Bordes family Bordes Dynasty
coat of arms of the Bordes family
Current region	France
Place of origin	Gascony, France
Members	Antoine Dominique Bordes Adolphe Bordes Antonin Bordes Alexandre Bordes Henri Bordes

The Bordes family is a French family, which comes from Armagnac, in Gascony, and has established in Chile, Bordeaux and Paris.

History

Antoine Dominique Bordes, born on July 21, 1815 ^[1] in Gimbrède, son of Barthélémy, physician and deputy mayor, 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 royal officers since the 18th century.^[5]

Genealogy

Pierre de Bordes, consul of Puymirol :

• Pierre (1669-)
• Antoinette (1683-)
• Jean Raymond de Bordes (1670-1735), surgeon at Céran, whose :
  • Marguerite Bordes (1703-)
  • Marie Anne Bordes (1715-)
  • Jean Blaise Bordes (1706-), surgeon at Fleurance, whose :
    • Marie
    • Jean (1746-1806), surgeon and health officer at Flamarens, whose :
      • Antoine (1773-1816), doctor of pharmacy, including posterity.
      • Barthélémy Jean (1766-1840), physician, councilor of the commune of Gimbrède, next :
• Antoine Aimé Dominique (1800-1850); trader, including :
  • Henri Bonaventure (1842-1911), member of the Academy of Bordeaux, shipowner, deputy director of Armement Bordes in Bordeaux, including :
    • Antoine 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.
• 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, who married Marthe Lesca.
  • Marie Blanche Henriette (1859-1938) Prom.
  • Alexandre Louis Barthélemy (1860-1943),^[8] secretary of State for the Navy, who married Madeleine Bertera-Wappers, granddaughter of Gustaf Wappers^[9].
  • François Joseph Antonin (1863-1940), deputy director of the Bordes company, member of the Navy Academy, who married Louise Charpin.
  • Caroline Élise Alexandrine (1865-1924) Lataillade.
  • Valentine Irène Marie Thérèse (1869-1921) de Secondat de Montesquieu et de Roquefort.

Coat of Arms

Picture	blazon
	Bordes family : Gules, a border Or charged with eight pomegranates Vert. Arms declared by Pierre Bordes, King's prosecutor, during the registration of d'Hozier in 1698.[10]

Tributes

• Rue Louise Bordes, in Villefranche-sur-Mer .
• Room devoted to the Bordes Company at the Museum of the Cape Horners in Saint-Malo .