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niece, Celestine because she has taken care of her. We have the original letter that is written in French and a translated copy from where this information was taken.
Daisy Bordages gave us this letter and several others that we now have in our possession. She told us that Jeanne was an old maid and often heard her father speak of her. Daisy also had other letters written from France that she would not let us look at because they might contain "something personal." Daisy said that Jeanne never married nor had any children.
GABRIELLE BOURDAGES
She was bom on March 7, 1835 in Aulon, France as found on her Baptismal record. No further information on her.
JEAN MARIE BOURDAGES
He was bom on August 6, 1837 in Aulon, France as found on his Baptismal record. We have no further information on him.
JEAN BERTRAND BOURDAGES
This child was found in the death records of St. Pierre’s Catholic Church. It said he died on January 13, 1884 at the age of 45, or bom in 1839. This record names his parents as “Jean Bourdages and Bernarde Amilhat.” This would probably make him the youngest child in the family. We have no further information on him.
In March of 1973, Daisy Bordages told us that one of her grandfather’s brothers was supposed to be on his way to the Gulf Coast from their home in France. Daisy said that before the ship reached New Orleans, LA a big storm blew up which pushed the boat off course, and somehow the ship landed in Galveston, Texas. From Galveston, the old Bordages relative moved and settled in Beaumont, Texas, married, and raised a family there. One of his children was named Asa Bordages according to Daisy that was supposed to be a first cousin to her father, Clem Bordages. She said that Asa also had a sister that married a Broussard. Daisy also remembered hearing that a son of Asa Bordages called Asa Jr., was a writer for the Saturday Evening Post years ago. She also remembered hearing of a Catholic priest called “Father Bordages” that was stationed in Beaumont, Texas. The reason Daisy knew all of this information is because Asa Bordages Sr. corresponded with her father, Clem in Bay St. Louis before his death. She said that Asa Bordages Sr. made at least one trip to Bay St. Louis to visit her family.
With all of this information, we began searching the census records of Beaumont, Texas for a Caded or a Francois Bordages. The first record of a Bordages living in Texas is Philip Bordages, found in the 1860 census of Beaumont where he is 20 years old (born 1840), shown to be a laborer and bom in France. He was living with a “Moeze and Jadsace Brussard” who were bom in Louisiana.
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