Margueritte Hebert(Hebert is struck out) Bourg, acadians, having godfather Ollivier Aucoin, grandfather and godmother Marguerite Hebert widow Bourg, grandmother of the infant, who did not sign. The father absent for business, a word struck out, null
   

   /s/Olivier Terrio
   

   /s/Joseph Lefranc ptre vic
   

   /s/Fr. Rene Ch. Glotain m.b. (difficult to read sig.). (accessed before 19 November 2022)

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Baptism, Immigration: Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., The Acadian Exiles in Nantes, (1978) p. 5; Firmin Aucoin and Marguerite Bourg issue:
   • "Firmin-Louis AUCOIN baptized February 8, 1779 (Saint-Jacques of Nantes)
     
   • Marguerite Bourg, Widow of Firmin Aucoin, and her son, Firmin, were passengers (Family No. 11) aboard LA BERGERE, which departed France on May 12, 1785 and arrived in Louisiana on August 15, 1785."
5. ↑ Marriage: Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Vol. 3, (Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese of Baton Rouge, 1982) p. 37;

   "Firmin, nat. of Nantes (Firmin and Marguerite BOURG) m. 3 Feb. 1806 Pelagie ARSENAUX (Joseph and Marie DUPUY) wit: Augustin Dominique Tureaud; Paul Hebert; Joseph Arsenaux, Jr. (SJA-2, 92)".

6. ↑ 1810 Census: 1810 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com Publication: (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010) Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data - Third Census of the United States, 1810. (NARA microfilm publication M252, 71 rolls). Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. Nationa,
   Year: 1810; Census Place: Assumption, Louisiana; Roll: 10; Page: 31; Image: 0181355; Family History Library Film: 00034.
   Ancestry Record 7613 #15295 (accessed before 19 November 2022)
   Ancestry Record 3550 #9163710 (accessed before 19 November 2022). Record Collection 7613. (accessed before 19 November 2022)
7. ↑ Burial: Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Vol. 4, (Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese of Baton Rouge, 1996) p. 22;

   "Firmin, age 42 yrs. (sic) (Firmin and Marguerite BOURG) bur. 9 Jan. 1825 (ASM-3, 180)".

See also:

• Daughter's Memorial at Find A Grave: Memorial #142658876
• Diocese of Baton Rouge, Catholic Church Records, Vol. 10, p. 55 (SJA-10,7)
• Ancestry Record 3550 #9163710