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Children St. in Bay St. Louis. The article also says her brother, Joseph Saucier, died 60 days earlier and was near 90 years old. Although Marie was a “native of Spain” according to the obituary, her granddaughter, Daisy Bordages told us that she had never heard anything about her grandmother being born in Spain. Daisy also said that she could speak both French and Spanish very well. The 1850 and 1860 censuses of Harrison Co. both state that Marie was born in MS. The 1880 census of Hancock Co. shows “M. Bordage,” 55, female, merchant by profession, and both she and her parents born in “France.” This is of course, Marie Saucier, widow of John Bordages. Her place of birth conflicts with other census records and her own obituary. Marie was the daughter of Edward and Urseline Saucier of Harrison Co., MS. His Will is in Estate File #283 in that county, and dated February 28, 1871. The Will names as his daughter “Marie Bordage, wife of John Bordage.” In our “Saucier History” Marie is shown to be the daughter of “Edward Saucier and Delphine Richard” of Harrison Co., MS.
To help solve the question of Marie Saucier’s place of birth, we looked at various censuses showing her four children, where the person and their parents’ place of birth are listed. Their mother was listed as bom in Mississippi six times, France two times, Spain once, and Canada once. These children surely should have known where their own mother was bom, and they were all alive when their mother died in 1909. Why would they put in Marie’s obituary that she was bom in Spain? The only explanation that we could think of was that she was bom in Spain to unknown parents and was adopted and raised by the Saucier family here in Mississippi. With this, we can only speculate that Marie Saucier was not bom in Spain or France.
Daisy also told us that both her grandmother and grandfather were good Catholics. With John Bourdages getting married in June 1848, we can assume he immigrated to America around the year 1846. While we have been unable to find a date for his first trip, we have found him and his sister, Andrezine Bourdages, arriving at the Port of New Orleans, LA on November 22, 1855. They departed from Bordeaux, France on the ship “Minnesota.” He no doubt returned to his hometown and was escorting his younger sister to this country. We have a good letter written in French dated April 17, 1850 to his brother, Joseph who was living in Aulon at the time. John gives him instructions about his upcoming trip to New Orleans.
Jean Francois “John” Bourdages and Marie Anne Saucier had:
I.	Mathilde “Andrezine” Bordages - According to Clem’s Paper, she was born on March 4, 1849, but baptismal records at Pass Christian Catholic Church shows that she was born on March 14, 1849 and that her full name was “Mathilde Andrezine Bordages.” She went most often by her middle name, Andrezine. Our Lady of the Gulf Church’s death register said she died on May 13, 1913 (Internment Book p. 42). She is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery in Bay St. Louis, MS. She married three times. First, to Joseph Bankston; second, to John Suebe; and third, to Aristide “Dod" Favre.
First Marriage - Our Lady of the Gulf Church records show that Andrezine and Joseph married on August 19, 1866, and that he was the son of “James Bankston and Miss Jackson.” Joseph Bankston and Andrezine had two children. Information about Andrezine and Joseph Bankston and their children was given to us by Mr. Frederick Joseph Bankston on May 13, 1974 in Bay St. Louis.
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