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Felicity Huffman

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Marie-Thérèse Bourgeois

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Felicity Huffman — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 205 
  • Father:
  • Nicholas Bourgeois 
  • Mother:
  • Marie Joseph Tarare   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Jan 1733 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Aug 1814 
  • Death Location:
  • St. Louis, Missouri 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Pierre Laclède-Liguest
  • Marriage Date:
  • NOT MARRIED 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Jean-Pierre Chouteau (Ahnentafel No:102 )

  Victoire Chouteau

  • Notes: 

  • Marie-Thérèse Bourgeois had a long time relationship and four illegitimate with Pierre Laclède, founder of the city of St. Louis. They settled into what amounted to a common law marriage even though she was still married to René Auguste Chouteau who had abandoned his family.

• Additional marriages for Marie-Thérèse Bourgeois

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  • Spouse:
  • René Auguste Chouteau
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1749
  • Marriage Location:
  • New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana

• Sources for Marie-Thérèse Bourgeois

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/24/2019).
  • ² Beckwith, Paul, Creoles of St. Louis, St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co. (1893), 7, 46-47.
  • ³ Missouri Historical Society, "Pierre Laclède: Father Figure", (accessed 01/24/2019).
  • ⁴ National Park Service, "Pierre Laclede Liguest, 1724-1778", Internet Archive Wayback Machine, (accessed 01/24/2019).
  • ⁵ Ravenswaay, Charles van and Candace O'Connor, Saint Louis: An Informal History of the City and Its People, 1764-1865, St. Louis, Missouri: Missouri Historical Society Press (1991), 106.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Marie-Thérèse Bourgeois Chouteau", (accessed 01/24/2019).