Bordes family

The Bordes family is a French family, originally from Armagnac, in Gascony, and established in Chile, Bordeaux and Paris, where they formed a line of shipping merchants.

Bordes family
Bordes Dynasty
File:Blason famille Bordes (Armagnac, Bordeaux, Paris, Chili).svg
coat of armes of the Bordes family
Current regionFrance
Place of originGascogne, France
MembersAntoine Dominique Bordes
Adolphe Bordes
Antonin Bordes
Alexandre Bordes
Henri Bordes

History

Antoine-Dominique Bordes, born on July 21, 1815 [1] in Gimbrède, son of Barthélemy, doctor of medicine, deputy mayor of this commune, and Louise Thérèse Geneviève Bordes, married Victoire Möser on July 19, 1857 in Besançon.[2] From this marriage came three generations of shipowners who have continued the company he founded, with the motto Union et Persévérance [3] . Henri Bordes, his nephew, also ran a Bordeaux steamship company, and his son Antoine was director of the Compagnie Générale Maritime.[4]

Barthélémy Bordes (1766-1840) came from an old and notable family from Agenais, including health professionals and royal officers from this province since the 18th century.[5]

Genealogy

Pierre de Bordes, consul of Puymirol :

  • Peter (1669-)
  • Antoinette (1683-)
  • Jean Raymond de Bordes (1670-1735), surgeon at Céran, whose :
    • Marguerite Bordes (1703-), married Senate
    • Marie Anne Bordes (1715-), married La Chausse du Roussel
    • Jean Blaise Bordes (1706-), surgeon at Fleurance, whose :
      • Marie, wife Bigourdan
      • Jean (1746-1806), surgeon and health officer at Flamarens, whose :
        • Antoine (1773-1816), doctor of pharmacy, including posterity.
        • Barthélémy Jean (1766-1840), doctor of medicine, councilor of the commune of Gimbrède, of whom (next) :
  • Antoine Aimé Dominique (1800-1850); trader, including :
    • <b id="mwVQ">Henri</b> Bonaventure (1842-1911), member of the Academy of Bordeaux, shipowner, deputy director of Armement Bordes in Bordeaux, including :
      • <b id="mwWw">Antoine</b> Pierre Jean (1870-1951), naval officer, member of the Academy of Bordeaux, regional director of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, including posterity.
      • Jean Henri (1879-1957), cavalry officer, captain of the Bordeaux port commission, no issue.
  • Antoine-Dominique Apollinaire (1815-1883), shipowner, founder of Armement Bordes, managing director of the Compagnie Générale Maritime,[6] whose :
    • Charles Casimir Adolphe (1858-1918),[7] managing director of the Bordes company, then Company of armament and importation of nitrate of soda, who married Marthe Lesca, of which posterity.
    • Marie Blanche Henriette (1859-1938), Prom wife
    • Alexandre Louis Barthélemy (1860-1943),[8] managing director of the Company for the armament and importation of soda nitrate, company administrator, under-secretary of State for the Navy, who married Madeleine Bertera-Wappers, granddaughter of Gustaf Wappers,[9] including posterity.
    • François Joseph Antonin (1863-1940), deputy director of the Bordes company, then Company of armament and importation of soda nitrate, member of the Navy Academy, who married Louise Charpin, without posterity.
    • Caroline Élise Alexandrine (1865-1924), married Lataillade
    • Valentine Irène Marie Thérèse (1869-1921), secondate wife of Montesquieu and Roquefort

Coat of Arms

Picture blazon
110x110px Bordes family :

Gules, a border Or charged with eight pomegranates Vert, stalked and leafy of the same.

Arms declared by Pierre Bordes, King's prosecutor, during the registration of d'Hozier in 1698.[10]

Tributes

References

  1. Société archéologique, historique (1994-10-01). "Bulletin de la Société archéologique, historique littéraire & scientifique du Gers". Gallica (in français). Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  2. "Annuaire du tout Sud-Ouest illustré : comprenant les grandes familles et les notabilités de Bordeaux et des départements de la Gironde, de la Charente-Inférieure, de la Charente, de la Dordogne, du Lot-et-Garonne, des Landes et des Basses-Pyrénées / par Édouard Féret ; lll. par Marcel de Fonrémis". Gallica (in français). 1909. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  3. "L'épopée des grands cap-horniers dunkerquois" (PDF). ville-dunkerque.fr. April 2008. p. 27-30.
  4. Jean et Bernard Guérin. Des hommes et des activités autour d'un demi-siècle.
  5. Brigitte et Yvonnick Le Coat. Cap-Horniers français, t. 1.
  6. "Annuaire du commerce Didot-Bottin". Gallica (in français). 1909. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  7. "Adolphe Bordes (18..-19..)". data.bnf.fr (in français). Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  8. "Alexandre Bordes (1860-1943)". data.bnf.fr (in français). Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  9. "Category:Grave of Gustave Wappers - Wikimedia Commons". commons.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  10. Ch. d'Hozier. Armorial général de France. p. 679.

Bibliography

  • Brigitte et Yvonnick Le Coat (2002). Cap-Horniers français, t. 1. Chasse-marée & Ouest-France. p. 439. ISBN 2-7373-3212-5.
  • Jacqueline et Claude Briot (2003). Cap-Horniers français, t. 2. Chasse-marée. p. 445. ISBN 2-914208-28-6.
  • M. Barbance (1969). Vie commerciale de la route du cap Horn au XIXe siècle. Éd. de l'EHSS. p. 372. ISBN 2-7132-0089-X.
  • Jean et Bernard Guérin (1957). Des hommes et des activités autour d'un demi-siècle. Bordeaux: B.E.B. p. 926.
  • Henri Queffélec (1984). Ce sont voiliers que vent emporte. Presses de la Cité.
  • Robert Chevet (2017). Une transat bordelaise. Éditions Itarkeo.
  • Édouard Féret, Annuaire du tout Sud-Ouest illustré, Éditions Féret, 1909