Park Named for Son of Pioneers - Phil Bourquardez Park: The longtime elected official's French roots were planted in a park on the old family homestead, by Michael Canning, published May 28, 2004. It may look Spanish at first glance, an easy assumption in a town with deep Latin roots. But the name Bourquardez is actually French. In fact, some Tampa tongues say it with a Spanish accent. "I pronounce it bah-CAR-dee, like the rum," Phyllis Gates said. The French might take issue, but as a native Southerner whose maiden name is Bourquardez, she's entitled to a little phonetic regionalism. Gates' father, Phil Bourquardez, was the son of a pioneer Tampa family. His grandfather, Constant Bourquardez, immigrated from Lorrine, France, and homesteaded near downtown Tampa on the Hillsborough River sometime between 1847 and 1850. Phil Bourquardez was born in 1885, one of 14 children. He had little formal education and as a young man took up carpentry, a family trade. He married Mittie Tucker in 1916. Their first daughter, Camille, was born in 1920 and died at age 8. Phyllis arrived in 1924. During the Great Depression, Bourquardez served as a jailer at the Morgan Street Jail. In 1933, he was elected Tampa's city clerk, a job he held for 22 years. Although he was reserved, everyone liked him, Gates said. An avid hunter, Bourquardez took yearly trips to the Gulf Hammock in Levy County. "He had one of the finest gun collections in Tampa," Gates said. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Elks Lodge and the Seminole Heights Methodist Church. He died in 1958 at age 73. Gates, an 80-year-old retiree of the Alascom telephone company, lives in the Bourquardez House at 5806 N Branch Ave. in Old Seminole Heights, which her father built from 1918 to 1921. A fine example of Japanese bungalow style, it stands as testament to Bourquardez's carpentry skills. Shortly after Bourquardez died, the city named a park after him at 1810 N Tampa St. in Tampa Heights. Part of the park occupies his original homestead. (Story from the St. Petersburg Times - May 28, 2004. Shared by Michelle Jones 2/25/12.)
Constantine, BOURQUARDEZ, BOUGARDEZ, BARCARDY
Relationship:
3x Great Grandfather
Parents:
Jacques Louis BOURQUARDEZ
Jeanne Marie (Mary Jane) GRILLION
Birth:
3 March 1824
Lorraine, France
(Reppe, Territoire de Belfort)
Marriage:
Jane CANOVA (Balearas Islands, Spain)
26 September 1844
St. Augustine, Florida
Children:
Mary Aurelia (1844-1952)
m: Joe FAGAN (1843-1911) (Civil War)
c: Melvina
Jane Rosetta (1846-____)
Alice Frances (1848-1884)
Constant Glade, Sr. (1849-1918)
m: Susan Matilda "Susie" Unknown
c: Lana Frances "Fannie", William Thomas, James Alexandre, Constant Glade Jr., Susanna Matilda, Grover Cleveland, Bertha E., Mary Louise "Mamie", Horace Lyn "Harrie"
Agnes Florida (1851-1951)
Laura Catherine (1853-1925)
m: John Johannes Peter LANGHOFF
c: Joseph John, Mary Jane, Constant Rudolph
James Martin (1853-1856)
Thomas Henry (1854-1918)
m: Sarah Agnes HEEMANS (1852-1890)
c: Herman, Thomas C., Sarah A., Phillip "Phil" Rudolph
m: Dora M. HEEMANS (1859-1932)
c: Cecelia A. Thomas A., Hal J., Lillian C., Arthur Hugh
Joseph (1857-1931)
m: Ida MCCARTY
c: Philip Rudolph, Annie Aurelia "Jenny", Clifford J., Farleigh Madeline, Flossie Pearl, Ellen, Jane, Infant, Emma
Agnes Mary (1859-1949)
m: Joel Benjamin PHILLIPS (1869-1911)
c: Joel Andrew
m: Jefferson D. RICE (searching for RICE family - married 19 April 1883, divorced 1884)
c: Jane "Daisy"
m: Abner POWELL (1864-1939)
c: Louise
Robert Constant
m: Mary Etta "Mollie" WILLIAMS
c: Stuart B., Mary J., Robert Constant Jr., Mollie T., John H.
Louisa (1865-1884)
Dora Ann
Mary Jane "Mamie"
m: George McDonald "Mack EDDINGS
c: Charles C. Boone, Sally M., Mary Marguerite, Pansy Green, James Mason, Emma Marguerite, Emery, Mary Jane, Flora Alberta, Lara Louise
Occupation:
Carpenter
Military Service:
Seminole War (Florida Indian Wars)
Mickler's Co., Florida Mounted Militia
Muscian
Helped rebuild fort buildings demolished by the hurricane of 1848.
Death:
18 September 1884
Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida
Obituary:
Bourquardez/Bougardez
Photo shared by Baron Plourde, 2012
Burial:
Oaklawn Cemetery
Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida
Find A Grave Memorial# 35233763
Sources:
1850 U.S. Federal Census
1860 U.S. Federal Census
1870 U.S. Federal Census
Florida Marriage Collection, 1822-1875
Florida Compiled Service Records, Florida Indian Wars, 1835-1858
U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907
