Joseph Lartigue-Personal Life

Joseph Lartigue married Jeanne Diarse in 1710. They had twelve or thirteen children, eight of which survived their father. At least two of his sons tended to a public career. Antoine, the third son, became greffier of the Admiralty in 1749. Pierre-Jérome, the youngest son, served as keeper of the King's storehouses for a number of years. The oldest sons, Joseph and Jacques, remained in the trades of commerce and fishing. Joseph was also greffier of the Superior Council from 1735 to 1738.

The daughters carried on the family tradition when they married merchants and men in public life. His daughter Madelaine married Leon Fautoux in January of 1738. His daughter Marguerite married Michel Rodrigue in July of that same year. With these marriages two important Louisbourg merchants joined the Lartigue family. Another of his daughters, Jeanne, married Laurent de Domingé Meyracq, who would be Lartigue's successor as judge of civil and criminal cases.

After his death in 1743, the family remained in Louisbourg until the English occupation of 1745-1748. All the members of the family, with the exception of Marguerite Lartigue-Rodrigue, returned to Louisbourg in 1749 at the beginning of the second French occupation.

Joseph Lartigue's widow died in 1763, at the age of 72, one of few to witness both Louisbourg sieges. After her death, the financial situation of the Lartigue family deteriorated rapidly and they were forced to rely on royal assistance to meet their financial needs.